As we foreshadowed in this post, Gov. Rick Perry has signed Dallas Republican Rep. Dan Branch's e-textbooks bill, according to the legislative reporting service Telicon. The measure by Branch (right) encourages school districts to make greater use of online educational...
Gov. Rick Perry, juggling his re-election effort with a lot of tough calls on bills lawmakers sent him in recent weeks, may have an out on a bill about child abuse that's kicked off a firestorm among social conservatives and...
House Higher Education Committee Chairman Dan Branch, R-Dallas, won House approval of a resolution capping tuition increases for undergraduates at state universities in each of the next three academic years at 3.95 percent or $280, whichever is greater. Then, for...
Rep. Yvonne Davis, D-Dallas, blocked early consideration of Dallas Republican Rep. Dan Branch's tier one university bill. Davis objected to the process by which -- not the purpose of -- bonds for rebuilding Galveston's medical school were added to the...
Despite a few red lights by Fort Worth lawmakers, the House this afternoon passed and sent to the governor a bill authorizing creation of a Dallas law school. It would be called the University of North Texas at Dallas College...
House Higher Education Committee Chairman Dan Branch, R-Dallas, says the bill creating a pathway for Texas to have more "tier one" research universities is in no jeopardy, though he's going right up to the trip wire as a courtesy to...
A discussion on the House floor today captured an emerging irony of the Legislature's stimulus money discussion: Texas, while currently in the black, faces a long-run "structural deficit" because it cut school property taxes by a good deal in 2006,...
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