How AI is affecting the way kids learn to read and write
Resistance to artificial intelligence persists among some of the nation's English teachers. Some have caught students using ...
L. Clifford Davis, who helped desegregate Texas schools, dies at 100
As a young civil rights lawyer, he helped integrate Texas districts that had resisted the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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A&M-Texarkana breaks ground on RRCU Athletic Complex
It was February 2024 when Texas A&M University-Texarkana announced the RRCU Athletic Complex, and in the same month of the ...
Scaling back STAAR, boosting public school funding and teacher quality focus of Texas bills
A flurry of bills filed in the Texas House on Thursday tackle public school funding, STAAR tests, teacher quality and a voucher-style program to funnel public money toward private school tuition. The ...
Austin HBCU working to get more Black men into teaching
As the need for teachers across the state of Texas continues, Huston-Tillotson University is putting an emphasis on getting ...
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Texas Senate panel OKs bill to raise teacher pay based on experience, performance
Under the roughly $5 billion proposal, public school teachers would be guaranteed raises in their third and fifth years in ...
UT interim president appoints new provost, sidelining official who recently took the job
In his first email to UT, interim president appoints David Vanden Bout as provost. Jay Hartzell had appointed Rachel Mersey ...
UT-Austin researchers told to halt work on $6.1M worth of projects due to Trump orders
The fate of at least seven federally-funded projects has been cast into doubt after President Trump signed orders targeting ...
Bill to raise pay for Texas teachers advances in Senate; committee vote is unanimous
A Texas Senate committee gave unanimous approval to across-the-board pay raises for public school teachers, sending the nill ...
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In first full day leading UT-Austin, Jim Davis replaces chief academic officer
Davis, who was named interim president one day earlier, replaced a provost who was named to the position by the university’s ...
What are Texas’ plans for a school voucher-style program? Here’s a look at the proposals
Public school advocates oppose any plan resembling school vouchers saying such programs drain resources from the campuses ...