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Last year, a federal judge declared the Texas foster care system broken. That’s no small-scale problem. There are more than 30,000 children in Texas…
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A board of lawmakers has given final approval for $150 million in funding to help pull the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services out of its…
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Texas lawmakers said Thursday they're willing to give $150 million in emergency funding to the embattled Department of Family and Protective Services to…
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On the first day lawmakers could file bills for consideration during the 2017 session, leaders from both parties began drawing battle lines for fights…
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From Texas Standard: After reports that Child Protective Services caseworkers have let thousands of children at risk for abuse and neglect slip through...
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On any given day in the past six months, nearly a thousand of Texas' "highest-priority" children — considered by the state to be at immediate risk of…
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From Texas Standard: Editor's note: This story contains language that may not be appropriate for all readers. In Texas, the law is pretty clear when it...
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Governor Greg Abbott says the status quo at Child Protective Services is unacceptable. On Monday, he appointed new leaders for CPS and the agency that…
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Daniel Hernandez, an investigator for the state’s Child Protective Services agency, left his South Austin home at dawn on a recent Thursday holding a…
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The teenage pregnancy rate in the United States, including Texas, continues to fall, according to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease…
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that Texas has violated foster children's constitutional rights to be free from an unreasonable risk of harm, saying that…
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Lawmakers are considering a bill that would prohibit the Department of Family and Protective Services from making a finding of "abuse" or "neglect"…