Vol 4, Issue 3

The Senate has tasked a new budget working group with coming up with ways to overhaul the state's school finance system. 

Sen. Larry Taylor on Monday filed Senate Bill 3, which pushes education savings accounts and tax credit scholarships to subsidize private school tuition and other education expenses.

State Board of Education members will hear public testimony Tuesday on science curriculum standards that teach students to discredit evolution. They will discuss potential amendments to the standards Wednesday.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Cathy Horn, co-director of the new Education Research Center at the University of Houston.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Fast-Food Kids.

A new report, based on national data, questions the efficacy of police officers in public schools.

More than 1 million people responded to the National Education Association’s campaign to urge voters to email their senators about the upcoming vote to confirm Betsy DeVos.

Training programs to help school principals adapt to their evolving roles are becoming more common.

While wealthier districts overflow with the latest classroom technology, some communities struggle to provide students with basic tools.

In an effort to reduce its $400 million budget deficit, Wyoming lawmakers will vote on a bill that caps special education funding.

Federal agencies were involved in a raid of the headquarters of a Los Angeles-based charter school last week after concerns of fraud.