School officials at Wilson ISD are aiming to cut down on distractions in the classroom with a no-phone policy. Affective this week, the school district said it wants to reduce classroom distractions among high school students following complaints from teachers. view article

Bryan police arrested a Bryan ISD bus driver Thursday morning for driving intoxicated while transporting 24 students younger than the age of 15. Police responded to a crash around Lakeview Street and Fairway Drive and determined the school bus was “involved in a minor accident with a parked, unoccupied vehicle.” Students were on the bus during the crash, but police say none were injured. view article

Dallas police announced an arrest for an assault on a Richardson ISD bus driver. The assault happened on Skillman Street just north of 635 more than seven months ago, but police were recently able to identify the alleged attacker through social media. Danny Senkow, a school bus driver of seven years, never expected that driving elementary school students would make him fear for his life. But that is what happened on Feb. 1. view article

The Vidor school district believes a gas odor that prompted an evacuation and eventual cancellation of classes at the middle school stemmed from something outside of the building. Classes are set to resume Wednesday. The district evacuated Vidor Middle School at about 9 a.m. Tuesday after staff and students noticed a gas odor. view article

Spring Branch Independent School District is holding special board meeting Monday night at the Duncan Klussman Education Center to address school safety. According to the agenda, the board will get a safety and security report from the district police chief. The meeting comes as the district, along with school districts nationwide, deal with a rise in school threats. view article

Update: The lockdown is lifted and the threat appears to be clear. Bluebonnet News will post a separate article about the threat. Original: Cleveland High School is currently on lockdown following threats called in to the Cleveland Police Department on Monday morning, around 7 a.m., according to Superintendent Stephen McCanless. The first call, made by a student, cited ongoing stress and bullying. Moments later, a second call from the same individual threatened a school shooting, prompting immediate action by the district and law enforcement agencies. view article

A student at Wylie West Junior High was detained after a loaded gun was found in their backpack. In a statement, Wylie ISD said administrators received a tip Monday that a student had a weapon on campus. It was later determined that the loaded firearm was in the student's backpack. view article

Deputies in the Precinct 4 constable's office protect Hardin Jefferson ISD campuses. The district has had a memorandum of understanding with the county. The school district reimburses the county for the salaries of the three school resource officers. view article

For another year, the Oglesby Independent School District will not receive school resource officers. This comes after requests to the Coryell County Commissioners to include it in the budget. In rural districts like Oglesby ISD, the responsibility for student safety falls primarily on school staff. Superintendent Shane Webb said there is a need for law enforcement to be present in the community, too. view article

Two Socorro ISD employees were placed on administrative leave after they were arrested forindecency with a child. Rodolfo Laureano and David Hernandez were arrested on Sept. 18 and 27. According to the district's directory, Laureano is listed as a part-time bus driver. view article

Two Socorro ISD employees were placed on administrative leave after they were arrested forindecency with a child. Rodolfo Laureano and David Hernandez were arrested on Sept. 18 and 27. According to the district's directory, Laureano is listed as a part-time bus driver. view article

The family of a 5-year-old Fort Worth ISD student is speaking out after the district confirmed the child was left behind at a museum during a school field trip. According to the district, they learned about the incident on Wednesday when a group of students from Carrol Peak Elementary went on a field trip to the Fort Worth Science and History Museum. view article

A substitute teacher at Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD was arrested and charged with two counts of injury to a child. In a SCUCISD letter obtained by KSAT, the district said Cibolo police took Yorlin Hernandez, 42, into custody without incident on Friday afternoon. He was later booked into the Guadalupe County Jail, records show. view article

“Cell phones are extremely harmful for student learning”, was a comment TEA Commissioner Mike Morath made at the most recent Senate Education Committee Hearing calling for phones to be banned across the state in schools. We spoke with the Bowie ISD Superintendent and he said that he is not fully against Morath’s call for a phone ban. Morath made this call for a cell phone ban last Wednesday. Currently, Bowie ISD is already doing something similar to a phone ban. Restricting the usage of phones during school hours, we spoke with Blake Enlow, he said he can understand the need for a phone ban. view article

Trustee José Macias brought the item forward to the board of trustees as an initiative to fill vacancies and bolster retention in the district police department.  “We’re not at the top when it comes to police salaries for officers, and that could be a potential barrier to retention and recruitment,” Macias said.  Superintendent Milton “Rob” Fields III said the district falls at the fourth from the top when comparing minimum and midpoint daily rates with 10 surrounding districts. The district was sitting at the second highest rate for maximum daily rate. view article

For three years during the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government gave Texas and other states billions of dollars in exchange for their promise not to exacerbate the public health crisis by kicking people off Medicaid.When that agreement ended last year, Texas moved swiftly, kicking off more people faster than any other state.  Officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. Some people who believe they were wrongly removed are desperately trying to get back on the state and federally funded health care program, adding to a backlog of more than 200,000 applicants. A ProPublica and Texas Tribune review of dozens of public and private records, including memos, emails and legislative hearings, clearly shows that those and other mistakes were preventable and foreshadowed in persistent warnings from the federal government, whistleblowers and advocates. view article

A Brownsboro ISD teacher is facing a felony charge after a child was injured in class. Kyle Lee Rocha, 39, of Chandler, is charged with injury to a child intending bodily harm following his Tuesday arrest. An arrest document says the charge stems from an incident in which Rocha knocked over a 7-year-old student’s desk in class. According to the affidavit, the incident occurred on Sept. 13 at Chandler Elementary School in Rocha’s behavioral classroom. view article

Authorities say a 15-year-old Willis ISD student has been charged after another student and a school official overheard him making a threatening comment towards a school. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says the student was overheard saying the comment, “Shoot this place up,” while he was walking with friends down a hallway at one of the schools in the district. view article

Fear is how one Burbank High School parent said it feels to watch the video play out of their child involved in a fight on Monday afternoon. “I couldn’t believe it,” the Burbank High School parent told KSAT. “Why is no one helping?” Multiple video clips circulated on social media and within the Burbank community this week showing a fight steps away from the campus. The fight only ended after someone pulled a gun. view article

The Bryan ISD Board of Trustees met Monday evening for an update on school campus safety and security. This comes just days after a Bryan High School student was arrested for bringing a gun to school. view article

A newly certified teacher’s aide in Conroe Independent School District is facing a charge of sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison. Conroe ISD police arrested KeSean DaVante Carter, 24, on September 20 after an investigation initiated and led by the district police department. view article

With the new school year underway and amid concerns about school safety, Georgetown ISD administrators provided an update on district safety procedures Sept. 16, highlighting newer practices and policies within the district. view article

A 13-year-old is facing charges for making social media threats against three separate schools in Willis ISD. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said the student admitted to making the threats on social media platform Snapchat. Authorities confirmed on Monday that the student attends Lynn Lucas Middle School. view article

A 10-year-old student was charged after making terrorist threats towards a Kerrville Independent School District’s middle school campus, according to police. The Kerrville Police Department received several reports early Monday morning about social media posts threatening a school shooting at the Kerrville ISD middle school, officials said. view article

The Bryan ISD Board of Trustees met Monday evening, and heard an update on campus safety and security. This comes less than a week after a Bryan High School student was arrested for bringing a gun to school and on Monday afternoon, a Rudder High School student was arrested for making a false threat about a gun on campus. view article

Mexia ISD said late last night their administration was made aware of a social media post about a song that referred to “shooting up the high school in Mexia.” Mexia police investigated the threat and said that it was not credible. The school says as a precaution they will check on all MISD campuses today. view article

A 13-year-old student from Lynn Lucas Middle School has been charged for making threats against Willis High School, Brabham Middle School, and Lynn Lucas Middle School on Snapchat. The student, who did not have access to firearms, faces a charge of making a terroristic threat, classified as a third-degree felony. view article

Houston ISD has reversed its decision to not allow the Waltrip High School band to perform at the 2025 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans after Houston Mayor John Whitmire offered a police escort for the band. The band was one of five national teams selected to perform at the 2025 Sugar Bowl and parents and students had been fundraising for the trip. view article

Henderson ISD says lab results have shown a student previously thought to have meningitis does not actually have the infection. On Friday, Henderson ISD announced a case of bacterial meningitis in a high school student. As of Monday, the administration said further investigation by state health authorities and additional lab results just made available on Monday show the infection is not actually meningitis. view article

Four Lewisville Independent School District students are facing charges for allegedly posting school threats in an attempt to get out of class. Lewisville police said they quickly recognized the posts as "duplicates or recycled posts from other threatening posts that have been seen across the Metroplex and the state this week and last week." view article

Three boys in the Brackenridge JROTC program jumped into action to save a Marble Falls ISD police officer who shot himself in the leg. Around 5:55 p.m. on Friday, Josiah Reynero, Ethan Reynero, and Jonathon Huerta were unloading ice chests from a school bus at a football game at Marble Falls High School, when they heard a loud pop and saw a bright flash. view article

Lockhart ISD Superintendent Mark Estrada was at a high school football game last Friday when he was interrupted by a disturbing message. "It’s a screenshot of a student who didn’t make a specific threat but one that was alarming enough to send shockwaves across the bleachers," he said. Police ultimately arrested the student, Estrada told Texas legislators during a hearing on school safety this week. view article

One of Arlington ISD’s armed security guards was fired this week for leaving his gun and duty belt in an elementary school bathroom. It happened on Tuesday at the Jones Academy of Fine Arts and Dual Language. In a letter to parents, the school’s principal said the gun was left unattended for about six minutes before being found by another staff member. view article

A former Pasadena ISD student is facing a felony terroristic threat charge after he allegedly threatened to shoot up Thompson Intermediate School in a post on Instagram. Micah Love, 20, has not yet been arrested. According to charging documents, a school employee who monitored Thompson’s Instagram account saw a message in August with screenshots of a deleted post, which showed an image of the school with the threats written as a caption. view article

SAN JUAN, Texas – From Monday, July 25, to Saturday, July 30, the Texas Health and Human Services will carry out Operation Border Health/Preparedness (OBHP). OBHP is a program that sets up sites around the Rio Grande Valley, offering residents free health services. Services include general physician services, immunizations, screenings, sport physicals, dental services, vision services, and more. Although assisting the public in maintaining their health is a goal of OBHP, the underlying purpose is to assist the community in preparing for disasters. State Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, said Operation Border Health Preparedness allows state, local, and nonprofit entities to practice setting up and operating health clinics that may be needed in the case of a public health emergency, while providing free care to the community. He said services include medical exams, immunizations for children and adults, sports physicals for students, health and diabetes screenings, and dental and vision exams. “Operation Border Health Preparedness is a great example of a smart policy that not only ensures we are prepared for future public health crises, but also provides an immediate public benefit in the process,” Hinojosa said. view article