Education
BY JONATHAN PERRIELLO
CISD board hears 2023 bond project updates Progress has been made on several Coppell ISD projects included in the 2023 bond package. Bond Project Manager Sid Grant provided updates to the school board at the Nov. 18 meet- ing, including details on the Coppell High School fine arts building and tennis center projects. The details In April, the board approved a maximum price of $18.6 million for the fine arts building and $5.5 million for the tennis center. The 46,593-square-foot fine arts building will feature dressing rooms for band, choir, color guard, dancing and cheerleading as well as a dance and cheer gymnasium that will double as a storm shelter. Once students move into the new building, the district will begin creating a career and technical education center in the vacated space at the high
LISD staff to receive one-time payment The Lewisville ISD school board approved a $1,000 one-time payment for all staff at the Nov. 11 meeting. What you need to know After a Nov. 4 workshop, the adminis- tration decided to increase the one-time payment to $1,000 in lieu of a percentage raise. According to documents, a 1% raise would have equated to a $665 increase per staff member. The one-time payments are estimated to cost $6.7 million, per district documents. “This is the very least that we can do for our staff members,” trustee Staci Barker said. The payment will be dispersed to staff by no later than Dec. 31, according to district documents.
Elementary school project timeline
2024
Valley Ranch renovations and additions in progress
2025 • Town Center refresh begins • Denton Creek refresh begins
2026 • Cottonwood refresh begins • Lakeside renovations and additions begin • Austin renovations and additions begin 2027
SOURCE: COPPELL ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
school. The project is estimated to complete in mid-October 2025, Grant said. What else? When conversations of school closures sparked this summer, the board approved a postponement of elementary bond projects at Pinkerton, Lake- side and Town Center elementaries, Grant said. Now that discussions are complete, district staff will resume these projects aside from Pinkerton.
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