Join STS Twitter at @savetxschoools and post your blog using #WhyIRally about why YOU are coming to the rally on April 18! Here's a post [...]

At Monday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, a high-ranking senator stated that he felt no pressure to restore school funding this session because he was not [...]

Parent Suzette Jefferson writes that, with the home-rule charter controversy at an end, Dallas ISD needs to turn to the Community School model as a [...]

2/4/-15: House Speaker Joe Strauss announced committee assignments on Thursday for the Texas House of Representatives. Lawmakers now can start considering bills. Senate Committees were announced [...]

The Houston Chronicle (12-4-14) reviews key education issues in the 2015 session, with community schools high on the list. In response to efforts to focus [...]

On January 21, 2014, State District Judge John Dietz will reopen the case challenging Texas school finance system in a new round of legal proceedings [...]

The major education bills, SB2 (charters) and HB 5 (testing) are still being negotiated as the clock on the current session ticks down. Both bills [...]

House and Senate conferees on the state budget have begun negotiating to harmonize their differing proposals. The Center for Public Policy Priorities delivered an open [...]

(From the Dallas Morning News. Note: the new performance rating system, while a welcome change, still uses testing criteria as the only measure of the [...]

Senate Bill 1718 (West) proposes that the state would take over campuses that are underperforming on state tests for 3 consecutive years. Using a poorly-fundtioning [...]