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  As we approach the 2021-22 school year, we have some school news to report. You may have read that Belton ISD will offer free meals to students all year long. Well that is also the case with Killeen ISD. They'll also be offering free physicals to students on Thursday, July 29 from 4:30-8:30p. Lauren Dodd with the Killeen Daily Herald reports that KISD has also revised their student code of conduct for 2021-22, with the board of trustees signing off with approval. Get our free mobile app Some of the revisions include a revised definition of 'harassment' and penalties for violations and a r...

Why did the Texas Senate remove “white supremacy” and ways “it is morally wrong” from new education bill? State Senate bill addresses teaching racial history in school An education bill that was recently passed along party lines by the Texas Senate removed, among other things, a teaching requirement about “the history of white supremacy… and the ways in which it is morally wrong.” Senate Bill 3 is the special session update to HB 3979, the so-called “critical race theory bill” signed into law during the regular session in June. At the time, Gov. Abbott called the public educ...

Category: Next Steps:    The Texas COVID Learning Acceleration Supports (TCLAS) is a suite of targeted supports for school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to accelerate student learning in the wake of COVID 19. The TCLAS application--open from July 19, 2021, through August 20, 2021—is a one-stop-shop application providing local educational agencies (LEAs) access to over $1.4 billion in state and federal discretionary ESSER funding, including access to over 15 Texas Education Agency (TEA) initiatives and supports and funding for district personnel to carry out these initiativ...

  The 87th Texas Legislature, Regular Session passed Senate Bill (SB) 1697, which amends state law to allow parents and guardians to elect for a student to repeat a grade or retake a high school course, per Texas Education Code (TEC) §28.02124. The legislation, which went into effect on June 16, 2021, gives parents or guardians the right to opt for their child to – repeat prekindergarten; enroll in prekindergarten if the child was eligible to enroll in prekindergarten in the previous school year, under TEC, §29.153(b), and has not yet enrolled in kindergarten; repeat kindergarten; enroll...

A 14-year-old girl can walk into school as an ordinary student and walk out with a felony. All it takes is one lapse in judgment – a five-minute mistake – and she will forever have a criminal record. The education system is at the root of the problem, and the solution. A potential light in the bleak world of drug education was House Bill 62, which was proposed, yet sadly not passed in the 87th Texas Legislative session. Texas missed an opportunity to employ restorative justice practices, which focus on healing harm rather than inflicting punishment. In the case of drugs, often the only ha...