A Texas Senate committee gave unanimous approval to across-the-board pay raises for public school teachers, sending the nill ...

Texas lawmakers are considering significant reforms to the state's lottery system, with the possibility of discontinuing the ...

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The House bill filed by state Rep. Brad Buckley would offer private school vouchers to all Texas students, including home-schoolers.

More Texas officials have joined calls for an evaluation of the Texas Lottery after a controversial $83.5 million ticket was ...

The proposal, filed Thursday, comes well short of the increase school administrators and education advocates have been asking ...

The proposal sets a few possible points of contention between the House and Senate, including how much money should families ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Thursday that creating a private-school voucher program in Texas is “the defining issue” of the legislative session, reassuring a crowd of conservative ...

On an unusually warm February in Livingston, Texas, Audrii Cunningham, an 11-year-old girl whose only fault was being too kind, was kidnapped and brutally murdered by a man who entered her life just a ...

A proposed bill named after Audrii Cunningham aims to add child grooming to the list of crimes that would require a violator to register as a sex offender.

More than 20 states filed a federal lawsuit against New York earlier this month challenging the constitutionality of the new ...