Waco ISD Board President Angelo Ochoa wants to create an endowment for incentivizing the best teachers.
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Setting a course for teaching: First teens graduate from Waco ISD Future Educators Academy
The academy’s first graduating class has been embedded in elementary school classrooms and taken college-level education courses, with several receiving associate degrees.
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Former Rapoport leader will replace Isabel Lozano as Kendrick principal
Former Rapoport Academy administrator Barbara Page will fill the top spot at Kendrick starting this summer.
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Divide grows on Waco ISD board as ousted president lashes out
The process to fill a vacant seat has split the board for months. Tensions came to a head Thursday when Jose Vidaña took to social media to criticize other board members for replacing him as board president.
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A storied Waco school falls to bulldozers, but the stories will remain
An effort to preserve the history of the school originally known as Jefferson-Moore High proceeds as the 54-year-old campus is cleared for the Barron’s Branch development.
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Interactive: Look up your school in our relaunched Texas Public Schools Explorer
It’s easier than ever to go deep on Waco-area school trends with this tool developed by our partners at The Texas Tribune.
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Third Future wins $11.7M contract to run struggling Waco schools, starts hiring next week
South Waco and Dean Highland elementary schools will see longer hours and 10 more instructional days under an in-district charter system meant to shield Waco ISD from a state takeover.
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Strict schedules, long days, high pay: What two Waco schools can expect under Third Future
Wichita Falls ISD and other school districts have found success outsourcing schools to the firm, but it comes with a price and culture change.
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Waco ISD partnership with EOAC would beef up early learning center
A North Waco facility now dedicated to infants and toddlers would add up to eight Head Start classrooms for preschoolers under the deal.
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Waco ISD courts local Head Start provider to create early learning center
Waco ISD could draw down extra state dollars by turning over early childhood programs to EOAC Waco. The district is already moving to turn over two campuses to a charter operator.
