Emmy-nominated producer. She is the Inprint Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Fellow in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, where she is pursuing her MFA. Her poetry has appeared in Mom ...

We oppose this execution as we do every execution. Capital punishment is an act of state sanctioned violence that violates ...

DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.

New 287(g) task force agreements are trickling in as the Lege considers mandating ICE cooperation and some counties await ...

Top state officials have already made promises that, under Trump, money can be shifted to education. But that didn’t happen last time.

The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.

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A Third Future Schools-Texas elementary school in Midland has been accused of neglecting social studies and physical education.

In his biennial address, the governor declared seven emergency items.

Michael Ward is a writer from Dallas. His work has appeared most recently in the Tampa Review and X-R-A-Y.

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