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HOUSTON – At KPRC 2, we're dedicated to keeping Houstonians informed. As part of our new Ask 2 series, the newsroom will answer your questions about all things Houston.
The question: Why don't all Texas School buses have seatbelts?
When Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 693 into law in 2017, Texas became one of only a handful of states in the country to pass some variation of a school bus seat belt law.
Dozens of activists and protesters rallied near downtown Houston Sunday afternoon to protest the Trump administration's treatment of immigrant women and children.
The "Unlock the Future" rally, organized by the D.C.-based National Organization for Women, addressed reports of physical and sexual abuse in detention facilities and the living conditions of women and girls who are currently being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
November 14, 2019
Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Education
United States of Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20202
Secretary DeVos,
Dear Colleague:
We invite you to become an original cosponsor of a resolution condemning Federal Housing and Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mark A. Calabria's decision to remove the critical borrower's preferred language question from the redesigned Universal Residential Loan Application (URLA).
WASHINGTON, DC — Earlier this week, the Houston City Council approved $24 million in federal funding that will go towards the East End Maker Hub, a startup hub in the Texas 29th Congressional District.
The night of June 18, David Marcus and his team at Facebook pulled an all-nighter as they prepared for a big company announcement the next day.
Over 80 members of the House of Representatives have now called on White House senior adviser Stephen Miller to resign after leaked emails published this week showed his affinity for white nationalism.
As the Getty Fire bellowed over an affluent part of Los Angeles last month, belching black smoke and turning the skies a hellish red, dozens of housekeepers and nannies trudged up hills, headed to work in multi-million-dollar homes.
Their employers had fled, seeking safety far from the danger zone. But many domestic workers still reported to their jobs for fear of being fired or losing a day's wages. Others were unaware of a mandatory evacuation order.
WASHINGTON — Hispanic lawmakers from Texas and around the country blasted President Donald Trump as a bigot Tuesday, as he dusted off a provocative claim that many young immigrants protected from deportation under an Obama-era program he ended were "hardened criminals."
Trump made the assertion just before the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on his decision to scrap DACA, or Deferred Adjudication for Childhood Arrivals, in September 2017.
HOUSTON, TX — Ayer, Mike Morath, el Comisionado de la Agencia de Educación de Texas (TEA, en inglés), le informó al Houston ISD que el estado de Texas se hará cargo del distrito escolar y que reemplazará a la junta escolar y a la superintendente. La potencial adquisición estatal del distrito escolar se ha estado cerniendo sobre los estudiantes, padres y maestros en el Houston ISD por más de dos años. La Congresista Sylvia Garcia emitió la siguiente declaración al respeto: