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The Texas Education Agency has provided three criteria that the school district must meet in order to end the takeover and regain local control. Those are: "No campuses should get failing grades for multiple years, the special education program should be in compliance with state and federal regulations, and the board should demonstrate ...
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a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
Texas school districts, many of which were already facing budget deficits this year, had hoped for an influx of state money from the 2023 legislative session, but lawmakers didn't pass meaningful ...
The board devises policies and sets academic standards for Texas public schools, and oversees the state Permanent School Fund and selects textbooks to be used in Texas schools. [ 26 ] Since 2011, the board can still recommend textbooks, but public school districts can order their own books and materials even if their selections are not on the ...
According to a KXAN analysis, at least 59 districts have made the switch. Some of those districts have recently approved the change effective for the 2023-24 school year.
Of the top 100 districts, states with the most recovered were Alabama (19), Louisiana (13), Texas (12), and California (11), according to a list of 100 recovered school districts.
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 ...
This is evident in state data, which shows that of the roughly 3,000 students within the Akron Public School district who used EdChoice vouchers in fiscal year 2024, nearly 85% are not low-income ...