No White House invitation or cause célèbre hashtags erupted over Twitter for the North Texas teen suspended last week after wearing an American flag T-shirt to high school. This happened on the same date, September 14, that Irving freshman Ahmed Mohamed brought to school his homemade suitcase clock.
Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas-Fort Worth director Alia Salem said that is Ahmed Mohamed’s name was “Jimmy,” school district officials in Irving, Texas, would not have jumped to the conclusion that his clock project was a bomb hoax.
School zero tolerance polices, not Islamophobia, played a pivotal role in the arrest of a 14-year-old Texas high school freshman Ahmed Mohamed on Monday.
A 14-year-old North Texas high school freshman says school officials overreacted when they called police after thinking his elaborate digital homemade clock invention was a hoax bomb but the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also stepped in with a little overreacting of their own, alleging the incident as Islamophobia.
Imagine no college tuition or loans — at least for one year, the freshman year. The Texas State University System (TSUS) boasts they will do just that in 2016, rolling out the Freshman Year for Free program, except it is not totally free, nor is it actually for everyone.
Police in the Dallas suburb of Plano arrested a juvenile suspect on Sunday morning in connection with Friday’s bomb scare and weapons hoax at Clark High School. Police charged the minor with False Alarm/Report Emergency Involving Public School.
Texas does not necessarily come to mind when one thinks of Holocaust survivors. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and other eastern seaboard cities with larger populations do; but the Jewish community thrives in Texas. Dallas, Houston and El Paso all have Holocaust museums — each mindful of their dwindling Holocaust (Shoah) populations.
Longtime Houston Independent School District (ISD) Superintendent, Dr. Terry Grier, unexpectedly announced his resignation effective March 1.
The latest high school girl cat fight broke out in a Texas high school on Wednesday and landed one of the girls in jail. The three-girl tussle came within a week of a four female fracas caught on cellphone, only this incident ended with one arrest and an injured school police officer.
Southern Methodist University (SMU) launched a Texas-Mexico program on Tuesday. The Texas-Mexico policy-based research program was announced on Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s final day of his three-day visit to Mexico.
The 2014-15 academic year marks the 7th year in a row that Texas teacher sexual misconduct towards students cases have increased. On Friday, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) reported that they opened 188 cases of educator accused of these inappropriate relationships during the fiscal year ending August 31.
A Texas high school brawl was captured on a cellphone. Back-to-school means back-to-brawling for some out-of- control Texas teenagers at one high school. On the second week of the new school year, double dramatic slugfests were caught on one student’s cellphone and even were called “just another fight.” Meanwhile, the violent video made local news coverage, got picked up by sister stations in other TV markets, and landed on Yahoo News!, but no arrests were made.
A West Texas biology teacher who was accused of being drunk at school and was subsequently arrested at school for public intoxication has now resigned from her post. School was barely back in session from the time the inebriated educator was taken into custody to when she turned in her resignation letter.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott appointed nine members to the new Governor’s University Research Initiative Advisory Board on Thursday. The initiative was one of his higher education emergency items listed during the last legislative session. It was also one of gubernatorial candidate Abbott’s campaign promises.
Three women believed to be drunk got on a Texas public school bus at a regular stop and rode with the students all the way to their middle school last Friday. No one, not even the bus driver, realized that three allegedly heavily intoxicated 20-something women were on the bus until they arrived at Harris Middle School in San Antonio.
The Texas Supreme Court heard opposing arguments in the much anticipated showdown between the state and 600-plus public school districts over public education finance reform on Monday.
The Texas law that decriminalizes truancy and changes how public school districts handle unexcused absences goes into effect on September 1. During the 2015 Legislative session, state lawmakers passed House Bill 2398, which redressed the Failure to Attend School (FTAS) from criminal status to a civil offense called “truant conduct” under the family code.
“On Wisconsin” replaced a Texas high school’s long-held”Dixie” fight song, a Southern favorite often associated with the Confederate South, but “Dixie” may come back when students vote on a new school spirit song.
A 7th grade Texas middle school assignment that went viral on social media this week was determined to be fake. The storyline generated about students taking an allegedly invasive student survey was not true — it did not happen.
Texas taxpayers wasted $37 million on a failed state program intended to help low-income middle schools cut student obesity rates through physical fitness, according to new study by the University of Texas at Austin.
Progressive media ridiculed a handful of harmless middle aged and senior citizens peacefully protesting outside the gates of the nation’s first Arabic Immersion Magnet School in the Houston Independent School District (ISD). The school opened Monday for 132 pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students.
A second North Texas high school teacher was taken into custody this week. The teacher is accused of sexual misconduct with the same 16-year-old female student who was allegedly victimized by the school’s band director who was arrested at the same school earlier this week.
Students heading back to public school next week expecting a side of French fries may be surprised to learn the only thing deep-fried in the Texas Agriculture Commissioner’s school lunch plan are its federal ties.
Texas is faced with the dilemma of more teachers accused of sexual misconduct with their students. This casts a dark shadow over the classroom as kids head back-to-school.
Central Texas police said that a San Antonio man spent the past six months leading college women into prostitution until Monday, when he was taken into custody. The women were located in cities across Texas.
