For the second legislative session, lawmakers have withdrawn funding for a company selling kits that promise to help find ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill providing $8.5 billion in new funding for Texas public schools, offering relief to ...

Texas is hurtling toward fiscal instability, driven by a sweeping school voucher program and lawmakers’ support of massive, untargeted property tax cuts — both funded by fleeting ...

TAMPA — Federal support programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid are facing potential cuts in Congress’ budget ... on our social safety net for our ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a school funding package into law that he believes will put Texas on the path of being ranked number ...

By Texas Tribune Staff, The Texas Tribune June 2, 2025 "The 2025 regular Texas legislative session is over. Here’s what lawmakers did." was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, ...

The spending package will give schools more money for staff pay raises, operational expenses, special education and more.

Texas public schools are about to see a major cash infusion. Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed an $8.5 billion funding ...

After nearly a year of intense public scrutiny following the deaths of three Tucson children, Child Protective Services faces the prospect of legislative changes and possible funding cuts.

Newsom’s May budget would include some cuts and savings from, for example, lower projected enrollment in transitional kindergarten. It would also withdraw or reduce nearly $400 million in community ...

The Trump administration later cut the vast majority of the staff of ... that Congress will end up cutting all that funding, especially given that some Republican states like Texas have a long history ...

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the drastic social service cuts included in Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget, which threaten to leave ... earmarked by voters to strengthen state’s health safety ...