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TEA trainer outlines 2025 school-law changes affecting discipline, safety and library reviews
Summary
A TEA-registered provider, Carrie Carter, gave Godley ISD trustees a legislative update highlighting changes to discipline procedures, school-safety requirements, parents’‑rights rules for library materials and new reporting timelines for educator misconduct. She urged trustees to update district policies and systems accordingly.
Carrie Carter, a TEA-registered provider, told Godley ISD trustees the 2025 legislative session produced several statutory changes that trustees should incorporate into local policy and operations.
Carter said session activity included more than 3,500 filed bills and roughly 1,155 bills signed by the governor; she identified parents’ rights, school funding and education savings accounts as recurring statewide themes. She reviewed specific items that trustees will need to implement or monitor at the district level, including discipline, school safety, library material review processes and new reporting requirements.
On discipline, Carter summarized a law that clarifies when teachers may remove a student from class…
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