Education
BY CASSANDRA JENKINS & EMILY LINCKE
CISD adds to book review process The Conroe ISD board of trustees dis- cussed how to create more transparency in its book review process during a March 19
Conroe ISD moves renovations forward
On March 5, Tomball ISD trustees approved the 2025-26 school year calendar. It includes earlier start and end dates than the 2024-25 year. Two-minute impact The calendar is required to have 187 teacher work days and at least 75,600 opera- tional minutes. According to TISD’s website, the 2025-26 calendar includes: Tomball ISD approves 2025 26 calendar
Lone Star College raises tuition for 2024 25 Lone Star College System trustees approved increased tuition rates for the 2024-25 school year during the board’s March 7 meeting, bumping in-district tuition by $8 per credit hour. The breakdown Trustees unanimously approved the 2024-25 credit tuition fee schedule as part of the meeting’s consent agenda. According to March 7 meeting documents, changes to tuition include an $8 increase per credit hour for in-district tuition and a $18 increase per credit hour for out-of-district tuition. Increases were also implemented for international and dual-credit tuition. These rates will go into eect in April when registration for the upcoming fall semester opens, according to meeting documents. The rates will impact all LSC campuses and degrees oered, according to a March 13 email from media relations
Oak Ridge High School Ninth-Grade Campus
Lone Star College System 202425 tuition rate changes per credit hour Old New
$103 $111
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The Conroe ISD board of trustees approved a handful of construction managers for several dis- trict renovation projects during a March 19 meeting. Two-minute impact Trustees approved construction companies for ve renovation projects, including one voters approved as part of the $1.9 billion 2023 bond. The Oak Ridge High School Ninth-Grade Campus will receive a major renovation, which includes addressing critical infrastructure, such as chillers, boilers, freezers, air handlers, generators and electrical service equipment, as well as the replacement of interior oors and walls. The district selected Sattereld and Pontikis Construction as the construction company in charge of the ninth-grade campus renovation project. The renovation will cost $23.49 million, according to district information.
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board meeting. What happened
Construction companies selected to manage other renovation projects include: • Snyder and Tough elementary schools, and Collins Intermediate School: Anslow-Bryant Construction • Armstrong, Austin, Birnham Woods and Broad- way elementary schools: Teal Construction • Deretchin, Kaufman, Milam, Houston, Runyan and Oak Ridge elementary schools: G.T.T. Construction Work on two other projects, an elementary school feeder for The Woodlands High School and one for the Caney Creek and Oak Ridge feeders, has begun, according to information from the district.
$290 $313 Dual-credit tuition $40 $43
Trustee Stacey Chase requested discus- sion on the complaint process for parents who want to weigh in on decisions that were made to remove library books and instruc- tional material. What’s changing? The board decided on several changes such as adding a reason for book removal to the district website, establishing a specic day each month the list is updated, and giving a 15-day period where a challenge can be submitted for a book.
SOURCE: LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEMCOMMUNITY IMPACT
• First day of school: Aug. 12, 2025 • Last day of school: May 21, 2026
manager Roycelyn Bastian. Diving in deeper
• Student holidays: Oct. 9-10 and 13, 2025 • Thanksgiving break: Nov. 24-28, 2025 • Winter break: Dec. 22, 2025-Jan. 2, 2026 • Spring break: March 9-13, 2026
The new tuition rates are expected to bring in an additional $10.1 million in revenue for LSC, according to meeting documents. Trustees did not discuss the new tuition rates before voting March 7.
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