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The Texas Education Agency ( TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States. [1] The agency is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building in downtown Austin. [1] [2] Mike Morath, formerly a member of the Dallas Independent School District 's board of trustees, was ...
Education in Texas. Texas has over 1,000 public school districts—all but one of the school districts in Texas are independent, separate from any form of municipal or county government. School districts may (and often do) cross city and county boundaries. Independent school districts have the power to tax their residents and to assert eminent ...
Clear Creek Independent School District (also extends into Harris County) Dickinson Independent School District. Friendswood Independent School District. Galveston Independent School District. Hitchcock Independent School District. Santa Fe Independent School District. Texas City Independent School District.
Trustees Ricardo Castellano, left, and Pablo Barrera return to the board room after taking a photo with Socorro Independent School District students during a board meeting in 2022.
Houston Independent School District takeover. The Houston Independent School District takeover is a 2023 takeover of the state's largest school district by the Texas Education Agency, replacing the superintendent and elected board of trustees with a board of managers and a new superintendent appointed by the Texas commissioner of education.
Last year, Senate Bill 1515, a Texas proposal similar to Louisiana's new law, missed a key legislative deadline, effectively killing a push to display the Ten Commandments in Texas schools ...
The Dallas school board commissioned studies over the next several months, deciding in August 1956, that desegregation was premature and that the segregated system would stay in place for 1956–57. [21] In 1957, Texas passed legislation requiring that districts not integrate their schools unless district residents voted to approve the change ...
The appeals court also reversed a lower court judge's denial of 'qualified immunity' to school board members, and dismissed the case against them. Texas school board can start meetings with prayer ...