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Hundreds resign, retire amid extremely challenging year for educators and last updated 2021-03-16 08:10:34-04 KILLEEN, TX — Thousands of teachers have resigned or retired over the last year, but what's more, is the number of educators who've died across our nation from COVID-19. As many districts continue looking at mitigating viruses in the years to come, the Killeen Educators Association highlights the challenges faculty still face. "Yes the kids might be okay, but they're not going to empty schools they're not going to empty classrooms, they're going to people who could very much well...

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,...

Nearly 12% of Killeen ISD employees have now contracted COVID-19, according to Killeen Educators Association president Rick Beaule who spoke via Zoom during the public comment portion of the school

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

The debate of when and how kids can return back to school safely just got more complex as the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said schools can reopen and teachers don’t need the vaccine to do it.