Jennifer Radcliffe

While two Houston ISD speciality campuses snagged top 10 spots in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of best Texas high schools in 2024, several campuses outside of HISD had respectable showings. The publication rates roughly 17,660 public high schools in the country based on college readiness, graduation rates, student performance on Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and state standardized exams, and academic outcomes for Black, Hispanic and low-income students based on 2021-…

Barbers Hill ISD has grabbed national headlines for a case involving a student’s hairstyle. Here are some fast facts about the school district 35 miles east of Houston. Where is Barbers Hill ISD? The nearly 200-square mile district is located in western Chambers County off the Trinity River. The district has nine campuses in Mont Belvieu, Old River-Winfree, Cove and Beach City. MORE COVERAGE: Texas judge rules Barbers Hill ISD students’ long hair not protected by CROWN Act How many students are…

For the first time since the TEA took control of the largest district in Texas, Houston ISD students are back in classrooms.

Houston’s most expensive private schools increased tuition by about 5% for the coming...

Authorities late Saturday had been at Xtreme Off Road Park And Beach, 1927 Gulf Pump...

While average private school tuition was $23,644 in 2021-22, four additional campuses...

Authorities have found a 17-year-old with autism who went missing Saturday morning.

’Long criticized by conservative Texans for alleged ties to a controversial Turkish scholar, the state’s largest charter school system now faces attacks from inside the Turkish government. A Washington-based law firm hired by the Republic of Turkey filed a 90-item public information request in November that Harmony Public Schools, a 30,000-student, Houston-based charter school network, estimated would cost at least $4.5 million to fill. Even after scaling back the request, the estimate reached $…

Some stories stick with you. The details became elusive, but I always carried the name Kelli Cox with me. About two months after graduating from college, I wrote a story for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the one-year anniversary of her disappearance. She was just a few years younger than me. She was a single mom who was completing college. She had met her University of North Texas class in July 1997 for a midday tour of the Denton police station, after which she realized she’d locked her ke…

Third-grader Valeria Sanchez sat toward the back of her science class Tuesday, listening as her classmates asked questions about an upcoming assignment. She had a quarter-sized sticker on her cheek, a reward for getting a perfect score on a math test. Math is Valeria’s favorite subject. She recently learned how to use tape diagrams to draw out the problems using dots and lines: “It helps me find math answers easier,” she said. To her teachers and classmates at the KIPP Connect charter school,…

An unlikely factor influenced Baylor College of Medicine Academy’s ascent to No. 32 in this year’s Children at Risk regional middle school ratings: unlimited cell phone minutes. Principal Jyoti Malhan plastered her number all over town as she recruited students to the Third Ward magnet, once home of the troubled Ryan Middle School. She forwarded the district and campus phones to her cell, fielding calls from prospective parents while driving and late at night. School Report Card: Find a searchab…

First: schools. Next: a community. The KIPP charter school chain has stepped up its game at its newest campus in the Sharpstown neighborhood in southwest Houston. It’s launching a new community-building model designed to break the cycle of poverty by working with other nonprofits to provide everything from good schools to health care and, ultimately, mixed-income housing. “We’ll really be able to capture lightning in a bottle,” KIPP co-founder Mike Feinberg said. “The sky is the limit.” The hub…

The KIPP charter school empire is expanding once again. Its new southwest Houston campus will introduce a radically different model for the charter school chain: a model that not only provides education to low-income kids, but a host of social services to their families. KIPP is partnering with several other non-profits, including neighboring St. Luke’s United Methodist Church Gethsemane, the YMCA, Legacy Health and the Houston Center for Literacy, aiming to break the cycle of generational pover…

After decades of free fall, Houston ISD’s white enrollment is inching upward, suggesting that more families with the resources to choose are selecting Houston public schools. Enrollment of non-Hispanic white students in the Houston Independent School District bottomed out in 2010 at 15,340 students, or 7.6 percent of enrollment. White enrollment has increased by 13 percent since then, and today Houston ISD enrolls 17,313 white students, about 8.2 percent of a district that swelled to 210,000 wit…

Coach Brittany Staggs wanted her students to get a rigorous workout even on rainy days. The equipment she needed would cost $800. With the click of a mouse, the School at St. George Place physical education teacher’s request for a Wii, dance video games and projection technology was sent to thousands of potential donors. Within a month, the Houston ISD students were sweating to popular Disney tunes in the cafeteria of the Galleria-area school. “It was awesome,” a breathless 6-year-old Summer Fah…

A 16-year-old’s prize-winning art work fetched a record $210,000 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo auction Sunday. The Grand Champion piece, titled “Stowing the Riggings,” was created by Denisse Molina of the Pasadena ISD. The sophomore’s drawing of a cowboy handling his saddle inside a barn took the title by beating out more than 300,000 other entries from students in grades K-12. The painting was purchased by Mimi and Tom Dompier; Mary and Ken Hucherson; The Somerville Family; and Jennif…

State officials on Thursday once again recommended closing the troubled North Forest...

Leaders of a private school in Katy are on a mission to create a $2 million program that...

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The Houston ISD was perched on the cutting edge of technology, bringing hundreds of computers to classrooms and writing software to teach reading. It was 1980 and Texas’ largest school system was a pioneer in educational technology under the guidance of Apple’s Steve Jobs. Houston ISD distinguished itself by becoming the first district in the United States with its own technology department, training and dispatching hundreds of “teacher technologists.” Jobs consulted and guided the district in i…