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Texas Education Agency

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The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is a branch of the state government of Texas in the United States responsible for public education. [1]

70 relations: A.J. Crabill, Abraham Lincoln, Age of Enlightenment, Al Jazeera, Allan Shivers, Amarillo Globe-News, Ann Richards, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas, Baptists in the history of separation of church and state, Bill Clements, Bill Ratliff, Bryan, Texas, Canyon, Texas, Christine Comer, Civil rights movement, Communism, Confederate States of America, Conservatism, Cynthia Dunbar, Dallas Independent School District, Dolph Briscoe, Don McLeroy, Downtown Austin, Evolution, Federal government of the United States, Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, Independent Lens, Intelligent design, Jean A. Stuntz, Jefferson Davis, Joe Straus, John Connally, Joseph McCarthy, Laredo Morning Times, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Mark White, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael L. Williams, Mike Morath, Mount Pleasant, Texas, National Center for Science Education, Nonpartisanism, Permanent School Fund, Preston Smith (governor), Price Daniel, ..., Railroad Commission of Texas, Rick Perry, Rockefeller Republican, San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News, School district, Separation of church and state, Slavery in the United States, State school, States' rights, Texas, The New York Times, The Revisionaries, Thomas Jefferson, United States, United States Senate, University Interscholastic League, Venona project, West Texas A&M University, World War II. Expand index (20 more) »

A.J. Crabill

Airick Journey Crabill (born Airick Leonard West in 1979) is an American education reform advocate and public speaker on education reform.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".

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Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera (translit,, literally "The Island", though referring to the Arabian Peninsula in context), also known as JSC (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is a state-funded broadcaster in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

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Allan Shivers

Robert Allan Shivers (October 5, 1907 – January 14, 1985) was an American politician who served as the 37th Governor of Texas.

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Amarillo Globe-News

The Amarillo Globe-News is a newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, owned by GateHouse Media.

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Ann Richards

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician and 45th Governor of Texas (1991–95).

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Austin American-Statesman

The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Baptists in the history of separation of church and state

Separation of church and state is one of the primary theological distinctions of the Baptist tradition.

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Bill Clements

William Perry Clements Jr. (April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011) was an American businessman, university executive, and Republican Party politician from Texas.

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Bill Ratliff

William Roark Ratliff (born August 16, 1936), is a Texas politician who served as a member of the Texas State Senate from 1988 to 2004.

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Bryan, Texas

Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States.

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Canyon, Texas

Canyon is a city in, and the county seat of, Randall County, Texas, United States.

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Christine Comer

Christina Castillo Comer (born 1950) is the former Director of Science in the curriculum division of the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

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Cynthia Dunbar

Cynthia Noland Dunbar (born June 27, 1964) is a Republican National Committee member for the U.S. state of Virginia who entered the 2018 race as a congressional candidate for the 6th Congressional District of Virginia.

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Dallas Independent School District

The Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD or DISD) is a school district based in Dallas, Texas (USA). Dallas ISD, which operates schools in much of Dallas County, is the second largest school district in Texas and the Sixteenth largest in the United States. In 2014, the school district was rated "as having met the standard" by the Texas Education Agency.

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Dolph Briscoe

Dolph Briscoe Jr. (April 23, 1923 – June 27, 2010) was an American rancher and businessman who was the 41st Governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979.

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Don McLeroy

John Donald "Don" McLeroy (born June 3, 1946) is a dentist in Bryan, Texas, and a Republican former member of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE).

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Downtown Austin

Downtown Austin is the central business district of Austin, Texas.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and, among other things, protects individuals from being compelled to be witnesses against themselves in criminal cases.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Governor of Texas

The Governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Greg Abbott

Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who serves as the 48th Governor of Texas since January 2015.

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Independent Lens

Independent Lens is a weekly television series airing on PBS presenting documentary films made by independent filmmakers.

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Intelligent design

Intelligent design (ID) is a religious argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins",Numbers 2006, p. 373; " captured headlines for its bold attempt to rewrite the basic rules of science and its claim to have found indisputable evidence of a God-like being.

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Jean A. Stuntz

Jean Allison Stuntz (born April 8, 1957) is a professor at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, where she specializes in women's studies and the history of Texas, the Spanish Borderlands, and the American West.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Joe Straus

Joseph Richard Straus III, known as Joe Straus (born September 1, 1959), is the current Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

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John Connally

John Bowden Connally Jr. (February 27, 1917June 15, 1993) was an American politician.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.

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Laredo Morning Times

The Laredo Morning Times is a daily newspaper publication based in Laredo, Texas, USA.

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Lieutenant Governor of Texas

The Lieutenant Governor of Texas is the second-highest executive office in the government of Texas, a state in the U.S. It is the second most powerful post in Texas government because its occupant controls the work of the Texas Senate and controls the budgeting process as a leader of the Legislative Budget Board.

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Mark White

Mark Wells White Jr. (March 17, 1940 – August 5, 2017) was an American politician and lawyer, who served as the 43rd Governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Michael L. Williams

Michael Lawrence Williams (born May 31, 1953) is the former Education Commissioner of the U.S. state of Texas, in which capacity he was leader of the Texas Education Agency.

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Mike Morath

Mike Morath is an American software developer, investor, and educator.

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Mount Pleasant, Texas

Mount Pleasant is the county seat and largest city of Titus County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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National Center for Science Education

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a not-for-profit membership organization in the United States whose stated mission is to educate the press and the public on the scientific and educational aspects of controversies surrounding the teaching of evolution and climate change, and to provide information and resources to schools, parents, and other citizens working to keep those topics in public school science education.

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Nonpartisanism

Nonpartisanism is a lack of affiliation with, and a lack of bias toward, a political party.

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Permanent School Fund

The Texas Permanent School Fund is a sovereign wealth fund which serves to provide revenues for funding of public primary and secondary education in the US state of Texas.

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Preston Smith (governor)

Preston Earnest Smith (March 7, 1912 October 18, 2003) was the 40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973, who previously served as the lieutenant governor from 1963 to 1969.

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Price Daniel

Marion Price Daniel Sr. (October 10, 1910August 25, 1988), was a Democratic U.S. Senator and the 38th Governor of the state of Texas.

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Railroad Commission of Texas

The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC; also sometimes called the Texas Railroad Commission, TRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry, and surface coal and uranium mining.

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Rick Perry

James Richard Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump.

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Rockefeller Republican

The Rockefeller Republicans, also called Moderate or Liberal Republicans, were members of the Republican Party (GOP) in the 1930s–1970s who held moderate to liberal views on domestic issues, similar to those of Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York (1959–1973) and Vice President of the United States (1974–1977).

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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San Antonio Express-News

The San Antonio Express-News is a daily newspaper in San Antonio, Texas.

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School district

A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.

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Separation of church and state

The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the nation state.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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State school

State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.

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States' rights

In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Revisionaries

The Revisionaries is a 2012 documentary film about the re-election of Don McLeroy, the former chairman of the Texas Board of Education.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University Interscholastic League

The University Interscholastic League (UIL) is an organization that creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, music, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the American state of Texas.

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Venona project

The Venona project was a counterintelligence program initiated by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service (later the National Security Agency) that ran from February 1, 1943 until October 1, 1980.

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West Texas A&M University

West Texas A&M University, also known as WTAMU, WT, and formerly West Texas State, part of the Texas A&M University System, is a public university located in Canyon, Texas, a city of 13,303 approximately 13 miles south of Amarillo, a city of 190,695.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Education_Agency

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