AUSTIN, Texas -- A Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education on Friday rejected seven of 12 proposed science textbooks for eighth graders that for the first time will require them to ...

In a drab hearing room in Austin, Tex., members of the State Board of Education, seated at small desks arranged in a broad, socially distanced circle, debated whether eighth grade science students ...

Students walk between classes at Chapa Middle School in Kyle. The State Board of Education on Friday approved five eighth grade science textbooks that will for the first time be required to include ...

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