Financial barriers and limited access to providers are keeping women at the state’s community colleges from getting the effective contraceptives they prefer, according to a new report from the University of Texas at Austin.
Sydney Greene
Sydney Greene was a reporting fellow at the Texas Tribune in 2018, covering politics and policy through breaking news and enterprise stories. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, where she studied journalism and women and gender studies. Before the Tribune, Sydney covered state politics for the Arizona Capitol Times, and has reported for The Arizona Republic, Politico, USA Today, and Teen Vogue. When she’s not out on assignment or working on deadline, you can find her trying new taco places or getting lost in vintage stores around Austin.
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Texas students walk out of classes, continuing momentum of gun violence protests
Thousands of Texas students walked out of their classes Friday morning to protest ongoing gun violence in America.
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Health care
For girls in the Texas foster care system, teen pregnancy is 5 times more likely
A new report says current and former Texas foster youth face greater pregnancy risks and calls on the state to provide health care and education to at-risk teens.
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Public Education
Harvey-affected Texas schools may not have STAAR scores count against their annual ratings
Texas school districts hit hard by Hurricane Harvey may not have to worry as much about how well their students fare in this year’s State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Wednesday at a meeting of the State Board of Education.
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Immigration
Texas National Guard deploys troops to Texas-Mexico border
The Texas National Guard plans to send hundreds more in coming days after President Donald Trump called for stronger U.S. military protection there. The federal deployments come after Texas lawmakers in recent years agreed to spend more than $2 billion in state money on border protection.
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Economy
Texas cattle ranchers uneasy over proposed Chinese tariffs on beef
A brewing trade war between the United States and China is making Texas cattle ranchers nervous about potential tariffs on their beef exports.
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Public Education
Texas schools suspended tens of thousands of students in second grade or younger, report says
The report warned educators and policy leaders of the risks that in-school suspensions continue to have on pre-K to second-grade students in Texas public schools.
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Environment
Large portions of West Texas sinking at alarming rate, new report finds
A report released Thursday by geophysicists at Southern Methodist University says a 4,000-square-mile area near the “Wink Sinks” is showing signs of alarming instability.
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Public Education
Spring break dampens Texas participation in student walkouts protesting gun violence
As a national debate swirls after the mass shooting in Florida, students across the nation join National School Walkout Day. With most Texas students on spring break, some did their walkouts last week.
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Criminal Justice
Fewer exonerations in Texas’ Harris County drove national rate lower too, study finds
For the first time in several years, Texas’ most populous county freed fewer defendants who had been wrongfully accused of drug crimes. But Texas still led the nation in exonerations last year.