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Politifact: Is Texas Over-Testing Its Students?
Texas government requires too much student testing, while Massachusetts and Finland get superior results with fewer tests. That's what one state official is saying....
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Checking Trial Lawyers’ Contributions
A spokeswoman for Texans for Lawsuit Reform says that trial lawyers have accounted for more than 80 percent of the Texas Democratic Party’s donations for more than a decade....
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Fact Checking Changes to Texas Birth Certificates
Will a proposed law result in every Texas birth certificate no longer reflecting mothers and fathers?...
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Checking the Veterans Claims Backlog
KUT’s Nathan Bernier spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American- Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas about Sen. John Cornyn’s assertion that the backlog has doubled since Obama took office....
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Checking the Support for Texting Ban
Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a statewide ban on all texting while driving in 2011. Now a Midland lawmaker wants to try again, and PolitiFact checked on some of his numbers....
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Insurance Required, but Premiums Differ
An Austin-based barbecue chain recently told workers that Obamacare will cost them. But was its notice accurate?...
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Water and Population Fact Checking
Sen. Kirk Watson says the state’s population will double in 50 years or so, while the state will have about the same amount of water. KUT’s Emily Donahue spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas....
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PolitiFact: West Austin Overrepresented
We fact check a statement made by Travis County’s former State Senator, Gonzalo Barrientos, who wrote that over the decades, many of Austin's council members have come from just one swath of the city....
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PolitiFact: Checking UT’s Medical School Funding
The University of Texas has a big endowment and a profitable football team. Can it spend that money on an Austin medical school? Nathan Bernier of KUT News spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s political fact-checking team PolitiFact Texas.
An Austinite suggested UT...
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Examining a Commissioner’s Stance on Texas 45 Southwest
In this week’s PolitiFact check in, we look at a statement by Travis County Commissioner Karen Huber, who is running for re-election in precinct three on the county commissioners court. ...
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U.S. Senate Candidate Once Proposed Income Tax
Texas has no personal income tax. Did a U.S. Senate candidate once push the prospect? KUT’s Nathan Bernier spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s...
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PolitiFact: Democrats’ Shutout in Texas the Nation’s Longest?
In this week’s Politifact Texas check-in, KUT’s Emily Donahue speaks with the Austin American-Statesman’s Gardner Selby about two claims made about Texas Democrats. ...
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A Less Educated Workforce? Checking the Numbers
A business leader says more Texas workers could lack a high school diploma by 2040. Bill Hammond of the Texas Association of Business said “If current trends continue, by 2040, 1 out of 3 Texas workers will not have a high school diploma” and that this would be an economic nightmare....
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Checking Out the Electoral Math
Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, envisions Texas voters making it “mathematically impossible for Republicans to elect a president.” KUT’s Ben Philpott spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas about Hinojosa’s comments at the...
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