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Scholarship Opportunity for TALAS Members
TALAS Scholarship Opportunity 🎓
Do you have a child or grandchild graduating from high school this year? Let TALAS help support their next educational chapter.
TALAS is proud to offer $1,500 scholarships to support students as they begin their higher education journey. We are seeking nine outstanding scholars who exemplify the leadership, service, and commitment to excellence that reflect the TALAS mission.
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This Texas leader is the nation’s Superintendent of the Year
Superintendent Roosevelt Nivens of the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District has been named the 2026 AASA National Superintendent of the Year.
Nivens, who leads one of the fastest-growing districts in Texas, according to The School Superintendents Association, is adding nearly 2,000 students every year. Under his leadership, the district has opened 15 new schools since he was hired in 2021.
“The foundation of all my decisions is to make sure students have great experiences, experiences that they probably never could have received if it wasn’t for us,” he told AASA.
A Superintendent’s Vision Turned an Oil Site Into a Career Launchpad
Superintendent Martha Salazar-Zamora’s unlikely vision for a career and technical education utopia here emerged back in 2021, as she toured the site of a bankrupt oil field-services company.
A wall of windows in the former executive conference room and a private patio yielded a perfect view of the company’s one-time fiefdom: 70 acres and 11 buildings.
Karla Sandoval, the Tomball Independent School District’s head of career and technical education, who joined her boss and a real estate agent on the visit, recalled Salazar-Zamora explaining her plan to buy the property, and move some personnel into its deserted office buildings.
Scholarship Opportunity for TALAS Members
TALAS Scholarship Opportunity 🎓
Do you have a child or grandchild graduating from high school this year? Let TALAS help support their next educational chapter.
TALAS is proud to offer $1,500 scholarships to support students as they begin their higher education journey. We are seeking nine outstanding scholars who exemplify the leadership, service, and commitment to excellence that reflect the TALAS mission.
đź“Ś Apply today: Click the link to complete the application.
Please help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity with eligible students and families!
Scholarship Opportunity for TALAS Members
TALAS Scholarship Opportunity 🎓
Do you have a child or grandchild graduating from high school this year? Let TALAS help support their next educational chapter.
TALAS is proud to offer $1,500 scholarships to support students as they begin their higher education journey. We are seeking nine outstanding scholars who exemplify the leadership, service, and commitment to excellence that reflect the TALAS mission.
đź“Ś Apply today: Click the link to complete the application.
Please help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity with eligible students and families!
Low test scores on one campus can trigger a state takeover in Texas, affecting Black, Hispanic and low-income students most
The Texas Education Agency last year launched plans to take over four school districts due to low academic performance, confiscating decision-making power from elected leaders based on state-issued F grades at six campuses.
All six trigger schools share notable similarities.
Between 80% and 97% of their students live in low-income households, far above the state average of 60%.
Black and Hispanic children make up the dominant majority of the student populations, from 88% at Marilyn Miller Language Academy near Lake Worth to almost every child at Fehl-Price Elementary School in Beaumont.
Most Texas Districts Said No to Bible Lessons. The State Could Require Them Anyway
When Texas approved a new reading curriculum that features Bible stories in 2024, education Commissioner Mike Morath told districts they could adopt it, reject it or even adapt it to their own local needs.
But a proposed statewide reading list, which relies on some of the same biblical lessons, would not be optional.
The selections, part of a longer list that also features scripture passages for middle and high school students, include Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son for first graders and a third grade text on the Apostle Paul’s conversion to Christianity. Those are among the stories that the agency published from the Bluebonnet reading curriculum, a spokesman said.
The proposed reading list, which includes classics from Shakespeare and Poe and the writings of historical figures, is scheduled for a preliminary vote by the Texas State Board of Education Wednesday.
What would happen if undocumented children couldn’t attend public schools?
Plyler’s future is uncertain amid Trump administration scrutiny of federal immigration policies. Republican-led efforts introduced this year in several states have also sought to undermine undocumented children’s access to a free public education.
At least six states including Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Indiana and New Jersey introduced related legislation or regulations this year. None of those proposals advanced.
Austin ISD is closing 10 schools amid enrollment challenges
Segura said during the board meeting that developing and carrying out this school closure plan has been “a very difficult process.”Â
Most of the schools impacted by closures are at the elementary level, according to the district.
Segura also said he wished the district didn’t have to make this decision, “but the pressures are gargantuan.”
Austin ISD instructed 72,700 students across 113 schools in 2024-25.