The allegation isn’t true. But that isn’t stopping some politicians and right-wing activists from running with it.
By Dan Solomon
In many of Texas’s rapidly growing exurbs, such schools have been fast-tracked to keep pace with exploding student populations.
By Bekah McNeel
Almost 2 million Texas children don’t have access to a computer or internet at home, according to a TEA report.
By Brittney Martin
No shower caps, bonnets, Do-rags, or saggy pants? The principal’s dress code for parents is about more than just school-appropriate attire.
By John Nova Lomax
The four-year-old was told not to return until he gets a haircut.
By Dan Solomon
HISD spent $1.2 million to change the names of schools named for Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and more.
By Dan Solomon
Video footage of a teenage boy placed in a chokehold by school resource officers adds a new layer to an ongoing debate.
By Dan Solomon
After the 8th grade valedictorian dissed his school superintendent during graduation, both the school and a federal judge agreed that the incoming freshman needed to pay a price.
By Dan Solomon
On the list of sunscreen-related dangers, that's probably not the biggest worry most people have.
By Dan Solomon
Welcome the Wolf Pack, the, uh, Texans, and the... Huskies? That can't be right—wait, no, it's the Huskies.
By Dan Solomon
A 35 percent drop over six years, according to a recent report.
By Ross Dubois
On a day that no other U.S. senator was willing to be interviewed on TV about gun rights, Rep. Louie Gohmert joined Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson in calling for more guns in schools.
By Jason Cohen
Last year half of Dallas’ new teachers failed a standard test on general knowledge that was a piece of cake compared to what we once expected teachers to know.
By Gene Lyons
What's more embarassing for an eight-year-old boy? School authorities forcing you to take a shower or your parents making a federal case out of the matter?
By Sonia Smith
Our well meaning volunteer other meets up with some hard-nosed realists in the public schools.
By Beverly Lowry