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Texas Teacher Pay Emerges As A Sticking Point Between House And Senate
Posted on · The Senate is proposing $5,000 raises for each teacher and librarian. The House is calling for raising minimum salaries and increasing benefits.
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Texas Senate Unanimously Passes $5,000 Teacher Pay Raises, Adding Librarians
Posted on · The proposal faces an uphill climb in the lower chamber, with House Speaker Dennis Bonnen saying he prefers to give school districts flexibility on addressing teacher pay.
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Texas Senate Panel Advances $5,000 Teacher Pay Raise Proposal
Posted on · The bill, which would cost $3.9 billion, received unanimous support from the Senate Finance Committee.
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Texas Leaders Want Voters To OK Property Tax Revenue Growth Over 2.5 Percent. They Couldn’t Get 4 Percent In 2017.
Posted on · The leaders of both legislative chambers say they will be united this year — even if cities and counties push back — and that local officials should come to Austin with solutions in hand if they don't like new proposals.
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Texas School Finance Panel Approves Final Report To Lawmakers
Posted on · The Texas Commission on Public School Finance — created last year to scrutinize the way the state funds K-12 education — finalized a report that includes more than 30 recommended improvements.
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State Audit Finds Serious Flaws in Texas Education Agency Contracting Process
Posted on · The audit says the Texas Education Agency consistently bypassed required steps and failed to consider other options before awarding a special education contract.
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DeVos Considers Federal Funding to Arm Teachers – Texas May Have Given Her The Idea
Posted on · A Trump administration official told Education Week that Texas first raised the possibility of using federal grants for that purpose
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Texas Will Soon Release A-F Grades for Schools; Educators Are Organizing in Opposition
Posted on · With a week to go before the state releases the first official grades for school districts, school superintendents have already begun their campaign against the system.
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Texas Attorney General Demands School District Hand Over Controversial Human Sexuality Curriculum
Posted on · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner turn over a copy of a sixth-grade health curriculum that includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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More Standardized Testing Woes In Texas? A High-Performing School Says Over 100 Students Got Zeros On Essays
Posted on · The Texas Education Agency and the state's main testing vendor are investigating how more than 100 students in a high-performing Houston-area high school received zeros on their English essays.
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More Standardized Testing Woes In Texas? A Houston-Area High School Says Over 100 Students Got Zeros On Essays
Posted on · The Texas Education Agency and the state's main testing vendor are investigating how more than 100 students in a high-performing Houston-area high school received zeros on their English essays.
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Texas Education Agency Sets Rules On How To Exempt Hurricane Harvey-Affected Districts From State Ratings
Posted on · Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath on Wednesday released criteria that schools affected by Hurricane Harvey will have to meet to be exempt from state ratings. School administrators have argued that all schools in the disaster area should automatically get waivers.
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Emotionally Drained, Financially Strapped: How Alief ISD Teachers Weathered The School Year After Hurricane Harvey
Posted on · Homeless for a month and a half after the hurricane, Justin Williams had to put his life back together while teaching Alief ISD sixth graders. Tiffany Robinson pushed students even harder to pass state tests after teachers lost 11 school days to Harvey.
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Texas House And Senate Leaders Take Early Steps To Consider Gov. Greg Abbott’s School Safety Plan
Posted on · Both chambers hope to have certain fixes in place before student return to school in August.
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Twice A Week, Spring ISD Students Circle Up And Talk About Their Feelings; It’s Lowering Suspensions And Preventing Violence
Posted on · These days, more students and teachers report being happy at Spring ISD's Bammel Middle School, and the number of three-day out-of-school suspensions dropped from 94 last school year to 47