A Sugar Land community is hoping police can find the man who tried luring a young girl into his car.

Brazos County Judge Gabriel Andre Garcia was arrested on August 17 by the Bryan Police Department on a family violence charge for assault causing bodily injury to a family member

Parents and guardians who have children that attend school in Fort Bend County may soon see daily changes after the superintendent shared that she would soon be stepping into retirement in an unexpected announcement on Friday.

A Houston area mother is suing the Fort Bend Independent School District; claiming educators failed to protect her daughter from another student. The lawsuit reads this woman’s daughter was sexually assaulted twice by the same classmate, even though safeguards were in place to ensure neither student was unsupervised.

A Houston area mother is suing the Fort Bend Independent School District, claiming educators failed to protect her daughter from another student.

A Houston area mother is suing the Fort Bend Independent School District, claiming educators failed to protect her daughter from another student.

In Fort Bend County, one item on the ballot will be Fort Bend ISD’s Proposition A/VATRE.

In Fort Bend County, one item on the ballot will be Fort Bend ISD’s Proposition A/VATRE.

Hightower High School was placed on “hold” after officials with the Fort Bend Independent School District said multiple physical altercations happened on campus Friday afternoon.

Fort Bend Independent School District’s Mercer Stadium now has a fresh, new look. Renovations cost nearly $11 million and were paid for with funds from the 2018 Bond, according to the district.

Students getting ready to head back to school for the 2022-2023 school year will have to fill out an application – as families did before the pandemic – to qualify for free, reduced, or paid meals.

Townewest Elementary School has been placed on a precautionary lockdown after deputies said a body was found near the Fort Bend ISD campus.

School is back in session and COVID-19 is having major impacts on school districts in our area. Katy ISD reportedly has the largest number of staff COVID cases.

As school districts work to keep staff and students safe amid rising omicron variant cases, a shortage of bus drivers has officials in Fort Bend ISD looking to fill jobs.

Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land held a special ceremony on Friday to honor victims of the September 11 attacks, including one of their own. Naval Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Caballero was a 1998 graduate of the school. He was working at the Pentagon as an Electronics Technician at the time of the attacks.

Fort Bend Independent School District announced Saturday that its mask mandate for students and staff has been lifted.

Students in the Fort Bend Independent School District will be able to return to the playground during recess after changes were announced Friday to the district’s pandemic policies.

SUGAR LAND, Texas – February marks three years since the first human remains were discovered at the construction site of a new Fort Bend Independent School District school. Over the course of several months, 95 unmarked graves were found and the people buried there would become known as the Sugar Land 95. The laws changed and now we’re able to maintain it.”AdOverall, Dupre praised the handling of the discovery. He said the district is erasing history by not using names of any of the men involved in establishing convict leasing in Sugar Land. ‘Nothing ... done in good faith’Three years later, some have said that the district is still ignoring the wishes of community stakeholders.

SUGAR LAND, Texas – A construction worker is dead after police said he fell off a roof while working at a middle school in the Fort Bend Independent School District. The incident happened around 4 a.m. Wednesday at the First Colony Middle School in Sugar Land, according to authorities. According to a statement sent out by the school, the worker was on the roof of the building when he fell approximately 30 feet and suffered severe injuries. Parents and other members of the First Colony Middle School community were notified of the incident, according to a district spokesperson. Emergency responders were called to First Colony Middle School just before 5 a.m. this morning to assist a construction worker who fell from the building, but sadly, the worker did not survive.

As Fort Bend ISD continues to plan for the upcoming school year, the Texas Education Agency’s recent announcement has created concern for the district. “Today’s (Tuesday’s) announcement from the TEA is disappointing because the guidance, as written, does not provide local school districts with the flexibility to make decisions based on local data or community and staff values and expectations,” a spokesperson for Fort Bend ISD said. “Fort Bend ISD is considering many safeguards and precautions to mitigate the spread of illness within our schools,” Superintendent Charles Dupre said. “Our teachers and campus staff are at the heart of everything we do, and we will not ask them to bear the risk and weight of any re-opening plan,” Dupre said. Additionally, pre-registration will reveal the number of students desiring either face-to-face or virtual instruction and better allow the district to decide how classrooms will be used at each school.

HOUSTON – Parents are faced with big decisions in the next several weeks when it comes to whether or not to send their children back to school in the fall. There’s a clear divide in what parents think, with some advocating for school to resume as normal and others who say they won’t send their kids back. “I’ve got one kid in each elementary, middle school and high school,” said Almas Afazeal whose kids are part of the Fort Bend Independent School District. The Houston Independent School District is expected to release its plan for the 2020-21 school year in early July. Who’s going to clean the lunchroom in between lunches?