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Tony Gutierrez/AP NewsTeach for America DFW has partnered with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to focus on the mental health of educators. -
Eric Gay/Associated PressThe sidewalk school started as a way to teach reading, writing, math and art to Central American children living in a camp of asylum seekers. When it went virtual, it reached beyond the camp's confines.
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The Texas Education Agency declined to take action, saying it's up to local enforcement. A county official tried to intervene but said it should be up to TEA to enforce.
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A summer of delay and inconsistency from state political and education leaders left Texas schools little time to prepare for an academic year with millions of students learning from home. Now many of those kids are failing through no fault of their own.
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Instead of pulling more than $2 million from a limited budget to fund the buyout, Lancaster ISD trustees table the motion and wonder if it's worth it.
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Most Republicans voted against proposals to teach middle and high school students about consent, sexual orientation or gender identity. The board will take a final vote Friday.
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New York City is shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday in a painful about-face for one of the first big U.S. school systems to bring students back to classrooms this fall.
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Texas students have lobbied the State Board of Education and now are pressing school districts in Greater Houston to teach what they call an anti-racist curriculum.
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Every year, Children At Risk rates the state's public schools, based partly on standardized test scores. The pandemic temporarily put those tests on hold, so this year's pandemic edition of campus rankings looks at the past three years.
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Few Texas universities — some of which have been identified as coronavirus hot spots — have explicitly encouraged students to quarantine for 14 days before Thanksgiving or required exit testing, despite staggering rises in case counts across the state and country.
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Third grade teacher Abigail Boyett is responsible for simultaneously educating 10 students in person and 11 at home. It's a challenge many Texas teachers face this fall as schools adapt to the pandemic.
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Multiple Texas universities are planning in-person graduation ceremonies this December, despite the fact that the state’s daily COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations are higher today than they were in May when most universities first scrambled to cancel the celebratory events.
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The college released COVID-19 numbers from August through October on Wednesday, Nov. 11. in response to a public records request.
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The lack of transparency about coronavirus cases in this North Texas community college system is causing concern among some faculty and students.
