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August 25, 2016

Texas Standard: August 25, 2016

By: David Brown

$20 million and change— a record setting fine for the administrators of the annual Texas standardized school tests. The stakes today on the Texas Standard.

The attack on the university in Kabul: dozens of American Universities around the world, what’s in a name? And why that matters.

Also, if Northeast Texas were a separate state it would rank near the bottom in annual mortality rates. What’s killing people in Northeast Texas? We’ll explore.

Plus the Black Lives Matter movement, when and where did it start? A powerful case for Houston this week in 1917.

Those stories and much more, We’re just getting started, no matter where you are, it’s Texas Standard time.