Governor Greg Abbott's new Texas Classroom Commission is set to begin work in the coming weeks, and the teacher-workforce numbers state officials delivered to lawmakers last month define the problem it has been asked to solve: attrition is easing but still high, pay is up but is it enough, and Texas classrooms are still being filled by teachers who never earned a certificate.
Governor Greg Abbott's July 17 major disaster declaration for 28 flood-hit counties did more than unlock federal aid.
Four mayors and other city officials came to the Capitol on Monday to tell a Texas House committee they are complying with the state's most aggressive housing law passed last session.
A Hill Country landowner group is asking the judges weighing a 370-mile power line to consider new evidence before they recommend where it should run — a recommendation expected within weeks.
Texas children are dropping off Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program at a pace that puts the state among the largest losses in the country — and the bill does not disappear when the coverage does.
Texas homeowners were promised that the state’s expanded homestead exemption would cut their tax bills this fall.
The first courtroom test of a state packaging-recycling mandate went to trial last week in Oregon, and Texas has a stake in the outcome on two fronts.
New World screwworm has been confirmed in Starr County for the first time, carrying the outbreak into a Rio Grande border county and pushing the U.S. case count to 41.
Texas regulators have imposed the first hard operating requirement on the data centers crowding onto the state grid, and the industry is weighing whether to fight it in court.
Governor Greg Abbott's deadline for regulators to spell out how they will keep data-center costs off Texans' electric bills arrives Friday, but the state's push to rein in the industry is running into a problem it cannot regulate away: the calendar.