Superintendent Apologizes After 8-Year-Old Student Handcuffed
A Central Texas school administrator has apologized to the family of an 8-year-old boy who was briefly handcuffed by a police officer trying to calm him.
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A Central Texas school administrator has apologized to the family of an 8-year-old boy who was briefly handcuffed by a police officer trying to calm him.
Sandy Conklin, the principal at Beck Elementary School has been named a finalist for the 2016 H-E-B Excellence in Education Award.
When the teacher went into the restroom where the kids were, the gun had been thrown out the window according to DISD spokesperson Andre Riley.
Concealed handguns will be allowed in the University of Texas classrooms, but generally banned from dorms under rules begrudgingly approved Wednesday by the school's president, whose hand was forced by a new state law.
Baylor University president Ken Starr said that the Southern Baptist school will not allow concealed handgun license holders to bring their weapons onto the Waco campus. Baylor announced the school's position on Tuesday.
A young man who has been accused of making a serious threat to shoot up his school is out of jail on Wednesday morning. Everrick Murrell could face up to 10 years in prison for a threatening Instagram post.
Joseph McTighe joined Colleyville Middle School's 7th grade basketball team during their game Tuesday night.
A former project manager at the University of Texas-San Antonio must serve more than three years in federal prison for accepting bribes.
The district says the elementary campus has been hit especially hard.
Patti Keenan's son, 11-year-old Brennan, has Down Syndrome and is a student at High Country Elementary School in the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD.
Four NISD students have been selected among approximately 15,000 to advance as finalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Police in Keller have arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly sexually assaulting four female students in the Keller Independent School District.
Brazil is signing an agreement with the University of Texas to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus.
Students attending University of Texas System schools could be paying more for an education.
Alina Leung taught 6th and 7th grade at an all-boys school.