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Texas public school plan reshapes financing and staffing
The Connally committee urged consolidating small districts and using land values to measure tax support, while boosting teacher pay and expanding programs. The legislature approved many ideas, including a $1,800 two year pay rise, 10 month schedules for teachers, kindergarten, bilingual education, teacher planning time, a vocational board, sick leave, open transfers, recodified laws, and more.
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