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More Texas children are getting vaccinated early against measles
Fear of babies contracting the contagious and potentially deadly virus has spurred the surge in vaccinations amid Texas’ ...
Head Start services to be cut for almost 900 kids and moms in North Texas unless HHS renews funding
Child Care Associates is may lay off over 300 employees and pause services to nearly 900 children and pregnant mothers unless ...
Texas teacher pay, public school funds revamped in sweeping legislative deal
The Texas House and Senate are nearing a deal on a sweeping school finance bill. Per-student funding known as the basic ...
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Classroom violence went up in Texas after the pandemic. Is more discipline the answer?
Texas lawmakers are poised to make it easier to suspend disruptive students. But some teachers and school psychologists say ...
Texas doctor sentenced to 10 years in prison in one of the ‘most significant’ cases of patient harm
The $325m fraud case is 'one of the most egregious' of its kind, involving unneeded chemo, IV infusions, and more, DOJ ...
This Texas bill would ban offshore wind farms in state waters from connecting to ERCOT's grid
Texas lawmakers have advanced a bill to prohibit offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Mexico from connecting to the state's ...
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Bill to teach Texas kids the dangers of communism — but not fascism — OK'd by House
The bill won bipartisan support despite efforts from multiple Democrats that would have also required students to learn about ...
13 years after setting a beloved Texas grandma on fire, Matthew Johnson will be executed
Matthew Lee Johnson was convicted of killing Nancy Harris in Garland, Texas in May 2012. Harris died five days after Johnson ...
Texas Education Agency accountability scores expose longstanding inequities in Austin ISD
Plans to improve three state-rated "F" schools spark concerns over the historic east-west divide within Austin district ...
Man who set beloved Texas grandma on fire executed 13 years after her murder
A Texas man was executed Tuesday evening for the burning death of an elderly clerk he set on fire during a convenience store ...
Matthew Johnson executed in Texas for murder of beloved grandmother who was set on fire
Matthew Lee Johnson was executed on May 20 for the murder of Nancy Judith Harris in May 2012 in the Dallas suburb of Garland.
More Houston-area private schools administer the STAAR test than anywhere else in Texas
While Texas does not require private schools to administer the state's standardized test, almost 6,000 private school ...