Teachers are losing hope that lawmakers will give them a big raise this session

Chana Jones adjusts a decoration in her class room in Snyder Primary School. Jones is a kindergarten teacher at Snyder ISD, a district with less than 3,000 students about an hour and a half away from Midland. (Credit: Justin Rex for The Texas Tribune)

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With less than a month left in the legislative session, the odds that teachers will get the kind of raise they say they badly need are rapidly diminishing.