Aliyya Swaby, Texa
Aliyya Swaby started as the public education reporter in October 2016. She came to the Tribune from the hyperlocal nonprofit New Haven Independent, where she covered education, zoning and transit for two years. After graduating from Yale University in 2013, she spent a year freelance reporting in Panama on social issues affecting black Panamanian communities. A native New Yorker, Aliyya misses public transportation but is thrilled by the lack of snow.
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With reported coronavirus cases in Texas child care facilities rising quickly, parents face terrifying uncertainty as they try to decide whether to... -
Texas schools might start bringing students back to classrooms on staggered schedules in the fall. Or they might have some students show up at school... -
Many school districts are seeing smaller gains from the state's school finance law than they predicted. Teachers are fighting to get bigger raises… -
The chambers will need to negotiate how to give teachers pay raises, whether to adjust how students take standardized tests and how to provide long-term… -
The bill would increase state, school district and teacher contributions to the fund, and provide a one-time additional check for retirees.From The Texas… -
For some in the debate over how to fund Texas' schools, "Robin Hood" is decidedly a villain.
