Absenteeism spiked in the pandemic. Texas schools want the state’s help to keep students in the classroom.
Chronically absent students — those who missed at least 10% of their school days — are more likely to drop out, education ...
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Health care access and economic insecurity top a list of challenges for Texas children
Gaps in access to health care, economic insecurity and mental health challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic continue ...
Texas Removes 1.7M People from Health-Care Plan
Millions have lost coverage as a result of the national disenrollment process, which began following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump Team Taps Bird Flu Expert to Lead Pandemic Response Unit
The Trump administration has chosen Gerald Parker, a veterinarian and former top US health and security official, to lead the ...
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Social media isn’t the only cause of mental health woes among Texas youth, advocates say
Over the last five years, the rate of Texas youth who reported at least one major depressive episode has increased from 12% ...
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Several bills filed to weaken vaccine mandates as more Texas families opt out of immunizations
Emboldened by Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s nomination and disdain for pandemic-era mandates, skeptics are pushing for bills to make ...
The Texas job market is thriving amid strong national numbers; here's what to know
As the U.S. job market is thriving, so is Texas'. Data from the Texas Workforce commission outline impressive employment numbers.
15 American and Canadian downtowns that are bouncing back, and how they did it
Spokeo used data published in the Journal of Urban Studies to explore which cities across the U.S. and Canada have experienced a resurgence.
Nation's Report Card shows how North Texas students are performing in reading and math
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is given to fourth and eighth grade students to gauge their performance in ...
China's retaliatory tariffs on crude likely to push US exports lower in 2025
China's retaliatory tariffs on the United States may cause U.S. oil exports to decline in 2025 for the first time since the ...
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Austin rents have fallen for nearly two years. Here’s why.
Among Texas’ major metros, the San Antonio-New Braunfels region ... Landlords are filing more evictions than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, figures from Eviction Lab show. And the number of ...