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04.24.24

Texas School Readiness Dashboard — Now Updated!

Updated Texas data and policy recommendations on child care, child hunger, health care, family-child interactions, and other early childhood experiences that shape school readiness.

Video
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07.20.23

What Passed — And Didn’t Pass — to Support Older Youth in Foster Care

Zoe Jones-Walton, our Policy Fellow for Child Protection, explains what happened this session.

Report/Brief
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06.19.23

Our Final Report on the Legislative Session and TX Kids

What happened this session on health coverage, foster care, child care, pre-k, children's mental health, Early Childhood Intervention, and more.

Press release
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06.15.23

Governor Signs HB 12 to Extend TX Moms’ Postpartum Health Coverage to 12 Months

41 other states have implemented 12-month coverage or are working on implementing it.

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Report/Brief
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09.09.24

TX Legislature Can Help Families Access High-Quality Child Care

Texas families are facing significant child care challenges that undermine parents’ capacity to work, children’s early learning and school readiness, and employers’ ability to hire the staff they need. Our new policy brief explores these […]

Blog
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09.04.24

ECI Program Supports Infants & Toddlers with Disabilities

Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) is highly effective for infants and toddlers with disabilities — when they have access to it. ECI is a federal-state program that contracts with community organizations, such as Any Baby Can and […]

Blog
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08.30.24

Texas Medicaid Application Backlog is Rising Again

New state data indicate that the Texas Medicaid enrollment system is not working in an efficient, orderly, and timely manner — and that has real consequences for Texas kids. Texas has finished reviewing Medicaid eligibility […]

Testimony
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08.12.24

Lawmakers Must Address Pre-k, Emergent Bilingual Students and Child Care

Testimony to the House Public Education Committee and the Senate Education Committee The testimony addresses interim charges on strategies to improve early literacy and numeracy. For policymakers to ensure that more Texas students perform at […]

Testimony
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07.30.24

Strengthen Mental Health Services to Keep Kids with Their Families and Out of Foster Care

Testimony to the Texas House Select Committee on Youth Health and Safety and Testimony to the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee Texas leaders have shown an increasing interest in helping more children […]

Op-ed
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06.26.24

Op-ed: Do What Texans Want and Need: Expand Medicaid

This commentary by Peter Clark, our Communications Director, originally appeared in the San Antonio Express-News on June 26, 2024. Dr. Fabrizia Faustinella has seen that colonoscopies, mammograms and other screenings can save lives by detecting […]