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Cy-Fair ISD voters oust trustees who prioritized far-right agenda over student needs
Today, Cy-Fair ISD voters elected three new trustees to set the direction of the school district for the next four years.
Read MoreSBEC Preview: HB 2 in Action
The State Board for Educator Certification will meet in Austin on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 18-19. The meeting will take place over two days with many discussion items and will include a new component to the proceedings. The first order of business will be for the new Temporary Suspension Committee...
Read MoreSept. 12, 2025: Nickels & Dimes
Friday, September 12, 2025 Nickels and dimes Every back-to-school season, public school teachers and staff across the country spend hundreds of dollars out-of-pocket on food and classroom supplies for their students. This year is no exception — and the burden has been made more acute by recent federal cuts. ...
Read MoreSept. 5, 2025: The No STAAR State
Friday, September 5, 2025 The No STAAR State On Wednesday, the Texas Legislature closed out its second special session by passing a bill that will replace STAAR with a through-year testing regimen that will mean more but (allegedly) shorter tests for students. Lawmakers have begun their celebratory pronouncements. Rep. Brad...
Read MoreTexas A&M University Caves to Political Pressure, Violating Faculty Rights to Academic Freedom and Due Process
Sept. 10, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Brian L. Evans, PhD, aaup.texas@gmail.com This week’s events are the clearest example yet: We are bargaining away Texas’s future so politicians can have material for fundraising emails and viral social media content. AUSTIN,...
Read MoreTexas AFT members fight to bring benefits of HB 2 to their districts
House Bill 2, the Legislature’s school finance bill, went into full effect on Monday, Sept. 1. Even before enactment day, though, Texas AFT members and organizers have been hard at work in districts across the state to make sure the funding increases from the Teacher Retention Allotment (TRA) and the...
Read MoreCourt Battles & Confusion as Texas Ten Commandments Law Takes Effect
Texas’s new Ten Commandments law, Senate Bill 10, officially went into effect on September 1, but implementation is unfolding unevenly across the state.
Read MoreSBOE Preview: Social Studies Redux
The State Board of Education (SBOE) will convene in Austin on Monday, Sept. 8, at 1 p.m. CT. The board is set to meet throughout the week, ending on Friday, Sept. 10, and will take up several important items, most notably, a framework for the anticipated social studies content area...
Read MoreSB 12: The ‘Parents’ Bill of Rights’ Deep Dive
On Friday, June 20, 2025, Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 12 into law. The law took effect on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, and aims to reshape public school practices related to parental rights, educator responsibilities, and the role of diversity and identity in pre-K-12 schools.
Read MoreHouse Bill 2 provides needed pay increases for educators at the start of the 2025-26 school year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 2, 2025 CONTACT: Nicole Hill, press@texasaft.org Educators welcome much needed pay raises but lament bottom line for schools AUSTIN, Texas – Today, Texas AFT celebrates the enactment of House Bill 2, which partially went into effect on Sept. 1. Portions of the bill that were effective...
Read MoreAug. 29, 2025: Labor Day
Friday, August 29, 2025 This coming Monday is Labor Day, an annual recognition of union members who make up the American labor movement and who have worked tirelessly over decades to build a fairer, safer, and better country for all. This year, we feel a profound sense of urgency...
Read More89th Legislature in Review: Your Right to Organize
This summer, RGV AFT members in Hidalgo ISD organized and won raises for teachers, certified staff, and hourly employees, above and beyond what was guaranteed by House Bill 2 from the 89th Legislature. Empowered educators produce engaged students. History consistently shows how unions can raise the bar for all of...
Read MoreHouse Bill 8: Goodbye, STAAR. Hello, Who the Heck Knows?
The second special session call was a rinse and repeat of Gov. Greg Abbott’s priorities for Texas, including entertaining a bill to “eliminate the STAAR test.” While that phrase might earn lots of hearts on social media, the reality of what transpired in the Legislature over the last week paints...
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