Scores Sagging For High Schoolers Taking ACT Test
Nearly two-thirds of this year's high school graduates took the ACT college entrance exam, and their scores suggest that many of them remain unprepared for the rigors of college-level coursework.
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Nearly two-thirds of this year's high school graduates took the ACT college entrance exam, and their scores suggest that many of them remain unprepared for the rigors of college-level coursework.
Students marched to a new school complex in West on Wednesday. The Central Texas town was the site of a fertilizer plant explosion in 2013 that killed 15 people. The new complex includes West High School and West Middle School.
Brandy Young recently sent a letter home with her students informing their parents of her decision and why she is doing away with homework.
Texas is fining the company that administers statewide standardized tests $5.7 million — and ordering it to invest $15 million in future safeguards — after computer glitches caused problems last academic year.
The former Chief Financial Officer for the Grand Prairie Independent School district was arrested Monday on a Federal Indictment by a grand jury and charged with theft.
Eight student-athletes at TWU have been hospitalized with a potentially dangerous condition. This past weekend the students were all admitted for medical treatment of symptoms related to rhabdomyolysis.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas has denied a request by three professors to block the enforcement of Texas' new campus carry law.
A high school student is facing a felony charge after being accused of threatening another student with a replica gun during the first day of classes Monday at Haltom City High School.
Not even five minutes after class was dismissed, a handful of students were spotted running out in front of cars crossing the congested highway.
A Plano mother felt bad when she couldn't be there to take her son to school on his first day. So she found another way to make it special for him.
The FWISD Superintendent was on hand today to greet parents and children as they arrived for the first day of school at the new, aboveground Washington Heights Elementary School.
Children are heading back to classes in the Frisco ISD on Monday, but educators, voters and even drivers across the district have a lot on their minds as well, as the new school year begins.
A federal judge has okayed a preliminary injunction for Texas and a group of states hoping to block a federal rule about public schools and transgender students.
It's a new school year and there are new schools, programs and changes across the Dallas Independent School District. There are some 160,000 students heading back to Dallas public schools today.
There are around 5,800 students heading back to classes in the Red Oak ISD on Monday morning, and many of the the youngest children will be returning to a revamped campus after a tornado struck last year.