Posted on · Nearly 90 percent of Texas schools are enrolled in TRS-ActiveCare. Some say the program saves teachers money, though complaints are growing about the state's stagnant per-month contribution.
Posted on · Texas has 254 counties — far more than any other state. The reason? The state is huge, and its founders wanted to keep residents close to their local governments.
Posted on · More than 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the border. Here's the latest on what's happening at the border, in Washington and among Texas politicians.
Posted on · Austin-based Southwest Key Programs has been paid hundreds of millions of dollars to care for thousands of immigrant children in federal custody. Founder Juan Sanchez says about 10 percent of the children the nonprofit cares for were separated from their parents.
Posted on · Under the federal government's "zero tolerance" policy, about 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the border.