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According to the Texas Education Agency, there are 1,246 school districts and charters with more than 3,000 campuses in Texas. These schools serve more than 5.4 million students. It is an enormous responsibility to provide a safe learning environment for these school children — a responsibility not taken lightly by the many people who care and are committed to public education.
As we enter the final weeks of the 86th Session, I call on my fellow lawmakers and educators across the state to look back to their own teenage years and reflect on the importance and value of their first summer job and the direct impact it had on their own college preparedness and future career.
Despite the clear and overwhelming demand by Austin families for public charter schools, there are still not enough seats available for students like my daughter.
With Texas can-do spirit and cutting-edge Texas and Israeli water advancements and technology, we have the tools available to get prepared for the next severe drought. But this will require persuasion, passing more substantive water enhancement legislation and commercial partnerships with best-of-class water technology providers.
What were the University of Texas System regents thinking when they selected Heather Wilson as the only finalist for President of the University of Texas-El Paso?
In the Lone Star State today, there are four million Texans with some college and no degree. Yet by 2020, 65 percent of the jobs available in the U.S. will require some college education or above, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. This gap in educational attainment translates to lost career opportunities for Texans without degrees and impacts the state’s overall economy. If we are to preserve — and improve — our current and future prosperity, we must work urgently to close the gap in the shortfall of college graduates needed for the workforce.
Out-of-control drug prices are a serious problem for every American and every Texan. The Trump administration and many other states have moved to address this problem; it’s past time for our state to join them.
House Bill 3 may not be perfect, but it is the best possibility for improvement of public education in a very long time. It addresses both tax and spending concerns. It will result in increased teacher pay. It will drive money to proven programs that address the needs of our most challenging students.
The results of the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll point to the potential hazards if elected officials get too far ahead of themselves in offering self-congratulations about finally “fixing” property taxes. This has happened before.
When Texans walk into the grocery store, they know what they’re going to be charged for a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk. Texans should also know what they’re going to be charged for medical tests and procedures. Unfortunately, that’s increasingly not the case — and they’re fed up, according to a recent statewide poll. A majority of Texas voters are so frustrated by a lack of transparency by some medical providers that they support new laws that would protect consumers from price-gouging, according to a survey of 801 Texas voters, conducted by Baselice & Associates using accepted statistical methods.
Although there is wide agreement that the immigration system is broken, federal government and cities perspectives on solutions differ greatly. While national leaders are moving aggressively to restrict immigration, with little to no understanding of what immigration means for our economy and our society, our cities and communities understand and welcome the added value that immigrants bring with them, especially to local economies, entrepreneurship, neighborhoods and cultural landscapes.
In 2014, the TxDMV quietly ruled, without dune buggies, sand rails and kit cars could no longer be titled or registered in Texas.
Texas is very hot in the summer, and so are Texas prisons. This is a fact, and has been a fact since the inception of the Texas prison system in 1848.
For patients with chronic health conditions, finding stability is a painful, time-consuming and expensive process that may take months or years, with visits to various specialists, treatments tried and failed, time away from work and family and even costly hospitalizations when things go wrong.
With a 93 percent success rate, probation in Texas is very effective. That’s due to its unique ability to maintain local control, which ensures individual and community needs are met. However, the system, which is composed of 122 different departments across the state, has limited resources.
Each legislative session, the Texas Probation Association (TPA) continues to fight for the continuation of adequate funding and local autonomy in the adult and juvenile probation systems.
When state leaders take action that responds directly to the requests of their constituents, it is time to stop everything, shout thank you and offer a sustained round of applause.
Successful clean energy efforts in Texas have largely been and will continue to be the result of strong conservative Republican leadership. In 1999, while still Governor of Texas, George W. Bush signed legislation that deregulated the state’s power market and set the state on a path to becoming a leader in generating electricity from carbon-free electricity. That policy has now become a national model and roadmap for economic success.
Following principle rather than politics would require crossing Texas GOP voters who are overwhelmingly and uncompromisingly supportive of the wall, comfortable with Trump’s reliance on executive power to deliver it and still intensely supportive of his presidency.
