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Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows discusses school vouchers; states support for Rep. Cole Hefner’s foreign-owned land bill
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) spoke his support for various education-related bills, including the recently ...
Texas House Democratic leader says party still has plan to fight vouchers
He says House Democrats have a strategy to continue to fight against vouchers, but he didn’t want to dive too deep into the ...
Gov. Greg Abbott signs 'DOGE Bill' into law: 'Texas is getting too burdensome'
Although Republicans have run state government for two decades, the governor said he was "shocked" to learn Texas has fifth ...
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Private school vouchers head to Abbott’s desk to become law
The program — which reserves one-fifth of the $1 billion budget for families making about $160,000 per year or more — will ...
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Abbott signs first bill of session into law, creating a Texas DOGE
The first bill to reach Abbott’s desk this session creates a regulation-cutting state agency under the purview of the ...
Historic public education funding for Texas? Inflation tempers school finance plan
Schools get more money than just the basic allotment, a point Abbott and his office have made in recent months. According to ...
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Texas lawmakers ditch discussion on controversial bill that would make abortion murder
A bill that would apply the same penalties for abortion in Texas as homicide was removed from a committee schedule on Tuesday ...
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Gov. Abbott signs Texas DOGE bill
Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Texas DOGE bill on Wednesday. Abbott will hold a bill signing at 1 p.m. Wednesday. AUSTIN, Texas ...
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows discusses school vouchers, support for foreign-owned land bill
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) spoke his support for various education-related bills, including the recently passed school voucher bill.