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Mentors Providing Books And Prayer For 3rd Grade Students

Major strides were made for Texas Teachers and the state's educational funding this week, as Governor Abbott signed House Bill 3 Tuesday.

Teacher Appreciation Week is coming soon, and we want to help our awesome East Texas educators score delicious deals.

If you had to pick someone to trust from a list including weather forecasters, business leaders, journalists, real estate agents, judges, and nurses, who would you pick? Most of us stick with the ones who might give us the greatest emotional connection, and it's not business leaders.

Winter parties are happening this week at East Texas schools, and if you're looking to give a thank-you gift to a teacher that he or she will really appreciate, we've got several good ideas. And they're all affordable.

Texas families spend big on school supplies every year. Sometimes parents wonder if everything on the list is really necessary. Here East Texas teachers share their thoughts.

Teachers deserve a nice, relaxing drink after nine months of hard work trying to shape and inspire all of our budding little Einsteins. So parents, if you're looking to have a little fun with teacher appreciation gifts right now, this might be a perfect idea.

As the key component of his proposal, this list would enforce any adult in the school system who has had unlawful interactions with a student to be banned from any future school employment.

When was the last time you had some fun with sea life?

Wednesday educators from all over East Texas gathered on the Gregg County Courthouse lawn to use their teacher voices, and get the attention of Texas legislators.

Every few weeks we do one of these stories and it doesn't look like they're stopping anytime soon. The latest teacher/student sex scandal comes to us from Lockhart, Texas, just south of Austin.

If you don't mind the drive, one big Texas zoo is letting teachers in free for the rest of the month, and friends that go along can get big discounts too.  Road trip!