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The Water Update
The Water Update is a collaboration between the Texas Tribune and Texas Water Journal covering key upcoming meetings and events, important personnel moves, and significant developments with regard to water at the Texas Legislature and water agencies.
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Public Education
Texas education board nears compromise on evolution standards
Texas education board members have reached some consensus on language that relates to challenging scientific theories about evolution.
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The Brief: Who’s in trouble in 2018?
With less than a year to go before 2018, several U.S. House seats from Texas are drawing interest from potential challengers. The 2018 landscape remains in flux but there are early indications of what it could look like.
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The Brief: The House and Senate clash over cash
The House and Senate budgets have both allocated about $218 billion for the state. But crucial differences remain on how much each proposal funds important resources.
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The Brief: TABC’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad hearing
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s spending controversies landed them in the hot seat with Texas lawmakers on Thursday. The House Committee on General Investigating and Ethics grilled top officials from TABC for more than three hours.
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Criminal Justice
UT-Dallas police investigating Qurans found in toilet in March
Police are investigating an incident in which they found two copies of the Muslim holy book in a men’s bathroom at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Spending accounts for Idaho teens buy new opportunities
In Idaho, every student between seventh and 12th grade receives $4,125 in an online account to use for approved dual-credit and other education-related costs.
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Four-day school week no problem for Missouri district
Five years ago, a district in Harrisburg, Missouri, switched to a four-day school week to save costs and retain staff members.
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Tampa parents oppose proposed change to district’s start times
Parents have flooded a school district in Tampa, Florida, with negative emails after officials requested feedback about proposed changes to school hours.
