Kelly Wiley

A fun assignment for me — anchor the news with your good friends!

and I got to check off a big item on our bucket list today!

I had a wonderful night celebrating great journalism happening across Texas! Plus our investigation “From Class to Courts: Texas’ Untracked Truancy System” and our team’s project “Undocumented” was honored with Lone Star Emmy awards!

Green ribbons are lining every tree and post outside Casis Elementary School tonight for 8-year-old Linnie McCown. Her family learned yesterday she did not survive the flash floods at Camp Mystic. KXAN News

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/families-confirm-multiple-campers-did-not-survive-deadly-hill-country-flooding/

The Austin Independent School District released data showing how often it referred kids to truancy court this school year, revealing a significant decline from the previous year. Austin ISD is the largest school district in Central Texas, and the fight for its truancy data highlights how difficult it can be to understand the scope of Texas’ truancy system without accessible data. KXAN News

‘In the dark’: Bills tracking impact of Texas’ truancy courts on kids not likely to pass Austin ISD is the largest school district in Central Texas, and the fight for its truancy data highlights how difficult it can be to understand the scope of Texas’s truancy system without accessibl…

An Austin family has spent months fighting to see a video detectives say shows her 6-year-old being pinned behind a classroom door. The district is citing a legal exception to keep his parents from viewing it despite federal and state laws giving them special access. KXAN News

Austin ISD policy prevents parents from seeing video of alleged crimes against kids Across Texas, some school districts are using an exception in the state’s Public Information Act, often reserved for third parties like journalists, as grounds to not allow parents to view vi…

Texas Senate bill seeks to expand access to state misconduct records after KXAN investigation A group of Texas lawmakers filed a bill on Thursday to expand access to state misconduct records. The move is in response to a KXAN investigation uncovering a former juvenile corrections officer wh…

NEW: Texas school districts reported an 18 percent rise in students assaulting district employees in the 2023-24 school year, according to Texas Education Agency data.
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/students-assaulting-educators-on-the-rise-across-texas/
KXAN News

Students assaulting educators on the rise across Texas The number of school employees being assaulted on the job is rising in Texas. More than 2,600 assaults on educators were reported last school year, according to data from the Texas Education Agency…

out and about on a Tuesday

When your intern is doing her first TV interview and your job is to keep the dog quiet. (📸 Ed Zavala)

A troubling story is coming out of Burnet County, TX. According to the Burnet County Sheriff's Office, a volunteer safety team member at a church in Burnet told police he fired at and confronted two suspicious males, one of whom was armed, outside his church.

Today, the sheriff's office said that the report was made up. They arrested him on numerous charges, including falsely reporting and fabricating evidence.

Man arrested after BCSO says he lied about armed suspects outside Burnet church Burnet County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help locating suspects after an incident at a church Sunday morning.