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A court-appointed Texas Department of Family and Protective Services regional manager will take over foster care services in nine North Texas counties after allegations that mismanagement at a private contractor put children in harm.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants state agencies to implement new "strong anti-fraud measures" to a program that providers financial support to eligible families to pay for child care. It comes after the Trump administration froze federal funding to Child Care Services programs after a viral video claimed widespread fraud in Minnesota.

The upgrades include four river-monitoring sensors, weather-alert radios in every cabin, and the placement of generators in key buildings.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, these local food pantries and churches are planning hosting food drives to help feed their communities.

The national nonprofit's annual report card showed that Texas had higher pre-term birth rates than the country overall.

Texas is the third state to sue the platform, alongside dozens of private plaintiffs who say Roblox didn’t do enough to protect their kids from sexually explicit content.

Texans can safely surrender young infants to designated locations like fire stations and hospitals. But not everyone knows the law exists.

The law’s authors urged districts to use “common sense.” But some nurses worry they could violate the law and face discipline for providing basic care without a parent’s approval.

Derrick Brookins, a choir director at Denton ISD’s Braswell High School in Little Elm, was arrested on an indecency with a child charge the day before the seniors in his program graduated.

Child Care Associates is resuming Head Start programming.

Parents with pre-K students are eligible to receive funds in the new education savings account program, marking an expansion of publicly funded early education. The public funds would be used to pay for pre-K tuition at private or community-based child care centers, if they qualify under Senate Bill 2.

The White House is expected to unveil a budget proposal that will, reportedly, aim to eliminate Head Start. The federally-funded program is designed to promote school readiness among young children from low-income families and serves more than 65,000 kids across Texas.