The State Board of Education and the Texas Commissioner of Education oversee the public education system in the state. They decide what Texas public school students can be taught.

A powerful Texas legislative committee that will take a close look at what Texas is doing to convert more seawater and brackish water into new reservoirs of drinking water will include Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, who on Friday, March 28, was appointed to the Joint Interim Committee to Study Water Desalination.

Major issues affecting juvenile justice in Texas, including protecting the rights of juries to have more options in the punishment and rehabilitation of 17-year-olds accused of serious felonies, will be taken up in Austin on Tuesday, March 25, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has announced.

As a child my grandmother would often tell me, “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres,” which roughly translates into, “You can judge a man by the company he keeps.”

More than 300 elementary students donned floppy red-and-white striped hats Monday as they sat in their school’s gym and listened to a diverse lineup of speakers promoting the virtues of habitual reading.

Representative Terry Canales joins House Energy Resources Committee on Seismic Activity to investigate links between oil and gas drilling and earthquakes.  

The three-week, Texas Department of Public Safety-led enforcement surge in the Rio Grande Valley this fall may become a more permanent border security strategy, minus one controversial aspect of the operation.

Texas lawmakers from the Rio Grande Valley make the “Aye” symbol on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives last spring after unanimously voting for the creation of a new university merging the University of Texas-Pan American and University of Texas at Brownsville, and the creation of a new medical school. 

Like a vision determined to become reality, Valley state lawmakers will once again push for legislation to create a University of Texas Law School in South Texas, and Rep.-elect Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, says he will support that effort.

Dubbed “Operation Strong Safety,” the $3.4 million, three-week initiative in the Rio Grande Valley included increased patrols and traffic checkpoints in DPS primary jurisdictions — rural areas and unincorporated colonias — and ended nearly three weeks ago.