Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Phil Sorrells has asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for his legal opinion regarding a recent proposal to split the Keller school district in two. Signed Feb. 13, the letter asks Paxton for “clarification on the procedural requirements for a school district engaging in the detachment process authorized in the Texas Education Code.” The possibility of splitting Keller ISD, or the creation of a district “by detachment,” as the code states, has led to heated debate since the public became aware of the school board’s intent to do so in early January. view article

Per the Texas Education Code §13.051 territory may be detached from a school district and annexed to another school district that is contiguous to the detached territory.   view article

AUSTIN, Texas – February 19, 2025 – The Texas Education Agency (TEA) today announced the appointment of a seven-member Board of Managers and a new superintendent to lead and operate the South San Antonio Independent School District (ISD).   view article

Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Phil Sorrells has asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for his legal opinion regarding a recent proposal to split the Keller school district in two. Signed Feb. 13, the letter asks Paxton for “clarification on the procedural requirements for a school district engaging in the detachment process authorized in the Texas Education Code.” The possibility of splitting Keller ISD, or the creation of a district “by detachment,” as the code states, has led to heated debate since the public became aware of the school board’s intent to do so in early January. view article

Tarrant County leaders held a press conference on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, to speak on a resolution passed to prioritize literacy and ensure students are reading at grade level at all independent school districts in the county. By Amanda McCoy   view article

Fort Worth ISD Superintendent-designate Karen Molinar saw the difference just five weeks of tutoring can have on students. view article

An estimated 300 teachers and staff in the Socorro Independent School District will lose their jobs at the end of the year after the school board on Wednesday approved a plan to cut $38 million from next year’s budget. view article

Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Phil Sorrells has asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for his legal opinion regarding a recent proposal to split the Keller school district in two. Signed Feb. 13, the letter asks Paxton for “clarification on the procedural requirements for a school district engaging in the detachment process authorized in the Texas Education Code.” The possibility of splitting Keller ISD, or the creation of a district “by detachment,” as the code states, has led to heated debate since the public became aware of the school board’s intent to do so in early January. view article

The Conroe ISD dual language program has students do all their subjects in English one day and Spanish the next. Kids have to start in kindergarten. Parents told ABC13 that they moved to the district for this program, so they're gutted it may go away. view article

Parents and community members rally after hearing rumors about the possible discontinuation of the dual language program in Conroe ISD. The dual language program in Conroe ISD has been a key educational initiative that promotes bilingualism by pairing Spanish-speaking students with English-speaking students. The program benefits families by fostering cultural exchange and language skills. Parents, like Ryan, whose children have thrived in the program, have seen positive academic and social results. view article

Beaumont Independent School District is preparing to step in for Jones-Clark Elementary, Fehl-Price Elementary, and Smith Middle School for the 2025-2026 school year following the abrupt departure of Third Future Schools. "Beaumont ISD embraces all of our students, and we are ready to take on and resume operations of Jones Clark, Fehl-Price, and Smith Middle school effective the 2025-2026 school year," said BISD Superintendent Dr. Shannon Allen. view article

The Texas Education Agency is bringing in Anastasia Anderson as the new district-wide conservator for Houston ISD. The state agency's deputy commissioner for governance, Steve Lecholop, made the announcement during Thursday's HISD school board meeting. "We feel incredibly fortunate at the agency to be able to recruit someone of such high caliber to serve in this very important role as the new conservator for the district," Lecholop said. view article

Meyer Elementary School's 50-point jump in the new Children at Risk rankings took a concerted effort to focus on every child as an individual learner, from goal-setting to “kid chats” to innovation days and even, the assistant principal noted, a little prayer.  view article

fficials in the Fort Worth Independent School District are looking to turn over operations at a struggling middle school to Texas Wesleyan University as a part of an six-year-old partnership with the college. Fort Worth ISD’s board will consider a proposal to renew its partnership with the university to run the five campuses currently in the district’s Leadership Academy Network, and also to add Leonard Middle School to the network. view article

Parents and students in Leander ISD are frustrated after the district announced significant budget cuts, including the elimination of 200 staff positions and the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The district, which has offered the IB program since 1999, said the decision was made to help address a $34.4 million budget deficit for the 2025-26 school year. view article

Houston-area K-12 schools appear to be bouncing back after yearslong student achievement declines caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest school rankings from Children at Risk. view article

Trustees for the North East Independent School District voted unanimously Monday night to permanently close Driscoll Middle School, Clear Spring Elementary and Wilshire Elementary at the end of the current school year. view article

Administrators in both districts were recently caught advising parents on how to circumvent state law protecting girls’ sports.   view article

Most Texas schools showed improved academic performance for the first time in four years, according to the advocacy group Children at Risk, which just released its annual index of school performance. view article

How did your North Texas school rank this year? See Children at Risk’s annual report .   view article

BOSTON (AP) — When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s standardized tests as a high school graduation requirement on Election Day, they joined a trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests over the past two decades. view article

Special education teams across Fort Bend ISD have completed over 2,000 overdue evaluations and re-evaluations this school year, and look to complete thousands more by the start of the 2025-26 school year, officials said at the Jan. 29 board meeting. The completion of these evaluations comes after the district was found in federal noncompliance for the 2023-24 school year based on the number of overdue reevaluations, Community Impact reported. However, district officials announced in August they were no longer in noncompliance status. view article

Dallas ISD middle schoolers have made impressive gains in reading comprehension over the last few years, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores show. But a broader lens reveals that students across the United States are struggling to make up ground on pandemic-induced learning gaps. view article

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math   view article

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott called for criminal and civil investigations into Irving Independent School District after a hidden-camera video showed a school administrator discussing transgender students playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity despite the state’s ban. view article

Results are in for the nationwide academic progress test known as the Nation's Report Card, and Houston ISD students showed slight growth compared to 2022 and are still trailing behind their pre-pandemic scores. The biennial exam tests fourth- and eighth-graders on their math and reading skills and is used as a tool to track students' proficiency over time, dating back to the 1990s. HISD students seem to slowly be returning back to pre-pandemic levels, but are still trailing behind Texas’ averages. view article

Around 10:30 a.m., Sup. Miles held a news conference at the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center to address key takeaways from the NAEP results as well as answer any questions. Also known as The Nation’s Report Card, HISD describes the NAEP as having the ability to provide meaningful results to improve education policy and practice since 1969. view article

More than half of all fourth- and eighth-graders in the Fort Worth Independent School District are below basic proficiency in reading, according to nationwide test scores released Wednesday morning, Jan. 29. The district isn’t alone: Record numbers of students scored below basic in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, meaning they haven’t even partially mastered the skills they need to be proficient readers. Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article299329919.html#storylink=cpy view article

Manor Middle School is struggling. Here's why Third Future has applied to run the campus.   view article

Houston ISD has reduced the number of substitute teachers by more than 10% as the district takes a "proactive approach" to analyze substitute teacher requests and hiring for campuses. view article

Houston ISD has reduced the number of substitute teachers by more than 10% as the district takes a "proactive approach" to analyze substitute teacher requests and hiring for campuses. view article

Four polished plaques hang behind Jeff Burke’s desk. Emblazoned with a red Texas star, they capture the Splendora Independent School District’s vision and mission: “Cultivating exceptional people.” An identical plaque greets students at the entrance of each of Splendora ISD’s six campuses, a daily reminder of its approach to recognizing student success. “There’s a reason it doesn’t say ‘cultivating exceptional test takers,’ ” said Burke, the superintendent.  view article

Bible infused curriculum is what one San Antonio School District is considering. In a meeting Wednesday school board members approved the potential purchase of the Bluebonnet Curriculum which is widely criticized for being centered on teachings of the Christian Bible. This curriculum was passed by the Texas Board of Education in November of last year has been criticized as leaning toward Christianity in its teachings. view article

A sweeping new evaluation system would grade Houston ISD teachers based on their students' test scores, classroom observations, and "planning and professionalism," according to a draft proposal released by the district Thursday. Student evaluations would not be included, following feedback rounds earlier in the academic year. view article

Austin ISD is looking for new ways to address the spike in requests for special education evaluations within the school district. According to KVUE’s media partners at the Austin American-Statesman, district data shows that over the past three years, the number of requests for special education evaluations have increased by an average of 900 each year. view article