The Aledo Ledger Saturday, September 5, 2026

Aledo ISD Administration Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road

School board adopts the District of Innovation plan and its policy changes, sets the 2019-2020 calendar, and hears the growth committee's early case for elementary and middle school space

Every vote was 6-0. Thompson & Horton LLP was engaged on consent, and Templeton Demographics stressed ten years of growth.

The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees met Feb. 19, 2019, with President Hoyt Harris, Secretary Forrest Collins and Trustees David Lear, Bobby J. Rigues, Jessica Brown and Julie Turner present. Vandagriff Elementary presented. The board commended two all-state choir members and Deputy Superintendent Lynn McKinney's Camp Fire Ella C. McFadden Service to Youth Award. Harris said Collins had been nominated to the Texas Education Agency's board of trustees advisory council. A representative of an educators' association gave trustees a teacher salary comparison. The consent agenda, approved 6-0, included the engagement of the law firm Thompson & Horton LLP.

Bearcat Growth Committee co-chairs Jim Scott and Christy James reported on the committee's first two meetings, with the takeaway so far being the need for more elementary and middle school learning space, and Templeton Demographics presented the spring 2019 report emphasizing growth areas over the next ten years. Assistant Superintendent Amber Crissey reported rising implementation of the instructional focus.

The board approved, each 6-0: adoption of the Aledo ISD District of Innovation Plan; the related policy changes to AF, DBA, DK, DNA, DNB, EB and FO(Local); and the 2019-2020 district-wide calendar. After an executive session from 7:54 to 8:45 p.m., the meeting adjourned at 8:46 p.m.

Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the Feb. 19, 2019 meeting, as attached to the March 18, 2019 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, Feb. 19, 2019 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook

How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the Feb. 19, 2019 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the March 18, 2019 agenda, and the meeting agenda. Every vote, number and name above appears in those documents; the Ledger did not review the meeting video. Students, employees who are not administrators, and public commenters are not named. Written Sept- 5- 2026, for the archive.

Filed under Aledo ISD Board of Trustees ยท Topics: Is Aledo ISD building a second high school?

LedgerAt a glance
District of Innovation plan
Adopted with seven policy changes, 6-0
2019-2020 calendar
Adopted, 6-0
Thompson & Horton LLP
Engaged on consent

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