() –The Texas Senate Committee on Education K-16 has advanced a school choice bill filed by state Sen. Brandon Creighton, ...

Conservative state lawmakers have filed hundreds of bills targeting the school finance system, LGBTQ+ students, undocumented immigrant children, and more.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third ...

Then we have the big school districts who want funding determined ... One of our state reps for Lubbock County, Dustin Burrows … I mean, former Chairman of Calendars for the last two sessions ...

The envy of every school choice state” is how a bill author teased legislation designed to bring school choice to the Lone ...

Speaker Dustin ... Burrows is committed to getting across the finish line. The House budget proposal put forth on Jan. 22 appropriates $1 billion in funding for the new ESA program, signaling that ...

The veteran president of the Texas Senate and the new speaker of the House did not start out on the same page.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said ...

St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School applied last year to take part in Oklahoma’s charter school program, which would entitle it to public funding. The state’s top court struck its ...

The school was proposed by the Roman Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and Diocese of Tulsa, supported by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and approved by the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board in 2023.

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