A 22-year-old was charged with a felony after investigators say he described a plan to attack Serna Elementary, a 312-student school near his home, in messages to an Anthropic chatbot. The FBI flagged the chat 17 days later and traced it through phone, internet, and Google records. He is held on $250,000 bond.
Mary Johnson
We compared 2025 and 2026 STAAR results for more than 8,000 Texas schools. Reading, math, and social studies each moved one to two points. Science moved seven, in both tested grades, and at a majority of schools. Here is where the gains landed, which districts moved most, and the caveat on science.
Arthur Chen
A fifth straight failing rating forces the Texas education commissioner to replace a district's elected school board or close the school. At least 14 districts now have a school at four, and the list runs from San Antonio ISD to a district of 172 students.
Arthur Chen
Texas grades every public district and school from A to F each year, based mostly on STAAR results but through three domains that also credit student growth and progress at high-poverty schools. Here is what the ratings measure, how the letter grade is calculated, and how to read one.
Arthur Chen
Texas released its 2026 A-F accountability ratings for 1,202 districts and 9,105 schools. A ratings climbed, F ratings fell, and 585 schools jumped straight to an A. The ratings also arrive on time, after lawsuits blocked them for years.
Arthur Chen
Thirteen elementary schools and seven middle schools went back Tuesday, two weeks ahead of the rest of Dallas ISD. The extra days come with state funding attached, and they run in the opposite direction from districts cutting to four-day weeks.
Mary Johnson
NIL is now a fact of life in college sports. If Texas lets high school athletes get paid too, Dallas-area coaches warn it would gut neighborhood programs, create super teams, and push more coaches out of the profession. Here is what they are saying.
Mary Johnson
A Katy ISD residency check drew scrutiny after a district official and a police officer entered a family's home and a child's bedroom while the boy was home alone. The district calls it routine; the mother says she was never notified.
Mary Johnson
Texas advertised up to $30,000 a year in private-school vouchers for students with disabilities. State records show that out of about 28,700 approved students, fewer than 25 got the full amount, and most were awarded less than $20,000.
Mary Johnson
The answer to which school district in Texas ranks number one depends on which measure you use, but several of the most credible metrics point to the same district: Carroll ISD in Southlake. And while a handful of other districts make legitimate claims depending on the methodology, Carroll's consistency across multiple measures over multiple years gives it the strongest case for the top spot among Texas's 1,200-plus school districts...
Mary Johnson
California to Texas is the largest state-to-state migration corridor in the United States. According to Texas Realtors' 2024 Relocation Report, approximately 102,000 Californians moved to Texas in 2022 alone, and...
Mary Johnson
Katy and Sugar Land are the two most commonly compared suburban school destinations in the southwest Houston corridor. Both are master-planned communities with strong school reputations, similar demographics, and comparable housing profiles. Both sit roughly 30 miles from downtown Houston. And both draw families relocating to the Houston metro who are...
Kate Carter
The Houston metro is one of the largest and most sprawling in the United States, and its suburban school landscape reflects that scale. Harris County alone has 1,171 public schools. Add Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, and Galveston counties and the picture grows significantly more complex. For families relocating to the Houston area or moving within it, school quality varies enough between suburbs, and between schools within the same suburb, that the decision of where to live shapes the educational experience as much as any other factor.
Kate Carter
Texas has 9,601 public schools across 253 counties, which makes "which county has the best schools" a genuinely complex question rather than a simple ranking. The answer depends entirely on which part of the state you're in, what you're comparing against, and what you mean by best. Academic performance on state assessments is one measure. District resources, community investment, and the specific high school your child would attend are others. This breakdown covers the counties that consistently produce strong school outcomes, with enough specificity to actually be useful for families making housing decisions...
Kate Carter
