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Ted Tredennick, Courtney Anderson emerge as best choices to lead SBISD at CPTA candidate forum

Last Thursday, April 2nd, the Council of PTA’s held its annual forum for candidates seeking election to the SBISD Board of Trustees. Ted Tredennick, running for the open Position Two seat, distinguished himself from his opponents with his sincere and thoughtful responses to audience questions. Throughout the one-hour forum, Mr. Tredennick reached out to the broad Spring Branch community, noting that whether voters have children in SBISD or not, they have a vested interest in

Apr 6

Court rules against district in Elizondo vs. SBISD

Earlier today, in the matter of Elizondo vs. SBISD, the US District Court ruled in favor of the Plaintiff, Virginia Elizondo, finding...

Apr 28, 2025

List of lawsuits involving Matthew T. Cone and/or his related entities

Since our Tuesday night update, Save SBISD has surfaced nineteen (19) lawsuits involving Matthew T. Cone and/or his related entities...

Apr 4, 2024

Trustee John Perez and Candidate Matthew Cone call for transparency and accountability

On Friday, March 29th, Matt Cone, candidate for SBISD school board, took to Twitter and called for “transparency” and “accountability” in...

Apr 2, 2024

Spring Branch Families PAC no longer funded by families in Spring Branch

Spring Branch Families Political Action Committee was founded in April, 2022 by Tom Stokes, Mary Chamberlain, and Kristin Anderson “to...

Mar 30, 2024

SBISD candidate challenges standing of opponent's place on ballot.

Good morning, readers; we hope this update finds you well. As you may recall, Elizondo vs. SBISD is stuck in limbo as we await the United...

Mar 28, 2024

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Ted Tredennick, Courtney Anderson emerge as best choices to lead SBISD at CPTA candidate forum

Court rules against district in Elizondo vs. SBISD

Earlier today, in the matter of Elizondo vs. SBISD, the US District Court ruled in favor of the Plaintiff, Virginia Elizondo, finding...

On Friday, June 18, 2021, the Spring Branch Independent School District was sued in federal court by Virginia Elizondo, a past candidate for the SBISD Board of Trustees. Ms. Elizondo is seeking an immediate change to the system by which SBISD elects its Board of Trustees. You can read the filing here.

Ms. Elizondo is calling for the creation of "Single-Member Districts" or SMD's within SBISD. Creation of SMD's would disenfranchise almost 80,000 voters in SBISD because they would no longer be able to cast a vote for each candidate on the school board. In fact, some years they may not be allowed to vote at all.

Ms. Elizondo is calling for SBISD to suffer under the same governance structure as the failed Houston Independent School District (HISD). Sadly, HISD is a district which has been unable to select a superintendent for the last three years and is on the brink of being taken over by the State. HISD is not a district we should model ourselves after in any way whatsoever.

Save SBISD has been organized by a group of stakeholders who live, work, teach, own property or attend school in SBISD. Our purpose is:

To keep you updated on potential changes to SBISD governance,
To support Spring Branch ISD and its Trustees in this fight, and,
To provide you with actionable steps you can take to help prevent disenfranchisement.

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