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  • Guest Column: Don't Mess With My District!

    By Wendy Davis

    Partisan redistricting aimed to protect or harm politicians only hurts the voters and their ability to participate in the political process. At its core, this is not about me or my party affiliation. It's about the people of Senate District 10. Full Story 

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  • Senators Take Up Bullying Bills

    By Morgan Smith

    At Tuesday's Senate Education Committee hearing on a trio of anti-bullying bills, the parents of children who committed suicide after being picked on by classmates asked lawmakers to fix a system they say failed their families. Full Story 

    Asher Brown took his own life on Sept. 23, 2010 after bullies at school tormented him. He was 13 years old.
    Credit: Courtesy of Equality Texas

  • SBOE: Now With Two-Thirds Approval?

    By Morgan Smith

    State Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, filed a bill today that would require two-thirds of the State Board of Education to reject recommendations from experts during the approval process for curriculum standards and textbooks. Full Story 

    San Antonio's Texas State Reps. Mike Villareal during New Day Rising.
    Credit: Muliadi Soenaryo

  • Senators Try to Buy Time for Teachers

    By Morgan Smith

    With major state funding cuts looming, for many school districts, it's not a question of if — but how and when — teacher layoffs will occur. A new bipartisan bill from education leaders in the state Senate could temporarily change how schools go about that. Full Story 

    Sen. Florence Shaipro talks with a colleague as the Texas Senate discusses the Voter ID for most of the day Tuesday.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • Battle Brewing Over Mandatory Meningitis Vaccine

    By Reeve Hamilton

    The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this week that vaccine manufacturers are protected from lawsuits by parents who believe that vaccines harmed their children is sure to energize anti-immunization advocates working to thwart attempts to expand meningococcal vaccine requirements for college students. Full Story 

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  • Senators Call Tuition Set-Aside Theft, Secret Tax

    By Reeve Hamilton

    One state senator calls it "a 20 percent backdoor secret tax" on those paying for college. Another argues that eliminating it would help create a Texas with a "have-and-have-not culture." And some students say the the tuition set-aside program mandated by the state in 2003 is just plain theft. Full Story 

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    Credit: Illustration by Bob Daemmrich / Todd Wiseman

  • TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

    By Evan Smith

    M. Smith and Butrymowicz of the Hechinger Institute on charter schools and public schools making nice in the Valley, Ramsey's interview with House Speaker candidate Ken Paxton and column on the coming budget carnage, Hu on the Legislature's disappearing white Democratic women, Grissom on the sheriff who busted Willie Nelson, Hamilton talks higher ed accountability with the chair of the Governor's Business Council, Aguilar on the arrest of a cartel kingpin, Ramshaw on the explosive growth in the number of adult Texans with diabetes, Philpott on state incentive funding under fire and Galbraith on the greening of Houston: The best of our best from November 29 to December 3, 2010. Full Story 

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  • Single White Female

    By Elise Hu

    The force of the GOP wave in November was so strong that black Republicans and Latino Republicans outnumber the Texas House's new endangered species: the white Democratic woman. And if the 16-vote victory of state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, doesn't survive a recount, the species will be extinct. Full Story 

    State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin and state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • The Senate's Biggest Spenders

    By Erin Mulvaney

    The 31-member body spent nearly $16 million last fiscal year on travel, staff and office expenses, according to records from the office of the Secretary of the Senate. Overall spending by individual senators ranged from $206,000, by Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, to $637,000, by Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston. Full Story 

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