Author: Aliyya Swaby

A couple of weeks after Texas penalized its main testing vendor over glitches with thousands of standardized tests, another potential testing

*Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath on Wednesday released the criteria he will

Justin Williams reads along with his class at Mata Intermediate School on April 20, 2018. Pu Ying Huang for The

Two days after Gov. Greg Abbott released a 40-page school safety plan, Texas House and Senate leaders ordered their committees

Tiffany Szerpicki For school districts with chronically failing campuses, a recently passed law that allows them a reprieve from state

Yasmin Riculfy, a student at Bammel Middle School, listens to her teacher on April 20, 2018. Pu Ying Huang for

Last Friday, Santa Fe High School senior Grace Johnson walked into the hallway from the band practice room, where she

The Texas Education Agency will levy a $100,000 financial penalty against the New Jersey-based company that develops and administers standardized tests,

Editor’s note: Correction appended. RICHARDSON — Jaculyn Zigtema, a special education director in Whitehouse ISD in East Texas, told state

* This story has been updated throughout.  Texas advocates for Mexican-American studies classes won a bitter victory Wednesday, in gaining