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Dallas News • 18th August 2018

Richardson, Frisco, Dallas and more: Why Texas school districts are asking voters to raise taxes

More and more, public school officials are done waiting on help from Austin. The state's complicated and dated public school finance system has stymied districts as education costs and demands pile up, some school officials say. Now, dozens of...

Dallas News • 20th May 2016

UNT grad overcomes brain surgery, mom's death, raising brother: 'Life doesn't have to be easy to be good.'

An ordinary girl who likes to watch YouTube videos and Gilmore Girls reruns, Katelyn has had a college life that was far from average.

The Dallas Morning News • 2nd January 2019

Frisco ISD added more than 15,000 students in 5 years. What's behind the boom?

"There's just been a lot of good PR, and there's land here," said Todd Fouche, Frisco ISD's deputy superintendent of business and operations.

The Dallas Morning News • 26th December 2018

The years aren’t getting any easier for families that grow cotton, Texas’ No. 1 cash crop

They call it sorry cotton. The yellowed, scrawny crop is what Matt Farmer and his son-in-law Garron Morgan say they have too much of this year. "We've got a lot more sorry cotton than we've got good cotton," Garron, 38, said over the roar of the...

The Dallas Morning News • 31st October 2018

Why Richardson ISD's former CFO has a 'vote no' sign in his yard opposing the district's school tax increase election

Tony Harkleroad was apprehensive when he staked the sign that read "Vote No" in big, block letters in his front yard. The little piece of political advocacy against Richardson ISD's tax ratification election was a line in the sand, placing him on one...

The Dallas Morning News • 3rd October 2018

When watching OU football with my grandmother, I wonder how much time is left

There are a lot of places I'd rather be. And sitting in this stadium — on a metal bench as sweat trickles down my back in a slow drip — is not one of them. Wasted Saturday afternoon, I joke.

The Dallas Morning News • 28th September 2018

Why an Oklahoma teacher quit her job, left her husband back home and came to Frisco ISD

On her son's high school graduation day, Amy Hardesty hid in her bedroom. One room over, family from out-of-town celebrated the end of her youngest son's senior year of high school. They congratulated Brent, Amy's husband, on his soon-to-be empty...

The Dallas Morning News • 13th October 2017

Dallas ISD is expected to lose thousands of students in a decade, but these are choosing to stay

Standing in the library among shelves of young adult books, David Goltl lowered his voice to a whisper as if he was about to say a bad word. They call this "the bad school," he said. He's talking about Robert T. Hill Middle School — the East Dallas...

The Dallas Morning News • 23rd August 2017

Texans and student debt: The 'quiet reality' of life burdened by loans

Earlier this year, The Dallas Morning News issued a call for Texans to share their stories of college debt and received 46 responses. Some wanted to be anonymous while others, with debt totaling six figures, backed out, citing embarrassment and fear...

The Dallas Morning News • 30th June 2017

From hatch to table: 100 chickens' journey from the farm to Dallas' Cafe Momentum

The chicken had its last hurrah as a roasted dinner special. The centerpiece on a white porcelain plate, its skin browned until crispy and brushed in bourbon and soy. This was no store-bought chicken, no factory-produced freak grown in just weeks and...