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Five amendments were adopted before House members advanced the bill to the Senate on an 82-56 vote.

ATPE provided oral comments and written testimony on the bill, which was advanced to the full House on a 8-1 vote with six committee members not present.

The House Public Education Committee has advanced the House’s STAAR redesign bill, and the Ten Commandments law has been temporarily blocked in 11 districts.

The attorneys challenging the new state law hope that other school districts won’t implement it after a federal judge found it unconstitutional.

The first-called special session has ended, and a second special session follows with an almost identical agenda.

Speaker Burrows says a quorum is expected on Monday.

Application is due on September 15.

Texas House Democrats break quorum over redistricting, and the Senate and House file identical testing/accountability bills.

My district is telling me I have to be a teacher of record / have a grade book to get the HB 2 raise, but that doesn’t match what I have been hearing about the bill—HELP!

Following limited testimony in an Aug. 6 hearing, the committee voted to send its testing and accountability bill to the full Senate.