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Texas Agency Orders Universities To Disclose Illegal Alien Students
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s directive follows a June 4 ruling that illegal aliens cannot receive in-state tuition in Texas.
Texas Education Board Proposes New Standards for School Trustee Training
If adopted, the revised Framework for School Board Development will represent a fundamental shift in public school governance.
Texas GOP Chairman Warns Trump Against Backing ‘Fake Republicans’
Abraham George says the battle is about defining the future of the Republican Party in Texas and nationwide.
Lawsuit Challenges Texas’ New Law Requiring Display of the Ten Commandments in Classrooms
Plaintiffs argue the law violates the First Amendment.
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Texas Taxpayers Forced to Tithe at Facebook ‘Temple’
TEMPLE — A 900,000-square-foot Hyperscale Data Center for the technology giant Meta, formerly Facebook, was announced late last month. Temple will house the second Meta data center in Texas, with the first located in Fort Worth. According to the Temple Economic...
Texas Legislature Has Repeatedly Stifled School Choice Legislation
Amid the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, schools across Texas elected to implement various forms of virtual learning in their classrooms. As a result, children and teens across Texas experienced an unprecedented barrage of mental health issues, and many began failing...
New Guidelines for Selecting School Library Books Emphasize Parental Rights, Transparency
A new model policy to help local school boards keep obscene books out of students’ libraries is meeting with tentative approval from Texas parents. On Monday, the Texas Education Agency released updated guidelines for selecting and removing school library materials....
Ted Cruz Endorses Mike Olcott in House Runoff
As the May runoff election creeps up on Texas, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) endorsed in one heated North Texas race. Parker County Conservatives co-founder Mike Olcott is challenging incumbent State Rep. Glenn Rogers (R-Mineral Wells) for the privilege to represent...
In Their Own Words: Runoff Candidates on Parental Rights in Education
As children across the state are inundated with harmful ideologies in their classrooms, Texas Scorecard reached out to all of the Republican candidates in the runoff election for the state Legislature to ask whether they would support a Parental Rights in Education...
Texas School Superintendents Score Super Salaries
UPDATED April 12, 2022 to show a correction made by TEA regarding Klein ISD data. CORRECTED April 13, 2022 to show David Hicks moving to Northwest ISD, not North East ISD. Dozens of Texas public school superintendents are taking home super-size salaries, according to...
AG Paxton Defeats San Antonio in Sanctuary City Lawsuit
After filing a $150 million lawsuit against the City of San Antonio in 2018, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a settlement in his favor this week. Paxton initiated the lawsuit after San Antonio Chief of Police William McManus released 12 illegal aliens...
Could Texas Suspend the State Gas Tax?
As Georgia and Maryland suspend their state gas taxes and provide relief for citizens, many have been suggesting a similar suspension in Texas. According to the Texas comptroller, the state gas tax is 20 cents per gallon. Today’s average price per gallon in Texas is...
A Gimmick? Abbott Proposal to Bus Illegal Aliens to DC is ‘Voluntary’
On Wednesday afternoon in the South Texas town of Weslaco, Gov. Greg Abbott announced his latest response to the influx of illegal immigration across the state’s southern border. It was immediately derided as a gimmick. The most attention-grabbing proposal? A plan to...