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Sarah Hodel and Rachel Koehler arrived at Robin Roberts Stadium more than four hours before the first game of the Women's Professional Baseball League. Once inside, Hodel stopped periodically for pictures as she walked along the concourse. She wanted to savor every moment. “Back ...
With the school year starting soon and summer winding down, there is still time to take advantage of all the events happening across San Antonio. Several places are also hosting back-to-school giveaways to help families transition to the new school year. >> Back-to-school start d...
Festival organizers say proposed cuts to city funding could reduce author appearances, school visits and programming at the free annual event.
A 2025 state law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms was upheld last spring by a federal appeals court. Now it's being challenged in a state-level court in Harris County....
A 1936 home recently listed for sale in Monticello Park is a gem of Art Deco architecture, and according to its listing agent, the property is a steal. Priced at $495,000, the two-bedroom, single-bath home near Woodlawn Lake packs in a lot of luxury, considering the price point. ...
A West Side after-school program that 150-plus children rely on each week may not be able to reopen unless new funding arrives — putting tutoring, food support and a safe haven for teens in jeopardy. Harper’s Chapel Ministries was empty this week on a day when students would norm...
Oprah Winfrey says she will close the school for underprivileged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year. Winfrey opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in 2007 after being inspired by conversations with former South African Preside...
Back-to-school season is just around the corner, and for many families, the cost of supplies, clothes, and haircuts adds up fast. One San Antonio barber school owner is trying to lighten those costs — one free haircut at a time. At back-to-school events across the San Antonio are...
A former Stockdale Independent School District teacher was sentenced to 13 years in prison after he was accused of having an improper relationship with a student. In a news release Thursday, 81st Judicial District Attorney Audrey Gossett Louis announced sentencing for Peter Aaron...
While many teenagers took a break from learning this summer, dozens of San Antonio high schoolers spent their time studying in a professional-grade laboratory. The Valero Young Scientist Program at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute wrapped up its third summer, bringing risi...
A small church organization on the South Side has collected hundreds of backpacks to celebrate children’s start to a new school year. Robert Gonzalez is the senior pastor of Del Cielo a La Tierra, which is located at 451 New Laredo Highway. Gonzalez started his small church in a ...
Should students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide....
North Carolina coach Bill Belichick opened his second preseason camp Thursday saying the program is adjusting internal duties with general manager Michael Lombardi on paid administrative leave and the subject of a school investigation. “We’re working through some things,” Belichi...
A sentencing hearing was underway Thursday for a man who gave his son the gun used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia after he was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Colin Gray's sentencing comes just days after ...
A 16-year-old was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while on her way to church, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said in a Facebook post Wednesday. Emely Suaza Chambo was a student at Churchill High School. Castro said ICE told her father, Fernando Suaza Ortiz, t...
In a room full of 11th graders, reading Andrea Sanderson’s work is like sitting in a masterclass of poetry. Students’ eyes were drawn to the screen in the front of the classroom, the words flowing like water as they tried to grasp every single lyric. While it was awkward for a te...
Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein , a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people. Interlochen Center for ...
Lawmakers again call for the Dilley detention center to be shut down; Spurs agree to pay up for a failed MLS bid; See when local colleges head back to school...
Farah Berent, a teacher in Michigan, used to learn about politics from channels like ABC, CBS and CNN. But that changed as she decided that coverage of the war in Gaza was irreparably biased. "I couldn’t stand all the lies on the stations,″ she said, arguing that there wasn't eno...
A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns, including the maker's ties to a company that produces hyper re...
The U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday it was investigating allegations that a high school teacher in the Denver school district required students of the same sex to kiss in front of a class and a district in Washington state displayed vials of testosterone in a Pride mont...
A prosecutor said that a teenager who killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia carefully plotted the killing specifically to become famous, while a defense attorney argued that the terrible actions were those of a vulnerable and neglected child. Co...
Out of a dozen school districts in San Antonio, only three are likely to balance their budget for the upcoming 2026-27 school year. Most San Antonio school districts head into a new school year with budget deficits was first posted on July 28, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 " San An...
Texas university leaders on Tuesday will share their progress and challenges in carrying out a new state law that gives governor-appointed regents more control over what students learn. A Texas Senate committee will hear invited testimony only. However, students and professors wh...
The College Football Players Association, an organization advocating for unionization and collective bargaining, announced Monday that Stanford has become the first team to organize a player-led chapter. CFBPA executive director Jason Stahl said the goal is for other Atlantic Coa...
The teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a 2024 shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School had a chaotic, lonely upbringing and immersed himself in an online community of people interested in mass shootings, a psychologist testified Monday. Colt Gray, 16, pleaded...
North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi has been placed on paid administrative leave. The school announced the move with a statement Monday morning, coming days before the Tar Heels open preseason camp. The school didn't provide details as to the reason, noting t...
A San Antonio property owner is offering educators a year of rent-free housing in exchange for a few hours each week helping students and families at local apartment communities. The pilot “Educator-in-Residence” program is hosted by American Landmark at three area apartment comp...
More than 1,000 runners gathered at SeaWorld San Antonio with a shared mission: collecting school supplies for students in Edgewood Independent School District. Families, teachers and kids showed up Sunday for the San Antonio Fear Free Environment 5K Fun Run carrying backpacks an...
With summer break winding down, school districts are getting ready to welcome students back for the new school year. KSAT has compiled back-to-school start dates for all the Bexar County and surrounding school districts. The start dates span throughout August, with Comal ISD star...
Colleges and universities across San Antonio are preparing to welcome thousands of new and returning students this fall. Here are some important dates. Fall 2026: Key dates every San Antonio college student needs to know was first posted on July 25, 2026 at 11:00 am. ©2021 "...
Texas Biomed's Valero Young Scientist Program has doubled to 60 students in its third year. Now, its leaders are eying a possible extension. A summer in the lab: San Antonio teens chase STEM careers at Texas Biomed was first posted on July 25, 2026 at 9:00 am. ©2021 " San An...
India’s education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after weeks of protests that demanded his removal over alleged leaks in some of the country’s most competitive entrance exams and irregularities in the education system. Pradhan's announcement, in a post on social...
Property-wealthy districts say recapture gives the state too much control over local finances. But advocates warn that without it, underserved students could end up worse off....
In San Antonio, schools are named after neighborhoods, Supreme Court Justices, literary talents and local heroes. From local streets and heroes to SCOTUS justices and vibes, here’s how San Antonio schools got their names was first posted on July 24, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 " ...
A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts in a deadly shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia. Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously pleaded not guilty to charges in the Sept. 4, 202...
Now a decade into its existence, the Peanut Butter Bowl is coming back and better than ever. Since 2016, high schools from across San Antonio and surrounding areas have held a week-long food drive of peanut butter jars leading up to the opening weekend of high school football. Th...
Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk ended a 26-day hunger strike on Friday that helped galvanize a youth movement that's become one of India’s largest protests in recent years, but demonstrators vowed to continue until the education minister resigns. Wangchuk’s fast became a rallying ...
Renovations are coming to Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston after thousands of medical students living in dorms were relocated. Around 5,200 enlisted medical students at the base were relocated due to what officials described as “climate control systems and foundational def...
Already feeling pinched since the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices pushed past $100 a barrel Thursday amid renewed fighting and military strikes that have left global oil supplies stranded in the Middle East. The elevated price mar...
Midland ISD will sue Texas officials over the state’s so-called Robin Hood funding system for public schools, a significant attempt at forcing lawmakers to revisit how they go about ensuring low-income campuses benefit from resources similar to those that wealthier campuses enjoy...
Texas lawmakers should reshape how Texas funds public universities by giving them more money when students make progress toward degrees and graduate, the state’s higher education agency recommended Wednesday. That recommendation came during the same meeting at which Texas Higher ...
Rather than having parents take musicians to several practice locations, all the YOSA students will have one place to practice: YOSA Headquarters. Youth Orchestras of San Antonio finds a home for their music was first posted on July 22, 2026 at 2:50 pm. ©2021 " San Antonio R...
Approximately 5,200 enlisted medical students living in dorms at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston are being relocated due to what officials describe as “climate control systems and foundational defects” in the buildings. A JBSA spokesperson confirmed to KSAT that Army, Nav...
Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering. But now the colleges are short the millions they planned to receive as their successes outpaced what state lawmakers bu...
