The beloved PBS Kids series "Alma's Way" is back with stories that celebrate culture, confidence, and community. We met Houstonian Aisha McElroy, founder of the Black Cowboy Coalition who helped shape the powerful episode highlighting black cowboy culture and why representation matters.

A Texas jury is deliberating whether to convict one of the first police officers on the scene of the deadly Robb Elementary School attack in Uvalde.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he owes Indiana Gov. Mike Braun some key lime pie and stone crabs after losing a bet.

Fort Bend Independent School District is asking parents, staff and community members to weigh in on proposed attendance boundary changes as part of its Long-Range Boundary Planning process.

The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations at schools and universities.

If you are eating better, moving more but still hitting a wall health and fitness expert Dr. Ian Smith explains why weight loss plateaus happen and why the last 15 pounds can be the hardest to lose. He's sharing his his new book 'The Last 15' that can help reset your metabolism in just seven weeks.

Some of Houston's youngest voices are stepping up in a big way. Fourth and fifth graders from HISD are delivering original speeches inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We met fourth grader Stormii Olezene and learned how her message of hope is already making an impact at the 30th annual Foley MLK Jr. Oratory competition

Federal prosecutors are investigating a major betting scheme involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games.

A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court decision that released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting the Palestinian activist.

Classes at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami are canceled Tuesday.

He has written more than 60 books, hosted history channel shows, and helped recover a missing 9/11 flag. Now, he's sharing his latest book with us. New york times best selling author Brad Meltzer talks "The Viper" plus more on where to meet him tonight.

For many families, returning to the classroom after winter and summer breaks can bring more than new backpacks and fresh notebooks, it can bring nerves.

Not everyone wants to sit in a classroom for four years, and for some careers that isn’t necessary. The Electrician Career Academy at Trio Education offers a fast-track, hands-on program designed to get students working in a high-demand field.

Opening statements began Friday in the trial of five current and former Stanford students who overtook a university building during 2024 pro-Palestine protests.

Texas students in grades 4–12 can win cash prizes by writing a letter about how a book changed their life.

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month.

The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.

As a shooting unfolded at Brown University on Dec. 13, students turned to the anonymous app Sidechat to document fear, confusion and grief in real time — often before receiving official alerts.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on the $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes care for 1.4 million children from low-income households, has rattled child care providers and families that rely on the aid money.

Messy winter weather brought snow, ice, freezing rain and dangerous driving to the New England states as the region prepared for more unpleasant conditions later in the week.

The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money.

MindSprout Montessori in Spring offers families and students a personalized path towards education. The school offers a teacher-led, Montessori learning environment with tailored academics and flexible scheduling for families who want something different than traditional school settings.

The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed that the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attack for years.

With the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it’s once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech companies plan on offering in 2026.

A state audit of Texas Southern University in Houston found significant financial weaknesses.

College football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer has been appointed to the board of trustees at New College in Sarasota.

Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.

The Trump administration says it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year.

Houston students got a front-row seat to the future of space exploration this week, and the chance to show off designs inspired by it.

Brown University has placed its campus police chief on leave as it reviews security policies following a tragic shooting.

Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.

The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University.

Officials say a man who is suspected in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.

An autopsy has found that the man suspected in last weekend’s attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when found.

A Northern California school district near the state's border with Nevada is caught up in a dispute over the states' differing policies on the participation of transgender athletes.

Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a major figure in late 20th-century state politics, has died at 88.

Texas has long failed to get most of its students the higher education credentials the workforce increasingly demands. But recent laws that reward schools for helping students succeed later in life could help the state make up lost ground, experts say. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regularly tracks if students enrolled in eighth grade […]

Newly-released state data tracked the long-term outcomes of public school students who enrolled a decade ago.

Security footage released by the FBI shows a route taken by a person police are seeking in connection with the Brown University shooting.

A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico.

Police have intensified their search for a suspect in the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Nuno F.

When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged far beyond the number of children who likely became sick.

Authorities searching for a shooter who attacked students at Brown University are asking for tips from people who might have video of the shooter potentially casing the area the week before the attack.

Texas Tribune education reporters join TribCast to unpack what the recent spate of school district takeovers says about our systems for measuring academic performance

Brown University is mourning the loss of two students killed in a classroom shooting.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation.

Authorities have released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of the man suspected in the Brown University shooting.

An aspiring neurosurgeon at Brown University and a leader of a campus Republicans group were in a study group preparing for an economics final, with the end of the semester in sight.

With the Brown University shooter still on the loose, police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators push for new evidence that might help them crack the case.

Authorities are again searching for the person seen in grainy video walking away from the Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine.

It’s well established that children have an easier time learning second languages.

Brown University junior Mia Tretta experienced a tragic sense of déjà vu when emergency alerts warned of a shooting on campus.

The latest shooting on a college campus in the U.S. unfolded Saturday at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren.

Since pandemic-fueled anti-Asian hate surged in 2020, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander advocates have mobilized to make AAPI history mandatory learning.

A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional.”.

Goodwill Houston is celebrating a major milestone with the grand opening of its brand-new Gessner Education and Training Center, a space designed to change lives through opportunity, education, and hands-on workforce development.

President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, which is heavily reliant on immigrants and already strained by a worker shortage.

Rod Paige, the first African American to serve as U.S. secretary of education, has died at 92.

The Houston Independent School District (HISD) has opened its annual school choice application for families looking to explore hundreds of neighborhood and specialty schools and select the best one that fits their children’s needs.

The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration.

A federal proposal to sharply limit how much graduate nursing students can borrow is raising alarm among students, educators and nursing groups say the change could worsen an already critical nursing shortage.

Netflix has struck a deal to buy Warner Bros.

A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper.

A graduate student instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on administrative leave after a student claimed she was religiously discriminated against for receiving a “zero” on an assignment.

A new report by the United Nations Development Program is urging governments to focus more on how artificial intelligence technologies might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world.

Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays.

On Monday evening, the Fort Bend Independent School District Board, the district’s superintendent and other members of the executive leadership team met in a “Special Called Meeting” tied to the potential rezoning of the district.

Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. government in a deal with the Trump administration to end a series of investigations and restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding.

The Conroe ISD trustees passed a resolution on November 18 honoring Charlie Kirk, urging the community to reject political violence.

Norfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of the worst derailment in a decade in East Palestine, Ohio.

The Trump administration has sued California for providing in-state college tuition, scholarships, and subsidized loans to students who aren't legally in the United States.

The Trump administration is steaming forward on its plan to dismantle the Education Department.

Students preparing to study abroad often have long checklists, but the experience of learning and living in another country can be challenging in unexpected ways.

A new Texas law says every public school classroom must display a poster listing the Ten Commandments.

Nigeria’s president has postponed his trip to this weekend’s Group of 20 summit after promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week in a northwestern region of the country.

The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers says he'll step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

The Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees will meet for its monthly board meeting Monday evening.

Tribal citizens are among communities navigating the impacts of massive cuts in federal spending and the effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Schools across the U.S. are seeing a big drop in enrollment from immigrant families.

Houston Independent School District will host its first School Choice Fair of the school year, giving families a chance to explore neighborhood, magnet and specialty school options ahead of the district’s application window.

Police in Oakland, California, say Laney College football coach John Beam, known from Netflix's “Last Chance U,” has died after being shot on campus.

When families are evicted, kids' schooling is often disrupted.

The Fort Bend Independent School District is preparing to redraw its school boundaries, a move that could shift students to different schools and potentially impact property values in the area.

Rick George, the athletic director at Colorado who hired football coach Deion Sanders, is stepping away from his role at the end of the academic year.

A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials has pleaded guilty.

A Richmond mother says her 9-year-old son walked into class looking for help and walked out in tears.

China has a new visa scheme that is creating job opportunities for foreign professionals, part of its effort to attract global talent and gain an edge in global technology.

Along with stop, drop and roll, some states are teaching students to 'Stop and don't touch that gun.'.

Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school.

A top executive at a startup company that helped college students apply for financial aid has been sentenced to over five years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase in a $175 million buyout four years ago.

Witnesses say a Chicago day care employee was detained at work during a drop-off time for children, reflecting the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics.

In the New Jersey township of Montclair, a group bicycle ride to school has become a weekly community ritual.

The government shutdown has cut off funds for some school systems that rely on federal money for the bulk of their budgets.

Authorities have arrested two Massachusetts men on charges accusing them of setting off fireworks inside an empty Harvard Medical School building last weekend.

Authorities say they've arrested two Massachusetts men in connection with a weekend explosion at Harvard Medical School.

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.

A homeowner in Mississippi has shot and killed one of the monkeys that escaped after a truck accident last week.