This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Two years ago, during the 2023 legislative ...

GODLEY, Texas — Flu cases are on the rise at local schools and hospitals, and the illness is forcing one school district to shut down for the remainder of the week. Godley ISD announced on ...

Recent years have not been kind to Texas’s public schools. Because of soaring inflation and paltry funding, many districts large and small are facing the prospect of insolvency. Citing low ...

Texas does not track the immigration and citizenship status of students attending public schools. A 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a Texas law established that children regardless of immigration ...

A Fort Worth school district is investigating one of its substitute teachers after a post they allegedly made suggested that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should come to a Texas high school ...

Opponents believe the bill will take money away from public schools. AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Senate took the first step to getting school vouchers on the Senate floor Thursday. The new proposal ...

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and that the vouchers will only serve as a taxpayer-funded break to families whose students are already in private schools. The average, annual cost of private school tuition in Texas was $9,831 ...

BORGER, Texas — A second grader was tragically killed in an accident in the school drop-off line at Gateway Elementary School. Borger Police say eight-year-old Serenity Campos was getting out of ...

A Texas teacher sparked backlash after calling ... immigration raids in areas deemed “sensitive” – including schools. In a separate post, @HookEm232 condemned a North Carolina teacher ...

A teacher in Fort Worth, Texas is under investigation by district ... law enforcement agency should visit one of its secondary schools. School officials did not respond to a request to identify ...

A Texas second grader died Friday following a "tragic accident" at a school drop-off area, police said. According to the Borger Police Department, first responders were called to Gateway ...