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Public archive · Katy Independent School District

A public record of Katy ISD board decisions, votes, documents and video.

356

Board meetings

16,708

Recorded votes

8,489

Documents

331

Meeting videos

Archive as of August 2026 · Source: BoardDocs · Katy ISD board video

From the record

Board meeting video still — May 10, 2018

“Because the legacy of Katy, for all of us, is much more than just a hashtag.”

Ashley Vann

President, Katy ISD Board of Trustees

MAY 10, 2018 00:46:45

Eight years later, A Better Legacy is an archive of that public record.

Thirteen years · 25 trustees

99.46% of every recorded vote was yea.

Of 16,708 individual votes cast by trustees since 2013, 16,617 were yes. Seventy-two were no and nineteen were abstentions. Most business before a school board is routine and passes on a consent agenda, which is true of districts generally. The figure is offered as a measurement, not a verdict.

Fifty-one of 3,141 motions, 1.6 percent, drew a no vote or an abstention from any trustee. Those are the motions on which this board visibly disagreed.

Sourced from the BoardDocs archive, 356 of 356 meetings processed (as of August 15, 2026). Data limits →

Current Board of Trustees

Sitting members

Documented Records

Decisions traced through the district's own agendas, minutes and recordings.

Then-Katy ISD superintendent Lance Hindt at the board dais, 2018.
Lance Hindt, superintendent MAY 2018 · courtesy Houston Chronicle

Record 01 · Sequence

The 2018 Defamation Vote

A documented sequence involving public comment, closed sessions, legal action, the superintendent's departure, official statements, votes, and gaps in the published record.

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Ezekiel W. Cullen Building at the University of Houston, where the Hindt dissertation was awarded in 2012.
Ezekiel W. Cullen Building, University of Houston DISSERTATION AWARDED 2012

Record 02 · Exhibit

Dissertation Comparison

Side-by-side comparison of the Hindt (2012) doctoral dissertation and an earlier source dissertation.

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Identical words

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Superintendent surrounded by Two-Way Immersion parents at a Katy ISD board meeting, 2018.
Two-Way Immersion parents at the board dais FEBRUARY 2018

Record 03 · Decision

The Two-Way Immersion Vote

The only academic programme Katy ISD has eliminated in fourteen years of board records. Overcrowding was real; the cost figure that carried the argument was ninety-four per cent teacher salary the district would still be paying; the savings the board voted on differed from what the superintendent stated three weeks later by roughly double.

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Full-text search across meetings, transcripts, and documents is planned for a later phase.