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Five individuals spoke Tuesday evening to the Killeen Independent School District board of trustees about the lack of due process rights for district educational support professionals. Killeen Educators Association president Rick Beaulé spoke during public forum citing the names of 10 Texas school districts, including Austin ISD and Fort Worth ISD, that already have adopted due process rights for their lowest-paid employees. “The law of the land in these districts gives these Education Support Professionals, or ESP’s, a guaranteed review of disciplinary issues prior to dismissal,...

A Killeen Independent School District high school teacher died from COVID-19, according to a social media post from the Killeen Educators Association. David “Scott” Dumler, 55, a Killeen High School history teacher with over two decades of teaching in KISD under his belt, succumbed to complications from COVID-19, according to the Killeen Educators Association. “Even as antimaskers rally at the Bell County Courthouse we have received a report of a longtime Killeen High School coach passing from COVID-19,” Killeen Educators Association posted Sunday. “We mourn his passi...

Floor Notes House Modified Structured Rule HB 68 Professions and businesses; certain military certifications; extend time to qualify (RegI-Clark-147th) Bill PASSED 163-0. HB 119 Professions and businesses; chiropractors may own professional corporations with physicians; provide (RegI-Hawkins-27th) Bill PASSED 163-0. HB 161 Local government; downtown development authorities; remove provision providing perpetual existence to such authorities (GAff-Tankersley-160th) Bill PASSED 165-0. HB 241 Insurance; revise meaning of property insurance; change parameters under which certain contracts or agree...

A total of 1,061 employees — 39% of which were teachers — left the Killeen Independent School District since March 2020, the month Gov. Greg Abbott temporarily forced the closure

The Killeen Independent School District board of trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to extend Superintendent John Craft’s contract.