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Texas House Bill 588, commonly referred to as the "Top 10% Rule", is a Texas law passed in 1997. It was signed into law by then governor George W. Bush on May 20, 1997. The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities.
St. Augustine UWI Campus. The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, [3] [4] is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands ...
Worthing was the sole Texas high school which did not satisfy any of the Texas Education Agency's academic accountability benchmarks in the period 2014–2018. In 2016 Worthing was the Texas high school with the third lowest the level of academic growth in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests in mathematics and ...
The Texas Permanent School Fund is a sovereign wealth fund which serves to provide revenues for funding of public primary and secondary education in the US state of Texas. [2] Its assets include many publicly owned lands within Texas and various other investments; as of the end of fiscal 2020 (August 31), the fund had an endowment of $48.3 ...
Life School is a tuition-free, public school following required curriculum and administering state-mandated tests that include the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. [2] The graduation rate for Life School was reported as 99.5% from 2004 to 2014, with 79% of graduates attending post high school within two years of graduation. [11]
The Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC) is an international, private, non-profit corporation located in Austin, Texas.Founded in 1985, [1] it works with 32 public universities in Texas on a variety of international projects, [2] including founding new universities, developing university programs, creating cooperation programs between international universities, and facilitating K ...
The Texas Governor's School in Arts and Humanities for Urban Leadership at Texas A&M University in College Station is a free three-week, intensive residential summer educational program. The program is open to high achieving high school students who complete the sophomore or junior year of high school.
TAMS was established on June 23, 1987 by the 70th Texas Legislature, in order to provide high school students an opportunity to take advanced coursework in math, science, and engineering. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was designed as a residential program at the University of North Texas for high school-aged students gifted in mathematics and science.