Advocacy Blog

Sunday is the last day to pass any bill during the 89th Legislature. Where do major bills on testing, discipline, library content, and more stand?

School finance, testing and accountability, library materials, and parental rights bills remain in play at the Capitol as deadlines loom.

While many Texans were enjoying a long weekend, the Texas Legislature continued to work ahead of this week's end-of-session deadlines.

A deadlocked Supreme Court blocked the State of Oklahoma from using taxpayer dollars to run a religious charter school.

It was a busy week of meetings for the Senate Education K-16 Committee, and we’re finally seeing Senate movement on major House education bills.

Public school employees will find both plenty to like and plenty not to like in this sweeping legislation, which is almost guaranteed to pass.

House and Senate leadership move forward with a major school finance deal in CSHB 2. Plus, find out what’s happening at the federal level with charter schools, budget reconciliation, and the Department of Education.

The committee voted to send its new version of HB 2 to the full Senate. It remains quite different from the version of HB 2 sent over by the House.

The committee convened Tuesday, May 20, for what is likely its final regular hearing this session.

ATPE’s federal lobbyist takes a look at how the budget reconciliation bill would affect SNAP, Title I, and IDEA funding.