Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of reports on special education in public schools in the Killeen-Copperas Cove area. When Autumn and Christian Thomas moved back to their hometown of Killeen with their daughter, the couple said they looked forward to watching her grow up in the same school system they attended […]
Homophobic rhetoric was exhibited by a group of temple residents during the Killeen Independent School District school committee meeting this week. Three Temple residents, organized by the Concerned Christian Citizens, asked the Killeen ISD school board to take a position of “neutrality” after the group struggled with a bulletin board for the KISD Career Center […]
A family plans to take the Killeen Independent School District to federal court after a lawyer called a “dangerous decision” in favor of the school district on Monday. In 2019, Stephanie Moody filed a formal complaint against Killeen ISD with the Texas Education Agency – and won – after she said the district failed to […]
Staff at the Killeen Independent School District insisted during a recent hearing that they do everything in their power to provide services to a special education student whose mother has filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency. Stephanie Moody claims that in the years her daughter attended KISD, the district failed to recognize […]
A Texas special school hearing officer will decide whether the Killeen Independent School District should pay a family for required special education services that the family says the district did not provide their daughter. The first of four one-day due process hearings between KISD and Stephanie Moody, whose daughter previously attended KISD, and their respective […]
