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 ONLINE FINANCIAL TRAINING FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS
The Texas Association of School Business Officials (TASBO), a TEA registered
provider of continuing education, has financial courses online for charter school
boards and administrators. Financial Coding for the Nonprofit Charter School
Campus provides four hours of continuing education credit for campus
administrators and staff. Other budget-related modules are also available for
charter school board members and administrators. They include Budgetary
Approaches, Understanding the Budget Development Process, Outcome-
Focused Budgeting and provide one hour of continuing education credit per
module. To register, visit TASBO's website at www.tasbo.org and go to the
Calendar of Events link located on the left side of the screen.
NCLB HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHER REQUIREMENTS
To find the highly qualified teacher requirements for charter schools under NCLB, log onto
www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb/, scroll down to May 7 Hot Topics; then click on NCLB
Bulletin, Issue 1.1. The charter school section can be found on page seven.
US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GRANTS
Log onto the following website to learn more about these federal grants for charter schools:
www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/index.html.
May 16, 2003 - Prof. Development for Arts Educators -- Deadline July 10, 2003
May 20, 2003 - Jacob K. Javits G & T Education Program - Deadline July 7, 2003
MAKING CONNECTIONS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
bilingual/ESL conference, hosted by the TEA Bilingual Education Program and ESC Region 2,
will be held June 24 - 25, 2003 in Austin. To register or for more information go
to www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/biconfs.html.
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