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How do I get my SuperSearch on TexasISD.com?Preventive Law: Lowering Costs in Construction Manager-at-Risk Agreements: Protecting Audit Rights and Other Cost-Saving Strategies
Subchapter F of Chapter 2269 of the Texas Government Code allows school districts to utilize the Construction Manager-at-Risk (CMAR) method of delivery for their construction projects. CMAR projects are usually built on a “cost plus fee” basis, subject to a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP). In a cost-plus-fee agreement under the CMAR method, a school district generally agrees to pay the actual documented costs as agreed in the contract (e.g. labor, materials, equipment, insurance, bonds) associated with construction of the project, plus the Construction Manager’s fee, up to the GMP. The Construction Manager is “at risk” for the amount that exceeds the GMP.
Preventive Law: All in the Family: Nepotism in ISD Hiring
Summer in Texas means triple-digit heat, a suspicious amount of construction on every major highway, and superintendents scrambling to make sure every classroom has a teacher before school begins. Hiring season is chaotic, and given the pressure to be fully staffed, it can be tempting to hire that perfectly qualified relative of a board member who just happens to be looking for a teaching job.
What are Prekindergarten (Pre-K) Partnerships?
Prekindergarten partnerships are collaborations between local education agencies (LEAs) such as school districts or open-enrollment charter schools, and private child care or Head Start programs. LEAs, and private child care or Head Start programs, may establish formal or informal partnerships based on enrollment and development activities. The partnerships are developed to reflect the needs of children and families, local resources available, and community trends. Public-private prekindergarten partnerships are encouraged because of the collaborative opportunities and benefits they foster, and are required by Texas Education Code 29.1533 in some situations. Providers must also meet solicitation, eligibility, and enrollment requirements required by TEC §29.171.
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Texas state leaders aim to crack down on alleged birth tourism, as Trump’s executive order hits legal barrier
Texas Republican leaders are pushing ahead with efforts to crack down on alleged "birth tourism," even as a federal district court has blocked an effort by President Donald Trump to do the same nationwide. A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's August executive order banning the practice last week. The ruling last Wednesday marked the latest defeat for Trump's efforts to curtail or restrict the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants U.S. citizenship to virtually anyone born in the United States, regardless of the legal status of the parents.
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Texas COVID cases climb as flu season approaches
COVID cases are climbing in nearly every state. In Texas, there were 2,200 emergency room visits for COVID in the week ending August 22, right as schools were heading back into session. A third of those visits came from the public health region covering South Texas. During the last week of August, the San Perlita Independent School District in the Rio Grande Valley shut down for two days to slow rapid spread among students.
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OpenAI is Being Sued for Failing to Warn Officials about School Shooter
An 18-year-old young woman asked ChatGPT about violence. The bot gave her information instead of questioning and discouraging her violent urges. Months later, she killed her mother and stepbrother, then went to the local school and killed students and a teacher. The families of the victims are suing OpenAI for helping the shooter and failing to warn officials to stop her. OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert police about her alarming ChatGPT interactions during the run-up to the mass killing.
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UNT draws $20 million gift to open college of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics
The University of North Texas will establish a college of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics after receiving a $20 million gift, it announced Tuesday. The philanthropic investment comes from Vikas Sinha, a UNT alumnus and vice president of the mainframe software division at Broadcom, a semiconductor and infrastructure manufacturer, and his wife, Anuradha. As UNT looks to strengthen its artificial intelligence education, the new college will help advance research and better prepare students for a changing workforce, university officials said in a release. “Artificial intelligence will be one of the defining technologies of our generation, and universities have an essential role to play in preparing the people who will shape its future,” Vikas Sinha said. “What excites us about UNT’s vision is that this college will go beyond teaching students how to use AI. It will prepare them to build it, understand it, question it, govern it and apply it responsibly — developing both the builders and the stewards of intelligent systems.”
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Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Wasn’t the Moment Investors Expected
Anticipation had been building for weeks leading up to last Thursday, and rightly so. Tesla Inc. NASDAQ: TSLA was finally set to launch its Cybercab, the purpose-built robotaxi meant to propel it to the front of the self-driving race, and investors had been sending the shares higher, expecting a landmark moment. Instead, Thursday’s event landed with a thud. There was no livestream, no appearance from Elon Musk, and crucially, no detail on how Tesla intends to price, scale, or make money from the service.
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On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, States Newsroom editor remembers the heroes of Flight 93
As part of States Newsroom’s coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Editor-in-Chief Tim Lambert has written an essay about healing at the Flight 93 National Memorial. Instinctively, I glanced up at the blue sky. “It would have passed right over my head,” I thought as I looked out at the green field. A boulder marked the approximate area where United Flight 93 met the earth at more than 560 mph on Sept. 11, 2001. Forty innocent passengers and crew as well as four al-Qaida terrorists lost their lives there. It was peaceful now. The sound of birds, crickets and cicadas merged as the wind picked up again. The grass had recently been mowed, and 60-foot-tall hemlock trees still stood around the area that’s come to be known as the “bowl.” Has it really been 25 years since that horrible day?
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DOJ Now Requires All Texas Agencies To Report Illegal Aliens for Certain Funding
A new legal opinion dictates that all state agencies, in order to receive most forms of federal welfare funding, must report their knowledge of illegal aliens on those programs. The opinion targets the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Supplemental Security Income programs, which are received by all states, the District of Columbia, and some U.S. territories. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program “is designed to help families with children experiencing low-income achieve economic security and stability,” while the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) “provides monthly payments to people with disabilities and older adults who have little or no income or resources.” “When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser. “Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”
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Abbott Launches First Attack on Hinojosa Over Child Gender Mutilation
Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign is launching its first direct attack against Democrat gubernatorial nominee Gina Hinojosa, branding her “Gender Bender Gina” over her voting record on gender mutilation policies involving children. In a Tuesday email, the Abbott campaign pointed to Hinojosa’s 2023 vote against Senate Bill 14, which prohibited physicians from performing gender mutilation surgeries on minors or prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex.The legislation also prohibited the use of public money to provide the procedures. Hinojosa voted against the measure before it was ultimately approved by lawmakers and signed into law by Abbott. Abbott’s campaign also targeted Hinojosa over her opposition to House Bill 1106 during the most recent legislative session. That legislation amended the state’s definitions of child abuse and neglect to provide that a parent’s refusal to affirm a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity does not, by itself, constitute abuse or neglect. The measure was approved by lawmakers and signed by Abbott in June 2025.
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After rescoring STAAR exams, 11 Texas districts seeing A-F grades improve
The score changes are part of an annual process to review the accuracy of STAAR results, state officials said. About a dozen districts will see a bump in school accountability ratings on Tuesday after a manual rescoring of thousands of STAAR tests improved some results.
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South San ISD still must hold board elections under takeover. Only 3 people signed up, including ‘suspended’ trustees.
Two familiar faces from South San Antonio Independent School District, currently under state takeover, are planning their comebacks to the school board. Although they’ll have no power on the dais.Even with a state-appointed board of managers and superintendent, the district is still required to hold regular trustee elections. South San’s elections take place in November of even years, and school board terms are four years long. This year, Single Member Districts 1, 3 and 6 were supposed to go on the ballot, but only one person signed up to run for each seat. When the Texas Education Agency took over South San Antonio ISD in February of 2025, elected trustees were put on “suspended” duties, locked out of district emails and stripped of their governance power. Two of those trustees were Manuel R. Lopez, board president at the time and then-vice president Cynthia A. Ramirez, two longtime South San trustees who were last elected in 2022. opez and Ramirez both signed up to run again for seats in District 1 and 6. Lopez, 71, is a retired police officer who was first elected in South San board in 1998. Ramirez, 62, was first elected in 2000 and recently retired from Harlandale ISD after 26 years of working on the administrative side. She also runs Cinderella’s Closet, a program that helps Harlandale students find formal wear for special events.
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Texas education board approves controversial school curriculum changes
The State Board of Education gave final approval to changes to Texas' high school social studies curriculum. The changes involve how students will learn about Islam and Christianity. The revised social studies curriculum covers U.S. history, government and world geography.
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El Paso ISD audit flags financial and oversight failures in Andress High School band
An El Paso ISD audit found serious financial and oversight problems in the Andress High School band program, including allegations that district purchasing rules were bypassed and that the school’s principal did not provide sufficient oversight. According to the audit, former band director Manuel Talamantes went against district policy by using personal credit cards to front between $20,000 and $25,000 for band expenses and equipment. Talamantes told investigators he did so because the band did not have enough money at the time he needed to order equipment.
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An Austin ISD takeover could reverberate across the city
Whatever the state decides about the Austin school district in coming months may not stop at schoolhouse doors. A takeover could shift control of one of Austin’s largest public institutions away from locally elected leaders, with consequences that could reach into the city’s housing, economy, health care and broader quality of life.
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Northside ISD to offer ChatGPT for Teachers with new OpenAI partnership
Northside Independent School District is partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT for Teachers to educators across the district, joining a growing number of school systems using artificial intelligence as a classroom and productivity tool. NISD expects to begin rolling out the program in October. The district said teachers will not be required to use ChatGPT, but instead will have access to it as another tool they can use to support their work.
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Southwest ISD police officer arrested on child endangerment charge, SAPD says
A now-former Southwest ISD police officer was taken into custody Sunday after allegedly leaving a child alone for several hours on the Southeast Side, according to the preliminary report. San Antonio police responded at 3:45 a.m. in the 8200 block of Inner Circle Drive after someone reported a child crying in a hallway, the preliminary report said.
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The highest-earning superintendent in the state leads a North Texas district. It’s probably not the district you think
As the K-12 education landscape continues to shift and change, the focus on attracting and retaining the right people to lead and shape our area's school districts through crucial changes continues to grow.
There are more than 1,200 superintendents in Texas who lead either traditional public-school systems or public charter school systems, and according to the latest data from the Texas Education Agency, districts are paying salaries and total compensation packages to their top leaders that rival those of leading executives at many large corporations.
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McAllen ISD educator spearheads new driver’s license designation
September is Deaf Awareness Month and starting just a few months ago, Texas residents can now get their identification cards or driver license with a new deaf or hard of hearing designation. The new option aims to improve communication between law enforcement, first responders or hospital staff and Texans who are deaf or are hard of hearing and started when McAllen ISD’s Liza Lara, director for the Regional Day School Program for the Deaf (RDSPD), brought up that there was nothing on state ID’s or driver licenses that indicate someone is deaf or hard of hearing at a conference with first responders.
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Bryan ISD wins national praise
Bryan ISD’s cafeteria cooks are getting national attention. The School Nutrition Association just featured the district’s pulled chicken cook-off on its national blog. Twenty-three cafeteria teams competed this spring, dishing up everything from cheesy chicken nachos and barbecue sandwiches to green chile chicken spaghetti. The creativity paid off — putting Bryan ISD’s lunch menu in the national spotlight.
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Temple ISD administrator to advise on special education policy across the state
The education system has a responsibility to cater to the needs of every student, and students with special needs require special attention. That’s where the Texas Education Agency (TEA) District SPED Leadership Council comes in. The council is responsible for providing early insight on emerging TEA priorities and policies. Moving forward, Angela Solis of the Temple Independent School District will be a member of the council, according to a news release from the district.
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Creating tomorrow’s experts: Bonds reshape athletics and workforce education in Bryan, College Station ISDs
Bryan and College Station ISDs are investing in facilities designed to give students more room to grow and opportunities in classrooms, career programs and extracurricular activities. While the districts' bond packages differ in size and scope, both districts have made career and technical education and athletics major parts of their recent investments, with administrators saying the projects are ultimately about giving students more opportunities to succeed.
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Chisum ISD Named District Of Distinction
The Texas Art Education Association has named the Chisum ISD a District of Distinction for outstanding visual arts programs. More than 1,200 districts were eligible, but only 127 met the high standards of TAEA’s comprehensive 14-point rubric, placing their programs among the top 10% in Texas. It was the fifth consecutive year Chisum has been honored with the award.
Round Rock ISD certifying educators through grow-your-own programs
As a District of Innovation, RRISD is one of several districts in the state that has used a policy exemption to hire uncertified teachers. However, during the 89th Legislature, lawmakers passed a requirement that districts begin phasing out exemptions for teacher certification for core subjects by the 2027-28 school year. As of the start of the 2026-27 school year, RRISD had 14 uncertified teachers pursuing their credentials through an alternative certification program, with three in the district’s RRock Teach program. These 14 teachers have a one-year permit from the Texas Education Agency, allowing them to teach while pursuing certification, according to the district.
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STAAR rescoring improves ratings for two San Antonio-area school districts
Two San Antonio-area school districts are seeing improved accountability ratings after the Texas Education Agency rescored STAAR exams from last year. Southwest ISD improved from a “C” to a “B” after middle school test scores were reviewed. Fredericksburg ISD remained a “B” district but improved its overall score from an 88 to an 89. The district also saw increases in some of its campus ratings.
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Belton ISD schools earn statewide Purple Star designation
Belton ISD’s two newest campuses are officially Purple Star schools, Belton ISD announced Tuesday. Hubbard Branch Elementary School and James L. Burrell Elementary School join four district campuses — Belton High School, Lake Belton Middle School, High Point Elementary School and Charter Oak Elementary School — that have received the distinguished honor.
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South San ISD still must hold board elections under takeover. Only 3 people signed up, including ‘suspended’ trustees.
Two familiar faces from South San Antonio Independent School District, currently under state takeover, are planning their comebacks to the school board. Although they’ll have no power on the dais. Even with a state-appointed board of managers and superintendent, the district is still required to hold regular trustee elections. South San’s elections take place in November of even years, and school board terms are four years long. This year, Single Member Districts 1, 3 and 6 were supposed to go on the ballot, but only one person signed up to run for each seat.
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Katy ISD holds steady with B rating as more than half of campuses earn A’s
Katy ISD added five A-rated campuses this year, bringing more than half of its schools into the state’s top rating category while the district’s overall score held steady. Katy ISD earned an 88, or a B, for the second consecutive year in the Texas Education Agency’s 2026 accountability ratings. At the campus level, 42 schools earned A’s, up from 37 last year, while four campuses received D’s, up from three.
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Texas Supreme Court Takes Up Highland Park ISD Fight Over Withheld Tennis Center Report
On September 4, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to hear a public-records dispute after Highland Park Independent School District refused to release an accounting firm’s report about the Seay Tennis Center.
The center operates on the Highland Park High School campus. HPISD says it serves school teams, physical education classes, junior programs and adult players.
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New Arlington ISD education leader lays out academic vision for district
Priscilla Dilley always had an idea that she’d go into education, even if her career path led in a different direction. Dilley, who now serves as Arlington ISD’s chief academic officer, was born in Brazil and moved to the United States when she was 11. She couldn’t speak a word of English and was brought into classrooms initially with little to no support.
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Texas State Board of Education Adopts New Personal Financial Literacy Standards
On Friday, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) completed its revision of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for social studies. Chairman Aaron Kinsey thanked the board for its work, which took more than a year to complete. Last week’s adoption of the U.S. History, World History, World Geography and Government standards completes the board’s work on K-12 social studies.
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El Paso ISD cites substitute driver and tech outage in Murphree PK-8 bus delay
El Paso Independent School District said an unexpected delay affected a Murphree PK-8 School bus route Thursday, citing a substitute driver and a technology outage that disrupted navigation and communication systems. District officials said students were never in danger and that their safety was not compromised during the delay.
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Inside Arlington ISD’s $65M South Davis Elementary rebuild plans
South Davis Elementary’s roots run deep in central Arlington. Officials involved in designing the school’s new location have taken that to heart.
Arlington ISD trustees reviewed the new design plans Aug. 27. The design of the roughly $65 million campus is heavily based on the surrounding trees and nature, according to designers.
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Plano ISD band halftime changes leave some parents, students disappointed
A longtime Plano ISD football tradition is looking different this season, and some band parents say the changes are leaving students disappointed. For years, Plano ISD junior varsity and ninth- and 10th-grade bands and drill teams have performed during halftime of non-varsity football games.
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