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Tomball ISD renews District of Innovation plan
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Tomball adds new career and technical education pathways Tomball ISD presented new CTE pathways at a Dec. 14 meeting that it will o er to students for the upcoming 2022-23 school year, including aviation, cybersecurity, law enforcement and legal studies, Chief of Sta Amy Schindewolf said. Schindewolf said any student in grades nine through 12 will be able to take courses related to the new pathways during the rst year the courses are being taught.
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CHANGES: Classes can begin as early as second Monday in August Removal of provision to adjust daily instructional time STAYING THE SAME: Ability to exceed class limits in K-4 without a waiver Ability to hire quali ed teachers without Texas credentials NEW PROVISIONS: All district administrators trained to give disciplinary action Limited parental request for retention for K-3 students Tomball ISD renewed its District of Innovation plan during its Dec. 14 board meeting, allowing the district to be exempt from certain sections of the Texas Education Code. RENEWING THE PLAN
TOMBALL ISD The board of trustees approved a new District of Innovation plan Dec. 14 that will take e ect in August for the next ve years. TISD was rst approved as a District of Innovation in 2016, Community Impact Newspa- per previously reported. Districts of Innovation are exempt from certain sections of the Texas Education Code, according to the Texas Education Agency website. Changes to the plan include allowing classes to begin as early as the second Monday in August, said Mark White, assistant superintendent of accountability. The plan keeps a provision allowing TISD to hire quali ed teachers who may not have Texas teaching credentials. “What we want to be able to do is leverage the profes- sional class of people and work with our industry partners to nd people who are certi ed in [TISD’s career and tech- nical education pathways] but may not have a traditional Texas [education] certi cation,” he said.
SOURCE: TOMBALL ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Programming set for Lone Star College-Magnolia Center
Bond projects to get underway Following voter approval of a $494.46 million bond package in November, new Tomball ISD facilities and renovations are anticipated to get underway in 2022, including the relocation of Tomball Star Academy, the district’s early college high school program. Currently housed at Tomball High School, Tomball Star Academy will relocate to the district’s Tomball Innovation Center at 11211 FM 2920, which will be renovated using funds included in the bond package. Trustees on Jan. 11 authorized Superintendent Martha Salazar- Zamora to spend up to $12.6 million to relocate Tomball Star Academy and launch new career and technical education pathways for the 2022-23 school year. Chief Financial O cer Jim Ross said if TISD waited for projects to be approved at board meetings, construction would not be nished by August due to supply chain issues.
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2024 at FM 1774 and FM 1486. Following an analysis of local workforce needs, Riley said the Magnolia center is poised to include a heating, ventilation and air condi- tioning instructional lab and training space for paramedic programs as well as computer and science labs to support health occupation and engi- neering programs at the Montgomery and Tomball campuses. The center will also include a small library, a testing center, administra- tive o ces and classroom space. “Within the computer labs, we can also run a number of computer-based programs. …We’ll de nitely have business programs, probably some computer science courses,” she said.
LONE STAR COLLEGE Rebecca Riley, the president of Lone Star College-Montgomery, said prepa- rations for the construction of the LSC Magnolia Center, a proposed satellite campus of LSC Montgomery, are underway with programming for the center nalized in January. “The next step is actually to move into the design phase,” Riley said. “We are expecting that throughout 2022 all of the permitting and preparation will occur, including the design phase, and then we’ll move into the construction phase in late 2022 or possibly even into 2023.” She said the 50,000-square-foot center will likely be completed in
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The center is funded by a 2014 bond approved by voters. A construction manager at risk will likely be voted on in March or April by LSCS trustees, Riley said. “It is moving along—not as fast as anybody would like, I’m sure, but it is moving along,” she said. “At least some really concrete steps are underway as far as moving toward a completed facility.”
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