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A driver offers praise to the Texas Woman’s University mural painting students, stopping to look at the northern side of the now-empty Marketing and Communications building on Oakland.

School officials in San Antonio announced earlier this week that they are looking at closing about 20% of their campuses while Plano school officials are starting those discussions.

There are lots of signs of growth in Denton ISD, and administrators are seeing one they predicted before the start of the 2023-24 school year. Denton ISD has already had to close enrollment in one of the elementary schools in the Braswell zone.

Principal Channa Barrett often is asked how her campus, Jacquet Middle School, is doing.

We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a video reading from a different North Texas poet each week. Poet and professor Darius Ajai Frasure dedicates his time helping young people discover and share their voices.

Initial data suggests the program helps. In the 2021-22 school year, student resiliency scores in the district rose, on average, nearly 17%. Meanwhile, more than 1,300 families received food from the store for free.

The Oak Cliff Film Festival mentors fledgling student filmmakers with free workshops.

The university distributed vests to theater students after an officer drew a gun on a Black student rehearsing a violent scene last year. Officials walked back the requirement amid recent student criticism.

It's possible more people will start applying for teacher positions again when the wider labor market calms down, but thousands of experienced teachers have already left the classroom. They won’t be easy to replace.

Many Texas universities don’t have early-voting locations on campus. And state laws regarding voter ID and registration make it hard to turn out younger voters, advocates say.

The off-field world of college football is completely different now that players can legally profit off their name, image and likeness.