Vol 4, Issue 11

Senate Education Chairman Larry Taylor on Wednesday afternoon said that he would not appoint conferees to negotiate with the House on a proposed school finance overhaul. “That deal is dead,” he said.

Gov. Greg Abbott demanded the House and Senate fund his pre-K grant program holding school districts to quality standards. So they came up with a budget proposal that keeps the standards, but cuts the grants.

The legislative wrangling over where transgender Texans can use the bathroom isn’t over yet.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Jonathan Schwartz, associate dean of graduate studies for the College of Education at the University of Houston.

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Addicted to Reform.

The president’s budget proposal for the fiscal year 2018 includes a 13.5 percent cut in education spending.

Statistician William S. Sanders established the foundation of how we track teacher performance in the U.S. today.

Florida's governor may tank the state's K-12 budget provisions that increase spending by just $24 per student next year.

After paying more than $14 million to create a platform to administer its standardized reading exam for elementary students, Iowa is scrapping the testing software.

In the state of Washington, K-12 enrollment in virtual schools is expanding far beyond the rural communities they were first marketed to serve.

A charter school in Massachusetts has reversed a policy that banned students from wearing hair extensions on campus.