Texas lawmakers and charter leaders push back on the $870K paid to Valere schools’ superintendent
The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune ...
'Transformational': Texas Senate Bill 568 would overhaul special education funding
The bill "will lead to stunningly better outcomes for a number of our 775,000 school children with disabilities," the ...
With Texas public school funding uncertain, are more campus closures coming?
More North Texas families face losing their neighborhood schools as districts confront financial struggles and uncertainty ...
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Texas Democrats criticize school leaders for being too “nice” about their funding needs
Lawmakers this week listened to testimony on House Bill 2, which would raise schools’ base funding per student by $220 — a ...
Which North Texas schools are closing and why?
—Public schools across North Texas are confronting tight budgets. Their bleak financial outlook – combined with declining ...
Here's how the Texas House public education funding package could invest $8B in schools
Lawmakers debated the kinds of funding that is most useful for public schools in a marathon House Committee on Public ...
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How property taxes and school funding are linked in Texas
This legislative session, Texas lawmakers are hoping to lower property taxes and increase funding for the state’s public ...
More than 60 Texas workers laid off in U.S. Department of Education mass layoffs: records
The mass layoffs, which halved the U.S. Education Department's workforce, resulted in dozens of Texas-based employees to lose ...
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In Texas, inflation-adjusted state, local public school funding lower than 2011 | Analysis
While Gov. Greg Abbott boasts that Texas' per-student and overall public school funding is at an “all-time high,” many school districts aren’t feeling it. The American-Statesman’s analysis of annual ...
House committee members clash over details of proposed Texas school voucher bill
Members of the House Committee on Public Education clashed over the details of a school voucher bill — a topic that for the ...
Texas high school athletics could face difficulties amid ongoing school voucher debate
SAN ANTONIO - Concern for public school funding continues to be at the forefront of the school voucher debate up in Austin.