From The Newsroom: Letter Grades For Schools, Millions For Arts At SMU

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published March 23, 2015 at 6:47 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

The state is still not giving letter grades to public schools, but a North Texas non-profit is. And SMU receives the largest single gift in the history of the university. The Meadows Foundation is investing $45 million in the arts on campus.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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