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News from Lone Star College System and Magnolia ISD
Magnolia schools to see safety upgrades MAGNOLIA ISD Students at Magno- lia, Magnolia West and Magnolia Junior high schools will see safety changes and upgrades as soon as January, Assistant Superintendent of Administration Jason Bullock said at the Magnolia ISD board of trustees meeting Oct. . House Bill , which passed in the th Texas Legislature, included a school safety allotment of about . per student, which resulted in roughly , for MISD, Bullock said. The district plans to install a security vestibule with doors located near the library, a roll- down gate in the reception area, and a buzz-in door and a new attendance window in the reception area of both high schools, Bullock said. Magnolia Junior High will have a new front entrance with dual-entry doors on either side of a security window, according to Bullock.
to begin work on the drilling services center, Head said. During the downturn, college o cials consulted with various experts in the industry to determine what components would be needed for a drilling services center, she said. The . million center is one of the projects from the college system’s million bond referendum approved by voters in . The ,-square-foot center will sit on . acres at Humble Road, Tomball, Head said. Plans for the center include a customized training rig, a modular training building and an equipment building, which will oer training in drilling, hydraulic manufacturing and other engineering technology located both on a rig and in the classroom, she said. Head said a groundbreaking for the center is not planned, and the grand opening of the Drilling Services Technology Center would be announced at a later date. LSCS also announced in late September its partnership with The University of Texas at Austin’s Petroleum Extension unit, or UT-PETEX.
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Lone Star College System to open Drilling Services Technology Center in Tomball in September 2020 The 10,000-square-foot center, estimated to cost $12.6 million, is funded by the $485 million Lone Star College System bond referendum voters approved in 2014.
a downturn in the Greater Houston area from - . According to the Texas Workforce Commission, there were , jobs in the Greater Houston area’s oil and gas industry in December , but that number had dropped by % to , jobs by December . However, since that time, employ- ment levels total , jobs in the region as of August, TWC data shows. While the industry is on an upturn, the LSCS board of trustees is pushing
LONE STAR COLLEGE Aer a setback from a downturn in the oil and gas industry about four years ago, the Lone Star College System is beginning work on its Drilling Services Technol- ogy Center, set to open in Tomball in September, said Linda Head, LSCS senior associate vice chancellor of external and employer relations. Peter Beard, the senior vice president of regional workforce development at the Greater Houston Partnership, said the industry saw
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