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Catch up on the latest Texas education news and analysis from ATPE.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Jan. 19, 2024
Date Posted: 1/19/2024
Leadership and training failures were catastrophic in Uvalde shooting response, per DOJ report released Thursday.
U.S. House Committee Holds Hearing on Social Security’s Disservice to Public Servants
Date Posted: 11/21/2023
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee met in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to discuss how WEP and GPO mistreat government workers.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Sept. 8, 2023
Date Posted: 9/08/2023
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial gets underway, the Texas School Coalition explains the problem with recapture, and Texans for Public Education plan an anti-voucher rally in Austin Oct. 7.
House and Senate majorities offer very different visions for (de)funding public education
Date Posted: 8/11/2023
Republicans on education appropriations subcommittee propose an 80% cut to Title I funding.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Aug. 4, 2023
Date Posted: 8/04/2023
ATPE weighs in on current political climate for education in Houston Chronicle story—plus, a look at federal ed prep and special education developments.
Federal education, labor departments team up to expand teacher preparation programs, apprenticeships
Date Posted: 8/04/2023
The U.S. Departments of Education and Labor have teamed up to invest in two key educator pathways as part of their Raise the Bar: Lead the World initiative, which seeks to reduce educator shortages and improve classroom conditions for educators.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: July 21, 2023
Date Posted: 7/21/2023
Register for Tuesday’s Texas Tribune conversation on public schools, plus SBEC news and ATPE’s federal advocacy on 529 plans.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: June 23, 2023
Date Posted: 6/23/2023
Abbott targets House members for anti-voucher stances by vetoing unrelated bills as Morath previews expected drop in A-F ratings.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: June 16, 2023
Date Posted: 6/16/2023
The voucher debate makes headlines as a House select committee is formed and Abbott promises legislation that looks like HB 100 as it left the Senate.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: April 7, 2023
Date Posted: 4/07/2023
Opposing votes on vouchers from the House and Senate cap off a jam-packed week of action at the State Capitol.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Feb. 10, 2023
Date Posted: 2/10/2023
ATPE Governmental Relations recaps today’s SBEC meeting, new Texas House committee assignments, the State of the Union, and more.
Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Jan. 6, 2023
Date Posted: 1/06/2023
Happy New Year! ATPE is counting down the hours until the start of the 88th Texas Legislature. Catch up on the latest advocacy developments.
ATPE joins congressional leaders at Washington press conference on Social Security reform
Date Posted: 12/14/2022
ATPE State President Stacey Ward and leaders of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee spoke to reporters in front of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, Dec. 14.
ATPE urges U.S. House leaders to strike a year-end deal on the WEP Social Security offset
Date Posted: 12/02/2022
ATPE and retiree groups are urging Congressional leaders to complete negotiations by the end of 2022 on a deal to fix the Windfall Elimination Provision.
U.S. House committee hears bill to repeal Social Security offsets
Date Posted: 9/20/2022
Despite advancing the Ways and Means Committee Sept. 20, 2022, the WEP/GPO repeal legislation faces many hurdles, including a less supportive Senate.