Texas Approves Overhauling A-F School Accountability System
The Texas Legislature has approved an overhaul of an academic accountability rating system that issues schools and school districts A to F letter grades.
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The Texas Legislature has approved an overhaul of an academic accountability rating system that issues schools and school districts A to F letter grades.
CBS11 first told his story in 2012. At 13-years-old, Ethan Paul Tepera was bald from leukemia treatments.
A school district in the Houston area has disciplined several teachers after a middle school student received a mock award naming her as the 'Most Likely to Become a terrorist.'
A bill prohibiting colleges and universities from punishing students who are victims of, or who witness or report sexual assaults, has cleared the Texas Legislature — and now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Stand up straight and put your arms at your sides. Do your fingertips pass the hem of your shorts or skirt? If so, they're too short! Schools relying on the 'fingertip test' would think so, anyway.
Last year, the Texas Supreme Court ruled the school finance system barely constitutional though deeply flawed.
A former administrator with the Garland Independent School District has admitted he received kickbacks and other benefits by falsifying immigration documents so that teachers from Latin America and elsewhere could work in his district.
The often-combative Texas Board of Education would expand its ability to reject textbooks it doesn't like, rolling back limits that have been in place for more than two decades, under a proposal on the verge of clearing the state Legislature.
The Texas Board of Education would expand its ability to reject textbooks it doesn't like, rolling back limits that have been in place for more than two decades, under a proposal on the verge of clearing the Legislature.
Thousands of North Texas students have spent the last school year going to class, next to construction zones. Millions of dollars in improvements are underway on more than two-dozen DISD campuses.
Bad brakes, no horns, and broken stop signs. Some Keller ISD bus drivers say they feel unsafe on the roads.
After a nearly two-month long search process, the school board picks Dr. Mike Waldrip, the superintendent at Coppell ISD.
More Texas high schoolers could soon have a chance to graduate without passing all of the state's mandatory tests.
The version the Senate approved after midnight increases classroom funding by only about $500 million, scraps the $210 per-student increase and adds a plan offering taxpayer funds that would go into education savings accounts that some special education students could use to attend private schools.
A transgender "bathroom bill" now appears to be on a fast-track to becoming law in Texas — though it may only apply to public schools.