Teaching

Community colleges want a funding overhaul this legislative session, and four-year universities are hoping for a boost in research funds. Meanwhile, faculty are bracing for a potential threat to tenure and limits to conversations about race.

Teachers and administrators, already facing long hours and low pay, now find themselves under pressure from politicians, parents and even their own school districts.

It's possible more people will start applying for teacher positions again when the wider labor market calms down, but thousands of experienced teachers have already left the classroom. They won’t be easy to replace.

Several San Antonio school districts raised salaries this year in hopes that would stave off the teacher shortage. But the shortage was still felt more acutely this year than last year.

One of the reasons San Antonio is struggling to find enough teachers this school year is that many districts saw a spike in resignations at the end of last school year.

It’s been more than a decade since the Alamo Colleges paused its tenure program. Full-time faculty hired prior to 2011 have tenure, but faculty hired since then do not.

Thomas Mayfield helped raise test scores and engagement in the classroom, and now he's helping teachers in Fort Worth learn what he did.

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

San Antonio Metro Health has ordered all Bexar County schools closed to in-person instruction until after Labor Day. The order applies to both public and…

With only a week to plan — and new information on the coronavirus coming in daily from health experts and state and national officials — San Antonio’s…