Month: <span>April 2011</span>

House completes education, breaks until Sunday

After several hours of debate tonight, the Texas House finished work on Article III, the education article, of House Bill 1 without repairing any of the damage inflicted on the public schools. Representatives will come back on Sunday to debate the remaining articles and vote on the bill. If you haven’t already done so (or […]

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Gallego tries to frontloan public ed budget

House debate on HB1 continues to plod along, with most amendments either being defeated by substantial margins or withdrawn. For variety, sometimes an amendment will be temporarily withdrawn, brought back up a little later and then defeated by a substantial margin. One of the more interesting amendments was offered by Rep. Pete Gallego, DAlpine, who […]

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Proposal to cut TEA fails

If he was watching the House debate on HB1 a little while ago, state Education Commissioner Robert Scott may have felt a little scare. Republican Rep. Burt Solomons proposed an amendment to deeply cut into the Texas Education Agency’s budget and cut Scott’s salary in about half. Solomons would have put the savings – more […]

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Update on HB1 debate – education is next

It is now about 6:05 p.m. and the Texas House is getting ready to debate Article III, the education article, of House Bill 1. During more than eight hours of debate on Article I, the executive branch, and Article II, health and human services, no significant amendments were adopted, which is bad news for children […]

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