Fort Worth ISD School Board Meeting Full Version July 27, 2021

001[Music] good evening it's a great night to work on behalf of fort worth isd kids and upon that note i'm calling this meeting to order the time is exactly 5 30 p.m in accordance with the texas open meetings act texas government code chapter 551 this meeting is officially open with a quorum present we will move immediately to pledges which will be led by clint bond one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the texas flag i pledge allegiance to the texas one state under god one and indivisible mr bond could you continue with our recognitions yes president jackson before i begin i just want to remind everyone that this is our last meeting in this venue in this room the next meeting for the board will be held at the professional

002development center on mccart avenue president jackson members of the board mr joseph earl breedlove senior attended and graduated from i am terrell high school in 1959 where he was a star athlete in football and track in a business climate not always welcoming to minority-owned companies he opened his own business in 1969 and became the co-founder and owner with partner jd richmond of the craftsman in 1991 he took on the role of project engineer for conreal inc a large minority owned construction company he led large projects such as frito-lay and fedex he transitioned to the position of senior vice president of construction and safety and partner the black dallas black chamber of commerce awarded him the quest for success award mr breedlove served on the board of directors for the aids outreach center he was a

003long-standing member of the fort worth rotary club the downtown fort worth ymca and the i am terrell academy for stem and bpa a highlight of his construction career included the contract for major renovation at iam terrell and the construction of a new 900-seat performance hall mr breedlove passed away last month and funeral services were held at iam terrell board members later this evening you will be asked to name that 900-seat auditorium in his honor and at this moment president jackson i believe you want to introduce joe breedlove jr i do thank you mr pond and thank you for that beautiful tribute my good friend is here joseph breedlove jr along with gerald alley granddaughter isabella and martha joe breedlove senior's wife and i would ask they all come forward and anyone that wants to speak

004on behalf of joe breedlove senior please do so and thank you all for being here wow thank you for those kind words uh yeah you know this is really a special moment an event and uh doing a service that i knew there would be no way that i would be able to speak and it's amazing how god works things out to where hey look no it's time for you to say something uh and the the first thing i will say is what we were taught as children and that's thank you uh something i think one of the first things you should be taught as a child is thank you uh thank you to the fort worth isd board of trustees let my by my dear friend toby jackson uh and a special thank you to

005death and daphne brookins daphne brookings excuse me and superintendent dr scribner and the staff for allowing the service to take place at i am terrell and that was everyone that's involved a special thank you to uh miss colson that works in the facility uh she did a wonderful job in arranging everything to have happened and of course ricky brown the principal there i cannot say enough about uh how he worked with us to make sure that happened um and you know i uh on this day it's pretty overwhelming uh the honor in itself for my dad and he would probably be a little choked up believe it or not uh and you probably don't believe that because he runs his mouth all the time uh and much like i do i guess that's why i'm

006a junior but i tell you what some things he would probably say he would say thank you uh for being a part of a imtural community that through the deep history helped create and mold individuals that value pride courage and excellence he would also thank 4th isd much like i do for all your efforts these past 16 to 19 months as you navigated our children through a tough time and with your support in a group that sometimes was overlooked i'ma be honest with you and that's our educators talking about really essential and they were and i think they were overlooked quite a few times uh by the media but uh with your support you presented a a wonderful product and i look forward to the 21 22 school year and i'm sure they do too

007in june he rested in peace on the stage of a building that he was able to help construct a facility that he wanted to be sure that everyone in the district could be proud of and ironically he would like to thank i guarantee you he would want to thank gerald alley and the entire conriel family for the opportunity to make sure that that happened he would also thank the the people around him that supported him and his friends and relatives loved ones and as he always did he challenged everyone around him to fulfill their dreams and never give up and i hope through the years as every student enters uh the joseph earl breedlove senior auditorium will see the thousands of young people realizing his or her dreams as they venture into that venue i'm

008just going to thank you on behalf of the breedlove family extended friends and family the deepest gratitude for naming the beautiful i am turtle auditorium after someone who personified passion work ethic and grace and my wife told me not to go off script so i'm not so again thank you and i appreciate everything and oh i'm so happy you guys are here martha you want to say something i just want to thank everybody for all the love that they've shown for joe and our family during this time and he would just be beside himself i can't even imagine how he would respond other than he'd probably be in tears but he would be so humble and so appreciative of what everyone has done to honor him in this thank you board i'm gerald alley and

009i'm proud to say joe is our partner my mentor and the guiding light in the true north sale for our organization many years ago when i met joe he used to call me young fellow and back then i had an afro this size and it was all black times have changed but joe is always we've known in the organization no matter what person he was talking to he always take time to ask how were they doing we considered him the teacher no matter what the skill set required he was the teacher and he was always that voice in the back is everybody all right is everybody good so with that our organization is proud to say one of our most prolific projects we've had his diamond material project and it can be a better tribute

010to name the auditory name of joe because he promoted education arts people seeking their goals and most of all he promoted helping others as you help yourself so again thank the board thank the individuals and most of all because my wife is a teacher thank all teachers that support students thank you if the breed love family would remain here trustee daphne brookins will come forward and present them with a certificate [Applause] our next recognition is mrs opal lee do i need to say any more [Laughter] she's a retired fort worth isd teacher counselor and graduate she may be best known for her efforts to make juneteenth a federally recognized holiday for that she is often described as the grandmother of juneteenth born in marshall texas her family moved to fort worth when she was 10

011years old she attended i am terrell high school the events that occurred on east annie street in fort worth involving her family have been well publicized but some may not realize that the destruction of her family's house happened on juneteenth 1939 in 1952 mrs lee graduated wiley college with a bachelor's degree in elementary education and after attending north texas state university now unt and earning a master's degree she returned to fort worth where she taught and was a counselor in fort worth isd schools following retirement she helped found the tarrant county black historical and genealogical society she helped organize fort worth's annual martin luther king junior day celebration black history month and juneteenth celebrations miss lee campaigned for decades to make juneteenth the federal holiday and at the age of 89 she walked from fort

012worth to washington dc he was hoping to plead the case for a federally holiday direct a federal holiday directly to president barack obama she said it's going to be a national holiday i have no doubt about it my point is let's make it a holiday in my lifetime in june 2021 at the age of 94 her effort succeeded as a bill to make juneteenth a federal holiday was passed by congress and signed into law by president joseph biden she was an honored guest at the bill signing ceremony receiving one of the first of the many pens biden used to sign the document mrs lee has been an honored member of the fort worth isd wall of fame since 2019. now sharon goodspeed kayton from the bass opera will perform acapella in honor of mrs lee

013i've been walking before the sun refused to shine [Music] gotta keep moving [Music] toward that separate line [Music] oh i got eyes in the back of my head just in case i have to run [Music] i do what i can when i can while i can for my people when the skies roll back and the stars feel the night that's when i'm gonna stand up take my people with me together we are going to a brand new home far across the river i hear freedom calling calling me to answer keep on moving on i can feel it in my bones [Music] why i'm gonna stand up take my people with me together we are going to a brand new home far across the river you hear freedom calling calling me to answer keep on keeping

014on i can feel it in [Music] i go to prepare a place for you i go to prepare a place for you [Music] i go to prepare a place for you [Applause] ladies and gentlemen mrs opal lee [Applause] young people and you're all young people if you're not 94. i'm humbled i just thought i'd come up here and get a plaque and go home but that was as the young people say off the chain oh and when i knew i was coming i got to thinking about the years i spent at fort worth isd and it was mccoy school i taught third grade eight-year-olds so long that i was beginning to act like them so they gave me another position i was the visiting teacher not teaching just seeing that our youngster stayed in school

015and so if it was shoes or clothes the lights were off no place to spray it was my responsibility to see that those children stayed in school and i loved it well when i retired in 77 people still needed food and a place to stay and so we started a food bank and it services some 500 families a day the one we had on the south side burned and one big old building huge building behind my house and those people had it on the market for 1.3 million dollars and they leased to us lease the building to us for four thousand dollars a month and i nearly had a hemorrhage why are we gonna get in here four thousand dollars but we paid it 11 months and the month we didn't have it they came

016to us and said you're doing a good job and they gave us that 1.3 million dollar building well i am told some of the people standing in line for food and 66 of them said they didn't they'd like to farm i asked the water district and they gave me the use of 13 acres of land and we got produced like you've never seen before we got the best farm manager in these parts and so we share it with the food bank and the wic program and we go to market with some of it and there are restaurants who ask us for certain things and we grow it for i'm just delighted with all the people that are supporting us and if i get to telling you about juneteenth y'all will be here all night long

017but to finally after taking a million five hundred thousand signatures to congress and the senate was just about to unanimously give us their vote one lone senator decided he wouldn't now that same senator had offered to make juneteenth a national holiday instead of columbus day but when it was his turn to help pass that bill he didn't all of that died i was kind of heart shake but i did a lot of praying and i was at the press club the national press club and that very same day the senate and the house of representatives offered new bills and when the senate gave its consent i was jubilant i wanted to do a holy dance but my thing with holy dances is they turn out to be twerks but to have the house of representative

018come right along i thought was gonna be another year and then somebody called my granddaughter dion and says this is the white house and they needed us the next day i'd i walked up there but it was all inspiring it truly was to have the president of the united states talk to you and sign your bill into law i would have done a holy dance but that twerk and stuff has gotten in the way so but thank you fortworth just know that i appreciate every single one of you and just know that this is just a beginning we can't rest on our laurels we've got much work to do and do you know i'm starting with education dr swiftner you know me well enough to know i'm gonna come knocking on your door because i

019want our books i wrote a little book called juneteenth a children's story and i want it in every classroom every school i know the kids in the high school are gonna thumb through that thing and read it so quick it's not even but i want them at least touch it you see i want so much for our schools i want everybody on the same page and mentioning of the same page i'm gonna ask you to make yourself a committee of one i want you to change somebody's mind the people can be told to hate they can be taught to love and you can change people's minds won't be easy because i've tried it but it can be done and just think if three million people were on the same page this would be a slam

020dunk it would be a fabulous place to live no more joblessness no more hunger no more pipeline from the schools to the prison no more climate change and i really think that's our fault we're desecrating the earth and we ought to do better and i think we all go into hell in a hand basket if we don't but thank you for watching [Applause] trustee daphne brookins will come forward and present a certificate [Applause] thank you all for joining in the wonderful presentations tonight that exemplify what i am terrell was what i am terrell is and what i am terrell will be and on that note i want to hand it off to the person that has i am terrell in their single member district trustee daphne brickens who brought this to us this evening thank

021you board for allowing me to bring forth two of the strong community leaders who have paved the way for our students in our community both uh mr breedlove and miss opal have created a blueprint for greatness and i'm so excited to be a part of that and uh it's hard for me to speak right now because it's just overwhelming i want to be like you if i lived to be 94. so thank you so much for all that you've done and continue to do so i can inspire to be like you and inspire our next generation to do so too thank you [Applause] thank you miss lee and also dion thank you i know that we had late night conversations and you're always there and you always answer that phone because i know opal lee

022is popular and and on that clint i will ask you to continue with recognitions wait one one quick more announcement i just wanted to thank sharan godspeed keaton for that rendition of stand up from the harriet tubman movie she is also an alumni of odi wyatt high school as well as the young man who accompanied her tonight so i just wanted to thank them for that awesome rendition [Applause] tonight we recognize seven fort worth isd campuses for earning distinctions as a project lead the way distinguished school project lead the ways recognition program is designed to honor districts and schools committed to increasing student access engagement and achievement in their project lead the way programs through the curriculum and hands-on learning approach student interest and passion are elevated and consequently student performance in science technology engineering

023and math excels before we begin let's take a moment to recognize the project lead the way director of school engagement for texas april moon for her support and guidance at uh for our large district unfortunately she is unable to attend but let's recognize her anyway to be a nationally recognized elementary campus a minimum of 75 percent of the students at that campus must complete a launch module which includes several activities and a project that are related to an overarching problem in the area of stem in addition the school must offer a minimum of two modules per grade level and have at least two project lead the way lead teachers on their campus in texas there are only i'm sorry in texas there are almost 200 active elementary programs but only 11 districts have campuses receiving

024the 20 2021 distinguished launch school recognition the following elementary schools have been designated as 2020 2021 distinguished launch schools in project lead the way and if the principal is here when i announce as we go through if they would stand please mh moore elementary school led by principal elizabeth yoder the new principal will be ricardo alvarez h v helbing elementary led by principal anna morales diamond hill elementary led by principal marilyn martinez i'm sorry marlon martinez my mistake sorry cesar chavez elementary led by principal monica ordaz to be a nationally recognized middle school campus a minimum of 50 percent of the students at that campus must complete a gateway unit which is a stem unit that lasts nine weeks to a full semester and includes multiple activities and projects in addition the school must offer

025a minimum of one gateway unit per grade level and 25 percent of the students advancing to high school must have participated in two or more units the school must have strategies in place to support reasonably proportional representation with regard to race ethnicity poverty and gender in texas there are currently over 400 active middle school programs but only 10 campuses received the 2020 2021 distinguished gateway school recognition and one of them is here in fort worth isd young women's leadership academy led by their principal tamara albury and their project lead the way gateway teacher is marcia bean to be a nationally recognized high school campus the campus must offer a project lead the way pathway in either the biomedical science computer science or engineering the campus must enroll students in three or more courses and a

026minimum of 25 percent of all students must participate in the project lead the way or at least 33 percent of those participating must complete at least two project lead the way courses in addition the school must have strategies in place to support reasonably proportional representation with regard to race ethnicity poverty and gender in texas there are currently over 300 active high school programs but only 24 campuses received the 2020 2021 distinguished high school recognition and four are in the fort worth isd young women's leadership academy again led by tamara alsbury and project lead the way high school engineering teacher sergio flores northside high school led by their principal antonio martinez the project lead the way high school engineering teachers danielle frank texas academy of biomedical sciences led by their principal jack henson henson the project

027lead the way high school biomedical science teachers are ivan kimmel yvette mumford and elizabeth van to everyone we thank you for the commitment to your teachers students and their families and the school community the distinguished tonight we also recognize our district partners bell textron and lockheed martin through the support and investment they made in our career and technical education programming bell textron and lockheed martin provide paid engineering internships to high school students in addition to their successful and recognized university level internships the goal of the program is to engage students in real world hand hands on in the high demand high need engineering field students work alongside a mentor in various areas including but not limited to engineering and technology production operations information technology and supply chain lockheed martin has a growing internship program that

028has expanded from five high school students to over 50 per year it is their hope that the students return each summer after college to intern at lockheed martin and eventually join as a full-time employee at the completion of their college degree bell textron has a growing internship program that has expanded from six high school students to almost 30 per year it is through this investment that they will see students return during college to intern and eventually join their team full-time project lead the way course preparation prepared with students strong passion and strengths in the stem fields results in college and career success both el textron and lockheed martin have bestowed a scholarship to each 2020-2021 senior intern at the completion of their internship to continue their education in the stem field we'd like to take

029a moment to recognize our partners first sharon bell de verona is not here this evening she is with early career programs with lockheed martin but i understand that liz lutz of community relations at lockheed i'm sorry at the project lead the way is here next we recognize lizzie arlington university relations and outreach specialist with bell textron we would like to also recognize our project lead the way teachers who supported students through resume writing application completion and interview process tina vasquez of benbrook middle high school walter perrotta of diamond hill jarvis high school and sergio flores of the young women's leadership academy and last but certainly not least we would like to recognize our 2020 2021 lockheed martin and bell textron interns if they are here and would please stand to be recognized when your name

030is called we could applaud them all when we conclude uh completing an internship at bell textron from young women's leadership academy are penelope huff selena morales rihanna navarro and haley spradlin completing an internship at lockheed martin we recognize again from ywla amena balin alejand alandro gonzalez and emily lesper also also in that same group is literally sosa and priscilla trejo from diamond hill jarvis high school jose cruz and the following students are all from benbrook middle high school frederick jones camden lebash brandon muse and justice white thank you president jackson thank you mr bond and at this time trustee and our will read the names of the industry partners trustee dar thank you president jackson fort worth isd leaders and partners came together on tuesday july 20th for a signing ceremony that commits to a

031collaboration shaping the future of fort worth this special industry partner signing day celebrated business partners who currently provide or will provide work-based experiences for students through the district's p-tech and vital link programs after remarks by dr scribner and others dozens of representatives of each partner organization stepped forward to sign an oversized banner depicting the fort worth isd tree logo that included a pledge to work together to prepare students for success in college career and community leadership that banner is in this room tonight for all to see and i'll direct you to the back of the room where you can see the banner where our industry partners signed the list of partners includes american airlines bass performance hall bell textron incorporated campfire first texas circle theater the city of fort worth the city of fort worth

032water department danone north america fort worth chamber of commerce the fort worth opera fort worth isd human capital management half associates incorporated hilltop holdings hilltop securities hispanic heritage foundation historic fort worth incorporated iec fort worth tarrant county the james l west center for dementia care jubilee theater junior achievement of the chisholm trail lockheed martin magna mechanical medical city of fort worth north texas automobile dealers encore stage west theater stimuli education parent to and through the t3 partnership tarleton state university the culinary school of fort worth tinker ultra safe ultrasound diagnostic services llc the university the university of north texas the university of north texas college of education and z space thank you to these community partners who recognize who promote who support and who celebrate the potential of students and the potential in classrooms so

033we are thankful and we are grateful for your partnership thank you trustee darr and mr bond and congratulations to everyone who is here tonight and thank you for being here at a witness history and if you haven't toured i am terrell please do so but right now we're going to take a little five-minute break so if you want to go tour i'd go see miss washington right now mr moore down there and let's get those tours set up [Music] i'm going to make a quick announcement the audio of this meeting was not working at the beginning of the meeting everything is fixed now i would also like to report that fort worth isd had no control over these issues not because they were our issues but they were external which is a really good thing

034you should clap for that actually this technology is tricky and uh the other thing i would like to say is that in the morning you will be able to view the video in its entirety with audio from the beginning until end at this time we will hear a public comment let me remind you that because of restrictions by the texas open meetings act board members may not engage in a verbal exchange about a subject that has not been posted we will listen and take notes but the board is prohibited from responding to any inquiries made during a board meeting on any topic not posted on this agenda however the board may reply with one a statement of specific factual information given in response to the inquiry two recitation of existing policy in response to the

035inquiry or three direct the person to visit with staff about the issue while the board listens to concerns of a general nature speakers should refrain from mentioning names of individual employees or public officers during their comments any employee parent or other member of the public is asked to comply with the appropriate grievance policy or have a complaint heard pursuant to the applicable board policy no presentation may exceed three minutes unless the speaker has prior approval for additional time because of the use of a translator speakers who require the assistance of a translator permitted double the allotted time of speakers who do not require the assistance of a translator furthermore a speaker may not relinquish his or her time to another speaker for those of you who are speaking tonight sanitation wipes are available at each

036podium i ask that you please observe all of the rules for the purpose of effectively accomplishing the business of the meeting in a timely manner and what i will say is there are some children here tonight and while children won't listen to all public comment eventually children will hear public comment and they'll realize this was during the time they were in school i for one would love for them to hear how much we love and care about them and how much we care about their success today and tomorrow and on that we'll call down alex vorse and robert bucher to this podium amanda coleman and malik austin to the other podium please begin when you're ready thank you for being here no thank you my name is alex force my daughter attends daggett montessori school

037and i'm speaking on behalf of over 50 other people who could not speak today and i've got that list if y'all are willing to take it we have a problem all students are required to return to school in person august 16th even unvaccinated children with serious underlying health conditions children under 12 are not eligible to be vaccinated and the governor's order prohibits public schools from requiring masking and optional masking is ineffective fort worth isd does not allow a virtual learning at-home option for unvaccinated children even children with underlying health conditions like my 10 year old daughter she's too young to be vaccinated her school won't require masks and a positive case for her and other children like her could mean hospitalization or worse and if she temporarily withdraws from school long enough to get vaccinated

038then she is not eligible to return to that school her spot will be filled and she can't go back we bought a house for this school we built our lives around proximity to this school but if we keep our daughter home to keep her safe we lose the school for families like ours the current position of the district is simple get sick or get out there has to be a better way they found a better way in districts all across the state who are now offering virtual learning for k-6 regardless of state funding so it can be done and it's time for this district to lead and act now to protect vulnerable children i have three solutions for your consideration plan a is to require mass for all fort worth schools you can push back

039on the governor's order you can sue the state but you might not do it so plan b is to offer a virtual learning at-home option for unvaccinated children with underlying health conditions that makes in-person class size smaller in everywhere everyone safer we already have the infrastructure to do it students have laptops some schools have free neighborhood wi-fi now and think about this if a student tests positive or has exposure of covid while at school in person that student will have to quarantine and what will happen for those 10 days of quarantine those students will have an at-home virtual learning option so why can't we just do it now for these vulnerable children plan c is to allow students to temporarily pause their enrollment at a choice school long enough to be vaccinated over the years

040students have left choice programs in schools in the middle of a semester and they don't just pluck a child from their neighborhood school and put them in that program immediately they wait till the next semester so why can't we wait for these children that's the least you can do but i hope you'll do more thank you thank you mr divorce robert bucher then amanda coleman then malik austin thank you for letting us speak i'm quoting this from a tweet that we had came across in our group i'll be teaching my students how to dismantle white supremacy until they escort me out of the building i'm in fort worth anyone who feels so inclined to replace me can surely try hashtag crt hashtag abolitionist teaching still sitting currently is this teacher which will remain anonymous but

041i will give this to y'all so y'all can see for yourselves i'm going to read from the texas administration code chapter 247 line g standard 1.7 the educator shall comply with state regulations written local award policies and other state federal laws line 10 intentionally an educator acts intentionally or with the intent with respect to the nature of his or her conduct or a result of his or her conduct when his or her conscious objective or desires engages in the conduct or cause of the result line one to protect the safety and welfare of texas school children a mental or emotional injury to a student a reminder that results in the observable mental impairment is the students or minors development learning or psychological functioning line b causing or permitting a student or minor to be in

042a situation where the student or minor sustains a mental or emotional injury that results in observable and mental impairment the students reminders development learning or psychological functioning keyword their psychological functioning line three ethical conduct towards students line b standard 3.2 the educators show and not intentionally knowing or recklessly treated student or minor in a manner that adversely affects or endangers the learning of physical health mental health or the safety of the minor standard 3.4 the educator shall not exclude a student from participating in a program deny benefits to a student or grant an advantage to a student on the basis of race color gender disability national nationality origin religion family status or sexual orientation kind of sounds like crt but we won't talk about that lioness standard 3.5 the educators not intentionally knowing or recklessly

043engaged in physical mistreatment neglect or abuse of a student reminder standard 3.9 the educators shall refrain from inappropriate communication with the student or minor including but not limited electronic communication such as cell phone text messaging email instant messaging blogging or other social networking communications factors that may be considering assessing whether the communication is improper but not our limit to equity is the is the mass of critical race theory and also with highs behind seol what is sad is the matter of twitter messages that we're seeing throughout these the schools and the teachers and no accountability no checks and balances how we lost checks and balances that's why you have political action committees like the ones that we are a part of we have to come out and we have to do y'all's job for you

044and we do it free but we do it because we love the kids and it's sad to see that and justin keller alone i can speak on that it's 41 jump is a jump from 21 on the star math scores and that's just math alone so let's just look at the other you know subjects they have so we're so busy worried about crt and teaching kids you know to hate one race over another we should be grabbing each other's hands and really looking at the bigger pictures thank you amanda coleman i just learned you spend two million dollars a year on our racial equity department that was created by our current superintendent i find it interesting that since he's arrived and the equity department was created student achievement has drastically dropped as well during that

045time we're now worse than even dallas in houston and we weren't before he arrived is that a coincidence i'd like to know what are the goals of this department that costs us so much in tax dollars are these goals measurable and what's their deadline how are you able to justify these costs such as paying a consultant six thousand dollars who spoke twice at a racial equity summit or paying the department head over two hundred thousand dollars annually how will you know it's time to cut your losses and abandon ship speaking of abandoning ship have you noticed how many charter schools are popping up all over fort worth i talked to the man in charge of recruiting and privately funding them i asked why his foundation spends their millions on charters when they could use it

046instead to make our local schools better his response blew me away he said they already tried that they poured millions into fort worth isd for years they weren't seeing the return on investment they expected measured in student achievement so they diverted their money elsewhere as taxpayers we don't have that choice but we can collectively demand transparency accountability and a solid or turn on investment or new leadership who will deliver on results thank you malay for austin i'm back been out there in the streets as a revolutionary i will not tolerate no more disparity in the south southeast side i see what's going down you raise my taxes on my house and i've seen the things that i've seen i'm from the south side i'm tired of looking at morningside elementary the way it looks we

047cannot go along with these disparities anymore 500 soldiers i brought the military 500 i got 500 but today my evolution is my revolution well i am a revolutionary that will stand up and fight for my children my children are existence i won't tolerate this anymore we can't do this you dare attack our afro-afri-american curriculum that's spent 372 days to bring to the school district now that's up under the gun and you dare and keep your silence and don't stand up and fight for these babies race cannot be defined what a body a land africa african american curriculum defined by culture and heritage you go back to the state mr scrimna on my 276 000 that you get paid every angel of the year and my comrades is sitting on this board so you have obligation

048to do what the community is asking you to do that's your job if not hey bro there's other districts that you can go to if you don't like your job and you don't do what the community asks you to do you have to leave man and they go for everybody up here that you dare strike at my four parents my ancestors that built this country and they dare challenge us not to teach about culture in the classroom that's illegal declaration people listen declaration notice of declaration of parental rights in-net 151-05 texas education code 26001 clearly states any policy that these people come up with it's totally illegal it's against your parental rights early as 1925 the federal courts will stand by any parent that files this injunction against the district so today you scratched at

049the wrong one brothers we coming and that's the only thing i got to say do the right thing we all adults here do the right thing do the right thing brother you from the community district 4 you from those communities you see what's going on food deserts gentrification our school's the only hub that we have to save our children do your job do your job unless somebody is bold enough to do it we ready y'all have a good evening angel martinez missy cara good evening i would like to inform the board about one of the fort worth isd equity committee chair comments about the last summer's riot i believe that if you are going to have a co-chair you need to make sure they are not politically and not pushing a left or right wing

050agenda the comment should make you consider a new leadership for the equity committee here is a recording and then understands that that also involves race right and racial equity and we have to be dealing with that first and foremost and then the last thing i want to say is that our our community right now like all of our nation is on fire right and it should be because the systemic injustices that are baked into it are finally mr castillo yeah being revealed and brought to life and i'm so proud of our courageous students and teachers and parents and community members who have been out on the streets thank you mr martinez missy cara mr austin you had your moment to speak missy please go ahead hi i'm missy kara i'm a fort worth isd parent

051and i'd first like to request a future town hall and board agenda item on crt today i'm here to address esser funds allocation i believe you receive these funds to support student learning recovery and other district needs i've seen that several district programs were adopted and funded with intent to increase student achievement but despite millions spent annually overall student performance still has not improved i have concerns that the division of equity and excellence program got approved and adopted based on narrowly focused demographic data that measured academic disparities based solely on ethnicity now i ask you if at first you don't succeed will you try again have you measured student performance using data about their parents and caregivers for instance marital employment educational income primary language status or age or have their involvement or have you

052considered their involvement in schools or lack thereof i venture to say that these factors alone could be the strongest influencer of student performance regardless of their skin color i suggest it's time to re-evaluate your strategy to increase student achievement and ask you to consider this when schools families and community groups work together to support learning children tend to do better in school stay in school longer and like school more end quote that's from the southwest educational developmental lab i commend you for recognizing the value of parent partnerships and thank you for creating that department last year i'd like to propose that you invest more in that program for the benefit of our students i ask you to allocate the remaining available 9.9 million dollars of esser funds that are found on page 11 of the

053student learning recovery plan and allocate that to the fort worth isd parent partnerships department just imagine the potential student outcomes that could result from increased staffing and support and program funding over these next three years this is an easy investment there's solid evidence that student performance improved with a strong parent partnership program at one of our very own local schools i believe the potential for return on your investment on this would be very high i assert that there is not a more valuable program technology policy or curriculum that's available that you can invest in other than one that builds the relationship between children and their families please please consider to allocate these remaining esser funds and give them to your parent partnerships program and i ask you to please release those funds immediately for this

054school year thank you carol guarnieri hudson coleman let's uh i kind of find that offensive let's keep the outburst down and let's all work together for kids tonight i will ask the officer one more outburst they get one outburst after that please have individual removed until they can cool down and come back in and work for kids thank you excuse me ma'am i'm sorry to interrupt you that's all right my name is carol guenery i am the grandmother of two charter school children in fort worth isd i too am a product of fort worth isd i graduated from arlington heights high school in 1963. throughout the years it is it seems almost frightening to me that the board the administration have completely lost focus of what their primary function is and that is to teach

055our children to read write and perform mathematics you all have become so profoundly distracted by critical race theory emotional social development all of this extraneous stuff that really has no bearing on the student performance children go to school to learn they want to learn how to read how to write and how to perform mathematics we have a responsibility as parents and grandparents to provide the best education money can buy you all are going to be receiving over million dollars to get the children back into focus from covet 19. um that would certainly pay and also the three million dollars that you're spending on critical race theory would pay for a lot of tutors in these lower performing schools to give those children the opportunity to succeed and to succeed proudly critical race theory is nothing

056in the world but reverse racism you're pitting colors against colors children i can guarantee you are colorblind they don't see color they see the child and until we get things refocused back to basics and quit making excuses for why our children are not performing then we're going to continue on the same path that we've been on for way too long a time i implore you please get back to basics no more excuses do what you are supposed to do and that is to teach our children to read write and perform math thank you hudson coleman [Applause] hi my name is hudson i would like to tell you about a recent sacrifice i made last year my family and i moved decided to leave fwisd and attend a charter school although i think this is the

057best decision for me and my family long term i ca it came with a huge personal sacrifice my new school's oldest grade was fifth last year which meant i had to repeat fifth grade even though i was a straight a student i like i had to leave a teacher that i loved in a school that i loved but that's not it i left my best friend i left my best friend because fw isd continually wastes time and money where it shouldn't i had to choose a better education rather than the one i was comfortable i'm here because i believe my friend deserves a better education than the one you're providing the mismanagement of tax dollars is out of control you receive way more per child than my charter school is getting but i can tell

058you from first-hand experience my charter is way better of an and of an education i dare you no i double-dog dare you to make a fraction of the sacrifice that i have and do what's right [Applause] lark wallace johnston followed by alessandra papa i had a question before i started i know we're not supposed to speak negatively about any individual but may i praise an individual within my yes ma'am thank you so much thank you for asking i just want to start by saying how much better i feel after witnessing the first part of the of the presentation today before the comments started i was so heartened by opeli and by her words and i think that everyone here has the same main idea which is to keep our kids safe and to keep them

059educated and to keep them taken care of there is no argument many of our children must be in person to receive basic services such as meals and help that they can't get at home but we also need to recognize the fact that our children our babies under 12 years old cannot be vaccinated as of right now if we do all attend in person without a mask mandate we are simply setting forth isd up to be a super spreader event i'm told by people who try to comfort me about this that children under 12 only get mild cases of the covid virus however i don't think it is mild we don't even know what the side effects of this are going to be in 20 years from an insurance standpoint alone in 20 years if my

060daughter has coveted on her record and develops a heart murmur can it be covered or will it be a pre-existing condition keeping her from having it even more to the point than that our children go home to families even if the child themselves is not vulnerable some of the people at home are my husband has cancer i had to look at my ten-year-old with tears streaming down his face when he said mommy what if i get covered from someone at school and bring it home to dad and i told him that i would do the best i could to protect him i need fort worth isd to stand behind that as well i need you to protect all of our children if you cannot enforce a mass mandate at all the schools then there must

061be options for our fragile families there is an option when someone is in quarantine that they'll receive educational service while at home why not start it off for every child that we have the privilege of keeping home we are keeping the children that are there in person who have to be there perhaps safer let's cut our numbers down let's do everything it takes to keep them safe now so that we can return to normal school when we can we all want normalcy but we're not there yet we're not vaccinated it's not time and thinking that it is simply a fantasy i hear people in these comments waxing poetic about their version of what should be taught who cares what you're teaching if we're sentencing them to die who cares what we are teaching if we're

062not keeping them safe you can shush all you want but it's true our first responsibility is the safety of these children their education is a very important second and i implore fort worth isd to number one keep masks in schools if at all possible number two allow us an option for those of us who can to keep our children at home to do virtual learning and number three for those of us who make that choice allow us to keep our spots in schools of choice we earned and worked hard for them thank you alessandra papa [Applause] followed by brad mcdaniel howdy my name is alessandra and i'm here to speak because i'm concerned about lead contamination in fort worth isd schools blood poisoning poses a serious threat to children it can cause anemia weakness kidney

063damage and brain damage and children are more severely affected by lead contamination than adults are fort worth was an early leader when it began testing for lead in 2016 and it has done great work to lower the levels of blood in fort worth public schools however there is more work to be done the american academy of pediatrics says that there is no safe level of blood and it recommends a standard of one part per billion however according to the isp's own data the most recent round of testing in 2019 showed that 95 schools still have a level of lead that is above that recommendation of one part per billion in fact paul lawrence dunbar high school even has a level of 141 parts per billion and andy middle school has a level of 135. the

064district has made um significant effort to lower lead levels and has followed what sorry has followed what's called the three t's guidance from the epa however that guidance is actually outdated and now the epa recommends remediating blood to the lowest possible level it is completely understandable that the district has been following these older recommendations because there have been changes in the last few years but at the end of the day there is still lead in the water luckily you have an opportunity to remedy this hazard right now the district is considering how to allocate remaining esser funds and we ask that you use just a fraction of that funding to install water bottle filling stations in schools that have point of contact filters which are certified to filter out lead esser funds can be used

065to reduce environmental health hazards such as this one and the funding could cover installation costs as well as replacement filters for several years after you maintain the lead while state legislation would be an ideal way to approach the problem bills around lead in public school drinking water have been introduced three times in the last several legislative sessions and have all failed um i would ask that this district continues to be a champion for children's health and fix this problem once and for all with the funding that is already available rather than waiting at a minimum another two years for the possibility that the state will make a decision or issue further direction environment texas has written a letter with this request i've brought copies with me as well for the board members if there's someone

066i can give this uh great and i look forward to discussing the matter in the first year with you further and participating in the public thank just get mine out of your you mr mcdaniel for thank you for allowing me to share some concerns with you this evening i am a long time resident of fort worth can't read my paper um a long time resident of fort worth i graduated from our public school system and i'm a fort worth taxpayer i love this city and i believe in the next generation of leaders that we can produce but at fort worth isd continues down the road of race-based ideologies and doesn't focus on individual academic achievement then we'll fail our city and our city's children i'm so glad ms jackson made the comment about making sure

067that we know that children will hear what we say about them tonight because that was on my heart i want all of fort worth isd students here tonight that were here last month or anyone who might hear my comments tonight or on video to know that you are valuable you aren't valuable because you are black white or brown male or female gay or straight you are valued because you were created in the image of god i urge all of you students not to give imperfect broken human beings like us the power to judge your worthiness or potential a perfect god has already determined that you are valuable our school district is failing our city and our city's children it needs to get back to basics and focus on academics and valuing students as individuals not

068value valuing them by statistics and achievement based on race or ethnic groups we've heard over the past few months that critical race theory is not taught in our schools that may actually be true i don't know this for a fact you may not teach directly this theory or offer classes on it to children let's assume that's true for a moment but as i've read and done research on fort worth isd's own website has become very obvious that crt and other race-based ideologies and worldviews are being promoted and adopted throughout the district at the instructor and administrator level so it's only natural that it will bleed into the daily instruction that children receive if you tell us that crt is not a part of fort worth isd's ideology you are either lying or uneducated i would

069hope that neither would be true the most obvious example of this district's the most obvious example of this is the district's own racial equity committee homepage the minutes for this committee meeting are filled with crt influence language and i'm hoping it's a coincidence but i also noticed that the past three months when we've had the most tension in these board meetings the past three months of that committee's meetings weren't online they weren't posted um but crucial conversations about race is filled in those is is it occupies a lot of those meeting minutes space and crucial conversations about race is merely crt repackaged and it's present in every meetings minute thank you thank you [Applause] ken cool followed by martina van norden good evening trustees superintendent scribner and fort worth isd administrators i'm a fort worth

070isd parent my daughter attends a title one elementary school in this district i'm here tonight to express my support for all the work you do all the work you do in racial equity it's important work and it's being overshadowed right now by people who don't appreciate how important that work is let me just say it that way i'm an active volunteer at my daughter's school and other schools in the district so i talked to a lot of students a lot of administrators a lot of parents and a lot of teachers not one of them has ever expressed any concern to me about the racial equity work that this district does i'm hearing it tonight why is that i think we can thank politics and politics don't belong in this room what belongs in this room

071is a universal care and concern for all our students but there's folks here tonight and that were here last month that are receiving talking points from national political organizations that are trying to silence voices from marginalized and disenfranchised populations not just in our city but across the country they had their seminar just four days ago in irving on saturday where speakers from the heritage foundation trained the attendees on how to harass school boards like this one with freedom of information act requests and with speakers telling false narratives about racial equity work and you're hearing it tonight these national political organizations are gaslighting folks to believe that racial equity work is racist and the political and the public schools have become indoctrination camps nothing could be further from the truth my daughter's in this district i

072wouldn't be standing up here if i didn't believe how important this racial equity work is i beg those of you here that believe those lies that have been told about racial equity work to do a little research about systemic racism in our country this isn't about a racist person or people this is about racism that is built into our society black americans have higher infant mortality rates their schools have less funding they have shorter life expectancy and more college debt they make less money for the same job but receive harsher punishments for the same crime as their white counterparts what in the world could possibly be wrong with working towards overcoming those inequities i heard something said about social emotional learning and how let me get it right it would have no bearing on student

073performance i mean i understand that coming from a place of privilege but kids have social and emotional things that they have to deal with in their life and to have that support offered by these people in this district and dedicate their lives to helping those kids through those moments i mean how do you expect academic achievement if you don't support them in all aspects of their life so truly i thank you support worth isd for the racial equity work you've done and encourage you to continue thank you van norden thank you for the opportunity to come before you this evening i'm going to be honest that i prepared something um for you but after the beginning of i'm like you um that was so emotional um and and encouraging empowering and so i just simply

074want to say to the board please continue to do the work that you're doing i'm not going to refute any of the things that are said that are not in truth because i respect your intelligence i respect your due diligence i respect your service to fort worth isd i am asking you to please continue the work continue to move forward continue to have conversations with the community engaging us i am here to say to you i am available to do the work i wore the shirt let's work let's get to work let's come together and figure out what's the best for our kids we're not going to continue fighting this anti-crt debate that's not what it's about it's about making sure that we offer the best school system and the best opportunity for education possible

075it's that simple and if we can come around the table and have dialogue that is productive respectful dignified and honorable we will see the greatness that can come out of fort worth i see we saw it this afternoon we saw it in the beginning it can produce what it needs to if we give it the time the opportunity and the respect and dignity that it needs to be able to do that so i encourage all of you please continue the fight continue the work and continue to serve with excellence thank you [Applause] wanda mckinney and wendy lunsford hello good evening at last month's board meeting several individuals quoted dr king out of context and misrepresented the teachings of jesus make no mistake dr king lived and died for the rights of black folk racial equity

076and equality however texas legislators are threatening to erase from history his legacy the civil rights movement jesus lived and died for all of us in john 10 10 jesus said i have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly jesus also said in matthew 25 and 40 when you've provided for the least of my brothers and sisters in this case our students you've done it unto me dr king said there is no human circumstance more tragic than the persistent existence of a harmful condition for which there is a remedy readily available racial equity is at remedy superintendent scribner president jackson board of trustees and district i pray that you continue this necessary work our students need it and they deserve it thank you [Applause] wendy lunsford will be followed by jack hamilton

077president i am honored to be here today i've been a part of leadership isd and learning more all the time i go to school each and every day in life and in in learning and wanting to know more i do believe that we live in a world that if you want it good you've got to want it good for all kids no matter their skin color i am so proud of my friends at ywla and hallie i'm gonna use names i'm going sprinkles on them but hallie and emily are friends of mine that have been raised in the fort worth school district i've watched their friends grow up and learn what it is to be to be raised in a community of love and support not everybody has that opportunity not everybody has come from

078the same country from the same privilege from opportunities i am blessed i have won the sperm lottery to be in this country and we need to take this opportunity to represent in our in our beautiful beautiful community no matter which side of the city that you live on no matter what side north south east or west we need to work together as a community i have lived in fort worth all of my life i've called the mid cities fort worth but what i know is that there are children that come from your district that come to my district and it doesn't matter what color they are they are all treated with love and respect by every educator that comes through the door god bless our educators our parents that care our parents that work hard

079to love their children each and every day and only want the best for them please please continue to do your work for my community for your community and for all our children seven years principling in the title one schools and i have something i guess this is a technical presentation tonight and i respectfully request that the board and superintendent consider the following statements the academic achievement scores in fort worth isd are and have been embarrassing for a few years both reading and mathematics scores continue to decline fort worth isd is seeing declining enrollment which is at least partially linked to the poor quality and disagreement with socially and morally objectionable agendas that have been infused by the administration and what is taught is more important than how it is taught dr fenwick english became noteworthy

080several years ago when he said this very simple and obvious statement students tend to do better when you teach them what they're being tested on as the district's embarrassing test scores continue to spiral downward i'm at a loss to rationalize how this school board can consider if it is and i'm not really sure if it is taking away from the time on task for academics and replacing it with indoctrination time for critical race theory which is really nothing more than a marxist propaganda that's been around since the 60s designed to divide foment anarchy and hate the topic of curriculum what is taught needs to be a serious discussion among those of you who have been elected to see after the education of our children and the important question you need to start with is when

081was the last time the school district did a professional curriculum audit followed by a curriculum alignment to scaffold the alignment of prerequisite skills and ensure those skills are being taught and assessed at a correct level of difficulty professional decisions regarding what is taught need to be based on data driven research based data not on emotional whims it's obvious that the citizens here are desperate for significant changes to the curriculum however those changes need to be made based on data-driven decisions it's only then that you can justify the cost both to the district and to the students thank you for your time holly spradlin michelle sanchez hello my name is hallie spradlin i am a recent graduate of the fort worth isd class of 2021 and i would just like to say thank you to the

082superintendent in the school having attended the fourth isd since the fourth grade i can attest to the fact that this district puts in the work to make sure that all students are equipped and prepared for a number of options that lead to success after graduation looking back on my time at fourth isd it is more to clear than me that our district superintendent and school board members care about the kids in our community i'm especially mindful that our school board members are not paid for their time and service however i know that you all work very hard to make sure that this district is the best that it can be this past year your job has been made especially more difficult by the pandemic about a year ago your meetings ran into the weirs of

083the morning as you debated how and when to best reopen our schools and although we did have an unconventional year i know i'm not alone in expressing my gratitude and appreciation for the difficult and compassionate work video i also want to express your gratitude for my gratitude to your commitment to ecuador i know that my educational experiment experience was enriched by the diverse environment of the school as i watch public comments from recent school board meetings two things stood out to me first is that our school board members do not hear enough from the people who support the work you do secondly is that you certainly do not get to hear enough opportunities to hear from students actual students that attend um i am just one voice but i know that there are many many

084students who feel as i do that we received an excellent education in a district that champions racial equity and as we leave school and enter a world where diversity is in everyday reality this aspect of our education is crucial because of your work we are better prepared to be citizens in our community so i come before you tonight simply to express my gratitude as a product before this for all the work that our teachers administrators and school remembers do and i'm sorry and superintendent do um so thank you all for your dedication [Music] [Applause] michelle sanchez and carlos tercios is michelle sanchez present no she's not here okay please go ahead mr cerseus all righty um good evening school board superintendent uh my name is carlos tercios and i would like to read a quote

085from the star telegram uh you might be in this a quote from star telegram you might be thinking about funding according to the texas education agency keller isd spends less per student around eleven thousand two hundred thirteen dollars than footwork isd and earns an a goalie isd spends more than 25 percent more money per student and go and get to see money is welcome but without good leadership all the gold in kentucky can't do a thing despite footwork is the record and standing in relation to its peers the apologies are coming don't blame the district they say it's too complex it's poverty it's money or it's systematic racism never mind dallas and houston isd outperforming footwork isd it is imperative to realize a diocese needs improvement and of course the board and the isd is

086taking steps to make sure that all students of course have achievements and of course progress and although the discussion is being done it is important to start the conversation on new leadership for our central administration the superintendent has been in footwork isd since 2015 and will eventually be surpassing melody johnson's in walter dempsey's time as superintendent if both steps are to be done then the discussion for a new superintendent should be considered if dallas and houston isds are beating us then we surely need some change superintendents are examples for isds not politicians not ideologues and superintendents shouldn't even be spending one second on terms such as crt or microaggressions last time i checked it doesn't help a student that has a single parent and struggling in schools things that have nothing to do with student

087performance and most importantly when he stated that he supports critical race theory this march in a video in a town hall terms that will not be helping struggling students that we have in the isd i hope when you are discussing on bond and other projects that the isd is planning to do they also discuss on getting a new superintendent because frankly i think it's time for new leadership i want footwork isd to succeed i want my sister to succeed and i want black students hispanic students and every single student to succeed and that will require new leadership and i hope the board takes that and i hope there's both steps to make sure we get a brand new superintendent thank you our final two speakers are kristy beck and alexandra montalvo hi i am here

088today to bring attention to the social emotional learning software from rhythm incorporated that the board members will be voting on this evening i am asking the board to decline the approval of this software for the following reasons first according to the pioneer institute a public policy research organization they state and i quote social emotional learning or sel has been billed as a transformational tool that will propel students to greater academic achievement and personal fulfillment unfortunately as a new pioneer institute study makes clear the research evidence to back up these claims is thin and unpersuasive moreover the risks sel poses to student privacy and health are significant end quote has the board done its own research on this social emotional learning program outside of what rhythm incorporate incorporated has provided you with second speaking of the

089student privacy issue much of the monitoring that goes on with the software from companies like rhythm occurs without the consent of children or their parents will the parents families and students be informed of this new software will students have the option to opt out of using the software app third social emotional learning is simply a vehicle for critical race theory this is yet another step in analyzing the many aspects of life through the lens of race sel software is a way to track and analyze student data through the lens of race i know the goal of the district of improving student achievement will not be achieved using any s sel techniques or tools i agree with what carol said earlier to please get back to the basics and stop looking at different programs like this

090that focus on sel to deliver that student achievement it's not going to happen thank you so much thank you superintendent board of trustees um this has definitely been an interesting night to be able to start off with such an inspiration an amazing story of overcoming the obstacles that we've seen in someone like openly and just want to highlight the part of her story where she talked about even after her retirement in 77 she still saw the need to serve the inequities we see in our communities and unfortunately in 2021 we know that those inequities are all too real still especially in the midst of a pandemic that we've seen really impact certain parts of our communities much more than others it's been said already but i just want to repeat that we know what is

091happening right now in fort worth isd i'm thankful for the relationship that i've been able to have with many of you through working in the school district trying to find solutions trying to work towards the progress we know we need in fourth isd and your commitment to that but right now what is happening is a political fight for the sake of power and our district is being used as a space to try to cause division to try to insert fear when we know that we're here to serve these students we're here to work together and i want to encourage and empower all of you as oppali said to work as one not given to this fear not given to this gas lighting which was referenced earlier which i think is a great term for what's

092happening we have a lot of work we have a huge opportunity to really serve the kids that have just all endured the impacts of what a pandemic can do endure the impacts of what a week-long texas freeze can do where students lost electricity families have had to endure a lot of different trauma over this last year and a half and we're hoping we're going to be able to get out of it soon i thank you for the bold moves that have happened with boundary alignment that's happened so that we can have more pyramid synergy and we can have more leadership synergy with that my wife got to visit western hills high school and the amazing improvements that have been done with the bond program and the amazing improvements happening in high schools all across fort

093worth isd we definitely want to keep seeing those kind of investments we see that teachers are really feeling at odds with this profession because of how hard this last year was and we know we need to keep amazing teachers in our classroom centering on these kind of fights is not going to do it so keep doing the great work of the racial ethical work you're doing and keep focusing on the investments needed in fourth isd thank you and thanks to all that that spoke this evening and thanks to all of you that are in attendance tonight we appreciate your support on behalf of our children at this time lone star governance quarterly board progress review is due for us to remain in compliance deputy superintendent molinar has agreed to cover this for us we're missing

094one trustee trustee ramos whose flight was delayed and so we've asked her to cover it in the next meeting we will discuss thank you thank you trustee jax president jackson um i do want to go ahead and we can do our quarterly review for our progress for our tracker i'll be brief but it is important because we are on the leaderboard for lsg according to ta's website we are at um at our meets focus level with only a few other districts and there's two districts at the master level so we want to keep up with our work with lone star governance so this evening i'm going to go quickly through our visions and goals um so this team member was of course president jackson and trustee luebanos we will be maintaining our meet focus at

09512 points and we'll just continue to engage our community as brought up this evening town halls and other meetings to make sure we're getting their input and our students outcome goals our vision and goals number two also led by trustee jackson and trustee lebanos will maintain our meets focus at 12. our next steps will be engaging our stakeholders through lsg advocacy teams as well as approving our monitoring ports and our calendar as we stay on schedule and mr rispy will actually touch on that this evening during her report our vision three trustee brookins and trustee ramos we will be remaining at approaches focus we will come back together after our recommendation of once we have our new board all together now we're all in place every two years it is required that our board trustees

096go through a two-day training so we will be planning that for all nine of our board members coming up that will participate in a two-day lsg training and that will help us meet past the approaches and at that time we will work on our board constraints that we can vote on and get in place our vision 4 is around the superintendence constraints we will continue to meet focus maintain meet focus we will continue to engage our stakeholders through lsg as well as monitor our board monitoring calendar schedule our progress and accountability with trustee jackson and brookins we went from a meets focus to a master so we did gain three points in that area and that was really due to our time tracker when we look at our meetings about staying focused on student outcomes

097and around student goals so we are moving up to the masters at this time we are averaging around 55 percent of our meeting each meeting around student outcome goals so we hope to increase that so that is definitely prior to that we were averaging around 30 percent so great work on that one accountability in progress two is trustee jackson luebinos and ramos and we will maintain our approaches um points and we will continue to use our staff tracker with that one as well as our quarterly reports and are looking at our constraints and our goals as well our structure vision around trustee evans and trustee phillips we will maintain our meets focus with our 12 points and we will continue with our tracker monitor the agenda when how many we have on our board action

098items to try to do five or less and then of course um staff assisting as well as making sure our items are seven calendar days to our board to review and continue no edits to our board meeting agenda 72 hours prior our advocacy and engagement we went from a preparing to focus to actually earning two additional points to approaches focus and that one we will continue to um plan and conduct the two-day lsd lsg training to include our board members but also how can we increase our student voice and hear from our students when we're making decisions and then our last one is unity we will go from a meet focus 9 and maintain and this one we will consider improve the board constraints that were drafted um complete our training requirements adhere to our

099board operating procedures and then maintain or higher attendance rate for our board trustees so trust president jackson and trustees i would like to share that you went from a 72 to a i'm sorry from a 67 to a 72 for a point so you had an increase of five point and next quarter our goal is to reach 91 points so we will come back in august and approve these quarterly progress tractor tracker and then submit that to tea take any questions or comments at this time trustees any questions for ms molinar and next meeting we'll we'll have a full discussion thank you for covering that for us um at this time i'd like to hand it over to dr scrivener who will introduce our cfo actually president jackson i think at this time we're going

100to continue on with 5b prior to the uh report there's end of your goals thank you so with that i'll i'll turn it over to um to karen um with regard to our end of the year goals uh one through thank you dr scrivener this actually aligns with our quarterly tracker report um our next on our board monitoring calendar we did move from june to july due to our extended school year our end of the year goals one two and three and our associate superintendent sarah risby and our chief academic officer mr moore will share with you our report for this thank you ms molinar happy to be here to go over our end of the year information um with you board i want to start a little ways back though before we look at

101the end of this year and remind you of where we were coming from so we can kind of bridge over to this year's result so back last year last school year in the spring of 2019 prior to the pandemic our last report we updated the board on what we were seeing as trending in the right direction with some very positive information on our goal 1 and goal 2 early literacy and early math we saw reading in english that spring semester go up by 3 points from 50 to 53 we saw reading in spanish go up that spring from 43 to 47 percent and we saw math make a really large increase from 41 to 55 obviously we did not have star we had a closure after spring break and we did not have star scores

102for that year so we we can't say that that would have carried over to star but we had strong belief that we were going to see comparable increases in our star result for 29 for that 2019-2020 school year um we also saw growth in our college career and military readiness for our seniors another one of the goals well three then we had the pandemic come we had the closure in the spring where we were working on supporting families with not only devices for students to continue to learn remotely but food and other challenges that our families were facing we had a late start in the school year for this past year 20 20 21 and we had change in learning environment for our children many children learning virtually some in person some hybrid and we

103had kids changing during the year so some students would come back in person and then things would change in the community and then their family and they would need to go virtual again and so we have kids with unfinished learning and lost learning time and we just want to acknowledge that as that impacts some of the things that i'm going to talk to you about um during the year last year we kept the board apprised of progress toward our goals one two and three in a variety and you can see them there of presentations over the year and and we want to continue to do that the the board committed and the administration agreed to transparency on continuing to discuss these results even when sometimes they are challenging for us and so we want to

104maintain that commitment tonight i know board members have received our star results you've seen them in the paper we've had some of the speakers tonight talk about those star results but i want to present them here as we think about where we're coming from and moving forward and so the results as we're displaying them tonight this is going to be grade three through eight results this is mathematics that we're looking at first starting with grade three is the top bar and going down to grade eight is the bottom bar red indicates the percent of students who did not pass the star test in spring 2021 for mathematics and over on the right hand side you'll see the green numbers which indicate the percent of students who did pass the test that green bar is divided

105up into chunks of the percent who passed at approaches who passed that meets and who passed it masters so i know that as i've presented before you'll remember there are four possible results for a student either they don't pass the test they pass that approaches they pass it me or they pass it masters um reading is this next slide and this is our english reading results and so same layout with grade three at the top red is not passing and the green numbers running down the side are passing you will see that for most grade levels three through eight at least fifty percent or more of the students passed um the highest was fifth grade with 61 percent passing the lowest was sixth grade with 47 passing and this is following the year of the

106closures and the changes that we have looked at and spanish reading we have about a third roughly of our students that test in spanish on reading and so those results are here for grade three four and five those are the only grades that have that opportunity to test in spanish um so 42 38 and again grade 5 is the highest in reading at 65 percent of the kids who tested in spanish passing we also test science and social studies science is tested at grade five and grade eight and so you see those two results there and the percent passing again is to the right hand column and the bottom bar is grade eight social studies with 34 passing um you may have noticed with the math and then especially with science and social studies there

107are some challenges there with lower percentages of students passing these introduce new content each for each thing that's very content specific unlike reading where kids once they learn to read they just continue to get better at that and improve their reading skills there's new content added all the time at mathematics science and social studies and these are our star writing scores this 2021 test was the last time that the state of texas will test writing as a separate test beginning next year in 2022 writing will be embedded as a part of the reading test so it'll become a reading english language arts test they will no longer be two separate tests and every grade level three through eight will have some writing components embedded within the reading pad so we'll see some changes there coming

108up this next school year and finally our end of course results and and these are primarily for high school although we do have some accelerated middle school students who also take end of course top line is algebra 1 um then we have biology english 1 english 2 and u.s history and for our students taking end of course this is a graduation requirement although last year due to the pandemic and this year again with the pandemic the state did allow students to graduate if they could demonstrate proficiency through an individual graduation committee with a project that showed that they did understand the course content so as we think about those results with povid i i want to tell you that we feel good about our testing for this spring we had a large number of students

109even those who were virtual come to school to participate in testing because we believe what the state said in february of last year when they decided to move forward with the star test that this would not necessarily be to compare to prior performance because things had been widely different and was not a normal school year but we did need this information about students to set an equitable baseline to begin moving forward and helping our students recover some of that lost learning um in march the ea reiterated this as we had our first rounds of testing started and said that we districts should not should exercise question and should not use this in isolation for evaluating or planning but to use it with other data points to help make sure that we make the best decisions

110for our kids and i included this to show you that these were not just drops at in fort worth isd compared to pre-pandemic but this pattern was seen across the state these are statewide results so the blue line that you see the trend line is the trend going up overall for reading over the past few years and then a decline following covid you'll also see that orange line for mathematics and you'll notice that the decline is much greater and again there's a lot of new content introduced in mathematics and so we saw this trend both across the state and nationally and results for students across the nation of that decline in mathematics i turn it over to mr moore thank you sarah as mr rispy just shared uh kovit has uh kova kovit has had

111an impact uh on all of our our students and in all of our schools um the interruptions that we've experienced have made significant impact not just in the student achievement here in fort worth isd but it's made impact to student achievement across the state and nationally as well the graphic that you see represented here identifies our priorities and our focus for student achievement but more importantly for student growth growth student growth is what leads to improved student achievement think about that for a minute as mr risky shared fort worth isd actually had the largest participation of students taking this year's star assessment larger than any other large urban district in the state of texas almost 98 of our students participated in star assessment this year why was that because we felt it was important to

112know the baseline of where our students were we felt it was important to know what happened to our students over covid and where do we need to start with our students to really help and support the recovery but i will tell you we didn't wait until star assessments to look at where our students are we aren't looking at state assessment in isolation we started looking at student assessment back in the fall of this last year when students returned from the first interruption shutdown i'll draw your attention back to this slide here uh this is a slide just as a representation of our second through eighth grade student performance in fall of 2020 the fall assessment when students first came back to us from uh the the spring semester first shut down from covid we learned

113a lot about our students and about the impact that covet had this is specifically in math look at that graphic 55 of fort worth isd students in second through eighth grade decreased in their performance of mathematics from fall 2019 to fall 2020. that's not 55 percent of students that didn't increase or progress that's 55 percent of our students that decrease similar results nationwide across the state this is why if you will remember in january we brought to this board our academic priority instructional plan and we started putting actions in place in january to say what can we do to address what's happened to our students and to get students back in our schools back learning and start the recovery process now like to share this graphic this is uh this is the response that we

114put into place this is what we started in january when we set our expectation of of staying focused on high quality tier one instruction for all students saying that this spring we cannot go into reactive mode we have to understand our plan we have to stay focused on our instructional plan and we have to make sure regardless of what format students are receiving instruction teachers stay with the validity of high quality grade level rigorous instruction and providing the best tier one instruction possible our plan was to reset our plan was to look at data and know where our students are identify each student's starting point and once we know where our students are how do we respond to that our immediate response is how do we maximize instructional time not only look at the time

115that students have in front of their teacher but look at how we provide additional instructional time for students so they have more opportunity to learn we then look to redefine our expectations for our students how do we set realistic goals based off of where our students are now realistic student expectations but also realistic expectations for all of our schools and then finally how do we reinforce those expectations that's how do we drive growth individualized growth for every student every day and the main approach there is how we institute our high quality tier one instruction with additional student supports in place to make sure students can be successful now you've heard me talk several times through several presentations about staying committed to high quality tier one instruction a lot of times we need to stop and

116look at that and say what is tier one instruction when we say high quality tier one instruction what do we really mean this graphic will show you that instruction is not just one thing that teachers do tier one instruction is our core curriculum tier one instruction is the action that the teachers take with their whole class in their classroom to make sure that we're covering the content the standards the expectations that we have for learning of our students in each course at each grade level but what we know is some students can't stop there some students need additional support so we have tier two interventions where we me where we put students into smaller groups where we work with students on individual needs and we also know that as a tier three intervention we have

117students that may need some individual attention we may need to provide some additional support individually for each student that's the differentiation of instruction that takes place in the classroom this is the area where our teachers are really expert in what they do knowing their students knowing where they are and providing the support that they need we want to ensure that all of our instruction ensures that students are getting the support that they need to accelerate student learning not to remediate student learning i want to restate that our goal is to accelerate student learning not to remediate if we don't expose our students to the content that they need to have this year this coming year this next year so they can meet the standards and the grade level that they're in we're never going to

118be able to not just catch students up but to accelerate students so we get back to the levels of achievement that we expect so how are we accelerating student learning we're fortunate that we've already put in place multiple strategies that are showing positive results we've seen those results and i'll share some of those with you from this this past spring the first approach that we put into play is looking at defining instruction in fort worth isd we put together an instructional framework a literacy and bi-literacy framework and a curriculum framework so if there is a standard definition of what does instruction what does high quality instruction in fourth isd schools look like regardless of what school what classroom what grade level you you enter the frameworks provide a common common definition of what quality instruction

119looks like in fort worth isd and they also serve as a guide for our teachers for all teachers to use when planning and developing lessons for our students we also have looked at differentiated supports for our students no one student no one school no one school district has experienced covid and this experience the same way therefore we need to meet the needs of each individual student each individual school each individual region each individual pyramid where they are we have to differentiate what we're providing to those students in fourth isd we didn't wait until star assessment at the end of last year to say where are students and how do we how do we respond to what that our data tells us we started that based off of our map data based off of our formative

120assessments our progress monitoring assessment and we made a change this last spring to say how do we make sure we work with students to recover from that fifty five percent um that that regress during during this pivot shut other strategies that we put into place are not just uh not just academic it's also supporting the whole student it's supporting the school experience for all of our learners it is social emotional learning it is making sure that our students are ready to learn in the classroom doesn't matter what we teach them if students aren't ready to receive the instruction we have so how can we support our teachers and our students to be ready for the learning that needs to take place in our class how do we support our parents how do we provide wrap

121around services how do we put that parent partnership place in into play in our schools so that parents are a part of the solution to really make sure students can achieve at high levels at the high school level we've been purposeful about students entering our high schools our freshmen on track our freshman success initiative how do we make sure we have a plan to know every freshman when they enter our high schools and make sure that we know that they're on track when they get to us and they stay on track not just their first year in school but all the way through their senior year so that we're graduating students on time and we're graduating students that are ready for the workforce for college for career for what the next step is in their

122schooling experience we're moving forward with more high quality tutoring experiences for our students how do we increase instructional time before school after school have have tutoring that meets the individual needs of students and then with that how do we increase learning opportunity that's that's the experience we had with summer with the greater than expected uh attendance in summer school with our after school programming that we will expand next year as well as our saturday quest activities that we will do for our elementary students to provide increased learning opportunities now you've heard me say um that we saw signs or or our students trending in the right direction this last spring this is the data i'd like to share with you that says evidence that our students are responding to our instructional programs and are trending

123in the right direction this is a quick overview of our map data that gauges student growth from middle of the year to the end of this last school year so this is 2021 from when we administered middle of year assessment in january when we administered end of year assessment in may i'm going to share with you first math i'll share with you math and reading so that you can see the growth at each of the individual grade levels remember map assessment is administered kindergarten through eighth grade just real quick so that you can read the graphic what this graphic represents the orange diamond that you see there is the national norm that's set for this period of time for growth that students should experience between middle of year and end of last end of the

124school year now remember national norms are not set during a a pandemic time they are set to a traditional school year so this is expected growth for students that would be in a classroom learning in a traditional setting having the supports that that are in place the orange diamond represents what national norms tell us this is how students should improve over this time the bluish bar that you see there actually shows you the growth that fort worth isd students experienced from january to may this last school year anywhere on that graphic that you see that blue bar higher than the orange diamond tells us that fort worth isd students performed at higher levels of growth than what national norms told us we should expect so when you look at this graphic for math from this

125last year from the spring semester when we put our intervention and our response plan in place you see in multiple grade levels at elementary as well as in middle school our students outperform their growth expectation and perform better than what national norms told us they would when you look at language arts when you look at reading scores here this is an area where we were very purposeful about our elementary literacy program and you will see similar results if you look at those orange bars in our elementary grade levels you see student perform student growth outperforming what our national norms told us um would be true would be traditional in a traditional school year so what did we do and how are we expanding what we did well this past spring at in elementary we provided

126a pilot to our 232 elementary schools uh a literacy intervention uh called lexia core five in the 32 elementary schools we provided this program and we had over 10 000 students participate and of those 10 000 students who participated in this intervention 46 of our students achieved at least one grade level of growth now you may listen to that and say that's less than half of our students that achieved one grade level of growth but remember what i said this was our spring intervention we instituted this intervention in february so from february to may almost half of the students in this pilot grew at least one year of growth in four months data that told us students responded to the instruction and the resources we provided now in addition to that we looked at how

127often students use the program and students that use the program at greater rates than average we had 58 of our students that used the program at greater rates than average that actually advanced greater than one grade level areas that showed us that our our literacy plan our literacy framework our literacy interventions are working and that we need to expand this year we're expanding this program to all elementary schools not just a pilot of all students will benefit from our literacy framework and supporting interventions we didn't just intervene at the elementary level we also intervened at the middle school level uh we we provided a structured literacy and enhanced math program for students in sixth and seventh grade students in literacy and math who were performing at the lowest quartile of performance according to our math

128results actually students that were performing between the 15th and 25th percentile uh we double blocked these students so they received their core instruction as well as an intervention time that had specific interventions in place that their same teacher that caught their core instruction was working to provide additional instruction and literacy or math we saw positive results of our students in sixth and seventh grade in literacy and math that were enrolled in this program with esser funding we actually put ftes back in place at all of our middle schools to increase the number of seats and structured literacy and enhanced math that our students will participate in this slash this next year we share these as just an example of how we're responding to our data how we weren't waiting for star assessment but how we're

129going to continue to provide these supports for our students moving forward and connect and with that i'm going to turn it back over to mrs orispi so she can talk to you in more detail about our end-of-year goals lone star governance board goal can we pause for one moment we have three trustees on the board that would like to ask questions and this is comprehensive and i know you all live this but it would be good if we could get the questions now and then proceed if it's okay with you thank you so much uh trustee cj evans uh thank you so much for this um my question is on the math scores um slide five um it's my understanding that our accelerated sixth grade math students are still taking the eighth grade star in

130math and i just wonder can i know it's i think it was rusty dar who brought this up in the past but can that be addressed or they they take their own grade star you know or is this a state requirement yeah that's a great question trustee evans um the the requirement is a student has to take the assessment of the state standards in which they complete that school year if a student has completed all of their eighth grade standards they have to take the eighth grade assessment the year that they complete instruction all of those eighth grade our accelerated program does not complete all of eighth grade the previous year so some of those accelerated programs are required to take that assessment um this recipe do you have anything you wouldn't want to add

131to that good yes thank you the students that are in algebra in middle school they take the algebra test so if we have a seventh grader that completes the algebra curriculum and they take that at seventh grade if they do it at eighth grade they take it at eighth grade i think those students may be read the evans are those students we've got some seventh graders that take algebra one and then in eighth grade there is a state requirement that they take a test and so if they've gone on into geometry there is no test for geometry at middle school they have to take the eighth grade test it's not a large number of students but it does feel like a bit of a disconnect it's a state requirement and it's part of the federal

132requirement all good trustee lewis thank you thank you for this report so on on the same slide size 6 on my page about the math so seventh grade math is like the one with the highest percentage of failure what um what do we have in place going forward to help the students and smile from three four five six seven eight i know seven is the one that merely is mad with the highest percentage i know you mentioned the the double the few classes but that wasn't already in the spring of this year right it was coming up in the fall both um we did we did start the enhanced math class uh we restructured that this last year though enhanced math previously was a double block where we didn't really have solid guidance on how

133that worked we went back and redefined what the enhanced math class looked like to where the teacher that is providing the core instruction is also the same teacher that's providing intervention and we put some additional interventions in place for that a specific period of time at that time we didn't have a good solid curriculum for what happens in the second block of instruction one of the things that we've done to to connect our progress monitoring tools our map assessment is we have you've heard us talk about my path before how we have have that system that helps teachers identify a pathway of of areas of instruction that students need more assistance in we use that as part of our math resource in that intervention class so that teachers can expand those areas that students that

134are performing at that lower quartile are demonstrating they need additional help so we build those individual pathways for students we feel like now that we have the the redefinition and the curriculum set up for both of the blocks that that's going to be more beneficial for our students that's why we actually at december at semester we redid uh master schedules at middle schools to put that expectation in place and so we now have the system in place now we'll see that um really enhance what's happening with thank you and on site eight they're reading spanish um do we have the same same kind of process in place uh to help the students to avoid the 62 percent failing on on fourth grade so a couple of things that we've done when you're you're speaking specifically

135about our spanish reading scores um we've been purposeful about adding additional program interventions in place for our spanish language learners our spanish testers as well um if you will remember this board approved um esperanza and esparitas which are both reading interventions uh additional supports for our students will help with with phonics and basic reading ability as well as comprehension for our students so we have new resources that will be in place this year we've actually worked on our new literacy our bi-literacy framework so we have we we started the process last semester to work with all of our bilingual teachers to redefine the expectation of instruction in dual language classrooms so we really are are are enhancing the supports that we have in place not only for our students but for our teachers to deliver

136quality instruction in those environments and on the next one science and social studies or scores are still over fifty percent of students uh donate and failing so do we have another system in place to help the students so i'll speak um what our our our preliminary review of our of student performances right now and and really what this goes back to is the infrequency that the state assesses science and social studies and really looking at um science being so science and social is both being so content driven that we have to have quality instruction on a regular basis we're looking at our elementary scheduling we started this conversation last year where the expectation part of the scheduling drivers at elementary is that science and social studies instruction will happen every day in the past students

137have not been exposed to science and social studies instruction on a daily basis so that's part of our instructional framework that we put out as well as part of our literacy framework when we talk about disciplinary literacy and how we're supporting um understanding uh the the concepts in science and social studies and understanding the literacy piece of being able to to think like a scientist and think like a like a historian we're really going to have some additional improvements in place for daily instruction at the elementary levels that will translate into greater performance for our students and we will be monitoring uh the growth of those if i may trust illuminos um the other piece too with regard to what major programmatic change we will have moving forward is in-person instruction uh last year we

138saw that about half of our students chose online virtual instruction and not only in fort worth not only across north texas but across the entire state those students particularly low-income students who learned at home online virtually scored dramatically lower than those school students who are in person so moving forward i think that's going to be one of the things that you're going to see a great difference and of course that that is why the tea exercises caution uh as we use these these outcomes for planning and evaluating person purposes i think we're going to see a dramatic increase the other piece too is i think mr moore pointed out we really made a concerted effort to have everyone come to school and take the test some of our other large urban districts didn't do that

139we wanted to have an accurate and and good baseline irrespective of of what the the the outcomes would what we expected the outcomes to be we we knew that those students who were learning virtually particularly in our case 85 percent of our students uh living at or below the federal poverty line them coming to school to take the test we knew that their their scores were not going to be um as high as those in person so two things in-person instruction as well as the curriculum and instructional focus that mr moore is is talking about in fact tomorrow morning i will be addressing all of our principles uh with regard to a follow-up on this conversation and several others with regard to implementation of next year's plan and i thank you for encouraging our students

140to come back and take that test that really gives you a foundation on where we are and what do we need to do going forward uh on first 2 uh the one with the diamonds so even though on some of our own the the bluegrass we are above the diamond at national level but on our start stress we still score 50 or higher on failing is that a correlation so and sarah you may want to add to this as well i'd like to draw your attention back to what this information tells us remember this is our map um growth from middle of year to end of the year this is not necessarily telling us how our students perform what this data is telling us is that for the second semester when we really said let's

141put our instructional priorities in place let's put a focus on really making sure we start the recovery process for students now students responded to that plan students grew from where they were in january to where we expected them to be outgrew what we were expecting them to do for the spring semester we still have work that we need to do on their achievement so we still have areas of that that we will continue to focus here but go back to that first graphic that i showed you the way that we improve student achievement is you have to take students from where they are and grow students you have to look at where they're at and continue to grow their knowledge and their skill each day each grade level this recovery is not going to be

142a one-year we we've got kids back and and we've got it now it's gonna it's gonna be based in how we grow students how we accelerate learning and how we continue to grow on what those experiences and that instructional opportunity is in the classroom what we want to see every time we administer this this map growth assessment is that we continue to be above um that ex that national norm expectation because that tells us students are growing at higher rates than um they would thank you so much thank you and trustee brookins is the final question okay i just want to commend you on putting um all of these extra ways to help our students to increase their academic performance we know that all of our students don't all learn at the same pace but

143but you putting these things in place i know that we'll be able to see some increase uh my first question is i only have two so done um when you determine um our students based on their tiers um how how actually how does that process work so does everybody go in at tier one and then you are able to figure out who goes to tier two and then tier three and then the second part of the question is where does the tier two and three learning or um additional instruction take place is it in this classroom or do you take them out and do it separately or it's a great question and it's it's um it's hard to answer that because really the way that it works is it's individualized okay that really the the

144the guide for tier one two and three instruction is the teacher the person who is in the classroom with with the student on a daily basis to know how that student is performing tier one instruction is what so think about the lesson plan that the teacher puts together the curriculum we have in place tier one is that teacher delivering here's what i need to cover with my students today and the teacher is monitoring how did my students do with how successful were my students with what i taught them today are there some students that didn't get what i was wanting to teach them i need to pull them in a small group and reinforce and re-teach and do that i may do that during part of my time in my classroom but then there may

145be other students that even after i do that they need a little bit more that may happen in tutoring that may be happening happening in what we do before or after school that may be happening in a pull-out program for students at different times in the school those are kind of the the interventions and supports that the school puts in place and through professional learning communities at the campus um the principal is is leading the teachers to look at what do we need to do for each individual student to make sure they're mastering the skills that we need them to have and my second question is um i'm excited to see that we're putting in the high quality tutoring um my question is is that tutoring before after school and you kind of answered that

146with that with your answer you just did um but also with our partners that we're bringing in um are they being trained on how to tutor our students or are making sure they're on the same quality level that we expect from our tutoring in school um great question so one of the things that we're committed to with our additional tutoring program is to really bring in experts that have a proven track record of working with students knowing the state standards here in texas and getting results from working with small groups and even individualized students what we didn't want to do is put something more on our teachers this year we really want our teachers to concentrate on high quality tier one instruction what you're doing in your classroom to make sure that's that they can

147focus on that expectation right they've been pulled in so many different directions the last couple of years we're in the process right now of looking for partners we've got an rfp that that's going out we'll evaluate that based on the criteria that says do you understand our instructional framework what is your curriculum that you have in place how do you align with the state standards what type of results are you getting across the state or outside of the state as well so we'll be measuring all of that before we select anyone that we would like to partner with for tutoring yeah thank you very much okay sir ready all right um board i know that you received the presentation in advance so we're going to go through the goals and i'm going to go fairly

148quickly i'm not i don't want to rush you so certainly either stop me or ask questions at the end but i don't want to also read to you so goal early literacy um your outcome goal here is for grade three students on the star test to score at meets grade level or above you see that for the three years prior to the pandemic we had a percentage around 34 to 35 each year the board set goals for us beginning in 2020 although we did not test and in 2021 the test that we just took following the pandemic we set a new baseline at 26 you'll also notice that we have not altered um short of guidance from the board our goals for the future years that is why we're leaning into our map data and

149we believe that our students can come back and we can get them back on track and surpass on some of these goals so that we're still working toward those goals and this is that same information by student group for each of the student groups by race ethnicity as well as special programs for goal progress measure 1.1 this is our circle data it's the data data for students in pre-k on reading and phonological awareness and our we set our baseline on 2019 at 80 percent we did not have star or the end of the year majors first circle in texas and other things in 2020 so we measured again this year at the end of year and we're at 78 so there's a slight decrease there but you do not see quite the decrease in in

150pre-k so that's really nice to see that the pre-k students were coming in not significantly behind where they were here is the same information by student group and you see some fairly comparable information across groups there and this just reminds you what the students are tested on what's included in that phonological awareness different skills goal progress measure 1.2 is map reading fluency this is the map test that specifically focuses on fluency the kids wear little headsets and they listen and they speak and we measure their fluency in that way and we started reading matt fluency in 2020 2019 school year that 39 that we set the baseline on was a projection from middle of the year since we didn't have an end of year so we did an estimate and set the goals from there

151and you see that we exceeded the goal this year so the kids coming back in person and being able to be assessed had gained in fluency and we're happy to see that as that is one of the basics for reading as we move on up and this is that same information again by student group then our third goal progress measure 1.3 is map growth in reading and 2021 was our baseline year for map reading we had been using the map in mathematics for a few years the board supported adding the reading so this plan was already in place before we closed for the pandemic and so we're happy that we have this and we had our first score this year at 36 percent and that's of students meeting or exceeding their projected growth at end

152of year and we're planning to move up from there and hopefully even exceed these targets based on that spring data that we just saw and this is the same data by student group and then we'll move to goal 2 which is early mathematics is for third grade reading sorry third grade mathematics based on star at the meets grade level or above um again we we were hovering around 33 34 pre pandemic and we have a new baseline at 17 that's a big drop that is similar to what we saw at the state level the big drop in mathematics and what maps on nationally across districts so not just in texas but that decline in mathematics and this is definitely an area of concern for us the mathematics and we will be focusing carefully on mathematics

153with additional supports mr moore spoke about and this concern is especially great for us with our african-american students who are already performing lower and the decline hit them as well um circle and textia the pre-k and k assessments also have a math component and you see the data there before this break in 2020 right now our pre-k and k students were at 67 percent and again we expect that to come back up this was heavily influenced by the kindergarten scores and those kindergartners remember did not get a full year of pre-k the year before so we think that with everybody back in person as dr scribner said we should see this rebound for the mathematics in those very early learners this is the same information by student group and these are the concepts that are

154assessed in pre-knk and they're very comparable for map growth in mathematics grades one through three and you see our data pre pandemic there and then our new baseline is at 48 percent for grades one through three and mathematics again we saw that accelerate in the spring and expect to increase that growth for next year here is that same data by student group um math mathematics map assessment for kindergarten this was our baseline year so previously we did not have kindergartners testing in mathematics but when we added the reading this year we also rounded out and gave our kinder math for the first time their baseline then is 37 this year and we expect increases in the percent of students meeting or exceeding their projected growth and as mr moore pointed out multiple times that exceeding

155is very important to us because as students come from behind we really want to see more and more students exceeding because they will eventually hit those levels this is that same information by student group or mathematics and then finally goal three is our career college career and military readiness goal we start off by the percentage of students who graduate with at least one college career or military readiness indicator and the indicators are listed there we have seen steady increases in this and we had an increase and actually exceeded our target despite povid intervention so and we feel really proud of that for our graduates to continue to increase that we know that that's a result of hard work at our high schools by high school teachers and principals and leading our students to be sure

156that they meet these measures that prepare them to go on for success after they leave this is that same information by student group um well progress major 3.1 is our 12th grade so we don't just wait to see who hit ccmr when they graduate we're tracking that from 9th grade 10th grade 11th grade and 12th grade and we saw that go up with our class this year as well and exceeded the target this is by student group again our ninth grade on track at 3.2 definitely declined from last year and we did have that emergency pass failed grading guidelines in the spring of 1920 because of the pandemic we believe that that's a part of the reason for that decline the other part of the reason for that decline though is the different learning environment

157as dr scribner indicated many children who were learning virtually or the hybrid and were not in school as much struggled to pass their classes and this ninth grade on track requires uh for a student to count us on track that they earn at least six credits and fail no more than one semester of a court court so we'll be watching that to rebound as we have students back in person we expect that it will this is that same information by student group again and then we have our algebra one completion um just for space on the slides you only have one dot in a free pandemic but we have been up in the high 80 high to mid 80s for quite some time with algebra we had students scoring at a 51 this year but

158we expect that to rebound because we have been very consistently high in our algebra performance and we believe again this is result of virtual instruction and students not being able to get everything that this is the information by student group for 3.3 and finally goal progress measure 3.4 this is the percent of graduates who meet the criteria on sat or act um and we want that to increase it did not increase this year but it did maintain given the pandemic and the lack of testing opportunities that a college board canceled some of the testing as as did a.c.t so students did not have as many opportunities to take the test although we did give it in the school day but we we think that this is good to maintain and expect to be able to

159go back up once we have all our kids in and they have all their testing and again here's that information by student that's the quick run through of the goals and happy to answer any questions on any of those slides thank you so much and you have questions from trustee and darth thank you president jackson thank you for this um lengthy yet comprehensive report i appreciate that um i um tend to be fairly data driven and um i appreciate um the amount of data that you've included but i also have grown weary of reducing our children to simply a number on a test that is taken on one morning in a two-hour period and i recognize the importance of that test but i refuse to encapsulate all of their worth in that one number and

160i also refuse to encapsulate all of the district's work in that one number because i have been that teacher that labored over not the students that passed the test but the students who didn't and we have talked repeatedly i mean all year about how hard our teachers have been working and i want them to know that we see them and are i will use an i statement i see them i know that they have worked hard and i know that their hearts break over the students that did not pass this test or did not perform to the state standard um so let's look at some other numbers first of all kudos for the 98 participation rate and the fact that we have the highest participation rate in texas as far as urban school districts are

161concerned is very telling and that tells me that it was more important to fort worth isd that we get the baseline data on these students so that we know where they are and where they need to perform than the optics of what it might look like when we get the results back or how we might compare to other districts because really can we compare what fort worth isd has done if we had 48 of our students learning virtually and yet 98 of our students taking the test so you're not comparing apples to apples if we're trying to compare school districts that's an unfair comparison and that's unfair to our teachers and it's unfair to our students um and if you'll allow me a little privileged dr scribner i'm gonna put you on the spot for

162just a minute and i hope you don't mind and so i know that that i'm putting on the spot but but again let's look at some other numbers in the district especially knowing that we are not tasked with just educating the academic portion of a child that's certainly very important and i will always stand by that but we have to educate the whole child and if we're not educating the whole child then we're not meeting the needs of our community so um about just an estimate how many free meals did we serve this school year as we were dealing with the pandemic uh that's a that's a great question so we um serve as i said approximately a little less than 80 000 students 85 of those students uh qualify for uh free and reduced

163lunch uh based on their family's um family income so we served uh over three million uh we served two meals breakfast and lunch uh three million 3.2 million breakfasts and 4.3 million lunch uh sir uh so over seven and a half million uh meals uh that we provided for our for our students and we know that many families particularly during the stay-at-home order when we would have drive drive-through meal delivery uh if our families would come to specific sites i think we had 18 sites and we were providing meals through the entire weekend because uh with fan with parents also not working it was um it was uh terribly difficult for for many of our families and and and and it was it was a blessing for us to be able to to to provide

164uh food for the family not only uh during the school day but but also through the weekend that's impressive um did the referrals for social and emotional learning support recognizing that social and emotional learning is federally mandated this is not a fort worth isd idea this is not something that we just think is the next great thing it is something that is federally mandated um did the referrals um for social and emotional learning support increase or decrease this last year due to the fact that we had about half of our students participating uh in school virtually we did see we did see a decrease however that's not to say that that it did not go away we had uh 3 parents request contact from counselors nurses were also essential in supporting our families i think

165one of the speakers talked about our teachers and our support staff as essential workers and they absolutely were in fact uh that was one of the reasons that that i reached out and wrote wrote the governor and and asked that that governor rabbit consider teachers as the central and and toward the front of the line when when vaccinations did did uh did arrive and we're we're very pleased when when that did happen but uh we had over 6 000 both parent contact with counselors and nurse contact and there was some trauma support as well some very significant um and and serious issues uh we had consultations through as a result of death death in the family and in some cases tragically death and uh this summer during the summer launch program about how many students

166are being served in the summer launch park well we actually tripled our number typically we have about 5 000 students participating in summer school this year we made it very very clear to our community that irrespective of of student past pass rates or student student achievement typically summer has summer school has a stigma for those students who are behind the students who failed the class this year summer school was for everyone so we actually went from 5 000 students uh to 15 000 students ultimately about a little bit eleven thousand four hundred who came throughout the period on a regular basis throughout that month so we're very pleased and and again i think um to uh trustee levanos's point earlier that that we did see a great deal of energy around families and students wanting

167to come back to school we're really gonna have to work very hard um and some of the points that were made earlier about students with pre-existing conditions or serious medical um fragility in the in the family we're gonna have to be creative there but but we do want our students in person because we think that's the best place for them to learn and we really can can see the state of texas saw a dramatic drop as did we as a result of of of the coveted year and again and and the the those data are are our new baseline but um i think we're going to be very very um encouraged when when with the focus and the instructional focus on on primary tier one instruction because we can't remediate our way out of this

168you have to have solid instruction principles in the classrooms principles knowing that the the curriculum and providing support we're going to see i think i think a nice rebound but also to mr moore's point it's not going to take it's going to take longer than just one year to get back on the proper trajectory and where we're prepared to do that and then one last question that i already know the answer to um last fall our mission was to open schools and keep them open how many schools had to close in fort worth isd zero uh we had zeros of our 146 campuses we had to close zero um schools we did um our staff and and student support services staff did a great job with um with contract tracing and social distancing and and

169masks uh that um we did have um confirmed cases but we were very quick to to react and and did not see the the spread in fact the community spread that we saw out across um uh fort worth was not reflected in our schools and we hope um that that is the case this fall we're going to be very very diligent because we know that with the new strain and and and and the the parental choice to whether or not students wear masks and that's something that we need to explore while while school districts and government cannot force masks the governor did did indicate that if parents choose to have their their students wear a mask that we certainly can facilitate that and uh and i know that there are times um flying on an

170airplane or or going to the public restroom or other places that um that wearing a mask is um is advisable thank you i appreciate you let me put my picture on the sky thank you um just a final comment i i i want to be on the record saying that our star scores are important we have to do better because what what we see in these results is not what we need for our community or for our school and i know i'm preaching to the choir when i look at the seats at this table right here um but but it is not a total picture of what is happening in fort worth isd it's not a total picture of what's happening in any district in the state of texas there are other very important aspects

171of educating children that are not reflected in those scores needless to say we must do better and we can do better and i appreciate the plan that's been put into place to make sure that our children are getting the best education that they can thank you oh lucky you me too it happened earlier please go ahead trustee martinez thank you um yeah i wanted to just echo with trustee dar said looking over the report and the data i the data continues to show that students of color and economically disadvantaged students were obviously significantly impacted during the pandemic and covet is not going away um although i'm very optimistic about students returning in person we're already seeing you know a spike in some communities and particularly communities of color and um economically disadvantaged areas um so

172when we talk about the wraparound services and the plan um that we have in place moving forward what exactly does that entail and what exactly do we have in place for those students who may continue to be significantly impacted into through the fall trustee martinez thank you um first i would like to share not only with our board but with our stakeholders who are watching this evening that we are updating our covet protocols and that will be released next week and writing on our webpage and updating them and making sure we want to ensure our parents and our teachers and our students that we are coming back to school in person but safely so we are going to have that document writing in english and spanish next week to be able to share and we

173appreciate the feedback i've gotten emails with recommendations from parents and i really do appreciate that because having their lens and their suggestions also help us but our we have a just like for tutoring we have rfp that is out currently around wrap around services we have also increased our intervention specialists our restorative practice specialists as well we are looking at also not just academic needs but that social emotional need and the wraparound services we we would like them to come and help our students so our counselors can keep doing their school counseling our interventionists can still work however we know our students are going to have even greater needs one of the things we don't know is what all those needs are going to entail we can guess by the surveys that we have put

174out and our parents have been fantastic about giving us the feedback on those surveys and actually asking for our counselors to our nurses to reach out to them but having the wraparound services and being able to utilize our partners in our city to help us through this that's also going to be able to help accelerate them to get to different resources quicker when you bring in those wrap around services it's not just a referral because they are the people who are doing who the referrals go to so we're very excited about increasing and expediting the need for our students um we also have um it's actually on your board agenda this evening care solas who will connect our parents to actual social emotional doctors as well as pediatricians but what we love about this type

175of service is that someone can say i want a female doctor who speaks spanish and they find them for them so many times our parents just are referred or don't have a choice on their family doctor pediatrician or other type of physician everyone should have a choice regardless what do they feel most comfortable with and who do they want to send their child to and what zip code do they want to send their child to a pediatrician or a doctor so we're very and it's not just for our students our parents can call and they also can get connected so we're really trying to expand i know we had one speaker who talked about an app um but for us we have it on the board agenda because we believe in that app that's when

176a student can go walk into a classroom and they can tell their teacher right away thumbs up thumbs down how am i feeling you know what how powerful is that to know how your students your is feeling what happens from when they leave that door of their house and when they walk into that door of that school now it's our turn to take care of them we've got to reset them we've got to get them focused we've got to engage them we don't know what they just went through so we want to know if it's a thumbs down are they hungry does something happen at home you know did were they was there an argument with their brother on the way to school and now they don't know if their brother is going to pick

177them back up from the middle school to walk them home you know all of us who have been in the schools know how that impacts the little one so we want to make sure we're able to respond very quickly so our resources are really um when we say wrap around we truly mean wrap around it's going to be people it's going to be services going to be referrals it's going to be apps and there's going to be something out there we haven't thought of but that's like the best things with escrow funding we have three years we have not even probably touched on a few things that we need to put in place but the best thing is is that we are going to have the funding to do that when we find the need

178thank you final question trustee quinton phillip thank you president jackson um so yeah y'all know what these presentations do to me oh man so i don't even know there's a question in this per se other than commentary um you know one i appreciate rusty dar your line of questioning because whether it was your intent or not i think what occurred from that was um to be able to see some of the positive aspects of what has been occurring within the district and i don't think that those things are highlighted nearly enough at least not in the circles that i'm in particularly as a trustee you know i know many of my colleagues will say the same we hear so much of the negative aspect of what we need to be doing what's not happening right

179and so you know even just trust you all asking those questions and the responses at least to my liking uh we're highlighting that there's been some pretty phenomenal things happening as as far as how we've stepped up as a district how you dr scribble and how you as administrators have really tackled problems that was way outside of um reading writing and math um and so i'm very grateful for that a lot and i hope the public is able to see how much we care about humanity of our students in our community and i think you're a lot of questions that have to i like that and along with that being said i hope that we can just very blatantly say those star scores were absolutely unacceptable at every level like there is not sugar coating

180that can really happen to that yes i am very pleased that we led the state a number of entries of test takers um but where we are as far as whether those scores indicated is horrible and completely understanding all the things that went into play and what we said right as far as the unprecedented time period we've been in as far as what a pandemic can do as with those social economic status and everything else that came into play to make those numbers what they are but they are what they are and i think it behooves us and and i think you all have been doing a really great job of not attempting to run from that that it's really unacceptable in every way so but with that with that being said you know when

181i start thinking about what the solutions are to that i think that we have the solutions that's the beautiful part about this whole thing that's kind of been my little message in the community of grace right that we really have been it's been this tremulous time period in which none of us have known how to navigate including you dr scrivener as the superintendent you you never know in a million years that you'll be dealing with a pandemic or or flooding buildings and unfreeze and some of everything else that we've had to go through during this time period so preaching that message of grace that we're navigating those things but with that being said now it is show improved time right even said early oh it might take a little more than a year to get

182it can't take more than a year not to show the progress that we need to show understanding we can't get your ultimate goal of numbers within one year but we can put a great dent in what it looks like um showing that we really are putting forth the best efforts possible over the course of a year to be able to show what growth looks like our students are performing at a much higher level and biggest thing is how we're leading the state in the country because i firmly believe that we have what it takes to be able to do so so when we start thinking about what it would take for us to be leaders and they're supposed to be able to turn the ship in the right direction plus to be able to get

183students on level a lot of times the first thing is money well we got to be able to have money doing things well money is here now all right i understand it's not infinite if that runs out to but money is not the object that it once was we now have money right um you're going to need board support and i can't speak for every one of my colleagues or how they would speak or how they will vote but i'm pretty confident that you have the board support you're going to need be able to implement the things that you feel are necessary and then we're going to need expertise and unless y'all got me food i really feel like we have some phenomenal people in these positions that have expertise about what it is that

184we need in order to get this job done so i guess with that being said if there's anything that we don't have i really do ask that you start with you dr scribner and then of course to the administrative team if there's anything that we don't have that we would need in order to be able to turn this thing in the right direction and get the results we're looking for please don't remain silent on that not that you have in the past but i'm asking even more so be bold talk let us know what those things may be so whether it be something we can do as a governing body whether it be something we can do as a community as parents whatever those things may be that we actually have your back and support

185you in those efforts because this just simply cannot go on and so i really do think that it's about moving forward from now because now hopefully everything's that you know everything goes according to playing we'll be back in the building in august we'll have a full year of person instruction we'll have people in different positions that are going to be able to thrive and do the job that they've been in those positions to be able to do and so i don't want to look up this time next year and be trailing houston or dallas or san antonio on anything because we have everything we need here in order to be ahead of the curve in order to be ahead of them in every way so i guess that's just my i guess more than admonishing

186anyone it's just the encouragement of just saying that we can do this because that student recovery plan that y'all presented with those extra funds in my short time as being a board trustee it's one of the most impressive things i've ever seen i mean it really was comprehensive it really does show that you are the community you are the professionals in our buildings you let your own expertise to what these things need to be in order for us to get right and i really do think that now with proper execution of the exact plan you've already said we have that we will get the results we're looking for we just have to execute that now so whatever barrier keeps us from executing that's why i need y'all to scream loud and proud and let us

187know that we can eliminate eliminate all those barriers so we don't look back this time next year and have any excuse as to why we're not leading in what learning recovery looks like yes we have to dig out of a hole we're going to admit that openly yes these scores are whack right and this time next year we should be sitting here celebrating the progress that we made because we have everything we need to do so i guess it's just my encouragement trustee brooking yes i just had one last comment um i just wanted to know how often will we be able to see that we're starting to get some good results in our how often will we know that what you what you've put in place is working instead of waiting until six months

188from now and it's not working then we're like oh we should have pulled it three months ago um yeah how often are we going to be able to see any results so um we are going to utilize our board monitoring calendar and so we're finalizing that we had a draft for esser we're only required every six months to bring you results we're not comfortable with that um so we have a couple things that we're going to do we're taking our plans and actually actually aligning them to our board goals so the things that we have in place that we can bring you data and bring you updates and we may not have like strong data points like every six weeks on some of our plans it will take a little longer to get some of

189that data back but we want to always keep you updated so for the plans that are aligned to our board goals that are also on our board monitoring calendar you're going to see those a lot more frequently and then we would like to bring to you as well some of our social emotional updates we have a very strong progress monitoring with how many touches we're making with our parents and with our students and give you updates on that as well we also um have in the works that we would like to we will be bringing forward to you after we go through our prfp process having an external audit who is watching us with implementation and making sure we're having a return of investment and able to give us audit the programs and initiatives we're

190putting in place and provide that data so during year one did it work what results do we see year two do we keep it do we change and then of course year three we need to talk about sustainability and what is working and what some other things not working let's just get rid of it because it's not impacting our students effectively so you're going to spend a lot more time hearing from us and with our different plans we find that these are short-term needs it's almost like we did emergency constraints around covet well for us our esser funding is also a very short-term emergency that we need to keep you updated constantly and also ourselves with accountability when we're bringing it to you and to our stakeholders and we want to also um highlight the

191work that our principals will be doing and our teachers will be doing and there's nothing better to do that than to bring you updates and results because it's not us it's our principals and it's our teachers that do those work in our support staff actually hit the nail on the head when you said about accountability we've heard the parents and our community and our stakeholders loud and clear and saying that you know they are holding us accountable um that this is going to be the year that we see the increase in our students academic progress so you hit the nail on the head and and and i'm glad that we will be seeing those results a lot quicker and seeing that what you are doing is working so i appreciate that thank you trustee dr

192michael ryan here we go guys a good report i've got one question and we've got a really specific double block of kids for math and for literacy in sixth and seventh grade and we and we wanted back to back classes and the only problem i've got is you're talking about sixth and seventh grade students that have an attention span of about eight minutes and you've got them in there for nearly two hours are we going to break that down so they keep getting different it from different ways so they keep their attention certainly i think that's a great question i think we've got to look at who those students are and and the need that each individual student has there will be very purposeful there is already very purposeful direction on what those two classes

193look like while they will be in the same classroom for a back to black back class period their first core content class will look very different than their intervention class their intervention classes smaller group settings so that they're working on individual tasks they're working in groups they're working with teacher and intervention programs so think about instruction and then applying your instruction and having intervention so while same class period back to back very different actions that are taking place that will get students engaged in in their instruction as well is that everything great you all thank you for a great report and now we're gonna have an instant replay and move over to dr scribner very much at this time we'll bring up our chief financial officer who will provide the publication of proposed tax rate

194do a little housekeeping here at the front table and just the president jackson at this time if if you would i'll i'll our chief financial officer mike paul and uh head of budget david johnson thank you dr scribner it's a privilege to be before the board tonight and we do have some good news and and as dr scrivener indicated uh mr david johnson our uh senior officer for budget and finance is going to actually uh give you the specific specifics of the good news uh david is a real expert on this stuff and has really been the one who crunched a lot of these numbers the good news is we we have a decrease in our tax rate that david will report to you on uh and and so we are uh from a financial

195standpoint uh we're in a great spot as a district as has been said a few times tonight and so uh i won't steal any more of his thunder but we do have a great presentation on some good news david go ahead good evening uh president jackson dr governor and board members we do have good news as mr paul said and let me run through uh on july 22nd we received this you hear me all right uh on july 22nd we received the certified role from the taran appraisal district that role showed approximately six and a half percent growth over the prior year uh we then represent that information provide that information to tea they go go through a series of calculations i perform the series of that calculation as well they'll finalize that and approve

196us that is due this week that is in process on august 14th i will complete what is known as the truth in taxation tax rate adoption notice in the fort worth star telegram and published that on the 24th house bill 3 one of the priorities of house bill 3 was tax compression so as the local tax base increases and again it did a little over six and a half percent the current year ea provides us a mode for a calculation that calculates the uh mcr the maximum compressed rate remember that we have two components for the maintenance and operation tax the m o the the maximum compressed rate is the baseline and then the 17 pennies is the result of the taxpayer elections we went through the vader and the tre so the com combination

197of those two comprises the the proposed maintenance and operation taxes uh tax rate and that's a dollar five twelve uh the current rate is a dollar eight six four so we're looking at about a three and a half penny reduction on the proposed mno rate that i'll go through the publications on uh the debt service rate which again is separate from the maintenance and operation that is used to pay debt uh is 29 to after the issuance of the recent recent bonds uh that we settled on in in july that rate is still projected to be the same so no increase in the debt service rate the combination of the rates uh the dollar 512 mno the 29.2 ins will produce a rate of a dollar 34.32 compare that to our current rate of 1.3784

198will reduce will provide a reduced tax rate reduction in the tax rate of about three and a half pennies tonight we don't need any board action tonight we just wanted to go through that with you to kind of prep you and what's on the horizon in the timeline that'll happen over the next month can i answer any questions i think if i might president jackson there are two i think takeaways from that we we've mentioned a three and a half cent uh decrease in the rate and the the increase in values with the the interest and sinking fund rate remaining the same really provides capacity uh for the district to um if the board chooses at some point to call a bond election it certainly provides the capacity service uh whatever bonds the board uses

199to protect for the voters so increased capacity and a lower maintenance and operations tax steve phillips thank you president jackson so i just said the tax rate is going down you guys want to make sure that i was actually dead that we are in a good position as far as absolutely and we got these vessel funds which we have a plan of action that's a good financial report right there good job no questions okay looks like that's the only question of clarification and some happiness and excitement from district three okay we will move along then thank you all so much for good news and we'll move along to consent agenda items as board president i'm making the following statement in accordance with board policy bbfa local this is a reminder to all board members of

200the legal conflict of interest requirements and disclosure requirements you may have for matters under consideration on this agenda for this meeting if required by law board members shall recuse themselves from all discussion and shall abstain from voting on any matter pertaining to such a disclosure do we have any questions or concerns about consent agenda trustee dar i didn't even push the button um first of all after going through this over 400 paid report thank you um it's the beginning of the school year here we go big reports um i had a significant number of questions that i sent to leadership this week and i appreciate the fact that you answered them timely and very thoroughly and so i thank you for that because i know that that's time that you took to answer those questions

201so thank you very much um due to my employment with region 11 and any potential conflict of interest that might be created by that employment i recuse myself from any discussion or consideration of agenda item number b16 which is the approved proposed middle school and high school course changes for the 2021 20 22 23 20 23 24 school years thank you trustee evans i will be abstaining from b3 b3 thank you trustee evans trustee brickens yes i will be abstaining from the item that discusses uh actual programming with the ymca which number is that do we know b5 and i2 will be abstaining from b5 okay no other questions at all then we will recess and reconvene in the board conference [Music] room [Music] in accordance with the open media's law the board opened meeting

202at 5 30 p.m with quorum present recessed reconvened open session adjourned regular session convened executive session adjourned executive session and now reconvened open session at 10 09 p.m with a quorum present we're now to number 12 on our agenda accept consent agenda items before i take the motion i wanted to make the statement even though we made it earlier in the evening b3 we have cj evans has asked to be able to abstain thank you it is after 10 p.m [Laughter] uh b5 trustee daphne brookins and myself will be abstaining and b16 trustee dar will be abstaining and with that in mind do i have a motion accepting consent agenda items michael ryan thank you for the motion do i have a second second from the webinars any discussion seeing and hearing none we could

203move to voting and the motion passes unanimously with trustee martinez a hand wave because her screen is frozen moving on to 13 a we do not have any items removed from consent agenda we'll move to 13b personnel executive director pre-k through 12 student and school support three positions do i have a motion or do you announce first sir moved by trustee lloyd seconded by dr ryan any discussion are we moving to voting i i don't have a screen that says we are there we go yeah i've still missed someone got them all unanimous and the vote passes unanimous dr scrivener at this time would you like to make an announcement thank you very much president jackson members of the board and fort worth uh school community we are very excited uh tonight to name new

204executive directors in the north side in the south hills and the southwest pyramids and i'll turn it over to our deputy superintendent molinar to introduce these spectacular individuals thank you dr scrivener our first executive director we would like to congratulate dr dorian benavidez who is currently our executive director of equity and excellence will be moving over to be our student and school support executive director dr benavidez i don't see your family with you but i consider of course dr hall and miss bree part of your immediate family so we'll go ahead and introduce them for you our next recommendation and improved recommendation is guadalupe cortez who's currently the principal at oakhurst elementary so we would like to welcome her as our new executive director miss cortez would you like to introduce any family with you

205to this evening thank you and just a fun note her sister is also one of our campus leaders in the district though our next uh approved candidate is christine renteria she's currently our principal at kirkpatrick elementary and she is our new executive director for student school support services thank you thank you dr scribner we have three fantastic leaders just going to support our campuses thank you thank you all and thank you all for waiting patiently and i saw some kids with you earlier are they the ones that are now in bed tell them thank you as well all right moving on to 14 action item a discussion in action to approve renewal of edge euphoria premium suite and related services do i have a motion moved by trustee evans seconded by trustee luebinos any discussion

206sing and hearing none oh trustee dora thank you trustee jackson um due to my employment with region 11 and any potential conflict of interest that might be created by that employment i refuse myself from any discussion or consideration of agenda item 14a was moved by trustee evans seconded by trustee luevnos waiting for the screen to catch up so we can vote we have seven yays and one abstention motion passes i got 14c discussion and action to approve workforce solution of tarrant county contract amendment by extending the contract end date and allocate funding through august 31st 2021 adult education program do i have a motion moved by dr ryan seconded by trustee darr dar any discussion let's move to voting let's go up daphne brookins i'm sorry you guys are getting quicker due to any potential

207conflict of interest that might be created by my relationship with workforce solutions of parent county i will be recusing myself from this one and the motion passes unanimously with one extension from trustee brooke and now we're going to go backwards because that's always fun to do to 14b thank you trustee darr discussion and action to approve addition of services to the existing shared services agreement with education service center known as esc region 11 for instructional services materials professional development parent engagement opportunities and administration of services private non-profit schools that serve economically disadvantaged children who reside in the fort worth isd attendance area i'll make the motion do i have a second seconded by trustee louis minos trustee dar sorry i have a busted mic due to my employment with region 11 and any potential conflict

208of interest that might be created by that employment i refuse myself from any discussion or consideration of item agenda 14b and now we'll move to voting seven yays and one abstention moving on to 14 d discussion and action to approve second reading revisions board policies c f e a local d b d local and d e e local grab a motion moved by dr ryan seconded by trustee darr any discussion seeing and hearing them we could move to voting the motion passes unanimously at this time we'll move on to 15 comments by board members or our superintendent on current district activities and announcements you could raise your hand while the screen catches up if you so desire rusty brookins um i just wanted to make an announcement about the epic event that we had for

209celebration for miss opal lee july 18th at i am terrell i wanted to thank fort worth police department commander ladd and her officers for participating in this event the african-american women's leaders and the host committee i wanted to thank the fourth isd staff mike mike malton karen molinar principal brown and the rest of his staff for helping us make that event epic danny garcia also and also the elected officials who attended this event it was a great event for ms opel and uh it was an opportunity for the community to come out and to give her her flowers today now well she still got all of her morals and is still running around the community doing great things so it was a great event and um yeah it was it was well attended at i

210am terrell so thank you thank you trustee brookins and on saturday uh trustee ramos was out of town i was honored to speak and deliver a certificate at the 50th reunion of ml kirkpatrick wildcats and i did so with my godfather burt williams who was actually a coach and a faculty member during these individuals time and it was very interesting to see them interact with him the same way i do we all bow and and and smile and here's the certificate and i will present that to president to uh immediate past president center ramos jr upon his return and on that note we are adjourned you