A surprising number of Texas school districts have turned responsibility for what used to be routine student discipline over to law enforcement. As a result, many students receive a criminal record instead of a trip to the principal’s office for engaging in childish misbehavior. This trend is detrimental to Texas schoolchildren, their families and communities, and ultimately, to Texas’ economic well-being.
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Our review of the practices of schools in districts across the state indicates that—nearly 17 years after Santa Fe was first filed, and nearly 12 years since the Supreme Court’s opinion—many Texas school districts continue to violate the First Amendment in ways remarkably similar to the violations catalogued by the trial court in Santa Fe. Often these practices are not only violations of the First Amendment, but also violations of school districts’ own internal policies and Texas law regarding religious freedom.
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Saturday, September 1, 2012 - 12:00am
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The Texas State Board of Education, the body charged with determining Texas public school curriculum standards for Texas’ 4.7 million public school children, was scheduled to vote on the adoption of new Social Studies curriculum standards on May 21, 2010. We reccomended the Board immediately stop or delay the Social Studies TEKS review process and start over.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 12:00am
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