In this week's edition of the Trib+Edu newsletter: A national shift away from student suspensions to different models of discipline management, a kerfuffle over a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook and an interview with Jennifer Ransom Rice of the Texas Cultural Trust. Full Story
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Roads and schools — two topics of perpetual concern to Texans — were debated again on Wednesday by state lawmakers in a pair of legislative hearings, both focused on where taxpayers should be spending their money. Full Story
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Rising incomes helped lift more Texans above the federal poverty level in 2015, new census figures show, but poverty is still particularly prevalent among families with children and on the border. Full Story
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For the second time in three years, the U.S. Border Patrol is apprehending more non-Mexicans than Mexicans along the southwest border, most of them in Texas. Full Story
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Every year, thousands of Texans who can't afford to hire attorneys take a go at handling their own civil cases. Ahead of the next legislative session, lawmakers and legal service providers are looking for ways to make the process easier. Full Story
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is stepping up his efforts to protect the GOP majority in the upper chamber, teaming up with colleague John Cornyn to raise money for a half dozen vulnerable incumbents. Full Story
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The attorney general's opinion lends credibility to school district officials who have criticized the special-education law for being expensive to comply with. Full Story
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During a trip to Austin Wednesday, Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca, the governor-elect of Tamaulipas, got a head start on improving the relationship between Mexico and Texas. Full Story
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Paying off most of the debt Texas has racked up building toll roads would cost about $36.7 billion, a final report from the Texas Department of Transportation revealed, a tall order for state lawmakers who would like to wean the state off tolled highways. Full Story
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz might be laying low politically, but this fall he's taking the lead on an obscure issue that could affect ongoing federal budget negotiations: Who should control how the Internet is organized? Full Story
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At a marathon hearing of the Senate Education Committee Wednesday, GOP senators debated how, not whether, to give Texas families taxpayer money to pay for private, religious or home schools. Full Story
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A member of the Texas Ethics Commission is rejecting what he says was an effort by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to get him to resign. Full Story
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Presumptive incoming Texas House member Lina Ortega writes that she's learned some saddening but unsurprising things about the gender and ethnic makeup of one of the most powerful bodies of state government in the country. Full Story
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On this week's TribCast, Patrick talks to Ayan, Edgar and Alexa about the latest of the presidential race in Texas, Joe Straus' priorities for the next session and how Texas schools fared in the latest college rankings. Full Story
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Flavius Killebrew, the president and CEO of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, announced Wednesday he is stepping down. Full Story
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One Texas official has taken his frustration over athletes who choose to sit or take a knee during the national anthem to a new level — boycotting the NFL. Full Story
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It's been more than five months since the last execution in Texas, an unusual gap for the nation's most prolific death penalty state. Full Story
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A new documentary titled "Starving the Beast" claims Texas officials have maneuvered higher education into a business rather than a public good. Full Story
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Hispanic advocates, activists and elected officials from across the state on Tuesday called on the Texas Board of Education to reject a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook they blasted as racist. Full Story
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was resolute Tuesday in declining to endorse Donald Trump, despite meeting with the GOP nominee Mike Pence. Full Story
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