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Volume 14, Iss. 27 3/12/2010
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House conservatives nudge SBOE on history
Andy Hogue
03/12/2010
After final reading and approval of changes to the English and Language Arts textbook standards revisions this week, a nationally anticipated discussion over changes to Social Studies requirements began among the members of Texas’ State Board of Education (SBOE). Though the viewing audience was perhaps larger for this round, the SBOE board room wasn’t nearly as full.
Some 50 people, most of whom expressed multiculturalist viewpoints, signed up to speak — a shorter queue than during January’s meeting on textbook standards.
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Lawmakers, agencies brainstorm five-percent cuts
Mark Lavergne
03/12/2010
A handful of the state’s biggest and most costly agencies came before the House Appropriations Committee March 8 to spitball ideas with lawmakers on how to meet the 5 percent cuts required across the board by Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and House Speaker Joe Straus. No final decisions were made on where to cut, although lawmakers certainly weighed in on which suggestions would not fly.
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TPPF: Tuition dereg equals more spending
Andy Hogue
03/12/2010
Did tuition deregulation in Texas result in more competition between universities? Or did it simply move the responsibility for setting tuition fee rates from elected representatives to appointed university board members without saving the state much money?
A study by the Austin-based Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative policy group, looks at that topic in a paper titled “Tuition Deregulation & Higher Education Spending,” released March 11.
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ISSUES IN-DEPTH: Analysis: Election puts GOP in good position for fall elections
William Lutz
03/12/2010
For the first time in three election cycles, Republicans have good reason to be optimistic heading into the November election.
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AROUND TEXAS
LSR Staff
03/12/2010
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OPINION: Who really seeks a ‘deeper stamp’ in education?
William Murchison
03/12/2010
Whatever the State Board of Education comes up with by way of standards for social studies textbooks, the vexations that come with reaching for cultural unity will be plain as the nose on Thomas Edison’s face. The very face some experts have resisted including in the curriculum on account of, well, the need to satisfy so many disparate cultural yearnings.
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