Reporting on Texas schools, universities, and education policy -- funding fights, school choice, and university governance.
Gary VanDeaver, the former rural superintendent who fought private school vouchers in 2023 who was one of only two House Republicans to vote no when they passed in 2025, will take over the Texas Association of School Boards on Oct. 1.
Heights Elementary School in Texas City Independent School District has been designated a 2026 Texas Lone Star Ribbon School, one of just 25 public schools in the state to receive the honor this year, according to a Sept. 22 news release from the office of state Rep. Terri Leo Wilson.
Texas 2036 released a report Aug. 11 finding that while Texas invests billions of dollars each year in childcare and early childhood programs, oversight of the system is split across at least five state agencies, leaving no single entity accountable for the system as a whole.
The nine-member board that governs the Texas School for the Deaf meets Thursday afternoon for two items and nothing else: a year-end evaluation of the superintendent and his goals for the year ahead.
Gov. Greg Abbott convened the inaugural meeting of the Texas Classroom Commission at the Governor's Mansion on Aug. 10, charging the panel with strengthening student achievement, supporting Texas educators and making Texas the top state in the nation for educating children, according to a news release from the governor's office.
The Texas House Committee on Higher Education will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 18 to take invited and public testimony on four interim charges covering college affordability, credential completion, protections against foreign adversarial influence and the ability of Texas universities to compete for federal research dollars.
The Texas House Committee on Higher Education will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 17 to take invited and public testimony on three interim charges covering the overall state of higher education in Texas, the rollout of three laws passed last session and the state's patchwork of college and career advising programs.
Governor Greg Abbott announced more than $5.6 million in grants to eight Texas colleges and universities through the Nursing Innovation Grant Program, according to an Aug. 7 news release published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Texas families are days away from their first look at how every public school and district in the state performed this past year.
Brandon Creighton spent two decades in the Texas Legislature writing the rules for higher education.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Programs of Study Advisory Committee spent most of Wednesday afternoon on a question that sounds like housekeeping and is not: who gets to sit in the rooms where Texas decides what a community-college career program teaches.
The Texas Workforce Commission has awarded a $131,530 dual credit grant to Hale Center Independent School District to support career and technical education, the agency announced in an Aug. 5 news release.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is urging drivers and families to make safety a top priority as students return to classrooms across the state, according to an agency news release issued ahead of the new school year.
The first annual report on Texas Education Freedom Accounts is full of big numbers — 274,000 applications, 85,344 funded students, a 121,000-name waiting list the comptroller's office calls the largest in the country.