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Why Texas isn’t paying for what it wants from Austin’s classrooms: Audio from KUT
Friday, April 24, 2015 by Kate McGee
Travis County and the City of Austin take part in a regular fiscal dance with the State of Texas over who pays the costs of government. Over the three days, KUT News and the Austin Monitor looked at key examples of that interaction in our series, “The Buck Starts Here.” Today, we take on education.
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