The Texas Senate Education Committee this morning approved Senate Bill 521, a measure that — if passed by the Legislature — would undermine the ability of school districts across the state to offer sex education. We reported about the Senate hearing on SB 521 last week here. Click here for a fact sheet on SB […]
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Anti-Sex Ed and Anti-Birth Control Bills on the Move in the Texas Legislature
4:30 p.m., March 12, UPDATE: We just got word that HB 649 has been removed from the House State Affairs Committee’ s Wednesday meeting agenda. *** The right’s war on sex education and women’s access to birth control continues at the Texas Legislature. Two key bills on those issues face important steps in the legislative […]
Not with a Bang, But with a Whimper
The wait is finally over. After months of promises and grandstanding, Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, with only hours remaining before the bill-filing deadline, finally fulfilled his pledge to file a school voucher bill. If you’ve been listening to Sen. Patrick since last August, you would think that this moment would be met with fanfare and […]
Sen. Patrick Gives Texans an Odd Lesson on Civil Rights
Did you know that students attending private schools in Texas today face discrimination like African-American students did during the era of racial segregation? Sen. Dan Patrick, the Republican chairman of the Texas Senate Education Committee, seems to think so. Sen. Patrick was speaking at Tuesday’s Education Committee hearing on Senate Bill 573, a measure that […]
Even Gov. Perry’s Former Education Commissioner Warns of High ‘Potential for Fraud’ with Tax-Credit Vouchers
On Monday state Sen. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, filed the long-awaited bill — Senate Bill 1015 — that would give businesses a tax credit for donations to a private school voucher program. That came after state Sen. Eddie Lucio’s office denied media reports that the Democrat from Brownsville would file the bill. A Texas Freedom Network […]
