Greetings! The Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP) came into existence in the spring of 2006. A central purpose of the center is to bring researchers together whose work has direct bearing on policy issues of the day and to in turn bring them together with the larger stakeholder education communities statewide. Internally, we have begun to accomplish this through a series of highly successful policy brown bags as noted herein. Several of us have also been involved in legislative sessions, advising policymakers on dropout prevention, student assessment, bilingual education and teacher quality. Soon we will be posting policy briefs on our legislative-related work and activities. Click to continue.

             We are proud to announce the development Austin's La Clase Mágica (LCM). LCM is a well-structured, university-connected, technology-rich after-school program for English language learners that equips youth and their parents with the academic, cultural, and social skills that they need in order to meet and surpass educational standards. The program does this by fostering biliteracy, a deep, principled learning of content, and college-going aspirations and orientations.
             TCEP is in the final stages of  establishing a strong collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin, The City of Austin’s Mexican American Cultural Center, and The Austin Independent School District.

(To view a .pdf flyer of the program, click on the following link: La Clase Mágica)