2025

Members of state’s largest educator association offer feedback on Senate’s teacher pay bill

Feb. 20, 2025: Texas classroom educators say SB 26 is maybe sort of a pay raise, but only for some teachers.

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ATPE Reacts to State of the State Address

Feb. 2, 2025: ATPE agrees raising teacher pay is an emergency item--but rather than denigrating public schools, the governor should focus on serving the more than 5.5 million Texas public school students.

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State’s largest educator association reacts to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priorities

Jan. 29, 2025: ATPE is dismayed that bills enabling the flow of new funding for Texas public schools--which educate more than 5.5 million students, yet are operating at funding levels set in 2019, before historic inflation--are not on the list of top priority bills.

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