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DALLAS, Texas — On the heels of the latest teacher-student sex scandal and as part of October’s Safe Schools Week, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner of Education Michael Williams addressed the importance that everyone plays in identifying and reporting

DALLAS, Texas — ‘No toll roads’ was the clear message that a Greenville grassroots group sent to officials in Hunt County on Tuesday morning, October 14 when they held a press conference outside the Hunt County Commissioners Courthouse to stand against the Blacklands-Northeast

DALLAS, Texas — Parents in the Texas Belton Independent School District (ISD) received two contradictory late night communications from Superintendent Susan Kincannon. The first was a pleasant Ebola update and within minutes, came the second — a three campus shutdown

DALLAS, Texas — Parents are feeling panicky at Zion Lutheran School in Northeast Dallas. The private Christian school offers pre-K through middle school plus after school care to approximately 300 students and isn’t even a school under Ebola watch but it’s located

DALLAS, Texas — Dallas Independent School District (ISD) broke the news about the second confirmed case of Ebola in the city limits to its families over the district’s online Health Updates on Sunday, October 12. The latest victim, Erin Pham,

DALLAS, Texas — While the nation and the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex have been gripped in fear over the second US case of the deadly Ebola virus in Dallas, an even bigger threat has hit Texas — Enterovirus-D68 (EV-D68), the

DALLAS, Texas — Ten unaccompanied alien children (UAC), who entered the U.S. illegally, were diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) between January through September, CNS News is reporting. All were detained while trying to enter the United States from the Mexican border,

DALLAS, Texas — Increasingly, homeschoolers have come under attack by Big Education. Most recently, in Connecticut. Governor Dannel Malloy created an advisory commission that preliminarily sought to mandate involuntary mental health screenings for homeschoolers, citing the tragic 2012 Newtown shooter

DALLAS, Texas — With the death of Ebola patient zero Thomas Duncan, the affected Dallas Independent School District (ISD) in North Texas responded to the tragic end of the first Ebola case on American soil while Midland ISD in West

DALLAS, Texas — Students in the five Dallas ISD schools under Ebola watch started the new school week learning that electronic scanners were being installed to monitor for any fevers, often the first symptom of the Ebola virus. Breitbart Texas

DALLAS, Texas — Konni Burton is the favored grassroots candidate for Senate District 10 (SD 10); it’s considered to be one of the most hotly contested legislative races in the state’s November midterm election. The longtime Colleyville conservative has pulled

DALLAS, Texas — Education Commissioner Michael Williams announced that the Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) surpassed Harvard’s well-known and well-funded educational endowment in a Texas Education Agency (TEA) news release on September 30th. Yes, the Harvard University endowment at $36.4

DALLAS, Texas — On Friday, October 3, Jack Lowe, Sr. Elementary students in the Dallas Independent School District (ISD) greeted parents at the end of theschool day with a barrage of TV news choppers hovering so closely overhead that the

DALLAS, Texas — Alben Tarty, spokesman for the Liberian Community Association of DFW told Breitbart Texas, “The CDC has the situation under control,” he added, “we don’t want to panic people unnecessarily,” admitting that the local Liberian community has been shaken

DALLAS, Texas — No more pickles, no more popcorn is what the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported as among snacks now considered contraband in the Lubbock Independent School District (ISD) for K-12 campus fundraisers held during school hours. Favorite kid munchies have

DALLAS, Texas — Highland Park Independent School District (ISD) in the Dallas metro area yanked seven books off its approved high school English literature reading list following parent outcry, according to the Dallas Morning News. Those books were The Art

DALLAS, Texas — It was a week of a hijacked education narrative in Jefferson County, Colorado where hundreds of students protested “history curriculum changes that would promote patriotism.” That is right. They were protesting patriotism and capitalism, although they were

DALLAS, Texas — Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis, the Republican and Democratic candidates for Texas governor, respectively, continue to share very different public education visions. It was again evident when Abbott, current Texas Attorney General, and Sen. Davis (D-Fort Worth)

DALLAS, Texas — “My comments during the budget debate of the 2013 session are being taken out of context for political purposes,” former state Sen. Tommy Williams told the Houston Chronicle on September 5, 2014. He was wrist-slapping Democratic challenger

DALLAS, Texas — On the morning of September 19, Education Commissioner Michael Williams addressed the full State Board of Education (SBOE) about his intention to submit an application for a federally funded universal preschool grant that is part of President

DALLAS, Texas — In a final vote of 8-4 with one abstention, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) passed a resolution to formally request that the College Board rewrite its redesigned Advanced Placement US History (APUSH) course and exam “in a

DALLAS, Texas — For decades, Advanced Placement (AP) has been a respected name in high-quality high school accelerated learning. Texas students represent a respectable 10 percent of the program’s market; however, this year, the AP US History (APUSH) has undergone

DALLAS, Texas — On September 17, the State Board of Education (SBOE) voted 12-3 to pass an amendment that is a major step in shoring up Texas sovereignty over the Social Studies standards. Public schools will have to teach the

DALLAS, Texas — Sheriff Joe Arpaio, often dubbed “America’s toughest sheriff,” will be the keynote speaker at the Kaufman County Tea Party’s annual “Don’t Mess With Texas” fundraiser on Saturday evening, September 20. The Maricopa County Arizona lawman is never

DALLAS, Texas — The ideological battle over the Texas Social Studies textbook adoption process is inching towards a showdown as the State Board of Education (SBOE) convenes to hear public comment on the classroom learning materials followed by reviewer reports and

DALLAS, Texas — Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams notified the U.S. Department of Education that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) will submit an application for a federal preschool expansion grant that is part of the Obama Administration’s Pre-K for All

DALLAS, Texas — Yesterday, College Board Vice President Trevor Packer defended the redesigned Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) framework in a letter to colleagues. The new framework has come under fire nationally for a highly politicized agenda that undermines traditional

DALLAS, Texas — Splashed onto the cover of September 6, 2014 Outlook section of the Houston Chronicle was an opinion piece penned by Kathy Miller, Texas Freedom Network (TFN) president, in which she slammed the state’s textbook adoption policy, namely the

Truancy, it conjures up images of the 1930’s and Depression Era under-aged hooligans playing hooky in back alleys, but wait, truancy is alive and well and on the books in the freedom and liberty loving Lone Star state where the delinquency

DALLAS, Texas — Democratic gubernatorial challenger Sen. Wendy Davis is proving that behind the blonde hair are left wing roots itching to attack her opponent, GOP front runner Greg Abbott, at any cost, even if it is with bum info

DALLAS, Texas — On September 16, at 10am, Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) member from District 5, Ken Mercer will present a resolution stipulating that Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses must reflect the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

DALLAS, Texas — Making college more affordable by reducing the crushing burden of student loan debt and increasing on-time graduations, transferrable high school tocollege AP credits, block scheduling, and online college learning opportunities, were among the cost-effective, common sense approaches

DALLAS, Texas — It is like a Texas sampler platter of the 2014-15 Common Core offerings served up around the state — Sadlier “Common CoreEnriched Edition” Vocabulary, Springboard and Carnegie Math. There is even a kindergarten handout that defines the importance

DALLAS, Texas — In Austin, State District Judge John Dietz, a Democrat, ruled that the state’s funding mechanism for public schools was unconstitutional on August 28. The Travis County judge’s opinion was in favor of the 600-plus school districts who

DALLAS, Texas — Breitbart Texas has learned that a new “Student Privacy Protection Request Form” has been released by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national non-profit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The “data-mining” opt-out form was

DALLAS, Texas — Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) is grasping at any opportunity to attack Greg Abbott, her GOP gubernatorial opponent, these days. She even used the first day of school at a Houston elementary to do it by staging an