“Accuracy of the content provided by the [AI] is a concern,” read an internal assessment of Alpha School’s lessons.

And, critics of TEA takeovers say, those costs are just the beginning of expenses that come with state intervention but without state recompense.

A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age o...

A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age o...

Since 2020, the state education agency has taken over eight school districts — four in just the past few months — and installed leaders linked to Houston’s controversial superintendent, Mike Miles. At...

Last year the Trump administration launched a policy of keeping all immigrants arrested by ICE in detention without the right to request bond, reversing decades of established law.

Despite the federal investigation, HISD appears to be continuing its plan to move some students with disabilities to new campuses.

After 20 years in office, opponents say he’s become out of touch and absent. Now he must survive a runoff against Alief school board member Darlene Breaux.

After 20 years in office, opponents say he’s become out of touch and absent. Now he must survive a runoff against Alief school board member Darlene Breaux.

Billionaire GOP donor Jeffrey Yass scored millions in private-school tax credits while he bankrolled the lawmakers who expanded them.

A push to restrict local governments’ ability to decide how they spend their money and which policies they can adopt is having downstream effects in tiny towns and big cities like Dallas.

“We have an in everywhere. It's not hard to talk to other people that do the same thing that you do on a daily basis, and oftentimes they have the same grievances that you do."

“We have an in everywhere. It's not hard to talk to other people that do the same thing that you do on a daily basis, and oftentimes they have the same grievances that you do."

Houston ISD says its state-appointed superintendent has ended a paid agreement with Third Future Schools, after the Observer obtained the contract and requested comment. A 2025 state law restricts moo...

Houston ISD says its state-appointed superintendent has ended a paid agreement with Third Future Schools, after the Observer obtained the contract and requested comment. A 2025 state law restricts…

Some school district leaders say they believed they had only one option for a partnership to avoid state takeover.

Some school district leaders say they believed they had only one option for a partnership to avoid state takeover.

The Republican speaker’s interim charges also covered water resources, foreign threats and government accountability.

With Free Range Productions, Michelle Pitcher digs deep into a conviction involving a dubious hypnosis technique.

Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floa...

With every passing day, another federal judge issues a scathing order to contain Trump’s autocracy and Trump keeps alienating the Supreme Court.

Some evangelical Christians are hammering away at the very church-state separation that allowed them, and other believers, to first flourish in America.

I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

Federal appellate courts are enacting an anti-environment agenda—especially in the ultraconservative 5th Circuit, new analysis shows.

The governor’s office said the city’s two main reservoirs could dry up by May, much sooner than previous timelines. But authorities still offer no plan for curtailment of water use.

The agreement outlines a stunning realignment of the federal student loan programs, which have been overseen by the Education Department since it was created...

YouTube video by HISD Board of Puppets

Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy tallied the property taxes being avoided through public facility corporations and other tax-break deals.

The message quickly drew praise from online far-right activists.

On Saturday Donald Trump announced the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran with strikes designed to prevent nuclear weapons and help Iranians.

A slate of union-affiliated candidates are taking the labor movement on the campaign trail up and down the ballot.

A slate of union-affiliated candidates are taking the labor movement on the campaign trail up and down the ballot.

A slate of union-affiliated candidates are taking the labor movement on the campaign trail up and down the ballot.

The research is clear: when immigrant workers are targeted, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for better pay and conditions.

The state education agency issued guidance to districts after Gov. Greg Abbott directed its commissioner to investigate the student protests of killings by federal agents.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Today, the Texas AFL-CIO releases the following statement on union leader Taylor Rehmet’s historic election to Texas Senate District 9. With 95% of precincts reporting, Rehmet has ...

At a Hindu temple hidden in Pearland, I found lessons about community, womanhood, and alienation.

The Republican governor accused Democratic leaders in Minnesota of inciting violence. Democrats in Texas have condemned the shooting of demonstrator Alex Pretti.

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The killing of Renee Good and shooting in Portland has sparked plans for 1,000 anti-ICE protests this weekend