Recently released state school ratings reveal that five Texas school districts are at risk of a takeover by the Texas Education Agency (TEA)—the most since a 2017 state law expanded the state’s ...

The People of La Junta for Preservation, a nonprofit founded in 2024 that works to preserve Indigenous sites, and two Indigenous worshippers of Lipan Apache lineage are suing the federal government to ...

And, critics of TEA takeovers say, those costs are just the beginning of expenses that come with state intervention but without state recompense.

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A new novel about workers at an organic grocery store asks us to consider questions of labor and dignity in the Texas capital ...

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How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students ...

After settling in San Antonio in October 2024, he got sponsored by an American skate brand, found work as a food delivery ...

The true scale of prospective projects that want to plug into the Texas grid is hard to hold in your head. As of August 3, the Texas governor’s office put the figure at more than 474 gigawatts of ...

Fear of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids began to spread the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time. Posts on social media and Reddit claimed that ICE had ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2021 issue. For our full collaborative investigation “Justice For Some” on the Texas Rangers with KXAN, KTEP, and the Fort Worth Report, go here.