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Tea publications 2023 AF calculation obligation ratings

After a long delay due to a lawsuit, which was submitted by around 100 school districts, the Texas Education Agency published the evaluations of the AF calculation obligation of 2023, which specifies the proportion of campus that reduced a suitable ranking of 2022 by 14%.

“For far too long, families, educators and municipalities have been refused to access information about the performance of their schools, thanks to the frivolous complaints that were paid by taxpayers who paid by those who were paid with the legal goal of increasing the expectations of career will not agree to help students,” said Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath.

A separate, ongoing lawsuit has delayed the publication of recent ratings from the school year 2023-2024. School benefit values ​​from the school year 2024-2025 are to be issued in August.

For the school year 2023, about half of the Texas schools earned an A or B, while around 14% received a D and 7% FS. The Dallas Morning News reported.

Around 2023 AF reviews for all public school districts or campus in Texas, go to Txschools.gov.

The state insurance crisis now meets public schools

Storm of hurricanes and other weather events did not spare the state's public schools and led to head -crossing real estate insurance costs, which Houston Chronicle reported. According to tea, the insurance costs for districts have increased by 44% in the past five years.

The problem is particularly acute in coastal areas affected by hurricanes and heavy storms. Part of the large school financing package passed in April would reimburse school districts in 14 coastal districts for insurance increases above the state average.

Another draft law, which was submitted by the State MP Todd Hunter, R-Corpus of Christ, would give the districts of the coastal districts a credit for recovery payments for wind and hail covers.

“You don't want education to suffer because you are worried about getting money to cover buildings for the children,” said Hunter.

Abbott signs the Texas version of Doge in the right

The Texas regulatory efficiency office will now become a law after governor Greg Abbott signed the measure in the law last week. The office aims to eliminate waste, fraud and corruption in the state government and, according to the Federal Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge).

The office started in 2026 with a two-year operational budget of $ 10 million.

“We will now have our own dog in Texas, which is known as a Texas regulatory office for regulatory efficiency,” said Abbott. “This law will reduce the provisions, set stricter standards for new regulations that could be expensive for companies and examine the growth of the administrative state.”

The new office will also work to reduce state regulations, which it considers it out or unnecessarily.

SBA support for the northeast texas districts that were met by Twister

The US Small Business Administration approved Abbott's request for a disaster declaration for municipalities in the northeast of Texas at the beginning of this month. The explanation includes Bowie, Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Red River, Titus and Upshur.

The approval offers home owners, tenants and companies access to a number of loans with low interest in affected communities.

Applicants can apply online at sba.gov/disaster or by phone at 800-659-2955. A Disaster Loan Outreach Center has opened in Daingerfield to help fill out applications and answer questions.

Bill for clarifying the abortion laws eliminates the Senate body

A draft law on clarifying the state's abortion laws is passed from a Senate committee that Texas Standard reported. Some changes have been added to address the criticism from left and right, the report says. The draft law of Senate 31 should clarify if doctors can legally intervene and the language between the three prohibitions of the state can “agree” to abortion. It would also eliminate the requirement that a medical crisis was imminent before a doctor can act.

The legislative template that now goes to the Senate for debates states that a woman who has an abortion cannot be criminalized as a party, headmaster, perpetrator or accomplice for the forbidden abortion.

A companion in the house is still in the committee.

The Republicans in Texas try to contain the housing costs

A survey in the past year shows that 90% of Texans consider the state's high housing costs as a problem that the GOP managers want to fix. The Texas Tribune reported.

“Young people were brought out of the real estate market,” said Lt. Governor Dan Patrick at the beginning of this month.

While buying or renting a house in Texas, it is still cheaper than California and New York, increasing costs could affect the state's competitive advantage. In addition, according to an estimate of an apartment representative group, the state needs around 320,000 houses more than it.

One approach that GOP legislator is trying to force cities, reduce lots and enable houses to be built in more places, although the proposals would only apply to the 18 largest cities in the state.

“The conclusion is that there is no new country online,” said Senator Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, which is behind some of the Senate's efforts, during the ground debate about one of the bills. “It is supply and demand. If there is land for development, for houses, for families, no government should stand in the way.”

Nuclear power intensive

A research laboratory at Abilene Christian University has been building up the country's first nuclear research reactor for more than four decades. The news reported. The aim is to prove that small modular reactors can be a clean, reliable energy source.

“Our goal is to take this technology and bless the world with it,” said Rusty Towell, an engineering professor at ACU, who leads the university's efforts to build a small nuclear reactor.

The state has signed the support of nuclear technology with a development fund of 5 billion US dollars. The nuclear energy is seen as a way to deliver stable energy and at the same time slow down climate change. Texas now has core reactors at the Comanche Peak, southwest of Fort Worth, and in the South Texas project, about 100 miles northeast of Corpus Christi.

Gary Borders is an experienced award-winning Texas journalist. He published a series of community newspapers in Texas, including Longview, Fort Stockton, Nacogdoches, Lufkin and Cedar Park, during a 30-year period in Texas. E -mail: gborders@texaspress.com