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Students in schools across Texas will be taking the STAAR test on Tuesday, and this can come with a lot of stress and anxiety. Those are two emotions that you do not want kids to feel on an important testing day.
Rodney Dittmar is the modern band director at Seagoville High School, and on any given day you can find him a leading a group of students in cover songs from band like AC/DC, The Cranberries and Carlos Santana.
Sick with worry. That's how some students across North Texas and the state greet each round of the high stakes state school assessment dubbed STAAR.
The Mansfield City Council tonight will discuss whether a grocery store near Legacy High School should be allowed to sell alcohol.
School buses in Little Elm are running on a delay Monday morning after a hail storm on Sunday night left more than half of the fleet out of commission. Dozens of vehicles were damaged by large hail.
Texas Education Agency officials claim recent improvements should help avoid problems as STAAR testing begins this week.
A soon-to-be-released survey of University of Texas undergraduates reports that 15 percent of women reported being raped on the flagship Austin campus.
Students and staff at Nichols Junior High in Arlington have been saying that something in the school has been making them sick: Now, the Arlington NAACP has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to shutter the school until the district can provide answers.
An author whose book was the basis for the Oscar-nominated movie "Hidden Figures" has won an award for writing literature that promotes diversity and confronts racism.
Student protests at Cleburne High School Wednesday afternoon, over the departure of several staff members, ended with an evacuation and a teen's arrest.
A senior trained a 120-member student volunteer emergency response team.
The Texas Senate's proposed $106.3 billion state budget is now set for a floor vote next week -- but it's already being blasted by the Republican head of the House.
A $106.3 billion spending bill that gives Texas public schools roughly the same amount of money as classrooms receive now is headed to the Senate.
Texas lawmakers have begun grappling with a hot-button school voucher plan that would offer families public money for sending their children to private and religious schools.
FBI Director James Comey will be in Texas later this week, speaking at the "Intelligence in Defense of the Homeland" symposium at the University of Texas at Austin.