By Dr. Paula Moeller, TCSA Director of Training While the start of school is often challenging with many demands on your time, TCSA seeks to help you to train your staff whenever and wherever they need to receive training. Using technology to teach content to adult learners is a passion of mine, and one that […]
By Luz Gonzalez, SchoolMint, TCSA Solution Provider There’s no rest for student enrollment staff on public charter school campuses. But TCSA Solution Provider SchoolMint can take the guesswork out of strategizing for this next year’s student recruitment effort. Join SchoolMint student enrollment experts for a FREE, one-hour webinar on student recruitment and marketing at noon […]
By Troy Mooney, Life School Chief Academic Officer Principals make many crucial decisions each day, often with limited information, inadequate resources and unforgiving time constraints. Further, the consequences of making a mistake on any of these decisions can be devastating for the campus, the school system or the principal themselves. The U.S Navy SEAL axiom, […]
Update: Archived video of the oral arguments can be viewed here. Former Texas Solicitor General James Ho made the case for equitable funding for public charter school students and TCSA General Counsel Denise Pierce drove the point home at the school finance trial before the Supreme Court of Texas on Tuesday. “We want you to […]
By Denise Pierce, TCSA General Counsel 1. It’s historic This is the first time in the history of the Texas charter school movement that the case for fair funding will be made before the Supreme Court of Texas. The public charter school movement joined the school finance lawsuit in 2012 and went to trial in […]
From International Leadership of Texas International Leadership of Texas started very strong. On its first day of school in 2013, there were 2,500 students in attendance. Enrollment has since doubled in two years at the nine Dallas-Fort Worth area campuses. And there is demand for more seats with more than 6,000 students on wait lists […]
There are so many ways you can learn, grow and share at the Texas Charter Schools Conference -- it’s an event you won’t want to miss! From Oct. 28-30, here are just a few highlights of what TCSACon offers: 1. Workshops with required training hours for superintendents, principals, business officers, board members and teachers. 2. […]
By Martha Fernandez, TCSA Director of Advocacy Since the end of the 84th Legislative Session, I’ve been meeting with several of our charter school leaders to discuss their advocacy plans for the next 15 months. And while they’ve been busy getting their schools up and running for the 2015-16 school year, everyone has been positive […]
Highlights from the 2015 TEA Accountability Ratings Of the 153 Texas campuses that earned all seven distinctions in the 2015 accountability ratings, 25 were open-enrollment public charter schools. Distinctions are awarded to campuses based on their achievement compared to similar campuses. "Earning any type of distinction under the state accountability system is commendable and should […]
By Denise Pierce, TCSA General Counsel The new Charter FIRST rules, which went into effect August 6, establish the financial rating indicators for the 2015, 2016 and 2017 school years. The Texas Education Agency is to be applauded for its diligence. Since the TEA was required to revamp the charter financial accountability system in 2013 […]
