Recently, I have read and heard disturbing allegations against a Texas developed curriculum management system called CScope, which is used by Friendswood ISD and over 850 other school districts in ...

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has vowed action against CSCOPE: “We’re gonna step all over their face on this.” Patrick Michels Near the end of the regular session, Sen. Dan Patrick, chair of the Senate ...

The year’s hottest education policy debate wasn’t about vouchers or school funding or teacher performance pay—it was about CSCOPE, the once-obscure curriculum program built for Texas schools that’s ...

AUSTIN — It’s been lambasted on leading conservative Glenn Beck’s radio show, scrutinized during committee meetings at the Texas Capitol, and has prompted new state law and a Hill Country court fight.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A much-maligned curriculum system designed to help teachers adhere to state educational requirements and used by hundreds of school districts across Texas will stop offering ...

Months after becoming one of the favored bogeymen among certain right-wing circles, it appears CSCOPE, as a lesson framework used in nearly 900 school districts around the state, is no more. State Sen ...

In its first major vote and against staff’s advice, Irving’s newly seated school board pulled the district out of CSCOPE, a curriculum program under attack by conservative groups statewide. About ...

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Over this past year, much discussion, many questions and serious concerns have been raised about CSCOPE at the state and local levels. This debate, mostly conducted by the anti-CSCOPE side, pertains ...

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A new curriculum management system called CSCOPE that will be introduced this year for kindergarten through the 12th grades in local school districts - and most of the rest of the state - will change ...

AUSTIN - Maybe CSCOPE's not dead after all. The curriculum system designed to help teachers adhere to state educational requirements was trumpeted as disbanded in May by conservatives who criticized ...