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Top Stories: Teen Homelessness Rises In Texas; Adding Partisanship To Your Portfolio

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The top local stories this evening from KERA News: More than 113,000 Texas students were homeless during the 2014-15 school year. That’s a 12 percent increase from the year before, according to a new report out Wednesday on youth homelessness. The report by Texas Appleseed and Texas Network of Youth Services also finds that homeless students are more likely to repeat a grade, or drop out of school.