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What to Expect During the 2025 Texas Legislative Session

The 89th Legislative Session is underway, and legislators are now in Austin for the next 140 days to discuss our state's most significant issues, and public education is at the top of the list....

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Texas House Select Committee on Educational Opportunity and Enrichment 

Raise Your Hand Texas submitted the following written testimony in response to the Texas House Select Committee on Educational Opportunity and Enrichment Hearing on July 12, 2023. Raise Your Hand Texas will continue to keep...

Recap of the 88th Texas Legislative Session

A Session Out of Balance: What Happened with Key Education Issues and Where We Go From Here?  The 88th Texas Legislative Session tells a story of great potential, reliable roadmaps, and disastrous detours, concluding...

Across the Lawn Newsletter in Black

Across the Lawn – May 12, 2023

Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...

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Across the Lawn – May 5, 2023

Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...

Across the Lawn Newsletter in Black

Across the Lawn – April 21, 2023

Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...

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Across The Lawn – April 14, 2023

Raise Your Hand Texas has a front-row seat to the Capitol. From our vantage point, public education policy issues have never been more important, and this is why we must make every session a...

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2023 Texas Legislature: Assessment and Accountability is More Than 32 Questions 

Guest Blog by Dr. Alicia Noyola, Superintendent of Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District Public schools across Texas work year-round to prepare students for a successful future. Our schools are where our Texas students discover...

Establishing Middle Ground for Testing and Accountability in Texas

Establishing Middle Ground for Testing and Accountability in Texas

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...

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