The General Services Administration (GSA) announced Monday it has closed on the sale of a federal building at Hemisfair that is key to the city’s plans for a downtown arena district.   The City of San Antonio acquired the building for $30 million with funds from Spurs Sports & Entertainment, as outlined in a non-binding term sheet approved by city council nearly a year ago. Credit: Brenda Bazán / San Antonio Report • view article

Texas leads nation in proposed power plants for data centers, which would emit large amounts of greenhouse gases view article

San Marcos has become the first Texas city to ban data centers within city limits, banking on its local authority to stop the data center boom and setting a precedent for other municipalities to follow. San Marcos City Council voted 4-3 on June 16 to define data centers and make them ineligible for any part of the city in its zoning laws, citing concerns that these developments would funnel water and energy resources from the local community. view article

The woman relished the news of the young man's murder, then painted herself as the real victim.   In the immediate wake of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10, 2025, depraved leftists celebrated in classrooms, in town squares, online, and elsewhere.   Some of those who publicly relished the news of the young father's murder were publicly shamed, received reprimands, or even lost their jobs. view article

Students at 20 campuses in Dallas ISD will be heading back to school in a little less than a month – two weeks early. Starting with the upcoming school year, Dallas ISD is extending the academic year at some of its campuses in hopes of giving students an early start. view article

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) are tests given to public school students in grades 3-12 to measure what they are learning in each grade. The tests are based on the state's curriculum and are generally administered each spring. Mathematics and reading assessments are given in grades 3-8, and the Social Studies test is administered to eighth-grade students. High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) exams in Algebra I, Biology, English I, English II and U.S. History. view article

Austin Independent School District (AISD) is slowing plans to realign its school district boundaries that impact which schools students attend. Originally, AISD was aiming to implement districtwide changes for the 2027-28 school year. But now, according to an email to families, the plan will be shifted into a two-phase approach. The first phase will address “urgent” boundary issues the district said “cannot wait.” The second phase aims to be a comprehensive change to campuses’ boundaries across the district. view article

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Alana Jeter is one of the newest members of the Abilene ISD school board. She's the Executive Director of the Noah Project in Abilene, but she's also the mom of two children. She has a son already in college, and her daughter is headed to college in the fall. While they both will attend McMurry University in Abilene, it will still be a big transition for them. view article

Houston ISD's state-appointed board of managers greenlit Bible-infused curriculum for elementary school students at a special board meeting Thursday night, when the board also voted to adopt a $2 billion operating budget for 2026-27. The state-developed Bluebonnet Learning curriculum for students in kindergarten through fifth grade has been criticized for its inclusion of biblical teachings in reading and language arts lessons. Its implementation also comes with a per-student financial incentive – more than $3 million in additional revenue for HISD, the largest school district in Texas. view article

State data shows most grade levels in Texas saw reading scores for the annual STAAR exam increase past pre-pandemic levels, and educators are hoping to keep that momentum going this summer. Inside a Forney Independent School District cafeteria, 200 kids sit as still as they can. Their eyes are glued to a school principal reading a book. view article

Austin ISD is delaying its district-wide school boundary realignment by one year. The move comes after the district closed 10 campuses at the end of the 2025-26 school year, leaving it to navigate where those students will have classes in the upcoming fall semester. In a message to families on Friday, AISD Superintendent Matias Segura said the comprehensive plan will now take effect for the 2028-29 school year in order to give leaders more time to work through budgetary concerns, staffing, enrollment and long-term planning. view article

When the 2026-27 school year opens, Arlington ISD will see some new beginnings. The school district, which is facing declining enrollment and a budget shortfall, will introduce two virtual school options at the high school level. Sarah McMurrough, the school board president, said she is excited to see the new programs take shape and that they will help the district better serve its students. view article

Astory and photo posted on social media claiming a privately owned white Chevrolet Corvette was worked on in a Raymondville Independent School District maintenance shop posted on social media are a total fabrication, RISD Police Chief Oscar Gutierrez said last Friday. The photo of the car was apparently Photoshopped into a garage of some kind, but only part of the hydraulic lift shown in the photo can be seen, the rest is not visible, the police chief said. view article

Stay in the know with five Bastrop-Cedar Creek updates, including lower home prices, a summer reading challenge benefiting nonprofits, Bastrop ISD STAAR gains, a free caregiver support group and proposed industrial park upgrades.   1. Bastrop-Cedar Creek home sales increase, prices dip in May May housing figures for Bastrop-Cedar Creek showed more homes sold year over year while prices dipped, according to Unlock MLS data. During that time, homes remained on the market longer—with the average increasing from 72 days in May 2025 to 85 days in May 2026. view article

In the fall of 1997, Cesar Chavez Learning Center opened in East Dallas, roughly four years after the man it is named after died. This week, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees will vote to change the school’s name and revise the processes for naming and renaming schools. The discussion on the former became necessary after a New York Times story in March detailed horrific allegations that the civil rights leader abused very young girls, and allegedly raped others in the farm union movement, including Latina activist Dolores Huerta, who ran the United Farm Workers union with Chavez. view article

Hudson High School teacher Christie Swan and seniors Mason Tran, Brayden Dunn, Channing Howatt and Jackson May recently traveled to Boston, Massachusetts. to compete in Junior Achievement's National Stock Market Challenge, where they placed third.  The competition ended at 11 a.m., and the boys sat all day nervously anticipating the results. At the gala that evening, Roaring Kitty found out they were third in the national contest, earning each team member a $1,000 cash prize. view article

Chevron has struck a 20-year agreement to sell electricity to Microsoft, which plans to build what could become one of the country's largest artificial-intelligence data centers in West Texas.  The oil company is working with Joulent, an energy company launched by investment firm Engine No. 1, to build a massive power-generation complex that will supply the data center using natural gas produced from the company's fields in the area. The 2.7-gigawatt campus would be on more than 2,000 acres in Reeves County in the heart of the Permian Basin oil-and-gas field, according to Joulent. view article

Attorneys and experts for both the state and for death row inmate Victor Saldaño agree that he should be allowed to present evidence of his disability to a state criminal appeals court. view article

The McAllen Independent School District is hoping a new partnership will open doors for their students. "The CTE Department is partnering with South Texas College," McAllen ISD Technical Education Coordinator David Lyons said. The district approved a two-year veterinary program during a recent school board meeting. "Everyday you will need to come and feed your animals, once in the morning and at night to feed them, and walk them every day," McAllen High School student Ella Hartzog said. view article

A crash report has confirmed a Longview ISD teacher had been driving while intoxicated in a wreck that killed her and a Longview nurse practitioner. The wreck happened on April 19 on Highway 259 in the Diana area at about 3 a.m. Hospitality Health Nurse Practitioner Joel Mack and LISD Foster Middle School Teacher Kimberly Law were both killed in the crash. view article

Texas public school enrollment has declined as the state expanded public education offerings beyond traditional school districts to charter campuses and private school vouchers. Families have more schooling choices than ever, and the state's five largest school districts aren't immune to the changes. 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

ABILENE – The Abilene ISD is opening baseball and softball contests at both high schools to 50 percent capacity at all four fields for the 2021 season. Fans will be allowed to enter this weekend’s baseball tournament games at Blackburn Field (Abilene High) and Cougar Field (Cooper) at no charge, but beginning with next week’s home games, all games for baseball and softball will be $4 for adults and $2 for students. Full-time AISD employees will be allowed to enter for free, but only with a district-issued ID, and that ID only gains entry for the employee. view article