Crista Black
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Good record
- Serves Place 4 on the Longview ISD board.
- Public profile lists occupation as Educator / nonprofit leader.
- President with LISD Education Foundation.
Voter questions
- Serves as President of LISD Education Foundation while sitting on LISD Board of Trustees. Dual role creates potential for self-dealing or preferential treatment.
- Employed by Pine Tree ISD while governing Longview ISD. Cross-district employment creates potential conflicts in competitive enrollment and policy contexts.
- Serves as President of the LISD Education Foundation while simultaneously serving as LISD Trustee. Dual role creates potential for self-dealing or preferential treatment in Foundation-district interactions.
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- Confirm 2026 filing status with LISD elections coordinator
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- Confirm current employer (Pine Tree ISD status or new employer)
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What the record says now
Crista Black is an education insider trustee who brings a career in public school instruction and curriculum to the Longview ISD board. An LISD graduate herself, her professional career includes classroom teaching in Frisco ISD (beginning circa 2001) and progressively responsible roles in Pine Tree ISD, where she served as teacher, instructional specialist, and ELA curriculum coordinator.
Outside the classroom, Black has been deeply embedded in Longview-area civic and volunteer organizations. She served as President of the Junior League of Longview and has been active in the East Texas Literacy Council and Heartisans Marketplace. Within the LISD orbit, she held leadership roles in the Hudson PEP Elementary PTO and Foster Middle School PTO before being elected to the board.
Black was elected unopposed to Place 4 in May 2023, succeeding Ginia Northcutt, and currently serves as Assistant Secretary of the board. She also serves as President of the LISD Education Foundation, a dual role that presents a disclosure question: the Foundation raises and distributes funds that benefit the district she governs, and voters should understand how that relationship is managed.
Her ELA curriculum background makes her positions on book policies, content standards, and instructional materials especially important to track. The cross-district employment question (Pine Tree ISD employment concurrent with LISD governance) is another area warranting transparency.
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Board votes and public statements
2023-08-14
Tax rate reduction from $1.3276 to $1.1422 (Passed (board majority; individual vote REQUIRES_FURTHER_EVIDENCE))
Source →2025-02-10
$2.77M surveillance infrastructure contract with Digi Security Systems (Approved (individual vote REQUIRES_FURTHER_EVIDENCE))
Source →Longview News-Journal, 2023-01
Said she recognized the significance of public education and would work collaboratively as a trustee.
Issue positions and public handles
bond and budget
Part of board majority that reduced M&O+I&S tax rate from $1.3276 (2022) to $1.1422 (2023-24)