Texas Education Agency

Texas’s largest school district will be taken over by the TEA.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said he’d spoken to Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Mike Morath about rumors of the coming HISD intervention.

The Texas Education Agency says Lancaster ISD violated the Texas Constitution when they approved a hefty buyout of their former superintendent’s contract in 2020. NBC 5 education reporter Wayne Carter says the state has appointed a watchdog for the district.

The Texas Education Agency is assigning a conservator to oversee the Lancaster Independent School District over actions taken by the school board that the district admits violated Texas Education Code and the Texas Constitution.

In early November, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) released details on proposed rule changes that also include mandatory locked doors and windows.

In three years the state will require your child’s teacher to include STEM lessons every day in class, but Crowley ISD is getting a jump start on preparing students for the ever-changing world.

Heads up parents: The State of Texas is requiring elementary teachers to incorporate STEM – that’s science, technology, engineering, and math studies – in all elementary school subjects by 2025.

Heads up parents: The State of Texas is requiring elementary teachers to incorporate STEM – that’s science, technology, engineering, and math studies – in all elementary school subjects by 2025. One local school district is getting a jump start on it. On Thursday, Crowley ISD is celebrating “STEM For All Day”.

Report cards– handed out on this first day of school– not to individual students, but to their schools on how well they did their jobs educating students.

Right now, school leaders are working to find enough teachers to fill vacant positions.

Texas students showed progress in elementary and middle school courses, according to newly released STAAR tests. NBC 5’s Wayne Carter has the takeaways from the final STAAR results of this school year.

The final STAAR test scores have been released and they show across-the-board improvements in all subjects for all grades.

State officials on Thursday ordered local school districts across Texas to audit and correct security deficiencies at their schools before the start of the next school year.

Signs of brewing trouble stain the academic history of the young man who would go on to kill 19 children and two teachers in Texas’ deadliest school shooting. The Dallas Morning News reporter Talia Richman discusses the renewed focus on absenteeism and Texas’ truancy laws.

The state’s top leaders in both law enforcement and education agreed that an urgent review is needed of the procedures and standards for school safety.

STAAR test results from the 2021-2022 school year have been released. School leaders and teachers worked hard to bring the numbers back up this year after a dramatic drop after the pandemic. Education reporter Wayne Carter reports.

The Texas Education Agency is giving school districts a list of guidelines to follow to create policies when it comes to school library books.

The Texas Education Agency is now getting into the debate over library books and what students have access to in schools.

Schools across the state will no longer lose funding for massive attendance drops during the pandemic

Many North Texas school leaders are dealing with a host of issues caused by the surge in COVID-19 cases and the omicron variant.