Texas Education Agency

The Texas Education Agency has named former Assistant Attorney General Levi Fuller as the state’s first Inspector General of Educator Misconduct – this as Texas toughens education policies.

The move comes as the state’s education agency unveils a new enforcement role to oversee investigations into alleged misconduct by Texas teachers.

The appointment is effective immediately. Texas education commissioner Mike Morath has not announced who will lead the district or serve on its board of managers.

The Texas Education Agency received more than 350 complaints involving teachers and staff who commented on the assassination of Charlie Kirk on social media.

The education commissioner attributed the takeover of the district to academic and governance issues that lingered unaddressed “for too long.”

The meeting happened days before Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledged $1 million to help establish chapters of the conservative student group on every Texas college and high school campus.

The state's largest school district, Houston ISD, was taken over in 2023. It may offer a glimpse at Fort Worth's future.

A Waco judge this week made permanent a block on a state law that required book vendors to rate materials based on their sexual content and references.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last week at Utah Valley University. Authorities have called the killing a “political assassination.”

The Texas Education Agency on Friday released 2025 grades along with, after a court delay, scores from 2024. Many North Texas districts earned As, and several improved a full letter grade.

Fort Worth ISD leaders see academic progress in preliminary A-F school accountability grades. TEA will release ratings Aug. 15.

The lawsuit says the law requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments "unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance, reverence, and adoption of the state’s mandated religious scripture."