Texas Superintendents Seek To Save School Budgets
School superintendents from across the state have a message for lawmakers in Austin: make education a priority.
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School superintendents from across the state have a message for lawmakers in Austin: make education a priority.
When Texas began testing tens of thousands of high school athletes for steroids, the goal was to stop teens from taking dangerous performance-enhancing drugs. The death of a 17-year-old baseball player in a Dallas suburb had drawn national attention to the hazard.
The Dallas County Elections Commission met for the first time since the late 1980s Friday to decide the fate of the man who has presided over elections in the county for nearly a quarter of a century.
State nursing homes are watching Medicaid cuts being considered by the Legislature. Currently there are hundreds of nursing homes in Texas that largely depend on Medicaid for funding.
Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams announced his bid to replace retiring U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.
With her progress moving at "lightning speed," Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been moved from intensive care.
A suspicious package delivered to Sen. John Cornyn's suburban Dallas office Wednesday triggered an evacuation of the top two floors of the sprawling building where the office is located, police said. It was later deemed not to be a threat.
The man who has handled elections for Dallas County for more than 23 years is stepping down, and his supporters say they don't like the reason why.
Former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells KRLD he's, "strongly considering" running for mayor.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be moved to a rehab facility Wednesday after doctors upgraded her condition from serious to good.
Fort Worth plans a downtown memorial to JFK about the half day he spent in the city before his fateful trip to Dallas.
Legislation requiring Texans to show a photo ID before voting cleared a major hurdle Tuesday night.
Many Senate Democrats lambasted the legislative priorities of those across the aisle Tuesday, just four days after Gov. Rick Perry declared the voter ID bill to be an emergency issue that can be voted on immediately.
Texas Republicans are making a hard push to require voters to show photo identification before casting their ballots.
A remarkable teenager from Richardson who is already a noted cancer researcher will attend the State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. 16 year-old Amy Chyao will sit in first lady Michelle Obama's box at Tuesday's address as reward for winning the International Science and Engineering Fair.
