Greg Abbott announced that Texas will be continuing the Blue Ribbon program locally after it was canceled by the Trump ...

Almost 1,700 high school students in Texas have been named semifinalists in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Churches are seeing increased enrollment after a federal policy went into effect limiting which students government-funded programs can serve.

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