Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez fired on Pretti during a protest in Minneapolis last month, according to government records viewed by ProPublica.  The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. view article

Kingsville Independent School District has announced a proposed improvement plan consisting of a elementary realignment plan that will be voted on Tuesday. The plan would consolidate three campuses into two and has sparked mixed reactions among community members and educators view article

TxDOT starts construction near Belton ISD high school to improve safety, mobility for pedestrians view article

The 2026-28 alignments have been posted for volleyball, basketball and football. You can access this information HERE.  view article

Your one-stop shop for information on Houston public, charter and private schools. view article

A 94-year-old retired teacher in Texas shouldn’t have to “prove” she’s alive just to get the pension she earned, but that’s exactly the mess ABC7 reporter Carlos Granda laid out in his report about Gloria Wilson, a longtime LAUSD educator whose monthly payments abruptly vanished after the system flagged her as deceased.  Carlos Granda framed it plainly: Gloria Wilson is not dead, even though her California pension plan briefly treated her like she was, and the consequences hit fast because her pension wasn’t extra money – it was the backbone of her monthly budget.  Wilson told Carlos Granda the moment she realized something was wrong was when her usual deposit never landed in her bank account.  “It was scary. I was upset,” Gloria Wilson said, describing the shock of watching an expected payment simply not show up. view article

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - West Texas will soon be home to the GW Ranch, an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oil fields of the Permian basin.According to the project’s developers, Pacifico Energy, it is the largest permitted data center campus in the United States.  Pacifico Energy got the go-ahead this month from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.  This more than 8,000-acre campus will be located in Pecos County, about 17 miles north of Fort Stockton, to the southwest of Odessa   The company expects its GW Ranch will provide customers with power in the first half of 2027, with a guaranteed pathway to scale to over 5 GW.  Pacifico Energy says it expects this project to create thousands of construction jobs, hundreds of permanent high-paying jobs, and substantial tax revenues.  Pacifico is calling the GW Ranch the ‘next wave of A-I innovation.’ view article

Governor Greg Abbott says he’s directing the Texas Education Agency commissioner to investigate after Austin ISD students took part in Friday’s nationwide walkout. In a social media post, he says AISD gets taxpayer dollars to teach the subjects required by the state, not to help students skip school to protest. view article

The Lubbock Independent School District is no stranger to having to close and merge schools in the past for various reasons. But moving forward, LISD leaders say they will follow a District Optimization Plan to monitor and determine future school mergers and closures in an effort to be transparent and authentic with parents and the public. view article

Temple ISD has spoken out regarding alleged plans made by community members to protest against ICE outside Temple High School grounds on Friday. On Thursday, Temple ISD Superintendent Dr. Bobby Ott shared a statement with 6 News addressing such plans. The district is aware of alleged plans made by the local community, including statewide walkout demonstrations. District leaders have informed students that disruptions to regular school plans or distractions, including protests or walkouts, would result in DAEP placement, Ott said in the statement. view article

It’s getting harder to afford living in Texas — even as incomes and educational attainment grow and poverty declines.  Despite the state’s robust economic growth since the start of the decade, incomes in Texas haven’t kept pace with the nation at large, U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday show. And the state’s housing costs have outpaced income growth, leaving a greater share of Texas renters and homeowners spending a bigger chunk of their pay to keep a roof over their heads than they did before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. view article

School districts across North Texas announced plans Wednesday afternoon to keep schools closed Thursday or reopen them. Some have since changed their mind. After a winter storm hit Dallas-Fort Worth over the weekend many schools and universities canceled class Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. view article

Hours after touring the Dilley detention center housing 5-year-old Minnesota boy Liam Ramos on Wednesday, San Antonio’s state and federal lawmakers gathered outside City Hall to update the public on his status — and to lay out their limited leverage for stopping such arrests under a Republican-controlled government.  Hours after touring the Dilley detention center housing 5-year-old Minnesota boy Liam Ramos on Wednesday, San Antonio’s state and federal lawmakers gathered outside City Hall to update the public on his status — and to lay out their limited leverage for stopping such arrests under a Republican-controlled government. view article

School districts across Central Texas will resume normal operations Wednesday after closing for several days due to winter weather, with officials warning of lingering icy conditions on campuses. Austin ISD announced all schools and offices will operate on normal schedules Jan. 28, with extracurricular and after-school activities resuming. The district said tardies related to weather and traffic delays will be excused. view article

The Houston Independent School District is responding after reports of some campuses experiencing heating issues on Tuesday. What they're saying: According to a statement, Houston ISD said, Houston ISD Facilities and Maintenance teams responded immediately to any campus that had HVAC-related issues today, and our teams have been making progress throughout the day." view article

Several Houston ISD campuses experienced heating issues on Tuesday as students returned to class following the weekend's winter storm. On Monday, after announcing that the district would resume normal school operations on Tuesday, Houston ISD said it had begun preparations and taken proactive steps to brace for the storm's impact. In a message on the district's website, it said it would begin district-wide heating checks at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning and that it would be easy to identify and address any issues as soon as they arose. view article

Texas’ population grew at a slower pace in 2025 than in previous years, according to new federal data. Nearly 32 million people now live in the state. view article

Agriculture is the second largest industry in Texas, which is home to more than 230,000 farms. Here’s a look at who’s running in the 2026 Democratic and Republican primaries to oversee the agriculture department and where they stand on the issues. view article

Many school districts across Central Texas have decided to cancel classes amid a winter storm lingering on Monday, January 26. However, a few in the San Antonio area have decided to stay open, leaving parents mixed with support and disapproval. Some parents are upset with the Poteet Independent School District for keeping its schools open during the Texas winter storm. The district posted its decision on Sunday, January 25, writing that school will resume as normal on Monday. Buses will run at a regular time, according to its Facebook post. view article

The games' organizers said it was not associated with the group Gov. Greg Abbott has targeted. view article

Developers must now address water concerns on a tight deadline after previously submitting vague concept plans.The Hood County Commissioners Court conditionally approved an incomplete data center plan after roughly two hours of residents urging their local officials not to move forward due to water concerns. view article

Austin Community College leaders credit the college’s free tuition pilot and efforts to increase retention and center student needs for its growing enrollment. view article

Who says you can't mix two passions together? For Dallas Independent School District softball Coach Mark Stout, he's done it weekly this season. Stout warms up his team at W.T. White High School every home game and then, for a brief moment, plays the national anthem on the trumpet to get to that exciting umpire line: play ball! He started doing it before games last season. view article

In some voting locations where a party’s appointed polling judge didn’t show up, election officials allowed the other party’s judge to operate both parties’ voting machines in an effort to keep the polling place running. view article

The Lewisville ISD board of trustees approved the district's 2022-23 academic calendar, which includes 177 instructional days. The 2022-23 calendar, which was approved during a Jan. 10 board meeting, will have an Aug. 10 start date with exams for the first semester to be completed before winter break, which runs Dec. 19-Jan. 4, 2023, according to the calendar. view article

Fort Worth ISD is moving forward with plans to establish four early learning centers across the district in areas where affordable, high quality child care is hard to come by after voters narrowly approved a November bond to fund the project along with other improvements. Three other bond measures were defeated in the same election after opposition groups lobbied against them, pointing to the district’s lackluster academic performance and what they called limited information about the bonds in the weeks leading up to the election. view article

An online petition created by the 'Students of KATYISD' group is demanding change to allow access to LGBTQ+ resources and websites, including a suicide prevention hotline. Katy ISD student, 17-year-old Cameron Samuels, spoke out at a school board meeting last week and told ABC13 that students cannot access LGBTQ+ youth resources and websites while on the district's internet server. view article

The Northwest ISD Education Foundation last week held a grand opening event for its new free store and library for teachers to get resources and educational materials for their classrooms. Teachers can “shop” for school and classroom supplies, snack packs, clothing items and books. All items are free to district educators, who will use them in their classrooms to support students, according to a news release from Northwest ISD. view article

When you were in school, did you ever wonder to yourself, "what if I were principal for a day?" On Wednesday, WFAA's Cynthia Izaguirre and our station general manager, Brad Ramsey, got that chance thanks to the Principal for a Day Program (PFAD) with the Dallas Independent School District. The program is meant to help people who don't work in education understand the strengths and challenges Dallas ISD schools face. view article

It’s 4 p.m. at S.S. Conner Elementary School’s district-run afterschool program, and cheerleaders are pumping up a group of 70 students as they enjoy a healthy snack. Now with full bellies and high spirits, the students go into classrooms and center themselves with deep breathing exercises and social and emotional learning practices. Then it’s on to fun, hands-on learning and, at last, an epic game of kickball in the gym. view article

The McAllen Independent School District (McAllen ISD) is considering closing Bonham Elementary School due to low student enrollment. Since 2010, McAllen ISD has closed down three schools: David Crockett Elementary in 2011, Jose Antonio Navarro Elementary, after the 2017-18 school year, and Abraham Lincoln Middle School the same year. view article

Calallen ISD's superintendent apologized for a video that surfaced on social media of a high school pep rally during which students portrayed former President Donald Trump and Jesus Christ while making racist remarks. The video, captioned "i'm so scared #saveme," has garnered close to 34,000 views and has been shared over 550 times since being posted. It is a screen recording from someone's Snapchat account. That person recorded the pep rally, which took place at Calallen High School's gymnasium. view article

The national outcry over efforts to foster diversity and inclusion initiatives in schools has added fuel to a heated Grapevine-Colleyville ISD runoff election. The incumbent, Mindy McClure, said she is fighting a campaign of “misinformation” from her opponent, community volunteer Shannon Braun. view article

For Granger ISD officials, they have been working since the spring of last year, planning on getting kids back to campus for the start of school. School for the Lions has been fully on campus since the start of the school year. The district says this is due to the COVID-19 safety protocols that are in place, as well as teachers who have gone above and beyond. view article

Austin ISD hosted its Operation Reconnect block walk door-to-door event to ‘reconnect’ with existing district families and help recruit new ones to its schools. The event specifically aimed at attracting families to schools in its northeast corridor, including (among others) Andrews and Harris elementary schools, Garcia’s Young Men’s and Sadler Means Young Women’s middle school leadership academies, and Northeast High School. view article