Texas House Committee delays vote on school choice and funding bills until Thursday to consider various changes
The Texas House Public Education Committee will vote on the school choice and school funding bills Thursday after Chairman ...
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Texas House delays hearing on school funding and voucher bills due to late fiscal analysis
The Texas House Public Education Committee was scheduled to meet on Tuesday to take up two high priority bills which would ...
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Texas officials’ claim that school funding is at an all-time high ignores inflation and temporary federal money
A Tribune analysis also found the state’s share of the funds that schools receive per student significantly decreased in the ...
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Report shows impact of anti-DEI law on Texas’ LGBTQ+ college students
An Equality Texas study shows many LGBTQ+ students have considered leaving their schools — and the state entirely —since ...
How would the Texas school choice program work? Republicans push to pass bill
Eligibility for Texas school vouchers and money allocation . Most students would receive just over $10,000, with higher ...
Lawmakers propose ways Texas could improve its child care system
Rep. Angie Chen Button, R-Garland, proposed legislation that would seek to increase availability of and access to Texas child ...
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Texas House committee considering cap on school voucher spending, increases to public school funding
The potential changes were unveiled Monday when the committee released two rewritten versions of legislation. The committee ...
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Texas voucher bills have appearance of academic accountability, but in practice it won’t mean much
The Texas voucher bills don't require voucher recipients to take the state standardized tests, making it difficult to measure ...
More Central Texas school districts making cuts due to funding issues
Analysis by KXAN investigators last year found, most school districts in Central Texas have budget deficits. Austin ISD just ...
What is a faculty senate? As Texas lawmakers seek to regulate them, some defend its merit
As Texas lawmakers look to curb faculty senates, the Statesman asked professors how senators are picked, what the panels ...
Texas parents, advocates say special education funding boosts are needed now. Here's why.
As school districts across Texas grapple with budget deficits, parents and advocates are calling on the state to boost ...
Here's why Trump highlighted Texas in dismantling Department of Education
President Donald Trump called out Texas and its top leaders before signing an executive order to dismantle the federal ...