Downtown: San Antonio Children’s Museum

The San Antonio Children’s Museum is downtown, on Houston Street, for now. By 2015, the new location on Broadway should be ready for business. “Butt gives $20 million to S.A. Children’s Museum”, Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, October 14,...

Excuses: school districts share STAAR results

In an impressive feat of diligence, a reporter at the San Antonio Express-News, Maria Luisa Cesar, has rounded up STAAR standardized test results for nearly all of the public school districts in the San Antonio area. “Students’ STAAR English scores...

Changes in education leadership, local and state

Many changes are afoot in public education — locally and at the state level — and we should all be worried. The future of Texas depends on an educated workforce and the quality of that education is dependent on those steering the ship. Unfortunately, in some cases the...