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Apply to Join the 2025-26 TPAC by May 22
The Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC) — TASA’s popular, district-led network of school leaders looking to transform Texas' A-F accountability system into a Community-Based Accountability System — is expanding for 2025-26! Superintendents interested in...
TASA President Martha Salazar-Zamora Named Finalist for 2025 AASA Women in School Leadership Award
Tomball ISD Superintendent and TASA President Dr. Martha Salazar-Zamora has been named one of two finalists for the 2025 Women in School Leadership Award presented by AASA, The School Superintendents Association. The award recognizes outstanding female leaders who...
Nicole Poenitzsch Selected as Texas Nominee for 2025 National Superintendent of the Year
Bellville ISD Superintendent Nicole Poenitzsch, Ed.D., has been selected by TASA as Texas’ nominee for 2025 National Superintendent of the Year, an award given by AASA, The School Superintendents Association. Poenitzsch, superintendent of Bellville ISD since 2019, has...
Executive Director’s Blog
The West Wing, House of Cards, or Veep?
We may already be in our second special session of 2023, with more specials forecasted for summer and fall, but I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the 88th regular legislative session because it was definitely one for the history books. Our TASA Governmental...
Show Legislators Your ESSER Funding Plans
District Leaders, Thank you for all the work you’re doing on behalf of Texas students! We have an important request regarding federal education stimulus dollars. As you know, with the passage of the American Rescue Plan, the total amount of federal COVID relief funds...
Engagement is One Way We Can Protect Our Democracy
When I was in college at the University of Texas, I majored in government and minored in history. For three of my years as an undergrad, I worked as a runner at a law firm in downtown Austin. Each day, I would walk from my dorm room to the law firm. The Capitol...
Press Releases
TASA Announces Regional Nominees for 2023 Outstanding School Board
Twelve Texas school district boards of trustees have been selected as regional nominees for the 2023 TASA School Board Awards. The regional nominees for 2023 Outstanding School Board of the Year are: Region Nominee Nominating Superintendent 1 Rio Grande City Grulla...
Fund Texas Public Schools, Not Voucher Schemes
With the 88th legislative session quickly coming to a close, and the major bill that would increase funding for public school students through an increase to the Basic Allotment (BA) stalled in the Texas Senate, the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)...
EoSA Featured in Article on Designing Facilities for Safety + Wellness
Irene Nigaglioni, AIA, ALEP, president of IN2 Architecture and chair of the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE), Southern Region Foundation, wrote an article on "Designing facilities for safety and wellness" that was included in the winter 2022-23 issue of...
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