Davis Calls for School Funding Settlement

Says AG Abbott is "defending the indefensible"

"...Greg Abbott, to "move to settle" the current public school funding lawsuit. "Now is the time to end this..."

Feb. 10, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Will School Funding Take a Beating From a Pandemic-Pressed Budget?

Pandemic-pressed budget puts 2019's funding gains at risk

"...Legislature met, it pumped billions of dollars into public schools, providing districts like Austin ISD with some much-needed financial..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

School Funding Bill 'Could Have Been Worse'

Senate Bill 1 on deck for House debate

"...good news, and worse news for the Austin Independent School District in the Legislature...."

June 10, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lawmakers Agree to Improve School Funding

Full-day pre-K, financial assistance, and more to support the state's public schools

"...the state's K-12 system, providing pay raises to most school employees, additional resources to help educate the state's most..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas School Funding

Still unconstitutional

"...2004, he told Texas lawmakers that the state's public school-finance system failed to meet the state constitutional requirement to..."

Sept. 5, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Central Health Gets “Clean” Audit of Med School Funding

Auditors found Dell Med’s spending to be in accordance with Affiliation Agreement with Central Health

"...firm). Auditors reviewed the financial transactions of Dell Medical School at UT-Austin included in the 2017 "Community Benefit Report"..."

Sept. 1, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Fed School Funding

Teachers' unions say Race to the Top places too much emphasis on testing

"...While legislatures and school districts in other states rush to comply with the..."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Refineries Ask TCEQ for School Funding

Energy giants have their hands out

"...of the money would come directly out of already-stressed school budgets, especially in districts near the refineries in question...."

Oct. 28, 2011 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

School Finance: Still Hard

Panel approves recommendations to improve state's outdated school funding system

"...At the Texas Commission on Public School Finance's final meeting in December, the 13-member panel unanimously..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Judge: Texas School Finance System Unconstitutional

Now what? Legislators, education advocates and think tanks respond

"...finally released his ruling yesterday on the Texas public school finance system, it was no surprise to anyone: The..."

Feb. 5, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

School Finance Plan Headed for Hearing

Aycock promises no losers as Senate obsesses on vouchers

"...Can Texas avoid further school finance lawsuits? That's what House Public Education Committee Chair..."

April 8, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Dietz Stays on School Finance Suit

Hail Mary play by AG Abbott fails to force judicial recusal

"...Dietz remains presiding over the challenge to the state's school finance suits...."

June 24, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Texas School Solution: More Guns, Less Money

Post-Sandy Hook bill would put teachers in firing line

"...Last session, Texas cut $5.4 billion out of public school funding. And now the gun lobby not only wants..."

Dec. 26, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Senate Education Committee Advances Its Own School Finance Plan

SB 4 would essentially gut the House version of the bill

"...8-0-3 to advance a fleshed out version of its school finance plan Wednesday morning, and the full chamber is..."

May 1, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...should Travis County taxpayers help pay for a medical school?"..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Ratliff Helps Both Sides in School Trial

The "Father of Robin Hood" takes the "West Orange-Cove" stand

"...witness in the ongoing West Orange-Cove CISD v. Neeley school-finance trial, has shown the contrast in strategy between the..."

Aug. 27, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Drop in the Bucket: Disputed Fed Ed Funding Comes to Texas

Disputed fed ed funding comes to Texas

"...looks likely to receive a delayed $830 million in school funding under the federal Education Jobs bill. Yet lawmakers..."

April 22, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

House Rolls Out School Finance Bill

Republican leaders propose $9 billion in funding for public schools over the next two years

"...Texas House of Representatives rolled out that chamber's long-awaited school finance bill, House Bill 3, at a press conference..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Campaign: Davis Returns to School

Team Wendy working on changing narrative

"...the subjects at issue were a Texas smorgasbord: public school funding, medical marijuana, "third-world" insults, and even more handguns..."

Feb. 14, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Funding Fix

"...the headline, “Another Unfair Burden Put on Texas’ Public Schools,” the author writes: "COVID delivered us another knockout blow...."

July 6, 2020 Postmarks

School Finance Bill Heads for the Floor

Republicans pass HB 2 out of committee over educator objections

"...House Public Education Committee, dominated by Republicans, pushed the school finance reform bill out of committee on Tuesday, forcing..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Dietz Rules Against School Finance System

Judge rules school finance unconstitutional

"...Texas' school finance system is unconstitutional. That was the blunt ruling..."

Feb. 8, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Judge Dietz Finds School Finance System Unconstitutional

Court ruling ends five-week trial with a mandate to Legislature to design a new system

"...trial by ruling unconstitutional the Texas system of public school finance. Following a brief recess in the immediate wake..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

School Finance on Trial

Hearing only expected to last a short two and a half hours

"...undermine Judge John Dietz's 2014 ruling finding the current school finance system unconstitutional. Then intervenor groups, including the Texas..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

School Finance Agreement? Maybe

Conference committee nearing deal, but let's see what chambers say

"...Davis*, because wherever she was going was where the school finance deal was being brokered. Now there may be..."

May 27, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

What School Finance Crisis?

The Lege considers school finance, and recommends ways to cut wages and fire teachers

"...by government standards, the Joint Select Committee on Public School Finance report to the Legislature issued last week is..."

March 26, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Perry Poisons Education Funding

How will Texas schools fare without federal education money?

"...of Education and Gov. Rick Perry over emergency public school funding. In reality, it's just another example of Texas..."

Sept. 17, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Texas School Finance Plan’s Local Bottom Line

Additional per-student funding under HB 3 for the 2019-20 school year

"...3 includes increases to the "basic allotment" of per-student funding every school district receives from the state; "compression" of..."

April 26, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

What Follows Five Years of Failure at Mendez Middle School?

Making the grade

"...as part of its new A-F accountability system, five schools in the Austin Independent School District received failing grades...."

Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Decides: Back-to-School Means On Campus, In Person, No Virtual Learning

District cites funding fears after Lege's failure to act

"...vacation ends and Austin ISD students go back to school, they will indeed return "to" school, on campus, for..."

June 18, 2021 News Post by Clara Ence Morse

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