001[Music] Board meeting is called back to order after executive session. We do not have anything coming out of executive session. So we will now go into our prayer and pledge of allegian allegiance by Mrs. Harrison. Please stand. Bow your heads. Dear heavenly father, we come before you today to lift us up as we gather for our meeting. We ask for your wisdom and guidance to be present in all of our discussions and decisions. Grant us the strength to lead with integrity and humility, seeking the best interests of our students, staffs, and teachers. Help us to work together in unity for the greater good of our school community. We pray for your peace to reign in our hearts and minds as we work together for the betterment of our educational system. May our efforts be blessed
002and fruitful, bringing about positive change and growth in our schools. Lord, we also pray for our beloved students and teachers that they enjoy their time off this summer. May they find rest and rejuvenation and may they use this break to recharge their minds and hearts. We pray that you keep everybody safe, protecting them from any harm or danger. And we ask that you continue to guide and shape them and prepare them for the upcoming school year. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge algiance 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 algiance to the Texas one state one and indivisible. Thank you, Miss Harrison, for that pledge.
003um for that prayer. And now we will have special recognition. Good evening board members and Dr. Crawford. We would like to begin the special recognition part of the meeting by recognizing the following band, choir, and orchestra students who earned a medal at the Texas State Solo and Ensemble Contest. And if y'all would like to go ahead and come forward, we will be calling them up once you get in place. We have several students who placed from the Tyler Legacy High School who received a silver medal for their instrumental and or vocals. We have some that are here and some that are not here. So, if you do not hear your name called, please let me know because you snuck in and not able to to get you. But first up, we have Matthew Tidmore. [Applause]
004You shake their hands and go on across. Yes. Congratulations. Next we have Kia Timonss. Come on down. [Applause] She's coming. She's going around. Congratulations [Applause] Up next, the following students received a gold medal for instrumental and/or vocal solo. First up, we have Samuel Williams from Tyler High School. [Applause] All right. And I'm going to go back. I believe Gordon Roberts is here and we did not call you up. So Gordon Roberts from Tyler Legacy High School who received a silver medal medal for their instrumental and or vocal solo. [Applause] from Tyler Legacy High School for receiving a gold medal for instrumental and/or vocal solo is Cooper Drake. [Applause] Congratulations. In addition to these individual recognitions, we have two ensembles who won a gold medal for their instrumental ensembles. and we will have all of y'all
005come up for a group photo. Up first, the saxophone ensemble from Tyler Legacy High School. And we have our one representative. Yeah. [Laughter] [Applause] And also receiving a gold medal is the percussion ensemble from Tyler High School. Now y'all can all come up. [Applause] Congratulations. Absolutely. [Music] to get approved. Hey One, two, three. Thank you. Congratulations. And this concludes our recognitions for this evening. [Applause] I know with the hat barely recognized him. Okay, next. See, we'll give them a few minutes to clear out. Okay, we are now at the scheduled time in our agenda for public comment. The board wishes to hear your thoughts and concerns. As per board policy, all speakers must have submitted their name, which I'm sure you have, and just be informed that we can listen, but we can't make any
006kind of comments. So, at this time, we have Emily Panol. Am I pronouncing that correctly? Yes. Come on down and you have three minutes. Hello again. Good evening, school board members. So, as you know, my name is Emily Pinal. I am a Tyler SD alumni, a Tyler SD parent, and a community organizer. But above all, I'm someone who cares in this community. I will say I'm glad to see new faces in the school board and a shift in leadership. It brings new opportunities for accountability here. So almost four months ago, I stood right here asking you all to speak up. If that wasn't the time, then today must be. With everything happening across the country and especially here in Texas, our families continue to live in fear. They deserve to know that their school district
007sees them, hears them, and will protect them. I'm urging you to use the summer not just to reflect, but to act. Work with your public relations team, your community leaison, and most importantly with the parents, the community leaders and advocates to craft a strong and clear back to school message. A message that assures families that Tyler SD stands to protect every child and every family regardless of immigration status. Clearly outlines the district level policies in place to uphold safety, dignity, and trust in schools. Redirects questions and fears to district administration to lessen the burden on teachers and principles, many who deeply care but are already stretched thin. encourage each campus to develop its own family-f facing plan in partnership with the community just like we already do for safety drills and academic protocols. And just
008as we see those big signs in front of every school, affirming through guardian plan that you all approved in 2022 that Tyler staff will protect our children at all costs. I ask you, where is that energy now? Why hesitate in releasing a public statement affirming the same sentiment? Neighboring districts didn't hesitate to ask. They were proactive. Tyler SD must be too. Because silence in times like this can be taken as indifference. But words when backed by actions can build trust our community deserves. And I really hope you take this time this moment seriously and act before another school year begins. If not, we will continue to come and speak. So, thank you. Thank you. Next we have Matthew Bailey. Hi. Good evening members of the board. Three months ago in March, I had stood before
009you all demanding that the board release a written a written statement declaring its intentions on how it may protect the undocumented students on Tyler ISD school grounds. Once again, I find myself repeating this demand. My name is Matthew Bailey. On behalf of the Tyler based organization, East Texas Monarchs. For the past six months, I believe that we have all seen our state and federal governments kick itself into overdrive at the behest of the sitting president's locks of mass deportations. Often in the stuffy rooms of papers, pens, and suits, the words and writings of how a mass deportation ought to be conducted is conducted simply by observing numbers on a piece of paper. No matter how fanciful their presentation may seem in charts and graphs, often it's forget it's forgotten what these numbers truly mean. Often
010we forget what the numbers truly represent. Often we forget that the faces to that there are faces to those numbers, names to these numbers, lives, hopes and struggles and dreams. On Saturday, we had near we had seen nearly 11 million strong throughout the country reject this goal of mass deportation. We had seen in Tyler itself not three miles down the road just outside this building at Birdfield Park where an estimated 2,000 passionate souls of both young and old felt so emboldened, so agitated by the horrors that we all see happening to our neighborhoods and friends here in Tyler, Dallas, Houston, and in my small town of Athens. I was there at the protest in Athens and here in Tyler where the community had come out even following the fatal shooting of two Minnesota repres state
011representatives and the fatal shooting of one protester in Salt Lake City, Utah to protect to project our collective demands that the people of Tyler the voting people of Tyler do not want the federal government pushing around the children and innocent working people of our town. In both these protests, we had received great support from passerbys. Honkings of horns, thumbs up, smiles, and waves of allied flags. I am sure that you all will consider the tremendous support that we have seen throughout our nation and this town for our demand for they are reasonable, respectable, and justified. We ask again to release a statement on Tyler ISD's intentions on how they will protect their undocumented students. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Now we all have a appro uh motion to approve the minutes for the board workshop
012May 8th, the board workshop May 5th 14th and the board workshop May 19th. Can I get a motion? I move we approve the minutes. Second. All in favor? Any oppose? It has been approved the minutes. Next, we'll have our reports continuous improvement student outcomes. Dr. Crawford, part of the board monitoring calendar uh that we will review here probably the next couple of months. We have director of athletics Sam Gillespie. He will actually lead off with us for athletics as he makes his way to the table. Coach Gillespie has committed to me that he will not read every bullet on every slide. And we're going to see if that can happen. We won't hold it against you. Just a reminder. All right. Well, first of all, uh once again, uh Dr. Crawford, President Atkins, board members,
013I just want to tell you how appreciative I am and your trust and uh hiring me to lead this athletic program here in Tyler ISD. um jumped in both feet and it's been it's been great so far and looking forward to see what we can do over the next uh number of years. Um I'm going to jump right in and um kind of go through this. I want to explain a little bit on these slides. As you can see the highlighted numbers there are participation numbers in each of those sports. Uh I've listed kind of placings how they placed in district each each one of these teams and then I've also listed in parenthesis their district record. And so I'm not going to read all those to you word for word like Dr. Crawford said.
014I do want to point out our academic allstate teams uh that we've had. Uh the members that were academic all state, they have to achieve a 92 or higher GPA in order to be academic all state and that's awarded to only seniors uh in those categories. Um, and so you can see we had a lot of all district. When you see the word superlative up there, that's kind of like your offensive player of the year, defensive player of the year, newcomer of the year to the district. Um, we had a lot of those and, uh, had a great great season in boys and girls basketball. All four teams made the postseason. Uh, not only that, three out of the four teams were district champs. So, uh, we're heading in the right direction. I think a
015lot of that I'm I'm going to be, uh, I'm kind of selfish on this part, man. We've we've devoted a lot of time to our youth league and we're finally getting to see some of the fruits of that pay off not just in the high school but at our middle schools too. So, uh I I do know that's a big part of that. I'm going to move on. Next slide. Um well, if it'll go. There we go. Right here is our boys and girls soccer. Um you can see the number of players we had. We really have good numbers in most of our uh soccer programs. The only one that I do think uh I'll point out that we need to improve on is our girls program at Tyler High. I think we need to
016improve those numbers a little bit. And you'll see when I get to the middle school numbers how those reflect. And I think I've talked to the coaches about pointing those kids out. Sixth grade pre-athletic, sixth grade PE. Starting to talk to those girls, uh getting them interested in those sports that we are struggling in with numbers. And I think that'll help. And you can see on all these soccer ones here, we've got a lot of academic all-state selections. Uh the thing about soccer is there's you've got academic allstate TGCA, THSCA, you've got Tasco. So there's all kinds uh of academic selections, but again those kids have to maintain a 92 GPA or higher to get those. Had a lot of superlatives and had a lot of great things happening in soccer this year as well.
017There we go. Uh spring tennis, track and field. Another thanks, man, our tennis program at both places. Coach Seismore at Legacy and Coach Kenyonus at Tyler High do a outstanding job. If you didn't hear, Coach Seismore was named by the Texas High School Coaches Association Region Four Coach of the Year for 6A. Um he he I I think nine he told me nine out of the past 10 years they were district champs. And man, that's that's something to really be proud of. And uh this year even over at Tyler High, I'll get to it later on, but man, we had a we had a medalist at the state meet and like Dr. Crawford said, they don't just give those out. You've got to earn those. And um man, we had a young girl that's got
018a bright bright future in that that's really going to help that program. Um track and fieldwise, um that's something I really think we can improve on overall. You know, one thing we started doing last year, we started hosting a sixth grade track meet to get kids more interested in it. This is the second year we've done it. Uh the first year I believe Bolter took the trophy. We we combined the points and uh this year Hubard won it and uh trying to get them more interested and I had a lot of great input from families and some parents that volunteered to help out and just said, "Man, the kids love this and uh they're looking forward to track now in middle school because they get to see it at a young age." Same way in
019our youth leagues. That's why we're doing those things to make sure they get a taste of it early and have a good experience uh to carry them through. But you can see on all those our numbers are really good and all those programs right here with spring tennis, track and field, all those numbers are really really good. Question. Yes sir. Um if I'm looking at this correctly, so you're saying on your track and field numbers, Tyler High and Legacy combined have 128 kids involved in the track and field program. Does that include cross country? No, sir. No, sir. And then I guess your so far with the numbers you've run through your biggest sport is soccer. 355 kids roughly. Uh the slide before this the let me go back. See if I can go back.
020You got Oh, right. There we go. There we go. So you got you got 355 kids combined at both schools, girls and boys soccer. to double the amount of grill. A lot more than double. I'm just looking proportionately. Which is your biggest sport? Is it soccer or is it football? Football. Football. Uh I'll just And again, I'm speak I'm going off top of my head right now because football isn't on there, but this past year we had 2 and close to 270 boys play football just at Tyler Legacy. and we had over 150 something boys play football at Tyler High. So when you do that, it's well over four, you know, we're going to average anywhere between four and 500 kids playing football. So you think your two top two sports as far as the
021amount of kids are soccer and football? Are those your top two as far as like the number of participants? The number of participants, right? Yeah. And it it's a lot of that is, you know, the number of kids that get to play at one time. That's also what you got to look at. You know, in basketball, you put five on the court. Baseball, you put nine on the field. Same way with softball. Soccer and football, you got 11 players on the on the field at one time. So, you need those better numbers for those sports. Thank you. Yes, sir. Uh, okay. Uh, moving on to golf. Man, I and I'm going to tell you, thank you so much for y'all's trust in putting that golf facility that we've got because I really think it's going
022to help and improve numbers, especially uh at Tyler High. You can see our numbers up there and we've got to get those numbers up at Tyler High. A lot of the reason is uh it's hard for those kids to get on a course and play nowadays. Um these these country clubs that we're allowed to go on, there's certain times we can be there. Sometimes we can, sometimes we can't. Now, we're going to have a facility where those kids can go before school, after school, during the athletic period if they're scheduled in there and be able to actually practice. And it's a if you haven't been out to see that, I encourage you to get out there. It's a beautiful facility. They our our maintenance people, our our facility services, Tim Loper, everybody did a great
023job putting that thing together, and I think it's only going to enhance those programs and help us out a lot. Um, and you can see there, um, we do need those numbers up at Tyler High. That's one of the things we've got to work on for golf. Tyler Legacy though, you look at our girls and boys programs and and now that's a cut program. You got to realize that as well because you can't carry every single person that comes out. Um but you can see our girls uh had great soccer does. Soccer does not cut. No, they do not cut. Neither does football. You know, football and soccer both. They're non-cut sports. So, we take I love our soccer coaches, but man, they let everybody anyone come out. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Go
024ahead. Sorry. Um, but you can see up there, uh, golf program did very well this year. Our girls won district, went to the regional meet. Our boys had a medalist that went as well. Um, softball, that's another program we've got to get back up and running. You know, Tyler Legacy for a while had that program going, but I'm going to tell you, and I told this to Coach Jenkins over at Tyler High, when we hired him, I said, softball and baseball are two sports. Soft softball especially, I've been a head softball coach. You cannot develop a softball pitcher when they get in ninth grade. It's not going to happen. You've got to get those kids when they're in the third, fourth, and fifth grade, and you got to go over to Remy or um those
025schools that feed into Tyler High, and you've got to get those kids interested, whether it be camps, uh something like that, and and develop pitchers. That's what you have to have to be competitive. You've got to develop pitchers. And so, I've told them that's something that we've got to start doing. Do your varsity coaches at different um in different sports, whether it be in football or softball, do they go to the elementaryaries and middle schools at all? Yes, middle schools were there almost daily. Um we're there. We've actually uh credit to Dr. Crawford and our our board uh and our principles, they've allowed those those coaches to be there on campus working with those middle school kids. Um, we've even had coaches that go down to the elementary schools, promote our camps, uh, to the
026to the PE classes, things like that. That's the only way you're going to get those programs like this up and going. Thank you. Yes, sir. Um, and then you can see baseball-wise, Tyler High, I'm going to tell y'all, Seth Gibson has a passion for Tyler High. He really does. And if you see his post, what he does for those kids, how he has a fall world series for him and makes it a big deal. He's generating interest and you can see by the number of kids he's got playing. He's got 51 out this year, which is great numbers. Uh, and like I said, I know he's going to do he he's got a passion for it. He loves Tyler High School. He loves those young men and I know they're going to do nothing but
027get better. And then at Legacy, we finally we've got a coach here now two years. you you that have been here, you know, we've had a different coach at Tyler Legacy up until we got VJ. I think we had four and four years maybe or three and four years. And so that's tough. Um, and now they've got some consistency and you saw what they did this year. They they not only got in the playoffs, but they went three rounds deep. And that's the first time that's happened since 2015. So looking bright future there for the baseball program. All right. 2010. 2010. Sorry, 2010. My bad. And then this is just I just threw this up here so you could see. Really want to celebrate these district championships that we got. Uh Tyler High girls basketball
028district champs. The most impressive thing I can point out there, 61 wins in the last two seasons. That's pretty impressive. Coach Reynolds has done a great job. And then of course our tennis, our boys soccer, girls golf. Uh three years in a row for girls golf at at Tyler Legacy. girls basketball, boys swim. Uh just a great great great fun year for uh for all of our teams there. Move on to the next slide. There we go. Um go back. Okay. State qualifier. I I really want to take some time, a little bit of time on this state qualifying. That's something that's hard to do. We had a state champion this year. Um and it was Coach Petty's daughter, Maline Petty. She's a freshman, y'all. She's just a freshman and she won state um this
029year uh down there at the meet. She made it in two events. We also had a girls relay team get down there. It was the first time we've had a girls relay team since we've been in 6A that made it down to that meet. So that was a big deal. Madrie East in cross country made it to the state meet and then we had two doubles teams make it to the state meet uh down in San Antonio for tennis which was awesome. Uh that weekend was tough for me. I was going to baseball games in Lufkin, leaving Lufkin, driving to San Antonio, watching those kids play, and then coming back. So, it was it was a lot of fun. And then, like I said, the regional semi-finalist, we had baseball and team tennis. Uh, and
030you can see our regional qualifiers there in all the different sports, uh, and also our area and by district qualifiers. One thing I asked coach, um, I pointed out and I said, "Coach, when's the last time, uh, that uh, Legacy had made it to the second round in basketball?" Um, and he said, "Coach, it's the first time in 18 years." And he said, "We were one possession away from making it to the third round, and it was 1977 the last time that happened." And I really think he's got those guys going in the right direction. Um, and then also Legacy Baseball, like you like Dr. Crawford said, in the regional semi-finals, first time in 15 years, which is awesome. Uh, hopefully they just keep keep it keep striving, going up. got beat by a really
031good tomball team that went on and uh I think they got lost in the state championship game this year. So had a great great showing there. Um then moving on to Tyler High state qualifiers in tennis, we had Khloe Wade and I mentioned that Khloe's only a sophomore, y'all. And she was a bronze medalist at the state tennis tournament. Uh she's still got two more years with us. So, don't be surprised in the next year or two if we have a gold medalist come out of Tyler High in tennis, which is to me is it's it's hard to do that. I've been at a lot of different schools. Uh it's hard number one just to get down there. It's extremely hard to meddal. Uh and that's a credit to her. Coach Kenyon, her family, just
032a great great bunch. And then girls cross country, uh Amy Vasquez was a state qualifier. I I can't list all the things that Coach Needer sent me an email probably two pages long just bragging on this young lady about how great of a student she is. Um I mean just couldn't say enough. He said, "Coach," he kept emailing me back saying, "Hey, you might want to put this in there." And I said, "Coach, I think I've only got about 10 minutes, so I don't know if I can get it all in." But uh just very proud of that young lady. She's got a bright bright future ahead of her. You know what she ran at the at the regional meet? I don't know what she ran at the ran 5K, right? 3.1 miles. The girl
033at the Yes. And she is she is uh I'm telling you, he told me she'll be the first one in her family, I believe, uh to go to college. Um she is a AP student. Um just extremely extremely intelligent young girl, greatest work ethic you could ask for. So, um bright bright future there. And that and coach Needer, y'all, great hire for our part getting him to do cross country and track over there. I'm telling you, if you hadn't met him, he's awesome. He's awesome. Um, and then also re, we had some regional qualifiers, boys and girls swimming. When Coach Petty sent me this, I I didn't I said, "Man, is that right?" And he said, "Uh, boys relay 200 free freestyle, first relay team to qualify for regionals in at least 30 years from
034Tyler High, which is awesome. Coach Betty does a great job with the swim program. If you've ever been out there in the summer, it looks like ants in that pool. There's tons of kids. Uh he's really got a great program. He works it from the ground up. Um we've even got more kids now. Uh we've got kids from Bolter, from Birdwolf, from uh all these places now going over there to swim and it's just going to help that program on both sides at Legacy and Tyler High. Uh and then the area qualifiers in girls basketball, like I pointed out before, it's hard to go undefeated two years in a row in district and coach Reynolds did with that girls basketball team, which is great. And then of course our by district qualifiers in team tennis
035and boys basketball as well. Okay, next slide. This is a breakdown just kind of our middle schools and I want to point out the numbers that are that are colorcoded there. That's the participation numbers in each of those sports. Um I mentioned you know the youth league and how it's paying off. These seventh graders this year I believe have been in our program third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade in our youth league. So, they had a basketball in their hand and at least got to play over the course of six weeks, which is great because when you get kids in that middle school that you put a basketball in their hand the first time, then it's hard. And so, these kids have got to play. And I'll be honest with you, Donnie Little,
036our assistant AD, we could not do this youth league without him or Haley Skinner. Donnie Little goes out and gets a tremendous amount of money donate for this program. And that way, our kids all over the district don't have to pay an arm and a leg to play in this. we can make sure every one of them that wants to play plays. So that's really helped us. But you can see girls basketball, we had district champions and the runnerup. They played in the we host the district tournament and Hubard girls and Three Lakes girls in seventh grade played in the championship game which was awesome. Uh eighth grade our district in middle school, we've got our four middle schools, we've got the three Long View schools, we've got Jacksonville, we've got White House, uh all
037in our district. So, uh, when we made that change, uh, before I think we just had White House in Jacksonville for a long time and then R4, we decided to go out and we've got to play somebody tougher. Used to be homogeneous. Oh, just amongst oursel. Yes. For a long time. Everybody walked around here with their chest out. We were city champions. We never go play anybody else. Right. Made that change in about 2015 or 16, I think. So, y'all play Foster, Judson, and Forest Park out of Long View. Yes, sir. Pretty good competition out of Foster, I'm sure. Yeah. Well, and Judson Judson and Foster are are very very very competitive. And uh even White House and Jacksonville, you know, um it's you you've got to load up and be ready each and every
038week. And I think our Hubard girls, seventh grade, never lost a game all the way through. Lin and Knack, they're not in it. Lufkin's in there, too. Knack is not. Knack got out. They got out. Who are they with? Marshall and that bunch now? They went to play back with their district. Okay. It is. That was a long drive. Well, now we get to go through Nakados to get the left. Did the reduction from six middle schools to four middle schools kind of push that along some because before we were just basically playing each other or did that we were still doing it. We're still doing it. When we had six, we were still And that was Man, that was tough because you would you'd go to a district tournament and you'd have a Tyler
039ISD team beat another team 70-7 in the basketball tournament just because we didn't have the numbers. uh when you had those micro schools, HOG was was the micro one because we just didn't had the numbers to participate over there. So, in fact, the last few years Hog was open, we kind of did a quadrant thing wherever you lived in their zone, like if you if you lived in a certain location, you could go try out for Hubard or you could go try out for Three Lakes or Bolter or more. And we had some kids participate there. Thank you. And you can see there girls track and field uh the numbers there. We were the district runner up. Hubard was uh we've got pretty good numbers track and fieldwise, you know. Um that that's a hard
040sport. That's why we're starting in the sixth grade now trying to get them interested in it. Uh I would love next year to come back here and say, "Man, look at those numbers." And we have 40 kids participating. Because the way you win track meets, you flood every event. You try to get three in every event. That's how you win those tracks. Does the other um school district in our in our middle school district that has more than one middle school, do they still combine their middle school athletes in track? Yes, sir. Long long view does are they wasn't mentioning any names. Is is that in alignment with UIL rules? Not that I know of. Questionably. Maybe. Maybe. Not that I know of. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I I don't want I don't want to
041Okay. want to jump in the weeds on that, but don't think so. Um, and then you can see our eighth grade, Three Lakes ended up third place in that district. Um, girls soccer, and I want to explain the soccer numbers. The soccer numbers, the reason they are the way they are, we do a A and a B team in soccer, but they're combined, seventh and eighth graders, if that makes sense. We combine them. So, on your A team, you might have some of your better seventh graders and your better eighth graders. And then on your B, still a mixture of seventh and eighth grade. Um, we have two, we try to have two at every middle school. Um, and you can see our numbers. And like I said before, we've got to get the numbers
042up at Bolter. We've got to get those kids in sixth grade pre-athletics, sixth grade PE. Um, and another thing that I'm big on, you you've got to have it from your head coach down. It can't just be coming from those middle schools. They've got to be visible like we talked about, uh, and get those kids participating. I'm amazed with the demographics you got at Bolter that you don't have that as your biggest campus for soccer, for girls soccer. Just the demographics with Hispanic community and the tie-in with soccer would lead me to believe that that would have been 50 kids as opposed to 15. You would think so. And that's what we've got. Seeing any um competition from select leagues? Are they not doing it at the school because they're doing it in select leagues?
043Uh, I don't know if that's the case as I mean, don't get me wrong, you drive out to um Lindsay Park on a Saturday and it's flooded. I I know that and I think that's where some of our coaches might need to get out there and start being visible out there as well. Um, but you know, uh, that those numbers since I, you know, since I've been here, it's kind of fluctuated. You might have some classes that have a lot, some classes that don't. We're in apparently this year we were in a class that just didn't have much interest in that. And we've got to do a better job getting those kids in the sixth grade. Yeah, I'd have lost my lunch money on that bet. I would have thought that have been your biggest
044soccer campus as far as middle school. Yes, sir. And then here's the boys side. Um, boys basketball again, great numbers. I think all four teams on our boys basketball had uh A, B, and C teams this year to play. Um, so good numbers there. Uh, Moore was a district runner up in seventh grade. I believe they got beat out by Lufkin. eighth grade, we didn't have anybody playing in that. Boys track and field, you can see Moore was our district runner up. Uh Three Lakes was third place in the district track meet. And then the eighth grade boys, Hubard was fourth. Um and then again, boys soccer, I'm going to give a shout out to Coach Smith at Moore. Uh more boys were district champs. They did not allow a goal all year, uh which
045is hard to do in soccer. And they did not allow a goal. Not only that, but their B team uh were also district champs. Um and so uh great great showing there. We had district runner up in Hubard as well. So, had a really really real good showing in soccer as well there for the for the boys. Um, I do want to end with something, just some updates for you guys. Um, we just got back from our TABC girls showcase. Uh, I know Dr. Crawford might have filled some of you in. We had a great showing, man. It's the first year the UIL has allowed school districts to help out with the travel and cost and all that. Um, we sent both Legacy and Tyler High down there. Legacy ended up uh 3 and 0.
046Tyler High was 2-1. Um I think the last I checked there were over 165 girls teams that competed down there at the TAB showcase. 215. 215. Mhm. Okay. Um and then on the boys side, our boys leave this week to go down there. Uh the girls played down around College Station. Our boys are playing in the Metroplex Duncanville. Um, and uh, right now on the boy side, there's 400 teams that are entered in that TABC showcase, which it's it's going to be I I know our boys, both sets of boys get to play at the main gym at Duncanville. And man, it just gives our kids a chance to get recognized by some college coaches and things like that, which is, man, it's like it's awesome for our kids. So, uh, and then also this
047year we started up middle school seven on seven. That's one of the things that I told our uh coaches I wanted to see and they said, "Man, we'll try to get that going." I said, "No, no, we're going to do it this year." And man, we had three different weeks we did it at Bolter. Three different weeks we did it at Three Lakes. Uh cuz I told them, I said, "If you don't do it, somebody will." And uh it was really good. Uh and I think that's only going to expand. We're going to try to even involve sixth grade next year uh with that. Um and then finally, like I said, just one last thing. Haley Skinner does a super job with our youth league basketball and volleyball. Um, and we're finally seeing the benefits
048of that pay off at our middle schools and our high schools. Okay. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Thank you. One comment. Yes, sir. Um, and I I know you don't want to drag this on any more than you have to. Stick in ball sports, baseball, softball, you hit the nail on the head. It's got to start well before they ever get to us. Yes. Um, I was really uh my heart was warmed the the rededication of the Fun Forest Fields to the Reverend Ralph Carowway Fields or Complex. I believe that's what they renamed it. And I think I think the city put some money into it. That's great. But they've also uh reset, reignited a North Tyler Baseball League, youth baseball league, and it was just a group of daddies that got together to
049to get it going again. one time whenever Tyler was playing in Dixie league and then little league, North Tyler was a force and uh getting men of character, men of of high morals um along with women of character and high morals to be to teach our kids softball and baseball, they're great sports to learn how to deal with life in because when you're considered successful when you fail 70% of the time, it kind of gets you prepared for the for the reporting of star results and having to having to having to equate that stuff and try to figure the complexity out of what an OPS percentage is to that agents come up with to to make you look like you're an all-star. But I really was pleased that that's that's that that's happening and I'm
050hoping that that grassroots effort will pay off for us in the next, you know, 10 or 15 years. We'll do what we can. We've got great coaches in place, but it's going to have to take our parents to really get that going. Yes, sir. All right. Thank you. I just wanted to tell the middle school involvement. And I think that's the key in getting them involved in high school and keeping them involved. If you get involved early, it's likely that they will continue. So your coaches going down from high school down to middle school is an excellent concept. Yes, sir. Any more comments? Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Star EOC. Star EOC, we have Dr. Dr. Lance Gropel, Deputy Superintendent for Administration, which has the K8s and assessment accountability in his division, joined
051by Dr. James Kurton, our lead psychometrician here in Tyler ISD and one of the leading psychometricians in the state of Texas. Apparently, uh they're going to provide you some um not full data with STAR and EOC summarization. uh as this data has been trickling in. Dr. Gropel, Dr. Kuritan. Uh good evening, uh President Atkins, board, and Dr. Crawford. As Dr. Crawford has alluded to, we we've started to get a a trickling in of of our star and EOCC data, and we're going to report a little bit of that to you tonight. As we as we learned last week at Lonear Governance, this is not all that goes into what rates a campus, what distinguishes a campus. Um but it is a part of the gumbo. Um, and we're going to get into a little bit
052of that this evening. Um, as we still have some some more data coming in, but we wanted to report what we have uh for you tonight. Um, three parts of our our presentation tonight. We're going to look at uh board goals that that were established last year and how we refined those as it pertains to third grade performance on math and reading. Uh, not only on the approaches level, but also as it pertains to the meets and masters level. Uh then we'll get into uh all of our content areas and how how uh we performed in those areas. Uh and then finally we'll wrap up with a a cohort uh uh presentation to show you more of an apples to apples. How did I do in third grade then how did we do again in
053fourth grade. Same same kids reporting. So I'll turn it over to Dr. uh Kurchin. Okay. Uh so as Dr. Gri pointed out, we'll start out with our goals uh that we discussed and updated in the fall. I'm going to start with our first goal. HB goal one, HP3 goal one, which is our third grade reading goal. It's early literacy. Um, you can see there's a couple of lines here. That blue line is the state average. The solid black line is our district um passing rate. And then the lighter gray line is the um our goal. And so you can see where we where we fell out this year at about 72 and a half% of our students passed third grade reading. Our goal was 70.5. So we did hit our goal this year. Um you
054will see the state has not officially released their data yet. So we don't know where the state as a whole is going to finish on third grade reading. Um but at the end of the day we reversed that trend and started moving up this year. And you can see on the right hand side of your your screen how each of our student groups that we monitor um competed. So the green just means we hit or were above the target for that group. Yellow means we're within a couple of points. And then red means we're more than a few points below where we were trying to be. So this is just straight passing rate or approaches. Our fourth progress measure is also looking at third grade reading but looks at meets and masters. So these are
055our higher performing students. It's a higher proficiency level. Um the colors of the lines mean the same thing. So you can see for several years now we've been increasing our meets and masters numbers or I'm sorry the goal has been increasing. Um we've been fairly consistent with meets and masters. We were there again this year at about 46 and a half 47%. Um we don't know what the state is going to finish at yet but you can see how each group finish on the right hand side there. Madam President question. What is non continuously enrolled? What defines that? What is that? Yes, it's a great question. So those are students that have not been in Tyler ISD for at least three years. So continuously enrolled means they've been in our district for a couple of
056years. non-ontinuously enrolled could be a student that left another district last year, moved here and they've only been here for say a year for six months or something of that nature. Three years is the benchmark that Yes sir. Thank you. You familiar with snapshot date? Yes sir. Okay. So if they don't hit your snapshot date but they're here they get they get hit right here. Correct. So if there if so if we have a student say even a student that came um it's 2425 let's say in December of 20 four they would still be included non-ontinuously enrolled because they have not been here for three years. Why why do they keep up with this? Yeah. Um every meeting I've sat in it's it's breaking down and disagregating the data more and more different ways. Um
057it it I I don't know that I can give you a good answer for that because there's only so many ways you can kind of immed you know mediate with this data if you want to call it that. I got you. Three years seems to be an arbitrary number too. I can see it if it was scope and sequence deal where they think the kids not getting the same stuff but three years is a pretty good amount of period of time. Yes sir. I my assumption would be it comes from accountability and with third graders they want students that have been for example ISD for first second third got um versus students that came in in at the beginning of third grade and only were here for that year one year of instruction if that
058makes sense. Gotcha. Okay. So HB3 goal 2. This is our early numerousy goal. This is third grade math. So third grade math um we've been on a little bit of a downturn. So we turned that up a little bit this year. We went from 66 to about 68%. Um, again, state has not officially released any data, but we did hit our targets almost across the board and then we hit our goal this year, which we did reduce to get in line with this new STAR 2.0 assessment. And again, this is passing rate. So, we're just talking approaches proficiency. that same goal but progress measure four which looks at our meets and master students. Um you can see here we were kind of maintaining we took a little bit of a dip last year and then
059we saw an increase again this year to about 43%. And you can see all the student groups there. So we hit our target this year and then we'll continue that track next year. Okay. So, with regards to our goals, those are the goals relevant from this STAR data. Um, now I'm going to show you all STAR data. And we're just going to compare STAR this year to STAR last year. So, this is our apples to oranges table, if you want to call it that. We're not comparing the same group of students when we compare. So, that road that says third grade, it's not third graders um two years in a row. It's two different sets of third graders. So, third graders in 23 24 and how they performed on the reading test versus third graders
060in 2425. If you see a green on the right hand side, it means we performed at the same or better than last year. Yeah, we did you'll see a little bit of a dip in English one. Um I'm going to talk more about that when we get to the cohort data. It is something we saw at the state level as well, but otherwise pretty consistent improvement across all all grade levels. Oh, excuse me. Here's our math data. It's presented the same way. So, some solid numbers, especially algebra 1, if you look at the meets and masters numbers down there. Eighth grade math at the meets level. Third grade math was one where we've we focused a lot last year. here and you can see we see some of that benefit as well at the meets
061and masters level. Next was science and social studies and we see a lot of the same trend. You'll notice even if we did not um meet our target from last year, you know, a lot of times we were within a point or two of that. So we weren't far off. Fifth grade science I would point out is a big one. That was one we've we really put a lot of effort into last year. So you can see the jump there is not not small. All right. So now we're going to shift gears and talk cohort. So this is more of your apples to apples. Same group of students. What is what does that data look like? So here's reading data. So what you are looking at here is if I look at that fourth grade
062row where it says 23 24 star. That is your current fourth graders when they took last year in third grade. 24 25 star. Those are current fourth graders what they scored on fourth grade star and the difference is on the right hand side. So obviously you can see there's a lot of growth in fourth grade. Fifth grade meets and masters. Eighth grade is another big one for us. Um you'll see that dip in English one. So obviously there's a pretty big drop there. We we have some idea of the state numbers. They're not official and I can tell you the state saw about a similar drop to what we see up here. um it's going from that eighth grade reading star assessment to that English one assessment um is pretty typical to see a drop.
063Obviously, we don't want to see a drop or see that big of a drop. Um it's something we'll continue to work at, but it is it's consistent with what we see at the state level as well. And here is our math star cohorts. Yeah. So, some positives in fourth grade again. Meet some masters. You'll see that seventh grade which I think we talk about every year at the approaches level. Um again if we look at the state's data they dropped about 16 percentage points unofficially. We're at about 15 points. Um they actually dropped in meets and masters level in seventh grade. We didn't drop at all in meets their masters. So um I feel like we should come out ahead there. Also algebra one I think is worth recognizing a lot of big gains there.
06415 point improvement approaches 20 excuse me 26 meets and masters. um the state was much lower than those. We were at about six points of improvement approaches, seven in meets and about 14 points in masters. So that include all of them. Yeah. Yeah. This Yeah. Includes all of our students there. Just to Yeah. So solid improvement in math, which is a big focal point. And with that, we'll answer any questions you have. Any questions or comments? What do you think is driving the trend down on the English stuff? Because probably two or three slides there kept trending down. I know you say that it's u trending with the state average, but I can't stand being measured against the state. Uh what do you think? Yes, sir. No, it's a it's uh let me go back
065here. It's it's definitely something that catches our eye. Um, I I can tell you going from the eighth grade STAR reading assessment to that English one EOCC assessment is just a big change. Um, English one and English two for as long as I can recall have been the two hardest assessments for our high schoolers. So, our high schoolers have to pass those tests, right? Those have been the two most difficult tests to to pass. They're just a challenge with the writing that's on there um and the format of those compared to the eighth grade star assessment or the third through eighth grade star reading assessments. the the test the first one you said was a stars reading test and then you went from that to a ELC to an English end of course exam so
066they're not comparable exams is what you're saying they're comparable and the state's going to estimate growth from one to the next right so they're going to say different correct they're just a different style of test compared to that third through eighth grade reading I think another thing to note Mr. or let's say even if you look at uh fifth grade there where you see a dip in approaches. Um one of the things that the state does after they receive all of the tests is adjust and set cut points and sometimes those cut points change specifically in the approaches for fifth grade. Uh it went was a five points a fivepoint change from what it took to pass to meet that standard last year. a five-point increase from what it meant to meet that standard last
067year to to to I mean this year compared to last year. So we had a fivepoint increase in the expectation which was not part of what was shared with us in August when we get the accountability manual. That all happens in Austin. Uh and I'm not making excuses for it but I I think those are pieces of of reality that are difficult for uh all of us to try to understand and wrap our mind around why why those things change and we don't even have the ability to influence it. So that number using last year's standard is going is not going to go down, it's going to go up. So you've got a different test, you've got that complication of it. Do you think there's any other components or just those two are the basic
068big ones? I mean, uh, because I know the state's going to be a moving target. We talked about that before. They're always going to come in and say that portion of it. They're going to change that. When we get close, they're going to move it. That's just part of life. That's part of the way that system is. Yeah. Go ahead. I think you look at all of this in aggregate and then you pick out that one and then we don't have answers for you tonight. I'm just going to tell you we'll we'll have an autopsy report once we're able to get with other school districts that suffered the same consequences because I think you're saying that the state looks similar and we we get that from one of our consultants. So right now the state
069released kind of preliminary data in the testing vendor the testing system which Cambium which is Cambium right. So my my gut says tomorrow TA will release everything once it's available to families in the parent. We have to wait on that data. So that's how we usually try to figure out if it's an anomaly just for Tyler or if it's a statewide thing and then we kind of have to go back and do an afteraction type of thing to see what the cause was. Then we can report that to I'm encouraged by the squares in mathematics. I I actually Oh, it's the year of math. I mean, I actually am that feel good. We've been beating ourselves up about mathematics the last few years and all of a sudden, bam, look at us. Yeah, we're mathematicians.
070Well, I I would say reading. We've been kind of inching up and all of a sudden, bam, we can't read anymore. Yeah. I mean, I I think our math team did a great job this year of of revamping their curriculum, revamping their assessments and with the partnership with Dr. Kurin um and another vendor to really evaluate how quality our assessments are. We're going to we're going in the process of doing that in in our local assessments for reading as well to make sure that what we're how we're assessing kids is in a manner that's going to represent quality results that we see here tonight. And it's interesting you start looking at meats and masters, you start looking at individual campuses and the growth they had there some of our strug typically struggling campuses and then
071approaches goes the other direction. So you're you're growing kids. You remember that there's that chart. I don't know if we've ever shown the chart about how many. We kind of talked about it at Lonear Governance about you get a point if you uh transition tables. Transition tables. Maybe we need to have an accountability refresher for this bunch. Uh since we have a new trustee and we just all need it. Yeah. About how you can score. You can plan me for it in different places. No, I need it. Heck, I I'm supposed to live this stuff and I still can't, you know, talk about it effectively. Dr. cured again. But that it's just so weird how you can have these growth measures, kids moving from approaches to meets, meets masters. We had some incredible stories across
072the district, but then you look at that seventh grade approaches, we had a 15 point dip in just passing. So there was a gap there, right, is what we're saying. So, I think it's one of those things where we've got to spend some more time with the data before we can tell y'all kind of what happened, especially with the plan that we're going to need to have to to kind of rectify some of this. Well, it seems all Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Just really encouraging. I mean, do y'all feel encouraged about these? I mean, y'all are the I I mean, I think we had a great year. Um, as Dr. Crawford alluded to, I think the biggest highlight for us is our uh meets and masters numbers and the the increase across the board there.
073That means you're taking our highest achieving kids and and extending them further. Um, which is a a great success. I I would say I don't think any of us are happy or or not happy. I don't think any any of us are satisfied with um some of our approaches numbers and some of our meets and masters numbers, but um definitely a a great year. A lot to celebrate on our campuses. I think as we get to accountability ratings, I think there's going to be a lot to celebrate there. As I said at the start of this, this is just a part of the gumbo. U that makes up those accountability ratings and and um I I think I I may speak for do Dr. Kurton to say I'm very optimistic of what that that end
074result will look like. Looking at growth, looking at kids that how they perform one year to the next and meet making sure we're meeting that year's worth of growth. I think we're going to see a a great deal of that that's going to translate into um better campus, better district ratings. Yeah, we're not going to talk about letter grades or number grades here tonight, but Dr. cured and I got a text the other day 85% confidence that you feel pretty good about it which is better than we've ever had um at this point. What else what else is hanging out there as far as data coming in before Mr. Mr. Don't forget about Mr. question. Don't worry. He won't forget. It won't be long. What else is going to trickle in? Is it star alt
075some of your special ed stuff? Yes, sir. So, we're waiting on star alt scores. Um, and those should come in, I believe, at the end of this week. Um, and then we may have gotten graduation rate today or tomorrow. So, those will be remaining for the high schools. And at that point, that should give us all the gumbo to kind of put it all together. Go for it. the graduation that lags. That's 23 24 grads. Yeah. Geez. We're just now getting the data. We can go back and fix them, let me tell you. So, we've got a little bit of data to come back in that might boost some of our data inside even inside of this. Correct. Maybe. For the most part, I would Yeah. So, the once we get our alt two results,
076we'll put all of that here. We'll put So, for example, third grade right now is just straight star students. Um students that took just general star. Once we get alt two results for third grade reading, we will lump those in with the star results for third grade reading and we'll get a cumulative star score if you want to call it that. Yeah. Yep. Absolutely. Go for it. I I'm very predictable. You should catch on pretty soon. Uh the I I look for the red areas of course because I think we should always supersede the state of Texas and any other areas any other schools in area. So when we get a red, I definitely look at and I was looking at the uh goal one uh third grade reading special ed in particular significant drop
077uh and I was wondering if you had tried to determine what caused that significant drop in that special ed population. Okay. So this is the slide that's represented you're talking about. Uh yes sir. Okay. So this this slide is specifically looking at our our meets and masters. uh uh so the the higher the higher levels of of proficiency. Um that 25% there is is the target score. It's not what we scored uh the prior year. That's just the the representative of the of the goal that we set. Um so we fell short of that goal. That's not a a dip in performance. That's a representative of of the target that we set and where we fell short in that. So how far did we fall below the number that we had? Was it an increase
078or decrease the 17.7? Was it an increase or decrease from last year in regards to special ed? Well, what I would add too on this just as a heads up is that number once we get our alt two results in, that number is going to change probably dramatically, right? Well, because those are all special ed students and they're going to right, they'll pass it to mess number. So, last year's target was set with everything in the gumbo, our star and star alt 2 students. So, once we get that alt two data in, we'll be able to give you a an accurate number to say, hey, apples to apples last year, like last year, this is where we're at. But just straight star data, we're seeing a little bit of a dip about eight points, but
079we would expect that to come up once we get the the star also. Well, well, that's basically it. Anytime there's a red on our reports, expect a question related to it. So, you can prepare in advance for the things I'm going to ask most time, you know. Thank Thank you, Mr. Newsome, because we we we focus on the green. Yeah, I know. I'm talking about when we when we give presentations we don't expect the green to decrease so I expect it to keep going up too they had the same thing on if you look at the slides one of the things jumped out to me was African-American scores I mean they were you know in red too so I was do you disagregate this by campus as well like you take a heavy Hispanic campus
080or a heavy African-American campus like Griffin or Remy do y'all look at it at that level yes sir we so we break it down by campus, by race. Um, largely the campuses are evaluated by by race. So, we we break that data down. We we'll sit down with them. We'll work through that and help them understand the progress or if there was a lack of progress and try to identify where they need to be at next year to go. You actually sit down with the campus level administration to look at their specific data and say, "This is where we were. This is where we're at. This is where we'd like to be." Those type of conversations. Yeah. that that that work happens this summer uh in conjunction with the our our school supervisors in the
081back. They'll sit with each one of their campuses as well as Dr. Curton. They'll go through their data demographic by demographic, develop an action plan, and then begin that action planning or uh implementation of that action planning in August. Um because I was encouraged by the math scores, number one, and two, you're free and reduced lunch. It seems like we're competitive there regardless of color. So I was just wondering when you throw color into the mix, are we trying to address that component of it as well at the campus levels? Yeah, we identify what we call lift students. Uh lightning Lightning improvement for Tyler is an acronym started before I got here. Um so each campus is required to set goals targeted at their lowest performing demographics and how they're going to improve their students
082outcomes with with those specific student groups. Thank you. Our campus improvement plans do have their t the targets for each campus and what they need to achieve. That's Senate Bill 60 1566. Which one is that? House bill. Which one? House. Close enough. Close enough. 1566 is the number. It's the training that y'all have to go through every two years, which you do not have to do this year or next because you just went through two days of Lone Star governance. But anyways, 1566 that's embedded in every campus now. It used to not be that way. the first uh it was first done just that districts had to have those three to five goals that that had to be adopted but each campus now has um since you've gotten on the board or since you left
083the board last now actually has to have that at each campus. So they have a like a mini district type of goal and strategy and plans to get there. You always had to have uh campus improvement plans no matter where you were at, but that's actually embedded inside of it. Anyone else? Okay. Business legal finance consent agenda. We're going to pull B. That's correct. Okay. Could I get a motion from A, C, D, E, FG? You got to pull. So, got to pull C also. We're going to pull C also. I had it down here. You're going to pull B and C. C and C. I make a motion that we approve the rest of the uh business legal finance agenda. Second. All in favor? I I opposing. Okay, those have been approved. So, we'll
084go with B gifts and donations. Yeah, we're so blessed. I say this every time that we whether it be $5,01 or $50,000 like you have in front of you today um from the Andy Woods Elementary School PTA uh in dedication and reserve uh for playground enhancements um across our community. We have great people that that do the work to provide outside of what the normal budget provides and this is just one of the examples for that. One day, I'm sure Andy Woods Elementary School is going to want to put a dome over the o over their field with the with the way that they're going. But today, we've got $50,000 to uh to actually put in front of the board for consideration and possible action to accept on their behalf for playground enhancements. I have
085a motion. I make a motion that we approve the gift and donation for Andy Woods. And I'd like to make a comment. You said what now? I I just wanted to make a comment about Andy Woods and I I think it's a it's an example again. You look at our highest performing campuses and it's involved parents no matter what the demographics are and that just speaks volumes of Andy Woods. There's always involved PTAs and parents. I I mean I love all of our elementaryaries but they again they're setting the trend and they're setting that bar really high. I I really appreciate what they're doing out there. You second. All in favor? I I any any opposition? I doubt it. Okay, it has been approved. The next one is the delegate and alternate to TASA and
086TASBY convention. Yeah. And page 23 of your packet um one of y'all um has the opportunity to be named as a delegate to the annual TASA TASBY convention. uh this year held in beautiful cool Houston in September I believe middle of September. So it I'm sure it'll be a chance of ice and and a snowy mix down there at that time in Houston. And you probably need to wear full suit and tie and overcoat. So uh I don't know if the dates are listed in your packet on page 23. They are. Yeah. September 11th through the 14th. There you go. So 11th through 14th. I will tell you that I will be down there conducting my last order of business as the president this year of the Texas School Alliance Board of Trustees myself. So,
087um you'll have somebody to attend the the annual lunchon that day with if you decide to go, but you do need a delegate and you need an alternate. Madame President, question. Who do we have representatives already to this uh body to the TASA TASBY? Each year this body chooses a representative and a delegate to go to that convention to where you go to the actual room where they vote on things like uh and make speeches on on advocacy agenda etc etc. So we don't have anybody that's consistently been involved in it. Aaron Martinez has been Trish Nation did it for a long time. Trish did it for a while. I think Avon might have done it. Wanted to do it one year, but Matthew McConnA didn't show up or something. Well, I think I was
088going to be the alternate, but when he couldn't go, it was too late for me to. Correct. Okay. Well, I I suggest that the people that's been involved attend so that we have continuity from one year to the next. I think Miss Atkins, uh, I like you, but I think you should have to attend just because of the experience and everything that I think would be important. So, my thing is I think Erin and Miss Atkins possibly should attend unless somebody else eagerly want to go and want to throw their name in the hat. I think probably I'm sure Mr. Bergfeld's probably out. Mr. Berg, would you like to go? Parents weekend. Parents weekend at at a certain school. So, um, who's planning on going, I guess, is one thing. You've got, you all have
089your hours, right? Is he going to have is Mr. Laya going to have all of his hours after SLI, Miss Or, do you think? I will have to maybe have to see how many hours. He got a lot of hours on Lonear Governance. I don't need to go. But then he's got the new trustee 2.0 that he's got to get. Okay, I'll go. Refresh. If I need to go to get more hours, I'm glad to do it. Whatever you guys want to do. It's mandatory for the delegate to attend. You will not be able to vote if you're not in attendance. Must be present. Right. You on the items that come in front of the delegates. Correct. Okay. Parents week in Texas or where are you busy? Well, it's a personal thing. He he he
090has to support his family and I understand that. I mean, I'm indifferent. If you want to mark me down, you can mark down. Yeah. I think the alternate only has to go at the delegate delegate. And yet, you still both don't have to go. Right. Okay. Okay. Right. And I bet those are the I bet we could get to number three on the list if we absolutely have to. Right. If something were to happen. Okay. There you go. Um I think y'all need to probably take action on that. Correct. More. I think Mr. Me made the motion to have Ivonne and Erin motion. That could be my motion. All in favor? I. All oppose. Okay. The eyes have it. Okay. That's all for that section. The next section, do we need to pull anything from
091A through M? I don't think so. Good. Do need to speak with you, Mr. Jones on item D. Just remind me on theou of TJC. Okay, soup. I don't want to pull the that that item on it, but I guess these are just offline questions I can ask you about the application process because there was no there was no application in the actualou or in the package. And I'm just wondering, you know, what's the application process like? Is there an essay? Is there an interview? Just the format of it. But I don't need to pull it. I can ask. question. I can ask you those offline. Well, we'll uh we'll have Mr. Jones and I guess Miss Hortman that'll be the experts on that. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Madam President, I move
092that we approve the curriculum instruction consent agenda. Second. All in favor? I. Anybody opposed? Okay. Is moved and passed. Superintendent report. You have the quarterly investment report, quarterly financial executive summary. Uh, chief financial officer Casey Russell is here. Welcome back, Casey. Anything to report on these two items uh of subst of substance and maybe any questions from the board. If not, we can obviously answer questions in regard to these reports and summaries um after the meeting. Everything looks good. the investment report, the uh our interest rate has stayed pretty consistent over the last year and we're right where we need to be uh this time of year for the u quarterly report. Okay. We make any money off investments? A little. Little. Okay. Good. That's always good. Maybe we have to go. Nope. Okay. So,
093budget compensation structure update and legislative update. Yeah, this discussion right here. We've got uh something to take you through real quick. As I've explained to y'all when y'all have asked me questions about getting, you know, rubbing your hands together about this last legislative session and what they provided for us in House Bill 2. Um we're trying to learn this at the same time that y'all are trying to learn this to be honest with you because I think the the plane's been being built while it's in the air to be honest with you. But in front of you today, we do have an amended uh uh agenda item in front of you that does address compensation. And we do have budget listed on here for the discussion. But at the same time, we're really here to
094discuss the compensation structure as we prepare for later agendas uh in July at our regular meeting and then August at our at our at our variety of different meetings that we have to have as far as the adoption of the tax rate and the actual approval of the budget. So tonight, we thought we'd give you a little appetizer on compensation structure, mainly because of the noise that exists out there in regards to uh people that like to talk about the last legislative session and whether or not Tyler ISD is going to follow state law or not and provide the actual raises that were adopted and provided in House Bill Two, which we have to do. So, Miss Harrison, if you have anyone calling and asking you, you can tell them it's state law. We have
095to do what they ask us to do. So, do we have something to throw up there besides this? Hey, there it is. So, here's your teach teacher compensation. As y'all recall, a few years ago, we went to brackets. In other words, in years 6 through 10, you would make this. In years 11 through 15, you would make this. and then so on. Um, this does include the actual compensation increase that was voted upon by the legislature this year to where teachers that teach inside of a school system with 5,000 students or more are afforded the $2,500 raise in years three to four experiences. And in years five plus, they receive a $5,000 raise. Now, if you were working in a school system with less than 5,000, those numbers would be different. This was all funded
096by year by House Bill Two. Teachers with one year of experience, so really that's probably one year to year one and two, right? I guess Miss No, I'm sorry. with one year of experience received the previously anticipated $1,500 raise from the 2024 2025 pay scale. So, they still in their bracket, they still move up. And then teachers with two years of experience will receive a $1,000 raise despite it not being funded by House Bill 2 or anticipated from the previous pay scale. So, that is something that through some of our efforts, we were able to carve out some money to make sure that everybody uh that are classroom teachers get a compensation boost up and down the pay scales. Obviously, we we start our beginning teachers start out at 52,000 and um you can top
097out at 31 plus at 75,000. Miss Russell, you have a microphone in front of you. Anything that you'd like to add on this? Uh just to point out the change, you all have a revised copy. This is all teachers regardless of certification. This is based on new information we got a few hours after the board agenda item was set and posted. Uh so this is all teachers. So you may ask who are those other teachers? Well, it was our DOI teachers. We did have a different plan. Not that we don't love them and not that we don't like them, but we do have budgets for consideration. We also have incentivization that we need to get back to in regard to getting people to get their teacher certification since that is not just on heavy on
098local hearts here, but it's awfully heavy apparently at the legislature with some of the the legislation that that that did and did not pass. So, they are included in this. Correct. The DOI teachers. So, if you've got a DOI teacher, let's say that that we've got a DOI teacher of 25 years experience in welding, Mr. Jones. That's that's a positive for them to be able to qualify for the big raise. Correct. All right. Because there are some DOIs that we don't need to speak down to. uh we don't need to speak down to anybody, but at the same time, there's some that are that are industry experienced that are considered DOI that are never going to go back to school and get their teacher certification, but they can teach welding, they can teach carpentry, they
099can teach plumbing, and we've got and they can teach autoc collision repair, paint, body, all the great things that we have at CTC. Uh they actually qualify for this now. Not that we were going to exempt them, but we're talking about your normal K12 content specific teachers that did not have a certification. There was a plan. TEA's come back now and said that we actually have to provide that that compensation increase. Is this showing the pay scale right here and then not with the bonuses? Correct. This has it in if you look at last year's pay scale um which is actually on the next page. just the nurses compensation. Uh they're they're staying on the the former pay scale. If you pick any of them, like you say, okay, a last year's uh teacher with
100two years of experience will have three years this year, you'll see the $2,500 pay raise. So everyone is exactly 2500 or 5,000 if they're three to four or five and above. And then below like we described the one year and two year, that's their raise. So no one's going to have anything different. It's going to be very stamp. I think what Lindsay was asking about was not the the scale, the base pay, the bonus stuff, the bilingual bonus, math and science. No, no, no, she answered it. That's what I was asking. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's I was just It does not include those stipens. I was just making sure I was reading it correctly so that it wasn't, you know, the 3 to 4 is 54,500. That is with the Yes. bonus in there. TEA
101requires it to be part of the base compensation. Okay. Got it. Not the stipens. Correct. Correct. And what stipens do you have? Math, science, bilingual. Say it again, Ron. There's Y. Um, so speaking on what if I may, Madam President, on what Soup touched on earlier, when when you when we initially got this, it came in two brackets, certified and non-certified. This new one, it's got it all together. There's essentially no difference in what we're paying the certified or non-certified. If I'm understanding that correctly, that is correct. Is there a co a cost? I'm sure there is associated and do we know what that number is with becoming certified? So if I was if I was a teacher at Tyler I wanted to be one and I said to me it's worth it being certified
102for whatever reason for the knowledge I gain for the training whatever it is do you guys know what that number would be to cost me to be certified what's that ballparking miss Taylor $600 so just just the program so you're saying3 to $5,000 You said three $3 to $6,000 to become certified depending on the program. I also have to have a balora degree I'm assuming to be a certified teacher. Correct. Yes, sir. That has to be trying to figure out where the incentive is here for us to be certified. If you're paying them all the same, they're paid bonuses the same way if it's bilingual, but one spending maybe $6,000 more to be certified and has to have a baloric degree. Not saying one teacher is better than the other here or more effective than
103the other. Where's the carrot? Can they do that forever? Can they The plan was going to be to incentivize getting your teacher certification. Now we're hearing the state has told us, okay, we have to treat them the same, right? So the state's telling you, we're giving you this money. You can't there is no wiggle there's no wiggle room in there to go and and say, well, let's just go ahead and give all certified teachers two or three grand more than the others just to have some separation there because everything that the state provided for us because the one chamber decided to control the how this was done made it that way. Yeah, if we'd had some wiggle room in um basic aotment money, we could have done some cool creative stuff. And it's twofold. One
104was we couldn't do the cool and creative stuff that we wanted to do to try to incentivize teacher certification. And then the other thing was the the efficiency that we did instead of using some of that maybe to go do some cool stuff. We've got to kind of hold back on some of that for next year, right? Because are they going to get a raise like this next year? It's the first year of the bianium and it's not you're not going to get 2500 this year and then 2500 next year. Am I correct in saying that? Well, the guidance that we got a few hours after this agenda item was due says that the when you hit the three-year mark and the fiveyear mark that happens again. I still need to get more clarity on
105that. Uh, so I'm headed to Tasbo tomorrow to get more information. Well, the projections that I've seen, and I'm not arguing with you on this, but when you start looking at the bienium for Tyler ISD for between this year and next year, where's the bump at? I mean, it's not like they're going to write you another check to cover those individuals right there. You've got to go find that yourself within your what you have. I don't think they're going to fund you any better next year or the the following year. They're not. They they gave us all of this to make up for the vouchers deal. That's am I am I wrong on that, Casey? May you've seen this stuff better more frequently than I have, more recently than I have. I was reading it
106just today again and that's when I saw it and saw that it said going forward when they hit that threeyear and fiveyear. This year it's everyone three and four and five and above and going forward it's when you hit the three and when you hit the five but and that they would fund it. But again, I we need more guidance before we can go forward. That's why draft is written over all this. It's way too early. Okay. So, I got to How many years you can work as a non-certified teacher? Yeah. Three, isn't it? Typically, it's internal. They want to sunset this thing by the year 2030. Is as now that's not officially in law. It was discussed. We've got another session between now and 2030. Can't wait for that. two sessions, right? Yeah. 2027
107and 2029. And so, you've got two sessions to work on this on how you're going to unwind all of this, which was caused because of what? The teacher shortage that's been caused because of what? Finance and deprofessionalization of the profession. So, you've got that to consider. Um, locally, Miss Atkins, we try to the best we can. We look at the value of that individual. Well, we like to say we want you certified by your third year on a DOI. Correct. HR. Now, there's obviously some outliers there that might be performing that we don't want to say you thou shalt be certified because you're going to let a good teacher go because of that. Um, Coach Gillespiey's in the back back there. This is a way to also keep good coaches around and and not have
108to make them go teach calculus A and B. So you're able to maybe DOI them into a PE position when they don't have a PE certification and they're winning games for us and providing good culture and atmosphere for us. So there's I think there's some each individual one to answer your question. You have to take a look at a normal classroom teacher that's responsible for reading scores and math scores. Absolutely. We want to get them certified as quick as possible. We also want to keep them under contract if they're good for us. And if they're not performing uh producing the outcomes that we want, we don't want them here after year three anyway. So it almost takes care of itself. So no, there's not a defined you thou shalt be certified by year three. So
109do they have to be ESL certified like all the certified teachers? Well, that's kind of when you and I as veteran teachers coming up and th those things were required. We've had folks say that we're not going to teach in Tyler ISD anymore because they we require them to get ESL certified. So, that kind of works itself out as well. And we kind of look at the performance again. You know, are the ESL kids performing inside of those classrooms, the outcomes there or or not? And if if they are then you may provide a waiver for them to get their ESL certification. Correct. Okay. As recently this past week, there was some discussion regarding certified versus non-certified teachers in the districts. And I if not mistaken there are supposed to be some legislature coming down
110eventually addressing that concern in regards to putting stipulations regarding certified and certified from the state level saying that you should do this like they do everything else tell you how you should address those individuals within your district. So I don't know if it's current or if it's just something in the making but there was some discussion regarding that. I know that there's some discussion regarding we have to have a 100% or whatever it is of teacher certified by next year. What what I'm saying is from a practical business standpoint, if I have an employee that is licensed in a specific area by the state and I have another employee that is not licensed and they're both doing the same job, I think that the employee that's licensed, that's had that higher training, that's had more
111hands-on experience, as long as they're both producing, I'm probably going to compensate that licensed one a little bit better. it they they've gone the extra mile. Uh I totally understand what Soup's saying on a welding person. I I don't expect them to have a a four-year balora degree. They're I the coaches I'm totally with you. But in your core areas, reading, writing, arithmetic, those are science, you know, those areas. If we're not I don't know that we are, we're not. That's a question for the soup. Are we measuring? So you said we're encouraging these people to get certified. Obviously, maybe we're even bonusing them to try to help them with that financially. I have no idea what our efforts are there, but are we measuring that if we have 100 uncertified teachers and then we're
112saying we're encouraging you to be certified by your number three? And I'm only speaking in those core areas. Are we measuring that and saying, "Okay, of those hundred, 55 did it. The other 45 did not." And we're okay with those. So, you get a report um every semester in regards to District of Innovation certified DOI certified teachers or uncertified teachers, whatever you want to call them. They're district certified teachers working their way towards that. The last report we gave, I just want to give a ballpark that says that 75 to 80% of them were either a test away from their certification. They completed all their coursework. they need to go get certified to pass the test or we were waiting on an out ofstate certification to come in. There there's three or four different things
113that the the board has reported on uh once a semester and it's not that we've got this large the narrative is that we've got so many uncertified people but it does that but no one wants to listen to that we're they're they're on their way towards certification. Yeah, I think it's a comp I think it's a complex problem because you're right, the narrative is out there that we've got a large percentage of unserted by teachers, which by my measures I think we do. I think by our surrounding districts we are high. I think it's 18%. I may be wrong on that number, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 18%. But if we also have the data that says of those 18% here's how many we're working to get them set uh um do that because
114we're in a district of innovation and and part of that district of innovation allows us the superintendent to do those certifications inhouse and say okay we're going to wave that one. We're going to wave this one. that that puts a bigger burden on us to self-report to say, "Hey, we've got this 18% that are not certified, great teachers. Some of my best teachers were probably uncertified, but we're working to get them certified." That's all I'm saying is if we measure that and we're happy with what is being done there, then I think we'll be fine with this. I I actually would like to differentiate between the two, but you're telling me that the state has given us this money and we cannot differentiate between certified and uncertified. Yep. When when it was anticipated that we
115were going to receive early versions of House Bill 2, 10 to 12 million, we were going to do some pretty creative stuff along with some of the efficiency work that we did in house. We wound up receiving ballpark 7 and a half 7.7. So 7.7 7.5 I think. Yeah, 7.5. And then some of the flexibility in that obviously was taken away and then just us trying to meet law. Um we couldn't do it. So yeah, we incentivization's good on that because I'm tired of talking about it. I'm gonna be honest with you. I think y'all all think I just want to have all these DOI teachers running around here. And no, that's not the case. You know what I'm trying to do? I'm trying to survive because I remember the days when we were having
11670 to 80 to 90 substitutes per day in Tyler ISD because of vacancies. We love our subs, but we need people with degrees in front of our kids before we can get to that. So, yes, I'm tired of talking about it and I'm I want to do something about it and I'm hoping that we can. Yeah, I I I think that I can relate to Lo because when I came on the board, that was one of my biggest concerns as well. But over the period of time, I've been satisfied with the information that we get as as board members in regards to that and the monitoring of it. So I think along the way you'll you'll probably come to the understanding as well that we are trying to get as many certified as possible and
117the ones that's not certifiable quote unquote uh they may not may or may not be with the district. So I I I think that along the way you'll you'll you'll gain that confidence in the how we're managing that pretty well. I will do you think that it is um an achievable goal to be at the same level that our surrounding districts are in that category of uncertified teachers? In other words, if a a surrounding district that's comparable, Long View, Alfkin, Nacadocious, if they're at a 5% and we're at a 18%, you think it's it's a reachable goal within a specified period of time? I don't know. That's my answer. I'd have to go. I think each community is different. I think each school system is different. Um, just to hang on to somebody just because
118they're certified doesn't mean that that they're they're worth hanging on to. And I don't know what's going on in those districts like that. So, I think it's we're not gonna have to talk about this in the next five years if they're going to wind it down the way that they're going to wind it down, which I don't know how they're we going to go back because I do remember the days that when when first got here, the amount of vacancies that we had and the trend that was coming, the wave that was coming, the wave that's here now, um, and what the solution is going to be on that because I don't think you can go back to that either. Y'all y'all aren't going to be happy if we have 40 vacancies, 50 vacancies per
119year. I can tell you that right now because I've been on I've been here long enough to know that I remember they when they when they being board members weren't happy with that. So, so if we're not happy with the DOI and having a degreed professional in that classroom, that that level of unhappiness isn't the same as the level of unhappiness of having sub trying to find a substitute teacher inside of a classroom every day. At least we got a committed professional individual that signed on a contract to come to work every day to try to learn the profession, to try to do the best that they can right now. Well, it's not like you have a large pool of of certified teachers knocking down our door wanting a job either. I mean, you you
120gota you got to hire, you know, who you can hire to get in and train them up. Yeah. Nuances say that different district culture. You go to a Lindell and you stay there for 40 years like like some did. You don't have the Manny McDows that kind of go back and forth from Lindell to Tyler. You go there and you teach for 35 years and you retire. We've got some of those. Um, so I think that you're right, Nackadocaches, Lufkin, Long View, but we're also not going to be recruiting them from those places. They're going have to physically move here. They're not going to drive here every day. I'm not saying recruiting. I'm saying if their level of uncertified teachers, I'm not talking about recruiting their employees. I'm talking about our surrounding peer districts. If
121they're at a certain level and we're beyond that, is it reasonable for us to assume that within a specified period of time we can work towards that goal and try to achieve that? I'm trying to reduce the amount of uncertification. That's something I've always been adamant about is that I would like to have certified teachers in those classrooms. Not knocking the uncertified ones. Not saying they're not doing a great job because there's many areas where we where we need them. But I will tell you from the flip side of this, there's there are many certified teachers that are saying, "Why'd I do that? I'm getting paid the same thing the other ones are." And I had to spend $6,000 more dollars and take x amount of classes and cram and go back to college and
122get the certification and do all the continuing education that I've got to do to maintain that. So, there's also the flip side of that argument. And I don't like to treat employees differently if they're doing the same thing, obviously on the money side, but also on the amount of rigor and coursework that they've got to do to get that certification. Yeah. I'll say this, your superintendent was all certified when I came out and I did the work, but I never did look at somebody that way and did that. I I hope our folks are better than that. I hope that they I hope we have that team spirit inside of our campuses and can understand and listen to this conversation that we're having at the DAS today and understand why we have DOI certified individuals
123because we're trying to put degreed professionals in front of kids to work alongside them. I I would hope that our teachers would would want to inspire someone to go get their certification and and and not be why not do all of this? You're not certified, I am certified. Why are you treated the same? And I'm hoping it's that we're in it for kids and outcomes. I don't know. That's the way I feel about it. And I'm hoping that maybe some of the examples that you provided are one-offs and it's not the culture of this district because that would be very difficult to win in this district if we didn't have people striving towards having a successful school. Anyways, I could go down that path all day, I guess. And we don't have all day. I
124know it you still have a legislative update to get to. What questions y'all have on compensation like on the actual numbers that we have? anything that you would like to interject. If there's room for creativity in there, Mr. Laya, we will search for it. I can give you our word on that, but I don't think we've got that right now because of some of the law that's coming down. Correct. Correct. Okay. Legislative update. Okay, let's get to the legislative update. Um, I'm going to go real quick over here. Well, I did put this PowerPoint together. So, Jax loads that up. Through the Texas School Alliance, with through help of the Texas School Alliance, we're going to give you some uh influential education legislation that came out of the 89th legislative session. I'm not going to
125read every bullet to you because they'd give me a hard time, but there's funding. We've been keeping up with House Bill 2. There's the highlights there about how much it actually provided across the state. The one thing I want to um to highlight on this is this $1.3 billion aotment for basic costs for insurance premiums, utilities, TRS costs tied to teacher pay, and other expenses that are specifically not administrator pay. Y'all, 12% increase in TRS insurance this year. So, whatever we talk about on teacher raises is going to wind up some of that is going to be chipped away with with because of our plan. Remember, we used to be self-funded. It was extremely expensive to your budget uh to our budget. We went with the state's plan. In a lot of cases, our employees
126received uh pretty good news when we actually went off the the self-funded plan over into the plan. Um, it's still good news, but they're once they give you a boost raise 2500 to $5,000, they come back at you for 12% increase. Uh, safety and security and special education overhaul as well. Special education. Uh, some of the highlights there for this one thing is that they're actually going to uh transitioning from a placementbased funding model to a service intensity based model. So, like whenever you do when you actually test a kid for special education, the district actually receives $1,000 for a full evaluation. For a full evaluation. Yeah. Is that is that a lot of money for a full evaluation? It gets close to covering the cost. Gets close to covering that's better than what we
127had. Right. So, that's some some questions that Mr. News and I have been discussing is is something that's uh kind of maybe maybe there's an opportunity to to accomplish some of those things that we've been talking about. Special education transportation reimbursement rate is actually going to go up. That's a good thing. Here's assessment accountability. We all know that House Bill 4 died in a in a House Senate conference committee and pretty much what happened was at the very end it was going to get back to the old star. We were going to say, we were going to celebrate that, oh, the stars been redesigned. We did away with the STAR test. We're going to give it a new acronym, but at the very end, you're still going to have the high stakes test at the
128very end that's going to drive accountability. The great thing about it was we got a lot of people talking about it. We've got parents talking about it. We've got school teachers talking about it. We've got community members. We've got legislators talking about it. Um, so maybe there's some momentum for interim charges in the 90th leading up to the 90th. There's vouchers, a billion dollars over the next two years. It's anticipated by the LBB, the legislative budget board. The only projections is it's going to grow to $4 billion by the year 2030. It was one of the first bills signed into law, if not the first. Property taxes, you're going to get to go to the ballot in uh to the to the voting ballot in November to uh increase the homestead exemption for the the
129first $140,000 on your homestead. And for seniors 65 and over, if you have disabilities, it's going to go from 110 to 200. And with those homes, those exemptions right there, you're looking at the I think the average senior taxpayer in in Texas is going to be close to not having to pay school taxes. That's incredible. Um, and now your appraisals may be contending with you on that. You may be going like in and out depending upon your property appraisals. Um, there you go. Elections and lobbying there. There were some efforts made to put everything in November. Um from board elections to bond elections. That discussion happens every time. It did not it did not pass. Um there's still chance for that maybe being called in in a in a um special session. And then taxpayer
130funded lobbying. The governor has mentioned a special session as such. Student discipline. House Bill six intended to make it easier for teachers to maintain discipline in their classrooms. several reforms increasing the number of days a student can spend in in school suspension to 10. When Mr. Jones and I were were high school principles in good old Dallas ISD 30 could you do 30? You could do 30 in ISS. You could almost you could almost run your own DAP. Now I don't we didn't like it but it was it was a lot better than what it is now. Um al along with some some inschool suspension on campuses. Um, it all we also provided some funds for virtual DAP placements as well. That's that's kind of creative that you can run school virtually for all DAP,
131which is something we're going to take a look at. We don't really know how it's going to work yet, but it's something we can take a look at. Actually, cell phones is caught somewhere is uh covered somewhere else. Um, here's some other cool stuff on curriculum instruction. There's there's HB1 1481. It prohibits students from using cell phones during the school day. You, the board, will decide discipline and where students can store phones during the day. Okay. We we're working on some of those proposals right now for you to consider. Uh about a four-step method, I think, right? Yes, sir. Okay. There's monetary at each one of those steps. Yes, sir. and parental involvement at each one of those steps. Yes, sir. We're going to have to have parents helping us with this. Mr. Jones and
132I are the oldest administrators in here. We are so excited that we're going back to 2002. But it's needed, y'all. And I'm hoping that our community will get behind. I'm hoping our parents will get behind the the the necessity to to deal with this uh cultural issue. House Bill 27, u high school students take a personal financial literacy course before graduating. That's big for us as well. Um because the old macroeconomics course that we've all been forced to to to to take talking about the different forms of economics inside of our political atmosphere, it isn't working. We need to learn how to take care of our home finances before we can even start thinking about how political systems manage their economies. CCMR. Uh, here's some good stuff on here as well as far as the
133CCMR programs. Uh, CTE credits could be substitute for core credits required for graduation. That's always a good thing. It broadens eligibility and funding mechanisms for dual credit technical education pathways and advising systems to transfer to transition from high school to colleges and career. This is a very interesting one right here. Senate Bill 1191 requires the commissioner of education as soon as practable practicable to develop a uniform formula for determining a high school's students grade point average. So what you're seeing is when a kid tries to go to Texas A&M and they've gone to Tyler ISD, they may have 110 grade point average, which how do you get 110 grade points, right? But then you go you go from maybe Bullard ISD and then they've got 120 grade point average. Um they're going to try to
134have some uniformity in that. Good luck with that because that's really locally derived that GPA is, but they're they're they're running into it in higher ed. Virtual education, they're expanding virtual education options throughout the state. That's exciting. Health and nutrition prohibits the restriction of PE recess for disciplinary or other regions. There's nothing that makes me hotter than whenever I have a parent contact me and say, "My kid was held out of recess because they acted up at class." And I think, what did we just do to ourselves? Because those kids are probably the ones that need to be going to recess in the first place and running some of that energy out of there. I was one of those kids. My grandson's one going to be one of those kids. So, I'm glad this is
135codified and reinforced in state law. I don't know why they had to do it again. I thought this was already a requirement to be honest with you, but here we are. Um, and then here's some of the maja make America healthy again that's kind of trickled down to the state. I think this was might have been Brian Hughes's bill right here. your your Senate District One uh Cong Senator prohibits certain additives in breakfast or lunch. So, I'm sure Victor Oliver is going to have a good time with that. Here's homeschool UIL opportunity. That last bullet is says everything. We've been operating something looks like this. We will continue to look at it as a locally operated system for eligible students that mirrors the same requirements for our own enrolled students, which is legal right now.
136Um, if you don't want to do this, you've got to vote to opt out by September one of this year. Here's some DEI parents and library book fun. Um, Senate Bill 12 makes new prohibitions on DEI efforts in schools. Um, you've got to prohibit employees, contractors, volunteers from engaging in DEI duties, including the hiring proh pro practices. Um, some of these we've not had issues with here in Tyler ISD. Um, third bullet, it is state law now that bans groups centered around gender identity and sexual orientation. Uh, grievance policies around these topics can now go through the board process and then maybe even sometimes wind up at the state board of education or at the commissioner of education's office with the superintendent defending what was done at the local school system level. Here's some continuation
137of that. As far as library books go, we've made it through our library book issue. Um, so hopefully we don't have a whole lot of remnants of this going on, but these are some of the things that can happen uh in that the legislature created this next time as far as advisory goes to y'all. Um, school boards have the final say over what materials are allowed in their school libraries by creating a framework for them to remove books based on complaints. Um, you could delegate the responsibility of approving and banning books to local advisory councils, but you also could also just maintain your approval or disapproval at the board das. I can't wait to watch you all go through that if ever. Ten Commandments and prayer, Senate Bill 10 and Senate Bill 11. Here we
138are. Every classroom is going to display a poster with the Ten Commandments on it. Sized at least 16 in starting this September. this September. So, we need to call upon our partners to maybe sponsor that. They can even put their logo at the bottom of it. Miss Hines, similar to what we did with In God We Trust. I'm thinking that maybe the same group might want to provide that for our schools. September 11th requires every school board to take a record vote by March 1st of next year, so 2026 about what a plan would look like uh for a prayer a period of prayer in each school. Okay. Um we're working on something for y'all for that as well. Conceptually, think of a zero or eighth hour at a high school. Correct? Yeah. Now, this
139is at every school K12, correct? Yeah. They don't really have classroom periods. We're still working on it. Okay, there you go. So, those are some things we're having to flesh out there as well. School district liability. This is uh near and dear to my heart. Um that is going to get reinforced at convocation with our people amongst a a bundle of other things about that. We've got to be better. But this creates exposure liability for school districts when a school employee commits any type of sexual misconduct against a student. Um, it was amended to ensure that the language applies to districts that are grossly negligent, reckless, or ones that are engaged in intentional misconduct. In other words, we're trying to cover it up. And we just don't do that here. We need to be better
140not having anything anywhere near um inappropriate conduct of educators towards students, whether that be text messaging and communication, even innuendoing at all some of these things. Here's some other bills of interest. Um, I cannot receive any type of financial benefit. Neither can the deputy superintendent in the performance of professional services for a business that conducts or solicits business with the school district. An education business that provides services regarding the curriculum administration of any school. In other words, you can't go do board training. You can't get paid to mentor another superintendent. Um, it did not say that I cannot coach my daughter's travel basketball team and I don't make any money off of that anyways. It's not a nonprofit. I think I think more or less because of the my personal finances put into that. I'm
141more of an angel investor. Um, other school district charter school or regional ESC, we can't do that. The superintendent's job is to be the superintendent. Same thing uh for board members, you can't go do that as well. And then down there at the bottom, um, assistant superintendent, um, can't receive financial benefit, but principles can, I think. There you go. Here's some other bills of interest. 1522, the new open meetings act notice. This is the Gina or bill. At least three business day. Y'all listen to this one. I'm looking at y'all now. The people that helped put the agenda together. also requires posting the pro I mean uh at least three business days before the scheduled date of a meeting. Business days. You can no longer count Saturday and Sunday. [Music] Yeah. Get you some of
142that. Yeah. Now, what we're thinking is it may delay some things getting to the board because of this new rule change. uh our board agenda setting is pretty tight as it is so we can allow the maximum amount of information to get to y'all. Now we're going to be sitting here struggling not being able to count a couple of those days like the weekends as actual days before. So think about what the information that you got tonight in regard to continuous improvement in student outcomes that may be delayed because of this rule unintended consequences. Hey, look. The competitive procurement threshold has now been moved to $100,000. We're already doing that. Required post and open means act at least. Oh, did I repeat that? I sure did. Dumb it. Gina. Hey, here's some items of interest.
143June 22nd, the last day the governor has to sign something or not sign something or veto it. If he does, if he signs it or he doesn't sign it by June 22nd, it becomes law. If he vetos it, obviously he vetos it. That all started on June 2nd. Nuances in bill author intent and rulemaking that are delegated to state that are delegated to state agencies remain in play. And again, nuances in bill author intent. So sometimes on a bill, you call the actual bill author and say, "Hey, did you intend for this to be this?" Yeah, this is what I meant by that. There's some of that going on. Um, our policy service provider interpretation of this next session. I can't wait because we're already getting some some uh some of that. And um we
144are already in in in the process of communicating some of the urgent developments that are imminent to the start of the 2025 2026 school. I'll even adopt the policy. Um, obviously we're not going to put up put out let's take for instance the cell phone discipline penalties. Y'all have to approve that. We will go ahead between now and when we meet in at the regular meeting in July to start alerting parents that this policy is coming and that they need to partner with us in regard to making sure there's fidelity to this because it is now state law. We're not going to release what the four-step discipline process looks like because we're still formulating that and y'all have to approve that. But we will start doing that along with some other announcements forthcoming between now
145when we we meet again in July. There's your legislative update. We're not going to talk about the legislative session in this format again. You're not going to get board training in November for the legislative update, etc. You're not going to get your team of eight. You got Lonear Governed. you've been trained on your you've been given your legislative update today, so we're done. Any questions? Just one comment real quick. Um I just want to say how much I appreciate all the advocacy work you did this year, especially with TSA. And I think it was purposeful that they selected you to be their president this year during the session. And so, um I just want to say thanks and Dr. Kurton back there who I know spent some time in Austin as well. And um you
146know, you guys are fighting for the kids here, but but also for the ones in the state. So, I appreciate it. Yep. TSA is finally doing something. I'm just kidding. They they've been a strong they've been a strong uh supportive policym group uh that that really checks their emotions at the door. And it's been an honor to be able to do that. I think I just was in the rotation, Mr. Martinez and I've been superintendent at Tyler for almost a dozen years, so he's bound to follow me at some time, right? Um, but that that I appreciate y'all listening today and thank you for saying that. Any other questions or comments? Did you get paid for this presentation? Did not neither did I on the TSA thing. Thanks for extending my time up here. I
147was going to say I was glad I was going to go last, but you had a question you had to ask. Okay. All right. Thank you. That's it. Okay. Future business July 9th Wayne Bcher Center for Exceptional Programs graduation which is always awesome. July 21st will be our regular meeting. No board workshop in the month of July. Could I get a motion to adjurnn? Move we adjourn. Second. All in favor? Anybody opposed? Meetings adjourn. Have a good evening.