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The Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees met on Monday, Feb. 13 to hold a public hearing on the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) for the 2021-22 school year.

The TAPR pulls together a wide range of information annually on the performances of students in each school and district in Texas. The reports also provide extensive information on staff, programs, and demographics for each school and district.

In the TAPR, LISD’s 2022 accountability rating is a B. Mathematically the rating is an A, but forced to a B due to accountability guidelines that limit district ratings based on campus ratings. LISD also meets the requirements when it comes to special education determination status.

When it comes to student services, in the past 10 years, the economically disadvantaged student population has grown, as well as the emergent bilingual and special education student populations.

“If you look at our graduation rates for the class of 2021, you can compare to the class of 2020 and see that our graduation rates have increased over the last year, especially our english learners or those emergent bilinguals,” said Dr. Sarah Fitzhugh, Chief Executive Director of Accountability and Evaluation at LISD. “We’ve seen a significant growth there, we’ve seen growth in special education, and also in our economically disadvantaged students.”

For the annual dropout rate in the district, there was a slight increase from a 1.3% dropout rate to 1.6% from 2020 to 2021.

For LISD graduates attending high education institutions, the data takes longer to get so the TAPR report this year focused on the 2019-20 school year. This data is limited to Texas institutions and does not include students who attend high education institutions outside of Texas. 48.3% of students within LISD enrolled in a Texas institution of higher education, compared to 46.1% state-wide.

When analyzing the STAAR data found in the TAPR, it is important to note that LISD had 99% of students participate in STAAR in 2021 compared to 87% in 2021. LISD opted to have most students complete STAAR on paper in 2022, and in 2021, nearly 50% of students tested online.

There are three terms to keep in mind when looking at STAAR data: approaches grade level, meets grade level, and masters grade level.

Approaches grade level is for a student who is likely to succeed in the next grade or course with targeted academic intervention. Meets grade level is for students who have a high likelihood of success in the next grade or course but may still need targeted academic intervention. Masters grade level is for students who will succeed in the next grade or course with little or no academic intervention.

“All of our categories increased compared to 2021 and we outperformed the state by seven to 10 percent,” Dr. Fitzhugh said. “When you look at our meets performance level, all of our areas increased and LISD outperformed the state by 10 to 13 percent and then in masters, LISD outperformed the state and we improved from 2021.”

One of Ohio State’s top quarterback priorities, Ohio prospect Ryan Montgomery, in the 2025 class will be making a spring visit to Columbus.

Per Ryan’s father, Mike Montgomery, the Ohio signal caller plans on visiting Columbus for the Buckeyes’ spring game on April 15. Montgomery also plans on visiting Michigan, Michigan State, Kentucky, Clemson, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida this spring.

Montgomery is one of two quarterbacks Ohio State has offered in the 2025 class, with five-star signal caller Bryce Underwood being the other. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound prospect visited Columbus twice last fall, attending both the Notre Dame and Michigan games.

“Despite the loss, I enjoyed the visit and the hostile environment in The Shoe for the game,” Montgomery said after the Michigan visit. “I got to talk a little bit with coach Corey Dennis before the game. I also got to be right next to the quarterbacks during their pregame drills. Every time I visit OSU I feel more and more of a priority for them. I’m looking forward to growing my relationship with them.”

Ohio State has offered another safety in the 2025 class. Safeties coach Perry Eliano extended an offer to Texas prospect Jonah Williams Wednesday, making him the third safety offered in the 2025 cycle.

#AGTG After a great conversation with @Coach_Eliano I am blessed to receive an offer from The Ohio State University!! Praise God #HCville #gobuckeyes pic.twitter.com/YRoquU2ljY

— Jonah Williams (@JonahW409) February 22, 2023

The 6-foot-2, 195-pound playmaker plays both sides of the ball for Ball High School (Galveston, Texas), also lining up as a wide receiver. Ohio State is primarily interested in his talents on the defensive side of the ball, though, as Ball recorded 59 tackles (3 for loss) with four interceptions, two pass deflections and a forced fumble in 11 games last season. Offensively, he caught five passes for 183 yards and five touchdowns. He was also the team’s primary punt returner, amassing 306 return yards.

Williams does not hold a composite ranking from 247Sports as of yet and has 10 Division I offers. Those offers include Arizona, Colorado State, Houston, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech and the University of Texas San Antonio.

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Williams wasn’t the only Texas product to pick up an Ohio State offer recently, as offensive tackle Michael Fasusi picked up an offer from offensive line coach Justin Frye on Tuesday.

The 6-foot-6, 280-pound offensive tackle doesn’t hold a composite ranking and owns 15 Division I offers, including BYU, Duke, Florida State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Penn State, SMU, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Tulsa and Utah.

Fasusi helped lead Lewisville High School (Lewisville, Texas) to a 12-2 record last season, primarily serving as the team’s right tackle.

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A five-star defensive end in the 2024 class sets his eyes on a spring visit to Ohio State. Per SBLiveSports, Mississippi prospect Kamarion Franklin will trek to Columbus on April 14. Franklin also plans to visit other schools, including Florida State, Auburn, South Carolina, Miami, Texas A&M and Oregon.

Franklin has only recently been offered by Ohio State, with Larry Johnson offering Franklin on Feb. 8.

“It was a blessing to me,” Franklin told Eleven Warriors of getting the offer from Ohio State. “I’ve always admired players like Chase Young and the Bosa brothers that have played there. Coach Johnson has put a lot of players in the NFL, so him giving me the opportunity to be a Buckeye meant a lot. The tradition with their defensive ends, they’re known for that. To potentially continue that would be cool.”

While Ohio State has only recently entered the mix for Franklin, the Buckeyes will have a long time to build a relationship with him, as he doesn’t plan on committing until the Early Signing Period in December.

Here’s a look at the latest new projects registered in North Texas commercial real estate with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, a list of new construction, renovations and alterations in Dallas, Fort Worth and elsewhere. All projects listed are public records.

The Dallas Business Journal’s definition of North Texas comprises 15 counties: Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Grayson, Hill, Johnson, Kaufman, McLennan, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant and Wise. If a county is not listed below, it did not have any projects registered yesterday.

To update information that was not submitted correctly to TDLR, please contact Real Estate Editor Anna Butler at abutler@bizjournals.com.

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While Texas ranks second with 4,625, its layoff total is about 40% of California's layoff figure of 11,331.

DALLAS — Texas has seen the second-most layoffs in the country so far in 2023.

That's according to CivMetrics, a project from the nonprofit Policy Data Institute, which has catalogued mass layoffs across the U.S. through WARN Act filings.

The WARN Act requires companies with 100 or more employees to give 60 days notice when performing layoffs. Some states do not make their WARN notices public, and CivMetrics' database and information compilation reflects that.

While Texas ranks second with 4,625, its layoff total is about 40% of California's layoff figure of 11,331. Washington ranks third with 4,082, New Jersey fourth with 3,154, and Pennsylvania fifth with 1,997, according to CivMetrics.

Reflecting the bevy of tech layoffs announced over the past several months, Seattle, San Francisco, Redmond, San Diego and Austin filled out the top 5 cities that have experienced the most layoffs so far in 2023.

North Texas' Richardson wasn't far behind Austin's 1,255 figure, with 1,165 workers laid off, CivMetrics reported. Lancaster (No. 9.), Lewisville (No. 19) and Irving (No. 20) also ranked among the top 20 for 2023.

While there are still layoffs set to hit in Texas and beyond, such as those announced by Round Rock-based Dell Technologies Inc. and others, job openings remain resilient.

The past three months may have been dominated by high-profile layoffs, recession fears and growing economic uncertainty, but several key metrics still aren't budging, our sister publication reported. Job openings actually rose in November and continue to hover at nearly double the number of unemployed, American City Business Journals wrote. The quit rate is holding steady at 2.7% – though the layoff rate inched up from 0.9% to 1%.

In the past year, North Texas has seen 5,479 layoffs reported in WARN filings, according to the CivMetrics database.

Mortgage service companies, along with certain categories of distribution and third-party logistics firms, account for the majority of the layoffs.

Since this time last year, Richardson has seen the most layoffs, followed by Fort Worth and then Dallas, the CivMetrics' database showed. Irving and Plano sit at fourth and fifth respectively.

Below, you can find a look at the WARN filings catalogued by CivMetrics that have hit the region, arranged by city in alphabetical order. The same gallery is at the top of this story, as well.

Twin Peaks, a Texas-based restaurant chain that bills itself as the ultimate sports lodge with scenic views, has expanded into the Scenic City with its fourth location in Tennessee just over the state line from Georgia in East Ridge.

"We have been looking forward to opening our first Twin Peaks location in Chattanooga and can't believe the day is finally here," Twin Peaks CEO Joe Hummel said in an announcement of the chain's location at 500 Camp Jordan Road in the Jordan Crossing development. "We're proud of Twin Peaks' continued growth in the Southeast and being able to provide a great environment full of scenic views for the community to enjoy made-from-scratch menu items and an unmatched bar experience while hanging out with friends -- especially on game days."

Twin Peaks began in 2005 in Lewisville, Texas, and has grown to nearly 100 company-owned and franchise locations. The new East Ridge location is owned by the Atlanta-based franchise developer for Twin Peaks -- La Cima Restaurants LLC -- and swells the value of the retail, restaurant and hotel development built at Jordan Crossing in the past seven years to more than $100 million.

"We have always loved the growth and outlook of Chattanooga and have been searching for the right site for a while," James Porcello, vice president of operations and a partner in La Cima Restaurants, said in an emailed statement about the new East Ridge location.

Located between Bass Pro Shops and Topgolf just off Interstate 75 at Exit 1 in East Ridge, the new 350-seat restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

The restaurant's menu features a variety of burgers, sandwiches, tacos, salads, flatbreads and shareable appetizers priced from $7.99 for crispy mini beef tacos up to $14.29 for a steak salad. Twin Peaks also features 32 beers on tap and offers live television coverage of sporting events in the cozy lodge environment.

At every Twin Peaks, guests are welcomed by a Twin Peaks Girl, typically wearing cleavage- and midriff-revealing red plaid tops as well as khaki or denim short shorts. Porcello said the 10,700-square-foot lodge will have more than 100 full- and part-time employees. The wait staff is typically all female at most Twin Peak restaurants.

EATERIES, HOTELS GROW AT EXIT 1

The new Twin Peaks adds an eighth restaurant along Camp Jordan Road, in addition to Chick-fil-A, Jonathan's Grille, Buddy's BBQ, Dos Bros Fresh Mexican, Pizzas Bros, Dairy Queen and Starbucks.

The 50-acre Jordan Crossing opened in 2016 with Bass Pro Shops and has since added a Topgolf outlet and a Hampton Inn hotel. Vision Hospitality is building a 101-room Home2 Suites hotel, which is scheduled to open in the summer of 2024, and HCA Healthcare is adding an emergency medical facility scheduled to be built by late this year or early 2024.

In all, Jordan Crossing has attracted more than $100 million of new development to Exit 1, making it the biggest commercial development ever in the city of East Ridge.

In a telephone interview, John Healy, a partner in Wolftever Development LLC, which developed Jordan Crossing, said the development reversed a decadeslong decline in the hotel and restaurant offerings at Exit 1, which a half century ago boasted the most hotel rooms of any I-75 exit from Michigan to Florida.

"We always knew this was a great location and a frequent stopping point for travelers going between Florida and Michigan," Healy said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "But it had been in decline for some time, and most of the new development at the state border was previously locating in Georgia."

BORDER TAX REGION AIDS DEVELOPMENT

Georgia's sales tax rate is 25% lower than the combined state and local tax on goods bought in Tennessee, which has one of the nation's highest sales tax rates. That tax disparity encouraged hotel developer and retailers such as Costco and Cabela's to locate on the Georgia side of the border along I-75, but Healy said the border zone tax district created a decade ago in Tennessee has helped spur development in East Ridge.

Within the state border zone, the extra state sales tax revenues generated by the new businesses may be used to pay some of the development and construction costs for the new development.

"The fundamentals of Jordan Crossing always made sense, but the financials of this project were hard to figure out until the border tax region law came into effect," Healy said. "That law has made a tremendous difference, and I think the results you have seen at Exit 1 since that law was passed speak for themselves."

Healy said the developers are looking for another retail user for the last 6 acres available along Camp Jordan Road.