The Texas Senate approved a sweeping school safety bill aimed at preventing—or at least mitigating—another mass tragedy. The bill attempts to strengthen mental health initiatives in Texas schools, establish threat assessment teams and other initiatives.

A committee tasked with settling the differences between the House and Senate's version of the Tennessee school vouchers bill approved a compromised version that limits the program to schools in certain districts only. The amendment also would not allow home-schooled students to participate in the education savings account legislation.

A study, released by American Institutes for Research, shows that states that changed their standards most dramatically by adopting the Common Core didn't outpace other states on federal NAEP exams. By 2017, the standards appear to have led to modest declines in fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores.

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