Educators Concerned As Legislature Explores Voucher Proposals, Poll Shows
A recent poll conducted by the Texas American Federation of Teachers (Texas AFT) has revealed widespread concern among Texas K-12 public school employees regarding...
Texas Tests Waters With Elementary Bible Lessons
The state of Texas is testing the waters for infusing more Biblical content in public schools under a new curriculum the State Board of...
Lawsuit Filed Against Texas’ Controversial Ten Commandments Classroom Display
A coalition of sixteen Texas families, including Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Unitarian Universalist, and nonreligious households, has filed...
Texas Commission On Special Education Funding Considers Recommending Vouchers
Yesterday the Texas Commission on Special Education Funding – a group formed by HB 1525 in the 87th Texas Legislature to “develop and make...
Harlandale ISD threatens civil rights lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency
The Harlandale ISD board of trustees is considering a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency as a way to fight a...
What Lt. Gov. Patrick’s Rule Change May Mean for Texas Education
Prior to the November election, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made waves when he suggested if Republicans were to lose their supermajority in the State...
Voucher Fights Puts Speaker Phelan In Far-Right Crosshairs
The battle over school vouchers is likely to be the latest move in far-right Texas Republicans’ increasingly bitter war on moderation.
The last three years...
Texas Schoolchildren to Return to Classroom in the Fall
Parents have been waiting and wondering how the 2020-21 school year will look in Texas. Will there be limits on class sizes? How will...
Former GOP Education Chairs Push For More School Funding As Texas Faces Crisis
Two former Republican members of the Texas Legislature who chaired education committees urged the state to increase the funding for public schools, which has...
As Legislative Session Ends, Texas Struggles to Reform School Finance
Texas lawmakers are struggling to reach an agreement on how to reform how schools are funded in the Lone Star State.
After 146 amendments...
