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Texas rejects more rigorous teacher certification exam
Read full article: Texas rejects more rigorous teacher certification examThe Educative Teacher Performance Assessment was designed to better prepare new teachers, but faced pushback from people who thought it would create barriers for people of color to enter the profession.
Texas State Board of Education rejects conservative-backed Heritage Classical Academy charter school for third time
Read full article: Texas State Board of Education rejects conservative-backed Heritage Classical Academy charter school for third timeTwo Republicans joined Democrats to veto the charter school application, including a Republican board member who lost reelection to a candidate endorsed by a PAC with financial ties to Heritage’s board chair.
First draft of Legislature’s map of new State Board of Education districts shores up Republican majority
Read full article: First draft of Legislature’s map of new State Board of Education districts shores up Republican majorityThe Republican-dominated, 15-member board determines what millions of public school students in the state are taught in classrooms.
Republicans maintain majority on Texas education board with three seats too close to call
Read full article: Republicans maintain majority on Texas education board with three seats too close to callThe Texas State Board of Education sets curriculum standards for Texas public schools, and its makeup will change after Tuesday's election. But Republicans appeared poised to keep control of two other seats Texas Democrats wanted to flip this year. Currently, the 15-member education board seats 10 Republicans and five Democrats — with eight seats in play this year. Popp also picked up the support of Texas Values, a conservative statewide advocacy group, which recently urged the board to adopt abstinence-focused sex education. The board is weeks away from revising Texas' sex education policy, its first attempt to do so since 1997.