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2024-25 EoSA Caudill Winners Announced
Six Texas school districts have been selected to receive the Caudill Award, the highest honor in the annual Exhibit of School Architecture competition facilitated by TASA and the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) for projects that exemplify excellence in...
TASA/TASB Award Stars of Distinction to 2024-25 School Architecture Projects
TASA and Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) have announced that 41 projects will be included in the 2024-25 Exhibit of School Architecture. This exhibit of new and renovated Texas school facilities includes projects from 30 school districts, two college...
TASA Names 6 Finalists for 2025 Texas Teacher of the Year
TASA has announced that six outstanding educators from across Texas have been chosen as finalists in the 2025 Texas Teacher of the Year program. Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year Finalists Kevin Criss, Cambridge Elementary School, Alamo Heights ISD Kevin Criss is a...
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
Brian Woods to Receive 2022 Golden Deeds for Education Award
Northside ISD Superintendent Brian T. Woods, Ed.D., has been chosen to join a select group of Texans to receive the Golden Deeds Award, a coveted award for distinguished service to education in the state. Woods will be presented with the award at the 2023 TASA...
TASA Names Recipients of 2023 Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship
TASA has named the 2023 recipients of its Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship, which the organization has awarded annually since 2014 to outstanding doctoral students pursuing careers in educational leadership, with particular emphasis on the superintendency. The recipients...
Bobby Ott Selected as Texas Nominee for 2023 National Superintendent of the Year
Temple ISD Superintendent Bobby Ott, Ed.D., has been selected by the TASA as Texas’ nominee for 2023 National Superintendent of the Year, an award given by AASA, The School Superintendents Association. Ott has served as superintendent of Temple ISD, a district of...
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