The next critical deadline during the 89th Legislative Session is May 24, the last day that the House can advance Senate ...

Legislation from the Texas House to scrap onerous STAAR testing is promising, but lawmakers continue to ignore core ways to improve public education.

Second Reading Podcast: Public Opinion and the Big Unresolved Issues Pending in the Texas Legislature The Texas Politics Project produces courses for students enrolled at UT Austin and for the public ...

With just over two weeks left in the legislative session, Texas senators have introduced their version of the sweeping public ...

State lawmakers are in a race with the clock to pass an education funding plan before the regular session ends on June 2.

The proposal would heavily invest in teacher pay and special education. It includes a modest $55 increase to schools' base ...

Hundreds of thousands of older Americans have decades-old debts that now put them at risk of having their Social Security ...

The Texas House passed a bill to replace the high-stress STAAR test with three smaller tests spaced throughout the year. It could have trouble in the Senate as the end of session draws near.

Humble ISD's elections are under fire after two candidates filed separate challenges to the May school board races that are ...

The $7.8 billion school funding bill proposed by the Texas Senate and agreed to by the governor and House speaker is the ...

The Texas House originally passed House Bill 2, a multibillion-dollar school funding package, in April. But the version of ...

Gov. Greg Abbott vowed he would bring school vouchers to Texas as part of his reelection campaign. Abbott made good on that ...