‘News’ Archives
Nine Houston companies make Inc. 500 list, reports HBJ
The 29th annual Inc. 500 list was recently released, with nine Houston-based companies making the list. Congratulations!From the Houston Business Journal story, here are the Houston-area winners:TechRadium (No. 38) 5,761 percent growth, revenue of $8.7 millionGlobaLogix (No. 60) 3,805 percent growth, revenue of $13.6 millionEmployer Flexible (No. [...]
HISD invites you to become an Apollo 20 Math Fellow
Just got this via email:Word of mouth is a great recruiting tool, so I am inviting everyone in Houston to help HISD recruit tutors for its groundbreaking Apollo 20 school turn-around project. To join Team HISD as an Apollo 20 Math Fellow, a candidate needs to have a bachelor's degree and strong math skills, and like working with young people. [...]
immigration drops
The Associated Press is reporting that rising unemployment has contributed to the lowest Mexican immigration levels in the US in a decade. Their info is from the Pew Hispanic Center. According to them, immigrants arriving from Mexico dropped by nearly 60% between March of 2008 and March of 2009. Dramatic.For the full story, read the Houston [...]
get free Chick-Fil-A July 10th
Chick-Fil-A is giving away a free meal to any customer brave enough to come into one of their stores dressed as a cow. This memorable event is happening on July 10th nationwide, and is part of a series of events providing customers with an opportunity to win (among other things) a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond. The Houston Business Journal [...]
HISD virtual school offered statewide
The Houston Independent School District and their partner Connection Academy have opened up their virtual school program to students across Texas. Houston Business Journal reports that this will allow 1,000 students to enroll in the virtual school program for free.
more tuition increases at UH
Think tuition is high enough? It's about to get higher for students at the University of Houston System. The Houston Business Journal is reporting that UH System is going to increase tuition 3.98% for fiscal year 2010. The good news? It's the lowest percentage increase the school has made in a decade.
theatre camp in Fifth Ward
UH theatre school creates summer camp for Fifth Ward students-- Houston Business JournalThe University of Houston’s School of Theatre & Dance is introducing a theater curriculum for elementary school students in Houston’s Fifth Ward as part of a summer camp program.A two-year, $260,000 grant from the Houston Endowment — the school’s [...]
Houston-area teachers go to work
Local teachers ‘go to work’ at Houston-area businesses-- reported by the Houston Business JournalMore than 200 teachers will shadow at 68 Houston-area businesses this week as part of the seventh annual Teacher Externship Week.The program, a collaboration between Houston A+ Challenge and the Greater Houston Partnership, pairs teachers with [...]
leave libraries alone, say huffington
Libraries Are America's Lifelines. Leave Them Alone-- by Kenneth C. Davis, at Huffington.com In case you haven't heard, New York City's public library systems -- three separate library systems in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens -- are once again under siege, on the chopping block, threatened with draconian cuts in the face of New York City's Great [...]
Baybrook Mall filed Chapter 11
I just picked this up, a little late, off the Houston Chronicle's Inside the Bay Area blog:Are you wondering what the recent Chapter 11 filing by General Growth Properties Inc., --which owns Baybrook Mall,means to you? Well, I shop there myself and have a daughter employed at one of their stores, so I care, too.So, it was good to know there's no [...]
