As speaker, Phelan oversaw passage of numerous conservative priorities, but he gave up the gavel under pressure from the far right over the House’s impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The former San Antonio school teacher promises to bring the fight to billionaires and lift up working class people of all ...

Former Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced he would retire from the Legislature on Thursday, capping a decade-long tenure that saw his steady rise to power before losing the gavel in an ...

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat and former schoolteacher with a rising national profile, joined a widening race ...

New laws range from school vouchers and water infrastructure funding to a ban on city and county-funded abortion travel funds. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Education savings accounts, otherwise referred to as school vouchers, have been a hotly contested topic for many years. It’s a system that would allow parents to provide taxpayer ...

He will seek the Democratic nomination in a field that includes former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred​, who is running again after ...

New laws range from school vouchers and water infrastructure funding to a ban on city and county-funded abortion travel funds.

After the Legislature didn't act this year on bills to close GOP primaries, Texas Republican Party leaders have filed a ...

From left: Glen Hegar, chancellor of the Texas A&M University System ... He successfully helped pass a school voucher program ...

The Ten Commandments (Senate Bill 10). This law mandates the visible display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms under certain circumstances. Critics of this law challenge that it does ...