Texas teachers

From Texas Standa rd: The Texas Legislature passed a multibillion-dollar school finance bill during its most recent session. The funds provide a pay...

As a master teacher at the San Antonio Independent School District, Michelle Olivarri gets a $15,000 stipend to teach at a school with a history of low…

Hundreds of educators from across Texas traveled to Austin Monday to spend the first day of their spring break rallying for increased state funding for…

From Texas Standard : The Texas Senate Committee on Finance held a public hearing Monday to discuss a bill that would give a $5,000 pay raise to full...

From Texas Standard: As Texas lawmakers begin tackling one of this session's top legislative priorities – school finance reform – a state Senate measure...

Four years ago, Gates Elementary on San Antonio’s east side was on the state’s list of failing schools. Only 15 percent of its students were reading at…

From Texas Standard: Rural school districts are far away from the bustle of Texas cities and suburbs. But with those wide open spaces come fewer...

From Texas Standard: Texas ranks 28th in teacher salaries, according to the most recent data . Teachers here make about $7,000 less than the national...

From Texas Standard : Monday, about 34,000 teachers will walk off the job in Los Angeles – a move described as "historic." It echoes what happened...

From Texas Standard : " What My Students Taught Me" is produced in partnership with the Teacher Project at Columbia Journalism School. For her first...