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Christian nationalism is the problem

As a chaplain and school volunteer, the Rev. Deborah Reeves explains why school districts should reject the option to install chaplains in public schools

Religion and horses are insufficient therapy for this abuse drama

'Better than a stick in the eye' says teacher union head

Inside one of APD’s most-celebrated divisions

Did TV News Reports Jeopardize Out Youth Austin's Partnership With AISD?

A small sample of the letters received by Austin attorney Derek Howard; transcribed and minimally edited

The new AISD budget hurts, but less than in past years

As college access tightens, minority students and families, and educators, look for ways to help more students.

Not another 1980s summer camp horror homage

SB 2234: A "dangerous expansion of state power"

A Rockdale teenager's suicide raises questions about official protections for gay and transgendered kids

Stephen gets on all fours for the holidays. You heard it here first.

The SIMS Foundation helps local musicians, and finally, itself.

D.A.’s Office commits to culture change to aid access to justice

Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services

How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids

A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.

Unit offers training in EMDR therapy in exchange for pro bono counseling for trauma survivors

Students and parents find help is out of reach

Texas heavily underwrites anti-abortion centers, while slashing reproductive care

The public keeps to itself its view of school spending plan

Volunteer Call for peer counelors at the HIV Wellness Center.

The S.I.M.S. Foundation

Vaping is criminal, books are banned, and school cops are everywhere

Texas prison inmates say their 'therapy' has taken a dark turn

Life in Kat Candler's cinematic world

Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.