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Isabelle Taft was a reporting fellow at The Texas Tribune in 2016. She graduated from Yale, where she studied history. She previously interned at Politico Magazine and the Sacramento Bee. She was an editor-in-chief of The New Journal, a magazine of creative nonfiction about Yale and New Haven.
Spurred by frustration at a proposed Mexican American Studies textbook that has been called racist and inaccurate, over 200 educators, scholars and activists gathered for a statewide meeting on Mexican American Studies in public schools. Full Story
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Proposed federal regulations on payday lending could have an especially significant effect in Texas, where 8 percent of people have used payday loans, compared to 5.5 percent nationally, and fees are among the highest in the country. Full Story
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Three days after the state had to scrap scores from this year's standardized testing of school kids, a special panel studying testing says it won't recommend getting rid of STAAR tests. Full Story
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Baylor University announced Friday that it has appointed a sexual assault task force to implement 105 recommendations made by an independent investigator last month. Full Story
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