One education model — with unproven results — serves almost a third of pre-kindergarteners in Texas. Its grade? Incomplete.
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Criminal Justice
Mapmaker, Mapmaker
Think like the political pros and your mind will go to the long game instead of the short one. The short game is the elections of 2010. The long game is redistricting in 2011, when maps are drawn that corral the voters into the districts that will elect legislators for the next ten years.
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Criminal Justice
USDA Approved: Jail Construction
Some Texas sheriffs are looking to an unlikely source to get them out of the hole as private prisons win away federal contracts for inmates and put the financial squeeze on county jails.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: What Fredo Learned
Alberto Gonzales — remember him? — in Esquire.
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Public Education
Race to the Bottom Line
The feds want Texas to sign onto a movement toward national education standards in order to get up to $700 million in “Race to the Top” money. Texas officials say our students —and our curriculum — aren’t for sale.
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State Government
2010: Done-bar
As anticipated, Cynthia Dunbar has officially announced that she will not seek re-election to her spot on the State Board of Education
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State Government
Data App: Red-Light Cameras
Explore red-light camera intersections across Texas, or drill down to individual intersections to see images, crash figures and citation totals.
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Public Education
TribBlog: El Paso ISD Embraces Honest Grading, Sort Of
The El Paso school board this week dumped a controversial policy requiring teachers to give automatic grades of 50 to students who didn’t earn them. But teachers are still allowed to do so at their discretion.
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Public Education
2010: Survival of the Fittest?
Even if Cynthia Dunbar doesn’t seek reelection to the State Board of Education, another conservative Republican stands ready to take up the cause.
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Health care
Slideshow: Transition Medicine
Benjamin Ligums was born with a rare degenerative brain disease that left him immobile, non-verbal and legally blind. His family has found a second home at Baylor’s Transition Medicine Clinic, which specializes in treating profoundly disabled young adults.
