The Fifth Circuit is considering a challenge to Texas restrictions on overnight campus expression.

A federal proposal would remove Head Start’s national expulsion ban and strict suspension limits.

Texas families should know the major timelines for evaluation, eligibility and IEP development.

Texas’ amended school-restraint rules clarify emergency use, training, documentation and parent notification.

A judge ordered Galveston ISD to display donated Ten Commandments posters while a constitutional fight continues.

Aqua RichJo/ October 5,2026 A school locker room is supposed to be a place where students can change clothes without wondering whether somebody has a camera pointed at them. That should not be controversial. But an investigation involving a former Celina ISD student is raising serious questions about student privacy after police alleged that images were secretly taken inside a Celina High School locker room. And because everyone involved is a minor, let's establish something

Skyline High School students can spend four years learning barbering while earning the training hours needed for a professional licensing path — turning clippers, creativity and culture into potential careers and businesses. Aqua RichJo — October 1, 2026 While some high school students are walking across the graduation stage wondering: “Okay… now what?” Students at Dallas' Skyline High School could be walking across with something else already in motion: A CAREER. Skyline stu

Aqua RichJo | September 29, 2026 The federal government has formally removed the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations and restored the 2020 regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations. The change takes effect today, September 29. The 2024 rule explicitly addressed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; the restored 2020 rule uses a narrower sexual-harassment standard and gives people accused of misconduct additional procedural protectio

Aqua RichJo | September 28, 2026 A school rule can look the same on paper for every student and still produce sharply unequal outcomes. For years, federal civil-rights officials could examine that kind of disparate impact when deciding whether a school policy needed to change. The Trump administration has narrowed that approach, according to an Associated Press review of changes in federal school oversight. In July, the U.S. Department of Education removed disparate-impact pr

Aqua RichJo| September 25, 2026 At UT Austin, students may still be able to take classes on Black women’s history, LGBTQ literature and women’s lives. But under the university’s redesigned core curriculum, none of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses submitted for review were approved to satisfy core requirements. That is a decision about what counts toward every undergraduate’s foundational education—and who gets to make that call. Reporting published September