Month: April 2005

Someone must have lit a fire underneath editorial page Editor James Howard Gibbons, because today we get an editorial on President Bush’s trip to Galveston where he talked about Social Security. The President’s trip out

It took a visit from President Bush, but the Chronicle has finally covered Galveston’s alternative Social Security program: President Bush touted Galveston’s alternative public retirement system as family-friendly Tuesday as he sought to promote his

Chronicle headline this morning: Two-thirds of HISD fifth-graders pass tougher math TAKS test Oh, sorry. That wasn’t it at all: Third of 5th-graders here fail math exam (online headline has been changed: Third of 5th-graders

The Chronicle‘s makeover seems not to have ended with the big layout changes that reduced the amount of actual information in the paper in favor of more text boxes and graphics. We’ve been noticing that,

From a Saturday Chronicle story: Education Secretary Margaret Spellings fined Texas $444,282 Friday for the state’s continued defiance of the No Child Left Behind Act. For the last two years, the Texas Education Agency has