Trustees Mull Over Renaming Dallas ISD Schools Named After Confederates
The sweeping movement to rename campuses named after Confederates is again a topic of discussion for Dallas school trustees.
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The sweeping movement to rename campuses named after Confederates is again a topic of discussion for Dallas school trustees.
Getting the perfect outfit set out. Making sure that lunch is ready. Looking over the new schedule. The 'back to school' rush can be hectic, but a family in Mansfield gets things done in the morning with five daughters.
The Texas Legislature has approved about $560 million in extra funding for schools and retired teachers.
More than 95 percent of Texas school districts, and around 89 percent of individual schools, have met minimum education standards -- slight improvements over last year.
The Denton ISD has removed an assistant principal from his post after he authored a children's book whose central character is also a white nationalist symbol.
When severe storms hit, Timber Creek High School in Keller is ready. In fact, it's more than prepared.
Students in the Keller ISD are saying goodbye to summer and hello to a new school year on Tuesday, with a new middle school campus opening its doors and a new superintendent at the helm.
Texas A&M University late Monday called off a planned white supremacist rally on its campus next month, citing concerns of a "major security risk" following the demonstrations that turned deadly over the weekend in Virginia.
The Texas Senate has advanced a once-sweeping school finance plan, but only after scaling it back so much that it will only offer about $500 million in extra funding for some school districts statewide and teacher retirement.
Monday is an important day for students in the Prosper ISD, as they head back to school a week earlier than normal. That is just one of many new things happening in the district at the start of the new school year.
School is just around the corner, and the annual Texas tax-free weekend is helping students get ready to return to class. The sales tax holiday is officially underway, now through Sunday.
Starting early Friday morning, at 12:01 a.m. to be exact, tax free weekend kicks off in Texas.
A school board in Oregon has voted to remove the name 'Lynch' from some school buildings after the word was deemed offensive.
Some 10,000 underserved students are expected to make their way to downtown Fort Worth today for the Tarrant County Back To School Roundup.
Like kids across North Texas, schoolchildren in Dallas and their families are preparing to head back to class and today thousands of those young people are expected at the Mayor's Back to School Fair.