Bill Zeeble

PEN America has tracked a nationwide growth of laws and bills that — since 2021 — have impinged on educational free speech rights. The organization says 2023 saw 22 state legislatures approve more than 100 bills it calls “educational gag orders.

Corporal punishment is still legal in public schools in 16 states. In Texas, a principal was arrested after hitting a child with a wooden paddle. He's now back on the job. The community supports him.

Citing a shortage of school counselors, Texas passed a law allowing chaplains to be school counselors. Some say it's the government's responsibility, not churches', to provide mental health services.

Thousands of Texas students take early college high school classes that can get them halfway to a bachelor's degree while still in high school, and for free. But too many fail to finish.

Education has been a top concern in recent elections, as Critical Race Theory and book bans dominated discussions.

Six finalists competed in the competition in Fort Worth, Texas, including two from Russia and one from Ukraine. An 18-year-old South Korean was the youngest to win in the contest's 60-year history.

We'll have the latest from the hostage situation which developed overnight at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

A police SWAT team is conducting operations at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, near Dallas.

In Texas and across the country, Critical Race Theory – or CRT - has become a political lightning rod. Red state Republicans want it banned in classrooms…

Early Saturday morning, a white officer in Fort Worth, Texas, shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson inside her home. A worried neighbor had called to report that the door to Jefferson's home was open.