Texas Standard For March 4, 2019
Texas has $44 billion set aside for education – the biggest such endowment in the U.S. So why is the state spending less on schools? We’ll have the latest. And: In Texas’ biggest city, concerns are growing over recent shootings involving children. Police are focusing on gangs, but heath workers want to look at something different. Also: Millennials owe more than $1 trillion in debt, thanks to college. How the price of higher ed is shaping up to be a factor in the forthcoming political season. Plus: An iconic oasis in West Texas reopens, are you ready to take the plunge? All that and so much more today on the Texas Standard:
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