Only one person of color has ever served on the Richardson ISD board. Now, he’s suing the district over its method of electing school board members, alleging it denies people of color a fair say in who represents them.
Alexa Ura
Alexa Ura reported for The Texas Tribune from 2013 to 2023. She covered the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity, wealth, poverty and power and how they are shaping the future of Texas and Texans, in the long and short term. Alexa started at the Tribune as a reporting intern before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin and joining the staff full time. Originally from Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, she is a native Spanish speaker and is based in Austin.
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Dis-Integration
San Antonio ISD is innovating to integrate its schools. Is it leaving some behind in the process?
To stem the exodus of students to private and charter schools, San Antonio ISD is redesigning dozens of schools that now offer popular educational programs. Families and educators at those schools are thrilled, but people at other schools feel left out.
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Dis-Integration
It took this Texas school district 48 years to desegregate. Now, some fear a return to the past.
Though students of color in Longview ISD still don’t have the same educational opportunities as white students, a federal judge dismissed a longstanding desegregation court order. Will the district succeed without it?
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Graphics and data reporting
Are Texas suburbs slipping away from Republicans?
In Williamson, Hays, Collin and Fort Bend counties, Republicans saw their dominance falter on Tuesday.
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Texas Elections 2018
Gerrymandering backfired for Texas Republicans in Dallas County in 2018
Republicans hoped to keep a majority Texas House seats from Dallas County when they redrew district boundaries in 2011. Seven years later, they’ve only held onto two of 14.
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Texas Elections 2018
Judge orders Harris County to keep some polling locations open an extra hour
Texans looking to cast their ballots on Election Day were met by a series of delays and technical difficulties that resulted in long lines, and in some cases kept voters from casting their ballots.
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Hays County expands early voting access for Texas State University students
The expanded plan comes after the Texas Civil Rights Project threatened to sue the county on behalf of two Texas State students.
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Texas Elections 2018
Student voting rights fight erupts at Texas State University
Amid allegations that Hays County has suppressed the college student vote, a civil rights group is threatening to sue.
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Texas Elections 2018
Prairie View A&M students sue Waller County over early voting sites
The five students accused Waller County of suppressing the voting rights of black voters.
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Texas Voting Rights
Did you register to vote in Texas before the deadline but can’t confirm it online? Here’s why.
Election officials who often receive thousands of voter registration cards just before elections must manually enter each new voter’s information into their database — a time-consuming process that often leads to massive backlogs.
