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Dr. Douglas Killian
Fun Run Registration is Open

Dear CFISD Community,

I invite you all to join me for the 11th Superintendent’s Fun Run on March 29, 2025! Registration for the highly anticipated community event, which features a 5K run and 1-mile family-friendly course, a fun-filled kids zone, student performances, vendors, and food trucks is now open. The event will take place at the Berry Center, with the 5K winding through Towne Lake and Lone Star College—CyFair, and the 1-mile course will take participants through Cy-Fair FCU Stadium.

Proceeds from the Superintendent’s Fun Run benefit the Cy-Fair Educational Foundation (CFEF), which awards student scholarships and staff development grants, directly benefitting our CFISD community. Because of the generosity of our parents, students, staff, business partners, and community members, we have contributed more than $1 million to the CFEF in the last 10 years, and I hope you will join us for another successful event!

Sincerely,

Douglas Killian, Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools

Dr. Douglas Killian

Dear CFISD Community:

The 89th Texas Legislative Session officially began yesterday, Jan. 14. This will be a critical session for public school funding, and CFISD has taken a proactive approach to getting the word out about our priorities for the session.

Please visit the legislative page of our website to view a complete list of priorities, which we have simplified into four key areas that have been shared with our local legislators:

  • Fully fund school districts that offer a Local Optional Homestead Exemption (LOHE).
  • Increase the School Safety Allotment.
  • Increase the Special Education Allotment.
  • Increase the Transportation Allotment.

We are fortunate to have local delegates who have been receptive to CFISD’s needs, some of whom have already filed bills. Thank you to State Reps. Lacey Hull and Mike Schofield, who filed HB 1153 and HB 558, respectively, to help districts like CFISD continue to offer our LOHE while providing much-needed tax relief. State Sen. Joan Huffman also filed SB 260 that would double the School Safety Allotment, and Sen. Paul Bettencourt filed SB 568 that addresses needs for our special education students and staff—as recommended by the Texas Commission on Special Education Funding.

I encourage you to follow our social media channels (@cyfairisd) for information throughout the session, and sign up for legislative updates through Remind by texting @cfisdleg to 81010. We will provide information and action items throughout the legislative session when key bills are filed.

We recently posted an updated Legislative Communication Tips file on our legislative webpage, which is a one-page guide for expressing your input as a constituent who cares about public education. Please download this to find additional ways to stay in touch and communicate with our representatives. Remember to stay positive; we want to create a climate where we can all work together toward our legislative goals!

The legislative session will be instrumental in our development of a budget for the 2025-2026 school year, which we plan to pass by June 30. We want to do everything possible to avoid further cuts after a very challenging budget situation in 2024-2025. We will continue to communicate with you throughout the session, and as we develop a budget to present to our Board of Trustees.

Thank you for being a passionate advocate for public education and Cypress-Fairbanks ISD!

In the best interest of children,

Douglas Killian, Ph.D.
CFISD Superintendent

Dr. Douglas Killian

Dear CFISD Community,

On this Veterans Day, I wanted to express my sincerest thanks for the service and sacrifice of all the men and women of the Armed Forces. In memory of those who have yet to return, we have dedicated a special chair of remembrance. Thank you to our communication and operations departments and our Air Force JROTC detachments for their support and help in honoring our Prisoners of War and Missing in Action POW/MIA men and women. They did a marvelous job placing the POW/MIA chairs, creating a video, and honoring our missing servicemen and women! Here is the link celebrating their sacrifice and announcing the placement of the chairs at both stadiums in CFISD:



I wanted to share a few thoughts for our veterans and their dependents during this Veterans Day week. The words below come from a speech I made some years ago at a Veterans Day remembrance ceremony.

Good morning; it is both an honor and a pleasure to speak to all of you on this great Marine Corps birthday and Veterans Day remembrance.

Veterans Day is very special to me and my family. You see, I grew up as a military brat. Hearing daily playing of “Reveille,” “Retreat,” or “Taps” was the norm. I remember stopping whatever we were doing, even if we were driving in a car at 1630 hours facing the flag and placing my hand over my heart and listening to “Retreat” being played over the PAs. It’s still weird for me to go to a movie off base and NOT rise and have the national anthem played right before the movie rolled. Or hearing Taps played as the sun set signaling the end of the day.

So, honoring the service and sacrifices veterans and their families have made for me is part of my DNA … or at the very least, my upbringing.

Service and sacrifice. Those words are thrown around a lot in today’s world. It seems some would think service is done in a one-day trash-off, or leaving your cell phone at home and going without it for a day. Our military families have a broader definition of those two words than we civilians experience on a daily basis.

Service:
I learned what service meant from my dad, Melvin D. Killian, Msgt USAF Ret. He showed me every day what it meant as he donned his uniform for alerts, deployments, transfers, and moves, heading to duty at odd times of the day and night and staying in until he retired. However, I heard his own voice one morning in 1976 at a flag ceremony outside Oro Grande, California, just off base next to George AFB.

Dad excitedly got us up one weekend and took us off base to this site in the middle of the desert next to the base. Not telling us where we were going or what we were doing, we pulled into a makeshift parking area and there I caught a glimpse of it … the largest American flag hanging from two poles on the side of a sandy hill. We walked to the viewing area and stood as they described the flag and its construction. Did he say the stars were five feet tall each? Patriotic music played, and I saw my father cry for the first time in my life. I asked what was wrong, and he said he remembered all the men and women who served. It made an impact.
I know it’s in vogue right now to use the anthem as a protest, and I understand and am thankful for the right in this country to do that. However, I stand and salute the flag to honor the service of my father… to honor:

  • Grandpa Lee Roy Reeves, US Army WWII
  • Uncle Don Killian, TSgt USAF Ret. Vietnam
  • Uncle Billy Killian, US Army and Korean War vet
  • Uncle Don Worrell, US Army vet
  • Uncle Irvin Killian, US Army
  • Uncle Marvin Killian, US Army
  • Uncle Roy Reeves, USMC Ret.
  • Aunt Sharon Reeves, USMC Ret.
  • Uncle Mike Mann, USMC vet
  •  Uncle Pete Peterson, USAF
  • And stand to honor their service as well as all the friends, brothers and sisters in arms. Lest we forget…

Sacrifice:
Sacrifice is the other item I wish to thank our veterans for today. Sacrifices come in so many sizes for veterans. It’s not just the lives given or the blood lost for our military men and women.

As a kindergartner, I saw first-hand what they give on the move from Kadena AFB in Okinawa, Japan, to Derby, Kansas.
We had just moved into our new base assignment. I was going into kindergarten that year, looking forward to watching real American football that season, when Dad came in to tell us he was being sent TDY (Temporary Duty Yonder) to Iceland for an isolated tour. Yep, no family. And we had just moved to a new place where I knew no one, and mom had a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old on her own. A year without my dad. So many dependents know that separation and feeling.

Being told to be the man of the house at 5, riding out a tornado with my mom that year, and having no dad to explain football to me was a challenge.

All of our veterans and their families have faced even greater challenges, and I’m thankful for their sacrifice.

  • Thank you to our servicemen and women for all the tea parties missed with their daughters due to being on alert.
  • Thanks for missing all those games of catch with your son or daughter while deployed overseas.
  • Thank you and your families for having to pick up roots again and again to keep us safe. Words cannot express the debt owed for a life given in the protection of a fellow sailor, soldier, marine or airman.
  •  appreciate the missed hugs from a spouse or dependent because you were standing watch for us, and for all the transfers from post to post and assignment to assignment.
  • Thanks to the families for the moves you made and all the personal effects you had to give up because they exceeded the weight limit allowed by the service.
  • We are thankful for the blood spilled, the tears shed, and the sweat given to secure our freedom, and for all the night-night kisses you will never get back.
  • I, and I think we, give thanks this day for all of our veterans.
  • My dad, Mel Killian, who served 20 years in the Air Force, died the day after Veterans Day. So, this week is a reminder of that service and sacrifice.
  • I can’t thank him anymore for his leadership, service, and sacrifice. But I can thank all of his fellow brothers and sisters in arms here today. May God bless you and hold you in his comforting arms. And may each of you find your own measure of peace and comfort for:
  • the time lost from family and friends,
  • the loss of loved ones and comrades, and
  • all the service and sacrifices you have seen.

Thank you…

"America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels”. – Claudia Pemberton

In the best interest of children,
Douglas Killian, Ph.D. Superintendent of Schools

Dr. Douglas Killian

Dear CFISD Community,

I wanted to share with you a letter that I recently sent to the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency (TEA). To give you a little background on the concern, each Texas school district school must regularly submit data to the state, including attendance, enrollment, students who receive special education, children experiencing homelessness and the number of students who have completed a college preparatory course. At the start of school this year, the state launched a new system, Ed-Fi Alliance, for uploading the data with the goal of making it easier for school districts and the state to share data and reduce the amount of manual labor required from school staff. We were hopeful that this would indeed be the result. However, this has not been the case.

Why is this so important for CFISD? Data submissions drive accountability and funding in our state. Bad data leads to false accountability results and lost state aid.

We have requested TEA to consider allowing an extension, as the first reporting deadline is Dec. 12, and to initiate discussions on how “hold harmless” provisions could be applied to funding and accountability.

I will keep you posted on any updates on this challenge we are facing.

In the best interest of children,

Douglas Killian, Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools

Dr. Douglas Killian
Dear CFISD Community,

The two-week early voting period for the Nov. 5 general election begins today, Monday, Oct. 21 and continues through Friday, Nov. 1. I encourage you to make your voice heard by casting your vote either at an early voting site or any Election Day polling center. 
 
Vote 24 -Early Voting is Oct. 21 - Nov. 1


The Harris County Clerk’s elections department website, harrisvotes.com, has many good resources to prepare you for election season. You can even review a sample ballot by entering your name and address, so you can learn more about the candidates running for office.  Elections closer to where we live have a greater impact on our lives. I encourage you to research the candidates and express your constitutional right to vote for the person you choose.

Early voting hours of operation are scheduled as follows:

  • Oct. 21-26: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
  • Oct. 27: Noon to 7 p.m.
  • Oct. 28-30: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • Oct. 31: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
  • Nov. 1: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

There are several convenient early voting sites in or near our community:

  • Jersey Village Municipal Government Center (16327 Lakeview Drive, Jersey Village, 77040)
  • Country Inn and Suites by Radisson, Houston Northwest (12915 FM 1960 West, Houston, 77065)
  • Richard & Meg Weekley Community Center (8440 Greenhouse Road, Cypress, 77433)
  • Juergens Hall Community Center (26026 Hempstead Highway, Cypress, 77429)
  • Steve Radack Community Center (18650 Clay Road, Houston, 77084)
  • Prairie View A&M University - Northwest (9449 Grant Road, Houston, 77070)
  • Doubletree Houston Brookhollow (12801 Northwest Freeway, Houston, 77040)
  • John Paul Landing Environmental Education Center (9950 Katy Hockley Road, Katy, 77493)
  • Hockley Community Center (28515 Old Washington Road, Hockley, 77447)
  • ISGH Bear Creek Community Center (17250 Coventry Park Drive, Houston, 77084)
  • Homewood Suites Beltway 8 Meeting Room (8950 Fallbrook Drive, Houston, 77064)

Election Day voting hours on Tuesday, Nov. 5 are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Before heading out to vote, be sure to check harrisvotes.com for the most up-to-date polling locations in case there are late changes from the county.

So we can be a positive example to others, I encourage you to tweet a photo of yourself with your “I Voted” sticker and tag me on Twitter/X (@DougKillian). Whether it is a local, state or national election, public school employees need to make their voices heard—let’s keep the #CFISDvotes momentum going!

Remember, the week following Election Day, we celebrate and recognize our service men and women on Veteran’s Day. I can think of no better way to honor their sacrifice and protect our rights than by casting a vote.

In the best interest of children,

Douglas Killian, Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools