In our new podcast, Point of Order, Evan Smith asks Dan Huberty, chairman of the House Public Education Committee, what it will take — and what it will cost — for state lawmakers to solve the state’s most intractable problem.
Dan Huberty
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Blocked Out
Section 8 vouchers are supposed to help the poor reach better neighborhoods. Texas law gets in the way.
Under Texas law, landlords cannot be punished for discriminating against families with federal housing vouchers. The impact is clear in Houston, where one in four families who receive housing assistance never gets to use it.
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Texas Elections 2018
Rep. Dan Huberty’s primary challenger declared ineligible to run
State Rep. Dan Huberty’s only primary challenger was on Friday declared ineligible to run to represent House District 127. Reginald C. Grant’s name will remain on the ballot.
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Public Education
Texas House, Senate move toward school finance compromise
The Texas House and Senate tentatively passed each other’s priority school finance bills Monday, preparing to discuss potential compromises with two days left in the special session.
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Public Education
Special session coming down to school finance, property taxes
House and Senate negotiators will have the next two days remaining in the current special legislative session to hammer out their differences on legislation tackling property taxes, school finance and other items still in play.
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Public Education
With days left in special session, Senate committee makes major changes to House’s school finance bill
The Senate Education Committee drastically altered the House’s primary piece of school finance legislation Friday but suggested compromise with the House was possible with less than a week left in the special session.
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Public Education
School finance legislation is pronounced dead
Senate Education Chairman Larry Taylor on Wednesday afternoon said that he would not appoint conferees to negotiate with the House on a proposed school finance overhaul. “That deal is dead,” he said.
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Public Education
Watch as the Texas House debates school finance bill
We’re livestreaming as the Texas House debates legislation aimed at boosting per-student funding for almost every school district and charter in the state.
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Public Education
House and Senate education chairs weigh in on vouchers, school finance (video)
Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith interviews state Rep. Dan Huberty and state Sen. Larry Taylor — their chambers’ respective education chairman — on the 85th Texas Legislature’s approach to public ed.
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Politics
Ted Cruz sends school choice letter to every Republican in Texas Legislature
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz sent a letter to state lawmakers Thursday urging them to make Texas the next state that gives parents taxpayer dollars to send their children to private or religious schools, or educate them at home.