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Texas students need additional resources to overcome academic setbacks brought on by the pandemic, but school leaders aren’t so sure they’ll have the flexibility to spend new federal dollars to help them. The federal government gave Texas two big education stimulus packages totaling around $6.8 billion to help students recover from the pandemic. But as the first package of $1.3 billion flowed to districts, local school administrators saw aid cut elsewhere. It was hard to keep up with the new needs driven by the pandemic such as physical improvements to campuses so students can learn safely in person and expanded online infrastructure for those in remote classes as Texas used federal dollars to replace state funding. ....
This is an example of good government spending, and it’s about to get cut Slash and burn budgeting threatens a program that feeds hungry Texans Lots of carrots filled a fruits and vegetables assembly line outside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, March 28, 2020 coordinated by Arlington Charities, Fielder Road Baptist Church and Tarrant Area Food Bank. Austin is considering a budget that cuts a program that allows food banks to purchase damaged produce from Texas farmers.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) A program that feeds hungry Texans is on the chopping block in Austin. Legislators should rescue it. The Surplus Agricultural Product Grant allocates money to 21 food banks across the state to buy Grade 2 produce from Texas farmers. Without this program, officials say, farmers would use the damaged produce for compost. But the grant allows farmers to avoid a total loss. It also helps food banks acquire fresh fruits and vegetables. Since 2006, this program ....
Texas schools need to show efforts in finding missing students to secure millions in funding, some lawmakers say Education commissioner says he is hopeful a decision will be made in February. Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan said he would support an extension of the hold-harmless period if Texas schools can show they have exhausted all efforts to find missing students.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer) Texas schools are waiting on the state’s top leaders to learn whether districts will receive millions in funding that would help them through the end of this school year as they wrestle with the pandemic. ....
Kemp ISD denies state findings of bribery, intimidation, racism The district’s lawyer shifted blame to previous administrators and denied anonymous employee accounts. Kemp officials denied the state’s findings, appealing investigators’ recommendations that TEA remove the elected trustees and appoint managers to oversee the district.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) Kemp officials deny that there’s a case for the Texas education commissioner to take over the district and say an investigation calling for such a penalty was “one-sided.” The Dallas-area school district is facing severe sanctions after a Texas Education Agency review substantiated allegations of racism, bribery and procurement law violations. ....