Across Texas, a slow and sputtered rollout of foster care privatization

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Texas bill barring anonymous reporting of child abuse heads to Gov. Greg Abbott

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Texas Senate votes to close employment loophole after Refuge foster care scandal

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Texans who take custody of their relatives’ kids struggle to make ends meet — and to get more aid from the state

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In abrupt retirement letter, an investigations director decries Texas’ “untenable” child welfare agency

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Caseworkers hampered by ’90s-era foster care software that the state hasn’t replaced

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Texas AG Ken Paxton pushes court to reconsider injunction halting investigations into affirming care

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Texas removed six Black children from their homes. Their adoptive parents drove them off a cliff.

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Texas’ foster care system is plagued with problems. Here’s how lawmakers want to fix it.

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Texas puts up barriers that keep young adults out of extended foster care programs designed to help them

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