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If you can't walk out of here tomorrow with math standards that are better than the common core, delay ... Come back in May and finish then.
We're going to fight and we're going to complain and we're going to have amendments and we're going to have dialogue ... If you can't walk out of here tomorrow with math standards that are better than the common core, delay. Come back in May and finish then.More quotes »
Around the web
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Who Will Fill The Texas Education Agency's Top Spot?
Four months before he would announce his resignation, Robert Scott characterized his time as the state’s top education official as four and a half years of being in “fight mode.” In just the past year, the head of the Texas Education Agency has been put from KUHF Houston Galveston Read more »
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Texas Education Commissioner Appointment Pending
Whomever is chosen by Texas Governor Rick Perry to head up TX’s ed department faces a tough start to their new job as education commissioner. A new education commissioner for Texas will be appointed this summer by Governor Rick Perry. The job is likely t from Education News Read more »
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EDITORIAL: Testing mania must end
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott gave no reason for his sudden resignation, and he has been doing a generally good job for the past five years. But Scott made no secret of his frustration with the testing mania that has dominated public educatio from Beaumont Enterprise Read more »
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Audio: The Weekly TribCast: Episode 130
On this week's podcast, Ross, Emily, Morgan and Ben weigh the recent resignation of Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott and the back and forth court rulings on Planned Parenthood and the Women's Health Program. Our reporting quartet also looks ahea from Texas Tribune Read more »
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The Evening Brief: May 1, 2012
Texas Schools Chief Stepping Down: "Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott is leaving the post Gov. Rick Perry appointed him to in 2007. Under Scott's tenure, Texas was often at the center of national conversations on education, skirmishing wit from Texas Tribune Read more »
