The Connally Independent School District on Sept. 15 had a special visit from the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) after two district schools received an F rating for the fifth consecutive year. The goal of the visit was for the Commissioner Mike Morath to see for himself why now three of the district’s six campuses received a failing accountability rating for the 2024-2025 school year. Morath sat in on several classes and spoke one-on-one with administrators. view article

Monday night, Frisco Independent School District is set to consider the future of Staley Middle School. The board has contemplated closing the campus for months, citing budget, staffing challenges and aging facilities. Emotions have run high due to Staley’s importance as a cornerstone of the community. Many parents have told WFAA they feel the school has been 'historically underfunded' and 'overlooked' by the district. view article

A sweeping array of education bills passed this legislative session is set to transform the landscape of public education in Texas, sparking both hope and concern among educators and parents. Anna Smith, Place 4 Representative on the Leander ISD School Board, emphasized the significance of these changes. view article

Houston ISD state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles earned a $173,660 bonus after receiving a score of 91.4 out of 100 from the Board of Managers on his second annual evaluation last week.  The appointed school board is required to evaluate the superintendent every year by Oct. 1, according to his employment contract. Miles was eligible for a possible bonus of $190,000, although he did not earn the full amount. view article

Frisco ISD will discuss closing campuses today. Parents and teachers are concerned that the change will harm students view article

The future of many Austin ISD schools is uncertain after several campuses have not met state standards year after year. view article

An investigation by the Texas Education Agency found the School of Science and Technology Bayshore campus failed to properly administer and update a student’s individualized education plan (IEP) as he struggled with behavioral issues. Katie and Justin Parker said they fought a long, frustrating battle to get their son's IEP updated. view article

A dozen schools in the Austin Independent School District will need to close or make significant changes after receiving three consecutive failing grades from the state. The Texas Education Agency ratings were released last month. Austin ISD saw some improvements from last year, but roughly one third of the district’s 116 campuses still had unacceptable ratings. view article

Austin Independent School District (AISD) has some tough decisions to make about its failing campuses. The district is forced to submit turnaround plans for 24 schools after receiving failing grades from the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) accountability ratings, which were released last month. view article

Two years into its state takeover, Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles has set his sights on an ambitious new goal: By 2027, he said HISD schools will receive only As or Bs from the Texas Education Agency. To get there, the district has pitched an opportunity for business leaders to "adopt" one of the 64 non-charter schools that received a C or D in the state's accountability ratings this year, HISD's Alexandra Elizondo said at a press conference Tuesday. view article

Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) will vote on a framework for the Social Studies standards (TEKS) that will be drafted later this year. Currently, Texas students have two opportunities to learn Texas history (4th and 7th grade). But this could change! The SBOE should vote on a framework where students have multiple opportunities to learn about our rich Texas heritage. The SBOE should REJECT any attempt to minimalize or reduce the amount of American and Texas History that is taught to our Texas students. The framework can influence how the Social Studies standards are written in the upcoming months. view article

The day Superintendent LaTonya Goffney received Aldine ISD's baseline 2021 test scores was one of the worst days of her career.  She remembers asking herself how they were ever going to recover academically from the pandemic, while Aldine ISD students, families and staff were still in the throes of its economic and social impacts.  view article

The fate of Lake Worth ISD is in limbo, facing a potential state takeover. This is the second school district in Tarrant County facing the TEA, joining Fort Worth ISD. view article

The day Superintendent LaTonya Goffney received Aldine ISD's baseline 2021 test scores was one of the worst days of her career.  She remembers asking herself how they were ever going to recover academically from the pandemic, while Aldine ISD students, families and staff were still in the throes of its economic and social impacts.  view article

More than 20 Austin ISD campuses must develop turnaround plans after receiving unacceptable ratings from the Texas Education Agency (TEA). On Thursday, AISD superintendent Mattias Segura sent a letter to district families about campus improvement plans following the recent ratings. view article

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing happened.  The teacher at the Dallas-area school had emphasized that in the building process, there is no such thing as mistakes. Only iterations. So the girls dug back into the box of blocks and pulled out an orange card. They held it over the sensor and the machine kicked into motion.  “Oh! Oh, it reacts differently to different colors,” said sixth grader Sofia Cruz. view article

Do takeovers of Texas public schools produce better academic results for students?  Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath’s answer is yes.   “In every single intervention, the results were higher, or at least no worse after the board of managers was placed than before,” Morath said during a recent tour of William James Middle School in Fort Worth. view article

Across Central Texas, most school districts either slightly improved or maintained their overall ratings over two years, according to newly released A-F ratings from the Texas Education Agency  Despite fewer schools receiving a failing grade last year than in 2023, however, a higher percentage of Central Texas schools are failing than the statewide average.  view article

Dallas ISD wants to have zero D and F campuses by next year’s public school ratings. Dallas students posted significant academic gains this year, with dozens of struggling campuses improving in the 2025 A-F scores. Only 16 campuses received a D or F rating, the lowest count the district has had since the state began issuing campus grades in 2019. Now DISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde is aiming to bring all of the district’s schools to an A, B or C grade. view article

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This month, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath didn't mince words: Fort Worth ISD's uptick in scores isn't enough. "Fort Worth has significant academic challenges; its level of grade level proficiency is materially lower than Dallas, even though demographically they are not any different," he said as he released accountability scores. Soon, Morath will be in Fort Worth touring different campuses as he plans the district's next step, which could include replacing the school board and the superintendent despite the improvement seen recently. view article

Democrats say recent changes to the bill give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the pressures of standardized testing. view article

New research shows that Humble ISD, located in northeast Harris County, is among the top 50 school districts in the nation where families are looking to relocate to. Cross-referencing data from GreatSchools ratings and what properties home buyers are looking for, real estate website Realtor.com found the most popular districts that families were relocating to across 50 different metropolitan areas in the country. Humble ISD, the website stated, was most appealing due to the affordable homes near the school district. view article

Some Democrats lamented that the House’s latest proposal to scrap the test largely resembles a Senate bill the lower chamber declined to sign on earlier this year.  A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.  Lawmakers in the House and Senate are considering nearly identical bills to replace the test as they gather for a second special legislative session, signaling newfound agreement between chamber leaders after negotiations broke down during the regular session. Senate Bill 9 and House Bill 8 would swap STAAR for three shorter tests to be administered at the beginning, middle and end of the school year. view article

Riviera ISD just scored big on the state’s latest report card and district leaders say it’s proof their students are putting in the work. The Texas Education Agency raised the district’s overall grade from a C to a B. Riviera Elementary earned a B, the middle school also landed a B, and the high school? Straight A’s... same as last year. view article

As students in the Austin Independent School District head back to school, the district is preparing for potential school consolidations in the 2026-27 school year. Superintendent Matias Segura acknowledged the concerns of parents. "I don't want our families to worry, you know, we are thinking about it," he said. view article

Two weeks before the new school year, Tatiana Brown Gomez, 24, was laughing with her students at Dobie Middle School’s open house. The English teacher showed up to encourage them for what is expected to be a challenging and consequential year. But Brown-Gomez will largely have to watch the year play out from afar. She is among several current and former Austin Independent School District core subject teachers who were removed from their roles at the district’s three lowest-performing schools and replaced with new educators. view article

The word takeover wasn’t uttered during a recent Lake Worth school board meeting, but the possibility lingered in the air.  “We’re going to talk about the elephant in the room,” Superintendent Mark Ramirez said to trustees flanking his sides and district employees in the audience.  School district leaders outlined a path forward for an elementary school whose persistent failure triggered a Texas law requiring action. However, the fate of the school and the district is in the hands of Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath.  The commissioner has two options for Lake Worth ISD: view article

The Austin Independent School District superintendent said the district’s declining enrollment numbers are leaving too many schools under capacity and sees campus closures and consolidations as part of the solution. While he declined to pinpoint how many campuses could close, Matias Segura said it’ll be “more than a handful,” and added the district is looking to reduce costs by $30 million. view article

Beaumont Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Shannon Allen expressed her dismay over comments made by Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath regarding the district's recent STAAR test results. During a "Breakfast with the Superintendent" event on Tuesday, Allen addressed the situation, saying she was "shocked" by Morath's remarks. view article

Over half of the top-rated campuses in North Texas, earning a score of 99 and above, are Dallas ISD schools, data from the Texas Education Agency shows. Several Dallas ISD magnet schools received top marks from the TEA. One Dallas ISD campus, School for the Talented and Gifted, received a score of 100. It is the only school in North Texas to receive a perfect score. The school’s rating ticked up one point between 2024 and 2024, data shows. view article

Lake Worth ISD faces a potential state takeover after the newly-released Texas Education Agency (TEA) A-F school accountability ratings for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 showed an elementary school failing for a fifth consecutive year. This would be the second school district in Tarrant County to face this intervention, as Fort Worth ISD awaits a decision from Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Mike Morath in the coming months. view article

The leader of the Texas Education Agency is celebrating the success of schools all across the state, right here in Lubbock. Lubbock ISD’s Wester Elementary was featured on TEA Commissioner Mike Morath’s statewide-tour to recognize districts’ improved accountability ratings. At their celebration after school Monday afternoon, the Wester Whirlwinds showed off some of what they learned last year. Hard work from the students, their teachers and their leadership led to an “A” accountability rating from the TEA. view article

High schools in Alief, Spring, Spring Branch, Katy and Houston ISDs, as well as a few charter districts, snagged spots as the best in the Houston region, according to rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. Despite the strong suburban showing of high-performing high schools, Houston ISD claimed the region's top six spots. Two high schools in the district were also among the top 10 high schools in the state and the top 100 high schools in the U.S. view article

The Texas Education Agency released public school accountability ratings for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years on Aug. 15, wrapping up a legal battle that began nearly two years prior. Texans can find the updated accountability ratings for K-12 districts and individual campuses at www.txschools.gov.  The big picture: Across the state, most school districts and campuses maintained or improved their A-F ratings between the 2023-24 to 2024-25 school years. Of 1,208 districts, 24% received a higher rating, while 64% kept the same rating and 12% received a lower rating, TEA data shows.  Thirty-one percent of Texas’ 9,084 public school campuses received a higher grade in 2025. Meanwhile, 55% received the same grade and 15% received a lower grade. The TEA said that 757 campuses improved from a B or lower in 2024 to an A in 2025. view article