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School Vouchers Will Hurt Texas Teachers Like Me
| May 20, 2025
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For Traci Dunlap, the fight over school vouchers in Texas is a personal one.
Texas Graded Its Public Schools. How Did Yours Fare?
| May 20, 2025
Texas public school ratings — which grade how well districts and campuses educate their students and prepare them for the future — were made public for the first time in two years.
Results across the state have dropped after the Texas Education Agency implemented stricter scoring standards, and one North Texas school district is at risk of being taken over by the state after five consecutive years of receiving an F ranking.
‘Neither work nor home’: Dairy Queens as community hubs in rural Texas
| May 20, 2025
To be sure, the view of Dairy Queen as a community's social hub doesn't ring true as much as it did decades ago, even in rural Texas.