A survey conducted by the Texas Association of School Business Officials found that 80 percent of the 313 #Texas school districts who responded are grappling with deficit budgets or insufficient resources. Half of the respondents said they would have to make significant cuts, including to teaching positions, by next year.
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In San Antonio, House Races Could Determine Future of Public Ed and Vouchers
Abbott-induced financial crises in public school districts are at the center of key legislative elections in Bexar County and beyond.
 #politics #USpol #news #education #schools #election2024 #SanAntonio #SouthTexas
“The last time the United States launched a mass deportation effort … U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent were rounded up and sent to Mexico—a place that many had never been before. The mass deportations that Trump is proposing would be devastating for our #economy and dangerous for American Latinos.”
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How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas
The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, ...
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A network of dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds has been spreading propaganda, laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges–and profiting from #border disinformation.
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Border 911: The Misinformation Network Profiting Off the ‘Invasion’ Narrative
Dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds have been spreading propaganda and laying the groundwork for p...
 #politics #USpol #disinformation #election2024 #democracy #Trump #news
“Immigrants exist across our economic spectrum. They’re everywhere. They’re us. When we talk about eliminating them from our society, it’s like not just talking about cutting off a finger. We’re talking about cutting off entire legs from the thigh down.”
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How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas
The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, ...
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Our top story, via @npub13uq8...vy6g: “Effectively, the business model here is deception. It’s not just about them being partisan. It’s about them being dishonest and crossing basic lines of journalism. They’re not even doing journalism.”
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The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government
Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influe...
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Featured post: “We’re gonna pick up seats regardless,” San Antonio state Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, who chairs the House Democratic Caucus, told the Texas Observer. “It could be anywhere between two seats and up to seven seats and beyond.”
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Can Democrats Keep the Texas House Anti-Voucher?
Four years after a failed attempt to flip the lower chamber, the minority party has set its sights on a more modest objective.
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“They almost annihilated us, and that genocide continues. To destroy the #environment you have to destroy the people who protect it.” From Dylan Baddour in May: An industrial buildout on the southern tip of #Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died.
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Defenders of the Delta: A Tribal Leader Fights for Ancestral Land in South Texas
Juan Mancias leads the Carrizo/Comecrudo, unrecognized and little-known, in a struggle against fossil fuels, SpaceX, and historical erasure.
 #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ClimateChange #Indigenous #news #culture #history #SouthTexas #news #politics #USpol #pollution
”There’s one thing for sure: The buffalo survived. And we as Indigenous people, especially Texas Indigenous, we also survived.” From the archives: In South Texas, Lipan Apaches are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.
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Labeled ‘Hispanic’
Lipan Apaches across Texas are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.
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When disaster strikes #Texas, the state’s environmental authority posts pictures of its white vans on patrol, verifying the air is safe to breathe. But former employees say this program is all “smoke and mirrors.”
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How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team
Former employees say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality weakened the unit in the years following the onset of the fracking boom. The ope...
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“I want to tell those stories before they disappear, before these families leave the country or state, before these families have to go underground.” From the archives, by Kit @npub1npnp...ecka in 2022: In Jesse Freidin's photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of #transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.
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Are You OK? The Lives of Young Trans Texans
In Jesse Freidin's photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.
 #trans #LGBTQIA+ #photography #culture #children #HumanRights #transphobia #Texas