Back To School

Nearly 400 students and staff members have tested positive for the virus since the school year began two weeks ago, school district data show.

Parents should address their own stress, learn to identify symptoms of childhood anxiety and help their kids talk about how they’re feeling, childhood psychologist Amanda Jordan said.

If you’ve seen "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" or ever been in a classroom, you know that school can sometimes be very boring. However, learning and coming up…

The state’s annual sales-tax-free weekend is a little earlier this year, but there’s still time to get ready.Coming up on the weekend of August 9 to 11,…

The Austin Independent School District has released its list of schools that are frozen to transfers for the 2013-2014 school year.Over two dozen campuses…

After months of sitting on their wallets, Americans went shopping in July. The uptick is boosting economists' hopes for a reasonably strong back-to-school season, but shoppers seem to be spending carefully. Retailers are looking for clues about how the holiday shopping season will turn out later in the year.

A University of Texas study found that 90 percent of bag lunches brought to school by preschool students were kept at temperatures that could result in…

There are more than 25,000 daycare operations and homes in the state of Texas. And as the school year looms, parents have to choose among them to find…