Reporting Texas
News and features from UT-Austin's School of Journalism
byOisakhose Aghomo
For 24 year-old Kazey Olvera, sex-ed classes at her North Texas high school were the closest she ever got to the birds and the bees.
“They taught it in one of our science classes,” Olvera said, “I never had the sex talk or even really the period talk growing up. My parents were very strict. Sex and dating culture has been insane trying to figure it out on my own.”
Olvera is not alone. Experts say Gen Z, the generation born between 1997 and 2012, is struggling to navigate real-life sex and dating culture in a digital age, and research points to this generation having less sex.
Now, their teenage counterparts will have less access to information about sex after parents’ rights groups successfully lobbied for a new law that restricts Texas schools from teaching sex education or providing student health services unless parents have specifically authorized it.
byDestiny Lewis
A federal judge has allowed key First Amendment claims to move forward in a lawsuit filed by University of Texas at Austin students who were arrested and disciplined after participating in a pro-Palestine protest on campus in April 2024. The lawsuit, filed by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in April 2025, alleges that UT-Austin officials and […]
byRachel N. Madison
Protesters at the Texas Capitol called for the Legislature to stop the rapid spread of data centers Monday, urging representatives to hold a special session to discuss the environmental impacts of the new technology. “My land is being threatened,” said Rena Schroeder, a Republican candidate for a state Senate seat in South Texas. “We […]
bySheldon Munroe
Technology venture capitalists from around the world who converged in Austin recently say the Texas tech ecosystem is still young and creating distinctive investment opportunities in a rapidly expanding digital economy. “What I found in Texas in the last few days, I felt these venture capitalists are so patient and they are looking for solutions […]
