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Former Gov. Rick Perry joins House Speaker Dade Phelan’s team as senior adviser Former Gov. Rick Perry is back in Texas government as a senior adviser to House Speaker Dade Phelan. Phelan made the announcement Thursday morning in a news release touting Perry's previous posts as a state representative, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and governor. Perry, a staunch Republican who was the longest-serving governor in state history before running for president and serving as U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Donald Trump, will be a senior adviser in a volunteer capacity. He joined Phelan's team on Thursday and will serve until the start of the next legislative session in January.
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Alvin ISD says enrollment has doubled over past 2 decades
It’s a celebration! Alvin Independent School District enrolled its 30,000th student less than a month into the 2024-25 school year. The districts said over the past two decades its enrollment has doubled. In 2018, the district served around 26,000 students, which has steadily increased throughout the years, according to the district.
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Brookesmith ISD welcomes new principal
Brookesmith ISD announced Damon Wilson as the new principal. The district said Wilson has had 31 years of experience in education. He has served as a teacher, coach and administrator.
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Houston ISD teacher back in classroom after put on administrative leave for social media posts criticizing district
A union leader and HISD teacher is back in the classroom this week after being placed on administrative leave for what the district called "inappropriate conduct" back in March. Houston Education Association President and 2nd Grade teacher, Michelle Williams, says she feels vindicated after the district accused the teacher of posting on social media during work hours.
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Castleberry ISD becomes first Fort Worth-area district to release unofficial A-F ratings
All but one Castleberry ISD campus performed better during the 2023-24 school year than it did during the 2022-23 school year, according to the district’s self-reported accountability ratings certified by the Texas Education Agency. As the TEA faces ongoing legal battles preventing the release of A-F ratings across the state, some districts, including Castleberry ISD, have opted to disclose their results independently.
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Maximum price for new Georgetown ISD elementary, middle school site prep approved
Trustees approved the guaranteed maximum price for site work in preparation of the construction phase for Georgetown ISD’s elementary school No. 12 and middle school No. 5 on Aug. 19.
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Greenwood ISD breaks ground on new facility
Greenwood ISD broke ground on a new multipurpose center on Thursday. The facility is an indoor turf field that will be used for all students, band, athletics and elementary kids. It's a great way for the students to practice while staying out of the heat. The indoor facility will include turf along with a track around it.
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Hawkins ISD superintendent arrested for driving while intoxicated
Hawkins ISD Superintendent Susan Morton was arrested for driving while intoxicated in La Marque, Texas on Aug. 23. Morton was arrested by the La Marque Police Department after a “minor accident” which happened in the 2400 block of Gulf Freeway at around 7:49 p.m. in La Marque. According to a La Marque PD arrest report, there were three vehicles involved in the crash a 2005 Ford Explorer, a 2018 Kia Forte and Morton’s 2023 Ford F-150.
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East Texas superintendent charged with DWI in connection with August crash
Hawkins ISD Superintendent Susan Morton was charged with driving while intoxicated in connection with an Aug. 23 wreck in Galveston County.
Morton was booked into the Galveston County Jail on charges of DWI and collision involving damage to a vehicle. She is no longer in jail, according to information from Galveston County Sheriff's Office records. The La Marque Police Department made the arrest.
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Alvin ISD says enrollment has doubled over past 2 decades
It’s a celebration! Alvin Independent School District enrolled its 30,000th student less than a month into the 2024-25 school year. The districts said over the past two decades its enrollment has doubled. In 2018, the district served around 26,000 students, which has steadily increased throughout the years, according to the district.
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Bryan ISD looks to hire auxiliary staff with job fair
Bryan ISD is holding a job fair this weekend, looking to hire several important auxiliary positions. The district is looking to hire bus drivers and aides, custodians, and cafeteria employees.
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High speed chase leaves Beeville ISD students in classrooms Friday morning
A high-speed chase has left students at Beeville ISD's AC Jones campus secured in their classrooms Friday morning; the district announced before 10 a.m. The chase took place near the school and students were secured as a precaution. A local agency in the area is involved.
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Texas would need about $81.5 billion a year to end property taxes, officials say
Texas Republicans have been trying to reduce the state’s high property taxes for years, but some acknowledge eliminating them would be too expensive.
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4 Austin-area school districts call November tax rate elections. Here are the proposed rates
Four Austin-area school districts facing budget deficits for the 2024-25 school year have called tax rate elections for November in hopes of raising more money to keep from being forced to slash more resources and programming. As the new school year begins, districts across Texas are tightening their belts, with some eliminating positions, to avoid having to make deeper classroom-level cuts. Many local school board leaders have laid the blame on state lawmakers for not increasing public education funding significantly during the 2023 legislative session. Some local districts are turning to their residents and calling tax rate elections — a tool that allows school boards to ask voters to approve a higher property tax rate than the state would otherwise allow the district to set — to help close the budget gap. Last year, voters in districts including Round Rock, Pflugerville and Lockhart passed similar measures.
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Monte Alto ISD to hold special meeting on future of superintendent
Monte Alto Independent School District are in talks about the future of their superintendent. A special meeting is scheduled for Thursday at the Monte Alto Early College High School library. The district said leaders will discuss legal issues regarding the superintendent's performance and contract. These talks will be behind closed doors.
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North Texas superintendent put on administrative leave months into the job amid investigation
A North Texas superintendent has been placed on administrative leave just three months into the job. Wednesday, the Grand Prairie ISD Board of Trustees announced that Superintendent Jorge L. Arredondo had been placed on paid administrative leave, effective immediately. Arredondo was named lone finalist for GPISD superintendent on May 28, and has been on the district's payroll since July 8.
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Grand Prairie ISD Superintendent Jorge Arredondo suspended after two months on job
The newly hired superintendent of the Grand Prairie school system was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday three months after being chosen to lead the district.
The 5-2 vote came during a special school board meeting called Tuesday evening.
Dr. Jorge Arredondo was named the lone finalist for the district on May 28. His first official day was Monday, July 8.
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‘An infringement of the privacy of the students’ | Leander ISD apologizes for publicly sharing students’ vaccination status
Some Leander ISD parents are frustrated after the district exposed the medical records of a number of students. And it isn't the first time it’s happened. Leander ISD parent Jeremy Gryder was told by his middle schooler that during lunch on Tuesday, the vice principal of Danielson Middle School put up a list on a projector screen with the names of about 30 students who hadn't received all their vaccinations.
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Classes at Bremond ISD cancelled on Thursday due to water leak
Bremond ISD has announced that because of a major water leak, classes will be cancelled on Thursday, Sept. 5. While the leak is worked on, water will be shut off to the school. With classes not in session that day, games and practices will still continue, the district says. Restroom access may be limited, however.
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Grand Prairie ISD cancels Wednesday, Thursday classes due to water supply issue
Grand Prairie ISD will stay closed on Thursday due to the uncertainty of the city's water supply issue. The school district announced the decision Wednesday afternoon. "Based on current information regarding the city’s water issue, we feel it's in the best interest of our students and staff to close tomorrow, Thursday, September 5, 2024. We will continue to monitor this situation in anticipation of reopening Friday," the district's email said.
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Seguin ISD students to wear SMART tags
Books, backpacks and SMART tags. That’s the list of items that kids will want to have as they head off to school each morning. Seguin ISD is expanding its use of the SMART tag™ program for the 2024-2025 school year. Middle school students were previously enrolled in the program during the spring 2024 semester. Schools this week have started distributing cards to students who did not previously participate in the program.
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Investigation into Silsbee ISD employee sparks concern over student online safety
Silsbee Independent School District says that employee remains on leave despite an investigation by the sheriff's office finding no criminal wrong-doing.
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Castleberry ISD becomes first Fort Worth-area district to release unofficial A-F ratings
All but one Castleberry ISD campus performed better during the 2023-24 school year than it did during the 2022-23 school year, according to the district’s self-reported accountability ratings certified by the Texas Education Agency.
As the TEA faces ongoing legal battles preventing the release of A-F ratings across the state, some districts, including Castleberry ISD, have opted to disclose their results independently.
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Humphrey’s Highland Kristi Leff named finalist for Texas Teacher of the Year
Kristi Leff, Humphrey’s Highland fifth-grade science and English/language arts teacher with the Amarillo Independent School District, has been named as a finalist for Texas Teacher of the Year. AISD said the Texas Association of School Administrators announced the finalists this week. Leff is one of six finalists - three elementary and three secondary - for the state title, AISD said. She has taught at Humphrey’s Highland since 2015 and has previously taught at schools in Florida, Calallen and Mathis ISD in her 21-year career.
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Conroe ISD parents worried over meal policy that may leave hungry students without food
Parents in Conroe ISD are expressing outrage online after the district sent out a text informing them of the district’s meal policy that limits the number of days students can charge for meals before they are denied food. The district clarified that the text was not sent out district-wide but was a campus-specific communication where the school name was accidentally left off. The text message sent states that secondary students cannot be charged more than 15 meals, including breakfast and lunch.
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Clint ISD homeowners likely to see tax increase
Homeowners in the Clint Independent School District boundaries likely will see a significant increase in the district’s portion of their 2024 tax bills after the board adopted the highest tax rate possible without having to go to voters. The Clint ISD board on August 28 unanimously approved the voter-approval rate of $1.13 per $100 property valuation – the highest it could adopt without triggering an election. This will cause a $166 a year increase on the district’s tax bill on the average $196,814 home, Jessie Cline, the district’s chief financial officer told El Paso Matters.
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Brownsville ISD tax rate decreases slightly
The Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a tax rate of $1.028664 per $100 valuation for 2024-2025, a slight decrease from the 2023-2024 rate of $1.030964. The approval came after a public hearing at a BISD board meeting Tuesday night and marked the final step to fully enact the district’s $490 million budget for the current school year. The budget for last year was $465 million.
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Dripping Springs ISD prioritizes attendance, approves credit agreement
In order to reduce recapture, now known as excess local revenue, the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved an agreement for the purchase of attendance credits at its Aug. 26 meeting. Recapture — the process in which school districts send some of their local property tax revenue to the state — payments had grown so large that the state used those dollars to support a considerable amount of the state’s funding obligation for education, therefore freeing up state funds to help balance the rest of the state budget, according to DSISD Chief Financial Officer Gina Mitschke. The intent of recapture is to help all school districts have roughly similar amounts of money to spend per child, Mitschke said.
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Design for Montgomery ISD stadium remodel to debut in October
The design for Montgomery ISD’s stadium revamp is tentatively expected to be complete by October, according to an Aug. 28 email from district leaders. The total cost for renovations to MISD’s stadium have not been announced, but the project will be funded by the district’s $326.9 million bond, which was passed by voters in May 2022.
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Jennifer Akins aims to support McKinney ISD’s strategic plan through new role
As chief school improvement and federal programs officer of McKinney ISD, Jennifer Akins said she is looking at the big picture, both for MISD and its students.
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Alamo Heights ISD trustee resigns, adding to year of board shake-ups
Stacy Sharp, president of the Alamo Heights Independent School District Board of Trustees has resigned from the board to focus on serving as a judge in the new Texas Business Court after being appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this summer. The departure adds to a growing list of shake-ups to the governing bodies overseeing hundreds of thousands of children across San Antonio over the last year.
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Northside ISD, Celebrating 75 Years
With over 75 years of tradition and excellence, Dr. John Craft is here to share how Northside ISD is celebrating their big anniversary.
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Georgia School Shooting
Apalachee High School -A 14-year-old shooter killed four people—two students and two teachers—and wounded at least nine others at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, yesterday, roughly 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. The attack is the deadliest school shooting in Georgia's history. The shooter, a student at the school, was taken into custody alive. Authorities have not publicly identified a motive, though the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the shooter will be charged with murder and tried as an adult. The attack began before 10:20 am local time and came after a phone call warning to Apalachee and four other schools. Barrow County schools will be closed for the remainder of the week as the investigation continues. See live updates here. Explore a database of mass killings—defined as at least four deaths, excluding the offender, regardless of the type of attack—since 2006 here.
Somerville ISD considering increasing security measures at football games following threat
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.
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Kress ISD employee under investigation for improper conduct involving student
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.
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