Media Coverage

In Texas, Questions About Prosecuting Truancy

NPR, National Desk,

Texas Sends Poor Teens To Adult Jail For Skipping School

BuzzFeed News,

The Fight to Decriminalize Truancy in Texas Schools

Pacific Standard,

All Over The Country, Kids Are Getting Shocked With Tasers And Sprayed With Chemicals In School

Huffington Post,

Justice Department Probes Another “School-to-Prison Pipeline”

Frontline (PBS),

U.S. Justice Department launches probe of Dallas truancy courts

Reuters,

The Fight Over Decriminalizing Truancy in Texas

KLRU-TV (PBS),

Payday loan borrowers: ‘When are we going to be done paying these people?’

The Guardian,

Texas Is Doing Something Genuinely Progressive And The World Didn't End

Huffington Post,

Inexcusable Absences

The Marshall Project,

Texas Prosecutes More Truancy Cases Than All Other States Combined

Texas Standard,

Report: Texas truancy policies are inconsistent, unfair

The Washington Times (Associated Press),

Texas truancy laws need reform, study finds

Austin American-Statesman,

Texas' truancy law hit in study

Houston Chronicle,

Black, Hispanic students comprise most of truancy cases in Fort Bend ISD

Houston Chronicle,

Interest builds up quickly, and some people lose their homes

Austin American-Statesman,

Breaking the cycle of Texas' Truancy Law

KTBC-TV Fox 7 Austin, February 16, 2015

Feds draft payday rules

McAllen Monitor,

The Debt Trap: Texans taken for a ride by auto-title loans

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 14, 2015

Childhood Criminalized: Suspended in Elementary School

Breitbart News, February 8, 2015

The Debt Trap: Payday loans on the rise in Texas

Fort Worth Star Telegram, February 7, 2015

School Resource Officers: Safety Priority or Part of the Problem?

U.S. News & World Report, January 30, 2015

Imprisoned by Payday

Fort Worth Weekly, January 28, 2015

Houses still unbuilt 6 years after Ike

Houston Chronicle, January 24, 2015

Texas truancy

Houston Chronicle, January 21, 2015