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The State Board of Education approved four new charter schools to open in Texas next year, including one in Arlington. It comes as many public school districts face massive deficits.
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A state lawmaker and Houston residents urge the Texas Education Agency to investigate whether the state-appointed superintendent improperly sent public funds to out-of-state charter schools.
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The state will save more than $15 million by using technology similar to ChatGPT to give initial scores, reducing the number of human graders needed. The decision caught some educators by surprise.
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Carroll ISD will get to keep its full Pre-K 3 curriculum — with room for expansion — after a week of uncertainty about the program's future.
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The complaint claims Bonham ISD and a city court discriminated against both Black students and disabled students by creating a hostile environment at school. The groups also filed a separate complaint against Corpus Christi ISD with the Texas Education Agency.
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Only about a quarter of teachers in Texas are men, and the number of those who are Black or Latino is even smaller.
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AJ Crabill has overseen the district since 2020.
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More than 100 school districts signed on to a lawsuit alleging the new standards set districts up to fail. The new standards applied to students who graduated in 2022, before the districts knew about the change.
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After the horrific Uvalde school shooting in 2022, lawmakers passed House Bill 3 this year, requiring armed, trained security in every Texas school. But so far, many North Texas school districts haven’t fully done so.
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Late Thursday night, Arlington ISD became the latest school district to join a lawsuit against Education Commissioner Mike Morath because of concerns their ratings will drop drastically under the state's updated system.
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Fort Worth ISD joined a lawsuit with a growling list of districts seeking to oppose the Texas Education Agency’s newly revised accountability score.
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At least 20 school districts across Texas are suing the state’s education commissioner to block changes to the rating system.