001And I call this regular board meeting of the Edgewood Independent School District School Board to order. I'm very pleased that you took the time to join us this evening in compliance with the state government code 551 for open meetings act. Tonight's agenda has been appropriately posted. This is a meeting in a public entity, not a meeting of the public. As our guest, you are welcome to observe and listen. These proceedings are uh being video and audio recorded and will become part of Edwood ISD's permanent records. To ensure the recording accurately reflects these proceedings, please silence your mobile devices and refrain from talking while others are speaking. Since it is legally mandated that these proceedings are recorded accurately, I may have to ask for order periodically should I notice that disruptions are interfering with our recording
002capabilities. Once again, I extend to each of you a sincere welcome from the entire Edgewood ISD school board. Roll call. Miss Martha Castillia >> here. >> Mr. [clears throat] Frank Espinosa, >> present. Mr. Richard Santoo >> here. >> Mr. Rudy Lopez is not going to join us tonight. Mr. Michael Valdez >> present. >> Mr. Sergio here. >> Uh Dr. James Hernandez, myself is present. Let the record show that the quorum of the Edgewood Independent School District School Board is present that this meeting has been duly called and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act. Next, we have the pledge of allegiance to the US and Texas flags led by Miss Lauren Leven, director of marketing and communications. Please stand for the pledge. >> Good evening, Mr.
003President, Dr. Hernandez, trustees, Edward stakeholders, teachers, and those of you who are here to join us. Join me now in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Please remain standing for a moment of silence. Thank you. You may be seated. Thank you. Uh, Miss uh, doc Dr. Anernandez, do we have any citizens? >> Yes, sir, we do have two. Okay. Uh, Mr. Espinosa, go ahead. Communications from citizens. Our next item on the agenda is communications from citizens. This is the time for community, staff, and students to provide their comments to
004the school board. To have your comments heard tonight, your name and specific agenda item must have been submitted in person or signed up online with the board operations manager. Each speaker will have three minutes or less depending on the number of people who have signed up to speak. Non-English speakers who require a translator may receive up to six minutes to speak. Presiding officer of the meeting may modify or wave these time limits as appropriate. In accordance with Edgewood ISD board policy beed local, the board shall not tolerate disruption of the meeting by members of the audience. Speakers or others who engage in disruptive behavior may be ruled out of order by the presiding officer. Disruptive behavior and action include but not limited to racial slurs, insulting, profane, threatening, derogatory, or abusive language, making violent or
005threatening gestures. Public comment is not intended for the speakers to make allegations of employee or student misconduct, requests for employee or student discipline, personal attacks on individuals, or disclosing information about district employees or students. If an individual makes a complaint, presiding officer will interrupt you, ask you to stop and direct you to seek resolution of your complaint through the district's appropriate formal grievance policy, DG BA for employee complaints, FNG for student or parent complaints, and GF or public complaints. If after at least one warning from the presiding officer, any person continues to disrupt the meeting by their words or actions, the presiding officer may request assistance from law enforcement officials to have the person escorted from the meeting. By law, the Edgewood Independent School District Board of Trustees cannot lawfully discuss, deliberate, make comments, or
006make a decision on any matter raised in the public comment period that is not included on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting. Specific factual information or recitation of existing policy may be furnished in response to inquiries, but the board shall not deliberate or make decisions regarding any subject that is not included on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting. Signs, placards, or banners shall not be allowed in the boardroom. If you have any handouts distributed to the board members, please hand them to the board operations manager to my left. Thank you. Uh, Mr. President, I would like to add something. I I did make a mistake. Um, the goals to greatness presentation is usually before uh the citizens should be heard piece out of respect to the fact that we've already started
007that process. I will I will I do recommend that we go ahead and listen to our citizens and then we'll have our um goals to greatness. my mile overight. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. All right. And first we have Miss Melody Eera speaking on topic uh agenda item four, superintendent reports. January board recognition month. Our future is public. 5e approval of the annual financial and compliance report for fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025. You have three minutes. It's unfortunate it was an oversight, but usually that is a normal proceeding, public comment for us at board meetings. Good evening, board trustees and superintendent. I want to begin by thanking Trustee Valdez for his continued hard work and service to the district as it is board appreciation month. Trustee Valdez consistently demonstrates that he values student voice
008and community input and I appreciate that he continues to push for accountability by asking tough questions. That kind of leadership matters, especially during challenging times for our district. My comments tonight are regarding agenda item 5e, approval of the annual financial and compliance report for fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025. As a community member, I have several items in this I find several items in this report deeply concerning. First, the district reported enrollment of 7,849 students in 2024 2025 school year along with an 80 86% attendance rate. These numbers should be a serious concern to this board. Low attendance and declining enrollment affect funding, staffing, and student success. I hope trustees are asking why attendance remains this low and what concrete measurable steps are being taken to improve it. Second, under commitments and and contingencies litigation.
009The report states that the district is a defendant in a number of lawsuits arising in the normal course of operations and that management believes that the outcome will have a material adverse will not have a material adverse effect on the district's financial statements. While that may meet accounting standards, it does not meet the community's expectation for transparency. It is concerning that there are multiple lawsuits against the district to begin with. I hope trustees are asking what are the lawsuits? Why were they filed? Are there patterns? And what is being done to prevent future litigation? Financial impact alone should not be the only measure of concern. Third, I I was troubled to see capital assets, particularly buildings and building improvements showed little change. Our facilities are aging and there are many visible deteriorating. Students and staff
010deserve safe, functional learning environments. The report reflects construction and progress increase of less than a million dollars. I would like to know what specific project that funding is allocated to and when will this district make meaningful investments in facilities that are clearly failing. Finally, I want to address the student nutrition. And according to this report, the district receives $6.7 million in federal funding, which includes the breakfast programs and lunch programs. With this funding, there should be no reason our students are not receiving highquality nutritious meals and better lunch options that they actually enjoy eating. Proper proper nutrition directly impacts attendance, behavior, and academics performances. These funds should be used to provide students with meals they deserve and ensure nutrition department is adequately staffed and that employees are fairly compensated. Our children and staff who serve
011them should not be shortened. >> Thank you ma'am. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next. >> Go ahead, sir. Something to say. >> Mr. President, I would like to add for the record that uh the items that were just discussed aren't discussed every month at workshop meetings, which is a part of board policy. board policy does require that we have a workshop every first Tuesday in the month. I would invite all members of the community who are interested uh in anything that has to do with financial items to please join us at those meetings. They are open to the public. These items are there uh for you to review. There is a video for every meeting uh every month that is open to anyone in the public as well as the documents that are associated
012with those meetings. I would also like to add for the record, sir, uh those workshops are also an opportunity for board members to ask tough questions, I believe. Um and that goes for all seven of our trustees. So, in the spirit of transparency, I want to make sure that we are accurate in the information that's being shared with the with the community at large. Thank you. >> All righty. Thank you, sir. Um next, we have Miss Jasine Castro speaking on the board appreciation. Sorry. Good evening, Dr. Hernandez, board members, and beloved community members. My name is Jasine Castro. I am the senior class president at the Fine Arts Academy. In honor of school board appreciation, I would wanted to first thank the board for everything you all have done for our schools and community. We
013also wanted to thank you for approving our senior trip. The students and sponsors have worked incredibly hard to raise funds and plan an unforgettable senior year. I'd like to reiterate Edwood's mission statement. Edwood ISD provides an exceptional learning experience that engages, empowers, and prefers students to compete and reach their highest potential in an everanging world. So, we ask that you help us see more of this world. For many students, our senior trip will be the first time they leave San Antonio. It would be a world or world opening opportunity to make travel part of the experience of being an Edgewood student. We have made great strides in our overall fundraising goals. However, we reached a critical point and humbly ask for your support. We created a website highlighting the talented seniors we have at fine
014arts. And we simply would like the opportunity to share this website with former teachers and administrators and of course the leadership team. We also want to personally invite you to attend our events. And if you can't make it, then please share with your friends and networks. If you find our you can find our donation link in our social media accounts. Our Instagram is fine arts under class class [clears throat] of 26. You can also scan this QR code which we will ask the directors of this building to post. Thank you and God bless. >> Thank you very much. [applause] Okay. Can sir, can we get those links sent to us? Is that okay? Okay, we'll get the link. Thank you very much. All right. Next, our Edgewood ISD from goals to greatness recognitions led by
015Dr. Matkins, assistant superintendent of school leadership. >> Good evening, board President James Hernandez, board of trustees, Superintendent Dr. Hernandez, Edwick staff, and members of our community. It's a privilege to join you this evening as we celebrate our outstanding work taking place in Edgewood ISD. During tonight's goals to greatness recognitions, we'll highlight the individual and collective efforts of our students, staff, and community partners. Each align with our district strategic plan goals and the categories and competencies of our leadership definition framework. Together, these recognitions reflect what makes Edgewood proud. strong leadership, collaboration, and shared commitment to ensuring that people matter, growth matters, and goals matter. To guide this work, we've developed the Edgewood ISD leadership definition framework, a reflection of our shared commitment to our core values of professionalism, accountability, and communication. This framework is built around
016three key pillars. People matter, growth matters, and goals matter. together. They define how we lead, collaborate, and hold ourselves accountable to one another. Um, and in the pursuit of excellence for every student. As previously mentioned, tonight we want to acknowledge and say thank you to our Edgewood ISD school board. January is board appreciation month. As you see here in front of you, our campuses are expressing their thanks with gift baskets. and you have already seen some of our social media posts in honor of the board's dedication and hard work on behalf of our students. Make sure you're checking out our website and social media channels as our recognitions will continue throughout the month. This evening, we're proud to recognize our leaders of the pack, outstanding members of the Edgewood family who embody our core values
017of professionalism, accountability, and communication, and who model the categories and competencies of our leadership definition framework. Tonight's honores include Laura Reyes, a prek teacher from Safford Early Childhood Center. Miss Reyes is described as a dedicated educator who goes above above and beyond to make sure every student is not just included but engaged in classroom lessons and activities. She's also identified as one of Edgewood's best. She is an exemplary teacher through our uh teacher incentive aotment program. Our next honore is Alfonso Hernandez who is a senior at the fine arts academy fine arts academy. He is part of the welding program at fine arts and has plans to make welding his career after graduation. Alfonso is one of the first students to volunteer and has helped to show middle school students what the welding program and
018industry has to offer. He's looking forward to graduating this spring, but not before um we have a chance to recognize him here this evening. Our third honore is Brenda Pena, the art teacher at LMA Park Elementary School. Miss Pan's love for students and creativity shine through in every lesson she teaches and the big bold designs that bring life into her classroom. She's founded and secured funding for two new campus clubs which has helped gain students gain confidence in their artistic skills. She thrives to help students and co-workers find art in everything. Before we invite our honores forward, let's take a moment to hear directly from them and see why they represent what it means to be the leader of the pack. Uh we all care about our students. We try really hard to get them
019to that next level. We scaffold. We stay up, you know, after school to try to, you know, make that next lesson even better. Yes, it's stressful, but at the end when that child understands or even recognizes the first letter in their name and you see the glow in their face, then that that's just the big winner here. [music] >> My name is Laura Reyes. I've been with this campus for [music] four years. Stafford Early Childhood. >> Hi. Hello, my name is Brenda Pina. I am the art teacher at Loma Park Elementary [music] and I've been here for 4 years. >> My name is Alonso Hernandez. I go to Fine Arts [music] Academy and I've been here for 4 years. >> I get here um clock in at 7:25. At 7:30 [music] I go to the
020front gate and I greet all of my students, uh welcome them, tell them good morning. [music] Um and then I come here at 7:45 and I start my classroom. I let my students [music] uh eat their breakfast for 10 minutes and then get them situated and then we start our our day. >> I just get here, I follow the instructions my instructor tells me to do and I go out there and I feel like it's a very easy hands-on activity uh trape that I enjoy doing and I see myself doing in the future. We have the kids come in, they're eating breakfast, talking about the importance of breakfast, uh [music] brushing their teeth, why that's important, number recognition, um letter sounds. There's just so much going on in the classroom throughout the day. [music] Um
021the importance of taking care of their bodies, why we rest, still learning how to be social, how to be kind, using their [music] words. Uh I teach them to use their words and try to solve their own problems. [music] >> To be seen as an art teacher um was amazing. Uh knowing that somebody saw all the hard work that [music] I've been putting in into these students and the school. Uh, I jump started a photography club here and [music] just I go out of my way to make sure that the students know there's so much art [music] in the world and I just want to make sure that they [music] know that I'm here for them, that this is a safe space. So, when I was recognized and nominated, I just I definitely cried. [laughter]
022I have [music] great joy in knowing that someone was watching, listening. They see like the value I put into the classroom. Um, how much I do care about the community, the kids in the community, the parents. Um, [music] so I was very uh surprised when they did um nominate me, whoever it was. Um, [music] so I was just speechless. >> [laughter] >> Daniel Navaro has helped [music] me out in the beginning, pushing me to the best of my abilities to where I can push myself harder to fix my mistakes and learn from mistakes. Dr. Martinez, Graciella Martinez, she helped me accommodate my schedule to where I can be in welding more, fix my mistakes, learn from my mistakes in the same way. um I choose Edgewood because it helped me out a lot in [music]
023the skill that I learned here that will hopefully finish off [music] my future. >> I choose Edgewood because they pour themselves into [music] the arts whether it's this campus or anywhere else. And I find it that they allow the students to be themselves. [music] there's other districts that don't have art um and in their education and I love that they [music] that Edgewood really does pour a lot into the arts and um again I choose Edgewood [music] because I want to show my students that this world is still full of color. I love this community and I love Edgewood. They [music] helped me along the way when I was struggling. So I feel that I can be a big in this community, too. And I I just love this community. I grew up in it.
024And everything I learned here, everything I've seen here, um I wanted to give back because I [music] had great teachers. So, I wanted to give back to this community, especially Edgewood. At this time, we'd like our leaders of the pack to come forward. [applause] Miss Pñena, Miss Reyes, congratulations. Do a picture. And our student from fine arts was unable to make it this evening, but we'll make sure that he keeps his camp. >> Let's give them another hand as they Prepare to be great about the school board. Next, we're proud to recognize some of Edgewood ISD's bestians. These eight students have qualified for the 2026 International Thesmian Fest Festival. We have Ruby Sanchez, Jacob Valier, Clover Morales, Sabrina Mores. They'll all compete in the acting categories. And then we have S MSAS, Kevin Rosas, and
025Ace Aon will compete in set design categories. And then we have Yari Young Analise. I think I got that right. Thank you. A Costa will compete in the musical category. Please join me in congratulating these students as they prepare for their final competition [cheering and applause] this summer in Indianapolis. Congratulations, everyone. And before we we move here, we also want to congratulate our theater teacher and director, Miss Claudia Caso, on her induction into the Texas Thespians Hall of Fame. [applause and cheering] This recognition is reserved for educators who have dedicated 20 plus years of service in educational theater. She will be inducted into the Hall of Fame um by Texas Thespians Educators at the end of the month. Join me in a round of applause and thanks to Miss Kasa for her recognition and dedication
026to our graduate students. Congratulations. Thank you. [applause] Congratulations again, actors. Let's give them another hand. Thank you so much. Have a great evening. Now, we proudly want to recognize two outstanding students who are proving that hard work and dedication can take you anywhere. Before we invite them up, here's a quick look at their stories. So, this ship is the QuestBridge National the National College Match Award. >> It's a full ride to their partners, one of their partner schools, the G rank, [music] housing, tuition, books, and any extra cost that I will need coverage during my time at Dartmouth. >> They're very hard to get into. They only had 2,550 um people who match this year. >> I can [music] explore different things and different subjects that I want to study and that was one of
027the main things for me. For me, Dartmouth, I just like when I was researching their partner schools, I found myself like I really loved their English program that they had there. I loved how it was up north. I've always wanted to like live up there like one day [music] in the future. >> And also, like I said, with that small community, I wanted to be able to make those connections with my professors and with [music] the other classmates that [singing] I had and and also their dining hall is really good. >> I'm really interested in the publishing industry. Um I because I'm gonna go for the English program. This is an amazing school. There's so many [music] like bright people here. This small community, you can tell that everyone knows each other, that they are
028like connected. Edgewood has been a place that has always known my heart. [laughter] And so why wouldn't I pick Edgewood? [applause] Welcome Sarah Salazar. She's a senior at Memorial High School and Storm Lopez is a senior at Kennedy High School. [applause and cheering] Both women have earned full scholarships through the QuestBridge College Match Scholarship. They will both attend Dartmouth College, an Ivy League school in New Hampshire. [applause] [cheering] Both are also in the early college high school, which means that they will already have earned an associates degree when they start classes next fall. Again, only 2,250 QuestBridge scholarships are awarded to students around the world. This is a really big deal. Let's congratulate them again. [applause] Thank Thank you ladies. Let's give them a hand. [applause] We wish you all the best. Thank you. As
029we continue the presentation, here we go. Edgewood ISD is proud to recognize the 12 athletes who earned all-star academic honors from football and volleyball. The Texas High School Coaches Association recognizes seniors who have a GPA, class rank, and ACT or SAT scores. Congratulations to all of them for their dedication to high performance in classroom and in their sports. And another recognition, our next recognition comes as a surprise to this honore. Please welcome Miss Lindsay Yenosa, the Edgewood ISD 202526 Kins 5 Excel Award winner. [cheering and applause] Kins Five and the Credit Human surprised Mission Estrosa yesterday morning with an award and a check for $2,000. Mission Drosa is also the teacher of the year honore for HBG Elementary School. Congratulations >> [cheering] >> Woo! [applause] Congratulations again. We want to give a big shout out
030and thank you to the EISD Police Department. January 9th was law enforcement appreciation day and many campus surprised our officers with treats, cards, and posters to say thank you. We appreciate all of our officers for everything they do for our schools, district, and the community. Now, our CTE spotlight. Each month, we are excited to shine a spotlight on the different career and technical education programs that EISD has to offer. Tonight, we are excuse [clears throat] me, we're showcasing the automotive program of study at JFK. This program teaches students how to repair, refinish, and service various types of vehicles. By getting hands-on training, students are prepared for a future in the automotive industry if they choose. Here now is a look at the Kennedy High School's automotive program. I just love that. >> [music] >> If
031you're interested in learning more about the automotive program at JFK, reach out to our instructors instructors Philip Aguilar and Anthony Arguo. For more uh information on our CTE programs, contact CTE director Javier Yurubi. Here they are right here. And we also want to recognize the Edgewood ISD students who will be moving on to the citywide Spanish spelling bee. In the elementary division, we have fifth grader Ian Kerion from LMA Park. In the middle school division, we have seventh grader Dell Gutierrez from Brentwoodstein School of Innovation. And in the high school division, ninth grader F Makazuma from the Fine Arts Academy. Congratulations again to our spelling B students as they represent Edgewood ISD at the citywide competition on February the 10th. their achievement. Yes, their achievement reflects exactly what goals to greatness is all about. They'll
032be honoring uh and growing with excellence with this with um the systems and support at the campuses to get them ready for this awesome competition. And with that, I'd like to bring up Joseph Rodriguez, senior director of multilingual and advanced academics, to share how our bilingual and ESL programs are helping students turn their goals into outcomes for students across Edgewood ISD. >> Good evening, Board President Dr. Nandez, Superintendent Dr. Nandez, board members and community. My name is Joseph Rodriguez, senior director of advanced academics and multilingual services and I'm happy to speak on the topic of multilingual services and the support we provide to emerging bilingual here in Edward. Um to start off it's important to acknowledge the the incredible work that's done in the um the department is done by this team of Nester our
033multilingual specialists and multilingual coordinator Uernandez who support students teachers families through enrollment um anything related to emerging bilingual and making sure they have a strong start here in Edgewood and we do have with us today as our translator saving many spaces in that capacity as well. So thank you to the team for the work they do. Our purpose in Edwood ISD for multilingual services is to cultivate two things. One is academic success for our students and the other is to strengthen language proficiency in English for our students as well. So they go into the world as competent global leaders that contribute to society. And there are many benefits when we participate in bilingual ESL programs. Several of them are here with you today. The one I want to focus on is cognitive benefits. Ensuring that
034those students that participate in our bilingual programs that understand that there's brain function is different when we're learning two languages. We have a strong command of our first language and bringing in a second. Brain function is different so that it impacts high academic success communication that we can build and strengthen community as well. Some of the terms that I'll be speaking to today are not common in our daily conversation. Uh such as emerging bilingual which refers to our students who speak another language other than English dual language one way to language two-way which are types of bilingual programs that we offer here in Edgewood. English as a second language or ESL which refers to courses at our secondary level to support emerging bilingual and then LO which is our languages other than English bring to
035our foreign language classes such as Spanish secondary level. Quickly just to demonstrate our bilingual programs and ESL programs we think of them as a big umbrella. When someone asks in do we have a bilingual program we say yes. The next question should be well what type of program the state offers four. Our program in Edwood ISD is a dual language one way and a dual language two-way. Our ESL program is an ESL pullout program model as well. What does that look like in Edwood ISD? Our campuses pictured here next to the dual language image represent the campuses that have a prek through fifth grade dual language oneway or two-way program at their campus. Our two-way model primarily exists at our Roosevelt dual language academy. We also have our Gus Garcia that offers dual language for
036their students as well. And this program students students receive instruction in both English and Spanish daily. ESL is supported in these particular campuses that are listed to the right at our middle school and high school levels where students receive English as a second language ESL support through their language language arts teacher or an ESL teacher or through LEA courses that focus on students who are that have no prior experience with the English language and are learning at the basic level. And then we offer again our foreign language in Edwood ISD which is our Spanish elective which students take the opportunity in middle school or in high school uh to meet the requirement of foreign language and if they advance to the advanced placement level of Spanish courses can also earn college credit. Picture here are
037Spanish teachers in the district. A little bit about our journey for dual language. I spoken to that just a moment ago. Um it's important to recognize that formerly in 2019 and 2020 at the bottom of the screen our former model was a late exit model which mean which means every year students were learning more and more English through fifth grade. We were learning that students were somewhat bilingual but forgetting their home language. As we transitioned to dual language it was important for us to phase in slowly every year. You'll notice that in 2020 2021 our first year of dual language was also co year. So learning online with a new model was very challenging but we persevered. teachers persevered and every year we added a new grade level. At the top you'll see that now
038to present we have our dual language model in our early early childhood courses and our early childhood classes through fifth grade as well as the model incoral services are here on the screen. Uh the two that I want to highlight are the first is enrollment and empowerment. Uh where we able to provide direct customer service to families that enroll in Edwood ISD as potentially emerging bilingual campuses have a great connection with us to ensure that we support these families through enrollment with along with their campus staff and administration providing translation services and ensure they have a smooth start provide resources or connect them to resources in the district through family engagement guidance and counseling. And the other is teacher and leader coaching and ensuring that we're in the classrooms of dual language or ESL teachers
039supporting best practices and supporting leaders through the lens of an ESL or dual language perspective indicator for us ensuring that we're meeting compliance with data around state assessments such as star for emer bilingual it is the tpass assessment for emerging bilingual in K through 12 complete this assessment once a year ensuring that they're making progress in listening speaking in reading and writing all in English rating and they receive their ratings of either beginner, intermediate, advanced or advanced time as they progress through the years and grow their proficiency in English. Data that was mentioned earlier was around results driven accountability. These particular areas are rated for emerging bilingual and we get a score of a zero through a four. The example at the bottom shows star EOC pass rates specifically in algebra at zero is where
040we want to be um in that 01 to two range and you'll see also tell pass reading proficiency students who are scoring at a beginning level are still learning English was at a three. So that shows us there's work to be done to ensure that students are reaching their potential at the intermediate through the advanced high level. And the images here are some of the work that we've been doing in the district around teacher training, administrative training with research based strategies and online or online support directly to tie to tell pass assessments which students get practice language proficiency highlighting some of the success in the district. Some of the data you've seen already in the past presentation earlier this year, but in September 2025, we highlighted special programs at MCAST testing for students at at
041or above reading level. And you'll notice in this particular data, first and second grade students performing their grade level at a higher rate compared to other special programs. So we know that there's value to the dual language program registry. As Dr. Mkins mentioned earlier, one of our other highlights is our engaging experiences such as our Spanish spelling which we've highlighted here. Kansas do a great job at ensuring they get students to the district level. This was the picture that you see on the screen. And now we go to the regional level. The other highlight is the support that we get from Henry Gonzalez and allowing us to go into their campuses, meet with their parents for what we call a dual language discovery day where we meet with parents specifically in our dual language program.
042We have students in our dual language program to ensure they understand what is a program, what is the goal and how do they support at home. Obviously, feedback from them is very important where they outline that they themselves want to take opportunities so they're English along with their child and find fun and engaging ways to do them. We bring games into those particular sessions. We met in October and then again in January which is what you see on the screen or we play games with parent allow them to understand the program and then we get suggestions such as we want to play more games to make sure that they're in both languages because we know parents are at different proficiency levels uh but also bringing back bringing in child's emotions and feelings. So working with
043parents and counseling and other experts in the district to make sure that we have the right people at the table to address this for our families uh and different experiences they have. And our last highlight is delingu which we've held for the last four years for emerging bilingual supporting college awareness and advocacy ensuring that bilingual experts are meeting with our students and even staff from our district um who have a similar language story coming to the district for the first time coming to the country for the first time a language for the first time similar to our students presenting to them sharing their story uh ensure that they continue to stay motivated overcome challenges and hurdles and continue to work towards graduation and in higher education as well. This particular picture highlights at the top
044a focus group that we brought from Memorial High School to support the planning of last year's event at the Musa. And then a student with the student design t-shirt that students wore, language is a bridge that unites us all in the back. There was love written in different languages for their preference and requests. In reflection, as far as refinement, we want to continue to provide um our fidelity to dual language access in edd, ensuring that we're honoring students home language, especially in their early years, so we know the success that impacts the years go on when they learn a second language and continue family engagement experiences. What we do want to refine is to increase those parenting sessions and make sure that we're getting to campuses multiple times and building a strong relationship with families
045provide opportunities for families to um increase their English proficiency and we're working with entities such as Wetsy their ESL programs and then also refine our strategies for talent to ensure students are making the growth that's expected and that they're meeting their potential in language. Thank you for allowing to share that. As we've shared tonight, when ESL programs are focused on building strong foundations, but we know that that starts early on as early as early childhood. And so now I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Mary Miller Baker who will talk to us about early childhood work. Go ahead. >> Yes, sir. Uh I wanted to say that I really appreciate uh what you're doing. I know that it started four years ago, but I I love it. Uh it's easy to work with you,
046sir. And um one of the main things is that with this program, we let people know, let families know that they belong even if they don't know the language. And that's the first step for them to feel that that they can be empowered. Another thing is um they can understand our message because not everybody speaks English. And I also want to point out the fact that Mr. Hoo is great. I've gone through uh I've done a lot of conferences and things where we get translators and sometime they're not the best but I can't complain of Mr. Mr. Ugle made sure that all the women that were at this conference understood what was being said and you should have seen their eyes brighten up and move around. So thank you. >> Good evening. We're going to
047continue our presentations with talking about Early Head Start and we were asked to tell you about our goals and our greatness. So my intended learning outcomes are for you to know more about the people, the programs, the locations, the goals and the successes about our early childhood program because ultimately this is the future. Our team is a rather small team. The two of us on the left, myself and Alicia Freeman, uh work with all levels and um all schools. All of the people in the yellow area are part of the Head Start team. They are funded by the Head Start grant and they work to support the 77 Head 777 Head Start and 128 early Head Start students. Down at the bottom, you'll see that we are now partners with the parent engagement program. We
048are working together because in that early childhood relationship, the relationship with the parent is more important than ever. You start it young, you maintain it throughout. Uh so where are we at and what do we include? We serve um 836 children who are prek. Those are three or four year olds and 120 exactly students who range from six weeks to three years. The majority of our um Head Start students are located still at centers at either Stafford ECC or Cardinus, but we are slowly expanding out to the elementary campuses. All of our Early Head Start kids are at Stafford ECC and then we also have a couple of other programs that are smaller in the district. We still have our partnership with PreK4SA over at Gelp where there are 47 uh preK4s and we have
049six kids who belong to Edgewood who are over at the Westside PreK4SA center. And then in addition, we have a regular district prek program for monolingual and bilingual students located at Henry B. Gonzalez. Uh it's important that we maintain that one group because qualifying for head start and qualifying for prek are two different things and there may be children who cannot get into the head start program because they may not meet the criteria but they fully qualify for the state prek program. I did list all the qualifications for prek eligibility but basically it's primarily based on income. For state prek, it also includes the language, but for Head Start, it does not. It also includes things like homelessness or ch children who have been in foster care, as well as children of um actively deployed
050military members. And something new, the children of public school teachers who teach in a district with prek now qualify to have their children attend preK, which that is a new change this year. uh because usually it used to be the teachers actually made too much money for their own children to go to the program. [clears throat] Regardless of the program, I often get calls of, "Hey, I want to get my kids into a certain program." Regardless of which program, I must ensure that we're following the federal guidelines or the state guidelines, but we will do our absolute best to place any four-year-old in the district. We allow some on a tuition basis. We allow uh children of employees. We we stretch it as far as we can because we know that these children will get
051a good foundation here in Edgewood and we do our best to keep them here in Edgewood and continue their career. So where where can you find us? Any of the schools that are up there, you can have a service for a four-year-old and at most of those you will always also have services for three-year-olds. The number indicated there tells you exactly how many kids are currently enrolled at each of those sites. Okay. So, goals. Uh, early childhood goals are very important. As a Head Start program in cooperation with the city and the federal government, we are obligated to achieve school readiness goals, but then we align those to our district goals. And basically, our job is to increase vendor readiness. Um, the biggest notice you could ever have was the year that we had COVID
052and children were not sitting in prek classrooms. The next year, the kindergarten teachers loved us even more because they saw and they saw the difference of a year of structured on-site education. I was in Parales a couple of days ago, walked by their three pre-K classrooms and saw some challenges. To be honest with you, these are three and four year olds. I walked by their kindergarten classes and saw two beautiful classrooms that would almost make you cry. But I knew that those two teachers should go by and say thank you to those three down the hall because it really does take this extra effort to get kids ready. And so I'm very big advocate. So we are working on increasing kinder readiness scores. What I really need the public to understand is the children that
053qualify for these programs are the children who have the greatest needs. It's based on economics. It's based on learning disabilities. It's based on trauma that they may have endured prior. It's based on environmental settings. You take the children who need the most and give them full wraparound services. So, if I'm saying I'm trying to go to 65%, that's for a child who would never be expected to make it at 50%. Uh it's it's above and beyond. We are also working on improving vocabulary. That is a problem from preK through high school in in our community in our state. But that's one of our main goals. And to increase prek attendance. Yes, these kids do get sick. They are little. They are young. They are going through all the immunizations. We get it. But we're going
054to do our best to have them there every day. And then we need to help them learn how to self-regulate. They do need to learn things like standing in line and getting in a tray and talking to your friend. And when you want the toy, he has it. You can't hit him to get it. And so there's a whole lot of other things that we're working on. And these are the two cutest kids in the world. And so some of our goals are goals that we reached last year, but we're going to reach them again. And one of them is that we have a family activity each theme, and we ensure that 90% of our families engage in that theme and complete that with their child. We ensure that our program has at least six
055family engagement activities in a year with massive participation. We ensure that every Head Start child has a home visit. And home visits aren't, hey, you come to the school and talk to me. No, home visits are either in your home or a place that we mutual that you want us to meet you at, not here at school because it changes the trajectory whether you're in my room or I'm in your home. And two parent conferences a year. That's a minimum. And we guarantee that 100% of our classes are CLI engaged high quality appropriate through um materials and resources for early childhood. We also make sure that we have designated free play area. Kids need to play. Kids need to be outside and they need to build the earth and touch things that are not just
056a a screen or a a consumer toy. We ensure that our children write, our three-year-olds write daily, our foury olds write daily. And then we practice inclusivity. We do not live in a world where children with special needs where adults with special needs do not interact with all of us. So we do our very best to promote uh an inclusive classroom. Our enrollment goals, we have to in order to maintain that $5 million that we're getting from the city, we have to remain fully enrolled at 777 within 30 days. You see my big old check mark. And we need to expand our services throughout the schools. We expanded this year to Cisneros. Our data over the last five years has repeatedly shown that the best program we run in Edgewood is a Head Start program
057located in an elementary school. I know that I love my centers, but I love my data also. And so we continue to expand. And our plan for next year is to try to get a couple of more classes over at Cisneros. That's a beautiful building and a beautiful school that we can take to the next level. And so these four pictures are just some of what's going on there this year. Uh attendance, the superintendent tells us how important it is. Yes, absolutely. Both of our early childhood centers are right below the 92 mark. We will continue to push and we do it in a fun way. We do incentives. We reward our teachers, our families, our kids, anyone who's involved. And so those are our baskets for our Christmas incentive. And thank you for continually
058approving our uh Head Start incentive. It is a monetary reward, but y'all when you know that that Head Start teacher is going to 20 houses to make a home visit and no other teacher in this district has to do that, you know, it's it's worth a little bit of give. Uh and so our fiscal goals, and the I take these very seriously, we have to coordinate funding. You have to be savvy about what you can use your different funds for so that you are saving the district the maximum amount you can save and protecting those local funds while still having the best early head start program you can have or head start program and so we must use those funds to supplement and to raise program quality and finally the financial incentive. So where are
059we at to when to be considered kinder ready? Kids have to be on track in four things. They have to know their letters. They have to know they have to have rapid vocabulary. They are asked in a one minute time to identify x number of words and they must be able to do it within that time. They must have a strong phological awareness composite score and a math composite score. So compliance, I hate to live by compliance, but compliance is important. If they tell you you got to do it, you got to do it. And so on home visits, we are 98% complete. We have two that we have 40 days 45 days to finish because kids are new. On ASQ, this is a screener that we use to get social sociological and other data
060on kids. We're 99% complete. We have one more that we're going to get there before the deadline. and the social emotional part of that instrument. The same thing we give credit to our campuses and our um instructional coaches because they are really the ones that track down this information and support the teachers. So greatness greatness comes in how we use those employees on top. Those are city employees. They're family service workers, but how we coordinate with them. This is just one little dental contest that our kid has. Don't you love it? I saw, you know, smiling when the kids were brushing their teeth every morning. Would you really want to sit in a room with 24 year olds brushing their teeth every day? Probably not. But you know what? You do it. And our family
061engagement completion. Very proud of these numbers that you can get almost 100%. Ask any teacher in any classroom on any day to get a 100% of your kids to do something. It's it's it's hard. It's like pulling teeth, but then you can brush them. But to get a parent and a child to do something, it's it's worth it. But you got to work with your families early so that it's the habit that you work with the school just like coming to school every day is the habit. And finally, sustaining success. This is new data. And I am not happy that this data is not higher. But what this data shows you is that the children in the EISD preK and the EISD head start the leaders when it comes to third grade star performance. So,
062what we need to work on is retaining these kids in our school, getting as many more as these kids who didn't come to us for prek. We need to to to do more recruitment, have them ready to go because we know we can do a good job with them when we send them to the next grade ready. U finally, think about this group of kids we're working with now. No idea of CO. They weren't born. They weren't even conceived for the most part. And in 2100 when we're all gone, they'll still be around. And so these little kids went to the Micronauts program recently. They're they're going to a world that I can't even imagine in my my vast years here, but I'm excited for it and I know that they're going to be ready
063for it because of what we're doing here. Uh finally, y'all know me, Mary Miller Baker. You can find me over at Stafford and anything we can do for you. And thank you for all you do for us to support the kids. and they're our most important asset. Thank you. >> You want to say something? >> Well, I I want to thank both our directors, both Mr. Rodriguez for his presentation and Dr. Mary Miller also. Uh much appreciated. Uh these these presentations are to continue to inform our board on on our programs. Dr. Miller Raker, thank you because you do an exceptional job with your program. So, thank you. Back to you, sir. >> Okay. Yeah. I also want to say thank you. I actually in 2014 that was my introduction to education was in pre-K4SA.
064So it it I mean it's more important than we than most people know. Um especially the parents. I mean we see a difference right in elementary school and in middle school when those kids start at four or three years old. You you see a a big difference one or two um grade levels even. And and I've worked at elementary. I've worked at prek and I've worked in middle school now. And you can tell who's been to prek who's been to you know prek3 um because the the earlier they can get and head start um the earlier they can um you know get into that structured setting um then it's just normal for them. It's not coming from you know the home setting where it's one way and then school it's another way. It's just that's
065the way school goes and you know and they do a lot better and and they're reading right they read earlier their math skills are better and and and you're right the the attendance that's always something we're going to keep keep working on you know we know we want to keep you know the kids home on Friday or whatever but they need to be here every day and we got to emphasize that with the parents please bring them because it does show years later. So thank you very much uh to both of the presenters. Thank you. Oh, okay. Uh Joe, if you can bring up the PowerPoint. I'm going to expedite mine a little bit because I know we've got uh some other district visits to take care of. Um the speaker. So, I'll go ahead
066and get started. So my presentation mostly um is to continue to share with the community some of the hard facts that we are looking at uh in the district. You've heard it over and over tonight. Everything from attendance to highlighting some of our students who are headed to uh the Ivy Leagues and just other academic programs, but I really want to start this evening just by uh speaking about our board members. So if you you'll give me a minute. Um you know I am in my eighth year as superintendent here in Edgewood and I have been very fortunate to have served along now um 13 board members in the years that I have served as superintendent. In fact today before this meeting I made it a point to reach out to all of them. The
067ones that aren't sitting here tonight uh I think it's important that we always thank people for their contributions because whatever that contribution was it should be important and I think we have to value people for what they bring to the board. Uh I have been very honored to work with our board officers. Uh most people don't realize that a board has a board officers, our board president, our vice president and board secretary who work alongside me and everything from preparing agendas to just discussing challenges or uh ideas and hopes that we have for the school district. I'd like to thank our board officers and then of course our four other trustees who have served on the board for various years. Some for an amount of years kind of with a break and then came back.
068some who've been started as a student and is now on our board and then some who are just joining our board. But it has been a pleasure to work with all seven of them in different capacities through different challenges but nonetheless uh the opportunity to learn from every one of them in every capacity that's available to myself. Um I want to start by thanking our board president. You heard him say earlier, he is a teacher in a neighboring district. But I want to thank him because he started once many years ago as a very young trustee and through a lot of coaching and through a lot of honest talking and uh a lot of humility about learning his role. We now have a board president who in his time has earned a PhD is a
069teacher in our neighboring district and chairs and um models and spends a lot of volunteer time with kids. So I want to thank him for the work he does here but also in his neighboring district. to our board vice president who has served now almost 10 years on this board in different capacities. Uh having been a graduate of Memorial High School, but for over three decades have served as a community health advocate in our schools, in our neighborhoods, in our churches, in our homes, because I've been to people's homes when she does this. Uh this is a life's work. And so I want to thank her for the commitment that she's had not just as a trustee. Her children went through our schools. And I think that when you trust us with your children, as
070many of our employees do, I think that's a that's a huge respect to the district that saw her grow. And so I want to thank Miss Castillia for that. Uh Mr. Frank Espinosa, who's now served on this board about nine years with some breaks in in time, but also serving in many different foundations, many different uh different nonprofits across San Antonio and just all the work he does from cooking for the police department to offering to cook for our different events over the years. and a lot of times putting things out of his own money and out of his own pocket. And so I want to thank him for the work that he's done with our school district and for representing our school district when he took his first steps into college. I know he's
071a St. Mary's graduate and so just moving on and being a good role model for our kids. Uh folks like Mr. Santoyo who as I continue to talk about high Stanford graduate a lot of people don't know he graduated from Stanford University in California. um spend many years serving our community in the in the fire department, but also being that person who challenges you on your thinking, really challenges you to think what we're doing for our students and who quietly leads and displays that courage and leadership doesn't always have to be loud. It can be very strong and he can be silent. And I do appreciate that lesson that he's always taught me over the last about nine years with brakes in it as a as a trustee. Mr. Mr. Lopez, who I know had
072to leave this evening, but who's just joined us, but I have been I have been fortunate to have known Mr. Lopez for probably now five or six years. He's been a multiple neighborhood association president. He volunteers in many ways to to get funds for our students for scholarships. Uh he has a presence in the law enforcement space across the city. He's now retired out of that. but a lot of the work that he does with our kiddos and volunteering. I really love that picture on the left, Lauren and your team who caught that picture. That is indicative of the man that you see in this picture and I want to thank him for being a huge part of this board. Mr. Valdes, who I mentioned earlier, started in our classrooms, who moved out of our
073classrooms, and is now our youngest graduate of the school district to serve in our in our school board, has participated and graduated from leadership taskby, graduated from Al Colleges, and is currently pursuing and is, I believe, about to finish his bachelor's degree from UTSA. Again, our kids and what our kids do in this world is the best thing that we have to show for the work that our school district is doing. And you if you're coming to our board meetings, you're getting to meet people from all walks of life and from all different decades. And so the story of Edin and the legacy of Edu didn't doesn't stop now, right? It continues to build. So I want to thank Mr. Valdez and then of course Mr. Deado who as I mentioned earlier, we have three
074of his children of our schools in our schools. We've graduated one already. The volunt um the volunteer work that he's done with the different student groups in our school. Again, people are holding jobs while they're doing this. They still have a a family. He's a father. Everything else, but all the volunteer work that he's doing in our schools that again, quiet leadership, not the need to spread that around. I'll do that for them because that's that's I like doing these kinds of things. This should not be new. Uh but again, thank you, sir, for joining the board and continuing to learn your role as a board member. I appreciate that. Um I've always talked about the different things that it takes to get to this meeting tonight. I'm not spending any time there. I want
075to spend more time on some of the other things. You've already heard the acknowledgement of our two young women who are moving on to the Ivy Leagues. You can't say that enough. I've been bragging about that at all my parent meetings because our parents are starting at different places and they need to know that if you're responsible and you focus on the things that matter, your kid can get anywhere you want them to as long as you focus and get above the noise. And in talking to one of our students moms, uh to Sarah's mom, I know she's done that. I went over and thanked her earlier because I met her at a parent meeting. It takes a lot to keep your child above the noise around them to get them to meet these goals.
076So, I want to acknowledge also that it took a community around both these girls to get them to move on where they're moving on to our young men who are academic uh all state honorable mention. That's a big feat when these kids are taking classes, playing football, and everything else they have to do, the things that we may not even know about. Um, and then we didn't get to uh acknowledge this young lady. She just got a best lifter award. So, I'm hoping we bring her next month, but I wanted to acknowledge the fact you can read that to yourself. I'm not going to read it to you, but again, we all want to be seen. We all want somebody to see that we're, you know, busting our butt out there. And so, I want
077to thank our student for all the work that she's doing out there. Ariel is doing a lot of work and investing in herself. So, she's not here, but again, there's power in speaking people's names. Uh, Rick Andrea's already been acknowledged earlier, but again, nonetheless, all the work that she's doing. Uh, I want to acknowledge Guppy Camp that Brenwood is starting for next year sixth graders starting early, right? So, I want to acknowledge our principal who's getting this going already. Please spread the word. Um, and I also want to acknowledge and next month I'm going to bring the United Voices Council to introduce to the community. But I want to acknowledge some some input that I've received from that group, from my uh parent morning group, from some of our constituents that aren't even here. I
078I think I think Miss Aggie is still here, but I want to thank Miss Agie, Miss Belinda, some of our other folks who have talked to me over the years. And I may not act quickly, but it's not because I don't want to. It's because for the superintendent, when you make one decision, it affects a lot of people. And so, I do want to acknowledge that thanks to all that input, we are now going to be able to bring back our parent leaison to all of our elementary schools. I made that uh announcement to my principles last week and so George Kardinka and that group is in the middle of looking and seeking out folks who want to serve as parent leaison in our elementary school. I'm using those two pictures because these are the
079two parents that I happen to know a lot because they just come up to me and talk to me about a lot of things. Miss Annie there over at Verales, those are her shirts. They literally will wear these shirts uh every time I meet her and her mom's. Uh we have a lot of good people that are doing good things and they don't ask for acknowledgement. They don't raise the red flag. What they say is, "You know what? I'm going to put the work out there and get it done." And so I want to acknowledge Annie and her group, Tess and all the rest of the moms for the work they're doing up at Alis. And then again, because parents have asked for this, we have a lot of conversations around mental health and bullying.
080We are now ready to start our books that we've had a lot of parents who have reached out and say, "I need help. I don't know how to do this on my own." So, here are the dates, the locations, and the books. A lot of parents have already bought their books, and so uh we are inviting folks to come in. We're going to have uh groups in mostly in English, but we will have some Spanish groups. So, I'm going to start blasting this all over social media, but you see the dates. We're ready to go. They will go into the summer. This is the first uh the not cryptes, what do we call them? Uh it's the little yellow book, guys, we used to get in college. Cliff notes. There you go. This is our
081little cliffnotes version of what we're going to work on in session one. So again, this will go out. Uh I hope to see a lot of parents come out. Yeah, I just I don't know where I got that to remember that. But uh we're going to do that. And then of course reminding our community the neighborhood place is still here. We went ahead and created a graphic because some of our folks still forget that we have the neighborhood place, one of our former schools, and all those services you see there are there for you to look into. Uh and I also want to acknowledge, it's funny because there was a there was some conversation earlier about child nutrition. Um, a lot of feedback we've gotten over the years and I want to I want to
082talk about where this started. This started at my student lunchons. Kids started bringing it up to me. Hey, can we start tasting the food y'all are buying for us? And I thought, you know, why not? So, I want to thank Roxan Ruiz, our director of child nutrition services, because told her about it and she's starting to do that. She's starting to bring our partners that help us and so I'm all about showand tell. We've started doing that. I see our lasership school for girls head of school here, Dr. Mos. Thank you for inviting us into your school. We are going to start moving these around throughout the school district. Uh we want the kids to taste potential meals and tell us what works, what doesn't work because we don't always get it right. Let's put
083it out there. We don't. But we need feedback from the client. That's what I tell the kids. You are the client. You are the customer. We want to hear from you. And board members, I want to thank all seven of you because you've all been to student lunchons and parent meetings and we invite you. So, thank you for that. I want to thank our district 6 council member Ray Galan for recently going to Stafford VPA making a donation to our school. I think it's important that we acknowledge our elected officials who are supporting our schools and who want to see us succeed and are part of our community. Um and then earlier these are two of our newest staff members. So I see principles in here. Tell us who's joining your schools because I do
084like to highlight people. So Dr. uh Tina Tina Garcia for posting these. I just kind of robbed them from her post. Uh these are some of our new staff members. And then board tonight, one of the items that I do want to bring to you that I do want to highlight that you are taking a vote on tonight um is on one of the items that has to do with let me get my notes. Uh discussion of the annual financial and compliance report. I want to highlight for the community a few things that um have happened as a result that we that we did share with you at the workshop as a result of all the work of our finance team and you heard in our early taper report. This is why I like to
085sit back and listen because these things naturally come up. You already heard that we got a first rating. Uh we reached the superior rating. We've been doing this for eight years. Thank you to Miss Martinez and her team and the finance office. This is not us saying it. This is the state saying we know how to manage our money. So I like to talk with facts. But here's the here's the thing that our team's been able to do. Revenue from all funding sources has been reduced in our school district by $23.9 million. Expenses have decreased by 17.3 million. The impact of the general fund which is our nest egg which includes child nutrition was only was reduced to about 1.8 million board. I know we reported a number to you back when we adopted the
086budget but we have been able to clean that up throughout the year because we have different savings different grants come in. We look at uh consolidating positions that we're no longer needing because we bought other software that helps us consolidation of work. Uh but I am happy to report those things because obviously when we're able to do that then we're able to focus on things that matter. So I want you to note that over the last few years uh this board has approved the raise of the minimum wage race to 1550. That's more than most places and actually is still actually a little higher than even our north side partner that's very near here. Uh you have allowed us to raise the teacher starting salary for certified teachers to 59,000. that is in the middle,
087not quite as the highest in the school ISDs in San Antonio, but is it is in the middle of the pack and we have been able to make a cost of living adjustment for all staff members. We do know that inflation afflicts everybody including the school district and so I want to thank the board again for the work that they put in these six months. They don't approve a budget till June, but we start talking now about that. So I want to thank them for um their uh support of the group and to our budget team as well. Uh I heard earlier some conversation about attendance. These are the campus that continuously meet our 92% attendance mark. Uh again I want to speak with actual facts. I just reported this to principles at their principles
088meeting. So yes, I do talk to principles about attendance. This is where they're sitting at right now. The dollar amounts you see there are what we give to schools so they can continue to support their move towards keeping their percentages high. Now you those numbers vary because it is by student and there is a bottom line number we start with and then there's 88 numbers that we work with. So those numbers are going to vary but you can see the schools you see their logos the ones that are hitting their mark 92%. You can also see the ones that are just missing it like for example Roosevelt just missed it by 02. Now you might say golly Dr. You could have just rounded them up, right? We set a goal. They got to meet the
089goal. And so we do look at this every six weeks. At the end of the four six weeks, if these go up to 92, then we will acknowledge that and make the needed corrections so they can have some additional funds to work with their kids because they have all types of great ideas, but the attendance is going up in the district. This is our actual numbers right now. So again, I'm going to keep sharing these in my reports. These are important. And again, that's what I'm closing with. Again, board, I want to thank you for all your hard work. By tomorrow, you should be able to scan this QR code and get all these different powerpoints. Um, your contact for this is Miss uh Castillo here on the left. And there's a bunch of resources
090at the end, which I'm not going to go over. Uh, but they're there for different meetings and different uh events that are going on. I'll point out I talked about the neighborhood place. Well, they're having an event on February 7th. If you need some dental healthcare, that's important because I know a lot of folks need it. Uh, that's there. So, please register and we'll leave it there. Sir, turning it back over to you. Um, [snorts] I do have one interjection before we do consent agenda when we get >> All right. Thank you, sir. Yes, I want to I want to echo that. Yeah, our attendance is actually it's going up slowly, but it's it's the the 90s, especially, you know, getting into the mid to high 90s. That's that's where we're headed within the next
091few years. So, we do have a lot of positive things going. And with that, oh go ahead, sir. You okay? As per board policy policy be local, unless a board member makes a motion to withdraw an item for individual consideration, and such motion receives a second and is passed by the majority of those present, all consent agenda items shall be acted upon by one vote without separate discussion. At this time, we move to our consent agenda. Have a comment? >> Yes, sir. I would like to interject and thank Mr. Mr. Valdez for speaking to me earlier about item 5 uh sorry 5.0. Um Mr. Valdez has asked that the board meeting minutes on agenda item 5.0 include the people that spoke at public comment. Uh those names will be included in the ind for the
092individuals that spoke at the I believe the September 8th meeting. So we will make that adjustment board and I did want to enter that into the public comment for the record as you consider your vote. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you, sir. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda items A through O? >> Mr. President, >> uh, Mr. Go ahead and, um, yeah, read the motion. Just I motion to approve. Okay, Mr. Valdez, go ahead and do it. >> Uh, Mr. President, I motion to approve agenda items 5 through O. 5 A through O. >> Okay, Mr. Valdez, motions. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Okay. Mr. Espinosa seconds. >> Is there any discussion? >> If we have no discussion, all those in favor, raise your hand and say I. >> I.
093>> All those opposed, raise your hand and say nay. All those abstaining, raise your hand and say abstain. Okay, motion carries. The time is now 7:46 p.m. and the Edgewood Independent School District School Board will go into close session as authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapters 551.071. The board is now in close session. Thank you. Right behind you. I got it. I got it. Mike, thank you. All right. Thank you. The time is now, time is it? 8:00. Perfect. Okay. The time is now 8:00 p.m. and the Edgewood Independent School District School Board reconvenes from close session. Do we have an action regarding item 7A? >> Mr. President, I move that board of trustees render a finding that good cause did not exist for term contract employees Ricky Shaw and
094Felicia Head to abandon their employment contract with Edgewood Independent School District pursuant to Texas Education Code section 21.105 105 and 21.210 and to authorize a superintendent to file a written complaint with the state board for educator certification for contract abandonment by Ricky Shaw and Felicia Head and to issue written notice to Ricky Shaw and Felicia Head. >> Thank you, sir. Mr. Espino some motions. Is there a second? >> I second. Okay. Miss Castillia seconds. Any discussion? We have no discussion. All those in favor raise your hand and say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, raise your hand and say nay. Anybody abstaining? Raise your hand and say abstain. Okay. Motion carries. Okay. Now adjournment. The time is now 8:01 p.m. Do we have a motion to adjourn? So move. >> Mr. Uh, Delgado motions.
095Is there a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Valdez second. Is there any discussion? We have no discussion. All those in favor raise your hand and say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Raise your hand. >> Anybody abstaining. Okay. Motion carries. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you. How's it going?