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Your Weekly Briefing: School finance bill with local raises advances; News on virtual schools, charter schools and more.

Publish Date: April 5, 2019

Your Weekly Briefing Rep. Dan Huberty, author of the House school finance bill, watches as Rep. Chris Turn lays out his amendment guaranteeing local educator pay raises. This week, the House threw down the gauntlet for public education by passing its school finance plan. With about $6.3 billion in new public school spending and $2.3 property tax compression, HB 3 represents a significant building block on which Texas can fund its future. House Public Education Committee Chair Rep. Dan Huberty crafted a bill that substantially raises the basic allotment, funds full-day pre-k for low-income kids, and after an amendment by House Democrats, raises wages for all full-time Texas school employees. An amendment by Rep. Chris Turner requires that at least 25% of new funding to districts be dedicated to...

Publish Date: April 19, 2019

Publish Date: April 12, 2019

Your Weekly Briefing: News on TRS pensions, the state budget, taxes, and charter schools

Publish Date: March 29, 2019

Watch Texas AFT Retiree Plus Member Rita Runnels testify on the TRS pension bill. With less than two months to go in the 86th Session, lawmakers have started making big decisions about their financial priorities. Here’s what we know—both the House and Senate indicated this week they intend to spend...

Publish Date: March 22, 2019

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Publish Date: February 14, 2019

Higher Education Committee gets demographic forecast, hears support for community colleges

Publish Date: February 14, 2019

The House Higher Education Committee met yesterday to get an outlook on post-secondary education and heard from State Demographer Lloyd B. Potter for an overview of the changing population of Texas. Potter said 380,000 new Texans were added between 2017 and 2018, more than any other state, with most growth...

Publish Date: February 13, 2019

Property tax cap bill moves toward full Senate without answers to key questions about loss of local funding

Publish Date: February 12, 2019

Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa questions SB 2 author Sen. Paul Bettencourt on why the tax cap should be as low as 2.5 percent. With no additional public testimony, the Senate Committee on Property Tax voted yesterday to advance a bill...

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Your Weekly Briefing: School finance bill with local raises advances; News on virtual schools, charter schools and more.

Your Weekly Briefing: Education bills moving that would regulate charters; harmful tax caps also in the works

Your Weekly Briefing: Tax talk dominated discussion this week, but next week will get busy with public education

Your Weekly Briefing: News on TRS pensions, the state budget, taxes, and charter schools

Your weekly briefing: Big bill up for retired educators, community schools bill moves ahead and notes on the budget

Weekly wrap-up: Things are heating up at the Capitol

Your weekly briefing: More pay-raise news, some bad things buried in the school finance bill, and a great week to talk to legislators at our rally!

Your weekly briefing: Take Action on a pay raise for all; news on the top bills at the Capitol

Your weekly briefing on teacher pay, school funding and charter school news

House committee hears from bevy of witnesses with school finance history

Higher Education Committee gets demographic forecast, hears support for community colleges

Texas AFT president fights for raises for all school employees in House hearing

Property tax cap bill moves toward full Senate without answers to key questions about loss of local funding