Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) spoke on his support for legislation filed by State Rep. Cole Hefner (R-Mount Pleasant) that would ban individuals from certain countries from owning ...

In This Week in Texas Politics it was the end of the line for several big issues like school choice. But, we also saw a new partisan battle line being drawn at the state capitol.

With the legislation, Texas becomes the 16th state to pass universal school choice, joining states like Florida, Arizona, ...

A bill that would create a $1 billion private school voucher program is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk to become law.

Rep. Dustin Burrows also tells us whether he thinks the Texas lottery will survive and whether members support a total ban on ...

It took multiple special legislative sessions in 2023 and Gov. Greg Abbott campaigning against the naysayers to happen. But ...

Texas Senators, guided by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, voted to approve the Texas House-changed school voucher bill, teeing it up ...

Critics argue the measure, a legislative priority of Abbott's, will weaken public schools by draining money and resources and ...

The $1 billion proposal, which proponents call school choice, would give students roughly $10,500 in taxpayer money for ...

Two bills before the Legislature would weaken a law that protects journalists and ordinary Texans from lawsuits designed to ...

School leaders have privately criticized a bill that would make it harder to contest their performance ratings in court. But they did not testify against it to avoid lawmakers’ ire.