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Illustration by Benjamin Hasson Texas gave its school districts their first official grades Wednesday, fueling the fire of a years-long

Darby Dugay, 17, sits in the bedroom of the FEMA mobile home where she and her family have lived since

Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath will roll out the first official grades for school districts Aug. 15. Erika Rich for

Texas Education Agency officials Penny Schwinn and Justin Porter listen to testimony at a hearing on special education in Richardson

Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner listens to speakers at a school board meeting on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Laura

Casa Padre, an immigrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, is pictured in Brownsville on June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott Southwest Key

Deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office on the scene of Santa Fe High School, where a shooting occurred in

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