The public school enrollment conundrum

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• Pause button pressed on anti-redlining rules

  by Henry Epp

  For many years, banks actively avoided investing in lower-income and minority communities, something known as redlining. Decades ago, a federal law attempted to prevent that from happening. Recently, regulators have tried to update the rules to reflect a world of online banking. Now, a ruling by a federal judge in Texas has put those updates, which were supposed to take effect on Monday, on hold.

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• Most of the Colorado River’s diverted water goes to agricultural uses, study finds

  by Savannah Peters

  

  A whopping three quarters of the river’s water that is used by humans goes to irrigation for farms and livestock, according to the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

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• Rise in private school enrollments could pose a problem for public schools

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  Public schools’ funding partly depends on how many pupils are enrolled. Also, parents leaving the public system may be less willing to have their taxes pay for it.

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