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The Texas State Board of Education has advanced a sweeping overhaul of the state’s K-12 social studies curriculum, approving first-reading standards that emphasize founding documents, American exceptionalism, and the Christian influences on the nation’s founding.
Lubbock High School junior Camila Torres won the Regeneron Science Talent Search engineering prize for LabSense, a wearable device that helps deaf students safely participate in laboratory settings.
Texas Veterans Forward marked its 10th anniversary this week, having connected more than 3,200 veterans to civilian careers in Austin with an 87 percent one-year job retention rate.
A San Antonio neighborhood organization has transformed 14 vacant lots into community gardens producing 40,000 pounds of fresh produce annually, feeding thousands of families on the city’s West Side.
El Paso’s Border Arts Collaborative won a prestigious national public art award for its mural mentorship program that has worked with over 800 at-risk youth in the binational border community.
The Houston Food Bank shattered its holiday distribution record in December, delivering 18.2 million pounds of food to 265,000 families across the Gulf Coast region with help from 12,000 volunteers.