School Districts Sue TEA Over A-F Accountability System… Again
Five school districts in Texas are suing Commissioner of Education Mike Morath over the Texas Education Agency’s A-F accountability system. This is the second...
Texas Republicans Continue Their Assault on Public Schools in New Primary Props
Texas Republicans have made public schools one of their main battlegrounds for regressive politics in the state. Their latest list of propositions from the 2022...
Extremist School Board Candidates Quietly Running to Push HISD Far to the Right
“If masks work, wouldn’t everyone choose to wear them?”
The pretzel logic of Caroline Walter’s question, which she tweeted in September, might have been enough...
Abbott Signs SB 2, Establishing Vouchers in Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday afternoon celebrated a monumental political victory by signing Senate Bill 2 into...
Rural Republicans Strike Back Against Out-Of-State School Voucher PAC
Incumbent rural Republicans facing challengers funded by an out-of-state billionaire school voucher zealot are fighting back with attack ads ahead of the primary run-offs.
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Houston Teachers Say School Must Start Online Only
The union that represents teachers in Texas’ largest school district wants the 2020-21 school year to start with virtual instruction until the area sees...
Charter Schools Struggling As GOP Pushes for Vouchers
During the regular and special legislative sessions of the Texas legislature, proponents of school vouchers held expanding school funding hostage. Vouchers failed to pass,...
Texas Parents Struggle With Childcare During the Holidays
The public school system is by far the primary form of childcare for working Texas parents. On top of that, many Texas kids are...
Will HB 2 Address the Real Needs of Texas Teachers?
HB 2 proposes raising the per-student allotment by $220 to $6,360 per year, but teachers argue it’s insufficient, failing to address the real financial...
With conflicting budget estimates, will Texas teachers get the pay raises they anticipated?
When state lawmakers passed their landmark $11.6 billion school finance law in late May, school employees were eager to see how mandatory raises would...
