What to Know: School vouchers divert public funds to private schools and vendors. School vouchers undermine public schools and students. School vouchers lack taxpayer oversight of financial and academic performance. vOUCHers Hurt! It doesn't...
Don’t be fooled. No matter what an education voucher is called, the policy is the same. Vouchers are a scheme that divert public funds to private schools and vendors, and then continue to undermine...
The STAAR test is Texas’ statewide student testing program. Each year more than 5.4 million students sit at their desks and try to focus on this post-mortem, end-of-year high-stakes test as they go heads-down...
Raise Your Hand Texas announces recommendations to reducehigh-stakes nature of STAAR in state’s accountability system On October 25, Raise Your Hand Texas released A Report from the Measure What Matters Assessment & Accountability Council....
Raise Your Hand Texas October Update | Thursday, October 20, 2022 The FOUR Things to Do and ONE Thing to Know With elections right around the corner, we have flipped our typical four things...
Raise Your Hand Texas hosted the third installment of its Across the Lawn event series on September 29. Funding Texas Public Schools focused on the issues school districts face in setting their budgets and...
Eleven principals, alumni of the Charles Butt Foundation (formerly Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation) programs, will embark on a nine-month fellowship focused on growing community leaders and advocates on behalf of public schools in...
Raise Your Hand Texas September Update | Friday, September 30, 2022 The FIVE Things to Know and ONE Thing to Do Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage...
AUSTIN, TX (September 20, 2022) – Raise Your Hand Texas was invited to provide testimony on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, before the Joint House Higher Education and Public Education Committees on the impact of the...
Raise Your Hand Texas August Update | Friday, August 19, 2022 The FIVE Things to Know and ONE Thing to Do Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point,...
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