School districts in Texas

reality. In the tiny Texas town known as Harrold, the nearest police station is 30 miles away. This creates a problem in that if something happens, the police department can’t make it in time before disaster strikes. The Harrold independent School District also reported low funding and they weren't able to hire any security officers to be on campus during the school day. Although low funding in such a small town is understandable, the city should take it upon itself to place at least 1 or 2…

The state of Texas has undergone many trials and tribulations throughout the history of both itself and the country, its constitution is no different. As a state with the fourth most amendments one must ask themselves why and how does this affect their government. The origin of the Texas Constitution dates to 1836 with a formal decree to become independent from Mexico after nearly 15 years of falling under their rule. The Constitution of 1836 rested largely on Anglo-American principles, as well…

William Wayne Justice, he was a formidable judge that sat on the federal bench in the state of Texas. He brought forth change throughout his years as a judge and some of those changes would be major reform decisions that will change the systems in Texas. He was a judge that made decisions that influenced changes and it was noticed not only in Texas, but throughout the United States. Judge Justice was involved in many controversial cases and reforms that gained attention all over. Not only the…

Education. It chose me! I relocated to Texas with my family a little more than four years ago. The school that I wanted my daughters to attend could not enroll them since we did not live in their district. The only way for them to get in that school was if I worked for the school district. There was one para-professional job opening that I could apply for and it was for a special needs classroom. I was interviewed and hired within two weeks of my relocating to Texas. I have not looked back since…

first case was “Murray v. Pearson”. Donald Gaines Murray made an application to attend to the University of Maryland School of Law on January 24, 1935, but his application was rejected because The University of Maryland did not accept to admit black students. However, in 1936, the Court of Appeals decided that black people must be accepted because there wasn’t any other law schools in Maryland for black students. Lawyers Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall won the case even though Marshall had…

was denied admission twice into the California Davis School of Medicine. Blakee later learned that minorities with lower qualifications than Blakee were granted admission to the School because of the quota at the California at Davis School of Medicine. Eventually Justice Powell of the Supreme court ruled that the quota at the California School of Medicine was unconstitutional. The fact that there were differences in the Fisher v. University of Texas and the California V. Blakee case left people…

figures that I wanted to learn more about, but there was one person that stood out to me in particular. The public figure that stood out to me the most was Gustavo “Gus” Garcia. Gus Garcia was a Mexican-American lawyer who attended school at The University of Texas at Austin. In that institution he was the captain of the debate team and a successfully academic student and eventually became a civil rights lawyer (Allsup, 1982). When World War II was occurring Garcia was drafted for service as…

at Kennedy High School have a teacher website, yet only 49% of classroom teachers have populated their website with any information and of these, only 5% have created a website that meets the current State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) Technology Applications Standards for all Teachers. Ad hoc training is currently provided to help teachers develop a website, but teachers are frequently unable or unwilling to…

School sports are becoming very controversial in every intellectual environment, whether or not they should be banned. If you don’t have sports it could save large amounts of money and a great deal of other things that will help out. Therefore, sports should be abandoned to cut costs, keep students more focused, and it will keep the academic community safer. Financing school sports has become a major problem for schools across the U.S. When Premont Independent School District in Texas dropped…

Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, recently issued students at two of its campuses new badges with an embedded RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip in order to track their locations.” The schools have turned to radio frequency identification technology to help administrators keep count and track the whereabouts of students on campus. If a student is not in his seat during school time the district doesn’t receive daily funding for that student, because the school has no way…