She later served as Administrator of the Tabor Retreat House as well as ... Mary O’Connor of Old Saybrook and Margaret (Peggy) O’Connor Verry of Rockport, TX. She was predeceased by her ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Federal DOGE) continues to make headlines, the Texas House of Representatives created its own Delivery of Government ...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — A bill filed in the Texas House co-authored by a majority ... a special session — but differs from the 8-year-old counterpart on several fronts. The 2025 bill follows ...

The Texas House filed priority legislation on Thursday that would allow some families to use taxpayer dollars to fund their children’s private school tuition, a bill that will likely rest at the ...

This week, for the first time, the new Speaker of the Texas House, Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, said school choice will pass. His comments come amid rising pressure on him to get the controversial ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House filed priority legislation on Thursday that would allow some families to use taxpayer dollars to fund their children’s private school tuition, a bill that will ...

Sylvester Turner was remembered Thursday with mixture of reverence and laughter on the floor of the Texas House where he had ... he died March 4 at 70 years old. Turner's casket arrived at the ...

However, the House is working on its own public education bill that also calls for increasing teacher salaries. In 2024, the average salary for Texas teachers was $62,500, with rural teachers ...

Lawmakers set the stage during a committee hearing Tuesday for what’s expected to be an explosive debate in the Texas House over a controversial education proposal that would let families use ...

The Texas House and Senate are at odds over how to implement property tax cuts. The House favors sending billions to school districts to lower tax rates, while the Senate proposes increasing the ...

The Texas House of Representatives' Committee on Public Education holds a hearing on Aug. 12, 2024, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin. The Texas House's priority proposal that would let ...

A Texas House bill filed Thursday would increase the base amount public schools receive in state funding from $6,160 per pupil to $6,380. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune Audio recording is ...