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That was the year Mary Fallin took office as governor. What followed was a decade of budget cuts, teacher shortages and a growing legislative push to divert public funds toward private school vouchers ...

The Austin internship honors Bill Hobby's legacy as an effective legislator and provides undergraduates interested in state government and politics with a transformative experience in public service.

After about four hours of debate April 16, Texas House lawmakers initially approved a bill that would raise funding for public education by $7.7 billion. House Bill 2 would increase base school ...

Many of the nation’s poorest school districts rely heavily on the funds, but even affluent districts receive some Title I money if they serve low-income students. The pressure on K-12 public ...

Lawmakers also signed off on a sweeping $7.7 billion package to boost public school funding. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health contributed to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report examining autism among children who turned 4 and 8 years old ...

Lawmakers in Austin passed the largest public school funding bill in state history. Some have argued it should be larger to account for inflation. Now the table is set for a big debate on ...

AUSTIN, Texas — On Wednesday, the Texas House initially passed House Bill 2, a sweeping $8 billion school funding bill that would raise the base amount of money public schools receive for each ...

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bill banning 11 food additives from public schools. The bill, supported by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., aims to reduce children ...

OBVIOUSLY, 11:00 ON A SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN MOST OF THOSE CHILDREN HAD SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY IS NOT SOMETHING, YOU KNOW THAT SEEMS TO MAKE A LOT OF SENSE. SNYDER SAYS AS THE SUMMER APPROACHES, THE BJCC WILL ...

After more than 12 hours of debate, the Texas House approved two of the most closely watched bills of the legislative session: a $7.7 billion public school funding package and a hotly contested ...