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Clark Middle School, United ISD
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Agency News
March 12, 2010
After considering about 300 amendments during its January and March meetings, the State Board of Education, on a 10-5 vote, gave preliminary approval to new social studies curriculum standards that will be used in the Texas public schools.
March 12, 2010
The Texas Permanent School Fund, which guarantees school district bonds and supports the purchase of student textbooks, realized a 25.02 percent return in 2009.
March 10, 2010
The Fox Network in recent days has broadcast inaccurate information about the State Board of Education’s efforts to adopt the new social studies curriculum standards. Here are the facts.
March 10, 2010
Almost 1,200 Texas school districts and charter schools earned full accreditation status from the Texas Education Agency.
March 1, 2010
Texas is the first, and so far, only state to meet all the American Diploma Project’s five key college and career readiness measures, Achieve, a national bipartisan organization, announced today.
February 23, 2010
Texas' English language arts and mathematics college and career readiness standards are more comprehensive than the national Common Core College Readiness Standards, a new analysis released today found.
February 16, 2010
Gov. Perry and state legislative leaders in January 2010 asked each state agency to compile a list of state-funded programs that could be cut to produce a five percent budget reduction. Proposed budget cuts to the Texas Education Agency appropriations total about $135 million.
February 10, 2010
Texas was recognized today by the College Board as one of 20 states with the greatest percentage of students earning scores of three or higher on Advanced Placement (AP) exams.