DTX-KRN: Impact 10/8/2025

The contract for school resource officers, or SROs, in Keller ISD and Northwest ISD has been extended for another year.

During the Sept. 30 Fort Worth City Council meeting, an agreement between those schools, as well as Fort Worth ISD and Lena Pope Homes Inc., was approved for $9.18 million to provide SROs for the 2025-26 fiscal year, which started Oct. 1. Fort Worth Police Department officers will work in schools in the Fort Worth city limits.

The contract will run through Sept. 30, 2026, according to city documents.

The breakdown: FWISD will have 70% of the SROs, or 55, of the 78 that are listed in the contract working within the schools. The fiscal year 2025-26 cost for FWISD is $6.4 million.

KISD will be assigned 12 officers, followed by 10 to NISD and 1 to Lena Pope Home, which is in Fort Worth.

The details: The cost for KISD is $1.48 million and $1.16 million for NISD, according to city documents.

Keller-based All American MMA now has a location in Southlake.

All American MMA owner Rocky Budri worked with Lonestar Mat Club owners Dr. Glenn Vo and Dr. Susan Tran in Southlake and merged the two wrestling clubs.

The focus is to build state- and national-level competition teams in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and wrestling in Southlake, according to coach Travis Clark.

Quote of note: “We're basically trying to not only build a powerhouse in Texas, but we want to build a powerhouse in the entire country as far as jiu-jitsu and wrestling goes,” said Clark, who is the head wrestling coach at Euless Trinity High School.

The background: Budri has operated All American in Keller since 2014. With the merger, All American will operate the wrestling portion in Southlake, while bringing jiu-jitsu, Clark said. He said the plan is to get the jiu-jitsu program up by Nov. 1, while boxing and Muay Thai could come in 2026.

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1. Collin College: Beginning in the fall 2025 semester, Collin College students gained access to online education from schools across the state through a partnership with the Texas Statewide Course Sharing Exchange Program. The program allows students to sign up for online courses from schools statewide while also enrolled in Collin College courses, with the goal to increase availability of courses while also supporting students completing their education, a college news release states.

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The town of Trophy Club will be known as the Texas Town of Patriotism for the next 10 years.

Town Council member Steve Flynn mentioned during the Sept. 22 meeting that the town was bestowed that title after the 89th legislative session.

According to previous reporting, Rep. Ben Bumgarner, R-Flower Mound, and Sen. Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound, led the work in Austin to get the designation passed.

In Parker's filing, it said, "Since its inception, the Town of Trophy Club has set an inspiring example by making patriotism a centerpiece of community life and civic engagement, and its efforts deserve to be duly recognized."

Quote of note: “When you plant your flag, know that you had a part in achieving this recognition,” Trophy Club Mayor Jeannette Tiffany said.

What else? The town has five parks with patriotic-themed names and flags are flown at eight different locations. For the past 12 years, every street and every neighborhood in Trophy Club has planted flags for the city’s Fourth of July celebration.