Faced with growing state attention on improper student-teacher relationships, the Texas Education Agency is asking lawmakers for hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to help investigate them — plus new legislation.
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Health care
New Position Will Oversee Abstinence, Abortion Programs
The state health commission has begun advertising for someone to fill a new executive job overseeing “women’s education services” — including abstinence education and counseling on alternatives to abortion. The position could pay six figures.
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Health care
Medicaid Cuts to Children’s Therapy Allowed to Proceed
A significant cut to the amount of money Texas pays therapists who treat children with disabilities was finally cleared to take effect when the Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a lawsuit over the budget cut’s legality.
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Texas Not Budging on Rule Requiring Burial or Cremation of Fetal Remains
Despite intense outcry from the medical community and reproductive rights advocates, Texas isn’t budging on a proposed rule to require the cremation or burial of fetal remains.
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Politics
Texas Medical Board’s Executive Director Announces Resignation
After almost 16 years with the Texas Medical Board, Mari Robinson announced Wednesday that she is stepping down as executive director.
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Criminal Justice
Hearings Will Address Criminal Justice Reforms in Sandra Bland’s Name
Texas lawmakers will meet Tuesday to discuss the push for reforms in Texas jail standards, police training and care for mentally ill inmates in the wake of Sandra Bland’s death in the Waller County Jail.
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Demographics
Trump, in Houston, Blasts Clinton on Illegal Immigration
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a Saturday trip to Houston to address families of victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants — and blast Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as unsympathetic to their concerns.
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Health care
Texas Budget Writers Hear Concerns Over Medicaid Therapy Cuts
Cuts in the state’s payments to therapy providers who see children with disabilities remain tied up in court, but Texas officials said Thursday they have made about $58 million in cuts from other parts of the health care budget.
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Higher Education
Documentary Examines Texas Higher Education Defunding
A new documentary titled “Starving the Beast” claims Texas officials have maneuvered higher education into a business rather than a public good.
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Health care
Key Texas Lawmakers Show Little Appetite for Medicaid Expansion
Comments by high-ranking Texas Republicans indicate that the state’s long-running tug-of-war with the federal government over Medicaid expansion is unlikely to change course.
