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Higher education officials urge Legislature to invest in colleges and universities, after pandemic’s toll on students and economy Texas Tribune Updated: Tags: When the last legislative session ended with huge wins for Texas public schools in the form of increased funding and teacher raises, higher education leaders looked to 2021, hopeful it would soon be their turn. Texas Higher Education Commissioner Harrison Keller, who took the helm in the fall of 2019, started meeting with state lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott to push the idea that the next session should be focused on higher education, including a bill that could overhaul its funding. ....
As the Legislature grapples with a struggling pandemic economy and the impact of an unprecedented winter storm, higher education advocates are vying for lawmakers’ attention, trying to make the case for more investment in colleges and universities. ....
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Liz, you did this amazing tour with planned parenthood through a whole bunch of states, and i wanted to ask you, one of the risks of this kind of event, right, is that it looks like outsider, like new york city liberals are condescendingly rallying to texas s side and that the folks of texas who are a proud lot, i think it s fair to say, will kind of get their backs up about that. do you worry about that image that this issue becomes polarized along these kind of geographic lines? well, actually, tonight, three of the greatest texas allies who were sarah slayman who was the woman thrown out of the texas leg, is speaking tonight at our event along with jessica luther and heather busby. we don t consider it we re trying to help texas women do anything. they re on their own, but what anybody needs is cash. and when you look at the ramifications of hb-2 and how ....