Texas News Weather Sports Video Texas Monthly Watch CBS News Texas school districts are not even sure how many new teachers are neededThe state does not actually track how many hires are needed, saying it is a local issue.Aug 12, 2022...
“When you change schools in the middle of the school year, you have to forge new relationships with your classmates, your teachers and the school staff,” says Patrick Gill, a senior research analyst atRice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research in Texas, which published areport on...
Sales and use taxes are a percentage added to the price of tangible goods and most services bought and used within the state. In Texas, this is generally set at a flat rate of 6.25%, though local jurisdictions (such as cities, counties, special purpose districts, and transit authorities) ...
School districts often use lotteries to decide who gets into magnet schools, but the systems are not always completely random. Students in some locales get extra points in the lottery for a variety of factors. Los Angeles, for example, gives students extra credit in the lottery for having a ...
Gov. Greg Abbott’s leadership is determined to starve Texas public schools of adequate funding until the Legislature approves his school choice plan. No amount of lipstick on this pig can hide the fact this is a wealth transfer plan whereby the tax dollars of the many fund the private educ...
since we opened. We’re like 14, we’ve been in existence for about 14 years, but we’re a pretty large public high school in central Texas, just on the kind of the suburbs of Austin. Roughly 2,800 students, so pretty large graduating classes, you know, of around six to 700 ...
Houston ISD is in the throes of its own painful reform work under former Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles, whom the state appointed in a turnaround job. Advertisement Other school districts ought to show the same guts because Texas’ public education establishment is being ...
According to The Council for Community and Economic Research, the 10 least expensive urban areas in the U.S. in 2023 were: Decatur, Illinois Harlingen, Texas McAllen, Texas Tupelo, Mississippi Ponca City, Oklahoma Muskogee, Oklahoma Conway, Arkansas ...
“We could literally put several hundred locations in Texas before we have to think about moving outside the state. That’s just how big Texas is from a population and geography standpoint,” he said. “So in terms of the immediate horizon for us, we’re going to continue to grow in ...
There is an overall positive attitude in regard to how the residents’ local districts are influenced economically, socially/culturally, and environmentally by tourism. As an example, wordings such as “benefits to local people and small businesses”, “employment opportunity”, and “increase the ...