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A groundbreaking ceremony is underway for a pedestrian bridge honoring a Houston student killed by a train while walking to school. Sergio Rodriguez, a 15-year-old sophomore at Milby High School, was struck and killed by a train in December 2024 while walking to school. His death...
A new academic year began across Congo on Tuesday despite concerns by parents and teachers that the country's Ebola outbreak still poses risks to children in the epicenter. The resumption of classes comes in the middle of an outbreak that is spreading rapidly. According to the la...
More than a dozen Texas public school districts are at risk of triggering a potential state takeover if they do not improve student academic performance before the next year’s A-F accountability ratings, data shows. At least 14 districts had at least one campus with a fourth cons...
Parents at Briargrove Elementary are raising concerns about ongoing air conditioning problems after several days of HVAC issues at the Houston ISD campus....
For Erin Houston, getting her 10-year-old son Lincoln to school had become a frustrating battle. Lincoln attends a Fort Bend ISD school through a special program and requires transportation as part of his educational accommodations. However, Houston tells 2 Helps You her son had ...
Most areas east of I-45, including Harris and Galveston Counties, are under a flood watch from 1 a.m. Tuesday until 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Multiple school districts announced closures on Monday as Tropical Depression 5 tracks toward Southeast Texas.
A tropical depression is approaching the Texas coast, prompting some Houston-area school districts to cancel school on Tuesday. Here's a list of school closures....
School is already in full swing, but these days more and more schoolwork is completed online. From lessons to streaming videos, everything is connected and families rely on home internet more than ever. Related story: Stay connected with reliable internet during hurricane season ...
ABC13 sports producer Joe Gleason gets you caught up with highlights in Week 1 of high school football.
Several Houston-area school districts have made the decision to cancel classes on Tuesday in preparation of expected inclement tropical weather. Crosby ISD Crosby ISD says it has canceled classes on Tuesday ahead of the inclement weather. “Crosby Independent School District will ...
To help close the gap beyond the 2027 fiscal year, officials are examining ways to reign in spending.
Final debates on proposed changes will come after years of deliberations about race and religion in the classroom.
Rajendra Dawadi was inside his classroom when a colleague rushed in with a warning: Floodwaters were racing through Nepal’s Trishuli Valley, tearing apart homes, bridges and entire villages. Then a teacher received another warning by phone. Moments later, a parent arrived to take...
A Singaporean lawyer and diplomat who led an international conference that adopted the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a Myanmar activist whose group documents human rights atrocities and a former Bangladeshi teacher who has helped provide aid to her country’s po...
Episode: 3404 The rise and fall of ICS, The International Correspondence School. Today, International Correspondence Schools.
In one of the areas worst hit by Wednesday’s catastrophic floods in Nepal, a group of schoolchildren managed to survive when they happened to leave their classroom for their lunch break. Children attending other classes at the school in Dhading also escaped because teachers told ...
Episode: 1623 The textbooks of J. Dorman and Esther Steele. Today, we meet two very special teachers.
YES Prep Public Schools is stepping up for its neighbors in Houston’s Fifth Ward today, organizing a community supply distribution for residents impacted by a dayslong power outage at Rose Plaza Apartments. Through its YES Prep Cares initiative, YES Prep team members are distribu...
Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel's war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration 's quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuse...
What started at a family kitchen table in 2023 has grown into a community effort to fight food waste. Sid Sharma, a 17-year-old senior at Elkins High School, founded Waste2Taste, a program that collects surplus food from grocery stores and finds ways to put it to use in the commu...
A new plaque at Avengers Campus commemorates Marvel legend Jack Kirby and the characters and worlds he helped bring to life.
The victims were transported to local hospitals with stab wounds and are all in stable condition, authorities said. Their families have been notified, according to the Socorro ISD....
King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89. The palace said he died at the National Hospital in Oslo at ...
ABC13's Athlete of the Week is back! We put the spotlight on North Shore High School defensive back Tony Guillory as he and the team are ready for his senior season....
A major milestone for local education unfolded in Alief ISD Thursday morning as the district celebrated the grand opening of its first-ever single-gender campus: The Young Women’s Leadership School (TYWLS)....
A north Houston great-grandmother who spent the first two weeks of school shuttling children to three different Houston ISD campuses finally got some relief Thursday morning. ‘We’re getting a bus’: Great-grandmother helps north Houston kids get to school A Houston ISD school bus ...
From notebooks to calculators, George Hays is delivering more than school supplies. He's bringing relief to educators across the city.
Parents and teachers at the epicenter of Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak are urging authorities to delay the reopening of schools as infections continue to outpace efforts to contain the disease. The Ebola outbreak centered in the eastern Ituri province is the fastest-growing ...
Are you ready for some football? How about Houston’s Friday Football Frenzy on KPRC 2? We are back for our 21st season of bringing viewers the most comprehensive high school football coverage in Greater Houston. Buckle up because it’s that time again for all levels across Texas s...
A University of Houston sophomore says her first day back on campus took a frightening turn when a man allegedly groped her twice as she was leaving work at the Student Center South....
Texas has secured a historic settlement worth over $1 billion from Meta Platforms Inc. to fund statewide youth mental health, crisis resources, and school safety programs....
Willis ISD and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office confirm a student was detained after a gun was discovered inside of a backpack at Willis High School Wednesday morning. The sheriff’s office said they responded to the school after they were made aware of the incident at aroun...
A student was detained after a gun was found in a backpack at Willis High School on Wednesday morning, officials say.
Austin Current is a nonprofit local news organization supported by The Texas Tribune, reporting on Austin government, education and community. Sign up for the Current’s free newsletter here . The recent surge in water- and energy-intensive artificial intelligence data center cons...
On this early morning, the sounds of football echo throughout the campus of East Bernard High school. It’s physical, Coaches are instructing, on this early morning workout a familiar voice and presence is missing… Brahmas Head Coach Jeremy Jenkins would have been on this field an...
An Angleton High School teacher has been charged following allegations of inappropriate relationships with students, according to officials.
District documents from February state that part of the reason McReynolds Middle School was consolidated was the building's poor condition.
As temperatures climb across the Houston area, some Houston Independent School District parents say their children are also facing uncomfortable conditions inside their classrooms. Parents at Horn Elementary School say students and teachers have been dealing with broken air condi...
A concerned relative of students at Oates Elementary School is raising concerns about ongoing air conditioning issues at the Houston ISD campus as temperatures remain high across the Houston area....
Today: We talk with Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles about the new school year, learn how the non-profit AVDA is tackling the issue of domestic abuse, preview a new documentary about storm chaser Reed Timmer, and more....
The Big Ten became the first conference Tuesday to adopt a rule prohibiting football players who have signed professional contracts from returning to play at its schools as college sports finds itself mired in lawsuits and disputes over eligibility. The matter came to the forefro...
The district is declining to punish school officials after parents demanded accountability for how complaints against a former elementary school teacher were handled....
Families living at a north Houston apartment complex say getting their children to and from school has become a daily challenge because they do not currently have a Houston ISD bus stop serving their complex. Residents at Yale Village Apartments, located at 5673 Yale Street near ...
Christina Koch is back at NC State University. The university surprised her by naming a campus building after her.
Former Houston Texans star Deshaun Watson has officially earned the starting quarterback nod for the Cleveland Browns, beating out former Texas high school football star Shedeur Sanders for the Week 1 opener....
ABC13 sports producer Joe Gleason went to the annual Touchdown Club of Houston dinner, where the preseason All-Greater Houston players were recognized to get us ready for the season....
Football in Texas gets underway in the next few weeks, and ABC13's Joe Gleason spoke with some Houston-area players who trained all summer to prepare.
Today: We talk with the founder of the female-focused platform Womena, learn the fact from fiction on how data centers work, find out how college students can stay healthy as they head back to school, and more....
The homeowner told ABC13 he was unaware that his daughter, Molly Gundrum, 36, had brought the convicted sex offender into their home after picking him up in New Mexico....
On Monday's show: Reporters discuss issues in education affecting Houston, including how HISD and other districts may be gaming the system to artificially inflate their state accountability grades...
A Texas judge denied a new trial for Karmelo Anthony on Saturday in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet, a killing that drew national attention and led to harassment of the families. Anthony, 19, was convicted of murder in June and sentenced to...
A judge on Saturday denied Karmelo Anthony’s request for a new trial in the fatal stabbing of Frisco student Austin Metcalf during a track meet last year. The...
A federal lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Texas alleges Klein ISD unlawfully blocked independent advocates from inspecting special education classrooms to monitor for abuse and neglect....
Parents have the choice to share a student's academic information with institutions of higher education through this new system called My Texas Future....
A Texas appeals court on Friday upheld a judgment finding Alex Jones and his Infowars company liable to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, but sharply reduced the punitive damages they were awarded....
A Fort Bend ISD mother is speaking out after her daughter was left unaccounted for on a school bus for nearly two hours — raising serious concerns about the district’s transportation safety procedures. Michelle Lemon’s daughter, Bryne, is a 9th grader at Hightower High School. Le...
A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment to $1.5 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones over falsely calling 2012 school shooting a hoax....
A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment to $1.5 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones over falsely calling 2012 school shooting a hoax. The ruling does not affect a $1.4 billion judgement against Jones in Connecticut, but is a significant legal victory for Jo...
Investigators say the victim threatened to expose the relationship if the Texas teacher didn't buy him a gun and give him $2,000.
