We’re pushing out our updated Texas Public Schools Explorer, which lets you easily find graduation rates, test scores and more for all of the 1,207 school districts and 8,673 public school campuses in Texas for the 2015-16 school year.
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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Higher Education
Texas families are struggling to pay for college — but so is the state
Rising tuition is making it hard for parents and students to pay for college in Texas. But state funding is strained, too. So where will the money come from to grow enrollment and elevate Texas universities?
Posted inPublic Education
See which Texas eighth-graders go on to earn college degrees
We’ve updated our Higher Education Outcomes app with a new year of data, showing the percentage of Texas eighth-graders — by county, ethnicity and other factors — who earned degrees or certificates within six years of graduating from high school.
Posted inState Government
Government Salaries Explorer adds Fort Worth, updates University of Houston
We’ve updated the Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer with new data for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the University of Houston’s campuses and system offices. The city of Fort Worth is a new addition.
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Here’s where Texas voters turned out and where they didn’t
More than 800,000 more Texans voted in this year’s general election than in 2008 or 2012.
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Politics
Here’s how Texas voted in every presidential election since 1976
Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 9 points Tuesday in Texas on his way to winning the 2016 presidential election. Here’s a look at margins of victory for Republicans since 1976 in presidential contests held in Texas.
Posted inState Government
See how many Texans have voted early
Across the state, Texans turned out in record numbers to vote early. Check out our early voting tracker to see how turnout in the 10 largest counties shaped up compared to the last two presidential elections.
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Health care
Texas Investigators Failed to Check on Thousands of At-Risk Children
New data from Texas’ child welfare agency details a disturbing number of high-priority children whom investigators failed to check up on.
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Demographics
Rising Wages Lift Texas Poor, But Almost 1 in 4 Kids Still in Poverty
Rising incomes helped lift more Texans above the federal poverty level in 2015, new census figures show, but poverty is still particularly prevalent among families with children and on the border.
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Higher Education
McConaughey Helping to Teach UT-Austin Film Class for Free
Academy Award winner and University of Texas at Austin alum Matthew McConaughey is not getting paid to help teach a UT film class using material from movies he’s been working on.