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In an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.

Parents of students with disabilities gathered in the state capitol to share heartbreaking stories of the effects of restraints on their kids and ask lawmakers to pass laws that would better protect students from the use of restraints in schools.

As they contend with teacher shortages and student absences, some school districts are also facing bus-driver shortages during the current wave of COVID-19.

Austin ISD and Hays CISD did not have enough subs to cover all the requests they got this week.

Nearly one out of 10 employees did not return work on Monday in the fourth largest school district in Texas and the largest school district in San Antonio.

Many teachers thought 2021 was going to be a better school year than 2020, but a lot have found it to be harder as students are struggling to catch-up after a year of remote and hybrid learning.

Senate Bill 52 would allow Texas’ public universities to pay for infrastructure projects through tuition revenue bonds, a process that hasn’t been done by the state Legislature since 2015.

As Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to punish any school district that defied Abbott’s ban on mask mandates, Republican legislators were largely indifferent on the matter.

The ongoing political battle over mask mandates in schools has frothed up division in school districts across the state.

Despite an order that says school districts cannot require masks, the Austin Independent School District will require them for anyone who enters a school building starting Wednesday.