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TASA Announces Regional Nominees for 2025 Outstanding School Board
Fifteen Texas school district boards of trustees have been selected as regional nominees for the 2025 TASA School Board Awards. The regional nominees for 2025 Outstanding School Board of the Year are: Region Nominee Nominating Superintendent 1 Roma ISD Board of...
Apply to Join the 2024-25 TPAC by May 24
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 2023-24! Superintendents interested in...
New TASA Member Services Center Live
TASA's new Member Services Center (MSC) is live! Here's what to do this week and what to look forward to. Check Your Email On Thursday, April 11, we sent current TASA members and other non-member MSC users an email. It contained: username (the email address used to...
Executive Director’s Blog
Teacher Appreciation Week is Coming!
Teachers have a special place in my heart. They are part of my DNA … literally. Both of my parents taught in public schools, including my mom, who taught at my elementary school. They were my first teachers, and they instilled in me the importance of service to others...
STEM Education Fosters Real-World Skills
Texas public schools place a priority on creating and sustaining quality STEM programs, so the opportunities available to students these days are astounding. Our students compete in robotics and cyber security, design and build rockets, clone cattle, make discoveries...
The Challenges of School Safety
When I entered teaching, I never thought I would need to become an expert in school safety. It wasn’t on my radar beyond routine fire and tornado drills. When I was a principal, well before Columbine, we left exterior doors unlocked most of the time and routinely had...
Press Releases
TASA Names Recipients of 2021 Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship
TASA has named the 2021 recipients of its Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship, which has been awarded annually since 2014 to outstanding doctoral students pursuing careers in educational leadership, with particular emphasis on the superintendency. The recipients were...
J.A. Gonzalez Selected as Texas Nominee for 2021 National Superintendent of the Year
McAllen ISD Superintendent J.A. Gonzalez, Ed.D., has been selected by TASA as Texas’ nominee for 2021 National Superintendent of the Year, an award given by AASA, The School Superintendents Association. Gonzalez has served as superintendent of McAllen ISD, a district...
TASA Names 2020 Outstanding School Board
TASA named the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Board of Trustees the 2020 Outstanding School Board on October 2, 2020, during the virtual TASA|TASB Convention. Since 1971, the TASA School Board Awards program has honored outstanding Texas school boards that have demonstrated...
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