001is Kristen Kish the principal of Academy good evening members of the board ehsd cabinet and community members my name is Kristen Kish and I am the principal of Academy I want to thank you for the opportunity to share with you about our inspirational scholar for the month of March Ryan Ramirez throughout his four years at daa ran has consistently exemplified all five of our ERS by being welcoming to and accepting of all taking care of and supporting his classmates and Friends consistently pursuing excellence in his academics encouraging others through his words and actions and striving each day to be his personal best while also elevating others he is humble kind and always willing to help his classmates and teachers truly is an inspiration to both his classmates and our staff to sh share more about
002Brian this evening is his AP Government teacher Mr Jonathan dunsworth hello uh I nominated Brian because he's a leader to the younger scholars in our advisory class has been since the first uh day I came to three years ago appreciate his encouragement and engagement during Circle and the ways that he helps to build community Brian has been working as a peer tutor for years starting as a volunteer then as a paid tutor once eligible he's always ready to step up and help teachers and peers goes out of his way make sure his classmates are supported and successful I have the joy of teaching Brian in my government class and now in his English course what stands out to me about Brian is he doesn't seek the spotlight role it always helps to uplift those around
003him Brian really shows his classmat how they can be the best in government he was on the campaign team and supported his classmates success behind the scenes in group work he's the stabilizing presence that keeps the team grounded helps Focus their attention and brings out the best from everyone around him inspires his groupmates to keep up with him not just to get their work done but to do it well and thoughtfully he's the kind of student that asks questions out of curiosity and wants to learn for learning's sake that inspires me to be a better teacher I'm proud to be here to recognize Brian with this inspirational student award hello and good evening to everyone I'm Brian Ramirez and I would first like to start off by giving thanks for the kind words and recognition
004that I have been given today thank you Mr dunswood for nominating me and having me in your class the past few years you've been an amazing teacher and adviser not just for me for many other students thank you to my family and loved ones for continuously supporting and pushing me to be the best frankly I believe that I am still not the best that I can be so I have been questioning myself a bit as to why I'm receiving this award at the same time however no one is truly the best version of themselves there's always room for improvement and what should only matter is that we work hard to improve ourselves in every which way that we can that I have been doing and will continue to do so with the help of others
005therefore I do genuinely give thanks to those who recognize and acknowledge me today for as long as I can remember I've always loved going to school never getting tired of the first day of the year it sucks that it sucks that it's coming to an end and when I say that it'll come to an end I don't mean going to school allog together I'll be heading off to college and beginning my adult life pretty soon but what I am referring to is going to Secondary School seeing my best friends at 800 in the morning using that using the free time that I still have to hang out with them I've heard of how fun and memorable College can be but I still think that I won't get to experience anything like high school again I
006spent all four of my high school years at Delo and although I don't know what the other high schools are like I know that Del logo has been the best one for me for a few reasons besides being a 15-minute walk from home and the rolling chairs I met plenty of people and had amazing experiences prime example being how I joined the tutoring program like mentioned before and I was able to improve my leadership skills help kids in need and overall improve other aspects of my life I was able to grow as a person at Theo and discovered new stuff about myself one of those things apparently being that I'm inspirational I do try to live life by doing good for myself and for others but I haven't really considered to myself to be inspiring
007perhaps I don't see it as clearly as others do such as Mr duns or my parents I've been recognized today for a reason for that I am honored to receive this award and I promise to keep doing the best that I can whenever and wherever thank you everyone Brian if you can stay there and also if the mayor Dane white can come up awesome thank you uh good evening everybody I'm danne white mayor of the city of Escondido uh one of the best parts about my job is being able to recognize uh special people in this community and I I wanted to highlight what the gentleman who spoke before you had said there's something really special about people who seek to help others without seeking the spotlight at the same time and it's my privilege
008to get to recognize you Brian Ramirez um and and say congratulations on being awarded the student of the month also Brian I'm Bob Weller board President congratulations this is from the Escondido Union High School District Board of Education is honored to present the inspirational student award to you Brian Ramirez March 4th 2025 in recognition of your outstanding accomplishments so congratulations on that e e e congratulations Brian and we will miss you in the district for sure all right so let's see where we left off here bear with me one second so we left off at we're now at the report of action taken in closed session and bill dery will be reading that good evening in close session on motion of board member Williams second by board member dernie Board of Education voted to approve
009fiscal education waivers B number 663 through 788 for the 2024 25 school year by a 5A a zero absent zero abstain vote also on motion of board member dery second by board member Williams the Board of Education voted to approve graduation waivers case numbers 36 through 43 for the 2024 25 school year by a five yay zero nay zero absent zero abstain vote additionally in close session board unanimously voted and took action in accordance with Education Code section 44954 to release the following temporary certificated employees 6191 41719 667 95 63 6512 66 62512 667 736 658 675 658 592 6701 128 654 649 6501 127 6671 186 6 35015 6551 134 6471 05 645 480 551 92 660 64631 646 645 I need correct myself 66 6551 153 should actually be 154 I was going
010to mention that the temporary certificated employees of this district will be released and or non- reelected upon close of each employees current school year or the expiration of an applicable Employment contract whichever occurs ear earlier the RO the roll call vote was as follows I Bob Willer Ryan Williams Bill dery David Vincent Christie Knight following up and tracking me on that Bob also in Clos session the board took action to issue notice and release and reassign the following employee from their administrative positions pursuant to Education Code section 4495 1 effective at the end of the 20 24 2025 school year and directed the superintendent or designate to send out appropriate legal notices employee number 42649 the roll call vote was as follows eyes Bob Weller Ryan Williams Bill dery David vincon chrisy Knight and that
011concludes action taken and close session thank you trustee dery very much so now we're also going to do the approval of the board meeting minutes of February 11th 2025 this is not a roll call vote so can I get a motion and a second to approve that minutes so moved second thank you all in favor I I so miss Peña how you vote Hi and then miss forby hi thank you all right right so that's unanimous and then item number seven approval of agenda additions and deletions and Corrections does anybody have any additions deletions or corrections to the uh current agenda we do have one correction I point to at each person's seat there is a new board memo for item C8 approval of the consent calendar there had been a typographical error on the
012original posting uh due to some changes we made in the order of things on the um agenda so you now have the correct listing of which items are on the consent very good and so I need a motion to approve that in a second please moved second and we'll start with voting with the uh student board members Miss Peña hi Miss forby I and then the board members can just vote you you know I I favor say I I thank you that passes and then um we move down to item number eight which is the approval of the consent calendar items those are all the items marked below with asterisk um there are two items that I want to pull from consent that we can uh chat about them when they come up but um
013the items that we're looking to put on the consent will be H2 F2 G1 2 3 4 5 6 and seven can I get a a motion to approve clarify which ones are you pulling oh H1 and F1 H1 from Ed Services yeah and F1 from Human Resource yes I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar with H1 and F1 being pulled from consent I'll second thank you and I'll just come down the line this time for voting so then um Miss Pia how do you vote hi forby hi Rusty Knight hi Rusty Vincent hi Rusty dney hi trusty Williams hi and myself I okay since everybody's here we don't need to do a roll call vote so I will just be doing just call for the vote all right so then under D
014um one we have student and staff recognition uh presented by superintendent John Peterson thank you uh good evening congratulations to the February Rising Stars the following students were recognized recently Joseph wear from delago Academy Lindsay Kelly from esano high school Diana fam from Orange Glenn High School paa Sanchez from s Pasqual high school and estan Jose Loren o from Valley High School delago Academy and S Pasqual High School Deca students recently participated in the DECA state conference four students from Del Lago and six students from s Pasqual will move on to the DECA International Career Development conference in Orlando Florida congratulations to all of them from delago that's Yasmin Baka who placed in the top 20 sports and entertainment marketing series Ava manusher far plays top 10 overall formers and sixth place Community giving project
015and the team composed of Joseph wear and CA Trung placed top 10 overall performers and 10th place in business law and ethics team decision making from sampa Squall High School Juan Garcia placed third place overall Quicks serve restaurant management Jacob Whitney won fifth place overall Hotel lodging management top 10 emerging leader and top 10 Deca Knowledge Test Lena Divine placed top 10 retail merchandising roleplay the team of Alena Gomez and Rachel Hodson won chapter Awards gold level and the team of Olivia Garcia and Lena Divine one chapter campaign Thrive level from Orange Glenn High School congratulations to Orange Glenn High School 12th grade student Fernanda Sanabria toar for winning the outstanding trial defense attorney award at the San dieo County High School Mock Trial award ceremony also the following students were chosen as MV PPS
016from other rounds in the competition Rihanna Diaz for the second round witness role Pamela aroyo Munos for the third round prosecution attorney role and Briana Torres cabera for the final round witness role six OG students competed in the region 10 family career and Community leaders of America culinary competition all celebrated for qualifying for state and congratulations to Jennifer Ortiz Rodriguez for winning first place overall and to giguel Loa for winning second place moving on to S Pasqual High School s Pasqual Avid and AP Computer teacher Aaron Duran was recognized by the national Center for Women and information technology with the affiliate educator honorable mention award and amongst our students Marie Gil won the division 2 wrestling title at 100 pounds good job sasqua high schools first robotics competition team 3255 the super Nerds won the
0172025 Port weimi Regional championships over the weekend they also walked away with the Innovation and control award the super nerds are currently placed number five in California out of 291 teams number nine in the United States out of 2,956 teams and number 14 worldwide out of 3,727 teams very [Applause] impressive they qualify to compete at the world championship in Houston go super nerds and I'll conclude with congratulations to the sampa squad boys soccer team for winning the soccer league division 2 Championship sp's boys soccer has won League championships 13 times out of the last 19 League championships and this is their ninth consecutive win today as we speak they are playing at the state championship quarterfinal at s Pasqua High School against the Bonita Bearcats from Lever California we wish them the best of luck
018let's go golden eagles thank you thank you superintendent all right so now we're going to move down to the uh student board member reports by Ela Peña and Cadence forby and since we um didn't do the mission and vision you can read your mission or Vision before you give the student um board update Mission empowering every student to graduate prepared for college career and life through excellence and learning Vision we relentlessly pursue with optimism Equitable support for all students to navigate a changing World by providing rigorous and relevant learning experiences that strengthen their capacity as open-minded and invested collaborators effle effective and thoughtful communicators resourceful and creative problem solvers curious and analytical critical thinkers and informed and compassionate community members okay and I will start with the first report um good evening board members faculty
019staff and community members I'm excited to share updates on our on S Pasqual orange Glenn and Valley high school so I will start with sampa Squall um girls water polo played an intense division 2 first round game taking the match to Triple overtime and lost with one point over in the last second um um a second I'm sorry a second congratulations to Marie Gil who won division 2 wrestling in 100 pound section and boy soccer secured another league title marking their ninth consecutive year a special recognition goes to campus security officer Mike Santos who is retiring after 25 plus years of dedicated service at s Pasqua High School March 14th we have our Powderpuff game where seniors are going against juniors in a fun flag football foot football game March 21th is our spring Clash
020of classes pep rally now moving on to Orange Glenn where girls basketball secured a spot on CIF playoffs boys soccer entered CIF playoffs and won their first playoff game in a strong showing congratulations for wrestling players Jason keer Jonathan Perez R Roger Castro who qualified for San Diego County Masters Tournament the torch yearbook staff won the 2025 National journalism education association's diversity award congratulations to Alandra Perez Len Leno Elizabeth good Gino and Amy ladesma Gonzalez along with their adviser Jessica young for fostering a culture of creativity compassion and inclusion at OG their student council elections are coming up this month and they'll also have a food fair and finally for Valley High School congratulations to miss Monica Lee she was recognized in this year's lcap student Forum as teacher who motivates students to engage in
021learning on March 21st they will have asbab interpretations helping students understand their test results and explore future career paths on March 19th to 21st they will have Camp lead which is a Leadership Retreat aim fostering confidence teamwork work in personal growth on the 19th they'll have a US Army setup on the 21st a movie night and on the 26th family night these events and achievements highlight the dedication and talent throughout our school spirit and congratulations to all the students athletes and staff for their hard work and success thank you so much and that was my report thank you good evening sorry good evening members of the board and everyone who El I'm so sorry let me restart sorry good evening members of the board and everyone who decided to join us today I will give
022you updates on the sites throughout Ison starting with the logo Academy big congrats to the boys basketball team for being the rner ups for the CIF division 4 and for the girls basketball team being runner-ups for division 5 on the last day of February The Stingers had a field date during lunch where we had to wear blue so we could take our class photo we had an extended lunch of 10 minutes starting Friday the logo will be start will start selling tickets for their Spring Dance Ela DACA intended the California State Career Development conference this past week student jasine I'm sorry if I mispronounce any last names um backa um f finalized in the indiv idual Sports entertainment and marketing series and became top 25 out of 140 students in her event students Kayla drunk
023and Joseph wear finalized in their C category business laws and ethic as well as students Ava manur far finalizing in a project category the laa daa qualified for the goal level in the chapter Awards sending officer Jas bakam and president s Simi uh goni to Orlando Florida to attend the International Conference ICDC particip participating in workshops networking and expanding business knowled business knowledge da math club is participating in physics stes physic day at not SP Farm which I'll be joining moving on to ESO high school did did you say physics physics day in nutberry farm yeah it's really interesting I remember going to nutberry farm and you're panning for gold I've been to nutberry farm in the last five years it's a NASA Spate Flight Training Center the rides there are like 20 G's each
024yeah yeah it's appropriate that the physics team would be going to nuts Berry actually um if you interesting I may add one of activities for this t is uh creating a roller coaster with gravity okay um so moving on to ESO High School ESO High School recognized nth ninth and 10th grade students who earn an A and or a B in MA both math and English during the first week of February keep the good work uh SK the high school girls wrestling competed in the CIF CDs championships recently sophomore amariah Spain had her first tournament placing of the Year capturing fifth overall esono High School boys wrestling congratulations to senior Friday Portland and Junior jadden monaya for placing six at Masters in their respective weight classes congratulations to escano High School boys soccer for being
025backto back Valley League champions boys and for the boys basketball congratulations to on the win over high-tech high they will be ADV advancing to the semi-finals and for the girls basketball uh they um uh won against Patrick Henry they started on the playoffs with well-deserved wins and the girls soccer G uh girls soccer team were are advancing to the first Playoff round and a and had a victory over Morris High School then congratulations to Jordan dley so social science teacher ATO high school for being nominated by his peers as the teacher of the month for his outstanding efforts in the classroom and his profound dedic dedication for his students congratulations to Michael Vasquez lead Conan at ESO high school for being nominated by his peers as classified employee of the month for his initiated in
026antici oh my God I'm so sorry antip accepting fulfilling needs always working behind the scenes and thank you this done on my report thank you ladies very much and now we go to item e public comment so the first will be the report from the California School Employees Association asido chapter number 219 is anybody from that Union here okay then we move down to public comment E2 report from the Escondido secondary Teachers Association is there anybody here for that welcome thanks Anna for having me um good evening School Board I I appreciate the opportunity to um actually spoken in front of different iterations of school boards and cabinets and while I was thinking about my message for this version night I couldn't help but think about very first time in front of uh it was
027uh December 11th 2012 and uh I had asked the then esta president I could present on a topic that esta had been dealing with it was riffs and I had thought I had this had this brilliant idea and uh I spent all this time digging through board dos um finding this absolutely is this better okay you didn't miss much I um had this brilliant idea and I I spent all this time digging through board dos and I found multi-year projections uh nyps right from 0910 1011 and 1112 I had find all this information and I had cross referenced with the actual ending balances for those years and compared it to the projections I had even created this really crude chart that I actually found in my Google Drive from 2012 I had in Big Red
028Letters the difference and then showed that there was a 177% 20% and 27% difference between what was projected and what actually happened um three years in a row district gained uh they didn't even come close to the projections I remember thinking to myself while I was doing all this work this is so obvious to me uh any reasonable minded person can see that myps are used to manufacture budget crisis finally I thought ah the school board will see the myps and they're used to create Panic the sky is falling mindset there's no way a reasonable person will look at these projections and the actual numbers and deny what's happening I remember being so nervous to present I remember looking at really kind board members faces and showing what I had discovered and surely they will
029understand cting teachers and counselors was they were actually growing their money and I sat down afterwards and the board meeting carried on no one ever said anything The Epiphany I had had while doing all of my research and the budget was met with a blank stare and they proceeded with cuts and the typical board formalities and it dawned on me then 13 years ago School boards and cabinets and the people behind those positions they don't really care they can sometimes have really nice and sympathetic faces but there isn't much thought put into an idea that contradicts what they already want to it's not lost on me that one of those really nice faces from 13 years ago is still sitting up there I'm still standing here with some fa the same facts multi-year projections just
030that they are projections and when you study them you realize that the buzzword deficit spending meaningless Dr good explained to Esta on Monday that the board directed a cut of $4 million for two years to reduce deficit spending when asked for a clearer answer on deficit spending here is what esta understood there is an actual cut of 4 million happening to prevent a projected deficit let's be clear districts who are actually deficit spending don't amass small fortunes to the tune of 41 million our district has 28% over its legally required limits for not deficit spending in the community of Escondido and those of you guys who are watching on YouTube you should be outraged tonight Dr good is proposing massive Cuts esta has been made aware that the district will be moving to eliminate 48
031tosa sections for next year is there cuts to programs that actually benefit our district both financially and academically the elimination of support for student attendance at comp sites last time I checked he needed Ada because you know money support for our English Learners last time I checked this group of students needs the most support of all you have all asked test scores go up this is a fragile population that needs more support not less cuts to math support for our kids last time I checked our math scores are dismal what do you think is going to happen now I think that it's evident cuts are happening but I don't think that the costs have been we as a result of the cuts to student support TOA sections you will vote tonight on Dr Good's proposal
032to cut esta by 10.6 FTE that includes probationary and permanent teachers and counselors that's above and beyond what the board has already reported for temp Cuts it's above and beyond res resignations and retirees to the tune of 40 less bodies it's very apparent that there's little to no concern from Dr good our cabinet and our board massive implications these types of cuts have on the community of Escondido on our students learning and teaching not to mention the very real people some of whom are behind me who are represented in these numbers and I want to emphasize that these cuts are a choice that you make they are not a necessity esta has offered Creative Solutions to avoid these types of cuts we have studied the salary schedule and basements and know that a retirement incentive
033would be far more valuable to preserve our brightest new teachers Dr good has stated the district has no interesta has continually asked for this District to exercise its right to charge our charter schools in our district the standard fee of 1% there appears to be an unspoken policy for lack of a better word to look the other way on our Charters this would save four to five teachers jobs but the district has no interest showing that you are not interested in saving money just cutting services from students this Board needs to revisit what those cuts what is actually being cut and what is being saved tonight the elimination of student supports has a direct impact on learning cuts to counselors and social workers have a real impact on students well-being cuts to classroom teachers directly
034impact student learning I am very much a realist I understand there are times when Cuts need to happen inefficient programs need to be cut data doesn't support that this resource or this service helps students let's look at it looking at data and what really works for students should be Paramount and what decides to be cut that is not what you are doing tonight that is not what is happening with the elimination of the tosas which causes the ripple effect of the Rifts which you will vote on tonight what is being demonstrated tonight is the same thing that was made clear to me the first time I spoke 13 years ago you don't understand the intentional pattern behind myps in the end your decision will grow in our criminal Reserve either you don't get it or
035you don't care maybe it's both for me what's different is I'm a lot more tired and gray please vote no on tonight's resolution thank [Applause] you all right so we're going to move to um public comment I section E3 comments from the public on non- agendized topic items that lie within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board and so I'm going to read this uh script in regard to this so item E3 public comment for items not on the agenda the board shall limit the total time for public input on each non-agenda topic to 20 minutes entirely generally each person may speak for up to three minutes at board discretion in order to allow all persons to have an opportunity to participate if desired the board May reduce the amount of time per speaker when
036necessary upon conclusion of all public comments or 30 minutes the board will continue on to the next item of business on the agenda in order to ensure the board can effectively and efficiently conduct the district's business in public at this meeting in the event more time is needed for public comments on non- agenda items to ensure all those wishing to address the board have an opportunity to do so the remaining public comments will be heard at Agenda item J1 the board of education is prohibited by law from taking action on matters discussed that are not on the agenda the board looks forward to and encourages your participation we have received cards from from one person who wish to make public comment during this meeting and that person is Dana Mo and he's from Classical Academy
037and he's going to speak hello I'm the proud principal of Classical Academy High School and proud graduate of escano High School Class of 1989 despite the challenges we want to just be here to celebrate all the amazing things happening for students across esano including in our schools of choice such as classical I'd like to introduce Jake worthin I'm a scholar an Iron Man triathlete future leader of our country he's our ASB president um dress is better than me and we're both waiting expectantly on his acceptance to the Naval Academy right now and he's just going to share some of the ways that classical students serving the our community all right good evening members of the board my name is Jake worthin and I have the privilege of serving as Classical Academy high schools ASB president
038I want to start by sincerely thanking you for your dedication to supporting school choice of the opportunities that school choice provides I've have been able to attend a school that has empowered me to grow both as a student as a leader B School Academy has given me the freedom to pursue meaningful projects that extend beyond the classroom directly impact the community of escanda earlier this year I had the privilege of leading an Outreach Spirit Week a campus-wide initiative pairing fun spirit days with powerful Outreach opportunities every day students were challenged to dress up in a spirit day and bring a bag of items to donate char range from Pantry items hygiene and self-care to children's toys baby items and home care supplies together the Cayman raised more than 1500 pounds of pantry food items 600
039pounds of self-care and hygiene items 165 brand new toys 20 bags of baby food and Care items and 40 bags of home supplies this event helped our asbs see how truly impactful our passion for community service can be and how it cannot just affect our student body but our whole Community recently this project was recognized by the Sandy San Diego kowas found Club Foundation where I was honored to receive the Laurels for leaders community service award competition between ASP presidents from across San Diego County as a result our ASP was awarded $33,000 to fund future service initiatives allowing us to continue making a positive impact in our community thank you again for your commitment to school choice and supporting environments where students like me have the ability to take on leadership roles and serve our
040community it has been a privilege to be a part of a school that prior PR izes both academic growth and real world impact thank you for your time thank you so much and navy usually beats Army so there you go all right so we are down to item yes so now we also um had received I was going to show them we had received a number of electronic comments uh for this section and I just want to acknowledge that we have received them and we are working our way through them there is quite a few of those so thank you for those of you that could not be here and submitted electronic comments All right so now we're down to Human Resources Division and the first item on there is F1 normally we would just
041move that to consent however um as I was reviewing this item which is the uh classified Personnel report um regarding um just classified um to that section here there we go and it's a report that reflects the classified Personnel activity since the last Board of Education meeting and I was going down the list and I was noticing that there was quite a few um basketball soccer um cheerleading things like that what I found really interesting is that it noted that it was basketball coach boys varsity basketball coach girls varsity soccer Coast boys varsity girls soccer coach um varsity and I really appreciate our district and I know that I'll be fighting for this and I spoke in front of the CIF on this that we keep girl sports girls and boys scorts sports boys and
042keep the boys out of the girls Sports so that's why I pulled that because I wanted to highlight that and say that I personally will be working with CIF to follow the executive order that was signed on that topic so then the other thing that was pulled is on oh wait so then we'll just go down to F3 which is on oh okay so then we're going to vote to approve F1 and so then um we'll do student board members first I I'll make a motion to approve thank you Christie second and we have a second on that so um board members in favor well student board members in favor I and then board members in favor I I I I so that motion uh um passes so that's going to drop us down to
043F3 because we did prove F2 on consent F3 uh is a motion to adopt resolution r224 D to 20259 resolution to decrease the number of classified employees due to a lack of work and or a lack of funds so I'm going to uh give this to um Dr good um I would first like to acknowledge that we have two speaker cards on that topic so we'll have staff presentation first and then we will do uh speakers three speakers on F3 and then we will have board discussion and vote thank you Dr thank you president Weller as you mentioned this is a recommendation to the board to adopt this resolution decrease the number of classified employees I want to emphasize that the layoff process uh is very prescribed by law wherein we must notify employees by
044March 15th of an intent to layoff for the following school year that timeline is extraordinarily early in our planning for the subsequent year and the picture of our needs for next year isn't readily clear at this point nonetheless we must meet this March 15th layoff deadline my sincere hope is to be back by May and our picture is much clearer in our planning for next year make a recommendation to hopefully resend as many of these layoffs possible what you are seeing for your consideration is uh a recommendation to reduce the total FTE in the classified ranks by 10.59 FTE in a variety of job families that you see on the resolution itself as well as a reduction of hours in the health office system okay thank you Dr good so for public comments related to
045an item on the agenda the board will hear those comments directly following staff presentation which Dr good just did the board shall limit the total time for public input on each agenda item to 20 minutes generally each person may speak for up to three minutes at the board discretion how many cards do we have three on F3 we have others on F4 okay but it looks like we have time to allow everyone to speak up to three minutes that will be timed as well be and so uh at board discretion in order to allow all persons the opportunity to speak we're not going to reduce the time so I'll move through that following public comment the board will entertain a motion and a second and then convene discussion on the item public comments not related
046to an item on the agenda will be shared during the public comment section which we just had so then the first person that has put in a card here it would be it looks like Caitlyn demish beish good evening my name is Caitlyn beish Sanchez and I'm an English teacher at Orange Glen High School I'm speaking today in response to the proposed Staffing cuts of both classified and certificated positions District staff of our district are deeply invested in the success of our students and in such a way are active contributors uh excuse me it to the continued success and Improvement of our youth's educational experience our TOA sections these are positions that directly impact our students experience in the classroom and in Casp results the way that we continue to improve these scores is through
047coaching and strategies learned from our content tosas so that the classroom experience that we know our students are having are uh transferring to the testing environment without content toas teachers are all who are already overwhelmed uh with the demands of instructional time with students and without content to say we will not have uh the resources necessary to make the improvements to our practice for the benefits of students an actionable time frame intervention tosas be that academic and attendance tosas work directly with vulnerable students on the precipice of earning credits and therefore their diploma we spend hours working with students directly hearing their struggles in their academic and personal life that present barriers to academic success without them this responsibility falls on the shoulders of teachers and counselors especially with limited access to social workers with
04836 students per class and five classes full this is unmanageable for our temp prob probationary and tenure teachers at risk of being released uh these are young teachers with the energy and Innovation and to work with students day in and out to meet their needs teachers care deeply about the learning and well-being of the Youth of Escondido especially as they are securing their positions as foundations and pillars in our community they Pride themselves in their role of teaching and our Stu teaching our students to be critical thinkers who can think for themselves our classified staff are integral to the systems in our school and running smoothly and therefore creating a safe and productive environment for learning for example if we were to close our library assistants the library clerks the entirety of our textbook checkout
049for our 2,000 students at Orange Glenn High School would fall solely on the shoulders of our single librarian and would make this process more strenuous for the librarian staff and students while we are aware that our enrollment is declining I implore you to consider Solutions uh that are outside of projected deficit spending and focus on the actual students who are in our schools right now that will negatively be impacted by losing staff that love and care for them retirement incentives are retirement incentives are coste effective as and as a way to say thank you to our veteran teachers and to save younger teachers just beginning their careers the solution has recently been adopted by San Diego unified another solution is to collect the 1% standard fee from Charter Schools who likely are enrolling students from
050our public schools that we're losing this nominal fee can improve our schools in meaningful ways our teachers and classified staff directly impact our students education and lives they are community members of Escondido born and raised here with a commitment to give back I ask you to consider alternative options so that the staff can maintain our escanda our commitment to ascendido future thank [Applause] you and then the next speaker will be Cynthia barela thank you for allowing me to speak my name is Cynthia aella and I'm requesting your reconsideration of my position as Library click at Orange Glenn High School um by retaining this one library clerk position because I know the other two fill you will be savoring um those two combined salaries um retaining this role at the site isal to the success of
051the students we serve ogs is the only site uh with the middle college program serving 330 plus Alamar college students as the library clerk I manage essential tasks including barcoding Distributing barcoding and distributing the College of textbooks this can be an additional 200 plus books uh and maintaining a check in and out of spreadsheets without this position access to resources for these students will be delayed disrupting their academic efforts um the library mediate techa handles behind the scenes tasks like resource management and compliance however these responsibilities can only be performed effectively with the library Clerk's Frontline efforts and support the library clerk position is eliminated all the my duties all of the clerk's duties will uh which is managing Destiny Library System supervising middle college students and unscheduled students in our library handling billing tracking
052student check-ins and outs returns inventory creating IDs for students and staff will not be completed Appliance and Resource Management the library clerk ensures that the materials are tracked properly preventing losses and damages without the uh manage without this management the district risks crewing unnecessary cost due to untracked and damaged uh materials and potential non-compliance with the Williams Act overall keeping the library clerk position at ogs is crucial for managing additional workload of Middle College eliminating this rule could lead to cost the overtime um efforts from temporary staff unfamiliar with Destiny and a CH with the Williams Act compliance an experienced library clerk is vital to ensuring smooth operations accuracy and success for both staff High performing students as well as the students who need more support thank you so [Applause] much and then the third
053speaker on this topic will be Jacqueline megadon thank you esteemed members of the board I'm here today to speak in regard to resolution 19 my name is jacqulyn Magadan and I am a laboratory classroom assistant for alternative education orange Glenn High School give you a better idea of my role I work in the Learning Center where I offer both instructional and technical support to our campus online students using the uity online learning platform while uity in aables us to serve many students simultaneously it also involves tasks such as projects essays quizzes and exams that require direct support managing a class with such diverse needs can be overwhelming for a single teacher especially when students need individual assistance eliminating my position would not only neg negatively affect teachers but also Place students at a significant disadvantage
054potentially installing their progress during class time this setback could severely impact their academic success particularly for those seniors who are racing against time to recover credits and graduate with their peers throughout my time at Orange Glenn High School I have been an advocate for students who face language barriers or who may be hesitant to seek help what has resonated most with me is the opportunity to play a role in the educational journeys of these students offering support and encouragement when it's most needed I understand that the district is facing difficult decisions and budget pressures but I implore you not to cut the laboratory classroom assistant position in alternative education such a decision would have a far-reaching negative impact on the students thank you for your time and thoughtful consideration thank you all right at this
055point there's no more speaker cards so then what we're going to need to do is make a motion I need a motion to adopt resolution 2024 20259 resolution to decrease the number of classified employees due to a lack of work and or lack of funds can I get a motion and a second on that please so moved I'll second thank you and I just want to emphasize the comments uh that that Dr good made and just um wait I can't comment yet right made a second well we're going to vote on seconded so can I start commenting okay just that uh we're working with the information we have as of today and that we are incredibly hopeful that come May that Dr good will will be presenting us with um an opportunity to bring back
056some of these positions and that um I appreciate the time you took for the comments I work in an area that is known as prevention and unfortunately prevention doesn't always have a lot of data that follows it because you prevent things from happening so um while I again respect and appreciate everything that was said tonight um I hope too that um it is taken into consideration that as a board it is our job to look at multi-year projections and prevent what is being presented before us so that is what we are hoping to do today and with that that is my second and my comments Other Board member comments please um question for Dr good here so obviously on the on the sheet that we all see here we have uh FTE listed right there's
057a certain we'll call it percentages of it FTE and why don't have a full full person it's calculated based on the work year and the number of hours so some of these positions are not eight hours some of them less than work days and so that's how the why they would be less in and uh maybe a question for Dr Kasa so when we say a reduction of campus security what is that going to do to the safety of I can talk to that one if started sorry that position is currently vacant uh and not by not filling that position it puts that particular campus back in line ratio wise students to campus security and are there any other um any other positions on this list that are due to vacancy a couple of the
058library clerk positions uh are vacant two of those of the three uh the lab class assistant one of those is vacant and then same thing with the campus security that we just perfect so so quite a few so I would say would you give that a percentage well I I would I would phrase it like this or frame it like this what is before you will touch 10 people uh seven of those people are in a position thank you um there was also some comments about toses um do the classified um can I follow up oh please David sorry so when you say vacant how along were those positions I believe the campus security was just within the past couple months the library clerks uh one took advantage of an early tell that we did
059earlier in the the winter to try to ascertain or help clarify the picture and one just recently uh submitted the resignation so some of these are relatively recent thank you as it relates to tosa and classified are there classified employees in tosa positions or that no the acronym for tosa is teacher on special assignment so when we get to the next Dynam I'll have some questions on that um I do have a question it noticed that there was um in the library or sorry um the one for the laboratory the laboratory classroom assistant alternative education um so is that considered Valley basically no those are uh support staff that are in our Learning Centers at our three comp sites uh currently there are two support staff in each Learning Center this proposed resolution would scale
060that back to one in the Learning Center how many students are in there at any given time I would want to follow up with you on that I don't want to speak out a turn but normally probably estimate like 20 or 30 or it's hard to say I think it varies by time of day by student schedule okay and so since it's a laboratory classroom that doesn't mean it's a science at ated no it's just this is just simply the job title got it all right you know I any other board member um comments or questions I've got another question regarding the um the licensed mental health clinicians positions 1.7 ftes so uh I mean given the the rise in just general mental health concerns the what the effect that you possibly forese and letting
061we would still we would still need those positions uh and those positions could be outsourced do we currently Outsource at times at times you do there's there's not a there's not a need for as we have them now thank you all right so then um on Ryan so what you're saying is uh forid speak I am I don't know if it's the mic itself you're good now so I just want to clarify ification on that when you say it's Outsource so that during the evaluation you determine that with the workload and as Ryan said mental health issues are increasing um that POS that position is one person going to be able to manage all that um we can scale that back yes and manage what is in front of those positions so do we have
062any data on how many people use that service not at the top of my hand I know that Dr Casas uh can work with sped to get that yes just to be clear the Outsource concept like we've worked with Palomar Family Counseling I believe this district has probably had a contract with them since before I was born they we've had a contract with Palomar Palomar Family Counseling for years so the Outsource is something that we've had that relationship for years so let's be real about that I wasn't aware of that okay all right I do want to thank president Katie for coming and speaking I know what it looks like from that side as well I've spoken before boards before and they stare at you glassy eyed and the vote goes not how you don't
063want it and it's very frustrating I can tell you for sure though the amount of time and energy that has gone in to the decisions on this it's not easy it's very hard to sit up here even when um you're taking the vote and afterwards so I hope that you know that however this vote turns out because honestly I don't know how it's going to turn out um we are up here to serve the benefit of the students and going forward in the lcap we're definitely going to take um more attention to how we can do this also you know as we said we can bring these employees back I guess if I'm right um Dr good and so yeah yeah so but we do have to take by state legislation used tonight to um
064take a vote on that so with that said we already have a motion to adopt the resolution um faring any other further discussion and the um students uh student board members will not be voting this will just be a upper down vote um all those in favor of adopting the resolution say I I I any opposed no none opposed so that motion passes we now uh go to um Human Resources Division item F4 and that is a let me get this in front of me here a motion to adopt resolution 2024 2520 resolution to decrease the number of certificated employees due to a reduction or elimination of particular kinds of service here again Dr good will be speaking on that thank you president Weller this is uh much the same layoff process as I spoke
065to with the last resolution with the same March 15th deadline uh again that timeline is particularly early in our planning for the subsequent school year uh we don't have students fully scheduled in classes for next year given the timing of this uh of course that means we don't fully understand our needs for next year nonetheless we are found by the March 15th deadline uh much as I said last time uh my sincere hope remains here we can be back in May when the picture is much much clearer uh to resend as many of these as possible thank you Dr good um currently at this point then we're going to go to public comment and the first person that has turned into card is Alyssa Wallace to speak [Applause] hi I'm Melissa Wallace I am the
066instructional coach among several other things at Academy um and I just came here to share some numbers with you so uh the first number is 53 53 is the number of Studios the ehsd instructional coaching team facilitated in the 2023 24 school year 33 is the number of Studios the same team team facilitated just in the fall semester 182 is the number of unique individual teachers that participated in a studio 35 is the number of teachers at delago Academy 34 of those teachers have received coaching for me this year at Academy 99 is the number of interactions that I've had with these 34 teachers 124 is the number of face-to-face coaching that I have given these teachers and all of the hours not counted are the time that I spent planning and preparing for all
067of those things 10 is the number of new teachers in the past two years who have needed onboarding into Dago's unique instructional model two is the number of coaching sections I do this with one is the number of coaching sections I'm supposed to do this with next year so many years ago when I was a new teacher I created a teachers hierarchy of needs I kind of based it on this idea of maso's hierarchy needs which if you're not amiliar with it know you get to the self actualization part of the top of the pyramid but you need the safety the physiological and the psychological safety in order to get there so thinking about that I needed to triage as a first or second year teacher what are the things that I need to focus
068on in order to help me be the best teacher but the top what place I wanted to get as an educator was to Innovation and then below grading and assessment below that curriculum and instruction almost at the bottom of the base relationships and classroom management and at the very bottom institutional support the institutional is the site admin the district admin the school board access to professional learning and of course the instructional coaches the thing about maso's hierarchy is you got to have that strong base if you ever want to reach the top of the pyramid so how can we expect to improve student outcomes without the institutional support and to be clear you are part of that institutional support our board and our cabinet and our coaching capacity is they're planning on cutting our Co
069coaching capacity in half so you grow this beautiful Studio structure you have an amazing professional learning program and then you're going to cut our capacity to continue to carry out this program we're going to reduce our teachers access to the coaches that can help teachers get better but then ask teachers to raise test scores and I'm supposed to do that with onethird of a coaching period by the way so at because of the way we're set up I am the math coach and the science coach and the English coach so how am I going to raise math test scores with 25 minutes a day The Cutting of instructional coaches will have a ripple effect on student outcomes across the district particularly at da since we're already offering at half the equivalent sections at the other
070sites um and our teachers require unique coaching um and professional learning for our instructional practices our project based learning our grading practices our systems are integrated and interdisiplinary curriculum hey Alyssa yeah I want you to finish you to have much longer I have one sentence left go for it and then I have a clarification question so I'm supposed to do that with one period that's an impossible ask and so I am asking you don't cut the coaches at da at any of the sites they needed thank you what there was one number you threw out which was 34 teachers what was that number 34 teachers is the number of teachers out of the 35 teachers at my school that have received direct coaching for me so there are 35 teachers at da and 34 okay
071currently there are 35 teachers okay thank you thank you all [Applause] right all right next speaker will be Caroline Potter to be honest I'm at a loss for words concerning these proposed budget cuts from our district upon hearing that four Spanish positions are possibly in jeopardy after 25 years of teaching Spanish at the high school level and postsecondary level I am appalled that I actually have to worry about possibly losing my position wait there are a few words that actually do come to mind when thinking about these proposed budget cuts how about shock shock of what I'm actually listening to oh wait hold on next is fear fear for the future of my job and the livelihood of my family oh here's another word nervousness nervousness for the unknown of not being able to possibly
072pay my mortgage next year oh and then ultimately anger the feeling of anger is not something that I experience very very often I am a very positive very outgoing very wonderful teacher okay but as of right now today all I can possibly think of is anger how can our district who is sitting on a reserve amount of $41 million conceivably proposed budget cuts by eliminating permanent teachers like myself I've been doing this almost my entire life I started when I was 23 years old and now I'm worried about my job are you kidding me this is absolutely inconceivable to me every adult I've have spoken with today has asked me the following questions why are they doing this how are they doing this for what reason are they doing this and all I can say
073is you know what I don't know I I don't get it I don't understand I don't have the words for what the powers that be are doing over here there is no explanation especially when we look at the lack of spending funds to attract and retain high quality teachers in our district and on top of that the amount of money that is going on around here oh wait hold on create Community build community Foster Community encourage Community this is what the core message is from our admin one more sentence from our schoolwide campus motto is from our district everything is about Community right this is what we're trying to do with our students our parents the citizens of Escondido which I live here and my kids go to LR green and Bear Valley and they're
074going to end up as an eagle with me in my school well when is this action of eliminating teachers you you are literally destroying the community that we are trying to build here four Spanish positions I'm sorry no thank [Applause] you thank you Caroline you have been heard for sure uh Brenda nap Randy there we go thank [Applause] you good evening uh good evening president Weller Schoolboard superintendent Peterson and cabinet my name is Brandy creps and I'm the president of the Escondido element Elementary Educators Association your sister District I stand before you today not just as a concerned educator in this community but as someone who believes in the power of Education to shape the future we are here to address a pressing issue the proposed layoffs of teachers counselors and support staff an action
075that directly threatens the very Foundation of our schools our students and our Collective future an action that goes directly against your District's Mission let's be clear cutting teachers counselors and support staff is not just a budgetary decision it is a direct attack on the quality of education and student well-being our Educators and counselors Are Not Mere numbers on a spreadsheet they are the heart and soul of our schools they are the guiding forces who Inspire Challenge and support our students every single day their dedication goes beyond lesson plans and college applications they nurture potential provide emotional support and serve as role models in times of need one of my former students IA verella is here tonight and is directly affected by these Cuts she is a product of Escondido schools and you are failing her
076and others with your proposed Cuts layoffs will result in overcrowded classrooms leaving teachers stretch thin and unable to provide the individualized attention that students need to thrive it will mean fewer support systems for students struggling with academic pressures mental health challenges and life at home counselors are not a luxury they are a necessity their role in identifying students in crisis guiding them through personal struggles and helping them plan for their Futures cannot be overstated beyond the immediate harm to our students these Cuts send a troubling message that education is Expendable that the well-being of our children is negotiable that our community is willing to sacrifice its own future for shortterm financial fixes projected deficit spending God I love that term but let me ask you this what kind of future are we building if we
077undermine the very people responsible Prof for for prepar preparing the Next Generation you have $41 million in reserves over 28% more than is necessary for your fiscal solvency instead of balancing budgets on the backs of our Educators we must explore alternative Solutions we must push for fair budget allocations and demand that those in power prioritize education not dis diminish it our voices must be louder than the rhetoric of budget cuts our actions must reflect our belief that every child deserves a quality educ ation and the support necess necessary to succeed I urge this community this school board and leaders to reconsider these layoffs stand with your teachers stand with your counselors stand with your support staff and stand with your students when we invest in education we invest in the community we serve I guarantee
078the community doesn't scream out to save School boards they cry out to save teachers and staff that directly work with their children you need your teachers counselors and support staff and so does this community thank [Applause] you thank you Brandy and we definitely look forward to working with the uh Elementary District moving forward to integrate the whole thing and and bring up uh student education so thank you for that um is there an Andrea that Andrea that would you're up thank you hi and good evening to all of you thank you for coming out tonight it's very important that we are all speaking out in regards to things that we believe in and are against I'm Andrea SEMA current special education teacher at ringcon Middle School here in Escondido and vice president under that Wonder
079Woman over there of Escondido Elementary Educators ass Association I was an elementary math tosa teacher last year was for five years loved it even after my colleagues and myself put all of our efforts and demonstrated that our students were capable of massive growth we were cut so let's see what those math growth scores look like this year anyways long story short tosas were cut due to a board decision to cut the very people who supported students the most I'm speaking tonight in regards to the proposed budget cuts on the backs of teachers and counselors please take it from me and my 26 years of experience in this Escondido Elementary District when you cut teachers and the students I'm sorry when you cut teachers and counselors the students pay who will pay the students when you
080cut counselors your students will pay especially when you have a surplus of 41 million I believe that it's only required to have a 3% and yet you have a 34% I urge you to rethink the 4 million you say you have to cut keep the cuts as far away as possible from students let's not make the students pay for the decisions that you make up there please have a growth mindset and learn from the elementary District's mistakes thank you [Applause] thank you for all speaking and coming tonight it's uh definitely hard to hear for sure and at the same time it's very informative and we do take it to heart at this point we're going to need I'm GNA uh reread the recommended action and then I'll need a motion on that so I'll need
081a motion to adopt resolution 2024 20252 resolution to decrease the number of certifi certificated employees due to a reduction or elimination of a particular kind of services need a motion please in a second motion to approve I'll second all right so now we can open up uh discussion on this uh any comments or questions for anyone Dr good yeah Al so Dr good do you mind commenting on the uh the English teachers in the Spanish teacher three and four Yes again uh trying to project at this point in the school year our needs uh for next year knowing that a lot of the tosa sections uh that we plan to reduce staffed by English teachers that will put downward pressure onto our English classes to have room for those T so what does this do
082to class sizes uh I don't believe it's going to project to change class sizes there is contract Lang anguage that specifies the number of contacts a teacher have with a student over the course of the day that will not change um so then bringing up my previous question um can you go into to you know there's so many acronyms I know it's um teacher what is it again the teacher on special assignment can you like Define that a little bit like are they teaching one subject in typically all day and then they teach another one can you kind of explain you know how that works I'll give you the 30,000 foot level and then I'll let Dr classes come in and okay up if there's anything left to say a teacher on special assignment is
083just that their assignment is special where in a typical teacher will teach say five sections of math the TOA might teach two sections of math and be released for three sections do that special assignment that special assignment can range anything from from what Wallace explained to coaching other teachers uh to providing intervention to students who are struggling uh to supporting students who are struggling with attendance kind of everything in between uh so in reducing those sections that math teacher who may have been a tosa doing a special assignment for three sections instead now will be fulltime ma Got quick question so how many U English teachers do we currently have and how many Spanish speaking teachers do we currently have so right now there are approximately for this resolution to pass and were all these
084layoffs to go through and none rescinded and we're a long way from that uh were that to happen that would leave approximately 68 teachers who are authorized to teach English have an English credential uh with Spanish again if this were all the way through would leave 25 Spanish teachers and what is the um class sizes currently currently I don't know them off the top of my head but they can go up to 35 typically okay uh question for you in terms of the the tosa would you say that the the majority of these uh English teachers and Spanish teachers are tosa related a lot of our TOA assignments are with English teachers or with Math teachers uh not so much the Spanish teachers uh but there's a need from some of the action that was
085taken in close session or Spanish space okay can I ask clarifying question related to Spanish classes is the um um student elction of Spanish classes going down that's what it's projecting right now and again from why would that be happening is there um are there a number of students that we're seeing that are fluent Spanish speakers taking test testing to get out of taking Spanish classes no why would there be a less of less students enrolling in Spanish this year versus pass I my supposition would be less students in the district less students period and we hav't accounted for the less students in the district for how many years has it been that we have not looked at class sizes related to that type of it's been a while or covid yes okay thank you
086uh superintendent I at an upcoming meeting I think I'd love to have a presentation of basically um class sizes at all the high schools and I know that we can't go through every class however if there was a list of class size of all and so it'd be like class uh name and school and size and then that way we could get a little bit better you know I'm very critical I was born and raised in California and I love my state and I'm not moving anywhere but I'm very critical of the State of California binding our hands like this that we have to make a decision this before March 15 um we do have a surplus in this district there is a part of me that does want to vote no against this resolution
087you know so let me finish let me finish the thing is is that I gave you time to talk please thank you um I should say we gave you time to talk not me um the thing is is that we can bring these teachers back that key and I don't think there's a person sitting up here on this board that does not agree with me thinking that we are going to work really hard uh if we decide to approve the um the cuts to bring everybody back um because we need it and that's why when um so it's back in May Dr good I'm thinking that at the April meeting we could have a very serious conversation of class sizes and use of these teachers and other teachers because I know that I've been on
088the board two years and I will not lie to you I feel like I'm just coming up to speed on this and if you tell me what's in the lcap Bob honestly I'm fairly confused on what our goals are but we are making efforts to make changes on that so I really appreciate everyone coming tonight I'm extremely critical of the State of California if the governor would like to have me on his new podcast I would love to have a debate with him on some of the laws that we're restricted by but uh if anybody knows him I'm up for that so with that said are there any other comments on the board tonight um can I say something really quickly um I just based off of everything that we have done me and alandro
089have done with lcap and going to all of the schools this does affect the students and I thought you guys might want a student opinion on it um um specifically for counselors um one of the biggest things that students have said that they need more of is counselors and like it's already really hard to like gain access with counselors for counselors to be able to handle all of their students I mean it's hard for me as a senior who needs help on scholarships and stuff like that to gain access with my counselor because even though we have dein planning enrollment it's still a lot of students for only four people per um school to handle so like I would just encourage you guys to think about like the real impact on students when it comes
090to just the teacher one because um it does like affect the students a lot and overcrowded classes is a really big thing I mean my econ class has 38 students in it already and it's an AP econ class which means that not many students like actually um enroll in it so just putting that out there can I add something else yes please uh because uh as Kanan said I was also there for the lcap and another thing I've noticed for the uh counseling but I also uh notice a lot of tutoring and um I I worked as a peer tutor and Miss Wallace is the advisory advisor and um and I well today I found out she coaches too so um just like cutting off teachers like that or like employees like that can have
091a huge impact especially students who I help personally students who struggle especially in math because this like I won't like blame you guys or blame the elementary like District but uh honestly this district has failed students in math a lot a bit in English but especially in math from what I've seen because the more the lower I hope students like freshman last year struggled a lot but this year's freshman struggle even worse so I I think it's she should focus on more on students and how to help them resource would you say that they were struggling the most in English or math which one of them math math it's interesting I asked the superintendent to put on the agenda tonight um a topic for a math subcommittee so we will be in fact talking about
092that in a while here because we do know that um we want to improve that dramatically um and I have a quick you on that Alandra uh you mentioned that this year the incoming freshmen are struggling more than last year is that because we're doing something different here do you feel the students are coming and less prepared you know what I can't really differ or like say something because I also realized that most of these students during covid is when like they had like their mult when they were supposed to learn like long division fractions multiplications but I think we should also Factor how Math teachers should not math teacher but this District should help Math teachers um um help them improve with their multiplication I know it's like an elementary school issue but like
093I said Co kind of ruined that so I think as high school teach High School teachers should take a lead on it and help teachers because uh actually I've seen more that Math teachers have been extending their tutorial it used to be 1 hour now it's two hours because of how much students actually need help I've been on uh lockin for the PE for the board who doesn't know what lockin at the logo Academy typically after school for like about 3 to 4 hours uh we stay in um well I help students clear their gorks uh and what I see the most is in math and what I hear most of them is oh it just the teacher didn't explain this or um I didn't understand this because uh the the the math was confusing
094and it it's a bit harder and honestly like the FRA the they struggle a lot with decimals and fractions because like I said again they did not learn that and I think as ma as a district should help the Math teachers improve that can I ask you a question how many tutors like you um actually are active in supporting this I would not be able to answer that 35 students oh thank you I think that's great that you're doing that we really appreciate that um I I think like Bob mentioned before there's a whole thing regarding math I've already done a deep dive and research on math and I have my opinions based on that research um I think a lot of people are probably agreeing with most likely what I'm going to say but
095that's not until we have our meeting I don't want to go off topic but anyhow is thank you guys appreciate it so um yeah I understand Dr good and Dr kasus let me ask you a question we all know that the the entire State of California struggles with math the curriculum the way it's taught just everything is not working and this is databased not Bob based and I'm wondering would there be a way to take all these 12.6 full-time equivalent um positions and turn them into math toes wow okay that helped me with my vote thank you we can just we can just move on no no the positions that are on there are not Math teachers so they would not be I'm assuming that all the people on this can help people with division
096times taes and things like that coming into the school district but obviously I didn't make my point clear enough so I apologize if somebody saw humor in that um I have feelings too and that was extremely embarrassing and hum humiliating and I was a student once that got laughed at a lot I am mad there's no other comments I call for the vote I I I hi hi motion passes calling for a five minute recess e e e well you know it's I ran some good Ma oh great oh e don't worry I this is all right we're going to reconvene now all right so we adopted um f F3 and four and so now we're down okay I called the me meing back to order thank you Bill um so now we're down to
097F5 ad uh adopt resolution establishment of criteria for order of layoff and re-employment following layoff of employees with same first date of paid service in a probationary position again this goes to Dr good thank you president Weller uh the prior layoff resolution that was just approved uh what this is it establishes a tiebreaker criteria that would be used in the event that employees who may be noticed of a layoff have the same seniority date this would inform who in that tie would receive the layoff notice thank you can I get a motion uh to adop and a second to adopt this I move to adopt it a second any discussion so one question does this actually apply does this actually apply to people yes yes I believe there will be a situation where we have
098will have to apply this criteria what if they're all equivalent what happens uh draw names from a hat numbers from a hat oh okay the statistical probability Method All right so I call for the vote last question so um is this um this methodology is the same as that has been used in in other districts or by us in previous years or where did the methodology come from there there can be some customization to this this is what was recommended we we use based on other districts and things all right we'll start with the student board members call the vote how do you vote student board members can vote on this I okay thank you and board I hi passes so we now move down to uh item six to ratify the tenative agreement between
099the Escondido Union High School District and Escondido secondary Teachers Association again Dr good thank you president Weller uh present to the board for your approval tentative tentative agreement signed with the Escondido secondary Teachers Association for the 2425 contract as you had said uh like to acknowledge the work of both teams Mr Joe gelini uh Miss Anna ktie Mike sakol reading G Jessica Young Chris Evans and Mark Raburn and then on the district's team Miss Amanda Phillips Dr casus Vicky Kim Kelly griggsby and Corey Gregory happy to address any questions you may have so one thing that I get asked a lot by the public is that it doesn't seem like there's any um what I just thought of this question so please forg forgive me for thinking about this but like like accountability of improvement
100for classes or students it just all seems to be hours and time and money and position is there a reason is that like a state mandated thing that we're not allowed to discuss um results there's a there's an article in the contract that relates to the evaluation procedures and prescribes the process to evaluate teachers and give feedback uh to insert something like that into that process would be something that would be negotiable oh that's good to know it sounds like we could use some more accountability that's for sure all right um make a motion to approve any second second all in favor I I student board members I I thank you all right move down to number seven here again a motion to approve memorandum of understanding between the Escondido Union High School District and
101the secondary Teachers Association for dual enrollment Pathways Dr good thank you as You' mentioned this is anou with esta uh regarding our dual enrollment program this mou serves to extend the term of theou that allows our dual enrollment program to run for an additional two years 2526 school year the 26 27 school years all right right um can I get a motion to approve this I'll move to approve second any comments starting with the student board members how do you vote I I thank you and board members I I I thank you moving down to item eight here this is the public hearing on initial proposal from California School Board employees Association Escondido chapter 219 to the Escondido Union High School District for 2024 25 negotiations Dr good thank you uh so this as you
102said is ca's initial proposal to the district uh this is the third year of a three-year contract where there are automatic reopener and salary and benefits and one additional article per side CA elected to only open salary and benefits uh happy to answer any questions you may have all right so now with this we're not voting on this right we're just need to open the public hearing at 756m so I open the public hearing at 7:56 pm. does anybody in the audience wish to speak all right so now I close it at 7:56 as well it's and with that said so then that's that all right now we're on item nine uh public hearing on the sorry let me just get that spe up here there we go um the initial proposal from the Escondido
103Union High School District to the employees um Escondido chapter is that that's interesting is it the same thing I'm confused it's not the same thing but it's generally the same uh concept last we just had the public hearing for ca's initial proposal to the district this item is the public hearing for the district's initial proposal to ca got it going back the other way got it all right um any so I'll open up public comment at 7:57 if there's any comment please please come to the mic seen that there is none I will close it at 7:57 and I guess we're done with that one so then Business Services Division item number one um so here um we need to approve oh this was done on consent so one so G let me get out
104the consent list here okay so G1 through 7 was cons sent but we don't need to vote on those and then facilities master plan number eight down to miss Phillips thank you in December the board awarded renew Clark the RFP for our facilities master plan we wanted to take this opportunity to introduce the team to the board and have this amazing group share how the plan will be developed and why we should even have one so at this point I'm going to hand it over to them and they're going to take over the show we on I hope I think so great uh thank you Board of Trustees student trustees and Senior staff for um allowing us to present my name is Steve Prince I'm the architect and responsible for Runa Clark Architects I'm leading
105the planning and design process that we're going through for your master plan with me is Kristen Rose she's our senior planner as well as as part of our consult for foresight planning and we're going to kind of talk you walk you through the master planning process and kind of where we are with the process right now and what you can expect to see um the end of this a big part next slide please big part of um our practice with our team is that we're very Hands-On president of our company Roger Clark is going to be a part of this design process you'll see him um in that process as well as our team with Jessica Manson and J's actually helped bring in um State funding for projects um and you can see in our
106kind of Statistics there we've B actually help brought in over 1.2 billion dollars in state eligible funding for projects through districts we've worked with over 114 districts and over a hundred different Camp uh sites and they've worked on over 2500 projects in the in just in a small period of time now 75 years in our plan um so in general uh we look at a master plan as serving two primary purposes as a planning tool for your facility and for your district and as a communication tool for your community and so it helps to understand the available space that you have for students um to understand the condition of existing building system to understand the ways in your facilities should support your educational outcomes apologies understand Community priorities and then that the facility master plan
107will outline what are the project Scopes that are needed to take you from what is your existing state to your desired State develop an estimate estimate of costs and then identify an implementation plan for how to also want to note that because of proposition two that recently passed um which uh provides funding at the state level in the form of matching grants to school districts now if facility master plan is required as a part of that application SL I'm going to go over really quickly the phasing of the master plan I'll give you kind of a highle view um and you can kind of see at the top that's your um project phases we talk about the deliverables and then the meetings that we'll have and then we also want to highlight board opportunities for
108input and interaction the first phase is data collection this is where we're getting an understanding of all of the existing information related to our facilities including an understanding of your existed and projects your fac history um your maintenance uh issues anything that's related to your facilities that already exist then we move into facility assessments which is boots on the ground going through all your facilities and identifying what are the existing conditions and needs for all of your Building Systems then we move into visioning which says this is the long-term vision for how our facilities should support our educational programs from there we also want to engage with community members to get their input on priorities then we developed the actual master plan that is the project Scopes and the cost estimates related um to all
109of the projects that are identified and then the implement ation plan which says okay we've got all of these needs all of these projects identified how are we going to implement over time and so part of that process we'll develop a um Capacity Analysis we'll develop a facility condition assessment we'll develop a community engagement summary we'll develop the facility master plan and uh estimates and then we meet regularly with the steering committee we have had our kickoff meeting with them and so now we're coming to you to update you as well um and we'll check in with him on a regular basis and then there'll be other opportunities um in a large visioning Workshop in community forums to also get input other stakeholders I want to point out some key points for board interaction and
110input um we'll check in with you on a regular basis typically as phases conclude to provide you an update on the work that we're doing but there's also an additional opportunity um during the visioning process to invite board members to participate um to maintain those levels that you need to participate in that visioning process so have a hand able to see what everyone is saying looking at enrollment capacity and utilization this is just an overview of what you can expect to see and this is how we look at capacity and utilization so enrollment evaluates how many students we have now and are projected to have in the capacity evaluates how many spaces are available to house those students utilization evaluates how programs affect that capacity so a lot of times what we see is have
111classrooms as the available space sometimes you have specialized programs that take over those classrooms and reduce the total capacity for enrollment of your students so we'll look at that and get a better understanding of that and then the master plan identifies the quantity and types of spaces supp programs and enr hi Christ was saying part of the process too is theity condition assessment this is where a team is going out to the sites and actually evaluating all the different physical elements of the building and the site that includes on the building envelope roofs interior walls doors windows everything that kind of makes up a we're also looking at it what from the different Building Systems their air conditioning and heating systems electrical distribution looking at low voltage in technology Plumbing in the uh um sanitary
112systems fire protection and security con you guys follow Lee construction for energy efficient buildings okay so I don't know what their policy are regarding that I'm just kind of wondering because it's think California green uh requires that so I I think that needs to be investigated a little bit further um I can speak to that um the California building code and green code actually has this design up to a lead silver okay that's automatic What would what we don't actually do is actually certify it through the lead process because that's actually it's an expense and so but the but this the code actually brings us those building envelopes to those standards very quickly and you guys are responsible for all the permits and such or any individual projects will do that for us right now
113as a master plan architect we're looking at it kind of at a high level okay so you're doing the architectural layouts and yeah at a high Lev design built find the projects once we actually start projects get defined by staff and the board approves those and the individual design teams will actually go into what we're trying to do at the condition assessment level is understand what's their life expectancy when we look at air conditioning we're looking at end of life how how old are the units do they have five years left do they have two years left what's that cost and then whole process of how we actually identify that through and uh longer the pro if you have a good preventive maintenance program it extends the end of life on the right and there's
114also strategies about going all electric versus natural gas or Comin or such so those are things are all going to be part of that plan Goa okay thank you there's also part we're talking about the condition assessment we're also looking at all the interior finishes looking at ceiling finishes next slide sorry there we go um we're also looking at the interior finishes to make sure the ceilings wall finishes flooring Furniture fixtures and equipment are all up to as well as accessibility accessibility is always going to be something that looking at as we do individual projects another big part of this is going to be the site assessments we're looking at parking Landscaping fencing Furnishing and really trying to get a full um understanding of each site as a whole both from a building site and
115right now the teams are about halfway through the assessment process right now with this district and we should actually be wrapping up those assestment by the middle of March what does this inform the master plan the facility condition assessment um collects a lot of data and what we do with that is develop a facility conditioned which gives us uh an understanding of what the needs of anyone are FCI is the ratio of the cost ofr compared to the value of and so if for example you have an FCI rating on a facility of 10% that means that currently have needs that represent 10% of the total cost of that what does that tell you I mean so what do you do with that information so you the cost of the building is 100% obviously can
116you go back to the the slide if you kind of gives you a heat this is a visual representation of that it gives you a heat map it does let you know which facilities are in Better or Worse condition right it's a degree of magnit UD for us um and so it just helps you to kind of summarize what's going to be quite frankly a lot of data talk about facility condition assessments about just going into it becomes thousands and this just helps us to summarize that for you you have an understanding of the magnitude um what software are you using so our partners Bureau veratos um go out and that is what they do ability assessments and they have software that they have developed so it's proprietary developed it in house okay gotcha then
117that data then is um brought down and actually will then interface with the software as well so it'll be data that can compatible used so that when you start to look at air conditioning replacement across the entire District you can start to see that these units look like they're in the that they're still serviceable in five years you're going to need to you'll be able to see that through that dat okay so moving into the visioning this phase is all about aligning outcomes and and so you know or we know that you have Ed educational goals standards and requirements those outcomes those standards are set by the state right um and then you have curriculum Frameworks that are also established by the state then what we seek to understand is what are the instructional methodologies
118that you as a district are using in the classroom in order to deliver on those outcomes that then informs what called an education specification guideline which identifies what are the qualities of the environment's and the adjacencies between those spaces that are should be the standard for your facilities and how they should support your education what this does from a master planning standpoint is it gives future design teams a guide for how your facilities should uh be designed right so when we develop the master plan we'll identify those guidelines and when your design architect comes in to implement a specific project they'll know what are the crit IIA I need to bring into this project in order to can you give us like a quick example yeah so for example we might say um for science
119classroom right that all science classrooms need to be Laboratories that they should have um sinks and gas and be able to provide any um science instruction that might be something you decide for your science classrooms and so your design architect would go okay I know that I can't just put in um you know say a science classroom with desks and chairs it needs to be a lab setting that that's the things that we'll Define in that Vision or what about for example you know we happen to be a heavy CTE type of District so you're planning and planning buildings and layouts accordingly yes so that'll be a big part of it too um as part of the visioning session we'll also have focus groups we'll meet with all of your departmental teams which will in
120CTE team to get a better understanding not only what are your Pathways but what are the requirements for the types of as an example you might have um you know medical Pathways and you want certain types of facilities for those versus construction technology engineering spaces right and we'll want to Define what those guidelines are yeah on the science side safety is really important well as lab side dealing with waste yeah that makes it a lot more complex typing that's where the price yeah for sure a science laboratory is much more expensive than a standard classroom but we'll also Define the criteria for each of Ryan we made sure that Mia is also she's on the steering committee we we know that's a big part of the district plan thank you so can Community engagement is
121also going to be a really big part of the facility Master want to make sure that we're bringing a plan to you that is informed by your community um and this just kind of outlines our the approach that we take to community engagement this is our engagement toolbox um it starts with informing um information sharing and education I want to emphasize this a little bit here because the education piece is really important in order for us to build consensus as the project moves want to make sure that we're all starting from the same frame of reference from the same understanding so that's part of what we do when we reach out to your commun we're also seeking to educate them on anything they might not understand or the context in which you're working for example
122um the limitations or um restrictions on facilities funding um or helping them understand how schools are constructed you want to make sure they understand that what is DS and why do we have to do things like that I mean surprisingly lot of people references talk about that processes that's a big part of the educ a lot of the aha moment another component of this toolbox isting um with any do that in a couple of ways um this might be surveys that you can send out to everybody um that's a large reach and it allows everyone to have a voice in the process also when we're doing in-person engagement we'll use live polling technology to help collect data in real time and to inform the discussion also means that you have data that you can look
123at that informs and is related to how often do you have these types of work um it depends on the needs of the particular district and how they're set up you're a smaller District um and so I would propose that you could either have one per site which is I what we're kind of talking about right now we're don't have as many sites but some districts will do it region but I would recommend that we do now the format and kind of how that works we're still working that out a little bit we found that depending on a community within a district some like in person and they participate and some will not show up and so virtual works better we'll kind of out what one of the other things that we look at is
124leveraging any existing meetings groups that you have so if you have you know your um School site Council being able to leverage a meeting that they have where we can come and speak to them where they're already Gathering other meetings those groups where they're already um and then the next piece is collaboration so this is more handson when we talk about a workshop um when we facilitate that Workshop it's going to be um more people getting up collaborating together um working on canvases really developing ideas and sharing and going through a process of saying what should our vision be um and how should our facilities support those outcomes that's much more handson but the ultimate goal is to empower your stakeholders and your community that they feel like their vo is heard so that they
125have an opportunity to perform this process and so this kind of goes over our layered engagement so we start with the steering committee which we have met with um and we they are the the decision makers when it comes to the project of the master plan um they determine what gets brought before you the board for final adoption or approv um and then we have the visioning committee and this group is a larger group multidisciplinary it can include limit it to just District teams or you can extend that to other Community Partners if wish this is also a good opportunity for board participation so if you have a facilities committee or board members who want to participate process this would be a good opportunity and then we move out to the users so that would
126be anybody at the site so principles um students teachers those kinds of things we want that input to make sure it's informed by their spefic needs and then further out is the community getting a broader understanding what are the community throughout this process we're moving out to one group and then bring it back to the steering committee for synthesis moving out to the next group bringing it back to the steering moving out to the final group and back for syn that will help inform the master plan it demonstrates the priorities that are established by all of these um so what is in the master plan so essentially what we're going to be doing is developing project Scopes um for each of the sites and we'll communicate that in several ways um the first form of
127communication is developing site master plan which visually demonstrate what the project Scopes are again this is high level we're not getting into detailed design here we're really defining the what of the project what is the project general location although that doesn't have to be the final location um and an understanding of the cost and we do that um in a threedimensional format as well as two-dimensional format so you get a really good understanding of and then we bring that into a dashboard so this serves as the tool think about that those two purposes it's communication and Tool this side of the master plan will be the planning tool we bring that into a dashboard which has all of the Project's costs um priorities identified um and the team can use it to start to to
128scario modeling to start to um look at how they might Implement uh projects over time to start to assign projects years for example this project is going to be completed in 2026 versus 2028 versus 2030 and then you start to build an understanding of what your needs for projected costs are um we're looking at everything from infrastructure Code Compliance Safety and Security new construction modernization elements so really the implementation plan is about aligning project costs priorities and funding um and so you'll see some version of this um this particular example um the district grouped their projects into these categories and then we aligned all of the costs in those categories to their bond series all right so moving on to the education piece this is kind of a a glimpse of what we'll share with
129multiple stakeholder groups but we want to make sure that we understand the context in which so building schools in California um so this is the construction process St will talk about this kind of timeline as an overview highlight some of the key areas comes to building schools in California so part of the education it takes looking at understanding all those kind of also helps and looking at the so how would you do that would you stagger it like work on the during the summer months uh because you know I mean if you're doing Ren ation and demo and that you know kid we still have kids in school certain period of time so is that stag stagnated um I mean is it offset it by the school um year and then built during the summer
130months that some projects are what we call and some of the larger projects may be a need part of the on the actually in actually address did you like deal with how do you deal very not a master plan okay as as an architect we do this as it really is Project onite this level we're this site all the buildings need to be we're going to go ahead just real quick yeah you're talking about um trailers so I went to an elementary school that was built in the 50s and I went my entire Elementary years were in trailers in LA and then they just hadn't prepared for the baby boom generation then we had an earthquake in 1971 in La that destroyed or made inhabitable our gym our cafeteria and have the classroom buildings so
131we went to school in trailers the entire time it did not affect our ability to enjoy the school at all we just wanted to see our friends so if we have to put kids in trailers they'll get over it they're just glad to be here replace actually I can add something um I went to Mission med school when it was under construction for a new building uh when it rained we had to take well before the rainbow we always had to take a long way but when it rained it would be like really flooded so I do not advise construction during class time a quick question so you're talking about the timeline here this is the timeline to to build a new building or build a school this is that um another critical aspect of
132understanding Master planning California is funding School California when it comes to facilities uh the intent is that school facili not have allocated to 90 general fund for Capital Improvement the legislator is that you are reaching out communities to generate those funds so the way that that happens we call this the and so there's two local sources that help you toar first local source is developer fee so any home builders that are coming in and building new mitigate or offset of potential that can all kinds of different forms as well cfds we know if we actually get those the second uh form of local funding is a general obligation Bond or tax but it's for structured but typically it's a general obligation tax measure that's voted on by your community taxpayers or uh creating funds for
133these capital projects measure a or measure what not on the ballot and that is primary source for school districts and raise funds for Capital and then the state can also passive on which they recently have proposition about a total billion dollar it gets put into several different bucket for modernization bucket for small school districts harder school what have you and so the way that that program works is it is a matching program you bring money to the table from your local funds it matches that money depending for mization project it's match and for project is also based on eligibility that says that permanent buildings are eligible for those matching funds when five years portable buildings are eligible for those matching funds 20 years um recent to prop two have added which is really good thing
134added the ability also include support facility like administ um that previously was not part of are you involved in this Amanda I imagine so what does this mean um when it comes to developing a master because of the way that facilities funding works as the limited resources that you have the lack of bond funds that have been available last or so um the state program is highly encumbered we'll call it that there are a lot of projects that are in line um and if La unified for example were to all the projects through all of the funding San Diego UniFi as well so if they got all their projects through all the funding would be that means you have limited resources districts have a high level what does that mean that means we need to
135prioritize and look at what are our priorities the projects what can we Implement over time um and the more that you move through those priorities the more funding um and so what we will identify in the master plan are those level of priorities and we'll look at it in a couple and we'll look at things like immediate needs look at things that are should do items like capacity needs life cycle planning for the future um we'll look at things like that are would like to do items program enhan that really for example make your program excellent as opposed to adequate right and then future consider a long-term project that's a wish list that doesn't necessarily when we look at uh facilities assessments we'll also look at it from a hierarchy of needs right um so
136we'll start with physicals cost these are an understanding of where you're Building Systems that currently need replacement or repair current cost then we'll look at Capital needs those are keep up costs whatever our planned life cycle replacement maybe it's not a current need that HVAC unit doesn't need to be replaced right now but it will need to be replaced in five years we'll identify those and then beyond that function functional needs are anything that's related function of the facility um the efficiency of a facility um the need for it to adhere to new code requirements and then those programming so funding um and that so what you're saying is that we have to look at bonds uh typically that's really your your primary funding mechanis and your general fund um dollars are intended for anything
137related to facilities is ined for general maintenance like you know door knob bre reactive repairs for Capital Improvements faing whole systems improving Interiors things like that you're going to need some other sort okay so the lottery ticket I buy that's supposed to go to the educational system in California the lottery does provide some funding it's just not very much it bought the microphone you're talking into David um also I want to point out there's over a thousand school districts in the state of California they all get a piece of that um and so that goes very quickly okay so the primary deliverable that you have for us is the master plan right uh how far are we into that process at this we have just started in that process um so I'll give you an
138understanding of where we're at we are in the facility condition assessment phas I will say it's not linear we're kind of doing things we have kicked off with the steering committee we've presented them a lot of this information but here's our process here's how we need to do this project we've started to identify um our stakeholder groups and what that might look like um we have our assessment teams on sites I'm doing their assessment they're about halfway through again they will be completed around March 17th or so um and so we're in that early phases of understanding existing conditions next up for us is going to be the visioning workshop so working with Amanda right now to schedule that and identify all the people um I would say that's kind of the biggest hurdle in
139master planning is getting all of the input and getting everybody together um but that's kind of our next step is that moving into that visioning and then uh after the point in which we get the master plan recommendation right at that point your additional Services by you would be to help us Implement those things if we chose to that correct well from a planning standpoint um my services um from a design standpoint the next step for you would be to identify so our goal will be to identify an implementation plan you guys will start to identify what are cons projects but um I would say your biggest hurdle is going to be to identify funding um if we identify projects that are say million dollar at a high school um if you don't have that
140money available it's determining what you're going to do generate those funds are identifi from there let's say for example you did pass a bond then you would identify your design teams who could then start working on those prods then in terms of facilitating or managing any kind of bond program that's really up to the district and how you guys decide internally with their own teams districts hire program managers it just depends on how you want to run Amanda this is where you work your mag absolutely there's a I I think Kristen did a great job there's um once we have the plan that's kind of the foundation um and then that will lead us um down many paths potentially um you know there there could be applications for too once those are released um you
141know there could be other sources of funding that they can potentially help us find um but really their services end at that facility's master plan and then it's really up to us um with board Direction board support as to what what do we do next um if we do something next um if if we do nothing next um we at least have Direction and we have a plan and buyers out there in the audience has a very long-term plan um of facility hopes and dreams um but that we would hope to have some sources of funding that we could at least go after and look for um to make these dreams so there's different phases with regards to the bidding process yes after the fundings approved and then ruction all that yes if I if
142we were to actually Source 00 million dollar um there would be lots of bidding and lots of processes for for procurement and construction even on the from the you know the minimum viable product I would say in a right so at this point we've got our own homegrown master plan right yes we do yeah what's the expiration date on that it depends on how long we look but typically look we're projecting out about 10 years that's a reasonable window of time where we can say we expect these projects to you should update it also I want to point out that with proposition requirements you go and submit a project for State funding based on your eligibility and that can be any size project right as long as it affects eligible space um if you go
143to proposition two funding they are looking for you to also submit a five-year master plan um so essentially a master plan that is relevant within five years of your now I will say that program itself they haven't fully defined rules the timelines for applications that's still in the work right now um in terms of how they will that program and when you need to submit that master plan but essentially you'll need to at least be looking at it five years and maybe five years is a light refresh in 10 years time back can what would you say the majority of districts do with the with plan that you propose specifically districts will say our size our age so there's be always be yeah and I guess education program here's from yes more math classes and
144I just want to reiterate as well I mean the the whole purpose of this plan is is this master plan is to figure out what we have what we don't have it's it's not we didn't have a uh a discussion on layoffs you know an hour ago and now we're talking about getting a $50 million Bond that's not what we're doing we're just trying to figure out what are the conditions of of our facilities right and uh understanding what we don't know yeah and I I think some of it it's a safety issue too with regards to our infrastructure and rooms and that that need to be addressed immediately so uh always uh we got to be wary of that that inducive to a kid's education to have a healthy safe environment to be taught
145in so that's important to remember yeah I think that's a good point Ryan it's it's long-term planning it's um something that the board approved in December um it's been in the works for a while the RF process um was done in the fall um the contract itself is paid for with facilities funds from fund 25 so not general fund proceeds go to pay for the contract so separate funding um so it's it's a completely separate process superintendent did you had mentioned at um that a couple board members would potentially be on the subcommittee or helping out on this help with the visioning process yes so um it would be good to know which board members might be interested in serving in that capacity anybody on the board interested in serving that that capacity I would
146be thank you oh that'd be excellent I definitely nominate chrisy Knight I second it Bill do you want to be on it since you have strong opinions on School site building you can get back to me I'll get back probably let there's no action on this item no yeah there's no action but through just by giving me feedback we can find out which board members are most interested and we can have up to two board members on a visioning committee and I'm sorry I'm not sure if I remember the answer to this question um at what what's the timeline in terms of getting our our final master plan ballpark is for June okay thank you pretty reasonable uh I just want to mention something because you had brought up bonds and we have talked about
147bonds uh and that's when I got involved on school board was back in8 with Proposition E which was a $98 million bond that we voted for and three years ago we started making is basically added on to a previous bond that expired in 2021 2028 we added on a bond that finish off in4 but we're working on if if we start adding more money to we're just push I'm just that's excellent that you said that because I did not know that and I would be totally opposed to that for sure yes just to clarify what Bill said the the requirement for T was that the community not make any payments on T until prop a complete so the community did not see prop t on their property Bill until a had been completed I think
148in other communities you might you might see multiple um Bonds on your property tax simultaneously but this one um was specifically written so that you had you could only see one at a time see because school district didn't want to increase the current payments so we just said here let's have the current payments spend out another 30 years oh defer it what's funny is the uh the federal government ended those uh negative amortization mortgages a few years ago but it's interesting we're still allowed to do it on school bonds that's interesting so it's just something I'd like to just have out there as we go into this because if we are looking for a bond that's why you gotta be but either way today today in this this whole process is about just finding out
149what we don't know this process is De to develop the 360 degree view to develop a facilities plan it's not to decide which projects we want to do and how to fund them that's later we that that'll come after the plan is finished we begin to prioritize the projects look for existing local funds that we already have if they are inadequate then the board can have a discussion about do we want to ask voters um for funds through a general obligation Bond so by doing this master plan you're no way obligating the board to put a bond before the voters that's a decision to be made at a later date okay thank you all right any more discussion okay thank you thank you so much appreciate it great presentation all right um we move to
150item nine approve positive certification of second interm report for physical year 20242 again Mrs Phillips yes thank you so tonight you have our second interm report for your approval this is the second required report of the year where we update our budget through January 31st the report before you tonight includes the assumptions we discussed at our board workshop last month um the second and term report indicates the district will be able to meet our financial obligations and current uh in the current year and two subsequent years so based on this district is recommending the board approve the positive certification happy to answer any all right um before we discuss it I need a motion on this to approve motion to approve and a second second great um I did have a question here but I
151lost my page so just give me a second to find it so um based on what I can see here that so at the end of page one bottom right es Kido Union High School multi-year projection summary report that effectively in call um second projection so FY 2627 and second projected year combined the number at the very bottom the 26 million 057 yes that's basically the money we have left over after everything's spent how does what's that number that is the ending fund balance of the combined so that's unrestricted and restricted so when you think about the two sides of our budget you have the unrestricted side and then you have the restricted side which is all of those restricted funds um like our title funds all those ones that are really restrictive and have
152specific purposes purposes versus the unrestricted side which is more like um the local control funding side and the sides that are are we have more flexibility with so the combined column puts those two together um and so yes that is the ending fund balance in the third year of our multi-year projection okay looks good I mean looks like we're in good Financial shape thank you for that any questions from anybody else on the board here all right so then I will start with the student well I don't want to put you know but before yeah just to kind of add to that right you know the the numbers look look fine in a sense right there's still that concept of deficit spending right that we heard so much about earlier today right and but I
153think it's important to to know and remember that you know um the reason why we have a multi-year plan is because there have been plenty of of school districts who are not conservative or responsible right and the fact that we uh are making these decisions today is the is and shows that we are in the minority in a sense and we are making the decisions however hard they might be making the decisions that we need to as a district be financially conservative to make sure that we've got money bank and to make sure that we're doing what we can that's the you know U why we got why we have some money in the bank right I wouldn't say you know you know things look great still in that same I have to agree with
154you because I've been reading and there's a lot of districts up north that have gone bankrupt pretty much all right so we have a motion so that I I'm going to call the board first then the student board members so they don't feel like they're on the spot so then let's call the vote to approve the positive certification of the second interm report all in favor say I I I school board members I I I do student M student members thank you oh I thank you all right so then we move to Educational Services Division and items one and two were uh approved on well actually item one ped H1 H1 I pulled was interesting a lot of times I've been fairly critical on our um things but tonight I think I have something interesting
155that I found in the um in the uh for the item district and site staff to attend the California continuation Education Association and it's I Dr kasus if I'm correct it's kind of helping out with like you know things for Valley high school and stuff like that so we did a little research and I thought this was really good um I'll read what we wrote um some of the schools they're highlighting in this conference in their newsletter are actually really cool there's a continuation school that gives kids opportunities to earn a golden ticket and they get to go to the go to detention if they get it then they make detention something that you can't go to without a ticket it can be like one week if kids follow the dress code then the ones
156who get a golden ticket get an extra 15 minutes at lunch with a special snack then the principal focuses on students who aren't earning the tickets and they strategize over those students apparently the school has seen big this U school that they were doing an evaluation on apparently the school has seen big behavioral changes because most of the kids really want to earn the golden tickets their goal is 75 to 85% of the kids each week earn them it's called Twisted detention which we think is pretty funny and that we think that teens would find it pretty funny too so I'm looking forward to seeing what the uh teachers come back with from that conference so thank you for finding that one um we do need to vote on that one as well so I
157am in favor of that so if I can get a motion to approve that motion to approve second second and all in favor say I I board members hi thank you so much either one of you two will need the detention however so we're okay so then we are down to the um mtss and Dr kasus yeah last uh month there was a board member request um for a presentation on attendance given that our attendance rate has improved inclusive of that our chronic absenteeism rate has decreased if you recall in the elcap metrics presentation and I believe it was board member Mr Vincent uh that requested it so with us today we have our director of assessment accountability Dr Adriana Le ritus and our mtss coordinator Mr Oscar Vera to share what we've been doing
158and an update hi good we apologize that you're have to having to present at nine o'clock at night oh no worries no worries uh we're just happy to be here we always enjoy your presentations they're very educational though thank you thank you this is this is an lcap though this is uh our mtss for attendance good evening president Weller esteemed board members and cabinet thank you for giving us the opportunity to present how we Implement our mtss framework to support students and improve attendance so here is uh a brief overview of tonight's presentation first we'll be providing an overview of our mtss multi-tier systems of support in attendance and disc discuss the various supports available at each there will be a lot of acronyms and I apologize I will do my best to explain them
159as we go next so mtss mtss consists of three tiers of support tier one is our Universal support so these supports are available to all students across all academic settings and they generally meet the needs of of Approximately 80% of our St okay tier two is what we call our supplemental would you mind giving just brief examples of what a tier what like tier three would be tier two like happy to that's kind of the rest of so every other every well we're going to review what we do at each first um this is just an overview of mtss overall okay so tier two is generally supplemental supports so these are designed for students who require additional assistance Beyond tier one so these supports typically serve around 15% of our students and then finally tier
160three is our intervention support these are reviewed for the few students needing highly individualized interventions beyond the supports that are offered in tier two so tier three usually supports approximately 5% of our students what is tier one look like for attendance oh again um these are the interventions or these are supports that are provided to all students and all academics right these supports include classroom expectation presentations and activities that are uh expected to be carried out by every teacher in in every classroom this includes PBIS Champs uh participation uh I'm sorry social contracts and things of that need we also have our first five-day curriculum which includes uh administrative conversations with students that review our student expectations for Behavior academics and attend it includes our restorative practices that are utilized to help students feel welcome
161and creating a sense of ownership and Community within each class we also use our automated phone calls for students uh who've been absent or tardy to class and we have our teacher student check-ins which include a follow-up conversation with the teacher and a student if a student's been absent or they're seeing a pattern of tardiness and we also have our Saturday schools uh which are available to students not only to receive additional academic support but it's for them to recover attendance as well if they missed any next slide so here uh we have our three-year summary of attendance which has broken down into four categories so these data points are all as of January 21st for each consecutive year right so the four categories that we're looking at are are excellent rate so this means
162that the students are missing less than 1% of instructional dates you could see where our students have been over the last three years um the next is our satisfactory rate which is students in this group are missing between 1% and 5% of the instructional days as of 95 instruction that make sense our manageable rate refers to students be uh Missing between five to 10% of instructional days and our chronic rate refers to our students that are missing 10% or more of instructional so again this is based on 95 instructional days so a chronic student would be a student missing 9.5 days or more of instructional day I'm gonna ask a question later when you finished oh yeah yeah of course okay I don't I don't want to ask you now because a roll here well
163can I ask now that you we've already stopped I mean I am on a roll but but I'm happy to I'm happy chronic so what you're saying is 18.2% of the students this year are labeled as chronic as of as of 95 days of as of January 21st 18.2% of our students were identified as chronically that's a than the year before and yeah which is which is great but that feels like a lot to me is that is that is that a lot like across other districts or we and we'll get into that we are comparable to to other districts Nation right really and you'll and you'll see some of that later on I'm going to ask you the root cause oh well and again if I had that answer I'd fix the world's problem
164I'm going to rely on our student uh to address that question because they probably more have somewhat of an Insight oh I just had a c clarifying question is that unexcused and excused absences okay okay so as of January 21st nearly 60 % of our students fall into the excellent and satisfact meaning nearly 60% of our students have missed five or less we're going to look at the positive the majority of our students are missing five or less days as of January right our tier two so again our tier two supports are designed to support students who require additional support uh above and beyond those that are providing Ed in tier one so again this usually applies to about 15% of our students so in tier two now we have our personalized calls from the
165attendance office and we have our short-term independent study contracts that are offered our attendance letters are being sent out via School status attend which is the program that we use to help uh track attendance uh then this is for students that have truancies or for students that have excessive EXC used ABS meaning the parents are calling them out ABS we also offer our s meetings are s uh include our school accountability review teams which are usually made up of an administrator a teacher a tosa and we meet with the parents to try to find the reasons why students aren't coming to school sites can conduct home visits issue lunch detention or place a student in the Reset Program and the Reset program is only offered at Escondido and EHS we'll go into a little detail
166onto what that is in a second um but finally we have our sarb meetings uh which are similar to The sart these are are uh our full accountability review board meetings which are held here at the district uh at the district office and they usually have a larger panel of participants and that helps us really identify the resources that are needed to support the students and families to get them to attend so our two-day Reset program that's offered at Escondido and orange Glenn is an Intervention Program designed to really help students identify the root cause of their attendance uh Behavior or academics and it reinforces our school uh expectations and provides additional resources and supports to students on a more indivual any questions on our tier two right so here uh we have an overview
167of the mailed communication that we provide our families regarding students based on the on the data that we receive from attend 67% of the students who got an initial attendance notice didn't have any additional absences that required followup so again the national average is 53% our district is currently at 67% of students who get that initial letter and then the attendance adjust so aside from the 6,321 Welcome letters that were sent home at the start of the school year our district has currently or as of January 15th sent out 4,745 parents that would be all of these letters that have been sent out to communicate our attendance concerns with our parent I'm sorry so followup question here so you've got so our district the save rate right which is the percentage of students who after
168initial notice avoid you know turnaround right avoid any further yeah so ours is 67% average is 53 and that's California average or it's Nation n National okay we have California I don't I don't but I could research that and get okay which of the um mailed letters or digital communication needs to be like responded to by the parent like does parent have to sign a letter and bring it back what's that or are you going to get into that so by the second Tru Andy letter we require a start meeting require a meeting at the at the school and the parents need to come with student and we'll discuss more in depth what the con that would be uh between second and third any other questions yeah I was just I didn't want to interrupt
169you but I did um so I was just asking to educate myself on excused uh versus excuse um is it um all it and it really it's a little more than that so yes if a parent calls but it does need to be a legal ABS so if a parent calls and says hey we had a birthday party last night and we just got home too late my kid's not going to school that's not a legal absence so it's not really an ex unexcused but when you're looking at excessive excused absences is a parent who's calling to say their child's not coming to school because they have a headache and they do that over a week or over two weeks or again they start falling into a pattern of it becoming excessive so that's what
170these l excuse how do you know it's the parent that's falling we're well true uh generally we take the callers okay they're going to get the letter if it's the student calling on their own behalf their parents going to get the letter letting them know okay gotcha too many calls excusing their okay okay so we talked a little bit about our short-term independent study contracts as part of our tier 2 interventions so as you can see um these are contracts that are generally offered to students who've missed anywhere from 3 to 21 days or they plan on missing anywhere from 3 to 21 days um and this could be due to a planned absence or an extended illness for example a student has covid or a student is leaving the country for the death of
171a family uh so an in a short-term independent study contract conts allow students to make up the class workor and receive attendance credit while they're staying on track academically so last year we targeted a total of 199 days now our recovery rate was 26% so via the contracts we only recovered 52 days this year as of the first semester we've all we've targeted 466 days of absence we've recovered 144 days so we're at a 31% recovery we're really going to continue to push encourage our students to do a short-term Contra that one they they're staying on top of their work and we're able to recover that any questions is it it looks like you did a lot more contract days this school year than you did last school year correct okay yeah it looks like
172um and again a lot of this is the efforts of our attendance office and students being aware of uh it being available and so we are getting a lot more traction and we have an amazing attendance video on our website you'd like to watch it it really gives a lot more detail available in any other questions wait till okay uh this data shows the Outreach and support that's provided by our attendance to um to really improve student attention um so what this uh graph here shows is the engagement and contacts by site so by contacts we're looking at emails phone calls student check-ins home visits and parent meetings so this semester Escondido has reached out or served 60 students of those 60 students contacts at Orange Glenn uh 207 students were served and 1,213 contacts
173and at s Pasqual 106 students were served in a total of 2,66 make sense correct so and it's going to look different for every student you might have a student who needs to be connecting every morning right the plan might be come see me every morning before you come to class so we can get you ready for the day other students it could be once a week some could be at the beginning of the day at the end of the day it really is just tailored to the needs of each student so essentially you could have one student who gets 40 contacts in a month or you know it it really just depends it's tailored by student need seems is there a reason why the number of conts it just seems like San Pasqual seems
174like it's way out of whack with the others so each School utilizes their TOA periods differently to support attendance um I know that two of our schools have three release periods for their attendance toses and I know s Pasqual uses other TOA periods to add additional supports so again every school does have the flexibility to utilize their supports however they they deem necessary okay slide he so um I'd like to welcome Oscar Vera our mtss coordinator to the podium to review our current tier three attempt thank you Dr Le Ramirez our tier three attendance support is reserved for more intensive wraparound Services eest supports help ensure that students with significant attendance challenge receive the necessary interventions to re-engage in their education these supports include possible placements at Valley High School lead program learn explore achieve
175prepared offered at our three comprehensive sites in addition to our Outreach efforts we prioritize students with 504 plants and IEPs by collaborating with special education team we tailor meetings to address attendance concerns and develop targeted supports School placements and rare cases where our district cannot provide these necessary supports for a Student Success Alternative School placements may be consider however this is our last resort explored only after all interventions have been exhausted this data highlights our Data Tracking our previous school year to our current school year year semester one as you can see we have already surpassed or are on track to exceed the number of interventions offered compared to our previous year highlighting our continued efforts to support students attendance slide this data highlights progress we've made with our tier three attendance support compared to
176last year we've seen a significant increase in both students and parent engagement improved communication and stronger connections between families and schools The increased number of parents seeking additional additional support demonstrate the growing need and personalized tailored to assist assistance provided at tier three this wraps up our presentation we hope this overview of mtss attendance supports gave you a better understanding of the service available to help all students improv School attendance I'm happy to answer any questions thank you good presentation I I have a couple questions so have you ever looked at um chronic attendance and what their graduation rates are do they drop out eventually or um do they continue through the school system um or is that too much data that would have we haven't looked specifically at our correlation between students that aren't
177graduating and our chronic ISM but I would be confident okay thank you um does anybody know the root cause like can I ask you maybe some more maybe deeper questions with regards is it based on them missing the entire day or is are they missing specific classes not showing up it varies I mean again we are we are talking about students with some students again the situation varies some students are early all some students um have chronic illnesses so it really just it's gamut of well I'll just I'll just jump in real quick just remind the board that we are 82% unduplicated District and when our team goes and does home visits the report they because I get weekly reports they said we you asked about root causes it could be access to clothing so
178students don't come to school because they don't have access to a washing machine so we with our title funds have actually purchased um gift cards to the local laundry mats I mean this is the level of need that we're addressing um I'm access to transport housing insecurity family trauma mental health um and so our team has done just an unbelievable job to reduce our chronic absenteeism and bottom line increase our Ada but these are very very um unique circumstances and they vary from family and from student to student I'm very moved by that I'm glad you guys are out there doing that to help these kids out that means a lot um well thank you and thank you guys I appreciate that we are seeing the no I I just know a lot about The
179Chronic absentees because a lot of my friends um was transferred to Valley because they didn't have access to Transportation because their parents was either taking care of family members didn't have a car or their house was too far away from bus stops and then the problem was was that they weren't able to get to Valley either because it was just the bus stop problem in general um so it it like for a lot of them it does have to do with basic like burnout stuff like that you'll see a lot of seniors um skipping because of burnout but I do think it has a huge thing to do with what Dr Kasa says with um no access to Transportation no access to really any um to a lot of Basic Essentials that they need to
180feel comfortable going to school so is there anything we can do to help them with the transportation part of it yeah our our team has been uh really collaborative with social services with our social workers transportation department um like I said every situation every kid every family is different so every solution different but yeah that's why we have these SAR beatings at the district as well and home visits offer out of and are students aware of that or the family okay good good thank you I uh not sure if I missed it but there's the Reset program at OG and EHS um did we discuss that or did I miss that I reviewed it it's a it's a program that allows stud students again just to reset reflect on the root cause on why they're
181the the program really is for attendance behavior and academics so there's three different curriculum our attendance curriculum really allows the students to reflect on the impacts of their attendance why they're why they're missing school and really provide those uh more individualized and then so um how effective is that program and should we be putting that into s Pasqual so um sites were given the option of whether they wanted to run it Sis wall opted out um both Orange Glen and samp I mean Orange Glen and EHS we're excited to get it started we just started second semester so I will have more data um as it progresses so far all of our students do take a survey at the end of the two days and the results have been amazing the kids are grateful for
182the program and they feel that it's really gotten them back on track and getting them ready for the rest of the school year so our is looking really positive good glad to hear that thank you thank you yeah thank you for staying late in doing this another phenomenally great presentation thank you guys all right in an effort to continue moving on we've got a first reading for curriculum revisions and this goes to Dr kasus I believe Proclamation oh we have Proclamation first oh sorry my bad so we're going to do a proclamation in observance of adult education week April 6th through April 12th so superintendent I'll turn that over to Dr kasus okay yeah in California April 6 through 12 has been designated adult education week in California uh to recognize the importance of esand
183adult school plays in the community um so it's a recommendation from our ed services department and from the superintendent that the board joins the state of California and recogniz the contributions that adult education has on our community thank you Dr Kus I know going to the adult graduation is always very moving so I'm glad we're able to do that all right can I get a motion to approve this Proclamation please move to approve um second second and from the student board member Cadence how do you vote and the rest of the board members I I all right that passes thank you for that Proclamation it brings good I know that um superintendent Peterson asked me to go to uh one night to view the school and I am totally in favor of doing that so
184we'll set that up yes we're working on uh Wednesday night would be particularly good so we're working on strategically selecting one and invite other board members as well to excent a tour of adult ed that'd be fantastic thank you um so then we move to item H5 first reading of curriculum revisions and so who am I handing that cus okay thank you president Weller uh this is a first read of curricular revisions for guitar class and piano class last time these courses were revised were in 2003 2004 school year um and the changes just reflect the new California Arts standards for music any questions on that just have a question do you know what the new standards new new updates were yes it really puts a higher emphasis on more performances uh students one of
185my favorite things to do is to watch the Rose Parade and to watch the bands that play in that Rose Parade oh my gosh I get teary every time those guys those kids it's such an inspiration so I really you know we hear a lot of uh criticism out in the world about oh we're taking away Arts and Music and stuff well I'm glad to say that here we are not and we even have that elective from Mariachi right which is super fun my uh one of my greatest regrets in life is quitting piano helps with [Laughter] math all right so there's no action needed on that so then we'll go on to the first reading of new courses Dr kasus yes this is the first reading of a new course sort of and I
186say sort of because data science has been piloting in our district for two years now um and we have received good feedback from participating students and from parents that have reviewed the curriculum recently in iprc um so the recommendation now is for full adoption by the board for data science uh this course will also help students Meet The District's new three-year math requirement as an additional option to meet that requirement after they've taken or attempted math 3 Happ you answer any questions you have you might have a student [Music] testimonial um I'm in data science this year I got it recommended by a bunch of my senior friends from last year it is a really fun um course I've loved it um I um it's like really fun to be able I've learned how to
187code I've learned how to analyze data sets I've written articles based off of data sets um and it's just been an overall very interesting class and I think it should continue wonderful feedback thank you glad to hear thank you so much yes anybody else has any other comments look forward to reading this um for the next board meeting so thank you for doing that all right we're going to move to section I District Operations uh item number number one and here adopt recommended revisions in board policy and administrative regulations 7214 business services so Mrs Phillips thank you this is a second reading uh no changes have been made the last very good um so since it is a second reading um make a motion to approve thank you and a second second any discussion all
188right I'll go to the student board member afterwards um board members um how do you vote i i i and board member Cadence I thank you all right we move to item number two uh first reading of recommended revisions in board policy and administrative regulation 3100 business services this is Phillips this is the first reading I'll give you a little more detail this time so for BP 3100 um all they are doing um this time is adding a few words uh to bring it up to speed for the lcff equity multiplier um so that is the only change in that board policy since now we have that uh funding in the budget so that's the only change there and in the administrative regulation for 3100 it's just being updated based on AB 721 which was
189actually passed way back in 2023 um and it actually doesn't even go into effect until 2027 but it actually gives us the option to not advertise in newspaper anymore um and we can just post uh the budget prominently on the district's web page um the homepage actually specifically three days before the availability and it will save us a whopping $850 a year what's a newspaper exactly so someday in 2027 we can do that and we can't start till 2027 right we're waiting patiently I move to approve wait it's the first read this is the first you're very excited though Ryan I appreciate that was so [Laughter] easy all right we come to item number three the renowned governance handbook that I know the superintendent is very excited that we finally approved this thank you yes
190as as you know the board uh gave a lot of input over the course of three different governance workshops this year uh in terms of defining what our Unity of purposes what effective governance is um what are our roles and responsibilities as a governance team as school board members and also uh the board had discussions on our norms and our protocols how we conduct business how we conduct our meetings how we communicate with each other how we get items on the agenda Etc um we've added things to this handbook that we've never had before such as a governance calendar we have linked a lot of definitions uh that we didn't do before um I want to commend the board for its time and its diligence in preparing this governance handbook um based on the discussion
191at the last governance Workshop I believe that what we have here is a draft that that encapsulates every all the input from all of the board members um and so staff is suggesting that the board adopt this handbook at this time um and of course it is something that should be re Revisited on an annual basis ideally um to update our norms and protocols so by approving this tonight it's it doesn't have to be set in stone forever and always read visit our norms and protocols and amend them as needed well good work thank you for putting this together I know that for people uh new trustees coming on it'll be a great help and even for those of us who've been around for a couple years I'll still rely on it so thank you
192uh can I get a motion to approve this please I move to approve the handbook second I'll second this time I will start with the student board member I'll if you can I make a comment please can I get a new picture yes all right we'll we'll make a note of that all right good we're just gonna AI it okay pal my work okay so then student board member how do you vote I and trustees how do you vote I hi hi you have your new handbook Mr superintendent oh it's your new handbook yes there we go okay so then we come to the creation of a board subcommittee on mathematics um and so we're going to discuss uh and consider whether a board subcommittee on Mathematics Curriculum and instruction would serve the board in
193an oversight function let me read what public uh um you wrote here for public content and I blew it up into a Word document so I can actually read it a board member myself has requested a discussion on the merits of forming a board subcommittee on Mathematics Curriculum and instruction as a means to better inform the board about the torical and current status of mathematics achievement among District students and whether the district's current curriculum and instructional practices are helping to achieve the district's academic achievement goals the discussion may result in the board taking action to form a subcommittee and to appoint two board members to the subcommittee the board may also decide not to form a subcommittee at this time but rather look at other means to carry out the csba the California Schoolboard Association
194professional governance standard to maintain accountability for student learning by adopting the uh District curriculum and monitoring student progress so um thank you for putting this on the agenda uh superintendent it's interesting talking to other um board members and other districts sometimes getting things on agendas is extremely hard and doesn't happen at all and you've always been extremely uh receptive to doing that so thank you so much for doing that you know um we heard a lot from teachers and students alike that um were really struggling in math and you know you cannot just fall on Dr casas's Shoulders by a long shot you know the state has implemented a ton of new math things over the last 20 years and um it's interesting that we're going to discuss it tonight I'm gonna hand it off
195to um Dr Vincent it's interesting um he's a very good uh Ai and U project or uh paper um what do I want to say a development person for special assignments and he data science data science thank you he's so good with AI that I was just thinking about a new math subcommittee and the entire uh proposal was written for me in my inbox and I don't have it to hand out tonight but David if you could um kind of go over a little bit about what you found found in a summary maybe keep it to three or four minutes uh about the um California um math curriculum and what we've seen over the last 40 50 years well um say it actually look at the statistics on math and that um we've seen from
1961997 till 2010 um that we were the Golden Child California in 1960s and 1970s we were the Envy of the world for uh education and um we had a good math system and standards in place where we've shown uh very high academic um scoring in that um between 81% um this was a 71 7% increase over seven years we looked at uh just to clarify so what year were we at 81% whatever the test was 200 uh 200 just before 2010 um when we started switching over to the uh under Common Core so 81% were at grade math level that's based on grade 10 Cas yeah Statewide yeah um I think you're talking about the California high school exit exam yeah which uh is a a very different assessment that we no longer give that
197that that that grade level was based on eighth grade level math yeah that assessment context actually grade 10 no they take it in grade 10 but it was based on eighth grade level Mastery very minimal level of proficiency before we would award a diploma so doing a prediction of the PO like I wrote a it was actually 11 pages um but to summarize it from a prediction and that um instead of uh where we're at we're at a 35.5 prolif uh you know showing that under core uh under the Common Core um that we could have if we stayed with traditional math we would have be at 40 to 50% if traditional math that continued okay and I what I did was I put an analysis between what change between the um doing a sidebyside
198comparison what the changes were based on the results of the core competence um Common Core as well as traditional math side by side just take a look at the testing's done and that and what I came up with is that uh if we look at the metrics for math um in reality uh 20 2024 we're at 35.5% traditional math was 45 to 50% that would that's a predictive model okay uh grade eight uh n math score was uh in 2024 was 269 whereas traditional math was 2 275 to 278 achievement gap between black and Latino versus white um was in in in common core was um less than 25 to 30% Gap uh traditional math if we had gone down the same rout would have been 15 to 20% different um stem lower fewer students
199take algebra in grade eight um projective traditional math higher more students reach calculus in high school so conclusion uh California adopted in CCs in 201 10 uh implements significant curriculum changes to emphasize concept understanding problem solving Texas Virginia and Massachusetts stuck with traditional um as a as the the score the average score for California is two and this is the NA national assessment of Education progress was 269 slightly below the national average which is 272 Texas average was 276 uh above both the national average in California Virginia average was 280 significantly higher uh both a national average while Texas and Virginia which did not adapt the ccs of higher Nae math scores compared to California is essential to understand the the the approach that there are a lot of variables that can impact that result
200but on the average um you know there must have been a the conclusion was that uh States like Texas and Virginia demonstrate strong strong performance in their math program well as Massachusetts so um you guys want the report I can send it to you but it does give you some high opening value valuations where we went I think we have to do something because it's not work I think a lot of students are struggling spoking to students even some teachers are having so we have to do something don't know what um because that's not my area of expertise and I'm not going to profess all I do is look at data objective data run the numbers I'm not a I taught in University degree SSU set up my own curricul but I'm not a high
201school teacher I don't have the credentials that I am but I do understand data how to look at data analytics and able to analyze you like I like or I'm not going to more meat and potatoes that needs to be evaluated order to make where we are at now and I think that's the reason why Bob wants to look at that um I would like however to consider that we get a presentation right math program and make the presentation you going to make the presentation no I'm leaving that up to you engineer Ryan but you you know you know our sorry I know go ahead I think you're talking about a presentation I believe we have we can respond to some of the data you shared and your idea for presentation yeah I first I'd
202love to see what data you use and what metrics um some of those assessments were based off 8th grade achievement level but they took it in 10th Grade I actually used to teach KC math which was the California EX exam so it was based on eighth grade level of understanding of mathematics to graduate high school so the standard was relatively low back then um but anyway the request for a presentation I think it's a great idea I would probably suggest maybe even a board workshop on mathematics because there are a lot of nuances um in the math curriculum in the way the state of California assesses our students and I also just want to uh relay to the board that the cast scores are one way of measuring math uh performance and math assessments there's
203also performance on AP statistics Exam AP Calculus exam AP Calculus AB exam there's Renaissance testing that we just implemented two years ago so we can monitor the progress of our students to recall that they take those three times a year starting the freshman year and then there's also the practical application of mathematics that don't show up on an assessment but you just heard our super nerds they're ranked fifth in California ninth in United States four in the world and that is heavily mathematics based does not ref refute the fact that we need to perform better on this exam that's a point that I think we all accept um but I think a board workshop with our math specialist who's here and our um our science folks and our stem team I think would be a
204wonderful idea so a the board can look at what our current Improvement plan is which includes the third year of math recall that that's they only take this assessment their junior year and previous to the board adopting a third year of math only 68% of our students were actually in a math class the year they tested in math that itself is going to show huge gains um also the implementation of three practice exams every year starting their freshman year we expect that to also translate into Improvement and I also printed this out you've seen this before this is our 2-year performance in mathematics um you've seen our districtwide performance over the past two years since the pandemic you've also seen the performance of our school sites given the presentations by principles but I don't think
205we've ever shared this with you together and so I just want to give some context because this is data publicly available okay so at the top you'll see the ma the percent of students that met or exceeded um the standards in mathematics so at the bottom there at the top table you'll see our performance 18.73% of our students met or exceeded standards when you compare that to all students in the state of California it's 35.4 so we are below the average for the State of California but look at also the average for unduplicated students in the state of California it's 18.1 and I'll and I'll and I'll just remind the board that we are 82% unduplicated so when you compare the performance of our students to the rest of the unduplicated students in the state
206of California we are right about of average and right below the San Diego unduplicated percentage okay so and and let me just go through this data real quick and then you guys can ask questions okay I'll also look point out at escano high school escano high school went from 2223 11.9 to 2324 21% it's almost a 10% increase right below that you'll see s Pasqual High School comparing it from 2122 to 2324 had 99.3% increase almost double digits as well we'll take a look at Del Lago Academy who historically has been our highest performance math School in our district has relatively maintained the same they've basically stayed at zero growth but they remain our highest performance okay now take a look at Orange Glenn from 2223 they went from 13 to 9.6 that's a 3.4%
207drop it is our only school that went down okay so when we say we have a math problem in the district I agree but we have a bigger problem at one of our sites because all of our sites last year either increased or remained the same and then you look at the bottom there okay I put an asterisk on escano high school esano high school's pre-pandemic math met or exceeded standards was 19.9% they currently sit at 21% okay so escano already performing better than they were pre pandemic s Pasqual High School compare their uh standards of met their score from 1819 was 21.3 they are not at 28.5 higher than pre-pandemic levels recently last month voice of San Diego published that only 133% of San Diego County high schools are performing better than they were
208pre- pandemic levels and they mentioned three of our school sites Valley Escondido and San Pasqual only 133% so I just want to give the board context when you're comparing and thinking about increase of achievement and the ones denying the fact that we need to perform better but we are making progress with the exception of really one site I agree with you um we've had 15 years to get where we're at and um you know that's a very low standard and I don't I'm not going to say it's districtwide I think it's the Statewide yeah and and nobody's I mean you've done a great job phenomenal job nobody's questioning that my biggest issue is Statewide why are we allowed this to happen and there's a despair between our minority groups learning math and there's a gap
209there and we need to make sure that they get the the uh appropriate educational support now I'm just going to share a story with you that I I just want to say one of our young uh board members shared with me um she actually said a lot of times that the parents Latino kids learn traditional math and they can't help their kids anymore so they're very frustrated but my question is how are we going to help them to achieve these goals and I don't know if you do statistics and analyze a despair between you know the various uh population demographics but we kind of have to look at that yeah we that was part of our elcat midar report last month we have to divide it by demographic groups and that was reported to the
210board but I I think I still recommend a workshop because we could go really in depth uh and we can have the specialist and we can share everything that we are currently doing to improve and also in the future what we can do better all for that I'm all for that sub committee or anything let's get more yeah well I think our the workshop should start with the math test yeah for all of us task aen has a question can I bring my calculator I had a quick question um would you guys get student input with this subcommittee um just asking students like what they feel they need support on with math or what they feel that they're struggling with on math I think that's an important part because um you know even getting the
211parents input in because we all want to make a difference um in order for us to be competitive in the job market communication is very important as well as math stem is very important so that being said well I'd like to say this okay looking at waiting for another presentation when basically everybody is under 30% you know as a you know districtwide you said we're at 18.73% [Music] we because we're never getting to 80% this is It's Never Getting what we're doing now is never going to get us to 80% and I think we deserve it the students deserve it rather that we get them there as soon as possible I want to set up a subcommittee we can have a presentation um you know on what's going on but nothing significant is going to
212be able to be changed if we just continue on with the same thing here and we're it's just it's terrible the fact that the state of California is 35% at math yeah people are not going to be getting jobs so I'm thinking that we need to view this is that the house is on fire burning down we put a little water on it but I would like to start a subcommittee immediately and then we can use the um board Workshop to help write more details of what we're looking for because I want to go to other high schools around the state you know I'll pay for out of my own dime I want to go to other districts in San Diego other schools that they top performing schools and say what are you guys doing
213what is it that's working for you because I just don't think we have it right now and you know sad yeah I'll leave it at that President I want to say this yes the house is on fire but we ran out of water we have to live by the rules and curriculum put together by the state and um you know I don't think we're going to have too much leave way that we can do um I I'm I I do think there needs to be a change but I don't know at what level we can make those change and Dr Cass you can share um yeah I mean first I want to address something about achievement um you will I would I would implore the board to seek a district that is performing better than
214us with our demographics uh you won't find it you won't find it what you will find is you will find high performing math districts that have a very different unduplicated rate and it's all about access access to basic needs impacts learning just like it impacts attendance that doesn't mean our kids can't improve and when you say we can't get to 80% and it's not adequate growth we have two schools that are almost at Double Digit increases I don't know what in other professions that a 10% increase or nearly that wouldn't be adequate um so I just want to give the board that context uh if you can find a district with our demographics that's doing better than us in mathematics let me know we we go visit them by all means but what you will
215find is districts that are performing better than us have probably lower than 40% unduplicated rate I'm I I'm here's the deal I heard what you said Dr cus I will not accept the fact that these kids cannot be brought along and I'm going to push and so it sounds like you know I'm even willing to take this to where we do change the curriculum and let the state sue us because this is terrible th you guys we are all look at these scores the fact that we're going to say oh we're going to be handcuffed because the state does it that is ridiculous I'm I want to make a big deal about this so it's you know does anybody want you know and I'm happy to get voted down tonight does can I you know
216I'll call a motion can we get a motion to set up a a subcommittee tonight can I H just one couple comments here number one I think um I I love the workshop idea and I think um that'll be a great start in a sense for all of us to understand what the current status is jump into being a part of a committee without having the the background in terms basic Workshop could be give us I think uh would be jumping putting the C before the and and uh and so I would also suggest too that I'm going to I'm going to quote bill here what Bill's this is probably what Bill's gonna say we have one employee right we have one employee right and um and from my perspective you know as a as
217a board our goal is to set Direction and uh tell John go and fix math right and and from my perspective it's growing it's getting better and um you know none of us are Math teachers we might have a math professor here in a sense right but um the rest of us are not right and so putting us as the experts to push a push a committee doesn't feel like it's putting the expert on the on the on the committee so I think while uh as long as we're seeing active growth which I think we I can see that we are I don't see the need for us to kind of jump in get meddling in my my opinion is that I agree with you on this one um and the thing that I I
218I always say is it's really difficult uh even though we all want to make a change there's a change occurring but we still have to deal with the state and if we're going to do anything we maybe have to lobby at that level that's what we got to focus on so if we're going to make a change then we need to come up with an alternative that change there are other school districts and schools charter schools that use math that is approved by the state and they're at 50 60% in San Diego County so I'll go do my own research and I'll bring it to the the um the board meeting I'll give it to Dr Kus and I'll give it to Dr Peterson or John Peterson superintendent but guys 18% is pathetic and I've
219made my point I'll make uh just some final comments here that if we do this presentation I think it'd be really important or not if I would like to see the presentation as well because I think the historical context is critical um so I joined the board when all of the new math was already in motion so there wasn't there wasn't a lot of time for me at that time to get up to speed as to what we were being faced with as a board and making a decision in which direction we went we went with it integrated math I don't know honestly what's happening at at the Elementary District level I've heard bir things out there that they're not doing the same thing with math and so that we're getting kids that aren't necessarily
220aligned with the way they're going to be learning math when they arrive in the ninth grade that's concerning so I just I would love to understand what happened in 2010 to 2014 when that change was occurring and every was getting ready and you're getting rid of that other test and you're bringing in Casp and all of that stuff like what what were our Mass scores maybe before that what did math scores look like as we're doing this whole new thing and then like this has been 10 years now it's been 10 years since we implemented integrated math let's look at it as a parent that's and I'm sorry I'm just really tired but as a parent that's enrolling a freshman right now and I'm trying to figure out where my freshman fits in with the
221math it was confusing I didn't understand I'm like he's in algebra so shouldn't he be going into geometry as a freshman and so that was a little confusing as a parent um so I just want to understand a little bit better and I think that presentation will be good for all of us I am very supportive of the idea of a subcommittee that can work more in depth that has maybe some background other background I'll make it clear I'm not interested in being in that on that subcommittee um but I would be supportive of just like e efforts like that where the board can be a little more involved in that process because we are um we have to make those decisions and sometimes we don't have all the the information to make those decisions
222that the steering committee has or other group so um yeah that's I think that's if we could go so the next time we have when this is agendized for a presentation perhaps a follow-up item as part of the present would be form a followup committee so what I've heard is that uh presentation would possibly be in the context of a board Workshop which I would suggest because I don't think a 12 or 15 minute presentation at a regular board meeting would suffice we're going to have a presentation on the current status of math in the district I would suggest that it be done in a separate board Workshop agree I agree with that too and I'd also like to know is there a way we can and I know it's unusual but to solicit input
223uh student and parent input uh as was suggested is there some way we can do that during a workshop which I know is unusual you might at a workshop determine what types of questions or data you would request from parents and students I want to know how many how many parents get that like math is a struggle in our home like math trauma is a thing and kids experience like frustration with parents especially moms apparently when they're trying to teach it I read this whole article about how moms and kids have this math TR aama that goes on so because if you don't know how to teach it and you're really it's very frustrating so I think from a parent perspective I think what Cadence had to say was really important that or maybe somebody
224else said it but that there's a certain point at which parents are no longer able to help their kids with math and that is hard because they didn't learn math this so um hey that there is a lot of Tears yeah so I think that I am an at the workshop that that would be my suggestion as well uh because a board sub subcommittee typically exists for the purpose of carrying out some task oh if you haven't really identified what task it is you want for subcommittee to carry out it would be better to have the workshop first I have a lot of respect and I have a lot of respect for Bob so I'm very much interested in hearing uh what other schools are doing too to increase that so if he can come
225with that information that would help us well thank you guys for that input I appreciate that much Dr kasus I this is a hard one I appreciate your input on all that I promise we're going to work closely to really I like I have this vision for our district that we're going to be like a top 50 High School District in the state I mean not even the top 50 District I mean like people are like I want to go to Escondido high schools because they are top high schools in the district it's going to take us a decade but guess what you know we have capacity for another two or three th000 students if I heard it correctly time we have the teachers we have the will I'm like let's just turn this whole
226thing around to the point where we're like holy smokes can you believe what we did and what the kids are achieving in a decade like we have or robotics robotics yeah that's what I see you know I it's it's all good so with that said I appreciate um these statistics as well Dr kasus everybody thank you for your input and um I guess that's the final comment on that but then we go to board member uh real quick sir uh that was an action item do we need to do anything do we just let it drop it could was a potential action item potential action no motion was taken so we died and we'll just follow through with the workshop yes perfect thank you and let me add this is that well I want to
227get the Elementary District involved in that workshop and then I'll make a comment in my board reports as well but let's start down with chrisy for board report um I think tonight really I just want to say that I heard this evening I was told that I don't care and the S as a board member I don't care but um I just want to make it clear I care I care and that's why I'm here so thank you thank you trustee Knight you do care yeah so I just want to say tonight was very emotional night um there was a lot of passionate people that believe in um making a difference and trying to understand where we stand um with regards to the situation with the teachers and I I regretted um and know that
228it was a very tough decision and you know I don't think there's some information that wasn't available uh to the community and that but will be um but our decisions were made based on looking at all the factors and I think and the and I have to say I know that our president Bob welder tried to make a solution of the problem and it's unfortunate that the behavior was not very respectful in that so Bob we do appreciate you and um we understand we were trying to make amends in that and understandably because it is a very emotional situation but I do appreciate everybody sharing their thoughts with respect and honor and that's all I have to say that uh thank you so much for sharing that with us thank you Dr Vincent Mr um
229JY uh yeah I'll Echo with especially with what chrisy said especially you know we are up here we do care otherwise we wouldn't be here so uh that doesn't sit both me otherwise uh yeah this good meeting it's long um my my actually my previous uh report expired at 10 p.m so I'm done you know um it's uh from my side of things it's I think it's important to note that you know yes yes we care but it's not necessarily about us right it's you know there's uh there are people who are affected by some of the decisions that were made today and that's and that's not easy for anybody whether we're making the decisions or your decision is being made to you so um I think the uh the important part is is as
230a as a board we've decided that we prioritize making sure that we are fiscally conservative planning for the future um not only from the building standpoint but the the bank account to the to um math program to kind of everything else I think that's uh that's while you know we get blamed for some things which is totally fine we get paid the big bucks to do that right um but but in reality it's it's it's not about us it's about about the students it's about the teachers it's about the staff it's about everybody else in the community leave it with that I didn't get into this for the money I did it for the get paid more than I do but I don't I mean something that have a passion for I will keep this
231super short um one of the things I do want to do though Dr our um superintendent Peterson is to um suggest an invitation to the Elementary District I was thinking potentially a joint board meeting but honestly really a joint math Workshop I I went I actually went to their um uh board meeting about uh last month and they used use you remind me what's I ready I ready and they had a binder they had every classroom and they had every like they had the development for an entire two or three years in that binder showing the Improvement and they were showing where things needed Improvement and that was super helpful for them so maybe they can bring some of what they're putting together and we can use it with our Renaissance but I want to
232bring the Elementary District together with us especially in math if not all you know everything so that's my one thing do you need somebody else to um like second that or be willing to have you it's not agendized as an action item but the board can have a discussion or respond to your comments right now okay about whether they agree that they would like to see a joint school board meeting with the Elementary District um anybody else interested in that especially as it relates to math I mean I don't have any issues with the idea I think we it would be helpful to have a game plan before we apprach them for one and number two is around math I do agree I do think that we should figure out the board workshop on math
233first and of get things figured out or we I agree with you Ryan I'd like to have our Workshop first then maybe invite them in for a specific one where we can address issues there but I think we've got enough that we need to cover for ourselves as far as a workshop goes that does not involve maybe have just something two thank you everyone you look tired there so it's been a long day all right superintendent Peterson your final comments yes uh before I dive into my prepared comments um I wanted to clarify one thing from earlier this evening um president Weller you had mentioned that you want to see a presentation on class sizes um at the April meeting um and I also heard maybe it's just a report about class sizes um with
234our new governance handbook that we adopted this evening you did reinforce a um protocol amongst yourselves that if a board member wants something on the agenda um another board member would second that idea before we placed it so I'm wondering was there another board me am I placing something on April or not no I'm gonna go with no because I really want this math to be brought to the top like whatever we need to do to get this Workshop set up I was trying to follow what the teachers were saying about class size and keeping teachers but I think for the time being that's just going to have to stay the way it is and that I would really like to see our efforts to get a workshop hopefully by May okay very good and
235then let me jump in with my superintendent's report uh last week we con we concluded the lcap survey I want to express my appreciation to all the staff members who played a vital role role in this process we've gathered valuable feedback from students fames staff and community members to help the upcoming school year special thank you to the student board members if they had the stamina to stay till 1010 uh for their meaningful contributions during the student forums especially while balancing all their busy senior years this week I encourage everyone to take a moment to thank and celebrate our school social workers as we celebrate National School social work week through this Saturday like to wish everyone a wonderful week ahead and a friendly reminder that Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday March 9th so
236remember to set your clocks forward and then I'd like to end by thanking all of our amazing staff and congratulating our employees of the year last week president Weller joined us in announcing the site and District staff of the year so this evening I'd like to congratulate our teachers of the year and classified employees of the Year our teachers of the year are Jennifer perz from delago Academy Susan Clark from Escondido Adult School Brittany wac from Escondido High School Brian Gallow from Orange Glenn High School Keith Leighton from sasqua high school and Monica Lee from Valley High School our classified employee of the year are Jose Gonzalez from delago Academy Mario Chavez from the district service center Lorenzo Valdez from Escondido Adult School Larry Gordon from Escondido High School Sarita Valdez from Orange Glenn High
237School Don Crawford from Orange Glenn High School and Ricardo quas from Valley High School we also announced that Jose Gonzalez from delago Academy is our districtwide classified employee of the year and Monica Lee from Valley High School as our district-wide Teacher of the Year look forward to honoring both of them at our May Schoolboard meeting and that's my report thank you oh e e e