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For a second time, voters knocked down a new $100 million high school stadium proposal in Anna.
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At this point we don’t need to impress upon you the meaningful impacts that a well-written District of Innovation (“DOI”) Plan can have on school operations. After nearly ten years of the DOI experiment, it’s no secret that these plans are powerful tools—especially if properly drafted. Whether your District is seeking to adopt a plan for the first time, to renew an expiring plan, or to amend an existing plan, you must ensure that you carefully consider including the latest and greatest exemptions. This quick article will address some of the most popular and emerging innovations worth considering.
Cy-Fair ISD superintendent responds to growing community concern over librarian cuts
Superintendent Douglas Killian assured concerned parents Monday that he is working to increase some lesser-known funding avenues in an attempt to close the $138 million deficit that forced Cypress-Fairbanks ISD to cut hundreds of staff positions, including half of the district’s librarians, from its 2024-25 budget proposal. Cypress-Fairbanks ISD is banding together with some area districts, including Clear Creek ISD, to try to get the state to return part of an optional homestead exemption, Killian said at Monday’s regular board meeting. He is also pushing ways to increase faltering student attendance. “Our kids aren’t attending like they used to and that’s costing us money. We made the option to do a local optional homestead exemption,” he said. “It’s in vogue to blame other people, but we’re also partially responsible for the situation we’re in.”
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Liberty Hill ISD considers tax rate increase amid projected $5 million budget shortfall
Liberty Hill ISD may ask voters to approve an increase to the district’s tax rate for fiscal year 2024-25.
District officials discussed the revenue for the district and the cost to taxpayers associated with various tax rate increases during a budget workshop at a May 6 special meeting. The district is projecting a $5 million budget shortfall for FY 2024-25 and a $2 million shortfall this fiscal year, Chief Financial Officer Rosanna Guerrero said.
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Liberty County bridge over Trinity River collapses in washout after weekend floods
A bridge over the Trinity River in Romayor is closed after it buckled and collapsed in a washout. According to the Liberty Vindicator web site, FM 787 was closed early Monday because of a washout on the west side of the bridge, which collapsed in the same area Tuesday morning.
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3rd student charged in connection to ‘violent’ attack plan at North Texas middle school
A third student at a far north Fort Worth middle school has been charged in connection with creating and editing an online document that detailed a planned attack against students and staff, Northwest Independent School District officials said. Other students from Wilson Middle School were investigated, but found not to have engaged in a terroristic threat, district officials said Monday in a letter to families. A tip from a parent during school on May 1 led officials to the “troubling and violent document,” which contained plans to attack Wilson Middle School and listed 25 students and seven staff members as targets. District officials informed Wilson Middle School families and employees about the document in a letter last week and said two students had been arrested with pending felony charges.An investigation found a third student was also responsible for the threatening document, according to Monday’s letter. All three students have been charged with a felony terroristic threat, the school district said.
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Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas to ignore Biden administration’s new federal protections of LGBTQ+ students
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Education Agency on Monday to ignore a Biden administration rule that expanded federal sex discrimination protections to include LGBTQ+ students. The Biden administration recently revised the rules for Title IX, the sweeping civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded colleges and K-12 schools. The new rules, which are set to go into effect in August, redefined sex discrimination and sex-based harassment to prevent misconduct based on sex stereotypes, pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation. It codifies initial guidance documents that prompted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue the Biden administration last year.
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Carroll ISD Rejects Biden Administration’s Title IX Rewrite
The board of trustees unanimously passed a resolution denouncing the proposed changes. Trustees for Carroll Independent School District passed a resolution denouncing President Joe Biden’s rewrite of Title IX. During Monday night’s meeting, the Carroll ISD board of trustees unanimously passed the resolution in a 6-0 vote. “The CISD Board of Trustees denounces the recent changes to Title IX regulations proposed by the Biden administration, expressing deep concern over the potential negative impact on our students and community,” reads the resolution.
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Carroll ISD pushes back on new federal Title IX protections
The Board of Trustees for Carroll ISD, which faced numerous civil rights violations after rolling back protections for students based on race, gender, religion and sexual orientation, has denounced new federal Title IX protections.
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Feds investigate another Texas school district for its gender identity mandate
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation Monday into Katy Independent School District’s gender identity policy on the basis of gender harassment under Title IX. The investigation came nine months after the district adopted a policy that notifies parents if their child requests to use a different name or pronouns at school.
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Bryan ISD examines cost-cutting measures in budget workshop meeting
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The Bryan ISD board of trustees held a workshop meeting Monday, where an update on the district’s budget planning process was heard.
School districts across the state are tightening their purse strings, and Bryan ISD is no exception. As the district crafts its budget for next school year, they’re looking for ways to save money without sacrificing learning.
The current budget crisis is caused in part by the end of pandemic relief funds, rising inflation, and a continued lack of additional education funding from the Texas legislature.
Bryan ISD officials confirmed they are not considering layoffs, though some open positions at the central office will remain unfilled for now.
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Mnuchin Believes TikTok Algorithm Could Be Rebuilt If He Buys It
(Bloomberg) -- Steven Mnuchin, the former US Treasury Secretary, said he’s still interested in buying TikTok’s US operation from its Chinese owner, and believes the social media app’s critical video recommendation technology could be replicated.
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ERCOT issues Weather Watch as blistering heat threatens Texas
ERCOT issues Weather Watch as blistering heat threatens Texas ERCOT has issued a "Weather Watch" for Wednesday, May 8 as an upcoming early-season heat wave hits Texas. The power grid manager said in a statement: "ERCOT has issued a Weather Watch for Wednesday, May 8, due to unseasonably high temperatures, high levels of expected maintenance outages during the spring shoulder months, and the potential for lower reserves." In 2023 of May, peak demand was 68,159 megawatts. The current all-time peak demand record is 85,508 megawatts, which was set later that year on Aug. 10, according to ERCOT. ERCOT said, at the moment, no action is needed.
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Spring ISD Teacher Charged with Improper Relationship with a Student
A now-former Spring Independent School District teacher was arrested and charged with an improper relationship with a student. Valerie Lauren Mata, 26, was a theater teacher at Dekaney High School. She was arrested after an investigation by Spring ISD police revealed an alleged sexual relationship between her and an 18-year-old student. According to the student, during his sophomore year, Mata would greet him wit
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Carroll ISD Rejects Biden Administration’s Title IX Rewrite
The board of trustees unanimously passed a resolution denouncing the proposed changes. Trustees for Carroll Independent School District passed a resolution denouncing President Joe Biden’s rewrite of Title IX. During Monday night’s meeting, the Carroll ISD board of trustees unanimously passed the resolution in a 6-0 vote. “The CISD Board of Trustees denounces the recent changes to Title IX regulations proposed by the Biden administration, expressing deep concern over the potential negative impact on our students and community,” reads the resolution.
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In Their Own Words: House Runoff Candidates on the Speaker
With the primary runoff election mere weeks away, Texas Scorecard reached out to all runoff candidates for state representative to ask what they are looking for in a speaker candidate.
The Speaker of the Texas House is elected by fellow House members and wields considerable power as the arbitrator of committee assignments and order on the floor.
Current House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont) has faced considerable ire from citizens for appointing Democrats to chair key committees in the House and allowing Republican priorities to die without a vote.
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Gov. Abbott Slams Proposal to Give Federal Government More Control Over National Guard
The proposal would allow the Air Force to transfer Air National Guard units without the approval of governors.Gov. Greg Abbott is lambasting the Biden administration over a new proposal that would allow the United States Air Force to transfer Air National Guard units without gubernatorial approval. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Abbott expressed his opposition to the U.S. Department of the Air Force’s Legislative Proposal 480, which is set to be included in the next National Defense Authorization Act. The proposal allows the Air Force to transfer the guard units to the U.S. Space Force—the U.S. military’s space services arm, reconfigured to be its own branch in 2019. Abbott warned in his letter on May 3 that “Legislative Proposal 480, put forth by the U.S. Department of the Air Force, poses an intolerable threat to the Texas National Guard.”
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Cy-Fair ISD superintendent responds to growing community concern over librarian cuts
Superintendent Douglas Killian assured concerned parents Monday that he is working to increase some lesser-known funding avenues in an attempt to close the $138 million deficit that forced Cypress-Fairbanks ISD to cut hundreds of staff positions, including half of the district’s librarians, from its 2024-25 budget proposal.
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD is banding together with some area districts, including Clear Creek ISD, to try to get the state to return part of an optional homestead exemption, Killian said at Monday’s regular board meeting. He is also pushing ways to increase faltering student attendance.
“Our kids aren’t attending like they used to and that’s costing us money. We made the option to do a local optional homestead exemption,” he said. “It’s in vogue to blame other people, but we’re also partially responsible for the situation we’re in.”
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Argyle ISD special education program to undergo changes
The Argyle ISD board of trustees approved hiring additional special education staff at an April 15 board meeting. Academic consulting firm Moak Casey presented its review of AISD's special education program to the board at an April 2 workshop, which prompted the district to consider program revisions. Special education enrollment has increased by almost 215% since 2013, according to district documents.
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Community reacts after Katy ISD board member calls for legislation to allow tracking of student immigration status
Katy ISD is facing backlash after Board Trustee Morgan Calhoun asked if the district had any way of tracking the number of children of illegal immigrants who are students in the district. Trustee Calhoun isn't responding to requests for comment, but KHOU 11 News is getting plenty of reaction from others.
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Navasota ISD passes two bonds, largest for the district
Voters in Navasota voted yes to two bonds in the May 4 election Saturday night. Proposition A was a $71 million bond package that the superintendent Dr. Stu Musick said would help renovate current schools and remodel existing campuses including roofs and HVAC systems maintenance. Not only that, but it would address the growth in the area with some of the funds going towards a new elementary school, new school buses as well as land for future schools. It passed 456 voters (55%) to 374 voters (45%).
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Houston ISD to reduce number of staffers who help students meet basic needs
Houston ISD is cutting back on campus-level wraparound resource specialists, who essentially serve as school social workers to help students with unmet basic needs, as it continues to eliminate staff positions across the district while also overhauling the way it provides non-academic services to its most vulnerable students.
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Samsung to invest billions more in Central Texas
Dubbed the “Silicon Fields” by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, during a White House announcement April 15, Taylor is shaping up to become the new heart of a semiconductor cluster in Central Texas. Samsung Electronics signed a preliminary memorandum agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to receive $6.4 billion in direct funding, while the company is expected to invest more than $45 billion into the region. The federal funding—from the $53 billion Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act signed into law in 2022—will vastly expand Samsung’s footprint in Taylor and further U.S. Department of Commerce’s goal of producing 20% of the world’s leading-edge semiconductor chips by the end of the decade, according to a statement from the White House.
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How One School District Disobeyed a Mother, Encouraged a Trans Delusion
As Emelie Schmidt struggled with gender dysphoria, Port Neches-Groves ISD threw gasoline on the fire Her mother could not have been clearer with the school district: her daughter should be called by her given name, and she should be treated like all the other girls. These instructions were ignored, a reality her mother didn’t know until she read her daughter’s name embroidered on a graduation blanket. The blanket didn’t display her daughter’s real name, but the one school staff had used for years, Jacob Sullivan. Seven years later, nearing midnight on March 23, 2023, in a committee room at the Texas Capitol, State Rep. Stephanie Klick called Emelie Schmidt to testify.
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Krum ISD Band Teacher Indicted on 11 Child Sex Abuse Charges
A now-former band director for Krum Independent School District in North Texas was indicted on 11 child sex abuse charges. Carol Turner, 60, faces nine counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and two counts of sexual assault of a child. The alleged crimes date back to 1996 through 1998. Texas has no statute of limitations on indecency with a child or sexual assault. Both crimes are second-degree felonies punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison. Turner was indicted on May 1. She was booked into Denton County Jail on May 3 and released the same day on a $50,000 bond.
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Texas A&M to Implement Biden’s Controversial Title IX Rewrite
Despite Gov. Greg Abbott saying Texas would ignore changes to Title IX that would threaten female students and athletes, Texas A&M University is reportedly “scrambling” to comply.
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Phelan Scrambles to Create a Study Committee on Chinese Land Ownership Ban
As the primary runoff approaches, House Speaker Dade Phelan takes a sudden interest in an issue over 95 percent of Republican voters say they support. With just over three weeks left until his runoff election, embattled House Speaker Dade Phelan has thrown together a legislative committee to study a potential ban on Chinese ownership of Texas land despite having killed proposals to do so last year. “Today I created the House Select Committee on Securing Texas From Hostile Foreign Organizations to study the threat posed by these groups and their affiliates on the Texas economy, statewide security and fundamental American values,” stated Phelan. During the regular legislative session last year, the Senate passed Senate Bill 147, which would have banned the ownership of Texas’ agricultural land, mineral interests, and timber by citizens, companies, or governmental entities of countries designated by the federal government as threats to U.S. national security. That would apply to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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Congressman Roy Asks DHS for Updated Number of Illegal Aliens in the US
Chip Roy along with 17 other congressmen asked Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to produce the exact number of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and 17 other House Republicans have sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayokas asking for a new report showing the number of illegal aliens currently residing in the United States. In April 2021, DHS released a report called “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2015-January 2018.” The report revealed as of January 2018, there were 11.4 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
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Illegal Border Crossings Increase In Maverick County
Over the past several days, the Texas Department of Safety has reportedly made more than 70 arrests of illegal aliens for criminal trespass on border properties.
On Monday, Texas DPS apprehended 32 illegal aliens in Normandy, Maverick County. The group consisted of 16 males and 16 females from countries including Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic.
“As I explained, this area is private. You don’t have permission from the owner to enter,” a statement from the DPS South Region states. “We have an order from the State of Texas with these landowners that we can arrest you because you are on their property without permission.”
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U.S. oil and gas production is booming. So are the industry’s donations to its GOP allies
The biggest recipient of campaign donations from the industry isn’t Donald Trump or President Joe Biden, it’s a Texas House member who represents part of the Permian Basin. August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the U.S. House representing a small district in West Texas, isn’t exactly a household name on the national political scene, with little press coverage in the last two months outside a recent Fox News appearance. But he is the country’s top recipient of campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry — out of all federal candidates, including President Biden, Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — receiving $573,721 during the current 2024 election cycle, according to campaign finance data compiled by Open Secrets. Pfluger is running for reelection, though it’s not a competitive race in the strongly Republican district, which includes part of the Permian Basin, the largest oil-producing region in the country.
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Exclusive: Federal officials investigating whether Katy ISD’s gender policy is discriminatory
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation Monday into Katy Independent School District to determine if its controversial gender identity policy discriminates against students, according to records obtained by the Houston Landing.
The investigation comes after the Landing reported in November 2023 that Katy ISD revealed the gender identities of 19 students to their parents in the two months after the policy passed. Several weeks later, student advocacy organization Students Engaged in Advancing Texas used the report’s findings in a federal Title IX complaint alleging Katy ISD discriminated against these students on the basis of sex.
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Floodwaters start receding around Houston area as recovery begins following rescues and evacuations
HOUSTON (AP) — Floodwaters in the Houston area and parts of Southeast Texas began to recede on Monday, allowing residents to begin returning to their homes and assess damages after days of heavy rainfall that pummeled the area and led to hundreds of rescues — including people who were stranded on rooftops.
While officials in Harris County, where Houston is located, reported no deaths or major injuries from the flooding, Gov. Greg Abbott said there were at least three deaths in the state. Among those killed was a 4-year-old boy in North Texas who died after riding in a car that was swept away in fast waters.
After days of heavy rainfall in the Houston area and other parts of Southeast Texas, Monday’s weather was dominated by mostly sunny skies and little if any rain.
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How shifting U.S. policies led to one of the deadliest incidents involving immigrants in Mexico’s history
A year ago, 40 men died in a detention center fire in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. An examination by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica shows that it was the foreseeable result of landmark shifts in U.S. border policies.
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Killeen ISD Announces Carroll, Williams as New Athletic Directors
Killeen ISD announced the hiring of Matt Carroll and Latisha Williams as the district’s new executive directors for athletics. They are expected to begin June 1. In this two-person role, Carroll will focus on boys athletics while Williams will concentrate on girls athletics. With extensive experience in the classroom, as coaches, administrators and educational leaders, Carroll and Williams will work together to develop the district’s coaches, which will in turn benefit student-athletes.
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