Education
BY HEATHER MCCULLOUGH
Education Edition
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Education Edition! This guide features the latest updates and resources about local K-12 public schools in the community, ranging from education Q&As to informational graphics to how students are preparing for their next step after high school. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses that support our mission to provide free, useful news to bene t the community—show them your gratitude by supporting them. In this year’s education guide, we take a deep look at how schools and local businesses are utilizing Career and Technical Education programs to prepare students for the next step after high school graduation. In an exclusive interview, we asked Keller ISD board member Randy Campbell his topline plans as a newly elected trustee and how he wants to work with Keller ISD students, teachers and residents. On behalf of your local Community Impact team, we wish all our students, teachers and professional sta a wonderful year ahead!
What's inside
Check out how NISD, KISD students are working with local businesses (Page 12)
Arlin Gold General Manager agold@ communityimpact.com
See the local districts’ A F accountability ratings for the last two school years (Page 13)
Get to know Randy Campbell, one of Keller ISD’s new board of trustees members (Page 14)
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KISD launches new partnership with Tarleton State University
Keller ISD’s dual enrollment program will be with Tarleton State University for the 2025-26 school year and will renew automatically for the next four years, according to district documents. The details Previously, Keller ISD partnered with Tarrant County College for college level courses, according to district documents. KISD switched from Tarrant County College to save parents and the district money, said Bryce Nieman, KISD’s chief communi- cations o cer. “KISD would have saved about $55,000 for the 2024-25 school year if a partnership with Tarleton State had been in place,” Nieman said. KISD will still work with Tarrant County College for resources associated with the Keller Collegiate Academy, an early college model campus for high schoolers to earn an associates degree, until 2027, according to previous reporting.
What you need to know KISD’s partnership with Tarleton Today, which is the name of the dual enrollment program, o ers a greater variety of math and science courses than Tarrant County College did, Nieman said. Tarleton’s dual enrollment program will include college-level courses in history, English, math, sci- ence and Career and Technical Education courses, said Sven Alskog, Tarleton’s director of university communications. “High school students experience the rigor and have the opportunity to earn college credit while earning credit for their high school diploma,” Alskog said. “Students have the added bene t of having the support of both their high school teacher as well as college faculty members.” Dual enrollment classes will be taught by KISD teachers, per previous reporting. Courses will be taught in KISD classrooms, said Shayla Ho man, Director of Tarleton Today.
Tarleton State University’s dual credit program features:
$50 at fee per course credit
Scholarship opportunities
Automatic admittance upon completion of associates degree
Automatic admittance for top 50% of KISD graduating classes
More math and science courses
Student aid programs
SOURCE: KELLER ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
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