Three Houston schools have been persistently rated as unsatisfactory by state guidelines for three or more years. As with most school closing warnings across the nation, the parents, community, and elected officials with a political stake in the area are up in arms over the possibility.
Houston Schools Deal With Diversity And Drop-outs
At the end of June 2007 the Supreme Court made a split 5-4 ruling that limits the ability of schools to use race as a factor in determining student participation in academic programs like magnet schools. Around that same time, the Alliance for Excellence in Education released a study out of Princeton University that reports the cost of high school drop-outs to the country over the next decade will be about $3 trillion.
Houston Schools Focus On Magnet And Early Childhood Programs
School systems across the country have just a couple of things on their plate: charter schools, budgets, magnet schools, pension plans, pre-K and dropout rates- to name a few. Houston Schools are no different, and Magnet and Early Childhood programs appear to be at the top of the list.
Houston Schools Superintendent Highest Paid In State Or Is He?
The Houston Chronicle conducted a study and published its results in mid-March. As part of the Sunshine Week open-records program of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the newspaper surveyed the compensation packages of superintendents across the state, finding that ten regional superintendents in greater Houston exceed $199,000 in annual salary.
Houston Schools Challenged?
Houston Schools families who have children who are identified as gifted or talented academically face unique problems. The biggest one is ensuring that the child in question is being adequately challenged, without suffering burn-out. Im bored is one of those phrases that all parents hate hearing. I mean really hate. Its frustrating for a parent to be relied upon for entertaining and keeping the child busy, especially when that child is of school-age. By the time they …
Houston Schools Students Get Hands-on Experience At Space Center
NASAs Johnson Space Center Houston recently hosted a two-day BP Physics Challenge for 886 Houston schools students, mostly juniors and seniors, with 800 more students expected to attend. The math and science students either made their own rockets that would be launched outside at the Space Center or conducted other experiments inside.