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Abbott, Burrows promote bill to create Texas’ first Education Savings Account program

Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, both Republicans, promoted a bill Tuesday that would create the state’s first Education Savings Account program. HB 3, filed by state Rep. Brad Buckley,

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Texas Rep. discusses education savings accounts and public school funding

Democratic Texas Rep. John Bryant of Dallas discusses why he opposes taxpayer funded education savings accounts. He also tells Jack Fink why he believes public schools are underfunded.

Dallas Morning News on MSN · 1d

Texas House begins work on bill to use public money for private schooling

State lawmakers are poised to hear testimony Tuesday on the legislative session’s most politically charged issue, a bill that would allow families to use taxpayer dollars to pay for private school education.

Texas court delays execution of man on death row

CBS News · 19h

Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

U.S. News & World Report · 1d

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction

A federal appeals court has tossed a Texas woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant

UPI News on MSN · 6h

Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her being sentenced to death, a federal appellate court panel ruled Friday.

Get the Facts: Measles cases are 3 times higher this year as vaccination rates fall

Texas health officials say they are seeing some severe cases with about 20 hospitalizations, some of those patients receiving ...

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Texas measles outbreak grows to 146 cases, largest in decades

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

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RFK Jr. flubs facts and plays down measles outbreak that killed child in Texas

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday described a recent measles outbreak in Texas as "not ...

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Texas House committee holds hearing on school choice bill as becomes top legislative priority

Governor Greg Abbott has named the issue an emergency item and listed it atop his legislative priorities. In Tuesday's House Education Committee hearing, the passion for and against the measure was ...

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Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Texas Democrat, dies at 70

The former Houston mayor, who was just two months into his first term, attended President Donald Trump's address to Congress ...

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Bills introduced a year after largest blaze in Texas seek to limit wildfires

ABC13 Houston on MSN5d

17-year-old indicted for allegedly plotting terrorist attack via Facebook Messenger

We've learned disturbing new details about a Harris County teen charged with terrorism. He's been reportedly communicating ...

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Texas taking inspiration from Musk's federal efforts

A few weeks after Elon Musk waved a chainsaw at a conservative gathering touting the Department of Government Efficiency’s federal cost cutting efforts, the Texas House kicked off the first ...

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