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New blog on Texas politics and education

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Texas, Education, Politics and San Antonio is a website dedicated to monitoring San Antonio’s community colleges, higher education in Texas and politics.

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Texas employee union targets UT layoffs

Posted on November 3, 2009 by | Comments Off on Texas employee union targets UT layoffs

The Daily Texan: Employee union targets UT layoffs

More than a thousand students, professors and faculty have put their names on a petition to protest proposed layoffs during the new budget cycle. The Texas State Employees Union is organizing the petition and asking participants on campus to call the UT Board of Regents, UT President William Powers and state legislators with their concerns.

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Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research sues state over denial of its master’s program

Posted on April 21, 2009 by | Comments Off on Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research sues state over denial of its master’s program

Dallas Morning News: Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research sues state over denial of its master’s program

The Institute for Creation Research has taken its fight to train future science teachers to the federal courthouse.

The Dallas-based group alleges that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board violated its civil rights by denying the institute’s request to offer a master’s degree in science education.

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Campus guns bill gaining support in Texas House

Posted on April 10, 2009 by | Comments Off on Campus guns bill gaining support in Texas House

Houston Chronicle: Campus guns bill gaining support in Texas House

AUSTIN — Legislation allowing state university students and employees to carry their concealed handguns on campus appears to have enough pledged support from lawmakers to pass the full Texas House.

The bill would prohibit public universities across Texas from creating rules that forbid concealed handgun license holders from carrying their pistols into a classroom, but it would allow private institutions to exempt themselves.

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Texas colleges line up against allowing guns on campuses

Posted on April 1, 2009 by | Comments Off on Texas colleges line up against allowing guns on campuses

Star-Telegram: Colleges line up against allowing guns on campuses

AUSTIN — Texas universities are firing back against a bill that would permit students to carry handguns on campus.

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Texas: UTMB faculty members fight for old jobs

Posted on March 25, 2009 by | Comments Off on Texas: UTMB faculty members fight for old jobs

The Galveston County Daily News: UTMB faculty members fight for old jobs

GALVESTON — Hearings have begun for about 30 University of Texas Medical Branch faculty members who are fighting for jobs lost in mass layoffs after Hurricane Ike.

The 30 are among 127 faculty members dismissed after the Sept. 13 storm flooded more than 1 million square feet of buildings on the island campus, knocking John Sealy Hospital, its main revenue maker, out of commission for months.

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