HB 3 should be commended for providing teacher merit pay for our most effective teachers and requiring school boards to adopt specific and public early literacy goals and monitor student achievement. HB 3 should be expanded to require school boards to adopt literacy and math goals for each school and student demographic. In addition, to provide meaningful, long-term property tax relief to Texas families and business, HB 3 should include a 2.5 percent revenue cap or more significant property tax relief.
Super-Duper Salaries
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. New data from the Texas Education Agency is adding fuel to the debate over parental choice and financing education. Each year TEA publishes the salaries of each of the superintendents...