Texas
How Does Texas Stack Up?
- Texas Data Page
- Achieve State Profile
- For more state-, district-, and school-level data: "How Does Education Stack Up? State, District and School Performance Data"
Business and Education Partnerships in Texas
- Texas Business and Education Coalition
Business leaders who wanted to collaborate with educators to improve public education in Texas formed TBEC in 1989. It conducts advocacy work on behalf of high education standards and a strong academic course of study. In collaboration with Just for the Kids, it has created an "Honor Roll" to identify high-performing schools and disseminate best practices to other educators. TBEC sponsors the Texas Scholars program. In collaboration with Verizon, TBEC runs the Business-To-Teaching Initiative, providing information about alternative certification, teaching opportunities, available financial aid packages to would-be teachers, identifying employers where significant numbers of employees are retiring or downsized and developing mechanisms that address important issues faced by people making the transition from business to education. TBEC also hosts an Annual VIP Briefing, inviting business, education, civic, and political leaders to sustain a coalition of actors working on Texas's education system.
- Texas Business Council
TBC is a coalition representing over 26,000 employers throughout the state that acts as an advisory council to the governor and other state officials on a host of economic issues. Much of its work in education is to encourage higher standards and to ensure that Texas implements No Child Left Behind effectively and efficiently. TBC was a major proponent of Texas adopting the Recommended High School Program as the default graduation curriculum requirement.
- Texas Institute for Education Reform
TIER is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of Texas community and business leaders working together to raise public awareness and educate Texas opinion leadership on the current status of public education in Texas, the progress of standards and accountability based reforms to date, the prognosis for achieving the essential universal educational proficiency of the children of Texas, and the future challenges the state is facing. To date, TIER's advocacy efforts, including participating in over 20 speaking engagements and distributing information packets to over 1,200 business and community leaders, has yielded a database of 1,500 potential education leaders throughout Texas.
Strategic Business Involvement in Texas
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