This Week in Texas discusses teacher recruitment, pay and retention with panel of political insiders in the fifth episode!

Houston, Texas (KTRK) – This week’s fifth episode in Texas brings viewers a second episode focused on education. Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath and the chairs of the Texas House and Senate Education Committee join ABC13 political journalist Tom Abrahams as they discuss teacher recruitment and student performance. This episode will include a report on teacher recruitment efforts in the Houston Independent with ABC13 anchor Myra Moreno and insight from a panel of political insiders. HISD began the 2022-2023 school year with 95% of teacher positions filled, ABC13 reported in…

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Texas Board of Education moves to delay updates to social studies curriculum after conservative pushback!

After facing pressure from conservatives ended Suggested updates In the state’s social studies curriculum scheduled for this year, the state board of education on Tuesday took the step of delaying the review until 2025. Instead, in an initial 7-2 vote, the board approved a curriculum-only modification with directives to comply with a 2021 state law targeting “critical race theory.” These include the addition of civics and literacy standards. A final vote on the resolution is scheduled for Friday, the last day of the week-long board meeting. “This is basically a…

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Rice University scores No. 6 rank among best colleges in the US and No. 1 in Texas!

byJohn Egan Across Houston, Texas — Rice University is an outstanding student among the best colleges in the United States The video shown above is from a previous report of 2021 when Rice University was named one of the greatest schools in the United States. new classification From an education information and review platform, Niche ranks Rice as the sixth best college in the country and best in Texas, with MIT ranked first nationally. Rice’s ranking is one notch higher than seventh on the Specialized List released in 2021. “We…

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ABC13 reporter Mycah Hatfield visits Northland Christian School where she attended for 13 years!

Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Students at Northland Christian on Houston’s North Side dive again for another school year. Mycah Hatfield, the ABC13 reporter, attended the school there for 13 years, from kindergarten to 12th grade. She came back last week and was able to catch up with many of the teachers and staff who were there when she was there. Since graduation, preschool, elementary, middle, and high schools have all been consolidated into a single campus in Sylvanfield near FM 1960 and Stuebner Airline. The school has since launched several…

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Harsh Goenka shares video of visually impaired students celebrating Dahi Handi | common

Janmashtami 2022: As the country teems with Janmashtami celebrations, people across the country vie to participate in the Dahi Handi ritual with the utmost passion. Harsh Goenka recently shared a video of one of these celebrations featuring students with disabilities on Twitter. Since its publication, it has won people’s hearts. The tweet shared by Harsh Goenka shows visually impaired children at the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind in Mumbai. He posted the video on August 19 and wrote: “On the occasion of #Janmashtami, visually impaired children are performing at…

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