Public Education
Houston closes school for immigrant children after enrollment plummetsA school that served immigrant children exclusively is closing in Houston, with officials blaming enrollment drops on a federal crackdown on illegal immigrants. Enrollment at Las Americas… Read More
Government
Texas picks experienced operator for school choice program, announces name: Education Freedom AccountsTexas has selected an experienced company to help administer its new $1 billion school choice program and announced the program’s official name: Texas Education Freedom Accounts. Acting Comptroller… Read More
Public Education
Texas district to try training program to address growing number of grads unprepared for college or careerPublic-school students in Texas are demonstrating a significant gap between workforce “readiness” and subsequent “achievement.” “About 76 percent of Texas public school students graduate high school prepared to… Read More
Culture
Planned Parenthood closes what was largest abortion clinic in AmericaPlanned Parenthood has closed what was once the largest abortion facility in the United States, located in Houston, Texas. The group’s 78,000-square-foot Prevention Park location in Houston… Read More
Culture
Texas Yass Prize awards $4 million to 11 school choice education providers(The Center Square) – Eleven education providers from eight states received $4 million in funding through a new awards program created after Texas implemented a new school choice program… Read More
Government
Texas expected to open school choice applications by Jan. 1Texans hoping to take advantage of the state’s new school choice program can expect to submit applications “by the first of the year,” acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock said this… Read More
Government
Suspect identified in deadly Dallas ICE Shooting(Daily Signal) – A shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center has left multiple people injured and one victim dead. “This morning just… Read More
Government
Texas governor signs bathroom bill into lawTexas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Monday a measure banning government entities from allowing transgender-identifying people to use public bathrooms and other private facilities that don’t match their… Read More
Public Education
President of major Texas University to resign after backlash over gender ideology(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Texas A&M University president Mark Welsh is stepping down after national outrage erupted over a student at the university getting kicked out of class… Read More
Culture
Good Samaritans save sheriff’s deputies pinned against bridge barrier, with one dangling from overpassLubbock, Texas, residents sprang into action to help two sheriff’s deputies who were pinned to the side of a bridge after their vehicle was hit by a semitruck Monday. Read More
Public Education
Texas teacher guilty of sexting 15-year-old studentA 54-year-old Texas teacher will serve eight years of probation and lose her teaching license after sending nude photos to a 15-year-old student. Christine Paige Cockrell, who taught… Read More
Government
Texas bill against mail order abortion pills heads to governor’s deskThe Texas Senate on Wednesday passed House Bill 7, titled the Woman and Child Protection Act, which forbids a person from prescribing, manufacturing or distributing… Read More
Public Education
Texas AG urges schools to implement voluntary prayer lawTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton wasted no time encouraging schools to test a new law allowing voluntary prayer during the school day in public schools. “In Texas classrooms,… Read More
Christian Schools
Texas microschools collective launches to boost faith-based educationTexas could soon have more microschools in black communities and beyond with the launch of the Texas Microschools Collective. Leaders say the faith-based initiative is rooted in a… Read More
Culture
Abortion coercion concerns surrounding mail-order pill mount with new reports(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Readily available mail-order abortion pills have reportedly been used to trick women into ending the lives of their unborn children in multiple recent coercion… Read More
Government
Texas House moves to protect women’s private spaces, stem flow of abortion drugsTexas lawmakers have passed bills to protect women’s private spaces and stem the flow of abortion drugs into the state. During a summer special session, the House finally… Read More
Culture
Report: NY bleeding millionaires to other states (The Center Square) – New York’s share of the nation’s millionaires is declining along with much-needed tax revenue for the state, according to a new report from a fiscal… Read More
Government
A gap to plug at the southern border(The Daily Signal) – There is a gap to plug at the southern border, and it’s not in the wall. The Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas,… Read More
Opinion
Red states shouldn’t forget the future of university education(The Daily Signal) – Governors and legislatures of Republican states—such as Florida, Ohio, and Texas—are doing good and necessary work both in establishing centers for education in civics and… Read More
Government
Texas releases proposed rules for $1 billion school choice programTexas is moving closer to launching its school choice program after releasing draft regulations for Education Savings Accounts on Friday. The Lone Star State… Read More