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One North Texas school district is going to start taking grades when kids do their homework. Normally that wouldn't be a news story, but after a yearlong experiment, Irving ISD is changing course on homework.
More than 200 Texas Schoolteachers crowded around the rotunda of the Texas Capitol yet again to protest against education spending cuts.
Texas Democrats never had much hope in this Legislature, where Republicans have a huge majority and an unshakeable drive to slash spending without raising taxes or dipping into the state's giant savings account.
The head of the Dallas Independent School District was named superintendent of Georgia's second largest school district on Sunday.
"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.