College Students Aim to Fight Spread of COVID-19 on Texas Campuses

College students throughout Texas are ramping up efforts to keep COVID-19 at bay.  Students just returned and already there are positive cases being reported.  In an...

State Sets Deadlines for School Districts to Submit COVID-19 Case Counts

The Texas Education Agency has set a Sept. 8 deadline for Texas school districts to submit their initial reports on positive COVID-19 cases in...

A Texas Teacher Who Posted Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ Posters in Her Virtual...

Unable to meet with her students in person because of the pandemic, Taylor Lifka, an advanced English teacher at Roma High School, set out...

For Texas Students, What’s Gym Class Like Without the Gym?

While a five-year-old could trace over numbers or letters on a worksheet and hold up their work to present it to their virtual class...

Texas Parents Opting for At-Home Learning Over the Classroom

Virtual learning has begun for some school districts in Texas, so RA News asked readers in a poll about whether they were sending their...

UT Students, Teachers Want Changes to In-person Classes

In the week leading up to classes resuming at the University of Texas at Austin, students and teachers have been pleading for the University...

Abbott Wants Teacher Fired Over Cartoon Comparing Police to KKK

Gov. Greg Abbott wants a Wylie Independent School District teacher fired over a cartoon that compared police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux...

Texas House Public Education Committee Seeks Input on Handling of COVID in Schools

The Texas House Public Education Committee has announced it is seeking public input on a variety of issues, including the state’s handling of COVID-19....

Texas Buys Over 1 Million Devices to Bridge Digital Divide for School Kids

The Texas Education Agency, in partnership with local school districts, is buying more than 1 million personal e-learning devices and internet Wi-Fi hot spots...

Texas Schools Will Have to Report COVID-19 Cases. Still No Word on Testing in...

A week after criticism about there not being a plan, the state moves to require all Texas schools to report daily COVID-19 numbers.  Texas Education...
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