001A word of prayer. Dear heavenly father, we come to you tonight just to give thanks. Lord, we thank you for this school year, how it's gotten off so smooth. Dear Lord, we thank you for our kids. We thank you for our admin staff and what a wonderful job they're doing this year. Dear Lord, we thank you for everyone, all of my colleagues up here who give their time to the district. Dear Lord, we ask you to continue to bless us, guide us, direct us, be with us, forgive us where we fail you, dear Lord, we ask all these things in your name. Amen. >> Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
002Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. [Music] >> I'll move. Anybody sign up for? >> No, sir. >> Okay. I'll move us down to three. Consent agenda. >> Any budget amendments or anything we need to discuss? >> No, sir. >> Okay. Any discussion on consent agenda? Motion to approve consent agenda as presented. >> I have a motion. >> A second. >> I have a second. All in favor? >> Motion carries. I'll move down to four action discussion items. Consideration action if any upon reapproval to purchase 400 Dale Chromebook from CMC in the amount of $127,000. Previously approved amount was $110,400. >> We came to y'all and had this purchase approved to get us over the $50,000 threshold. We had that done in April or May.
003I forgive me for not looking up that exact date. Um essentially what happened was we got uh ready to order the devices um when federal budgets become available and they came back and said well there's been an increase in price. Um of course they're blaming it on various factors um the current economic environment so on so forth. I really feel like these companies are probably getting ahead of us a little bit and upcharging because they know they kind of have a reason. Um, honestly, this still was the best price for us to get from them and we were in a position where we had to get this stuff ordered because days were short. We had to get them in and get them started uh before the school year began. Uh, this is our normal every
004year purchase. Unfortunately, it just cost us more this year than we would what we had anticipated. I'm just bringing it back to you so you have in full view that I didn't purposefully try to um not tell you the exact price that we spent on it. Um, so I'm just seeking reapproval for for that the new purchase price. Okay. Any further discussion on that? >> I make a motion to approve the new amount of $127,000 for the Dell Chromebooks for CMC. >> Motion. I have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. I'll move this down to be consideration action if any upon the 2025 2026 tax rate. >> I have provided a copy um of what I'm proposing as the tax rate. tax rate will be identical to what it was last year. Um, just
005to give you some frame of reference, our MCR, our max compressed rate, is is driven by our property value and any increases that we have. The only way that that value would have gone down is if our property values went up. But because of the new $140,000 homestead exemption, our our freeze adjusted or uh net taxable um value of course decreased because the the little bit that it would have gone up was not enough to offset that losing that much value. So our max compress rate stayed at 6192 plus we have what we call 13.83 83 cents of enrichment pennies that the district that um really the voters would have approved years ago. If we don't add those enrichment pennies, we will lose them. So, we keep we keep those in there assuming that that
006that compression will begin to happen at some point and we will see a decrease in the the M tax rate. That's the one I'm talking about currently. The INS rate, we're kind of in the same boat. I had hoped, I think I told you guys back in June when we adopted the budget, I hope that we'd be be able to bring the INS rate down a little bit. Unfortunately, because we're losing that value and we don't know at this point how much the state's going to make up. We don't want to not be able to make our note. Um, and honestly, we don't carry a large fund balance there. Um, so I'm I'm proposing that we keep the same exact tax rate. Obviously, if we see that we're going to be able to lower the
007tax rate next year, uh, we shouldn't be obviously not being in a legislative session. So, um, it should stay consistent and and if we see that what they're going to hold harmless for us makes up the difference, you know, obviously we're going to propose the lowest tax rate possible to make our note and then the MCR that max compress rate is what it is. Uh, we don't have any effect over that and the enrichment pennies that were voted on um years ago that it is what it is too. So, there's not a lot of effect in the M rate. >> Any further questions or discussion on the proposed tax rate? I entertain a motion. >> Make a motion to approve 2025 2026 tax rate as presented. >> I have a motion. >> Second. >> I
008have a second from Mr. S. All in favor? >> Motion carry. Move to see consideration action depending upon policy EFB. >> So there are a few policies that be approved. Um and the first one EFB, it is actually seven pages. Um I'm not going to read seven pages to you. I'm going to give you the summary. The purpose of the EFB local is to ensure that the district provides a wide range of library materials for students and faculty that support student achievement and present varying levels of difficulty, diversity of appeal, and a variety of points of view. It provides standards for collection development and the selection and evaluation of library materials. So, that's the opening. I wanted to let you know that um there are options within this bill um that we would uh some
009districts have chosen to have a council appointed by the board of trustees to review every single title that goes into our library setting and um we have decided um as a well I hope you all have agreed and decided that um that is not necessary here that we um have the parents have access to the card catalog um electronically on on our website. It's a fall uh program and you can look up any title in our collection. Um it provides uh the responsibility of reviewing um our collections if there is a challenge that uh uh provides that I would uh create a committee to review that challenge and this policy is supposed to be revisited um every three years. Do you have any questions about it's um just essentially ensuring that people have access and
010knowledge of the titles in our uh libraries and um that we have processes in place to review and kind of weed out those books as needed. Do you guys have any questions about the library? >> This policy for us as it's written here eliminates the need for that committee. >> Correct. We there were options TASBY um who does our policies and you'll see some these are drafts so so that as after you approve these this evening if you approve those they go back to TASBY make them um make the corrections and then we put them in our policy manual but uh yes we chose the option of not having the library council >> any further questions or discussions Now entertain a motion. >> I want to make a motion to approve and adopt the uh
011EFB policy as presented. >> All right, I have a motion. I have a second by Mr. Sin. All in favor? >> All right, motion carried. Move down to D. Consideration action if any upon policy FM. >> Okay, so FM and FD um they kind of refer to one another. I'll take FM first because these all have to be voted on independently. FM basically just says that there's no distinction between absences for UIL and absences for other curricular activities approved by the board. So this is actually um in regard to absences in red um you'll see a section for eligibility of private school student including a homeschool student to participate in extracurricular activities. CFD local that is the next one. So essentially I'm so they might not be in order. It's the little teeny tiny short
012one. I don't know if you're looking. >> There's red. >> Yeah, there's red. So, this one has to be approved. Basically is we're um not making any um not distinguishing between UIL and other extracurricular activities. Um so that has to be approved and then I will go to FD local. I actually can go tell you about this and then you can approve them separately. on FD local. This just basically is who is in our school district. It's called admissions as you can see. And you can see there are different categories in this um policy. Persons over age of 21 were not admitting into the school and that's otherwise required by law. You'll see another section minor living apart um of their parent or guardian. Um if you go to the next section, it says students
013not enrolled. And this is the new piece. A student enrolled in a private school, including a home school, shall not be eligible for concurrent enrollment in the district, nor for participation in curricular or extracurricular activities. So, we have chosen that um if they are not enrolled in our school, they're not participating in the extracurricular or UIL activities. as the rest of this is all of the different types of once we um get a student that wants to join HSD, how we place them in a grade level, we review their tra uh their transcripts, all of the things. But the the main point in this that was the um the change and the focus was that our homeschool or our students that are not enrolled in Huntington are not on our UIL or extracurricular teams. So
014they they somewhat go hand in hand because they refer to each other. So I need approval for FM level and FD level. >> I just want to record to clarify this does not the basketball high school basketball. >> No. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> I'm far as I know it's not a >> we technically not a >> I think STX is but Texas Tech is X is not >> I think that's primarily UI related to UIL participation. So I don't know that because it's non UIL. >> How can they have an excuse to absent from school it not being >> well that has always puzzled me but I don't >> I think it's >> it's the same it's the same thing for like county fairs >> county bar. So it's been approved by the board
015typically. Typically you all um in the past and if there are certain activities that you guys have approved um >> there are non UIL related events that that you have those are typically >> the school can choose to recognize a school related absence for a non for a non event. >> We're only allowed so many UI events for boys and girls anyway, right? I mean talking about just things you participate in right >> as far as absences are concerned. >> No just as far as >> No, >> we have to have equal amount of activities for boys. >> Title N. Yes. >> So um we we're our focus here is that if they are enrolled then they participate. If they're not enrolled um then they're not homes on our team. Hope that makes sense. >>
016Any further questions or discussion for Dr. Fishetti? All right, we will do de first. Any consideration action upon policy FM? >> Make a motion to approve policy FM as presented. >> I have a motion. >> I have a second by Mr. Robertson. All in favor? >> Yes. >> Motion carry. I'll move us to e consideration action opinion upon policy FD. >> Motion approve policy FD as presented. >> Motion by Mr. S. >> Second. >> I have a second by Miss Shirley. All in favor? >> Motion carried. Mot consideration action depending upon policy FNC. >> This is the infamous um personal communication devices and electronic devices. This policy just states, if you can look at the very first paragraph, a student shall not use personal communication device on school property during the school day. While on
017school property, the student shall store any personal communication device in accordance with administrative regulations. And that's the rest of the story is the administrative regulations. We've come up with the where they need to put it. They all know students have been informed about that. They know um what the consequences are. That's not part of the policy. That's that's our procedures. Um you can see in the exceptions there are exceptions to this policy obviously um um if it's in an IEP plan a 504 plan documented qualified physician um all of the things. So um this is just the policy that we are formally putting into play even though all of the consequences and all of the other details part of that is not what you're approving. You're just improving approving the policy. >> Okay. further. >>
018Well, without asking all the administrators, I guess, uh, have you got any kickback over? >> So, have So, have we got any kickback? I naively would say, "Oh, absolutely not." If you were to ask them, uh, they don't tell me all their stories because they handle them so beautifully. But not in the beginning, they were great. Now, they're prep, they're challenging, right, Mr. Stoker? >> We've had probably we've disciplined 10 or 12 kids and we had parent that was aggravated, but the the vast majority of the parents are are saying they do better. They're aggravated with the kids and do whatever y'all need to do. >> They've been super supportive so far. It seems that way >> overall. >> Um overall, the sentiment is hallelujah. And I do have to say I love to visit
019the campuses and high school is my new favorite going through because it's noisy. It's never been noisy since I've been here because they when they're in the common area before school starts, they Yep. They were tuned into their phone. They are talking. They're laughing. They're playing games right now in the library while they're waiting. They're doing all the things. Um so it's pretty cool. >> Um it's been it's been fun. If anything, they probably have to get on to them for talking, but they're talking and they're engaging with others and they're social. They're being social. So, it's pretty neat to see the change. >> Any further questions or discussion for Dr. Fishett? All right. I will now entertain a motion for FNC. Make a motion approve policy FMC. >> I have a motion. >> Have
020a second by Mr. Brandenburg. All in favor? Motion carries. Mr. G discussion only campus curriculum and instruction campuses special services and technology updates. >> They're gonna start with Dr. Okay. So, um just an update on where we are with curriculum and instruction. Uh this year we are in year one of implementing blue bonnet learning reading in grades K through five and math six through eight. Uh this is year two of blue bonnet learning in math grades K through five. Uh so the implementation so far has been going well. Um I know um it's a lot. It's a lot for teachers. We're doing some planning days coming up for some of the teachers on campuses. Um giving them extra time to plan and come together as a team. Um it's a it's a lot of work
021and so they're definitely putting in the work and the time that it takes to implement. So we greatly appreciate all their effort. Um just a few other things in assessment. We are in the middle of beginning of year assessments in I Ready. Uh they've already started and those will go in grades K through in reading and math and be finished by the middle of September. These adaptive assessments help identify students strengths and areas of growth in those subjects and will create personalized learning plans in that platform. The counselors and I have been working together to streamline processes and uh protocols throughout the district. We're working with a platform called Scuda and that is a standardized time tracking tool uh that allows counselors to track their time as required by board policy DP. Uh they are
022just were just trained on that last week and we'll begin implementing their I told them to practice with it through the end of August and starting September one we'll really put it into full motion. U professional development teachers are completing their online trainings that are due at the end of next month. Um I'm also in the process of implementing a new professional development hub that allows teachers to track their professional development as they do it. And that it also has ondemand and timely PD modules for teachers to use and campus administrators. So, um those are just a few things we're working on right now. Awesome. Uh campuses, we'll just kind of go down starting with high school. >> Started really smooth at the high school and things are getting athletics. Uh for middle school, this
023is our year of change. Um it's kind of been our motto. We've got 26 people doing something new this year. They're either new to the profession or they've been in it a long time and they just they're doing uh teaching a new grade level or a new subject this year. Um and then even down to um me being new. So uh lots of new things going on. Uh we're even rolling out a new bell schedule and we're rolling out new curriculum for math. Uh doing the six through eight math blue on it. So lots of changes going on. Um but uh our staff and our students are both working really hard and um they're coming together as a team and as a family. So we're excited about that and um we kind of know where
024our areas are that we need to grow and we're starting to work towards that. Um, we are doing great. I'm very thankful we do not have 26 new employees on campus. Um, we uh we have two brand new teachers and they are doing a fantastic job. They've been in their classroom a lot and I love seeing how excited they are to be there and what they're doing with kids. Um it is it is a year of change and that was one of the things we have to embrace the change um with curriculum with me with our counselor um just across the board and everybody's running with it like it's it's going really well right now. >> Um I think we're doing really well. The teachers I'm just hearing around that the teachers feel like it's
025just a wonderful year of teamwork. even third grade is helping first grade or second grade. So, it's a lot of team um work that I'm seeing. I'm seeing so many good things. This is my first year and I'm really enjoying it. We do not have to worry about phones. Thank you. So, that's a good thing. But, um our mission this year is we get to do this and it is it has been such a joy for the past two weeks to get to do this with with Huntington Elementary. So, I'm enjoying I think the teachers are got great students. Um, we have 499 students this year so far and still growing a bit. So, we're excited about this year. >> Private school had a really smooth start on Mr. Stover's term there, but probably it's
026probably been the smoothest start since I've been there. I'd love to take credit for that, but I won't. Our staff doing a great job. One new pride teacher and a new coach is in the DAP room. They're both doing just a wonderful job. Uh we currently have either 11 or 12. We had two graduate at the end of last week that were carries car carryovers from last year. One new added today. >> So we're pleased with that. The kids are working in pride. I think better than I've ever seen them I think probably healthy cell phone law. And we just got some pretty hard working kids. So been a joy every day. >> Some special services. All right. With the beginning of school this year, we have been extremely busy these first couple of weeks.
027Uh we spent the first week working through new students uh coming to the district to receive services and making sure that u they were sorted in their schedules match their schedule of services on their IEPs. Uh we're conducting scheduling annual art meetings. They started uh first week of the year continuing with initial testing on students. uh counseling, speech, OT, PT, and transition have all been meeting since with students since week one. Uh I'm in the process right now of scheduling a file review and training with Region 7. It's a free service that they offer to review our processes and testing practices. Gives us an opportunity to ask questions and and and learn. We've got two brand new Diags this year. And you know, it's just a a good professional development opportunity for us that's tendly
028for the first week in November. Um I meet Thursday with the TEA rep should have steps two and three satisfied of our uh corrective action plan from last year's audit. So should be done with that by November hopefully. And I'm just want to say that I'm very excited to have my full focus on the department this year. Uh a lot of positives especially my staff. I work with a great group of people. >> I have to kind of piggyback on that. I was able to go to a lunch meeting with them today and um their good things were being able to work together with um a great leader and collaborate and one said I could go anywhere but I choose to come to Huntington and work in this department. So it was really it was
029really heartwarming to hear that. Um and that's the that's the goal. We want we want our staff to want to be here. So that was really great today. Thanks >> technology. technology has been very busy having phones all the rooms still a little bit transition on laptops from desktop for our teachers all ours are on Chromebooks that are on the docking station so big keyboard and all that technology is running good now it's last week I think we were as a group averaging about 100 tickets. As we close more this week, we're down closer to 20. It's getting better. >> Techn is good. It's just >> technology never diminishes. It just keeps growing and growing >> and growing. So, we appreciate your hard work because it's a lot. They're doing a great job. >> Okay.
030Um, our monthly expenditures are posted in board book and if any you have any questions um about that. Our attendance, you have a handout here, but I just wanted to announce our attendance as of August 15th, end of the week was 1519 kids, 98% overall um in attendance. I will say the numbers I got today were at 15 students, 1,534 students. at the elementary. I think she said49 >> 4.99. We had$4.99. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Yes. And we have accepted some u transfer students. We have lots of transfer students of our employees and we've accept accepted some from um around the surrounding areas that want to be in Huntington. So that's been really nice. Um so you can see um their numbers and and what we're looking at. So, we're just we're we're less than
031we ended last year, but we're continually on the rise. So, so that's a great thing. Okay. So, the next piece uh is our accountability information. We have a little packet I gave you and I hope I don't know if um Jeff's gonna be able to put this on the wall or not. It's coming up. Okay. just so that when we're talking at least you guys can see what we're talking about. It is a super duper con condensed version. Um Dr. Thornton, how many slides did it start at? This was a tea presentation. >> 52. And I think we're down to >> Oh, we deleted we deleted and deleted. We only gave you the most important things, but we just wanted to share a little bit with you about the accountability ratings and the uh district
032results. So, if you flip um to the next slide, you're going to see and this is what we have. Um our board has access to this right here in front of you, but um you see from 2019 to 2025 and then under so that's the district rating and then underneath that is each school. Now I there's a few things I have to say about this chart. So 2019 20 to 2022 in there between 20 and 21 the co years like we don't even have those they didn't take tests. Um then they changed in 2022 they changed the accountability system. They said that's okay let's just make it um add all the new things and not give any grace period. So you see this what if what if in 2022 we were in 88 but what
033if the new accountability system had been applied you would have been an 80. Okay so that um that's why there's two ratings for 2022. So, in 2023 is the year that the new accountability system started. Well, I don't know if you remember, but for 2023 2024, there were school district thousands, well, not thousands, hundreds of them that were in litigation. Um, and the the state did not release these scores. We literally got 2023, 2024, and 2025 within 8 to 10 weeks this summer. So, we have been working without these accountability ratings, but I just want you to to see um that yes, in 2023 we were a 74 as a district. We didn't even know that to be honest with you. We're just on a continual improvement cycle. Uh 2024 ended up being an 81
034and we're the same in 2025 right now. So, those literally we all got all of those yearly ratings in one summer. So just wanted to share that silly bit of information with you. Um you see the elementary I'm sorry the schools underneath elementary, intermediate, middle, high and pride in 2023. Um this is my assumption. Um Mr. Neil was that there were not star takers. Depends on the the uh group that Mr. Neil has >> that they didn't have that. So mind you this is two years ago and we're just getting this data but um so And if it's not a a a group a for a group they will say they won't due to uh confidentiality they will not show scores. So you have to have a certain sub number in a group. So um
035but you can see right that's exactly right. So you can see over time how that's grown. I'm proud to say if you look at 2025, I am proud to say that even though it looks like the elementary went down, they broke the cycle of um um school. >> Yeah, it was school improvement, but it was in the area of growth. I believe >> we made not academic growth because they're not that's not calculated, but we made progress um within that area of school improvement. So, we were dismissed. >> So, we're dismissed. So, even though it shows we went from a 70 to a 66, I didn't want you all to think that number one, we weren't making progress because we are. And no school is in school improvement anymore, which is great. Um, they're still
036doing all of the actions and participating in all the professional development that um have already been planned and they're working through great strategies. But um and then I wanted to acknowledge um obviously Huntington High School and they did a great job. Um and um they have a heavier load to bear than the other schools because of the college and career and military readiness. So that's a that's a that's 40% of their calculation and you'll see that here in a moment. So uh the ratings are in three domains. The first domain student achievement if you want to flip to the next one. There we go. If you just look real quickly if you're in elementary or middle school 100% of this comes from Star. If you're a high school, you can see 40% is STAR, 40%
037is college, and 40 or 20% is co career and military readiness. And that's all your career tech and your IBC's and all of those things. So that's just how they get the scores. Um I wanted you to see on the next slide. This just shows overall where we were in reading, math, science, and social studies. So all of these reading and math are grades three through eight and EOCC's. Science is grade 58 in biology and then social studies is grade eight in US history. So how do you read this? Approaches is approaching grade level. It is passing but that is not where we want to focus that that is passing per state standards but we want to focus on meets. So I will tell you that the approaches number encompasses your meats and your masters.
038So in reading over as a district we were 68% in reading our meats that means we how many were on grade level 42% of our kids were on grade level that's a part of that 68 and 8% were masters or above grade level and you can see that all the way down math 62 33 11 69 32 and 8 for science and 79 47 and 24 for social studies um it's a little deceiving here because history. Uh that that is a really low threshold to pass and to meet some of those uh master level. So you can see why that's a little bit higher. Our goal obviously is to increase all levels, but our our focus area really is on the on grade level. We want our kids to be on grade level which is
039meats. So that's domain one. Next one real quick. Domain two is school progress. You can flip to the next one. It is how they calculate it. It's either better of your growth, so did they grow at least one year academically or of relative performance. That means compared to other schools that are similar economically disadvantaged percentage. Okay, so that's how they figure it. We'll flip to our calculation. Here we go. Here's 24 and 25. Um academic growth, again, that was growing um an academic year. relative performance is how we compared. We went down just a little bit, but again that um continual growth is our focus. I mean it's uh no matter what our economically disadvantaged percentages, but continual growth is our focus. So we hope that you'll see um increased numbers here at the end
040of this year. Domain three, closing the gaps. This is a little bit confusing and this diagram is a little bit confusing. Domains one and two look at all students. This domain for three examines groups. Okay. So, if you look over to the right, um domain three is all students. The first lowest performing racial or ethnic group from the prior year and the second lowest performing racial or ethnic group from the empire prior year. So, those are two. And then our high focus group. What's a high focus group? That's the very teeny tiny print at the bottom. It's an unduplicated count of economically disadvantaged, emergent, bilingual, special education or highly mobile homeless migrant or in foster care student. So domain three looks at this group. It's a it's a combination of that group one, two, three,
041and four. And if you flip to the next slide, you can see um all of the results broken down by There we go. Student groups. These are our student groups and our high focus group which is encompasses all of those are there at the bottom. Did you have anything Dr. Thurton that you wanted to say on the um this chart? >> I think that well just looking at the ethnic groups there were more within our calculations that those were the three between all the campuses that encompassed the two lowest performing. So most of the campuses were all students in white and then either Hispanic or African-American depending on the campus. I have to say that our graduation rate is 100%. You take the better of I think it's uh four year or five year or
042six year graduation we're at 100% which that's super great. Um so closing the gaps score if you flip to the next page we were 78 this year. And the last piece we wanted to kind of share with you. We we wanted to let you know on this district comparison, we put a big X um next to the middle column and the right column. We are on the left. You can see our overall our rating is a B and you can see where what grades we got in those different areas that we just reviewed. In the middle is um a district that everybody tends to compare Huntington to. So you just I just wanted to show we've xed out the the name of that particular district and then we have one a neighboring district that we've
043also xed out. But we just this is literally our borders and we just wanted to show you just a little bit of a snapshot of Angelina County how we compare. Give you a second to kind of look at that. So do we have areas for growth? Absolutely. Do they have areas for growth? Absolutely. Is this uh accountability system a perfect perfect system? It is not. It's inherently fa flawed in certain areas, but regardless of what it says. Um I know I can speak for the principles is they're not they really don't let this deter them. Yes, they've set goals, but this is um they want to reach farther than this. So, we want to do what's best for our kids. The very last slide um are our overall ratings. So domain one we for student
044achievement we got an 82 out of 100. Domain two we got 77 out of 100 and domain three we were 78. So at the very bottom we 70% of our score is better of the domain one or two. So what was better obviously one 82. So 82 was 70% of our district score. Our closing the gaps is domain three and that's was 78. So our overall rating is an 81 out of 100 which is a B. So, if you guys have any questions, this this system is um lots of opinions out there, lots of it's uh literally every time we go to a session on accountability, we learn something new or and it's it is inherently flawed, but it is um what I do appreciate at least the growth piece and uh the attempt to
045capture growth instead of just a one day's capot. We are just out there. By the way, uh the legislature is talking about getting rid of a one-day star test and making it a three-day situation, probably smaller in scale, but multiple opportunities. So, it's not just one day. That is they're discussing that as we speak. So, we'll more to come. But that is our accountability rating literally for three years. And we just got these a few weeks ago. So, any questions that and our principles, do you have any input that you'd like to share? Shane, we we won't ask right now. He'll write you an article. >> We're working on >> No, he is. So, no, I'm just kidding. But it is um obviously we want to do what's best for kids and we want to
046work and them um work hard. So, that's accountability. The next thing is our counseling services. Uh we also um our legislators thought we needed support with this as well to explain what a school counselor does. They wrote us uh it was originally a six-page letter, four page, sorry, four. We've uh condensed it down. I'll say we I don't not taking credit for this. This is Dr. Thornton has condensed and the counselors have condensed this down into a letter that has to go home to our parents that just says what does a school counselor do? Um they had some things in there about psychological exams and needing to get parent consent. That is not what a school counselor does. That is falls under Mr. Wnack's department. So, if there was any psychological testing that ever needed
047to happen, that would have gone through the RTI process. And so, uh, we took that out because our school counselors don't provide those types of services. They do, however, provide services. As you can see, we've listed some of the things here just so that parents know. Um under state law though uh uh students can consent for counseling if they need suicide prevention, chemical addiction or any sexual, physical or emotional abuse support. So they do um can advocate for themselves there. But this is just um a list of things that our school counselors do and um we are to get parental consent or at least to let them know that we've informed them. Yes. that um we give you uh our consent to do the re routine performance of a school counselor. If we don't get
048this back, we're assuming it's a yes, that's how we're doing it. So, this is going to be sent home and uh we were figuring out the how. I don't know if it'll be report cards or yet or folders. I'm not sure exactly when and how this will be sent, but it will be sent home. Um, and again, a no return we're assuming is a yes for for those. Um, not exactly sure why. Obviously, there was a situation where a school counselor was involved with somebody in that they didn't want to be for whatever reason, but our school counselors are amazing. Uh, Dr. Thornton's working with them. They're working on programs that are aligned and um they're doing a great job. So, any questions on this? Again, one of those requirements that we got out of
049the 89th legislature, Dr. Can I just add? >> Absolutely. >> I think the intent of the law was the whole psychiatric and psychological testing and I think it really got confusing and that's what made them write out the four-page letter because like Dr. Fia Shetty said, that's going to come from special services. That would never come from a school counselor. And anytime they uh recommend that type of testing, it is always done with the parents input. So it's never anything that would be done without a parent consent or recommendation from parents. So that'll be going home um there. Uh on the next piece of our report, uh preliminary school first rating. Congratulations to our very own Mr. Clifton earning an A in his first rating. So, we're we're proud of that. That's great. That's the
050financial integrity, all the things report. So, great job for that. Our personnel, um, we really are very slow right now, which is lovely. And so, our, um, people are in the positions that they're going to be in. Um, I know that we have a a couple of little changes that you have in your uh packet, but that's that's really it. And that's the end of what I have for you tonight. >> Do you have any questions or comments? >> Just discussionally >> have any further questions or anything. >> Okay, I will move us down to nine. Have a motion to adjurnn. >> I second. >> I have a second.