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A plan meant to ease overcrowding in Allen ISD that was met with protests from parents who opposed the idea due to the impact on where their kids go to school was approved on Monday night.

The only Allen ISD School Board member who voted against a proposal to close two Allen ISD elementary schools on the city’s east side resigned abruptly Monday night. Vasta Ramanathan explains why he stepped down.

The Prosper ISD Board of Trustees will meet behind closed doors with its attorney Tuesday morning to discuss pending litigation and deliberate on a “public officer or employee.”

Saturday is Election Day with mostly local elections and school board positions up for grabs. The Dallas Morning News Education reporter Talia Richman joins NBC 5 with more.

One year after Southlake became the first school board race to attract national attention to candidates running on an explicit anti-critical race theory platform, that issue and related culture war debates have spread to school board races across the state in the upcoming May 7 elections. NBC’s Mike Hixenbaugh has been following the races in Texas.

Normally, a small school board race might not get national attention, but the situation in Carroll ISD is a little different.

The action is in response to an urgent request last week from the National School Boards Association, asking for help to investigate and stop threats made over policies including mask mandates, likening the vitriol to a form of domestic terrorism

Arlington teachers and substitutes are getting a pay raise next school year as the school board approved a $584 million general operating budget that includes salary increases for all employees.

Wednesday classes have been canceled at Alvarado ISD after a person in the community was told to self-quarantine after being exposed to the coronavirus.

The El Paso Independent School District is reviewing research, data, and suggestions about potentially eliminating homework in elementary schools.

Lunch shaming is a growing problem as schools sell a la carte items to students, causing them to run out of lunch money at a faster pace. Some districts are looking for ways to make sure all students always get a hot meal.

The Fort Worth Independent School District says they’ll appeal a ruling by the Texas Education Commissioner that allows an English teacher to keep her job after she was fired for tweeting to President Donald Trump that her high school was full of students who are in the country illegally.

The Fort Worth ISD teacher who was terminated after she reportedly sent anti-immigrant tweets to President Donald Trump has won an appeal to keep her job.

Lunch shaming is a growing problem as schools sell a la carte items to students, causing them to run out of lunch money at a faster pace. Some districts are looking for ways to make sure all students always get a hot meal.

Dr. Kimberley Cantu is the sole candidate to be the next superintendent of Mansfield ISD.

The woman who lost her job after displaying her middle finger at President Donald Trump’s motorcade has won a seat on a county board of supervisors in Virginia.

A parent is calling for a Dallas teacher’s job after she says her daughter was hit in the face with a pencil box in class. NBC 5 is told the teacher has apologized. The district says it’s investigating, but the students mom said it’s not enough.

The Fort Worth ISD school board voted Tuesday to uphold its decision to terminate the contract of a teacher who reportedly sent anti-immigrant tweets to President Donald Trump.

The Fort Worth ISD school board voted Tuesday to uphold its decision to terminate the contract of a teacher who reportedly sent anti-immigrant tweets to President Donald Trump.

After nearly two hours behind closed doors Tuesday, Fort Worth ISD school board members said they needed more time to make a final decision about a teacher who was placed on leave after allegedly sending anti-immigrant tweets to President Donald Trump.