Fort Worth City Council to consider next step in UT Arlington expansion
UT Arlington and the City of Fort Worth are moving ahead with the university's planned expansion.
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UT Arlington and the City of Fort Worth are moving ahead with the university's planned expansion.
Students must get permission to go by a name or gender other than what is listed on their birth certificate.
Keeping students focused in class is a losing battle for Texas schools when there are cellphones around to distract them, says State Representative Ellen Troxclair.
"We wanted to create something that was a story, that was real, that the kids could embrace and learn."
The I-Team surveyed 50 school districts and found a growing number joining the phone-free movement.
The new campus is expected to open as early as fall 2028.
With triple-digit heat indexes, North Dallas High School's top priority is keeping players healthy and hydrated.
Thousands of students and families headed to the Tarrant County College South Campus on Friday for the 18th annual "Back-to-School Roundup."
Volunteers with United Way offered their morning to help at J.N. Ervin Elementary through an event called "Stock the School."
The National Retail Federation predicts total back-to-school spending in the U.S. will reach nearly $39 billion, which is an average of $875 per household.
On Wednesday, DISD had the kickoff to their New Teacher Academy at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas, where 650 new hires learned the ropes.
Events across Dallas-Fort Worth include backpack giveaways and health checkups.
The private university that it's waiving the traditional $60 application fee starting next fall semester.
Plano ISD's superintendent called the decision "hard and emotional." Many North Texas districts are facing the same possibility as budgets get tighter.
Texas may be booming, but that doesn't spare its schools from what's happening nationwide.