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Texas Lawmakers Pull Funding for Child Identification Kits Again After Newsrooms Report They Don’t Work
For the second legislative session, lawmakers have withdrawn funding for a company selling kits that promise to help find ...
$8.5 billion Texas public education funding plan is now law. Here’s how it works.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill providing $8.5 billion in new funding for Texas public schools, offering relief to ...
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Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US
In Texas and elsewhere, this helped set the stage for the measles outbreak and fueled its spread. Now cuts to federal funding threaten ... Vaccines for Children, a safety-net program created ...
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Texas Vaccination Clinics Canceled Amid Funding Cuts
Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety ... across Texas have been abruptly canceled, as steep federal funding cuts hit ...
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McKinney ISD budget cuts spark outcry from parents over loss of essential programs and staff
McManis is one of three mothers of McKinney ISD students CBS News Texas spoke with who have a lot to say about a letter from the superintendent outlining budget cuts that they believe could ...
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The looming crisis: How federal funding cuts threaten Texans’ mental health | Opinion
Drastic cuts to federal mental health funding and staffing have taken place, and Congress’s latest budget reconciliation package put future cuts to Medicaid on the table. Among Texas nonprofits ...
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‘Cutting into the bone’: Texas child care could suffer under looming Head Start cuts, advocates say
Over the last year, Texas has lost nearly 75,000 child care providers, according to data compiled by child advocacy nonprofit Children at Risk. Education and child advocacy leaders are warning ...