Here's how West Texas educational leaders are working to combat Texas' growing reliance on uncertified teachers in public ...

Emerging research points to the problems this can create for children. A study by Texas Tech University’s Jacob Kirksey found that students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about ...

Texas Teachers of Tomorrow made enough progress to have full accreditation, which an educator prep program needs to produce ...

The proposal would expand a program that allows districts to award bonuses to educators based on their students’ academic ...

Uncertified teachers, many of whom are located in rural ... Before joining the Hearst Texas newspapers in 2017 he covered government and politics for the Tampa Bay Times, The Miami Herald and ...

According to TSTA, while Senate Bill 2 has an initial cost of about $1 billion, the bill is expected to balloon up to $6 ...

A Northside Independent School District special education teacher was placed on administrtive leave last weekProsecutors said ...

Out of data from 40 primarily rural Texas counties, over 80% of their first-time new teacher hires were uncertified.

TEA commissioner Mike Morath began his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee with a simple statement. "There is ...

Texas spends below average per student in ... "We have a growing number of uncertified teachers. Is it your opinion that we need to work with urgency on that correlation," asked Sen.

From teacher pay and preparation to special education and DEI, here are issues Texas lawmakers are prioritizing this ...

Some 3,000 students reportedly stayed home to protest the state's takeover of the Houston Independent School District.