The Frenship Board of Trustees unanimously approved a recommendation to build a new high school for the Frenship Independent School District. This recommendation was made as a way to accommodate the school district’s growth.
Delong Zuo, associate professor in Texas Tech’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, will testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee today.
Questions about the reading and writing tests arose after some education advocates pointed to studies showing passages were written above elementary and middle schoolers' grade levels.
The agreement establishes a Texas Tech regional site on the Midland College campus and makes it easier for Midland College students to not only take Texas Tech courses, but also transfer to the university.
Texas Tech University will be signing an agreement with Midland Colleg on Monday afternoon, making it easier for students to transfer to take TTU courses and transfer to Texas Tech.
The Lubbock Independent School District has approved a plan to turn Smylie Wilson Middle School into a magnet school. Current students will be rezoned and will attend either Irons or Mackenzie middle schools.
After years of bitter debate over whether ethnic studies courses are racially divisive, the Texas State Board of Education appears poised to approve its first African American studies course next year.
The Snyder Independent School District will close its junior high campus and re-open after an all-district grade realignment. This comes after a meeting with the Texas Education Agency commissioner.
Three Snyder Independent School District administrators will meet with the Texas Education Agency commissioner to discuss the possible closure of its junior high school and the overhaul of its board of trustees.
The Texas Association of School Administrators has picked Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District’s Superintendent, Keith Bryant, as the Texas nominee for the 2020 National Superintendent of the Year.
Four young women from Snyder High School are winners of the 2019 Texas Midwest Community Network Youth Leadership competition for their work on the STREAM mobile learning unit.
Dean Guy Loneragan announced today (Oct. 30) the hiring of Dr. John Dascanio to serve as the senior associate dean for the School of Veterinary Medicine. In his role, Dr. Dascanio will oversee the curriculum and student support services while overseeing the faculty and its development.
Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell, the Texas Tech University System chancellor, is set to leave his position as president of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and become the system’s full-time chancellor.
The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is hoping to “advance the creative economy of Texas by investing in the future of the arts,” through a $5,000 grant to talented Texas High School students.
Dominick Casadonte Jr., a Minnie Stevens Piper professor at Texas Tech, has been awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
Texas Tech has solidified two agreements that will allow undergraduate students from Austin College to earn their master’s degree from Tech, and faculty from Tech to teach on the Austin College campus.
Texas Tech University Homecoming Week events will begin at noon on Monday (Oct. 14) with a kickoff event at the Student Union Building (SUB) North Plaza and end Saturday (Oct. 19) with the football game against Iowa State at Jones AT&T Stadium.
Residents will have the chance to ask state legislators about education funding, accountability and school choice during a town hall hosted by Lubbock Independent School District.
Shallowater Intermediate School hosted its first “High Fives with Heroes” event Friday morning where all local first responders were invited to greet students with smiles and high fives as they entered the school.
The America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education program is awarding Shallowater High School a $25,000 grant to improve the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) curriculum, thanks to support from local farmers.
For the sixth consecutive year Lubbock Christian University has been placed on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Honor Roll of Great Colleges to Work for.
Administration with Texas Tech and the Texas Tech University System are in Amarillo for the groundbreaking ceremony for the upcoming School of Veterinary Medicine.
Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Center at Texas Tech University, has received a 2019 Champions of the Earth Award, the United Nations’ highest environmental honor, for her commitment to understanding the effects of climate change and efforts to transform public attitudes.
Mike Morath, the Texas Education Agency commissioner, will make a visit to Dunbar College Preparatory Academy Wednesday afternoon and speak with students as part of a scheduled trip to Lubbock.
A nonprofit that advocates for children says the rate of student suspensions has fallen by nearly a third since the state implemented a law barring suspensions except in extreme circumstances
A bolt of lightning struck an elevated electrical breaker box at the top of the Brownfield Independent School District Administration Building at 601 Tahoka Rd.
The Lubbock Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a 7 cent tax rate decrease for the 2019-2020 school year during a morning board meeting on Thursday.
The Texas Education Agency has released its annual academic accountability ratings and most of the schools around the South Plains are in good standing with the agency.
Join KCBD, Frontier Dodge, and Spirit Chrysler in honoring our local educators by nominating a teacher for a $500 prize, and $500 to the charity of their choice.
We’re in the final stretch of summer and schools across the South Plains are about to start their 2019-2020 school year. Here are the dates for the first day of school for some schools in the area.
Lubbock Habitat for Humanity will be partnering with Children's Hope, a non-profit providing a nurturing home for abused children, for a school supply drive Saturday, August 10th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Restore 8004 Indiana Ave B-8.
A workshop during the Lubbock Independent School District’s Board of Trustees meeting Thursday morning shined a light on two options the district has if it were to arm teachers.
Texas Tech’s College Connect will host the 20th Annual Back to School Fiesta event from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 3, on the west side of Jones AT&T Stadium.
The Brownfield Independent School District’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously during a Wednesday night board meeting to approve raises for all employees in the district.
Football and volleyball two-a-days are about a month away. By the time the athletes hit the gridiron or court, they have to have their sports physicals done. A new rule from Texas’ University Interscholastic League, or UIL, is requiring another group of students to that list this summer.
The Texas Tech Board of Regents approved an $8.4 million budget that will establish a design, professional services, administrative costs and other items related to the new School of Veterinary Medicine.
Lubbock Christian University has assembled a team of three administrators that will step into interim leadership roles after the university’s current president leaves in early July.
Lubbock ISD announced its new budget Thursday morning, which will allocate nearly $6 million to raising teacher pay. The increase comes as part of school finance reform passed by state lawmakers.
Lubbock Independent School District has announced changes to teacher’s salaries following legislation that was passed by state law makers regarding school finance reform.
The Institution for Productivity in Education and Educational Results Partnerships have released a list of 855 schools that have made the Texas Honor Roll list. Included in the more than 800 schools are some from the South Plains.
The Educational Results Partnership has named Legacy Elementary School, with Frenship Independent School District, as one of the 855 public schools on the 2018-2019 Texas Honor Roll.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law teacher raises and a sweeping overhaul of how the state pays to educate more than 5 million students in public schools
Students from each Lubbock Independent School District middle school tested hovercrafts they have been building this week with the help of teachers and undergraduate students from Texas Tech.
Lubbock High School graduate Carson Freimuth was announced today as one of the 81 members of the inaugural 2019 National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame (NFF) Team of Distinction.
The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) will recognize two Texas Tech University faculty members for their contributions to the meat industry during its annual conference next month.
Mary Jo Newton, from Trinity Christian Schools, has been named the winner of the first Christian Teacher of the Year Award, given by Alpha Omega Publications.
Opera singer Susan Graham and author Barry Lopez will take the stage this year as the spring 2019 commencement speakers for Texas Tech. The ceremonies are scheduled for Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18.
Two fifth-grade students who have a perfect attendance record from each of Lubbock Independent School District’s 32 elementary schools will receive a free bicycle, courtesy of the Rotary Club of Lubbock.
Undergraduate and graduate students are wrapping up their college careers in upcoming weekends. KCBD has all the information you need on the local commencement ceremonies.
Atkins Middle School teacher Kelli Stevens is the eighth 2018-2019 recipient of KCBD’s One Class At A Time $500 donation and recognition sponsored by Frontier Dodge and Spirit Automotive.
