Blog Archive

Blog posts from March 2019.

Yesterday was round two of bills up for public hearing in the House Public Education Committee.

A bill that would grant all full-time classroom teachers a $5,000 across-the-board pay raise was placed on the Texas Senate Intent Calendar today.

The State Board for Education Certification (SBEC) met yesterday, Feb. 22, in Austin to take up an agenda involving several actions items and discussions.

The Teacher Retirement System (TRS) board was in Austin for their regularly scheduled board meeting on Thursday and Friday of this week.

In addition to preparing for the upcoming ATPE at the Capitol events this weekend, your ATPE lobbyists were once again busy covering legislative happenings in and around the Capitol this week. Here's a look at this week's developments.

The bills spanned topics including prekindergarten class sizes, educator preparation and training, assessment, and special education.

It's been another busy week in the Texas capital. Here's a wrap-up of this week's education news highlights from ATPE Governmental Relations.

This month, 15 major education groups in Texas agreed on a policy agenda for charter schools.

This week, the House Public Education Committee received feedback from various stakeholders regarding recommendations of the Texas Commission on Public School Finance.