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Governor Abbott appoints four members to the Texas State Board for Educator Certification, including Booth, Turk-Zaafran, ...

Texas has announced that Teya Sidberry will join the team as a transfer. Sidberry spent the past two years at Boston College.

The UIL state golf tournament begin Monday with three area teams expected to fare well: Lake Travis, Westlake, Vandegrift.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbot was relentless in fighting for his school choice plan. One Democrat says his party can learn from the ...

State lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to use more taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuitions and homeschooling ...

Netflix has announced it will stream “She The People,” a comedy written, produced and directed by Tyler Perry based on a fictional newly elected Mississippi Lieutenant Governor, Antoinette Dunkerson, ...

Two people were arrested after drugs were found in their vehicle in a Tuesday night traffic stop in Denison. More people ...

Less than one month after it was signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte, HB 121 got its first court hearing Monday in ...

The federal lawsuit comes after the Trump administration tried to cut off all of Maine's federal funding for public schools and school lunches.

“Honor killings, stonings, marrying their young girls off to older men ... of the United States and the state of Texas.” A spokesman for the governor, Andrew Mahaleris, said in a statement ...

If Patrick wins re-election in 2026, it would make him the second-longest serving lieutenant governor in Texas history, after Bill Hobby, who held the office for 18 years. Patrick also shared in ...