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Tropical Storm Edouard is bring heavy rain and gusty winds to portions of the Houston area and Southeast Texas. In response, some school districts are canceling classes on Wednesday. See the list....
Today: We break down what’s currently happening with mail-in voting, find out what’s behind Houston ISD’s teacher exodus, learn about a new art installation at the Menil Drawing Center, and more....
Several Houston-area school district have made the decision to cancel classes on Wednesday. Conroe ISD announced Tuesday afternoon that they will be closed on Tuesday. RELATED: Tropical Storm Edouard makes Landfall- Here’s the Timeline for winds and rain in Houston & SE Texas Wil...
A 20-year-old Haitian who had just graduated high school and had recently lost temporary protected status died by suicide on Monday, according to an advocacy group....
Back-to-school season brings more than just new classes and fresh notebooks — it also brings scammers looking to take advantage of first-time college students making big financial decisions on their own. From fake apartment listings to phony tuition texts, rip-off artists are tar...
Multiple school districts announced closures on Monday as Tropical Storm Edouard tracks toward Southeast Texas.
The 2026 ABC13 Loves Teachers School Supplies Drive raised more than $80,000 in cash and school supplies to help educators stock their classrooms.
Several new Texas laws took effect today, bringing changes that could impact consumers, schools and businesses across the state. Right-to-repair If your phone or tablet breaks, you now have more options for getting it fixed. House Bill 2963 requires manufacturers to give consumer...
A groundbreaking ceremony is underway for a pedestrian bridge honoring a Houston student killed by a train while walking to school. Sergio Rodriguez, a 15-year-old sophomore at Milby High School, was struck and killed by a train in December 2024 while walking to school. His death...
Tropical Storm Edouard is approaching the Texas coast, prompting some Houston-area school districts to cancel school on Tuesday. Here's a list of school closures....
Parents at Briargrove Elementary are raising concerns about ongoing air conditioning problems after several days of HVAC issues at the Houston ISD campus....
For Erin Houston, getting her 10-year-old son Lincoln to school had become a frustrating battle. Lincoln attends a Fort Bend ISD school through a special program and requires transportation as part of his educational accommodations. However, Houston tells 2 Helps You her son had ...
Most areas east of I-45, including Harris and Galveston Counties, are under a flood watch from 1 a.m. Tuesday until 7 a.m. Wednesday.
ABC13 sports producer Joe Gleason gets you caught up with highlights in Week 1 of high school football.
Houston Independent School District canceled all after-school activities this afternoon, prompted by the tropical storm making landfall this afternoon, just east of the city. Several other Houston-area school districts made the decision to cancel classes Tuesday, also in preparat...
To help close the gap beyond the 2027 fiscal year, officials are examining ways to reign in spending.
Final debates on proposed changes will come after years of deliberations about race and religion in the classroom.
Episode: 3404 The rise and fall of ICS, The International Correspondence School. Today, International Correspondence Schools.
Episode: 1623 The textbooks of J. Dorman and Esther Steele. Today, we meet two very special teachers.
YES Prep Public Schools is stepping up for its neighbors in Houston’s Fifth Ward today, organizing a community supply distribution for residents impacted by a dayslong power outage at Rose Plaza Apartments. Through its YES Prep Cares initiative, YES Prep team members are distribu...
What started at a family kitchen table in 2023 has grown into a community effort to fight food waste. Sid Sharma, a 17-year-old senior at Elkins High School, founded Waste2Taste, a program that collects surplus food from grocery stores and finds ways to put it to use in the commu...
A new plaque at Avengers Campus commemorates Marvel legend Jack Kirby and the characters and worlds he helped bring to life.
The victims were transported to local hospitals with stab wounds and are all in stable condition, authorities said. Their families have been notified, according to Socorro ISD....
ABC13's Athlete of the Week is back! We put the spotlight on North Shore High School defensive back Tony Guillory as he and the team are ready for his senior season....
A major milestone for local education unfolded in Alief ISD Thursday morning as the district celebrated the grand opening of its first-ever single-gender campus: The Young Women’s Leadership School (TYWLS)....
A north Houston great-grandmother who spent the first two weeks of school shuttling children to three different Houston ISD campuses finally got some relief Thursday morning. ‘We’re getting a bus’: Great-grandmother helps north Houston kids get to school A Houston ISD school bus ...
From notebooks to calculators, George Hays is delivering more than school supplies. He's bringing relief to educators across the city.
A University of Houston sophomore says her first day back on campus took a frightening turn when a man allegedly groped her twice as she was leaving work at the Student Center South....
Texas has secured a historic settlement worth over $1 billion from Meta Platforms Inc. to fund statewide youth mental health, crisis resources, and school safety programs....
Willis ISD and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office confirm a student was detained after a gun was discovered inside of a backpack at Willis High School Wednesday morning. The sheriff’s office said they responded to the school after they were made aware of the incident at aroun...
A student was detained after a gun was found in a backpack at Willis High School on Wednesday morning, officials say.
District documents from February state that part of the reason McReynolds Middle School was consolidated was the building's poor condition.
An Angleton High School teacher has been charged following allegations of inappropriate relationships with students, according to officials.
As temperatures climb across the Houston area, some Houston Independent School District parents say their children are also facing uncomfortable conditions inside their classrooms. Parents at Horn Elementary School say students and teachers have been dealing with broken air condi...
Today: We talk with Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles about the new school year, learn how the non-profit AVDA is tackling the issue of domestic abuse, preview a new documentary about storm chaser Reed Timmer, and more....
The district is declining to punish school officials after parents demanded accountability for how complaints against a former elementary school teacher were handled....
A north Houston great-grandmother has spent the first weeks of school doing far more than getting her own family to class. Vicky Muse has been helping shuttle children from her apartment complex to three different Houston ISD campuses. Her great-grandchildren live at the Yale Vil...
Christina Koch is back at NC State University. The university surprised her by naming a campus building after her.
Former Houston Texans star Deshaun Watson has officially earned the starting quarterback nod for the Cleveland Browns, beating out former Texas high school football star Shedeur Sanders for the Week 1 opener....
ABC13 sports producer Joe Gleason went to the annual Touchdown Club of Houston dinner, where the preseason All-Greater Houston players were recognized to get us ready for the season....
Football in Texas gets underway in the next few weeks, and ABC13's Joe Gleason spoke with some Houston-area players who trained all summer to prepare.
Today: We talk with the founder of the female-focused platform Womena, learn the fact from fiction on how data centers work, find out how college students can stay healthy as they head back to school, and more....
The homeowner told ABC13 he was unaware that his daughter, Molly Gundrum, 36, had brought the convicted sex offender into their home after picking him up in New Mexico....
On Monday's show: Reporters discuss issues in education affecting Houston, including how HISD and other districts may be gaming the system to artificially inflate their state accountability grades...
A judge on Saturday denied Karmelo Anthony’s request for a new trial in the fatal stabbing of Frisco student Austin Metcalf during a track meet last year....
A federal lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Texas alleges Klein ISD unlawfully blocked independent advocates from inspecting special education classrooms to monitor for abuse and neglect....
Parents have the choice to share a student's academic information with institutions of higher education through this new system called My Texas Future....
A Texas appeals court on Friday upheld a judgment finding Alex Jones and his Infowars company liable to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, but sharply reduced the punitive damages they were awarded....
A Fort Bend ISD mother is speaking out after her daughter was left unaccounted for on a school bus for nearly two hours — raising serious concerns about the district’s transportation safety procedures. Michelle Lemon’s daughter, Bryne, is a 9th grader at Hightower High School. Le...
A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment to $1.5 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones over falsely calling 2012 school shooting a hoax....
Investigators say the victim threatened to expose the relationship if the Texas teacher didn't buy him a gun and give him $2,000.
Investigators say the victim threatened to expose the relationship if the Dickinson ISD teacher didn't buy him a gun and give him $2,000.
Today: Harris County Attorney Abbie Kamin breaks down the county’s current legal battles, we find out how a Houston high school is tackling a food desert in Sunnyside, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Ricks discusses his recent op-ed on ICE....
Among other drugs and alcohol, officials said they seized fentanyl pills, over four pounds of marijuana and 45 bottles of liquor at the Texas City home....
“We’re coming for the books,” the lieutenant governor said in announcing plans to lower the performance rating of Texas schools that violate a recent law targeting obscene titles in school libraries....
Some districts use the temporary work permits to fill critical teacher shortages in roles such as bilingual education.
A Port Arthur ISD student at Memorial High School alleges his coach hit him with a paddle as a disciplinary tool during football practice, raising concerns about corporal punishment in Texas schools. Noah Lopez had only been at Memorial High School in Port Arthur for about two we...
The Montezuma-Cortez district in southwestern Colorado scrapped plans to use Bluebonnet materials just days into the school year. It's still using the New Education System model it adopted from Houston ISD....
Over two dozen Texas families represented by the ACLU and other groups petitioned the nation’s highest court to hear their challenge after the conservative-leaning 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in April upheld the Texas law in a 9-8 ruling....
