Who Really Funds Public Schools?
Our new explainer video shows how we fund Texas schools and how the current system is not serving students or taxpayers. Understanding how public schools are funded is the first step to strengthening our...
Reading Between the Line Items: Three things TEA’s budget request tells us about our public school system
The Texas public school system is large and continues to grow. Schools districts and charters educate more than 5.3 million students in 8,700 schools across our state and employ approximately 350,000 educators. The system...
Voices From the Field: Empowering Young Women to Lead
Our Voices from the Field series features students, teachers, and school leaders who make an impact in Texas public schools. For Malinda Villalobos, the Ysleta ISD principal of Ysleta Young Women's Leadership Academy, the...
Raise Your Hand Testifies on Charter Funding and SB 1882 School/Community Partnerships
The Texas House of Representatives' Committee on Public Education met today to discuss, among other things, charter school funding. David Anderson, general counsel and policy analyst for Raise Your Hand Texas, was invited to...
Raise Your Hand Texas Names Bob Popinski Policy Director
Raise Your Hand Texas today announced that Bob Popinski, former associate at Moak Casey and Associates, will serve as policy director at Raise Your Hand. In his new role, Popinski will help develop Raise...
Quality counts, but Texas isn’t investing in it.
Texas schools will begin receiving A through F letter grades this year, based on academic performance. But who grades the state policies that oversee our public schools? Each year Education Week releases a report and ranking...
High School at a Higher Degree
STORY High School at a Higher Degree An Early College High School in El Paso, Texas is changing what students and their families believe is possible. When Isabel Gutierrez first started taking courses at...
NEW STAFF TO LEAD ADVOCACY & OUTREACH EFFORTS IN UPCOMING SESSION
Raise Your Hand Texas today announced that Dr. Michelle Smith, a lobbyist with HillCo Partners, will serve as Director of Governmental Relations, and Dr. Libby Cohen, an Oxford graduate and a dynamic community organizer,...
Texas Again Fails to Realize Pre-K’s Potential
Report shows statewide support inadequate and inconsistent Texas met only four of 10 benchmarks for quality and dropped two places relative to other states in pre-K investments in 2016-17, according to a State of...
Raise Your Hand Texas Announces New Leadership
Raise Your Hand Texas today announced that Dr. Shari Becker Albright, chair of the Trinity University Department of Education, will lead the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation. “In the current political climate, Texas public...
