This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. Seated inside a Starbucks café last February, Grace Bellido, 14, shares some of her favorite books by penciling the names in a small floral notebook. “Song of Achilles … the […]
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In Texas schools, a crisis of arrests of kids as young as 10
A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.