The Texas Education Agency is bringing in Anastasia Anderson as the new district-wide conservator for Houston ISD. The state agency's deputy commissioner for governance, Steve Lecholop, made the announcement during Thursday's HISD school board meeting. "We feel incredibly fortunate at the agency to be able to recruit someone of such high caliber to serve in this very important role as the new conservator for the district," Lecholop said. view article arw

Meyer Elementary School's 50-point jump in the new Children at Risk rankings took a concerted effort to focus on every child as an individual learner, from goal-setting to “kid chats” to innovation days and even, the assistant principal noted, a little prayer.  view article arw

fficials in the Fort Worth Independent School District are looking to turn over operations at a struggling middle school to Texas Wesleyan University as a part of an six-year-old partnership with the college. Fort Worth ISD’s board will consider a proposal to renew its partnership with the university to run the five campuses currently in the district’s Leadership Academy Network, and also to add Leonard Middle School to the network. view article arw

Parents and students in Leander ISD are frustrated after the district announced significant budget cuts, including the elimination of 200 staff positions and the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The district, which has offered the IB program since 1999, said the decision was made to help address a $34.4 million budget deficit for the 2025-26 school year. view article arw

Houston-area K-12 schools appear to be bouncing back after yearslong student achievement declines caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest school rankings from Children at Risk. view article arw

Trustees for the North East Independent School District voted unanimously Monday night to permanently close Driscoll Middle School, Clear Spring Elementary and Wilshire Elementary at the end of the current school year. view article arw

Administrators in both districts were recently caught advising parents on how to circumvent state law protecting girls’ sports.   view article arw

Most Texas schools showed improved academic performance for the first time in four years, according to the advocacy group Children at Risk, which just released its annual index of school performance. view article arw

How did your North Texas school rank this year? See Children at Risk’s annual report .   view article arw

BOSTON (AP) — When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s standardized tests as a high school graduation requirement on Election Day, they joined a trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests over the past two decades. view article arw

Special education teams across Fort Bend ISD have completed over 2,000 overdue evaluations and re-evaluations this school year, and look to complete thousands more by the start of the 2025-26 school year, officials said at the Jan. 29 board meeting. The completion of these evaluations comes after the district was found in federal noncompliance for the 2023-24 school year based on the number of overdue reevaluations, Community Impact reported. However, district officials announced in August they were no longer in noncompliance status. view article arw

Dallas ISD middle schoolers have made impressive gains in reading comprehension over the last few years, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores show. But a broader lens reveals that students across the United States are struggling to make up ground on pandemic-induced learning gaps. view article arw

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math   view article arw

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott called for criminal and civil investigations into Irving Independent School District after a hidden-camera video showed a school administrator discussing transgender students playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity despite the state’s ban. view article arw

Results are in for the nationwide academic progress test known as the Nation's Report Card, and Houston ISD students showed slight growth compared to 2022 and are still trailing behind their pre-pandemic scores. The biennial exam tests fourth- and eighth-graders on their math and reading skills and is used as a tool to track students' proficiency over time, dating back to the 1990s. HISD students seem to slowly be returning back to pre-pandemic levels, but are still trailing behind Texas’ averages. view article arw

Around 10:30 a.m., Sup. Miles held a news conference at the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center to address key takeaways from the NAEP results as well as answer any questions. Also known as The Nation’s Report Card, HISD describes the NAEP as having the ability to provide meaningful results to improve education policy and practice since 1969. view article arw

More than half of all fourth- and eighth-graders in the Fort Worth Independent School District are below basic proficiency in reading, according to nationwide test scores released Wednesday morning, Jan. 29. The district isn’t alone: Record numbers of students scored below basic in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, meaning they haven’t even partially mastered the skills they need to be proficient readers. Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article299329919.html#storylink=cpy view article arw

Manor Middle School is struggling. Here's why Third Future has applied to run the campus.   view article arw

Houston ISD has reduced the number of substitute teachers by more than 10% as the district takes a "proactive approach" to analyze substitute teacher requests and hiring for campuses. view article arw

Houston ISD has reduced the number of substitute teachers by more than 10% as the district takes a "proactive approach" to analyze substitute teacher requests and hiring for campuses. view article arw

Four polished plaques hang behind Jeff Burke’s desk. Emblazoned with a red Texas star, they capture the Splendora Independent School District’s vision and mission: “Cultivating exceptional people.” An identical plaque greets students at the entrance of each of Splendora ISD’s six campuses, a daily reminder of its approach to recognizing student success. “There’s a reason it doesn’t say ‘cultivating exceptional test takers,’ ” said Burke, the superintendent.  view article arw

Bible infused curriculum is what one San Antonio School District is considering. In a meeting Wednesday school board members approved the potential purchase of the Bluebonnet Curriculum which is widely criticized for being centered on teachings of the Christian Bible. This curriculum was passed by the Texas Board of Education in November of last year has been criticized as leaning toward Christianity in its teachings. view article arw

A sweeping new evaluation system would grade Houston ISD teachers based on their students' test scores, classroom observations, and "planning and professionalism," according to a draft proposal released by the district Thursday. Student evaluations would not be included, following feedback rounds earlier in the academic year. view article arw

Austin ISD is looking for new ways to address the spike in requests for special education evaluations within the school district. According to KVUE’s media partners at the Austin American-Statesman, district data shows that over the past three years, the number of requests for special education evaluations have increased by an average of 900 each year. view article arw

Aldine ISD proudly announces its 2025 CTE District of Distinction selection by the Career and Technical Association of Texas (CTAT). CTAT introduced the District of Distinction program in 2024 to recognize Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that meet exacting standards. This prestigious designation is open to all districts that meet the stringent guidelines set by the CTAT Board and executive committee. Brooke Martin, AISD executive director of CTE, expressed her appreciation for the recognition, stating, “We are honored to be awarded as a Career & Technical Association of Texas (CTAT) CTE District of Distinction. This recognition is a testament to the hard work of our entire CTE team and community. We are proud to be among the districts leading the way in providing transformative educational experiences. Our future-focused CTE opportunities across the district, including our P-TECH programs at Avalos and Carver, our CTE programs at Blanson, and the HEAL program at Nimitz, prepare our students for success after high school.” view article arw

The South San Antonio Independent School District board has unanimously approved a controversial, but financially incentivized, curriculum that has drawn criticism for its heavy use of biblical material. view article arw

The South San Antonio Independent School District board has unanimously approved a controversial, but financially incentivized, curriculum that has drawn criticism for its heavy use of biblical material. view article arw

The El Paso School District Board received a preliminary report from its long-awaited equity audit, revealing significant disparities in funding and disciplinary actions within the district. The audit, conducted by the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC), began in February of 2024 following a 2020 lawsuit alleging neglect of poor, Hispanic neighborhoods. view article arw

Sonia Villalobos is helping second graders who have struggled with reading, improve, and better understand how the English language works. "We need to add a capital letter in the first letter of the name," said one student in the class. It's one of the hardest jobs in Fort Worth ISD where students are passing to the next grade level and still struggling with reading comprehension. view article arw

The Fort Worth Independent School District and city leaders passed a literacy resolution Tuesday night to make sure more students can read at grade level. img-3203-1.jpg CBS News Texas District leaders and city leaders, including Mayor Mattie Parker, announced a "new, intense focus on failure to read at grade level" at a news conference before the board meeting. view article arw

The Career and Technical Association of Texas named City View ISD as a Career and Technical Education District of Distinction. The honor is given to districts that excel in preparing students for a future in technical skills and education. view article arw

Trustee Tobi Jackson doesn’t see the reading crisis plaguing Fort Worth ISD as solely an educational challenge. “It is truly a civic crisis,” Jackson said during a Jan. 21 news conference, noting the impact literacy has on poverty and crime and other societal issues that affect a community. view article arw

No failing schools. Increases by nearly 20 percentage points in third-grade reading and math proficiency. Reduced chronic absenteeism and increased public engagement. All by 2029. Those are some of the 24 goals outlined in Fort Worth ISD’s new strategic plan, which the school board discussed — and unanimously approved — during its Jan. 21 meeting. The plan aims to reshape the district’s approach to student achievement, family engagement, employee retention and operational efficiency for the next four years, according to the draft. view article arw

Local teacher Jamie Hernandez was brought to tears as her name was called out during a large school celebration, to accept the KENS 5 EXCEL Award with a $2,000 check from KENS 5 partner Credit Human. As an EMT instructor, Hernandez oversees 140 students, freshmen to seniors in her program. Many of her students are ready to work in the medical field by the time they're done with high school. view article arw

The measure would halt programs with debt-to-earnings ratios of over 125 percent.   view article arw