Teachers like Jennifer Boyer have become the rope in a political tug of war over reopening Texas schools. While record numbers of Texans are hospitalized and dying from COVID-19, the question of whether teachers will be pulled back into classrooms next fall, willing or not, has spawned pitched national and local battles over the safety […]Read More
A reinterpretation of the state’s school finance law will leave $100 million in the accounts of some of the state’s property wealthy districts — and will leave a hole of that size in an already tight state budget. After reconsideration of an 18-year-old law, state education officials are adjusting their school finance calculations in a […]Read More
Sen. Larry Taylor on Monday filed Senate Bill 3, which pushes education savings accounts and tax credit scholarships to subsidize private school tuition and other education expenses. One of the most anticipated debates of the 85th Legislative Session began taking shape Monday with the layout of a two-part Texas Senate bill that would allow for Texas […]Read More
The fault lines that will define efforts to improve the state’s system of funding education came into sharp focus Wednesday as a Senate panel began studying how to improve the “efficiency” of public schools in Texas. The 11-member Senate Education Committee and a hearing room full of education professionals, lobbyists and school and minority advocates […]Read More
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