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Federal trial over Texas political maps delayed by evidence disputes
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The legal fight over the shape of Texas political representation for the next decade won’t be decided until next year after a federal panel agreed Tuesday to delay a trial over new political
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Coronavirus Shines Spotlight on Healthcare Disparities
For some time now in Texas, we have been well aware of significant health disparities between Caucasians in contrast to African Americans and
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FBI Issues Statement In Wake Of False 911 Calls To Oklahoma Schools
FBI Issues Statement In Wake Of False 911 Calls To Oklahoma Schools news - The Black Chronicle Ardmore, Ardmore Police, Calls, Enid High School, False, FBI, Issues, Junior High School, Medford, Miami, ohp, okc, okc news, Oklahoma, Oklahoma city news, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Oklahoma news, Oklahoma
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TEA Releases 2022 A–F Accountability Ratings
Ratings are up since last issued in 2019, reflecting improvements in student academic growth rates  AUSTIN – August 15, 2022 – The Texas Education Agency (TEA) today released 2022 A–F accountability ratings for districts and campuses, the first to be issued since 2019 due to two years of
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Doctors depart hospital after Texas AG investigates gender-affirming care
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A lot of parents start to worry as their children approach puberty. Amy Hamand has been dreading it for far longer. Hamand’s 14-year-old daughter has severe autism, and
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Delayed Texas maternal mortality report to be released next week, state says | Texas News | San Antonio
Delayed Texas maternal mortality report to be released next week, state says | Texas News | San Antonio news - The Black Chronicle abortion ban, Abortion Rights, Antonio, Delayed, Department of State Health Services, House Speaker Dade Phelan, Maternal, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review
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Texas CD30 voting: Jasmine Crockett wins race to replace U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson - Texas Metro News
The freshman Dallas state representative defeated ex-congressional chief of staff Jane Hope Hamilton. The post Texas CD30 voting: Jasmine Crockett wins race to replace U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson appeared first on Texas Metro News.
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Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III Succeeds Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. as President and CEO of Rainbow PUSH Coalition | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Jackson, a renowned figure in the fight for civil rights, founded PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in 1971 and established the National Rainbow Coalition in 1984. In 1996, the two organizations merged to form the powerful and influential Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Organization
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Texas lawmakers will highlight water infrastructure, boil-water notices
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A bipartisan group of state lawmakers plans to spend part of its time in Austin this year highlighting the state’s increasingly fragile water infrastructure. Texas Water
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Texas House adjourns while Senate bills on LGBTQ issues, elections die
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A 10-year minimum for gun-related crimes, banning some conversations about race at Texas universities and penalties for libraries who host drag queens reading books are among
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When a free medical clinic opened in East Texas, thousands came for care
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Juanita Franklin was driving through the East Texas town of Gun Barrel City a couple of years ago when she saw a new sign down the road from the Christian Life Center food pantry where
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Migrants have now become props on planes and buses
For five months, Gov. Greg Abbott bused migrants to Democrat-led cities to draw attention to the number of people arriving at the Texas border. He began with Washington, D.C., then expanded the busing to New York and Chicago. At least 11,000 migrants have been removed from the state, by all
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Eddie Bernice Johnson: Jane Hamilton’s attacks on Jasmine Crockett are Trump-style lies - Texas Metro News
Hamilton, who’s running to replace the Dallas Democrat in Congress, defended the comments about her rival. The post Eddie Bernice Johnson: Jane Hamilton’s attacks on Jasmine Crockett are Trump-style lies appeared first on Texas Metro News.
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Texas may expand attorney general’s power to prosecute election crime
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. The article is available for
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Lufkin nonprofit helps formerly incarcerated Texas start their lives over
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. LUFKIN — Maurice Watts pulled up to a compact, red-brick building on a recent Thursday morning, dressed in black athletic clothes and a Houston Astros baseball cap. He had spent the previous
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Florida's rejection of an AP African American studies course is a rejection of school choice
Why is Gov. Ron DeSantis acting just like his opposition by attempting to dictate what students are permitted to learn?
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Chief Pete Arredondo defends police response to Uvalde school shooting
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. What follows is Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo’s account of the response to the Robb Elementary School shooting. Since this
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Texas’ 1836 Project airbrushes key parts of state’s history, experts say
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A committee charged with producing a “patriotic” telling of Texas history approved a 15-page pamphlet last month that will now be distributed to new Texas drivers. The advisory committee
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Your kids know they ARE being taught critical race theory despite the denials — here’s the proof
City Journal last month released a survey that asked 18- to 20-year-olds whether they had been taught six concepts, of which four are central to critical race theory.
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Mandatory maternal mortality rate data won’t be ready for Texas lawmakers in time for 2023 session
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For the first time, a state report detailing the latest data on how many Texans die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth complications will not be ready before the Texas Legislature
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In rural Texas, law puts low-income defendants at a disadvantage news
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. With livelihoods and futures on the line, a… The post In rural Texas, law puts low-income defendants at a disadvantage appeared first on The Black Chronicle.
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Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to veto school choice bill news
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday said he would veto a toned-down version a bill to offer school vouchers in Texas, and threatened to call legislators back for special sessions if
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The political divide over gun reform blocking change - DefenderNetwork.com
It’s become an all-too familiar scene - a mass shooting in America. Followed by the doomed cries of #DoSomething that fizzles out after a few days, leading many to wonder […]
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Are Black folks under attack with new election laws? - Texas Metro News
By ReShonda Tate Since 2021, the Texas Legislature has been on a mission to dismantle voting as we know it in Harris County. Come Sept. 1, one of their major efforts […] The post Are Black folks under attack with new election laws? appeared first on Texas Metro News.
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Tony Thurmond Starts Second Term as State Addresses Educational Inequity | BlackPressUSA
By Max Elramsisy | California Black Media State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) Tony Thurmond took the oath of office to begin his second term on Jan. 7 at a ceremony conducted at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles. Thurmond oversees the education of 6 million PreK-12
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Texas House Democratic Caucus elects Trey Martinez Fischer as its new chair
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer is the newest chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus and will take the lead on legislative strategy, messaging and fundraising for at least the next two
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Texas university chancellors pledge flat tuition for more funding
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. As Texas lawmakers consider what to do with an unprecedented $32.7 billion state surplus, leaders of the state’s six largest public university systems are pitching that
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Records show police in Uvalde were equipped to storm shooter
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary wanted to get inside classrooms 111 and 112 — immediately. One officer’s daughter was inside. Another officer had gotten a call from his
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Audit shows Texas elections secure despite COVID “irregularities” in 2020
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, there was neither widespread voter fraud nor other serious issues in Texas’ 2020 elections, according to an audit of four of Texas’ largest
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Disability advocates argue against school vouchers in Texas Senate hearing - Dallas Weekly
By Maia Pandey, The Texas Tribune Oct. 10, 2023 'Disability advocates argue against school vouchers in Texas Senate hearing' was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media […] The post Disability advocates argue against school vouchers in Texas Senate h
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