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The preliminary budgets by House and Senate call for $130.1 billion in state spending over two years, even though tens of billions more are available to them. The bills do not bust state or constitutional spending limits.
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Thousands of Texas students take early college high school classes that can get them halfway to a bachelor's degree while still in high school, and for free. But too many fail to finish.
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Some new home-schoolers disagree with how race and sex are taught at schools. Others cite safety concerns after the Uvalde shooting and poor academic outcomes.
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Suzanne Jones was one of four Collin College professors fired for what the school said were violations of internal and public policies tied to the college's COVID-19 re-opening, involvement with a campus faculty organization and signing an open letter demanding the removal of Confederate monuments.
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The high court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases brought by a group led by the same man who previously lost an affirmative action case against the University of Texas at Austin.
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In a letter to Biden, Republican governors, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, say they support "making higher education more affordable" but don't want to "force American taxpayers to pay off the student loan debt of an elite few."
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In Texas, where the hourly minimum wage is $7.25, a student who has children would need to work as much as 64 hours per week to afford college and child care expenses, according to a new report.
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The fallout from the ouster of Tarrant County College chancellor expanded April 18 with the filing of a lawsuit by the former executive director of communications.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he’ll make legislation eliminating tenure at state universities – as a way to ban the teaching of critical race theory – a top priority for the 88th Texas Legislature.
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Enrollment in two-year colleges has dropped nationwide by about 750,000 students. But degree programs in construction trades are booming.
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According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person in Texas dies every eight hours and 31 minutes in a DUI-alcohol related traffic crash. They say spring break can be an especially dangerous and deadly time on Texas roadways.
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History professor Michael Phillips is now the third teacher in the past year to sue Collin College. Like the other two whose contracts were not renewed, he says the college routinely violates faculty free speech rights. The college disagrees.