Education

Should the Ten Commandments be required reading in all Texas classrooms?

On April 5, students from around the U.S. walked out of class to demand action.

In the midst of school shootings and Fentanyl-related deaths in North Texas, one North Texas school board candidate says porn is a bigger threat to students.

Fort Worth ISD’s recent pause on sex education lessons this school year shines new light on the controversial curriculum.

West Texas A&M University’s president has been hit with a lawsuit after refusing to reinstate a student organization’s drag show.

A free speech group has put West Texas A&M University, which recently canceled a student drag show, on notice.

The parents of a special needs elementary school student have battled for years with Carroll ISD over how to best provide their son the education he legally deserves.

A Keller ISD mom claims that state Rep. Nate Schatzline shared her home address in a tweet, putting her family at risk.

The controversy comes after activists led the school to change the title of a building named after eugenicist E. E. Davis.

As the Texas GOP is pushing for school vouchers, Democrats are demanding greater investment in the state’s public schools and teachers.

Buckle your seat belts: The anti-DEI crusade in Texas is starting to gain traction.

Mesquite ISD joins the growing list of Texas school districts considering moving to a four-day school week.

Librarians are apparently next up on Texas conservatives’ chopping block.

Gov. Greg Abbott is leading the charge to rid Texas of DEI policies, but Black and Mexican American state lawmakers are calling on him to reverse course.

When the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) changed how it will approach the topic of school vouchers for the current legislative session, it took many by surprise. One of the more surprised people was board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents District 13, which includes parts of both…

Southlake’s Carroll Independent School District and several others in North Texas are the subjects of ongoing civil rights investigations by the U.S. Department of Education. Currently, there are eight open investigations of Carroll ISD.

Texas teachers could see a sizable spike in salary and receive paid parental leave if certain state lawmakers have their way.

Alex Stein, a local controversial comedian, has announced that he’s running for Highland Park ISD Board of Trustees Place 7.

State Rep. Jarvis Johnson, a Houston Democrat, announced  on Wednesday morning a new bill, House Bill 51, that aims to abolish Confederate Heroes Day as an official Texas state holiday. The occasion, established in 1973, falls annually on Jan. 19, which is also Robert E. Lee’s birthday, a state holiday…

With the 88th Legislative session set to begin in less than a week, one North Texas state representative continues to fill the docket with some rather eye-catching filings. Frisco Republican Jared Patterson, who has already filed bills to abolish the city of Austin and ban minors from social media usage,…

With each year, the news in Dallas seems to introduce as many questions as it does answers. Bills filed in the Texas legislature, elections, proposed ordinances, all-day city council committee hearings and things of that nature are all certainly notable in their own way, but for the most part, we…

In November the University of Texas System Board of Regents adopted a version of the Chicago Statement, calling it a formal commitment to freedom of speech on its campuses. Released by the University of Chicago in 2015, the Chicago Statement, formally known as the Report on the Committee on Freedom of…