A Texas father is speaking out about the stabbing death of his 17-year-old son during a high school track meet after an apparent seating dispute.

We know baseball, softball and track & field season are all currently in-season, but high school football reigns supreme throughout the great state of Texas. Football schedules for the 2025 season are starting to be announced all across the Lone Star State and High School On SI Texas will share these as we see them.

Photos from the 2024 Texas high school girls soccer season. See pictures of 2024 UIL action near Austin.

Texas families have not received a full picture of their schools’ ratings since 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and lawsuits blocking their release.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) can release its 2023 A-F school accountability ratings, a judge ruled Thursday. This Texas accountability system rates schools and districts based on a variety of metrics, including standardized tests and preparedness for college. Schools and districts are assigned an A-F rating under this system.

Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old football player at Frisco Memorial High School in Texas, was fatally stabbed while attending a track and field event at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco on Wednesday.

House Bill 619 would allow students to transfer for athletic purposes. But the state's leaders in high school athletics are opposed.

The Texas House Public Education Committee passed a sweeping school finance proposal on Thursday, along with a bill that would create a program allowing parents to use public funds to pay for private schools.

A Tribune analysis also found the state’s share of the funds that schools receive per student significantly decreased in the last decade until recently.