The two largest areas are education and health and human services.
For a look at each, you might want to open up the Texas Fiscal Size-Up.
Health and Human Services starts at page 161, Education starts at page 230.
Recent stories:
Education:
- Texas Public Schools Explorer.
- Gov. Greg Abbott wants task force to examine state teacher shortage.
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund files federal civil rights complaint against Carroll Independent School District.
- Texas schools are majority Hispanic. There’s been a shortage of bilingual teachers since 1990, and the pandemic made it worse.
- public education.
Health and Human Services:
- Analysis: A health care problem too big for the Texas Legislature.
- Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map.
- Medicaid expansion for uninsured Texans had bipartisan support, but lawmakers won't pass it this session.
- Coronavirus in Texas: Track hospitalizations, vaccinations, cases and deaths.