As 2025 comes to an end, we give thanks for you and for your work on behalf of all our students, educators and communities in Texas. Through it all, YOU — our amazing #TEAMTSTA family — continued to speak up for our students and build the future of public education in Texas. TSTA offices will close at the end of the business day, Dec. 19, and reopen on Jan. 5.
December 12, 2025
Under a new state law that encourages fully online and hybrid schooling options, the fourth-largest school district in Texas wants to join others in taking a “transformative approach,” Superintendent John Craft told trustees this week.
The Austin ISD board of trustees will no longer vote to close Palm, Bryker Woods and Maplewood elementaries in November.
Gov. Abbott has frequently made the point that public schools “are for education – not indoctrination.” He is correct, but he doesn’t believe what he says any more than he believes the moon is made of cheese. What Abbott really believes is that public schools should be forced to participate in right-wing indoctrination.
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