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Groups that want to open a new open-enrollment charter school in Texas have about a week left to file. Here is how the yearlong review works and when the State Board of Education gets its say.
House Bill 2 ends a long-used workaround for hiring uncertified teachers in core subjects. Elementary reading and math come first this year, but 572 districts bought more time.
The designation now covers 427 Texas campuses. Here is what a Purple Star school has to provide, and how any public school can apply.
The Texas comptroller has launched a transparency page for Texas Education Freedom Accounts and ordered an independent audit, as more than 95,000 eligible students wait for a spot in the program's first year.
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