Education

A report says she entered the school library and was there for over an hour in the dark with another woman, saying they took an indirect route to get there. The lawyer says trustees don’t have access to roam campus without supervision. That's when the assistant principal found them.

Cleburne police officers searched the campus before the all clear was given. Students were evacuated out of an abundance of caution.

Students at Trenton Elementary School are starting the school year off in new classrooms after a devastating fire last year.

The campus went into lockdown just after 1:34 p.m. while police searched in and around the school.

There were 23 North Texas public school district leaders who met Thursday to talk about ways to keep students of color in the pipeline toward colleges and universities in the UT System.

As school districts around the state look for ways to recruit and retain teachers and staff Richardson ISD is now offering its employees daycare.

On Thursday, students in 14 local districts headed back to class. There are only a handful of districts that will start their school year next week.

A dad from Quinlan continued his tradition of going all out for the first day of school. Every year, Tracy Travers finds a wild way to dress up to walk his daughters to class.

More than 80 North Texas school districts including Arlington ISD will welcome students back to class Wednesday morning.

Fort Worth ISD says the person in charge of the catalog at its school libraries is now in a different role. All of the libraries are shut down right now while the district does a full assessment of the books on their shelves. It comes after three books had to be removed before the school year started.

A young student at Lamar Elementary School in Mineral Wells was rushed to the hospital Tuesday morning after being hit by a Public Transit Services bus.

Some of the biggest districts returning Tuesday include Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Colleyville, and Highland Park ISDs.

Plano ISD is one of the area districts relying on the school marshal program to help meet the new requirements by the state to have armed security on all public school campuses. But like many districts, it also won't meet the state's deadline.

A week after school started, Mesquite ISD approved its plan to staff security at schools. Leaders there believe they may have staff in place by the state's deadline.

Last year, 2,000 African American students who graduated from Texas high schools in the top ten percent of their class did not go to any college or university. Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp says we want those students in college. But a troubled summer around race in hiring and college admissions is something the A&M system has to reckon with.

Students in the two largest districts in North Texas are among the 23 districts heading back to school Monday.