Being cut cut from her high school basketball team was painful for Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel, but she refused to let that rejection, or being born with one arm, stop her from pursuing her basketball dreams.

As President Donald Trump reshaped the Education Department, parents say investigations and mediations into kids' disability rights cases ground to a halt.

Linda McMahon’s nomination to serve as President Donald Trump’s education secretary has advanced out of a Senate committee, bringing her closer to leading an agency the Republican president wants to abolish.

The Stax Music Academy in Memphis is marking its 25th anniversary with Black History Month-themed concerts on March 28.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is planning to endorse a statewide ban on cellular devices in public schools.

Conroe ISD has decided to keep the district’s dual language program.

A 12-year-old girl at Mance Park Middle School was violently attacked by a male classmate, suffering a severe concussion. Her mother, Hailey Evans, is demanding accountability after she says the school downplayed the incident.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was partially paralyzed in the Columbine High School shooting but found the strength to forgive one of the gunman’s parents, has died.

The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness.”.

President Donald Trump’s immigration policies already are affecting schools across the country.

Parents and community members rally after hearing rumors about the possible discontinuation of the dual language program in Conroe ISD.

Children at Risk has released its annual school rankings for the 2023-2024 school year, spotlighting academic excellence across Texas.

The mother, who did not want to be identified, spoke to KPRC 2′s Deven Clarke, and said she is escalating her concerns to the Texas Education Agency, seeking drastic action.

Utah’s Republican governor has signed a collective bargaining ban that experts are calling one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country, despite overwhelming opposition from union members.

Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed by President Donald Trump.

In today’s day and age, if you’re a student with a big paper due, it might be tempting to crack open and artificial intelligence service, such as ChatGPT, and use the power of AI to churn out a fully written product in a matter of minutes.

The Cy-Fair Independent School District is under fire for quietly removing chapters on vaccines, climate change, and diversity from its textbooks.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt says he will stop a plan pushed by the state's top education official to collect the immigration status of children when they register for public school.

If Linda McMahon is confirmed as education secretary, President Donald Trump has said he wants the former wrestling executive to “put herself out of a job.”.

A Saudi educator known for his charity work and instructing prisoners has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize.

Linda McMahon on Thursday sketched out how key functions of the Education Department could be carved up to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of dismantling the agency, vowing to “reorient” the department while continuing some of its largest programs.

The U.S. Education Department is scrapping a policy from the Biden administration that threatened to upend colleges’ plans to pay athletes for their name, image and likeness by making those payments subject to federal Title IX rules.

A judge has granted a $500,000 bond for the father of a 14-year-old boy who is accused of a deadly mass shooting at a Georgia high school.

The Department of Education has taken another step in advancing the Trump administration’s new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”.

Wisconsin’s top education official faces challengers on the right and left as she runs for reelection.

A federal research office that tracks the progress of America’s students is being hit with almost $900 million in cuts after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency found no need for much of its work.

Linda McMahon once described herself as an outsider stepping into the world of education, a business leader with an “inquiring mind” who would challenge the status quo and demand more for students.

The average American student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic levels of achievement in both reading and math.

A coalition of labor unions filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal court to stop Elon Musk’s team from accessing private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by an acclaimed opera singer who sued the University of Michigan over his firing for what the school deemed sexual misconduct.

The lovable mascot is usually known for his pranks and jokes, but Andrew Johnson steps out of his mascot costume to talk about a subject that is nothing to laugh about.

Yikes! It looks like Texas needs to hit the books after a recent study named the Lone Star State among the least educated states in the country.

As Republicans in Congress look for ways to slash spending, some legislators are floating new taxes on college scholarships, an end to student loan repayment plans and a big hike in taxes on university endowments.

As jobs become more reliant on technology some Latino workers can be left behind due to a lack of digital skills exacerbated by a lack of accessibility.

President Donald Trump’s order declaring diversity, equity and inclusion policies illegal has thrown into doubt the future of research Kendra Dahmer has been doing on intestinal parasites in India and Benin.

Democrats are opposing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as it turns its attention to the Education Department, with lawmakers raising questions about DOGE’s access to internal systems containing personal information on tens of millions of Americans.

Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call his fiancée to tell her he loved her one last time.

KPRC 2 has obtained a new list from the Texas Education Agency that contains the names of 60 new Texas educators who are currently under investigation in a teacher-certification cheating scheme that allowed unqualified teachers to work in local school districts.

Labor unions that serve teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees in Utah will no longer be able to negotiate on behalf of their workers under a bill that has received final legislative approval.

Brazilian students returned to class this week with a new task: staying away from their smartphones under a new law restricting the use of devices in schools.

The Education Department says it is investigating potential civil rights violations at two universities and a high school sports league that allowed transgender athletes to compete on women’s teams.

Swedish police say the shooter who killed 10 people in the country’s worst mass shooting was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire with at least one rifle-like weapon.

The chief’s comments came after Alice ISD sent a letter to parents Wednesday warning students may be detained and possibly deported if they can’t prove they’re in the country legally. The letter was later removed from the district’s website.

The Texas Senate has passed Senate Bill 2, a bill that will allow school choice and vouchers in the state.

Houston Independent School District (HISD) Superintendent Mike Myles is unavailable to discuss a controversial $2-million "key action" linked to a November bond, which involved hiring a consulting group for communication strategies.

The federal office that enforces civil rights at school across the nation has been ordered to prioritize complaints of antisemitism above all else as it molds to President Donald Trump’s agenda, raising fears that other rights violations will go unpunished.

Sweden’s worst mass shooting has left at least 11 people dead including the gunman and five seriously wounded at an adult education center.

Less than 24 after KPRC 2 Investigates exposed whether the Houston Independent School District did everything by the book regarding last November’s $4 billion bond, one Texas State Senator already is saying that he believes state law was broken.

President Donald Trump is preparing to gut the U.S. Education Department to the full extent of his power, directing his administration to slash spending while pressuring employees to quit.

Leaders of dozens of Head Start preschools said they might need to close temporarily because they remain locked out of their federal funding, a problem that first surfaced last week during President Donald Trump’s aborted effort to freeze federal grants.

Parents from several schools protested by pulling their students out of school to protest the negative impact Superintendent Mike Miles' policies have on students, staff as well as the community.

The Trump administration is opening new investigations into allegations of antisemitism at five U.S. universities including Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley.

A labor union for federal workers says dozens of employees at the U.S. Education Department have been put on paid administrative leave in response to President Donald Trump’s order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government.

Around the United States, colleges and universities are cautiously navigating the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Houston ISD, the largest school district in Texas, is under scrutiny after Superintendent Mike Miles disclosed unauthorized spending that bypassed board approval.

A pro-Palestinian group at the University of Michigan has been suspended for two years and will lose its funding in connection with protesters’ demands for divestiture from companies doing business with Israel.

Schools and universities responding to complaints of sexual misconduct must return to policies created during President Donald Trump’s first term, with requirements for live hearings and more protections for accused students.

Hundreds of students have marched through the Serbian countryside, taking their anti-graft protest to the northern city of Novi Sad, where they plan to blockade three bridges over the River Danube this weekend.

A Houston mother is speaking out after her daughter was prevented from using the restroom at school, leading to an accident that left her beyond humiliated.

Tennessee lawmakers have approved legislation drastically expanding the number of families who can use taxpayer money on private schools regardless of income.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order which will bar schools from teaching certain topics.

This is no game. The goal is to give law enforcement the best chance to save lives in real-life emergency-situations like an active shooter call.

They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off.

President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money.

A temporary freeze imposed briefly this week by the White House on federal grants and loans left many students wondering about the impact to the FAFSA form used to apply for financial aid.

Private school vouchers and other school choice initiatives would expand under an order coming from President Donald Trump telling government agencies to repurpose federal dollars.

Hours after the announced results, Superintendent Mike Miles will hold a conference at the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center to address the results' key takeaways and answer any questions.

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math.

A White House directive to pause federal grants and loans has raised uncertainty for many universities, states and nonprofit organizations.

As the White House paused federal grants and loans in a far-reaching executive order, early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care for some of the nation’s neediest families and children.

In this week’s episode, we talk about state House politics, proposals for the budget and the condition of water infrastructure in the state.

Parents enrolling children in Oklahoma public schools will be required to provide proof of their child’s U.S. citizenship or legal immigration status under a proposal rule approved by the State Board of Education.

In response to President Trump's heightened immigration policies, Houston-area schools and law enforcement are clarifying their protocols regarding federal agency requests, prioritizing student safety.

The Ivy League will not join the antitrust settlement that allows schools to pay their players directly.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.

The Houston Independent School District (HISD) has opened applications for the 2025-2026 Pre-K program, available for children aged 3 or 4 by September 1 who reside within the district.

Several federal agencies have begun removing resources for underrepresented Americans from their webpages following President Donald Trump’s executive order cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Utah lawmakers have advanced a bill that experts say would establish one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country.

As Texas brace for extreme weather conditions as an Artic blast moves into the area starting Sunday, Houston-area school districts are preparing to close its campuses to ensure the safety of its students and staff.

As President Donald Trump cracks down on immigrants in the U.S. illegally, some families are wondering if it is safe to send their children to school.

Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo as its 2025 Woman of the Year.

Donald Trump has promised sweeping actions in his second administration.

A court settlement that would require colleges to pay athletes billions for their play is not going to settle the debate over amateurism in NCAA sports.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from parents in suburban Washington who want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.

IMSA arranged for 27 high school students who excel in STEM programs to come to the speedway to educate the teens on how many opportunities exist in motorsports for those interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

As Texas brace for extreme weather conditions as an Artic blast moves into the area starting Sunday, Houston-area school districts are preparing to close its campuses to ensure the safety of its students and staff.

An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” has been ordered jailed without bail.

The Los Angeles wildfires have forced thousands of students to relocate to other schools.

The U.S. Department of Education says plans for colleges to pay athletes directly for their name, image and likeness deals would run afoul of Title IX.

An acclaimed opera singer is suing officials at the University of Michigan.

Officials in Slovakia say an 18-year-old student fatally stabbed two people at a high school.

Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza.

More than 260,000 former students of the now-defunct for-profit Ashford University are getting their student loans erased as the Biden administration presses ahead with debt forgiveness in its final days.

While Republican states were working to limit school history lessons and ban transgender athletes, President Joe Biden’s education chief said he was focused on what matters — putting more social workers in schools, expanding summer school and building a pipeline of new teachers.

A Florida state lawmaker has filed a bill that would ban some of the state’s public colleges and universities from admitting students who are in the country without legal permission.

Award winning actor Jon Hamm, best known for his roles on “Mad Men” and, more recently, on “Fargo” and “Landman,” has been named 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

As the Texas legislature kicks off the 89th session, lawmakers have introduced more than 2,400 bills across both the House and Senate. There was a flurry of bills filed November 12, 2024, the first day lawmakers could file.

As the Spring semester gets underway, Houston Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles is holding a press conference.

Despite failing to deliver his promise for broad student loan forgiveness, President Joe Biden has now overseen the cancellation of student loans for more than 5 million Americans — more than any other president in U.S. history.

The wildfires tearing through Los Angeles have taken lives and thousands of homes.