Texans who buy their own health insurance are on track for a second consecutive year of steep premium increases, as insurers across the country file 2027 rates that would push the cost of Affordable Care Act coverage up by more than a third over two years.
Fort Worth ISD, the state's largest school district under a full Texas Education Agency takeover, is moving to close a campus and erase a tens-of-millions-dollar deficit as its appointed leadership tries to lift student outcomes fast enough to hand control back to an elected board.
A sheriff, a prosecutor, a defense lawyer and a probate judge sat at the same witness table Tuesday and told the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services the same thing: county jails have become the state's default mental hospital, and the counties are paying for it.
Texas' first-year education savings account program is on track to fund nearly 96,000 students for 2026-27, roughly 23,000 more than began drawing money on July 1.
As Texas enters the summer stretch when appraisal rolls are certified and local governments set next year's tax rates, more than 130 cities are entering it under an order that they cannot raise property taxes at all above the no-new-revenue rate.
The U.S. southern border reaches one year closed to livestock trade this week, and with New World screwworm now established inside Texas, the calculus for reopening it has been turned on its head.
While the price of recycled plastic has cratered this year, one container in the bin still holds real value: the aluminum can.
The Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio said it will open its high-containment laboratories to a British biotechnology company to develop new tools against the New World screwworm, a new front in the response as the U.S. case count reached 32.
Texas will add exactly one new open-enrollment charter operator this year, after the State Board of Education signed off on Texas High School for Accelerated Learning, the single applicant the Texas Education Agency (TEA) advanced from a field of 18.
The Texas Education Agency has opened a second cycle of its Phone Free Schools Grant Program, offering roughly $2.39 million to school systems that did not receive an initial grant to help them buy the secure storage needed to enforce the state's bell-to-bell cellphone ban.