AUSTIN–– Legislative budget writers are proposing nearly $5 billion to increase teacher pay and $1 billion to implement a school voucher program in the next biennium, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
AUSTIN– The Texas Legislature begins its work creating a state budget for the next two years with slightly less revenue available than it had during the previous biennium.
Check Your Mirrors, the column title, came from fourteen years of teaching driver education. On one level, I was reminding the young drivers of this important skill because they needed to “check their mirrors” to pass the driving test.
AUSTIN— The Texas Senate’s chief budget writer said state agencies and higher education institutions have requested nearly $25 billion in funding as the legislative session gets underway. State Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, told The Dallas Morning News that the requests for new money reflect the growing functions and purposes of state agencies that serve the public.
My granddaughters know I am a captive audience. If I make the slightest look away from their dance routines or their coloring or Lego building or trampoline jumping or scooter riding, I hear “Watch, Pearl.”
AUSTIN— Drivers will no longer be required to get annual safety inspections beginning Jan. 1, the Texas Standard reported. However, drivers in the state’s 17 most populous counties will still be required to get an emissions test in order to register their vehicles.
