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4The COVID-19 Disaster Has Made a Mess of Texas’ Open Government Rules

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4In Migrants Camps Along the Texas-Mexico Border, Close Quarters and Closing Borders Raise Concerns

5U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Trump Administration on ‘Remain in Mexico’

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4Why Is APD Responding to Mental Health Crises like Violent Crimes?

6How COVID-19 Upended Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

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3Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

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5The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

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3The Traveling Midwife

4In Rural Texas, COVID-19 Contact Tracing is Largely Up to Local Officials, If It Happens at All

5Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on Battling COVID-19, and the Governor, as Texas Reopens

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6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

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3What’s a Bookstore for?

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5A New Book on the Sutherland Springs Shooting Explores Resilience, Forgiveness, and Grace

6‘Trust Me’ Tackles Politics, Power, and Perception

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5Parallel Planes

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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

A Quiet Revolution

Fri, Apr 14, 2000

It doesn’t look like the site of a revolution – even a quiet one. As self-effacing, middle-aged principal Salvador Flores stands in the doorway of fifty...Read More

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