Tiny District's New Superintendent Fails Test 10 Times
"It's hard to understand how he can fail so many times," one parent said. "I feel like he should pass the test before he's in that position."
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"It's hard to understand how he can fail so many times," one parent said. "I feel like he should pass the test before he's in that position."
To say Dionte Johnson was a troubled student in Middle School might be an understatement. "Been kicked out 3 or 4 times, got sent to an alternative school for fighting - doing the wrong stuff I shouldn't have been doing," says Johnson.
School districts could increase class sizes and move quicker to dismiss teachers under bills being considered by Texas state lawmakers.
Former first lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna Bush Hager are to speak at a Dallas luncheon benefiting a nonprofit group.
Thursday is the seventh and final time Michael Hinojosa will oversee the last day of school as the Dallas Independent School District superintendent. Hinojosa is expected to formally accept a job offer in Cobb County, Georgia by Monday.
The United Way recently cut $244,000 from the West Dallas Community Centers -- about 40 percent of the organization's budget.
A GOP-backed measure that includes new distribution formulas for public schools is getting a set of hearings Thursday in the Texas Capitol.
While most kids are enjoying Memorial Day as a holiday, some North Texas students are in class today. Several school districts had to use this holiday as a snow day.
Democrats used a filibuster to block the bill early Monday morning, after 139 days of fighting budget measures that slash billions of dollars in state funding from education.
Amid the loud games of the last days of school, Corey Elementary School students in Arlington are learning the somber lessons of Memorial Day.
It's the 11th hour for school education funding in Texas. Legislators have a self-imposed 5 p.m. Friday deadline to work out differences between House and Senate funding bills.
Texas lawmakers met behind closed doors to hammer out a new school financing law as time was running out for the 2011 legislative session.
The Texas legislature has approved a final version of a once-contentious bill requiring schools statewide to get parental permission before applying corporal punishment.
A 13-year-old boy from Texas has won the National Geographic Bee. Tine Valencic of Colleyville beat out other finalists to win the bee's final round.
Hundreds of North Texas high school students recently celebrated a major achievement. During a ceremony at SMU, some 200 students not only declared where they were going to college, but also made a commitment to graduate.