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What you need to know about Texas’ school safety policies
Texas lawmakers have mandated armed guards at every public school, panic buttons in classrooms and more staff training. In response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas, lawmakers have upped legislation concerning gun and school safety. House Bill 3 passed late last year, which created the requirement for an armed security guard to be present on all campuses and also ramped up mental health resources for students. In Texas, the responsibility for establishing the guidelines for public school safety belongs to the Texas Education Agency and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office along with the TxSSC. These rules have been updated since the 2022 tragedy in Uvalde, but some experts worry that parents and guardians still don’t know the intricacies of school safety policy. Brian Clason, program manager of training and education for the Texas State School Safety Center, says the best thing parents can do to protect their children is to develop relationships with teachers and school faculty to learn more about safety protocols before an emergency occurs. “Your school leaders should know who you are, and you should know who they are,” he said.
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Texans get their first crack at electing the people overseeing the state’s complicated property appraisal process
In the state’s larger counties, voters can now elect people to the agencies that appraise property values. Texas homeowners have long had a springtime ritual: checking the latest appraised value of their property with dread, assuming that the new value alone will drive up their tax bill. Now, voters will have more direct say in who runs the obscure agencies that oversee the property appraisal process that plays a major role in individual property taxes and the revenues local governments collect to fund operations and public services.
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Dozens of Cy-Fair ISD librarians fired through email sent after business hours
The third largest district in Texas is cutting dozens of its librarians.
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD confirmed that it's cutting 50 librarian positions. Those cuts were made official in an email sent after business hours.
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Shepherd ISD student passes away during open gym practice at high school
The Shepherd Independent School District announced that a student passed away during an open gym practice at the high school. According to a statement, the incident occurred on Wednesday evening. Officials said a student experienced a cardiac episode while practicing. District officials said despite immediate efforts from first responders, they learned the student passed away.
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Austin Council Passes Resolution Making the City a ‘Sanctuary’ for Child Gender Mutilation
Even before the council meeting began, activists showed up outside city hall to voice their opposition. City Council Members have approved a resolution making the state’s capital a sanctuary for gender-mutilation procedures and chemical castration, though the actual effect of the move may be limited. The resolution was sent to the council by the city’s LGBTQ Quality of Life Advisory Commission. It states that the policy of the city will be that no city personnel, funds, or resources will be used to investigate, criminally prosecute, or impose administrative penalties on gender-confused individuals seeking gender-mutilative procedures or an individual or organization attempting to assist the individual to receive the procedures.
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Biologically-male Athlete Set to Compete Against Texas Women’s Teams
The “transgender” athlete will be competing at the National Women’s Water Polo Championship held at Texas A&M University. Although Texas has a law protecting women’s sports, a man masquerading as a woman will be traveling to a Texas university to compete against women this weekend. During the 88th legislative session, Texas lawmakers passed Senate Bill 15—also known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act”—by State Sen. Mayes Middleton (R–Galveston), which bans Texas’ public universities and colleges from allowing biological men to compete against women. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation in August, and the law took effect September 1.
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Leander ISD projects $15M budget shortfall for 2024-25 fiscal year
Leander ISD is expecting to face a $15 million budget shortfall next fiscal year as it nears the completion of its budget development process. The big picture: The estimated shortfall has decreased by $5 million since the district’s original projections; however, district officials said a lack of state funding has put LISD in a difficult situation as its budget tightens. The breakdown: The district’s budget projections include $446.58 million in revenues and $460.35 million in expenditures. Additionally, the district will transfer $1.28 million to other district funds resulting in a $15.05 million budget shortfall. The projected shortfall exceeds the district’s budget parameter—set at 3% of revenues—by almost $2 million.
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HISD will overhaul how students get into the hardest high school classes
Houston ISD is overhauling how high school students are enrolled in advanced courses next year, automatically placing students who achieve at grade level into more challenging classes as the default rather than requiring them to opt in, as they did in the past. By boosting enrollment in advanced courses, the district hopes to expose more students to college-level material and prepare them for higher education. Questions linger, however, about how HISD will implement the expansion, and while some community members are celebrating the decision as a move toward greater equity, others question whether it will have the intended effect.
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Tenaha ISD board names Jerrod Campbell lone finalist for district superintendent
Tenaha Independent School District announced the selectionof Jerrod Campbell as its next superintendent. A customary 21-day waiting period will be undertaken, after which Campbell will begin work on June 3, 2025, the district said.
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Students at 3 Arlington ISD schools shelter as police search for possible armed suspect
Three Arlington schools were ordered to shelter in place Thursday as police were responding to a domestic violence incident in a nearby neighborhood, according to authorities and the Arlington Independent School District. At around 2:50 p.m., officers responded to an apartment complex in the 2200 block of Elmwood Drive to investigate a domestic violence incident. The victim told officers the father of her child threatened her and pointed a gun at her, police said.
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CPS investigating apparent Pre-K student assault at Alvin ISD elementary school
The Department of Family and Protective Services is investigating Alvin ISD after a 5-year-old girl said a boy who is also a student at her school, assaulted her in the bathroom.
The girl’s parent, who KPRC 2 is not identifying to protect the child’s identity, shared with KRPC 2′s Rilwan Balogun an Alvin ISD police report.
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Adults attack 13-year-old student on Denton ISD school bus, investigation underway
A criminal investigation is unfolding in Denton after a 13-year-old girl is attacked on a school bus by adults. The bus was leaving Bettye Myers Middle School last week when the 8th-grade girl says she was attacked by someone she says she didn't really know. Earlier in the day, she'd heard rumors that the girl, new to the school, wanted to fight her.
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Conroe ISD Announces Closure for Friday, May 3
All Conroe ISD schools will be closed on Friday, May 3, due to the anticipated conditions following the release of water from Lake Conroe, the aftermath of Thursday’s heavy rain and flash flooding, and the uncertain weather forecast overnight and tomorrow morning. While all school-sponsored after-school activities are canceled, UIL baseball and softball games may still be played. The Conroe High School Prom on Friday, May 3, and the Caney Creek High School Prom on Saturday, May, will still take place as scheduled.
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Conroe ISD announces storm-related updates
Conroe Independent School District has announced several updates to its schedule due to the storms that have come through the area causing significant issues in The Woodlands area. Among the updates:
1. All CISD schools will be released at usual times today (Thursday); parents are encouraged to leave extra time when headed out to pick up their children from school. Additionally, they should be aware that bus services will most likely be delayed due to road conditions.
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Leander ISD projects $15M budget shortfall for 2024-25 fiscal year
Leander ISD is expecting to face a $15 million budget shortfall next fiscal year as it nears the completion of its budget development process. The big picture: The estimated shortfall has decreased by $5 million since the district’s original projections; however, district officials said a lack of state funding has put LISD in a difficult situation as its budget tightens. The breakdown: The district’s budget projections include $446.58 million in revenues and $460.35 million in expenditures. Additionally, the district will transfer $1.28 million to other district funds resulting in a $15.05 million budget shortfall. The projected shortfall exceeds the district’s budget parameter—set at 3% of revenues—by almost $2 million.
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Student Passes Away at Open Gym Practice at East Texas School
A tragic and sad episode occurred Wednesday evening at an East Texas school district. A Shepherd ISD student passed away after experiencing a cardiac event during practice at the high school gymnasium. The school's administration has yet to release the student's name, however, they did release the following statement via the district's Facebook page. Read More: Student Passes Away at Open Gym Practice at East Texas School | https://kicks105.com/texas-student-dies-shepherd-isd/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
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Multiple school districts in southeast Texas closed due to flooding and weather conditions
HOUSTON (KIAH) – In response to inclement weather conditions north of Houston and Harris County, a few school districts in southeast Texas have announced closures and delays for Thursday May 2, impacting students and staff members.
Shepherd ISD is closed today, for the safety of its students and faculty. This closure comes as a precautionary measure to avoid any potential hazards due to flooding and a severe weather conditions in the area.
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‘Violent’ school attack plan with student ‘watch list’ discovered by North Texas middle school officials
A "troubling and violent" document containing a school attack plan and a "watch list" of 25 middle school students led to the arrest of two Northwest Independent School District students Wednesday, officials said. A statement from Northwest ISD said a parent alerted officials Wednesday about a concern at Wilson Middle School, which is located in far north Fort Worth. When officials looked into the concern, they discovered "an online document detailing a planned attack on students and staff" at the school, the statement said.
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Millions in Texas face serious risk of flooding with officials urging some to evacuate
Officials in several Texas communities have asked people to evacuate their homes as rivers overflow their banks from recent heavy rain and severe weather, and flood alerts remain in effect across portions of the Lone Star state in anticipation of more precipitation in the coming days. Several inches of rain have already fallen in areas south of Dallas and north of Houston, leaving the ground extremely saturated. That includes along the Trinity River, which hasn’t seen water this high in years. "I was just looking back in the past crests, and the last time it’s been this high, and the expected crest is back at (Hurricane) Harvey," FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin said. "That was 2017. So, we’re going back almost seven years."
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Texas, Kansas Lead Lawsuits Against ‘Unconstitutional’ Rule Restricting Private Gun Sales
Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading one of two multi-state coalitions suing Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for Second Amendment violations. Republican attorneys general in multiple states, including Texas and Kansas, are suing to stop the Biden administration from imposing new restrictions on the rights of gun owners. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced the new lawsuits against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives during a press conference Wednesday at the Frisco Gun Club. The lawsuits challenge a new ATF rule that redefines “engaged in the business” as a firearms dealer. The 126-page rule would have the effect of criminalizing law-abiding Americans for private gun purchases and sales.
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Supreme Court upholds Texas’ age verification law for porn sites
It marks a win for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to block a new Texas law that requires adult websites to verify a user's age before allowing them to access content on the site. The ruling was handed down on April 30, just days after a group called the Free Speech Coalition asked the nation's highest court to overturn a lower court's ruling enforcing the law. The single-sentence ruling marks a victory for Attorney General Ken Paxton's office, which sued at least three adult content websites in March for failing to follow the new law.
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17 pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at UT-Dallas as police break up encampment
UT-Dallas is the second campus in Texas where Department of Public Safety troopers have made arrests while breaking up protests. Police officers arrested 17 people, broke up pro-Palestinian protests and tore down tents at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson on Wednesday, 12 hours after students set up an encampment to demand university divestment from U.S. corporations that have ties to Israel's war in Gaza. Footage by the NBC 5 in Dallas showed some people being taken away by officers. Kim Horner, a communications manager at UT-Dallas, said in an email that as of 5 p.m., there had been 17 arrests for criminal trespass made on campus. Pro-Palestinian students had set up tents and food stations on a campus plaza at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. They had also hung a banner saying "Welcome to Gaza Liberation Plaza." By noon, there were 10 tents set up and about 100 students at the encampment at the campus plaza, according to KERA.
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Ken Paxton Takes Manhattan
His job done in Texas—crime defeated, corruption accusations beaten, wrongdoing righted—Attorney General Ken Paxton traveled from Austin yesterday to a much deeper den of iniquity: Manhattan. “With President Trump in NYC to sit through this sham of a trial,” he posted this morning. “This trial is a travesty of justice. I stand with Trump.”
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Texas teachers make around $9,000 less than national average, guild reports
The average Texas teacher will earn $62,463 during the 2023-24 school year. This is over $9,000 below the national average, the National Education Association found from an analysis of Texas Education Agency data. Texas’ full-time school support staff, such as bus drivers, cafeteria workers and secretaries, made $30,382 on average during the 2022-23 school year.
“Many of our support workers, who are critical to school safety and success, hardly make livable wages. As we continue to fight vouchers, [the Texas State Teachers Association] will be seeking substantial pay raises for them, as well as for teachers, when the Legislature convenes next year, because we know Texans value their public school educators, and it’s time the Legislature does too,” TSTA President Ovidia Molina said in a news release.
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Texas Tomorrow Inflation Is Up And Bonds Are On The Ballot
As inflation burns through your pockets, your local jurisdictions are coming for more of your money. Bonds and taxes are on the ballot this May and November, make sure you're aware and vote accordingly.
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New Poll Shows Trump, Cruz Leading Their Democrat Opponents
The poll shows Trump up by eight percentage points and Cruz up by 13 points. A new poll released Wednesday shows former President Donald Trump and current U.S. Senator Ted Cruz leading their respective Democrat opponents among Texas’ likely voters. The poll, conducted by the University of Texas and the Texas Politics Project, shows in a five-way ballot Trump holds a nine-point lead—45 percent to 36 percent—over current President Joe Biden. Other candidates on the trial ballot included Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein. In a head-to-head contest, Trump holds an eight-point lead over Biden.
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Have you seen this strange red glow in the Texas night sky lately? Here’s what it is
The phenomenon has become increasingly common over Texas. An unusual blood-red hue has been illuminating the Texas sky in the late hours of the night. Most recently, the mysterious, faint gleam was captured shining in the star-filled sky over Big Bend National Park in Southwest Texas around 2:14 a.m. on April 10. Using his smartphone camera, amateur astronomer Abdur Anwar snapped a photo of the elusive luminosity that he "couldn't explain" while camped out at the park.
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HISD teacher union calls for Supt. Mike Miles removal in ‘no confidence’ vote
Union members noted the lack of community input, teacher turnover rate, the district hiring uncertified teachers, and policy reversals as points for the distrust One of the state's largest teachers' unions has distinctly expressed its disdain for state-appointed Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles. The Houston Federation of Teachers announced on Tuesday that it passed a resolution calling for Miles' removal and several points outlining their frustrations in the almost year since the state-appointed leadership was assigned to take over district operations. The union's resolution calls Miles' appointment a "politically motivated, irresponsible experiment," and thousands of teachers represented by the HFT will vote over its ratification in the coming days. "The takeover of Houston ISD, the largest school district in Texas and the eighth largest district in the country, is a politically motivated, irresponsible experiment that is worsening inequities and disenfranchising Houston voters," the resolution states. "Houston ISD teachers and support staff have come together now to call for a vote of no confidence in state-installed superintendent Mike Miles."
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Mexico sends 600 soldiers to border states amid spike in violence
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexico has sent 600 troops to the border states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon amid a new spike in violence. Criminals attacked a Mexican army installation last week in the town of Miguel Aleman and armed clashes between rival gangs also were reported there on Monday. A mayor seeking reelection in Ciudad Mante was murdered, and in Nuevo Leon police investigated several mass kidnappings and reported the rescue of 13 individuals.
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Sherman ISD Board approves separation agreement with embattled superintendent
The Sherman Independent School District Board of Trustees voted to approve a voluntary separation agreement with suspended Superintendent Dr. Tyson Bennett in a special meeting Wednesday morning. Terms of the agreement have not been made public. The board voted to suspend Bennett for controversial decisions he made for the Sherman High School theater program when he enforced a new rule that roles cast in the musical Oklahoma! must match the student’s sex at birth, causing many students, including a transgender male, to lose their parts in the play.
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Texarkana ISD names new principals for Wake Village and Parks elementary schools
Two new principals were announced during a regular Texarkana ISD board meeting Tuesday. Chief Human Resources Officer Amy Nix made the recommendation for Audrey Shumate to be Parks Elementary's new principal and for Andy McCarter to be Wake Village Elementary's.
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College Station ISD Superintendent discusses bond election, district restructuring
On Saturday, voters in the College Station school district will have the chance to sign off on two bond propositions. The bonds total $53 million and cover various repairs and renovations to athletics facilities at A&M Consolidated High School and College Station High School. Proposition A is worth $40,200,000 for renovations to the A&M Consolidated High School athletic stadium and fieldhouse, plus the College Station High School athletic stadium. This item is a property tax increase.
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Pharr: Investigation underway after PSJSA ISD campus evacuated due to potential threat
Students and staff at PSJA Early College High School were evacuated Wednesday morning due to a potential threat made against the campus, according to the district PSJA ISD Communications and Marketing Director Claudia Lemus Campos said the threat is under investigation by the PSJA Independent School District Police Department and the Pharr Police Department.
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