For months, parents and students from Cypress, Faubion and Steiner Ranch elementary schools have spoken out at board meetings to save their schools from being closed. (Brittany Anderson/Community Impact)
Ahead of a $20.2 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2025-26, Leander ISD administration has put forth three possible cost-saving pathways that could include closing down and repurposing Cypress, Faubion and Steiner Ranch elementary schools next year.
Despite a public school funding bill that sent $8.5 billion to Texas school districts, the bill requires the money be spent largely on teacher salary raises, school safety mandates and special education allotments…