Isle of Wight festival line up 2017: Kaiser Chiefs, Texas, The Shires and MORE confirmed
ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL bosses have unveiled a raft of acts set to perform at this year’s event. Daily Express :: Music Feed
Teacher Sexual Misconduct Hits All-Time High in Texas
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) Educator-student misconduct in Texas has hit an all-time high for the eighth year in a row, reaching 222 investigations conducted by the Texas Education Agency in the 2015-16 school year. Due to the increase in their workload, TEA is seeking additional investigators in order to complete the cases in a timely […]
Golovkin hovers over Canelo-Smith fight in Texas (The Associated Press)
Liam Smith kept things respectful in the traditional stare down with Canelo Alvarez, ending it with a handshake in less than 10 seconds. Smith (23-0-1) is defending his WBO junior middleweight title against the hard-hitting Alvarez, who is moving back to the 154-pound class where he has plenty of experience and never lost. Last May, […]
Texas Principal Blames Boys’ Low Grades on Girls’ Clothing
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) One high school administrator in Fort Bend County, Texas is arguing that the tight clothing worn by female students distracts male students enough to cause them to receive lesser grades. Clements High School assistant principal Phil Morgante requested that female students stop wearing crop tops or tight clothing at a school assembly held […]
Texas Textbook Causes Controversy Over Errors, Stereotypes
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A group of Texas historians and teachers are calling a textbook focusing on Mexican-American heritage “blatantly racist” and full of errors as they argue that it should not be allowed to be used in schools. During a news conference in South Texas, the group said that the textbook in question, “Mexican […]
Texas Students Protest Guns with ‘Cocks Not Glocks’
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Students at the University of Texas arrived on campus openly displaying sex toys earlier in the week in protest of the new state gun law that makes the carrying of concealed handguns while in college classrooms across the state legal. The act of carrying sex toys in the open is currently illegal […]
Texas ‘Clock Boy’ Suing School District, Principal and City
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Almost one year after 14-year old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, his family has brought a lawsuit against his former school district in Irving, Texas, the principal of the school, and the city of Irving. The Washington Post’s Jessica Contrera writes that the lawsuit alleges that […]
Proposed Texas Textbook Describes Mexican-Americans as ‘Lazy’
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A proposed high school textbook in the state of Texas that addresses the topic of Mexican-American studies is coming under fire for containing a number of sections having nothing to do with Mexican-American history and including language that describes Mexicans as ‘lazy.’ A coalition of educators and Mexican-American advocates have recently come […]
American Hoge one off the pace in Texas (Reuters)
(Reuters) – Little-known American Tom Hoge parred his last four holes to sit just one stroke off the lead when the weather-delayed opening round of the AT&T Byron Nelson in Texas was completed on Friday. Hoge, whose best PGA Tour finish was a tie for fifth at last year’s Canadian Open in his rookie season, […]
Texas Supreme Court Finds Education Funding Constitutional
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) After three decades, the Texas Supreme Court has unanimously agreed that the state’s school funding system is constitutional. The decision confirms Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) and Republican legislative leaders’ declarations that the schools system is progressing. The governor and lawmakers had also contended that the amount of funding given to schools […]