This Week in the Legislature: ‘A Damn Sad Day’ for Public Education
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Tag Archive: James Talarico
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ICYMI: Educator argues vouchers won’t help her most vulnerable students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2025 CONTACT: Nicole Hill, press@texasaft.org ICYMI: Educator argues vouchers won’t help her most vulnerable students Parents and educators joined State Rep. James Talarico for a statewide TV interview. AUSTIN, Texas – Yesterday, Nexstar television stations across the state aired a special broadcast, “Texas Education: Funding the Future,” focused on proposed private school voucher scam legislation...
Read MoreTexas AFT’s SECOND Public Education Advocacy Day Brings Hundreds More Pre-K-12, Higher Education Employees to the Capitol
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This Week in the Legislature: The Texas House held a voucher hearing. A celebration of public schools broke out.
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This Week in the Legislature: Texas House Committee Assignments Are In
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Action Needed: SBOE to Review TEA’s Bible-Infused New Curriculum
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House Public Education Committee Hears Interim Charges
Legislative “Interim Charges”: What Are They and Why Do They Matter? The Texas Legislature meets once every two years for 140 days for its regular legislative session, during which the only bill it is required to pass and send to the governor’s desk to be signed into law is the budget for the next biennium. We became all too familiar...
Read MoreFact Check: Is everyone except Gov. Abbott to blame for public schools’ budget crises?
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Anti-Voucher Legislators Double Down on Public Education Funding
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In Memoriam: The Bills We Lost This Week
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This Week at the Legislature: 2 School Staffing Bills, 33 Office Visits, & Ten Commandments
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