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How do I get my SuperSearch on TexasISD.com?Texas principal flown to hospital after getting injured in ‘classroom disruption’; student detained
School officials offered vague details about what happened. An assistant principal was seriously injured in a "classroom disruption" at a Texas high school, and a student was detained over the incident.
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Questions remain in the death of HISD middle school student
Now, the Houston Federation of Teachers is claiming staff members at Marshall Middle School told the union that the school's defibrillator wasn't working when the 8th grader collapsed. "The teachers at the campus feel that it could have made a difference," Houston Federation of Teachers Corina Ortiz told ABC 13 News. "The time lost trying to find the backup model, waiting for EMS to get there." Ortiz said a third-party contractor is supposed to service the device once a year, but it is unclear if that happened. The union's president, Jackie Anderson added, “According to numerous reports from our members, the defibrillator present at the time was not in working condition. I will continue to investigate this matter and promptly share any new information with the community. I believe that the healing process begins with understanding what went wrong and then taking steps to ensure that we prioritize the best interests of our children. Unfortunately, this is not something we have seen from this administration so far.”
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Austin school district seeks to reverse enrollment decline
On a sweltering August afternoon, members of the Austin school district family resource team stride through the parking lot of a South Austin apartment complex. ● Gloria Vera-Bedolla, wearing a bright red T-shirt, reaches into her drawstring bag for flyers explaining the district’s enrollment process. At one apartment door, no one answers, and she pins the flyer to a clip outside the door. ● At another door, Star Castillo invites Vera-Bedolla, a family engagement coordinator, to come in out of the heat and explain how to enroll her daughter for kindergarten.
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Thanking teachers as school year starts
With the start of the new school year, I want to wish our students continued success as they embark on another year of learning, opportunity and lifelong memories. As students pour into the hallways and classrooms of schools across the state, I also want to acknowledge and sincerely thank the teachers, faculty and administrators who have worked tirelessly to prepare for the new school year. These men and women play such a critical role in shaping our children’s future, and we owe them a debt of gratitude for their dedicated service. With that, we’ll dive back into our examination of House interim charges.
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HISD convinced the school board to vote for a $4.4B school bond. Will voters say yes in November?
Voters can cast their ballots Nov. 5 on a historic $4.4 billion bond, the first brought to voters by Houston ISD in 12 years after the appointed Board of Managers unanimously approved the measure Thursday. HISD's state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles unveiled the massive bond measure in May, which he says will address schools with "poor facilities and learning conditions" that will negatively impact student academic performance if left unaddressed. If voters approve it, the bond would be the largest in state history. The effort has faced pushback from dozens of HISD community members at public meetings who have adopted “No trust. No bond,” as a rallying cry to indicate that they will be voting no after losing faith in the district’s leaders since the Texas Education Agency replaced the elected board members and superintendent with appointees in June 2023.
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Corsicana ISD assistant principal airlifted to hospital after disruption in classroom
A Navarro County educator is in the hospital Friday after the Corsicana Independent School District said she suffered severe injuries due to a disruption in a classroom.
Gabriel Diaz, whose child is a fifth grader at Collins Intermediate School, expressed concerns after hearing about the incident at his daughter's school on Thursday.
"The teachers and the students are under a lot of pressure, and I believe parents should make an effort as much as possible to help out," Diaz said.
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Houston ISD board presses superintendent about test score declines among some disadvantaged students
Early returns show the New Education System (NES) in Houston ISD is helping to improve standardized test scores. The district's board of managers wants the rest of the school system to have the same impact, particularly as it pertains to students who are disadvantaged. Implementing and expanding his NES model has been a focus of second-year Superintendent Mike Miles, who along with the nine board members was installed by the Texas Education Agency because Wheatley High School received a string of failing accountability ratings from the state. Those ratings are tied largely to performance on standardized tests, so raising scores is a key charge for district leadership.
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Belton ISD explains why bus driver refused to let students off school bus in bizarre incident that frightened some kids
A routine bus drop off route from James L. Burrell elementary in the Belton Independent School District was delayed by more than an hour on Aug. 15, leaving students screaming and shocked parents demanding to know why the driver refused to let students exit the school bus. Several parents told KWTX they were forced to intervene when the bus driver failed to drop students off at their homes and refused to let them get off until the last stop.
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Importance of Austin ISD board VATRE vote put into perspective
A big vote on Monday could decide the future of schools within the Austin Independent School District. Members of the Austin ISD Board are set to meet and vote on approval of a Voter Tax Rate Election – or VATRE. If it passes a vote on Monday, it would then head to the ballot this November for Austin voters.
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Temple ISD and Temple PD collaborate to create safety plan of action for upcoming school year
“In simple terms, you practice what you play,” said Temple Police Department Public Relations Coordinator Sydney McBride.
That's exactly what Temple ISD and Temple Police Department are striving to do.
The district spent time with first responders for their annual tabletop event - a collaboration focused on coming up with a plan of action for students and staff in the case of an emergency.
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Northside ISD cellphone guidelines boost student focus, reduce conflicts, district says
Educators struggle to teach and hold students’ attention while they hold cellphones in their hands during class time. Mark Lopez, principal at Garcia Middle School in the Northside Independent School District, said some guidelines are helping his students keep their focus. “Our official guideline is we have students put phones away at 8:30 a.m., and they don’t come back out until 3:55 [p.m.]. There’s intricacies in between there,” he said.
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Rockwall ISD in uproar after teacher accused of sexual assault returns to school
Days before the start of a new school year Monday, Rockwall Independent School District was thrown into chaos when two parents revealed details of an investigation into their son’s pre-K teacher for alleged sexual assault. A Rockwall grand jury did not return an indictment against the Springer Elementary School teacher in March after hearing the evidence. The child’s parents, Corey and Tim Booth, said the investigations by the sheriff’s office and district attorney’s office were flawed.
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Multiple Houston ISD classrooms reach temps of 82 degrees at Harvard Elementary School in the Heights
Multiple classrooms at a Houston Independent School District elementary school reached over 80 degrees on Friday as the district continues to deal with A/C issues at multiple campuses. KPRC 2 sources confirmed that several classrooms at Harvard Elementary School reached over 82 degrees during a heat advisory.
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Abilene ISD apologizes for lack of communication after playground incident
Following a playground incident in which a child was injured, and the family was not notified immediately, the Abilene Independent School District (AISD) has issued a statement. AISD shared that last week, “a Taylor Elementary family did not receive timely or adequate communication from us after their student received care in the nurse’s office for an accidental playground injury.”
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Northside ISD seeks more substitute teachers for new school year
The 2024-25 school year is just around the corner. Northside ISD teachers, faculty and staff are preparing for children to roam its schools’ hallways. Another group preparing for the upcoming school year is substitute teachers. District officials said they will always need substitutes. “Even though we do have lots of people in the sub(stitute) pool, we still need more,” Northside ISD human resources director for auxiliary/classified/substitute employees Kittiya Johnson said.
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San Antonio: City’s largest school district heads back to school Monday
The city’s largest district is heading back to school on Monday. Northside ISD is also celebrating a major milestone, 75 years of being open. They will start the new year with a new campus for the 2024-25 school year, M’Lissa M. Chumbley Elementary School.
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Texas jurors are deciding if a student’s parents are liable in a deadly 2018 school shooting
A Texas jury has begun deliberating whether the parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston bear responsibility for what happened -DALLAS (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn't know their son would have a psychotic breakdown. Lawyers for the victims say Dimitrios Pagourtzis gave his parents many signs that he needed help. The victims' lawsuit seeks to hold Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, financially liable for the shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018. They are pursuing at least $1 million in damages. The jury was given the case just before 5 p.m. and was set to resume deliberating Monday morning. Victims’ attorneys say the parents failed to provide necessary support for their son’s mental health and didn’t do enough to prevent him from accessing their guns. “It was their son, under their roof, with their guns who went and committed this mass shooting,” Clint McGuire, representing some of the victims, told jurors during closing statements in the Galveston courtroom. Authorities say Pagourtzis fatally shot eight students and two teachers. He was 17 years old at the time.
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Concerns grow over Bible-infused public school curriculum in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — "It's unsafe for my children," said Laney Hawes, a mother to four public school children in Texas. Hawes has been closely monitoring the new curriculum proposed by the Texas Education Agency, which would merge new elementary reading lessons with Bible teachings. "It is not in the best interest academically," said Hawes. On Monday, the House Public Education Committee discussed the new curriculum. TEA Commissioner, Mike Morath, testified saying the new teaching materials are based on research, to help improve student test scores, "The purpose is to build vocabulary and not background knowledge."
Texas election officials are dealing with a flood of challenges to voter registrations
Conservative groups and individual activists have targeted tens of thousands of Texans over their eligibility. But state and federal protections are in place.
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AISD finance chief reinstated to job after DA won’t prosecute insurance fraud charges
Austin school district Chief Financial Officer Eduardo Ramos was reinstated from administrative leave Thursday after the Williamson County District Attorney's Office told school district officials it won't prosecute insurance fraud charges police brought against Ramos for a non-school related matter, according to a district announcement.
Ramos, 51, was placed on paid administrative leave July 31 after he'd been arrested that same day on a Round Rock Police Department warrant for felony insurance fraud charges.
Ramos told the American-Statesman after his arrest that he would trust the judicial process and asked people not to rush to judgment until the matter was settled.
"I trusted the process," Ramos said. "Now it's time for me to move forward and continue to serve public education in whatever capacity I am called to serve next."
Before his July 31 arrest, Ramos had announced that he planned to leave the district to pursue another job opportunity and his last day with the Austin district is Friday. The district noted in its Thursday statement that Ramos will depart the district in good standing.
Ramos has worked for the Austin district for three years.
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Humble ISD Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen’s employment status remains in limbo as 2024-25 school year begins
Humble ISD Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen’s employment status with the district is still in limbo with the 2024-25 school year already underway. Trustees voted 4-3 to propose the termination of Fagen’s contract at their July 23 meeting. The proposed termination came more than two months after trustees voted to place Fagen on paid administrative leave and three months after the board voted to release the findings of a Title IX investigation into her husband, former HISD Athletic Director Troy Kite.
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Rockwall ISD addresses handling of sex abuse allegations at meeting
Rockwall ISD addressed parent complaints about the district's handling of sex abuse allegations on Wednesday night. Parents packed a school board meeting last night to hear the timeline of an investigation against a Springer Elementary teacher.
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Kingsville ISD part of new lawsuit to block TEA school ratings
For the second year in a row, The Texas Education Agency has been blocked from releasing its ratings of the state’s school districts and campuses. Those ratings were supposed to come out Thursday. Earlier this week, a Travis County Judge looked at a second lawsuit filed over the proposed rating system and agreed to issue a temporary restraining order.
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Houston ISD eighth-grader dies following ‘medical emergency’ on campus
An eighth-grade student at Houston ISD’s Marshall Middle School died following a medical emergency at school Wednesday, district officials confirmed. “We are devastated by the loss of a Marshall Middle School student. Our deepest sympathy and condolences go out to this student’s parents and family,” HISD wrote in a statement Thursday. “We appreciate the swift response from multiple (emergency medical services) and Houston fire department teams that responded to our 911 call.”
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Houston ISD enrollment down nearly 10 percent for 2024-25 school year, district data shows
The largest school district in Texas continues to get smaller. Houston ISD (HISD), which this week began its second year under state control, has seen a nearly 9% decline in enrollment compared to last school year, according to data posted on the district's website. A little more than 168,000 students showed up to class Thursday, whereas last year's enrollment was more than 184,000.
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Charge dropped against Austin ISD Chief Financial Officer after insurance fraud arrest
Williamson County prosecutors dropped the charge against Austin Independent School District’s Chief Financial Officer Eduardo Ramos, according to the Austin Independent School District. Austin ISD officials said Superintendent Matias Segura approved Ramos’s return from administrative leave on Thursday.
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‘Disruption in classroom’ leads to Corsicana ISD staff member getting airlifted to hospital
A staff member at Collins Intermediate School in Corsicana, Texas was airlifted to the hospital Thursday after getting injured in a classroom disruption. According to a letter sent to parents by Principal Tiffany Boortz, there was a "disruption in a classroom" which resulted in an injury to the staff member. No other students or staff were in danger and the campus was placed on "Hold" status while the staff member was tended to, the letter stated.
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Playground donation waiting to be installed at Calvert ISD
Zero Tolerance Coalition donated a playground for the students of Calvert ISD, but before the company they ordered it from could install it, they filed for bankruptcy.
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Austin ISD CFO won’t return to district despite being reinstated after arrest
The chief financial officer for the Austin Independent School District has been cleared of any wrongdoing, but won't return to his role.
Eduardo Ramos was arrested on July 31 by the district's police department and immediately placed on leave the same day.
KVUE obtained the arrest warrant for Ramos from the Round Rock Police Department to investigate allegations of fraud, which authorities determined was not directly related to his work with the district.
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Marshall ISD school board hears bond project updates
The Marshall ISD Board of Trustees were presented with an update for several bond-related projects at their Thursday meeting. The bond projects update was presented by Assistant Superintendent Auxiliary Services Andy Chilcoat, who discussed several projects currently underway, including the high school cafeteria, fine arts department, library, new construction and classroom phases.
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San Antonio-area district paid security director $40K while on admin leave
A San Antonio-area school district shelled out nearly $40,000 over four months, paying a high-ranking district official they placed on administrative leave under suspicious circumstances. The reason for the paid administrative leave, and the employee’s ultimate resignation, remains shrouded in mystery as both parties agreed to nondisclosure agreements about what led to the ousting.
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Beaumont ISD continues push to give teachers raises
At the Thursday night Beaumont Independent School District board meeting, members discussed everything from the leaked accountability ratings to more funding for teachers. Administrators told board members that BISD salaries are quickly falling behind compared to other Southeast Texas school districts. After trimming as much as they could from the budget it's still not enough to give raises.
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Van Alstyne ISD officially opens doors to new high school
For many students next week, when the school bells ring in the new year for Van Alstyne ISD, it will be a familiar sound, in an unfamiliar place. The district officially unveiled the new state-of-the-art school on Thursday evening ahead of the first day of school on August 19. The new building stretches across two stories and more than 273,000 square feet.
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Beaumont: BISD approves new tax rate, sets up November election
Looking to increase employee pay throughout the district, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the new plan Thursday night and set up a Voter Approval Tax Rate Election on Nov. 5 that will decide the amount of those employee raises.
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Substitute teachers needed in Texarkana ISD classrooms
Laura Orr is doing her part to help with a problem many school districts have right now: a shortage of substitute teachers. “I’ve really enjoy it. I’m getting to se my kids on campus, getting to see other kids they are friends with,” Orr said. “We always need substitute teachers. We definitely need people we can depend on, people who are going to be a good fit and be committed to the job,” said Amy Nix, human resource officer for the Texarkana Independent School District.
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