The Katherine Anne Porter School, commonly referred to as KAPS, is a public charter high school in Wimberley, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1998 by Maltese politician and educator Yana Bland and named after Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer Katherine Anne Porter. The Austin American-Statesman described it as a "small, eclectic high school." In the 2018–2019 school year, KAPS had 167 students across grades nine through twelve, and its faculty currently consists of only 25 members. The school has been said to "foster a love for learning, creative thinking, and community involvement" and features numerous afterschool activities and clubs. The school claims to be nondiscriminatory on the basis of "race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic identification, political affiliation, or disability in matters affecting employment," and students there have been said to be "very aware of environmental issues." History KAPS was founded in 1998 by Yana Bland with the stated goal to "nurture students' interests, foster an appreciation for learning, enhance community responsibility, and to advance peace and human rights." The school states that its founders began as a group "dedicated to preserving [Katherine Porter's] memory" who purchased her childhood home in Kyle, Texas and "saw a need for a school focused on the arts in the rural hill country area." Mural controversy In 2000, an art student purportedly painted an image featuring two men kissing as part of a larger mural in a common area at KAPS. This sparked a controversy in which two Board of Trustees members demanded that the image be removed. Later, a meeting of the school faculty was held in which all 23 members at the time claimed to be in favor of preserving both the homoromantic image and the mural as a whole. Despite this unanimous agreement from the staff, just two weeks later the mural had been entirely painted over in white. The mural is purported to have been "conceptualized" by Grady Roper, a former art teacher at KAPS, and to have also contained "Satanic" imagery and depictions of violence, on the subject of which Yana Bland claimed, "Most of the staff felt that ... the mural ... was inappropriate," and that "the [B]oard [of Trustees] was unanimous in feeling it was inappropriate for the school." She claimed that Roper would not cooperate with the Board when it requested he remove certain parts of the mural. According