Blog Archive

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is making Higher Education a subcommittee of the Senate Education Committee and appointing Sen. Brandon Creighton to chair the expanded committee.

The ATPE Governmental Relations team recaps this week’s education news, legislative and election updates, and regulatory developments.

Texas public educators and retirees join with Massachusetts retirees to push Social Security compromise.

Childcare tax credits, family leave, universal pre-K, and bolstering the educator workforce are among the priorities President Biden wants Congress to consider funding.

Conventions being held this month will determine who gets to participate in each party’s state convention – where political platforms will be up for discussion.

The ATPE lobby team reflects on crowdsourced ideas about civic engagement from educators who attended an ATPE-hosted session at the 2022 education conference.

The ATPE Governmental Relations team recaps this week’s education news, legislative and election updates, and regulatory developments.

Only two teachers will serve on a new panel requested by Gov. Greg Abbott to study teacher shortages in Texas.

Speaker Dade Phelan released the list of issues he wants House committees to study before the 88th Legislature convenes in January.

Teaching demands during the pandemic have exacerbated the nation’s teacher shortage. Abbott wants a task force to investigate.