Education
BY HALEY VELASCO
Clear Creek ISD board approves two projects tied to 2023 bond Clear Creek ISD’s board of trustees at its Jan. 15 meeting approved two construction projects related to the 2023 bond, with one being $4.89 million and the other being $4.97 million. The gist Both bond projects, expected to be completed by Aug. 1, will apply to central plant replacements— which produce heating and cooling—at multiple schools, according to district documents. The $4.97 million project will apply to repairs at Falcon Pass, Goforth and Robinson Elementary schools, while the $4.89 million project will apply to repairs at Bauerschlag, Gilmore and Weber Elemen- tary schools, according to district documents. These are some of the rst construction projects
Clear Creek ISD passes new 2024 25 calendar Clear Creek ISD students will start school on Aug. 14 for the 2024-25 school year after the district’s board of trustees approved the new academic calendar at its Jan. 22 meeting. The gist While the majority of CCISD students will start Aug. 14, pre-K, kindergarten, sixth and ninth grade students will start Aug. 13, according to district agenda documents. The last day of school for students is May 22. CCISD’s board considered three possible calendar options, with district sta and the community recommending the third option through a survey released in late 2023. The board approved the calendar unani- mously at its Jan. 15 meeting.
Central plant funding
Central plant replacement $ 9.86M
$302M total bond
Rest of the bond $292.14M
Each of these elementary school campus will see more projects down the road. Below are the total amounts of bond money allocated for each of these schools in CCISD’s 2023 bond.
Bauerschlag - $6.7M Goforth - $6.36M Falcon Pass - $6M
Weber - $5.75M Robinson - $5.4M Gilmore - $5.2M
SOURCE: CLEAR CREEK ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
to be approved that are related to the district’s $302 million bond, which received voter approval Nov. 7. The bond aims at upgrading infrastructure and maintenance within the school district.
Lee College in Baytown awarded $750,000 to support incarcerated students Lee College received a $750,000 grant from the Greater Texas Foundation and Trellis Foundation to launch a project to help incarcerated students complete their college degrees once they are released from prison. The gist receive stackable, transferable credits, according to a Jan. 25 news release from the college. The project also provides services for incarcer- ated program participants, such as housing and transportation, according to the release. By the numbers “We know access to higher education degrees and certi cations disrupts the cycle of
generational poverty for many of our students.” SELAH TACCONI, EXECUTIVE
The project, called the Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education, expands access for students at Plane State Jail in Liberty County to
More than 40% of former inmates return to prison within their rst year, according to the National Institute of Justice.
DIRECTOR OF THE LEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
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