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Newsreel: Abbott Priorities, HHS, Charter School

This week in the Newsreel: Abbott unveils key issues for next session, the sunset commission recommends health and human services agencies be consolidated and 14 charter schools don't meet state performance standards.

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This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: Gov.-elect Greg Abbott unveiled his key issues for the 84th legislative session, the state's sunset commission is recommending that the state's health and human services agencies be combined in one massive agency and 14 charter schools didn't meet state standards for financial and academic performance.

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