Florence Shapiro

Type: Person

Name: Florence Shapiro

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Florence Shapiro Receives The Junior League’s Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award for 2013

NEW YORK The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. today announced that Florence Shapiro, a long-time member of the Texas Senate and member of the Junior League of Collin County, has been awarded the 2013 Mary Harriman Community Leadership ... [Published Rock Hill Herald - May 21 2013]

Entities: Florence Shapiro, Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc., Leadership

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Texas Charter School Reform Bill Under Lobby, Debate

Morgan Smith writes in Texas Weekly that notable political operatives are popping up in typically insular education committee meetings as lawmakers debate the terms of charter school legislation. Most notable among those new faces has been Texans for ... [Published EducationNews.org - May 01 2013]

Entities: Education, Dan Patrick, Charles Butt, Mike Toomey, Florence Shapiro

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Charter Bill Brings New Faces to Education Debate

Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen listens to HB5 debate in House on March 26th, 2013. There are currently 165 amendments to the bill and debate is expected to go well into the nightAs lawmakers hammer out the terms of charter school legislation, political ... [Published The Texas Tribune - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Education, Dan Patrick, Jimmie Don Aycock

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

TEA proceeds with A-F school ratings plan

Morgan Smith | The Texas Tribune The MonitorThe Texas Education Agency will continue with the implementation of public school accountability ratings using A through F grades in 2014 despite mounting criticism from school leaders and some lawmakers.On ... [Published McAllen Monitor - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Michael Williams, Education, Robert Duncan, Dan Patrick

First reported Feb 27 2013 - Updated Feb 27 2013 - 1 reports

Government Employees Insurance Company

Educational First Steps Hosts Early Childhood Education Conference and...

is a North Texas non-profit dedicated to improving the quality and availability of early childhood education for economically disadvantaged children. On February 16, EFS hosted its Annual Conference & Early Childhood Symposium with keynote speaker former ... [Published PRWeb - Feb 27 2013]

Entities: David Munson, Education, Government Employees Insurance Company, Florence Shapiro

Quotes

"Every day you read in the newspaper about the plight of children across this country," Shapiro said. "every day you furrow your brow and you think to yourself, 'oh my goodness, that is just terrible.' ... but we also tend to look at it and say, 'those children, those poor children, live somewhere else. how sad. how terrible.' well, this morning, we're going to see this as our children."

The state of children's health care: Percent of uninsured children in Collin County higher than s ... [Published Allen American - Nov 21 2012]

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