The Brief

High school students in Texas will no longer receive free tickets to the State Fair of Texas.

The fair will now offer a promo code for discounted tickets to high schoolers and their families instead.

The change was made to cut costs. Fair officials said more than 2 million free tickets are printed each year, and only 10% were being used.

DALLAS - High schoolers in Texas will no longer receive free tickets to the State Fair of Texas.

What we know:

All teachers and students in pre-K through eighth grade who live within 100 miles of Fair Park in Dallas will continue to receive free fair tickets.

But students in ninth through twelfth grade will not.

Instead, the fair will offer those families a promo code for discounted tickets purchased on the fair’s website.

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