The Texas Supreme Court is about to hear the latest challenge to the state’s financing of public schools. Maybe they’ll throw it out, but history says otherwise: This almost always means changes in school policy and increases in taxes.
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Public Education
Analysis: Texas Schools, by the Numbers
You can peek at the state’s near future in the latest numbers from the Texas Education Agency: 51.8 percent Hispanic, 29.4 percent Anglo, 12.7 percent African-American, 3.7 percent Asian.
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Public Education
House Education Chief Aycock Will Not Seek Re-election
When the Texas Legislature tackles a long overdue overhaul of the state’s school finance system, it will have to do without the lawmaker who has shepherded its two chambers through complex education issues for the last two sessions.
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State Government
Roundup: Bills, Deadlines and “Chubbing”
In the Roundup: The end of the week marked the death of scores of bills in the Texas House, including school finance reform legislation. Lawmakers were strategically long-winded when considering bills, leaving little time to take up legislation before a key deadline.
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Public Education
Plan for School Finance Overhaul Dies in Texas House
A months-long effort to reform the problem-plagued school finance system came to an end Thursday as House Public Education Chairman Jimmie Don Aycock withdrew a bill proposing fixes less than an hour into a scheduled debate.
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School Finance Proposal on Life Support
A school finance plan that would result in an extra $800 million for public education faces dim prospects in the dwindling weeks of the legislative session, a top House lawmaker said Tuesday.
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Politics
Analysis: Does “Voucher” Label Fit the Bill?
You can slow down or even kill a piece of legislation with a single word or phrase, if it’s poisonous enough.
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School Finance Plan Praised in Capitol Hearing
A plan to overhaul the state’s public education funding system from a top House lawmaker received largely favorable reviews from school districts during a marathon legislative hearing that ended late Tuesday night.
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Public Education
Aycock: School Finance Plan is “First Best Attempt”
Most Texas school districts would see increased funding under proposed changes to the state’s public education funding system, House Public Education Chairman Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen, said Tuesday.
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Economy
Rising Local Debt Draws Attention of Legislature
State coffers are flush with cash, but local governments are continuing to borrow heavily to provide services. State legislators have filed more than a dozen bills aimed at how cities, counties and school districts can borrow money.
