Scott Braddock » Education

EL PASO – The race to represent one of the poorest areas in Texas has now been infused with big money from outside the district as a former lawmaker tries to take back the seat in The Legislatu...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2016/02/gonzalezvsquintanilla/

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said this past week that he is “personally” against repealing in-state tuition for undocumented students, he wants to work with Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Da...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2015/02/strausinterview/

Sweeping education reforms passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 will be a great help to business leaders in Houston as they embark on an unprecedented push to promote “middle skills” jobs....

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2014/11/hb5middleskills/

The Austin School Board recently voted to adopt Davis-Bacon federal wage rates on construction of facilities under the district’s new $490 million bond package. While some have hailed this as a...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2014/07/aisdconstructionjobshisd/

Some lawmakers raised questions this week about whether school districts around Texas have the kind of resources they’ll need to fully implement sweeping education reforms signed into law last ...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2014/03/moreresourcesforeducationreforms/

Note: This column originally appeared on Construction Citizen.  In what will hopefully be the first in a series of events like it across Texas, business leaders and educators from the Houston ar...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2014/01/hb5summit/

The coming labor shortage reported on extensively at Construction Citizen, another website I write for, isn’t confined to the United States.  Germany, an economic powerhouse like Texas, now ha...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2012/07/txgermanylabor/

“Your college professors will hate me for this,” is how my English teacher in the 10th grade at Louise High School started a lesson on “common usage.”  He wrote on the blackboard: – �...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2012/06/mybaddestteacher/

Ohh…the coffee is dripping and so is the news. Those teases at the Texas Tribune continue to roll out the results of their latest polling with the University of Texas.  Maybe unsurprisingly, t...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2012/05/wednesdaymorning052312/

As we get closer to the May 29th primary, there are some really effective political ads and there are some that fall into the “questionable” category.  I’ll let you figure out which ones f...

https://www.scottbraddock.com/2012/05/tuesdaymorning052112/