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San Antonio Alliance Member Adrian Reyna Announces State House Run
San Antonio educator and Texas AFT member Adrian Reyna is running for the Texas House in District 125, which covers a large part of northwest San Antonio.
Read MoreRetired Educators Hit the Polls to Win First Pension COLA in Nearly 2 Decades
This week — the first week of early voting in Texas’ statewide constitutional elections — retired educators across Texas showed up at the polls in force in support of Proposition 9, which will provide some retired educators with their first pension cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
Read MoreSpecial Session Update: Vouchers at a Standstill Amid Immigration Debate
Late last Thursday, after weeks of almost no action from the House on vouchers, Rep. Brad Buckley (R-Killeen), chairman of the House Public Education Committee, quietly filed House Bill 1, a voucher bill that includes some limited public education funding increases.
Read MoreSBOE Update: Last Call for Science Textbook Comments
Well-monied interest groups are calling on climate deniers to flood the SBOE with demands to censor new science textbooks, specifically for Grade 8. We must take action now to demand that the board reject these attempts to censor the truth.
Read More7 Texas AFT Local Unions Win AFT Powerful Partnerships Institute Grants
At AFT’s Civil, Human, & Women’s Rights Conference in Houston, our national union’s Powerful Partnership Institute (PPI) awarded its latest round of grant funding. Texas AFT was among those grant recipients, along with seven of our local unions
Read MoreTell Sen. Cornyn: Do Not Support More Charter School Program Waste, Fraud
Eight U.S. senators (including Texas Sen. John Cornyn) introduced a bill last week that was clearly written with the help of the charter school lobby. The Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act would allow billionaire-funded nonprofits to keep more of a cut when dispersing Charter School Program (CSP) grants.
Read MoreSchool Chaplain Bill Update: School Districts Begin Voting on SB 763
From now until March 1, 2024, every Texas school district must decide whether to adopt a policy to allow chaplains to serve as counselors in public schools, after the passage of SB 763. These votes are now starting to take place.
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