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| Date | Page | What it said | What it says now | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov. 2, 2026 | Teacher mix over time | Said only that the report does not explain teachers with no degree | Added what the state’s “no degree” label means and Pflugerville’s earlier share | Context was missing |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | Class sizes | The state class-size limit covers “most classes from kindergarten to grade 4” | The limit covers pre-K through grade 4, with a few exceptions and waivers | The law also lists pre-K |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | How experienced are Leander ISD teachers | Leander “ties” Round Rock for the highest starting average pay | Leander and Round Rock have the highest starting averages; Round Rock is a few dollars higher | The two averages are close but not equal |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | The school meals fund | Savings above the target would run out “in about a year” after 2026-27 | They would run out in less than a year after 2026-27 | The savings above the target are smaller than one year’s planned gap |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | How often students miss school | Chronic absence is “still much higher than before COVID,” comparing with 2020-21 | About twice the 2020-21 level; 2020-21 is described as a COVID year | 2020-21 was during COVID, not before it |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | Spending vs. results | Leander has far fewer low-income students than most peers | About 17%, far below the state and below the three peers we have figures for | We had this figure for only three of the ten peers |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | Debt tax over ten years | Math note gave the unrounded sum as $15,335.81 | $15,335.83 | Re-added the ten yearly amounts; the rounded total ($15,336) was already right |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | Consent agenda | Said 327 items got their own vote | 323 motions passed in their own vote; the page now says one count is items and the other is votes | 327 was the count of votes with no “no” votes, copied by mistake |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | K-3 reading | Quoted an online cost figure and named the other district it came from | Figure and district name removed; the page says only that the figure is not from Leander’s records | We had no saved copy of the source to check it |
| Nov. 2, 2026 | All board votes | Listed one Jan. 23, 2025 vote with no “no” votes; totals followed from that | That vote shows one “no”; votes with at least one “no” went up by one overall and for that year | Same minutes fix already made on the board of trustees page; this list had not been updated |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Bond adviser, Bond adviser contract, Jan. 2026 | The job “has not been bid again” since 2015 | Other firms have not been asked to compete for the job since 2015, and state law does not require it | School purchasing law does not cover this kind of professional service, and we found no rule on how often the job must be reopened. The old wording could suggest a rule was broken. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Committees | The audit committee ran a request for proposals in 2023 | It ran a request for qualifications | The board packet and the board’s vote both say request for qualifications. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Growing loan, The short version, Debt compared with peers, Growing-loan history | $536 million still owed on growing loans, without saying what it counts | $536 million counting interest; about $27 million of the original loans is still unpaid | The state figure is principal plus interest. Saying so avoids reading it as the amount borrowed. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Refinancing | All of the 2024 deal’s money, about $43.4 million, went into a locked account | The deal’s money totaled about $43.7 million; about $43.4 million of it went into the locked account | The sale papers show a $43.4 million deposit out of $43.7 million raised. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | School capacity | About 7,760 empty elementary seats in 2026-27 | About 7,760 empty seats projected for 2036-37 | The 7,760 figure is from the forecast for 2036-37, not this year. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Bond adviser, Next bond size | About $276 a year on the average home, as the adviser’s advice | Same figure, labeled our math on a $460,292 home | The adviser gave the 6-cent rise; the $276 is our math. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Growing loans | In 2014, Leander had more of these than any other Texas district | Keeps the 2014 ranking and adds that Leander had the most every year from 2016 to 2025 | State data for 2016–2025 backs the ranking for those years too. This updates the Oct. 28 fix below. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Academic claims, Claims we checked | IB costs about $511,000 a year at one school | A district review put it at about $511,000 a year across two campuses | The review’s total covered two campuses, about $255,703 each. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Interest | About $2,450 per student, using about 41,100 students | About $2,460 per student, using the 41,143 students counted in September 2026 | The student count now has a source. The change is small. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Debt | Two-thirds of interest is on loans “first sold in the 2000s” | Two-thirds is on refinanced loans that voters first approved in 2000–2007 | Many of those loans were first sold in 2008–2014, so “first sold” was too strong. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Interest | About $2,460 per student, using the 41,143 students counted in September 2026 | About $2,420 per student, using the 41,862 students counted in fall 2025 | The interest was paid in 2025-26, so we now divide by that same year’s count. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Debt, Short version, Next bond, Buses, Enrollment update | Per-student figures did not always say which student count they used | Each now names its count and year | Numbers did not change, except “about 41,100” is now the exact 41,143. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Buses, Which student count we use | The 42,507 count was called the state’s count without saying which one | It is the “fall survey enrollment” column in the state’s summarized financial data for 2024-25 | Label only. Numbers did not change. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Reserves and deficit | 42,608 was called “the fall enrollment count,” next to the state’s 42,507 fall survey count | 42,608 is now named as the student count in the district’s audit (ten-year table); 42,507 is the state’s “fall survey enrollment” | Label only. No number changed. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | More staff, not bigger raises | Payroll growth (+$126.7 million of +$139.3 million) did not say it includes the state’s on-behalf retirement payments | Note now says so, and gives the figure without them: +$116.7 million of +$129.3 million, also about 9 in 10 | Clarification. No number changed. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | More staff, not bigger raises | Special-ed students 4,728 to 6,847 (about 45%) and other students “about 1%” mixed two different 2024-25 count columns | Both 2024-25 counts now use the state’s membership column: special-ed 6,759 (about 43%), other students about 1.5% | Number changed. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Where the money goes | Special-ed students up 44.8% (6,847) | Up 43.0% (6,759), the same count column as the student total | Number changed. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | General fund | Staff pay was “about 91%” of the rise in general fund spending (that figure was for all operating funds) | About 93%, using the general fund only; the note now gives the inputs | Number changed. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Debt fund cash | Called the 2.2% comparison “the middle nearby district” | It is the middle of 10 similar fast-growing districts across Texas; the note now names them | Wording clarified. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Value for money | Did not name the 10 similar districts behind $11,380 | Note now names them; the number is unchanged | Note clarified. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Paying loans early with cash and Peer districts | Did not name the districts behind the 2.2% median | Notes now name them and give the formula; the number is unchanged | Note clarified. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Value for money | Note called the spending total “general fund” | It covers all operating funds (the general fund plus other operating funds); the numbers are unchanged | Note corrected. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | School capacity | A source line pointed to notes that were missing | Notes for the middle and high school tables were added; the numbers are unchanged | Notes added. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Value for money | The 2014-15 starting figures were not shown | The note now lists the spending, student counts and inflation factor used; the numbers are unchanged | Note clarified, number unchanged. |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Board of trustees | 329 of 399 votes had no “no” votes; 70 had at least one | 328 of 399 (still 82%); 71 had at least one | A recount from the saved minutes found two votes where the minutes’ words show one “no” that our first count missed |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Consent votes | Note said 329 of 399 votes had no “no” votes | 328 of 399 (still 82%) | Same recount as the board of trustees page |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Demographer | Said forecasts were above actual enrollment each year | Says the forecasts the district planned with were above actual each year since 2023-24, and notes one staff option for 2026-27 came in under | One staff option was below the actual count; notes now list the inputs |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Enrollment forecasts | Said every forecast was too high | Says every PASA case and adopted budget number we found from 2023-24 to 2026-27 was too high, except one staff option for 2026-27 | One staff option was below the actual count; notes now list the inputs |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Debt fund cash | The $24,285,000 refunding cash had no direct source | The note now names the bond official statement (Sept. 24, 2024) that shows it; the number is unchanged | Source added |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Early payoffs | The $24,285,000 refunding cash had no direct source | The note now names the bond official statement (Sept. 24, 2024) that shows it; the number is unchanged | Source added |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Board of trustees | Member votes from 406 votes: 2,472 yes, 75 no (2.9%) | 405 votes: 2,490 yes, 80 no (3.1%); “about 3 in 100” is unchanged | A recount used the minutes’ stated totals for six votes whose member-by-member list was missing or incomplete, and left out one withdrawn motion |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | The district’s demographer | Forecasts that run too high “can lead to building schools that are not needed” | They can lead to building schools before they are needed; forecasts that run too low can leave schools crowded | Fairness review: the old line gave only one side of the risk |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Board of trustees | 399 recorded votes, 328 with no “no”; member votes from 405 votes, 2,490 yes | 398 votes, 327 with no “no” (still 82%); 404 votes, 2,483 yes (still 3.1% no) | A re-read of the Feb. 13, 2025 minutes showed that one vote was in our data twice |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Consent votes | 328 of 399 votes had no “no” votes | 327 of 398 (still 82%) | Same re-read of the Feb. 13, 2025 minutes |
| Nov. 1, 2026 | Board of trustees | Member-vote note said five votes used minutes totals, including Jan. 23, 2025 | Four votes used minutes totals; Jan. 23, 2025 list was complete (5 yes, 1 no, 1 absent) | Our record for that vote now stores the one “no”; totals unchanged |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Comparing local governments | School board: 10 split votes of 101 (9.9%) | 11 split votes of 101 (10.9%); 9.9% counting “no” votes only | We missed one split vote: the Dec. 11, 2025 enrollment-thresholds vote passed 6–1. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Debt fund cash, Paying loans early | About $0.46 million of the $13.59 million early-payoff line was used; a summer 2026 refinancing could still use some | About $0.48 million; the Feb. 2026 refunding fell in that year, and the Aug. 2026 sale (2026A) closed in the next budget year | The used amount includes a small fees line as well as the issuer contribution. The 2026A sale was in a different budget year. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Paying loans early | The line “was just left unspent” | Most of that line was left unspent | A small part was used. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | All school loans | 2016A has the highest “total cost per dollar borrowed” | Highest total payments per dollar of principal still owed | The state data compares payments to principal still owed, not to the amount first borrowed. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | All school loans | 2026-27 payments sourced to the adopted budget only | Same figures; source note now also names the proposed budget (June 18, 2026), which matches | We checked: the adopted budget (p.9) shows the same $168.0 million, $64.6 million and $103.4 million. Figures unchanged. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Reserves and deficit, Where the money goes | The 2024-25 main-fund gap was about $28.1 million | About $27 million (the audited drop in savings); $37.5 million before interest | The old figure left out money moved between funds (transfers). Counting them, the main fund’s balance fell about $27 million, matching the audit; before interest earnings, the gap was about $37.5 million. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Short version, Reserves and deficit | A “three-month target” | The board’s three-month rule (“line”) | The 2.9 months is a projection, not a target. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Debt vs. peers and 2 others | Interest share was “2nd of 11” | 2nd among the 11 nearby districts we compared | In a wider set of 21 districts, 3 were higher. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Reserves and deficit, Short version, Where this is headed | Health is about 6 of every 10 dollars of the projected gap | Up to about 6 in 10; about 3.5 in 10 counting only approved transfers | Half of the $16 million in transfers is a backup line the finance chief called a precaution. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | How bonds work, The 2023 bond | $7.8 million moved from Vista Ridge HS to Cedar Park HS | $7.17 million the board moved from the Vista Ridge HS project (Jan. 23, 2025, 7-0) | The board record shows $7,170,365. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Board of trustees | Trustees were present 99% of the time (11 absences in 1,128 records); about 1 in 13 seats empty during votes | Attendance records are incomplete; trustees were marked absent for 294 of 5,081 recorded votes (5.8%, about 1 in 17) | The attendance list is missing rows, so it cannot give a true rate. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | The 2023 bond | About 70% of contract dollars since 2019 went through consent | About 66% confirmed, possibly up to 70% | One Nov. 2022 contract’s consent status is not confirmed. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Board of trustees | Member votes: Yes 2,434, No 79 | Yes 2,472, No 75, from minutes of 406 votes, Dec. 2022–Oct. 2026 | The old counts could not be reproduced. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Buses and routes | The state pays only for kids who live more than 2 miles away | The state pays for busing students who live two miles or more from school | The old wording got the cutoff wrong. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Board of trustees, The 2017 bond | 17 votes moved 2017 bond money | 18 votes on 17 items | One meeting held two votes on the same item. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Consent votes | about 7 of every 10 dollars | about 66% of dollars confirmed, possibly up to 70% | Matched to the checked share |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | The next bond | about $201 million left to borrow | about $200.7 million | Same rounding as other pages |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | The short version | gap grew to about $30 million | about $30.5 million | Same figure as other pages. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Debt | Every year it pays about 153 million dollars | In 2025-26 it paid about 153 million dollars | The figure is for one year. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | New and relocated schools | video at 1:13:12 | video at 1:14:15 | Wrong time stamp. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Several pages | quote checked against the audio | checked against a second machine transcription of the audio | Describes the check more exactly. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Reserves and deficit | gap of about $30 million | about $30.5 million | Matches the district’s slide and our other pages. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | K-3 reading | about 13 points above the state the whole time | 10 to 17 points above the state every year | The gap changed from year to year. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Debt | the audit’s table does not add up | we could not match the audit’s figure | More careful wording; the math is unchanged. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Value for money | that one year in Table 16 is wrong | looks wrong | More careful wording. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Growing loans | Leander has had more of these than any other Texas district | In 2014, Leander had more of these than any other Texas district | The ranking is from 2014. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Property tax bill | the debt tax is not unusually high, but the other part is | the debt rate is near the middle; the running-the-schools rate is near the top | More exact wording. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Buses | yearly transportation totals ($23.47M, $24.92M, $13.26M, $7.41M bond) | removed; per-student figures ($552, $369) kept | The source figures were restated; the yearly totals are not yet re-checked. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | 2023 bond | Most contracts passed without discussion | Most big contracts passed on the consent list, usually with little or no talk | More exact wording. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | 2017 bond | these moves look legal; Very likely yes | appear to fit the ballot (our reading, not legal advice); Likely yes, by our reading | More careful wording. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Enrollment forecasts | about 1,465 fewer students than the peak, or about 3% | removed | The peak figure is not yet backed by a checked claim. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Forecast record | demographer about 5.5% high (2021-22) | about 5.8% high | Math fix: 43,951 vs. 41,543. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Contracts without terms | lease company paid about $1.46 million; approvals showed about $593,000 | paid about $2.05 million, about $1.46 million more than the roughly $593,000 approved in separate items | The $1.46 million was the difference, not the total paid. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Buses | yearly transportation totals removed | restored ($23.47M, $24.92M, $13.26M; $7.41M bond money) | Re-checked figures now available. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Academic claims | IB costs about $511,406 a year at one school | a district review put it at about $511,406 a year, about $255,703 per campus | The total covered two campuses. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Promises | demographer’s middle case about 5.5% high (2021) | about 5.8% high | Matches the checked figure (43,951 vs. 41,543). |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Academic programs | IB at one school costs about $511,406 a year | a district review put it at about $511,406 a year, about $255,703 per campus | Same fix as the academic-claims page; the total covered two campuses. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Your household | debt still owed does not include bonds sold since mid-2025 | it includes the 2026A bonds | Matches the page’s own source note and the debt clock. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Value for money | reading middle peer 67.5%; math about 6th of 11, middle peer 59% | reading middle peer 65.5%; math tied for 5th of 11, middle peer 57% | Auditor recheck of the state data. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | All school loans (table) | FY2025 audit cited at p.45 | cited as Note 6 | Page number did not match; the note is the stable reference. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Modernize before closures | seven schools | 7 campuses (5 elementary, 2 middle) | Henry and Canyon Ridge are middle schools. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Outside auditor | approved Mar. 24, 2022, 6-0 | approved unanimously | Minutes do not record the count. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Every board vote | Mar. 24, 2022 audit award: 6–0 | unanimous (count not recorded) | Minutes do not record the count. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Modernize before closures | ”formal closure review”; Knowles “named for the long-range review in Oct. 2026" | "formal review for potential consolidation”; Knowles line only; vote source added | Matches the rule’s wording; removed an unsupported link. |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Comparing local governments | district cushion “fell the most” | fell $34.85 million in 2025 | The share comparison did not support “the most.” |
| Oct. 28, 2026 | Comparing local governments | loan share and vote counts sourced only to the table name | exact audit Table 6 values and our vote count cited | Figures unchanged; sources made checkable. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | The next bond | $287.6 million of 2023 bond approval was still unsold | $200.7 million is still unsold | The $287.6 million was true on June 30, 2026. The August 2026 bond sale used about $87 million more. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | School closures | Closing Faubion saved about $520,000 a year | The budget counts $1,085,700 a year | We used the wrong line. The budget shows $1,085,700. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | Home | Loan payments this year were about $166 million | About $166 million is budgeted for the debt fund; scheduled loan payments are about $153 million | $166 million is the fund’s budget, not the payments. It also didn’t match our Interest page. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | Home | A savings figure for a 2016 refinancing | Removed | We are still checking the 2014-2016 loan figures. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | Consent votes | A quote from automatic video captions | A quote checked against the sound, with the time in the video | Automatic captions can be wrong. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | Consent votes | The bond oversight committee reviews builders’ top prices | Removed | We could not find this in the record. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | Short life on long loans | Voters approved technology bonds in 2021 | Uses the 2023 technology vote (Prop B) | Technology passed in both years. The page’s numbers were about 2023. |
| Oct. 27, 2026 | Bond ratings | An adviser’s rule of thumb from automatic captions | The quote checked against the sound, called his estimate | Automatic captions can be wrong. The meaning did not change. |
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