TCTA fights to keep charter school caps

TCTA's Lindsay Gustafson attended a Senate Education Committee interim hearing on Monday to testify on charter schools.

While TCTA believes there is a place in the Texas education system for charter schools, we took this opportunity to address some of our concerns with the current charter school system in Texas.
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TCTA analyzes Obama administration's education reform plan

The Obama administration recently released its blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). In analyzing the blueprint, TCTA found, as expected, many of the education reforms we objected to in a series of federal grants released by the administration last summer.
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TCTA attends first school finance committee meeting

The Select Committee on Public School Finance Weights, Allotments and Adjustments started its first meeting with a three-hour primer on the Texas school finance system, including past court decisions on the subject. Committee members commented on the complexity of the system, and Co-Chair Sen. Florence Shapiro asked committee members to come back to the next meeting with some “out-of-the box” ideas on how to rewrite the school finance system from scratch.
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