As the trial over how Texas funds its public schools kicks off, we’ve compiled all our school finance coverage — from the battles of the last legislative session to the latest developments in the case — in one place.
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PAC Uses Football to Target Voucher Proposals
In a video that ponders potential threats to the viability of high school football, Progress Texas PAC urges Texans to fight plans to institute school voucher programs.
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Education: The Other Infrastructure Problem
The state’s biggest education deficit is in its fastest-growing population. If that persists, Hispanics will have problems operating at full potential in the Texas of the future.
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For Some Teachers, Classroom Strain Runs Deeper Than Budget Cuts
Some consequences of the Legislature’s more than $5 billion budget cut to public schools — like a loss of morale and stress levels in the classroom — aren’t easily measured. But the pressure on teachers may have more complex origins.
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Select Texas Districts Aim to Pilot Testing Reforms
Thanks to a new law, a consortium of school districts could offer a new way forward as policymakers address the increasingly heated opposition to the state’s high-stakes standardized test-based accountability system.
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Schools Turn to Parents’ Dollars for Support
Parents are opening their pocketbooks to fund everything from outdoor classrooms to extra teaching positions in public schools when state and district money falls short. But the influx of private dollars concerns civil rights advocates who say it only exacerbates existing inequities in the public school system.
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Oil and Gas Boom Makes Districts Rich but Uneasy
Booming oil and gas production in the Eagle Ford Shale play has made property values soar — a sudden, surprising and sometimes stressful boon to some of the state’s poorest school districts.
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At Some Schools, Future is Now, Demographically
By 2050, nearly two-thirds of Texas public school children will be Hispanic. The demographic shift is already under way in classrooms statewide, where schools work to improve the academic success of the students of the new majority.
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Weekend Insider: RNC Convention, Texas School Demographics
In this edition of the Weekend Insider: We check in with Jay Root on the road at the Republican National Convention, and Morgan Smith looks at the changing demographics in Texas public schools.
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Dewhurst Declares Support for School Choice Legislation
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, throwing some red meat to conservatives after his bruising defeat at the hands of Tea Party darling Ted Cruz, has put private school vouchers and expanded “parental choice” back on the legislative agenda.
