Fort Worth Star-Telgram

The lawsuit makes Texas the first state in the nation to sue kid-friendly Web sites under a federal online privacy law, Attorney General Greg Abbott said Wednesday.

Approximately 20,000-25,000 student athletes in grades 9-12 will be tested during the 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years, and the UIL is inviting the public to review and comment on the program.

House Speaker Tom Craddick made the statement on a swing through North Texas, visiting local colleges, touring the site of the future Dallas Cowboys stadium and speaking to an Arlington Chamber Foundation luncheon.

More than 4 in 10, or 43 percent, of parents whose young children play video or computer games never play along with them, according to an Associated Press-AOL Games poll released Monday.

Keeping up with food prices this year has been tough for families nationwide, with egg and milk prices going up 35 percent and 20 percent, respectively, according to the Agriculture Department. Working poor families must juggle expenses even more to make every dollar stretch.

The new program to test Texas student-athletes for illegal steroid use will be larger than the testing program for the Olympics. So officials want to make sure they get it right.

A Grand Prairie math teacher was disciplined this week after a parent complained about an assignment asking sixth-graders to decode popular, and sometimes lewd, abbreviations.

When school starts Monday, Fort Worth ninth- and 10th-graders won't be able to leave campus for lunch.

Educating children with special needs is an expensive undertaking. In the Keller school district, where students enrolled in special education make up 7.6 percent of the district's total enrollment

Arlington school officials closed playgrounds at 20 elementary campuses today after an unusual spontaneous combustion fire on a playground at Anderson Elementary School last week.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating whether top college athletic departments nationwide -- TCU among them -- steered athletes and others to education lenders in exchange for kickbacks.

The university was required by law to report the accidental infections of three Texas A&M researchers promptly to the Centers for Disease Control, but didn't until recently, the Sunshine Project reported.

Want to encourage more students to go to college and make it more affordable at the same time? Try bringing college to the kids. The Arlington school district is installing modular "college centers" at each of its six high schools. Six college courses, including English, government and economics, will be taught by instructors from Tarrant County College, and the Arlington district will cover the costs of tuition, textbooks and the $60,000 buildings.

Starting salaries for teachers in Tarrant County are already the highest in the state, and the race is on to boost their pay even higher for the coming school year.

Charles Frederick Bond, 53, accused of making terroristic threats to co-workers, will be sent to a mental health institution for further evaluation, a judge rules.