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Teachers Meeting at the Texas Policy Table

For five weeks this spring, Raise Your Hand Texas welcomed over 25 active public school educators, who represented 476 years of teaching combined. These dedicated teachers traveled to Austin to meet with their lawmakers to discuss issues facing their classrooms and local communities.Texas teachers are no strangers to this level of legislative advoc

Our Public Schools and Teachers Are Counting on Texas Lawmakers 

Halfway through the 89th Legislative Session, we’ve seen limited progress on public education issues. Lawmakers hold the key to school funding in Texas.

Understanding Texas’ Reliance on Uncertified Teachers

When There’s No One Left to Hire Standing behind a booth at a nearly empty job fair, an human resources (HR) director looks across a wide room that should be filled with teaching candidates, but all she sees is a trickle of people in mostly empty aisles. Months of meticulous planning have gone into this […]

Uncertified Teachers

How Texas teachers can get involved in the 89th Session

Texas teachers need a seat at the table to shape the policies that affect their livelihoods. During the 89th Legislative Session, school funding, standardized testing, class sizes, and teacher benefits should all be discussed by Texas legislators. As the people closest to the issues, teachers are also the people closest to the solution. Teachers ar

From Capitol To Classroom: Texans Deserve World-Class Public Education, And Teachers Need Competitive Wages And Compensation

With the November election less than two months away and the Texas Legislature gaveling into session in January 2025, Raise Your Hand Texas releases their top policy priorities.

Teachers at TribFest Meet Up

Issues that impact you will be discussed at Open Congress, held during the Texas Tribune Festival and we want to hear from you!  You are invited to meet Raise Your Hand Texas on Congress Avenue in Austin on Saturday, September 23rd for Open Congress at The Texas Tribune Festival – all for free and open […]

Texas Teachers are talking. It’s time we listened.

For years, Texas teachers have told us what they need: higher pay, better classroom resources, and smaller class sizes. We can’t afford to lose teachers, and it is becoming harder and harder to retain the ones we already have in the classroom. During the 88th Regular Session, teacher raises were discussed, but legislation that would […

Podcast Transcript: Mentoring Teachers to Create High-Quality Classrooms 

Morgan Smith: Welcome to the Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I’m your host, Morgan Smith.  Today we are talking about something that could make a positive difference in the lives of many Texas teachers and their students: high-quality mentorship.  The formalized practice of having mo