Education

The public health order does not apply to varsity sports such as the football team, which plays University of Minnesota on the road Saturday. The two-week order was prompted by surging virus cases.

Several school districts are trying to accommodate teachers with health conditions who want to work from home, but many are being called back in as more students return to classrooms.

More students than expected are enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio this fall, defying state and national predictions that economic uncertainty and a preference for the traditional college experience would cause fewer students to enroll during the coronavirus pandemic.

San Antonio’s community college system is launching a new free tuition program this year called AlamoPROMISE. Several other cities, including Dallas, Tyler and Houston have similar Promise programs.Launching the program during a pandemic has been a challenge, but it has also shown how much the scholarship is needed.

There’s no way to know how many coronavirus cases are in many Texas school districts right now.The state health and education agencies are slated to release its third week of district-level data Thursday, but policies implemented by the agencies last week will likely leave many districts out of the report for weeks to come.

Though George Floyd's death renewed calls to remove Confederate monuments, some cities formally decided to protect them.

On this week’s Petrie Dish, we take a look at what universities are doing to accommodate COVID-19, how students are responding and how local communities are affected.

One out of four families in San Antonio public schools has experienced hunger since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a report released Friday by the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Urban Education Institute.The report is based on a survey of 1,125 families from eight local school systems conducted during the spring and summer. About 26% of the families surveyed told the institute that they sometimes or often ran out food without money to buy more.

The University of Texas at Austin made headlines early in the pandemic when more than 60 students contracted COVID-19 after a spring break trip to Cabo San Lucas. That group was among the first of more than 1,250 UT students, staff and faculty to test positive. One staff member died in July.

The second cohort of AlamoPROMISE scholarship recipients will come from the same 25 high schools as the first cohort, which enrolled in college this fall.The Alamo Colleges District has delayed plans to make all of Bexar County’s traditional public schools eligible for the free tuition program out of concern that the economic downturn could make it more difficult to support the additional cost.