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Texas House committee holds marathon hearing on school voucher bill

A Texas House committee's public hearing on a controversial school voucher bill continued into the early morning hours Wednesday. Lawmakers and residents voiced strong opinions on both sides. The House Public Education Committee began the hearing at 8 a.

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House committee members clash over details of proposed Texas school voucher bill

Members of the House Committee on Public Education clashed over the details of a school voucher bill — a topic that for the past couple of years has driven a wedge in the Republican Party and prompted Gov. Greg Abbott last year to help unseat incumbent Republican lawmakers who stood against a "school choice" proposal in 2023.

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Texas Senate panel advances bill banning DEI in K-12 public schools

A priority bill filed in the Texas Senate seeks to extend the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to K-12 public schools.

NCAA, Texas and Longhorns

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Texas basketball's Rodney Terry urges committee to put Longhorns in NCAA Tournament

Texas basketball head coach Rodney Terry made an eye-opening statement on the Longhorns' NCAA Tournament case after a huge win

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Texas Longhorns finally look like a team worthy of an NCAA tournament bid after beating Texas A&M

Hello, NCAA selection committee. Sure you’re all a little busy but here’s a little unsolicited advice. Texas needs an invite. Yes, we know the unranked, unappreciated, un-a lot of things Longhorns were left for dead after losing to arch-rival Oklahoma in their regular-season finale less than a week ago to fall to an unimpressive 6-12 in SEC play.

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Texas in 'do or die' mode, could be SEC's 14th NCAA Tournament team after wild win over rival Texas A&M

The question came up Thursday inside a victorious Texas locker room following the No. 13 seed Longhorns' wild 94-89 double-overtime victory over No. 5 seed Texas A&M in the second round of the SEC Tournament.

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Bubble watch: Texas and North Carolina both lose, and now they await the committee's verdict

The defense rests Closing arguments are over for Texas and North Carolina. Both bubble teams lost Friday and must now wait ...

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'Transformational': Texas Senate Bill 568 would overhaul special education funding

The bill "will lead to stunningly better outcomes for a number of our 775,000 school children with disabilities," the ...

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Delaware aims to remain top US corporate legal home; Texas marshals a challenge

A year after Elon Musk urged U.S. companies to abandon Delaware as their legal home and follow Tesla to Texas, legislators in ...

Debate over school choice in Texas centers around low-income students and those with disabilities

For the first time this session, a Texas House Committee discussed a bill that would spend $1 billion in taxpayer money to send students to private school.

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Texas House committee discusses education savings account bill for nearly 21 hours

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — With more than 20 hours of discussion, the Texas House Committee on Public Education adjourned around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. After hearing more than 300 testimonies on House ...

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Will lawmakers let Texas’ maternal mortality committee review abortion deaths?

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – For the last year, members of Texas’ maternal mortality review committee have been increasingly vocal about the ways state law limits their ability to analyze maternal ...

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Texas lawmakers and charter leaders push back on the $870K paid to Valere schools’ superintendent

The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune ...

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NCAA taps this Texas-based AD to manage back-pay settlement, NIL future

The Texas A&M athletic director, as well as former athletic director Ross Bjork, now at Ohio State, will serve on the ...

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