001Wish I had a car horn. I would have blown that. Like to welcome everybody out to the Lake Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting for June 16, 2025. We do have a quorum established. All members are present. If you would now, please join the board in a moment of silence. Thank you. Now, if you will please rise and we'll be led in the pledges of allegiance by HR Director Carla Landram. That was your I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you for that. We appreciate it. You're welcome. I'm next. [Laughter] I
002know. I'm glad she said that because I was going to skip to four. Anyway, if you uh All right, we have some introductions. Yes, we do. Miss Landram, I appreciate it. Go ahead. Thank you. Good evening, President Stacy, Dr. Brown, and board. It's my honor to introduce the newest member of the Lake Dallas ISD administrative team, Lauren Modica, assistant principal of Corinth Elementary School. A little bit uh about Miss Monica. She earned a bachelor of business administration and management from Texas A&M University. She received a master's of human resource management from the University of Texas at Arlington and obtained her principal as instructional leader certification from Lamar University. In addition to her principal certification, Miss Monica also holds EC through six course subjects and ESL certifications. Miss Monica began her teaching career in 2018 as
003fifth grade math and science teacher at Parkwood Hill Intermediate School in Keller ISD. The following year, she joined Denton ISD's Hawk Elementary School staff where she worked as a fifth grade ELAR social studies teacher. While in Denton ISD, she participated in the lead Denton aspiring administrator program and completed her principal internship. Please join me in welcoming Miss Lauren Monica to the Falcon family. Okay, our next item is executive session. The open session of the meeting will adjourn. The board of trustees will reconvene in executive session pursuant to one or more sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act, chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. The board of trustees will reconvene in open session to take any final action, decision, or vote on a matter deliberated in executive session. And it is 5:33. [Music] Wonder. [Music]
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005uh our legislative update from uh we'll be hearing from Dr. Kristen Brown. Dr. Brown. Thank you, sir. Um so you have in front of you a packet of about 60 pages. Um and that's not a joke. Um, in that packet are all of the pending bills for um for for the state. The the bills that are highlighted in yellow are the ones that have already been signed by the governor. The others are pending governor signature. So, tonight we're going to um cover the first 45 pages. I'm just kidding. Um, tonight we're going to cover HB2 and that has already been signed by the governor. That is the biggest bill for this session. Um, the others will follow up with you on another workshop or I'm sorry, on another board meeting day. For right now, we
006want to wait until the governor signs it before we start getting into to what needs to be done. So, all of a sudden, my my system has decided that it's not going to work. There it goes. Okay. So, um, HB2, who's clicking? Jerry, thank you. Um just just going to kind of go over at a very high level the teacher incentive aotment. So uh Dr. O Sullivan, Miss Han, Miss Landram, um campus teams have been working on this. Um and we are on track for we're hoping an approval this year. If not this year, then we'll have to resubmit next year. Um but there was some overhauling of teacher incentive aotment. Once we get our first round approved, uh then we can uh take advantage of what TEA is now referring to as the enhanced
007TIA, which uh not only acknowledges the teachers level of performance, but it also includes the principal um and includes principles in that performance evaluation as well and allows us to um use some of that funding to assist in in paying our our principles who are leading the campuses. The other thing is that it does change. Instead of doing across the board raises for um staff, it moves a school district to performance pay um based pay. So that's that's upcoming. Um that does not impact us right now because we have not received our initial approval, but we are continuing to work through that for our teachers. The next one is teacher pay. Teacher pay uh for school districts our size. teachers that are um that have three or four years of experience will be receiving a
008pay raise from the state of Texas funded by the state of Texas for $4,000 per year. And any teacher with five or more years of experience will be receiving a pay raise of $8,000 um per year. That is funded through the teacher retention allotment. It is a separate allotment. Um it's about $1.7 million for about 50% of our staff members. the uh the amount that the teachers receive must be included in their salary and it must be reported to TRS as creditable s um salary for retirement purposes. And so we are in the process right now of evaluating which employees qualify. TEA just put out last week a um definition of what classroom teacher is. And so our PES HR and CNI department, we're working on finding out what on our side who those people
009are that qualify based on their job assignments and then we'll be um planning for that accordingly. The next one that they is part of uh House Bill 2 is the support staff pay. In addition to teachers, there is an aotment that is at funded at $45 per um ADA for students. It has to be included in staff salaries other than administrators. So you can see some examples that t uh that tea has provided uh teachers aids, counselors, custodians, nurses, etc. But anyone that is considered an administrator, principal, assistant principal, district level um director um that type of position are not eligible to receive any pay from this. the state provided us with the $45 which works out to be approximately $130,000. So significantly different than the 1.7 million that we're receiving for teachers, but um
010we are working on who qualifies for this and what that raise may include and uh we'll we'll give you guys updates on that when we receive it. The next one is the early childhood aotment. a little bit of misinformation that um is going around is that the state is now fully funded prek. Um that is not correct. What they did is they took the existing early childhood aotment and they are funding school districts that have full day prek at the full day amount and then after that they're reallocating what's remaining back to the school district. So, it's actually not um it's not actually an increase in funding. It's a reallocation of some of the funding that we already have. We've seen an increase in our prek enrollment just based on our recent activity. So, we
011do anticipate increasing the funding we receive, but it's it's not extra money. It's it's they they you know the old uh magic trick where you put the ball under the the cup and you mix it around. That's what the state did with that money. So, the the next part is a early literacy uh intervention. aotment. The state will be providing $250 per student who needs early um reading intervention. There is a cap at 10% of the district enrollment. There is also a requirement that if by the year 2030, there are still students that need this reading intervention, the funding uh will be taken back to the state level and the school districts will be required to continue the services um and fund that directly. There's also a new facilities report um that is required. So
012districts are now required annually to report the facility data, the square footage, the enrollment capacity, the usage of that facility, as well as whether we own it or lease the facility. And then TEA is charged with compiling that and publishing a statewide facilities report. Um so we'll be um evaluating all of our facilities um and and matching this once we get some guidance from TEA what that looks like. We did receive an increase in our small midsize aotments um from 0.000025 to 0.00003. Big money there. It actually results in about $200,000. This funding is available to school districts that have less than 5,000 students enrolled. Once you hit 5,000 students, you no longer qualify for that funding amount. The bilingual aotments, um they they made some changes in terms of um the methods and alternative
013methods allowed for school districts. One of the things that's really going to help us here is that last bullet that funds may be used for bilingual teacher salaries. Up until now, we have not been able to use our bilingual funding for teacher salaries. And so that will assist us in freeing up some other funds uh throughout the district if we can use that first um for our bilingual students. The school safety aotment um increased um it doubled the the amount. So we have $20 per ADA for students and it went from $15,000 to $33,540 per campus. That increases a little over $100,000 for Lake Dallas ISD. So we're thankful for that. And they also created an allotment for basic costs. So the allotment for basic cost is $106 per enrolled student and you can use
014that for transportation, retired teacher hirings, uh health insurance, payroll taxes, utilities, um just about anything that you need to account for the the increase in um in inflation over the last couple of years. they made some substantial changes to teacher preparation and training. So, one of the things and there's a couple of things listed here, but one of the big things that's going to um impact us is the uncertified teachers from core areas. So in 2627 um elementary schools may not hire non-certified teachers in reading and math and by 2728 then that extends throughout um additional areas throughout the district in terms of core areas. We do have some certified teachers uh or some uncertified teachers teaching in those classrooms. um they do offer some um op opportunities for teachers to become certified and they
015are funding some of those teacher prep programs and so we're um we're we're excited that they're doing that but it will close down the the district of innovation plan that it will close that section for us where we are allowed to hire those. Just as a side note um charter schools and private schools are still allowed to hire uncertified teachers. It's only public schools. Um the partnership programs you guys know um we've been working with our grow your own at the high school. We've had that for several years. Um TEA is funding some specialized programs um to help increase the number of teacher residents. That's where a teacher uh teacher candidate they similar to what a doctor does. They go to college for the first three years and then they can uh do a teacher
016residency their last year. and that last year. Um the state is offering some funding for teachers that go through that process. And they're also um on the next slide, they're also allowing us to um make some changes to the our vacancy posting. So we no longer have to post for 10 days. We can post positions for five days, which is very helpful. There's some exam waiverss for special ed and bilingual candidates. Um if someone fails the bilingual exam, they no longer have to retake the full exam. they can they are only going to be required to take the one part of the exam they failed. So those are all things that will benefit us in the long run. Um the classroom management HB6 this has been changed significantly. Teachers have always had the option to
017request that a child be removed from their classroom if they're disruptive or uh for discipline purposes, but there was a required committee that was in place and the committee would be would meet and review the incidents or the incidents and then they would make a recommendation um in terms of whether or not the child should be removed. So, this does away with that provision. Uh teachers are now permitted to uh to remove persistent disruptive students without prior documentation. It does require uh parent notification and a reintegration plan. Um and it does require teacher consent uh for the student to be placed back into the classroom. The student is also given the opportunity to appeal that decision and be placed back into that. They can appeal to a placement review committee or to the threat assessment
018team depending on the situation. A lot of these things we don't know the how it will happen yet. So TEA will provide us with guidance as to what that looks like hopefully sooner rather than later. So there's a a extensive list of changes in special education. Um you know there's some things about students graduating that they can they can achieve the distinguished achievement plan with their IEP. Um there's a lot of compliance training. It also allows dyslexia students to be eligible for the dyslexia aotment. Um that wasn't always the case. I know that's odd, but that's a thing. Um they they increased the CCMR bonus for special education students, increased transportation, and districts will now receive $1,000 per full initial um IEP evaluation. And that's to help offset the cost of the increase in um
019in that this this will a lot of this funding will not go into place until 2627. So, some of the requirements will go into place in 2526, but in 2627 we'll see additional um special ed funding. Um in curriculum and instruction, you may remember readingmies a few years ago. They're now introducing mathmies. Um there's been a decline in math scores across the state of Texas over the last couple of years. And so, they saw better results with reading and so they decided that that would be a great thing to do for math. It also limits the requirement for um seventh and eighth grade teachers are not required to go through that and um any stipens funded from the district allocations can be used to pay for math and literacymies. They do have a universal um
020kindergarten reading screener that's being required to be adopted by TEA. Um this is on the next one, Jerry. Um the district is required to report the results to the board and the parents. Um and then the um the assessments are going to be conducted all the way through grade three. Now there is a parent allowed opt out for this program. Early literacy similar to what you just saw there mandated uh previously mandated targeted reading intervention for students until they get to grade four. Um, the integration, the intervention must be consistent with trained staff. And we're a little confused because one of the things that the bill says is that interventions must be done by teachers that are part of the teacher incentive aotment. So, we're not sure what that means when a school district is
021starting out with teacher incentive aotment and we don't have teachers in that program. So, we're looking for TEA guidance there. Also, the next one under tutoring, it is a grant program, $400 per eligible student. Um similar to the other responsibility, if the uh student does not make progress um within the time frame, then the shift of responsibility in the 2030 2031 uh responsibility starts for the school district and um the district must notify all parents of eligibility. Um prek, so our prek partnerships, we've been working on building. We have the five um five child care centers that are interested in participating. This does change some of the requirements. It does change the spend. So we are required to flow through 85% of the funding directly to the child care center. And if we uh districts
022that um are charging tuition for prek are no longer allowed to do that unless they have pre-k partnerships and they show that they don't have any slots available in those partnership programs. For any campus um that is rated a D or an F for three times in 10 years. There's a new designation called a resource campus. Um the this is another we're not sure how they would do this. We don't intend to be in this category. However, um if for these campuses 50% of the teachers must hold a TIA designation, again, very interesting. If you don't have TIA designated teachers apply, we're not sure how that works. So, we're looking forward to TA explaining that to us. Um the next category is additional school days. So, there they did reduce the additional school day funding
023availability. Previously, you were required to have 180 days of school. They've reduced it down to 175. They've included middle schools. Um this is funding that um allows you to pay for 30 half days of remediation. So essentially you can fund your summer school program. So we will be exploring our eligibility and looking at our calendar um this year and next year to see if we can qualify for this additional funding. And then the last one is uh CCMR. Um quite a bit going on there. The biggest thing there is that the state will require that school boards adopt a outcome based uh goal setting process. Um TEA is required to adopt it. Um and then we will have to report on our um our outcomes annually and meet those goals. It also allows for um
024PEK which is something we've been exploring. A PEK school is a technology based aligned to CTE program. So they increased the funding for that and they also increased the certification exam reimbursement um and fingerprinting. So some kids have to get fingerprinted. So our kids that are in the ready set teach program have to have their fingerprinting done. The district pays that cost. Now the there will be a fun a funding available to assist us with that cost as well. So that is a very broad overview. Like I said you have the details in front of you. If you have any questions I'll be happy to answer those. Any questions or comments from the board? All right, you're off the hook. All right. All right. Our next information item is uh the 2025 2026 budget update
025from Anne Han, our CFO. Hi, Ann. How's it going? Good evening, President Stacy Bore, Dr. Brown. So, tonight um we're going to bring I'm going to bring another um budget update kind of a very broad overview um but nonetheless campus and department budgets maybe Oh, I got it. Sorry about that. Okay, so just kind of a overview of the budget calendar um that we started talking about last month. Had an initial budget update at our May meeting and then a couple weeks ago we had a workshop. Tonight, I'll bring to you another budget update. Then at our July meeting, we will be bringing to you our compensation plan within another budget update. And then also our general fund, food service, and debt service fund budgets for the 2526 year. And then on July 25th, we
026will receive our certified tax property values from the tax office. And that will even further help us establish um our budget. And then we'll bring one more round August 11th of final budgets and then we will have our public hearing which we are required to hold on August 25th where you will adopt the budget and then also we'll bring to you a tax rate for you to adopt as well. So slides that you've seen before but just a reminder that state funding does follow the student. The foundation school program establishes how much state funding school districts are entitled to receive. And there are several factors that play into this and those include district district characteristics, student characteristics and number of students in attendance or the average daily attendance. Some of the programs also factor in
027um number of students in actual enrollment. And our career and tech uses a full-time equivalent students for our funding for CTE dollars. Some key Texas school finance finance points. Um, for the first time since 2019, the basic aotment has now been raised. Um, an additional $55 was added. So, for each student, it's now $6,215. And also a reminder for that TEA does calculate the state maximum compressed tax rate. It's not a district determined, that's determined by TEA. And even though we might have higher property values, that does not mean that we will overall receive more general revenue. Um but again that will be determined once property values certified property values are received. And then also Dr. Brown did touch on some of these but there will be the new aotments for teacher compensation basic cost.
028And the main ones that we're going to be focusing on are the teacher retention aotment, the support staff retention aotment and the allotment for basic cost because those are the ones that will give us additional revenue um for compensation for teachers. And again, school funding is a balancing act um with local share versus state share. Even if our tax revenue increases, that doesn't mean that we're going to receive additional funding. That just means we receive less state funding. Um it is an equalized system and so it's they balance each other out. Just kind of a look at historical tax rate. It has decreased since the 2017 2018 year. We're now at a$126 per $100 of taxable value. Um, and one thing also to consider in this, and I believe it was signed today by Governor
029Abbott, Governor Abbott, um, is Senate Bill 4, which will increase the homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000. Now, this will also have to be voter approved in November, but I pretty certain that it will pass. And so, um, that will be taken into consideration as well. But they did say that they will, um, hold districts harmless, meaning it won't reduce our local revenue. And they've added additional state aid to counter that. One of the continuing on the Texas school finance key points. Um, district budget is largely tied to staff. Our payroll budget consists of 80 to 85% of the overall budget. We employ over 600 employees and so that's um that's where the bulk of our budget goes. And then also the budget is partially restrict restricted by state and federal rules. We have to
030stay within the guidelines that they give us um and follow that. And I think we've talked to you in the past just about costs that are kind of out of our control that increase. But those consist of property insurance, utilities, and then the appraisal district cost for collecting our taxes. Those are costs that we don't have any control of, and we're anticipating those to increase for this coming year. Tonight, we'll go over a review of the campus budgets. Just a reminder that campus budgets their allocations are based on enrollments and that we did use the projected enrollments that I brought to you last month and those were very initial numbers not factoring in prek. So once we get firmer numbers with all of our prek enrollment, we will possibly revisit these and if we need
031to make any adjustments to campus budgets, we will definitely be doing that. But again, their budgets are based on enrollment and then just student population and needs. So for the elementary campus, their allocations um consist of everything just to keep that c those elementary campuses running. that consists of instructional office supplies, reading and library materials, counseling and testing supplies, routine equipment repairs, paper and print shop expenses, staff development, replacing capital outlay items, postage, field trip and other travel cost and fees and dues. For the middle school campus, it's everything that we consider for the elementary campuses in addition to expenses for choir, drama, and increased supply needs for additional electives and their science, math, technology courses, increased cost for student travel, their cheerleading team, also the career and technology courses that they offer, and then
032increased cost associated with their UIL competitions at the high school level. It's all of the elementary and middle school in addition to the following additional career and technology expenses at the high school. their cheerleader and high steppers. Auditorium expenses, any costs to utilize and run the auditorium. Increased cost associated with UIL competitions and other co-curricular expenses. And then cost associated with additional class electives, um criminal justice, engineering, drama, their vocational a program, fire academy, and then any new strands that they have offered. And then also homecoming and graduation each year. Campus expenditures that are budgeted by other departments consist of salaries and benefits. Payroll is budgeted at a district level. District level. It is not a part of any campus or department budget. That's budgeted centrally. All athletic expenditures are budgeted by the athletic department.
033Custodial supplies and maintenance needs are with the facilities department. Food service is the child nutrition department. technology and IT needs are the technology department and for the district copers we're under a copier contract and then the band department has budgets their needs. So the allocations are based on a per pupil amount and we start at the elementary school with $112 and then that increases you as you can see a little bit for middle school to 117 and then high school is at $151 and that's just based on all the various activities and whatnot that the high school has. Then there's also additional allocation for special POPs at each campus and those include special education, bilingual, economically disadvantaged, gifted and talented and then their career and tech expenditures at the high school and middle school. So
034here's a look at the campus budgets again based on enrollment. um an initial enrollment of around 3,600 kids and that's that's estimating from where we were at this year around 100 kids, a decline of 100 students. And so you can see that that's decreasing most of the campus budgets with the exception of the middle school. There was a slight increase at the middle school, but overall a decrease for the campuses of $23,77. But again, we will be revisiting this once pre once prek numbers are more firm and we have a better feel um for exactly where those numbers are and if we need to go back and make adjustments for the campuses, we will. Looking at non-payroll expenditures, starting at the top, um the first several instruction down through uh health services, those are all
035kind of at a campus level. And so you see a decrease across the board there due to the decrease that we were anticipating for enrollment in student transportation. We're feel we feel that we can keep the budget the same with the changes made to the bell schedule for next year. We're hoping to see fewer routes and therefore possibly less breakdowns. um maybe save on the maintenance and repair of some of the vehicles since we won't be utilizing as many buses with the bell schedule change in co-curricular extracurricular activities that is mainly um that increase is due for to the athletic department. Previously meals and tournament expenses had been paid with activity counts and now that's going to be moved into their local budgets. And then also general administration, we we're anticipating a slight increase there.
036Our public relations is also um budgeted in general administration. And this year we there was a big increase just in advertising trying to get students to come into Lake Dallas. We hosted the big falcon ver for the first time and so additional expenses from that we're wanting to continue into next year. So we're going to increase general admin budget just a little bit. plant maintenance and operations. That one, that one's kind of hard to gauge. That's going to include our utilities, um, property insurance, and then also with the opening of the new career and tech building, we're not sure what utilities are going to be for that. So, we did an initial 10% I think for utilities, but until we get a definite um, we're still waiting on property insurance. So once we get that,
037maybe look into the new facility buildings and see um if we can guesstimate utilities on that. We might come back or raise that a little bit. Again, these are just all preliminary numbers. Security and monitoring um that's a big one with a decrease of almost 77%. So that is due to currently this year all of our SRO officers are contract services and so it's actually within the security budget. Moving into the 25 26 year, we will hopefully be fully staffed with our own police department. And so that those that money will shift to payroll. So it will still be budgeted. It's just not going to be budgeted at the department level. It will be um like I said a few slides back that central centrally we budget for payroll. And so those funds will be
038um budgeted in peril for the new police department, therefore lowering the overall budget for security and monitoring. data processing, our technology department. Um there's a slight decrease there and that's due to the money that we budget for Chromebook repairs. By going into the new Apple lease, we're anticipating that we won't have the as many repairs and we have the care plan with the Chromebooks. And so, I think the first two possibly um repairs will be covered. And so, we're hoping that we can decrease their budget by around $65,000 since we were hoping that we won't have all of the expensive Chromebook repairs that we've had for the last several years. And then the last few remaining budgets there um will be the same other and governmental ch charges um that is our DAD um the
039appraisal district cost again for them collecting our taxes. So overall we're anticipating um to decrease non-payroll expenditures by around $455,000. But again, these are very preliminary numbers and so hopefully as these next few weeks unfold, we'll be able to come back to you guys future budget updates, you know, with any changes that we made. Any questions? Thank you, ma'am. Is there any questions or comments? Nope. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Okay, our next information item is the 2024 2025 preliminary star scores and we'll hear from Dr. Kelly O. Sullivan. Greetings. Good evening. Good evening, President Stacy, Dr. Brown, and school board members. It's good to be here this evening and it is a night of preliminary numbers. We're going to talk about 2425 preliminary star scores. We're going to take
040a first look at STAR scores. Um, this was testing that was just concluded this spring, so they are new. Um, and these scores are based off of student performance only. These do not include the student growth measures yet year-over-year. They're just how they performed on these assessments. So, we're going to start with just some numbers. And looking at those, um, we see that our students took 5,632 assessments for STAR in grades three through high school. Um, so that that's that's a significant number. Um, we're going to review these scores by grade as well as content. Um, comparing 24 to 25. And then following that, we'll be able to compare this year 25 to the region and the state. We're going to start with reading language arts. And so, taking a glance across the these um
041bars, we can notice that we see an increase in all three grade levels in third, fourth, and fifth grade. Um for reading um all three elementary campuses really made reading a focus this year and um from comprehension to um vocabulary and background knowledge throughout the campus. It was an area of work. Um a couple of highlights from these scores um from campus perspective include LDE third grade had an increase of 10% over 2024 and SSE fifth grade had an increase of 16% over 2024. Um some of this um increase came through intentional lesson designing and planning um more consistent use of the reading curriculum across all three campuses. um professional development and through our instructional coaches and the CNI department working hand inand and the principles overseeing and guiding that work as well and then
042the teachers in the classroom u making sure those things are taking place every day for students. If we look on the side, the percentage achieving approaches and above. Just a reminder that approaches is that minimum score that's considered passing by the state. Above that is meets and then masters. When we move beyond and we have more finalized data beyond preliminary, we can dig into the meats and the masters and and all those parts. Looking at um three through five reading language arts as compared with region 11 and the state, we can see that we fall pretty much in line um um our students fall pretty much in line with their peers. A little bit higher in grade three and five and one below or at with the state in grade four. Moving to math, we
043um probably noticed right off that fourth grade math um is significantly higher this year than last year by eight percentage points. Um slightly lower in third and fifth grade. Math is an area of growth. It was a focus area. It will continue to be. Um, we are anticipating even more growth and uh, achievement with our implementation of the new math curriculum for next year. We had several teachers pilot the curriculum this year and they were able to give feedback. We also started the professional development early on and teachers and administrators and instructional coaches have gone through that training for the math program in April and they are continuing that this summer and into the the fall. A highlight that um is with the fourth grade math um is that CE fourth grade math increased 22%
044over 2024. Comparing three through five math with the region and the state. Again, they are performing our um Lake Dallas students are performing pretty much in line with their peers. a little bit higher in um third grade and fourth grade and then just slightly below in fifth grade. We're going to continue to partner with region 11 um on professional development and those um datadriven instructional strategies um to support those high expectations. fifth grade science, a notable increase of 14% um across elementary. If we recall, um we implemented um high quality science curriculum across all three campuses. Um the instructional coaches um Miss Pit, our CNI director, along with the principles and the teachers, um really made an intentional focus of um implementing this curriculum. Um, we still have some work to do at 63%. Um,
045and continuing to build on that. Looking across the state and the region, again, our Lake Dallas students are um performing in in line with their peers across region 11 and the state. And it is an area of growth across the region and the state as well. Moving to six through eight reading. Um we can see from 24 to 25 we had a decrease in grade six and grade eight of five to six points uh each and grade seven we had an increase of two percentage points. We implemented curriculum walks this year looking at how the curriculum was being implemented in the classrooms, what the understanding was and um and supporting teachers and the instructional coaches and the principles in and what to look for in assessing those progress manager measures and supporting those students. And
046we're going to continue those to have um higher successful student outcomes. Looking across the region and the state, we can see grade six um was a little bit below their peers by about three to five percent. Our grade seven students were were holding fast, still above the region in the state and grade eight just slightly below. We are bringing reading to the forefront. Um the STAR test is it changed a few years back if we remember to the STAR 2.0 0 where it incorporated writing into the test itself. So there is an extended constructive response that students complete and it's based on idea development and conventions of writing. So that is an area that we are definitely looking at and assessing how can we support our students and our teachers in ensuring that that writing
047component is um where it needs to be. We know that when students practice writing skills, they improve as readers and as they improve reading, they improve as writers. Math 6 through 8, it is an area of focus. We can notice the significant increase for our eighth graders of eight percentage points from 74% in 2024 to 82%. Moving back to sixth grade, we see the um decrease of about 9 percentage points. Seventh grade about four percentage points. The EOCC algebra one still high uh performing in our students are with a decrease of 1% but at 98%. The math curriculum that is being implemented is K through algebra. So um the middle school will be a part of that as well. We had teachers at the middle school that piloted the curriculum. um they also attended the
048the training in April and they have been excited and really motivated to get in there and to do the work and and to make um these gains with our students. Looking across the region and the state, we can see grade six was slightly below their peers um performing um at 69%. Grade seven again about four to 5% below. And then our grade eight were still holding strong um performing over last year and performing well above the region and the state. One highlight about our eighth graders the meets level that is at grade level above approaches we had an increase of 27% of meets grade level that is high achieving and we had an increase of master's level at 12%. So the students that were moving forward towards and beyond grade level um did that very
049significantly at 27 and 12% gains. Science and social studies. Science 25 at 72% versus 79% in 2024. And social studies uh decrease of about 3% over last year. We'll be able to analyze this data very carefully once we have all the final results. Um, and we have the we have the standards and the objectives, but being able to to see questions and responses, we will be able to um dig into that a lot more. We also know that the social studies test is very closely aligned with reading with the comprehension piece and um we've already started those discussions um in the CNI department and with the campus principles um regarding the vertical alignment and the support between sixth, seventh and eth how sixth and seventh and eth vertical alignment will support science and social studies
050as well as that crosscurricular um collaboration between language arts, English language arts and social studies. Comparing uh our Lake Dallas uh students to the region and the state, they are right in line performing with their peers. So it um seems social studies is an area of work across the state. Moving to our EOC at our our high school students, we noticed that um there was a slight increase for English one and for biology. A slight decrease for English 2 um algebra 1 and uh US history. US history still performing um very strong at 97%. Um we know that English uh one and two were areas of focus at the high school this year. Um they put some systematic approaches in place especially for the retesters and um some students who needed those um interventions. And
051so we're going to go back and and look at those measures and see what we can build on as well. Comparing our Lake Dallas students across the region and the state, we can see our English they in English one, English to biology and US history. Our Lake Dallas students um performed at higher levels um in achieving higher levels than um their peers in region 11 and across the state. Algebra 1 still a bit of a dip there. um CCMR data. One thing to note, I put an asterk there because although all of this is preliminary data until uh July, CCMR is in a verification window. And if we remember CCMR and graduation is that lagging data. So, it's 25 2025 accountability, but these are 2024 graduates for CCMR. And so, we are in a verification
052window through the month of June, going back and checking every piece of CCMR. Right now, it is showing 75%. Over um the previous year at 48%. And graduation is holding at 99.7. One thing to note um just overall is the it's impressive the the amount of professional development that the teachers and the instructional coaches and the principles have been motivated to pursue this summer. I see it all comes across my desk. Dr. Brown sees it. We see it. um curriculum training, math training, literacy training, early childhood training, Apple training. They are going and getting this and they started in April, but they're doing this all summer long um to prepare. So when they come back in August, they are ready. Um and so that that's very commendable that they they want to do this and
053they're they're seeing that this improvement is there. Um, and so it's just that systematic approach to implementing that high quality curriculum, having that professional development, and having that ongoing support in place as well. Any questions? Thank you, ma'am. Any questions from the board? Miss Collier, go ahead. Um, I mean, I assume you're doing this, but I I have a lot of concern in the middle school. Seems like there's not been growth, there's been decrease, but this this is still the same test that they took the year before, right? It didn't change. Okay. So, I'm going to answer in what I I believe your question was was going towards. Um, do we have any idea why there? Yeah. and and it is a concern um in looking at seventh grade showed some some growth in reading,
054eighth grade showed growth in math. Some things that we have put in place are transition meetings from fifth to sixth grade. This year counselors um administrators sat down and talked about every student coming in from fifth to sixth grade to make sure we know those students. What do they need? Are they achieving at high levels? Do they just need encouragement? Do they need a mentor? Do they need intervention? What do they need to better know them before they get into the classroom and that first assessment hits? So, some pieces that were not there before will be there now. Um the um consistent um implementation of the curriculum will be there for math. It was there for science. We're going back and looking at if there were what else is needed, what support is needed for
055for the teachers and the students and the administrators to make sure that the understanding is there for for the science as well as for the math. And then also looking at the reading pieces. So there's a lot that is in place now that was not there before. Um, it's interesting that in the reading your sixth and eighth grade went down, but your seventh grade I thought that was just interesting. Right. Yeah. I mean, just slightly, but that's right. It is. And when we when we have more final data, we'll be able to dig in and say, is this this cohort of students? What have they done the previous year? Yeah, we've already started doing some of that. look, but it will be um a much more in-depth look when we have it all um to
056be able to see what are the needs of this cohort group. How were they as sixth graders? We see them as seventh graders. So, now we can see them again as we can see them as eighth graders, but also looking at last year's eighth graders versus this year eighth graders. So, there's different ways to look at it and and seeing what their needs are. Can I add something to that? And then algebra one is that tested in don't do we have some middle school kids taking algebra one? Right. We do. So there are the algebra one in middle school. Right. But then it went down in the algebra one in high school. Right. Right. It's interesting. Algebra one at the middle school, those students um are high achieving in math. Oh, right, right, right. Okay.
057They are they are high achieving. Um they are taking it a year earlier than their peers. So they're okay. At ninth grade, um some more of those math challenges, right? And my perceptions around math sometimes change as a ninth grader and sometimes there are more hurdles to get over as a ninth grader. But it's absolutely an area of improvement. That makes sense. Thank state has also increased the required percentage of eighth graders taking algebra 1 to 40% of the class. So we're seeing more and more of the students that are higher performing taking it in eighth grade and then the uh students at the other 60% are not taking it and so you tend to see a little bit more of a struggle at high school as well. I just wanted to point out your
058question about middle school. Um you know Mrs. Boan was part of the TEA instructional redesign process at Corinth Elementary and so she is uh bringing that work to the middle school. Okay. And that process is not just curriculum if they really dig into tier one instruction but it a lot of that training is around coaching and feedback and working with teachers in the classroom and so she is preparing to bring that to the middle school also. So uh Dr. Sullivan had started that process with the middle school. Um they allowed us to add the middle school to that um late spring if I remember correctly grant and so we we kind of started the process there but we're excited that she's been trained and she's able to bring that her knowledge and her success at
059Corinth Elementary to the middle school as well. Yes. Because I remember her presentation to us at a workshop of how she has improved that campus. So that's she's going to be bringing that model to to the middle school. Okay. Um I alluded to that. I should have gone into more detail about partnering with region 11 and bringing that coaching piece there uh for the administrators, the instructional coach as well as the teachers. It's a full systematic approach. Okay, sounds like we have a plan. Okay, any other questions or comments? All right, that'll do it. Appreciate it. Then we'll move on to our next items, which are the which is the consent agenda. Consent agenda is those routine items that can be handled in one motion. Do I have a motion on the consent? I move
060to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? A second by Mr. Tucker. Is there any discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. Move on to our action items. The first of which is consideration approval of TASBY policy update 125. Dr. Brown. Yes, sir. you have the full packet there in in your uh in your on your screen, but I'm just going to run through a couple of updates. Um you'll remember that we only uh vote or we y'all don't let me vote. Y'all only vote on uh on the um local policies, not the legal policies. So BDAA local um removes the option for board members to assign clerical duties to an employee and that is to align to the new
061legal policy as well. um BDB local um has to do with the organization and the committees and outlines the process if the board assigns committees and what what that process looks like. BDF local has to do with ID um advisory committees specifically that um each board member has the opportunity to appoint someone to an advisory committee and then it uh addresses that the action taken is in a board meeting not as part of the advisory committee EI local um previously when students and this is a TASBY this wasn't a specifically Dallas change it's a TASBY change um a student that has a a average of a grade. So, semester 1 and semester two and they averaged a passing grade. They were given the passing grade. It now requires school districts to look at the combined
062grade. So, if a student fails the first semester but passes the second semester, they're not uh we're not permitted to require them to retake the full class. They can only be required to take the portion of the class in which they failed. Um FDE local um adds bullying as to as a list of offenses in which um we must collect data and allows for school safety transfers. And FEC um local is the attendance for credit. The it it now does not allow an administrator to give the equal amount of seat time in which the student missed. Now it must go to the attendance committee and the attendance committee assigns that seat time. So that's the the very broad overview. If you have any questions on specifics, we can answer those. All right. Any questions or
063comments? If not, I'll entertain a motion on this TASBY policy update. Motion to approve by Miss Collier. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Applebe. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Okay. Our next item is consideration approval of TASBY director candidate for region 11. Dr. Brown. Yes, sir. You have one uh TASBY candidate that's listed there, Julie Cole from HBISD. The u the candidates position term would be from 25 to 2025 to 2028. And so you're voting to approve or not approve because you only have one candidate. Limited options. but I think she's a good one anyway. Um, any questions or comments on this item? If not, I'll entertain a motion. I move to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Baird. Uh, do
064I have a second? Second by Miss Collier. Thank you. Any further discussion on this? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. All right. And our last action item is consideration approval of 2526 professional new hires. Oh, there she is. You, me, you. We recommend as I was totally thrown off by that. We recommend as a approval as presented in close session. Sounds fantastic. Is there any questions or comments from the board? If not, I'll entertain a motion. There's Who was that? Oh, that was Applebee. Mr. Mr. Applebee. Couldn't tell if that was him or Mr. Tucker. All right. I have a motion by Mr. Applebee to approve. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Bartley. Thanks, by the way. Um, any further discussion? If not, all those
065in favor of approve approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you very much. Our next item, our calendar announcements and uh information and our upcoming meetings. Dr. Brown. Yes, sir. You have a calendar there. You do have a schoolboard training uh later this week and then uh you have a couple of other things listed there. July 21st is our next regular board meeting. All right. Very nice. Um the open session of the meeting will adjourn. The board of trustees will reconvene an executive session pursuant to one or more of the sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act, chapter 551, the Texas Government Code. The board of trustees will reconvene an open session and take any final action, decision, or vote on a matter deliberated in executive session. It is 717. [Music] Your name is
066[Music] Thanks for joining us. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] in the [Music] Okay, it is uh 7:30 and we are back in um open session. Uh we do have one action item and is considering to take action on superintendent contract and compensation. Do I have any questions or comments regarding this item? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Thank you. Uh, that's a motion by Mr. Applebee. Uh, do I have a second? Second by Mr. Bartley. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval of this item, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you very much. Okay, it is 7:31. We have concluded our business for the evening and we are adjourned. Thank you.