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The district expected student enrollment to grow by 2.5% this year, but that figure has doubled. School officials are concerned that more students won’t lead to more state money though, because Texas funds schools based on attendance — not enrollment.
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Texas voters still think that property taxes are too high and that the state spends too little on public education, according to the latest University of…
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One cause of that discrepancy is that a lot of school funding comes from local property taxes, a new report from the nonprofit EdBuild found.
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Leaders of the Texas Senate are proposing giving schools $3.7 billion to provide $5,000 pay raises to all full-time classroom teachers — on the heels of a…
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Public school teachers in Los Angeles, the second-largest school district in the country, went on strike Monday to demand smaller class sizes and more…
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State lawmakers filed dozens of bills about educating kids ahead of Tuesday's start to the legislative session. The most interesting discussion at the…
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From Texas Standard.Remember the 1988 inspirational movie Stand and Deliver? It was about school teacher Jaime Escalante who encouraged students at risk…
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School officials whose districts would lose money under a Texas House plan to revamp the public school funding system asked legislators on Tuesday to…
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State district court Judge John Dietz likened the state's school finance case to the soap opera As The World Turns when he opened Wednesday's hearing on…
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District Court Judge John Dietz said this morning he will hold a hearing to consider reopening the Texas School Finance case to weigh the impacts of…