It states no public or charter school teacher can be required to discuss current events or controversial issues related to public policy or social affairs. And if teachers do broach those topics, the bill says they must teach both sides without giving deference to any one perspective.
“Right now there are teachings out there, and they re being taught in some Texas public schools that say one race or sex is inherently superior to the other,” Hughes said. “If we don’t respond to these horrible things, if we don’t respond to these with these American ideas that we all aspire to, if we abandon those and we go to this level, we can’t imagine how bad, how bad that will be for these children and for the future of our country.”
Texas home-school students are as close as they’ve ever been to getting the chance to compete in public school sports, despite vigorous objections from coaches and others worried about creating an uneven playing field.
House members could vote as early as today on a bill that would allow school districts and charter schools to choose whether home-schooled students can participate in academic, fine and performing arts and athletic activities regulated by the state’s governing body, the University Interscholastic League.
A companion bill is expected to be heard by the Senate’s Committee on Education in the coming week.
Candidates appear at ATPE forum Written by Beverly Horner Published: 20 April 2021
The Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) held a forum April 12 for candidates for the Humble ISD school board. Topics ranged from how to better prepare students for next steps, transgender sporting participation, volunteering, Title 1 schools, diversity and technology.
Each candidate was given one minute to answer the posed questions to the best of their ability. The talent pool was vast, as the candidates each came with differing strengths, ideas for change and backgrounds to benefit the students of the district.
Several questions had the candidates unified in response, such as diversity and inclusion, transgender sporting participation and pandemic handling.
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Schools Evaluating Mask Policies After Governor s Announcement Area school districts will have decisions to make following Governor Greg Abbott s order lifting the mask mandate in Texas last week. A day after Abbott s announcement, the Texas Education Agency released a statement saying that school boards will have the full authority to determine their local mask policy. Following the TEA s announcement, several area superintendents released statements saying that their districts were assessing how to move forward and would be making announcements in the coming days. Hillsboro Independent School District (HISD) says that it will continue requiring masks for now. HISD has had three staff members test positive in the past couple of weeks, but due to mask requirements, we have not had students become infected, a statement from the district read.
Nacogdoches reps of state teacher organizations react to mask issue
Nacogdoches reps of state teacher organizations react to mask issue By Donna McCollum | March 4, 2021 at 7:15 PM CST - Updated March 4 at 8:45 PM
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - After spring break, Nacogdoches high school science teacher Roya Dinbali will see students again, when a statewide mask mandate is lifted.
“At first I thought it was a joke,” recalled Dinbali about her first reaction to the decision announced on Wednesday.
The Nacogdoches chapter president for Association of Texas Professional Educators now knows teachers in some districts could soon see classrooms without masks and shields.