The Killeen Independent School District board of trustees will vote on a plan to give teachers incentive payments during Tuesdayâs regular meeting.
District administration is recommending the school board approve the proposed teacher incentive allotment spending plan to provide payments to eligible teachers, according to the agenda.
The plan was approved by Education Service Center Region 12 in early June, the agenda states.
The Texas Education Agency would provide funding for the incentive plan in August or September of each year, according to the district. Payments to individual employees would be made before Aug. 31 each summer based on TEA verification, the agenda states.
AUSTIN â Prosecutors are dropping criminal charges against two teenagers, including at least one from Killeen, after police identified a different gunman in a mass shooting in downtown Austin that killed a tourist and wounded more than a dozen others, authorities said Tuesday.
Authorities have said the June 12 shooting on Austinâs 6th Street arose after an argument between two groups of teenagers from Killeen. Douglas John Kantor, 25, a tourist from New York, was killed by gunfire.
Police initially arrested 17-year-old Jeremiah Tabb, a Killeen resident and student in the Killeen Independent School District, on an aggravated assault charge and another juvenile, whose name wasnât released. Tabb was taken into custody by Killeen police at Harker Heights High School where he was attending summer school. He was charged as an adult. The juvenile was booked into the Travis County Juvenile Detention Center in Austin.
The Killeen Police Department heard from residents Thursday night during its second âCommunity Conversationâ at a local middle school.
The 90-minute forum, which started at 6 p.m., took place at Live Oak Ridge Middle School on Robinett Road in western Killeen. Close to 20 people were in attendance at the event.
Killeen Police Chief Charles Kimble and other members of the department were present for the program. Officers from the detectives unit, criminal prevention unit, recruiting and many others discussed the in and outs of their departments and how the community can utilize them.
The floor was also open for residents to share any concerns they might have within their own neighborhoods, or with current issues concerning policing.
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A 17-year-old Harker Heights High School student was arrested Monday in connection with the Austin Sixth Street mass shooting that left one man dead and 13 injured, according to the Killeen Independent School District.
The unnamed teenager is charged with aggravated assault as an adult under Texas law; another suspect arrested earlier is a juvenile, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
âThe Killeen Independent School District and Killeen ISD Police Department are diligently working with Austin Police Department to assist in an ongoing investigation,â Killeen ISD spokeswoman Taina Maya said in a news release Monday. âAs part of a joint effort, KISD Police arrested a 17-year-old male at Harker Heights High School earlier today. Killeen ISD will continue to assist law enforcement agencies to bring justice to the tragic events as quickly as possible.â