The legislation includes new pots of money for teacher raises and other school costs like insurance and transportation.

The Texas Senate gave initial approval to an $8.5 billion school funding bill late Thursday that will increase teacher pay ...

The Senate gave initial approval to the legislation. After one more vote, it heads to the House, where leaders say it will ...

Mandy Drogin, campaign director at Texas Public Policy Foundation —which endorses Cruz's bill and supports school choice in ...

A House vote showed broad support for the measure that would let districts set aside time for prayer or religious study.

Texas's $1 billion school voucher program promises to prioritize students with disabilities. The program, signed into law by ...

Sen. Ted Cruz has reintroduced legislation that would help Texas parents send their child to private schools, even if the new ...

Education advocates and experts are grateful that the Texas Senate is willing to fund public education, but they are ...

The Senate plan he is overseeing would provide a $5,000 or $10,000 bump for teachers, depending on experience, in small (read ...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on May 3 signed a school choice bill into law, allocating $1 billion for about 100,000 ...

But Texas isn’t the first big state to launch a universal private school choice plan. In 2023, Florida lawmakers expanded an ...

With the Texas school voucher program expected to launch soon after being singed in to law, here's a look a how much Lubbock ...