Association of Texas Professional Educators
<p>March 24, 2015</p>
<p>Today, the House Committee on Public Education unanimously approved HB4, a bill that will provide more state funding for Texas&rsquo;s pre-k programs. Below is a statement from the state&rsquo;s largest educator group, the Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE):</p>
<p>&ldquo;ATPE supports the move to full-day high-quality pre-k. HB 4&mdash;a welcome step toward this ultimate goal&mdash;provides much-needed funding that will help increase the quality, and corresponding effectiveness, of existing pre-k programs. We applaud the committee for moving the bill to consideration by the full house,&rdquo; ATPE Lobbyist Monty Exter said.</p>
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<p>The Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) has been a strong voice for Texas educators since 1980. It is the leading educators&rsquo; association in Texas with more than 100,000 members statewide. With its strong collaborative philosophy, ATPE speaks for classroom teachers, administrators, future, retired and paraeducators and works to create better opportunities for 5 million public schoolchildren. ATPE is the ally and the voice of Texas public school education.</p>
ATPE statement regarding HB4, more funding for Texas pre-k programs
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March 24, 2015
Today, the House Committee on Public Education unanimously approved HB4, a bill that will provide more state funding for Texas’s pre-k programs. Below is a statement from the state’s largest educator group, the Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE):
“ATPE supports the move to full-day high-quality pre-k. HB 4—a welcome step toward this ultimate goal—provides much-needed funding that will help increase the quality, and corresponding effectiveness, of existing pre-k programs. We applaud the committee for moving the bill to consideration by the full house,” ATPE Lobbyist Monty Exter said.
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The Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) has been a strong voice for Texas educators since 1980. It is the leading educators’ association in Texas with more than 100,000 members statewide. With its strong collaborative philosophy, ATPE speaks for classroom teachers, administrators, future, retired and paraeducators and works to create better opportunities for 5 million public schoolchildren. ATPE is the ally and the voice of Texas public school education.
