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Three Republican members of the State Board of Education are facing well-funded primary election challenges by opponents with ultraconservative ideologies, setting the stage for a possible tilt ...
An NBC News review of school board elections in 20 suburban Texas school districts revealed more than 40 candidates running campaigns focused, at least in part, on culture war issues that have ...
The Texas Education Agency ( TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States. [1] The agency is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building in downtown Austin. [1] [2] Mike Morath, formerly a member of the Dallas Independent School District 's board of trustees, was ...
After the election of Joe Biden in 2020, the school board elections in Granbury, Texas took a partisan and culture-wars bent. Candidates like Courtney Gore campaigned openly as Christian ...
In the politics of the United States, elections are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's head of state, the president, is elected indirectly by the people of each state, through an Electoral College. Today, these electors almost always vote with the popular vote of their state ...
The government of Texas operates under the Constitution of Texas and consists of a unitary democratic state government operating under a presidential system that uses the Dillon Rule, as well as governments at the county and municipal levels. Austin is the capital of Texas. The State Capitol resembles the United States Capitol in Washington, D ...
Board members also approve new charter schools, set graduation requirements and oversee the Texas Permanent School Fund, a $52 billion, 160-year-old fund that helps finance public schools.
The Legislature is the constitutional successor of the Congress of the Republic of Texas since Texas's 1845 entrance into the Union. The Legislature held its first regular session from February 16 to May 13, 1846. The Legislature has completed its 88th session, and the next session is the 89th session, scheduled to convene on January 14, 2025 ...