Keller ISD

Keller ISD's interim Superintendent John Allison took the district's projected $27 million shortfall to the public this week. In a community meeting, he explained the causes and blamed the state for inadequate funding.

The Keller school board unanimously picked its own Chief Human Resources Officer, Tracy Johnson, to be the district's next superintendent. Johnson has 22 years in education as an elementary teacher and administrator across several north Texas districts.

The district revealed its latest deficit numbers for the 2024-25 school year during a meeting this week.

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.

The policies say no employee requires the use of pronouns inconsistent with an individual’s assigned sex at birth, and a student must use bathrooms aligned with the sex on their birth certificate. But both policies leave some room for accommodations

The ACLU of Texas called for a civil rights probe after Keller ISD approved a book ban and Frisco ISD passed a bathroom bill, both tied to LGBTQ communities.

Book policies at Keller ISD, and new book, bathroom and curriculum policies at Grapevine-Colleyville ISD are now in place after school board votes Monday night. The controversial policies left parents, teachers and officials divided following hours of public comment and debate.

All versions of the Bible. The graphic adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Those are just some of the familiar books that weren’t available to students on the first day of school Tuesday in the northern Tarrant County community of Keller.

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.

The district appears to be the first one to be investigated since Republicans started raising questions in October about content in public school libraries.

A North Texas school board has censured a new member who made anti-Muslim online comments about another elected community leader.Keller Independent School…