Texas education officials are seeking advice from someone who calls pregnant women “host organisms.” It’s a new low for Texas’ state Board of Education, which is currently in the process of updating how schools teach students about health and sex education. This...
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back to archiveIn his first Texas campaign stop, union guy Joe Biden talks to teachers at Houston town hall
Like scores of other 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls in recent weeks, former vice president Joe Biden visited Houston on Tuesday. Biden, who in April polls was beating President Trump in Texas, spoke to members of the American Federation of Teachers at a town...
More college-educated migrants are coming to Texas
A new study says a higher share of Mexican migrants arriving in Texas have college degrees. The number of college-educated Mexican migrants moving to the U.S. jumped from 269,000 in 2000 to 678,000 in 2017. The data shows that roughly one in six Mexican migrants...