On Tuesday, House Higher Education Committee members continued their discussion from last week’s hearing on tailoring programs to meet workforce demands.
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The Senate Education K-16 committee also met Tuesday to take up an agenda of bills primarily related to supporting students with disabilities and special education funding.
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This past Monday, around 500 educators traveled from districts big and small across the state to urge lawmakers to pass our union's Educator’s Bill of Rights, increase the basic allotment in the school finance bill, and stop pushing costly and...
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Over 400 educators from across the state traveled to Austin for a legislative advocacy day
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Previous signs of rejection include Republican town hall revolts and governor’s online meltdowns.
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Gov. Greg Abbott named “expanding career training” an emergency item this session. Accordingly, Speaker Dustin Burrows appointed a permanent subcommittee to address this topic.
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Presented in the hearing were SB 10, which would require the posting of the Ten Commandments in all Texas classrooms, and SB 11, which would allow districts to adopt a policy for a period of prayer in schools.
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Texas legislators and university leaders are prioritizing research funding and dual-credit accessibility in higher education.
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This coming Tuesday, the House Public Education Committee will hear testimony on House Bill 3 (HB 3), and much of the focus has been on how school vouchers would drain funding from public schools. But there’s another major consequence flying under the radar: the impact on the Teacher Retirement System...
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This week was a busy one for the House Public Education Committee, with two days of hearings dedicated to House Bill 2, Chairman Brad Buckley’s school finance bill.
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House Bill 2’s arbitrary $220 basic allotment increase will not make public schools whole again.
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Things are heating up in this legislative session, with a metric ton of bills being filed and some of the governor’s and lieutenant governor’s stated priorities moving through the committee process. Several of those bills are various attempts at pay incentives for teachers – and we do mean just...
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