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

Now that immigration authorities can enter schools to make arrests, districts in North Texas are trying to determine how the directive will impact their students. The Department of Homeland Security rescinded guidance from previous administrations that created "protected areas" like churches, hospitals and schools. CBS News Texas contacted nearly 30 districts in North Texas to find out what they would do if immigration agents come knocking on school doors but didn't get many responses. view article

Houston ISD will resume operations Thursday after a historic snowfall, with some parts of Houston seeing up to 5 inches, as well as ice. The region's school districts and universities closed operations Tuesday and Wednesday, with some universities opting to run remote classes. They will largely re-open Thursday. view article

Marlin ISD has notified parents that school is canceled for another day due to ongoing water issues. The City of Marlin said yesterday that water services were restored to most residents, but some are still going without. Water pressure is also being affected. view article

Over the past year, San Antonio Independent School District has seen multiple heating issues at various campuses across the district — and those issues have continued into 2025. During this week’s cold snap in San Antonio and South Central Texas, SAISD was the sole district in Bexar County that stayed closed on Wednesday, following a day when nearly all other school districts had already canceled classes. view article

Bryan and College Station ISDs both canceled classes on Wednesday, citing student and staff safety. Some on social media were criticizing the move, but there was still a concern for those low temperatures overnight and at the start of the day. Felicia Benford, a member of the Bryan ISD School Board, explained on First News at Four how sometimes people don’t understand that all children are not as fortunate as others. view article

Sorry kids, but most of you will have to head back to school tomorrow after a couple of snow days and the MLK Holiday. That includes Houston ISD and many other districts in the Greater Houston area. Here's a list of schools that will still be closed on Thursday, Jan. 23, in alphabetical order. We'll update the list as necessary throughout the day. view article

Located at 4408 Long Champ Drive within the Austin Country Club on Lake Austin, the three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath home had a 53 percent price decrease in January. The home was listed for sale in July 2024 at $4.9 million, dropping just under 58 percent in price since then. view article

Should God be used as a mere prop to justify the liberal agenda? view article

Most students in Fort Worth ISD can’t read on grade level. Board members and school leaders want to change that.  Hours after Trump’s inauguration, his administration canceled appointments allowing migrants to enter the U.S. to request asylum, leaving many of them stranded on the U.S.-Mexico border. view article

A massive apartment building boom in the Austin-Round Rock region has driven rents downward, real estate experts and housing advocates have said.   view article