While HB 3, the tax cut and school finance bill passed in 2019, added a needed $6 billion to the school finance system, the work of ensuring all districts have
This op-ed was co-authored by Every Texan’s Economic Opportunity Program Director Chandra Villanueva and Texas AFT president Zeph Capo for the San Antonio Express-News. While we’re all paying higher prices at
Read our full joint report with Texas AFT about the underfunding of Texas schools here. Texas AFT and Every Texan released a report highlighting “The Lost Decade” in Texas, a
The American Rescue Plan Act’s State Fiscal Recovery funds are intended to respond to COVID-19 health needs or the pandemic’s negative economic impacts, provide premium pay and other support for
This column was originally featured in the Dallas Morning News. When school budgets get tight, property-wealthy districts are often quick to blame the primary equity tool of the school finance
Every Texan opposes SB 1, because it puts tax cuts before kids by accelerating the costly elimination of the Tier I M&O property tax rate that was put in place
Every Texan opposes SB 91, which accelerates the elimination of the Tier I M&O and harms the state’s ability to fully support public education when our schools are facing more
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSR III) provides over $12 billion to Texas for public education. For the U.S. Department of Education to
Texas is home to over 1 million emergent bilingual students that represent 70 different home languages. That’s 20% of all students in Texas public schools. This legislative session, several positive
Every Texan opposes SB 28. Texas voters already have too little oversight over of the placement and expansion of charter schools. This bill limits the role the elected SBOE has