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The Texas Legislature cut public education funding by more than $5 billion last year. These spending cuts are putting football and other activities at risk of elimination in our public schools. Write your legislator today and urge them to support adequate funding for our schools and extra-curricular activities for our children. Help save Texas football and deliver a powerful united voice to the legislature from all of our families.

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Private school vouchers return to the fore in Texas Capitol
The state should help pay for some public school students to attend private schools. The politically explosive issue of publicly funded private school vouchers had fallen to the wayside in recent years. But the landscape will change next year when there will be more conservatives in the Legislature that ever before, said state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston. "If now is not the time to...
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Will 'Pay to Play' Become A Permanent Part of School Sports?
When you have a child playing school sports, some costs are expected. You’re going to have to buy some sort of athletic gear necessary to the sport. You might have to pay for a practice jersey or warmup suit. And you’ll probably be nudged to kick in a few bucks for the booster club. It seems that in more areas, another cost is expected: a straight fee for merely participating in school...
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Pay-to-play sports keeping lower-income kids out of the game
School budget challenges have resulted in deep funding cuts for middle and high school sports. In response, many school districts now charge fees for athletic participation. These “pay-to-play” fees are a flat charge per year or per number of sports; parents often pay additional team fees, as well as other costs such as equipment and transportation. There is little information about how...
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At Texas Schools, Making Do on a Shoestring
School buses passed by 16-year-old Aubrey Sandifer as he walked home one recent afternoon in this rural town northeast of Austin. What is a humdrum routine for millions of students around the country — riding to and from school on a yellow bus — has become a thing of the past for Aubrey. Faced with a budget shortfall, the Hutto Independent School District stopped providing bus service...
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Budget Cuts in Texas Put Crimp in School Sports
Texas students are feeling the impact of more than $5 billion in state budget cuts, according to a recent survey of state public school superintendents conducted by the Texas American Federation of Teachers. To compensate for lost funding elsewhere, a handful of Texas superintendents reported that their districts are charging fees for extracurricular activities, such as school sports...
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Silencing Cheers, to Save Troubled School District
A plan to save a school district has come down to rows of yellow Post-it notes. Dozens of the pieces of paper dot a wall in Superintendent Ernest Singleton’s office, covering white poster boards labeled with the 11 state benchmarks that the Premont Independent School District must meet to remain open next year. Each note points to a step taken toward the corresponding goal. Scrawled...
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