Topic: Features

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...

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick just can’t lose the lie he tells on a phantom teacher pay raise

Publish Date: October 17, 2018

The lieutenant governor is at it again--using the airwaves to spread a whopper of a claim that he pushed an “average” $10,000 teacher pay raise last legislative session. We don’t want to give his YouTube page any more views, so we’ve posted the commercial on our Facebook page​along with a little editorial text of “he’s lying.” (Be sure and like our page...

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