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We're giving away a few items to help celebrate our 20th anniversary. Answer this question correctly for the chance to win our giveaway bag featuring Texas Appleseed-branded items —a T-shirt, a tea towel, and a tangle! * According to our Suspended Childhood report, in the 2013-2014 school year, Texas schools issued about how many out-of-school suspensions to young children (pre-K - 5th grade): 42,000; 55,000; 88,000; or 114,000 ? *Email info@texasappleseed.net and put "20th Trivia

As a new crop of interns gets started for the fall semester at Texas Appleseed, I wanted to share the wonderful experience that the summers had here. As a second-year undergraduate student double majoring in Journalism and African Studies, I was accepted onto the Texas Appleseed team as a Communications intern. I’ve learned about newsrooms in Texas and used my writing skills for various projects, ranging from blog posts to radio public service announcements. However

Welcome to The Core, our blog where we’ll share videos, photos, and updates on what’s happening at Texas Appleseed. For our inaugural post, we’re catching you up on a few of our Core videos we released earlier this year: We couldn’t let the Summer Olympics pass without a fun video of us giving gold to some of the best in Texas. With an Olympic torch in hand, watch to see why we award gold to

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