Travel expenses for one Midlands school district showed that board members went as far as Texas on school district business last year.
The State received copies of school board members’ expenses for 2025 through a Freedom of Information request, and the numbers show Lexington 1 spent more than $7,000 on travel for the majority of the board last year.
One of the most wide-ranging travels was actually filed by school board chair Kathy Henson, who traveled to the small town of Forney, Texas, in January of last year for a school site visit…