The Keller ISD school board officially accepted the resignation of Superintendent Tracy Johnson during a special meeting on Thursday. She is stepping down at a time when there is a lot of uncertainty and a lot of questions about the school district’s future. view article

The decision to name Davis, UT-Austin's chief operating officer since 2023, ends President Jay Hartzell’s tenure months earlier than anticipated.   view article

Weeks after Fort Worth police seized photographs featured in a Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibit, a coalition of civil liberties groups is demanding the police department close its investigation into child pornography allegations, citing First Amendment protections.  view article

The number of top-tier research universities in Texas jumped, according to a new report, making the state home to more such institutions than any other state. view article

Gannett Co. has signed an asset purchase agreement with Hearst Corp. to divest the Austin American-Statesman from the USA TODAY Network, officials with both companies announced Wednesday. view article

Students in Liberty Hill ISD will attend school four days a week at several points throughout next school year. The board of trustees adopted the district’s 2025-26 academic calendar at its Feb. 18 meeting following nearly two hours of discussion. District officials said the four-day student weeks are intended to help retain and recruit teachers as LHISD prepares to make multi-million dollar budget cuts. view article

The El Paso Independent School District has approved its academic calendars for the next two years during its district meeting on February 18. During the meeting, El Paso ISD aimed to make minimal changes to the calendar due to previous pushback from families. view article

Texas must increase its investment in water, wastewater and transit systems infrastructure, the country's foremost society of civil engineers urged state lawmakers Tuesday when it announced Texas received a "C" grade on its 2025 report card. view article

A Texan who represents the largest congressional district along the southern border is the new chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Conference, a group of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.  view article

Houston ISD’s calendar for next school year does not include a holiday for Eid al-Fitr — one of the biggest celebrations in the Islamic faith — and a local Muslim organization is calling on the district to reinstate it. The Houston chapter for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-Houston, on Tuesday asked the district to restore Eid as an observed holiday. view article

With a cold winter blast blazing through parts of Texas, select school districts have announced closings and cancellations for Wednesday, Feb. 19. We are monitoring announcements and will update the story as we get more information. view article

Fort Worth ISD schools will operate on a normal schedule on Wednesday, Feb. 19, following consultation with the National Weather Service, district officials said Tuesday evening. Temperatures will plummet Tuesday as an arctic front moves through the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, according to the weather service. view article

As North Texas prepares for the arrival of an arctic cold front Tuesday night, several Dallas-area school districts have begun taking extra precautions, changing start times for outdoor games or canceling them outright. The National Weather Service issued both a winter weather advisory and extreme cold warning for Dallas-Fort Worth and surrounding areas. The advisory is scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday and will expire Wednesday morning. It includes Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Johnson and Tarrant counties. view article

North Texas school districts are making decisions about whether told cancel classes on Wednesday due to dangerously cold weather and concerns about hazardous road conditions brought on by an Arctic blast view article

A blast of Arctic air will drop temperatures below freezing on Tuesday night, and we could see some icy spots on the roads. We don't expect to see any snow or ice falling on Wednesday, but wind chills are expected to be at or near zero as kids head to school. view article

North Texans woke up Wednesday morning to blistering cold air, which prompted WFAA to trigger a Weather Alert Day for Wednesday and Thursday. Keep track of the latest forecast here. Some schools decided to cancel classes due to the extreme cold weather, while others chose to either delay start times and some resumed as normal. Most of the major school districts in North Texas are open Wednesday. view article

Economist Claudia Goldin finds it largely comes down to societal expectations of how much men should do at home  In the debate about why young Americans aren’t having kids, I have a somewhat unique perspective. I had a strong desire to become a mother, but in my late 30s, I was divorced and on my own. I decided to become a “single mom by choice” — meaning I had a child on my own using donor sperm. It’s a tough path to parenthood, but I’m glad I did it. As my story has become more widely known, I hear nearly every week from other women in their 30s and 40s who want to be mothers, too, but they have not found a life partner. They are full of questions for me. Many fear they won’t be able to afford to raise a child on their own, or cover the high price of fertility treatments or adoption. Some worry about the ethics of our donor system. Nearly all grapple with whether they can parent on their own. Can they handle the physical, financial and emotional demands of parenting — all solo? view article

When asked about the ongoing brouhaha that’s erupted in Keller Independent School District over the school board’s discussion of splitting the district, I keep telling friends the same four words. I saw this coming. Years ago, in the wake of the COVID-19 shutdown — when parents saw their kids masked, cities paralyzed, businesses closed and neighbors divided over the government’s response — a seed was planted to reclaim more control from local governments. view article

The Lone Star State is expected to replace California as the largest state by population.  If you haven't already noticed, Texas keeps growing. Now, a new report published by a real estate company that recently announced its own move to the Lone Star State, predicts that Texas will overtake California as the most populous state by 2045. view article

Some Texans who install residential batteries, solar panels and smart thermostats can now send power back to the grid and get a credit on their bill. view article

Local news station KPRC 2 aired a segment linking Nazi book-burnings to Cy-Fair ISD’s removal of controversial materials from school curriculum.   view article

The Texas Education Agency said it is "reviewing" a claim that teachers at Bellaire High School were "socially transitioning" a student against the will of their parents. Gov. Greg Abbott called for the state agency to investigate Houston ISD based on comments made during the district's Thursday board meeting by Denise Bell, chair of the Harris County chapter of Moms for Liberty. The politically conservative organization expresses anti-LGBTQ+ views and also has advocated against teaching students about critical race theory and books that address gender identity. view article

Multiple children were encouraged by adults to wave LGBT flags and participate in the rally.  view article

The estimated 1.7 million undocumented people in Texas are now targets of the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration crackdown. Here’s what we know about them. view article

Amid growing concerns over Chinese artificial intelligence and social media applications, Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a ban on several Chinese-owned services on all Texas government devices. view article

Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.  view article

Paxton expressed concerns that artificial intelligence company DeepSeek be violating the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act.  view article

Texas school districts are all struggling with lack of state funding. That's why district leaders are anxiously awaiting action from the state legislature when it comes to public school funding. Right now sixty percent of Texas school districts are operating on deficit budgets, including Lumberton ISD. view article

Most San Antonio students are enjoying a three-day weekend as many school districts are closed for President's Day on Monday, February 17. District calendars show that a majority of San Antonio school districts are closed on Monday, but at least two will be open. Students at East Central ISD and Southside ISD will need to report to school on President's Day. School is expected to resume on Tuesday, February 18 for most campuses, according to district calendars. view article

A Tomball family has decided to pull their son out of Northpointe Intermediate School after they said another student repeatedly bullied him and the school district refused to acknowledge what happened. Robert Hughes said a fellow student started bullying his 10-year-old son Hunter toward the beginning of the school year, adding that the bullying lasted a few weeks. He claims the alleged bully called Hunter “fat” and other derogatory names, but then things escalated at the start of September. view article

A Melissa ISD employee was fired after the district's police department found "inappropriate electronic communication" between the employee and a student. The department says it was able to confirm that an "at-will employee" and a student at Melissa High School had inappropriate electronic communication. view article

Family and friends held a balloon release to honor a Northside Independent School District special needs teacher who suffered a head injury in a classroom incident that led to his death. The gathering for Alfred “Mr. Fred” Jimenez took place at Bonnie Carter Park on Sunday. “I appreciate everyone being here today in honor of Freddy,” his widow, Margo Jimenez, said at the gathering. “He really was a wonderful man, and I’ll never forget him. Never.” view article

Tens of thousands of Katy community members endured the rain and cold last week to participate and support the Katy ISD’s 2025 FFA Livestock Show and Rodeo. The annual event raised more than a record-breaking a $1 million as the community celebrated the accomplishments of students and the hard work and dedication of their educators. view article

The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.   view article

Last year, Abbott refused to give public schools a major raise without passing a voucher program. His tone was more conciliatory after Election Day.  view article