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As North Texas school districts turn to virtual options, some hope it will bring back students
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (521+ words) Denton ISD plans to relaunch online learning through the new Denton Digital program after a new state law clarified funding for virtual programs. School districts across North Texas are rolling out full-time virtual and hybrid learning programs for high school…...
How Argyle ISD is working to keep pace with city's rapid growth
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (716+ words) In November 2025, the district broke ground on the fifth elementary school in Argyle ISD. The Argyle High School cheer team and mascot parade through a neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2025. While some North Texas school districts are losing students, Argyle ISD is…...
Sanger ISD hit with ethics complaint over Facebook posts on bond election
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (779+ words) Renovations to Sanger ISD's Butterfield Elementary are proposed in a bond issue. Sanger ISD is facing an ethics complaint regarding a series of Facebook posts that might have violated state election law. The Denton Record-Chronicle obtained a copy of a…...
Texas school voucher award notices sent to first group of families
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (280+ words) The comptroller's office started notifying parents Wednesday about whether they can participate in Texas' voucher program." More than 42, 600 students will receive award notices through Friday, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock said in a statement. The first awardees include children with disabilities…...
Texas families will soon find out if they've won the school voucher lottery
1+ week, 2+ day ago (554+ words) Pictured is a hallway at River Oaks Elementary School, a Houston ISD campus. The Texas comptroller's office says it's on track to start notifying families next week about whether they've qualified for funding as part of the state's new $1 billion…...
Attendance boundaries will shift for elementaries near Braswell as Denton ISD closes Paloma Creek
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (599+ words) The Denton ISD school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to change attendance boundaries for schools in the U. S. Highway 380 area that will be affected by the closure of Paloma Creek Elementary School. Administrators opted to close the campus at the end…...
Paloma Creek Elementary students will go to higher-performing DISD schools next year in improvement plan
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (851+ words) Sandbrock Ranch Elementary School students are shown at a school event in 2025. Almost 30% of Paloma Creek Elementary School students will attend Sandbrock in 2026-27 as part of a state-mandated improvement plan. The Denton ISD school board voted Tuesday night to send…...
UNT to dismantle collaborative studies college program housed in Frisco location
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (644+ words) Dignitaries from Frisco and Denton gathered to celebrate the newest UNT campus in Frisco in January 2023. UNT, Denton County and Denton leaders cut the ribbon to open the newest campus in the UNT System, Frisco Landing. Classes started at the…...
UNT's budget deficit, now projected to be $15 M deeper, is "structural,' not temporary, president says
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (653+ words) The University of North Texas Hurley Administration Building. The financial outlook for the University of North Texas has gotten worse, and President Harrison Keller said he expects cuts to be felt "across the university." Keller was the bearer of bad…...
TWU is turning 125. Here's the Spark Notes version of the university's herstory
3+ week, 1+ day ago (750+ words) Pioneers from Texas Woman's University on the historic Denton Square in 2025. As Texas Woman's University prepares to celebrate the 125th anniversary of its founding in 1901, let's take a look at how the school came to be what it is now and…...