Posted on · Families with special education students in Texas attend a series of meetings with district staff members. Any complaints from families can take months to move through the formal process at the local and state level — and even then, some cases require decisions in state or federal courts.
Posted on · The Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, with financial support from companies and charitable organizations, donated and outfitted the new mobile library, which will provide books for children as well as STEM educational programming.
Posted on · The Biden administration has quietly changed its guidance to disqualify borrowers who have privately-held FFEL and Perkins loans.
Posted on · The classroom-turned-closet is filled with clothes, shoes, school supplies and pantry items for students who are homeless to stop by and stock up when in need.
Posted on · "Obscene and harmful" materials are now banned. Parents must give consent to students checking out books from classroom libraries, and parents will be notified when their student checks out a book from the school library.
Posted on · The district said the Alvin ISD Police Department is actively investigating the incident and appropriate charges will be filed.
Posted on · The new gift from the Kinder Foundation will be used to help the institute expand its research and reach, with the goal of helping the Houston area address a wider range of issues.
Posted on · The 62-year-old university in the Sharpstown area aims to more than double its enrollment, currently about 4,000 students, during the next decade.
Posted on · The Harris County Library System currently has more than 600 of the state's 801 banned titles in circulation.
Posted on · From the 2019-20 to the 2020-21 school years, HISD’s enrollment declined by about 13,000. More than 10,000 of those students were from elementary schools.
Posted on · The two teenage students have been released from jail on bond, with one required to remain under house arrest, and are prohibited from being in contact with each other or the Houston ISD campus.
Posted on · Across the country, more books have been challenged and removed as religious and conservative groups target LGBTQ and race issues.
Posted on · A student had tried to access certain sites, like the Trevor Project, and found the URL’s were blocked by filters the district had put in place.
Posted on · Fort Bend ISD said the campus received a report about the alleged weapon.
Posted on · High schools in Aldine, Houston and Klein ISDs were the subject of unsubstantiated threats of violence this week.