Public charter school advocates from all across Texas convened on the south steps of the Capitol in Austin for a lunchtime rally on April 29, featuring an address by Governor Greg Abbott, plus a surprise visit from Lt. Governor Dan Patrick
There are two new alleged cases of Texas teachers taken into custody for sexual misconduct in the classroom. One, a male elementary school teacher in the Houston area, was charged with indecency after upskirting an eight-year-old girl with his iPhone. The other, a female Dallas high school teacher, was arrested for an improper relationship with a male student.
More than 200 true Blue Bell ice cream aficionados gathered for a prayer vigil in Southeast Texas to show their unwavering support for the 108 year old company. Blue Bell Creameries has been sidelined by a series of Listeria bacteria discoveries in two of their plants between January to March.
It was a huge blunder for the Houston Independent School District (ISD), the seventh largest district in the nation and the largest in Texas when an adminstrator’s letter threatened parents that their children would face summer school if they opted out of the annual state-mandated State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exam. The next day, that threat was downgraded to an editing error.
Cookie Rodriguez is the petite and unassuming 73-year-old spitfire who heads up the non-profit Christian-based Nu-Life Outreach Center and Street Church (D-Boy) Ministries. It is open seven days a week in the Dallas suburb of Garland. She has been helping kids in the Metroplex since 1983 and has been dubbed the Mother Teresa of gangs, drug addicted and troubled teens because, through faith, she has helped them to turn their lives around.
A North Texas teen acted in self-defense when he was being bullied in the school showers. He was suspended for his actions. Now, his parents, upset over that suspension, filed a lawsuit against the school district.
The Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), the tax credit scholarship bill that will allow low income and special needs families who are in failing public schools to get assistance to pay for private tuition. SB 4 was authored by State Senator Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) and passed with bipartisan support. The final vote of 18-12 was taken on Tuesday, April 21.
Texas State Representative Matt Shaheen (R-Plano) recently introduced House Bill 3219, legislation that would begin to boot the special interests out of public school classrooms. It will do so by barring school districts and local government from using taxpayer dollars to fund lobbying or pay the “unions” that lobby for them to do so in Austin.
The Texas Senate moved forward this week in a bipartisan 26-5 vote to decriminalize truancy. The Failure to Attend School (FTAS) or “truancy” is currently a juvenile Class C misdemeanor that carries fines and criminal marks on a student’s record for cutting class. It may soon be a thing of the past as the Texas Senate moved forward to decriminalize it through Senate Bill 106 (SB 106).
Twice in two months, a 24-year-old North Texas high school teacher was arrested and charged with sexual misconduct for having allegedly improper sexual relationships with students. Irving Independent School District (ISD) math teacher, Kaitlyn Renee Granado, was originally arrested on March 19 for an inappropriate relationship with a male student that occured in April of 2014. She was charged with a felony count for lewd educator-student sexual misconduct.
A small cluster of viral meningitis has broken out in Central Texas. Over the past two weeks three cases have emerged in one school district. Most recently, a middle school staffer was diagnosed with the spinal swelling sickness.
Pro-school choice advocates revere it. Charter school critics fear it. It is known as the Parent Trigger Law and, on Wednesday, April 15, Senate Bill 14 (SB 14), passed overwhelmingly in the Texas State Senate chamber. The bill carried with a bipartisan vote of 25-6.
Shocking video surfaced this week of a ‘resurrection’ ceremony where a Texas pastor and self-proclaimed prophet allegedly tried to breathe life back into a dead toddler’s body. Now, authorities are investigating this macabre case that has all the earmarks of
The Texas teacher who came under attack over an eight-page handout that was purportedly “anti-Islam” has resigned from the Houston area school district where he was employed. The official announcement came at the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District’s (ISD) monthly board meeting on Tuesday
The first ever statewide Texas Tax Day Tea Party Rally will be held Wednesday, April 15, in Austin. It is expected to draw nearly 100 constitutionally-minded, limited government conservative and other like-minded patriot groups. They will gather on the south steps of the Capitol where, among the many festivities, ordinary people who have done extraordinary things as grassroots activists will be honored for their contributions.
A prank call to police resulted in a SWAT team response in East Texas on Saturday, April 11. Police received what was perceived to be an emergency call at 4:09 pm about a possible shooting in the Jefferson County City of Port Neches.
A Texas man is livid that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is revoking the personalized license plates because they deemed them to be offensive. The plates have graced the back of his Lamborghini for the past three years. The seemingly innocent 370H55V vanity plates just happen to spell out “A-hole” when turned upside down and the DMV finds that offensive.
DALLAS, Texas — John Wiley Price, the high-profile Dallas County Commissioner who was indicted on 11 counts of bribery, corruption, and tax fraud, has been appointed a second taxpayer-funded defense attorney to represent him in federal court.
Parents in a North Texas community came out in force to rally against bullying and mourn the loss of a young teenage boy who committed suicide. Raymond Howell, Jr. took his life following relentless bullying. He was only 14-years-old. His death has rocked a North Texas community where parents rallied against bullying on Thursday, April 9.
On Wednesday, April 15, nearly 100 Tea Party and affiliated patriot groups will gather in Austin on the south steps of the state Capitol for the first ever statewide Texas Tea Party rally. The rally is for all those who support the principles of limited government, fiscal sanity, personal responsibility, rule of law, and national and state sovereignty. It does not matter if people are formally affiliated with like-minded groups in their area or not.
Following months of bickering between the residents of a master planned community and its developers over the fate of a mural in the likeness of Old Glory, a small West Texas town finally resolved the matter. The red, white and blue won out over the shocking orange concrete wall that currently adorns an elementary school under construction.
Long gone are the days when ending a love connection means a lot of name calling and bad-mouthing. Now, breaking up has gotten a whole lot harder to do in a “selfie-driven” social media age where a jilted ex-lover can plaster X-rated photos of that formerly dearly beloved all over the internet. It is called “revenge porn” and it turns private citizens into accidental overnight porn stars. Texas has a few bills gaining traction in the state legislature to stop the widespread malicious cyber-madness.
The controversial regulations that have surrounded the ancient art of African hair braiding in Texas may be coming to an end through proposed legislation would eliminate the current licensing requirements. Rep. Craig Goldman (R-Fort Worth) filed a bill in the Texas State House that would eradicate the need for such regulations altogether. House Bill 2717 would permit someone to do natural hair braiding without needing a license to do so.
It was no April Fool’s Day joke when a South Texas middle school sent home letters about a scabies outbreak on April 1. The Harlandale Independent School District (ISD) in San Antonio announced that there were five confirmed cases of scabies at Terrell Wells Middle School that erupted over recent weeks.
A heated debate erupted over a proposed bill that would decriminalize truancy for minors in Texas. The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice hearing room was standing room only as legislators prepared to hear public testimony on the matter. Senate Bill
