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Fewer than 3 in 10 Texas 8th graders are proficient in reading and 4 in 10 are proficient in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam, i.e., the nation’s “report card.” We have a plan to change that.
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For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of...
No Texas child should be forced to attend a failing public school. Texans for Education Reform is advocating several common-sense initiatives in...
Top Republican and Democratic negotiators over federal education law each took to the Senate floor Tuesday to lay out their sometimes conflicting...
Paige: Lawmakers, do what is best for our students
By this time next month, 181 legislators will arrive in Austin for the 140-day session of the Texas Legislature. Houston's lawmakers will be asked to make serious decisions that affect all Texans - but none more important than proposals relating to public education.
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TER advocates for public school choice at latest Senate Education committee hearing
For me, growing up in inner-city Dallas, the chance to attend a small magnet high school truly changed my life. I grew up in a low-income community to a single mother who worked two jobs at times to provide for me and my sister. Our house was directly across the street from our neighborhood high school in Southeast Dallas. Yet unfortunately like most comprehensive high schools in the Dallas Independent School District, my neighborhood school drastically underserved kids relative to the state’s average in almost every academic measure. So for fear of the limitations to my prospects of college, career, and life my mother refused to allow me to attend my local high school.
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About Us
Texans for Education Reform (TER) is a bipartisan, non-profit organization of educational, business and civic leaders who are committed to our children. We no longer accept the status quo of mediocre and failing schools and statistics like those reported in a 2014 Harvard study which showed that 73.5% of Texas 8th grade students are not proficient in reading and 60% are not proficient in math. TER is working to ensure that all Texas children have access to high quality public schools that will prepare them to think critically in order to succeed in their career and life.