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Texas colleges and universities get $2 billion in federal stimulus money. Half must go directly to struggling students

Texas House passes bill targeting ‘critical race theory’ over objections from education, civics and business groups The legislation could have a chilling effect on teaching students about racism and how to be engaged citizens, advocates say Michael Woodmansee brought a No CRT sign to show concern about critical race theory being taught in schools during a heated debate about diversity and inclusion at Plano ISDs board meeting on May 4.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) 6:18 p.m.: This story ha...

Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune / Originally published on May 5, 2021 1:00 pm Mirroring moves by other red-state legislatures across the country, Texas Republicans are attempting to reach into classrooms and limit what public school students are taught about the nations historical subjugation of people of color. Two bills moving through the Texas Legislature would bar the teaching of critical race theory, an academic discipline that views race as a social construct and examines...

Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Mirroring moves by other red-state legislatures across the country, Texas Republicans are attempting to reach into classrooms and limit what public school students are taught about the nations historical subjugation of people of color. Two bills moving through the Texas Legislature would bar the teaching of critical race theory, a...

GOP lawmakers want to ban woke philosophies like critical race theory in Texas schools Posted By Duncan Agnew, The Texas Tribune on Wed, May 5, 2021 at 1:29 PM click to enlarge Texas Tribune / Michael Stravato Texas lawmakers are seeking to limit how and what public school stude...

Texas students need additional resources to overcome academic setbacks brought on by the pandemic, but school leaders aren’t so sure they’ll have the flexibility to spend new federal dollars to help them. The federal government gave Texas two big education stimulus packages — totaling around $6.8 billion — to help students recover from the pandemic. But as the first package of $1.3 billion flowed to districts, local school administrators saw aid cut elsewhere. It was hard to keep up wit...

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 Generally accepted estimates put the population of undocumented immigrants in the United States at approximately 11.3 million. A new study, using mathematical modeling on a range of demographic and immigration operations data, suggests that the actual undocumented immigrant population may be more than 22 million. … But a paper by three Yale-affiliated researchers suggests all the perceptions and arguments based on that number may have a faulty foundation; the actual populat...

Names of individuals facing deportation or rather protection orders to the data base of people banned from owning guns. its intended to close the gaps in ohios gun background check system. all right. brian? anna? brian: steve a new study finds the number of illegal immigrants living in the u.s. is actually higher than we previously thought by a lot. the study found that 22.1 million illegal immigrants were living in our country over double the previously estimated 11 million. anna: here to expla...