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Board approves 2025–26 student fees; finance director outlines plan to lower cheer costs
Summary
Trustees approved the district's 2025–26 student fees, fines and charges after discussion about cheerleading costs. Executive Director of Finance Kelly Lawton described a multi-year plan to reduce uniform costs and seek sponsors, and said the district is on the low end of fees compared with other districts.
The Crowley ISD Board of Trustees approved the district’s 2025–26 schedule of student fees, fines and charges on Aug. 27 after trustees pulled the item for discussion and asked staff about cheerleading uniform costs and fine-arts investments. Trustee Dr. Robinson asked the board to consider cheer costs and a potential “legacy uniform” to reduce annual increases. The district’s executive director of finance, Kelly Lawton, responded that the district treated program uniforms as a multi-phase…
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