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HOUSTON (AP) -- More than a dozen teachers and administrators from across Texas say they delayed or denied special education to disabled students in order to stay below the benchmark state officials set for the number of students who should get such services.
A Houston Chronicle investigation found the Texas Education Agency's enrollment benchmark for special education services of 8.5 percent has led to the systematic denial of services by school districts. In the years since Texas' 2004 implementation of the benchmark, the rate of students getting special education dropped from near the national average of 13 percent to the lowest in the country. It fell to 8.5 percent in 2015.
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Police Chief David Brown says he's retiring because, "it's time to go," but he's not saying what he'll do next.
DALLAS (AP) -- A Houston driller is boasting of a big new oil and gas discovery in West Texas.
Apache Corp. believes there could be 3 billion barrels of oil and 75 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in an area it calls Alpine High.
The company announced its discovery Wednesday after two years of drilling in the largely undeveloped region.
Apache shares are up 8 percent in midday trading.
Apache said it's accumulated more than 300,000 acres and drilled 19 wells in Alpine High, a small part of the sweeping and energy-rich Permian Basin of Texas.
CEO John Christmann says others have mistakenly overlooked the area.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The University of Texas recently asked the state Supreme Court to block a sex and race discrimination lawsuit filed by former women's track coach Bev Kearney, who was forced out in 2013 after the school learned about a romantic relationship with one of her athletes a decade earlier.
University lawyers argued in an Aug. 26 filing that Kearney hasn't shown she was treated differently than someone in a similar position, and that allowing the case to continue would rewrite the standards for when state agencies could be sued. Two lower courts have allowed Kearney's case to proceed.
Kearney sued in 2014, arguing that as a black woman, she was held to a tougher standard than a white male coach or other school officials who she alleges were in relationships with subordinates.
Shortly after she resigned under pressure of being fired, Texas revealed that former assistant football coach Major Applewhite was reprimanded, but not fired, for a relationship with a female student trainer on a 2009 bowl trip. Applewhite was later promoted and given pay raises. He stayed on the Texas staff until head coach Mack Brown was forced out after the 2013 season. Applewhite is now the offensive coordinator at the University of Houston.
ALPINE, Texas (AP) -- Police in the West Texas town of Alpine say there's an "active shooter" situation at a high school and schools have been locked down amid the search for a suspect.
Elizabeth Carter, a lieutenant at the Texas Department of Public Safety, said someone brought a gun onto the Alpine High School campus Thursday morning.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Lawyers for "affluenza" teenager Ethan Couch argue in a court filing that he should be released from jail because the judge in his case had no jurisdiction in the matter.
The Texas Tribune
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week called for a review of its current policy of detaining undocumented immigrants in private, for-profit facilities — several of which are in Texas.
The announcement comes after the U.S. Department of Justice called for a phasing out of its contracts with private facilities this month.
Former Gov. Rick Perry may be taking a break from campaigning to bust a move on the dance floor, following reports from an entertainment website that the politician may be joining the next season of "Dancing With the Stars."
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A South Texas man must serve 30 years in prison for the fatal beating of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have released a man jailed while home from his graduate studies in Texas after nearly five years, state media reported this week.
The report by the government-owned IRAN daily quoted Saeed Khalili, the lawyer for Omid Kokabee, as saying the country's judiciary will allow Kokabee to enjoy "conditional freedom" for the rest of his 10-year sentence.
Khalili said Kokabee was released from jail in April to undergo medical treatment on his kidneys and "will not return to prison, anymore."
