Kelly Staley first learned about the lawsuit from a reporter. A parent was suing her, the superintendent of the Chico Unified School District, over an alleged "parental secrecy" policy, the reporter said, claiming a school counselor had encouraged her fifth-grader to adopt a new gender and that the school had withheld that information.

The possibility of criminal charges against some of the nearly 400 officers who rushed to Robb Elementary School but waited more than an hour to confront and kill the shooter has hung over Uvalde since state lawmakers faulted law enforcement at every level.

They’re demanding answers to questions about Oklahoma's Teacher Sign-On Bonus program and what Walters is doing to help districts where many students are not performing at grade level.

While the school did not inform the child's parents of their use of the child's requested masculine name and pronouns per district policy, Dan and Jennifer Mead claim that the school attempted to socially transition their child and conceal it.