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From The Texas Tribune: Some Voters to Weigh in Twice This Month on Empty...
by Jordan Rudner, The Texas Tribune May 3, 2016 Ruth Jones McClendon (c), D-San Antonio, and Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, criticize Republican Senators and Gov. Rick Perry for an inadequate effort on...
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From The Texas Tribune: Allegations of Fearmongering in Education Board Runoff
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune May 17, 2016 Mary Lou Bruner and Keven Ellis are hoping to represent District 9 on the State Board of Education. Northeast Texas voters will pick between the two...
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From The Texas Tribune: State Rep. Wayne Smith Now Wants Recount in House...
by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune May 26, 2016 State Rep. Wayne Smith, R-Baytown, faced off with lawyer Briscoe Cain in the May 2016 GOP primary runoff for House District 128. Editor’s note: This...
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From The Texas Tribune: Amid STAAR Upheaval, Panel Working on Fixes
by Kiah Collier, The Texas TribuneJune 11, 2016 As displeasure with Texas’ standardized testing regime mounts, all eyes are on a special panel the Legislature created last year to figure out whether...
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From The Texas Tribune: Panel Backpedals on Swapping Out STAAR Tests
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune July 27, 2016 A special panel charged with suggesting changes to the state’s testing and school accountability system will recommend that state lawmakers implement a...
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Senate committee discusses potential for “performance-based” funding of...
ATPE Lobbyists Monty Exter and Kate Kuhlmann provided this report for Teach the Vote. The Senate education committee met yesterday, Aug. 5, to discuss the following two interim charges that the...
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From The Texas Tribune: Analysis: A Game of Chicken Between Texas, Its...
by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune September 26, 2016 Houston, Texas Voters in Texas’ biggest school district in Texas might do what the nine Republicans on the state’s Supreme Court wouldn’t do: Force...
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ATPE Tips & Tricks: Engaging Student Voters
An election year is a great time to teach students about the political process! US government teacher Kim Grosenbacher shares five tips for engaging students during an election season and encouraging...
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TRS board adopts health insurance plan changes
The Teacher Retirement System (TRS) Board of Trustees met Thursday to discuss premium and plan design changes for both TRS-Care and ActiveCare, the health insurance programs offered to retired and...
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Social Security Update: Hearing tomorrow in D.C. on H.R. 711
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee announced that its members will be hearing and voting on H.R. 711, the Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act (ETPSA), on Wednesday, July 13, at 1 pm. As we have...
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It is rare, unfortunately, how often we have the opportunity to have real discussions with elected officials about increasing public education employees’ benefits. The state hasn’t given educators a...
View ArticleSocial Security Update: HR 711 gets delayed
Yesterday the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means was scheduled to hear and vote on H.R. 711, the Equal Protection of Public Servants Act, which proposes to eliminate the existing Windfall...
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From The Texas Tribune: Count of Texas registered voters eclipses 15 million...
by Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune Oct. 14, 2016 The Big Conversation A record-breaking 15 million Texans are registered to vote in the upcoming November election, the secretary of state’s office...
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From The Texas Tribune: Speaker Joe Straus calls for immediate special...
by Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune Oct. 26, 2016 5:18 PM Texas House Speaker Joe Straus is shown at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 19, 2016. Alana Rocha / The Texas Tribune...
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From The Texas Tribune: Eleven Texas school boards ordered to the classroom
by Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune Nov. 2, 2016 Houston ISD trustees admonish TEA for delaying campus turnaround plan implementation. Graphic by Todd Wiseman / The Texas Tribune The superintendents...
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From KUT: Texas Education Groups Encourage More Students, Teachers to Vote
By KATE GROETZINGER & KATE MCGEE NOV. 1, 2016 Austin ISD Superintendent Paul Cruz chatted with six Reagan Early College High School students as they gathered at the ACC Highland Mall campus’ early...
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Guest post: Special education issues facing the 85th legislature
Janna Lilly by Janna Lilly, Director of Govermental Relations Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education (TCASE) Special education issues are once again expected to be hot topics in the...
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Guest Post: 239,517 Children Trapped in Political Rhetoric
from Moak, Casey & Associates Dec. 12, 2016 In an effort to solicit support for his voucher plan, the lieutenant governor recently told a group of education and business leaders in Dallas that...
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Texas gets a sneak peek at new A-F campus accountability grades
Today, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) rolled out its long-anticipated list of preliminary ratings under the “A through F” accountability system set to grade schools and districts beginning in the...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Jan. 6, 2017
Happy New Year! The year 2017 has kicked off with several prominent news stories affecting public education: Texans get a preview of controversial A-F ratings; TEA sets a hearing on STAAR 85th...
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