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Most of the school districts across the Houston area have already started the new school year and many are dealing with staffing shortages.

School districts in Houston and around Texas have been competing with each other—and local law enforcement agencies—to hire enough officers at every campus in order to comply ...

Multiple Houston-area school districts are providing free meals to children during the 2023-2024 school year.

Multiple Houston-area school districts are providing meals to children in the Houston area during the summer months.

Multiple Houston-area ice cream shops were ranked among the best in Texas. This information comes courtesy of Yelp, the crowd-sourced review website we’ve all turned to for recommendations at one point or another.

Plus, seven other local school districts reported an increased number of students failing at least one class compared to last year. According to the TEA, the beginning-of-year assessments covered the same grades, subjects and courses that are provided for STAAR and were constructed from previously released STAAR test items. The study compared assessment scores from the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year relative to normal academic school years. The TEA says it hopes to be able to better adj...