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• Texas schools get $830 million from federal budget deal (Reuters)
• Budget deal would free up Texas education money (AP)
• Texas lawmakers back off concealed carry on campus (AP)

Texas schools get $830 million from federal budget deal (Reuters) Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:10 PM PDT Reuters - Schools in Texas will get $830 million of federal aid freed up under a provision in the last-minute Congress' budget deal.

Budget deal would free up Texas education money (AP) Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:58 PM PDT AP - The federal budget deal negotiated to avoid a government shutdown would remove the strings a Democratic congressman had attached to $830 million in funds for public education in Texas.

Texas lawmakers back off concealed carry on campus (AP) Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:23 PM PDT AP - Two months ago, Texas looked ready to allow concealed handguns in college classrooms. Lawmakers lined up to sponsor a bill, pistol-packing Gov. Rick Perry supported it and gun control activists had all but conceded defeat.

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