A school finance bill that includes teacher pay raises is headed to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The Texas House on May 29 ...

Governor Dan Patrick and Speaker Dustin Burrows formally announced a deal ... Teachers in rural school districts with five or more years of experience would receive up to $8,000 more.

Public schools will get a record-breaking amount of new funding and many teachers will get thousands more dollars of pay under a bill tentatively passed by the Texas Senate late Thursday. The ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Late on Thursday night, the Texas Senate advanced a heavily-amended version of House Bill 2 to a third reading, adding $8.5 billion in public school funding over the next two ...

(The Center Square) – The Texas House and Senate both passed their versions of a major school finance bill ... House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, said the bill “will direct record ...

If upheld, it would have been the nation’s first tax-funded, church-run charter school. In recent years, charter schools have proved popular with parents in major cities and in rural areas ...

THOMAS SHARES WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOUR TAX DOLLARS IN A HISTORIC 3 TO 2 VOTE, THE OKLAHOMA STATEWIDE VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD VOTED TO APPROVE THE NATION’S FIRST RELIGIOUS CHARTER SCHOOL ...

A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday effectively blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving in place a state Supreme Court ruling that barred ...

A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday effectively blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving in place a state Supreme Court ruling that barred the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4. The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that ...