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ACLU and the state’s attorneys ended oral arguments Monday after sparring over freedom of religion protections and historical influence of the biblical directives. A Texas federal judge will decide before Sept. 1 whether to block from taking effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Oral arguments in the case, Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, concluded on Monday, several weeks after 16 parents of various religious backgrounds, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and other religious freedom organizations, sued the state over what their lawyers called "catastrophically unconstitutional” legislation.
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Another North Texas school district faces potential state takeover after elementary school fails for 5th year in a row
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.
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Texas Funeral Commission chair texts Anti-Islam hate speech amid EPIC City battle
Earlier this year, Gov. Greg Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn launched state and federal investigations into the East Plano Islamic Center's proposed EPIC City project meant to build about 1,000 homes and a mosque in the Dallas suburb of Josephine.
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Texas House Regains Quorum as Democrats Return From Walkout
The return of quorum has reignited debate about how to handle the Democrats who fled.
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Court Rejects ‘Qualified Immunity’ for Lorena ISD Admin in Sex Abuse Lawsuit
The Fifth Circuit denied Lorena Primary School Principal April Jewell’s motion to dismiss, clearing the way for the lawsuit against Jewell and the district to proceed. An appeals court rejected a Lorena Primary School principal’s claim that she is immune from liability in a civil lawsuit for failing to protect a pre-K student from a teacher’s sexual abuse. On Friday, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Principal April Jewell’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit on the basis of “qualified immunity.” Such immunity shields school officials from federal civil liability unless their conduct violates a clearly established constitutional right to an extent that “shocks the conscience.” The decision is a win for local families seeking justice for a victim identified in court records as “Jane Doe.”
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Head of Texas funeral commission shared anti-Islam media, pictures of Muslim state rep in texts
ACLU and the state’s attorneys ended oral arguments Monday after sparring over freedom of religion protections and historical influence of the biblical directives. A Texas federal judge will decide before Sept. 1 whether to block from taking effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Oral arguments in the case, Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, concluded on Monday, several weeks after 16 parents of various religious backgrounds, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and other religious freedom organizations, sued the state over what their lawyers called "catastrophically unconstitutional” legislation.
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NO MORE EXCUSES: Texas Set to End Schools’ ‘Sovereign Immunity’ in Sex Abuse Cases
The State Senate unanimously approved a House measure to hold school districts accountable for protecting students from sexual predators.
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Pro-Late Term Abortion Organization Gave UT-Austin $2.5 Million
The Society of Family Planning “opposes the inclusion of gestational duration limits, including viability, in legislation, laws, initiatives, or regulations.” A UT-Austin research project on “self-managed medication abortions” received funding from an abortion advocacy group. The payments, discovered via an open records request, span from late 2018 through 2025 and were made from the Society of Family Planning Research Fund to Project SANA at the University of Texas at Austin. In late 2018, Project SANA, which stands for “Self-managed Abortion Needs Assessment,” entered into a grant contract with the Society of Family Planning Research Fund. Project SANA received a total of $1,944,587, paid in three installments, between 2018 and 2021.
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Texas Investigates AI Chatbot Companies for Deceptive Mental Health Service Aimed at Children
Paxton’s investigation builds upon a probe into Character AI’s data privacy and safety practices announced in December.
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Confusion reigns as Texas colleges scramble to comply with ban on in-state tuition for undocumented students
The state isn’t providing schools with guidance and advocates say students who still qualify for lower rates are being asked to pay thousands more.
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2025 A-F ratings: 31% of Texas public school campuses improved year-over-year
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.
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Vaccine exemption requests in Texas spike in July, as some experts fear more families will opt out
Federal funding cuts to immunization efforts and a new law that allows exemption forms to be downloaded, instead of mailed, could drive up exemptions in the future. Texas school districts are coming back from summer with a rising number of parents asking for vaccine exemption forms and a new law that will make those documents even easier to obtain. Combined with funding cuts to public vaccination programs, chilling effects of immigration policies on health care, and the wearying battle by school nurses to balance parental consent and overall student body health, Texas schools are on track to have the lowest vaccination rates in decades if exemption rates continue to climb.
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Audio: Gambling Executive Boasts About Rigged Texas Jackpot
A recording points to internal coordination in a $95 million jackpot scheme.
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Abbott Launches Second Special Session as Democrats Signal End to Walkout
Speaker Dustin Burrows adds over-the-counter ivermectin as a priority for the House.
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Illegal Aliens Should Not Be Counted In the Census
Inflated numbers: For decades, leftists have taken advantage of the U.S. Census by counting illegal aliens and emphasizing racial and ethnic background in the Census questionnaire—both of which affect the funding and power of blue districts. ]But the Trump administration is moving in the right direction. “Unbeknownst to most people, the administration has already done a great deal of good to stop the census from balkanizing the country by quietly shuttering the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations,” writes Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow in Heritage's Davis Institute.
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Five Texas school districts at risk of a state takeover after ratings’ release
Connally, Lake Worth, Beaumont, Wichita Falls and Fort Worth school districts have all amassed five consecutive failing grades at one or more of its campuses, the threshold to trigger state action, a Texas Education Agency spokesperson confirmed with The Texas Tribune on Friday.
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Texas students’ STAAR scores for this year are out. Here’s how your school or district did.
Test scores rose slightly after math scores previously fell last year. New scores on the state's standardized test released on Friday show a slight improvement in both students’ reading and math scores over last year when math scores slipped. The share of students meeting grade-level standards rose this year from 53% to 54% in reading and from 41% to 43% in math. Students’ performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam is a window into their proficiency in math and reading skills — skills they’ll need to succeed after high school. Early literacy can be a strong predictor of educational attainment and academic performance later in life. And having solid math skills early on sets up a pipeline to high-paying, in-demand STEM jobs.
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Feds plan to build nation’s biggest migrant detention center at Fort Bliss
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a contract to build and run a 5,000-bed tent camp at the Army base in El Paso. The federal government plans to spend $1.26 billion to build the country's largest immigration detention center at Fort Bliss, an army base in El Paso, according to a contract announced in July. The U.S. Department of Defense announced that Virginia-based company Acquisition Logistics LLC was given nearly $232 million up front to build and run the 5,000-bed tent camp. The federal agency said work on the facility is expected to be completed by September 2027. According to the ACLU, the Trump administration started to detain people there on Aug. 17.
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Texas students’ STAAR scores for this year are out. Here’s how your school or district did.
Test scores rose slightly after math scores previously fell last year. New scores on the state's standardized test released on Friday show a slight improvement in both students’ reading and math scores over last year when math scores slipped. The share of students meeting grade-level standards rose this year from 53% to 54% in reading and from 41% to 43% in math. Students’ performance on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam is a window into their proficiency in math and reading skills — skills they’ll need to succeed after high school. Early literacy can be a strong predictor of educational attainment and academic performance later in life. And having solid math skills early on sets up a pipeline to high-paying, in-demand STEM jobs.
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Vaccine exemption requests in Texas spike in July, as some experts fear more families will opt out
Texas school districts are coming back from summer with a rising number of parents asking for vaccine exemption forms and a new law that will make those documents even easier to obtain. Combined with funding cuts to public vaccination programs, chilling effects of immigration policies on health care, and the wearying battle by school nurses to balance parental consent and overall student body health, Texas schools are on track to have the lowest vaccination rates in decades if exemption rates continue to climb. “I do think that there is a problem — period — that is worse than we have known about previously,” said Terri Burke, executive director of The Immunization Partnership, which advocates for public policies that support increased access to vaccines.
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Texas Senate panel again advances redrawn congressional map
A second special session that has made approving the map a priority started Friday, shortly after the first one ended. A Texas Senate panel again cleared a congressional map that aims to create five new Republican districts ahead of the 2026 election, despite hearing overwhelming pushback during a Sunday hearing. The chamber’s redistricting committee voted 6-3 to advance Senate Bill 4 after more than 40 people told lawmakers that the process was being rushed and that it would dilute people of color’s voting power. One person registered in favor of the bill. The Texas GOP introduced the rare mid-decade redistricting effort following a push from President Donald Trump ahead of the 2026 elections. The legislation now goes to the Senate floor for a full vote. The proposal approved Sunday offers a similar redrawn map that the committee considered in the first special session.
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From a cell phone ban to Ten Commandments posters, new state laws bring big changes to Texas schools
Lawmakers also approved new teacher raises, banned DEI initiatives and gave schools more flexibility to discipline students.
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HISD Board of Managers votes to keep home-school students from competing in UIL activities
Houston ISD's Board of Managers voted unanimously Thursday to formally opt out of allowing home-schooled students to compete in University Interscholastic League activities for the district. In June, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law requiring public school districts to allow “non-enrolled students” living in the district to participate in official UIL activities unless the school board votes to opt out by Sept. 1.
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1,000+ students in Round Rock ISD considered homeless, numbers keep rising
The number of students experiencing homelessness across the state of Texas has continued to rise over the last few years. According to TEA data, during the 2021 to 2022 school year, there were more than 97,000 students experiencing homelessness in public schools in Texas. If you jump ahead to the 2023 to 2024 school year, the number jumped to more than 121,000 students experiencing homelessness.
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TEA releases 2025 A-F ratings, 3 Austin ISD schools get fourth ‘F’ score
After years of legal delays, the Texas Education Agency released accountability ratings on Friday, showing how public schools performed in 2024 and 2025. The ratings paint a precarious picture for three Austin Independent School District campuses that have already undergone significant changes ahead of the new school year.
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Frisco ISD prepares for school year as enrollment remains a challenge
Inside Frisco ISD's newly expanded Career & Technical Center, Superintendent Mike Waldrip boasted about the partnerships Frisco ISD is forming year after year to help connect its graduates to jobs. "We bring in mentors from the business community. And the students are actually learning from business professionals. They're learning about the areas that they're interested in from those people that actually do this work," said Frisco ISD Superintendent Mike Waldrip.
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Leander ISD begins year solemnly after flood tragedy
The Leander Independent School District is starting the new school year on a somber note. The July 5 flooding killed two students. The district almost made budget cuts and laid off some staff earlier this year. KXAN’s Barrett Tryon sat down and talked to Leander ISD Superintendent Dr. Bruce Gearing about some of the challenges the new year brings.
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TEA Releases 2025 A–F Accountability Ratings; 2024 Ratings Now Also Available
AUSTIN, TX – August 15, 2025 — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) today released the 2025 A-F Accountability Ratings for public school systems and campuses across the state. Additionally, the delayed 2024 ratings have been made available to school systems and the public following the resolution of legal proceedings that previously prevented their release. The release of the 2025 A-F Ratings reestablishes critical transparency for Texas families, communities and school leaders after two years of lawsuit-induced delays.
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Houston ISD for first time has zero F-rated schools, campuses earning As, Bs
(The Center Square) – Two years after being taken over by the state, zero Houston Independent School District schools have received an F-rating by the state. The Texas Education Agency accountability ratings grade schools (A-F) according to a number of factors. A large number of HISD schools have historically failed, receiving D and F ratings for the year. Students not only report failing grades and can’t read or do math at their grade level, but high school graduation rates are also low. The district has also been plagued for years by corruption and mismanagement of public funds. After HISD officials were convicted for bribery, extortion and kickbacks, the state moved to take over the district. After a long legal battle, the state took over the district in 2023, ousted its former superintendent and board of trustees and appointed a new board of managers and new superintendent, Mike Miles. Under Miles, HISD has transformed. According to new preliminary TEA data, no HISD school received an F grade and the number of schools that received A and B grades tripled. In the past two years, “We did great. You did great teachers. You did great students,” Miles said in an “HISD Now” public announcement.
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Poll: Majority of Republican Primary Voters Support THC Ban
As lawmakers consider legislation banning THC, 62 percent of Republican primary voters are in support of such a measure. In a recent opinion research poll, surveyors found that a majority of Republican primary voters support a total ban on consumable THC products. When asked by pollsters from Baselice & Associates if they would support legislation that would fully ban THC consumables, 62 percent of respondents said that they would. Texas lawmakers are currently considering two different measures that would bar the use of THC in consumable products. Senate Bill 5, authored by State Sen. Charles Perry (R–Lubbock), was passed by the Senate and has been sent to the House for consideration. State Rep. Gary VanDeaver (R–New Boston) filed an identical companion bill to SB 5 in the House, which was brought before the Public Health Committee on Wednesday.
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Supreme Court Sets Month-Long Briefing Schedule for Quorum Busters Case
Gov. Greg Abbott wants the Supreme Court of Texas to declare Gene Wu’s seat vacant. The Supreme Court of Texas has announced a briefing schedule in Gov. Greg Abbott’s bid to remove the House Democrat Caucus chairman, Gene Wu of Houston, from the legislature. It combined that with the case brought by Attorney General Ken Paxton against Wu and a dozen other quorum-busting lawmakers. The Court requires briefing papers to be filed from Wednesday, August 20, through Thursday, Sept. 14.
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Special Session Ending, and Starting, Today
Even though the 30-day clock is not set to expire until Tuesday, the House and Senate are expected to adjourn out of the special session today. They will, however, be called immediately by the governor into a second special session that restarts the legislative process. The Senate has completed all of the work set forth by the governor in the original special session call. In contrast, nothing was accomplished in the House because Democrats—rather than fight—fled out of the state to disrupt the quorum requirements for conducting legislative business. The governor has said this second special session will have the same agenda, including congressional redistricting. Speaking at an event in Williamson County yesterday, State Sen. Charles Schwertner said he expects his chamber to move quickly to re-file and pass all the legislation again within the first few days. Constitutionally, the legislative process must start anew with each special session.
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Here are the new public education laws going into effect in Texas this school year
We break down what new Texas laws are going into effect Sept. 1, 2025.
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