Texas district that axed sports gets new life

Published May 21, 2013 6:55pm ET



KINGSVILLE, Texas (AP) — An underperforming South Texas school district that swapped funding sports for new science labs when threatened with closure in 2011 will remain open under an academic agreement announced Tuesday between the district and Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Leaders of the Premont Independent School District joined state Education Commissioner Michael Williams and John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, for the announcement.

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