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1Trump’s USDA Lets Animal Abusers Off the Hook

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3Texas Leads in Polling Place Closures Since 2013

4Senator Lucio Draws Serious Primary Challenge

5As Texodus Continues, Tom DeLay’s Tall Political Shadow Fades

6They Persisted

Most Recent in Environment:

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2Climate Change Will Make Harmful Algae Blooms in Texas Waterways More Common

4Bridge to Nowhere

5How Texas Prairies Could Help Combat Climate Change

6Julián Castro’s Climate Plan Addresses Environmental Racism

Most Recent in Border:

1Migrants at Laredo Tent Court Tell Stories of Kidnappings and Violence While Pleading Not to Be Returned to Mexico

2The Trump Administration Blows Its Border Wall Budget in South Texas

3Journalists Blocked from Attending Secretive Immigration Tent Courts

4‘El Paso Firme’ Music Festival Calls on Texans to Peacefully Resist White Supremacy

5Thousands Have Disappeared Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border. They Deserve to be Remembered.

6Starr County Proposes Alternative Border Wall Plan

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1‘A Watershed Moment’ for Bail Reform in Harris County

2Ken Paxton Wants ‘Ultimate Home Field Advantage’ in Felony Case

3The High Cost of Hays County’s Decision to Keep Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases

4A Poor Defense

5Texas’ New Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD

6Death of Dog Trainer Highlights Strenuous Heat and Working Conditions at Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

1The Cost of Carve-Outs

2Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

3Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

4‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

5‘We’re Not Stupid’: Texas Teachers Take on Dan Patrick and the Legislature over Dismal Education Funding

6In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Some Small Texas Towns Are Declaring Themselves ‘Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn’

2American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

3Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

4‘My Congregation Trusts Women’: Progressive Faith Groups Counter Anti-Abortion Narratives

5A Texas Anti-Abortion Group Dramatically Missed its Family Planning Targets. Now its Founder is Suing the Federal Government for More Money.

6Molly Ivins on Universal Health Care

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2Without Transmission Lines, Renewable Energy Still has a Long Way to Go — Literally

4The Interview: Mass Resistance

5Meet Jim Allison, Texas’ Newest Nobel Laureate (and Three-Time Cancer Survivor)

6Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

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1In This Twisted Coming-of-Age Tale, the Monsters in the Closet Are Real

2Attica Locke’s New Mystery Novel Unearths East Texas Secrets

4How Earl Campbell Changed Football in Texas

5American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

6‘The Secrets We Kept’ is a Finely-Structured Story of Secrets, Spies, and Secretaries

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1Little Arthouse on the Prairie

2The Clothes that Make the Man

3Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

4Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

5At Home in the World

6Plight at the Museum

Most Recent in Essay:

1To Understand the El Paso Massacre, Look to the Long Legacy of Anti-Mexican Violence at the Border

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3The Trouble with Yoga

4Heads in the Mud

5The Day the Windows Shook

6Women’s Work

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1Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

2Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

3Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

4Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

5Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

6Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

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1Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

4Parallel Planes

6Poem: ‘Resistance’

Tag Archives: education reform

by Patrick Michels

King’s Gambit

Daniel King's quiet mission to transform public education in South Texas.

Mon, Sep 14, 2015 |

The early college movement is growing fast today — a free head start on higher education is especially alluring in a time of boundless student debt — and Da...Read More

Progreso ISD

by Patrick Michels

Progreso ISD Fights State Over Students’ Residency

Wed, Sep 9, 2015 |

While most of the state’s allegations against the district turn on misappropriated money, there’s one long-running battle between the state and Progreso ISD...Read More

Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams

by Patrick Michels

Back from the Brink

How one Austin high school rallied to save itself

Fri, Aug 28, 2015 |

Unlikely as it seemed not too long ago, students, teachers, neighborhood activists and even the state’s top education official are all singing the same happy ...Read More

A multiple-choice score sheet.

by Patrick Michels

Civil Rights Groups Split Over Opting Out of Standardized Tests

Wed, Jul 22, 2015 |

Twelve national civil rights groups signed a letter in May opposing the opt-out movement and suggesting the language of civil rights had been “appropriated”...Read More

by Michelle Garcia

Resurrecting the Legacy of Selena

Tue, Jun 16, 2015 |

When I imagine a present-day Selena, I see the star power packed in her smile, the feminine power in her hips, and I hear the love in her songs. But mostly, whe...Read More

by Alisa Semiens

Truancy Decriminalization Bill Could Squeak Through Legislature

Thu, May 21, 2015 |

After a long stand-off between the House and Senate, a last-minute compromise may save the prospects of truancy reform, which has gained broad bipartisan suppor...Read More

It’s Crunch Time for Education Reform Bills

Mon, May 18, 2015 |

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has made education reform his mission this legislative session, but the success of his agenda is in doubt now that only one measure has a c...Read More

John Whitmire

Senate Votes to Loosen School Zero-Tolerance Policies

Thu, Apr 23, 2015 |

With overwhelming support, the Texas Senate voted to roll back zero-tolerance policies, giving administrators more flexibility on how they discipline students. ...Read More

Dan Patrick

School Vouchers Survive Texas Senate

Mon, Apr 20, 2015 |

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has championed school voucher legislation since he entered the Senate in 2007, comparing the effort to the civil rights struggle. After num...Read More

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