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How to Boost Funding to Public Education
The Texas public school finance system is due for some renovations. And we need raw material to get the job done. As the Texas Public
Dick Lavine
April 23, 2018
The Texas public school finance system is due for some renovations. And we need raw material to get the job done. As the Texas Public
Lawmakers at the Capitol have been pushing an extremely dangerous idea for some time now that would replace property taxes with higher sales taxes in
The tax bill currently making its way through Congress would make it more difficult for Texas and our local governments to provide the public services
Like the House’s tax proposal, the U.S. Senate plan released this week would give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to wealthy households
This Saturday the Texas House will take up Senate Bill 1, a dangerous bill that would limit the ability of local governments to raise the
This post was updated on July 31, 2017. The Senate last week passed Senate Bill 1 by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a dangerous bill that would
Increase state support to public schools. The Texas Legislature is again threatening to interfere with local communities by limiting the ability of local governments to
This post was updated on 5/17/17. Texas local governments – cities, counties, community colleges and hospital districts – provide vital services to their constituents. Locally
Why talk about the 2020-21 Texas state budget when lawmakers are still deciding the 2018-19 budget? It’s because the decisions our state leaders make now
You would think that, having just written proposed state budgets that would underfund or cut health care, financial aid, and more, the Texas Legislature would