At the Texas Capitol, it's been another day of heavy lifting for Texas lawmakers covering topics from controversial new limits on gender-affirming healthcare to reversing the exodus of public school teachers.
HB-11 authorizes nearly a half billion dollars to raise the pay of teachers who've achieved advanced certifications.
"It ultimately provides an opportunity to five million students in Texas to get a better quality education because we are going to start with a better quality teacher," said State Representative Harold Dutton, who is aTexas House passes school safety bills in response to Uvalde shooting "This bill is simply is to protect those children when they encounter problems as a result of these mutilations when they were coerced at 13 or 14 or 15 years old," said State Senator Bob Hall, a Republican from Edgewood.
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