State's School Finance Plan Set For Public Hearing
A GOP-backed measure that includes new distribution formulas for public schools is getting a set of hearings Thursday in the Texas Capitol.
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A GOP-backed measure that includes new distribution formulas for public schools is getting a set of hearings Thursday in the Texas Capitol.
While most kids are enjoying Memorial Day as a holiday, some North Texas students are in class today. Several school districts had to use this holiday as a snow day.
Democrats used a filibuster to block the bill early Monday morning, after 139 days of fighting budget measures that slash billions of dollars in state funding from education.
Amid the loud games of the last days of school, Corey Elementary School students in Arlington are learning the somber lessons of Memorial Day.
It's the 11th hour for school education funding in Texas. Legislators have a self-imposed 5 p.m. Friday deadline to work out differences between House and Senate funding bills.
Texas lawmakers met behind closed doors to hammer out a new school financing law as time was running out for the 2011 legislative session.
The Texas legislature has approved a final version of a once-contentious bill requiring schools statewide to get parental permission before applying corporal punishment.
A 13-year-old boy from Texas has won the National Geographic Bee. Tine Valencic of Colleyville beat out other finalists to win the bee's final round.
Hundreds of North Texas high school students recently celebrated a major achievement. During a ceremony at SMU, some 200 students not only declared where they were going to college, but also made a commitment to graduate.
The measure was to relieve the state of about $2 billion in obligations to public school districts. But the bill violated rules and was killed.
A suburban North Texas high school student was burned when a chemistry lab experiment went awry.
Texas lawmakers have approved legislation to require schools to adopt anti-bullying policies and improve prevention methods.
Do young children have First Amendment rights? Federal judges in New Orleans will hear a case Monday morning that could answer that question.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott will be spending the day getting around the state to appeal to students not to text while driving.
A Texas regulatory agency is sitting on a pile of cash that can't be touched by lawmakers even as the state tries to cope with a $27 billion budget shortfall. Records examined by The Associated Press show that the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy has been stockpiling millions of dollars for the better part of a decade.