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The Texas Tribune reports:
Texas school districts are coming back from summer with a rising number of parents asking for vaccine exemption forms and a new law that will make those documents even easier to obtain. Combined with funding cuts to public vaccination programs and the wearying battle by school nurses to balance parental consent and overall student body health, Texas schools are on track to have the lowest vaccination rates in decades if exemption rates continue to climb.
“I do think that there is a problem — period — that is worse than we have known about previously,” said Terri Burke, executive director of The Immunization Partnership, which advocates for public policies that support increased access to vaccines. Since 2018, the requests to the Texas Department of State Health Services for a vaccine exemption form have doubled from 45,900 to more than 93,000 in 2024.
Read the full article. The new law was authored by state Rep. Lacey Hull, who sometimes delivers the daily prayer to Jesus that opens the Texas House.
Texas schools are on track to have the lowest vaccination rates in decades if exemption rates continue to climb.
In July, the state received 17,197 requests for a vaccine exemption form, 36% higher than the number reported in July 2023. https://t.co/AJCHT3SdYz
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) August 18, 2025
Texas hasn’t officially tweeted measles numbers in over 2 weeks now. But @Immunize_USA and saw a number of 801 cases reported on this Tuesday on their website, that has now mysteriously gone back down to 762. Is @TexasDSHS playing with numbers just as schools are going back into… https://t.co/mpT5fVn8Yu pic.twitter.com/C3nCThEkMs
— HOUmanitarian ™ (@HOUmanitarian) August 14, 2025