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How do I get my SuperSearch on TexasISD.com?Facing $37M budget deficit, Judson ISD hasn’t had a chief financial officer in more than a month
Despite being in financial straits, the school board for Judson Independent School District voted not to hire a candidate for chief financial officer. The role has been vacant for more than a month. District staff had recommended the board approve a candidate for the CFO position, but Judson trustees voted 4-3 against the hire after spending nearly four hours in closed session during a board meeting on Nov. 6. Board President Monica Ryan, who voted against filling the position, said the world of school district CFOs is very small, but she wants to wait on a new hire because the job is “very challenging even under normal circumstances.”
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Why some Texas teachers are being forced to “deadname” trans students under a new state law
The law requires school employees to use names and pronouns that conform to students’ sex at birth.The law requires school employees to use names and pronouns that conform to students’ sex at birth. Ethan Brignac, a transgender student at Wylie East High School, has been “Ethan” since seventh grade — to his friends, family and teachers. When he reached high school, his dad further validated his chosen name by requesting “Ethan” be used in school records, including in his email, class rosters and ID, which his teachers honored until this fall. Three weeks after Brignac started his senior year, Wylie East administrators called him to the library and gave him a new ID. On it, in white capital letters, was a name he hadn’t been called in five years.
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President Trump signs government funding bill, ending shutdown after a record 43-day disruption
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks. The shutdown magnified partisan divisions in Washington as Trump took unprecedented unilateral actions -- including canceling projects and trying to fire federal workers -- to pressure Democrats into relenting on their demands. The Republican president blamed the situation on Democrats and suggested voters shouldn't reward the party during next year's midterm elections.
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- Northwest - 2025 Operations Funding Election (Proposition A)
2025 Operations Funding Election (Proposition A) Northwest ISD has called an operations funding election to provide voters with the opportunity to decrease class sizes in exchange for a 3-cent increase to the tax rate. Because of continued tax rate compression, voter approval of the measure would still result in a tax rate decrease from 2024. Combined with a $40,000 increase to the homestead exemption, most homeowners are expected to pay less in property taxes in 2025.
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Texans set to approve $3 billion dementia research fund
The Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas fund, a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, will provide $3 billion in grants to researchers. Texas voters on Tuesday are on track to approve Proposition 14, the constitutional amendment that both establishes a Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (DPRIT) and authorizes the spending of $3 billion to set up the fund. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick led the effort this past legislative session to create DPRIT, modeling the center on the state’s cancer research fund. Senate Bill 5, by Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, was passed earlier this year and effectively created the institute. Now that the constitutional amendment has passed, the institute is to be funded with $3 billion in surplus state revenue. After this first year, the institute will see up to $300 million appropriated each year.
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Preventive Law: The False Claims Act and Civil Rights – What You Don’t Know Could Cost You
In case you are running low on things to worry about this semester, never fear. This article is dedicated to the False Claims Act (FCA), another tool the federal government appears happy to point in the direction of public schools.
Texas Education Agency takes over Fort Worth ISD, replacing its elected school board
The North Texas district is the 11th since 2000 to be taken over by the state and the second largest after Houston ISD.
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Abbott Sets January Runoff Date for North Texas Senate Race
The seat will be back on the ballot in November 2026, when voters will choose who will represent the district for the next full term. Gov. Greg Abbott has set Saturday, January 31, 2026, as the date for the special election runoffs in two major Texas races, including the contest to fill the Senate District 9 seat in North Texas. The Senate District 9 race will see Republican Leigh Wambsganss face Democrat Taylor Rehmet after the two advanced from November’s special election to succeed former Sen. Kelly Hancock, who resigned earlier this year to become acting comptroller.
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Abbott Sets January Runoff Date for North Texas Senate Race
The seat will be back on the ballot in November 2026, when voters will choose who will represent the district for the next full term. Gov. Greg Abbott has set Saturday, January 31, 2026, as the date for the special election runoffs in two major Texas races, including the contest to fill the Senate District 9 seat in North Texas. The Senate District 9 race will see Republican Leigh Wambsganss face Democrat Taylor Rehmet after the two advanced from November’s special election to succeed former Sen. Kelly Hancock, who resigned earlier this year to become acting comptroller.
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Oncor Pushing $33 Billion Power Project Expansion
California-owned energy company Oncor has ties to the project expansion, a move expected to boost its profits at the expense of Texans.
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UT System To Grant Award to ‘Environmental Justice’ Advocate
The University of Texas System is poised to honor a UT-Arlington professor with an extensive history of advocacy for left-wing environmental causes. According to page 14 of the agenda for this week’s UT System Board of Regents meeting, Professor Karen Magruder will receive a Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr. Magruder’s profile on the UT system’s website lists “environmental justice” as a component of the “broad social service background” that “she brings to the classroom.” A preliminary investigation into Dr. Magruder illustrates the prevalence of this content while a comprehensive investigation of Dr. Magruder would likely run over a dozen pages. In Spring 2025, Magruder taught a class titled Environmental Justice and Green Social Work. According to the course description, the class “explores ways that social service professionals can solve environmental justice issues on the micro, mezzo and macro level.” Another subject discussed in this course is “environmental racism.”
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UT System To Grant Award to ‘Environmental Justice’ Advocate
The University of Texas System is poised to honor a UT-Arlington professor with an extensive history of advocacy for left-wing environmental causes. According to page 14 of the agenda for this week’s UT System Board of Regents meeting, Professor Karen Magruder will receive a Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr. Magruder’s profile on the UT system’s website lists “environmental justice” as a component of the “broad social service background” that “she brings to the classroom.” A preliminary investigation into Dr. Magruder illustrates the prevalence of this content while a comprehensive investigation of Dr. Magruder would likely run over a dozen pages. In Spring 2025, Magruder taught a class titled Environmental Justice and Green Social Work. According to the course description, the class “explores ways that social service professionals can solve environmental justice issues on the micro, mezzo and macro level.” Another subject discussed in this course is “environmental racism.”
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Recording Shows UT-Austin Official Told Conservative Group To Leave
State Rep. Brian Harrison is demanding answers from President Jim Davis.
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Google To Bring More Data Centers to Texas
Amid a data center boom in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Google is making a $40 billion investment to build additional data centers in the state. “We must ensure that America remains at the forefront of the AI revolution, and Texas is the place where that can happen,” said Abbott on Friday. Sundar Pichai—the CEO of Google and its parent company, Alphabet—explained that the “$40 billion investment we announced today will bring three new data center campuses to the state to power the new era of AI innovation.” Data centers are surging in number around Texas—oftentimes meeting opposition from local residents due to the centers’ consumption of large amounts of energy and unknown amounts of water. According to Abbott’s office, the “investment in Texas will help support Texas businesses and the economy, creating robust career opportunities across North Texas, West Texas, and the Panhandle.”
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Celina ISD Coach Hit With Federal Child Exploitation Charges
Now-former Moore Middle School coach Caleb Elliott faces eight federal felony charges of sexually exploiting children on top of three prior state charges. The Celina ISD middle school coach at the center of an illicit locker room recording scandal now faces federal felony child exploitation charges. Caleb Elliott was indicted by a federal grand jury on eight counts of sexual exploitation of children, specifically production of child sexual abuse material. The indictment filed Wednesday in a federal district court in Sherman alleges that between April and October 2025, Elliott coerced minors “to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct.” The first seven counts cite seven individual victims exploited by Elliott. The eighth count is for attempted exploitation. Elliott was a 6th grade teacher and 8th grade coach at Moore Middle School in Celina Independent School District. He is also the son of Celina ISD’s celebrated Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Bill Elliott.
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Paxton: State Board of Education Must Set Religious Literature Curriculum Standards
Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued an opinion formally concluding that the State Board of Education is legally required to adopt Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards for religious literature as a mandatory component of the public school enrichment curriculum. This directive comes in response to a request for legal clarification from SBOE Chair Aaron Kinsey, who asked whether the board must promulgate rules for religious literature instruction and how that instruction must be implemented in Texas schools. Kinsey also sought guidance as to whether the SBOE could incorporate religious literature into English or social studies courses or if it must be a stand alone course. According to Paxton’s opinion, the board is required to adopt TEKS for religious literature, as it is part of the state’s enrichment curriculum.
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Greg Abbott Proposes Property Tax Changes For Texas
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has proposed a series of property tax changes for people living in the state. Speaking during an event launching his reelection campaign on Sunday, Abbott, a Republican, announced his intention to give voters more power to set tax rates including via referendums and other votes.
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Property tax reform a key part of Gov. Abbott’s platform in his campaign for a fourth term
Texas Governor Greg Abbott formally launched his campaign last week to be elected to a record fourth term. In a campaign swing that began in Houston and continued in Tyler and Temple, Abbott has focused on property tax reform. While the state legislature has cut school property taxes for homeowners over the years, and for businesses starting next year, many Texans still believe their property taxes are too high.
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Texas’ Top Voucher Vendor Taps Abbott Allies in Contract Bid, Program Rollout
Even before the Texas Legislature finally passed its private school voucher bill earlier this year, the race was on among the handful of firms in the burgeoning voucher vendor sector to win the lucrative contract to launch and administer what will be the largest program of its kind in the nation. That race is now over as the Texas Comptroller last month awarded the job to a New York firm called Odyssey. In winning the bid, and in its plans to ramp up the program, Odyssey cultivated close ties to the political world of Governor Greg Abbott.
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Killeen ISD to name Dr. King Davis as new Superintendent today
Dr. King Davis signs contract as Killeen ISD superintendent today at 5 p.m. He's served as interim since August and was named lone finalist in October.
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Cuts could be coming to Manor ISD after A $385 million bond proposal fails
After a $385 million bond proposal failed to pass this month, Manor ISD is now going back to the drawing board. The funds would have been used for upgrades and renovations across the district. The money from that multi-million dollar bond proposal would have gone to fund projects across Manor ISD for the next 6–8 years, but without that funding, the district will now have to look to other sources of revenue, including making cuts to fix the issues they're facing.
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Parents protest as Southwest ISD proposes closure of Sky Harbour Elementary School
Families of Sky Harbour Elementary School said they’re feeling frustrated. “What is your biggest concern about the possibility of Sky Harbour closing?” KSAT Reporter Avery Everett asked parents in the pickup line.
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Austin ISD releases final school consolidation plan
The Austin Independent School District released its final version of a school consolidation plan Friday. Ten schools are still slated to close before next year, but the district did make changes to programming and student reassignments.
The campuses on the list include eight elementary schools — Barrington, Becker, Dawson, Oak Springs, Ridgetop, Sunset Valley, Widén and Winn Montessori — as well as Bedichek and Martin middle schools.
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State of Texas: Abbott promises to abolish school taxes as part of property tax reform plan
Gov. Greg Abbott announced he wants to give voters the chance to completely abolish school property taxes for homeowners. It's part of his five-point plan to address property tax reform that he will be campaigning on as he runs for reelection.
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Austin ISD releases final draft of school consolidation plan ahead
The Austin Independent School District has released the final draft of its school consolidation plan Friday afternoon, ahead of a vote by the Board of Trustees next week. For months, district leaders have been fine-tuning their plan to close schools in a bid to reduce a $19.7 million deficit in AISD’s general fund, which is used to pay teacher salaries and cover daily operational expenses. Board members are set to discuss the recommendations and take a final vote at their Nov. 20 meeting.
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Houston ISD mourns ‘unexpected’ death of Sherman Elementary principal
The district remembered Racquel Torres Rosenbalm as a dedicated leader whose impact reached beyond her campus.
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Parents oppose plan to close several schools in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
Parents oppose plan to close several schools in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD. The district's board of trustees will hear a presentation on the plan tonight.
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Fort Bend ISD to discuss new boundaries for some schools Monday night
Some Fort Bend ISD parents signed up to speak out Monday about potential school boundary changes for the 2026–2027 school year during the district’s board meeting. Even though rezoning was not on the meeting’s agenda, the district’s Deputy Superintendent and Chief of Staff spoke to KHOU 11 exclusively about the plans and why they’re being considered.
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Fort Bend ISD parents push for answers on possible rezoning that could impact 2026–2027 school year
Some Fort Bend ISD parents signed up to speak out Monday about potential school boundary changes for the 2026–2027 school year during the district’s board meeting. Even though rezoning is not on the meeting agenda, Deputy Superintendent and Chief of Staff Beth Martinez spoke to KHOU 11 exclusively about the plans and why they’re being considered.
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See which low-performing Corpus Christi ISD schools are targeted for improvement
Several low-performing Corpus Christi ISD schools have adopted turnaround and targeted improvement plans.
These plans are required for campuses that are rated poorly in the Texas school accountability system. But because school improvement is a multi-year process, some of the Corpus Christi Independent School District campuses included are doing better than the designation might imply.
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Ex-Celina ISD coach indicted on federal charges of sexual exploitation of children, records show
The former Celina ISD teacher and coach faces eight federal charges of sexual exploitation of children, records show.
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Texas Finally Has an Involuntary Commitment Law!
Breaking news! A groundbreaking Texas bill authorizes police to take people to psychiatric hospitals against their will. tate lawmakers pledge to create “new,” expansive commitment laws in Washington that the state already has. Witnessing the manifestation of its own vision for mass commitments, the New York Times blames it all on Trump. AI can now predict, more reliably than humans can, the existence of mental illnesses that don’t exist yet. ProPublica reports on the tragedies caused by anyone questioning psychiatric diagnoses. The Marshall Project blames too many people being forcibly detained on not enough people being forcibly detained. No, it’s not April Fools on PsychForce Report. In this third and concluding installment of the September-October 2025 news roundup, I review a selection of prominent news reports that aptly illustrate how and why public discussions of civil commitment end up so far from reality. And I highlight some of the key questions that we should all be asking journalists and legislators to ask.
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Why Kamala Harris congratulated a Cy-Fair ISD school board winner for breaking a conservative majority
When Lesley Guilmart's cellphone rang Wednesday afternoon, she almost didn't answer the unknown number. "I’ve been getting interesting calls from folks since last week’s win," said Guilmart, who on Nov. 4 was elected to the Cy-Fair ISD Board of Trustees. "And so I was like, ‘Oh, why not? Let me answer this.' " None of the calls were as interesting as Wednesday's. On the other line was former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Texans could receive full SNAP benefits in days after government shutdown ends
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday ordered states to send full SNAP benefits “promptly.” Texans could receive full November SNAP benefits within days after the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday told states to send enrollees their complete payments for the month. “State agencies must take immediate steps to ensure households receive their full November allotments promptly,” says the notice from the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. “The reduction in maximum allotments for November is no longer in effect.” The Texas Health and Human Services Commission previously said it would take about three days for food benefits to reach Texans after the USDA issued guidance to states for distributing funds. When the federal agency ordered states last weekend to deliver partial SNAP benefits, the state got them to Texans in two days.
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