4/ @dallasnews.com's @silasallen.bsky.social also quoted Dee Carney: "Regardless of your position on vouchers, there is nothing controversial about making it easier for Texans to see how $1 billion in taxpayer dollars is spent and what results they deliver.” #txed bsky.app/profile/dall...

Over the past few years, Texas has seen a huge uptick in uncertified teachers. Last year, lawmakers set a deadline for school districts to get their core subject teachers certified. I took a look at how it's going: www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Texas' education savings account app goes live tomorrow. Here's what you need to know about it. www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

The Education Writers Association is deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists in connection with their reporting at an anti-ICE demonstration in Minnesota. We vigorously support First Amendment protections for the press and the public. freedom.press/issues/fpf-s...

There needs to be a rule that, if you live in a place where it gets above 100 every day for a month and a half in the summer, it shouldn't get down to 8 in January. www.dallasnews.com/news/weather...

KERA News has identified another man who died after a Tarrant County jailer knelt on him. The federal government has cautioned against kneeling on handcuffed people.

School districts across the DFW area have been dealing with a rash of hoax threats for the past couple of weeks. Experts say the impact of those threats is real, even if the threats themselves aren't. www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show.

Education reporters! Apply for my old job! Fort Worth is a fun city, and there's plenty of school news going on, to say the least. DM with questions. mcclatchy.rec.pro.ukg.net/MCC1008MCLTC...

After Charlie Kirk's death, the Texas ed commissioner vowed to go after the teaching certificates of teachers over comments they made on social media. Now, @texasaft.org is suing. First byline in @dallasnews.com: www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

Hundreds of people applied to serve on Fort Worth ISD’s state takeover board. Here’s a look at who they are.

"The stories Lizza and Nuzzi tell give you the extremely wrong idea of what it means to be a journalist. We, despite what every Hollywood property from 'House of Cards' to 'The West Wing' would have you believe, do not date our sources... We’re not rich, guys." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

When the Texas Education Agency announced plans to take over the Fort Worth school district, parents said they were worried teachers here would have to use the same kinds of prepackaged, scripted lessons like we saw in Houston. Teachers say they're already here. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

"Otter is down, but will be back online shortly" Every journalist:

With the state takeover process getting started in Fort Worth ISD, I talked to parents and students in Houston about what the intervention was like there, an what to expect here. All of them said they were worried for Fort Worth. Gift link: www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

This has been an incredible series to watch, unless you're a fan of either of these teams, in which case I suspect you aren't having very much fun at all.

There's fortitude.... then there's mossing your teammate at the track in the bottom of the 9th of game 7 in the World Series after coming in the game 9 pitches ago

The Texas Education Agency is taking over Fort Worth ISD. It's the second-biggest district takeover in the state's history. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

The number of teachers who use AI in the classroom is growing fast, both in Texas and across the country. But school districts are struggling to keep up. Gift link: www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

Here's what we know about today's mass layoffs

It's been five years since school shutdowns ended, and districts are still dealing with chronic absenteeism. I talked to officials in the Fort Worth school district about why it's such a challenge and what they're doing about it. Gift link: www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

How will the government shutdown affect schools? Depends on how long it lasts. Gift link: www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

Texas is going after teachers who celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk. Can they do that? Gift link: www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

The district is grappling with limited funds and declining enrollment, but officials say no decisions have been made about closures.

When schools shut down at the beginning of the pandemic, there was a spike in the number of families who homeschooled. Most people expected that would normalize once the pandemic ended. But that hasn't happened. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

Texas Education Agency investigators found that a Fort Worth area school district violated federal law in its dealings with students in its special education program. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/f...

Texas Ed Commissioner Mike Morath was in Fort Worth this morning, ahead of a decision on whether he'll take over the district. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

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The Fort Worth school district is set to close 18 schools over the next few years due to declining enrollment. We looked at how groups of parents at two campuses pushed back against school closures, and why one group was successful and the other wasn't. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

FOIA exemptions.

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The Fort Worth school district says it has $10 million in federal funding tied up in the Trump administration's education grant funding freeze. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

The Fort Worth school district is closing a bunch of schools due to enrollment declines. I looked at one neighborhood where enrollment is dropping even as the kid population is increasing to see what's going on. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..

Two years into a state takeover, Houston ISD is seeing higher test scores, but also a lot of turmoil. I looked at what it can tell us about where Fort Worth may be headed. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

If you are not originally from Texas, but practice law here, a good thing to do is occasionally say things like "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" or "that man's got less sense than a peach orchard goat."

"Pete Rose was a lot of things... but in the end, there was one thing that anyone who had ever dealt with him in even the slightest passing way ultimately agreed upon: He was a miserable asshole."

Seems like a good day to re-read this column from @stltoday.com's Ben Frederickson www.stltoday.com/sports/colum...

Texas' education commissioner warned the Fort Worth school district that it's at risk of being taken over by the state after one of the district's campuses received five straight failure ratings — a campus the district has already shut down. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

Already very aware of stroke, thanks

Texas' long-delayed 2023 A-F ratings could put FWISD at risk of a state takeover. But the likelihood of that happening is hard to pin down. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

The Texas Education Agency released 2023 A-F scores this morning, after a two-year legal battle. The state education commissioner acknowledges that they're too out of date to do anybody any good. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

More than half of last year's crop of new teachers in Texas were uncertified. Lawmakers are looking to clamp down. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

#Breaking: The @apnews.com reports that Texas AG Ken Paxton won't face federal corruption charges. It's a win for the Republican AG accused of abusing his office to help a campaign donor. He was impeached, and acquitted, on these same allegations. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege

I wrote a couple of weeks back about how tariffs are going to make school building projects more complicated. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

Melissa Malonson emptied her desk at the downtown Dallas office of the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday morning after 25 years of service. She was one of more than 4,000 federal employees laid off in March when the Education Department eliminated six of its regional offices.

A Fort Worth family is in a legal battle with their school district over access to services for their four-year-old daughter, who has Down syndrome. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...

Annual reminder that Opening Day ought to be a national holiday.

I have some comments in this article, though they didn’t include the part where I said the Trump admin deporting students for campus protests was a 5-alarm fire for the First Amendment. www.star-telegram.com/news/state/t...