Computers and artificial intelligence will help score open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), with "low-confidence" scores to be reassessed by humans.
A coalition of Rio Grande Valley environmental and Indigenous groups is suing the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department over the agency's approval of a land swap with SpaceX in South Texas.
Thousands of students filed into Wolff Municipal Stadium Monday morning to observe the long-awaited solar eclipse as part of a watch party hosted by the Witte Museum and DoSeum.
The AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone in Fort Worth is becoming a center for developing next-gen transportation technologies. It’s situated near an interstate, rail lines and an air cargo hub.
The IRS launched the pilot program known as Direct File in a dozen states this year, including Texas, and about 50,000 people who are residents of those states have used it so far.
North Texas is now ranked second in U.S. markets by its inventory of data centers, according to commercial real estate services firm CBRE. Online lifestyles and the growth of AI and cloud-based tech are partly responsible for the demand.
Texas added more solar capacity than any other state in 2023 — topping California for just the second time — according to a new report, which attributes the growth to a boom in utility-scale projects.
Texas Parks and Wildlife commissioners will decide whether to turn over 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park in exchange for 477 acres near the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, about 10 miles away.
States are allocating money from the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program toward training, multifactor authentication work and encouraging a move to .gov domains. But funding is currently set to run out in 2025.
Roughly three-quarters of essay answers on the STAAR test, the standardized achievement test in Texas K-12 schools, will be assessed by an automated scoring engine programmed to emulate how humans would score an essay.
