Nearly two years after the Texas Education Agency seized control of Houston ISD, Commissioner Mike Morath says an update on ...

House Bill 4, aimed at eliminating the STAAR test, would buy an additional year of turnaround time for three North Austin ...

Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath is visiting Houston on Wednesday to tour several Houston ISD campuses, but ...

After listening to a choir of performing arts students and observing lessons inside a Houston visual and performing arts high ...

The state’s standardized test would be replaced with three smaller tests taken throughout the school year through House Bill ...

With weeks until the deadline to announce a potential extension of the state takeover of Houston ISD, Texas Education Agency ...

With less than three weeks remaining in the regular legislative session, Texas lawmakers are working on competing bills aimed ...

But they sued, they said, because TEA Commissioner Mike Morath had broken state education rules. Texas lawmakers have not been impressed. Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, accused the school ...

“ Peace be with you .” — Pope Leo XIV in his first words to a crowd at St. Peter’s Square. Robert Prevost is the first ...

We don’t actually know if Texas can provide the reforms that would help ISD, and a local plan deserves time to work. | ...

In a formal letter, State Rep. Brooks Landgraf requested Ector County ISD receive scores from TEA by May 21, two days ahead ...

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