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Comal ISD board to weigh teacher waiver, library purchases and appraisal district land

Comal ISD students’ services and public spending are next up Nov. 19 as trustees weigh a teacher waiver, library purchases and support for an appraisal district land purchase.

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Comal ISD trustees are scheduled to consider a bilingual education exception and ESL waiver for 2026-27 because the district says it lacks enough appropriately certified teachers.

The proposed bilingual exception and ESL waiver concern students in 2026-27 and the district's supply of appropriately certified teachers. The regular meeting is scheduled for Nov. 19; the waiver, library purchases and a request involving appraisal district land are proposals. The official regular-meeting agenda gives readers the full order of business.

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Official meeting agendaComal ISD Board of Trustees, Nov. 19 regular meeting
The notice for this meeting was posted in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act on Friday, November 13, 2026, on or before 5:00pm.
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The posted agenda lists proposed business for the Nov. 19 regular meeting; it records no decisions.

Teacher staffing and classroom reports

The waiver request appears on the proposed consent agenda. Trustees would be asked to approve a 2026-27 bilingual education exception and English as a Second Language waiver tied to an insufficient number of appropriately certified teachers.

The superintendent's reports include a presentation on Spring Branch Middle School's sixth-grade math collaborative team cycle. Trustees are also scheduled to hear findings from Texas Education Agency intruder detection audits conducted Oct. 14 and Nov. 5 that require corrective actions.

A third superintendent report concerns the district's 2024-25 Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas, or FIRST, rating.

Purchases, accounting rules and appraisal district land

The regular meeting agenda also puts an accounting threshold change from $5,000 to $10,000 on second reading. The proposed policy change concerns when inventory is capitalized for accounting purposes.

Trustees are scheduled to consider library purchases after a 30-day public review. The proposed purchase follows that review period.

Another proposed action would give board support and approval to a Comal County Appraisal District land purchase under Texas Tax Code Section 6.051.

Trustees are also scheduled to discuss and act on legislative priorities for the 90th Texas Legislature. The board's decision would set the district's priorities for lawmakers.

Other business and how to follow it

The Comal ISD Board of Trustees' regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026, at 7 p.m.; a separate pre-meeting briefing is scheduled for 6 p.m. The separate briefing agenda calls for staff to brief trustees on the regular-meeting agenda; its notice is not a record of action on the regular meeting's proposals.

The regular agenda also provides for a call to order, recognitions, public comment, comments by the board president and adjournment. Its consent section groups personnel matters, prior minutes, financial statements and expenditures, a tax office report and a quarterly investment report with the more substantive policy and purchase proposals described above. Trustees may take up items removed from consent separately; the agenda does not say that any item has been removed.

Public comment is scheduled as item 3 of the regular meeting. The separate 6 p.m. special briefing also lists public comment, limited by its notice to subjects on that briefing agenda under district Policy BED (local).

Trustees' next public decision point is the Nov. 19 regular meeting, where the listed proposals could be approved, changed or left pending. The posted BoardBook agenda identifies the item numbers and linked supporting materials; the subsequent meeting record will establish what trustees actually did.

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