Round Rock Independent School District

There's nothing greedy about asking about a pay raise.

The question is, has the Georgetown ISD, the Bastrop School District, Round Rock ISD, you pick your favorite school district.

Are they spending your money wisely? That's the question.

And if these teachers wanted bigger pay raises, they should go work at a private school.

I believe so, yeah.

But

anyway, uh, these, uh, this, uh, Round Rock ISD, as a matter of fact, reportedly posted a picture of themselves wearing t-shirts promoting Democrat James Tallarico inside the school.

Mm-hmm.

Del Valley? Del Valle.

Westwood and Round Rock, the original Round Rock ISD matchup.

And you know what's cool about high school football Friday night, it's starting to feel like football.

That's right.

He also voted against a measure designed to restrict military healthcare programs from covering or providing certain gender transition procedures, and last year, Gonzalez voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which included a provision restricting Medicaid funding for gender transition procedures.

[swoosh] A group of parents and educators in the Round Rock Independent School District in Central Texas are pushing for less overall screen usage by children in the classroom.

The group is concerned about children's use of laptops and Chromebooks during school.

Among other things, they want the district to eliminate devices for students in pre-kindergarten through second grade, reduce the number of classroom devices for students in the third through fifth grade, and to set daily and weekly screen time limits for students starting in the third grade.

It is, uh, 7:09.

Listen, Texas has a new law in place that bans students from using their personal phones and tablets in the classroom, but some parents in the Round Rock School District want even more limitations, uh, on their kids' screen time.

And I think this, uh, this limitation has helped quite a bit.

Oh, gosh, yeah.

You know, they, uh, they make the lawn look great again.

Yeah, I have every faith in the world that they're gonna do that as they have every single year in the past that they've been in, in charge of that.

Listen, as you know, Texas has a new law in place that bans the use of, uh, cell phones and personal tablets and devices in classrooms, but some parents in the Round Rock School District, they want even more limitations on their kids' screen time.

Parent Joseph Southwell tells KXAN he'd like to see the district focus more on laptops and Chromebooks.

Well, I've already had, uh, staff, um, communicate with me that they're starting to look for other jobs, because if they don't get a raise and their healthcare goes up, it's becomes an affordability issue for them, and that's a real loss for our district.

District officials state Round Rock ISD is seeing healthcare claims rise faster than the amount that was budgeted, and they say that the health insurance fund could have a $13 million shortfall without these proposed changes.

The district is also going to look to voters for help through the tax rate election.

If approved next month, the average property owner in Round Rock ISD will see their taxes increase by about $200 a year.

I think you're gonna find a, a, a monumental lack of sympathy.

I mean, when, when you hear you got a $10 a month health plan and it might go up to 100 bucks a month, I'm in my late 40s, I pay more than $500 a month for health insurance.

I wish I only had $100 a, a month that I had to pay for my health plan.

Uh, and, and, and if the district is saying that we're gonna have to do this because we're gonna have this multimillion dollar shortfall, then so be it.

I've had several conversations with people at Brentwood Christian, whether they're board members or in the administration.

They don't understand, 'cause in the Austin area, even Round Rock ISD, Leander, I know they do some great things-

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