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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a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
Urging that the school financing system led to wealth-based discrimination, the plaintiffs had argued that the fundamental right to education should be applied to the States, through the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court found that there was no such fundamental right and that the unequal school financing system was not subject to strict scrutiny.
The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) of 1978, sometimes referred to as the Hatch Amendment, [1] is a law intended to protect the rights of pupils and the parents of pupils in programs funded by the United States Department of Education (ED).
Texas voters decided whether to reject or approve 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. Here's a look at the results.
The Texas Board of Education approved a new K-5 curriculum that allows Bible teachings in classrooms. ... this violates the First Amendment right to freedom of religion for students and teachers ...
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...
Without Amendment 2, families like mine have two choices, both of them bad. ... When my children were facing bullying and bad influences in their assigned public schools, I found a better option ...
HB 8 then passed the house on June, 21st 2023 with 65-29 vote down party lines. HB then was passed by the Senate Committee on Education on December 18th, 2024 with a 5-2 vote down party lines. That night, the legislation passed the State Senate with a 24-7 vote with Louis W. Blessing, III (R) being the only State Senator to vote across the aisle.