Politically active nonprofits, which are playing an increasingly important role in state elections, would no longer be able to hide the identity of their major donors under a bill making its way through the Texas Legislature.
Kel Seliger
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Higher Education
Seliger: Perry Should Address UT System Tensions
Amid mounting tensions between the University of Texas System and the Legislature, Senate Higher Education Chairman Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, is calling for Gov. Rick Perry to step in and calm the waters.
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Higher Education
Updated: Panel Discusses UT System Records Request
Sen. Kel Seliger, who co-chairs the Legislature’s joint higher education oversight committee, said UT regents should have access to the information they have requested, but the committee wants to make sure it is being gathered and used appropriately.
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Public Education
Senate Education Leader Files Testing Overhaul Bill
State Sen. Kel Seliger, the Amarillo Republican who leads the Senate’s Higher Education Committee, filed a bill Tuesday offering broad changes to student assessment and high school graduation requirements in the state.
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Higher Education
TribLive: A Conversation with Kel Seliger
Full video of my December 6 TribLive conversation with state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, the chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee.
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Economy
TribLive: Seliger on the Cost of a College Education
At this morning’s TribLive conversation, state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, the chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, discussed the prospect of tuition reregulation and whether the state is adequately funding higher ed.
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Higher Education
TribuneFest: A Conversation with Kel Seliger
At the Trib’s November 29 symposium on higher education at Texas A&M University, I talked tuition deregulation, changing demographics and other hot-button issues with state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, the new chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee.
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Energy
The Hot Seat: A Conversation with West Texas Lawmakers
At our Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, state Reps. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Tryon Lewis, R-Odessa, and state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, discussed cuts to public and higher education and other by-products of the 82nd Session.
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Public Education
The Hot Seat: West Texas Lawmakers on Public Ed Cuts
At last Friday’s Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, state Rep. Tryon Lewis, R-Odessa, and state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, talked about the impact of cuts to public education.
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The Hot Seat: West Texas Lawmakers on Romney
At last Friday’s Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, state Reps. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Tryon Lewis, R-Odessa, and state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, declined to endorse their party’s likely 2012 presidential nominee.
