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Report: Katy ISD may hire up to 605 new campus staff for 2020-21 school year

These staffing needs are based on an expected year-over-year student growth of 5.1%.

The board also approved a resolution to allow the superintendent to spend up to $500,000 to address immediate, unanticipated district needs.

Local insitutions, businesses and organizations are reacting to the coronavirus and taking actions to prevent its spread.

The widening project is funded by Fort Bend County’s 2017 voter-approved mobility bond.

“People are taking it seriously. I haven’t seen the people in our area panic buying,” said Jennifer Pierce of State Chemical.

Pocket prairies can help people understand the importance of prairies—even on a small scale.

Health care officials will make the decision for when the site will open.

The business’s last day at its downtown Katy location was in late February.

‘We can build in such a way that is more friendly to the Katy Prairie,’ geoscientist says

The county has no confirmed cases as of March 18.