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Here's your weekly wrap-up of education news from the ATPE Governmental Relations team.

Three Texas school districts — including the state's largest — will likely be forced to shut down their chronically underperforming schools or submit to state takeover, based on annual state ratings released Thursday morning.

It's another week and another round of election news in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has been busy setting special elections to finish the unexpired terms of legislators who have decided to step down before the next election.

Here's your weekly wrap-up of education news from ATPE Governmental Relations.

Here's your weekly wrap-up of education news from the ATPE Governmental Relations team.

Blog posts from August 2019.

On Friday, July 26, 2019, the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) met in Austin to take up a lengthy agenda that included approving rules to implement the EdTPA pilot program and discussing implementation of bills passed by the 86th Legislature, such as House Bill (HB) 3.

This week saw a steady trickle of election-related news.

Here's your weekly wrap-up of education news from ATPE Governmental Relations.

U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX), the ranking member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, has introduced H.R. 3934, the “Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2019,” considered a new and improved version of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) replacement bill he filed during the previous congressional session.