The chief financial officer for Fort Worth schools won’t be crunching numbers for the city’s largest school district much longer.

A new Texas law requires that students have consent to see a school nurse, but FWISD officials didn’t send out such forms until Sept. 5, four days after the law took effect.

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

Professors’ concerns included the state’s DEI ban and new limits to faculty influence at colleges and universities.

A bill to end Texas’ state-mandate STAAR test is headed for Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. House Bill 8 replaces the year-end assessment with three shorter tests, but critics say that only increases the burden on students.

Senate Bill 2972 limits “expressive activities” on campuses to certain places and times. A free speech organization is suing on behalf of numerous students and student groups, calling the law unconstitutional.

Senate Bill 11, which went into effect on Monday, allows school boards to set aside time for voluntary prayer or the reading of religious texts during classroom time.

The ACLU of Texas has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's new anti-DEI law days before it goes into effect.

And in 2025, the Texas Legislature’s 89th session was no different. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 412, which makes changes that could mean criminal charges for educators.

English teacher Nady Khalil stretched his arm across a poster-sized sheet of paper with seven stanzas written in red ink and asked six seventh graders to read as the Texas education commissioner observed.

The UNT System’s temporary pause on drag performances went into effect in March of this year. A federal appeals court ruled earlier this month a similar ban likely violates the First Amendment.

Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the investigation of Plano ISD Thursday.