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Compass Academy Charter School (Odessa); Search by: Kathy Killingsworth, Interim Superintent assisted by Larry Lee, Leadership Consultant with Region 18INFO |
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New Super | Hereford ISD - Dr. Ralph Carter, Superintendent,Lipan ISD; Hereford ISD Board of Trustees & Region 16 ESC, Dr. Tanya Larkin, Exec. Dir.INFO |
New Super | Granbury ISD - Dr. Courtney Morawski, Superintendent,Fayetteville Public Schools Arkansas; Search by: Arrow Educational ServicesINFO |
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NEEDVILLE ISD HIRES ARROW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO CONDUCT SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH
The board of trustees of the Needville Independent School District has contracted with Arrow Educational Services, Inc. to assist them in their search for a new superintendent. Arrow President/CEO Dr. Russell Marshall and Lead Consultant/COO Jim Dunlap will conduct the search. Information and the application process are available on arrowsearchinc.com and the TASA website.
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How the rise of uncertified Texas teachers could hinder educator misconduct investigations
The explosion of uncertified teachers in Texas has led to a multimillion-dollar budget hole that may make it harder to investigate educators accused of misconduct.
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Parts of North Texas under flood watch until Thursday. Here’s the latest on storms
Several North Texas counties, including Tarrant and Dallas, are under a flood watch until early Thursday, Jan. 30. Heavy rain fell across much of the region Wednesday evening and is expected to continue overnight into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service Fort Worth. Rainfall amounts will range between 1 to 3 inches for much of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. There’s a 30% chance of rainfall totals reaching 5 to 7 inches in the northeastern part of North Texas, around Gainesville and Paris. TOP VIDEOS
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Kansas is dealing with a tuberculosis outbreak. Should Texans worry? Is there a vaccine?
Kansas is currently experiencing a rare outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease. TB is spread via germs in the air and usually affects the lungs but can also affect the brain, the kidneys or the spine. Two people have died since the outburst started in January 2024. Health reports from Jan. 24, 2025 show67 people are sick with active TB cases: 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County. An additional 79 people in the two counties are sick with latent cases, (also known as “inactive tuberculosis,” which means non-contagious and asymptomatic). Though Kansas officials have said this is the largest outbreak in history, the Centers for Disease Control rebutted that claim. From 2015 to 2017, Atlanta experienced 170 cases of TB and more than 400 latent cases through outbreaks in homeless shelters.
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Prosper ISD names 3 new principals for 2025-26 school year
Prosper ISD officials have selected three new principals to serve its schools in the 2025-26 school year.
The positions were announced during a Jan. 23 board meeting.
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Elizabeth “Zeb” Evans will serve as principal of Thomson Elementary School, which is the district’s 19th elementary school. Evans holds a bachelor’s in elementary education and a master’s degree in educational administration. She currently serves as the assistant principal of Folsom Elementary School.
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Anna ISD Board of Trustees names Lone Finalist for Superintendent
The Anna Independent School District Board of Trustees, at its January 29, 2025 meeting, named Toby Tucker of New Home ISD, as the finalist for superintendent. By law, the Board must now wait 21 days before voting to hire Tucker to be the new superintendent for Anna ISD. Tucker is slated to replace Interim Superintendent Rod Townsend. The Board conducted an extensive search to determine the best candidate for the role. In October, the Board hired Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Executive Search Services to direct the search. As part of the search, TASB consultants met with staff and community members on November 21, 2024, to identify the leadership qualities most important for the district’s next superintendent. The profile developed from these discussions served as the guiding framework for evaluating the applicants for the position. The Board is scheduled to vote to offer a contract to Tucker on February 20, 2025. Tucker has served as Superintendent of New Home ISD since 2024.
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Tatum ISD student arrested after unloaded weapon found in backpack
Tatum ISD police officers arrested a student Wednesday after a weapon was found in a student’s backpack. The school was first informed a student may potentially have an unloaded weapon on the high school campus around 12:15 p.m., according to a school release. The school said police found the student less than a minute later and an unloaded weapon was found in their backpack.
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Liberty Hill ISD nears vote on proposed 4-day school week plan
Liberty Hill ISD is getting closer to potentially approving a four-day school week for the 2025-26 school year. "I'd be really excited," said Grey Heeneman, a sixth grader in the district. Right now, district officials are deciding if they will recommend having students off on Mondays or Fridays for staff development days, along with other school hour decisions, which they spoke about in a recent meeting.
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Abbott wants Irving ISD investigated after a transgender discussion on hidden-camera video
Gov. Greg Abbott called for criminal and civil investigations into Irving ISD after a hidden-camera video showed a school administrator discussing transgender students playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity despite the state’s ban. In the video, a woman — later identified as an “undercover journalist” — is heard discussing a potential move to Texas with her transgender daughter. She asks a man, identified in the recording as an Irving ISD official, whether her child could play on the girls’ soccer team.
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Houston ISD students’ scores on national exam show slight growth from 2022
Results are in for the nationwide academic progress test known as the Nation's Report Card, and Houston ISD students showed slight growth compared to 2022 and are still trailing behind their pre-pandemic scores. The biennial exam tests fourth- and eighth-graders on their math and reading skills and is used as a tool to track students' proficiency over time, dating back to the 1990s. HISD students seem to slowly be returning back to pre-pandemic levels, but are still trailing behind Texas’ averages.
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Houston ISD superintendent announces results from nation’s progress reports
Around 10:30 a.m., Sup. Miles held a news conference at the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center to address key takeaways from the NAEP results as well as answer any questions. Also known as The Nation’s Report Card, HISD describes the NAEP as having the ability to provide meaningful results to improve education policy and practice since 1969.
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Seguin ISD student brought cocaine to elementary school, police say
A Seguin Independent School District student was arrested and accused of bringing narcotics onto an elementary campus, according to the Seguin Police Department. School administrators notified officers on Wednesday morning that drugs were brought to Jefferson Elementary School.
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Thinking about pre-K in the fall? Here’s how to register at Corpus Christi ISD
Corpus Christi Independent School District is hosting a pre-kindergarten registration event Saturday, Feb. 8. Families will be able to learn more about CCISD's pre-kindergarten program and register their child for the 2025-26 school year from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Corpus Christi ISD Instructional Resource Center at 4321 Prescott St.
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No Survivors in Plane Crash Near Washington, Officials Say
Officials believe that no one survived the midair collision of a commercial jet carrying 64 people and an Army helicopter carrying three U.S. service members near Washington, D.C.
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Texas senators fast-track school voucher bill for full vote
The Senate could vote on the proposal as soon as next week. Democrats on Tuesday criticized the bill saying it fails to prioritize the state’s neediest children.
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Texas Republicans in Congress propose bills to codify Trump executive orders
Ending birthright citizenship, increasing oil drilling, and leaving WHO are just a few bills the state’s Republicans pushed in Congress this month. w
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Pell grants, direct student loans not impacted by Trump’s funding freeze
Federal Pell grants and direct student loans are not affected by the White House's temporary pause on federal grants and loans, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Tuesday.
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Austin ISD says it is prepared for potential impact of Trump’s immigration policies
Officials for the largest school district in Central Texas said they have taken steps to prepare for the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Austin ISD General Counsel Kenneth M. Walker II said the district began reviewing its protocols before Trump began signing executive orders. “We could … anticipate that some of the deportation efforts that the Trump administration talked about, that has now come up in executive orders, would create fear in our communities and create uncertainty,” he said.
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College Station ISD dismisses ICE raid rumors; local nonprofit explains immigrant rights
ICE raids are being conducted throughout the nation under President Donald Trump’s order, rumors of immigration enforcement have circled in larger cities and even in the College Station area. As these rumors spread, many organizations want to make sure everyone knows their rights.
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Houston ISD superintendent to announce results from National Assessment of Educational Progress
Superintendent Mike Miles is expected to results from Houston ISD’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) on Wednesday morning.
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Fort Worth ISD substitute teacher urges ICE to remove students from high school
Fort Worth ISD is looking into a teacher's social media post urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to go to North Side High School to remove students believed to be in the U.S. illegally.
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North Texas school district closes for the rest of the week as flu cases soar at local hospitals
Flu cases are on the rise at local schools and hospitals, and the illness is forcing one school district to shut down for the remainder of the week. Godley ISD announced on Tuesday that it will shut down for the rest of the week and reopen on Feb. 3 due to sweeping absences among students and staff.
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Nation’s Report Card shows Fort Worth ISD struggles in reading
More than half of all fourth- and eighth-graders in the Fort Worth Independent School District are below basic proficiency in reading, according to nationwide test scores released Wednesday morning, Jan. 29. The district isn’t alone: Record numbers of students scored below basic in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, meaning they haven’t even partially mastered the skills they need to be proficient readers. Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article299329919.html#storylink=cpy
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Tony Buzbee representing family of Cy-Fair ISD middle schooler who died during basketball practice
Last November, a 13-year-old boy tragically lost his life after suffering an asthma attack during his first day of basketball practice at Thornton Middle School. Now, a prominent Houston attorney is getting involved. In a mediation demand letter sent to Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Superintendent Dr. Douglas Killian, attorney Tony Buzbee called eighth grader Xavier Thompson’s death a “preventable tragedy.”
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Killeen ISD teacher resigns after “allegations involving a teacher and a student”
The Killeen Independent School District on Jan. 28 announced it recently learned about allegations involving a teacher and a student at Eastern Hills Middle School. The district learned about the allegations on Jan. 22 and The Killeen ISD Police Department immediately began investigating. The teacher resigned on Jan. 23 and no longer works for the district, the administration said.
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Austin ISD investigating after substitute bus driver takes students to wrong school
Austin ISD is looking into how a substitute bus driver ended up at the wrong school on Tuesday morning. The principal of Campbell Elementary School sent a letter to families saying the driver picked up children on Tuesday morning and brought them to the right school, but did not let them off the bus.
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Hallsville ISD bus involved in 3-vehicle crash
A crash involving a school bus shut down a Hallsville roadway Wednesday morning. The crash happened around 6 a.m., Texas DPS sources say, and involved a Hallsville ISD school bus on FM 450 near Cal Young Road. Two vehicles had trapped occupants, and responders were working to free them with Jaws of Life tools. The scene was cleared by 8:45 a.m.
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Texas governor activates ‘tactical strike teams’ to round up migrants with arrest warrants
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is deploying state law enforcement officers across the state to bolster the Trump administration's sweeping immigration enforcement efforts, the governor's office announced Tuesday, just a day after the chief executive directed hundreds of troops to the southern border.
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Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces Opioid Abatement Fund Council’s Approval of $100 Million for 2025 Grant Plan
(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today applauded the Opioid Abatement Fund Council's (OAFC or Council) 2025 Grant Issuance Plan that could award up to $100 million in grants for approved proposals that respond to the statewide opioid crisis.
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Cisco ISD schools close for two days after over 150 students and staff get sick
CISCO, Texas — Over 150 students and faculty have gotten sick in Cisco ISD. The schools were closed Tuesday and Wednesday due to a widespread sickness going around.
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US Troops Arrive in El Paso To Secure the Border
The Department of Defense announced they are sending more than a thousand troops to the southern border, along with airlift support to carry out deportations.
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Sen. Cruz Introduces Legislation to End Taxes on Tips
President Donald Trump says he will work with Congress to get the measure to his desk.
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How North Texas School Districts Are Facing Immigration Changes
A reversal from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allows immigration raids on public school campuses.
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Austin lawmakers propose raises for state employees, retiree pay boost
Joan Barasch worked for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission for more than 30 years until she retired in 2019. Since then, her bills have gone up but her state pension has not — and she's feeling the squeeze. "I have a car that had maintenance a couple months ago. They told me I needed to get my brakes done, and I could not afford to do that," Barasch said during a news conference Monday at the Capitol. "They said, 'Well, it's not that bad yet. You just get it done by the next time.' And I know I will not be able to afford to take care of the brakes.
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Manor Middle School is struggling. Here’s why Third Future has applied to run the campus.
Manor Middle School is struggling. Here's why Third Future has applied to run the campus.
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