Mother's Love
Jewon Sohn, Noel A. Smith Elementary School, Frisco ISD
Teachers
Texas public schools employ more than 320,000 teachers plus about 70,000 additional professional staff members such as principals, central office administrators and others. The Texas Education Agency provides a wide array of services that help educators do their jobs. Those functions include accrediting educator certification programs, issuing teaching certificates, distributing curriculum standards and textbooks and providing standardized student tests. This web portal attempts to bring together information educators need to function effectively and efficiently as they work with the state’s 4.7 million students.
Announcements
September 01, 2010
The State Board of Education's Committee on School Initiatives will continue to interview applicants seeking a Generation Fifteen open enrollment charter. The committee chair has announced that the meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
September 01, 2010
The Texas Education Agency has received a number of inquiries regarding the impact of the Doggett amendment to HR 1586, also known as the Education Jobs Bill. The amendment creates additional hurdles that only Texas must overcome to draw down the $830 million that is allocated for Texas public schools, including making Texas the only state required to use federal Title I formulas instead of state funding formulas to distribute these funds to school districts. A spreadsheet is now posted that shows the amount of money districts would have received with and without the additional hurdles put in place by the Doggett amendment.
September 01, 2010
As required, the Texas Education Agency has submitted a legislative appropriations request that cuts 10 percent or $260 million from the agency's 2012-2013 budget request. The proposal is now available online at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/lar/ .
August 23, 2010
Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Education Agency have joined together to launch Texas Education on iTunes U, which provides free multimedia content to educators, students and parents in Texas and around the world.