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The Texas Education Agency released its annual A-F school district grades Friday. Locally, many districts, including Dallas ISD, saw minor improvements. Denton ISD dropped a grade.

From new rules governing how districts investigate teacher misconduct to declining enrollment, each North Texas school districts faces it's own unique challenges.

North Texas students in districts from Dallas to Fort Worth and in between start school this week. The state’s second-largest independent school district – Dallas – opens Tuesday morning.

The expansion of the district's free pre-K program could fill more seats, and will pay off academically, said Assistant Superintendent Debbie Ramos.

Dallas police responded to the third such shooting in 24 hours Friday.

The Museum School of East Dallas is one of four new Texas charter schools opening this semester. Some Dallas ISD families worry it is dividing a close-knit community by drawing away funding, students, and teachers.

Food insecurity gets worse in the summer, when many North Texas kids lose access to the dependable meals they get at school. But the food programs that fill the gap are also struggling with rising costs.

Dallas Fire-Rescue said illegal fireworks caused a fire that partially burned a baseball field at Willis Winters Park frequently used by Woodrow Wilson High School.

After a 2019 tornado leveled Walnut Hill Elementary School, Dallas ISD leaders decided to combine it with a nearby middle school – and rebuild the campus to compete for students.

The Dallas school board will vote later this month to change the name to East Dallas Elementary School. The move follows a New York Times report detailing allegations of sexual assault against the late civil rights leader.

Dallas ISD’s Chandra Hooper Barnett is Lincoln High School’s newest principal. But last fall she was removed as principal of Woodrow Wilson High after a controversy involving the school's Black students.

Unofficial results show voters in Dallas ISD supporting the largest school bond package in Texas history. The district’s $6.2 billion bond election would go toward building replacement schools, eliminating portable classrooms and upgrading technology. Most bond propositions in Arlington and Lancaster ISDs appeared headed toward passage.