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Lake Travis ISD board approves TEA waiver application for bilingual/ESL staffing
Summary
The board voted 5–0 to approve a district application to the Texas Education Agency for a bilingual exception and/or ESL waiver for 2024–25 under 19 TAC §89.1207 to address teacher certification gaps when appropriately certified teachers are unavailable.
At its Nov. 20 meeting, the Lake Travis Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the district’s application to the Texas Education Agency for a bilingual exception and/or an ESL waiver for the 2024–25 school year.
Trustee Lauren White moved to approve the TEA application and Trustee Phillip Davis seconded. The minutes record: "A MOTION was made by Trustee Lauren White and seconded by Trustee Phillip Davis to approve the TEA Application for Bilingual Exception and/or ESL Waiver as presented. The motion passed by a vote of 5 - 0." The item cites 19 TAC §89.1207 as the relevant rule governing temporary alternative methods when certified teachers are not available.
The waiver request is administrative: it would allow the district to seek temporary alternative methods to deliver bilingual or ESL programming in cases where the district cannot provide appropriately certified teachers. The motion was approved without recorded dissent, and no implementation timeline or dollar amounts were recorded in the minutes.
