{"id":233,"date":"2012-06-30T00:07:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T00:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitefix.net\/clients\/Generic\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:53:23","slug":"alternative-education-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/?page_id=233","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Education Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ACADEMICS \/ ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION RESOURCES<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Private Schools<br \/>\n<\/strong>Over 400 private schools \u2014 both independent and parochial \u2014 are available as alternatives to public education in the Houston area. Parents who are interested in exploring options for private education will find the following resources helpful:<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Private School Accreditation Commission offers a Texas School Directory on its Web Site:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Texas Private School Accreditation Commission<br \/>\n<\/strong>512-499-8377<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tepsac.org\">www.tepsac.org<\/a><br \/>\nEnsures the quality of private schools by monitoring and approving organizations that accredit the various non-public elementary and secondary educational institutions in Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diocese of Galveston-Houston<br \/>\n<\/strong>713-659-5461<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archgh.org\">www.archgh.org<\/a><br \/>\nOver 50 Roman Catholic elementary schools and 8 high schools serve 17,500 students; each school is accredited with the Texas Education Agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Department of Education<\/strong><br \/>\nWashington, D.C. 800-872-5327<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/\">www.ed.gov<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>National Association of Independent Schools<br \/>\n<\/strong>Washington, D.C. 202-973-9700<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nais.org\/\">www.nais.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACADEMICS \/ ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION RESOURCES Private Schools Over 400 private schools \u2014 both independent and parochial \u2014 are available as alternatives to public education in the Houston area. Parents who are interested in exploring options for private education will find the following resources helpful: The Texas Private School Accreditation Commission offers a Texas School Directory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/HoustonTX3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}