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The Texas AFL-CIO has released their Pro-Worker Scorecard, which ranks how much Texas State Representatives and State ...
Texas Legislative Session, Senate Bill 5 approving the founding of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (DPRIT) was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. However, it will only go into effect ...
The session opened with unexpected attention on workforce training when Gov. Greg Abbott made it an emergency item, signaling ...
A Houston-area family’s 10-year legal fight with Spring Branch ISD highlights the high costs and challenges parents face in ...
A Republican plan to expand private school vouchers nationwide was dealt a major setback Friday when the Senate ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican plan to expand private school vouchers nationwide was dealt a major setback Friday when the ...
The school voucher bill could have been a bottomless bucket of tax money going to rich folks to subsidize private school tuition they ... 2024, then-candidate for the Texas House Pat Curry said, ...
Texas lawmakers, who so easily passed private school vouchers, have allowed the STAAR to persist despite its many problems. By Express-News Editorial Board , Opinion Staff June 10, 2025 ...
From left: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Gov. Greg Abbott, former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, speak about school vouchers during a press conference on March 25, 2025.
The National Education Association ranked Texas as 31st in the U.S. for teacher pay in the 2023-24 school year, estimating the average teacher salary in Texas as $62,463.
Part of the massive domestic policy bill currently moving through Congress known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” includes an unprecedented $5 billion national school voucher program. Republicans ...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed House Bill 2, the largest public school funding increase in Texas history, allocating $8.5 billion in new funding for public education.