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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: April 14, 2017
The ATPE state office is closed today in observance of Good Friday. We’ll be back Monday with full coverage of the 85th Legislature and other advocacy news. Here are highlights from this week: State...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: June 23, 2017
The weekend is here, and it’s time for your wrap-up of education news from ATPE: Special session nears with many questioning its usefulness SBOE discusses changes to curriculum standards ATPE team...
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New tools help educators calculate Social Security benefits after WEP or GPO...
One of the most common questions I get from members calling in to the ATPE state office for guidance is about how their TRS pension will affect their ability to draw either their own or their spouse’s...
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Federal Update: Efforts to protect educators’ Social Security benefits
An Update from David Pore, ATPE’s Washington, DC-based lobbyist David Pore For many years, your ATPE Governmental Relations team has worked to fix two provisions in federal law that unfairly reduce the...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Oct. 6, 2017
Here’s the latest education news from Texas and Washington, DC, supplied by your ATPE lobby team: Today’s SBEC meeting Federal Update: Social Security reform efforts Interim hearings focus on Hurricane...
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Guest Post: It’s Time to Fix the WEP
U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-Texas) By Kevin Brady, Chairman U.S. House Ways and Means Committee The Windfall Elimination Provision or “WEP” is unfair. It’s unfair to public servants in Texas and...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Dec. 1, 2017
The weekend is here, and it’s time for your wrap-up of education news from ATPE: Guest Post: Chairman Brady on fixing the WEP Texas Permanent School Fund reaches record value The U.S. House of...
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ATPE meets with lawmakers, congressional staff in Washington
ATPE 2017-18 State President Carl Garner and State Vice President Byron Hildebrand at the U.S. Capitol, June 11, 2018 Carl Garner, Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Jennifer Mitchell Canaday, and Byron Hildebrand in...
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Congressman Kevin Brady files WEP replacement bill
U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) who chairs the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, along with Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), has introduced H.R. 6933 to amend Title II of the Social...
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ATPE goes to Washington
Most education policy happens at the state level, but there are a few issues that are important to educators and students that are decided by officials in Washington. That is why ATPE maintains a...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: June 21, 2019
From Austin to Washington, D.C., here’s a look at the latest advocacy news from your ATPE Governmental Relations team: ATPE delegation visits the nation’s capital Governor’s veto deadline passes Last...
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Congressman Kevin Brady files WEP replacement bill, version 2.0
U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX), the ranking member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, has introduced H.R. 3934, the “Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2019,” considered a new...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: July 26, 2019
Here’s your weekly wrap-up of education news from ATPE Governmental Relations: New WEP replacement bill filed to address Social Security offsets SBEC discusses educator training rules and...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Aug. 9, 2019
Here’s your weekly wrap-up of education news from ATPE Governmental Relations: ATPE helps teachers go back to school and save money! Texas Education Agency explains House Bill 3’s outcomes bonus Social...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: Oct. 11, 2019
Happy Friday! Here’s a look at this week’s education news from the ATPE Governmental Relations team: ELECTION UPDATE: Changes coming to the SBOE House committee hits the road to discuss school safety...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: June 5, 2020
It’s been a difficult week of unrest around the country, falling on the heels of what was already a stressful spring semester for students and educators. As Texas enters phase three of reopening, many...
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Teach the Vote’s Week in Review: June 12, 2020
You have until Monday, June 15, to register to vote in the July 14 primary runoff election (and a special election if you happen to live in Texas Senate District 14). While you are making your voting...
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ATPE meets virtually with Texas Congressional delegation
Submitted by ATPE Contract Lobbyist David Pore of Hance Scarborough, LLP Tonja Gray Jimmy Lee Newly inaugurated ATPE State President Jimmy Lee and immediate Past President Tonja Gray spent time in July...
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