The letter comes two weeks after a federal judge blocked the Barbers Hill Independent School District from keeping a dress code policy that advocates have called racist.
Stacy Fernández
Stacy Fernández was the Tribune’s breaking news reporter in 2019-20. When she wasn't breaking stories, Stacy covered the gun beat and led the Tribune’s reader-driven explainer series, Texplainer. First introduced to the Lone Star State as an intern at the Dallas Morning News, she was also a News21 fellow, reporter for NPR’s Next Generation Radio Project and Buffalo News intern. Stacy graduated from Syracuse University with dual degrees in magazine journalism and Latino-Latin American studies. The Afro-Dominicana thrifts frequently, is a solid bachata dancer and is a firm believer that listening to audiobooks is just as good as reading.
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Reopening Texas Universities
Texas A&M President Michael Young says he will retire May 31 to return to faculty
Young will continue as a faculty member for the Bush School of Government
and Public Service and the Texas A&M School of Law, and take on a new role as the director of the Institute for Religious Liberties and International Affairs.
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Reopening Texas Schools
Special education students lost crucial help when the pandemic hit. Texas schools are still struggling to restore it.
Ten percent of Texas public school students need special education resources, and many were left stranded when schools closed abruptly in the spring. Educators and parents face challenges again this fall reconnecting kids with the therapists and specialists they need.
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Public Education
A Texas teacher who posted Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ posters in her virtual classroom was placed on leave after parents complained
School officials said parents complained about the posters. Taylor Lifka was allowed to return Tuesday, but she said she is not prepared to come back until the school commits to more inclusive policies.
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Reopening Texas Schools
Here’s how education in Texas looks as public schools begin reopening with mostly online classes
As schools across the state begin fall instruction, most students will learn from home for at least the first three weeks. That means getting supplies and food to students and finding creative ways to hold their attention.
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Texas Hurricane Season 2020
Several Texas cities issue mandatory evacuation orders as Hurricane Laura strengthens in the Gulf
From Galveston to the Louisiana border, Texas communities are telling residents to seek shelter away from the coast as Laura is projected to intensify into a Category 3 hurricane.
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Reopening Texas Schools
Hope, fear and hula hoops. How four Texas schools are preparing to bring students back into classrooms.
Public schools are about to become the next front line in a state struggling to control the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what it’s like on the ground at four of them.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Private schools in Texas limit enrollment as they aim to reopen classrooms
Dependent on tuition money, private schools are eager to get children back into their classrooms. But they know inadequate safety measures could make them vulnerable to lawsuits.
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Reopening Texas Schools
Texas schools are being compelled to reopen classrooms on the state’s timetable, like it or not
Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to formally announce a definitive plan for reopening Texas schools safely, but two actions Tuesday effectively force districts to have students back in classrooms after eight weeks of the school year’s start.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Texas families now have until Aug. 21 to apply for food aid to make up for school meals
The families of more than 20% of the 3.6 million eligible school children across the state have yet to apply for federal aid under the Pandemic EBT program.
