Alvin ISD’s board of trustees are scheduled to review the district’s fiscal year 2026-27 budget and priorities at its May 4 workshop session.

What you need to know: At its June 2025 meeting, trustees approved a $391.4 million budget for FY 2025-26, with both revenue and expenses balanced, which is a nearly $25 million increase compared to FY 2024-25, according to budget documents.

What’s next: The board of trustees will meet at 6 p.m. May 4 at the district’s administration building, located at 301 E. House St., Alvin.

After closing in December, Thai Cottage Pearland had a soft reopening at a new location May 4, restaurant staff said. The restaurant is planning a grand opening later in May, staff said.

On the menu: Thai Cottage serves traditional Thai dishes like curries, pineapple fried rice, sweet rice and mango and sa-té chicken, according to the restaurant's website. 

Also of note: Thai Cottage has several other locations in the Houston area including locations in Bellaire, Sugar Land, Westheimer and The Woodlands, according to the restaurant's website. 

• 3414 Business Center Drive, Ste. 130, Pearland

CenterPoint Energy has made key first-quarter progress in reaching milestones tied to the company’s Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative, according to an April 17 news release from the company.

Digging deeper: Launched after Hurricane Beryl, the initiative is a multiyear effort to strengthen resilience and improve reliability for its 2.9 million electric customers, and to help build the most resilient coastal grid in the nation, according to the release. 

Quote of note: “We are proud of the progress made in 2025 which helped deliver more than 100 million fewer outage minutes when compared to 2024, and we are determined to make even more progress in 2026 as we work toward our defining goal: building the nation's most resilient coastal grid,” said Nathan Brownell, CenterPoint's vice president of Resilience and Capital Delivery, in the release.

Friendswood and Alief ISDs had the largest percentages of students with dyslexia and autism across the Greater Houston area, according to Texas Education Agency data released March 13 and April 9.

The overview: Community Impact analyzed 30 local school districts across the Greater Houston region to determine which schools have the most students enrolled in special education programs.

According to the data, the districts with the largest total of students receiving special education services in 2025-26 are:

• Houston ISD with 21,430 students
• Katy ISD with 18,443 students
• Cy-Fair ISD with 17,584 students
• Fort Bend ISD with 12,688 students
• Conroe ISD with 11,239 students