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High-poverty schools struggle to earn Texas’ highest rating. Some in the Rio Grande Valley break that trend.

The Texas Education Agency has dismissed the notion that the accountability ratings are a poverty rating. As evidence, they point to districts like those in the Rio Grande Valley, which have achieved high marks while serving a high number of economically disadvantaged students.

The Texas Tribune

A conservative school district and Texas lawmaker try to outmaneuver efforts to subvert “In God We Trust” law

After protesters solicited donations to distribute posters to schools across the state in Arabic, state Sen. Bryan Hughes sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency clarifying his legislation requiring schools to display signs with the national motto.

The Texas Tribune

After the Robb Elementary shooting, some Uvalde parents are choosing private or online education

Following a state report showing that almost 400 law enforcement officers showed up at the school on May 24, some Uvalde parents are doubtful over whether their kids will be safe in the district.

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Locks on 340,000 exterior school doors across Texas will be checked as part of Uvalde shooting response

Texas has more than 1,200 school districts, but the education commissioner promised plans for the review will be completed this summer.

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Abbott asks for new Texas school security chief after Uvalde massacre

Gov. Greg Abbott wants the Texas Education Agency to create a chief of school safety to oversee security efforts in the wake of the Uvalde massacre.

Tribune News Service

Texas superintendents want safer schools. But money and logistics stand in the way

DALLAS — Even as Republican state leaders stressed “hardening” schools and increasing security measures as a response to the state’s deadliest shooting in Uvalde, educators stressed the community aspect to their campuses.

Tribune News Service

Texas hardened schools. It didn't help

Experts say there’s no evidence Republican proposals work to prevent school shootings

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Texas’ White Guy History Project

The 1836 Project will indoctrinate new Texans with fables about our history.

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