Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune
Kate McGee covers higher education for The Texas Tribune.
Professors Behind Conservative-Backed “Liberty Institute” Say UT Has Strayed From Plan
University of Texas at Austin finance professor Richard Lowery was emailing with a colleague in London last November when he was asked if it...
Gov. Greg Abbott Instructs School Safety Officials To Conduct “Unannounced, Random Intruder” Audits Of...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday instructed state school security and education officials to start conducting “in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits on school districts”...
Texas Senate Democrats Call For Special Session To Raise The Age To Purchase Guns,...
The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus is urging Gov. Greg Abbott to call an emergency special legislative session to consider a variety of gun restrictions...
Texas School Board Association Breaks From National Group Over Letter Requesting Help From Biden...
The Texas Association of School Boards, the state group representing the state’s 1,024 public school boards, has severed its ties with the National School...
UT Faculty Members Demand Answers After Dan Patrick Says Liberty Institute Intended To Fight...
A tweet sent by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has reignited concern among some University of Texas at Austin faculty members that the purpose of...
Omicron’s Swift Emergence Tests Texas Public Schools As A New Semester Begins
On Tuesday, the last day of winter break, Marc Scott, principal of Joe Lee Johnson Elementary in the Austin-area Round Rock school district sent...
Sarah Weddington, Lawyer in Roe v. Wade Case, Dies at 76
Sarah Weddington, the attorney who argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case in the U.S. Supreme Court that legalized abortion nationally, has died, according...
911 Transcripts Filed in Updated “Trump Train” Lawsuit Reveal San Marcos Police Refused to...
As supporters of then-President Donald Trump surrounded and harassed a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Central Texas highway last year, San Marcos police...
UT-Austin Attempts to Calm Faculty Concerns Over Planned Liberty Institute Organized With Lt. Gov....
University of Texas at Austin leaders attempted to quell concerns among faculty this week over a proposed think tank on campus known as the...
After Texas A&M Student Died from COVID-19, Students and Faculty Rally for More Safety...
The death of a 20-year-old Texas A&M University student from COVID-19 last week spurred fear, frustration and sadness on the College Station campus. In...
