Education is a Key Issue for Senator Paxton this Session
Senator Angela Paxton has already filed four education bills and a constitutional amendment to protect parents rights in education.
SB 418 - Relating to the transfer of public school students between certain school districts.
SB 418 makes inter-district open enrollment mandatory, up to the receiving districts seat capacity. Allowing for non-charter public school students to transfer between school districts that they do not currently reside in throughout Texas. This bill gives preference to students receiving special education services.
SB 419 - Library Book Opt-Out Parental Right
SB 419 seeks to provide parents with a mechanism to preemptively flag titles in their student's school's library catalog that their child is not allowed to check out. Every child is different and comes from a different background, so this bill empowers parents to limit one's child's access to certain titles in their school library without infringing upon other students', and those students' parents, ability to access these materials if they do not have concerns with those materials.
SB 420 - Library Book Notification
This education transparency bill provides parents the opportunity to opt-in to email notifications of whenever their child checks out a book from the school library.
SB 421 - Relating to the applicability of certain requirements relating to parental rights, open records, and public information to school districts designated as districts of innovation.
This legislation protects the rights of parents residing in school districts designated as districts of innovation. A district cannot waive, limit, or dilute parental rights, open meetings, or open records in the district of innovation charter. A district that is found to have done this can be subject to having the commissioner revoke a district of innovation charter.
SJR 29 - Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a parent's right to direct a child's education.
SJR 29 amends the Texas Constitution to protect and guarantee parents' right to direct their child's education.
