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Baird ISD delegates authority to superintendent for Attendance Credit purchase under TEC
Summary
Trustees authorized the superintendent to execute Agreements for the Purchase of Attendance Credit under Texas Education Code §48.257 and related chapters for the 2025–26 school year; vote was 4–0 with three absent.
The Baird ISD Board voted to delegate contractual authority to the superintendent to obligate the district under Texas Education Code §11.1511(c)(4) for the specific purpose of entering Agreements for the Purchase of Attendance Credit (including netting Chapter 48 funding) for the 2025–26 school year.
The motion was made by Lori Higgins, seconded by Krystal Bounds and carried unanimously among those present (4–0; three trustees absent). The minutes record the specific TEC citations referenced by the board: TEC §11.1511(c)(4), TEC §48.257 and portions of TEC Chapter 49 and commissioner rules used to implement attendance-credit agreements.
The delegation authorizes the superintendent to sign the agreement and obligate the district as necessary under the cited state statutes; the minutes do not list the dollar amount or counterparty for any specific agreement.
