A mother and school choice advocate from Arizona penned an op-ed regarding federal legislation that could help families.
School Choice Special Session Coming in October
A special legislative session on school choice in Texas will likely be held in October after Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment trial. The special session would be the third in 2023,...
Former ISD Coach Jailed for Child Sex Crimes
Another Texas school employee has been arrested for charges of sexual crimes involving children. Billy Joe Boyce, a 63-year-old former coach at Vernon Independent School District, was arrested last...
DISD Super Deprioritizes Test Preparation
Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde has advised principals and teachers not to place too much importance on standardized testing preparation during the 2023-2024 school year. Elizalde has...
Nonprofit Offers Coding Program in Dallas
During the 2022-2023 school year, more than 100 students in Dallas ISD had the opportunity to learn how to code in an after-school program developed by the local nonprofit Bold Idea. Students at...
Texans React to A&M President’s Resignation
Reactions to the recent resignation of Texas A&M University's president are coming in after she stepped down on Friday following backlash to the hiring of a journalism professor with an alleged...
Texas A&M President Resigns
Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks has resigned effective immediately, the university announced on Friday. Banksโ decision reportedly came in the wake of the attempted hiring of a...
Four TX Cities Among Least Educated in U.S.
A new study found that Texas has four of the 10 least educated cities in the United States. To establish the ranking, WalletHub compared and ranked 150 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas...
Texas Teacher Arrested on Child Porn Charges
A teacher at an East Texas elementary school has been arrested on multiple child pornography charges. Texas Department of Public Safety officers took Fabrizio Olague into custody during a...
ID System Hoped To Boost Safety at Local ISD
Frisco Independent School District is rolling out a new tech-driven ID system next year. The district is ramping up safety and efficiency measures by introducing an ID card program for students in...
Atheist Group Sues Local City for Ad Space
An atheist group is suing the City of Fort Worth over its decision to prevent advertising on lampposts for an event opposing the purported influence of Christianity on education in Texas. The...
VIDEO: UTA Develops Plastic for Road Repairs
A civil engineering professor and his team at the University of Texas at Arlington have been working on a project that uses waste products to fix roads. Dr. Sahadat Hossain, director of the...
Local Christian School Adding DEI Programs
A private Christian school in Fort Worth is implementing new "diversity, equity, and inclusion" programs despite objections from parents. In an email sent to students and their parents, Fort Worth...
Number of Education Majors Declining
Education as a college major has become an afterthought among students, according to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics. Students prefer to study business and engineering,...
Armed School Guard Law Kicks in This Fall
School districts across Texas must soon guarantee that an armed security guard is stationed at every one of their campuses in order to comply with a new state law taking effect in September. Both...
New Medical School May Boost DFW by $4B
Administrators predict that Fort Worth could see an annual economic boost of $4 billion from the freshly accredited medical school at Texas Christian University by 2030. TCU expects an estimated...
Fired Texas College Professor Speaks Out
Another professor at St. Philip's College in San Antonio was reportedly fired due to student and faculty complaints about his political beliefs. The instructor in question was Will Moravits, a...
Final School Campus Intruder Audits Released
The Texas School Safety Center has published its final report on its random intruder detection audits of schools across the state, and almost a quarter of audited campuses need some kind of...
Classical Charter Growth Hints at School Choice Support
Texas parents are increasingly pulling their children out of traditional public schools and enrolling them in classical charter schools, suggesting growing support for school choice in the Lone Star...
Programs Seek To Check DISD Learning Loss
Community organizations in Dallas are pitching in to help students overcome the learning loss that occurred as a result of the educational disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its...
Do ISDs Have To Report Abuse Cases To Parents?
State law seemingly does not require public school systems to notify district parents when allegations of abuse have been made against a school employee, according to an education attorney. As...