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Texas DPS: “Avoid Mexico and Stay Alive”
The Texas Department of Public Safety is recommending โ again โ that Texans avoid traveling to Mexico for vacation. It’s the second warning in less than five weeks.
Lawmakers Talk Grading, Attendance Policies
The Senate Education Committee has sent legislation on minimum grading and attendance policies to the full chamber, but bills on residential development and special education policy have stalled.
Hispanic Lawmakers Spar Over Politics of Race, Education
Protecting education and recognizing that the rapidly growing Hispanic population will gain a major political voice in Texas were themes that emerged Monday at the Tribune’s โNew Day Risingโ forum.
To Block Gay-Straight Alliance, School Keeps Clubs Off Campus
Corpus Christi’s Flour Bluff ISD has blocked extracurricular clubs from meeting on campus to make sure it’s complying with federal law after denying approval of a gay-straight alliance.
TribLive: Carter, Burkett and Anderson
Last Wednesday, I sat down with three first-term members of the Texas House โ Stefani Carter, R-Dallas; Cindy Burkett, R-Mesquite; and Rodney Anderson, R-Grand Prairie โ to talk about their first weeks in office.
Carter, Burkett and Anderson on Public Ed Cuts
At last Wednesday’s TribLive conversation, first-term House members Stefani Carter, R-Dallas, Cindy Burkett, R-Mesquite, and Rodney Anderson, R-Grand Prairie, explained why they think deep cuts to public education are possible.
“Rube Goldberg” School Finance System Faces New Test
Cutting $10 billion public education funding could push more than two-dozen school districts from the group that receives state financing into the group that writes checks to the state to even things out between richer and poorer districts.
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
The best of our best content from Feb. 14 to 18, 2011.
Sara Hickman: The TT Interview
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