Really happy to have won the Best of the West in short feature reporting for this story on Christine and her life with long COVID (amazing photos by Elizabeth Conley)

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Christine was so brave to open up her world.

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Lt. Gov Dan Patrick has released interim charges for the Texas Senate to review before the next #txlege session:

They include:
- Standardized test reforms
- Reading/math readiness
- Guidelines for 'Faculty Senates'
- Tenure revisions
- Antisemitism at colleges
- DEI ban progress

OJ Simpson is dead.

INBOX: Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe released a statement before a press conference today stating that the org has verified 66 people who have lost their jobs from UT Austin. He writes they believe the total is “greatly in excess” of that number. Stay tuned via Austin Statesman.

Parents at Helms and Wharton, the only two fully immersive Spanish dual-language schools at HISD, were up in arms after the district added English-only pre-K tracks

The district now plans to reverse course by making those schools application-only
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NEW: The Heritage Foundation is urging states to make undocumented children pay to attend public school. The conservative think tank w/ close ties to Trump is looking to challenge the landmark Supreme Court decision, Plyler v. Doe chalkbeat.org/2024/04/09/ply…

new: TX AG ken paxton is suing harris county challenging its new guaranteed income program, calling the effort to administer $500 monthly checks to low income residents the 'harris handout.' participants have already been selected & notified.

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.Houston ISD's appointed school board is holding their monthly meeting on Thursday.

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Had a blast watching the eclipse today with a few hundred screaming children
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Houston-area Democratic state legislators are requesting a formal state committee hearing to address “potential violations of state law in HISD.
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Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

Images of the total solar eclipse Monday, April 8, 2024, at Eagle Pass Student Activities Center in Eagle Pass.
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📸: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle photographer

it really was as incredible as everyone said it would be

Burnt Orange everything 🤘

#Eclipse2024

today we are all old man yells at cloud

Nine Houston-area state Democratic representatives are asking for a House education committee meeting to address “potential violations of state law” in Houston ISD.

They cite “numerous, credible reports of concerning developments” in the school district after the state takeover.

Under the radar but interesting (and maybe important): NewsGuard, which (quite fairly) rates news organizations for credibility and quality, has downgraded the The New York Times for the first time. It said it did so because…More: dropbox.com/scl/fi/nmem5n9…

From a Houston ISD teacher: “The students are so accustomed to a revolving door of substitute teachers that when I was sick one day, the students assumed I had been fired.

… This cannot be considered a healthy learning environment.”
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