AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Attorney General Ken Paxton joined Stratford High School students in Houston on Wednesday to celebrate the inception of their Charlie Kirk-inspired student group. “I’m here because ...

In K–12 education, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly being applied to support learning, engagement, and accessibility. However, developing ASR systems for children continues to poses ...

Students hold a protest in defense of free speech near the Fighting Stallions statue at the Texas State University campus on Sept. 17, 2025. Texas lawmakers will hold a hearing Thursday to discuss ...

Texas Sen. Paul Bettencourt, left, and Texas Rep. Terry Wilson chair the Senate and House Select Committees on Civil Discourse and Freedom of Speech in Higher Education. "Texas will defend open ...

From military bases to public universities, censorship is spreading. The ACLU is pushing back to protect the right to read, learn, and speak without fear. Across the country, lawmakers and federal ...

(The Center Square) – Two hundred seventy-four incidents involving interference with free speech have taken place so far on college campuses in 2025, according to FIRE data, an increase from 2020’s ...

"Once again targeting higher ed, Texas lawmakers limited faculty influence, campus speech this session" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that ...

In 2015, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School named Teng Biao scheduled a public event with another Chinese dissident that coincided with the visit by Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, to ...

After plummeting 56 spots last year, the University of New Hampshire is moving back up in the ranks of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) campus free speech rankings, placing ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas — As Texas lawmakers discuss freedom of speech in education, one local district is pushing back on claims that it is blocking students from creating a conservative club. On Wednesday ...

Freedom of speech in education brought to forefront after Kirk assassination Texas Politics Attorney General Ken Paxton joined Stratford High School students in Houston on Wednesday to celebrate the ...