Texas recently hit the cap on open-enrollment charter schools preventing the opening of many new charter schools to serve the nearly 17,000 students on a waiting list. This brief examines the charter school cap policies of 40 states and the District of Columbia, and recommends that Texas eliminate or raise the cap.
K-12 Education
“Sermon on the Mound” Shows Need for TEA Curriculum
One could only laugh at the news report by CBS 5 in Austin this week citing “concern over a “Bible infused public school curriculum in Texas.’” According to the reporter, one of those “concerns” is that students would be taught about the “Sermon on the Mound.” Here’s what it said: Insert your own baseball joke...
August 15, 2024