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Back-to-school takes on a whole new meaning at one school in the Red Oak ISD. After a devastating tornado nearly took out Shield Elementary, students are about to return to the campus for the first time.
Two conservative advocacy groups are teaming up to form a new non-profit that will push for improving public education in Texas through initiatives like expanding online learning and charter schools.
North Texas students, teachers and staff are heading back to school. Even if you don't fall into one of the aforementioned groups, the influx of people and traffic will probably have some impact on your life.
School bus drivers are getting ready for the start of the new school year and they're hoping you will prepare along with them.
Nearly 94 percent of districts and around 88 percent of public schools in Texas have met minimum education standards in the final year before shifting to an A-F letter grade accountability system.
School bells will soon be ringing and one week from today many students across North Texas will head back to the classroom. But youngsters aren't the only ones preparing for the big day -- teachers are getting ready too!
With little more than a week remaining before the new school year begins, DISD staffers are taking to the pavement in an all-out push to fill empty seats in the district's Pre-K and three-year-old early childhood program.
The fight over bathroom rights for transgender students will take center stage in a Fort Worth court. Texas and 11 other states are suing to stop the Obama administration directive concerning bathroom rights for transgender students.
UNT and Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home put together a program pairing college students studying video production with foster care residents.
The Dallas Cowboys and the University of North Texas have joined forces to promote education and provide work opportunities for students. The agreement was announced on Tuesday.
Students in the Fort Worth Independent School District will be heading back to school is less than two weeks and today a free event is being held to make sure they're ready.
Whether your child is starting preschool or pre-med, parents understand this time of year can be stressful. To help ease the new school year's anxieties, here's our Top Five Tips to help your family get back to school.
According to DISD, six of seven campuses labeled 'Improvement Required' are expected to come off the low performing list.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says university professors could face disciplinary action if they don't allow handguns to be brought into their classroom.
The teenager from Irving who was arrested last September after bringing a homemade clock to school filed a lawsuit on Monday. Police officers arrested then 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed when his clock was mistaken for a bomb.