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The $7.8 billion school funding bill proposed by the Texas Senate and agreed to by the governor and House speaker is the ...
The House's higher education committee closed registration to testify on Senate Bill 37 less than half an hour after the ...
The proposal would heavily invest in teacher pay and special education. It includes a modest $55 increase to schools' base ...
Senators will hold a hearing Thursday on their counterproposal to the House's school funding bill. House Democrats and public ...
Legislation from the Texas House to scrap onerous STAAR testing is promising, but lawmakers continue to ignore core ways to improve public education.
With just over two weeks left in the legislative session, Texas senators have introduced their version of the sweeping public ...
The bill would provide nearly $8 billion for the Texas public education system. AUSTIN - A Texas Senate committee will take up the largest public school funding bill in state history on Thursday.
The Texas House originally passed House Bill 2, a multibillion-dollar school funding package, in April. But the version of ...
AUSTIN, Texas — With roughly 20 days left in the legislative session, Texas senators are set to hold a public hearing Thursday on a sweeping $8 billion public school funding proposal.
The Senate passed its version of the proposal, Senate Bill 3, in March, but it has since been amended in a House committee.
House Bill 4, aimed at eliminating the STAAR test, would buy an additional year of turnaround time for three North Austin ...
Democrats will try to claim that the new education savings account program violates the state constitution. Here’s why they’re wrong. | Opinion ...