School districts across North Texas are starting to roll out first drafts of what learning will look like in the fall. Some districts are making the call on their own after waiting for guidelines from state leaders that never came.
Members of the State Board of Education listened to the public as it considers changes to how sex education is taught in Texas. The change in question would be the first update in 23 years and teach middle school students about birth control. The current guidance focuses on abstinence.
Thursday night, leaders of various departments within the Fort Worth ISD logged into zoom to listen to parents, students, and teacher’s concerns about race but teaching in a pandemic was top of mind.
Teacher union representatives from across Texas told reporters as much as they want to go back to the classroom, they won’t, not unless the state forces school districts to follow procedures to keep them safe.
Fort Worth ISD school leaders planned a town hall meeting Thursday night to talk about race but almost every person who logged in wanted to talk about coronavirus and how students and teachers were going to be safe in the classroom.
School leaders have been waiting for weeks to hear state guidelines on how to reopen school in the fall. Tuesday was the day specifics were set to be revealed but districts across North Texas said they’re still in the dark.
Cooks Children’s physicians released a list of recommendations for the safe reopening of K-12 public schools in Texas after Gov. Greg Abbot announced that Texas public school students would return in person this fall.
More students are coming forward saying The College Board denied them a chance to take a test they studied all year to complete.
Students will go back to school as usual in the fall. That’s the message from Texas Governor Greg Abbott to state lawmakers. The governor said he doesn’t plan to restrict in-person classes this fall, despite the ongoing pandemic.
Advanced Placement classes have become the norm for students working to get into the most competitive schools. But students across North Texas say when it came time to take the AP exams to show what they’d learned, they were refused the chance.
More people are sitting down to talk about race relations in America, and now teachers are getting into the mix. Educators from various schools and districts gathered in Garland to show support for black students and encourage other educators to do the same.
One North Texas school superintendent says it’s time for schools to take an active role in combating race relations, and right the wrongs their students face.
The Cedar Hill High School Longhorns are all about academic success. Two years in a row, the school made the AP honor roll, a list of schools increasing the number of students taking advanced of classes and scoring well on their tests.
The Class of 2020 at Thomas Jefferson High School ended a roller coaster ride of a school year, impacted by a tornado that destroyed their building, coronavirus sending them home to learn and taking away an in-person graduation.
Some librarians in the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District took a back seat over the past few months to let teachers tackle subjects like math, science and social studies while students learned at home.
Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner said the district is taking seriously the Texas Education Agency’s request that they prepare an alternate calendar for the fall semester. FWISD wants to know what parents think about such a plan.
NBC 5 first met high school junior Caiden Trivedi right after he finished an Advanced Placement exam.
