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2011 Rankings of More Than 5,800 Public Schools
Dissatisfied that the state's ratings of public schools left parents with too few tools to determine what kind of education their children would receive, Children at Risk set out to create its own...
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Texas Launches No Kid Hungry Campaign
A sea of 150 elementary and middle school students from Austin and Waco met on the steps of the Capitol today to sing, cheer and kick off the Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign.Texas Agriculture Commissioner...
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Breast Cancer Group Drops Support of Planned Parenthood
The Dallas-based breast cancer prevention group Susan G. Komen for the Cure has halted its financial support of Planned Parenthood, yet another blow to the family planning organization that provides...
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UT/TT Poll: Texans Split on Re-electing Perry
If he really wants to run for another term as governor — as he told The Texas Tribune on Tuesday — Rick Perry has some work ahead of him. While 39 percent of Texas voters said they would be likely to...
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Looking Back at Hearings on Health Care Reforms
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a lawsuit brought against the federal government by Texas and 25 other states that questions the constitutionality of several key aspects of the 2010...
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Texas School District Closures Are Rare, But Should They Be?
In July, two Texas school districts received what amounted to notices of execution: letters from the state education commissioner saying that the Texas Education Agency was shutting them down.The...
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Congressional Bid Could Impact State House Race
For state Rep. Lon Burnam, there’s the opponent on the ballot officially running against him and the one who might as well be.The Fort Worth Democrat is facing a primary challenge — his first in 16...
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Pay to Pave
Ever driven along a bumpy pothole-strewn road and wished you could just pay to fix it yourself?For some Texas energy producers, that’s become the easiest way to get around a growing transportation...
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Death Sentence Reviews Leave Unsettled Issues
Stanley Schneider was shocked last year when Texas’ highest criminal court sent his death row client an early Christmas gift of sorts, ordering the trial court to re-examine evidence from a...
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Interactive: Political Action Committees' Candidate Endorsements
Endorsements stack up, so we've prepared a big spreadsheet to show you who is getting the political support of some prominent interest groups, trade groups and political action committees.
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Courtesy of WFAA-TV in Dallas, here's the full video of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's speech Friday at the state Republican Party convention in Fort Worth.
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Inside Intelligence: Leaders, in Conventional Wisdom
Finding a difference of opinion on the top of the ballot runoff races wasn't easy with the insiders this week; they're largely in agreement. Whether they're correct is another matter, but we asked them...
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Report Examines How Budget Cuts Affected Texas Schools
How Texas public schools coped with the $5.4 billion state budget cut in 2011 is sure to dominate the conversation at the Capitol about school funding in 2013. In advance of the next legislative...
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Interactive: Children at Risk Budget Cuts Survey
After the $5.4 billion cut to public education during the 2011 legislative session, the advocacy group Children at Risk teamed up with a coalition of nonprofit foundations to provide comprehensive data...
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Polling Center: Leaving Tests Behind
Amid the monumental advancements celebrated during last week’s Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library, George W. Bush’s little noticed reminder of “the tyranny of low expectations”...
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