In an interview with KRLD’s Scott Braddock in Dallas, Cypress-Fairbanks superintendent David Anthony called school funding cuts a “crisis” and said districts are in a “difficult situation” as they try to meet new student achievement measures while coping with cuts.
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Dallas-Ft Worth and North Texas
Story originally posted by NPR, Jan. 4, 2011
A Texas man had his conviction overturned Tuesday for a rape and robbery he didn’t commit after serving 30 years in prison, more time than any other inmate subsequently exonerated by DNA evidence in his state.
Cornelius Dupree Jr., 51, was formally cleared of the aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon conviction that had kept him behind bars from December 1979 until July of 2010. He served 30 years of his 75-year sentence before making parole in July. About a week later, DNA test results came back proving his innocence.
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