Texas Just Reopened Autism Services to Teenagers, and Its Own Website Still Says They Do Not Qualify
A Texas child with autism used to lose access to the state’s autism treatment program on the morning of his 16th birthday.
A Texas child with autism used to lose access to the state’s autism treatment program on the morning of his 16th birthday.
Texas has spent three sessions pushing state money into rural sheriff's offices.
For about ten years, households in eight American cities bought a special orange trash bag, filled it with the plastics their curbside program would not take — chip bags, plastic film, foam cups — and set it out with the recycling.
Texas school districts received $1,000 for every teacher who started uncertified and earned a standard teaching certificate, and the state has now told them in writing that they may spend that money on whatever they like.
Texas built a fund to buy water that does not exist yet.
Mexican cattle began crossing into the United States again on Aug. 24 for the first time since 2025, but not through Texas.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas called a special meeting Aug. 21 for the sole purpose of taking up two of the giant power lines proposed to carry electricity out of the Permian Basin, moved it into a hotel ballroom to hold the crowd, heard argument from the parties, and then approved nothing, denied nothing and paused nothing.
The Texas Education Agency has adopted a rule letting the state education commissioner place an overseer inside any school district that falls behind on the state's school safety requirements.
Texas has rewritten the rules governing when the state bills a dead person's estate for the long-term care Medicaid paid for, and the changes take effect Aug. 27.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission finished its August business Aug. 20 with a briefing on alligator gar, and then its chairman said something that was not on the agenda.