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Relaxing retreat celebrates, honors North Texas teachers
AUSTIN – For the first time, a free weekend-long retreat is now open to Dallas-Fort Worth-area public school teachers. The retreat is organized by a non-profit called the Holdsworth Center in Austin, which aims to celebrate and honor public educators by giving them some rest and relaxation. "This is very uncommon," said Mark Rogers, a fifth-grade teacher.This is the fourth retreat and teachers who've attended before said it's a pivotal weekend that has changed how they step into their classrooms. "I feel like we were treated like the royalty that we are always told we are, that teachers, oh you are...
What Texas can learn from crisis mental health care in Arizona
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After a call for police assistance with a mentally ill man at a Tucson gas station turned deadly, resulting in the deaths of the responding sheriff’s deputy, the man, and a cab driver who stopped to assist, local leaders began work in 2005 on a better way to respond to people in crisis.
The Texas DPS Will No Longer Accept Court Orders To Change Gender Markers
LGBTQ advocacy and civil rights organizations have found that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was behind the Texas Department of Public Safety’s recent policy change that blocks transgender Texans from altering their gender markers on state-issued IDs and driver’s licenses. The change, which effectively halts the department from accepting court...
WATCH: Pep Rallies In Texas Are Simply Something Else
High school sports in Texas are truly a spectacle aren't they?. Everything is bigger here in the Lone Star State, and the passion for sports here is second to none. We've all seen a packed stadium for a highly anticipated matchup of two great teams haven't we? There's even been some classic calls posted to the internet of some of the games.
Texas Panhandle set to gain 75-bed mental health facility with land lease agreement
State officials gathered Tuesday to celebrate a significant milestone in the development of mental health care infrastructure in the Texas Panhandle. State Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, announced the completion of a crucial land lease agreement between the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC) and the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS). The deal will facilitate the construction of the 75-bed Panhandle State Hospital, a facility long needed in the region to address mental health care shortages. “This...
Underage Drinkers in Texas Have More Rights Than You Think
Football season has hit Texas like a blustery "blue norther" sweeping in from the panhandle. The High School Season got underway with games in Dallas, Houston, Beaumont, Austin, and just about every other community in the state last weekend. Do you need some scores? Here you go. Then, we start...
Top Universities in Texas See Exam Success with AI Essay Detector Tools at UT, SMU, and UTD
Even in a modern academic setting, computers and calculators are feared as machines that reduce a student’s ability to perform menial tasks without them. Never mind the fact that computers, calculators, and other technical achievements are available in anyone’s pocket. Every tool that threatens to change the status quo is heralded as a step toward human obsolescence, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
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