Education
BY AMIRA VAN LEEUWEN
Education Edition
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual education edition! Like many of you, my family and I are settling into the new school year—we’re adjusting to new policies and looking forward to new experiences. We all care about the quality of education our children receive, and that makes staying informed about local schools more important than ever, so here’s the scoop! Both Judson ISD and Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD have called for voter-approval tax rate elections, where you will get the opportunity to vote on your respective district’s tax rate ahead of the 2025-26 Fiscal Year. The districts have also updated their cell phone policies in response to new state requirements, taking slightly di erent approaches but sharing the same goal of reducing distractions in the classroom. JISD also celebrated the opening of two new schools. The district also approved $8.24M in teacher raises and extended a 1.5% midpoint raise to non-instructional sta , marking a substantial state- driven shift in this school year’s compensation structure. Lastly, the Texas Education Agency released its 2024-2025 accountability ratings for both districts, o ering another perspective on how our local schools are performing.
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Northeast Lakeview College now o ering nursing program
Northeast Lakeview College is now o ering an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program to the number of courses it o ers. The overview The nursing program, which was added in August, will have 30 students admitted. In January 2024, Executive Director of Nursing Crystal Sauls- berry wrote the proposal, and in November of that same year, she presented it to the Texas Board of Nursing. The Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program is a 2-year, 4-semester, 60-credit-hour program. The program consists of clinical and face-to-face lectures, Saulsberry said. “It also involves simulation, which is really great for students because it has that real-world aspect,” Saulsberry said. Saulsberry said students were very excited about the program. “I’m really excited to present this to the
community,” she said. The need
One of the biggest issues along the Northeast corridor is the lack of healthcare, and the health- care that is available is in the private sector, which can be more expensive for students, Northeast Lakeview College President Veronica Garcia said. “We knew that there was a high demand need for nurses ... but we also needed an option where they could get high-quality education at an a ord- able price,” Garcia said. Quote of note Saulsberry said University Health Retama Hos- pital is going to open at the same time as the com- munity college’s rst cohort will be graduating. “It’ll be great to have our students who live in the community work in the community,” Sauls- berry said.
The Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program consists of clinical and face-to-face lectures.
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