001to make sure that we have better results in meets and Masters this is uh the results for the math the state at 72% the region at 74% and the district at 76% and we have also the meets and Masters 42 43 for the state and region 35 for the district and then that was for the meets and then for the Masters 177% 16% and 8% these are the results for science at the state level 75% region level 75% and the district 68% it also has the meets and Masters 4340 and 25 for the meets and 16 12 and 4% for the district for the Masters then 2024 star for social studies the state 78% the region 77% and the district 72% then we have the needs and Masters our district was at 36% and at
00212% for the Masters however what I presented to you right now is based on all the region and all the states so we wanted to make sure that we reflect a true picture and we would compare those to districts are similar to us so if you look at it we have progo Sant r s and edou which more or less are similar to our demographics and this is for all grades and all subjects for um approaches level progress was at 72% while Santa Rosa at 70 Donna 68 Santa Maria 67 mono 66 and Ed couch Elsa 57 so we were higher in that that area if we look at the U meets we were at 37% while Santa Rosa was at 39 Don was at 36 Santa Maria was at 74 Monte Alto was at
00374 and Ed couch was at 26% and then if you look at the meanss he was pretty consistent across the districts again this is reflecting all gr levels all start test and all SS then we go to our 2024 School progress this is a annual growth how do our students do when it came to growth so they got a 67 last year and this year they got a 72 that count grow right and this is for all students who took the start or the EOC and it it gets the results from the ELA start or the reading start for the little ones and the math T those are the two main factors for main subjects all grades for both subjects State at 64% region at 64 4% and the district was as 62% which is
004very consistent across then we had uh all grades for ELA and reading 67% at the state level 66% at the region level and 63% at the district level and then for mathematics all grades the state was at 60% the region was at 62% and the district at 61% now I'm going to present to you the School progress acceler accelerated growth this is reflecting the students who failed the previous year but this year they had grow but they also passed which is one of our strong context here in Progresso I and that's one things that we were talking when we met with the principles it seems that the previous year we were focusing on those students who had failed and we wanted for them to pass the test uh however we cannot forget that we have
005students that pass the test but we need make sure that they get into the meets and master right so for both subjects stay at 32% um the region at 36% and we were at 40% which means 40% of our students that did not pass the test the previous year passed a test this year for reading and math now for ELA reading State 30% region 30% and we were at 36% which mean 36% of our students who did not pass the reading or the ELA the previous year passed it and they showed growth and then the last one is uh mathematics the state was at 35% the region at 42% and our district was at 44% the attendance report on taper reflects two years PRI uh prior the 2025 and that's the way uh the taper
006reflects it for every district for the 2022 2023 school year we were at 92% versus the region 92% and the state 93% in 2021 and 22 the district was at a 90% 9070 so we have we had about a 1.5 percentage uh points more than the previous year again this is reflecting two years prior 2025 which is the 2022 we have the annual dropout rate for dtms which reflects seventh and eighth grade last year we did not have any students that's why we have a 0% at the state level we had 0.8% and at the region level 0.4% at the high school 9th through 12th grade we had a 2.4 drout rate and these are students that uh somehow leave the district but they do not enroll in another District in most of the cases
007some students go to Mexico and we cannot find them if they're here in the United States we try to get them even if they're uh migrant students to make sure that they register a high school but in our case when they go to Mexico it's a little harder but we're working on that at the region level we had 1% and at the state level 2% fouryear graduation rate these are students who start ninth grade and they graduate in 12th grade at the state level 90% at the regional level 93% and at the district level 88.6% this was a class of 20123 the previous year class of 2022 we were at [Music] 87.9% College ready graduates in comparison to the state and the region State 64% uh region 64 and uh the district was at 51%
008TSI criteria and this is for both subjects uh Ela and math we have the state at 48% region at 48% and the district at 32% but if we look at the associate degrees look at this 20% of our students graduate with an Associate Degree which is fantastic fantastic that means that those students are saving money um through college so that is 20% obviously we want more students but if we compare it to the region 6% only 6% of our students in the region graduate with an associates degree and 3% of the state level and then if we take a look at dual courses uh in any subject 41% of our students are taking college classes at the high school versus 29% at the region and 24% at the state these are demographics 99.7% of our
009students are economically disadvantaged versus the state 62.3 non-educational disadvantage these are students who do not qualify to get the uh Federal free meal we are at 0.3% versus 37.7 at the state level the emerging bilinguals for English learner students 61.4 versus 24.4 at the state level students with disciplinary placement 0.7 versus 1.9 at the state level imigrant 1.2 versus 2.9 at the state level migrant 9.7 versus 0.2 and students at risk 76.7 versus 53.2 at the state level this is our ethnic distribution obviously 99% of our students are Hispanic then the enrollment by instructional programs bilingual education uh 70.3% CTE this is districtwide 19.8% CTE just the high school which is 9th through 12th grade we have 58 88.2% of our students taking uh CTE classes gifted and talented 11% and special education 88.8% and
010this is something very very important that I would like for everybody to to take note this is a distribution of years of of experience that our teachers have 10% of our teachers are beginning teachers so they started last year 10% of all then we have 1 through 5 years of experience 16% 6 through 10 years of experience 11 I'm sorry uh 6 through 10 years of experience 16% I'm sorry 21% but look at this 11 to 20 years of experience 29% which means that the majority of our teachers if we divide them in categories have a lot of experience so what we want to do is you want to make sure that we take care of those teachers so they stay here and uh one of our obstacles obviously is to compete with Donna with
011weso that pay more so we're trying our best to make sure that we have a strong fund balance to try to motivate them to stay but look at this 29% so we have 50% of our teachers between six and 20 years of experience so these are teachers that are very hardworking individuals they're also very loyal to the district so uh we are pushing our best to uh motivate them to stay here with us and that's all we have uh do you have any questions we have any questions from the public I have a question okay as I was seeing the data uh on which which is good news we're seem to be improving on the meeted Masters for the students what I wanted to know uh on the elementary level um what is your student
012ratio per classroom per teacher I'm very strict I'm I'm the one that goes 22 to1 but in some instances because we have bilingual students uh or students that are getting uh Ela in Spanish some of the classes are at 15 to1 16 to1 so the standard more or less is between 18 to 22 in a regular class but if it's a special case where we have by students there it's about 16 per per teacher the reason I'm asking is because when you compare the state and the uh the region and then the art campus which is awesome we're almost there but uh the comparison I want to know on State and region is it the same number of ratio of students that we did not see like how much is the ratio per classroom in
013the state level and the region level because it makes a big difference obviously we're a smaller District we have 300 students per campus so obviously we're going to have smaller classrooms and that is a real good benefit for our our district compared to the state and local level so I feel that we do need more Improvement and we have experienced teachers as you say that have been here for a long time and uh I think we should be at a higher level since we have a smaller rati of students but that's my opinion no very very good one thing that I can tell you at the elementary levels we do have intervention teachers that pull out students and maybe as part of of the actual schedule you'll see 20 students per te per one teacher
014right uh but once the day starts and we do rotations some teachers pull out students to do that oneon-one if they need that help so we turn it into a tutorial program from within the rotation but yes very good point we'll work on that and that that's that's just the elementary but the high school and middle school what is your student rate so the high school and middle school it's a little lower because of the need of the students so we have classes that have 16 uh 17 students per one teacher uh because of that for instance at DMs I can tell you that in eth grade we test here you have you can okay perfect um for instance at dtms we have V grade that take the start test for reading math science and
015social studies so for that grade level we uh gave BMS to teachers in science to teachers in social studies but in seventh grade because of the rotation and they only take the star in in reading and in math uh they don't have those two teachers they have one for Science and one for social studies so it depends on on the need now here let me see the class size information so this is reflecting last year so um I would have to go get the one for this year but the one from last year in kindergarten it was a 19.9 versus the state 18.4 then first grade 18.8 for the district 18.8 for the state which is the same right uh for second grade 24.1 versus 19. .1 third grade 16.9 versus 19.4 at the state
016level fourth grade 19.5 to 19.4 which is very consistent fifth grade 16.6 to 20.9 so it seems that in fifth grade our classes were lower last year versus the state uh because fifth grade does not have a cap so you can have 25 students in a fifth grade class but again we try to keep it uh the same as everybody else like the 221 uh and then sixth grade 15.3 versus 19.2 which is again lower than the state as well but thank you very much man for clarify anybody else bu on the star test I saw that only math is over uh than the the state and the and the region and I know you guys are implementing the blue bonnet curriculum for we're barely going to do it right for math right so what
017what are you guys looking at for science social studies and Ela so for science we started a new Adoption this year so the the one we tested last year was for the previous uh adoption so this year we started with a brand new Adoption that came from from the state so expectation is to make it definitely yes uh and one thing we did differently this year than last year for instance at uh AT progress Elementary do that one part where we saw that there was a decrease from one year to the next this year we moved the teacher and we put him as a science lab teacher it's like an intervention class where students uh go through the concept but uh doing experiments manually uh last year we didn't have that in fact that teacher
018was was in another grade level and this year we're seeing uh with our Benchmark results that students are doing better in science and so social studies any the social studies so we test social studies uh at dtms in high school high school did excellent I think we got 96% uh last year social studies uh the weakness and the problem that we have is at dtms where social servic is tested through 96 tis uh and we're barely going to get a new Adoption we were supposed to get it this year are you we were supposed to get it this year but we did but that was not our fault it was the state so starting next year we're going to start with a brand new curriculum and we're planning to bring uh teachers during the summer
019to do the uh curriculum writing to make sure the lessons are ready for the following I have another question yes ma'am yes on the graduation rate you did talk about the uh the dropout rate and and uh I wanted to know like under your graduation rate is it including also the uh the students that go that go to Early College yes all together yes so the high school is one high school and we divided into two mini schools per se one is the early college and one the high school but all of the students count as the high school student so the percentage you gave overall the 80 something per I think you mentioned that includes them yes it includes all of so uh on the um another question you can say on the um
020attendance and the dropout rate um you mentioned also some students they go to Mexico um and they don't come back are they recent immigrants or they basically no from what we've seen our students are here and for situations where the family they go back and they don't come back to school so in order for them to to do not count as Dropout they need to register in a US uh school so if they go to Mexico and they don't register we automatically do and we're trying our best I mean we we've done uh incentives where we tell them that we're going to give them a computer for them to connect through through a laptop uh but those students that go to Mexico and we don't have uh any type of interaction or connection with that
021okay another question on the uh ones that receive an associate stre you said mentioned it was like 20% yes out of how many in your early college so the 20% is reflecting all high school students not only the The Early College so if we focus on the Early College I would say what 90 0 and more than 90% students at Early College per se gr graduate each coh is very different so um last year Cort was 28 this year Cort is going to be 29 so of this 28 or 29 all 90% yes ma'am ass that's good what is the most uh associate they get here in in the district like early college like the highest program what is the one like the degree program yeah no no the program like is it for nursing
022is it for health it's interdisciplinary studies we get an associates like a Basics where it can go through any of the major there is specified students that are in Academy those um kiddos are getting Associates either in biology engineering um they're specified but it's only a few of those that go that rout any other questions just on on attendance uh your your pe's department right that's that's what the core of of the a lot of the the funding for the state right uh are you guys satisfied making sure that your the software that you use or your methods are the perfect one for the district I know there's different options just like a curriculum you can choose different software stuff like that I mean yes you guys the software that we get is a one
023that region one has so we're happy with with the software pams is in charge of inputting the information right uh going back to to the actual process of getting students into school right the attendance part one thing that we've noticed uh We've noticed in the past is that we have families that are repeaters and I'll say it like that so if if uh this has a third grader and a fifth grader and a seventh grader and a high school uh student if one is not here then all of them are not here so that has an impact instead of just having one student that is absent you have four from within that same family uh one thing that the law changed after covid it made it harder for us to send those people to the
024judge but we still talk to the parents and we tell them you know what if if if the student this happen and we're going to have to send you to to court but then we send them to court and guess what the judge is like no you know what the school has to handle it uh one thing that we can do for the future is create uh an actual District policy where we take care of the actual consequence like we can charge uh parents I don't know $5 if the student is have in three times that's something that we would have to talk to to the uh board to see if that something that they want to do for next year thank you any other question public okay at this time we go to board
025discussion following the 2023 2024 Texas Academic performance report any question discussion with the board to motion to thank 65 at this time can we call Mee to order for regular board meeting can we all please stand States [Applause] toose yes sir Heavenly Father we want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to be here today please guide us and give us the wisdom to make the best decisions for our students in our community in the name of Jesus Christ amen amen we to report yes sir again before we start can we just uh um go over some saw some stuff going over social media about the re reur of the school school board members on travels can you explain that M first please yes Mr I just want to point point out to the
026public as well why the reason we get reimbursed good evening Mr board president members of the board and Community um so the way reim reimbursements work is board members will pay for travel fees including airline tickets mileage um and meals out of your own pocket to attend required training and conferences um after the training you as board members submit copies of your receipts to superintendent Coronado and the business office they process your receipt and then payment is given to you for what was already paid out of your own pocket so that's the way the reimbursements work for traveling to these required conferences perfect put watch oh thank you sir let me start uh with Progresso Elementary Miss Garcia is here we want to thank you Miss Garcia we want to say that we're very proud
027of here in your students they got first place in the U competition in Santa Rosa with 11 campuses and you're talking about idea har on behalf of the board and our Administration man thank you so much uh we're planning to do something for our kids uh pretty soon so we'll get back to you but once again congratulations we're going to be testing telpas this week uh all of our campuses are starting the telas this week and next week uh just in case if if we have a rotation of the different schedule that we have it's going to be because of telas also good news we've got the lasso grant for instructional leaders $65,000 uh that will go to the high school on another note I had a meeting with the marketing uh committee last week
028and we're going to start our first commercial before we go into uh spring break and we're going to be doing those commercials uh at least every month so that way the community and other districts see all of the great things are happening here in progress so sometimes we just tend to listen to the negative stuff but believe me a lot of positive things are happening in in our district and we want for everyone to know all of those uh factors and variables on another note we are going to contract Channel 4 for our senior uh students who are going to graduate and that's going to be awesome also that that's one of the initiatives that we're creating this year thank you very much man for sending us the information it's going to be better than
029Santa Maria okay they're my kids too so we're going to start with with Channel 4 as well once we have information I'll let you know but uh they're starting already I have the work orders report if you have any payment workers complaining that's a good thing because they're working very hard um and and we're meeting with them on a weekly basis we're checking and have the report there with you also I talked to some of the community members and there was one concern when it came to the actual live video I'm I'm talking on on the actual microphone but it's this speaker so this one is not connected to the actual system uh so we're going to order uh individual microphones that will be connected to the system so that way everyone that is watching
030us through YouTube uh has you know a better perception of the message that we want to send hopefully we'll have that ready for the next meeting and guess what George lass is not here but the auditorium is ready we are going to open the auditorium uh for all the events that we want to have I mean right now was talking about all the positive things that are happening and the auditorium is a top-notch Auditorium I think it's one of the best in uh South Texas we are planning to have our Spring Festival March 11 so we're going to invite all the community members we're fixing just minor things like the lights and and the speakers but the main thing which was the stage is already set uh Mr lasso is going to send us a
031confirmation letter already uh but I know that you you were asking about it and and U we're about to open it we had an uh sbdn committee meeting today basically focusing on the uh District of innovation we are planning to change our starting date for the first day of instruction because we want to compete with idea and weso one of the things we saw this year is that idea started August 15th school right and then wesle started on August 19th and some parents were like hey because I'm working I need to make sure that our students go to school and we started until the last uh week of August uh so the sbdm voted and unanimously they said yes we're going to be playing around with with a calendar we're going to give them different
032options uh but on their behalf they wanted for me to tell you thank you for the different stiens that we gave out especially the um attendance one the teachers were very very happy community members this year we started with uh different sens and one of them had to do with attendance so the teachers are not absent during the first semester they get $500 and then the second semester another $500 and it's great because we were spending a lot of money in substitutes so in reality it's just an investment for our students and our teachers and and and believe me we had those teachers in the morning and and they were very very happy about it they were like oh I got sick but no I I don't want to lose my attendance money so they
033would show up so it was a great investment so Bo thank you very much for that and that's all I have do you have any questions yes all right um I know talked earlier today and we've been talking the past weeks about the water yes the drinking water for the kids um it's really bad um it's tastes really bad and the kids uh we I went to a bpms earlier this month and it was and I and I checked out I know we have talked about it and I checked it out uh not even the teacher would drink from it I wouldn't drink from it um that's the it got to my attention that the kids were not happy with it um I don't know maybe we could do something cheap in the near future
034to make something about that happen definitely so the Mach that we had what happened with that so those are I don't want to say brand new machines where we bought them two years ago uh and they have been changing filters the filters and they changed it a month ago we're going to call the company because uh they're saying that it was a water supply what's the yeah the military supply so the company was saying in reality it's not us it's that money theary is there I'm not sure I want to make sure that it's on writing so they're coming back this week to check it I know you said dtms but I want for them to check all question that's do we go to adoption of the board uh resolution authorizing uh the continued wage
035payments during the school closure due to bad weather yes uh Mr President members of the board as you recall we had a date January 21st that uh we sent everybody home because it was very very cold we just need for you to pass the resolution stating that all of our employees are going to get paid any questions at this time I'll make a motion to approve the adoption of the board resolution authorizing contined wages B during closure due to B weather on January 21st motion by motion pass this time we to see1 approve for the rule ex partnership uh with s Mar for theou yes we have Mr region one here with us let me get to yours well good evening board members audience my name is RO can you all hear me I'm okay
036like not use sometimes my voice just carries um I am Ro L and I'm with region one and I'm here to talk to a little bit to share with you a little bit that we're working on um I'm the bottom guy Joe Garza he's out right now somewhere else so I'd like to start by letting you know what the initiative is as you were looking at the taper report you're seeing that the mentioning of Career and Technical education Career and Technical education has changed a lot since we were in school um used to be something that kids would take just to kind of help them get by the day while they're taking Math and Science the state has realized that we need to do a better job in preparing our students to be career ready
037we're doing it having them become College ready but we're not doing it so much on the career rating so what the state did is it's putting together accountability measures make sure that school districts work towards getting kids not just college or care but college and their goal is by 2030 at least 0% of Texans in the state of Texas will possess a degree certificate or any other postsecondary credential that's what's been placed on the superintendence of the state so as accountability is rising for school districts to account for college and Care read what's been happening is that some of the smaller school districts are struggling a little there's over 600 school districts in the state of Texas that have a population of 1,600 or lower and so when the state meets with them oh I'm
038sorry the state Texas there we are region one region one is one that's highlighted the rest of the other regions in the state what they're noticing is that the smaller school districts because of their size because of the population because of their demographics because of funding they're having a harder time in meeting these college and Care standards that are set for every District the standards don't change if you're Houston if you're Dallas if you're Sadia if you're Progressive the expectations for the percentages of how many kids graduate college ready is set standard across so the 88th Texas legislator in 2023 came out with a plan and they call it under house bill 2209 the rpet program rpet standing for Rural pathway Excellence partnership essentially it's modeled off of three that are in existence right now
039region 15 region 12 Region 2 first you have to meet theability requirements you have to have an enrollment of fewer than 1600 students districts must be within 100 miles of each other I'm going explain this a little bit more you have to have College and Career CTE Pathways that not only produce industry based certifications but open the door for the students to go to college or open the door for them to go to work or open the door for them to go to both you have to have a coordinating entity that's where region one will com in because we understand that school districts need that support and it's difficult for them to do it by themselves and we have to have a performance agreement that we have to submit to the state saying that we're
040partnering with the isds essentially what it is in a nutshell students from one District can be busted over to a neighboring District to take a CTE program that's offered at that District that's not offered in their home District without affecting Ada without affecting funding without affecting attendance the goal is for school districts that have it why are you competing against one another let's form an oldfashioned Co-op if you will and we bust students let's say toio to take course over there that's not offered here but on record and on paper it'll show that that course is a progressive ISD student and it's a progressive ISD CTE program the investment for the district is the busing of the students vice versa Santa Maria will be there and say we can bu students over to Progresso to
041take a program that we don't offer in Santa Maria the students bu take the course and then go back to their home campus it doesn't take away from them participating in sports Athletics and any other unital activities an incentive for the districts is what the state has said about funding so initially we took an rpet student right here and I'll take you all through it real quickly a student in the state of Texas a student in Progressive is going to earn approximately $6,150 that's how much money each student is worth and progressiv now that's assuming of course perfect attendance because once the student starts missing days then that 6160 starts to reduce that's why principles that's why the board that's why the superintendent always pushing for perfect attendance and keep coming to school because anytime
042a student is absent that's going to take the number down now if a student is enrolled in a CTE program in a pathway that's the next step Lev right here because they're enrolled in CT pathway that's going to give them between 10 to 47% more money back into the basic allotment it's adding to it the more students that are enrolled in TT programs more money that that student generators The Next Step Up is your ccmr outcome bonus if you have Pathways that are aligned and coherently sequenced and are giving completers and concentrators and the kids are ending with an industry based certification the state has what they call ccmr which is college career and Military Readiness outcome bonus that's between $2,000 to $77,000 more the difference is kind of small my apologies if the student
043student is economically disadvantaged it's $5,000 if the student is non-economically disadvantaged it's 3,000 if the student's identify the special education then it's the 5,000 plus the 2,000 which gives it 7,000 I believe progressiv was about 99% economically Advantage if the students are participating in an rpet program the program where they're taking classes with let's say Santa Maria there's an additional bonus that they get they get between 25 to 9 more $100 added to the Ada plus money for maintenance and operations and an rpip outcome bonus the rpip outcome bonus is between 1,500 to 75,500 if their economic disadvantage if they enroll in a college and earn an industry based certification or a certificate while in college and that's up to 5 years after they graduate that money will come back so the the district because
044they paid way I know that's a lot so we simplify it down say you start with freshman you take that 6100 all the way across right so let's go all the way down you start getting all the bonuses that come into it that student's going to earn about $10,000 sophomore year another 10,000 junior senior year it starts going up because as courses go up level two level three level four is more advanced courses more money is being earned by the student essentially that one student will earn the district approximately $ 49726 over the course of four years so I want to show you that it's actually in operation right now region one has formed RGB career with six school districts in region one right now lazara lier Sanita Santa Rosa laa and mon Alo these
045six school districts met the criteria that criteria that we covered back there working with region one as their coordinating entity we were able to formulate a plan for them that's the buzzing that's where all those y all are does heard this that's the one that goes out to uh Port man we developed the following academies at each one based on what wasn't offered or what the need was at each of these school districts in laa we have the Law Public Service Academy and we also offer a noncommissioned security guard level two certifications in the department of DPS kids who want to take law like say it Lada they don't have M they have M program we bust into l in Lada there's a Health Science Academy where the students are working on CMA at this
046point in Liber you have a teacher Academy they're working on the tea education A1 mon we have a Manufacturing Academy which is welding they're working on two certifications there s has a business Academy where they're offering the entrepreneur ship and small business certification remember all the ibcs count for accountability and help you with a CCR bonus and work towards your coherent sequence of courses Sant Rosa is offering the media arts academy which is your graphic arts and your videoing like they're doing here region one is ready for phase two and we're working on region one our extensions the reason I'm here tonight thank you so much one is pretty vast right now we have broken it down to northern southern western and of course the Eastern Area was RGB career we are now working with
047Jim hog County and web County partnering with Laro United way up there in we we are working with SRO and real grand city g y all come in southern division we call it Southern division for now till we come up with a foral name we would like Progresso ISD Andia ISD to partner 8 Miles 10 minutes we can leverage resources we're sharing teachers you don't have to invest in hiring your teachers we're sharing learning spaces Transportation would be the only thing that will come into play here and the state has allowed if you travel from one school district to another you get reimbursed a dollar mile what about student's liability I'm sorry what about the student's liability and who's responsible for the student the liability the district the district even on the other District too
048yes so your students would be you're because you would still be Progresso ISD students they're just traveling to another location it's very similar to like if they were on a field trip or they go compete in the end sport game the liability falls on the home the teachers go when they're in a f trip they have teachers from our district with them if they go to another campus another school or are teachers going with them or one or sh on or something like that you know and that's interesting that you bring it up because life or ISD they have chapon and they use a par of to go some of the other isds don't because once you get them to okay let's say from Progresso to and I'm my apologies I was looking at the
049I didn't see you um they get on a bus here in Progresso the bus driver takes them over to Sun media once they get down there the the principal at the the high school welcomes them in escorts them over to the classroom where they're learning they're learning with a s a teacher for example so the security guard the safety of them getting there the bus driver and entering the campus with all the security protocols in place that's all on Sant Mia then Sant Mia releases them when the bell's done and they get back on the bus then they come back through here and so it's almost like every day they're doing a field trip but you you bring up a great point because it could be it's it's all up to the district how they
050feel about having a Parago or having that that there was really no need for the teacher because the teacher salary you're going to pay for a teacher they're not doing any instruction it's more of a chaperoning type of position and so that is something that most definitely the school district that's something basically we do with this DC like yes yeah whatever you have in place we abide by that we are here this is our timeline and our [Music] schedule we have submitted a letter of intent to the St to tea that's our intent that we would of course be all blessing to continue and and have this the application to the state is due on March 31st on your behalf as coordinating entity we would do all the paperwork we would do all the work
051we would take care of all documentation for youall we work with your superintendent to make sure everything is in place if this is something that you'd love to move forward with and what's going to happen is once we submit in March it'll be in May when te decides to release ours and say yes you're allowed to do it we have a history of successfully getting it done we do not foresee this in talking to TA there should be an issue getting it done here we don't see there being any obstacles once they release us 5:30 Year One would be 2526 now the money part because that's always a big issue 2526 will be the year that the state has to collect the data that's why they always work with lag data even like the taper
052it's always a year behind because they need the year to collect the data how many kids are in our pit how many kids are being transported every day how many kids and so all that data is on 25 26 when 26 seven kicks off which is year two that's when the state releases the money for year one we do that with almost every uh funding source in regulation that's out there I am open to any question that you have that's it that's it yes perfect any questions from the board we're doing a go the programs that we offer right we're going to compare both and see which are the ones are going to benefit students more yes uh what we've done we've done a pre analysis right now to look and see for example one
053big interest that we saw it has to me the course high demand in the area that's one thing that we have to do we work with the Texas Workforce Commission to ensure that all those eies like when we picked up these back over here we made sure that they align to the region and so in doing that what we we saw possibly of course we still need to F finalize the decision an interest was shown for manufacturing over here and for business real estate so basically the main step is getting the approved basically right any questions concerns than you thank you thank you very much Dr I just want I do want to say that I talked to him about the CDL certification and one is going to help us out yes Mr chairman at
054this time I make a motion to approve the Ral pathway Excellence partnership program with passes at this time we go we have to nominate an approval board member to serve as the on The Advisory Board is that correct yes that is correct we need one more member to be part of the you know you know the system right I'll make a motion to nominate Miss flis as our ad advis repard for the city police department yes Mr President members of the board uh I talked to our city manager Mr ginho and our mayor and at the end we were going back and forth because we did not pass as theou at the beginning of the year for whatever reason but we restructure it stayed the same with the same amount two police officers once you
055guys passed it we're going to need to do the rotation in the hours but the actual payment did not changed now take into consideration that this uhou started about three years ago so the payer police officers went up but proval city proval was going to help us out so they kept it the same in good fith so we're going to be working together the recommendation is for us to pass it all right at this time make a motion to approve the with the city police department second motion by second by m employes yes Mr President members of the board as I mentioned right now we were going through a transitional period with the star with plan of action with the taper that we presented however uh we also think that it's time for us to
056start transitioning into the actual poing in and out with the finger thinker system that we're using is from 1985 I kid you not it's been like that for for many many years I'm asking authorization uh to start looking for a system then bring them to you and then you choose what happen the system that we had before uh one time we had issues with we were using the hand actually and we had a lot issues with the hand line we have work easy and it's pretty simple which is the same yeah it's just they they they make a record of all your fingers or three of your fingers and it's I get some information on that too yes so right now it's authorization I can go and then bring it to you this time make
057a motion to authorize Mr to look into colting meth for employes second pass review and approve the I'm sorry it's the Intruder report yes we had a visit from the state Early Childhood thank God everything uh was great there were no corrective actions uh and I know last time you were discussing about the first audit that we had so I went back and and and check so I wanted to make sure I didn't want to give you any any wrong information and three years ago 2022 we invested once we got the first uh audit we invested $30,000 um by fixing different doors throughout the district so that's why we're getting this very positive results I think the only one this year was the high school with those three doors uh so in 2022 we spent
058$3,000 $28,000 fixing about want to say 25 doors uh but this year you guys uh voted to replace the ones that don't work we're getting brand new ones for for those that can cannot be fixed and uh we invested about 130,000 yes this year so uh they already started with it just you know going back to uh Progresso Early Childhood uh everything was great any questions that was done with the safety right no the $30,000 was we're start yes that's with the safety gr yes you're right to approve the report I now we to review and approve Cy fil proposal Bo um the district went out forat for four centy resistance Bill we three proposals from two vendors and we're recommending foundational solutions from Austin Texas and that total cost is 50 it's important to
059note that it's coming from the safety as well any questions discussion on item4 get the other 35 what talking we're talking about the resist f one that the windows the do and the window lower than you have the price for the other two yeah yeah [Music] the the last page last one [Music] with I want to see the p [Music] all right uh for the first one uh Sensational solution the total price was 55 731 which was um the sample that I provide you U Carolina Carolina Premier window was for 3M film was 58,000 with2 now also submitted an alternative uh film which was the isman film that one cost 50, 634 but based on the tabulation and the warranty uh Sensational solution provided 10-year warranty on the product and lifetime warranty on the installation
060so that's how they they got how many years 10 years only two yes any questions time make a motion to approve the resisted fir proposal and go with a recommendation of Sensational solutions by motion passes to appr to the F proposal yes sir we we went for proposal from PR when we received two proposals one from 365 fers and the other one from C Construction now we had an issue with K construction where or descript but they quoted the the correct linear uh for that reason I want to say the price now to the Bo decid on the on the on a decision on a route have to make we're recommending 365 based on what we have so can you explain what you just said about that they did a yes the linear Fe they
061qu it less yeah let me explain it so that way I mean everybody's clear we want to be transparent about it so we got three companies right that went through RFP we voted last time those three companies were the ones we chose that we did a walk through uh and we gave them a deadline to turn in the actual quote uh we only got two companies so one didn't turn it in so that company s from those three companies K turned it in and 365 build turn it in however the linear if you look at P like that which is the second page it has 6,800 inine feet it was supposed to be 8,000 what 8,000 8 8,500 8,500 what I told one is you do do do the math what would be the price
062for 8,500 they were still higher than the other company with the 8,500 in the so basically the problem there is they put 6,800 instead of 8,500 but again we did the math and they were higher than this company what purpose of disqualification right no no no but I mean in reality we want to be transparent we want to tell you even if they do the 8,500 I that was going to be more expensive question they they fix the door and they fix the time CL in the and with $5 we have who's recommending them you read read the references or what we R documents that when we did the the rfps uh yeah they submitted the uh qualification but remember has references too like that you can call people and see their quality of work
063and everything else did you call them no we proba was approve cuz if we approve and we have haven't even called references it's like when you hire someone you haven't even called references we have some but last time when we when weed the RS you guys voted for the three weot for the three I don't know what you all think I mean are the only two option we have we need to move forward yeah and I was going to say all right let's do this okay let's do this let's do we'll do what we'll do we can do is make a motion to approve the company while based on what the reference say the reference say are no good can we do that yes you can yes you can so we can do that see
064the references if the referen are no good we come back and then let us know but they are good we'll just give the optimization to proceed with defense because what I want I was going to say is it's it's a two to three month process for the why I know that we need let's just do that let's give approval do two references give authorization to superintend want to look into it and if the references come out good we'll move on with the project does that sound good did any of all mention you uh the warant no Che yeah just check on that we just go just for the record this is coming also from the grant we have a million dollars honestly I thought it was going to be more expensive when I saw the
065number have M to are we going to have money for the fence at the auditorium what are we going to do with that after you know what that's a very great idea the front is including here okay but I mean we want to make it look nice if we're going to go that route and then if we're going to give him the project you can work something definitely I'm good negotiating so we're on the same same [Music] yes yes make a motion to approve the offensive proposal by MREs for 365 building uh references and warranty corre mtion yes Mr President members of the board as we recall we've been talking about band uniforms we had option one which is this one I believe it was 20 you there $24,000 then option two 27 27996 then
066we have option two 75 618 75 618 then we have option three 93,9 recommendation is to go with option two which is $75,000 number one and that's what the students want right this is what the student want the only thing with number one it was the actual quality of of the uniform the director told me that it was going to last one two years all right the make motion to purchase the vs option number two mot yes our soccer team is trending and you're not seeing it in Facebook Tik Tok uh everywhere we won 24 to zero in that open uh argument across the valley uh the district is doing great for number one in the state of Texas compared to any school district uh here in the valley we're doing great so we have
067Mr josea Mr wamba mrin who donated this beautiful uniform to our soccer team it doesn't mean that they don't have the tools or money we do we're providing everything this came from their heart let me show it to you [Music] I talked to U about it the uniform will belong to the progress why is it belongs to the district not the students not the Sofer team the district so one thing I told the coaches is make sure that you keep them because uh we cannot give it away it's a donation for the district recomend from Administration is to accept the donation make to AC the let me just share before we move on the second one because there was another another donation from Mr J Luis Flores they donated this one uh one thing I
068told the coaches because I called U the only thing with this uniform is it has a logo so they cannot play with this uniform because of the logo however they can practice with the uniform especially right now that it's cold outside they'll be using it for practice thank youate make a motion to approve development policy thank all right uh good evening everyone thank you uh my name is Mr Thor I'm the librarian here for the district and I wanted to go ahead and go over the collection development policy okay um the reason why we're needing to have a collection development policy is is hp900 okay so it's known as the reader act and it's an acronym for restricting explicit uh and adult designated education resources um originally vendors were the ones that were supposed to
069provide a list um for all the all the Librarians in uh the state uh they sued Governor Abbot um and they went ahead and um won that um lawsuit and so we now so the Librarians are the ones that are going to have to be in charge of this so it would have been easier for them to give us a list and we would have simply gone into our collection and taken any books out um unfortunately that's not what happened um so these are some of the components that we are looking at right so hp900 this is what we're going to be need uh need to do so we're going to have to weed out any books that we may have that violate hp900 and we can uh not purchase obviously any book that would
070violate hp900 um the other thing is we're going to you'll see specifically in the collection development policy that um parents have um the final say so right to access to library material um and they've always had that I want to reiterate if a parent wanted to came to the library and basically said I don't want my student to read this certain book they've always had that access we'll flag the book in our in our system excuse me and then that student will not be allowed to read that book um and then finally we just need a board approv collections policy so many school districts um don't necessarily have a collection development policy because we do have when we become raring we have trainings we have other resources um but now because of hp900 we need
071specifically to have collection development policy that has these two items in [Music] there and what's the purpose so basically our purpose is does it support the tee um does it enhance the curriculum and um also uh basically we want to make sure that students are enjoying reading um and lastly um one of the things that I always try to do is have books that have Latino authors uh illustrators and characters so that the students feel represented uh when they're reading these books right so and ultimately the responsibility for the collection is the librarian um I work closely with principles with Library AIDS um the students teachers and they will provide recommendations and then from there I'm able to sort of go ahead and order books I also work closely with our book vendors um and
072they provide recommendations as well and again it's just to make sure everything's accurate and correct um again Parent Access is super important you'll notice in the um collection development policy there's like several areas where they talk about Parent Access um so our our online cataloges are available on the school website so parents have always had access to that they can simply go select whichever school um and they have complete access access to what we have in our libraries um there's also a reconsideration form um and that is basically if a parent um has an issue with any sort of book they're welcome to go ahead and turn in this reconsideration form and we'll have a committee and so forth which I'll go over um in a few more slides and um the committee will go
073ahead and review if the book will remain on the sh also we'll have uh surveys available at the library just to provide white feed um compliance requirements so basically um I'm going to work with vendors consult book reviews and our region one Library coordinator and we'll just make sure so any again Library material that violates hp900 will be immediately removed from the shelves um there are exceptions to books so if anything that is a literary artistic or political and scientific value uh they're permitted to remain on the Shelf so for example a non-fiction book that may be um let's say for like biology they have um like the reproduction um obviously there will probably be like genar however so that can still remain because it is a scientific value for our collection um any college
074board uh reading list for AP exams that would also be an exception to what can remain on the shelves um and then evaluation selection again it's just working closely with our vendors looking at reviews things like that um to go ahead and really be sure that we are not f um this specific D selection so not only are we weeding out any books that violate hp900 we also weed out books for poor physical condition lower circulation um incorrect information and if they're just simply not needed so I mean if we have a book on a typewriter we simply can we that out rate we don't use typewriters anymore uh plan of action so um I'll go ahead the main area like area I would see is would probably be the high school uh we would
075definitely need to start there again because the students are more mature they should deal with more mature content um so that's where I would go ahead and start um to go ahead and read out books um and then again just providing the guidance to parents on how to retrieve uh the Online category provide surveys at the library uh for feedback and having the reconsideration forms available for parents and this is the proposed reconsideration process so if a parent um and again the parent has to have a student in that particular campus this in the district um so it can't be any outside parents that come in uh it can only be parents that are within the district um so and it'll only apply to that campus so if someone wants uh let's say for example
076like a Harry Potter book reconsidered at the elementary and they have a student there then they can go ahead and fill in that recommendation for important um once they receive it the principal administrator or superintendent will select an ad hoc review committee um within 10 school days and it's suggested to have a teacher an administrator librarian uh Ela teacher and a member of the committee or Community I'm sorry and then once that committee um is approved uh that committee has up to 60 days to go ahead and go through the book um and just to um have meetings and make sure if it's something that will be REM on the shelves uh if the committee decides to weed out the the material um we'll go ahead and immediately remove it from the Shelf we did
077out of the system uh if the committee decides to keep it it will remain on the shelf and cannot be reconsidered for uh two years if a parent is not so if the item remains on the shelves and the parents unhappy they do have an appeal process um they can go ahead and write a written appeal to the superintendent within 10 days after the meeting or their decision is um is told to them and then once the superintendent receives that um appeal he uh his or her dis me will appoint another appeal committee uh within 10 school days and again it's suggested to have the librarian administrator curriculum director a principal instructure facilitator um again these are just suggestions that can be othered um and then once the appeal committee um reviews and examines everything
078um their decision is final so they decide we'll go ahead and keep it on the shelves they'll go ahead and keep it if they decide uh we no longer want it on the shelves then they'll go ahead and take it um any question it's going to be a board approv this and also just as not um there's um there's no liability they also wrote that into so I mean of course you know we're human we make mistakes if there happens to be some book that we just happen to not get or didn't catch um the school board librarian teachers there's no liability it's just something that we have to show that we're doing this is added uh make a motion to approve the collection policy a cash for the month of January $ 54555 89
079M of the board for revs have any questions yeah yeah thank first of all I thought that for the parade it was for free the total for the parade and I found out we um and then the other question was it says re repair of high school children train [Music] company and it's on 12425 for 9,19 why are we repairing somebody next new no the chiller wasn't we got one new Chiller and then we had two that are not new so we have three Cher systems the district was three high school was it to to repay all of them it was just one yeah it was just one because at the time the other two were working question yes and then I have another question question it says dtms group maintenance 10,561 I know it
080says printed and wrong to check and then it's again 13125 dtms General main what are we ping there for there there's the company that actually install the roof we do year maintenance on on that roof a dtms DMS the group or the now we do have a warranty for 30 years the warranty of 30 years but we have to pay $10,000 every year they come and do basically M anything they CLE it anything any debr anything um so there's no leak there's nothing ATM no leaks no concerns nothing so whenever we have leaks we call them right away and they and I justed [Music] to for the record that company was hired about 12 years ago 2013 2013 so yes report yes sir um total investment for the month of January uh 10,2 $9,000 to
081Total current earnings of $ 38,9 42 this requires you approved this time make a motion to approve the report as presented by Mr col today milon 2.5 million withing this do require approval all right make motion to approve [Music] the this total U Revenue receed 8.4 Millions total expenditure 7.3 million for information when are you going to start closing the budget for this I already did you already did right now we're just allowing any purchases they were not okay with it obiously but we're helping them out like if they want to buy a resource right now that is supplemental right now it's I'm not with that I'll talk to the princip great but they haven't said anything about materials okay because I mean right now I'm still buying especially before my blit and my staries
082and all of that I do have to say that they already spent 95% of their budget they did right 724 session