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During the Senate Finance Committee’s first public education hearing Monday, senators seemed open to reconsidering the core metric used to determine how much money the state gives schools per student, a switch that many school districts say would result in millions in additional funding.
Several senators questioned Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath on...
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Newly Conservative School Board Changes Tune on Vouchers
One more obstacle in the far-right Republican quest to institute school vouchers in Texas was removed last week. A...
Gambling proponents have a new plan to ask Texas...
Advocates for legalizing casinos in Texas unveiled new legislation Friday that makes a stronger effort to partner with horse-racing...
Texas cities debate costly infrastructure investments in age of...
Two years after a winter storm killed 246 people and left millions of Texans without electricity, Texas cities once again buckled...
Texas Legislature
Abbott To Go Ahead With Unpopular School Voucher Push
Governor Greg Abbott has been cagey on what exactly his support for “school choice” would entail, but he settled the matter this week at a Parent Empowerment Night event in Corpus Christi....
Could Vouchers Lead To Homeschooling Of Texas Children In Neo-Nazi Ideologies?
As the Texas Legislature debates bills in both chambers that could result in...
House Committee Interim Report Previews Texas Legislative Action On Education
In March of 2022 Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan tasked the...
Patrick’s Broken Promise for Rural Education
Far-right Texas Republicans continue to push an unpopular school voucher program in the...
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Elections
Mealer Files Election Challenge Against Hidalgo On Jan. 6 Anniversary
Lina Hidalgo defeated Alexandra del Moral Mealer to retain her seat as Harris County Judge, but now Mealer has filed an election challenge. Tellingly, the challenge comes on the anniversary of the...
Why Were 75% Of Texas Voters Under 30 Missing From The Midterms Totals?
Only 25 percent of young registered voters cast their ballots in Texas this...
Texas Supreme Court Rules that Late-Cast Ballots Will Be Counted Despite Paxton’s Challenge
Late this afternoon, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that...
Texas Judge Bars League of Women Voters from Registering New Citizens to Vote
U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge prevented the nonpartisan voting rights group the League...
Campaign Finance
What US Senate Races Have Received Texas Money?
This election cycle Texas has been sparing no expense. And while top-of-the-ticket races...
Never A Perfect Candidate: Criminally Indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton
When comparing the 2022 statewide races to 2018’s, we see a clear uptick...
Who Are Texas’ Top Legislative Fundraisers?
New campaign finance reports released this week by candidates for the Texas Legislature...
Abbott & Beto Make Texas History, Most Expensive Governor’s Race Ever
When comparing the 2022 statewide races to 2018’s, we see a clear uptick...
O’Rourke Out-Raises Gov. Greg Abbott’s Gigantic War Chest
Texas' third straight fundraising period is officially over, thus making this year’s gubernatorial...
Education
Newly Conservative School Board Changes Tune on Vouchers
One more obstacle in the far-right Republican quest to institute school vouchers in Texas was removed last week. A newly conservative Texas Board of Education voted to not stand in the program's...
Texas University Systems To Freeze Tuition If Given $1 Billion In Funding
Given the size of the Texas state budget surplus of over $32 billion,...
Dutton On Calls To Axe STAAR Test: “We Don’t Need To Listen To Them”
Hopes that the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test would...
Texas GOP Once Again Proposes School Voucher Programs In Austin
As the 88th Texas Legislative session begins in Austin this week, Republican lawmakers...
Healthcare
Group With Ties To White Nationalism Suing Texas Medical Schools For Discrimination Against White...
A group with ties to white nationalism has been launching legal challenges against affirmative action in Texas. Their latest target? Texas medical schools.
The America First Legal Foundation was...
Thousands Of Texas Children Could Lose Health Insurance In 2023 If Legislature Doesn’t Expand Medicaid
Texas has the highest rate of children without medical insurance in the country....
Non-Medical Home Remediation Study Could Be Game-Changer For Texas Medicaid Patients
Evidence from a recent national study of Medicaid benefits shows that newly implemented...
What New Mental Health Legislation Might Look Like in 2023
After a resounding success in the midterms, Texas Republicans are highly unlikely to...
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U.S. Senator Urges Apple, Google To Kick TikTok Out Of App Stores
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, should be removed from app stores run by Apple Inc AAPL.O and Alphabet's GOOGL.O Google because the short video social media app poses a risk to national security,...
Non-binary Bonbons? Or Just Chocolate? M&M Spokescandies Say Farewell
On Monday, the beloved M&M’s spokescandies, which had been the face of M&M’s for years, said one final goodbye. The candy company will be abandoning their colorful mascots because they are too...
