Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues. Heâââ
Summer school's gliding along in North Texas, but students aren’t the only ones in session. Southern Methodist University's STEM Academy is for science teachers.
For one recent lesson, they left dry land behind to kayak the Trinity River that wanders through the Great Trinity Forest.
When Rosley Espinoza's daughter was very young, in preschool, she started acting differently. She seemed distracted and would get in trouble at school.
"Lack of interest, teachers' notes coming home with behavior notes," Espinoza says, speaking in Spanish.
She says she asked school officials to evaluate her daughter, Citlali, for special education, but they didn't.
Some of the nation’s most powerful Republican politicians are in Dallas this week for the annual convention of the American Legislative Exchange Council – known as ALEC. There was action inside and protests outside.
