Researchers and scientists are at odds about how to protect the Houston Ship Channel, and Texas legislators will try again to reach a consensus in 2017.

Lawmakers hope to pass reforms during the next legislative session. 

Key meetings and events over the coming weeks.

In this week's Q&A, we interview Stuart Henry, attorney for the Sierra Club during litigation that spurred the creation of the Edwards Aquifer Authority.

The proposal follows various high-profile — and often fatal — encounters between police officers and civilians.

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan will be coming to San Antonio in mid-October to help U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-San Antonio, win his hotly contested seat against Pete Gallego — a rematch of their close 2014 contest.

Another Texan has joined U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s crusade against the Obama administration’s “illegal internet giveaway,” as critics of the move describe it.

The state's system of funding public schools was in the spotlight on Wednesday as lawmakers examined ways to fix the complex formulas of paying to educate public school students.

A new study by the Century Foundation found that New York City pre-kindergarten classes are even more racially segregated than their public kindergarten counterparts.

According to a University of Pennsylvania professor and author, the burden on schools and educators to prepare students for citizenship has never been greater than it is now, given the nation’s divisive political climate.

After studying reports from 90,000 students in more than 500 New York City schools, researchers concluded that bullying is less a problem in schools with students of wide-ranging ages.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Anthony Brown and Louis Harrison of the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education and co-founders of The Black Male Education Research Collection.

Devices with detachable or convertible keyboards that can be used as either a tablet or a traditional laptop, known as “2-in-1’s” are gaining market share in the K-12 education arena.

School officials in the Pelham school system in Alabama passed a new requirement that parents who want to eat lunch with their child or attend classroom parties must first pay for and pass a $15 background check.

Ten U.S. high schools were recently named “Super Schools” and awarded a $10 million grant each from the “XQ: The Super School Project.”