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Pay for some Texas teachers will top $100,000 in bid to aid poorer schools devastated by COVID-19
In a move to create educational equity, Texas is set to offer some of its best teachers more than $100,000 annually, rewarding them for work in the state’s poorest schools where COVID-19 has devastated communities, resulting in months, if not years, of learning loss.
Unemployed Texans will stop getting extra $300-per-week benefit
Jobless Texans will soon lose access to all additional federal unemployment aid — including a $300-per-week supplemental benefit — that was extended as a result of the pandemic after Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday said Texas will opt out of the federal assistance.
Texas senator overhauls House bail bill to keep more people in jail if they can’t post cash bonds
Texas lawmakers’ attempts to reform how — and whether — criminal defendants get out of jail while awaiting trial are likely headed for a closed-door showdown over the different legislative approaches the House and Senate each devised.
Law enforcement learns from active-shooter drill in Wortham
Law enforcement and first-responders in Wortham held an active shooter simulation Saturday at Wortham High School to train and be ready in case the dreaded event should ever happen in their small town.
