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While the artworks in front of Bedford Junior High and Harwood Junior High are not political in nature, the city was unable to secure exemptions for them to remain in place.

Voters in Northwest and Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISDs supported 3-cent property tax-rate increases Tuesday, giving both districts a potential boost in local revenue to reduce class sizes and maintain competitive teacher pay.

Northwest and Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISDs are making different pitches with a similar goal: Keep class sizes manageable and staff paid competitively, without raising most homeowners’ overall tax bills compared with last year.

Some Metroplex school districts are holding elections that could change local property tax rates and bring in new school funding.

The Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District board voted unanimously to hold a special election on a proposed local property tax rate increase.

Proponents hope fans coming to North Texas for the World Cup fans will visit Bedford and bring in new revenue to the city.

A faith-based nonprofit announced it is closing its doors after serving the Hurst-Euless-Bedford area for 28 years.

HEB ISD’s two-part, nearly $1 billion proposal to upgrade the district’s aging schools was on its way to approval. Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD voters were leaning toward approving two propositions totaling $561.1 million and saying no to two proposals worth $98 million.

When the bell rings at Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD’s L.D. Bell High School, the volleyball team heads to the locker room, changes into their athletic clothes and walks past the gymnasium to the double doors leading outside the school.

Students learning Arabic at Central Junior High in Bedford have three teachers – the two in their classroom and another one 5,000 miles away. In Morocco.…