The proposal would heavily invest in teacher pay and special education. It includes a modest $55 increase to schools' base ...

Legislation that would renew the Texas Lottery with strict reforms has passed the Senate. House lawmakers will now consider ...

Texas lawmakers will consider HB 2, the Texas House's version of a billion-dollar public education funding package.

The hearing comes three weeks after the House passed its version of the bill, but disagreements remain about how the ...

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly ...

Central Texas school leaders say the updated $8B school funding bill is much needed but doesn't go far enough. Here's what ...

House Bill 46 is expected to pass the lower chamber Tuesday. It reached the floor ahead of the House rewrite of Senate Bill 3 ...

A new Senate proposal would save the lottery, but add tighter controls and put it under a different oversight agency.

Lawmakers passed 79-39 House Bill 3006 by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg. If the Legislature or the federal government allocates ...

The Texas House originally passed House Bill 2, a multibillion-dollar school funding package, in April. But the version of ...

The Senate will hold a public hearing on its proposal on Thursday. Senators have faced criticism from House Democrats for not advancing the proposal quickly enough.

State senators unveiled their version of House Bill 2 on May 15. The amended bill, which differs substantially from what ...