Camille Phillips

1 month ago | tpr.org | Camille Phillips

At a budget workshop Tuesday evening, Northside ISD trustees briefly pivoted from the scheduled agenda to get clarity on why they’ve received a deluge of emails in their inbox about programs being cut. A flyer circulated on social media and handed out before the meeting called on district leaders to save music education after word spread that choir had been cut at five Northside schools.

1 month ago | tpr.org | Camille Phillips

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. Voters across Bexar County will be asked to weigh in on a $987 million bond for the Alamo Colleges District during the May election. It will be the community college system’s first bond election since 2017. If approved, the Alamo Colleges plans to use the bond for 20 different projects, including more than a dozen new and expanded programs.

1 month ago | texasstandard.org | Camille Phillips

From Texas Public Radio:On the stage of the San Antonio Christian School in February, Mandy Drogin with the Texas Public Policy Foundation listed the pillars of what she calls the parent empowerment movement. “The first pillar is transparency. Every single child across the state of Texas, their parents should know what they are learning in their classroom and why they are learning it,” Drogin said. “The second pillar is quality,” Drogin went on to say.

1 month ago | tpr.org | Camille Phillips

Lee esta historia en inglés. En febrero, en el escenario de la Escuela Cristiana de San Antonio (San Antonio Christian School), Mandy Drogin, de la Fundación de Políticas Públicas de Texas, enumeró los pilares de lo que ella llama el movimiento de empoderamiento de los padres de familia. El primer pilar es la transparencia. Cada niño del estado de Texas y sus padres deben saber qué están aprendiendo en el aula y por qué lo están aprendiendo, dijo Drogin.

1 month ago | tpr.org | Camille Phillips

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. On the stage of the San Antonio Christian School in February, Mandy Drogin with the Texas Public Policy Foundation listed the pillars of what she calls the parent empowerment movement. “The first pillar is transparency. Every single child across the state of Texas, their parents should know what they are learning in their classroom and why they are learning it,” Drogin said.