South San ISD’s school board voted to give the superintendent the power to lay off employees due to the district’s $12 million deficit.

The South San Antonio Independent School District is facing major financial issues and discussing several options to potentially solve a multi-million dollar deficit.

Shortly after, they plan on visiting their family for Thanksgiving in North Texas. The two university students are halfway through a 14-day quarantine that their mother required of them before they could join the rest of the family back home in North Texas for Thanksgiving. Officials at UT-Austin and elsewhere in Texas say they are relying on students to voluntarily comply with safety measures. In another letter to students Friday, officials encouraged students to develop a safe travel plan and get a flu shot. “Then, we’re quarantining again to go home for Christmas.”Disclosure: Baylor University, Prairie View A&M University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, University of Texas at Austin and University of North Texas have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors.