Independent news. Trusted by Texans. About The Texas Tribune | Staff | Contact | Send a Confidential Tip | Ethics | Republish Our Work | Jobs | Awards | Corrections | Strategic Plan | Downloads | ...

Children cannot learn in a classroom where their teachers spend a significant amount of time dealing with student discipline issues. It can be unsafe for the teacher and the other students and ...

Tiffani Shaddell Lankford, a substitute teacher with the Hays County Independent School District in Texas, has been charged with felony second-degree assault of a female student at Lehman High School.

The Obama administration Wednesday issued new guidelines on classroom discipline, seeking to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules.

In fact, discipline can make students feel disconnected from their schools and push them to skip class or drop out. “There's really a mismatch…I don't think that these bills, unfortunately, are going ...

The simple two-letter word was all it took to set off chaos at Heritage Rose Elementary last week. About a hundred children were sitting cross-legged in a hallway, ready to be dismissed to go home, ...

HB 6 also proposes how to discipline students who assault teachers. Any student who does so would be taken out of the classroom for at least 30 days and placed in an alternative education setting, a ...