A law providing $8.5 billion in new funding for Texas public schools lacks the spending flexibility that previously let ...

With President Trump’s July 4 deadline fast approaching, nobody in the House seemed excited about the massive, ...

Two Texas Baptists are among 16 Texas families who filed suit in federal court today to oppose the state’s new Ten ...

The new lawsuit argues Senate Bill 10 violates the First Amendment’s protections for the separation of church and state and ...

Parents in Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas file a lawsuit over Texas' Ten Commandments law. It is the second Texas ...

Permanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Texas public-school classroom — rendering them unavoidable — is plainly ...

State legislators passed a new law this session which would require a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments to be ...

Sixteen Texas families of different faiths have filed a lawsuit looking to block a state law that would require the Ten ...

School district officials in Hays County have adopted their district budgets for fiscal year 2025-26, following monthslong ...

Abbott called the special session after vetoing Senate Bill 3, which would have banned THC products like Delta-8 and Delta-9 ...

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Over 250 laws took effect immediately after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed them, including measures banning cellphones in public schools, clarifying when doctors can perform emergency abortions and ...