State Lawmakers Struggle Over School Financing
Texas lawmakers met behind closed doors to hammer out a new school financing law as time was running out for the 2011 legislative session.
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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.
The measure was to relieve the state of about $2 billion in obligations to public school districts. But the bill violated rules and was killed.
A suburban North Texas high school student was burned when a chemistry lab experiment went awry.
Texas lawmakers have approved legislation to require schools to adopt anti-bullying policies and improve prevention methods.
Do young children have First Amendment rights? Federal judges in New Orleans will hear a case Monday morning that could answer that question.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott will be spending the day getting around the state to appeal to students not to text while driving.
A Texas regulatory agency is sitting on a pile of cash that can't be touched by lawmakers even as the state tries to cope with a $27 billion budget shortfall. Records examined by The Associated Press show that the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy has been stockpiling millions of dollars for the better part of a decade.
A loud group of parents, teachers and education advocates rallied outside the House chamber in the Texas Capitol to protest a state budget that will cut $4 billion from education.
It appears Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will soon be leaving the top spot at DISD. On Thursday he was named the lone finalist for the Cobb County School District Superintendent job in Georgia.
Earlier this week a Kennedale High School teacher was arrested and now two more North Texas teachers have been arrested for having sex with their students.
Thursday morning officials with the Fort Worth Independent School District announced that Superintendent Melody Johnson is resigning from the District Board of Education.
It's getting harder to find white potatoes in your child's school cafeteria these days. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reducing the amount that can be served and changing other nutrition guidelines.