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The Texas Permanent School Fund is a sovereign wealth fund which serves to provide revenues for funding of public primary and secondary education in the US state of Texas. [2] Its assets include many publicly owned lands within Texas and various other investments; as of the end of fiscal 2020 (August 31), the fund had an endowment of $48.3 ...
The Texas Permanent School Fund, an endowment fund established in 1845 to help boost public education, pulled its $8.5 billion investment from the asset-management giant BlackRock on Tuesday ...
Most states that close their prepaid tuition plans now administer other education savings plans instead. In Texas, the TGTP was replaced by a new prepaid plan in 2008. The Texas Tomorrow Fund will be reopened for new enrollment under a new name: [5] The Texas Tuition Promise Fund, which replaced the Texas Guaranteed Tuition Plan in 2008. [6]
In the 2020–21 school year, St. Mark's had a financial endowment of $167.8 million, [39] larger than the investment portfolios of every day school in New York City. [40] In 2018, Architectural Digest named St. Mark's the most beautiful private high school campus in Texas. [41] In October 2019, an EF-3 tornado damaged multiple buildings on ...
The Texas House and Senate have advanced proposals that would spend $1.5 billion to complete 100 miles of barriers along some of the high-traffic areas of the 1,254-mile Texas-Mexico border.
We are entering a long overdue time of recognition for the role community colleges play in our state.
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
Texas House Democrats are urging Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special legislative session to increase public school funding as districts around the state grapple with budget deficits in the millions.