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Award winning actor Jon Hamm, best known for his roles on “Mad Men” and, more recently, on “Fargo” and “Landman,” has been named 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Area school superintendents and leaders urge parents to continue to encourage students as attendance tends to drop during winter months.
The Young Men’s Leadership Academy, a school dedicated to helping boys become the best versions of themselves, celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Despite failing to deliver his promise for broad student loan forgiveness, President Joe Biden has now overseen the cancellation of student loans for more than 5 million Americans — more than any other president in U.S. history.
Just before the Crystal City Independent School District let out for winter break, the district laid off 32 employees.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states are preparing to either aid or oppose his policies.
Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state.
Poteet Independent School District sent its students home early Friday after receiving a bomb threat email, according to the district’s police chief.
The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s authority.
After the state missed the Jan. 1 deadline, lawmakers still have time to approve administrative costs before applying for $400 million in federal summer meal assistance.
Live from the Southside is thrilled to announce that Soarion Credit Union has joined as the official 2025 sponsor of its Youth Writing Program!
Cold weather that began blanketing the area this week appears to have caused a whirlwind of problems for the San Antonio Independent School District.
YWCA San Antonio has officially opened its new Women’s Live and Learn Center, a facility designed to provide women and their children with the resources they need to rebuild their lives.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation that boosts the rights of parents to know when schools are changing their child’s health care or preparing to present lessons involving sexuality or gender.
School districts in the Hill Country and South Central Texas have announced closures and delays this week due to wintry weather.
Los líderes de los distritos escolares están constantemente en reuniones para decidir cuándo cancelar las clases durante tormentas de invierno.
Schools around the country are reviewing what to do if immigration agents come knocking as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office after campaigning on a pledge to deport millions of people.
After KSAT Investigates uncovered San Antonio ISD spending thousands of dollars in legal fees on public records requests made by news agencies, the district released information about what they asked for.
The San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) said it is prepared for winter weather as students return for classes.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has asked for the immediate resignation of regents at Western New Mexico State University after revelations of wasteful spending and failures in financial oversight.
Estudiantes tienen un problema de matematicas. Un Estudio reciente mostró que las calificaciones de matemáticas para los estudiantes estadounidenses entre cuarto y octavo grado están disminuyendo.
The cost of a math tutor ranges from $20 to $45, and it gets more expensive as the child gets older. However, ensuring that your child understands core math skills early on could help save money on a tutor later.
The Tribune’s data journalists helped visualize everything from voter participation and extreme weather to gaps in the state’s border wall. Here are some of the highlights.
One-third of Turkey's children live in poverty, with many forced to work to support their struggling families.
A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.
Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.
The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza.
Artificial intelligence holds the promise of helping countless other students with a range of visual, speech, language and hearing impairments to execute tasks that come easily to others.
The Judson Independent School District Board of Trustees voted to move forward with its plans to consolidate select schools, moving students in the process.
During a Thursday Judson Independent School District board of trustees meeting, no action was taken against a trustee whose arrest in 2023 for DWI was kept private.
President Joe Biden’s administration has started to withdraw pending regulations that won’t be finalized by the time he leaves office.
Some U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
A judge has refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder.
An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there.
A new documentary about teacher Christa McAuliffe focuses more on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
A lot can happen in 20 years, including making the decision to go back to school. Dr. Vidya Sharma, a professor at UTSA, made that decision and crossed the stage with her doctorate this December.
New filings in a 2022 class-action lawsuit contend that children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities.
Police say the shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin this week brought two guns to the school.
Community members in Wisconsin are continuing to wrestle with grief and calling for change in the aftermath of a school shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others.
The Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation, which is fundraising to build a new school to replace Robb Elementary — the site of the 2022 mass shooting that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers — is close to having all the resources needed to bring the project to life.
A Northside Independent School District teacher was arrested earlier this month after allegedly dropping crystal methamphetamine in a school hallway, leaving parents questioning the delayed notification.
North East Independent School District officials have announced three meetings that will take place next month to discuss the district’s consolidation plans.
Boston is planning to renovate a crumbling stadium in one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods for its new professional women's soccer team.
Investigators in Wisconsin are trying to determine a motive in a school shooting that left a teacher and a student dead and two other children in critical condition.
Police in Madison, Wisconsin, believe multiple factors prompted a 15-year-old student to open fire at a private Christian school, but they declined to share those Tuesday.
A student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another student in the final week before Christmas break.
A Judson ISD board member is facing a charge of driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content of .15 or higher, according to court records.
Florida State and Mike Norvell have agreed to a restructured contract that includes the football coach contributing $4.5 million of his 2025 salary to help launch a fundraising campaign amid the sport's changing financial landscape.
Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods.
Judson ISD superintendent Dr. Rob Fields, III, said he understands the changes are “not going to be comfortable” but also said changes are the most fiscally responsible way to move forward.
Starting Monday, students suspected of being in possession of a prohibited item who run away from administrators and do not comply to a lawful search could be sent to the North East Alternative Center.
If early bill filings for the next Texas Legislative Session are anything to go by, then one thing is clear: Lawmakers are again hyperfocusing on the state’s higher education institutions.
A MacArthur High School teacher who went into cardiac arrest on campus is alive and well thanks to his students' quick actions to save his life.
North East Independent School District and Judson Independent School District are both preparing to consolidate schools.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is considering replacing the elected board of South San Antonio ISD due to long-standing governance issues. Since 2016, the district has faced multiple challenges, including the appointment of a conservator, frequent superintendent changes, and controversial board decisions like reopening and then closing several schools.
The Texas Education Agency is considering whether to replace the South San ISD’s board of trustees with appointed board managers.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Boston parents who claimed a temporary admissions policy for the city’s elite high schools discriminated against white students and those of Asian descent.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.
More than 250 people have signed an online petition calling for Bexar County to add a four-way stop sign at the intersection of Lone Star Parkway and Wise Trail. Without a solution, neighbors said their safety is on the table.
Literacy and access to books is a known problem in rural communities south of Loop 410, where wireless internet is limited, and there are no public libraries or community centers.
Vice President Kamala Harris and breakout pop star Chappell Roan were among the most talked-about people this year.
A judge’s overturning of Wisconsin’s 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers and most state government employees has rekindled a battle over labor rights in a state where the first public sector unions were formed 65 years ago.
Years after COVID-19 disrupted American schools, nearly every state is still struggling with attendance.
Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe.
Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions have scored a major legal victory with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law.
The conservator overseeing the South San Independent School District Board of Trustees has written a letter to the Texas Education commissioner, recommending that a board of managers be appointed to govern the district.
Former U.K. Conservative Party leader William Hague has been elected chancellor of Oxford University, one of the most prestigious positions in British academia.
Regardless of whether President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, educators around the U.S. are bracing for upheaval.
San Antonio is about to witness an inspiring milestone in the journey toward accessible education. Mobile Education Center for All (MECA), a nonprofit organization committed to breaking down barriers to learning, is thrilled to announce the launch of its innovative initiative.
More than 250 Texas prisoners are on the waitlist to join the Lee College reentry class. Programs like these prepare students to find jobs and help lower recidivism.
A majority of the panel voted to call on the Texas Legislature to pass a state law giving members the authority to determine age-appropriate books for students.
The federal FAFSA form used to apply for college financial aid opened to high school seniors across the nation on Thursday, a year after a disastrous rollout by the Biden administration delayed the application for months.
Students fighting at school is nothing new, but the fights are becoming more publicized and more dangerous. With social media at students’ fingertips, the secrecy around fighting in San Antonio-area schools is becoming nonexistent.
The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation that addresses both private school scholarship grants and immigration.
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.”.
The Texas State Board of Education has given initial approval to a Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for public schools to adopt for lessons from kindergarten through fifth grade.
SCUCISD had 126 reports of teacher injuries caused by students in the 2022-2023 school year, according to records reviewed by KSAT Investigates.
A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year.
Texas A&M University is set to mark the anniversary of the campus bonfire tragedy that killed 12 people and injured dozens more 25 years ago.
The San Antonio Independent School District on Friday celebrated Texas Recycles Day with a focus on recycling and sustainability, culminating in a revitalized playground at Sarah King Elementary.
Oklahoma's education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his video announcement of a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism.
