Summary: More state-relevant news today! Texas Republican leaders appear to prefer letting all the other states get federal funding boosts. They are unable to stabilize the electrical grid & less…
Analysis: A $5.5 billion shift in who pays for public education in Texas https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/09/texas-education-property-taxes/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @TexasTribune
Congress allocated $19 billion in federal stimulus money to Texas public education, but schools have yet to see an extra dime https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/07/texas-schools-stimulus-funding/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @TexasTribune
Texas’ Courts have decided they should ignore the CDC’s eviction moratorium and start throwing people out on the streets. Meanwhile 99% of the $1 billion in federal money given to the state for renter’s aid sits unused https://thehill.com/regulation/547414-texas-courts-defy-cdc-eviction-pause-as-state-sits-on-1b-in-federal-rental-aid?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Texas Senate Approves A $250 Billion State Budget — But Questions Remain About How Federal Aid Will Be Used https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/texas-senate-approves-250-billion-state-budget-questions-remain-how-federal-aid?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=share
As Biden Pushes Major Rail Investments, Amtrak’s 2035 Map Has People Talking https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984464351/as-biden-pushes-major-rail-investments-rail-amtraks-2035-map-has-people-talking?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
Texas Policymakers Split On Electricity Repricing, Natural Gas Reforms In Aftermath Of Winter Storm https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2021-04-06/texas-policymakers-split-on-electricity-repricing-natural-gas-reforms-in-aftermath-of-winter-storm
