Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has vowed action against CSCOPE: “We’re gonna step all over their face on this.” Patrick Michels Near the end of the regular session, Sen. Dan Patrick, chair of the Senate ...

AUSTIN — A controversial curriculum program will no longer be used by public schools following pressure from state lawmakers. The lesson plan, known as CSCOPE, will no longer be available to school ...

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The year’s hottest education policy debate wasn’t about vouchers or school funding or teacher performance pay—it was about CSCOPE, the once-obscure curriculum program built for Texas schools that’s ...

Months after becoming one of the favored bogeymen among certain right-wing circles, it appears CSCOPE, as a lesson framework used in nearly 900 school districts around the state, is no more. State Sen ...

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After a die-hard campaign by some conservatives and Tea Party members, the state has decided to eliminate the lesson plan component of CSCOPE, an online curriculum management system used by over 800 ...

A new curriculum management system called CSCOPE that will be introduced this year for kindergarten through the 12th grades in local school districts - and most of the rest of the state - will change ...

On Tuesday afternoon the Senate Education Committee heard testimony on a bill that would grant the State Board of Education oversight of CSCOPE, an online curriculum delivery system that has drawn the ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A much-maligned curriculum system designed to help teachers adhere to state educational requirements and used by hundreds of school districts across Texas will stop offering ...