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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Facing financial struggles, the Austin Independent School District could take drastic steps and could close some middle and elementary schools across the city to help resolve its ...

You might be imagining someone who takes their time considering the candidates and their positions on the issues, who generally has faith in the political system, who sometimes votes for Republicans ...

Houston ISD is the latest school district to join an ongoing lawsuit against social media companies. Houston ISD is joining a nationwide group of hundreds of school districts in taking legal action ...

Katy Independent School District contains 78 schools and 94,785 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 70%. Also, 30.5% of students are economically disadvantaged. The student body at the ...

Nov 6 (Reuters) - Self-identified independents accounted for a larger share of voters in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election than Democrats and were tied with Republicans, Edison Research exit ...

In the 2024 election, the two major-party campaigns and many news reporters are spending a lot of time talking about independent voters – those who are neither aligned with the Republican Party nor ...

Katy ISD topped the Niche rankings for the best school district in the Houston area this year, while Houston ISD, embroiled in a state takeover since 2023, appeared as the 32nd school district on the ...

FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, today announced Tomball Independent School District ...

PHILADELPHIA − Giovanni's Room has been a fixture in the Philadelphia region's, and even the nation's, LGBTQ+ community since it opened in 1973. But in 2014, its survival was in doubt. Under pressure ...

On Saturday, Kamala Harris was asked to respond to Donald Trump’s suggestion that the president should have a say in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions. She was vehemently opposed, saying, ...

What a difference two weeks makes. A Marist poll out Tuesday showed a seismic shift in support from independent voters from former President Donald Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris. Independent ...