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Texas State Board of Education livestream/The SBOE’s Friday decision is somewhat surprising. In November of last year, the Republican-controlled Board overwhelmingly voted to reject “all attempts to divert public dollars away from public schools.” -
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon/KUTState tax systems are usually looked at as a three-legged stool — property taxes, sales taxes and personal income tax. In Texas, our “stool” only has two legs.
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The latest results from a Texas Lyceum poll show an erosion of trust in some of America’s most important institutions, including the education system. -
What would you do with $33 billion?
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Medical cannabis and penalty reduction are among several marijuana measures in the 88th regular session.
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The bills would ban governments and citizens of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from buying property in the state.
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The Texas Legislature is required to approve changes to political boundaries during the first regular session after census data is released. But the coronavirus pandemic led lawmakers to pass their latest maps in the offseason.
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The families are pushing for a series of bills that range from ending qualified immunity to changing age limits to purchase a semi-automatic rifle. The group also wants to be able to sue the state over the botched police response.
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State Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock, said his bill would be the largest salary increase for teachers in the state’s history. “That's the kind of bold action this moment requires. And we can do this,” Talarico said.
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Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat from Round Rock, is planning to file a bill related to education funding.
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Bills range from prohibiting insurance companies from covering gender-affirming care to revoking the license of a doctor who performs a gender-affirming surgery on a minor.
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Roe author Mary Ziegler has chronicled the legal, political and cultural battles around abortion, and says the debate is far from over: "We're at the very beginning of something very confusing."
