Texas lawmakers and charter leaders push back on the $870K paid to Valere schools’ superintendent
The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune ...
Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country
An Alpha school junior and the institution's co-founder Mackenzie Price spoke with "Fox & Friends" about the ways artificial ...
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Texas lawmakers and charter leaders push back on the $870K paid to Valere schools’ superintendent
Texas lawmakers and an advocacy group representing charter schools harshly criticized a tiny charter school network that has paid its superintendent up to $870,000 annually, making him one of the ...
See if your Houston-area school district made this year's Texas Honor Roll list
Ten Houston-area school districts and 24 Houston ISD schools were named to the 2024 Texas honor roll. See if your school made ...
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Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a ...
Will this bill finally get cellphones banned in Texas classrooms?
Even now, most districts don’t allow students to use phones in class. But enforcing such policies is a problem. The teachers ...
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“We’re in competition”: An East Texas school district faces hard choices as education options grow
Gay, the school board chair in an interview with The Texas Tribune, highlighted Pineywoods Community Academy — the tuition-free charter school — as a possible place where students migrated.
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Arizona approves AI charter school, but education concerns persist
School officials say since AI is effective at tailoring teaching to each student, learning for core academics will take about ...
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Did Mike Miles’ Former Charter School Network Fail to Provide Required Classes?
Dawn Miller was a true believer in Mike Miles when she started working, in March 2023, for the charter school nonprofit network Miles had founded seven years prior. Miles started Third Future ...
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Hundreds of charter school students went to the Maryland State House. Here’s what happened.
A group of nearly 400 parents, teachers and students visited Maryland’s State House recently with one message for their representatives: Charter schools are public schools and should be ...