Education
BY DAVE MANNING & LIZZY SPANGLER
At the Jan. 22 meeting, Katy ISD board of trustees approved the instructional calendar for the 2025-26 school year. In a nutshell The 2025-26 school year will begin on Aug. 13, 2025, and end May 15, 2026, for seniors and May 21, 2026, for the remainder of the student population, according to the approved calendar. Chief Communications O cer Andrea Grooms said the survey on the two 2025-26 calendar options took place Dec. 8-Jan. 8. “Participants overwhelmingly voted for Option A,” she said. “We had about 11,500 participants; Katy ISD trustees approve 2025 26 calendar
2025-26 school year holidays Sept. 1: Labor Day Oct. 13: Columbus Day Nov. 24-28: Thanksgiving break Dec. 22, 2025-Jan. 2, 2026: Winter break March 9-13: Spring break April 3: Good Friday
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80% of them voted for that calen- dar option.” Grooms said survey participants cited the earlier start date and the earlier end date as why they voted for Option A. What else? The KISD board approved the 2024-25 instructional calendar last January. The 2024-25 school year will start Aug. 14 and end May 16, 2025, for seniors and May 22, 2025, for the rest of the student population.
HCC board approves new chancellor
The Houston Community College board of trustees voted to name Margaret Ford Fisher the institution’s new chancellor, per a news release Jan. 24. Ford Fisher had served as HCC’s interim chancellor since Sept. 1. Under Ford Fisher’s leadership, the HCC Online College launched more than 60 fully online degree programs and 70 hybrid courses, enhancing educational acces- sibility and helping the system reach an enrollment of over 62,000 students. As part of that development in new degrees and courses, programs were added that included science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM; energy; biotechnology; robotics; and arti cial intelligence, as previously reported.
Margaret Ford Fisher has worked at HCC for decades.
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In their own words “We enjoy a wonderful faculty and committed sta who deeply care about each student they encounter. Together, we are providing real-world education to allow students to succeed in life, their work and in their communi- ties,” Ford Fisher said.
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