More than a dozen bills have been filed this session that would let more two-year colleges offer four-year degrees.
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Higher Education
Texas senators mull eliminating Top 10 Percent Rule
The Senate Higher Education Committee on Wednesday reviewed the state’s automatic college admissions rule, which is popular among minorities but loathed among many suburban students and parents.
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Politics
Bills aimed at controversial Dallas-Houston bullet train sail out of Senate committee
Five bills approved by the Senate Transportation Committee Wednesday would impact or hinder a private company’s plans to build a bullet train from Dallas to Houston.
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Criminal Justice
House committee backs banning most sex offenders from living on college campuses
Most registered sex offenders would be barred from living on college campuses under a bill unanimously approved by a House committee Wednesday.
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Health care
Planned Parenthood supporters rally for reproductive health access
The rally comes as Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas and around the country vie for funding and survival now that Republicans control both chambers of Congress, the White House and many state legislatures.
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Public Education
Four things Texans want the Legislature to know about special education
Last month, The Texas Tribune asked parents and educators what they think lawmakers should do before the Legislature adjourns. Here’s what they said.
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Criminal Justice
Texas House backs crowdfunding measure to test more rape kits
A bill that would crowdfund money from Texans to deal with a state backlog of thousands of untested rape kits tentatively passed the Texas House Wednesday on a voice vote.
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Health care
Texas Senators to debate bill that would narrow definition of “psychology”
A Texas Senate committee will take up a bill Wednesday that would redefine “psychology” in response to a court ruling that found parts of the state’s current definition are unconstitutional.
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Health care
Analysis: A teen’s death — and a failure of policy
The death of a teen on the run from the state’s foster care system stirs deeper questions: Why aren’t these programs working, and who will be held to account for that?
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Criminal Justice
Senate panel approves bill banning bestiality in Texas
“These are serious crimes,” said state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, the bill’s author. “The state’s response should be as well.”