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This article is an excerpt from the Dallas Morning News article featuring Leadership ISD’s work in Dallas.

BY SHARON GRIGSBY | METRO COLUMNIST, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

The 74 has gathered a wonderful collection of stories, memoirs, and personal accounts of the Supreme Court’s historic and pivotal decision to ban segregation in Brown vs. Board of Education. Over the next week, we will be sharing a handful of these stories, but we highly recommend visiting The 74 to read them all!

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“Tax policy and state policy get mixed in unexpected ways in the Texas Legislature. Lawmakers are considering tax bills that would regulate vaping and trying to work out the social policy kinks in what could be the largest tax proposal of this legislative session.”

BY ROSS RAMSEY | TEXAS TRIBUNE

I can’t help but wonder why the broader conversation doesn’t include examples of great work being done in the field to remedy the inequities in higher education, which make a high-income student five times as likely to have a bachelor’s degree by age 24 as a low-income student.

ALLAN GOLSTON | THE 74 CONTRIBUTOR

Texas public schools struggle to keep up with rapid enrollment growth. Local taxpayers have seen their bills climb. The Texas Permanent School Fund, created 165 years ago to help in just this kind of crisis, stands today at $44 billion. But when the numbers are adjusted for inflation, it is sending less money to schools than it did decades ago. The Houston Chronicle spent a year investigating how this happened.

This week, the board will vote on final changes to curriculum standards, which proponents say provide teachers with clarity, while critics claim they are still historically inaccurate. If the board votes to pass the new standards as expected, they’ll go into effect next school year.

BY KATHRYN LUNDSTROM | TEXAS TRIBUNE

The district's four propositions passed, mainly with flying colors. "The community has spoken," says Superintendent Michael Hinojosa.

BY SHAWN SHINNEMAN | PUBLISHED IN FRONTBURNER

The real winner in Texas Tuesday? Public education

Thousands of residents in the Dallas, Frisco and Richardson school districts sent a strong message that kids in their communities deserve quality schools -- and they’re willing to pay more to ensure it.

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Behind closed doors, Greg Abbott’s office has pitched a plan to fix Texas school finance. The pitch includes capping increases in districts' property tax revenue and financial incentives to improve school performance.

BY ALIYYA SWABY | TEXAS TRIBUNE

The four propositions that were on the ballot for Dallas ISD were approved by voters. Those will add an additional 13 cents to their maintenance and operations tax rate, placing it at the state maximum of $1.17.

By Courtney Gilmore | Published by NBC-DFW

In September, Fort Worth ISD's Board of Education Trustees authorized the district to hire TCU's Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies as a consultant to develop a K-12 overlay curriculum relating to Latino American history and culture that will be added to classes.

By Lexie Houghtaling | NBC-DFW

Friday was Student Voting Day and a group of Diamond Hill Jarvis High School students helped lead a march to a nearby polling site. Students who are 18-years-old and registered to vote were allowed to take a break from classes to cast a ballot.

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“Every candidate talks about how important education is, but the State Board of Education race has gotten very little attention,” said Davis, an educator and senior research assistant at the University of North Texas who is seeking the District 13 seat as a Democrat.

BY DIANE SMITH | STAR-TELEGRAM