(Austin) Teachers would get a $5000 boost to their annual salaries as the Senate passed its first bill of the 86th Session Monday. SB 3, by Finance Committee Chair and Flower Mound Senator Jane Nelson, would make that raise effective for the school year beginning this fall. Nelson said she’s set aside nearly $4 billion in the state budget to cover the pay hike for the state’s 350,000 public school teachers. “The one thing we […]
