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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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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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