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AUSTIN Though the foster care system in Texas has been rocked by a growing shortage of beds and increasingly pointed critiques by a federal judge, leading providers are urging the GOP-led Legislature to double down on a regional privatization approach. The private providers are advocating brisk rollout of “community-based care,” in which one non-state entity is ceded virtual control of a geographic region, even as citations and official rebukes pile up on the two nonprofits in charge of the push in San Antonio and Fort Worth. Troubles are mounting in both cities, the only urban demonstrations so far of the community-based care model that is likely to be imposed on Dallas and Collin counties late next year assuming there are willing bidders. ....