Kemah-area business owners will have the opportunity to meet directly with lenders and small-business partners at a lender matchmaking event in March.

The details: Registration for the event will be at 8:30 a.m., with matchmaking sessions scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon on March 17 at the Kemah Community Center, located at 800 Harris Ave., Kemah, according to a Feb. 24 news release from the city.  

One more thing: Advance registration is required. Businesses may register online at the SBDC’s website.

Also of note: Beginning in 2019, businesses in Kemah along Hwy. 146 faced a loss of revenue as the frontage roads were blocked off during the construction, as previously reported by Community Impact.

Clear Creek ISD is scheduled to consider a partnership with Texas Tech University at its March 2 meeting to provide online courses for third through ninth grades.

What you need to know: The proposed partnership, called Clear Tech, would be offered through the university’s Texas Tech K-12 program, an accredited and Texas Education Agency-approved provider of virtual instruction, as previously reported by Community Impact.

The board of trustees is scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. March 2 at the Education Support Center, located at 2425 E. Main St., League City.

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The Texas Education Agency must correct roughly 4,200 errors in its elementary and middle school curriculum, the State Board of Education ruled Feb. 25.

The overview: The changes to the Bluebonnet Learning materials, a set of state-developed textbooks, include replacing improperly licensed images, fixing formatting errors or typos and correcting factual errors.

The SBOE approved the Bluebonnet materials in November 2024. The curriculum, which became available to districts ahead of the 2025-26 school year, has been criticized for frequent biblical references in the reading materials, although proponents said the materials would help improve student outcomes.

Zooming in: Before approving the changes, several board members expressed concerns about the “unprecedented” number of issues with the state-developed textbooks, noting that Texas taxpayers will cover the costs of reprinting the updated materials, as they were developed with state funds.

“I’m very concerned that, as a board, we have set a precedent for sloppy publishing. Many times, even if it's a typo, it could become an error of fact,” SBOE member Pam Little, R-Fairview, said.