001The time is 6:33 p.m. Today is December 15, 2025, 6:30 for the regularly uh posted agenda for the regular school board meeting. I'd like to welcome everybody to tonight's meeting, those here in person, and those watching. And this is a regular meeting held by the Alice Board of Trustees to be held in the Alice administration IST boardroom number two cloud trial Alice Texas 78332 and this meeting is called to order. At this time I'd like to do a roll call. We've had Dr. Vino's present myself Jennifer Bara Mr. Herman Aiano is present not in attendance is Mr. Ceda Mr. Adrian Ben is present Miss Zeba is present Mr. Reeds is present and Mr. Leader one is present. So we now have a quorum in accordance with the Texas Act section 551.043 of the Texas government
002code. On to item number three, the place to United States flag. Dr. >> Yes. Today we're very happy to have Oz Charles, the son of Jaden Charles that will be helping us with the pledge of allegiance. He's a second grade student at Dubos Elementary and with him also is Kasumi Martinez, third grade student from Dubos Elementary, the daughter of Salamon Martinez and Blanca Or. So, thank you for meeting us to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to the Texas. One state and indivisible. Thank you and y'all did fabulous. On to item number four. recommend approving the board meeting minutes for the regular school board meeting on November
00317th of 2025 and a special call meeting for November 28th of 2025. We have a motion at this time. There's a motion by Mr. Is there a second and a second by Mrs. Get >> Mr. Hi >> Mrs. I >> Mr. Reese, >> Mr. >> Hi, Fel I. Motion passes. On to item number five, the public comment. At this time, has anybody signed up for public comment? >> On to item number six, superintendent, Dr. >> Thank you. Good evening, members of the board, members of the audience. Super excited tonight to be recognizing some of our students. So, I do invite Mr. and many to recognize two of our fine arts students that continue to excel. >> This is the president school board of trustees distinguished guest. Good evening. Uh we're here to speak on behalf
004of two of our fine arts students. Mr. Santiano Sanchez who was 11th grade saxophone player in our high school band and Mich was a percussion player, a senior in our high school band as well as one of our drum majors. Uh first Cassiano Sanchez. Uh back in September he competed at the TBA region Jazz auditions held here in Alice which invited schools from Laredo, Corpus Christi, Victoria. And at that contest uh he he earned second chair out of all the saxophones and he will be in the first team region jazz band which will be held in late January. Now after that he was also vying for a spot in the team region jazz ai uh area jazz auditions which is not like band um they they ask you to record the music and that recording
005sent around the state and it's judged and there were 61 alto saxophones throughout the state of Texas and it's a great honor for Mr. Sanchez. He earned 29th chair out of 61 alto safes. And for Mr. Garcia, Mr. Garcia, I I received an email about three weeks ago from a gentleman, his name was Mr. Chad Schubert from San Antonio. Uh back when our our high school band was at the area marching contest at JSON High School, uh there was a picture on Instagram that was shared with me and it was a picture of of Mr. Garcia conducting and Mr. Schubert in the email said that they were he's a CEO for an online magazine in San Antonio entitled Move Movement 35 and uh that that magazine selected six students in the state of Texas that
006they were going to feature and they selected Mr. Garcia to be one of those students from Alice ISD and um it's a great honor. I just sent all the information. These are some of the pictures that that we shared, the show of Mr. Garcia. Uh they also I just found out today that yesterday he sent he sent uh Mr. Garcia a little survey of questions that I didn't know about that. He just asked questions about how you know what Ricky does. So I'm I'm curious to read those those questions tomorrow. But we're very proud that he's going to be he's going to be featured in the January 26 edition of Movement 35 in state of Texas, one of six students. So Mr. Garcia, congratulations for being >> so congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you very
007much. >> Thank you so much. over here. >> One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Thank you. if we can have their family members stand up and be recognized. I know there's grandma there, >> but I know that Miss Sanchez, this is your son, so come on. >> All right, >> come on up. Take a picture with your mom, sir. One, two, three. >> You can come on. Sorry. >> Thank you. If I could just mention really quick, uh it is it is an online magazine which will be in the January 26th edition. I will share it with everybody so you can see it. And I also wanted to quickly mention that was also involved in that team region Jazz and he is the first chair drummer for that for that group. So
008very happy holidays. Thank you. And thank you uh again, Ricky. And I don't want to mispronounce your name because you have a very uh unique name, Mr. Sanchez. >> Great job. And parents, thank you for your support. You're going to continue to excel. Next, we do have campus accountability rating and distinction designation. So I invite Miss Gracie Garcia, Miss Lori, Delena up to cover this particular item. >> Good evening, members of the board, board president, Dr. Trebinho, members of the audience. Uh back in September, we shared the 2025 accountability ratings from TEA for the district and for each of the campuses. We were very excited about the growth that was shown in the B- rating received by the district, but also very eager to continue the work toward the next level of achievement. So, in
009the months since then, all of our campuses have been very hard at work. leaders, staff, and students are focused in on reaching campus and district goals for the school year and driving toward that A rating. However, on any journey, it is important to focus on the goal, but also to stop and acknowledge and celebrate the milestones that are reached along the way. So this evening we will be presenting principles of Alice ISD's B-rated campuses with commemorative plaques for display on campus in order to share the recognition of achievement with students, staff, and families who all work together as a team to reach those milestones. So for our first campus, I would like to call out Miss Jasmine Dominguez, principal of Dubose Elementary. Dubose Elementary earned a B rating in the 2025 accountability ratings. >> Congratulations.
010>> Good job. >> I would also like to recognize Yep. Yeah. more. More. I would also like to recognize Dubose Elementary for distinction designations earned. Each distinction designation requires campuses to rank in the top 25% of certain indicators when compared to 40 campuses of similar size and demographics as assigned by TEA. So, Dubose earned the following distinction designations. Academic achievement in mathematics postsecary readiness and top 25% comparative closing the gaps. >> Thank you, Jasmine. >> That's okay. The academy draws too. >> I know. >> Next we have Mrs. Katherine Lorie Trafton, principal of Science Elementary. >> Yes. Elementary also earned a B-rated campus for 2025 accountability. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> And science has earned the following distinction designations. Academic achievement in reading language arts. Academic
011achievement in mathematics. Top 25% comparative academic growth postsecary readiness and top 25% comparative closing the gaps. >> They can help you most. Spread them out. >> This way. Next we have Dr. Kimberly Galvan, principal of Sherard Elementary rating in 2025 accountability. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Thank you. I hope you watched the strategy for holding. Uh, Shaller earned the following distant designations. Academic achievement in reading language arts, academic achievement in mathematics, top 25% comparative academic growth, postsecary readiness, and top 25% comparative closing the gaps. All the things about Next representing Alice High School, we have principal Dr. Maris Kubala and Early College High School. Atlas High School also earned a B rating in 2025 accountability. >> Congratulations. >> Good job. >> Alice High School earned the following academic distinction designations. Academic achievement in reading language
012arts and academic achievement in science. Five principles of the four campuses to come up. I mean a picture together. We're very proud of the work being done at ISD and we are super excited for the future. Uh we do know this is a team effort so we do also want to thank all of you for your support as well. um in everything that we do and we look forward to presenting even more of these next year. So, merry Christmas to everybody. Thank you. >> I'd like to say something. I just want to commend you all on such a great job. Um I specifically know how hard all the blood, sweat, and tears that go into making that happen. And so I'm just wanting to say how on behalf of the board how very proud we
013are of not only the campuses but the district for doing such a good job good job. Thank you. >> Work doesn't end right. The team is fabulous and they're hardworking and we remind them all the time that good is the enemy of great. So we're going to continue to strive for that a and we're all driving in that direction. So, thank you all and thank you like Miss Fucha said, it takes an entire team to make that happen. And before uh the holiday wishes uh are announced, I'd like to just publicly uh share and I know it's been in our Facebook, but Alice D as a district and Alice D board of trustees have made the finals for the HV excellence award. And again, it's wonderful when people from the outside are looking in and
014saying something magical is happening in Alice D. So for us to be made or to make finals in both categories is very rare. So again, commendations to the entire community because it is a team effort and I'm just so proud to be working alongside amazing individuals that always put students first. Now we have a special video to share with everyone on the wishes that we have for our community. Merry Christmas from Alice. May your season be filled with joy and peace and lots of Christmas cheer. Please enjoy this special gift of holiday greetings from our amazing students and staff. >> Merry Christmas. >> We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year from the elementary school. >> Merry Christmas and happy new year from elementary. >> Merry Christmas. >> We wish you a
015merry Christmas from the best mountains middle school. Merry Christmas. >> Merry Christmas. >> We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy year. >> Merry Christmas basketball. Merry Christmas. >> Season's greetings from Dubose Elementary, Sher Elementary, Science Elementary, and Newton Elementary. >> See you in 2026. >> Happy holidays >> from William Adams Middle School and Alice High School. >> Go Cy. Merry Christmas from Alice. On behalf of the Alice D school board, we'd like to wish our students, our staff, our community a very merry Christmas. >> On behalf of Alice ISD, we want to wish our students, staff, families, and community a very merry Christmas. This season reminds us of the importance of gratitude, kindness, and coming together. Thank you for your continued support and partnership throughout the year. We wish you a safe, joyful
016holiday season and a happy new year. We look forward to 2026. I can make sure that works. Well, I would just like to wish everybody again a merry Christmas and really we were talking about it earlier who believes in Santa and you know it's season of believing in yourself, wishes, miracles and really thank I really want to thank all of y'all for working and believing in yourselves, your students, our community and just enjoy the season. Just peace, relax, joy, and we'll see you at the end what New Year's. Yes, hopefully. >> And then we're going to work towards the A, right? >> Yes. Every day. >> Thank you. And I'd like to continue with the academic update, staying focused. And I invite Dr. Kubala and Dr. Sandu to give us an update on Alice High
017School. Good evening on behalf of Dr. Gangu um board president. Good evening uh board members, audience members. Thank you all for being here this evening as we present our academic update. So we'll begin. Uh again, we are staffed with uh our administration team, myself and Dr. Gthu. We have our dean of instruction, Maria Gonzalez, as well as our assistant principal, Dr. Delar Rosa, Mr. Everett, Dr. Gonzalez, and Leslie Starts, our campus testing coordinator. something that we hold true to our u to our daily values and our mission and also our vision to prepare, empower and produce lifelong learners and also to cultivate an academically and career-driven self-sufficient student body yielding successful members of society. And interesting note um I had to go to the doctor today and one of the the people attending me was
018a former student. So I was explaining to the admin team and to Dr. as well that we are literally preparing the future in our classrooms and in our hallways. They are going to be taking care of us in just a few couple of years and they're going to be also governing and running um our society. So, it's important, it's imperative that we do our best to make sure that the education that they receive through Alice is the best, which we are capable of of doing as well. So our agenda covering the academic update is going to include the focus which is star advance advanced placement classes dual credit as well as the ECS program our senior class at 2026. We'll also cover attendance discipline and what our commitment is moving forward. So just a brief
019little history of our star assessment. We have all of our scores dating back from 2223 by our five EOCC's English one, English 2, algebra, biology, and US history. and we've made gains as we go through. We have our 2025 outcome which is right in the middle of that. This is where we ended up last school year. And then we have our goals going into this school year. Something to note is that in October we assessed our students with the first district benchmark and that was in um it was in October. And if you notice comparing those last two columns in 2024, you see the results you have two different numbers. For instance, I'm going to highlight English one. So last year the first time uh testers which are all students new to English one when
020they tested in uh November of that year they uh ended up at a 69% with passing when we included the retesters later on that school year then we ended up with 58%. So just to take note of the work that we have to do because this time in October when we district benchmarked our students we ended with 43%. So, we're looking at data. We're looking at students individually to see what moves we need to make and what interventions we need to provide for our students. We are making some moves in um English 2. We're just right below where we were last year, algebra 1. Again, we have a new curriculum this year, Blue Bonnet. And our teachers when they um have taught those first three months of August, September, October, had only covered certain units
021that had not uh what I was told was that only 18 questions out of the 50 questions were um had been uh had been delivered in or yeah, taught in the curriculum. So, that's just something to note. with our biology. We are making strides um and the US history is working well above where we were last year. However, we're never going to be satisfied with that. There's still a lot of moves to make. Moving on, uh we are seeing gains with our retesters. Uh last year we had 103 English one, this year 93. And if you look across each subject area, we do see decreases from the year before. We have a slight increase in US history. Also, something to note, US history is tested during the junior year. Um, and this year we had
022nine students that were dual credit students. So, they ended up finishing their US history 1301 and 1302. So, therefore, they tested in December, uh, making it the first time that they could take their US history test. So, just to make a note of that. >> And in this one, smaller numbers is better. >> Yes, smaller numbers is better. It's decreasing the number of times or students that have to take the test again. And just a reminder that for graduation requirements, our students need to pass five of the star. And there also is the IGC, which is that individual graduation committee. And that allows students if they pass three out of the five, if they complete some projects, they can graduate. But our focus is to have all of our coyotes pass all five of the
023STAR. Um, our academic focus also includes monitoring, lesson planning, and lesson delivery. We are committed to facilitated planning. Every Monday, our teachers uh go into our dean's office and it's a, you know, set up to for our students, for our teachers, excuse me, to meet with one another to look at their lesson plans and plan within their grade levels. We also track their lesson plans and we provide feedback and we also monitor across all of our administrators. We're assigned our teachers that we appraise. So far to date, from August to now, we've conducted 707 documented walkthroughs. So we monitor what we value. We monitor our teachers because we value their instruction. We value the instruction that's being given to our students because our students receive that instruction, turn it around and then produce. We also
024have PLC meetings which are bimonthly and they will be on there. They are on Tuesdays. We have targeted teeth based tutoring data disagregation. We have teacher and student goal setting conferences. We have intervention and tutoring that occurs through either small group or through pullouts and of course our Saturday schoolmies and also we have built-in instructional co-eing. This is some examples of what happens. So there you see our core areas English, math, science and social studies. Those are the periods that our teachers are off. They all collectively go on Mondays like I said to room 234 and there's uh we have the agenda and they have their their u objectives for the day for that period. Again it's protected planning so we do not um schedule any Rs or any other other type of meetings and
025this is strictly for teachers to plan. Moving forward we also have some examples of the data disagregation that our teachers go through. Once they have a checkpoint, teachers evaluate their data. They look for the weakest teach. They identify those seats and determine what caused the students not to perform well in those areas. And so that's also especially important with moving forward and also with providing support to our students. So we're now going to visit our Alice High School classrooms and I'm very proud to announce that we've increased our advanced placement AP course offerings. So back in 23 24 we only offered three. Last year we offered nine. Now we're offering 12. So we're climbing. We're providing more for our students. And the feedback that we're getting is tremendous. We have former students that are sitting
026at Baylor University and another student that is attending A&M Corpus, they came back and they told their AP Calculus teacher that because of the instruction they received in their AP Calculus classroom, they were able to help their peers in college because they learned so well at Alice High School. So, I thought that was tremendous from getting that feedback from those students that they were prepared when they got to college and uh and they were able to to offer support to others. So, that's great. Moving forward, these are the teachers that are teaching those classes. We have AP art, biology, calculus, AB, computer science, English language, English literature. And on the last column, you notice the number of students enrolled. We are building our programs. We are adding new AP classes. So, our students need to
027make those tough decisions with whether they take that or whether they take a dual credit class. Some students do do both, but it's very rare that you'll find that. But the majority of our students are going toward the AP direction. It does provide a solid foundation and prepares them for college. Rounding off the AP classes, we have government, human geography, we have macroeconomics, AP physics, AP US history, and then world history. And again, the numbers of the students enrolled. Our more popular classes are the language, the literature, and the social studies classes. Any questions so far about AP classes. We also have dual credit classes that we offer in a partnerships with Coastal Bent College, Delmar College, and&m Corpus, and I'm sorry,&m Kingsville. And these are the courses that our current students are enrolled in.
028If you notice, Coastal Ben College has a slate of classes more so than Delmare and&m Kingsville. We've been in the partnership with Coastal Bin College since 2015. So, we've gotten to know their professors and our students are u more comfortable in that respect taking the myriad of classes. We just partnered with Delmare College last year. So, our students are now taking classes through Delmare and of course we have our new partnership with Aiden and Kingsville where we have professors coming over to the high school to teach English 1301. As far as the number of students enrolled for this fall semester, we have 115 in Coastal Bin College, 26 enrolled at Delmare, and 25 enrolled at&m Kingsville. So in May 2026, we hope that we have the number of students listed there graduate with either their
029associate of arts, their associate of science. Then we have seven of our students that are going to receive their level one certification in well-being. So again, these are students that are crossing the college stage, getting an associates degree before they graduate from high school. So we're tremendously proud of these students and their accomplishments. And then Dr. Bundu is going to discuss um CNA, the course that is being offered on our campus and being taught by Laurian Bosus. So just to mention that we do have one graduate um from CDC that's graduating on Friday. So, I'm very proud of her and uh she uh she was excited today and we do have two students that are graduating in May with a double major in or or a double associates. So, we are partnering with the Coastal
030Ben uh in two areas. One is CNA and the other one is the EMT program. Very crucial programs for us. Um and so because our community is in need of CNAs and in need of EMTs. So, uh, it's important to note that by contract, we can only allow 10 students at a time for our CNA. So, we can have a teacher teaching two courses, two, uh, two separate courses of 10 students. Right now, we do have one. And um, and the course actually meets the needs of our community. We do have ad an advisory committee that lets us know what our community uh, needs are. And that that's one and it's growing fast. Uh it also enables uh seniors uh that have graduated to uh take part-time jobs while they're actually uh uh going to
031college and also uh it um the CNA program requires uh the nursing programs require CNA background or certification for stu from students. So we do have a uh certified registered nurse instructor. Her name is Lauren Vasquez and she teaches it at the high school but through CBC and um so it's important this program is very important to support students not only in the nursing pathways but also to meet the local uh staffing needs. The EMT is also a program that is um needed locally like for example we don't have EMT um companies here in Alice. we do have to reach out into different communities so that they can start working here. So, it's important that we have 11 students that we're working with and that is James Winterbottom is a certified experienced EMT instructor um
032from Alice High School and he teaches through the course at CDC. The uh training is important because especially for those students that want to pursue a career in medical specialists or doctors, they need to have that background. So uh that's a very important course in order to satisfy not only the capacity of Alice but al uh but also the career pathways for students. >> And moving on from our dual credit and uh early college high school programs, let's talk about our seniors now. So our class of 2026 is comprised of 283 seniors. At present we have 81 seniors that are at risk for graduation. So the number of those seniors uh they can be broken down among star EOC. Some of them owe one some of them owe two and or three. Uh we have
033a number of students 81 actually that owe credits either they owe one credit and which I'll break down in the next slide or more. And then we have nine seniors that are on attendance contracts. So the only positive that I see on this slide is that the attendance is being increased. We do have less seniors that are in attendance trouble than we have in the years past. So attendance is making a huge difference on our campus. But now we need to work on the classroom instruction and getting those credits the first time. So we do have a program on our campus called Ingenuity and our students take those credit recovery classes with three of our teachers and they work through all the courses that they have. They uh watch videos, they take notes, and then
034they're uh going to take a quiz or an assessment to move forward with getting credit back that they um should have originally received. As far as our seniors, the 81, we have 14 that owe just one to two credits. We have 31 that are behind by 3 to five, and then we have 36 with five or more. Again, Dr. Um and I work um together with the rest of our admin team with our ingenuity with our um credit recovery teachers to ensure that these students are recovering their credit and they're staying on task. We also need to focus on college career and military readiness. So just so everybody knows, there are eight ways that a student can earn a CCMR point and the list is there for y'all. They either pass all three of their
035TSI exams which comprise of reading, writing, and math. They earn either nine hours in any dual credit course or they just take English 13 to1 or math 1332 and they earn an hour or they earn the CCMR point there. They can also earn an industrybased certification by taking CTE classes. They can enlist in the military. They can pass an approved college bridge course or they can earn a cumulative score of 40 on the ACT or a 480 in reading and writing and 530 on the math uh for SAT and they can also earn an employability skill. So, we have a number of students who've earned their CCMR. Some have earned it in more than just one of those areas. However, the point discounts once for our students with monitoring our students. Presently in December, we
036have 165 seniors. Um, we're waiting on the results of one. He took his FA test today. And so, hopefully tonight it'll be 166 out of 283. So, we're at 58% with um our CCMR seniors. Our goal is to be at 270 or higher at the end of the school year and to be at that 95% or higher. How we track our students is so important because again we monitor what we value. We monitor by cohort. So we're monitoring our freshman, sophomores, juniors, and our seniors. Of course, we share monthly gains percentages. We have a group chat that we are constantly communicating with one another. We have our fine arts director, Mr. Bennett. We have our athletic director, Coach Gastiano. We have our admin team. We have a number of teachers on our campus that equally
037share along with our counselors and our social workers the the the huge I guess promise that lays there for our students to get those CCMR CCMR points. So part of that includes this tracker and this is just a snippet of it. We have 283 uh students listed on our senior cohort 2026 tracker. And that's just a small representation of what we track. If you notice at the top, you have the different categories where we track whether they've gotten their dual credit, whether they've earned it through military, whether they've earned it through TSI or through an IVC. And if you notice, the TSI is going to be uh the bulk of it. We're helping students. So our goal is by the time they graduate Alice High School, they step onto the college campus, our goal is
038for them to be TSI complete. That way when their adviser asks them to take the TSI before they register for classes, all they have to do is show their scores and say, "I am TSI complete. I am ready to take those courses I need for my degree plan." So it's essential that we prepare our students. How do we do that? Through tutoring, through boot camps, through indiv individualized tutoring. We have our coach Graciano who tutors our students. We have our band director who's talking to his band students. It's a whole team effort. Also, I'm not going to leave y'all out, but our central office executive directors and directors also help out too. We're monitoring CCAR constantly because there's so much to gain from our uh by our students from from doing this just to make
039sure that they're ready for college, military, or the workforce. Uh we also are recognizing seniors. We've ordered uh 280 t-shirts cuz our goal is to get those 280 seniors CCRM already. We have uh in the works a yard sign that we're going to be passing out to our students. And that's a little mockup of the sign that will be placed in their yards. And our goal is for all of Alice neighborhoods to have at least one or two or more signs in the neighborhood showing that a CCMR complete student lives there. And that'll be from freshmen all the way to seniors. Moving on to attendance initiatives, we have attendance contracts in place. A total of 127 attendance contracts have been successfully completed since August. So students have redeemed their credit lost by lack of attendance
040in years prior. We also have parent student meetings. We have our parent liaison counselors and doctors working with admin to conduct either home visits which we've conducted 47. We've had 241 student meetings and 46 parent conferences. So again, it takes a team to make sure that our students are being successful and the way they can be successful is by showing up to school and being ready to learn. We also have attendance check-ins and we do this at the third week and the end of the six weeks and we pull our students out. We talk to them uh everything from grades, attendance, um next steps and so forth. So we care about the child as a whole. So, it's not just the CCMR, it's not just the STAR, but it's attendance as well. Furthermore, we have
041our free dress Fridays, which have been very popular this year. If students are in attendance Monday through Thursday, no tardies and no early checkouts, then they receive a wristband on Friday, and I'm sorry, on Thursday, and then they can have a free dress on Friday. So, they're taking advantage of that. We also have attendance treats such as popcorn and pickle, pizza and soda days, and concession stands during lunches. Our juniors have won the cohort challenge for this semester. They reported a number of 20 days where they're at 95% or above. For high school, that's an amazing feat. Again, we're not satisfied with that. We're going to move um and increase our numbers just by advertising to our parents through social media, by talking to our students and helping them realize that coming to school is
042going to be their gain. At the end, we do have a field day tomorrow at the multi-purpose uh complex where our students, our juniors are going to be participating in that. And talking about attendance, so we have the actions now. We have the numbers. We have the data to back it up. So if you look at the 2425 column and compare it to the 2526 column, you'll see the gains in green. So we've increased every single month. But more importantly, I need to draw your attention to the 23 24 column because back three years ago, we were in the 80s and that is not acceptable. Now we're climbing to the 90s and Dr. Boot can agree with me that getting them to 93, 94, 95 is a huge accomplishment, but we're we're moving in that
043direction. So, our goal is to keep on their attendance. And then now to round everything off is our discipline data. So if you notice our discipline data as far as violation of student codehood of conduct has dropped dramatically. We have a decrease of 282 violations. Uh and then if you notice we have also terroristic threat listed assault against a person not a school employee fighting or regional comat combat marijuana THC ecigarettes and fighting. There's been decreases in almost every category except a couple. Um but we are seeing some movement toward um a more disciplined campus but again our work is not done so we still need to monitor and uh make sure our students are behaving in the classroom and in the hallways. And then as far as our discipline placements for fall semester again
044compared to last year to this year we have huge decreases in the number of ISS placements OSF and DAP. Our administrators talk to our students, try to work out issues so that we avoid keeping them in ISS because they need an even classroom learning. And again, our commitment at Alice High School and with Alice ISD is to provide a safe and supportive classroom. Students learn best when they feel safe and when they feel supported. We also want to graduate every coyote and have them be college, career, and military ready. And again, all of this includes achieving for that A. years ago, we were at a 67 uh campus rating. Now, we're at an 80. We're at that B. But again, we're not satisfied because we know that our students deserve better. Our community deserves better
045and we know that we have intelligent students at LSISD and we know that we all make a difference in their lives and hopefully we prepare them for the future. Um, it's been uh it's been a it's been a hard road. I'm not going to lie. But with the support of the team, uh, we're making great strides and board, I thank you for your support. And I thank you for just listening to us and providing us what we need to make sure that our classrooms and our students are successful. And also on behalf of Dr. Ben and myself and the administration and staff, I would like to wish you a merry Christmas. And I'm running out of breath. Sorry. But uh merry Christmas and a happy new year and we would uh just hope that everybody
046enjoys the season and the the reason for celebrating Christmas. Thank you very much. >> Thank you Dr. and Dr. >> Do you all have any questions for us before >> How did you do it? >> D W. I do want to say one thing before uh I go back to Sid um the AP initiative first started because of Dr. And so when she brought that in, you know, it made a big difference for us. So as we're adding more courses, uh, she's the the reason why. >> Thank you, sir. But it is a team effort. And so next we have Lyanna Vasquez with our monthly update. >> Good evening, board president, members of the board, Dr. members of the audience. Today I bring to you the student services update for December. Going to start off
047with my favorite, the campus attendance. Uh if you look at our numbers compared to last year and this year, you're going to see at Alice High School is 90.35% and this year 91.33% giving them that 0.98% increase. For the middle school was 93.36%. This year 93.21% 21% although it was at that negative0.15% the campus does continue to maintain that strong attendance above that 93%. For Newton Elementary last year 93.78% this year 94.46% giving them the 0.68% increase for Science Elementary 94.2% this year 94.67% giving them the 0.65% increase for Charlotte Elementary 94.81% 81% this year 95.36% giving them the 0.55% increase and then we do have a big change for DOS Elementary last year 92.76% this year 95.96% giving them the 3.20% increase so this demonstrates their measurable improvement in student engagement and school success
048as a district we had 92.68% 68% last year. This year 93.64% which gave us a 0.96% increase. Nearly that onepoint growth in attendance still shows the district strategies and initiatives are producing positive results. Monthly attendance revenue loss analysis in November of last year was $161,5289. this year at $132,765.11, giving us a revenue savings of $28,763.78. This savings does speak volumes about our students commitment to being in school and engaged in learning. This one is a much bigger comparison. So this is your 24, 25, and 25 26 school years from August to November. Everything that is highlighted shows where the increase happened. So if you look at everything on the 2025, you're going to see all the increases compared to last school year. Now, we do have a couple like probably in August to last year,
049we had, you know, Shallard that had one, you know, very little, but they're still above that 95%. Um, in September, same thing. The numbers have increased, but they still managed to be above that 94%, which is our predicted for this school year. Um, last year we did end at 92.91%. But that is going to be a huge increase for us this year. I'm confident we're going to get at that 94. I'll give you a few minutes if you want to look at it. Um, the last two columns, I do want to say that um that is from the first day of school until the first two weeks of December. So right now the district is sitting at 94.22%. Last year we were at 93.70%. So we do have a lot of gains and positive results
050from this attendance. Moving on, uh the DIP placement comparison, uh this is from August to November. This is our secondary campuses in and I took you back to 2324 because I wanted to see the decrease on these. So in 2324 they were at 102. These are DAP placements. 2425 we were at 78. This year right now up into November we're at 43. So that does show that in 2324 to 2425 we did have 24 fewer students which gave us a 23.5% decrease. In 2425 to 2526 we had 35 fewer students giving us that 44.87% decrease. And then overall from 2324 to 2526 school years you're going to see we had 59 fewer students giving us this 57.84% decrease. So, uh, this does reflect, like I said, the positive behaviors that is happening at the campuses.
051We got less kids, um, in trouble as used to in the past. And now I would say that a part of this does have to do with that no cell phone call policy. We do have a lot less kids fighting. Um, I know high school just shared their numbers from 20 to 8. They uh, had a 60% reduction and at Wednesday they went from 9 to 4 having that 56% decrease. And then just an update on the personal device pickups. At the secondary campuses for the month of November, we had at the high school 52 devices that were picked up. We had 40 cell phones, 11 earbuds, one smartwatch. And at uh WHAMS, we had 11 cell phones and one game system, giving them the 12. Okay. Any questions on the student services update before
052I go over the nursing? Last thing I just want to bring up, this is more like an informational. So, our Alice High School has a continued partnership with Coastal Bank College and what they do is they have they take the nursing students that are currently enrolled over there and once they pass their exams and they go on to doing their practicum, they're able to go to our any of the Alice campuses. uh one student will go to um u any of the campuses and they go about two to four days a week and they're able to get hands-on. So what that is um the agreement has been in effect since November 13, 2023 and it still remains active unless either party terminates. Um CBC students are able to gain that hands-on experience in school nursing
053and pediatric care with also giving them that exposure to health services in an educational setting. So, they want to be a school nurse. This is good hands-on opportunities. In 2425 last year, we did have 18 nursing students who met the criteria and did participate in the program. Now, this school year, um they are currently taking their exams to see who is going to be able to participate. They won't have a number until February of 2026, but do know that this program is active from February to April, so they're able to get a lot of that hands-on. And this is our third year of partnership with CBC. Just wanted to highlight that that we do give those nursing students an opportunity. Okay. And that's all I have for tonight. Any questions? Well, I want to wish
054you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I don't see you all again. >> And here we are. And yes, that was the next item on just the whole idea of us partnering with the coastal bank college. So, these individuals are going into our clinics and helping our nurses and getting that experience. The next item that we have is the business update. Any questions for Melissa? I know she did share that she is putting every month the budget update update regarding the bond and any uh of interest that we're accumulating from the bond. with student safety. Any questions for Kim Kala? If not, then I invite Tim up to the podium with Weaver and Jacobs to give us an update on our stadium. Good evening people of the audience, board members, Dr. Jvinho.
055Uh I'm Tim Gler. I'm project manager for Weaver and Jacobs. We are the general contractor building the stadium here to give a monthly update of what's going on out on the job site. So I always just kind of start off with just an overview of the project. Obviously this is a plan sheet kind of start you know homeside is off to the left. The fieldhouse is north and then you have the visitors concession stand down there on the bottom. So, this is just kind of an overview of everything. As you can see, the left side is the home side. Fieldhouse is over there north of that. And then the uh visitors concession stand. There's another view of that. Same thing. And then we're going to building A, which uh plumbing rough has been complete over
056there. Nothing uh has really changed much on the building A. Here's another view of it from the press box. Kind of looking down. Kind of see what's going on there. Go on to building B, which is the press box. Uh structural steel is about 95% done on that. They're down to detail work, braces, welding out, uh miscellaneous work there. Uh exterior metal studs is ongoing right now. I don't know if you can tell. There's some uh studs getting put up where the parap pits are. Uh and then the slab on the metal deck is ongoing. As you can tell, they have the uh rebar going in. I don't know if you can see that, but rebar is going down. They they have that plan to be poured either end of this week or early next
057week. So, the second floor for the press box will be poured. Uh the exterior concrete columns are also getting framed. Uh there's a few out in the on the back side of the press box that just gets a nice concrete column on it. U here's another overview of the the press box. You can see all the metal studs up on the parapit up at the high roof. Uh they started framing on the storefront windows that go on the front of the press box. Uh they started I think two weeks ago on that. Uh you can see our access ladders on the left. Uh we should have masons on site beginning of the year to start the elevator shaft and go up with that CMU. Uh again ongoing is just structural steel. You'll probably be or
058structural metal studs will be going on for quite some time. Uh but that's what's going on with the press box. And then this is building C which plowing rough is complete on that. It's kind of the same thing as building A. Uh just currently waiting on block with that to continue over there. Uh we're doing as much as we can while we wait on masonry to show up. But that's uh where we're at on building C. Here's another overview of it. That's from the press box looking down. And then we'll go on to building D, which is the fieldhouse. The structural steel is about 85% done. Uh the bar joists are erected. They're up. Uh they're currently working on rooftop unit supports. Uh metal decking is also ongoing right now. They got the edge angle
059that's going up. They got to put that on first before they do the metal decking which should go fairly quick. Uh and then obviously you can tell uh the plumbing rough is going in as well. And then the exterior CMU walls are also to start at the beginning of the year over there at the fieldhouse. Here's another o overview of that. I believe they started erecting that last Monday. So, they did quite a bit of work in a week. Uh structural steel contractor we have out there. They they move pretty quick. You kind of just got to get out of their way and they they can make some stuff happen. Uh this is building E. Last we had gave you all update. They were working on the electrical underground, the plumbing underground, and then also
060doing the structural footings. along with the structural grade beams. That's all been complete. Foundation's been poured and then the plumbing rough in is ongoing. They're about 95% done with that. And then we'll move on to the site which nothing. We've been moving a lot of dirt, doing a lot of line stabilization. Uh dirt guys been kind of in and out or not in and out but you know doing a lot of work. Uh we have field turf which is the turf contractor. They're scheduled to mobilize this week to check grades, make sure everything's all good to go, and then they're going to start on their underground system for the turf system uh the beginning of the year. So, that's exciting. Uh earthwork kind of the same thing. Lime stabilization's complete with the football field, the
061track, the home and visitor side bleachers. Uh they've uh completed rough grading on the southeast parking lot. Uh and then they're have released field turf to get on the football field to start their work. And then that's kind of an overview of the football field all rough graded ready for turf contractor to get in there and get started. And then this is update on the site utilities. Uh the fire lines 100% in. water lines are 100% in. Uh the dry fire line is also 100% in. The storm system is about 97%. You see on that photo right there, that is our last connection for the storm system right there from that manhole to the actual city system. And then uh sanitary sewer should start before the end of the year. They're waiting on some manholes
062and that's it. And then this is just kind of an update on the CPR1 that was approved uh last board meeting. Uh asphalt demolition for that old asphalt is complete. The fence demo is complete and then the building demo is ongoing. You can see the canopies are gone. Uh and they're working pretty good on the metal building there. And then that's just kind of overview of the over there where the old maintenance building used to be. >> Transportation. >> Yes. Transportation maintenance. Any questions, concerns, comments? >> On the fieldhouse, is there showers and restrooms? >> Yes, sir. >> No, I know a ref asked me that, but I was going to ask Coach, but >> yeah. So, there's on the left side you got uh I believe that is the visitor side or it's vice
063versa. >> Vice versa. vice versa. But yeah, there's I mean showers, you know, kind of a it's a game day locker room, so you know, some some cubby holes for equipment and stuff like that. And there's a training room in there. Uh it's uh pretty fancy if I say so myself. So, but any other questions, concerns? Sorry, >> I was looking for May. So, we're currently, so I don't know if you can tell, but the concession stands right now are kind of they really haven't had much movement lately. And and that's all due to block supply chain issues. We we're waiting on block. I don't want to give you a date, you know, say we can or can't do it without actually having a confirmed shipment date on the block, which we're trying weekly daily
064to improve, you know, uh the the delivery on the exterior block for for those buildings and stuff. So, that that's kind of I wouldn't say setting us back, but it's it it's been a challenge with that. So, uh I can't confirm or deny that. So >> once I actually get the the block on site, then we can re-evaluate and then then I'll let you know tell you a date and then you know >> so but for graduation right >> trying so any other questions >> and do we have any questions for Mr. or coach for the fine arts or athletics. >> The realignment, when does that take place, coach? February. >> It'll be the first Monday in February. I believe it's the second at the region center. >> Are you ready? >> That concludes our
065super topic. >> Thank you, Dr. On to item number six, the recess. We'll take a short recess 5 to seven minutes. The time's now 6:37. Thank you. On the agenda, the consent agenda. All items under the consent agenda are acted upon one motion. Upon a board member's request, any item on the consent agenda shall be moved to the act of the regular agenda. >> Miss, I'd like to request that we move item 7D out of consent and into action. >> 7. >> Yes, ma'am. There's >> 70. >> No, there's no 70. >> I print it. >> This is the one I printed. >> Oh, the one I printed. Yes. But the one like district 71. >> Do they want this? Okay, that's 7B1 wanting to recommend move 7B1 to action non-conent. >> Thank you. At
066this time, we would just like to acknowledge and thank the local committee sponsors for supporting our students in our district. And we have made the following donations to Alice. Thank you to Ken Erland Real Estate LLC for making a donation of $250 to the Alice principles meeting for November of 2025. Thank you to Silver Creek Construction for making a donation of $500 to the Alice State principal meeting in October 2025. Thank you to Alice Heating Rescue and Air LLC for making a $500 donation to the Alice principal meeting in November of 2025. Thank you to VA for making $150 donation to the Alice High School principal. Thank you to operations services for making $150 donation to the Alice High School CTE uh health and wellbeing department. And also thank you to a local South Texas
067Oracle company who donated and made an anonymous donation valued at 7 $7,500 to the Alys transportation facility for relocation of equipment. So thank you again to all of those sponsors. Other than the moving the item 7 B1 from the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted on the agenda? >> I'll make the motion. >> We have a motion by Mr. Adio. Is there a second? >> A second. >> And a second by Mr. Reeves. Any discussion? >> Mr. Adio. >> I. >> Mr. Pña. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Ger. I >> Mr. Lee. >> Hi, >> Mr. I. >> I on to item number eight, the action items. 8A, consider and approve the budget amendment for the 2601 regarding increase or decrease functional expenditure category for the 2025 2026
068general fund budget. >> Yes, this particular item, we just want to be consistent with how we need to spend our money. So we are just moving across functions money in order to meet the needs of the district. So the budget uh remains the same as far as the revenues. Nonetheless, we're just moving them to different places. For example, buying the shields that we're going to need now for security. We didn't have money there in August. So we need to place money. So we're just taking it from another function. But the total is still remaining the same. Thank you, Dr. Is there a motion at this time? We have a motion by Mr. Damon. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> A second by Mr. Ben. Is there any discussion? >> Mr. Arianiano. >> Hi,
069>> Mr. Pña. >> Hi, >> Mrs. G. >> Hi, >> Mr. Reed. >> Hi, >> Mr. I. Motion passes. On to item 8B. consideration of possible action to elect and discontinue the district participation and the health insurance and other benefits offered by the teacher retirement team of Texas, the TRS to notify TRS no later than December 31st, 2025 and to be effective no later than September 1st of 2026. Dr. Yes, health care seems to be on the rise and every year our insurance is becoming more and more expensive for our employees. So, back on November the 20th, we brought to you a workshop that specifically discussed health care and going in a different direction to see what other options we could offer our employees. Even though the board was very generous last year in increasing
070our contributions to each employee to 375 as opposed to 300, the prices continue to rise. So, we just want to be able to provide our employees with other options. And if at the end it's still not, you know, what we would like, eventually we could always go back to TRS. So, we recommend that we opt out of TRS, giving them sufficient notice. So then we can move uh into looking at other avenues to provide savings and quality uh insurance for our staff. >> Thank you Dr. Is there a motion at this time? >> So move. >> We have a motion by Mr. Dwan. Is there a second? >> Second. >> A second by Mr. Muse. Any discussion? >> We haven't gone out yet though. Right. Just you're just >> right. And the next item we
071do have something. >> Is there any other questions? >> Mr. Aiano >> I >> Mr. Pña >> I >> Mrs. G >> I >> Mr. Reed >> I >> and Mr. I >> and myself I motion passes on to item 8 C consideration the possible action to award the contract for insurance to Robertson brokerage firm and health insurance represent broker firm they are vetted through region 19 they are part of the by boards And so, uh, we will be looking at hiring her as either a consultant or with her law firm, the Robinson brokerage firm. She's the lady that presented at the last workshop. So, we're hiring them for the insurance or just as a broker? >> Well, she will be the one going out there and seeking, >> right? >> More of a consultant
072>> than a broker. >> This for a one-year term. >> This is for a one-year term. >> And if we're happy with it, then we could continue. >> All right. I have a question. So when when the consultant finds the insurance package that's going to be presented to us and approved or does that >> That's a very good question. So we would form a committee an insurance committee so then they can evaluate. she will vet it as far as the top three and then the committee will come look at the top three uh companies whether it's Blue Cross or United or whatever and based on what they offer she's going to vet it for us okay >> so then that committee will come in and then it'll be the committee will ultimately make the decision
073or the recommendation to bring to the board >> so so that workshop that uh we did back in November that was just showing all the different I guess things that she has to offer or they have to >> they will only do the medical part not the dental >> okay so that's what they're going to go >> just the medical okay >> correct >> so then she's going to come with us present several options A B and C and then our own committee with our own employees is going to vet this ask questions and pick what's best for our staff >> that is correct like that idea. I like that idea because we actually are involved in making the selection. >> Is there any other questions at this time or comments? >> If there's additional
074questions, I believe someone is here from the firm to answer those questions. Well, at this time we have a motion by Mr. Dam to consider awarding the contract for insurance brokerage of record to the Robinson brokerage firm and health insurance. Is that correct, Mr.? >> Yes. Okay, I'll second it. >> And we have a second by Mrs. Ga. Is there any other discussion? >> Mr. Aiano, >> I. >> Mr. Pña, >> I. >> Mrs. Gha. >> I. >> Mr. Reed. >> I. >> Mr. Rawan. >> Hi. >> And myself. I. Motion passes. On to item 8, consideration of possible actions of the administrative incentive structure for A-rated campuses and B-rated campuses beginning with the data collection from the 2025 2026 school year. Dr. >> Yes. I'm really excited to bring before you a recommendation. So
075we have incentives for teachers, right? TIA which is the teacher department and teachers receive additional you know um I guess funds and you know they get paid for doing excellent work. So we'd like to propose to provide an incentive structure s uh singling out the district's value in measuring student growth and countless effectiveness by rewarding administrators for improving student outcomes. We strengthen a culture where leadership decisions are intentionally aligned with academic excellence, datadriven interventions, and continuous improvement. So I propose that Alice ISD provide a little incentive for our administrators because of their overall academic performance. So, at the end of this year, if we have any A-rated campuses, which we anticipate we will, we'd like to give principles $10,000 for those schools that are rated an A. Deans of instruction for those schools, $5,000, assistant
076principles, $3,500. If we have B-rated campuses that we give give principles a $6,000 incentive, deans of instruction $3,000 and assistant principles 1,750. Where would these funds come from? So the state gives us TIA money. The district is able to keep 10% of it for administrative costs. So we believe that with those administrative costs we will be able to cover uh these incentives. Uh it's important that we recognize the principles too for their efforts. So this is a way that we feel that we can recognize them for the work so they feel valued and important. So and of course the bar is high. We want an A. And so that'll be an additional uh $10,000 uh for them. But we do feel that one they deserve it and two uh I think Miss Getta said she
077understands the sweat and the tears behind all that accountability. Uh the district could use TIA and the state could fund it at 100% if the entire district was TIA which every teacher would qualify. Right now Alice ISISD is not under that umbrella. We only have the core teachers and we're adding special ed. reading specialist. Uh but we're not in 100%. Maybe in a couple of years we would be and that's why we want to use that 10% of the administrative cost to cover the these incentives. So we're recommending that you all approve that. I'd like to make a motion that we approve um the administrative incentive structure for A-rated campuses and B-rated campuses beginning with the data collected in the 2526 school year. >> And I'll second. >> Thank you. I have a sec a
078motion by Mrs. G and a second by Mr. Bea. Is there any question or discussion at this time? Mr. Adiano. >> Hi. >> Mr. Pña. >> Hi. >> Ma. >> Hi. >> Mr. >> Hi, >> Mr. I >> and myself I motion passes. Thank you. On to item number 8E. Consideration of possible action on the Alice High School target improvement plan. >> I invite Miss Lorie Odman to the podium to discuss how Alice High School is preparing to meet their their goals. >> Good evening, Dr. Cavinho, board members and audience. It is a requirement of the Texas Education Agency that any campus receiving learning acceleration support which are lasso funds complete and submit a targeted improvement plan. Alice High School is currently a recipient of the learning acceleration support opportunities grant and it is therefore
079required to develop and submit a tip. A targeted improvement plan is a strategic tool designed to address specific areas of need in order to strengthen student achievement and overall campus performance. TIPS are required when schools demonstrate underperformance and identify areas and need a focused data-driven approach to improve educational outcomes. Through the TIP process, campuses identify areas of weakness, establish clear and measurable goals, and implement targeted strategies aimed at increasing performance levels. I want to emphasize that Ellis High School would not have had to submit a tip had we not um received lasso funding. A lot of the work that we submit addressing the strengths and weaknesses uh were presented by Dr. Cabala today in the Alice High School uh update along with uh our campus improvement plan that we implement at the high school. So
080uh Dr. Kabala and I are asking for board approval of the tech plan. Any questions? Thank you. this time. Do we have a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Reeves to approve the action on the Alat High School target improvement plan. Is there a second? >> I'll second >> and a second by Mrs. G. Is there any discussion? >> Mr. Aiano. >> Hi. >> Mr. Ben. >> Hi. >> Mrs. G. I >> Mr. Reed. Hi. >> Mr. Dan. Hi. >> And myself. I motion passes. On to item 8F, recommending approval of the academic calendar for the 2026 2027 school year. Dr. >> Yes. Um, this past month, we had employees select a calendar for the 2526 school year. This was led by Miss Gracie. She met
081with the committee multiple times. The committee narrowed down their recommendations for two. It was sent out for vote. uh she's sharing with me earlier today that this is one of the highest in participation by the employees. We have close to 74% of the employees vote on the calendar. They did vote for calendar B overwhelmingly. 79.48% of our staff voted for calendar B. I do want to highlight that the committee was very strategic in placing three additional days for teachers to plan and prep for which would be like September the 4th, February the 5th, and October the 19th as dates for teachers to have an opportunity to prepare for the upcoming six weeks. So, we're excited uh for that and we just asked for approval because that's the one that overwhelmingly the staff voted on. And
082we want to uh vote on it early enough so people can make summer plans and be able to make decisions for their families. Thank you, Dr. Deino. At this time, do we have a motion to approve the academic calendar for the 2026 2027 school year? >> Okay. >> I'll make a motion to approve the academic calendar for 2627 school year as noted by draft B. Is that correct, Dr.? >> Yes, sir. >> Draft B. We have a second by Mrs. Sket. Is there any discussion? No. Mr. Mr. Arianiano. >> Hi, >> Mr. Pñena. >> Hi, >> Mrs. G. >> Hi, >> Mr. Reed. >> Hi, >> and Mr. Dan. >> Hi. >> Motion passes. Thank you. Now on to item >> 71. >> 7B1, which was pulled from the consent agenda and is now part
083of an action item. 7B1, Alice Dre improvement plan. >> And I invite Mr. Side up to the podium. This is important that we understand what the plan for the district is as far as goals, expectations, and how we're going to execute. So, I'll hand it over to >> Thank you, Dr. Trevinho, uh, distinguished board members, support president, and audience, uh, for allowing me to do this. And first of all, I'd like to just be even before I start the the district improvement plan. You've already heard the the high school give uh their their pitch and you've heard uh well I was going to say last um in reference to uh what they're doing and basically that's what the district improvement plan is is coming up with a great plan and making sure you execute it
084and it's not done just by one individual or a few individuals it's by the entire district community uh parents and so forth. And that's what you're going to see in in this uh plan. The first thing you're going to be seeing is going to be the vision, how it's led, and many of the campuses as well have their own vision, but this is a district improvement plan vision. All students will have the opportunity to become responsible citizens, develop create uh creative and independent thinking uh and acquire 21st century skills and be future ready to enter post-secary careers and or graduation. Before you get started with the um the district improvement plan, just like Dr. Kabalo was mentioning, you have to make sure that you have a specific uh needs assessment. In this case, it's a
085comprehensive needs assessment. So, what does it take? You have to have accountability, student demographic, review, student demographics, uh student programs, uh evaluation of those, uh the execution of those staff experience, improvement of planning data. Uh once you go through those, you're going to address different uh groups and you're going to have strength and you're going to have weaknesses. the strengths uh I can tell you are um a strong core of veteran educators uh is reflected by 25% of our teachers having at least 11 to 20 years of experience. 14 of those 14 14% of those teachers have at least 21 to uh 30 years of experience. That's a little over 40% of our teachers have 10 or 11 or more years of experience. And that goes a long way. And you're going to see more
086things that add to to why we have that experience that the teacher turnover. Uh I can tell you the teacher turnover has decreased by 20% demonstrating progress in staff retention. All of those over the last couple of years have been happening. Administrative teams are stable with principles averaging 6.2 years of experience in the district and improving year overyear. In other words, there's consistency uh in all of those. Other strengths, there has been an attendance increase and you heard about that also uh tonight and in months uh past as far as what has been happening. All right. Uh we used the 2021 2022 school year. It was at the attendance for the district ended up at 86.9 back then and the end of May of 2025 the district was at 92.91% an increase of 6% for
087the for those uh from 2022 to 2026 2025 excuse me. So again that's a large number and you saw some of the savings from just last year. So imagine the savings that you would see from 86% jumping all the way to 92.9%. So that's a tremendous jump. Identification of rates of uh special education, dyslexia, homeless uh students uh show effective student identification and processes and compliance with the state expectations. Why is that important that we're identifying? Why is that a strength? It's not that it's the number. is the idea of being specific and identifying the students and make sure you're meeting the needs of those students. Is focusing on individuals. Again, moving toward an A doesn't mean just that you're passing academics. It's that all students are passing. And when you get to that A,
088it has to be about specifics, individual students. And that's what everybody's doing uh in the district. A man manageable district enrollment of 4,200 students. Um a little over 4,200 students. What does that mean? moving the individualization attention um more excuse me individualized attention uh it's a still we may think that we're a large school district and we are the largest school district in in uh in this area in Jim Walls County but it's still small enough that the school culture and cultural relationship is happening through all the different campuses uh faster identification of student needs like I said you're looking at individual students and what say what their needs may be. So with the positives also come some areas of concern and I will tell you it's sometimes over the last couple years the areas
089of concerns have been going down. We had to remove some of them because they've become positives. uh but there has been a decrease I will say in the last five years uh 379 students and that's an average and I I'll say it like that uh mainly because during the covid time um a lot of school districts were losing students a lot of them didn't want to come back and of course came homeschooling online programs so a lot of uh school districts as well as Alice ISD ended up with losing students to home uh to homeschool And as well they were moving out uh possibly back then but we are seeing a trend where students are moving back in. So when I said you see there a bullet the hollow bullet increase efforts to promote attendance.
090You heard it all night long. It's about attendance and making sure kids uh are coming back monitoring absences and inter uh intervene in cases of excessive absences. Also target special population with attendance intervention. uh provide families again the community and the family the parents provide families with additional resources to promote attendance and academic progress. economically disadvantaged students. You know, the district or the state will say that when you have an economically disadvantaged u uh district, especially with 90%, they're going to be struggling and a lot of those students are going to be at risk students. And yes, they may be, but I will tell you the district is not looking at it like that. They're taking on the challenge and they're making sure that every single one of the students and their needs are met.
091We have a lot of things in place and you're going to see some of those in a few minutes as well. So then we lead to the district goals and the district has four uh excuse me five different goals as well as the campus improve the campus improvement plans uh use these goals to guide them as well and constant communication. Uh the first goal is student achievement. We'll go over these in a few minutes. Uh the second one a safe uh nurturing environment. The third one parent family and community engagement. and fourth operational effectiveness and efficiency and human resources. Uh most of these have already been discussed throughout this evening. Goal number one, student achievement is to provide quality, engaging and rigorous instruction for all students that incorporate technology and promote student success in college
092and or careers. So in goal one I can tell you that there is seven objectives uh and each one of those has individual strategies. We won't go into detail but I will tell you it's a plan well planned out down uh that started off at the end of last year with st uh the data that came in from the star scores and how they did and it's not an overall the overall rate uh numbers is looking at the individual students like we talked about the dyslexics the GT the all your approaching needs and masters and those that didn't meet it why didn't they meet it and if they didn't meet it did they have growth so that each one of those has value. So in or um some of these strategies you're going to see
093in these objectives are going to be the monitoring of state performance data, professional development. Once you see the the data, what are we going to do to make sure that we get our teachers ready, our students ready, teacher monitoring and support, uh high quality instructional materials instruction, uh we talked about blue bonnet, we talked about amplify, those are things that are taking place. Um, and like I said, the PE, uh, professional development, if they we missed the gap or there was a gap, what is it that we're doing to cover that gap? Focus on GT students. And when we say that, those are our top students. It's not about, oh, who didn't pass. It's about the top students. And we talked about AP classes. What are we doing for them to take them to the
094next level? Uh, not just our our students to pass. It's the masters and meeting those requirements. CCMR. You heard the plan that came in and I can tell you, you hear about it. The community, the district, the state, the region, and the state is hearing about CCMR, what's happening in this district because it's happening now from the junior high all the way to the high school. But it's how did it change? If I go back five years and I cover CCMR and see what the gap, what the difference is, it's amazing. And that's why people are talking about CCMR and what's happening here. Goal number two, uh safe and nurturing environment. Create a uh positive, safe and secure learning environment for all students and staff. Uh again, uh different objective quite a few objectives on
095this one because it's very important as well as different strategies for each one of those. And that's to increase attendance and say why as far as uh as far as safe and nurturing. Uh parents want their kids to be safe and that's one of the main things and it's not just about the safety, it's about making sure that we take care of our students once they show up and in order to do that the parents have to uh we have to have their parent support. So we need to make sure that we tell our parents what we're doing to keep them safe and as far as also what we're doing to make sure that we meet their needs. Um again whether it's sometimes a little bit harsh but we have to do it for court
096support. Um and then at the same time the social emotional uh support system uh we have different things not only from our social workers, our counselors, our principles and I can tell you today I heard a story uh or read the story from one of our principles at the high school how a student reached out to to her uh one of the assistant principles and how uh that student reached out to her and say I'm sorry for always for you always hearing uh my name being called out on the radio and I kept reading it. It was kind of like, okay, where's this going? And his whole thing was, I know you believe in me. Thank you for believing in me. I'll work on changing and so forth. And I was like, man, that's amazing.
097And he wrote that on one one of our programs that we have in place. That's that's usually to make a cry. And this was a positive cry to her. And he I guess knew that she was going to be able to see it or somebody was going to address it. And it was just amazing that he used that avenue to make sure you reach out and tell her thank you. So I mean that's sometimes on call I mean you don't see that very often that they're making that positive call to an assistant principal not a discipline but say thank you uh for being there for me. So the social emotional needs are being met with the different resources and programs that we have as well as our staff. Um and that's part of the software
098to monitor student mental uh outcries and then the constant monitoring of campuses and safety and security. You heard our security uh as far as Kim take care of that as well as his team as well as teachers and staff. Uh goal three, uh this is the one I love as far as parent, family, and community engagement. building strong family and community partnerships that pro promote the Alice ISD vision mission and goals. uh constant parent and community involvement and that happens from the top all the way to the bottom all single all the different campuses they're involving the parents um in different events as well as even here um at central office with parent roundts student roundts parent leaons uh getting involved on the campuses family camp uh campuses which invite the parents to come whether
099it's open house meet the teacher or the different events that they have on their campuses in the afternoons. Constant again like I said constant parent community communication whether it's social media uh parent letters or whatever it may be but they're getting them involved in making sure that parents know what's happening on their campuses recognizing students teachers and staff and parent family engagement conference that's coming up in February. I will tell you the recognition that you all allow our our uh teachers and principles to bring and recognize our students that's amazing. uh goal for operational effective the efficiency. You heard the the first rating and far as a superior rating that we have that's uh uh a lot with communication and the idea of involving not only principles talking to us but us talking to the
100principles and giving rationale for why we can use federal monies, why we can't use uh federal monies and using them wisely and effectively. That's also looking out for different grants. Uh my job is to make sure that we're compliant but also finding those grants that are also uh possible to help um our district and make sure that we meet the the needs of the students. Uh and it really is communication uh for all of us. uh human resources build a high effective workforce through strategic recruitment, professional learning, mentoring and organizational support to uh retain effective uh teachers, principles and other instructional staff. Part of that has to do to ensure campuses are one are staffed uh two decrease uh there like I mentioned earlier there was a decrease of 20% teacher turnover. Teachers are staying
101because they see the support as well. uh they're involved in part of this com as far as this uh plan as far as putting it together reduce teacher turnover by helping new teachers uh new teachers who are supported with uh uh new teacher academy as well as giving them a mentor. Make sure they're not just thrown out there uh to hang for themselves or men for themselves. Uh they were mentored and they're they're guided throughout this uh entire school year. Uh support teachers with professional development. make sure that they have the what they need. Our staff is here to make sure that they meet those needs. And teacher incentive a lotment, we talked a little bit about that and as well now hopefully our principles will have a taste of that also. Again, the teacher
102incentive a lotment you uh you do a good job, you're going to get rewarded for it. Uh and then the 240 tutoring we that you all approved at the beginning of the school year. Well, that has to do with allowing our new teachers that still need a few little requirements to make sure that they're fully certified. That's a turtoring tool that was given to those teachers. So, that's a great uh job opportunity. And of course, we do have the job fair recruiting uh happening in the fall and the spring. Uh that's a constant thing happening and uh stakeholder engagement. So, what's the role of the uh the district education improvement committee and what is it? It's mainly to advise in developing the plan, this plan, set a goal and professional development. They make sure that
103they go through the comprehensive needs assessment and make sure that uh professional development and uh the goals are are matching what the district needs. Uh members of this committee are made up of three three four teachers, uh parents, community members, business members, staff, and administrators. So, it's a wellthoughtout uh plan. So, the district improvement and capital improvement plans have set timelines also. Uh we're here to make sure that you um review some of those guidelines. The plan really is in front of you in a blue folder. If you haven't seen it, that's it goes into a little bit more depth. This is general overview. Um their focus goals. So, capital improvement plans are also there with you. It's uh um behind the district improvement plan and you basically will have uh highlights of each one
104of those campuses and what the they have to their main focus is for um their special needs as far as their campus. So questions and answers. I know I talk fast. >> Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How many are using that 240? The new teachers, is it pretty good? They you getting good feedback on it? >> I know we have 63 teachers on it. I know six have passed since they started. I know that has been meeting with them quite often. We have been monitoring how often are they actually going on there because they have once they get enrolled they have two months with it and so they're finishing off the program. Off the top of my head I would say a good half of them are using it consistently. >>
105Good. At this time, is there a motion to approve the Alice District improvement plan impacted improvement plan? I make a motion that we approve the district. >> Thank you. We have a motion after this top by Mrs. SC. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> A second by Mr. Reed. Is there any other discussion? No. Mr. Hi, >> Mr. Ben. I Mrs. Hi, >> Mr. Reeds. Hi, Mr. Dwan. Hi, and myself. Motion passes. On to item number nine on the agenda. Closed our executive meeting or session called in accordance with the following provision set forth in the Texas government code. 9A Texas Government Code section 551.074 personnel matters. 9A1 presentation and discretion. 982 presentation and discussion of requirement. 983 presentation and discussion of resignations. 9 A4 the personnel update regarding investigations 9B Texas government
106code section 551.071 legal matters board attorney advice and 551.074 personnel 9C pursuant to the Texas government code sections 551.071 and 551.074 074 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding legal issues involved in the capex versus Alice in cause number.23- CV-209 in the United States District Court of the Southern District of Texas 9D pursuant to the Texas government code section 551.071 071 consultation with attorney and discussion regarding legal issues involved in the Alice Independent School District versus Property Casualty Alliance of Texas and cause number 21-04-61041C. The time is now 8:26 and the board is now going to go into executive session. 9:36 p.m. and we are back from executive session. Item 10, to reconvene an open meeting session to consider or take action as necessary on items discussed and closed for executive session. 11 announcement on action
107items. 11A consideration and possible action regarding new hires. >> I move that we approve administrator >> recommendation. Sorry, >> a recommendation and hired Jalissa Dominguez subject to assignment >> and reassignment as discussed in close session. >> We have a motion by Mr. Aiano. Is there a second? I'll second it. And a second by MSG. Any discussion? >> Mr. Aiano. >> I. >> Mr. Pñena. >> Hi. >> Ma. I >> Mr. Reeves >> I >> Mr. I >> motion passes. 11 B consideration of possible action regarding retirement information item only. 11 C consideration and possible action regarding resignation item only. >> Noation upon replacement. >> Oh, you want me to have that motion? Okay. So, just um do you remember her name? >> Hend Henderson. Henderson. >> Um, I move that we >> approve Brenda Henderson
108>> resignation only upon >> replaceation only upon replacement. >> Do we have a motion to approve only upon replacement the retirement of Brendan Henderson? >> Resignations >> only upon the replacement >> hiring of a replacement for her position. >> Okay. >> Yes. I >> Okay. >> Oh, wait. That's a second. >> I'll second. >> We have a motion regarding the resignation of Miss Henderson. And we have a second by Mr. Ben. >> Yes. >> Is there any other discussion? >> No. Okay. Mr. Adiano, >> I. >> Mr. Pñena, >> I. >> Mrs. G. >> I. >> Mr. Reeds. >> Hi, >> Mr. Dwan. >> I myself. Motion passes. Item 11D, discussion of possible action regarding ongoing investigations. That's anformational item only. 11 E. Discussion and possible action regarding legal issues involving the council versus Alice
109School District clause number 2.23-CV-209 in the United States District Court in the Southern District of Texas Corpus Christie Division. >> I move that we authorize the superintendent and legal council to proceed as discussed in close session. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Is there a second? Second >> and a second by Mr. Reeds. Any discussion? >> Mr. Hi. >> Mr. Ben. >> Hi. >> Mr. Hi. >> Mr. Reeds. >> Hi. >> Mr. Dan. >> Hi. >> Motion passes. 11F. Discussion of possible action regarding legal issues involving the district versus property practice alliance of Texas enterprise number 21-4 Texas415formational item and on to item number 12 adjourn. Before we adjourn, merry Christmas everyone and I hope everyone >> I know I did. The time is now 9:39 p.m. and it's still Monday.