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Two conservative Texas school board members are embroiled in a legal battle against their fellow trustees as they attempt to investigate and censure them, they told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Amy Weir, president of the Round Rock Independent School District Board of Trustees, agreed to place on the agenda two resolutions against her conservative colleagues, Mary Bone and Danielle Weston, following their complaints that the school district had violated the Texas Open Meetings Act by keeping members of the public out of a Sept. 14, 2021 school board meeting.
Williamson County commissioners have approved a resolution asking the Legislature to establish a new district court and a new court-at-law for the county. District courts in the county had a 20% increase in case filings between 2015 and 2019, according to a study by the state office of court administration. Ronald Morgan, the county's director of district court administration, presented the study to the Commissioners Court on Tuesday. It said there were 7,446 cases filed in Williamson County courts in 2015 and 8,909 cases filed in 2019. "We have seen many changes in the past 10 years a...