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The main offices of the Texas Education Agency are located in the William B. Travis State Office Building in Austin The entrance to the Lamar High School auditorium in Houston is decorated with a map of the state of Texas. Texas has over 1,000 school districts—ranging in size from the gigantic Houston Independent School District to the Divide ...
The Texas Education Agency has taken over seven other school districts since 2000, and 15 in the past three decades, replacing their elected boards with boards of managers appointed by the commissioner. [33] [34] TEA has also intervened through appointments such as conservators or monitors in at least 51 school districts. [35]
This is a list of school districts in Texas, sorted by Education Service Center (ESC) Region and then by County.. There are multiple classifications of school districts. Among them are independent school districts, common school districts, municipal school districts, rural high school districts, industrial training school districts, rehabilitation districts for the handicapped, and several ...
After a coalition of civil rights and disability rights groups made a complaint to the Texas Education Agency that Corpus Christi ISD's truancy practices discriminate against students with ...
Three Republican incumbents on Texas' State Board of Education are being challenged by candidates who are more focused on conservative ideologies.
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
In statewide parlance, the district is sometimes referred to as Waco Midway or Hewitt Midway to distinguish it from the Tuloso-Midway Independent School District near Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2016 and 2017, the school district was rated as "Met Standard" by Texas Education Agency. Student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps ...
Galveston ISD lost students to mainland school districts such as Clear Creek ISD and Dickinson ISD. [11] District enrollment fell by 101 students from 2004-2005 to 2005-2006. The district missed 772 students on October 30, 2006. Elementary school enrollment had dropped about 2.3 percent from the 1996-1997 school year to the 2006-2007 school year.