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The new Miss Texas, Averie Bishop, has strong views on guns, education and reproductive rights. Bishop sat down with KERA's Bekah Morr to talk about what it means to be the first Asian American Texan to hold the title, and her priorities during her year-long tenure.

While Texas students have not regained all the ground they lost in math during the pandemic, scores across all grades were higher in 2022 than they were in 2021. Reading proficiency, on the other hand, appears to have fully recovered.

In “Do Hard Things,” Steve Magness hopes to redefine and expand what toughness and resilience mean – and how these ideas transfer to everyday life – and offers four pillars to achieve them.

Dallas ISD’s Mental Health Services Department supports children and their families through life and learning challenges. After Executive Director Tracey Brown learned of the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde where 19 children and two adults were killed, she said it was “all things crisis response support” for her and the clinicians she oversees.

An initial denial to remove two LGBTQ books from the children's section of the Hood County Library led to a 7 year political battle for control in North Texas.

Embattled Irving ISD teacher Rachel Stonecipher, who was suspended after posting rainbow stickers in support of LGBTQ students, won't be returning to the district. School board trustees are not renewing her contract.

An audit commissioned by the Lancaster Independent School District has raised ethical questions about former Superintendent Elijah Granger and some school board members. The Lancaster school board voted this week to make the findings public.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he’ll make legislation eliminating tenure at state universities – as a way to ban the teaching of critical race theory – a top priority for the 88th Texas Legislature.

Amid a statewide teacher shortage, the Fort Worth Independent School District is ramping up efforts to recruit teachers from Oklahoma and Louisiana.

History professor Michael Phillips is now the third teacher in the past year to sue Collin College. Like the other two whose contracts were not renewed, he says the college routinely violates faculty free speech rights. The college disagrees.

Since the 2021 school year, nearly 550,000 students have contracted COVID-19 across Texas. From district-wide conflicts about mask mandates to virtual schooling, students have experienced widespread change and lost out on many routines and traditions.

With more kids vaccinated and testing in place, one of the bigger hurdles now is keeping enough staff on hand.