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• Video: Cruz Delivers First Formal Senate Speech

  By Alana Rocha March 13, 2013

  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday gave his first formal speech on the Senate floor, urging his colleagues to support an amendment to defund federal health reform. Full Story 

• Video: George P. Bush Announces Bid for Land Commissioner

  By Ross Ramsey and Alana Rocha March 12, 2013

  George P. Bush told state election officials Tuesday he will run for land commissioner in 2014. He had previously filed papers required for anyone raising campaign funds in the state, but hadn’t officially specified what office he might seek. Full Story 

• SXSWedu: Can You Teach an Old College New Tricks?

  By Reeve Hamilton March 12, 2013

  University of Texas at Brownsville President Juliet García, Antioch University Chancellor Felice Nudelman and Steven Mintz, of the University of Texas System's Institute for Transformational Learning, discuss rapid changes facing higher education. Full Story 

• Video: Educators Visit Capitol, Push to Restore Cuts

  By Alana Rocha March 11, 2013

  Ask any of the estimated 2,700 members of the American Federation of Teachers who came out Monday for the group's lobby day, and they’ll tell you their top priority is restoring the $5.4 billion in cuts made last session to public education. Full Story 

• Newsreel: UT/TT Poll, Bill Filing Deadline

  By Justin Dehn March 9, 2013

  This week in the Newsreel: Highlights from the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, lawmakers work toward completion of the first supplemental appropriations bill and Sylvia Garcia wins the SD-6 special election. Full Story 

• TribLive: A Conversation with Jimmie Don Aycock

  By Evan Smith March 8, 2013

  Full video of my 3/7 conversation with state Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen, the chairman of the House Public Education Committee. Full Story 

• TribLive: Aycock on Testing and Accountability

  By Evan Smith March 7, 2013

  At Thursday's TribLive conversation, state Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen, the chairman of the House Public Education Committee, talked about correct number of tests a student should take and how he'd revise the state's accountability system. Full Story 

• TribLive: Aycock on School Choice

  By Evan Smith March 7, 2013

  At Thursday's TribLive conversation, state Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, R-Killeen, the chairman of the House Public Education Committee, talked about the prospects for school choice legislation this session — and why a business tax credit might not pass muster. Full Story 

• TribuneFest: Building a Better Teacher

  By Evan Smith March 5, 2013

  At the Trib's February 25 symposium on public education at Rice University, Morgan Smith talked about what it takes to find and retain great teachers with Linda McSpadden McNeil of Rice University, Elisa Villanueva Beard of Teach for America, Gayle Fallon of the Houston Federation of Teachers and former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. Full Story 

• TribuneFest: Ex-Commissioners Confidential

  By Evan Smith March 4, 2013

  At the Trib's February 25 symposium on public education at Rice University, I talked choice, testing, school finance and the intersection of policy and politics with four former state commissioners of education: Mike Moses, Jim Nelson, Shirley Richardson and Robert Scott. Full Story 

• Texas Weekly Newsreel: Voting Rights, Medicaid, Sequestration

  By Justin Dehn March 2, 2013

  In this week's Newsreel: The Supreme Court heard arguments in a voting rights case that could have a big impact on Texas, Republican legislators side with Gov. Rick Perry on Medicaid expansion, and voters will decide on Saturday who will represent Senate District 6. Full Story 

• TribuneFest: Choice and Charters

  By Evan Smith March 1, 2013

  At the Trib's February 25 symposium on public education at Rice University, Morgan Smith talked about the prospect of greater choice and more charters with Caprice Young of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Rosemary Perlmeter of Teaching Trust, Duncan Klussmann of Spring Branch Independent School District and David Anthony of Raise Your Hand Texas. Full Story