Results tagged “education”

• Never ending war.
• Inhofe on Franken: pot calling the kettle black.
• Just what America needs - less educated students.

Dell's new netbook is geared toward kids in the classroom with five vivid colors, a rubber casing, and 10.1-inch screen.

Austin is the largest city in America without a planetarium. It's easy to see a spectacular spread of stars deep in the heart of West Texas, but local educators and city-bound stargazers have to make their way San Antonio (or Killeen!).

• Governor Perry looks stimulus gift horse in mouth, sends it trotting back to Washington.
• Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cattle rustlers…because they’ll get caught!
• If this bill passes the Lege, UT could change motto to, “Come Early, Be Loud, Pack Heat.”

• Tornado watch for Travis County until 9pm
• 81st legislature passed its first bill (finally): Rep. Dawnna Dukes' film incentives bill.
• State Senate approves scaling back the top 10% rule.

• IMF says world economy will shrink this year.
• Obama to speak on education; won't touch No Child Left Behind.
• Merck to get bigger.

Today the State Board of Education approved changes in the state science curriculum, removing any language on the "weaknesses" of evolution. Yesterday the textbook commission had voted 8-7 to defeat (barely) a proposed amendment requiring that state biology textbooks retain the phrase "strengths and weaknesses" on the subject of evolution. Texas has used such language in science texts for the past decade. Today's Board of Education vote is only tentative; the official vote is in March, but will likely bear the same result. The vote in March will affect our state's curriculum for the next 10 years. [DMN]

State Board of Education hears testimony today on proposed changes to science curriculum. Texas Lege deals with a tight budget. Girl Scout cookies go on sale today in our area. . . Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido says he "made a mistake" after being charged with drunk driving over the weekend (he is currently suspended from UT). Pedestrians hit by SUV this afternoon outside the courthouse. Results released from Army investigation into string of recent Houston recruiter suicides. Buried treasure (of a sort) found in Galveston during Ike cleanup.

State Board of Education holding a hearing today in Austin on the teaching of evolution. In these troubled economic times, don't our state legislators deserve to spend $140,000 on chandeliers and expensive granite countertops for their members-only lounge? Progress Coffee is selling food for donations tomorrow (from 6:30am-7pm); all proceeds will go to Bread for the World and Capital Area Food Bank. Family security lanes now in use at ABIA. Federal officials holding a hearing on the South Texas border fence. Seven Katy varsity cheerleaders indicted for hazing charges. Will Smith and Tony Romo stopped by a pep rally at Lake Highlands High School yesterday.

Both Reps Doggett (D) and McCaul (R) part of the majority who voted against the bailout bill. Montopolis-area residents form a neighborhood association. Four State Board of Education members plugging the Bible curriculum for Texas public schools. The French Ambassador to the US spoke at UT about nuclear power today. Some good news after today's shaky financial events: starting in January, you can fly straight to Puerta Vallarta from ABIA on Viva Aerobus.

After a unanimous vote, the Harrold Independent School District will be the first in the nation to allow teachers to bring guns into their classrooms starting this fall – and not a single parent has contested the new plan.

Road closures downtown for tomorrow's festivities. City of Austin needs more lifeguards to keep summer water programs operating. Holly Street neighborhood concerned about five-story condo development set to be built across the street from the old power plant. New Leander high school will be named after a soldier (and Leander High grad) killed in Iraq. A woman may have lured a man into a Fourth Street alley where he was robbed and beaten by two men Monday night.

State Education Commissioner announces that Johnston High will be closed down. Texas Court of Criminal Appeals announces the creation of an integrity unit that will deal with issues in the criminal justice system. Yesterday, that same Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of Derrick Sonnier. It's been a year since the death of Kevin Brown.

• At least two are killed in Manhattan crane collapse.
• Chinese battle against time to drain quake lake.
• Vatican sends threat over women priests.

Former convention center director pleads guilty to tampering with governmental records. State Board of Education deciding on English curriculum in a difficult and somewhat hostile process. Baseball player traded to Laredo minor league team for ten bats. Yes, you read that correctly. CPS is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn yesterday's ruling by the Third Court of Appeals on the removal of the children from the FLDS compound. Williamson County developers are funny.

It may be best to stay off IH35 this weekend; the highway closure in Buda will surely slow down traffic in Austin. Don't forget the municipal election tomorrow! Yeah, yeah, we know already: Perry reaffirms that he will run again for governor in 2010. Sinkhole overtaking the town of Daisetta.

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• Find out how much money your neighbors make at Statesman.com
• Make it work! ‘Project Runway’s’ Tim Gunn coming to Austin
• AMD's chief technology officer resigns, no plans to replace him

State judge says strip club fee violates First Amendment rights. No matter what you may have heard, the Democratic county conventions are indeed on for tomorrow. Don't let the Capitol 10K thwart your attempts to get downtown on Sunday! Here's some information on street closures. State Board of Education says standard English and social studies guidelines can be applied to elective Bible courses for Texas high schools.

Texas is hot in more ways than one, apparently. Umlauf family selling some of their sculpture pieces (not the ones donated to the city). All-female jury rules in favor of the police officers in the Ramon Hernandez lawsuit. Time Warner wants you to switch to digital cable: they are taking the weather radar channel off the basic lineup.

14-year-old girl assaulted in the wee hours of Tuesday morning in Southeast Austin; police are looking for the suspect (who may be wounded from when the girl fought back). Federal jury will decide if police used excessive force on Ramon Hernandez in 2005. UT system raising tuition fees. Tejano star Emilio in medically-induced coma, but showing some improvement.

Burn ban in place for Williamson County. Wildfire just south of San Marcos is heading near homes in the area. Bastrop High principal on administrative leave after allegedly making racial remarks. Round Rock PD uncovers pickup truck packed with 12 illegal immigrants. Marble Falls teenager shoots his friend in the head while playing a video game.

Polls are open from 7am to 7pm.

Brian Thompson seeking an injunction against Dawnna Dukes; her campaign ads say he's never voted. New KXAN statewide poll of Democratic voters has Obama with 50%, Clinton with 47% and 3% undecided. McCain will hold a town hall meeting with Dell employees tomorrow in Round Rock. New City Manager Ott made two appointments today. Someone at Liberty Hill ISD hasn't heard of a shredder.

It's always great catching a band at their CD Release show, because you know they're going to be fired up and ready to bring it. And such is the state of this Thursday at The Parish Room, where Austin-proud The Boxing Lesson will be dropping their new disc, Wild Streaks & Windy Days, an unabashedly Pink Floyd-esque collection of psychedelic rock. With songs like "Muerta" and "Back from the Dead," they establish an eerily sinister tone that's ably coupled with songs nodding to their forebears, such as "Dark Side of the Moog."

Six Organs of Admittance, complete with awkward band name and bootfulls of whispery/screechy talent, will be taking this town by storm (or sea, or desert cyclone) tonight at the Mohawk. Serving up super-soothing melodies mixed with squalls of distortion to make one big ball of twine, psych-folk style, Six Organs has over the last ten years developed an utterly unique sound, as well as a veritable sand dune of critical acclaim. While they usually tend toward the contemplative and hauntingly beautiful, their most recent album, Shelter from the Ash, has some disturbingly dead-on rockers sure to shake the Mohawk all the way to the lake. And did we mention that Six Organs' frontman Ben Chasney is a guitar god?

The Vortex has remounted one of its first big hits, Alan Bowne's Beirut. The original production put Vortex on the map as the place to go for cutting-edge, indeed bleeding-edge, work. With a script that's a tad dated but still meaty, the show explores the political, social, and emotional fallout of the AIDS crisis. It includes full nudity and sexually explicit material, all done to serve a story that's weighty and intense. Thu-Sun, 8pm, through 1/26. [Reservations: 478-5282]

Former Dallas resident Nancy Rose McGowan, 26, was thrown in Travis County Jail yesterday after authorities discovered that she lacked a state board license and, more disconcertingly, any kind of formal education in pharmacy work whatsoever. McGowan had been working at the CVS Pharmacy at 4405 E. Riverside Drive for the past two months, and actively filled prescriptions using the names "Amber Mclendon" and "Amber Shcherbelis."

Eanes was concerned because the teacher had led their physics program to be one of the best in the nation and had quit less than 45 days before the start of the school year. Therefore, they refused to accept his resignation and filed a complaint with the state. Yesterday, however, Eanes school district superintendent Nola Wellman announced that if Harper turns in his resignation again (by the end of this week), she will recommend that it be accepted and the complaint to the state be dropped.

• GOP voters look at their candidates, say "eh".
• Environmental groups push idea of warning pregnant ladies about caffeine. But what if you want your baby to get a lot of homework done before it comes out?

Intelligence reports now reveal that Iran is *not* making a nuclear bomb. Remains to be seen whether this will make a difference to Bush, who just doesn't like the cut of their jib. Damn! What is it with the Senate and thirteen-year-old boys? Brad Pitt, perhaps in a contest with Angie to see who can adopt the most people, takes the entire Lower Ninth Ward under his wing. Two popular musicians were recently murdered...