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Texas AG Fires Off Letter to Fort Worth ISD Over Transgender Bathroom Policy

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has fired off a letter to the president of Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) saying he has a “strong concern” that the school district’s “Transgender Student Guidelines” violates parents rights to information. He also said the policies are motivated by a misguided view of federal law.

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Texas Students Learn Zero Tolerance Policies Also Apply to Ponytails

In theory, school dress codes and grooming policies intend to thwart distractions by fostering conformity and compliance to an established norm but two Texas students in different parts of the state recently learned that sometimes sporting a ponytail can result in potential suspension or worse, expulsion, all because of school zero tolerance policies.

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Common Core Mocked on Jeopardy

A teacher who was a contestant on Jeopardy Thursday made fun of the Common Core standards when a category bearing the name of the highly unpopular education standards appeared on the game’s board.

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LISTEN: Marine Archaeologist Explains How They’re ‘Closing In’ on Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour off Rhode Island Coast

Dr. Kathy Abbass of the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon to day to discuss RIMAP’s efforts to close in on the location of Captain James Cook’s legendary ship the HMS Endeavour, which was scuttled in 1778 just off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, in Narragansett Bay.

A replica of The HMS Endeavour. Photo courtesy of the Australian National Maritime Museum

Changing Name of Texas Public School Will Cost Taxpayers $500K

HOUSTON, Texas — Changing the name of just one middle school in Texas will cost Houston taxpayers almost $500,000. Some Houston taxpayers are not happy about the cost of the name change, and some former students, parents of students, and current students at the middle school are not happy about the name change either.

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Feds Indict 5 El Paso ISD Educators in Test Score Fraud Scheme

The FBI arrested five veteran Texas educators, all present or past employees of the El Paso Independent School District, after a federal grand jury indicted them on fraud charges Wednesday. They stand accused of their involvement in a test-cheating scheme to circumvent federal accountability requirements under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.

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