Education
BY MARK FADDEN & JONATHAN PERRIELLO
CISD superintendent announces retirement Carroll ISD Superintendent Lane Ledbetter announced his plans to retire in a community email April 26. Ledbetter’s retirement will go into e ect Dec. 31, according to the email. The board of trustees approved the retirement at an April 29 meeting. “After considerable thought, my wife and I rmly believe that now is the right time for me to transition into retirement while seeking new opportunities to continue contributing to the eld of education,” Ledbetter said in the email. Going forward Ledbetter said he is committed to serving CISD over the next few months and working closely with the board to ensure a smooth transition. The board has a big hole to ll and it takes that role seriously, Board President Cameron Bryan said. The criteria for Ledbetter’s replacement has
Longer school day proposed for 2025 26 Grapevine-Colleyville ISD’s education advisory committee recommended o cials consider adding minutes to the school day beginning in the 2025-26 school year. The details According to a district news release, the committee made the recommendation during its April 10 meeting. The main impe- tus for adding minutes to the school day would be to increase the amount of planning time for teachers. This would be achieved by incorporating additional professional development days. If approved, the school day extension would necessitate signi cant changes to the approved instructional calendar, the release stated. The release states district o cials are con- sidering the recommendation at this time.
Carroll ISD Superintendent Lane Ledbetter is retiring after joining the district in late 2020.
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been posted. He has several months of leave time that he will be using between his last meeting in August until his retirement date in December, he said at the meeting. The board of trustees intends to hire a superintendent prior to Ledbetter leaving in August, Bryan said. Ledbetter has 31 years of total experience in education, more than 10 of which were spent serving as a superintendent at various districts, according to district documents.
Residents call for change after civil rights complaints Members of Cultural & Racial Equity for Every Dragon, a group of parents of Black Carroll ISD students, and the Southlake Anti-Racism Coali- tion, a group of current and former CISD stu- dents, submitted an open letter to administrators May 8. The letter asks for the board to negotiate about a pending civil rights investigation. violation of students’ civil rights, according to the letter. Current situation
On May 6, 2024, the district received the OCR’s proposed resolution related to the four complaints. This proposed resolution is simply that—a
proposal—and does not contain any ndings of fact or legal conclusions. CAMERON BRYAN, CISD BOARD PRESIDENT
The Department of Education O ce of Civil Rights told the groups on May 6 that it has initiated negotiations with CISD after yearslong investigations in four complaints led by the groups in 2021.
This comes after the Department of Education O ce of Civil Rights found the district was in
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