Report Shows Money Remains Big Factor In College Sports
A record number of college athletes are staying in school and working toward degrees, and that money continues to play a key role in academic performance.
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A record number of college athletes are staying in school and working toward degrees, and that money continues to play a key role in academic performance.
The Alvarado Independent School District is dealing with a contagious bacterium at one of its schools. So far, there have been three confirmed cases of students being infected with Shigella.
Carnegie Corporation of New York announced 33 winners of its prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellows in recognition of their proposed research on an array of topics in the social sciences and humanities and two Texas professors are among them.
Maurice Ashley was 14 when he saw a high school friend playing chess and challenged him to a match. He lost badly, but it sparked a love affair that started him playing nearly non-stop ever since.
It was less than 48 hours ago when executives with AMC Theatres said they were considering allowing texting in some theaters. But not so fast... this morning AMC Entertainment issued a statement saying there will be no texting allowed.
A 17-year-old runaway who's been arrested in the campus killing of a University of Texas student claimed he left home in August because his grandmother's religious beliefs demanded that teenagers his age go "make their own way in the world."
Texas A&M administrators have made their campus carry recommendations to system regents, recommending that licensed concealed firearms may be carried into campus classrooms and college-owned housing.
An around-the-clock cleanup effort continues Wednesday in Collin County. Employees with the Wylie ISD reopened campus doors for students after cancelling classes on Tuesday due to severe weather the night before.
Powerful hail on Monday evening forced all 19 schools in the Wylie ISD to close on Tuesday. Every campus received some sort of damage, and officials soon realized that classes would not be able to go on as scheduled.
A school officer in Texas, caught on tape body-slamming a middle-school student, was fired Monday. ISD officials said the officer's misstatements about what happened were revealed by the video.
University of Texas President Greg Fenves says the school won't change its pending rules for allowing concealed handguns on campus after a first-year student was killed last week.
Administrators at Liberty Christian School in Argyle are helping students cope with the tragic loss of a classmate. Tita Shaffer was killed along with her mother in a car crash on Saturday night.
Immigrant children living in the U.S. without legal status have been blocked from registering for school and accessing the educational services they need, according to a report on school districts in four states, including Texas.
Tori Poullard from North Side High School in Fort Worth was honored for her excellent work in the classroom, her performance on the softball field and her volunteer work in the community.
A Texas woman says her 12-year-old daughter was suspended from school following an altercation with another student that ended with a police officer body-slamming the girl to the ground.