Harmony Public Schools officials celebrated the grand opening of Harmony Science Academy-City Place in Spring on Nov. 13.

The details: Harmony Public Schools is a Texas-based public charter school system with a curriculum that focuses heavily on STEM skills, character education, project-based learning and college readiness, as previously reported by Community Impact.

In their words: “This campus represents our commitment to academic excellence and innovation,” said Elyse Pravel, principal of Harmony Science Academy-City Place. “We are excited to serve the City Place community and provide a world-class education to our students.”

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The new Klein ISD calendar for the 2026-27 school year—which closely mirrors the current 2025-26 calendar—was unanimously selected by the district’s board of trustees during its Nov. 10 meeting.

In a nutshell: Trustees selected Option A for the 2026-27 school year, which will begin Aug. 12, 2026, and end May 28, 2027. Commonalities between the new and current calendars include:

• Five-day fall, Thanksgiving and spring breaks for staff and students in October, November and March, respectively
• 12-day winter breaks for students and 10-day winter breaks for teachers in late December-early January
• Five-day mid-winter breaks for students and two-day mid-winter breaks in February

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center on Nov. 12 announced a $2.5 billion philanthropic campaign—the largest in the center’s history—to support cancer-fighting initiatives.

Read all about it: MD Anderson already raised $1.9 billion for the campaign, called “Only Possible Here,” during a preliminary silent fundraising phase, according to a Nov. 12 news release. The Houston-based center focuses exclusively on treating, researching and preventing cancer.

The campaign’s three focus areas include expanding reach, expediting breakthroughs and elevating the patient experience, all with the goal of ending cancer, per the release. Money raised throughout the campaign will support several MD Anderson programs and initiatives, including the Cancer Neuroscience Program and Kinder Children's Cancer Center, among others. 

Quote of note: “This campaign presents an opportunity for anyone to become involved in the world's most important and impactful effort to end cancer,” campaign Chair Clarence P. Cazalot Jr. said in a Nov. 12 statement. 

Texas cannot use its newly redrawn congressional map in the 2026 election, an El Paso federal court ruled Nov. 18.

The details: The state must instead use the congressional map that Texas lawmakers drew in 2021, after the 2020 census. 

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote in the Nov. 18 preliminary injunction. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”

What they're saying: Texas Republican leaders said they would “swiftly appeal” the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court takes up the case, its justices will be pressed for time ahead of the Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to apply to run in the March primary elections.

Texas Democrats celebrated the Nov. 18 ruling as "very good news for Texans."

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