EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from Fort Bend ISD
Fort Bend ISD board of trustees will meet at 6 p.m. March 28 at 16431 Lexington Blvd., Sugar Land. 281-634-1000. www.fortbendisd.com MEETINGSWE COVER exhibit, which serves as the first phase of its SL95 Memorialization Project, in the James Reese Career and Technical Center. The exhibit aims to honor and memorialize 95 individuals who are believed to be convicts who died at the Bullhead Convict Labor Camp during Texas’ convict labor leasing program. SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS FORTBEND ISD With a 6-1 vote during its Feb. 14 meeting, the Fort Bend ISD board renewed its District of Innovation Plan. The renewal allows the district to continue to be granted flexibility and exemptions from Texas Education Code sections, such as allowing flexibility in the calendar, allowing the district to waive certain teaching certifications and exempting FBISD from certain attendance rules. FORTBEND ISD An educational exhibit for students and the general public detailing the story of the Sugar Land 95 opened to the public Feb. 22. FBISD opened the
Fort Bend ISD to see enrollment increase, demographer says
FBISDboard candidates forMay election confirmed
BY HUNTER MARROW
Survey Analysts. The projections come amidst enrollment growth at FBISD that is expected to slow over the next 5-10 years. Officials attribute the loss in momentum to a predicted increase in the presence of charter schools combined with an expected slow- down in housing growth, according to the demographer. The district demographic report comes as PASA projects that through fall 2026, an additional 1,670 students from the district are projected to leave FBISD and enroll in charter schools.
BY HUNTER MARROW
FORTBEND ISD Student enroll- ment at Fort Bend ISD is projected to increase anywhere from 0.85% on the low end up to 3.26% on the high end for the upcoming 2022-23 school year, according to a spring 2022 demographic report presented to FBISD’s board of trustees at its Feb. 14 meeting. That represents an increase up to about 79,000 students from the October 2021 enrollment of about 77,000 students, according to a spring 2022 report from the district’s demographer, Population and
FORT BEND ISD Candidates for two positions on the Fort Bend ISD board of trustees have filed for their respective places on the ballot for the upcoming May election. Positions 3 and 7 on FBISD’s board of trustees will be up for vote during the May 7 election. Position 3 trustee Jim Rice, who is the incumbent, is running for re-election to the posi- tion, while Position 7 trustee Dave Rosenthal will not be seeking another term on the board. Incumbent Rice will run against candidate Rick Garcia. The two can- didates both announced their intent to run for FBISD Board of Trustees Position 3 on Jan. 10. Meanwhile in the race for Position 7, candidates David Hamilton, LaShell McClue and Orjanel Lewis will be on the ballot.
Enrollment expectations
1,670 students projected to leave FBISD for charter schools through fall 2026
77,651 students enrolled in FBISD in October 2021
78,314 to 80,183 students projected to be enrolled in the 2022-23 school year
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