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At the 2024 SkillsUSA Texas State Leadership and Skills Conference, TSTC awarded $770,000 in $10,000 scholarships to 77 high school students who received gold medals. TSTC also awarded $500,000 in $1,000 scholarships to 500 graduating seniors who competed in this year’s SkillsUSA competition.
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KWBU spoke with NPR's Education Desk to learn more about what students can expect during this years Student Podcast Challenge.
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$712,749.59 has been raised for students enrolled at McLennan Community College, the largest sum of student scholarships the MCC Foundation has awarded in its 33-years of fundraising.
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Schools now have the option to relax, or do away with masking rules if districts see fit.…
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Dallas and Houston have some of the state’s top-performing schools, but there’s increasingly more so-called gold-ribbon schools in the Rio Grande Valley.
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“I definitely think as a school is trying to turn around, it is important to have some type of incentive to attract teachers that may not normally look at…
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“To hear that they were testing at two to three grade levels above the grade level they should have been testing at was surprising, and really just made…
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“I think that both chambers are pretty committed to passing a school finance plan.”
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“If you spend more money on pre-K, that can do more to catch kids up than any other intervention later in life, according to research.”
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Wonderful story of a teacher who operates a bit off the beaten path.I’m Jim McKeown, welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction,…