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The stories prompted Sharon Fitz and Chanda McGuffin, co-founders of RISE, to organize an educational forum last month for those concerned about racism in area schools and the community.
Figures compiled by the nonprofit College Board indicate the average student attending an in-state public university this year faces a tuition bill of $11,610, which is down 4% from a decade ...
Rice was born in Marlin, Texas, and like Garcia, was a graduate of the University of Texas undergraduate and law programs. He was nominated to the courts by President Harry S. Truman, and had begun serving in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas as the Chief Judge in 1948. He continued in the legal system as a chief judge ...
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding for education of undocumented immigrant children in the United States and an independent school district's attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. [1]
However, almost 40% of Texas students attend predominantly nonwhite, high-poverty school districts. Mexican Americans in Texas have endured an almost 200-year struggle for equal education that has ...
[1] [4] Being "very visibly queer" and wearing women's clothing beginning in junior high school, she faced bullying and rejection from her classmates and family. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] At age 17 her parents forced her to come out , sent her to reparative therapy at church, and refused to give her any money for college tuition if she didn't "act straight ...
Texas joined 21 states in suing over Title IX's expanded protections for LGBTQ and trans youth. Here's what experts say that means for Texas schools.
Timothy Brian Cole (July 1, 1960 – December 2, 1999) was an American military veteran and a Texas Tech University student wrongfully convicted of raping a fellow student in 1985. Cole attended two years of college followed by two years of service in the U.S. Army. After his Army service, he returned to college at Texas Tech in Lubbock. [1]