AUSTIN — Texas children face equity disparities, according to a report by Children at Risk released Tuesday. The report also found that Texas ranks among the worst states when it
In Travis County, Black Children More Likely to be Taken from Parents
Advocates are working to show how policing influences racial disparities in the child welfare system in Austin and statewide.
A bill aimed to have law enforcement agencies adopt policies to work with parents who are being arrested in identifying someone safe to care for their children, instead of immediately bringing CPS into the picture, did not pass this legislative session. Matthew Busch
Advocates are working to show how policing influences racial disparities in the child welfare system in Austin and statewide.
A bill aimed to have law enforcement agencies adopt policies to work with parents who are being arrested in identifying someone safe to care for their children, instead of immediately bringing CPS into the picture, did not pass this legislative session. Matthew Busch
Democratic lawmakers wanted to replace a defunded agency by creating a new office that would look at health inequities across the state. But after Republicans pulled it into ongoing debates about transgender rights and critical race theory, the bill died in the Senate.
Pharmacist Ilana Druker gives a vaccine to Beverly Mills, a teacher at Houston Independent School District’s Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center. A proposal that recently died in the Legislature would have created an office to track health outcomes for Texans. Credit: May-Ying Lam for The Texas Tribune
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When the state’s Office of Minority Health Statistics and Engagement was defunded in 2017, no one could have predicted a massive pandemic would emerge three years later one that disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and disabled Texans, among other marginalized people.
Chalk up one more casualty to the Texas GOP lawmakers' divisive agenda this legislative session: a state agency that would have worked to solve health.