News & Politics
July 17, 2020
I’ve Spent Years Protecting My Students. When Classes Resume, Who Will Protect Me?
As Texas schools look to reopen this fall, I am unsure how to keep myself and the children I look after safe.
Teachers
The Daily Post
October 6, 2016
A Teacher In Grand Prairie Has Been Placed on Adminstrative Leave After Telling His Students To Google Him
There were news reports online that he had once been arrested for allegedly threatening that he was "capable of doing things along the line of what" happened in Newtown, Connecticut.
The Daily Post
November 17, 2014
A Houston Third Grade Teacher Is in Trouble For Making Racial Slurs on a Public Access Show
Not long after a Duncanville teacher was fired for tweeting "kill yourselves" to "crackers" who wanted to argue with her opinions about Ferguson, another teacher, this time in Houston, is under fire for using racially-charged language.
Politics & Policy
February 28, 2013
Gun Safety Course Proves Painfully Unsafe
A school employee was accidentally shot yesterday during one of Van ISD's gun safety courses.
January 21, 2013
Six Sex Scandals Involving Texas Teachers
The story of Kennedale High School teacher Brittni Colleps, found guilty last week of having sex with four male students while being videotaped, and five other teachers accused of sleeping with their students.
May 16, 2012
Teacher Says She’s Married to God, School Says She Can’t Return to Teaching This Year
A public high school teacher from the Valley will not be returning to the classroom this school year after she told her ninth graders that she is "married to God."…
April 11, 2012
Gender Division Doesn’t Add Up
A new study from UT Austin researchers finds math teachers are seeing more than just the numbers when they evaluate students' competence. …
Texas Primer
March 1, 2001
The New London School Explosion
How many people died in the New London school explosion of 1937?…