TITLE: Recognizing January 31, 2011, as Texas Capitol Schoolhouse Day at the State Capitol.

SUMMARY: Recognizing January 31, 2011, as Texas Capitol Schoolhouse Day at the State Capitol.

FULL TEXT:
WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to recognize January 31, 2011, as Texas Capitol Schoolhouse Day and welcome the representatives of the Texas Capitol Schoolhouse and the Capitol Schoolhouse Foundation to the State Capitol; and WHEREAS, Since 1995, a Texas Capitol Schoolhouse event has been held at the start of each legislative session to demonstrate how educational technology funding is being used to improve public schools in our state; the theme for the event this year is Texas Exceptionalism in Educational Technology; and WHEREAS, The Texas Capitol Schoolhouse participants this year are from the Amarillo, Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Coleman, Floydada, Irving, Klein, Manor, Pasadena, San Saba, and Ysleta Independent School Districts; the Texas School for the Deaf; and the remote virtual learning sites in the Alief, Panhandle, Stockdale, and Valley Mills Independent School Districts; and WHEREAS, Classrooms are set up in the Capitol Rotunda basement, where teachers and students conduct classes as they do every day in their home districts; students use computers to work with video and sound editing, robotics, iPods, iPads, online virtual learning environments, one-to-one laptop computing, online interactive learning, and other educational technologies; and WHEREAS, The Texas Capitol Schoolhouse project provides the opportunity for legislators and other state leaders to observe firsthand how state funding for educational technology is preparing the young people in school today with the tools they will need to succeed in the future; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 82nd Legislature, hereby commend the participants in the Texas Capitol Schoolhouse project and extend to all best wishes for a successful Texas Capitol Schoolhouse Day; and, be it further RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared as an expression of high regard from the Texas Senate. Shapiro President of the Senate I hereby certify that the above Resolution was adopted by the Senate on January 31, 2011.