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1Texas Democratic Convention: Can the Lone Star Left Seize the Moment?

2Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

3The ‘Crazies’ Have Fully Taken Over the Texas GOP

4What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

5Southern Baptists Grapple with Their Own ‘Horrifying #MeToo Moment’

6Ted Cruz and State Republicans Make Clear: This is Trump’s Texas Now

Most Recent in Environment:

1Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast

2How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

3Industrial Wood Processor Accused of Making East Texans Sick May Get to Pollute Even More

4Despite Public Health Risks, Trump’s EPA to Roll Back Regulation to Prevent Methane Leaks

5No Resolution in Sight For Ranchers and Farmers Fighting Over San Saba River

6Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

Most Recent in Border:

1U.S. Agents Blocked This Family from Seeking Asylum. Then Mexico Detained Them.

2It’s Time to Decriminalize Immigration

3Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

4What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

6ICE Issues More Detainers in Texas, Withholds Crucial Data

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

2Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

3In Austin, ‘Discretionary’ Arrests for Petty Crimes Skew Blacker, Browner Than City Population

5Something Has Changed in the Gun Debate in Texas

6Ahead of Mother’s Day, Activists Bail Out Young Black Moms Across Texas

Most Recent in Education:

1What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

2SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

3Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

4Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

5Nazis Go To School

6‘I Would Have to Drop Out’: 200 Texas Grad Students Walk Out to Protest GOP Tax Bill

Most Recent in Health Care:

1New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

2Trump Sides with Ken Paxton to Argue Pre-Existing Conditions Protections are Unconstitutional

3‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

4What Could Happen if Trump Cuts Family Planning Funds from Planned Parenthood? Look at Texas.

5Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

6Trump Administration Orders Refugee Shelters to Direct Pregnant Teens to Anti-Abortion Clinics

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

2Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

3Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

4Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

5The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

6The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

Most Recent in Books:

1A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists

2‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

3A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

4‘The Last Cowboys’ is a Wild Ride All the Way Home

5‘A Shout in the Ruins’ Contends with the South’s Violent History

6Chasing Tornadoes and Drama in ‘The Man Who Caught the Storm’

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1Women’s Work

2I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

3Somewhere It Hides a Well

4Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

5The Road to Huntsville

6The Impossible City

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

5Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

Tag Archives: Dallas ISD

Miguel Solis

by Patrick Michels

Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

Wed, Sep 14, 2016 |

Critics of young student suspension policies say the practice disproportionately harms students of color, funneling them into the school-to-prison pipeline....Read More

June 2016 PI, Dallas ISD, school cops, PI art, police training

by Patrick Michels

Texas School Cops Must Now Head Back to Class

Thu, Jun 2, 2016 |

Cops in big Texas school districts now must have special training for policing kids. Advocates wonder: in light of recent abuses, will it be enough?...Read More

by Patrick Michels

Under Pressure Nationally, Teach for America Finds Growing Support in Texas

Thu, Jan 29, 2015 |

Teach for America is changing, its recruitment is struggling and its critics are gaining support. It's time for a closer look at Texas' support for TFA....Read More

End of the Road (for Now) for Home Rule in Dallas Schools

by Patrick Michels

Wed, Jan 21, 2015

Dallas ISD's home rule commission called it quits Tuesday night, ending a process that could have dramatically redesigned Texas' second-largest school system....Read More

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings

by Patrick Michels

Hot for Charter: Inside the Radical Play to Reinvent Dallas Schools

Business leaders and Mayor Mike Rawlings say making Dallas ISD the state's first "home-rule charter" is its best bet for progress, but critics see a blatant power grab.

Wed, Mar 19, 2014 |

A few business leaders say making Dallas ISD the state's first "home-rule charter" is its best bet for progress, but critics see a blatant power grab....Read More

Reasoning Mind poster

by Patrick Michels

Reasoning Mind: How Big Oil and Texas Politicians Came to Love Math

Thu, Apr 25, 2013 |

The creators of the Reasoning Mind math software have found great success getting funding from the State of Texas. Along with a slick product, they just so happ...Read More

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