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While some bills did not pass, the legislature made strides in passing around 30 bills related to education, including school ...
The STAAR, or State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, cannot be salvaged. It cannot be fixed. It is universally ...
House Bill 2 funnels roughly $8.5 billion dollars into public schools. About half the pot is going toward teacher recruitment ...
Texas House Bill 3749 (HB 3749), known as "Jenifer's Law," has undergone dramatic revisions since its introduction. What ...
The Texas House has passed the largest public school funding increase in state history, sending the measure to Gov. Greg ...
This includes funding towards hiring support staff like counselors and nurses for student’s behavior that might be tied with trauma, foster care, or homelessness.
House Bill 2, which allocates $8.5 billion to public schools across Texas, may not be enough to address the budget deficits ...
Lawmakers passed 79-39 House Bill 3006 by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg. If the Legislature or the federal government allocates funding, it will require the installation of climate control in phases to be ...
As an update to Vinson & Elkins’ prior coverage of House Bill 40 (“H.B. 40”)—new legislation that expands the jurisdiction and operations of ...
The voucher program Abbott signed into law comes with a $1 billion budget and will serve an estimated 100,000 students in its ...
House Bill 4 would make the test shorter and base scores on how students’ performance compares to national averages.
Democratic lawmakers demanded to know how a GOP-backed bill to require citizenship proof from voters would work.