Education
BY DAVE MANNING
School board approves new tax rate Katy ISD board of trustees approved a decreased tax rate for scal year 2023-24 at a Sept. 25 meeting. The speci cs The new $1.12 per $100 valuation tax rate would result in approximately $3,680 of annual taxes for the district’s calculated average taxable home value of $328,719. For comparison, the average tax bill from last scal year was estimated to be $4,242, or a $562 decrease year over year. These projections from the district assume the successful passing of the statewide proposition proposing an increase in the school district homestead exemption from $40,000 to $100,000 and buying down of school district property tax rates, which will be on ballots in Nov. 7.
Katy ISD revises library policy that banned books After months of public outcry over the banning of some children’s books, Katy ISD has revised its library policy by altering a phrase in the description of what would cause a book to be removed from library shelves. “The only change [to the July 31 revision] is to provide more speci city as to nudity, and we have deleted the term 'implied nudity.' ... The goal
of this board continues to be to protect children from ... harmful material.” VICTOR PEREZ, KATY ISD BOARD PRESIDENT
Katy citizens addressed the board Sept. 25 in pub- lic comments regarding book banning and cham- pioned district librarians, saying they are highly trained professionals with advanced degrees whom the board and the district should better support. In response, board members voted 7-0 to remove the words “implied nudity” from the language of the board policy revision approved July 31. What happened The board’s library policy speci c to elemen- tary schools originally stated the following: “No materials in elementary school libraries shall contain: 1) visual or visually implied depic- tions of sexual acts or simulations of such acts, 2) explicit written descriptions of sexual acts, 3)
non-explicit written descriptions of sexual acts, except for purposes of teaching students (as may be approved by parents) to avoid and report molestation, or 4) visual depictions of nudity or implied nudity.”
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