Education

The NAACP urged Black athletes to boycott predominantly white schools in Florida over the state's anti-DEI policies, and KERA’s Bill Zeeble reports advocates in Texas are echoing that call. KTEP’s Aaron Montes’ reports a judge blocked the Texas Attorney General from immediately shutting down a Texas nonprofit that helps migrants.

A former librarian has filed a lawsuit against Llano County over her employment termination in 2022. Texas Public Radio's Kayla Padilla reports she was fired after she refused to remove books deemed as “pornographic” in her library.

An electric utility company is acknowledging where their facilities may have played a role in igniting the largest wildfire in Texas history. And the Texas Newsroom’s Sergio Martínez-Beltrán reports many state representatives who voted against Gov. Abbott's school voucher plan lost during Tuesday’s primaries.

It’s Severe Weather Awareness Week and the National Weather Service is encouraging people to plan for sudden weather events that can happen in the spring by doing a tornado drill. And KERA’s Bill Zeeble reports on how school districts are struggling with budget deficits because of inflation, lower enrollment, and no new state education funding in years.

Our reporter Samantha Larned has more on how one local school district is hoping to get people informed about and connected with careers in education. Lucinda Breeding-Gonzales with the Denton Record-Chronicle reports a library on the University of North Texas campus was forced to cancel its Pride Week events, the latest casualty of the state's ban on campus diversity efforts.

Students and faculty at public universities across Texas are grappling with the effects of a new state law banning DEI offices. TPR Education Reporter Camille Phillips attended a symposium on academic freedom that was designed to help them learn how to navigate the impact.

Students at the University of Texas at Arlington are looking for answers after the school quietly disbanded its LGBTQ+ program. And Texas Public Radio’s Jerry Clayton has more on Texas officials rejecting demands from the Biden administration to grant access to federal agents to an area of the border in Eagle Pass.

Texas Tech’s track & field program has had an impressive start to 2024. Our reporter Bishop Van Buren has more on a pair of Red Raiders who set NCAA-leading marks at the Corky Classic meet in Lubbock. For the first time in almost 20 years, an annual school accountability ranking found low-income Texas students are doing the same or worse than the previous year. KERA’s Juan Salinas II has more on the report from Children at Risk.

A conservative federal appeals court sided with Texas bookstores and other groups, challenging a state law restricting sexually explicit materials in school libraries. Texas Public Radio's Marian Navarro has more details as the Texas Department of Public Safety says it's arresting migrants who trespass onto Shelby Park in Eagle Pass.

Texas lost nearly 50,000 teachers last school year. Texas Public Radio Education Reporter Camille Phillips has more on retention data from the Texas Education Agency. KERA’s Stella Chavez reports the ACLU of Texas and other legal groups have asked a federal judge to block the state’s new immigration enforcement law, SB4.