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Friends of Texas Public Schools Announces Addition of New Board Members
Friends of Texas Public Schools (Friends), a nonprofit, grassroots organization shining a light on all that's right with Texas public...

Friends
Apr 21, 20223 min read


April 2022
Black students in Texas top national 4th-grade math scores Black 4th-graders in Texas ranked 1st in math scores nationwide in 2019, ...

Friends
Apr 1, 20221 min read


March 2022
More than 98% of Texas ISD's earn passing ratings for fiscal responsibility Nearly 99% of Texas ISDs earned passing ratings for fiscal...

Friends
Mar 1, 20221 min read


February 2022
Texas's Class of 2020 HS Graduation Rate Reaches All-Time High 90.3%! Out of 384,600 students in the class of 2020, 90.3 percent...

Friends
Feb 1, 20221 min read


The media obsession with ‘bad kids’
Think twice about those narrowly reported ‘student misbehavior’ stories. They can do a lot of unintended harm. By Cafeteria Duty If...

Friends
Jan 21, 20226 min read


January 2022
Nearly 300 high schools in Texas had a 100% graduation rate, the highest in the country! Nearly 300 high schools in Texas had a 100%...

Friends
Jan 1, 20221 min read


Texas Public Schools Remain Best Choice
In spite of political rhetoric to the contrary, public schools have never been more successful than they are today. Teeming with highly...

Friends
Oct 4, 20213 min read


Texas's Class of 2020 High School Graduation Rate Reaches an All-Time High 90.3%
Out of 384,600 students in the class of 2020, 90.3 percent graduated within four years. An additional 3.9 percent of students in the...

Friends
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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