More than a year after it was enacted, we're getting a clearer idea of the impact of Katy ISD's controversial gender identity policy. The policy requires district staff to inform parents if students identify themselves as transgender or ask to use different names or pronouns in school. view article

West ISD announced Wednesday that school will be closed Thursday and Friday. The district says the closure is due to widespread flu and illness causing students and staff to miss days. WISD said classes will resume Monday, Feb. 3. view article

North Zulch ISD is canceling classes on Monday, Feb. 3, and Tuesday, Feb. 4. In a Facebook post, the district says they’re canceling due to a “high number of absences among both students and staff.” view article

Residents and businesses in central Lewisville are under a boil water notice after a major 30-inch water main break caused widespread water outages late Saturday night. view article

The City of Lewisville is telling residents to boil their water before consuming it because of a water main break. Lewisville ISD will close 21 campuses and facilities on Monday, according to the city. Parents at impacted campuses should have received an email notification from the district. view article

An undercover investigation revealed Executive Director of Campus Operations Reny Lizardo explaining that a gender-confused boy could play on the girl’s team, saying, “It’s not illegal if you don’t get caught.” view article

President Donald Trump’s vow to levy punishing taxes on the country’s top trading partners is already having the Texas business community on edge, with even Republicans who support the president acknowledging it could cause pain in the state. view article

Former leaders in the Keller school district made unrealistic assumptions and overestimated attendance and revenue projections, leading to a $35 million shortfall in the general fund, according to an independent audit. The district hired Chicago-based RSM consultants in May 2024 to perform a budget compliance review in response to deficits, irregularities and recent employment changes in the central office. Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article299455769.html#storylink=cpy view article

A Conroe ISD parent is demanding answers after her daughter said she was asked about her citizenship status while in Spanish class earlier this week. Susana Amaya, whose 15-year-old daughter attends Conroe High School's 9th-grade campus, says her daughter came home from school on Monday and told her about the teacher's remarks. Seething with anger, Amaya turned to social media to report on what had happened. view article

Normangee ISD says it’s canceling Friday classes due to a high number of illness-related absences. Class will be held as normal next Monday. The district said the weekend would be spent deep cleaning the schools. “We are committed to ensuring the well-being and safety of our students, staff and community,” Normangee ISD said in a release. Thursday basketball games were also canceled, and Friday and weekend games and activities will be rescheduled. Once again, class will reconvene on Monday, Feb. 3. view article

Gold-Burg ISD is closed Friday to address an issue with its heating system after concerns about a gas leak caused a student and staff evacuation. In a Facebook post published on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 9:35 a.m., Gold-Burg ISD revealed that a strong gas odor in the building resulted in an evacuation so energy company Enderby could locate the source of a potential leak. view article

An Irving Independent School District administrator resigned this week after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for his firing. In a social media post, Abbott called for both "criminal and civil investigations" against Irving ISD after a video surfaced that allegedly showed Reny Lizardo, the executive director of Campus Operations for Irving ISD, speaking to an undercover investigator for Accuracy in Media, a nonprofit conservative watchdog group. view article

Liberty Hill ISD is getting closer to potentially approving a four-day school week for the 2025-26 school year. "I'd be really excited," said Grey Heeneman, a sixth grader in the district. Right now, district officials are deciding if they will recommend having students off on Mondays or Fridays for staff development days, along with other school hour decisions, which they spoke about in a recent meeting. view article

A Seguin Independent School District student was arrested and accused of bringing narcotics onto an elementary campus, according to the Seguin Police Department. School administrators notified officers on Wednesday morning that drugs were brought to Jefferson Elementary School. view article

Corpus Christi Independent School District is hosting a pre-kindergarten registration event Saturday, Feb. 8. Families will be able to learn more about CCISD's pre-kindergarten program and register their child for the 2025-26 school year from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Corpus Christi ISD Instructional Resource Center at 4321 Prescott St. view article

Officials believe that no one survived the midair collision of a commercial jet carrying 64 people and an Army helicopter carrying three U.S. service members near Washington, D.C. view article

Officials for the largest school district in Central Texas said they have taken steps to prepare for the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Austin ISD General Counsel Kenneth M. Walker II said the district began reviewing its protocols before Trump began signing executive orders. “We could … anticipate that some of the deportation efforts that the Trump administration talked about, that has now come up in executive orders, would create fear in our communities and create uncertainty,” he said. view article

ICE raids are being conducted throughout the nation under President Donald Trump’s order, rumors of immigration enforcement have circled in larger cities and even in the College Station area. As these rumors spread, many organizations want to make sure everyone knows their rights. view article

Superintendent Mike Miles is expected to results from Houston ISD’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) on Wednesday morning.  view article

Fort Worth ISD is looking into a teacher's social media post urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to go to North Side High School to remove students believed to be in the U.S. illegally. view article

A crash involving a school bus shut down a Hallsville roadway Wednesday morning. The crash happened around 6 a.m., Texas DPS sources say, and involved a Hallsville ISD school bus on FM 450 near Cal Young Road. Two vehicles had trapped occupants, and responders were working to free them with Jaws of Life tools. The scene was cleared by 8:45 a.m. view article

Joan Barasch worked for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission for more than 30 years until she retired in 2019. Since then, her bills have gone up but her state pension has not — and she's feeling the squeeze.  "I have a car that had maintenance a couple months ago. They told me I needed to get my brakes done, and I could not afford to do that," Barasch said during a news conference Monday at the Capitol. "They said, 'Well, it's not that bad yet. You just get it done by the next time.' And I know I will not be able to afford to take care of the brakes. view article

Kevin Geovanny Rivera-Ortiz and his accomplices pled guilty to luring, killing, and dumping the body of Emily Patricia Rodrigues in Colony Ridge.   view article

School has been canceled for the Eula Independent School District until Thursday due to illness. Due to widespread illness, Eula ISD has announced the closure of all schools on Tuesday, January 28, and Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Classes are set to resume on Thursday, January 30. view article

Members of Dallas' Alliance/AFT gave Dallas Independent School District Trustees an earful about the impact of President Trump's executive order on LGBTQIA students and children fearful of adverse immigration outcomes. Two addressed the frenzy of fear among students and parents uncertain about the reach of the president's immigration vision. view article

The Mexican American Legislative Caucus asked the Texas Education Agency in a letter Thursday to issue guidance for school districts on how to respond to a U.S. Homeland Security Department announcement that schools, churches and other "sensitive" spaces would no longer be protected from immigration raids, upending a long-standing policy. view article

Several classrooms in three Houston ISD schools — Love Elementary, River Oaks Elementary and T.H. Rogers School — experienced heating issues on Thursday as the region emerged from freezing weather and a historic winter storm. HISD said in a YouTube video posted Thursday that parents were informed that “not all the rooms were heating correctly” and that students were moved to warmer parts of each campus. Maintenance crews also set up portable heaters in the three campuses, the district said. view article

Classes have been cancelled once again for Marlin ISD. The district has announced classes will be cancelled for Friday, Jan. 24, marking the fourth straight day that the district will be closed. Marlin ISD said the closure is due to an "ongoing lack of water pressure" as water problems continue across the city. view article

Select McKinney ISD schools will have open enrollment for students who live outside the district. The Choose McKinney ISD program was approved by the district’s board of trustees Jan. 21. The program allows kindergarten through eighth grade students who do not live within McKinney ISD’s boundaries to apply for enrollment. “McKinney is proud to build upon our vision of every student every day,” said Melanie Raleeh, deputy superintendent of school leadership. “We welcome both new and returning families to choose McKinney ISD.” view article

This week, the Argyle ISD Board of Trustees approved the 2025-26 academic calendar. The biggest changes next year are related to student holidays/days off school. “Based on feedback after our first fall break in October 2024, the fall break in 2025 has been extended to one full week in October,” the district said in a news release. “The only other significant change is the February student holidays/teacher in-service days. Students will be off Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 9-10.” view article

ABILENE, Texas — Abilene ISD approved $125,000 for Yondr pouches to better enforce their no phone policy in their high schools. view article

The tech magnate is questioning OpenAI and SoftBank's AI research initiative in Texas.  Billionaire Elon Musk is staking out his Texas claim by publicly lambasting a plan to bring a $500 billion artificial intelligence research project into Abilene, Texas by leaders of Oracle Corp, OpenAI, and SoftBank that's backed by President Donald Trump. The Stargate Project was announced shortly after Trump's inauguration and was touted as an investment to build out the nation's intelligence infrastructure over the next four years. Larry Ellison, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Oracle told the press that the project would start with a data center in Abilene, a city 150 miles west of Fort Worth, per WFAA. Oracle is already in the area, leasing a 200-megawatt data center in the city.  view article

The Trump administration issued a directive this week allowing immigration enforcement agents to operate in or near “sensitive areas.”   view article

SAN ANGELO, Texas — The San Angelo ISD school board voted to close San Jacinto Elementary, effective July 1 , 2025. view article

The Alto ISD Board of Trustees unanimously voted to name Derrick Conley the lone finalist for the position of superintendent. The announcement came in a release from the school district on Wednesday. According to the release, Conley is a veteran educator and currently serves as an assistant superintendent at Pine Tree ISD in Longview. He has also served in numerous other positions such as campus principal, assistant principal, teacher, and coach. view article