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Carroll ISD will get to keep its full Pre-K 3 curriculum — with room for expansion — after a week of uncertainty about the program's future.
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The district will permit schools to hire chaplains as counselors so long as they meet the job requirements. “The district is not hiring chaplains to be just chaplains,” said board President Cameron Bryan.
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For decades, Texas' recapture, or Robin Hood, law has redistributed money from property-wealthy districts to property-poor ones. It's intended to make education funding equitable, but some districts say the system is broken.
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Carroll ISD's board struck gender identity and sexual orientation from its nondiscrimination statement. Placing that amended policy — while adding revised bathroom and pronoun rules — to new student handbooks reignited old fires at Monday's school board meeting.
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The board’s decision comes after state lawmakers encouraged districts to cut ties with the association.
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A school board in the Dallas-Fort Worth area says it already has enough signs. Critics are testing a recently adopted Texas law that requires public schools to display a poster bearing the U.S. motto.
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All but one of the 11 Tarrant County conservative school board candidates, who were backed this year by several high-profile donors and big-money PACs, defeated their opponents during Saturday’s local elections, according to unofficial results.
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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has filed a civil rights complaint against Carroll ISD, through the Department of Education.
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The inquiry comes after several high-profile controversies at Carroll ISD, including an administrator's call for teachers to provide an "opposing" view of the Holocaust.