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"...Monday, the Texas Legislature's interim Joint Select Committee on Public School Finance began hearing public testimony – a week..."

"...state’s education system – which includes funds earmarked for public school pay raises...."

"...Zimmerman's comments came in the midst of public testimony about the proposed Fiscal Year 2017 city budget...."

"...Top 10 State Stories1) The Republican Ascendancy: In the style of the masters they serve,..."

"...Caucus laid out an ambitious proposal to increase state public school spending by $14.5 billion – while also cutting..."

"...him well as a grassroots candidate. Lofton, both a public school insurance risk advisor and a part-time sheriff's deputy,..."

"...that the board no longer has authority over private “schools” that do not accept state or federal funding...."

"...like there was quiet rapprochement – or at least public solidarity – between the three. That imploded after someone's..."

"...side of the aisle lawmakers were on for the school finance reforms in Senate Bill 1811, there was one..."

"...we were celebrating V-E Day rather than the Texas Republicans' crushing of the Democrats last November. Both Lite Guv..."

"...city's liberal electorate feels about his boss, the controversial Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick. The research director for the..."

"...the children themselves that are perplexing since the Texas School for the Blind and the Visually Impaired is located..."

"...Senate Finance still to come, and tentative steps on public school funding (see "Texas House Advances Ambitious School Finance..."

"..."The Texas House of Representatives takes pride in its public educators, who provide an invaluable service to the people..."

"...The first day of virtual school for Austin ISD began with a tragically apt turn..."

"...2013, it distributed $507 million to 115 private and public/private ventures, and in return the firms claim that they..."

"...senator, now dean of the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs, is careful not to overanalyze the..."

"...ritual perennial tax cuts (expanding the homestead exemption for school property taxes, cutting taxes for the elderly and veterans,..."

"...days – Oct. 27 and Oct. 29. Stick, a Republican, lost to Democrat Mark Strama, who himself took in..."

"...supply. As is now traditional, rather than address dismal public school funding – which is by far the main..."

"...from this week's headlines – health care for women, public school funding, renewable resources, immigration, LGBTQ concerns, highly partisan..."

"...be imposed on local property tax increases (without a public referendum). He praised the increases in public school funding..."

"...have established and tolerated such rigid, inflexible, even miserly public institutions...."

"...candidate Wendy Davis, advocating a state settlement of the public school funding lawsuit currently pending in federal court..."

"...over renaming Solid Waste Services, Richard Whittaker scours for public school funding and Jordan Smith asks, "WTF is up..."

"...Lege will be under pressure to invest more in public education (and special ed in particular) and substance abuse..."

"...go to the polls to choose a successor to Republican Rep. Todd Baxter, who resigned abruptly on Nov. 1...."

"...Over the last few years, the Austin Inde­pendent School District has worked hard at longer-term financial planning, building..."

"...leaves its (20)teens for its (20)20s – about our schools, our police and justice systems, our land use and..."

"...collection of taxes for the maintenance and operations of public schools, the largest portion of the Texas property tax..."