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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–The arrests of two suspected sex traffickers were made public at a press conference in El Paso at the Mexican border. One of the accused was a volunteer at a middle school for the Ysleta Independent School District (ISD). 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

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

Raymund Paredes, Commissioner of Higher Education at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) threw down the gauntlet in a May 30, 2014 San Antonio Express News opinion piece “Common Core Controversy in Texas Distracting, Unneccessary” in which he declared

FortWorth — In the first major go-round on the official opening day of the Texas State Republican Convention, a strong “Educating our Children”subcommittee resolution to stop Common Core in Texas was initially adopted into the party platform. The following resolution plank

Denton Independent School District (ISD) parent Jenny Williams was stunned by the flyer she found  in her son’s fifth grade reading intervention packet–“3 Key Ideas for Parents (about the Common Core).” On May 23, Williams met with Ginnings Elementary administrators

Last week, an inflammatory Top 10 list in an article flagrantly and falsely accused Texas of being “The Most (Overtly) Racist State in America.” The list was published by a non-profit education organization called Empathy Educates. One of this group’s

As the school year winds down, high-stakes testing isn’t the only controversial classroom issue to shelve until the 2014-15 school year.  Grade inflation looms in the background.  It’s a huge problem from public to private school and colleges and universities. It has

Fort Worth–Tonight at the Stockyards, it was all smiles for Konni Burton (R-Colleyville), the grassroots conservative favorite who swept Senate District 10 in her run-off bid to become the GOP nominee in the state senate race for the November 2014

Picture a state that rejected the Common Core State Standards, yet strangely, Common Core conferences convene around the calendar with some of the biggest names in progressive education reform.  Yes, that state would be Texas. In fact, Common Core kick-offs

Inthe midst of the Texas House drafting articles of impeachment against Universityof Texas system regent Wallace Hall, Jr., Governor Rick Perry issued “oneof his strongest statements yet” in support of the Dallas businessman,according to the Washington Times.   Perry,who appointed

DALLAS, Texas–Paris Independent School District Superintendent Paul Jones apparently had no idea that when he wrote an open online letter to parents slamming the Texas standardized STAAR test that it would go viral, end up on the local news and

Today is a “time when college hasnever been more important,” according to the U.S. Department of Education(DOE) who announcedits latest $75 million competition–“First in the World (FITW).”  It will create grants to “fund thedevelopment and testing of innovative approaches and