Texas AFT’s SECOND Public Education Advocacy Day Brings Hundreds More Pre-K-12, Higher Education Employees to the Capitol
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This Week in the Legislature: The Texas House held a voucher hearing. A celebration of public schools broke out.
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This Week in the Legislature: Texas House Committee Assignments Are In
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Action Needed: SBOE to Review TEA’s Bible-Infused New Curriculum
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House Public Education Committee Hears Interim Charges
Legislative “Interim Charges”: What Are They and Why Do They Matter? The Texas Legislature meets once every two years for 140 days for its regular legislative session, during which the only bill it is required to pass and send to the governor’s desk to be signed into law is the budget for the next biennium. We became all too familiar...
Read MoreFact Check: Is everyone except Gov. Abbott to blame for public schools’ budget crises?
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Anti-Voucher Legislators Double Down on Public Education Funding
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In Memoriam: The Bills We Lost This Week
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This Week at the Legislature: 2 School Staffing Bills, 33 Office Visits, & Ten Commandments
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House Public Education Committee to Consider Staffing Notification Requirements, Mandatory Display of Religious Texts in Public Schools
Next week, the House Public Education Committee will consider several bills, including: HB 1281 by Rep. Jolanda Jones (D-Houston) would require school districts to notify families if a public school or open-enrollment charter school does not have a nurse assigned to the campus during all instructional hours. Supported by Texas AFT. HB 2694 by Rep. Venton Jones (D-Dallas) would require...
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