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1876 Texas A&M University opened for classes in College Station. 1883 O. M. Roberts, considered the Thomas Jefferson of Texas education, helped pass a constitutional amendment that began the school district system for Texas schools. He was also influential in establishing the University of Texas.
Texans have long been concerned about the education of their children. The Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836 listed the failure of the Mexican government "to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources..."
3 days ago · Education officials say the materials were designed to be age appropriate but critics argue they repeatedly omit key context and oversimplify history. A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s historic estate long revered for its French neoclassical architecture and as a ...
Mar 19, 2024 · Once Texas declared its independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836, and became its own country—shortly before being admitted into the United States—a public education system was created to serve the families of the newly formed Republic of Texas.
Nov 15, 2023 · In fact, the history of Texas’s system reveals four pivotal eras when the state’s White leaders created and maintained a school finance system reliant on local property taxes and defined by rural/urban and racial differences that cemented deep inequalities.
This law represents perhaps the most sweeping federal reform in education since the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (TASA XPress News, November 7, 2002). Felipe Alanis, in March 2002 becomes the first Hispanic Texan to be appoint ed commissioner of education.
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3 days ago · Since it was proposed by the Texas Education Agency earlier this year, the elementary school reading and language arts curriculum has faced strong opposition from parents, advocates and faith leaders for its heavy use of biblical teachings, which critics say could lead to the bullying and isolation of non-Christian students, undermine church-state separation and grant the state far-reaching ...
