Blog Archive

ATPE Governmental Relations Director Monty Exter explains what you can do to ensure the candidates you're voting for are truly pro-public education.

Vouchers would defund and destroy our neighborhood public schools in order to create a taxpayer-funded entitlement for parents with students in private schools.

This week, 107 votes decided a special election runoff. Your vote matters—and Monday is the deadline to register to vote in the March primaries.

SBOE also received the TEA annual report and questioned Commissioner Mike Morath on Houston ISD, HB 900, teacher mental health, and more.

In 2023, educators faced a slew of challenges. Take a look back at the data outlining how these issues affected educators across the country and listen to a message from the ATPE lobby on how engaging early in 2024 will help Texas educators moving forward.

Leadership and training failures were catastrophic in Uvalde shooting response, per DOJ report released Thursday.

The contribution is the largest single campaign donation in Texas history, according to Abbott’s campaign.

Learn why primary elections are the REAL March madness in our upcoming Gen ATPE webinar. Plus: vouchers and TIA in the news.

Abbott is following a model used by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to target Republican incumbents in the way of a private school voucher push.

House District (HD) 60 Rep. Dr. Glenn Rogers (R–Weatherford) published an op-ed in the Palo Pinto Press last week that aimed to debunk the arguments of the school voucher supporters targeting his seat.