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A child who is between 6 and 19 years old is required to attend school each school day for the entire period the program of instruction is provided, according to Section 25.085 of the Texas ...
HB 1, the state budget, includes a requirement that the Texas Education Agency study post-secondary outcomes of students and how they correlate to student programming in high school, allowing the ...
Texas lawmakers are locked in a stalemate over a proposed $500 million program to publicly fund private school tuition for some of Texas' 5.5 million school children.
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a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
Parent trigger laws were first introduced by the Los Angeles Parents Union (LAPU), founded in 2006 by Green Dot Public Schools, a charter school organization. [7] [8] [9] Green Dot, led by Steve Barr, also conducted campaigns in Watts—using a pre-existing law for school transformation based on petitions from teachers—to transform public schools into charter schools.
Texas House Bill 3979 (HB 3979) is an act that relates to civics instruction and instruction policies in public schools in the state of Texas.A follow-up bill to HB 3079—TX Senate Bill 3 [1] —authored by Senator Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) and others, which was filed on July 9, 2021, passed on July 16, 2021, and becomes law in December, limits the manner and extent to which students may learn ...
A Texas lawmaker's recent call to dismantle the Texas Education Agency could reflect a growing discontent with the state office in charge of overseeing primary and secondary public schooling.
The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right. SECTION 2 The parental right to direct education includes the right to choose, as an alternative to public education, private, religious, or home schools, and the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one's child.