A proposed bill named after Audrii Cunningham aims to add child grooming to the list of crimes that would require a violator to register as a sex offender.

The concerns come as the Texas Senate passed legislation that would give judges more tools to deny bail for people charged ...

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Sen. Eckhardt said she would like for Garza to explain the reason for the missed indictment deadlines and how his office will ...

A Texas Senate committee gave unanimous approval Thursday to a bill giving across-the-board pay raises for public school ...

The proposal would expand a program that allows districts to award bonuses to educators based on their students’ academic ...

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Sen. Mitch McConnell is announcing he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who ...

Under House Bill 3, the state would distribute funds through state-managed education savings accounts that families could use ...

The House bill filed by state Rep. Brad Buckley would offer private school vouchers to all Texas students, including home-schoolers.

Texas lawmakers instituted a sweeping six-week abortion ban in 2021, using the threat of criminal conviction to sway ...

The proposal, filed Thursday, comes well short of the increase school administrators and education advocates have been asking ...