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Legislative Update – Feb. 28
Bill stats, vouchers, teacher pay raises, school finance, property tax relief.
Month: February 2025
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Robstown ISD Can’t Block Consultant’s Breach-of-Contract Lawsuit
Ruling: An ISD lacks sovereign immunity protections against being sued for breach of contract by a financial consultant.
School Safety Middle/High School Student Art Contest
The Texas School Safety Center (TxSSC) has announced this year’s Art in Action: Imagining Safe Schools for All contest. The contest invites middle school and…
Rabies Awareness & Prevention K-12 Student Poster Contest
The Department of State Health Services Zoonosis Control Branch is hosting its annual statewide Rabies Awareness & Prevention Poster Contest for students in grades K…
Updated: Training School Employees as Unlicensed Diabetes Care Assistants
The Texas Health and Safety Code requires school principals to seek and make efforts to designate staff who are not health care professionals to serve…
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Fifth Circuit: Austin ISD not Federally Liable Over Bus Driver’s Repeated Molestation of Young Special-Ed Student
Ruling: An ISD’s school bus policies, actions and past practices, when considered together, do not make the district federally liable for a school bus driver’s repeated molestation of a young special-needs student.
TEA Replaces South San Antonio ISD’s Board and Superintendent
The TEA this morning announced that Education Commissioner Mike Morath has appointed a seven-member board of managers and a new superintendent to lead and operate…
Keller ISD’s Proposed Split into Two Districts Draws Request for AG’s Opinion
The well reported (and highly controversial) proposal to split Keller ISD into two districts has resulted in a request for a state attorney general’s opinion….
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Dismissed: Ex-Donna ISD Administrator’s Whistleblower Lawsuit
A now-former ISD child nutrition director couldn’t show she was retaliated against by being fired four years after she reported her suspicions that the district’s chief financial officer — who was later fired and then elected to the ISD’s board and became its president — had improperly transferred child nutrition funds for other uses by the district.
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Fifth Circuit: Two Prosper ISD Administrators not Liable for Bus Driver’s 100+ Days of Molesting 2 Young Sisters
Ruling: The mere fact that an ISD reportedly had — in its possession — school bus video surveillance footage of a bus driver sexually molesting two young female students more than 100 times does not make the ISD’s superintendent and ex-transportation director liable in the lawsuit the parents filed against them and the district.
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