Sen. Brandon Creighton, who chairs the Senate’s education committee, called his version of House Bill 2, an $8 billion investment into Texas public schools, “exciting and historic,” adding that the ...

The Texas House originally passed House Bill 2, a multibillion-dollar school funding package, in April. But the version of ...

With just over two weeks to go before the end of the legislative session, Texas lawmakers still need to pass a public school finance plan. Now, a new proposal from the ...

Texas school districts ... Senate leaders have released their version of House Bill 2. The proposal is scheduled for a hearing by the Senate education committee Thursday. It keeps the $8 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Republican leaders in the Texas Senate unveiled a counterproposal on Wednesday to the House's public school finance legislation. House Bill 2 is an $8 billion bill for public ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Senate Bill 1581, authored by Senator César J. Blanco, which focuses on helping small and rural school districts address critical staffing shortages, passed in the Texas Senate ...

Texas House Democrats argued that number was far too low to help school districts catch up with the rise in inflation. Instead, they wanted a $1,400 increase. However, it appears the Senate’s ...

Current Clear Creek ISD trustee Scott Bowen has announced his candidacy for Texas House District 129 on May 12.

Lawmakers called it the “Texas Two-Step ... when the Senate education committee plans to hold a public hearing on its version of House Bill 2, a roughly $8 billion proposal seeking to ...

A bill that would allow the City Council to move Dallas city elections from May to November in odd years has stalled in the Texas House and faces an uphill fight for passage. “We gave it a ...