Tag Archive: Mike Morath

This Week in the Legislature: Lawmakers Get an Earful on School Finance Bill HB 2 in 2-Day Committee Hearing

Publish Date: March 8, 2025

This Week in the Legislature: Let’s Talk About Educator Pay Raises

Publish Date: February 28, 2025

SBOE Preview: Instructional Materials & the Right to Freedom of Religion

Publish Date: September 5, 2024

Action Needed: SBOE to Review TEA’s Bible-Infused New Curriculum

Publish Date: August 30, 2024

House Public Education Committee Hears Interim Charges

Publish Date: August 16, 2024

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...

Injunction Issued to Halt Controversial A-F labels

Publish Date: August 16, 2024

This week, as the Texas House Committee on Public Education met to discuss private school vouchers that would syphon tax dollars from our public schools, a Travis County district court issued a temporary injunction to halt the release of the controversial A-F school ratings determined by the governor-appointed commissioner of education. Five public school districts petitioned the court to stop...