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The advocacy group Equality Texas launched a petition, signed by nearly 1,500 people, demanding the teachers be reinstated. Messages of support left by students for teacher Rachel Stonecipher.
No. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Texas have some protections in state law but may face legal and social challenges not faced by others. Same-sex sexual activity was decriminalized in Texas in 2003 by the Lawrence v. Texas ruling. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled bans on same-sex marriage ...
The entrance to the T.R.S. Building on Red River Street in Austin. Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a public pension plan of the State of Texas.Established in 1937, TRS provides retirement and related benefits for those employed by the public schools, colleges, and universities supported by the State of Texas and manages a $180 billion trust fund established to finance member benefits.
In an effort to provide more flexibility for school districts, Texas lawmakers passed a law in 2015 establishing a “District of Innovation” designation, which allows school districts to exempt ...
Robin Hood plan. The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the ...
Days after Texas’ largest school district began its first school year under a state takeover, a teachers union has filed a lawsuit over changes being implemented in how educators will be evaluated.
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 ...
Johnathan Gooch, a spokesman for Equality Texas, said the organization has seen an increase of reports of violence and bullying against the LGBTQ community after the Legislature passed anti-LGBTQ ...