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Rep. Gonzalez secures more than $12.3m for South Texas in House Infrastructure Package

Wed, 06/30/2021 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) announced that he secured $12,384,078 in funding for four key infrastructure projects in his district in South Texas as part of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure surface transportation reauthorization legislation. The projects are included in the INVEST in America Act, a transformative five-year, $547 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill that includes selected Member Designated Projects.

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Texas students’ standardized test scores dropped dramatically during the pandemic, especially in math

Wed, 06/30/2021 - 12:00am

The COVID-19 pandemic appeared to undo years of improvement for Texas students meeting grade requirements in reading and math, with students who did most of their schooling remotely suffering “significant declines” compared to those who attended in person, according to standardized test results released Monday by the Texas Education Agency.

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Legislative “Hail Mary Pass” from Sen. Hinojosa to Rep. Canales generates victory for City of Pharr & Pharr International Bridge

Wed, 06/30/2021 - 12:00am

As time was running out for state lawmakers in May 2021, a legislative “Hail Mary Pass” from Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, to Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, generated a remarkable victory for the City of Pharr and one of its prized economic engines, the Pharr International Bridge.

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Winter deaths

Wed, 06/30/2021 - 12:00am

As I’ve said many times before, Republican or Democrat, all clear-headed Texans should be ashamed that Warren Kenneth Paxton, 58, still occupies the Office of the Attorney General of Texas after winning the office in 2014, running as a Tea Party Conservative.

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Charter School lawyers up IDEA Public Schools touts “transparency,” then hides

Wed, 06/30/2021 - 12:00am

IDEA Public Schools may be public in name, but when it comes to public disclosure of expenditures, it’s now arguing through its attorneys that the price of travel taken by former IDEA administrators should remain private, as well as information regarding advertising costs paid to one particular vendor, the costs of school uniforms paid to one particular vendor, and whether or not the vendor that got the uniform job won it through an open bidding process, or was it just handed to it? There is also the question of IDEA administrators having any business interests in the vendors handed work by IDEA.