Hey, we got a goal Payton Tripp. Nice shot with 12 seconds left in the half. She saw that opening took it had step on her defender kept running with it. Great credit to Samantha Siaya getting that ball up the field there collecting the ground ball midfield working it into the offensive zone and then handing it off the that's that's well deserved credit there. I don't know that it would be an assist, but she certainly made that play happen. Good for her. Yep. Great play. And Switching hands up at the 40 going to her left hand. Once again after Norwood had taken some momentum away from Ashlyn, Ashlyn with the last two to kind of quiet that tide. Payton with a sort of win there. Someone's got to go in there and get that ball while Payton's busting out. >> until Ashley grabs it. >> go.
So we said wow this is a great opportunity and everybody you know like I said most of the states are on board and they are filling their teaching positions. They're having uh teacher apprenticeship is not something new. It's been around for at least 5 years and they're starting to get the uh teachers that are qualified that are ready to go. So that's why I think that's why we took it on. Nobody else wanted. >> Okay. So it sounds like it it sounds like HTSB does take responsibility though for for programming to fill those teacher roles then. >> That's not one of our when you look at what our tasks are to do. >> Either you are or you're not. So either you are going to be a part of it or you're not. And so I I'm confused by the the the the statement that you gave to me that it is not your role.
Not this board, obviously. None of the units had with this board. Um but, you know, one board inherits the other board's um you know, approvals. That's what they do. They they continue the they can they continue the cycle. So, right now, that blue is not going to change. So, before we even like, you know, get up in the morning, we know that that percentage, which is 68 or 69, um What was it? 69. So, 70% is going right to salary and benefits. And now you see the increment increase, right? One year to the next for for all um uh workers. And then the benefits increase. And that's where you're at. 70% before So, we have 30% of the budget is what we're actually talking about. 30%. Charter schools, this is a very important slide. From 2022 2000 to to now, we're we're at 10% increase, okay?
So, there's three different sets of standards that we audit you all under. We're also hired to um complete the procedures necessary to um complete the USFR, the uniform system of financial records compliance questionnaire, which that is the document that the office of the auditor general issues. Um they do the ultimate review of the compliance requirement and make a determination whether the district is substantially compliant with the rules and regulations set forth by their office. Um our responsibilities as auditors um related to fraud um you know, a lot of people have a misconception that that is what our job is is to find fraud. That is not what the auditor's job is. Our job is to make inquiries of personnel including governing board members. We always speak with at least one of you every year as part of the audit procedures. Um we conduct a lot of interviews.
Over the past 2 years, we've made intentional investments in instructional consistency with teacher development grounded in the science of reading. These efforts have yielded results, measurable results. Our pass rate in 2025, you can see rose to 50% of our second graders passing IREAD, and this year before any of our second graders have had an opportunity to retest, we have already had 54% of our second graders who have achieved mastery and proficiency on the IREAD assessment. Looking at this year's specific outcomes, of the 819 second graders that tested, 441 second graders passed, which gave us the passing rate of 54%. So, notable things to realize with the 441 that passed is 90 students um of the remaining that did not pass, but 90 of those students are on track to pass for sure in third grade um scoring at least 405 to 445. Um 288 students of the 378 are considered at risk, meaning they scored below 405.
Yeah, I I think that actually is different in that it says that if you think it you have a change and the specific things listed aren't the correct course of action if you inquire in writing as to how it's supposed to be handled that that's allowed. So I think it actually gives one more option as opposed to being redundant with the previous ones. >> Okay. Remember that description when we get through [laughter] >> I'm not a lawyer. >> Uh if there's no further changes then on 21B other than uh removing that last line which is now shown in red. We'll move on. >> Yep. The next changes were in um 21D. Um it's mostly language changes. Um changing appropriate federal and state laws to applicable federal and state laws. Um removal of reference to local laws and regulations. Um as this is a 40B and I believe almost all of those were wave.
One second left for Lilly no shot. Well, that certainly picked up at the end there Kev huh? I think we we were looking pretty rough there in the beginning, but uh Ashlyn got their stuff together and started shooting the ball. Yep, seven to three at the half. Five minute half time here. We're going to be taking a break and we will be back momentarily. >> [music] [music] >> Today's game is brought to you in part by Marathon [music] Deli. Marathon Deli offers a full range of lunch and dinner items for dining or catering. Find cold cuts, cheeses, and meats also available [music] in addition to specialty wraps such as the Mayflower wrap as well as the honey bee wrap that'll be sure to [music] get your mouth watering. Serving Metro West for over 24 years give them a call at 508-231-1859 or find them on the web at marathondeli.com.
And so if if it's not your role then that's not your role. Fine. Own it. But if you're going to be half in, half out, then we it's hard for us to really understand where you're going to go with this. >> So, as a leader, I would think it would be important for us to when you say half in, half out. We've been trying to do things. We've been um bringing, like I said, we've been bringing these ideas up, but if nobody's going to take it on, that's when we said, "Okay, let's just let's see if we can spearhead it." Um >> Okay. So, so let me ask you then why >> I thought that's being proactive. If that's you know, again, if that's being proactive, you that why did you write in your letter that it is inappropriate for you to um for a counter proposal for filling the teacher short that you said it was inappropriate and you put that responsibility back on the DOE.
And that's only a proposed increase. Okay? I I'm going to hypothesize that it's going to be higher than that, okay? Um I don't know. I have a whole other charter school thing, but today is not the day for it. I I again, we need to maintain programs. We need to build the the uh the capacity for our staff, train our staff, get qualified staff to stay, retain them so that kids don't want to go anywhere else. So, parents like, "No, I want to stay here with Mr. Jones. I want to stay here with Mrs. Smith." That's what we need. Okay, so here are the slides that are, you know, probably most important. Um health benefit increase is 9% 9% increase on the tax levy. So, it's 3.5 million, give or take a few there. Energy costs, like we said, 45%. $850,000 increase to the tax levy.
Ultimately, the responsibility for um fraud and prevention measures rests with you all in this room at the dais and um you know, the members of the the district's um staff as well. Um we ultimately are hired to issue an opinion on the financial statements. So, that's what our goal is. Um in terms of other required communications, you did have to implement a new accounting standard this year. I think every year lately there has been at least one new accounting standard that was implemented. This year it was statement number 101. Um that it was called compensated absences and it changed the nature of how the district's um vacation and sick leave type policies that you all um implement here at the at the board level um for time off for employees and there was a huge lift that had to be done by district staff. Um this was definitely not one of the easier standards to implement, but um it changed the definition of what's considered a liability to the district with respect to the amount of paid time off that your employees are allowed to either use or will get upon termination.
50% of students passed in the spring of 2025, and 2% fewer students this year are at risk compared to 2025. So, not only is our percentage of proficiency growing, we are also closing the gap for students that are considered at risk, where we are 2% lower of those students this year. So, now we look only at our third graders who took IREAD this year. This is not the total of number students who have passed. It's just the number of third graders who passed this year. We show you this slide so that you can see that once we have identified students from second grade, our interventions are paying off. Please remember, this is an end-of-the-year third grade assessment. We continue to get better with what is happening once we've identified the students who might be at risk and can work with them individually on the skills that they need.
um the addition of as reasonably necessary to review the project and monitor compliance with this order of conditions. Um uh the removal of additional language um so that it reads instead of at any point between the issuance of this order and the issuance of a certificate of compliance to read uh or sorry at any point between the filing of an application to the issuance of this order of a certificate of compliance. changed to the issuance of this order and the issuance of a certificate of compliance. >> I didn't have any problem with that. >> Um, this will be a recurring theme throughout just changing of language from project plan or notice of intent plans or order of condition plans to simply read approved plans. Yep. That's okay. >> And those are the ones we cited specifically in B in the the amended. So, it's not ambiguous.
[music] >> [music] [music] >> Welcome back, Ashland fans. Girls lacrosse fans, we are back. It's the second half. Ashland's leading 7 to 3. Had some real positive things happen today, Kev. Why don't you go down the stat sheet here? Yeah, we've got two goals for Payton Trip, one for Lily Vitti, Ashley Forrester with two, Laney Early with one, and Ali Marseglia with one. Perhaps most importantly, I've got three draw controls for both for Payton, Lily, and Ashley Forrester. So, with a a sev- uh 10 goals in the the half plus the opening one, that's nine out of 11 that Ashland has come away with. Let's not Let's not shy behind the fact that Alana Duffy has made like, what? I've got six saves for Alana on three goals. So, that is a save percentage of an amazing 667%. Okay. We're going to let Kev do the math on that one, but I assume he's right.
So why did you put that in your letter if that's how you truly feel if if you want to be a part of the solution? I think that's great but you said it's not a part of of what you should be doing. So when you came across to us and you were um pointing you know and again it's like you came off strong like this is the intent of what the standards board is supposed to do but when you look at all the things that we're doing as a standards board you know we're doing all uh we're bringing up up into compliance we're making sure that everything is there so that you know again we're trying to prevent lawsuits um we're trying to make sure that uh everybody everything is in place so that um we're protecting students. That's what it comes down to as well.
The charter schools, 1.2 million I'm sorry, 13.7 million overall, but a 1.2 percent I'm sorry, 1.2 million dollar increase from last year's budget on the tax levy. Substitute costs, nearly 2 million dollars, which last year was 851,000, around there. But, don't forget, last year the sub rate capacity rate, okay, was about 30%. So, that means three of every 10 classes were covered with a sub. So, you figure out what was happening. Okay? Now we're looking at 90s. Got to pay for that. Okay? And these are substitutes that we we try to get the the most qualified people, the best people that we can from from the company that fills them. Um but, you know, if you if you if you're someone that's going to say, "Well, that's a waste of money." Well, then again, when I first got here, we were talking about only three out of 10 classes were being covered.
So, separation of employment. So, we did um there was like I said, a a huge lift and um kudos to the staff here at the district for um to you know, putting putting in place all of the measures in order to implement that complicated standard. So, um that's that's that was a big um a big undertaking this year. Um every year in financial statements, there are significant estimates that occur. The two most significant estimates that are reflected in Dysart Unified's financial statements are the useful lives of depreciable assets. So, when you talk about a bond earlier and you're talking about, you know, purchasing you know, like HVAC equipment or replacing HVAC equipment, those you know those things have a finite life and so that is what we're talking about when we mean the estimated useful depreciable life is how long do we think something like an HVAC is going to um last.
So, our snapshot in third grade is we have a 800 I'm sorry, 810 students sitting in our third grade classrooms right now. 654 of these students have passed either in second grade or in third grade, giving us an 82% passing rate as of today. 72 of these students are on track to pass, and 74 students are at risk to not pass based on that first assessment. We still have intentional work to do with these students. This comes in the form of small group instruction and progress monitoring from now until the next two administrations. One will be in May, and one will be in June. And at this time, I would also like to point out that 93% of our students enrolled in Book Buddies passed. Another tribute to the dedication of our Book Buddies staff, volunteers, and students. With all this being said, we have a projected rate of 90% at the end of third grade.
>> It's also cited on the actual order of conditions form um with a date and reference to who signed and stamped it. So, it's very clear. >> And those will match. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Mr. Lopez, if in this process you have a problem, speak up. >> I will. Thank you. Uh, under 21H, this is the same thing as before, just changing it from notice of intent plans to approved plans. Um, and this order of conditions. >> Yep, that's fine. >> Uh, under 22D and E, the commission typically requires statements to be recorded on the deed of a property with all notice of intents. um with D referring to fertilizer use uh to be low in nitrogen and phosphorus and use sparingly um within jurisdictional areas under 22E. Um just noting that resource areas are present on the property. Uh the applicant recommended suggested these be removed as it is um cumbersome uh for them to implement.
>> Yeah. Okay. If you want to round it 67%, that's fine. Payton Payton Payton on the draw. This girl's coming in number two. I do not like when they do not put their their list of players in numerical order on their roster sheet. Any If there's any coaches in the TVL listening, we would prefer if you list your number in chronological order for us so when we go to do these play-by-plays. Number two with the ball, Ella Petrillo. She is a freshman midfielder from Norwood. Free shot to goal. Nice check from behind by Payton. Alana Duffy with the pick up. Looking for long outlet to Erin Hickey. Picked off by Norwood. And we got a hold back on They are now offsides. Now they're not offsides. It's unfortunate. >> Ref was right there. He saw it the whole way in from the looks of it, but Number eight with the shot, Julia Naughton.
But when you talk about quality for students, is that part of our kulana? Of course it is. Yes, by all means, because we want quality. So when our board makes decisions to do certain things, um you know, again, we're bringing it up because we want qualified teachers in the class. So is that important to us? Yes, that part is. But we can only do so much as you know for standards we're the we're the ones that are you know when you talk about we're the last line of defense in terms of um protecting students and protecting our profession that we're the last line of defense for them. So when you talk about lowering standards we're saying no there's there's other things that can be done. >> I don't think anybody's talking about bringing that to the table. I just want to be clear. Nobody's talking about lowering standards.