McLennan County returns from the Nov. 4, 2014 election.
Parents came to Crestview Elementary school Tuesday for crochet class, but left knowing how to teach their children long division after a new parental involvement coordinator on campus looked for alternative methods to reaching parents.
Lake Air Montessori Magnet School dedicated an ‘outdoor classroom/learning environment’ in front of the school last week in honor of Robin McDurham, former principal of the school and a former Waco mayor.
Bellmead native Joe Holley, an editorial columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 2009 and writer of its weekly “Native Texan” column, turned to fiction for his third and latest book, “The Purse Bearer: A Novel of Love, Lust and Texas Politics,” (WingsPress) but advises not to read too far beyond the fun of it all.
West Independent School District’s board of trustees broke ground on Jerry Mashek Drive on Thursday for the new combined middle and high school campus in what Mayor Tommy Muska calls the final benchmark in the town’s rebuilding efforts since the April 2013 West Fertilizer Co. plant explosion.
A 16-year-old Gatesville girl is safe after she was approached early Tuesday morning at a bus stop on her way to school by a suspicious man, police said.
Apple Inc. awarded new products to four Waco elementary schools for the spring semester as part of the federal government’s nationwide ConnectED program, which encourages businesses to provide more technological opportunities for students of low socioeconomic means.
West Independent School District is breaking ground Thursday on its new combined campus that will hold both its middle and high schools after its former schools were destroyed in the West Fertilizer Co. plant explosion in April 2013.
Kendrick Elementary School teacher Blanca Valdez sat in the center of a semi-circle of Spanish-speaking preschoolers last month gluing uncooked noodles onto paper hands.
The Waco Independent School District board of trustees committed money to transform the old Viking Hills Elementary School into the Greater Waco Advanced Health Care Academy on Thursday as part of an ambitious list of maintenance and repair projects in the upcoming year.
The Waco Independent School District administration presented an ambitious list of renovations to the board of trustees last week that will go under review for a second time Thursday to decide which projects receive priority.
“FIFI,” billed as the last flying B-29 bomber in existence, is in Waco as part of the Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour at Texas State Technical College Airport this weekend.
Classes at Midway Middle School will resume Monday after they had to be canceled Friday because of a gas leak.
Local philanthropist Audre Rapoport has volunteered to personally pay at least $5,000 to save a local spelling bee that was threatened to be canceled because of a lack of a sponsor.
A few weeks in Oregon last year taught Beau Benson that playing time is a valuable commodity for every level of musician.
Tablets and e-readers soon will be among the items patrons can check out from the Hewitt Public Library as the center turns to technology to meet members’ needs.
Midway Middle School student Jacob Turner, 14, thinks it’s his year to overcome his opponents and clinch a victory at the regional spelling bee, finally allowing him to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
A University High School student faces expulsion after giving another student synthetic marijuana Friday afternoon, leading to that classmate’s hospitalization.
A Robinson Junior High School student was diagnosed with an as-yet unknown type of meningitis Monday, and local officials are waiting to confirm the disease’s strain before taking further action.
Baylor University’s W.R. Poage Legislative Library opened an exhibit of “unusual” treasures from its vaults Wednesday in celebration of National Archives Month and the Poage’s 35th anniversary.
Baylor University offensive lineman Troy Baker gave a short pep talk to Connally High School students as part of the district’s strategy to motivate and encourage students to graduate with good grades and go to college.
For the fourth year, Family Health Center partnered with Waco Independent School District to hold free dental exams for all elementary school students who ask for one.
Alta Vista Elementary School fifth-grader Jose Gomez is one of many students who this week used laptop computers made possible by a technology grant that’s part of a focused effort from local school officials to obtain more discretionary funding and subsidize the lack of money coming through state and federal channels.
Competitors will rappel down Baylor University
’s new McLane Stadium. The event will raise money for Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas.
Local school districts have focused more on fundraising locally and pursuing distcretionary grants in order to subsidize their school budgets after the state legislature cut $5 billion from education in 2011.
The McLennan County Challenge Academy soon could become an authorized High School Equivalency Program after it was discovered last year that the center never had applied for the distinction.
The students of Speegleville Elementary School made and displayed pinwheels Wednesday in honor of International Day of Peace, which is formally celebrated on Sunday.
The use of electronic cigarettes is officially banned in Lacy Lakeview on city or school grounds.
Lacy Lakeview officials Tuesday night will consider banning the use of electronic cigarettes on city and school property, following a debate that has spread across McLennan County as more cities discuss how to handle the unregulated product.
Waco-area principals hope to improve their state accountability ratings with a program that uses mentor teachers to provide instructional and classroom-management techniques to teachers.
La Vega High School’s defensive coordinator used a homosexual slur while addressing players during La Vega’s home game against Lorena on Sept. 12.
The Waco Independent School District board of trustees was divided Thursday over whether redrawing attendance zones to level student enrollment numbers at University and Waco high schools is necessary.
Waco City Councilman Kyle Deaver said he plans to investigate the possible establishment of a school zone in front of River Valley Intermediate School, as traffic has gotten heavier since the school was built four years ago.
Waco Independent School District officials are looking to join with the city — which could expand its private clinic to provide more preventive care — in an effort to drive down the district’s health insurance costs.
As the country paused Thursday to remember the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, some of the youngest Waco-area students were learning the history of the event for the first time.
Waco Independent School District teacher Jennifer Kunz said remembering the poverty she endured as a child and the abandonment it caused gives her the resolve not to let her students feel as unloved as she did.
Local school officials are thrilled with an Austin judge’s ruling that the state’s current school-funding policies are unconstitutional, leading Waco Independent School District officials to expect increased funding to reach the state’s high accountability standards in the next few years.
WAXAHACHIE — Authorities say 12 elementary students suffered minor injuries when their school bus overturned between Waxahachie and Boyce when their driver became distracted.
Five Waco Independent School District elementary schools will keep their social workers after the board of trustees accepted the second installment of a grant funding the Waco Counseling Project.
The Waco Independent School District board of trustees unanimously approved a slightly lowered tax rate Wednesday after a public hearing in which no one contested the decision.
The rise in property values this year could give Waco Independent School District an additional $310 per student for the upcoming school year to cover teacher raises and new vehicles.
Indian Spring Middle School teachers come into this school year with some new priorities and prepared for the first day of school with a week of in-service training, resulting in a calm start to the 2014-15 school year for the campus Monday.
Waco Mammoth Site program director Raegan King wants to bring the field trip into the classroom this year as the city park looks to expand its influence within local school districts.
Figuring out the number of calories in a meal could soon become as simple as pushing a button, thanks to a new calorie-counter machine GE is developing with Baylor University.
Waco Independent School District school board members were told last week that the district’s enrollment numbers will have a minimal decline during the next five years.
Waco Independent School District human resource officials on Thursday recommended United Healthcare as the district’s new health insurance provider after its former carrier, Humana, asked for a 48 percent increase to renew with the same employee coverage.
Waco Independent School District will not renew an agreement with Waco Transit System to provide free bus rides for students after it saw student ridership increase, but attendance actually fall.
Waco Independent School District officials have often pointed to poverty as one of the hindrances to raising academic scores in the region, but board President Pat Atkins said poverty isn’t an excuse for poor state-mandated accountability ratings.
The man suspected of setting a fire at the Midway Independent School District agricultural barn late last month has been arrested.
Poet T.S. Eliot called April the cruelest month, but for the more than 1,700 high school students in McLennan County marching bands, it’s August that’s the killer. Hands, horns and flags down.