Somerville ISD is considering increasing security measures at future football games after receiving positive feedback from the community about the action taken after the school received a threat Friday. view article

A Kress ISD employee is under investigation for improper conduct involving a student. Kress ISD Superintendent Leah Zeigler addressed the incident in a press release. view article

The City of Grand Prairie warned residents living north of I-20 not to use city drinking water after a foaming agent was found in the water supply Tuesday evening. Grand Prairie ISD closed all schools on Wednesday due to the water issue and said it would resume the regular schedule on Thursday. view article

The Llano Independent School District is closed on Wednesday due to “road and weather conditions,” the district said in an email. Two floodgates along the Llano River were also partially opened as a result of the flooding. Llano ISD was initially under a two-hour delay for school Wednesday, but the district sent an email Wednesday morning saying it will be closed “out of an abundance of caution and safety due to road and weather conditions.” view article

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office reports a Jacksonville teen has been arrested for making a threat against a school campus. On Tuesday, New Summerfield ISD notified law enforcement of a possible threat against one of their campuses. After an investigation, law enforcement arrested a 15-year-old Jacksonville boy for making a terroristic threat. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s office confirmed the teen was not a student of New Summerfield ISD. view article

As students and teachers return to the classroom, Eanes Independent School District police officers are reporting for their first full school year since the department was formed in 2023. Chief of Police Matt Greer said 11 officers are on the force — enough for each campus to have one officer on site and more than one at Westlake High School. view article

A 4-year-old girl was hospitalized after being left alone on a hot school bus for seven hours Tuesday, NBC5 reported. The Dallas ISD pre-K student was not taken off the bus at Clinton P. Russell Elementary School and stayed strapped in her seat in heat over 90 degrees, according to KXAS-TV. view article

During a meeting before the school year began, Bastrop Independent School District bus drivers said they were told by their transportation company to no longer help students in case of a medical emergency. “She said that we weren’t allowed to do CPR. We weren’t allowed to administer medications,” said one Bastrop ISD bus driver, who didn’t want to share their identity. view article

Authorities have a former Houston ISD employee is behind bars, accused of sexually assaulting a student. Jesus Zamora, 25, made his appearance in probable cause court Friday morning, where he is charged with two counts of sexually assaulting a child between the ages of 14 and 17. HISD officials confirmed to KPRC 2 that Zamora worked at Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy, an all-girls school in Third Ward, but not as a teacher. He has since been terminated, according to a letter to parents sent by the principal. view article

The parents of a preschool student say they have seen video from the Dallas ISD bus with their non-verbal autistic daughter was left alone for hours. Keturah Crockett said the district allowed she and her husband an opportunity to view video from the bus on Tuesday when a bus driver ended their shift without realizing a child was still aboard. view article

A driver may have run a red light before hitting a Spring Branch ISD bus and causing it to flip, police said on Thursday. Spring Branch ISD police say the bus was traveling eastbound on Westview at about 3:50 p.m. when a Toyota Corolla traveling southbound on Silber hit it at a high rate of speed. view article

The parents of a Dallas ISD preschooler are outraged that their 4-year-old was left alone on a hot school bus for hours. "I depended on them. I trusted them with my child and they dropped the ball. I’m just thankful I still have her," said Robert Pruitt. Pruitt's 4-year-old daughter Araiya is a preschool student at Clinton P. Russell Elementary School in Dallas ISD. view article

Parents of a Dallas ISD preschooler say they’re traumatized and want answers on how their 4-year-old daughter was left alone on a school bus for hours. Instead of arriving at school, the family says the child ended up miles away and left unattended in 95-degree heat. “She could have lost her life,” Keturah Crockett said about her daughter. view article

Parents of a Dallas ISD preschooler say they’re traumatized and want answers on how their 4-year-old daughter was left alone on a school bus for hours. Instead of arriving at school, the family says the child ended up miles away and left unattended in 95-degree heat. view article

Parents are demanding answers after a Sealy ISD bus driver allegedly denied allowing students to let their windows down in an un-air-conditioned vehicle when temperatures were in the triple digits. Parents said on Thursday, Aug. 22, when temperatures were between 108 to 112 degrees, a bus driver deliberately turned onto a dirt road and started driving slowly while students sat on the bus, which was reportedly not air-conditioned, with their windows up complaining about not being able to breathe. view article

A Pearland student says he was singled out and punished for a vape that he didn’t even have. The family not only says they have proof their son is innocent, but also say the school’s explanation for punishing him just isn’t adding up. Rodney Bonham Jr. is a senior and star football player at Glenda Dawson High School in Pearland. He says he stays out of trouble and focuses on maintaining his 3.6 GPA, but now he’s been placed in in-school suspension and will soon be temporarily transferred to an alternative school — over a THC vape he claims he never had. view article

Hardin Independent School District (Hardin ISD) recently received information indicating that one of its employees is alleged to have engaged in inappropriate behavior with a student from another school district. Upon learning of these allegations, Hardin ISD took action, suspending the employee in question pending the outcome of an investigation. view article

Arlington Heights High School, in Fort Worth ISD, sent out an email on Monday letting families know a weapon was found on campus. The email from the Principal of the school stated that Fort Worth Police conducted a search of a student following reports of suspicious activity. Police found a weapon in the student's possession and the individual was immediately arrested. The email did not specify what weapon was found. view article

Corsicana ISD released more information Monday about an incident involving a student that caused an assistant principal at Collins Intermediate School to be flown to a hospital. Candra Rogers was injured during a "disruption in a classroom" on Thursday, Aug. 15, school officials said. School officials initially released few details about what happened, causing some parents to express concerns about the safety of the school. view article

Investigations are underway on Monday after safety threats at two different North Texas school districts. In Dallas ISD, a tip led school leaders at Solar Preparatory School for Boys to find and quickly recover a gun from a student. A letter was sent to parents on Friday when it happened. view article

A Round Rock Independent School teacher was arrested and accused of indecency with a child and child pornography, according to an affidavit of probable cause from the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office. Court records said the victim reached out to the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division in June about the incidents. view article

A little boy is discovered at school with a gun in Fort Bend County, and now he's in a juvenile detention center, a place his mother says her 10-year-old special needs child doesn't belong. The 10-year-old, who had a gun at school, attends class in Fort Bend County's Structured Therapeutic Educational Program, designed for special education students and those who need specialized behavioral support. view article

An Abilene ISD music instructor is accused of having an improper relationship with a student. Lawrence Grigg, 54, was taken into custody Wednesday on a warrant for Improper Relationship Between Educator and Student in connection to an investigation that began in July. A press release states police began investigating Grigg after receiving notification from Abilene ISD that he may possibly be engaged in an improper relationship with a student. view article

Klein ISD is warning students and parents after they said a man tried to lure several students to get into his car. The Klein ISD Police Department sent the letter to Ehrhardt Elementary School families on Friday. They said they got a report that a man in a red, four-door Lexus with damage to its right rear bumper tried to convince students who were walking home from school to get into his car. view article

The Houston Independent School District officially declined Thursday to elaborate on the specifics regarding the death of Marshall Middle School student, Landon Payton. view article

Principals dealing with HVAC issues have been forced to send out a form email message to parents with no specific details related to their campus.  As a precaution, T.H. Rogers Elementary School was shut down on Wednesday due to an HVAC system outage. Other schools are also dealing with little to no AC. Lanier Middle School is experiencing cooling issues, and many parents are posting messages in an HISD parent Facebook group that their kid's classrooms are not cool enough. Wisdom High School and Crockett Elementary School have also reported issues with broken HVAC systems.  As a precaution, T.H. Rogers Elementary School was shut down on Wednesday due to an HVAC system outage. Other schools are also dealing with little to no AC. Lanier Middle School is experiencing cooling issues, and many parents are posting messages in an HISD parent Facebook group that their kid's classrooms are not cool enough. Wisdom High School and Crockett Elementary School have also reported issues with broken HVAC systems. view article

Adults with Long COVID can experience a slew of different symptoms, but some are more common than others. Intense fatigue, crashes after mental or physical effort, brain fog, shortness of breath or coughing that won’t go away, and the loss of smell or taste are some of Long COVID’s hallmarks.For kids, however, it’s another story. New research, published Aug. 21 in JAMA, finds that Long COVID symptoms can look different among children compared to adults—and even among kids of different age groups.  “Most of what we know about Long COVID, we know from studies of adults,” says Dr. Rachel Gross, an associate professor of pediatrics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and co-lead author of the new study, which is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's RECOVER research initiative. “This is one of the largest and first studies to try to characterize the prolonged symptoms that are experienced by children and to try to understand how they may differ between different age groups.” view article

A Houston ISD elementary school was forced to close its doors Wednesday due to what the district called an “HVAC system outage.” The school has since reopened, but it’s one of several HISD campuses KPRC 2 has been covering that have had A/C-related issues. view article

A Midland Independent School District Police Sergeant and K9 Officer, Dakota Lindsey, was arrested on Tuesday after a lengthy investigation by the Texas Rangers. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by NewsWest 9, the Texas Ranger on the case, Cody Allen, interviewed a husband and a wife who made fake social media accounts and posted a photo of Lindsey in a MISD Police uniform with their daughter. The affidavit states that the wife told Officer Allen that she was claiming Lindsey was having an affair with their daughter. view article

Only days into the new school year, a mystery surrounds what happened to a Frisco ISD middle school student. It's getting a lot of attention from parents on social media. Police are investigating. Chandra Weekley said last Tuesday her 12-year-old son, Tristan, spent part of the day at Wester Middle School before security cameras revealed he walked through the cafeteria two minutes before the bell rang. She said he put down his backpack and ran off campus. view article

A mother is begging for the bullying to stop in Abilene ISD. Esmerelda Kellam says her son, Mason Delagarza, is a 7th grader living with autism and has been bullied for over four years while attending Madison Middle School. “She said, 'listen here you autistic brat, you should go ahead and kill yourself,'” Esmerelda Kellam recalled. “'No one would miss you. Nobody would care.'” view article

Just two weeks into the new school year, Calvert ISD closed its doors Wednesday due to rising COVID-19 numbers. The district issued a special notice Tuesday that the school would be closed Aug. 21 for deep cleaning “due to a number of individuals” coming down with the virus. Class will be back in session on Thursday. view article

During the hottest day of the year, some students in Hutto are dealing with no air conditioning on their school buses. On Wednesday, school buses were being repaired by subcontractors at the district's transportation facility, where bus drivers were given ice chests and cold water for drivers and students alike, according to Hutto ISD Interim Superintendent Cara Malone. view article

Fabens Independent School District said it is investigating an incident on one of its school buses, according to a statement sent out by the district Tuesday evening, Aug. 21. A community group, called Make Fabens Better, posted a video taken near a Fabens school bus that appears to show a student possibly being hit with small sticks or pencils. It is unclear from the video if the other people on the bus are students or adults. 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