Student Athletes Begin Practice Despite Heat Wave
High school student athletes are hitting the practice field this week, with temperatures still reaching into the triple-digits each day.
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High school student athletes are hitting the practice field this week, with temperatures still reaching into the triple-digits each day.
Thirty-three Dallas ISD schools are now rated "academically unacceptable," which is the lowest rating on the state's 4-step scale.
School districts in North Texas and across the state are bracing for an unusually long list of poorly performing schools, when the district accountability ratings come out in two days.
More than 1.5 million students attended Texas colleges last year, but the state must do more to encourage minority enrollment.
DeSoto ISD trustees don't want controversy, but that's the one thing guaranteed with Kathy Augustine's hire. But now, to go forward without her could generate even more controversy over paying her to leave.
Residents in Jubilee Park are confused and angry that the city is demolishing a neighborhood elementary school that was built more than 100 years ago.
Some Texas college students could find themselves looking for new ways to pay for their education. According to education officials, the state has less money to use for financial aid.
The DeSoto ISD School Board took no action Monday night during a closed door meeting that could have determined the fate of its superintendent, who will remain on paid leave.
The DeSoto School Board is set to discuss the future of the new superintendent who came from an Atlanta school system embroiled in allegations of widespread cheating on standardized tests.
A traffic accident sent a Mesquite Independent School District school bus rolling Monday morning. Three people on the bus were taken to an area hospital to be checked for possible injuries.
A former Atlanta public schools administrator may find out Monday if she will remain as superintendent of the DeSoto Independent School District.
Unlike the fiery debate that erupted two years ago, an expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas public schools has likely fizzled.
The debate over teaching evolution in public schools is resurfacing, as the state education board meets to discuss student science materials.
More than half of junior high and high school students in Texas will be suspended or expelled before they graduate. A new study ties that high discipline rate to lower graduation rates, and higher crime rates.
The Texas State Board of Education is meeting this week for the first time under its conservative new chairwoman appointed by Governor Rick Perry.