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Texas moves to follow Washington in dropping a job-outreach rule

The Texas Workforce Commission decides Tuesday whether to open for public comment a rewrite of its own anti-discrimination rules, brought on by Washington's repeal of the requirement that federally funded job programs make an effort to reach people who might not otherwise walk in the door.

The Texas Dispatch · Aug 10, 2026

Texas is about to rewrite community-college career curriculum

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Programs of Study Advisory Committee spent most of Wednesday afternoon on a question that sounds like housekeeping and is not: who gets to sit in the rooms where Texas decides what a community-college career program teaches.

The Texas Dispatch · Aug 6, 2026