We’ve updated our Texas Higher Ed Outcomes app with a new year of data showing the percentage of Texas eighth-graders who earned degrees or certificates within six years of graduating from high school. See the education outcomes of Texas students by gender, ethnicity and economic status.
Annie Daniel
Annie Daniel was a news apps developer at The Texas Tribune from 2014 to 2018, where she where she developed interactives, analyzed datasets and created graphics. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied both multimedia journalism and political science. Before moving to Texas, Annie interned at The Washington Post on their graphics team.
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Data for more than 145,000 Texas state employees updated in Salaries Explorer
We’ve updated compensation data for more than 145,000 state employees in our Government Salaries Explorer. This update reflects the latest state agency payrolls of 2018.
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Demographics
San Antonio tops national list in population gain; Houston growth is sluggish
Texas suburbs claimed the top of the list of fastest-growing cities in the nation while San Antonio added the most people of any city in the country, according to new census estimates.
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Demographics
Census estimates show another year of rapid growth for Texas suburbs
New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau underscore the extent to which the explosive growth of the state’s suburban areas relies on attracting residents from other areas of the state and country.
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Texas Elections 2018
Blue wave? Texas Republicans outvoted Democrats in the 2018 primaries — again.
Vote counts Tuesday night once again showed how Texas is a red state. Despite an apparent early rush to the polls for Democrats, Republicans ended up casting more ballots in the 2018 primaries.
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Graphics and data reporting
Democratic early voting surged across Texas. See which counties saw the biggest increases.
After two weeks of early voting, 370,219 Democrats voted early in ten of the largest counties, more than double the number four years earlier. Meanwhile, 282,928 Republicans voted early, a jump of less than 15 percent.
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Texas Elections 2018
See how many Texans are voting early in the 2018 primaries
We’re tracking daily how many Texans are turning out to vote early in this year’s primaries compared to 2010 and 2014, the last two midterm election years.
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Ballpark Figures
Ballpark Figures: Look at the finances of some of Texas’ biggest college athletic programs
Revisit our Ballpark Figures app that breaks down the revenues and expenses for the athletic departments of the eight public Texas universities that play in the Football Bowl Subdivision — the top level of college football.
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How many Texas eighth-graders from 2005 went on to college?
Use our Texas Higher Ed Outcomes Explorer to track the educational milestones of every student who started eighth grade in a Texas public school between 1997 and 2005. You can see figures broken down by county, ethnicity and other factors.
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Explore new data about Texas’ 8,757 public schools
We’ve updated our Texas Public Schools Explorer with data from the 2016-17 school year. Explore demographic trends, graduation rates and teacher salaries for all 1,203 school districts and 8,757 campuses in the state.