Earlier this month, state Representatives Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, and Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, introduced twin bills initiating an amendment to the Texas Constitution.
This editorial captures a moment in history when some students at UT first began to realize that their belief in equality might prevail over the segregationalist ones of the legislators and administrators.
On Feb. 4, John Dietz, a state district judge from Austin, ruled in favor of more than 600 Texas school districts, claiming that the state does not adequately fund its public schools and therefore violates the “efficiency” provision of Article VII of the Texas Constitution.
On Tuesday, UT announced that Thomas Edgar, a chemical engineering professor, will be promoted to interim director of the research-scandal-plauged UT Energy Institute
We acknowledge that it is less costly to graduate in four years than five, but we remain unconvinced that raising four-year graduation rates is truly in the interest of individual students’ educations.