Education Policy

Using inclusive, cutting edge and broad based strategies, IDRA develops leadership within communities, schools, and policymaking bodies to create collaborative and enlightened educational policies that work for all children.

Learn more about significant education policy issues at state and national levels by selecting a box below.

Ten Percent Plan in Texas
To help inform the debate on the effects of the Texas Ten Percent Plan, IDRA has compiled and analyzed available data on the students entering the University of Texas at Austin and all the Texas high schools that contributed graduating seniors to those incoming freshmen classes between the years of 1995 and 2006.

In the area of public education, some reforms implemented in Texas over the past decade, such as equity in school funding, are beginning to have positive outcomes as a growing number of pupils have shown improvement in educational performance and the gap in achievement among different groups of students has decreased. For a quick list of education reforms, see:  A Historical Summary of Major Texas Education Reforms 1975 to 2004.

IDRA publication related to education policy