The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released its annual Public Education Grant (PEG) List that identifies failing schools across the state. The new list reflected almost a 10 percent decrease from last year’s dismal findings but remains noticeably higher than two years ago.
A Texas school district, saddled with a new football stadium where construction costs soared to roughly $72 million, sold its “naming rights” to a sporting goods giant for $2.5 million.
The feds are touring Texas cities to give the public an opportunity to speak their minds over reports the State capped special education enrollment, allegedly shutting eligible students out of these services.
Students attending the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) demand “sanctuary campus” status, but not everyone at this border college agrees that safe haven polices benefit the vast majority of the enrolled population.
Neighboring Texas communities are in the throes of a brewing mumps outbreak where the virus tally jumped from a reported 10 cases to 28 in less than a week. The majority of the diagnosed are school-age children.
A conservative website called out four professors at the University of Texas at Austin on a watchlist that seeks to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
Texas State University students hopped on the collegiate “sanctuary campus” bandwagon, petitioning their administrative leaders to declare the school a safe haven for illegal alien students, staff, and community members.
A high school teacher in Texas faces multiple charges for allegedly having sex with two students in unrelated sexual encounters over two school years.
Updated building codes in Texas require new school construction to also include tornado shelters but the cost of safety has a hefty price tag for taxpayers. Those storm safe rooms can run up to 30 percent higher in already costly construction.
The question of how one Texas school district plans to pay for its $1.35 million state-of-the-art jumbotron system exploded when four newly-elected board members filed a lawsuit to stop a vote they believed would have saddled area taxpayers with those costs.
Another Texas lawmaker pre-filed a bill intended to halt rampant teacher-student sexual misconduct plaguing the state’s schools.
Two Texas high school student face disciplinary action after staging a mock assassination of President-elect Donald Trump for their English class presentation.
The Texas State Board of Education ended a months-long debate and voted unanimously to reject a textbook intended for use in a Mexican American studies elective.
The former Texas middle school teacher who allegedly became pregnant by her 13-year-old student pleaded guilty in court as part of a deal that caps her punishment and may even allow her to serve a probation sentence.
A Houston area high school math teacher stands accused of having sex with one of his female students in his car at a park. During a police investigation, he admitted they engaged in sexual intercourse “probably twice.”
Jewish student organizations suddenly cancelled the speaking engagement of a prominent American-Israeli writer at a Texas university out of fear of alienating flagrantly anti-Israel groups on campus.
Monday marked the first day for Texas lawmakers to pre-file bills for the upcoming 2017 legislative session. Among the many proposals submitted was one which intends to combat the growing problem of teacher-student sexual misconduct.
Texans love high school football and pump exorbitant amounts of taxpayer dollars into funding NFL-style stadiums, but now one school boasts a brand new $1.35 million state-of-the-art jumbotron system, only it remains unclear how the district plans to pay for it.
Although their races were not nearly as dramatic as was the U.S. presidential election that won the White House for Republican candidate Donald J. Trump, Texas conservatives, many of them incumbents, won big in their bids for State Board of Education (SBOE) on Tuesday.
Teacher sexual misconduct continues to impact Texas schools. In Houston, officials charged a kindergarten teacher with molesting a five-year-old girl. Nearby, police continue to investigate accusations that a substitute teacher kissed and improperly touched first graders at another elementary school.
One Texas teacher lost her cool in a Houston-area elementary school when dealing with a purportedly unruly second grade student. Now, she stands accused of punching the child in the face and sitting on him in a hallway. School surveillance cameras apparently captured the incident.
In a seven-page letter, Texas education officials told the U.S. Department of Education it never set a cap, limit, or policy on the number or percent of students that school districts can, or should, serve in special education.
A handful of parents recently accused Texas public school employees of either bullying or abusing their children. School districts say they take these complaints very seriously and investigate them thoroughly.
Texas’ rural schools got a boost from Education Commissioner Mike Morath, who announced the creation of a new task force that will focus on the needs and interests of these often remote and much smaller districts.
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus jumped into the ongoing controversy over whether public school children were denied special education services, penning a letter to the state’s top education official and urging temporary action.
Two Texas school districts stand accused of violating the state’s 2015 law that decriminalized truancy. Advocacy groups came together and filed complaints, urging education officials to investigate and to shore up guidelines so that all schools follow the rules.
Texas education officials dismissed a complaint filed by the Turkish government against the state’s largest charter school network, Harmony Public Schools, reportedly linked to reclusive Islamist cleric Fethullah Gülen.
A Texas elementary school instructor accused of roughing up a five-year-old in a purported disciplinary incident captured on video has resigned.
At a time when taking a “knee” has become the fashionable gesture of today’s youth, one Texas teenager gave the nation nearly 400 reasons why patriotism is still in style, transforming a community service project into a school-wide “thank you” to veterans.
A Texas high school choir teacher could face up to two years in prison if found guilty on a felony charge that he allegedly tried to secretly film a naked female student in a makeshift campus changing room.
The federal government gave Texas one month to show the State does not keep children with disabilities from receiving services and is in compliance with special education laws.
A black Texas high school senior, who decided to dress up as a slave for a campus costume event, says school officials told him to change his outfit to avoid making anyone feel uncomfortable. The school district says otherwise.
One small, struggling Texas school that faces possible takeover or closure signed onto a lawsuit filed by a group of parents against the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR).
A small school district in the Texas Hill Country placed a sign that gives would-be troublemakers something to think about if they contemplate harming any students on campus.
Inspired by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, a Texas fifth grade student takes a knee to protest the U.S. National Anthem at her middle school during the daily recitation of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
The wording of a back-to-school flu shot consent form sent home with students got under the skin of some central Texas parents, escalating to the point where an anti-vaccination group teamed up with a lawyer to issue a cease and desist letter.
For the eighth consecutive year, Texas educator-student sexual misconduct cases soared, hitting an all time high of 222 investigations opened by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) in the 2015-16 school year. However, one education expert says this reflects deeper societal issues and he spoke with Breitbart Texas about some of the ways to curb the rampant problem.
A hallway mural of the Ten Commandments and a painted Bible verse came under fire by Wisconsin atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), which sent a letter demanding a west Texas school district cover it or risk a lawsuit.
When the feds shut down all 130 ITT Technical Institutes nationwide Tuesday, they impacted students across 38 states, including in Texas where 10 campuses operated.
A new state law is the fulfillment of one north Texas mother’s 10-year mission to mandate that public schools place surveillance cameras in special needs classrooms to protect students after her son was physically abused by a teacher.
