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Documented records

Flashpoints

The moments when an issue reached the public, people organized, and it arrived in front of the board.

Each one is followed through the district’s own agendas, minutes and recordings, and through records obtained by request.

  1. Robert Long III, center, photographed with two other men at an indoor event.
    Robert Long IIIRECORD OF STUDY AWARDED 2012

    Flashpoint 04 · Exhibit

    Record of Study Comparison

    Side-by-side comparison of the Long (2012) Texas A&M Record of Study and fourteen earlier sources. 7,098 words of its body text, 16.7 percent, appear in exact matching sequences with a located source, and 5,992 of those match four sources the document never names. Katy ISD invited the author to lead its October 2025 governance review.

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

    Flashpoint 01 · Sequence

    Coming September 10th

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

    Flashpoint 02 · Exhibit

    Dissertation Comparison

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

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

    Flashpoint 03 · Decision

    The Two-Way Immersion Vote

    The only academic program Katy ISD has eliminated in fourteen years of board records. Overcrowding was real; the cost figure that carried the argument was ninety-four percent 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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More to come

Fourteen years of board records hold a great many more of these, and most of them have nothing to do with any one family. The bond that voters defeated in 2013 and the stadium that came back and passed. The five-year fight over Two-Way Immersion. Hurricane Harvey. Reopening in 2020, when forty thousand students stayed home, and the lawsuit over the mask mandate. The cancelled author visit and the books pulled with it. Outside money arriving in trustee races. The four to three vote on gender identity, the library removals that followed, and the federal civil rights investigation. An $840 million bond, and voters again declining to pay for athletics.

Each of those is a documented sequence with agendas, recorded votes and hours of recording behind it. A flashpoint appears on this page when that material has been assembled and checked against the primary record, and not before. Naming them here is a statement of what is being worked on, not a finding about any of them.