Bill Zeeble
Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues. Heâââ
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Citing a shortage of school counselors, Texas passed a law allowing chaplains to be school counselors. Some say it's the government's responsibility, not churches', to provide mental health services.
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State lawmakers made vaping or possession of a vape at school punishable by mandatory assignment to a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program. School districts now have to adopt the policy to comply with the law.
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Carroll ISD's board struck gender identity and sexual orientation from its nondiscrimination statement. Placing that amended policy — while adding revised bathroom and pronoun rules — to new student handbooks reignited old fires at Monday's school board meeting.
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A law banning DEI programs in Texas higher education takes effect in January. Critics say it'll hurt students, businesses and the state.
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Teens from China, South Korea and the US are vying for a $15,000 prize and scholarships in the 3rd Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival.
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Political pitches for school vouchers, or “education savings accounts,” cite “school choice” and “education freedom." The same arguments helped sell public charter schools in the 1990s.
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Six finalists competed in the competition in Fort Worth, Texas, including two from Russia and one from Ukraine. An 18-year-old South Korean was the youngest to win in the contest's 60-year history.
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We'll have the latest from the hostage situation which developed overnight at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.
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A police SWAT team is conducting operations at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, near Dallas.
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Early Saturday morning, a white officer in Fort Worth, Texas, shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson inside her home. A worried neighbor had called to report that the door to Jefferson's home was open.