Most Teens Start Smoking In June & July
Teenagers aged 13 to 17 are more likely to start smoking cigarettes or weed on an average day in June and July than any other month in the year, according to study results.
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Teenagers aged 13 to 17 are more likely to start smoking cigarettes or weed on an average day in June and July than any other month in the year, according to study results.
Teachers and parents say they don't know why Texas public schools have the lowest percentage of special education students of any state in the country.
Fire damaged the Creative Arts Theatre & School in Arlington on Wednesday. Flames actually destroyed the stage area where kids perform at the children's community theater.
According to a new study, one-fourth of teens admitted to having sent a sext, and 76.2 percent of teens who were asked to send a sext admitted to having had sexual intercourse.
Former Argyle school board member and current middle school principal Wendee Long has been indicted for allegedly making a video recording inside a high school girl's locker room back in February.
Disciplining children with physical punishment such as spanking, shoving or slapping may raise their risk for developing mental health problems when they get older, new research suggests.
Early Monday morning Mike Miles told CBS 11 News he's excited to get to work at the Dallas ISD. The school districts new superintendent arrived at DISD headquarters around 6 a.m. for his first "official" day of work.
Interested in free school supplies for your child? Learn about Dallas's Back to School Fest on August 2 and how to register for it.
Thousands of North Texans are painfully familiar with the issue of student loan debt. Now, students drowning in debt at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are getting some extra attention.
Hundreds of school districts across the state have been complaining about the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test, but some business leaders continue to defend it.
Newly hired Dallas Schools Superintendent Mike Miles is completing his revamped School Leadership Team, and it does not include a large number of DISD administrators who anticipated being re-hired under the plan.
A coalition of top Texas business leaders said that it's worried public backlash against standardized testing could hurt the state's efforts to hold public schools more accountable.
First the head of the Fort Worth ISD announced a district headquarters shake-up, then the district approved a $600 million budget for the coming school year, now Walter Dansby is out to give a monetary reward all district employees.
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles continues to add high-ranking and high-paid executives to his staff.
Texas A&M is buying the law school at private Texas Wesleyan University, a purchase that sets up a public law college in the metroplex and fulfills a long-sought goal for officials at one of the nation's largest universities.
