Education
BY MARK FADDEN
Keller ISD votes not to pursue splitting district One of the rst actions for the new Keller ISD board was to unanimously vote against pursuing the creation of a new school district by detachment. What happened? At the May 15 meeting, Place 5 Trustee Chris Coker and board President John Birt spoke about the importance of putting the divisiveness concerning the split aside. “This idea [of the split] was concerning to the community,” Coker said. “I’m glad we can move forward as a community.” The unanimous vote comes after new board members Randy Campbell and Jennifer Erickson were sworn in to their new board trustee positions along with Chelsea Kelly, who was reelected in the May election, during the May 14 special meeting. They were part of the vote at the May 15 meeting.
NISD newest district in social media lawsuit The Northwest ISD board voted unani- mously May 19 to join several school districts across the state in litigation e orts to recover expenses sustained by the district related to youth social media usage and addiction. The gist The list of companies named in the law- suit include Meta Platforms Inc., Instagram LLC, Snap Inc., TikTok Inc., ByteDance Inc., YouTube LLC, Google LLC, and Alphabet Inc. According to NISD documents, the district will be represented by Eiland & Bonnin, PC; and O’Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo, PC. “There are no up-front or out-of-pocket costs to join the litigation,” district docu- ments state. “If there is no recovery, there are no costs to the district.”
“We recognize this has been a contentious last few months.
With the resolution, we put this matter to rest so that we can all move forward as one district.” JOHN BIRT, KELLER ISD BOARD PRESIDENT
The background Interest in the Keller ISD board election spiked due to the recent activities of the board about possibly splitting the district. Former Place 1 Trustee Micah Young opted not to run for reelection and Place 2 Trustee Joni Smith was defeated by Erickson in the May election. Superintendent Tracy Johnson handed in her resignation following the Jan. 30 meeting after she said the split “wasn’t right for the kids.” Cory Wilson was named interim superintendent in February and was named the lone nalist for the position June 5.
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