Education

At the 2024 SkillsUSA Texas State Leadership and Skills Conference, TSTC awarded $770,000 in $10,000 scholarships to 77 high school students who received gold medals. TSTC also awarded $500,000 in $1,000 scholarships to 500 graduating seniors who competed in this year’s SkillsUSA competition.

KWBU spoke with NPR's Education Desk to learn more about what students can expect during this years Student Podcast Challenge.

$712,749.59 has been raised for students enrolled at McLennan Community College, the largest sum of student scholarships the MCC Foundation has awarded in its 33-years of fundraising.

Schools now have the option to relax, or do away with masking rules if districts see fit.…

Dallas and Houston have some of the state’s top-performing schools, but there’s increasingly more so-called gold-ribbon schools in the Rio Grande Valley.

“I definitely think as a school is trying to turn around, it is important to have some type of incentive to attract teachers that may not normally look at…

“To hear that they were testing at two to three grade levels above the grade level they should have been testing at was surprising, and really just made…

“I think that both chambers are pretty committed to passing a school finance plan.”

“If you spend more money on pre-K, that can do more to catch kids up than any other intervention later in life, according to research.”

Wonderful story of a teacher who operates a bit off the beaten path.I’m Jim McKeown, welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction,…