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Committee on Public Education

Jurisdiction:

Public Education

(a) The committee shall have 15 members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:

  • (1) the public schools and the public school system of Texas and the financing thereof;
  • (2) the state programming of elementary and secondary education for the public school system of Texas;
  • (3) proposals to create, change, or otherwise alter school districts of the state; and
  • (4) the following organizations and state agencies: the State Board of Education, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas representatives to the Education Commission of the States, the Southern Regional Education Board, the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the State Board for Educator Certification, and the Texas School for the Deaf.
  • (b) The committee has one permanent standing subcommittee, a subcommittee on Academic and Career-Oriented Education, to consider all matters relating to vocational, career, and technical training.