Thompson Education Consulting Group

04/15/2013

State Board for Educator Certification revokes certificate of Texas elementary teacher for inappropriately touching students. http://bit.ly/12e7mRP

State of Texas Revokes Elementary School Teacher’s Certificate for Inappropriately Touching StudentsA North Texas elementary school teacher was accused by three female students of inappropriately touching them while the students were in his self-contained classroom during their 5th and 6th grade yea...

04/08/2013

Race-based complaint against TX sch. dist. dismissed. http://bit.ly/14RDDAQ

Court Dismisses Race-based Bullying Complaint against Texas School DistrictPublished: Apr 8 2013 10:12 AMDating back to at least 2008, three African-American Texas schoolchildren alleged that they were the object of race-based bullying suffered at the hands of both students and teachers that caused…

04/02/2013

Waco ISD petitions for rehearing in banc in Section 504 peer sexual harassment case. Summary: http://bit.ly/16kwp4O Panel opinion: http://bit.ly/16kwp4O

Section 504 Disability-Based Peer Sexual Harassment Claim Allowed to Proceed against Texas School District under Theory of Gross MisjudgmentPublished: Apr 2 2013 4:04 PMIn a case that will grab the attention of principals, superintendents, and special education personnel across Texas, a Waco female…

04/01/2013

Court dismisses disability-based bullying claim against TX. school district. http://bit.ly/Xmm6OX

Disability-Based Bullying Complaint against Texas School District DismissedPublished: Apr 1 2013 12:07 PMIn one of the latest in a series of bullying cases involving a Texas school district, an elementary school student, through his mother, complained that he was subjected to verbal bullying at the…

02/26/2013

Texas Education Code of Ethics where State Board revokes certificate of paraprofessional over recommendation of Administrative Law Judge. http://bit.ly/ZGIfYU

02/11/2013

In addition to getting physicals before each school year, students may have to get cardiac screenings.

02/11/2013

After a heated debate at the Capitol last week, representatives of a popular yet controversial online curriculum for Texas public schools have agreed to increase oversight and expand public access to address the concerns.

02/11/2013

School administrators not liable in student drowning death in Wis. http://bit.ly/Y4EVj3

Negligence Insufficient to Impose Liability under 14th Amendment for Student’s Drowning on School-Sponsored Field TripPublished: Feb 7 2013 3:55 PMA Wisconsin middle school principal planned and her principal approved a field trip for the graduating seventh graders on the last day of the school year...

02/08/2013

The widely dreaded and despised 15 percent rule, the high-stakes standardized testing reform designed to have 15 end-of-course exams count 15 percent toward a student’s final grade, is dead in the Texas Senate.

02/08/2013

Important Texas Commissioner of Education case regarding terminating probationary teachers contracts for use of reasonable foce. http://bit.ly/12yF3iy

Texas School Districts Cannot Terminate Educators’ Probationary Contracts at End of Contract Term for Use of Reasonable Force against StudentsPublished: Feb 7 2013 3:47 PMIn May 2009, a student attacked David Almeyda, a teacher in the Alief (Texas) Independent School District. Almeyda, a first-year...

02/08/2013

Excited to speak at Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Assistant Principals' Workshop February 17-18 in Austin. http://bit.ly/YHzWb8

David to Speak at Texas Association of Secondary School Principals’ Assistant Principal WorkshopPublished: Jan 9 2013 9:46 PMUTSA Educational Leadership Professor and Thompson Education Consulting Group Senior Partner and Principal Consultant David Thompson will speak at the Texas Association of Sec...

01/18/2013

Among the 60 school districts that took advantage of a 2007 state law allowing them to teach Bible courses as a separate elective, a new study released Wednesday revealed widespread failure to comply with the law that requires the courses to be fair and unbiased.