Education

The public university took the step in response to a directive that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued in early December. Abbott said the app posed security risks to the state.

If allocated, the money would go toward long COVID research and a cybersecurity teaching hub, among other things.

The district is working on its budget for the 2023-2024 school year. AISD administrators and school board members say employee compensation is the top priority.

A billboard shows the faces of young people who have died. Posters show the difference between fentanyl and other prescriptions drugs. And a video presented to seniors shows a student overdosing in his car.

Ovidia Molina, president of the Texas State Teachers Association, said she wants lawmakers to use part of the state’s budget surplus to increase school funding.

PfISD staff are holding public meetings over the next two weeks to get input from parents and community members on 10 proposals to redraw attendance boundaries for the 2023-2024 school year. Most of the proposals include the closure of two to three elementary schools.

Public education advocates hope lawmakers will spend more on schools, raise teacher salaries and prioritize mental health resources. The last time the Texas Legislature made a major financial investment in the public school system was before the pandemic in 2019.

Beard had been suspended without pay since his arrest on Dec. 12. He was in the second year of a seven-year $35 million contract with UT Austin.

As 2022 comes to a close, we’re hearing from Texans about what they've learned this year.

While Congress made school meals free for all children throughout most of the pandemic, that program expired in June 2022. Georgetown ISD officials said the change was jarring for families and outstanding meal balances started to rise during the first few months of the school year.