04/24/2012 - 04:42
Brian May named ASU provost, vice president
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Criminal Justice
04/16/2012 - 03:46
Perry to say Medicaid 'ticking time bomb,' will call for making permanent small business
04/11/2012 - 00:22
State Sen.
01/26/2012 - 14:00
Leaders at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice don’t agree with the method of calculating t
12/21/2011 - 15:39
Daryl Fowler, whose non-judicial post gives him administrative control over DeWitt county 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio, has negotiated an $8,000-per-well fee from drilling companies to pay for roads. The county was able to reduce its property-tax rate by 18 percent this year while total assessed value jumped 27 percent as producers, including BHP Billiton Ltd., and Pioneer Natural Resources Co., sought permits to drill more than 340 wells.
12/14/2011 - 16:07
A leading civil rights group filed suit against Texas on Tuesday, asserting that the state is illegally underfunding the education of low-income and limited-English students in the public schools. The lawsuit by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said the state’s current funding system allows wide funding gaps between lower-wealth and higher-wealth districts, and also does not provide adequate funding for districts to meet current state requirements.
12/09/2011 - 20:06
The second of four lawsuits that are expected to challenge Texas’ school finance system was filed Friday morning. A coalition of mostly property-wealthy school districts, including Eanes, are claiming that the current system violates the state constitution because it is inadequately funded and effectively imposes a statewide property tax.
10/21/2011 - 14:39
Texas public-sector jobs may fuel reversal of fortune
08/05/2011 - 14:24
Independent school districts get creative to meet budget shortfall
03/25/2011 - 16:01
My colleague Marc Levin, Director of TPPF’s Center for Effective Justice, brought up a hig
03/10/2011 - 19:40
On Tuesday, several lawmakers joined together to announce their support for legislation that wou
02/24/2011 - 18:32
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will cut more than 550 jobs in the coming months, part