Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

Today the Senate will debate and vote on H.B. 2, the School Reform bill.

Measure would raise sales levy a penny, is friendly to business

The House approved House Bill 2 on a 77-70 vote after three El Paso Democrats and the city's only Republican lawmaker abandoned their opposition to the measure.

This is a time when school lets out, and hundreds of thousands of teachers start their second jobs to keep their rents and mortgages paid.

It may cost $20,000 a year or more. But is private-school tuition really worth the big bucks?

It may cost $20,000 a year or more. But is private-school tuition really worth the big bucks?

Texas lawmakers are crafting bills similar to ones that crumbled in disagreement last month.

A Chronicle analysis shows wealthy would save, but renters would pay more

We urge you to vote “No” on HB 2.

One big winner may prove to be financial literacy requirements for high school graduation.

Governor OKs 900 measures, but he declines to act on budget

Gov. Rick Perry told a crowd at a Bexar County Republican Party fundraiser he plans to call the Legislature into special session later this month.

7 schools offer special diploma that could replace a year of college if plan becomes law

Now all eyes are on the wealthy oil and gas man from West Texas, Speaker Craddick.

This is less a story about machinations in Washington than about how a tribe lifted itself out of centuries of poverty into sudden prosperity, only to see its fortunes plummet.

In an interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN, Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, claimed that we are indeed engaged in "class warfare" and that the rich are winning.

Perry, Dewhurst and Craddick to have final say on granting money from $200 million Emerging Technology Fund

When we make a decision on the city commission -- on protecting the environment, on treating people fairly -- people see something change in their backyard the next day. Local politics is where progressives should be.

Forget the middle class and the upper-middle class. Even the merely wealthy are being left behind in the dust by the small slice of super-rich Americans.

House conferess for HB 2329 proposed no tuition revenue bonds for universities south of I-10