The Texas Education Agency approved a waiver to excuse students from making up four out of the six days lost due to inclement weather this winter. The majority of school districts in North Dallas were affected by snow and ice causing dangerous road conditions. Students will only be required to make up two of the six days, which will occur on McKinney ISD's previously scheduled bad weather make-up days (April 22, 2011 and May 20, 2011).
McKinney ISD students pay tribute to their teachers in this video produced in honor of the district's 2011 Teacher of the Year candidates.
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"In fact, we believe that the primary source of the state's budget imbalance is not slower revenue growth, but rather, built-in budget imbalances that simply become more evident during periods of economic decline or slow revenue growth. Chief among these potential sources of persistent imbalances is education funding. As we have said for the past four years, the school finance reforms that the legislature approved in 2006 created a long-term source of budget pressure for the state, in our opinion."
-Standard and Poor's, Feb. 16, 2011
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