As the state’s demographics shift, the number of languages spoken in Texas households is growing. So are the challenges associated with providing educational services to an increasingly diverse state population.
Jolie McCullough
Jolie McCullough was a reporter at The Texas Tribune from 2015 to 2023. She began as a data visualization journalist and then reported on criminal justice policy, ranging from policing and courts to prisons and the death penalty. She joined the Tribune from the Albuquerque Journal, her hometown newspaper. She previously worked at the Arizona Republic and is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Posted inState Government
More than 400,000 Employees Now in Salaries Explorer
With a focus on the Houston area, our latest updates have pushed the number of state and municipal employees in our database to more than 400,000. Among the agencies we’ve added: the University of Houston and its campuses, the city of Houston and Cypress-Fairbanks ISD.
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Demographics
In Texas, Minorities Less Likely to Own Homes
A shortage of affordable housing, credit problems and lack of savings for down payments are among the main barriers blamed for creating a demographic divide in home ownership between minorities and whites.
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice
Prison Inmates Database Gets an Update
The Texas Tribune’s Prison Inmates database, containing more than 144,000 offenders, is now updated with the latest data available from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It is now current as of September 2015.
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice
Faces of Death Row App Updated
Gabriel Hall and James Calvert have joined the 251 other inmates living with death sentences in Texas. See our updated database of these men and women, which you can filter by age, race, sex and length of stay on death row.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Poised to See a New Low in Death Sentences
Texas is on track to see fewer death sentences handed down in 2015 than in any other year since the state’s death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
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Demographics
More Foreign Migrants Make Their Way to Texas
Thousands of migrants born in other countries continue streaming into Texas, but lately more of them are Asian and have lived somewhere else in the country first, usually California or Florida, according to a new analysis by the state demographer.
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Criminal Justice
Dip in Prison Population Continues Trend
The number of men and women being held in Texas prisons fell by more than one percent in 2014, a slight dip that continues a downward trend aided by new diversion programs and a reluctance by state lawmakers to add more prison beds.
Posted inState Government
Salaries Explorer Includes New Data for UT-Austin, Texas A&M
We’ve updated our Government Salaries Explorer to include new data for the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. We’ve also added Texas Woman’s University to the Explorer.
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Health care
A Look at How Texas’ Uninsured Rate Has Fallen
While Texas’ rate of uninsured people has fallen below 20 percent for the first time in more than a decade, new U.S. Census data released Thursday shows disparities in access to health insurance.
