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Top Stories: Texas Ed Board Rejects Book; $1.1 Million Check Aims To Boost South Dallas

The top local stories this afternoon from KERA News: Paul Quinn College in south Dallas recently got a $1 million check. The money will help revitalize the school and the surrounding Highland Hills neighborhood.

Tynesia Boyea-Robinson is an advisor for the Dallas Impact Investing Collaborative and speaks to KERA's Justin Martin about investing in south Dallas. 

Other stories this afternoon:

  • The controversial Dakota Access pipeline remains in the news – and so is the Dallas-based company that’s building it. KERA’s Gus Contreras has the latest. 
  • The Texas Board of Education today unanimously rejected a Mexican-American studies textbook that experts say is racist and filled with factual errors.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.