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ATPE testifies at Senate Education interim hearings. Plus: Join ATPE and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) for a webinar Oct. 15.

TEA received nearly three times as many requests to rescore open-ended responses on reading assessments this spring as it did the previous year.

Interim charges on the agenda included evaluating the implementation of the voucher program, studying implementation of laws concerning parental rights and library books, and student discipline.

The Senate Committee on Education met Oct. 6 for the first of two days of interim hearings on its interim charges from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R). 

U.S. Department of Education rolls back Title IX regulations. Plus: Make sure you’re registered to vote before the Oct. 5 voter registration deadline.

At a joint budget hearing Tuesday, Commissioner of Education Mike Morath made a pitch for an additional $119 million to fund “Bluebonnet Implementation Supports.”

The reversion to 2020 regulations returns schools to the previous framework for addressing sex-based harassment, which affects not only LGBTQ students but also all students experiencing harassment, including pregnant students.

SBEC discusses the future of National Board Certification as a Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) designation. Plus, confirm your voter registration is up to date within the next 10 days.

Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.