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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its first major vote and against staff’s advice, Irving’s newly seated school board pulled the district out of CSCOPE, a curriculum program under attack by conservative groups statewide. About ...

The Brief keeps Texas voters and political observers up to speed on the most essential coverage of their elected officials, the policies that shape their daily lives and the future of our great state.

Final Day! Take our survey and you could win $50. Never miss a story with The Brief, our free newsletter. Keep tabs on Texas politics and policy with our morning newsletter. The Texas Tribune ...

Local school districts are reacting to coming changes to the CSCOPE curriculum, after state education officials announced plans to gut resources included in the widely used system. Earlier this week, ...

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 ...