Teach the Vote's Week in Review: June 24, 2016

Date Posted: 6/24/2016 | Author: Jennifer Mitchell, CAE
Here's your weekly wrap-up of the education news from Texas and Washington, D.C.:

The Commissioner of Education this week recognized a group of eight school districts that are among the first to adopt and submit their plans to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to become Districts of Innovation (DOI). The DOI law, passed in 2015, allows certain acceptably-rated school districts to adopt innovation plans and exempt themselves from various education laws. ATPE has created a DOI resource page to assist educators and parents in districts that may be considering these new regulatory exemptions. TEA also announced its creation of a website to track which districts have become DOIs with links to their innovation plans. Learn more in our DOI blog post from yesterday.

Here's a look at ATPE's week in Washington in pictures. (Click each photo to view a larger version.)







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