The spotlight is on the Texas House of Representatives, where an education committee took up and is expected to pass its ...

Governor Greg Abbott has named the issue an emergency item and listed it atop his legislative priorities. In Tuesday's House Education Committee hearing, the passion for and against the measure was ...

Members of the House Committee on Public Education clashed over the details of a school voucher bill — a topic that for the ...

As a committee of the Texas Legislature prepares to discuss a bill framed as a solution to squatting, housing advocates and ...

The school choice debate intensified on Tuesday. Those for and against the idea faced off during a committee hearing in the state house.

For the first time, Abbott and a Texas House speaker are aligned, at least publicly, on his vision to send public dollars to ...

The Texas House Committee on Public Education is set to take up their most anticipated bill of the session this week: school vouchers. What the governor calls “school choice” or “education savings ...

The House is considering a $1 billion bill that would allow up to 100,000 students in Texas to attend private schools.

Texas lawmakers introduced a sweeping new proposal Friday to establish a $2 billion fund aimed at accelerating the deployment ...

The House Public Education Committee is the first stop for a bill that Gov. Greg Abbott has made his top legislative priority ...

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