Former State Schools
The State of Texas closed the Fort Worth State School in Fort Worth and the Travis State School in 1999.
Since the Travis State School's closure, several buildings have been reopened. Two charters schools, KIPP and Austin Discovery School, currently utilize buildings for their respective campuses.
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“Thus we steadily worship Mammon, both school and state and church, and on the seventh day curse God with a tintamar from one end of the Union to the other.”
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