Texas
Carroll ISD school board votes to leave Texas Association of School Boards
SOUTHLAKE, Texas – The Carroll ISD faculty board determined to chop ties with the state’s affiliation of college boards over its variety and inclusion insurance policies.
It is one other escalation from a district going through a number of federal civil rights investigations for discrimination.
TASB has a membership charge, and districts pays further charges for different providers.
The rationale the board voted 5-1 to go away the affiliation subsequent yr is that they really feel it’s taken political stances on points that don’t align with the district.
The transfer comes after a bunch of Republican Texas lawmakers despatched a letter out to districts in January telling them to go away the Texas Affiliation of Faculty Boards over so-called “woke” insurance policies.
The letter took situation with the TASB’s pointers on transgender college students, calling for districts to guard college students from discrimination and bullying and to watch federal regulation in the case of rest room use and different points.
A couple of folks confirmed as much as Monday’s assembly to debate the subject, however all however one was for leaving TASB.
Whereas a majority of the varsity board have been in settlement to go away TASB, there was some debate.
Board member Michelle Moore wished the board to decelerate the method. However Board President Cameron Bryan and others mentioned the district shouldn’t give cash to a corporation with insurance policies its members don’t agree with.
“To proceed to ship our neighborhood’s taxpayer {dollars} to a corporation that pushes the very ideology that our neighborhood overwhelmingly rejected on the poll field in Might 2021, November 2021, then once more in Might 22 can be disingenuous on the very least to those that entrusted us to symbolize them,” Bryan mentioned.
“We have no idea how a lot these providers will value through the use of one other vendor. Wouldn’t it’s higher for us a fiscally accountable board, which I do know all of you, if you’ll speak about what you ran on,” Moore mentioned. “We take a pause right here, do the analysis, perceive what it’s going to value and evaluate it to what we’re paying TASB.”
Carroll ISD is not any stranger to being within the highlight.
In recent times, the varsity board has rolled again variety and inclusion insurance policies particularly these put in place after a 2018 video exhibiting white college students utilizing the n-word.
The district can be the topic of a number of ongoing federal civil rights investigations, and it caught warmth in 2021 over ebook elimination insurance policies.
Leaving TASB isn’t official till this faculty yr ends.
Proper now, the superintendent will verify to see what different vendor costs are and report again to the board to signal new service contracts for 2024.
Texas
2 dead, multiple injured in shooting at Texas Juneteenth celebration: police
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ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — Two people are dead and multiple others were injured after a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Texas.
Police in Round Rock, a city located less than 20 miles north of Austin, said the shooting began just before 11 p.m. at Old Settlers Park after a fight between two groups who were at the Juneteenth event.
“The unfortunate part is that we had innocent victims as a result of this reckless actions of certain subjects,” Police Chief Allen Banks said during a media briefing. “We’re here to celebrate Juneteenth and the unfortunate part is these folks could care less about someone’s life and take someone’s life and on a day we’re here to celebrate community.”
Banks shared that officers and members of the Round Rock Fire Department who were there immediately tried to help the victims of the shooting. Austin-Travis County EMS medics also responded to the incident and said four adults and two kids had potentially serious injuries.
Two people were pronounced dead at the scene. Their ages and identities have not yet been released.
Those injured, who were not part of the fight, were taken to area hospitals.
“My thoughts and my prayers go out to the victims,” said Banks. “My condolences go out to the families of the deceased.”
Watch the briefing from RRPD Chief Allen Banks:
No additional details were immediately available. Banks said police believe the suspects fled the scene but that there is no threat to the public.
Anyone with video or information about the incident is asked to reach out to the Round Rock Police Department at 512-218-5500.
Texas
Texas mass shooting as multiple people hit at Juneteenth event
At least six people have been injured in a shooting during a Juneteenth festival in Texas, according to authorities.
Round Rock Police said officers were investigating a shooting that took place at Old Settlers Park on Saturday night. “This is an active scene, and the investigation is ongoing. Please avoid the area,” the department wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Austin-Travis County EMS wrote that it responded to “a mutual aid request for a reported shooting involving multiple patients.”
Medics transported four adults and two children to local hospitals, “all with potentially serious injuries,” the department wrote on X.
Videos posted on social media showed a huge police presence at the scene after the shooting. One clip reportedly shows police officers surrounding a possible suspect.
Police said they have no suspects in custody, CBS Austin reported.
Newsweek has contacted the Round Rock Police Department for comment via social media.
🚨#BREAKING: Numerous people have been shot and injured with fatalities in a mass shooting during at a Juneteenth festival — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) June 16, 2024
⁰📌#Roundrock | #Texas
⁰Currently numerous Law enforcement along with emergency personnel are on the scene in old settlers park located in round rock… pic.twitter.com/P0Vb6WNIoN
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Texas
Texas voters cast ballots in runoff election
Voters went to the polls Saturday to make their final selections in 11 races that required runoffs after the May 4 local elections.
Most of the races were for city council seats in suburban communities around Dallas-Fort Worth. In Dallas County, the only races were for Irving City Council District 4 and Lewisville City Council, Place 2. You can see full results at dallasnews.com/election-results/.
Most of the attention on May 4 was on Dallas’ $1.25 billion bond program that overwhelmingly passed on a day that saw low voter turnout in the city. Turnout on Saturday was expected to be light, as well.
Among the races on the ballot: Two city council races in Allen, and single council races in Euless, North Richland Hills, Kennedale, Anna, Midlothian, Fate, Irving and Lewisville. Also being decided was a seat on the Ellis Appraisal District board of directors.
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