Alvin ISD’s board of trustees at its Jan. 11 meeting unanimously approved the renewal of its prekindergarten full-day Texas Education Agency waiver for the 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years.
House Bill 3 requires school districts in the state to provide a full-day prekindergarten program to eligible 4-year-old children with exemptions to districts that would need to build new classroom facilities or if the number of eligible prekindergarten children decreases due to a full-day program, according to agenda documents.
Implementing a full-day prekindergarten program at all AISD campuses would require construction of additional classroom facilities, agenda documents said, making the district eligible for the exemption.
The district currently only has a full-day prekindergarten program at its highest-need campuses, which are Title I elementary schools that offer prekindergarten. At a Title I school, 40% or more of the student population is considered economically disadvantaged, AISD Director of Communications Renae Rives said.
