With universities across the state grappling with aging infrastructure and growing student bodies, a state senator has filed a bill that would use tuition revenue bonds to fund more than $4 billion in construction costs for college campuses.
April 2013
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Politics
Tackle Redistricting or Wait for the Courts?
Texas could trim the size of its court fights over redistricting by endorsing maps drawn by federal judges, but legislative leaders fear the harmony of the current session would evaporate in the process.
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Public Education
Nixing Algebra II Not Out of the Equation in Texas
As Texas reconsiders whether all students should take algebra II to earn a high school diploma, it is bucking a national trend that it helped launch a decade ago toward more stringent math curriculum.
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Demographics
The Brief: April 12, 2013
The sweeping immigration reform bill heading to the floor of the U.S. Senate could end up blocking hundreds of thousands of immigrants from citizenship.
Posted inState Government
Agenda Texas: CPRIT’s Creation Story
On the latest Agenda Texas, from KUT News and the Tribune: As Texas lawmakers work to reform the embattled Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, we take a look back at how the institute was created in the first place.
Posted inState Government
The Evening Brief: April 11, 2013
Your evening reading: UT regents agree to turn over records to lawmakers; Cornyn and Cruz vote to block debate on gun bill; state Senate to consider spending half of Rainy Day Fund
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Public Education
Plan to Expand Charter Schools Clears Senate
A significantly altered version of Senate Education Chairman Dan Patrick’s legislation expanding the state’s charter school system quickly passed out of the upper chamber Thursday afternoon.
Posted inState Government
Advocates Seek State Funds for Local Parks Program
Parks advocates on Thursday urged state lawmakers to fund the Texas Parks and Wildlife Local Park Grant Program, which has provided more than $390.2 million in matching grants for local parks projects across the state.