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Houston's current Chinatown and the Mahatma Gandhi District are two major ethnic enclaves reflecting Houston's multicultural makeup Restaurants bakeries traditional-clothing boutiques and specialty shops can be found in both areas, Harris County operates its own public library system the Harris County Public Library, Finance 29 CenterPoint Energy 279; . Texian retreat: the Runaway Scrape West Texas: Comancheria Contents Main article: Politics of Houston. Additionally numerous private and public hospitals operate in Harris County including institutions in Texas Medical Center and throughout the county for example the Harris County Psychiatric Center 2.2 Museum District. . , 5.2 Water pollution 39 EOG Resources 377, Jefferson County (252,273) Education 4.3 Asia and Oceania colonization and the Pacific exploration. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Houston Branch The second president of the Republic of Texas Mirabeau B Lamar is the Father of Texas Education During his term the state set aside three leagues of land in each county for equipping public schools an additional 50 leagues of land set aside for the support of two universities would later become the basis of the state's Permanent University Fund. Lamar's actions set the foundation for a Texas-wide public school system. Between 2006 and 2007 Texas spent $7,275 per pupil ranking it below the national average of $9,389 the pupil/teacher ratio was 14.9 below the national average of 15.3 Texas paid instructors $41,744 below the national average of $46,593 the Texas Education Agency (TEA) administers the state's public school systems Texas has over 1,000 school districts; all districts except the Stafford Municipal School District are independent from municipal government and many cross city boundaries. School districts have the power to tax their residents and to assert eminent domain over privately owned property Due to court-mandated equitable school financing for school districts the state has a controversial tax redistribution system called the "Robin Hood plan" This plan transfers property tax revenue from wealthy school districts to poor ones the TEA has no authority over private or home school activities.

See also: List of invasive marine fish in the Gulf of Mexico Finance 11.1 Disenfranchisement (29.6) 91.2 Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 43.7% 37.4% 27.6% 11.3% 1.1 Native Americans and early Europeans. . . 1940s Civil war monument in Galveston Texas For years Mexican authorities used the reconquering of Texas as an excuse for implementing new taxes and making the army the budgetary priority of the impoverished nation. Only sporadic skirmishes resulted. Larger expeditions were postponed as military funding was consistently diverted to other rebellions out of fear that those regions would ally with Texas and further fragment the country.[Note 17] the northern Mexican states the focus of the Matamoros Expedition briefly launched an independent Republic of the Rio Grande in 1839 the same year the Mexican Congress considered a law to declare it treasonous to speak positively of Texas in June 1843 leaders of the two nations declared an armistice. . North America colonization In 1912 the Rice Institute (now Rice University) opened in the West University area. 14 Further reading (180) 5.72 5.1 Texian retreat: the Runaway Scrape.