State School Review

It has been a year since it was revealed that staff at the Corpus Christi State School were forcing their mentally disabled wards to fight each other. State lawmakers raced to enact new accountability measures. Ben Philpott, who’s coving state politics and policy for the Tribune and KUT News, looks at what’s actually changed.

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Ben Philpott is a senior reporter for KUT-FM, Austin’s National Public Radio affiliate. He has been covering state politics and dozens of other topics for the station since 2002, during which time he...