Check out road project updates in League City.

Completed project: League City Parkway right-turn lane
Project: An eastbound right-turn lane was designed west of Butler Road to west of the I-45 southbound frontage road, and tied to the Texas Department of Transportation’s right-turn lane.
Update: The project is complete and the roadway is now open to traffic.

• Timeline: completed in March
• Cost: $2.08 million
• Funding source: Galveston County bond funds

• Timeline: slated to wrap in the fall
• Cost: $504,000
• Funding sources: city reinvestment funds

Korean premium water care brand NECOA is opening showrooms in The Woodlands and the Bay Area in May and will tentatively open another Houston location this summer.

The details: NECOA’s showroom at The Woodlands Mall opens May 8, and the second showroom will open at Baybrook Mall on May 15, the brand’s publicist said.

Why it matters: The Korean brand chose Texas to make its U.S. debut, opening its first showroom in Frisco in 2025 before opening another showroom in Austin in March, NECOA Marketing Manager Paul Smith said. 

Clear Creek ISD board of trustees discussed preliminary information on the district's school bus fleet at its May 4 workshop session to determine whether it can comply with a new state requirement for three-point seatbelts on all buses.

Under Senate Bill 546, passed by the 89th Texas Legislature, buses operated by Texas districts must be equipped with three-point seat belts for every rider by Sept. 1, 2029.

Cost to the district: The district operates a fleet of 300 buses. Of those, 144 non-compliant buses would require retrofitting under SB 546, at an estimated cost of over $5.3 million, according to district documents.

What’s next: The board of trustees will consider the district’s ability to comply with the mandate at its regular May 18 meeting. If the board determines the district is unable to comply, it must report fleet data and cost estimates to the Texas Education Agency by May 29, according to district documents.

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More than 53,000 students will be invited to join Texas’ education savings account program this week, the state comptroller’s office said May 4.

The details: Families will be notified by email between May 4-6 if they were awarded funds in the second round of the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, per a news release from the comptroller’s office.

To date, nearly 96,000 students have been selected to participate, with these students set to receive about $820 million of the $1 billion state lawmakers allocated for the program, an agency spokesperson said. Of the 53,000 second-round awardees, over 51,000 are from low-income families. The other 2,000 students accepted this week were found to qualify for disability-related funding, the agency said.

The background: Families accepted to the TEFA program will receive state funds to send their children to private schools or homeschool them for the 2026-27 school year.

Proponents of the new program have said it will expand educational opportunities, while critics have expressed concerns that the program will unfairly benefit students already enrolled in private schools.