DALLAS, Texas — Every kid imagines a school without test scores, grades, or even deadlines. Now, the Denton Independent School District (ISD) located north of Dallas is bringing that dream to life through a new grading policy that’s guaranteed to
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DALLAS, Texas — It is becoming a world where locked school doors, intercom entry systems, electronic card entry keys, and security cameras just are not enough to ensure student safety. Horrific incidents like Columbine, the Isla Vista shooting, Sandy Hook,
DALLAS, Texas — “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is the quintessential question every parent, grandparent, and teacher has ever asked to their youngsters on the very first day of school. It is also a question
DALLAS, Texas — There is a history of cheating on the annual standardized tests in Texas and it’s not the students. It’s the teachers, and these classroom scandals have rocked the state. These days, that test is the State of
DALLAS, Texas — Senator Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio), the liberal nominee for Texas Lt. Governor, wants to make college free for every student in Texas through a scholarship she calls the “Texas Promise.” This exceptionally generous program would
DALLAS, Texas — It is one of those sci-fi collides with real life moments like in “The Giver,” Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel where freedoms are traded in for the public safety, only here it’s the Dallas City Council and it’s
DALLAS, Texas — Room 1060 at the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas was the most compassionate place on earth, Monday, August 11, for minors who were in the various stages of the legal process for “Hearings on Removal
DALLAS, Texas — No sooner did the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announce record-breaking on-time high school graduation rates of 88 percent for the Class of 2013 did the criticism of those results begin, prompting the agency to put out a
DALLAS, Texas — Advanced Placement has been the gold standard of accelerated academic achievement, bringing first year college level work to the best and brightest on a high school level. Its end-of-course exam has translated into transferrable college credits for many.
DALLAS, Texas — The Collin County Commissioner’s Court in McKinney met on August 4 for a second and final time on the proposed resolution that would ban housingillegal minors in the county. Judge Keith Self, who was not present at
DALLAS, Texas — The question of how Texas schools are gearing up to absorb the influx of undocumented minors has been the speculative fodder of social media pages and fiery local town hall meetings throughout the summer months. Now, the
The Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) uncovered a very costly mistake, literally. They’ve been receiving overpayments from the state since 2010 and now will have to pay back somewhere between $37 million and $39 million dollars. It’s an error
The members of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) recently convened for a week of general meetings and committees in Austin. Proclamation 2016, which is the SBOE’s invitation to submit bids for Texas Education Knowledge & Skills (TEKS) aligned instructional
The Collin County Commissioner’s Court in McKinney was standing room only on Monday, July 28, when residents poured into the courtroom to give public comments on a proposed resolution that would ban housing illegal immigrant minors in the county. Emotions ran
On Saturday, July 26, approximately 30 Dallas area residents lined up for a small and peaceful protest of Clay Jenkins, the Dallas County judge who took it upon himself to invite 2,000 of the unaccompanied alien minors who have crossed into
On July 22, the Dallas Independent School District (ISD) Board of Trustees voted 7-2 to renew the contract of school superintendent Mike Miles, who they flirted with firing a year ago and followed up with a failed vote last September.
President Barack Obama may have been too busy to visit the U.S. southern border to witness the humanitarian crisis during his recent Texas trip, but he found time to hold a town hall meeting at the Walker Jones Education Center
DALLAS, Texas–Finding common ground on Common Core is a task usually coveted by cavalier progressive left and establishment right ideologues whose education reformer remedies include overlooking imperfections, re-branding, and calling the implementation of the Common Core “botched.” However, there are conservative
DALLAS, Texas–The National Day of Protesting Against Immigration Reform/Amnesty & Border Surge was felt around that state the weekend of July 18-19. In Dallas, protesters came out against pro-illegal immigrant judge Clay Jenkins on July 18. Breitbart Texas was at Dealey Plaza across
DALLAS, Texas–National Review commentator Stanley Kurtz put Texas “at the forefront of the resistance” in fighting the new Common Core aligned AP US History (APUSH). Now all eyes are on Texas to lead the way out of APUSH in a state that didn’t
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DALLAS, Texas–Despite repeated roadblocks put up by the beleaguered and failed leadership at the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD), Texas EducationCommissioner Michael Williams finally announced his picks for the temporary state-appointed Board of Managers on July 14. In a ruling
DALLAS, Texas–Houston Independent School District (ISD) may soon join Dallas ISD in supplying vacant public schools as potential sites to house Central American and Mexican illegal immigrant minors that crossed the border into Texas. The Houston Chronicle reported that federal
DALLAS, Texas–Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) recently introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to transform his brother Julian’s mayoral signature education plan Pre-K for SA (San Antonio) into Pre-K for USA. The Pre-K for USA Act would allow
DALLAS, Texas–What the founders of Texas really intended for the state’s public education system was not at all what it became, according to a new report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), Center for Education Freedom. Released on July 2,
DALLAS, Texas–Sending a child to public school is becoming an increasing battle not only for who controls their hearts and minds but also their stomachs. Come September, students in all 50 states will step right back into a Fed Led food
DALLAS, Texas–The Texas legislature House Select Committee is beginning a serious review into the wide reaching costs of the Texas border crisis, Dallas ISD is ready to saddle county residents with more debt to house unaccompanied alien minors in three of its
DALLAS, Texas–Texans may not have to wait until the new school year to feel the impact of what the Dallas Morning News reported as more than 50,000unaccompanied minors now mostly in Texas. Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles offered up the
DALLAS, Texas–Nerves are starting to fray. Texans want answers about the tsunami of undocumented and unaccompanied minors that may well hit public school classrooms this Fall. Breitbart Texas reported that the Clear Lake Tea Party (CLTP) voiced strong concerns about how these minors will be
DALLAS, Texas–There was hardly a seat in the house when the Texas gubernatorial candidates talked public education at the Texas Classroom Teachers Association (TCTA) convention in Fort Worth on June 26, 2014, FOX-4 DFW reported. They spoke in split shifts:
DALLAS, Texas–The Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) Board of Trustees has spent the better part of 2014 fraught with employee embezzlement scandalsand legal battles with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the latter who has sought to clean house in the
DALLAS, Texas–On Friday, June 20, during the two-day Austin-held #CANiSEE The Solutions conference on Fed Led Ed, an impromptu press conference took place. Among the speakers were Dr. Sandra Stotsky and Dr. James Milgram–both were there to recount their experiences on
DALLAS, Texas–Last week, Breitbart Texas sat at the education roundtable, so to speak, with three of the most prominent voices in the fight against Fed Led Ed — Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Dr. James Milgram, and Jane Robbins, JD. The trio
The first day of summer school took a horrifying turn at Reilly elementary in Austin ISD (AISD) when a 6-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her 33 year-old teacher Alfredo Andrade-Gaytan. He apparently told the girl to stay in the
Weeks before the massive influx of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from Mexico and Central America hit the U.S. southwestern border, California came one step closer to authorizing $9.2 million to fund undocumented students with college loans under the proposed California
No Common Core in Texas is essentially what Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in an opinion he rendered on the use of the Common Core State Standards in the Lone Star State on June 17, 2014. Abbott’s opinion was prompted
The long awaited CSCOPE audit report was released on June 9, 2014 following an 18 month investigation by the office of Texas state auditor John Keel. In his overall conclusion, Keel stated that during the 2012-13 period, the 20 education
It was an education summit of ideas when key influencers and legislators got together to discuss the future of Texas public education before an enthusiastic room of several hundred delegates during a breakout session at the 2014 Texas state Republican
FORT WORTH, Texas — The Texas GOP went beyond existing anti-Common Core law for the State of Texas and now included a party platform that seeks to cut state education funding for any district that uses the Common Core. Breitbart
There are a number of hot button issues happening outside of the 2014 Texas Republican State Convention; however, a huge one is playing out inside the Fort Worth Convention Center — public education. The “Educating Our Children” subcommittee has been working hard to
