00135. Can I call this meeting to order? We will accept that roll call. Jordan here. Here the record show that there is a form of board members have been toled to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for alliance to the Texas one state under agenda. We're going to move on to agenda item uh three, but there is no public participation today. So let's move on to agenda item 4 a the presentation discussion and possible action on the vote Casey lasso three strong foundations implementation grant agreement more and miss and then oh there's some people from here can you introduce yeah so I guess with the people um introduce themsel okay there hi Hi. Um, I'm Terry Mo.
002I'm the uh longest running member I think at Mo Casey other than uh Moch and Casey. And so Terry's been working with um well I guess both I think all of them have been working with us this year and um Eric is here but they've been working with K5 um the Eureka which is now blue implementation and um the grant that we had this past year 2425 was for the K5 it's called strong foundations implementation the grant we have for this year that we just found out within the last week they kind strung us along. TDA did um but we did get awarded was for sixth through eighth grade implementation. The rest of y'all want to introduce yourself. Hello. Go ahead, Kim. Hi, I'm Kim Graham. Good to see all of you. Hi y'all. I'm
003Cindy Anderson. And then Ross is he's the contracts guy, right? Yes. And so um Terry and then Kim you came out once right at the beginning of the year to Yes. And then for the for the 6A will it be Terry you'll work who who all will be on that team? The way that it works uh as we did last year you have uh for an implementation grant you have to have an implementation advisor and a product advisor. And so, uh, Cindy Anderson will be serving as the implementation advisor and I will again be serving as the product advisor. Now, that doesn't mean that we're the only two that you're going to see because we usually like to bring two or more people to a district when we come in. So, it'll be a bit
004like last year where you may see a lot of combinations of us. Um so as part of the the grand into the packet um who are the Russian oh they're part of upbringing yeah they're for the um so they'll introduce themselves um it's a requirement for tea that uh we got a $200,000 grant and what 50% of it um goes to an external provider and so since we have the relationship with Mo Casey and They've done great work with the district this year and they also um offer some additional perks for us um which is super helpful. Uh we would like to move forward with them this year. So um the additional things that they offer um are the I forget that TAP is that the acronym text. Yeah. So, they offer um in addition
005to the services that they're going to provide through the grant, which I'll let them share, they uh provide some registrations for assessment conference in the fall. They're going to do, and I don't know if someone can speak to it because I saw it in the um agreement, a staff, but staff study that they're willing to do as part of the grant. Um then we're the cabinet team or myself, Ronda, Miss Gomez, uh Dr. are there and R.J. were part of a monthly meeting where we learn about strategic planning and leadership and that's part of um what's comes with this and I'm trying to think what else and then I think there was some other professional development maybe outside the guise of this but the grant itself is a 68 m. Mhm. Yes. We uh besides
006the assessment conference um um uh registrations, we also offer uh the staffing study as you mentioned. Uh that is where we take your district. We compare you to districts that are of your similar size and um we look at uh how your staffing is going and whether you're, you know, possibly places where you're understaffed or overstaffed. Of course, that's kind of up to y'all the way you want to do things, but it at least gives you a look at how other people are doing it. I think that's very important. The other thing, uh, as we're leaving the legislative session, we also give you a, uh, a newsletter called Peace Spin, which gives you everything that's going on in the Texas legislature. So, even though we've just finished, it's very because we'll be going over all
007of the bills that passed, as well as the ones that didn't. and of course anything that's happening uh in the interim uh session. So that's how uh you'll get uh informed as far as what's going on legislatively [Music] still here. Um so do you want to kind of describe a little bit about the work you would do with the uh math grant itself? Yes. Uh it'll be similar to what we did last year. As I said there are are two different kind of strands to it. There's sort of a what they call the implementation advisor and that person actually works with uh administrators and uh district leaders and you would get uh professional learning sessions. You would also have two learning walks that would be done throughout the year. And TEA has uh several required
008deliverables uh which they call uh their implementation grant deliverables and uh we would be guiding you through those. As far as the product advisor, that's very much more specific to the actual instructional materials. Uh we do four different observations throughout the year. uh they're not punitive in any way. They're just uh where we go and we see the actual curriculum being delivered and we give comments back and any kind of feedback that might help the teachers. We also do the professional learning for the teachers as well. And then they have professional uh learning opportunities is what they call it where uh last year we we did a lot with your PLC's and we would hope to be able to do that with your sixth through 8th grade PLC's as well. Okay. We do have a
009question. Do you have the data from the last year that we used it? The data that they were here last year, right? And they we used them last year. Do you have the data on how it worked or what what was done? Do you have that data? What? Yeah. Yes. Can I see it? Right. I mean, I can go. Yeah. You'll provide. If we were going to have this, we should have had the information because I'd like to compare it. How how well did we do with it? Was the math? Well, she's here. She can give us um some feedback. Erica is fine. Don't worry about it. That's fine. I I would like I would like Miss to share a little bit about the kind of support that they were getting. Even this should have
010been where I would have liked to have seen and you know you've made up my mind already because obviously I don't know how well the program worked or what exactly they did or what happened through that whole year. The year hasn't ended though. So we were we were testing and all that has well they have to accumulate all that. So we've already asked for that. I mean I've already asked for that from this morning and you will be provided during the summer because they have to go do all the results for each well did they work with each one of the campus? They work five. So we will get all those results get everything. And you're right. I mean, we do want to see, well, how well did they work? Because if we're going to,
011you know, uh, do a partnership again with them, right? We're doing a blind partnership because we really don't know. I don't think we're doing a blind partnership. I think they know what they've gone through and everything, but we will provide it to the board members. So, what can we let the other ladies share a little bit about what benefits? Yeah. Hi. So basically what Casey came in to do was they provided um some structure to a curriculum that we're already implementing. So K35 uses the Eureka math program. So that is not a program that KC does. It's just what they're um consulting on and how we're implementing and internalizing the curriculum and using it. So K through five is already using it. So they put some parameters in place where they came in, they did
012some observations. Um Terry did like 45 minute observations where they used a tool from TEA itself and they made sure that each teacher was internalizing their lessons. Um making sure that they were hitting every component in Eureka and then they gave some feedback. They gave some gloves and some grows. So everybody had some action steps to work towards and then they gave immediate feedback. Um then there was some other learning walks where they would come in and do 15-minute learning walks and that was basically just to see um that we have the materials out that we are keeping a pacing going and we're doing everything with Eureka the way it's supposed to do. Um they also came in and observed our PLC's and they wanted to see how teachers were presenting those lessons. Uh because
013part of that internalization is now kind of doing a rehearsal and modeling for for the cohort, the grade level um the lessons that are coming up and basically making sure that all our teachers are prepared to teach that lesson. So it was useful for the teachers. Of course, it was super helpful. The ladies are a wealth of knowledge. Um they know the curricula forward and backwards and everything was a positive interaction. um letting us know where we need some growth and explicitly telling us how we could fix that and then um giving us super um helpful feedback on all the positives that we're already doing because for JFK um and whoa it was already year three at the end of West OSO Elementary what's so um part of TEA's requirement through our consultant with Moesy
014is that they also provide some PD for our teachers. So they provided three PD sessions um and we were able to learn a lot from them and they I think overall we have to have a consulting right to have a consultant. They just made the experience super seamless and they were very useful, super helpful. Cammy um story and myself worked with them closely and so anytime we had a question we would zoom um every every other Friday and we would also they were a phone call away an email away anytime we had any kind of worry or anything come up um they were always available for us right and they helped us through the granite has you know there's paperworky parts but she's talking about the deliverables the plan and she helped they helped us
015do a lot of the logistics so if you want get the grant right then and you have to right miss right there's all these reports and that kind of stuff any kind of grant and so they made it they were super helpful so the grant was awarded by the ser I mean t tea it was awarded so last year we got I think it was 270 but that was for K5 this is just sixth seventh and eighth grade and we're getting 200 so K5 did math that's what they were working on the math right the specific So, classroom A had 32 kids. Not 32%. Of those 32 kids, I'm just saying 32 kids. Of those 32 kids, did they all at least master what they were? Of course not, Miss PTR. They didn't master what
016they were doing. Those are still being analyzed. I mean, they're being analyed by No, I'm not going to tell you that we're I don't think there's a school district anywhere in the world where every kid is going to master everything. So, I'm not besides that, Liz, I'm just telling you uh that those scores are still I mean, everybody was asking how CCI need to do and blah blah blah blah blah. Um Well, yeah, because if they're reading at level eight Exactly. But the analysis it hasn't even been completed. But every don't we do like report cards every six week nine weeks? I don't know what weeks we do report cards. Yes. Okay. So how do you rate them if you waiting to doing it and that and that was that? So every six weeks they
017have not gotten a great of course we have grades. So on the 23rd it's not the purpose of this meeting on the 23rd Miss Garcia is going to do a priority one report an academic update. remember on the last meeting because I told are we looking at when we talk about scores are we looking at star testing scores or what kind of sports are we looking at regular class regular test it would be a combination right if they also have EO that even the little ones are doing end of the year scores um and because we just had a report a couple months ago about neat approaches meetings that was for 23 24 year no we we gave you the middle of the year for the 25th. That's why we had the priority one because
018we made sure that we're we're letting everybody know what happened uh for beginning of the year, middle of the year. I just saw a report a couple days ago that in math alone, the kids have not recovered from the COVID crisis, especially in math. All right. I I don't want it to get too diverted. We're not going into that. But Miss Garcia, I do want to follow up on the star scores because we did talk about it when the other man came. What was his name? Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown. Yeah. Because we I know she's going going after. She wants to know. Okay. Since we had the scores for 2324, we have the star scores. We're bringing in both Casey. We're paying a lot of money and and that's really what the the big thing
019about it is. And so now we're going to get the star scores for 2425. We already got no not the analysis. So we're going to do that. How well did we fare as far as math coming into K through five? Of course, we only uh they only start test three to five. Right. Right. And we have end of the year, we have beginning, middle, and end of the year data in math at all the grade levels. And that's what share that's going to be shared on June 23rd because by that time they will have gathered everything they need to know. still not final because but it's still not it's actually to be honest with you not final till late July August but we can give you at least what we know right what you know
020well the thing is that we're we're going to wait till June 23rd well couldn't this application waited till June really couldn't be honest information it really can't we're going to vote on something blind so we don't know how well they did so what we're voting on is we're having a getting a grant to help us to move forward we know what part of what the scores I get it is part of it but part of it is our relationship that we've built. Part of it is growing teachers. But um let me explain another thing is that the initial this last three came in three waves. That initial wave this course it was the end of February, right? I think yes. The first notification we didn't get funded. I told you all we told you that
021we didn't get funding because our algebra one scores were too high. So we didn't get the funding. Then there was a second wave maybe Aprilish. Yeah. We didn't get the funding. this is we just got it but we're behind. So there's going to start being deliverables and things that they're going to want from us and one of the things that they need right away even in in order to move forward is we have to have an agreement with an external provider. So we are running behind on it's not our fault. If you met the criteria you got funded the first round. Am I correct? Right. And then they changed it. Okay. No they didn't. Well, they had they they changed something where now if you fall into this Well, right, the first right basically the
022first two sets we scored too high to to get money and then finally in the third round they we were able to open up they they widen it a little bit so that we got so it changed like they changed but but because of the time constraints we so it's not our fault but it it's time sensitive in that once Once we sign this agreement and upload it, there's things for TA and adult. Is there other school district around the area that are using this program? Well, the program we're using is Blue Bonnie, which is the state of I mean, I'm sorry. Are they also helping other school districts? Oh, but also Oh, yeah. We can speak to that. Yes. Uh, yes. And if I may, I just wanted to to step back a little
023bit. the implementation grant by TEA. Uh they have a number of approved providers and you can only choose the approved providers from that list. And so uh it's also very prescriptive about what we can and cannot do as an approved provider. So it doesn't, you know, if you were to uh choose us or anybody else, you're going to get pretty much the same types of services, the professional learnings, the observations, etc., etc. And of course, the the purpose of the grant, uh, it all started with that awful bill called HB4545, if you'll recall. The one silver lining that came out of it was that the the author, um, Representative Dutton had said that he didn't feel that we were getting good foundations. And so this is to address uh Representative Dutton's issues and saying that
024we want all of our students in Texas to have access to rigorous curriculum every day. And that's why uh your administrators have chosen Eureka and then again Blue Bonnet because uh TEA and the state board of education have said that those are the most high quality instructional materials that uh meet the Texas standards. So, um I admit that it's pretty rigorous curriculum, but it's what your students deserve. Um, we've had a problem in the past and I think Representative Dutton really spoke to that about uh people getting curriculum from other uh vendors who did not really meet the Texas standards or it was not rigorous enough. Teachers were having to pull from the internet all the time. And that's what the advantage of this curriculum is basically. But as far as our our other people,
025I can tell you that we already have uh several contracts. One that comes to mind that's in your area, well semi in your area, we have one with Kingsville that we just signed, for example. We also have some way up in the panhandle with Mules. We have one in the Houston area with Huffman ISD. Um, let me see any others that I can think of offhand. PostISD, we have in the past had a couple of region 12, Sans Saba ISD, Brennham ISD or two others that we're doing again this year. Um, anyway, so that's kind of we're all over the state depending on where it is. That's who the combination of people that you'll see. So, this is our group right here. But um one thing that I think is important to note about the
026fact that you know you have these these districts that are choosing different vendors and they choose them for whatever reasons that that they feel you know kind of speaks to them. I really enjoyed working with y'all last year. And I think Miss Gomez really kind of hit it on u uh right on the money when she told you all the sorts of things that we did last year. And I think we built some excellent relationships with some of the teachers where they weren't afraid to really um go for it and uh use the curriculum in their classroom. And and I felt like we saw a lot of teachers that were really confident by the end of the year with the curriculum. Absolutely. I wanted to say one thing. Well, I wanted to say, you know,
027they're here to ensure that our teachers understand the curriculum that is being taught. So, they're helping them internalize the lesson and how can they teach it, right? So, then when they come do the evaluations, that's what they're looking for. So then they'll give little notes. You could have done this to get this result, you know. So that's what they're coming for is to assist that. It's not necessarily, oh, I'm going to raise your star scores, but if there's better teaching and they understand the curriculum better, then of course your star scores are going to, you know, go up. So um I I really wanted to reiterate that. Um well, I would think that that is implied. I mean, I I would think that we're going to get some kind of benefit from where we were
028to this is where we're at with the implementation of this program. But again, it's $200,000 is the grant, right? That how much do we pay them? $100,000. We have to pay someone $100,000. Somebody else. Well, yeah. I'm just saying. So really we only have 100,000 for used for the school, right? Correct. Well, beyond grant that's not $20,000 for support. What is that $20,000? What kind of support? Did I read that correctly? Oh, so the other $100,000? Yeah, there's 20,000 out of the other 120,000. So the other basically the other $100,000 you can use for stipens for teachers, for professional travel, travel to go to conferences. We can use it for supplies. You can use it to offset, which we're probably going to do, a portion of our instructional facilitator um salary. So, basically what we
029did last year was a little bit different because we have an instructional facilitator K5, right? JFKWE, we were able to pay half our salary, but this year would really be a quarter of somebody's salary since it's just one campus and math. So, it helps basically free up some money someplace else. Um, so are they gonna go in detail? May I add, may I add something to this? Um, taking on a new curriculum is a very big important step and it really can impact student outcome significantly. when you take on a curriculum and you implement it with fidelity, it takes a lot of teacher energy and expertise and TEA recognizes that. And so what they have done is they've said, let's send people into the district that have adopted new curriculum, our blue bonnet learning, and
030let us send help in different ways. So we have a product advisor that comes in who knows the materials inside and out and also an implementation advisor. And so they the reason that the grant is set up this way is to help teachers be the most successful they can be because we know when the teachers are successful in implementing a new curriculum and really internalizing lessons then those students are also going to be successful. So that's kind of how it's just designed so that people can go in and really support teachers and and really impact the student learning. I hope that it I would like to add that we do an implementation plan and part of that plan is setting measurable goals. So that kind of speaks to what you were talking about um that
031we do set goals and they are measurable to attain. Um part of our work is to also set the district up for um successful conditions. That's like your calendar, your schedules, working with the administrators um in helping get that all set up so that you can be as successful as you possibly can as you're implementing this curriculum. Also, I guess we can add I know um Miss Gum did survey all the teacher surveys so we can add share some of that data at the end. We're still updating our math from K through 12. That's what this is all about. This helps with that, right? Yeah, that's what it's about. And again, Mo Casey does so much gosh, through this legislative session right now that your budget presentation wouldn't be possible without Mo Casey and they
032they do so much in keeping us informed with so that that's why we wanted to use them because in addition to this work, we get a lot of other benefits. Okay. On page six of the of the TEA, whatever you have here, the TA page six, it says total of funds available for this project are 62,79. I don't see that. There's like what? Like 38,000 something. Oh, that's right. I didn't Okay. Yeah. Zero. was like, "Wait a minute." That's cuz I got glasses on. We just got 200,000. But okay, that that's okay. Okay, let's just read in this TA grant opportunities. That's pretty much we we had unless people had further questions. Do we have any other questions, Miss Bella? Uh, no, ma'am. No questions. Miss Gonzalez. and Mr. M. Jordan. No, ma'am. Misses. Nope.
033Okay. So, this is an action. Yes. Okay. All right. So I need a motion and a second for action item 4 a the presentation and possible action on Casec Lasso 3 strong foundations implementation grant agreement motion and motion or are you going to do it motion but I don't have the language I make the motion that we accept the dis the the action on the old Casec Lasso third grant agreement. I will second. All right. A motion has been made by Miss Pettis and seconded by Mr. Adongo. We'll go ahead and vote. Miss, I Rodriguez. Hi. This motion passes by one. Let's move on. Thank you very much. Thank you all very very much. Thank you so much for letting us talk to you tonight. We look forward to it. Is this is this a
034new principle, too? Yeah. Yeah. I know. But have they met? Oh, but there's going to be I'm sure I'm No, but I'm just saying remember they're going to be working with sixth through eighth grade. But up that's why so if you wouldn't mind would wanted it. So we invited originally Erica was here for Casey that was benefit. So um we invited Jake Carpenter who's will be our new John Kennedy principal. Um and then Erica because um upbringing is going to be presenting on the free page free program which will all my name is Sandy Salon. I am the regional director for our nurses county head start under upbringing. I'm here before you today to do a small presentation on NYU that we're we're proposing regarding a partnership to support our prepaid students. I wanted to
035start saying before I start I do want to oh want to introduce people. I could I could I want to introduce but I do have two of uh our corporate level. Miss Roxanna Garza is our superintendent and she'll introduce herself first. There she is. Good afternoon everyone. Um, just want to introduce myself, Roxanna Garza, Head Start Superintendent. Um, thank you for allowing us to give you some information about our program and we're here to answer any questions that you may have. Missy, hi, good evening. Oh, sorry. Hi, good evening. Uh I'm Lee Savocle and I'm the partnership coordinator for all our grants um with Upbringing Head Start. It's nice to see you all and I'm here because I am the local girl. So you'll be seeing me more often hopefully. But we just wanted to
036share a little bit just want to give you a little bit of background so you see where my intentions are coming from. I am some of you may recognize I'm based I'm recently retired from CID. I retired as a high school principal from lower high school and going through the years 34 years of education as one elementary, middle and high school and seeing all that we saw. You know, we know education and and seeing them what can we do better? Where can we close those gaps? The conversations you were having earlier just a moment ago. And so in looking at that, a retired um came across the opportunity to work for Upbringing and saw what their goals are, their mission, their vision, and completely agree with what they're doing and wanting to set that strong
037foundation. So when our children do come to public school, they have those they have the interventions if they're needed because a lot of our kiddos have things going on that as parents when we don't have more than one child or we don't don't know better, we don't realize what's going on. And so setting having those opportunity to to set those interventions that our children need early on and setting that system those best practices so when they are in the regular classrooms once they hit first second third and and on on they're going to high school they have those that foundation for them that is so needed here. But just wanted to talk a little bit today about what we offer. We're not asking for money. We're actually here to give money. So hopefully that's a
038good sign so far. But we are up. Head start. Go ahead and move along. Where's where do I point to? You can click left and right. So Head Start is hard work. We are under the office of Head Start. We can work under them. Partnerships with state systems, reaching children and families, investing in our workforce, child health safety, and always quality environments. Just a little bit of history of us. to where we are and how we would come across in the state of Texas back in 2015. We we have a different pre or different grants across from Wharton andora in 2015 2019 we we came across with Brazoria and Johnson Bath I hope I pronounce it correctly summer and Hood South Fort Worth 2020 we had three that came along be God woke and bear
039and Galveston and then this year in January of 2024 county came on board with upward and again some of I wanted to share just a couple of theus that we do have with existing surrounding areas. You can see here we'll bring it to you but you can obviously see that we are around the area and local area as well. The latest that we have is petted ISD closed at MLU last month. Just wanted to also just share for any background that you'd like to do, you can go to this site here, our high quality prepaid guidelines. This is where we we get our best practices from. And again, we're we're not a new program. It's nothing like that. We simply support what you already have going on, making sure that those best practices are being
040solidified every day. Yeah. And if you look at your board packet, she sent me like literally hundreds of pages of any question that you might ask us that we have. So just put it all in there. That's not that's not part of that right there, right? Because I'm looking at it and I don't find the ask there. So that's not in here. It should be in that. Yeah, it should be at the beginning, right? Well, I I put what I I guess in your packet what I put first was the tea. Um I got the Yeah. No, this this PowerPoint she they just got what happened was they sent me all that. I said to Sandy, well, can you give us like can you give us like a 12 point page presentation? because what she
041sent was like the 150 page handbook. Um, so she's kind of basically we are trying to give you, you know, a good understanding of it. Obviously, we don't want to be here for hours. It's not a, you know, full day training, but we do want you to walk away with a true understanding of what we'll be able to provide in a partnership with you for our children. Benefits of a dual enrollment head start. I mean, we have the the certified teacher opportunity, state supported curriculum, the facilities, the maintenance, the transitioning our our students to kindergarten, the intime and additional staff that she already have on board within her counselor services and special education. Now, as a local education agency, what do we offer in a sense? We have our education coach that's assigned to the
042site. This is a a person that's going to be coaching with our teachers, those best practices, those supports that they need, doing those observations, helping them into seeing, you know, that second set of eye that's not there every day. Sometimes when you're in a room day in day out, you don't see the sometimes the obvious, but when you have that second set of eyes, you can see those things that if we just do a little tweaking, we can make things so much better for the systems in the classroom. Family advocate is going to be very essential in supporting attendance. your uh your meetings with your families, working with your lons, your parent leaison that you may have in your district to making those those uh those reachouts to our parents providing resources again supporting attendance
043the funding that we provide again those interventions that we need whether it's behavioral, mental, whatever type of services our children may need, being able to identify those early on, special programs and then additional resources for families that we we try to make sure that anything anything that our parents may need anything that they come across that we're able to support those need just as you're going through this. So these students when she saw that dual enrollment they're actually would be with within they'd be west oso ISD students so they would be in teams they'd be in the center you know they would be in our system who get ADA for them and we would get ADA for them and they would also be part of Head Start. So they that's that's where their dual enrollment.
044So I have another question. So if we're Head Start, can other committee members also apply over here for the Head Start other community like around surrounding? Well, it would be like our PK4. Yeah, it would be like our PK4 the way we do PK4 now. So um you would the priority would be but yes. You mean open enrollment? Yes. Yes. And that's how we have it. And here it says something about one lottery. It says something about they are chosen through a lottery. That's why I was asking. Yeah, that that that I think we would get to choose that. No. Well, on on the upward side, there's some requirements that we have to qualify to. Yeah, that that's what I'm looking at because it's still head start. You still have to meet those requirements just
045like a PK4. It's just like our prek more like the dental. Yeah. Make sure that they all of that as well. Yeah. But the requirements for prek3 and prek4 are pretty much the same. Low low income the same as for a little bit more than what well the income requirements all that stuff. That's physical and everything else. Do you still require them? So it's income if my kids couldn't join because there were income but okay uh so it's under the income it's still going to be under that income those requirements those have to face similar to our more my biggest questions in having three year olds on the campuses are they going to be trained I mean if they're not ready to use the bathroom by themselves our teachers did not go to school for
046that Right. So let me share this what and we that's the initial conversation we're trying to learn from from say certain people but other other people's errors. So the proposal just so y'all know and I talked to Miss Rodriguez is that we would start with one pilot. It was one single prek3 classroom. What we would not reassign existing staff. we would hire someone or I mean if there was an existing staff person that wants to do PK3 then we would consider them but we're not going to say okay Miss Mendes you're a great kindergarten teacher and I think you'd be a great prek3 teacher we're not going to do that we they can we cannot make the requirement that they're toilet trained so whoever we hire is going to know they're changing diapers or they're
047help or they're and they're helping to do toilet training but they're going to know that on the front end and But that's another thing. The parah is the one that's going to be doing the changing. That's not fair because that happens now as it is. But that's the requirement. When you bring them in, when you bring them in, you're going to make a requirement that they have to be trained. You can't see that by law. We can't then I don't think we should even offer it to prek3. They're separately. We're not prepaid kids that are not still training. Well, I know. But let's also remember that that's the also one of the main reasons for a program like start to help them help them get to level and socialize with others and again that but
048again we would again we would be when we're hosting the position I mean there's there's c there's definitely some requirements we would can hire someone from Head Start that might want to move to the orange. Or do we meet different? We have different They have different than we do. Correct. Well, so they wouldn't go by what our district No, my question. I'm against getting threey olds that are not trained because I feel that teachers do not go to school to learn that. They go to school to teach. And I'm one that um but it's a different again it's a different I love three-year-olds. I actually love changing diapers. So Oh god. No I do. But people that really love that. Do they know that that's the requirement? Talking about threey olds. The expectation or the
049idea is not that we're going to have three sitting in rows if they're sitting for 45 minutes presenting a lesson. It is about that developmental stage in discovery and it is about social and that but before you go I do want to make the distinction. So, we have new Oasis County. Uh, Head Start is under our new Oasis County, but they didn't get the contract. Okay. No longer the formal formal organization. So, we have newis county. We are not going through newis county. Nobody is. You are coming in and doing what newis county did before. What upgrade? What upgrade? They got the head start county did not get the contract. So there is only the same head start that has been around for hundreds of millions years. Headart had an upbringing to it. No, they
050they they are a new contractor, right? They are nothing to do with contract. They was awarded the contract, right? Head starts. Yes, ma'am. We do all work under the office. However, our policies and procedures do differ and that's what we feel we are benez. Do you want to explain a little bit, Miss Garza? Yes. I just wanted to give um the group a little backstory. I know the question was about Newasis. So, and I hope you can hear me. Um just a quick uh summary. So, Newasis County Community Action Agency did have the Head Start grant for many many years. For whatever reason, I'm not going to speculate, but for whatever reason, their grant went up for competition. It happens to multiple Head Starts. It's not unique. So when this when their grant winner for
051competition upbringing head start receives the um the opportunity the grant opportunity notices. So we apply just like we've done many times before. So we based on um there's a selection criteria. It's uh there's a panel that makes a decision and we were awarded the grant. We didn't buy them out. We didn't kick them out. Nothing like that. We were not in we're not in competition with them. they no longer they just not did not receive the grant from the office of head start. We were awarded that grant back in uh 24. However, we did not begin operating in Uasis County until January 1st. So, I just want and the way we our model with ISD partnerships is very different than from what other Head Starts do in the sense of some Head Starts just use
052the space, right? But we're in a true partnership with the ISD in the sense that our children are our children. They're registered with us and with the ISD. The the teachers and the teacher assistant is the employee or are the employees of the ISD for which we're partnered. We pay for the full salary of the teacher. There's a cap of course and we pay half the s half half the teacher salary all of the teacher assistant salary because our regulations dictate that there must be two people in the classroom at all times with the children and that's only the the the tip of you know the the partnership opportunity and and yeah I can understand about three-year-olds but that is like Sandy was saying it's a de developmental pro process for the child. So hopefully
053if a you know you have children that are not potty trained when they come in in August, they should very well be potty trained with the work between the parent, the teacher, the family advocate to help that that teach that parent at home potty train that child. So that shouldn't be unfortunately the deciding factor on if a child gets into a program. And it's not we cannot um that's not a a criteria for not qualifying a child. So this is different than what we used to have. And we had a contract with Head Start before. They were just using our facility, right? And we did not hire the staff. We didn't fire the staff. We didn't really have control or really input into the curriculum or anything. So that's when history-wise when House Bill three
054passed and we were told that the school district is going to have deliverables and we're going to be accountable for the four-year-olds in our building. We said, "Well, then we want to be able to hire those people." Okay. The other head start didn't give us the kind of option that we're getting here. So that's when we said, "Well, no, we want to be able to hire our own people because because we're going to be here was they're certified, right?" And that was the thing with Head Start because we did some collaboration sometimes with at CCISD that their their teachers were not certified. So when I saw that I was like, "Wow, they did change it up a bit." So you all have tweaked it to where it does to me I know that Head Start
055was really I mean as far as new way is county it was really geared towards the social emotional and physical attribute you know of the students to where I think if you bring in a certified teacher it's also going to hit the academic part and and that's what I liked about it that you all didn't tweak it to where it's to our advantage. so that our students can succeed and it's a living wage. I think that was the other thing is that because the Head Start salaries were traditionally so low, your turnover rate even for that lead teacher salary was very low and so you've spent the constant I I read this but I'm still stuck on the still against teachers changing kids. That is the that is the job of the parents. If you
056can't do it, then you want us to do it because those are requirements if you choose to apply for the job. There's some kids that'll do better with the teacher than they do their own. That's true. But I was telling them, we had a fouryear-old at John Kennedy who was not potty training, but the socialization and all the child was potty trained quickly. I can understand if they're special needs kids. I don't have a problem with those. I have a problem with kids that come to school and are not trained. I have a because I had to train my kids. I had six and I had to train every one of them and grandkids. Well, nowadays these parents want us to do everything and I'm against it. Yeah, I'm against it. But I want to
057continue. I like the program. Can we back up the presentation please? Thank you. There we go. But again, just a couple of things of the benefits of our of the Dual enrollment teachers. Again, teacher employed by our local education agency, home visits, question of tea, what we talked about, family style meals, screeners for dance. Again, there is an accountability there. We're making sure that our children are making progress. We're not just playing with Legos all day long, but what are what are we doing to develop the child to what their educational career is going to be like? Documentation and again the funding teacher assistant. Again, we do require that there be two people in the classroom at all times with their children. Uh a TA is required 1 to 11 accompanying head start teacher with
058home visits and then system also with their documentation that's required. But I think and Sandy, you said that the 1 to 11 was for PK4. for prek three. I thought it was even lower where it was only half days. It's not even a full No, it's a full day. It's a full day. But I thought you had said that 17 computing because it's only it's max of 17 for prek. Yes. Oh, they do have we do have no children are out of school all day. So what I think we a little confused because I thought it was you all do it for a half day and then we come in. This is a partnership. It's a partnership where we work together. Yeah. So we hire on our campus. Yeah. Be a JFK. So it' be
059one classroom. Yes. We move the second grade over. We have room. So what classroom? We're talking about one single classroom. So the idea would be with one classroom. We hire we but we get half a day ADA for the students but then head start the head start grant is going to pay for the full salary of the parah and half the salary of the teacher. Okay. But we have we we only get ADA for half a day. Correct. Okay. So say the child comes in because we see it all the time. Come in at 10 o'clock. Okay. And then the child leaves at one o'clock. So his be honest with you is at 10:00. So 10 o'clock he comes in at 10:01. Do we document that he came in before 10? Then that's another I'm
060talking about the prek3s because they don't wake up every morning like you want them to. But see that that's where we're also offering our family advocate. That is where that support comes in. And when we start seeing those trends with our children that are not obviously it's not the child's fault that they're not there on time, right? But working with the parent, what are what are the challenges? Why are we not able to get to class on time on a daily basis? That's our family advocate that's assigned to to uh this particular classroom. Sounds like you want to say something? Can you hear me? Yes. Okay, perfect. Sorry, I couldn't hear myself. Um, I just wanted to add um like Sandy said, the family advocates are there um to help make phone calls with attendance,
061but we follow your protocol on what time kiddos have to be there. So, school starts at 8. Our kiddos have to start at 8 as well. And you don't get ADA for half a day. You get ADA for the whole day. And but the kids saying you're not gonna get ADA, right? Right. But most No, that's correct. But our family advocates can make those phone calls. They start making phone calls an hour after school starts and saying, "Hey, where are you?" um what's going on and have that open communication, making sure that they're communicating with the family, if they communicate with uh your front office people and also the teacher as well to make sure we get these kiddos in campus as well. And if it's three days and they're not there, they'll make home
062visits and and see you say, "Hey, what's going on? What how can we help get you to school?" I'm assuming a lot of these are working right now, Miss Moore. We have working parents. But I've been at JFK where three kids come in after 10:00 and the parent doesn't even bring them in. They just ring the doorbell. Let's focus on that. United States. Hey guys, we need a challenges. We have them everywhere. It doesn't matter that but this is what we're trying to to share that this is what we're going to support those challenges that you're seeing in your classroom. I like this because you are going to support us to where all our other classes don't have support for anybody coming in late. And again, we were talking about our family advocates just a
063few minutes ago. Upgrading staff assigned to a specific campus. Their responsibilities are to work with the ISD administration, faculty, and teaching staff. They assist with the enrollment, provide management for for family again with those challenges that we can't get our kiddos to school every day on time and uh facilitate family engagement activities. What you got, you know, title one, you have requirements that you have to meet. We support you in that process. and then also collaborate with ISC staff regarding the head start health services advisories you know those committees that we also have to make sure that we abide by and so it's a it's a phase one two and three and I'll go briefly through this because I I can see you know I know how to read the room as well but right
064now we are we are in a collaborative partnership journey we you know key key people to this partnership again on our Head Start side and then our school district One of the things that I'm really excited about, hopefully this will this will become a reality, is that I feel that the relationship part is already there. I am from the community. I know Shay very well. We in our past lives, we we worked with each other. I know Miss Erica know her by name, but we have a lot of connections. We talked about there there's definite connections. My husband's family very very well well rooted with Westoso. So the idea that we're just going to come in here just to check off a box, that is not the case. We're here to support the children because
065they are our future. So the road map again, we're in phase right now. We're in phase one. We're coordinating and contemplating. We're trying to see what what is this about? Is it going to work? Is it not going to work? Does it work 100% at every ISD that we walk in? Probably not. But because we need to make sure that we have the right ingredients, we want to make sure that we're the we're the right kitchen so that what we put together is successful for our children. We can never guarantee long-term success. We' be magicians if we could do that, but we can put put it all in the right ingredients for student success. So again, just having those honest conversations at the forefront. What are your challenges? What do we see? What do we
066need? and how can we make this work together? Because there's always a middle ground. We can always find something that can work for both of us. We just kind of point out our initial interest in this was we lost kids last year, right? Because they started in prek3 in CCISD and we think they stood stood there. So I mean in addition to all the benefits of the program standing alone, the goal would be to get some preK3 kids that would stay with us. prek4 potentially some new prek3 kids that maybe would bring some siblings to the district. So there's you know there's other kinds of advantages. So again, not to do all too much on this, but this is what this is a three-phase part and this is where we are right now. Partnering, looking
067at your needs, our needs, what can we put together? Once we decide what we look that this is something that we can actually continue to talk about, then we start looking at our phase two. What is our going to look like? And you have a sample before you. Not that this is a, you know, carbon copy of what it may be with with WestD. However, again going back and forth making sure that we are prov we are filling the needs that upbringing has but at the same time fulfilling the needs and desires that you have as as an ISD for your prepaid brief. Thanks too. And then this is just a sample of because we do have a handbook. We do go through the formalities of making sure that not only it's very important that
068yes, we can all agree right here that this is a good idea, but we really need those key people that are there. We need our people that are our campuses. We need our teacher to be true believe the lead of what we're doing and the reason why we're doing this. And we do have a full training. Anything and everything that we implement in our classrooms, there's training behind it to make sure that every everybody is comfortable and comfortable in understanding what they're what they're providing for our children and upbringing pays for all. If you look into thatou any kind of training they pay for travel cost, they pay I think I read that they pay for the cost of the sub. Is that right? Correct. Yeah. So they actually Yeah. And do you all have
069the training also for parents? Because I know that other head start had a lot of training. kind you require parent to have any kind. We we do provide as much training as we can based on the needs that our families are coming to us for. Okay. But I mean yeah and it would coincide withd it would coincide with ISD our ISD's trainings that we would have but you all would be available. I mean you all would be at those training the the meetings whatever that would be there. We're invited. We are there. Yeah. Yes, because we all want to be speaking the same language at the same time. Yeah, definitely. And then of course the last phase of this is again once we get this running and rowing it everything takes some time. Everything is
070a is a three-year process at times. We'd like for it to work overnight. Unfortunately, it doesn't just like trying to increase our scores, closing those gaps. It's taken a while and all those challenges that come with it. But at the end of the day, again, looking to see what worked, what didn't work, and if it didn't work, are we in a place that we can tweak it and make it work? Is it just a matter of of a slight move over to the left, over to the right? What can we do to continue doing what's best for our children? Because we know that not being there for our children is not going to benefit them at all. Um, and I'm not sure if you saw that, um, his uh monies and support for instructional materials,
071equipment. Um, yeah, in a nutshell, it's 50% of our teacher salary. It's 100% of the teacher assistant. It's $1,500 supplies for the classroom. And I thought you also said that possibility like if we uh like table like furniture that they're we'll provide whatever furniture, whatever the the classroom environment needs, we will provide that as well. So, 1,500 is the max for supplies for per classroom. Per classroom. Does that include the diapers? We can provide Miss Rox. Okay, let me finish my question. Okay. Okay. Uh yeah, because we did talk about it. Uh so we have a classroom. Uh 17 is the max as far as the student enrollment in that classroom. uh if we're going to need, you know, Chromebooks, whatever, do you all supply that to? Miss Roxan, you want to speak to that
072for a minute? We typically provide a um there's a teacher uh a device may not be a Chromebook. It's going to be whatever a device we do our assessment data. It's online, but we're going to work, you know, if this partnership goes through. We've followed the district's curriculum and the assessment that is used because of course we are not a daycare. We there's education, there's assessments, all of those things along with a social social emotional. Um, but yeah, if there's something that's needed again like I think I don't know if I heard someone ask if did I hear someone ask if diapers were provided. So yeah, that's actually my question. I wanted to know if you know sometimes I mean I know I did prek uh PPCD inclusion also at CCID. There was a station
073there because we were something like that where our students could go in do starfall do this and there were little chrome whatever device for that station. It's going to be consistent with what the lesson plan is. And we tend to shy away from a lot of devices for our little ones. That's the way they learn it. They they learn it. They're on. Okay. So, I want to get it straight. So, you you don't provide that. I'm not saying it's not provided, but there must be strict limitations on how long and what that looks like. We we can't offer we can't provide iPads or something to a child and like that can't be the only source of education 20 minutes they're not those kids are not going to be there an hour right in our prek
074there's like four or five there might be stations that where times or they have to go around to different sensory uh library center different centers yeah they're not just on the device I'm saying that is part of that whole station rotation So when they go to that station, they are able to do academic stuff like match the lowercase letter but do it on the device and then they'll go to the next one where they do it hands-on with those little tile letters. Is that typically what what is done with the four-year-olds like for assessment data to capture assessment data? It's not necessarily for It's a daily thing because they do go to stations or don't you don't have three-year-olds right now. So, no for prepaid board. Yes. For prepaid work stations. Yeah. So, I just
075want to get this part straight because there's different philosophies. I know my son goes to a monastery school and there's no electronics. So, it's just different. Yeah. They feel like they have so many. This is the there's different philosophies. I know like my personal child that kids are exposed to these tablets and stuff all the time maybe maybe but they don't spend an hour on it the rotations last 15 well if you allow it 15 to 20 minutes that's why yeah so I guess in general though what bigger picture what instruct what supplies would be part of the 1500 what supplies would be something that you would be supplying in addition to the 1500 so that's something where the educ education coach and coordinator will work with the teacher to see what it is that
076they're requesting. We want to make sure that whatever it is that they are needing, it's in line with the lesson plan. Is there a specific activity that's going to take place? Things of that nature. So, that's something that will be reviewed. Um, you know, we have manipulatives. We have all of those things that we can um put in the classroom. Uh like Miss Moore said, the furniture, if furniture is needed, there'll be an assessment of what is in the classroom right now and what we need to supplement or purchase or provide. Um and and again, if there's any um if you do have a child, for instance, that does is potty trained is is potty training that is the diapers or pull-ups would be something that could be could go towards a $1,500. But I
077just want to be clear, we cannot charge parents uh a tuition or any kind of fees of any kind. We require them to send their child with pull-ups. I'm sorry. Yeah. And love, you have parents coming in with boxes of diapers for their kids that are in the preschool. But that's what we're saying is that that's where the 1500 comes into play as well to making sure that we're not asking that of our children. So, we can't require them to bring Phillips, but then $1,500 is not going to go far if you have to buy buy the diapers have some type of responsibility. We're taking a weight. My daughter takes the pampers books. Yeah, that's what they do in Flower Blood. We have parents coming with my daughter takes Head Start. So, she does take
078I mean, I'm sure even at our school, we have backup. Yeah, we have backups. So at your head start, so that's reasonable. I mean, if you like you ask for your parents to bring a change of clothing for instance. So in their backpack or what have you, they have a pullup, I understand, but to to h have them like bring school supplies, pull-ups, things of that nature, that's something that we will provide because we don't ask them to provide supplies. that that by all means I can understand because the teacher is going to need things and those $1,500 aren't going to go far when you have to pay $30 per box of diapers and you got 10 kids that are not trained with your $1,500. Our teacher doesn't get nothing. Our teachers have to buy
079that. So I think they're saying we couldn't ask parents but we but we still would want to have a supply. I have a backup because we I know they have like clothes. They have backup in case I can switch back. So to close this out phase three again reflect what what are we doing? How how effective is it? And again, if we're not seeing the effect that we were we had in mind, what can we do to speak that to make sure that it continues to be for our children? Because again, what will not help our children? The fact that we we are not there. Yeah. And that would back the other way. Yes. Ladies, come on board because one I mean my my thinking of the next step would be that we would do
080some you know site. We would go to some the camp the some of the local head start to be able to see because you still have programming during the summer. Correct. So July 18th. Yes. Okay. So we'd be able to but they don't have a local here. We've opened up the 14 centers that we have. We have six that are open and because we a little bit open navigation. Yes ma'am. We have hornets. We have bulkway navigation freestanding lines not withdrawal roadto it's a different histo but I'm saying that if we visit their free freestanding I'm going to call it head starts we can at least look what their classrooms look like what kind of materials are in there just to You were going to let you go to an ISD one. No, no, but
081we don't have one. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Do you run summer programming at any We don't run summer. Our EHS runs through July 18th annually. Our Head Start does end with the regular school year. We're in because our you were delayed a little bit because of the transition from one organization to the other. We have offered to to continue our head start through July 18th. Okay. So are any of the ISDs having start July 10th or not with us? Okay. But that would would coincide when when we and our school those teachers yes we would follow our worst calendar. Yes. I do want to or Miss Moore I do want to know the breakdown of what we are going to be supplied with as far as that one classroom. send it out to all
082the boards. No, it's just for discussion right now. Tell me. So, we're going to bring it back. This is going to come back. So, before that, we do need to know what exactly is going to be. So possibly what we could do moving forward is bring our educational coach myself visit the classroom that we are possibly considering see what what it looks like at this point and then we can we can definitely provide to you is what we see that could be as I was going to say we need to visit both what they need to visit I know but before that memorandum of understanding comes before that we need to see that right but she's saying there's not a set list of what they provide it's going to be based on what we already
083have in But the board needs to know that correct. But but I think she said she we see what we already have then we can start developing that board. They don't need to get one. Exactly. And because they're going to also tell us their specific requirements that they have for what needs to be in that work. So that's and and I'm going to say this in my uh you know I had a daycare. Yes. And uh I probably too but it's a different thing right now they but we at the daycare the socialization and and I'm talking about not being potty trained when they have the social socialization and seeing other children they buy into it and that makes them to get potty trained pretty quick when they see the other say what positive first
084myoston. No, not actually out of Boston. Our upbringing is based out of Austin, but our corporate uh our corporate staff is direct. So where do they face? So for example, Roxanna is out of EO at home. She's hybrid. Yeah, she's here quite a bit, but yes, she her her home is, you know, the city is out of Austin, but my assistant superintendent of education is from San Antonio. So, they're just throughout. And because we have head starts grants throughout, they're just that closer to where they need. So, when the correspondence goes out, where do we send correspondence? For example, what type of correspondence? Let's say we have to get in touch with somebody or we want I'm going to be your person. I am your person. She's here and I'm here. I'm not going. So,
085we're not going to be dealing with somebody in corporate that we call corporate out of an office in Dallas. I'm I'm here before you for that. Everything for you. Yes, sir. Yes. So, want to hit the tomatoes right? No, I am your person. I am your first contact. I had asked the question about being kind. Are you requiring the parents that have their kids to to volunteer some way because that's the way the old uh We're not requiring volunteering. We do we do highly heard these we we do highly encourage that they be part of any type of presentations that we may have but we don't require not requirements of no we don't require no not I'll just say yes in kind is still a part of our requirement we are funded at 80% and
086there is a 20% in kind that has not changed as far as regulations where do you make up% where does that come from It comes from what we do when we have ISD partnerships such as this the half of the the teacher salary that we do not pay that is inind uh the space that we're utilizing is incind. So that's how we calculate and I also send sent um a sample invoice just for review because that is part of what how we get our inind the administrator salary we we do not pay for that. So again that's part of in kind the nurse that the kids can it's good to know what the in kind is because it was different from but but you were saying parents require well it was required when I used
087to serve on their board and I was through that process and we had to show up and and they basically made us you have to volunteer because you're in kind in so many hours. Yeah but in a different way. Okay. Thank you. That's why I was asking the question because in there your your in I just wanted you to define what is your income and does it involve parent participation or not do the home visits. Sorry that we do we do well no I'm just saying they they do more than that. I mean what we Yeah. I mean, the other thing, of course, is to be honest, and that's why I'm going to be upfront with that new staff person or it's it's paperwork. I mean, Head Start requires just like special education requires a
088lot of paperwork. It's a federal program, Head Start does, too. And so, so do you require inspections of the building and all that? Because that was part of the requirement for the other like your standalones you have to meet. We we do that with our standalones. However, Rox, if I'm correct, I would follow what ISC has. Correct. Okay. More stricter with the standalone. Correct. So, we still do that, but on our own, but when it comes to an ISD and I know what like our chemicals within reach of the kids. That's one of the things that So, they'll be done. It'll be like an audit, right? That we we make sure those stuff like that, but we won't have HHS coming in to do an inspection. Yeah. That'll be a conversation where understanding what we
089need to see in the classroom and the setup that needs to happen. And those are just best practices, safety, yeah, but sometimes people in restaurants store raw meat on top of cooked meat sense and that that's one of the things I will say that common sense is not as common as we'd like it to be. Right. However, one of the things that I have quickly learned through Upwork in my six month that I have been with the organization is that training is of essence. They're not going to send you anywhere without making sure that you're comfortable with what you're doing. Are we going to provide the uh feeding of the children or what you are going to deliver? No, we're going to provide school district. I check and that would be covered. We have PK3
090the school nutrition program. Mr. Rondo asked about the volunteers. Parents volunteering. Uh, is that even allowed nowadays? As long as they get it back on check, we allow it. And how many we have? So, the parents three-year-old they're going to be tweeting like one of our Right. So I don't think so much questions please contact me or Mor. Yeah, we'll try to set up a visit sooner than later. Yeah, I forgot to ask if they qualify also like if they have a speech problem. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Can I get your name? I didn't write it down. She is sister-in-law's brother Renee. Rene. No, he's my husband. We are on to Oh, wait. One more. Oh my goodness. Yeah, because we're vote on this other one, right? The meetings that are coming. We're
091almost there. should have told. That's what I wanted you to say. We're going to move on to agenda item 4C and review of the 89 bills and impact on the 2526 budget budget shop number of it. Um I just want to tell you that again the word preliminary so y'all know that some of these things some of these things um have been moved to the governor waiting signatures or these things have been signed but um what happens is number one is going to join us next week at soi because there's so much that changed and then the following week she's going to go to tag voting get even information. But to be honest with you, some of these things will um we're looking back at House Bill 9 three in 2019. They won't come out
092TIA won't come out with what this means until the fall. So we were looking at there was that series 3 and 30 things came out September, October, November, December. So it's going to be a process. This is a lot of legislation that that has passed or is about to pass. There's some pretty major changes and we're not going to have the answers for you June 22nd because there's not going to be answers to be given. So, we're going to share information next week if you're going. Yes. Okay. Okay. Our goal remains the same for our budget. We've gonna proceed real cautiously. That's the main thing that I mean we're looking at our staffing. We're looking at enrollment. I mean we're realizing that enrollment keeping so that's a big factor and that's one reason we try
093to we thought of the pre the K3 because we what can we do you know to you know increase that but we've got to pursue real cautions because a lot of we have more unknowns than known right now you know. Okay. So as we saw already um you know we already passed two the second so you know so but we're waiting for you see what's going to get signed and how it's going to get sign got signed yesterday some of them there's still he has to be second so we're waiting so either by then it's either signs or vetos or whatever is going to happen he's going to be there what say again he's going to be at the governor governor Okay. House Bill two. Okay. 8.5 million in new state spending has been passed.
0944.2 million is for teachers and staffing. And then 1.2 is going to go to a new allotment for basic costs which includes insurance, utilities, and TRS contributions. And nearly two million is going to be uh for special education formula and 300 430 million for school safety. Now this is a budget that they pass for two years. No, they do. They meet every two years, but this is for So, do we know that they're can going to have to if they're giving the teachers a pay rates? Are they going to still be sending them money every year sustaining unless they change the law basically? For now, for the next two years, they're gonna for the next two years. That's why I was asking. Now, what they do after is unknown. How much? Because even right now
095what they do is really simple. Do you know about how much we're gonna get? That's what this rest of the presentation. Okay. For prek. Okay. We're looking at um getting approximately 33,77 for early education. And then the additional there's going to be a little small amount which another 400 and some for the early ed but they kept on saying we were going to get full day you know but when they really came out at the end and it's really still unknown and so everybody's trying to figure it out. So, they're going to get all the early ed aotment from all the different school districts, put it in this pot, tumble it up, and then p depending on if you have full day prek or not. Some some, you know, districts are going to lose out,
096others are going to get a little bit more. What it winds up for us, we're not really sure. So that part of it. So this doesn't include that. But for for sure for sure it's not going to be what it actually it's. It's not going to be what it actually costs us to funds kids. So if you hear that they're funding full day prek, that is not true. Yeah. Uh safety. Okay. Right now they're looking at giving moving from the $10 per student to $20 and then campus wide from the 15 to 33,540 which would mean an additional you know approximately 165,583. Um the thing with the safety a lotment they did move it from chapter what is it three to four and so they kind of do that kind of stuff because the state
097instead of having to put the full amount like the 430 million it kind of cuts them down to 300 or so. So this money is only for the 25 26 calendar year and 26 27. Oh, no, no. I mean this amount, but it's double. I mean, like you're right. This is for the 25 26 and then for the 27 28 will be no 26 27 we'll be getting the same the same amount. Well, saying our ADA depending on the this is it for two years. This is for one year. But it's a bait and switch because to be honest with you since um you right they put out with these grants. So really we got a $200,000 grant and we got a $150,000 grant and but there's there wasn't like a safe cycle whatever. So
098even though oh you're getting this extra money but I don't think those other grant opportunities are available. Did you have to apply for those grants or they just automatically sent them? Um, you applied, but they weren't competitive. Yes. The safety this money that we already got for the safety and security, but what exactly did we do with it? I don't know. I mean, our security doors are doors are open by kids. So, it's like, no, don't don't shake your head though. It does happen. But like the windows, how those been had been fixed and we got the film. We just we just got all the readers. I think we have to be honest with this work that the film doesn't stop anything. Yeah. No, it doesn't. But we were required. Yeah. The film that you
099use is that like do you have it here? Do you have it on this building? Okay. that really doesn't, you know, they can see where we're at and it's not I really like and I was hoping that West Sop would do that. I don't know what the cost was or what, but the flower campus, you can't look in the in the building on the windows. They put the film with their logos and whatever. You can't see in, but when you go inside the buildings, you can see clearly outside. But but keep in mind that they told us that these this film we were made to put on their stop. So, we got we got the walkie-talkies. We doing are doing floor repairs as soon as they get messed up, which is expensive. But security, I
100I'm going to fix about well, problem, but we still need to do the final we still need to do the final panic alert. We met about it again today and it's a panic alert. Required were required. So, it's going to be a little thing in the body kind of like this. You push a button and it um will go to the uh police department and it will have like if I push it right here, it would be like a GPS thing where it would show. So the the quotes are anywhere from 40,000 Olga to 135,000 time and and how and that's for every single teacher on the campus and you're required to and but is that one year because you have monitoring and stuff? There's an ongoing license of like the flower, right? They use
101the the they have carrier. Yeah. Yeah. So it would be like a you could put it on here. But but they have what did you say was more the fun? I mean that's for one year only. Um well the initial year depending on the program we use the initial year is really expensive. The implementation cost a lot of money but then after that you have to upkeep you know the license though was that one was 29,000 and there's no other per year we can get. So what are the things we're gonna look at? We're looking because we didn't, you know, find something there. Yeah. Yeah. We realize I mean it's required. We have to jump on but we got to be do it with cautious because we also I mean there's some that require for
102us to do some kind of infrastructure that upkeep that is kind of beyond those and there's others that are a little bit there's a big wide variety of stuff going on beacons to be able to anyway Byron's consulting with us. It just hasn't been easy. we've been working on. So, hopefully you'll find somebody there that will give us a break. Okay. Uh for special programs, uh there's a potential of us getting for the regular program a lotment approximately another additional 83,583. Uh for small and midsize aotment, u uh there's a potential of getting 161,000. uh for early education adjust adjustment for a lotment that would be 59,19 and so for career and technology a lotment an additional 20,279 okay special it says that ROC will now be a CTE funding yeah we'll get a little
103bit of extra weighted funding for ROTC okay So, uh, for special ed evaluations, we're looking at getting, uh, 63,000. Um, that would give us, you know, $1,000 for each initial special education evaluation that's conducted. Um, the problem there is with the homeschoolers that, we still are required to do, you know, those evaluations. So, even if they don't attend our school, we have to pay for those that don't attend our school to get back. Private schools, too. What? Say that again, please. I didn't hear you the first time. Yes. If a student is um wants a private is it goes to a private school and needs an evaluation because we get property tax money or whatever tax money, we are required to do the evaluation, but only within our district. Right. Right. Within district. Okay. So,
104we don't have very many within our district. We don't know. Well, we don't know because of the voucher coming out. We don't know how that's going to I don't I don't think it's going to We'll see. We don't know. But we don't because you got the home school, you got you got different thing. I don't know. Money is like and then of course with that you have to do a three-year eval and you don't get that. It's only the first time you evaluate a child. Just one time. And then from there on we so every three years if you evaluate you're getting they they don't even take the kids as it is. Uh we have a potential of getting uh 13,975 for early literacy intervention. Uh that would be giving us $250 per kid for
105early literacy intervention and capping it at 10% of the school population. However, if our students continue to fail, we have to give the parents $400 back. So that crazy this is this is the most evil one to me because I just read I read it but I I didn't really internalize it. So first of all this capping at 10%. So school the students enter West OSA we know that 35 to 40% of them only are considered school ready right and so but we're only going to be able to give they're only going to give fund us for intervention for 10% of them for 10% of all the kids that we have crazy and that 10% is west coso it's um I don't know uh KDISD it's doesn't matter what schools at Plano, whatever. Every school
106district is is capped at 10% for this intervention money. So, we have a student in the eighth grade and it's failing every every every session every literacy. Yeah. Okay. So, the So, it wouldn't be just anybody just the early literacy program. Okay. Let's not put nobody in it. Well, no, no, no, no. All of our K3 students are early literacy. So, so, but don't tell the parents about the 400. They won't know. [Music] But they have to use a fraternity, right? Talking about what do they have to provide for, you know, proof? We don't know that. And it includes special education students. True. The details are in the devil. Can we t that were you? Someone was telling me somebody going into a private company. We had it here. They did that for some did
107that one year. But I mean the crazy thing we can have kids that we know are somewhat developmentally delayed, right? They qualify for special education and they're gonna So they're taking it's just it's to me they won. It's crazy. This is crazy. Okay. Like this teacher and support staff a lotment. Okay. We have the potential of getting um 727,000. Okay. That would be for a school district our size. We're going to they're going to give 4,000 for certified teachers that are three to four years of experience, 8,000 for certified teachers that have five years of experience. Um, that is all great. However, however, uh the statutory above state minimum kind of remains the same at 34,39. So, that's going to be an additional TRS payment that we have to pay. That is not going to
108Can we do we have to use it in the giveaway to 1,000%. Yeah, that's the requirement. We have to pay we have to use it. We're paying all teachers TRS now. No, we have to pay the difference between that state minimum which is 34,39 and whatever we pay whatever we pay which is a hu which so if they increase it by 48,000 and they're going to increase it they're going to increase it that means that we have they're giving us money here but they're taking the taking it away we don't get right so support staff there'll be a support staff a lotment and those support staff would be you know all non-administrative employees custodians it would include paras clerical staff bus drivers but that amount is going to be 687 uh how that's going to
109be how we're going to calculate it also becomes unknown because it's going to be based on ADA and enrollment so that's going to be kind of per staff person. So, and how is that going to be divided by that? Right. So, for Yeah. So, for the 4,000 8,000 that's per person, right? The other is not that was oh, you have a hundred staff. We're going to give them each x amount of money. Wow. Not like that. And 68 is really nothing. It's nothing. But still, it's better than I guess absolute property tax changes. Um, basically there's uh the big one that we really appreciate is that uh I guess the for the insurance we're going to get an additional 422,595. So that should really help with our insurance costs. We just hope that our insurance
110costs maybe just Oh, I didn't tell you this. Oh, so LJ Francis, the state board of ed is going up for reelection in Texas. tell your board um you know that basically he was trying to you know take credit for this advocacy of this and I said well tell the insurance companies not to so I did put out there said no we're gonna meet he said uh he did send with them and check it so we'll say but I did put it out there just the other day go up to 140,000 the homestead right okay yeah was going back up to but they're also So I guess doing also the u what is it the freeze values for the over 65 and the disabled. So they're they're increasing those values from 10 to 40,000. So
111they're making you know a lot of changes that will affect us but the good thing about this one is like they'll do a full apartment. So we should be fine. Okay. Okay. So, if a house is valued at 140,000, you don't pay taxes. They're not going to pay taxes. No. So, what is the school going to get? Nothing. No, we're going to get this, right? That's why it's costing the district. The state will give us some money that we know, especially when there's a lot of people here that have we don't have those luxury homes. So, okay. The bottom line is uh for the foundation school program, we're have the potential depending on enrollment and everything of getting an additional 1,982,000. Okay. um for the total MO revenue that would be an additional uh 1.9
112million but um like we said I mean that's going to take a big uh portion of that so we would probably remain with new money hopefully uh one million that we're gonna it's not like you have to use the not 3,000 Is that TRS? Is the TRS increases that go up because we only get covered for 34,000. Correct. And and other additional, you know, other benefits, too. Correct. Because they're not giving us like um they're not giving it they're just giving us that. They're not giving us any kind of additional, right? They didn't look at the T I mean they did look at the TRS side but who cares? Well, we're going to give you $4,000. Yeah. Everything else is going somewhere else. And the rest of the slides I think were basically ones that
113we Yeah, we had shared this just so y'all could see the revenue how it's been growing throughout the years. And you can see inflation has really tripled. The cost has tripled in some of the items. So, we've been, you know, having a hard time keeping up with. Well, 2020 was like that's when we get all that uh the the stimulus fun. Oh, that's the only one that looks really good there. And a pay room. I'm just, you know, saying that the key is payroll because it's free. It decreased because we don't have as much staff members as we had. Yeah, we had been doing a lot of attrition looking at and we continue to do that. So, we're like okay where we're at right now with that. Yes. No, it all depends because we're still
114a lot of enrollment continues to decline. So that's a big concern and but we still I mean we're going to meet up the next few weeks and keep continue meeting and seeing hey you know where is it that how many teachers do we have and looking at that and see how many students and figure out ways how we can increase enrollment and attendance that's looking forward to vocation I think that would be going to so good at pinpointing. Um, you know, and of course the challenge. Can you scroll back a minute to that special? How much do we pay them for that? It's part of the and it's going to be 200, they get a 100. So, it's still a plus because we keep We're not paying them extra for any other things that they're
115doing. Go back to SP. Got to pay somebody. There we go. Okay. So, if you look at special education aotment, look at like number 21. I just want to point out to y'all and it's not just us, it's throughout the state. Um people with different circumstances. So, we've already told I told um Dr. Nera, okay, it says we're getting an extra 59,519. She doesn't have any more to spend because we're actually spending $3 million roughly on sped every year. So the state gives us there's more for kids at being an addict for all things other little things and we have some of the kids that we have are high needs where the the ratio of staff that we need for some of these kids. So where honestly where we've not been able to trim I'm
116going to be honest is you know special education staffing even as our numbers are declining our special ed enrollment is not just proportionally increasing but overall increasing and we already they're all from our district right we are declining we are denying Dr. denying people left and right, but they're also getting tested out if they need to. They need Yes. And you know, and it's I'm going to be honest with you, sometimes it is a costbenefit analysis like let's say the fed student, but they have four siblings, right? So then we have to do that kind of analysis. Okay. And those are just some other key legislation that is going through. We're looking at Senate Bill one, which is a general appropriation, and then House Bill 500. That's supplemental. And I think is there some sped
117money in there? I think there's some sped money in House Bill 500, too. What I So, there's still a lot of unknowns that we're kind of right here. You have the uh cake house bill 120 has some senate bill 568 where it has special lead reform and a famous house bill too. Notice what was signed of all these things. It's not like his aunt can't sign other ones, but what was signed right away? Yeah. Can't find the other one. They realize that even if we lose one student that's losing, you know, 12 student. So that's where we have to be real careful in our enrollment because once we start losing those students, it's $12,000. Is there hold formless for the vouchers at all for the first year? I can't remember. They haven't said they're sending
118homeless for that. So, it's okay. That's another question. That's that's uh for year one. I can't remember. I think I heard him say that some districts would not be held accountable for the first year or that there be a hold harmless that they basically but I would need to look into that. I I really haven't heard of anything. I don't know. Uh, Senate Bill 843 that has to do with diplom that was sent to the governor already. Um, I believe that one passed yesterday. I think yesterday that was one of them that was signed. Also, the Senate Bill 1453 where we have to have 60% before we can pass the def. I believe that one also. uh House Bill 1505. That means that if your E fail, you cannot get no House Bill 8. That's
119an additional conversion. Looks like that's I guess not going to happen. Hopefully it's not, but it because they already have it. The one that they passed on. Was it a 18 or So then House Bill nine, that one has an increase of a personal property or your businesses that they're going to be exempt up to 12 tax relie. I know that the 140,000 has to go to the voter. Yeah. Does that also have to go to the voter? Yes, it has to go to the taxes. A difference is that uh 140 is going to be retro back what year to this this to the beginning of the year. This one is going to take an effect next year. And is that the tax for the elderly is also for it? Why is it why does
120the Senate the governor have to sign it? Just allow it to move forward. Yeah. Allow it to go to the voters. That's crazy. Look at the other ones. Does anybody have my signature? Yep. Okay. Right here you have a hospital six student discipline and then question on that one. I have a question on that one on the discipline. See that's why the kids do what they do because they know they can nothing has been done by him. And wasn't didn't they just had passed for vaping that if they were caught vaping they went to AP for how many days? Um the original legislation was uh I think 30 days but now but the new legislation they're going backwards on that 10 days. Well they it's instead of must or requires it's like you may so
121there's we'll go to some sessions on it because they're also they're doing a lot but we could we could say the district could say right 30 days. You could the district could do more than what they're saying. But yeah, but that's the because if you if you're going to give them t it's going to go back to when they took the law away when they could get discipline really disciplined like the boot camps and all that. Uh that seems that that's what they're going back to. But other things are going to be more strict like well you're allowed to um suspend kindergartens first graders and second interesting things. What about the phone? That next phone's next. Oh, yeah. This one either. So, this one, honestly, I'm we're gonna hold off a little bit because there's
122a lot of people that are challenging. Um I was telling one of the funny things is they're actually not you have there's an exact version of the ten commandments. So there's instead of coveting uh the ASS, it's coveting your neighbor's cattle. So there's like very specific where you have to do the version of the So they did pass prayers in the classroom, right? We signed that one. I am against that one, too. And it's it's students who want to I mean you're not making people pray, but they can stop and pray if they don't even get up. That that all should be done at the house and not at the schools. Well, I agree. I mean I mean if we're gonna I'm a practicing Catholic. Yeah. I love my faith, but not everybody has the
123same faith as me and that's how that's just the issue because it's different. I mean, like the lady said, you know, oh, so are you going to bring in the the the whatever commandments Quran? Are you gonna bring in whatever for the Mormon? You know, and which is true because I I I would I saw I when I was younger, I went to a Catholic school and I'd be like because, you know, my parents would talk about it and I'd be like, why wouldn't they? And why wouldn't they? But that's your practice. That's what your parents ra you on. That's not what everybody's following. And you don't realize that until you're an adult and realize Yeah. Well, I'm just worried about the expense because it's a 16 by 20 poster. Every classroom with that is
124and the Mormons and all these relie they need to pay taxes. That church needs to be taxed. That gold in that church needs to be t that priest needs to be taxed. All right. Okay. This is it. I couldn't find a clean copy of it. This is they haven't. So basically it is all dead. No exception. What about the buses? Do you know it was that considered to be like a classroom kind of thing? Probably not on the bus because it says during the entire watch. Nope. So they can't I'm reading I I didn't get to that. It did pass. Oh, did I put it on there? I'm sorry. It's been sent to the governor. He hasn't signed it yet. So, so this said they cannot bring a phone to school up. In fact, we
125taking them up. Actually, what I want to do, we're going to bring the proposal to you. The policy is it passed? It's this is going to pass. This is sent to the governor. No, but it does say any electronic communication device and it would include the watch. So, what we're going to start with, I think, um, we're going to bring a proposal to you because we have what the other piece of this is we have to come up with a plan of consequences. Remember, I showed you some sample ideas. So, we're going to bring this to you the end of June so that we can then announce it because technically we have until 90 days after September 1st, but I am not going to start a policy December 1st. I think it'll be like the
126dumbest thing on the planet. Start. That's what I Yeah. So, are we gonna take up the phones? I think what what I want to do is start with they're turned off. We don't see them. We're going to only because I think to try to take them up at the beginning of the day, take them and then pick them up at the end when they walk into the classroom. No, within a month, but then you're picking it up. Then you're taking it in, you're picking it up. What if you have the office, right? And we have these five construction people that are constructing things. They make a big old thing about 300 kids. 300. Let's just say 300. And why is still the most expensive when they No, but they're in the off. Well, this is
127my lock. I want to start. We're going to see. I want to start with just saying they're having very strict policies. If they're out and then we we're gonna take them up right away. I just think any uh Byron's talked to some of those what are they yers yanders and these companies I think that the more it's about putting them up and taking them out then we have athletes that are leaving in the middle of the day that they're pick I feel like the best thing to do for right now is just to say we don't want to see them because the other problem is think about graduation we took up their phones what did they do they had a second phone remember the one student had the second phone so we want to be
128just super strict about the phones. Are you They're not going to be strict. They're not even if we pick up the phone and they don't have to have it, then you're going to pay $15 to get clarify something real quick. You said throughout the whole day. Yeah. Not during Yes. Not they can't have them out during power hour. They can't have them out during lunch. Not lunch. No. That's when you're going to have the problem with them picking it up. Well, we're going to have people in the lunchroom. We don't have the staff. We don't have the staff there for for the dress codes. We don't have the staff walking out of the campus. We have the staff. We have kids walking down the street there. Oh, barely. I think it's going to be easier.
129You just need to take them away and that's it. At the end of the day, $15. You were studying other other districts, right? I'll find out how that one district basically gave the kids the one that we looked at gave the option to be um it it's we don't see it. Yeah, we don't see it at all. I just think you're picking up um keeping them taking them. My granddaughter told me about it today. She said you and that wall now Flower Bluff is talking about it. I said well I don't go to Flower Bluff but anyway what are they going to do? We're gonna supposed they're supposed to turn in the phone on first period. they cannot pick it up until the end of the day and I'm like I do think a lot
130of well say my daughter teaches there I feel and spread the signals you're going to try you're going to implement it didn't work you know what we're picking them up it's up to you $1 $20 what did you say they have zippered bags and they're like what They use them at $20. Oh, what did you say when 30? Yeah, 30. I have a feeling they can jack them up the entire We can make a barrier. What now? When Martin had a concert, they took off all the ball. The other thing and we'll talk about this to you guys more. What talk to you about this more Jamie is um being a lot being strict with the teachers because I mean the teachers have to have for the emergency and all of that but that's it.
131Yeah. Your teachers need to set the example too. I know. We had some that one even got in trouble during the star and I was like, "Yeah, why would you have your phone out during the star?" Yeah, that is just ridiculous. So, imagine going, you know, the rules. So, anyway, my plan is to bring it to you a a proposal and hopefully if we need to amend it, you're going to put uh pass something June 23rd. So, then we are blasting to everyone. Yeah. because I know a lot of parents complaining already, you know, did you mention this to their student advisory? What What was the reaction? I mean, they they would be some I think we need to have a a community meeting and announce there that this is this is the new law.
132That's not the new law. It's not our doing. This is the state law. That's the thing. I think it's a lot easier. We pass it out. I think you know we have that some are gonna no you're not going to take my kids my my bring it to school because it's my granddaughter's thing is that what if there's an intruder I said we have a lot of buttons that you can push for them to know more safety management says yeah if there's an intruder the parents don't get me try to call their phone up we're going to be sending emergency notifications Yeah, it might even be better because they didn't know that. We don't want parents saying go after the back door and stuff like that. 95% of the students that are on the phone,
133it's from their parents. My granddaughter were interviewing and he said, "Uh, parents, just quit calling your your your child at school." Why did they call him? Just call for anything. And I'm like, "Why is she on the phone next school?" Exactly. I hate my granddaughter because she'll text me and she's like, "Hey, grandma, can you bring me lunch? Why are you on the phone?" "Oh, because the teacher said that it's free time." That's why you're going to summer school because it's free time. The teachers the teachers themselves because you know teachers have their little pets. Yeah. Everywhere they have their little pets. They're not going to let us use the phone because that's a big write up. I would like the teacher. Are you going to write I think we keep saying the new day.
134That's it's going to turn into like you better not have your phone out there. Recommendation is that we I mean we're staying updated as they pass a bill. who are staying updated as how they're reading the bills and how they're going to affect the districts, how what impact. We have to proceed real cautiously. Um because there's still a lot of movement and we have to again the same steps to look at our enrollment, look at our teach staffing and make sure it's making sure that we're utilizing our funding the proper way. And really our biggest issue like we said is in our uh facility are you know keeping up with that and we're you know looking into all of that. We're studying what is it that what angle we have. What's going to come to
135is they're going to make us let everybody go and rehire again to make sure you know how back then they would do that. They make everybody apply again and then we only get the teachers that we need to get nobody. Well, they can make us do anything they want, right? Yeah. Anyway, we're gonna just keep learning, you know, the SLI next week. I want to I don't want to go No offense. And I want to go to like fluffy stuff. I want to go to like meat potato, you know, where wherever we can get some information about changes. We do want to go to bond sessions on um I would encourage all of y'all to try to, you know, go to some of the bonds so we kind of understand I did that. Yes, it
136was. You're going. Yes. You were going. No, she's going. I didn't but uh after I was trying to get a hold of her. You could have asked me. You could have asked the bus driver. Yeah, but we won't wind up in some bar. No, we want to go and look at the bonds we talked about and we want to make sure that the process from the bond. We want to try to go after a bond. Okay, that concludes the presentation. Well, I think that if we're going to have a bond, the only thing that needs to be there is the West Elso Junior High. That's all. We don't need a football field. They put too much money into that darn football field and they can't even win a game. We're going after each priority is
137going to be the junior. We don't want it to break down. And we'll make sure I'm sorry, one more thing. Yeah, everyone has um the uh invitation for education foundation is having and I'm sorry if I'm out of town. Okay. If you would like to go, let me know. Sure. Thank you. All right. See if everyone to catch your mice open. You'll find the mouse. No, but we'll Okay. Yeah. Let us know if you want to go. I'm okay. I got you. You left. You look like you're right here, actually. I'm just person would be destroyed. I am here. [Music] Wait 7:40. yesterday.