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New York House of Refuge, a reform school completed in 1854. A reform school was a penal institution, generally for teenagers, mainly operating between 1830 and 1900.In the United Kingdom and its colonies, reformatories (commonly called reform schools) were set up from 1854 onward for children who were convicted of a crime, as an alternative to an adult prison.
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
A reformatory or reformatory school is a youth detention center or an adult correctional facility popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Western countries. [1] In the United Kingdom and United States, they came out of social concerns about cities, poverty, immigration, and gender following industrialization , as well as from a ...
The school districts in the San Antonio area, and generally in Texas, had a long history of financial inequity. Rodriguez presented evidence that school districts in the wealthy, primarily white, areas of town, most notably the north-side Alamo Heights Independent School District, were able to contribute a much higher amount per child than ...
School districts across Texas are pinching pennies ahead of the new school year, a painful process that includes cutting staff members and eliminating vital student resources.
Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering ...
As leaders of some of the highest-performing community public charter schools in Texas and the country, collectively serving more than 150,000 Texas children, we are proud of our graduates’ 100% ...
By 1970, the state school, with 1,830 boys, [2] consisted of seven sub-schools: Hackberry, Hilltop, Live Oak, Riverside, Sycmore, Terrace, and Valley. Gatesville also housed the reception center for boys entering TYC. [8] In 1971 a class-action lawsuit was filed against the Texas Youth Council on behalf of the children in TYC facilities.