We’ve updated our Government Salaries Explorer with fresh data for employees on the state of Texas payroll and employees at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. The Dallas County Community College District is a new addition to the explorer.
Annie Daniel
Annie Daniel was a news apps developer at The Texas Tribune from 2014 to 2018, where she where she developed interactives, analyzed datasets and created graphics. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied both multimedia journalism and political science. Before moving to Texas, Annie interned at The Washington Post on their graphics team.
Posted inHigher Education
Ballpark Figures: Dive Into the Finances of Texas College Athletics
Use our “Ballpark Figures” app to look at revenues and expenses for the eight public Texas universities that play in the Football Bowl Subdivision. You can also compare schools to see how they stack up against one another.
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Politics
Five Texas Counties Rejected Clinton Twice, Eight Years Apart
Hillary Clinton ran for president in a Texas Democratic primary in 2008, winning most of the counties in the state. Eight years later, she did it again. We’ve mapped the results to show where she was consistently strong and weak.
Posted inPublic Education
Teacher Data Added to Public Schools Explorer
Our Texas Public Schools Explorer includes even more data. You can now see figures related to the highest degree held by teachers, as well as the ethnic breakdowns of teachers at the state, district and campus levels.
Posted inPublic Education
Explore Thousands of Texas Public Schools
Revisit our new-and-improved Texas Public Schools Explorer, which lets you easily find graduation rates, test scores and more for all of the 1,219 school districts and 8,646 public school campuses in Texas.
Posted inState Government
Dallas ISD, Travis County Added to Salaries Explorer
We’ve added the salaries for employees of Dallas ISD and Travis County to our Government Salaries Explorer. Use the explorer to view government salaries by gender, ethnicity, length of employment and more for more than 400,000 state employees.
Posted inPublic Education
A Sharper Tool for Mining Public Education Data
We’re pushing out our revamped Texas Public Schools Explorer, which lets you easily find graduation rates, test scores and more for all of the 1,219 school districts and 8,646 public school campuses in Texas.
Posted inState Government
More than 400,000 Employees Now in Salaries Explorer
With a focus on the Houston area, our latest updates have pushed the number of state and municipal employees in our database to more than 400,000. Among the agencies we’ve added: the University of Houston and its campuses, the city of Houston and Cypress-Fairbanks ISD.
Posted inEnergy, Environment
Revisit Starstruck, a Project on Texas’ Newest Space Race
SpaceX and Blue Origin have big — and sometimes secretive — plans for commercial space flight from South and West Texas. While some of the companies’ new neighbors are hopeful, others fear the effects on wildlife and small-town life.
Posted inEnergy, Environment
Starstruck: The Fights and Flights Behind Texas’ Commercial Space Race
A half-century after NASA began pursuing spaceflight from Houston, Texas has again become the center of an emerging space industry. SpaceX and Blue Origin plan to launch commercial rockets from Texas sites. But they haven’t won over their neighbors.