A familiar battle between the Texas House and the Senate involves proposed changes in how the state should hold students and educators accountable.
April 2011
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Higher Education
Kenneth Ashworth: The TT Interview
The former vice chancellor at the University of Texas and former commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on his new book, how the tensions of the 1970s are echoed in today’s battles between politicians and academicians at the state’s major universities, and on what he thinks is at stake.
Posted inState Government
Solomons’ Map
Now there are maps, and the chairman of the House Redistricting Committee, Burt Solomons, appears to be in a hurry. He unveiled his proposed House map on Wednesday and could ask his committee to vote as early as Monday after hearings over the weekend.
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Higher Education
Kenneth Ashworth: The TT Interview
In his new book, Horns of a Dilemma: Coping with Politics at the University of Texas, Kenneth Ashworth chronicles the era of controversial UT System Board of Regents Chairman Frank Erwin, of which he says there are echoes today.
Posted in
Demographics
Cartels Complicate Tick Eradication Program
An unexpected casualty of the drug-cartel-fueled lawlessness in Mexico: the cattle industry.
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Demographics
Slideshow: Fever Tick Inspection in Laredo
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Hamilton on Victoria’s efforts to divorce the University of Houston, Ramshaw on a disagreement between right-to-life groups over laws governing when life ends, E. Smith’s TribLive interview with Sen. Kel Seliger and Rep. Burt Solomons on redistricting, Aguilar’s interview with the mayor of Juárez, Tan on the continuing hunt for money to buy down budget cuts, Grissom on a psychologist who found more than a dozen inmates mentally competent to face the death penalty, Stiles and yours truly on the House redistricting maps and Galbraith on cutting or killing a tax break for high-cost natural gas producers: The best of our best content from April 11 to 15, 2011.
Posted in
Public Education
Updated: SBOE Members: Why Not Use the Permanent School Fund?
Nine SBOE members say there’s a potential $2 billion for public schools in the state’s Permanent School Fund — but they need a constitutional amendment to get it.
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State Government
Texas House Redistricting Maps Debated
There are 101 Republicans in the Texas House. But according to the map released by Redistricting Committee Chair Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton, not all of them will get re-elected.
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Criminal Justice
Board Approves Report on Willingham
Members of a state forensic board today accepted an amended version of a report on convicted arsonist Cameron Todd Willingham’s case, but won’t rule on professional negligence until the attorney general says whether they have jurisdiction to do so.
