Greetings Falcons! As we enter the fourth week of the 2023-2024 school year, we want to provide our community with important information about the Texas Education Agency (TEA) Accountability system. Starting in 2018, TEA has rated school districts across Texas […]
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Texas A&M System Expands Access to High-Quality Pre-K
Three-year-olds and four-year olds across Texas soon will have better access to high-quality, pre-kindergarten education, thanks to a new partnership between the Texas Education Agency and The Texas A&M University System. “Kids who start elementary school knowing how to write […]
Katy ISD Bond Committee Hones in on Specific Topics and Projects
During their third meeting together, the Katy ISD Community Bond Advisory Committee (CBAC) continued to vet campus and facility projects, this time utilizing much of their time closely examining topics they identified as needing more information about in order to […]
Harmony Public Schools teachers to receive additional salary through TEA’s Teacher Incentive Allotment
The Texas Education Agency has announced that Harmony Public Schools is eligible this cycle for the Teacher Incentive Allotment, a special fund created to reward the state’s highest-performing teachers. The recognition means that hundreds of Harmony teachers across the state will receive up to […]
Katy ISD Public Notice and Opportunity to Comment on the Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services Plan and Use of Funds Plan
Texas Education Agency (TEA) has allocated Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds in response to the Covid-19 pandemic for the 2021-2024 school years to Katy ISD. Katy ISD continues to review both plans semi-annually with an opportunity for […]
Katy ISD Earns an “A” in the 2022 TEA Accountability Rating System
It’s report card time for school districts across the State of Texas, and Katy ISD has earned an overall A rating (91) from the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) A-F Accountability Rating System. Out of more than 1,000 school districts in […]
Harmony Public Schools South & West Texas Districts Earn “A” Rating in New TEA Accountability Ratings
Harmony Public Schools Houston South and West Districts has earned an “A” in the Texas Education Agency’s first accountability ratings since the COVID pandemic began. All six schools in Harmony Public Schools Houston West District earned an “A” rating. Three out […]
Summer seminar spotlights school gardens
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension will present a mid-summer conference on “Cultivating School Gardens” for educators to prepare youth for healthy learning. The effort works as illustrated by an elementary school in Katy that has been providing students a hands-on gardening […]
Niche rankings of Fort Bend County’s Best Charter Schools for 2022 dominated by Harmony Public Schools campuses
The rankings are in and once again Harmony Public Schools has dominated Niche’s annual rankings of the Best Charter Schools in Fort Bend County. The STEM-focused public charter school system had all five schools in Fort Bend County rank #1 or #2 of […]
Katy ISD Earns TEA’s Highest Fiscal Accountability Rating
Katy Independent School District has once again received a rating of “A” for “Superior Achievement” under the Texas Schools FIRST (Financial Accountability Rating System of Texas). This is the highest rating possible as established under guidelines and rules created by […]
