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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“Y’all tryna take our community”: Parents outraged over Texas’ takeover of Houston schools

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images)

“Outrage” over Texas plan to take over Houston’s independent school district: “This is a dark day”

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Texas governor Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Leaked audio: Top Texas official admits Abbott’s voucher-like plan would cut public school funds

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“Rapidly accelerating movement”: Texas has banned more books than any other state, report shows

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Attendees hold signs as they walk out of a Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Board special meeting to consider the firing of Police Chief Pete Arredondo on August 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images)

Uvalde Chief Pete Arredondo claims his firing is “illegal and unconstitutional public lynching”

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Rear view of large group of students raising their hands to answer the question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images)

Texas school district may let teachers reject children’s pronouns — even if parents approve of them

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Rear view of large group of students raising their hands to answer the question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images)

“Intrusion of religion”: Texas GOP forces public schools to put up donated “In God We Trust” posters

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Open book and glasses on wood desk in the library room (Getty Images/ Konstantin Maslak)

Texas school board purges dozens of books after Christian PAC funded right-wing takeover

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images)

Texas Republicans are trying to sell school choice measures, but rural conservatives aren’t buying

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Rear view of large group of students raising their hands to answer the question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images)

“Extremely disturbing”: Texas educators want to refer to slavery as “involuntary relocation”

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pushing for his own version of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (The New Press/Shutterstock)

Texas Republicans to investigate school districts’ books that mention race and sexuality

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Students taking a test (Getty Images/kali9)

Texas school calling for “opposing” perspective on Holocaust is just tip of confusion over new law

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People hold up signs during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Black and accused of teaching “critical race theory”: Principal caught up in right’s new maelstrom

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images)

Confusion reigns in Texas as legal fight over mask mandates rages between Abbott and local officials

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