Uh so here's a quick uh update and then I can uh answer any questions that you have about uh summer school. So our summer school in general so the public knows uh is dedicated to um giving learning additional learning opportunities throughout the summer uh for about 500 students is what we serve historically each year. Um we try to do a small teacher to staff and support staff ratio. Uh and then we try to individualize uh what that support looks like for those students. And we go from preK to 12. Uh we have credit recovery for our high school students, enrichment opportunities for our fourth grade, our band students, and our eighth graders do STEM or ninth graders, incoming ninth graders do STEM. And then we offer again opportunities to close any learning gaps that we have over the school year. Uh we begin identifying our students uh in March.
So now we got runners on the corners. We got one out and Allessie up at bat. Ball's in there for strike as you'd expect. Runner on first. Head over to second. Defensive indifference there. Catcher wasn't going to throw down. No balls, one strike. And that ball's fouled off backwards. Doesn't hurt anybody. She's down 0 and two. And a hard hit ball. Good heads up play by the second baseman. Caught the line drive. threw it over to the shortstop covering second base and they got a double play. Fantastic play by Ashlin there. Just got it. The runner on second just dove back but it just wasn't in time. Excellent heads up play by Ashlin. Great fielding play there. line drive was um like just literally right at the shoes of uh Jack Monahan, but he was able to get down and get that ball and toss it over to Colton Gorman running over to second base to cover and they get the double play.
The work that they do are supporting kids in terms of uh safety, fire safety, and other kinds of safety through videos. uh um writing songs performing uh live shows and they're currently writing a book which is pretty exciting. Uh and they have as you read the article 24,000 subscribers to the uh due to uh uh station 8, what they call station 8 uh station uh that if you go on they listen to their work. Very good. Good for them. It's nice to hear public participation. I think it's the only one, right? And introduce yourself, please.
Jacob Jacob was on the honorable all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Jacob Jacob is most proud of how much he has matured throughout middle school. Cashling Cash was on the high honor roll all four quarters will receive an academic letter. He was top 5% in social studies, top 5% in computer applications, and above the 90th percentile in reading. Cash is most proud of playing at league [Applause] band. Logan Harris. Logan is most proud of his grow the growth he has made this year athletically, academically, and socially. Brand Grant was on the high honor roll all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Brand is most proud of improving in javelin by 17 [Applause] ft. Levi Levi is most proud of his overall athletic accomplish accomplishments with [Applause] weights. Kenna Hernandez. Kenna Kenna was on the high honor role all four quarters will receive an academic letter and was in the top 5% of pre-alggebra.
Maybe art is part of your journey. If you are a creator, a creative, be that. Immerse yourself in art. Whatever you dream, whether it is crazy or wild or seems weird, whatever that dream is, make it for yourself. Having a purpose is fulfilling your dream. That dream can change. It can expand and contract and it can take a different road than you thought it might. But that doesn't mean that you failed. Whatever that dream is, go after it and change it if you need to. Whatever that dream is, it's important that you pursue it with discipline, patience, and gentleness. Remember, I mentioned that engine that the engine of your vehicle needs to keep running, and that's your discipline. Just keep right at it and keep that car on the road. If you don't mind, I'm going to turn the attention to myself just for a minute.
And I want to thank Continental for being the best school I ever went to of my entire life. And I would deeply miss this school. Thank you. And now, last, but certainly not least, my good friend and classmate, Sebastian Mercedes Bear. [Applause] Good morning. Today we would like to thank the school staff, all of our teachers for their hard work, dedication, and patience over the years, and our family for the love, support, and guidance. This wouldn't have been possible without all of you. We were anxious, excited, and perhaps a little lost when we first entered middle school. And it seems like that was just yesterday. It has been a journey through middle school. Now, we know a great deal more about life, and we have determined our identities and priorities. Our friends have grown to be family and even when we doubted ourselves, we had teachers who still had faith in us.
That's the main operating bucket for the district. Um, Arizona has a fund accounting process, which means that every type of money comes in and it has its own rules and it has its own regulations. Uh, we manage I think right now less than a hundred funds. Uh but each one of those has again it has a a legal way of how it comes to you and how you can spend it. Um and we have to understand and be in compliance with with all of those rules for every single fund. The M fund is the largest fund. It's the one that um that $32 million funds the M fund and our district additional assistance. This is what pays for most of the operations of the district. About 83 to 85% of this fund goes towards salaries and benefits. The the main product uh for educating students is staff.
So, do you know what I'm going to ask you? Mhm. What? Tell me. Name, grade, and sport. See, these are athletic awards, not academic awards, but you scored in both categories. Well done. Tell everybody who you are and all those good things. My name is John and um I'm eighth grade and my favorite sport is basketball. I'm Scarlet. I'm in seventh grade and my favorite sport is softball. Well done. What do you got there? Wow. Hold that up so everybody can see. Nice. Nice. Ladies and gentlemen, Highland Junior High, if you'd shake hands. [Applause] Well done, guys. And can I have one more time uh Ryder Francis up here and Scarlet Moer, if I said it right, Mouser, see you laughing at me over there. Your cheering section, your heckling section. I love it. Look at that. Now, out of all the junior highs, they select who is the junior high male and female athletes of the year.
Good evening graduates, families, distinguished faculty and friends. My name is Laara Arita. As a member of the Glendale Union High School District governing board, it is a privilege to stand before you to celebrate this major milestone in the lives of Washington High School graduating class of 2025. Seniors, tonight is your night. You've earned this moment. Not just because today marks the conclusion of four years of late nights, early mornings, setbacks, comebacks, and not just through completing assignments, and passing tests, but through the spirit and heart that make you true Rams. Each of you has carved your own path to this stage. Tomorrow you will be stepping into the fastmoving world and sometimes uncertain yet a world full of opportunity, change, and potential. Whether you're heading to college, starting a job, joining the military, learning a trade, or still figuring it out, that's okay. You may not have all the answers, and that's also okay.
Your lives and careers will present challenges and opportunities. I trust that what you have learned from your teachers, coaches, peers, and of course your parents or guardians has helped to equip you with the skills and tools necessary to overcome those inevitable challenges in life. Looking back over this school year, there are numerous accolades for us to celebrate. Here are a few highlights. This year's student achievement above all recipient was Katherine Gear. In addition to receiving this recognition, Beaser was named the Lady Scholar Athlete, has a full load of AP and honors classes this semester, and is finishing with a weighted GPA of 4.9. This distinguishes her in the top 3% of her graduating class. Our achievement above all student group was the Navy JOTC. Our NJOTC is one of the most active groups on campus. They have amassed hundreds of hours of community service and have won countless accolades, awards, and competitions.
None of them will be as handsome as the phrase that stands before you tonight, but that's you know how it goes. In any case, um some of them you are familiar with. They were uh here before you uh on different occasions. um they worked with some of you on uh the contract. One of the things as I take away uh from this whole experience, I've been on the executive board for a few years, but tonight or the earlier today, the executive board had a regular monthly meeting with um Dr. Kim, excuse me, I keep calling doc Mr. Kim and members of his cabinet. And at the end of uh uh the meeting, it was a very productive meeting. I think they would agree as well. Uh but there was a lot of um good spirit and and laughter at the end of it and we all talked about this was a great meeting.
That's a steady fund uh a steady supply of funds that could be used uh to pay down uh debt payments that are related to capital improvement to help fund capital improvements year after year. Uh so one of the big components of vision 2030 is ensuring that stable uh funding resource for capital improvement and also looking at those mandated categorical such as transportation funding. Uh we know the state has done a nice job funding EBF. They have not done a great job in funding transportation and in fact we're anticipating that next year's budget's going to take about a 20% hit uh in uh funding for transportation. uh and that that's statewide across the board with the transportation claim. So, uh the two components of this plan that all the associations will be working towards is that steady reliable funding source that makes it easier for school districts to budget for in the future.
Deanna Darling as president of the school board of education for Kerry District 26, please raise your right hand. Let the record show that Mrs. Deanna Darling has been elected as board president. At this time, the new president formally takes charge of the meeting and continues the election of officers. Next up, we have the Office of Vice President. I now ask for nominations for the Office of Vice President. I nominate Julie. I would like to I would like to nominate Mindy. Since there was more than one nomination, when called please raise your right hand to vote for the candidate of choice. First up, we have Julie Jetty. Okay, next up we have Mindy Hartman. Okay, let the record show that Mindy Hartman has been elected as board vice president. Uh, next up we have the nomination for the appointment of secretary. I now ask for nominations for the office of secretary.
Um, at the time, uh, we built the budget, we felt it prudent to build up the resources within that fund because we weren't sure what was going to happen on the custodial front. We weren't sure what was going to happen on the referendum front. So, it just made sense uh to try to build up our our resources. Now, uh, we've got some clarity in those areas. It does make sense uh to make that fund transfer uh from ON&M to capital. Uh it will allow us to bring down that cash balance uh but it also helps us fulfill a promise to the community uh that we are also using some of district resources uh to help pay off some of our capital improvements. Uh keep in mind we do not ask for every dollar that we needed uh for our capital improvements. Uh we did commit to utilizing some of our resources uh for those endeavors.
Uh that comes from the office of teaching and learning and we work with our principles um to uh make sure that uh we are getting the right information for our students including MAP scores, course performance, attendance and discipline. We work with our uh guidance counselors at the high school uh and then they take care of the recommendations uh for those students um especially as they're finishing up their finals for those students who need credit recovery for the summer. Um we have tiered programs uh again doing uh two classrooms every year uh for our ELC students and then we also offer additional programs for our bilingual and uh EL students. Uh family invitations uh go out in May. Uh and then we follow up after receiving uh emails digital uh emails from our team. Uh we also follow up with individual phone calls to those families.
What a great heads up play. I mean, you got, you know, one out, runners at second and third. Not a good situation. And just like that, one hit, they turn it around. Got a double play in the right of the inning. All right, score still 1-1 as we head into the bottom of the third doing a great job holding their own against this really tough Hoffington team. They've held them to one run, got out of some very sticky situations. Looking to put some runs on the board. Luke Lame up at bat. of the uh infamous Lame Clan takes the first ball for a strike. That ball's high. One ball, one strike. Inside. Let me pop back quickly on that one. Two balls, one strike. That ball's outside. Three balls, one strike. Looks like he has the green light from the coach. Ground ball up to the shortstop.
I'm going to give you the We have a time limit of three minutes. Require the public speaker to limit their comments to the issues, not individuals. Board members are disallowed to ask or answer questions. All speakers must voice their comments and concerns with respect to the chair. So you can help me if you want. I will uh please state your name and what city and town you reside at. My name is Lenna and I reside in Lawrence, Massachusetts. I have done so ever since 2014. Just around May 27 when I came to Lawrence. Little background on myself. 20 seconds. I I came to Amesberry, Massachusetts in 2013 with my son, my only son at the time that I that was living with me and my wife. We were homeless in 2013. And I came to Lawrence because I saw a community that will embrace me and he sold me shortly.
Kenna is most proud for growth in [Applause] learning. Brett Henman. Brett was on the high honor roll all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Brett is most proud of having good [Applause] grades. Abigail Kelly. Abby was on the high honor of all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Abby is most proud of passing her math final. Maya King. Maya was on the high honor roll all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Maya is most proud of improving in all of her sports throughout the [Applause] year. Ken Mark. Kaden was on the honor roll all four quarters and will receive an academic letter. Kaden is most proud of keeping his grades [Applause] up. Victoria Martin. Victoria is proud of how much she has grown and matured over the [Applause] years. Elena [Applause] Mason and receive an academic letter. Elena is most proud of her one pager she did in ELA and [Applause] maturing.
I absolutely loved school. And I had a favorite quote. A wise man knows that he knows nothing. What that means is however smart or however brilliant or wise you are, um there's always more to learn. And a wise man seeks that knowledge. A wise person seeks out that wisdom and wants to take in as much as they can until their brain is going to explode with it. That's my favorite quote. It is amazing how ignorance and expertise has shaped society and the world around us. I will tell you I have a daughter who is one years old and she's back there being a little bit chaotic. I was 19 when I became pregnant and I had planned to have her. I wanted to have her, but I knew that the next steps were going to be a bit uncertain and I wasn't quite sure what was what it was going to look like because I'd never been a mom before.
We have determined our ability to adjust, develop and persevere in the face of adversity. We will remember all the moments shared in the classroom, laughter at recess, and the challenges we overcame together. We have learned not to not only knowledge, but also the importance of friendship, teamwork, and respect. This is a new beginning, a door to a future full of possibilities. We know that education is the foundation of our success and we are committed to continuing to learn and grow. We are we are the future for a better world. Thank you Continental for a safe and special place full opportunities learning and good experiences. Finally, I want to express my gratitude to my classmates for the journey, the laughs and the memories. Thank you very much. Now it's time to give out awards. First award is the Kate Civil Science Award presented by Mrs. Naomi Austria.