{"id":256038,"date":"2013-05-06T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T17:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256038"},"modified":"2013-05-07T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:52:42","slug":"new-support-for-tisd-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256038","title":{"rendered":"New Support for TISD Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=256043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-256043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/thumb_voting-computer1.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_voting-computer\" width=\"108\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-256043\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 Local business leaders joined Monday with the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce to announce their strong support for the Tyler ISD school bond, and especially the proposed Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center. The leaders say the CTE will provide vital workforce and college-readiness training to Tyler high school students. \u201cThe Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce has spoken, and we believe the entire bond package is great for our community,\u201d Chamber President and CEO Tom Mullins stated. \u201cWe are especially excited about the CTE Center, which will help train students to fulfill local workforce needs,\u201d he continued. The bond proposal also calls for the renovation of Dixie and Rice Elementary Schools and building three new middle schools. <\/p>\n<p>Robert F. \u201cBob\u201d Westbrook, President of W.R. Ventures Inc. and Chairman of the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs committee, also expressed his support. \u201cWe have been working closely with the school district as they have planned the proposed Career and Technology Center to ensure students would be learning the skills our local industries need,\u201d Westbrook said. \u201cWe pledge to continue this relationship in the future so that as our workforce needs change our school district\u2019s curriculum will change with it.\u201d In addition to Westbrook, local business leaders Phil Burks, President of The Genesis Group, and Faye Pettigrew from Tyler Pipe also announced their support. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, others in the community continue to voice their opposition to the bond proposal. Most recently, Grassroots America \u2013 We the People issued a statement citing \u201ca mountain of evidence from both national and state education rating agencies that document Tyler ISD\u2019s poor academic results.\u201d According to a Grassroots America news release, \u201cThis bond election is not just about buildings. It should be about setting a higher standard in our community for what the school board and administration produce with our tax dollars.\u201d Early voting continues through Tuesday in the bond election and other local elections throughout the state. The official Election Day is May 11. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Local business leaders joined Monday with the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce to announce their strong support for the Tyler ISD school bond, and especially the proposed Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center. The leaders say the CTE will provide vital workforce and college-readiness training to Tyler high school students. \u201cThe Tyler Area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=256038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Support for TISD Bond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 21:27:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256038"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256293,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256038\/revisions\/256293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}