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DALLAS -- Decisions about a new Native American studies course are delayed again as it wont come forward for statewide approval this month, frustrating advocates who spent years pushing for the class.

DALLAS -- The tiny Throckmorton school district is 250 miles away from the Texas Capitol, yet it briefly took center stage during a recent Senate debate.

Arthur was seen on video limping and searching for a place to rest as temperatures hovered above 100 degrees the evening he was abandoned at the shelter.

Journey Jones, 10, was back-to-school shopping with his mom this summer when he asked for a bulletproof backpack to protect him in case of a shooting.

DALLAS -- First grader Lillian Moore sat at a cafeteria table alongside mounds of red, yellow and blue clay, eager to create an art piece she could display at home on a bookshelf or bedside table.

Liz Mulroney felt like it was 1999 all over again.

In kindergarten classrooms across Texas, 5-year-olds coming to school for the first time could soon be greeted by picture books, colorful blocks and the words, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife."

Texas school districts scrambled in recent years to hire enough educators amid an ongoing teacher shortage. Job fair after job fair still left openings, forcing districts across the state to lean on substitutes and other band-aids to teach students. Veterans could be part of the solution.

DALLAS — Republicans behind an aggressive push for school choice this session are angling to break the bond that previously thwarted voucherlike efforts in Texas: an unlikely coalition of rural

School districts across North Texas are asking voters in November to approve bond packages to pay for surveillance cameras, weapon detection systems, modern door locks, shatter-resistant window film and other measures.