New Plan: 13 North Texas School Districts Ordered To Delay Reopening Classrooms Due To Coronavirus Case Surge
Schools will not be allowed to return to in-person instruction before Labor Day.
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Schools will not be allowed to return to in-person instruction before Labor Day.
Mary Strickland has been teaching middle school for 22 years and she loves it. But the sign outside her Fort Worth home describes how she feels about going back: TERRIFIED.
The "Education Evolution" guidebook is headed to the school board for consideration and will soon be available online for parents to review.
The Texas Education Agency will reportedly allow public health officials to keep schools closed for in-person instruction this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic without the campuses risking losing state funding.
Delmas Morton served the schoolchildren of Grand Prairie ISD for more than 40 years as a teacher and principal.
It's a free one-stop shop to get school supplies to approximately 10,000 Tarrant County children in need.
On one side are parents saying, let kids be kids. They object to masks and social distancing in classrooms this fall. On the other side are parents and teachers calling for safeguards that would have been unimaginable before the coronavirus pandemic.
Superintendents of the state's largest school districts are pushing back against a planned return to campus next month.
Students at Denton ISD will get an extra two weeks of summer after trustees voted to delay the first day of class to August 26.
With a little more than a month to go before the start of the school year, the University Interscholastic League has released guidelines to help teams navigate practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When it comes to schools reopening and COVID-19, some parents are eager to get back to some sort of normalcy, while others are fearful their children might get exposed to infections.
"COVID-19 requires school districts to be innovative and flexible as education is being reimagined around the globe," Dallas ISD said on Twitter.
The Fort Worth ISD is looking for input on how to successfully reopen classes in the Fall -- and they looking to teachers and campus principals for answers.
"I don't want my children at home. I want them in a structured environment," says Samantha Tisnoi, a Birdville ISD parent.
One of the largest teachers union in North Texas says the state's framework for reopening schools doesn't do enough to protect students and staff.