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Mike Miles' move-fast-and-break-things approach is not only affecting students at the poorest-performing HISD schools; it's hurting high-performing schools that never needed academic rehab.

Mauro Yosueth Henriquez is one of the thousands of students in the U.S. illegally who disappeared from American classrooms in President Trump’s ICE crackdown.

For years, Judge Ramona Franklin had a reputation in Houston's legal circles for letting cases lag in court and defendants languish in jail.

HISD Superintendent Mike Miles helped broker a nearly $1M contract for HISD-style reform at a Texas charter network. Experts say it raises concerns.

Where's the leadership, asks columnist Lisa Falkenberg? HISD superintendent Mike Miles' changes to curriculum, teacher evaluations and pay won't last if teachers and parents don’t believe in them.

For the first time, Texas is vetting curricula for quality and paying districts extra to use approved materials. But HISD won't submit Mike Miles' controversial NES curriculum for review.

The Science of Reading emphasizes phonics but does it support Mike Miles' sidelining libraries and books in HISD schools? I asked literacy experts Maryanne Wolf, Emily Hanford and...

Photos of starving children captured in Gaza persuaded President Trump that real starvation is happening — despite Netanyahu's lies. How much longer can starving journalists do their jobs?

Texas officials and Hill Country leaders knew the risks of flooding along the Guadalupe. Warnings went unheeded, flood warnings, river gauges and sirens unfunded — and more than 130 Texans died.

Texas Hill Country's Camp Mystic was a refuge until the floods came – one made of water, the other made of lies. Grieving parents face social media rumors, Internet hoaxes and political...

Whitney Houston's dazzling "Star-Spangled Banner" gives America hope and Jimi Hendrix's rendition at Woodstock gives us a warning.

Texas A&M soared under Chancellor John Sharp. Texans should ask: what could the moderate Democrat have done as governor?

Amid firings, departures and deficit warnings, Trump's FEMA isn't ready for hurricane season. Nim Kid, head of Texas Emergency Management Division, explains what that means for Texas.

An undocumented hot dog vendor came to Houston's No Kings protest to make money to pay the rent. She made a discovery about America that gave her hope.

Health Secretary Kennedy cited conflicts of interest in gutting the CDC's advisory panel. Houston's Dr. Julie Boom didn't have conflicts. Only vaccine expertise and a passion for protecting kids.

Gov. Greg Abbott's veto of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's THC ban would enable Texas' chaotic cannabis market; his signature could enable a hemp black market.

Houston police were responding to the scene where a pedestrian was fatally struck by a train Monday.

Forget billion-dollar plans to redevelop the Eighth Wonder of the World. Let that stadium rot. Ruins are all the rage in Europe. Why not in Houston?