Texas Third Court of Appeals: ISD employees don’t lose their state-law-guaranteed employment rights by working in ISD/charter partnership campuses.
Morath chose Texas High School for Accelerated Learning (THSAL) — that seeks to open in the Houston area (Spring and Aldine ISDs) no earlier than SY 2027-28.
Dallas-based Nova Academy has withdrawn its application to TEA to permanently close and transfer its students to a sister charter located elsewhere in Dallas County.
Education Commissioner Mike Morath recently approved Goodwater Montessori School’s application to permanently close, effective July 31, 2026.
Five of the 18 (“Generation 31”) applicants seeking to open new charter districts no earlier…
Ruling: A judge should have dismissed a discrimination/wrongful termination lawsuit a fired charter teacher filed against the charter and up to 25 unnamed co-defendants.
The TEA is reporting that 69,853 individual students were on Texas charter admission waitlists as…
Appeals Court: A jury — not a judge — may have to decide the outcome of the religious discrimination/retaliation lawsuit an ex-Harmony charter employee filed against the charter.
Two applicants for new Subchapter G Adult High School Charter Schools have advanced to the…
Sixteen of the 18 latest (“Generation 31”) applicants seeking to open new charter districts no…
Education Commissioner Mike Morath didn’t waste any time approving Houston-based Yellowstone College Preparatory‘s request to…
The TEA received no applicants for fast-tracked charter approvals during the latest (Generation 31) charter…
Dallas-based Bridgeway Preparatory Academy has asked the education commissioner for permission to close and return its charter to the state, effective June 1, 2026.
Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (Houston)
Ruling: A charter school has immunity from being sued by an ex-employee who claimed she was fired for reporting suspected child abuse to child protective services (CPS).
The Meadowland Charter District has petitioned the education commissioner to close and return its charter to the state effective June 30, 2026.
The state’s first — and thus far only — charter approved as a “high-performing entity”…
After a winning a hard-fought battle for state approval 2023, a new charter district planned for Houston won’t open after all.
One charter was revoked, four charters were nonrenewed and seven charters voluntarily closed.
The TEA on Friday (Aug. 15, 2025) officially opened the Generation 31 cycle for charter…
Commissioner’s comments, charter school approvals/rejections, ISD board training “framework,” American Indian/Native American Course … and more.
The TEA on Friday afternoon (May 30, 2025) posted the commissioner’s six selections — under…
The TEA is in the midst of conducting the required “capacity interviews” for the seven…
Seven applicants — under the TEA’s traditional approval cycle — remain in the running for…
The number of prospective students put on waitlists to enroll in Texas charters in fall…
The education commissioner has approved — subject to State Board of Education (SBOE) veto in…
An effort aimed at “supporting Texas public schools and making charter schools more transparent and…
TEA reports SY 2022-23 charter fee collections and charter student “leaver” data
Of the 25 applicants for new “Generation 30” charter districts, 21 are still in the running.
Ruling: A Texas charter school has — thus far — failed to show that it has “sovereign immunity” from being sued over an ex-teacher’s claim that she was wrongfully terminated in violation of federal law.
Ruling: The commissioner lacks the legal authority to consider employment termination appeals arising from charter…
The TEA reported (as of press time) that one out-of-state charter operator met the Dec….
A complete rewrite of charter school rules, plus changes to the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook and the Local Optional Teacher Designation System.
SBOE members could find themselves voting on vetoing some of the applicants for new charters as soon as their January and April 2025 meetings, instead of having to wait until their traditional June 2025 meeting to do so.
The TEA, via today’s Texas Register, opened the latest (Generation 30) application season that will…
Fifth Circuit: Although a former charter district’s chief financial officer failed to show he was discriminated against due to his race, he can still pursue his whistleblower retaliation claim against the district.
Ruling: A missed legal deadline by the TEA’s attorneys means that officials of a revoked charter can continue to litigate claims that the state illegally seized its two campuses and related property.
Ruling: An entity that provided student-related services for a charter district’s campuses can only sue the charter for breach of contract for nonpayment for services that the entity actually rendered for the charter — and not for lost profits that the entity expected to receive under agreements that the charter no longer honored.
A charter school has legal immunity over being sued by a teacher who was fired on a finding that he had used excessive force against a student with a disability while trying to break up a fight between that student and another student.
The TEA today posted the names of the five finalist charter applicants selected by the…
The TEA has posted the schedule for the eight remaining charter applicants seeking to open…
Seventh (and final) in a series.
The TEA has posted the names of the nine applicants that will advance to the…
TEA reports SY 2021-22 charter fee collections and charter student “leaver” data
The state-law ban on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at public higher-ed entities has…
A charter school doesn’t have to pay a bill submitted by a law firm that provided legal services for the charter — under a contract signed by the charter’s two co-CEOs — because the charter’s governing board never approved the contract
Ruling: Decisions by charter schools are not appealable to the …
The State Board of Education (SBOE) gave final approval to four applicants for new (Generation 28) charter districts to open in School Year 2024-25, and rejected …
The education commissioner is proposing that the State Board of Education (SBOE) “approve” (by not vetoing) five applicants to open new charter districts.
Ruling: A public charter school district didn’t fire its marketing specialist for being a Muslim…
TEA staff and State Board of Education members will interview the eight remaining applicants for…
The TEA released the names of the eight applicants that will advance to the next stage of being considered to open new charter districts in Texas beginning in School Year 2024-25.
Click the image below to view/download the TexEdNews report of public charter district superintendent base…
Newly released TEA data reflects that ISDs and charters collectively enrolled a record 5,518,432 students…
The TEA reported this month that 66,512 individual students were put on one or more…
Ruling: “Read a million words” (and similar) student reading incentive programs — offered by an…
Ruling: A civil rights lawsuit filed by an African American charter school teacher who claimed…
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