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Parents, advocates tell LTISD board of alleged inconsistent discipline, assaults and unreported officer conduct
Summary
Multiple speakers at Lake Travis ISD's June 9 meeting urged the board to investigate inconsistent disciplinary outcomes, alleged failures to report school police misconduct to TCOLE, and the handling of student assaults. They called for formal reporting and accountability.
Several parents and community advocates used the Lake Travis ISD board’s public-comment period on June 9 to press trustees for action on school-safety, discipline equity and alleged police misconduct.
Speakers described incidents they said were either insufficiently investigated or inconsistently disciplined, and they asked the board to report alleged misconduct by a district officer, Officer Stephen Dean, to state authorities.
Catherine Sartre, a parent and advocate, told trustees she was “deeply concerned about the inequities and how disciplinary consequences are applied across grade levels.” Sartre contrasted suspensions of young children, including students with disabilities, with what she described as lack of formal consequences for a high-school assault that she said met the district’s code-of-conduct definition of violent conduct. “We are told it’s under investigation but from a parent’s…
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