Subject: Education Programs Administration

• Coming Up: Which Schools Are Horrible?

  August 1, 2007

• This Just In: Activists Call for Investigation into Why Neil Bush Is Receiving Federal Education Funds

  September 12, 2007

• Cover Story: College Immaterial

  May 14, 2008

• HISD May Hike Cafeteria Prices

  August 11, 2008

• Hey Truants -- They're Coming After You

  August 12, 2008

• You Can Ignore Evolutionary Theory In Texas

  August 14, 2008

• Letters

  March 18, 1999

• Working Every Angle

  The city of Houston is exploiting loopholes in state law to lavish big bucks on private developers

  September 9, 1999

• Learning Curves

  A disabled Spanish-speaking student could define the limits for special education

  June 1, 2000

• Aldine ISD Is The Susan Lucci Of The Broad Prize, Again

  October 15, 2008

• TAASk-masters

  Want an edge on that ultimate school exam? Have your $8 ready for this primer.

  October 5, 2000

• Condoms! Homosexuals! Lesbian Adoption!

  December 29, 1994

• Bitter Lesson

  May 9, 1996

• The Insider

  January 23, 1997

• D.A.R.E. Ain't What It Used To Be Around Houston

  D.A.R.E. was designed to keep a kid off drugs, but that's a tough feat without adequate funding. In the last five years, waning support from the state has forced some school districts to pull the plug on the program and forced others to downgrade considerably.  The Houston school district and the Alief school district abandoned the D.A.R.E program altogether. Cy-Fair school district participates on a school-by-school basis, and the Fort Bend school district nixed the program for a cheaper v

  February 9, 2009

• A Question of Competence

  February 27, 1997

• Basic Ballard

  March 13, 1997

• Letters

  April 10, 1997

• Letters

  April 17, 1997

• Besieged by the Bay

  June 26, 1997

• What Went Wrong at the Rice School?

  August 21, 1997

• Cost Cutting: Dan Patrick Says Drop Those Caps On Elementary Class Size

  Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the landmark Texas House Bill 72, Senator Dan Patrick has pre-filed a bill to amend it in several ways -- no, he's not touching No Pass, No Play -- but he is fiddling with the cap in place on the number of kids that schools can cram into their K-4th grade classes. Right now, a school must have no more than 22 students in each of these classrooms. Patrick's Senate Bill 300 would change that to "a campus-wide average" of 22. Which brings up visions of two s

  February 20, 2009

• Peer Pressure

  March 26, 1998

• (Pay)checks and (Im)balances

  May 21, 1998

• What A Relief: You Don't Have To Pee Your Pants To Pass A TAKS Test

  Photo by cliff1066Last week saw the first volley of TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) testing for public high schoolers. Crucial to the success of the mission was a ruling from State Education Commissioner Robert Scott that yes, bathroom breaks are allowed during the testing. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association is claiming credit on its website for raising the question with Comnmissioner Scott earlier this month. During a Q & A session, TCTA members said they weren't sure

  March 9, 2009

• Carbonated Cash

  December 17, 1998

• The Fix Is In

  February 25, 1999

• Adding It All Up

  March 4, 1999

• HISD: Too Big For Mere Texas Meetings

  The Texas Association of School Administrators is a high-powered organization of superintendents and other education bureaucrats. They recently held an important legislative conference in Austin, dealing with pressing issues like stimulus funds.Attendees got updates from key state senators and reps, like Senator Florence Shapiro, chair of the Senate Education Committee, and Scott Hochberg, vice-chair of the House Public Education Committee.Pretty crucial stuff, you'd think. But the Houston schoo

  April 1, 2009

• College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training

  Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students

  May 15, 2008

• Homeless in Suburbia

  Michael Lyddon slept on this bench at night because he had nowhere else to go. According to elected officials in Fort Bend, though, he doesn't exist

  February 22, 2007

• Opt In, Opt Out

  HISD continues to send students to CEP. Whether they go there, stay there or return successfully to their home school is anyone's guess.

  October 5, 2006

• Bad Checks

  Sure you can ferret out the slimeballs in our midst? Guess again if you're relying on standard background searches in Texas

  July 6, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  June 1, 2006

• Needling the Haystack

  A 1,683-mile drive taught us that educators don't always entertain an open-door policy when it comes to public records

  May 18, 2006

• These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston

  March 2, 2006

• Padding the School Policies?

  A lawsuit accuses HISD insurance consultants of conning the district

  March 3, 2005

• KISD Off

  Klein students are on a fast track to expulsion, thanks to a district that's figured a way to get someone else to pick up the tab for alternative education

  September 30, 2004

• A Paige from the Past?

  A lawsuit accuses HISD's former chief and a trustee of influence-peddling

  March 6, 2003

• Million-Dollar Babies

  Some CEP students have been locked in for years

  June 27, 2002

• The Great Divide

  Principal Lawrence Allen is a role model to some, an inept bumbler to others. Jones High School is split: Magnet-program parents versus the local community. It's up to Superintendent Kaye Stripling to make it right. Lucky her.

  March 7, 2002

• Letters, November 29

  Piety or Pac-Man, At Any Rate, Bell View

  November 29, 2001

• Hail to the Chiefs

  Rod Paige searches for the perfect image, and CEP wiggles in even closer to the power source -- wherever it can find it

  October 25, 2001

• But Who's Counting?

  Thousands of students disappear from our schools yearly, but the TEA insists they're not dropouts

  October 18, 2001

• Best Local Boy Made Good

  Rod Paige U.S. Secretary of Education

  September 20, 2001

• Days of Paige

  Did Bush pick a master educator - or an overpaid front man?

  January 11, 2001

• School's Out Forever

  "Unschoolers" like Holly Furgason don't believe in public education. They don't even believe in teachers. They believe in the ability of their children to teach themselves. Will the law catch up with them?

  April 20, 2000

• Learning Curves

  Charter school scandals are teaching Texas a hard lesson -- one the state should have known fouryears and $77 million ago

  July 22, 1999

• Neil Bush Wants Him Some Of That There Stimulus Money

  Love it, hate it, the federal stimulus money is coming and it's got to be spent on something.Why not Neil Bush?Bush, the wayward son of the Bush family (and that's saying something) is, of course, the guy behind Ignite!, the company that tries to get schools to buy its Schoolhouse Rock-like gadgetry.Mostly, he's been selling it to HISD, most famously when his mother gave a Katrina donation stipulating it be spent on Neil's stuff.But the generous giving of Barbara Bush can only go so far. What's

  April 20, 2009

• Yet Another Piece Of Good News For TSU

  Photo courtesy TSUSheila Jackson Lee and TSU officials announce their big news​What's this? Good news two months in a row from TSU? The world spins crazily on its axis.Last month the embattled institution found out it had been taken off probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement; now it's learned the feds are no longer demanding the school hand over $11 million.U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee made the surprise announcemen

  August 6, 2009