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Community colleges beat student outcome predictions. Now Texas can’t afford related incentives.
Summary by Denton News Editorial Desk · Based on reporting by By Sneha Dey The Texas Tribune , Denton Record-Chronicle
· July 22, 2026
· 1 min read
Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering.
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Category: schools ·
Published: July 22, 2026 ·
Source: Denton Record-Chronicle ·
Reading time: 1 min
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What is this story about? Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering.
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