School Land Board Releases $300M For Texas Schools
The Texas School Land Board has voted 2-1 to release $300 million from the Available School Fund to the state's public schools.
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The Texas School Land Board has voted 2-1 to release $300 million from the Available School Fund to the state's public schools.
Former U.S. Senate candidate and Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert has a new job as president of the test-prep giant Kaplan, Inc.
Northwest ISD students have returned to class following the winter break, and the district is doing everything they can to stop influenza in its tracks.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said, with the state's population set to double in the next 40 or 50 years, it is time to tap the Rainy Day Fund, which could be nearly $12 billion by 2015.
The Texas economy has surely bounced back and is expanding again, and because of sales tax revenues have increased, the state has more money to spend.
A state budget expert testified Monday about the scope of the projected budget deficit Texas faced when the Legislature slashed public school spending by nearly $5.4 billion.
The Southlake Planning and Zoning Committee is set to address the issue of baseball field lights on Thursday night.
The tug-of-war between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and state universities is still going strong heading into the 2013 legislative session with new skirmishes over money looming.
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas has always produced impressive graduates. But lately, academics has also been making for some really impressive kids.
Supporters of casinos and expanded gambling in Texas say they're more united before the upcoming legislative session, but their proposals will still face long odds.
When Grand Prairie Independent School District students return to school on January 2, they'll be greeted by a uniformed police officer.
Safety and security of students and teachers are top of mind in the aftermath of the shooting tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.
The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings." The NRA broke its silence on last week's elementary school shooting that left 26 children and staff dead.
After last week's deadly school shooting in Connecticut the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) has taken additional steps to make sure every school in the district is safe.
Frisco police arrested a Centennial High School student for a making threat online.