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When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to adjust statutes and step up potential partnerships with universities. But nearly a year later, colleges and agencies are recognizing the steep administrative challenge to winning approval from the […] The post ‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons ap...

Since Pell Grant dollars became available, more colleges and universities have become interested in establishing prison education programs.

When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to adjust statutes and step up potential partnerships with universities. But nearly a year later, colleges and agencies are recognizing the steep administrative challenge to winning approval from the […] The post ‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons ap...

Four years ago, as Texas Republicans worried that conservative voices were being silenced at universities, Gov. Abbott signed a bill that enshrined new free speech protections on campuses. But since last week, he's deployed DPS to crack down on protests at UT Austin that he vociferously disagreed with.

When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to adjust statutes and

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Education Agency on Monday to ignore a Biden administration rule that expanded federal sex discrimination protections to include LGBTQ+ students.

Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas to ignore Biden administration’s new federal protections of LGBTQ+ students

When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to adjust statutes and step up potential partnerships with universities. But nearly a year later, colleges and agencies are recognizing the steep administrative challenge to winning approval from the […] The post ‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons ap...

When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to adjust statutes and step up potential partnerships with universities. But nearly a year later, colleges and agencies are recognizing the steep administrative challenge to winning approval from the […] The post ‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons ap...

The new Title IX rules expanded the definition of sex-based harassment. Paxton said the change distorted the original intent of the law.