001good evening staff and community members As We Gather here tonight we do so with heavy hearts as we mourn the loss of two members of our district family last week we were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of two Lamar cic Elementary teachers both who dedicated their lives to shaping the minds and hearts of our students their passion for teaching left a profound impact on countless lives in honor of their memory I ask that we observe a moment of silence thank you please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance and the pledge to the Texas flag Le led by sixth grader javel umaya from Navaro Middle School IED to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
002all honor flag I pledge alance to the Texas one State under God one individ Dr nens are there any recognitions or Awards yes ma'am I'll turn over to missco Hamilton we have quite a few recognitions and board we can go out to the front trustees Dr nens and the Lamar CISD community and those who have joined us in person tonight fresh off our spring break we have so much to celebrate around our campuses and district and this evening we are proud to highlight several groups for the individual District State and even National accolades even some Heroes who saved a precious life so I'm proud to amplify these achievements and celebrate these recognitions with you this evening first thanks to the Swift actions taken by Lamar CISD athletic trainer Stacy budro Stewart Lamar CISD police officer
003Edgar viegas and sophomore student athletic trainers Hannah Thomas and Braden wheeler a Lamar Consolidated High School student can breathe a sigh of relief for the foreseeable future on February 22nd during track practice at Lamar Consolidated High School it started routinely enough until a student collapsed outside the Fieldhouse at trailer Stadium the student had no pulse and was not breathing student trainers Thomas and Willer responded quickly to retrieve the defil def def defi defibrator defil defibrillator and give paramedics access to the stadium as paramedics were in route Bruto Stewart attached the AED and began performing CPR eventually officer V has arrived on site and took over the CPR duties incidently March is National athletic training month which recognizes the important work that athletic trainers perform daily and it's a privilege to honor this entire group for
004their efforts we have a token of appreciation this evening to present to honor their heroic efforts I'm gonna get my colleague Dr weights with me Miss JC Stewart Hannah Hannah [Applause] Thomas bradden Willer and officer Vias we've got two one from us and then from the police chief we've got a special pin for our officer and he's going to be pinned by police chief Henry Garcia first award ever awarded to a Consolidated police officer in the history I'm proud that you're a part of this team thank you so much for being here y'all are an incredible group of people and I'm blessed to have an officer of your statute of my thank you I know yeah group photo with the trustees yeah come on over to the trustees he can switch he Hannah can you
005two switch there we go okay it's better a little better offic Vegas one more special note I just learned that as of August or July 1st you take on your special assignment as sergeant in Lamar CSD congratulations so continuing with our acknowledgements in Fall 20123 we recognize six seniors who were selected as National Merit semi-finalists and now for the first time District history the same group of six have advanced to become National Merit scholar finalists each scholar now stands to earn a coveted National Merit Scholarship institutional Awards prestigious corporate scholarships and financial aid packages this is a tremendous honor for Lamar CISD and is a testament to the rigor of our College and Career Readiness programs and opportunities here to be recognized this evening from George Ranch High School Jake Miller diang song Ryan skanner
006from Foster High School Lucen we rayan Al mck and Brooks Bryant from fure high [Applause] school and could we have the principles also joined for the photo op if those principles are here we've got George Ranch Foster and fure [Applause] every year the Texas dance Educators Association all state dance team is comprised of hundreds of dancers selected by their dance teachers for their outstanding ability team leadership and campus leadership in January these dancers spend 3 days participating in an exciting convention that includes workshops leadership training master classes and networking with other dancers throughout the state the allate dance team experience culminates in a performance designed by a master choreographer and showcase to teachers and administrators from high school and college this year six dancers were selected to represent Lamar CISD on the tdea all state
007dance team I will announce the student dancers and I would like to invite the students parents and teachers to stand when their students name is called representing fure High School uh storm dance team is Junior Megan Ser Megan was a storm co- Captain this year she's a member of the National Honor Society and her parents are Erica and Jean her mom Erica also happens to be her dance teacher representing the Randall High School Royals dance team is Junior Katherine tnos Katherine served as the head captain of the royal dance team and she's also in the National Honor Society her parents are Tanya and Ishmael oh and tane oer is her dance teacher representing George Ranch a larette is senior Campbell Balden oh Campbell didn't make it tonight we we'll go to our representing Terry High
008School rangerettes is senior Emily Emy Pratt Emily served as the colonel of the rangerettes and she plans to attend Texas A&M University there you go a major Neuroscience her mother is Rebecca Rodriguez and Sarah turle is her dance instructor representing representing Lamar High School Phillies is senior mallerie Rodriguez mallerie served as a Col the Philly dance team she's also president of the student council and is a POS Foundation scholar she plans to attend Vanderbilt University on a full ride scholarship where she will major in elementary education woohoo her parents are Elizabeth and aan Rodriguez and Ambria Johnson is her dance instructor representing Foster High School flares is senior Len Bashan Lena Lena served as Colonel of the Flair's dance team and she's also in Varsity tennis as well as the African students Association she plans
009to major in engineering and her parents are Lola and John Wanita Velasquez is her dance instructor thank you congratulations to these ladies go take your [Applause] picture congratulations ladies okay now we will recognize our Texas mus music educators Association All State musicians thousands of student musicians from across Texas regions and conferences auditioned through multiple levels of competition and cuts to become the elite in their respective vocal and instrumental fields in Lamar CSD we had 18 High School musicians qualify for the 2024 tmea Allstate competition which is a record high and places these music scholars in the top 3% in the state of Texas these students represented this evening performed in the All State bands choir and orchestras in San Antonio last month in February when I call the student musicians I would like for the
010students parents and teachers to please stand as they are called the students joining us from George Ranch High School orchestra choir and band from Orchestra senior OFA subar OFA is Lamar sii's first All State Orchestra musician he's a two-time All State musician who performed in the All State Phil harmonic Orchestra on double Bas his college is undecided but he will major in computer science and his parents are noren and Muhammad he is a student of rert Parker from choir we've got senior soprano Crow Waters Crow is a two-time allate soprano she performed in the All State mix choir and plans to attend the University of Houston and major in music performance and her father is Andrew Waters senior Junior Tanner Harris Mania Harris also performed in all state mix choir his parents are aun and
011feros manaa cro and Harris are students under direction of Charles Williams and in band we've got Tim Cranston is a sophomore tubist and Tim was a brand new was a band section leader this year and will Cranson is a sophomore tronis and will is also on the tennis team Tim and Will are brothers and they are both accepted to it expected to attend the interlockin Arts camp in Michigan which is a prestigious accomplishment and their parents are Sarah and Kevin Cranston Spencer fman is a senior percussionist and Spencers in the top 5% of his class he plants to ATT the University of Texas at Austin and major in music and his parents are Michael and Jennifer ple Hall all three students are under the direction of Chris crumel and Thomas pza the following oh come
012on back for your picture kiddos these are George Ranch students not yet not yet pure and I get our George ran kiddos [Music] all right now we'll bring on those Chargers the following students are joining us from the fure high school band Junior trumpet Joshua Morell Joshua was a two-time Allstate musician who was in the All State 5A symphonic band in addition to being in the band he was a regional cross country qualifier his parents are Melissa and [Music] Peter Noah hup is a junior based tronis who performed in the All State syona Orchestra in addition to being a member of the band he is in the National Honor Society and is currently in the top 1% of his junior class his parents are Rebecca and David and both students are under the direction of
013Andrew Lee Dr Kenneth Cox and Christine you all can take your picture now and Dr Christine minkov those are our fure high school Chargers give it up for [Applause] fure all right we've got one student from Terry high school it's junior trombon is Favio Marquez folo is in the 5A All State symphonic band his parents are Marcella and rilio Marquez FAO is a student of Tim Taylor congratulations [Applause] Fabio congratulations and our last group of students were celebrating are from the faler high school Falcon choir and band Junior Soprano Kate Martin Kate was in the All State mixed choir Kate had a supporting role in the musical this year she is also a top 10% a member of student council and the national hon society and our parents are Karen and Matt she's a student
014of Jason Carson Foster High School band had eight All-Star students this year Jackson Ingram is a junior French hornist and he is a two-time Allstate musician he was recently selected to perform in the National Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall this summer he will tour with the orchestra at some of the world's greatest music capitals including venues in South Africa and his parents are Regina and Cedric Ingram Brenham Flores is a junior based CL clarinettist he is a clarinet section leader this year and is a member of the National Honor Society his parents are Winnie Flores and Archie roas Matthew Bok is a two-time junior All State Alto saxophonist he's also in the National Honor Society and and is the top 2% of his class his fanss are Maddie and Michael Cen Lim is a junior
015clarinetist he was the band section leader a member of the National Honor Society and is an A honor rooll student his parents are Mandy and Allen Cassandra Davies is a senior piccolo player she was a drum major in the band a member of the National Honor Society and an a-roll student she will attend the University of Houston and double major in nursing and music performance in parents of Maria and Wilson Davies Anish pogy is a senior eonian player Anish received a national marit scholar letter of commendation and he will attend the University of Texas at Austin and major in physics his parents are payal and Todd [Music] pagy Morgan s is a senior clarinettist she was a woodwin captain of the band she will attend the University of Houston and major in business her parents
016are Angela and Eric son and not in attendance this evening but still probably representing Foster High School is nor LOM nor LOM is a sophomore baritone saxophonist he's an AB honor rooll student his parents are faki and Maha Lam y these students are taught by Band directors Eric son and Brian almond and Jeremy Salsbury Jeremiah Salsbury thank you congratulations to all of our Wonder beauti State [Applause] musicians gorgeous thank you [Music] kiddos okay yes yes now y'all can go your work is done okay trusty and finally our last recognition of the evening might fill your stomachs and your hearts last month the annual Lamar educational Awards Foundation men who cook fundraiser sizzled with success and raised approximately $190,000 in sales revenue the funds will support student enrichment opportunities and enhance educator resources across the district
017First Financial and pbk Architects presented the fundraiser with 76 celebrity chefs whooping up their tastiest dishes in a friendly competition in addition to the title sponsors are more than 52 event sponsors including nine Underwriters Equitable act advisors Houston Methodist Johnson development K Dan zigger signorelli fotron NCA kaloa and fluger this event would not have been possible without the generous support of our sponsors so we thank them for supporting Lamar CISD and that concludes our recognitions this evening thank you so much for your time uh Dr nens are there any introductions no ma'am Madam president there are not okay we'll now have board member report uh trustees if you can keep your comments and reports to one to-do minutes that would be great y okay you want to go well it's it was spring break and
018everything going on not as much as I we usually get done but before spring break I was asked to come read to some classes at Austin Elementary and velocis Elementary and is for re across americ of course it's one of my joys to read to the young children and of course it was also Dr Seuss's birthday so I took my bag of Dr Seuss books but I appreciate being invited I appreciate the teachers and of course the kids were just phenomenal and then I do want to give a shout out to uh the fort B County retired Educators Association uh every year we have a uh we collect books and we collected over 200 books this year and the recipients was Thomas Elementary this year and about 10 of us showed up last week and
019uh were able to go to the prek K and first grade classes and again the kids were phenomenal they were so sweet we write in the books we tell them what the they get to choose which book they want we put a whole bunch of books out and what's so cute we were barely out the door and they were running to us with thank you notes so not only are they amazing but of course you know the teachers and the kids were uh made us feel so appreciated but I thank the uh members of the chapter and all the hard work they do to collect the books and we'll pick another school for next year and that's it thank you okay um Dr nens do you have a superintendent report just uh two brief ones
020uh I want to I want to make sure we don't we don't uh there's a lot of movement I want to make sure we we pay particular attention to two of the celebrations tonight one was our National Merit Scholars you know those those young people they are in they are in the top 05% I mean that's less than 1% of of students in the state of Texas that is a humongous deal that is and I talked to him earlier and I said I can't imagine how how proud your parents are uh but they are in the top 05% of students in Texas so that is that is tremendous honor for those young people uh secondly you know we recognize the trainer uh the police officer and two student trainers I want to make sure that
021that we hear um uh that that student was really clinically dead like that student's heart stopped beating and the trainer jumped into action and used a defibrillator um actually she was doing CPR with the officer and then one of the student trainers saw that she didn't have a defibrillator and they went inside and got it without being told right and so um and saved that young man's life and so I want to make sure we don't pass over that because you know most of us in this room have our own children and I tell people you don't know until you have your own kid and you know that young man got up that morning went to school and his parents were expecting to see him that night with no issues uh and because of the
022trainer they were able to still see him in the hospital breathing but uh he had stopped breathing for about five minutes I believe and so uh you know I tell the staff you know life is short life is fragile hug your babies hug your family uh you know everything we're doing is serious but it's not that serious right and so I want to make sure that we that we really pay attention to to life you know life life is life is good and so I'm very happy uh for our staff to jump in action and our student trainers jump in action and that young man is in school now being able to enjoy uh his life as a young man so you know I want to make sure we don't pass those over those are
023those are very two significant events in the marcid thank you Dr nens um Miss Johnson are there any public comments it is the desire of the Lamar CISD Board of Trustees to appropriately and effectively fulfill its governance role in accordance to best practices for Quality organizations and to the applicable provisions of the Texas Education Code trustees also desire to afford an opportunity for input from the public members of the community who wish to address the board must have completed a public participation public comment card and submitted it before the presiding officer called the meeting to order public participation allows individuals to address the board regarding posted agenda items public comment allows individuals to address the board regarding non-agenda items trustees may not respond to public comments as they are prohibited by law from discussing or
024deciding any subject that is not on the board's publicly noticed agenda all patrons Desiring to speak and who have completed the Public Public participation public comment form will be heard during public comment or participation portion of the meeting before final board action is taken on an agenda topic while speakers generally have five minutes to address the board the presiding officer May establish an overall time limit for public participation and public comment and adjust the time allotted to each speaker when necessary to accommodate a large number of speakers however no speaker shall be given less than 1 minute all of this is in compliance with HB 2840 each speaker tonight will have five minutes if two or more individuals are speaking on the same topic the district strongly encourages speakers to consolidate their comments to allow
025for additional time on the topic each speaker must address the board from the podium provided unless special accommodation have been requested and approved speakers are to present their remarks to the board and not the audience speakers having complaints against individual District employees or trustees may only address the ab only address the board after filing a complaint form and in the manner provided for in board policy the presiding officer or design shall determine whether a speaker has filed a complaint according to policy any speakers who complain of individual District employees or trustees during public participation public comment will be directed by the presiding officer to stop addressing the board and will refer the speaker to the appropriate complaint policy Schoolboard meetings are meetings held in public but are not public meetings while the board values hearing
026from members of the public trustees will not answer questions or respond to comments from patrons speakers will not engage in dialogue with the trustees please state your name when you come forward our first speaker is Justin Parker good evening lcisd board thank you for letting me speak tonight my name is Justin Parker I come to you as a concerned father of two Elementary age students currently attending an lcisd school it's been brought to my attention that there's a teacher at the middle school and Junior High School level that uh is currently Moonlighting and openly displaying himself as a crossdresser this teacher I'm referring to is sha Saunders known as jacqulyn Dior when dressed as a woman currently teaching at w Heimer in Brisco as you can see in the pictures that I've brought uh that
027I've obtained from his Instagram account which is public and available for anyone to see including children in his class uh a few of these pictures uh on his Instagram in uh using inappropriate hashtags and uh inappropriate sexual hashtags some of these captions and these pictures are sometimes I get to step out as a boy to perform it's a fantasy tonight dressed as a queen you'll hit the right note with me I found all the hotties while standing next to men dressed in nothing but a pair of underwear spaghetti and meatballs is on the menu wearing a necklace in the shape of what I can assume is a reference to male genitalia just a light shopping posing next to two pictures of men and underwear do I make you horny baby dressed as a woman category
028is holiday sugar ball peppermint for your breath while wearing women's clothes covered in peppermint candy letting the girls hang out referring to his breasts smart school girl fantasy dressed as a female School student I hope to see you tonight dressed as a woman cartoon character from a children's show serving gay Jafar for Halloween dressed as a female version of a male cartoon character from a children's movie my hips are here now I have tits and ass while wearing women's undergarments some of my favorite shoots some of my favorites from the shoot which uh with his shirt unbutton and provocative poses according to the Texas administrative code of ethics title 19 part 7 chapter 2 47 rule 247.290000 was sexually explicit it was line five line six whether the communication involved discussion of the physical or
029sexual attractiveness or the sexual history activities preferences or fantasies of either the educator or the student while this might not be direct communication with the students the fact this is a public Instagram account which students can see this form of communication I know you may may thinking this type of behavior may not have impacted the children in this teaching and I can tell you that it has I've been told firsthand by multiple students that know about his Instagram account and what he does he even addressed it in the classroom threatening students that make fun or bring it up that quote I will sue your parents if it's mentioned this is unacceptable how does this man who dresses as a woman and openly promote drag queen contests and other sexual activities get through any kind of
030background check prior to his employment in the lcisd school district as a youth football coach myself I know this his behavior is unacceptable and I would not be allowed to coach why have parents whose children are in the choir program or at the school for that matter not been warned by the school counselors or the district prior to their children attending this class children spend as much time if not more in school with teachers than they do at home these children are age when they're impressionable vulnerable and mostly confused and more important most importantly confused teachers jobs are to educate yet so many teachers are more than just Educators they're mentors confidants in a lot of cases the only form of an adult that a child has to look up to I know when I
031was a student I looked up to and admired my teachers and confided in them in many of them during difficult times what kind of message is this man sending to children who have access to his Instagram account my job as a father is to protect my children and as a Christian man I'm taking the responsibility to protect all the children at these schools from this type of perversion I'm asking your help by removing this perversion from being accessed by our children I know all of you either have young children or have children that attended Public Schools so my question to each of you is would you want your kids to be exposed to this because I do not that's it that's all the public comment okay at this time we will take action on the
032consent agenda are there any items that the board would like to pull okay let's see may I have a motion to approve the current consent agenda make motion okay Miss daniger and uh is there a second Mr Welch okay any discussion I'll now yes yes I'll Now call for the vote all in favor of approving the consent agenda say I any opposed motion carries okay and uh we will now have reports and presentations on the future action items all right Madam president I'll turn over to Mr banan good evening board Trust and Dr nens tonight we want to bring forth a discussion about the schematic design for the new brazes Crossing um this site is located um south of Avenue I from Trailer Stadium across from the service center again excuse me again this parking
033lot on the uh west side of the building has been laid out to expand the visitor parking and the parking for trailer Stadium using the existing traffic control light the programming which is of the facilties will be utilized by these areas would be curriculum instruction communication Finance Human Resources operations superintendent and student services so our floor plan on the first floor if you'll look on the top section that is the two large meeting rooms that can be divided or one large meeting room that can be divided into two it also has six smaller meeting rooms um along that side just south of that is the Board Room um that is laid out there moving across you have the human resources department the finance department and student services um the reason those three are located on
034the first floor is because easy access we have a lot of students and parents and staff that meet with those three areas on the second floor um the large teal section is curriculum instructions so that puts all of curriculum instruction um now they're scattered throughout all underneath one um area so they're all contained in one space and then on the Northern side of the building which is this PR Peach area would be the superintendence office operations and Communications so the project timeline um right now we're on schedule to have a a guaranteed maximum price the first one in October of 2024 our second one in October of 2025 um construction will begin in November of 2024 and then construction completion um is estimated to be at the end of April of 2026 are there any
035questions no questions all right board next we will have Miss Sonic Hamilton and Mr buan all right I would like to invite Vanessa Mar to join us you can have a SE in the front row let's also have Christina Garcia and Danielle also join us on the front row all right trusty so in a growing school system it is inevitable that we're going to three visit our attendance boundaries to accommodate our hyper growth and in Lamar CISD we have three approaches to managing our growing enrollment cap and overflow that's when we stop enrollment at a campus and we send students to a neighboring campus um another option is we simply build new campuses and when we build new campuses we rezone to create the population of students who will attend that campus and our third
036approach is leveling and that's what we're going to discuss this evening and leveling is when we look at the enrollment in our existing campuses we identify the campuses that are over enrollment we identify the campuses that are under enrollment under capacity and we look how we can better balance students shifting attendance boundaries to create a more balance rment across campuses and so last month we had our attendance boundary committees meet and so before you on the screen this is the roster of the attendance boundary committee for the central Lamar CISD leveling um committee members notated in Blue uh were present for one or both meetings and those who are gray out weren't able to join us in person um part of our process is to send out a survey to the impacted uh community of
037parents and so we sent 3,899 email addresses surveys to 3,899 email addresses and we received 747 responses that's 19% and on the screen you can see the breakdown of the campuses that provided responses essentially um based on their survey when we asked which option did they prefer overwhelmingly they preferred option four with 68% and so we presented um the survey information as well as the map options to our attendance Banner committee for them to to deliberate and decide um how they were going to rank the options and whether or not they were going to create an option and so this evening we've got um committee chair to share with you all the process as well as the outcome so for the central leveling this evening we have Miss Vanessa Mar joining us miss Mars good
038evening Dr nien Board of Trustees my name is Vanessa Marsters and I'm representing the central Lamar ABC I will be presenting the map recommendation as chosen by the committee before I present the recommendation on behalf of the committee we understand that the board is not required to form an ABC when leveling and resoning we want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to have a voice in this decision-making process one takeaway from the meeting is that it is of the utmost importance that those who accept the invitation or nominate themselves to serve on such a committee take the time to prepare for it at an absolute minimum having either attended or watched the previous board meetings this will ensure the committee members come front-loaded and prepared to make effective decisions based on background information
039already presented and decided that being said and keeping in mind the objectives and criteria set forth by the district map for uh map option four provides for the most relief to Frost Elementary which reduces overcrowding and allows for potential potential future growth from 125% to 91% it keeps an entire neighborhood together and considers the elementary students proximity to the campus 8.6 miles a 15minute drive compared to a 2.8 Mile Drive uh six minute drive and eliminates railroad crossings which provides for a safer route and traffic patterns eradicates moving a neighborhood previously affected by a rezoning as you can see the survey received 68% of the surveyed responses with option one at 20% and option two at 12% the ABC ranked the options and map 4 was ranked number one by the ABC re receiving 82%
040option one receiving 18% and option two receiving 0% the most important factor for the committee being that maps map option four provides for the least disruption of Central Lamar which is what is in the best interest of the students this was a eight versus 11 uh in disruptions the first two options had 11 disruptions and the fourth one had only eight so the committee recommends map option four with the standard Legacy provision does anybody have any questions no thank you Miss thank you so to continue with the reference the Legacy provision so that means current fourth grade students students who are going to be fifth graders next year um will be offered the opportunity to remain at their campus this Legacy provision is not extended to siblings and parents would have to provide transportation so
041trustees while this is not an action item for you this evening I do want to share what it looks like once you all do take action next month we're going to update the zoning page at the district website um with the final approved attendance zone maps and um we will notify the impacted families within 30 to 45 days of the board decision so likely the end of May and we will send messages to directly impacted families trustees are there any questions you have about this item at this time righty next it let's see where am I Hold On all right we wait one second one second uh this is the time in the meeting where the public has the opportunity to to participate Miss Johnson are there any public participations our first public participation speaker
042is Leslie graia hi I'm Leslie graia good good evening um Dr Evans and the Schoolboard trustees I wanted to talk about the leveling and um I wanted to ask you to please vote no to reling at this time for this year um based on the criterias and objectives that Lamar CD has outlined for themselves I don't feel those have been met some of these overlap but I'm going to go through them um the first one I would say is fairness um at the December workshop and board meetings there were no Jackson families present when a new map was made that option four map was made nobody from Jackson was here or present um we Kingdom Heights and the Jackson families were also I don't believe um fairly represented at the Abc I believe there was
043only one parent that actually showed up from Jackson at the ABC and um I don't think Kingdom Heights based on the proportion of what we're having to deal with were adequately represented at the Abc um another one I wanted to talk about is what's best for the students um we just heard that it this option four that was a voted uh the the best option that people thought it has less uh disruption by neighborhoods but not not students Kingdom Heights alone are going to disrupt 333 students we're moving out Riverside Terrace which would affect 86 students so the number of students is higher um and we also have on your objective criteria the effectiveness and the efficiency of this change Jackson will be over capacity very soon and there is no room for Portables again
044the projections for Kingdom Heights being built out we will be over 500 the projections are 500 students we are going to be way under way over capacity at Jackson Jackson and there's no room for portable so what's going to happen to our students are you going to move out the rest of the Jackson students currently there Kingdom Heights are going to be capped and overflowed somewhere else that's that goes back to fairness again um also campus capacity with this option four we still have three Elementary Schools running at half capacity if you move Kingdom Heights into Jackson and remove Riverside Terrace we're still running at 75 um I'm sorry 86% capacity at that time with no room to grow still and frost will still be at 91% capacity we have Schools running at 50% capacity
045why aren't more neighborhoods being moved out of frost to get that to that I think the number was 75% that Lamar CISD wanted the elementary schools to run at um I don't see how that's making any sense um and the proximity and the route you met half the capacity for I mean half the criteria for that because Kingdom Heights is closer to Jackson but we still do not have a safe route to get there I haven't really heard any kind of con comprehensive plan on how families from Kingdom Heights are going to get safely to Jackson and then again we're also busting students that are very close to Jackson Riverside Terrace they're going to be busted further away to another school um I don't see how that criteria is met either um and last to
046communicate information to all the students and families Jackson again was left out no one was there at those board workshops um and the board meetings and they were underrepresented at the Abc so I would really again like to ask the board to please vote no until we have time to have a better more fair comprehensive plan by what lcisd has outlined for themselves the criterias and objectives you outline for yourselves I don't think that's been met yet and if you wait a year to vote I mean if you vote no for this year and wait to give us more time to come up with a better plan that is fair for everyone I think that would be best so that's what I'm asking for Kingdom Heights and for the Jackson families we side terrorists particularly
047thank you our next speaker is Mary Barnes hello my name is Mary Barnes thank you Dr nens president bronzelle and trustees thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight I'm going to ask a rhetorical question because I know you can't respond um does anyone in this room believe that the area currently zoned to Foster High School is done constructing new homes anybody I think we all know the answer is absolutely not so I wanted to ask why all three options for the new maps um for the opening of tamas high school would move students that are currently zoned to Lamar Consolidated High School Lamar Junior High and westendorf middle school which are all running significantly under enrollment cap and move them into foster W Heimer middle school and Brisco Junior High which are all very
048very close to their enrollment cap or even overflowing already into Portables um moving students from low enrollment campuses to a high enrollment campus defies logic especially as we are still experiencing this hyper growth in the district and the population around Foster has grown significantly in the eight years since I've built my home in Kingdom Heights I can only assume within the next 5 years it's going to continue to grow where there are large plots of acreage and developers still buying land to develop on I would urge the board to reject these shortterm solutions that might solve problems for a year or two and look to the Future you we must ask for a fourth map to be developed for the Tomas resoning that does not move students into W Heimer Middle School Brisco junior high
049or Foster High School even with the addition of 500 new students at Foster this is illogical to me now in the ABC and before when we were talking about demographics and where Kingdom Heights could potentially be moved outside of Jackson we were told that the enrollment at Bentley Elementary which is a far more comparably rated school to frost which we are currently at um with the opening of trell and Elementary School 35 their enrollment numbers Dro significantly enough that we could be accommodated at Bentley as the numbers stand today um however we were also told that the where those numbers stand today isn't an accurate prediction of the future growth in Candela sento and other new neighborhoods so why wouldn't that same logic apply when we're talking about Foster High School Brisco Junior High and
050wordheimer middle school when we're looking at adding students from other areas into those schools I also want to use the remainder of my time to touch on a few things that are very important um I was shocked learning about the disparity of performance between Frost where my students my my children currently attend and Jackson Elementary School the rankings even if they don't matter to everyone in this room they're the only tool that we have to measure success of a school I feel that it's not the students fault it's not the parents fault definitely not the teachers fault at Jackson but to have a disparity of over 2,000 schools lower than Frost we're talking Frost is rated by the tea 135th in Texas out of 4500 elementary schools Jackson is rated 2,175 so that's a significant
051drop if you want to shuffle students around to address the hyper growth which I understand is a necessity you need to make sure that all schools are performing on a comparable level so Frost I understand as a top-notch school it's part of why we bought and built our home where we did we're devastated to lose it I have a first grader who can't be leged in my fourth grader hopefully will get to finish his final year at Frost where he's been since he was in kindergarten but all of the schools in this District should be performing at a level where you can move from one school to another without feeling a huge disparity and that is not the case between these schools so I will be an involved parent at Jackson I hope to help
052the school and the Educators there in any way possible but I just want to say as a district as a whole we have money we have passed bonds bring up the lower performing schools so that another neighborhood doesn't have to face what we're facing right now if they were all in the middle it wouldn't make any difference we'd be sad to leave our school but it wouldn't be the same crushing defeat that we are facing right now many people are pulling their kids out of public education choosing Charters homeschool even selling their homes so the Board needs to understand and address these issues it's extremely important finally I want to say to have only a few High performing schools makes the rest of us fight over these table scraps when we should be fostering a
053sense of community within all it shouldn't be we got ours they can get theirs I'm sorry your time's up thank you thanks a lot our next speaker is Matthew Jeter good evening excuse me good evening Board of Trustees Dr niens um I appreciate the opportunity to get to speak to you tonight my name is Matthew Jeter I'm a proud father of two uh elementary students at Frost uh and then we'll have a third next year what I what I want to talk about tonight is processes and facts so with the leveling we heard back in December there are a lot of emotions Dr nans you said you know you wanted to set the record straight about untruths that are out there um but the emotions that go through that with people potentially having their kids
054moved um based on the neighborhood that they live in uh and what they had previously planned for but change is inevitable and the fact is is that Frost was never designed to hold the current enrollment of students that it currently has which is close to 1100 it was designed to hold 854 um it was never designed designed to hold the 100 plus staff members that are there to manage those 1,78 students uh it was never designed Elementary was never designed to have seveny olds having 5 to eight minutes for lunch it was never designed for fifth graders to be going to the same restroom as a second grader as a first grader but it is adapted to that based on the current capacity that's at um Miss Foster and her staff do a tremendous job
055of managing that school campus and those students and we could not be more proud to be part of that family but the fact is is that it's overc capacity you entrusted the public to be part of a committee and the statistics of what was presented is 68% that said hey option four is the way that we should go it is it provides the most relief with the less impact for the schools y i urge you to continue with that process with what the committee has put forth before you to say that option four is the way to go and that's how we should proceed forward because right now Frost is overc capacity and if we choose that option or the board chooses that option based on what the ABC came up with then that provides
056relief for Frost and it spreads students through the other schools who are currently underc capacity so again the facts are is that Frost is overc capacity and it needs relief and we have the ability to vote on that you guys have the ability to vote on that to provide the relief now we should not wait another year because as it's been previously stated the area is continuing to see growth development there's still a lot lot of land in the fort bin County area that is under development and it's only going to continue to increase students are only going to continue to increase uh at the different schools but we have that opportunity to ensure that schools are properly leveled per the process that you ask us to be part of thank you our next speaker
057is Scott rickerson good evening my name is Scott rickerson live in the Kingdom Heights neighborhood I was on the uh ABC for the Frost Elementary uh leveling I didn't I also felt like we weren't that well represented I was one of the few that was from Kingdon Heights and we were out voted on the on all those numbers that were shown we wouldn't have we we really didn't have any options the only options was option four to keep our neighborhood together we agreed to do that and and that was the only option that we saw that but we still no one in our neighborhood actually liked it we wanted to stay at Frost we feel like uh the discrepancy between Frost Elementary and Jackson I've got the the Texas Education agency's rankings Frost 131 Bentley
058which was an option previously for our neighborhood apparently when they were building it but it changed real quick because there's so much building in that area was 508 Jackson is 2142 you've got over a 2,000 Difference by the tea rankings between Frost and Jackson so our kids are going from a top ranking school to a fairly low ranking school there's 2,000 different in in the rankings of all elementary schools in Texas I I believe the word fairness which I drive by wor himer School almost every day and I see out in front the citizen awareness board or whatever they call it this month it's fairness and I think fairness let's let's try and be fair we our neighborhood has never tried to to tell any other neighborhoods that you should be going here you should
059be going there we all felt like we were attacked for one and blindsided for two uh there is options of waiting a year because that new school the new schools going in is going to alleviate a lot of a a lot of students going to Bentley Bentley is projected in next year the 2425 they have 716 they have room for 854 in 2526 it's only 526 they have room for 854 so if you wait one year there's an option to send us to a more comparable school there's the fairness where the fairness comes and where it was brought up the there shouldn't be such a discrepancy going from one school or another and I don't think it hurt it it it helps anybody that neighborhood that in Jackson there was one representative at the Abc
060from Jackson that was brought up and she was in tears because she grew up in that neighborhood her kids have gone to that neighbor walked to that school and now her whole neighborhood's going to be busted away and she's lived there her whole life and and went to that school herself and and and raised her kids there and expected to to be able to do the same there now now she was in tears when when it came to the end and because now her neighborhood that she's lived in her whole life is going to be totally changed and the and the kids can't even walk to school anymore know that's that's where fairness Comes In fairness comes in with the amount of money that's poured into the district we're going from a high rated school
061to probably the old old school in the district I'm not sure but I just by doing a little research Jackson is is is a very old school and it's like we we've we've voted to to pass the the bonds we passed the bonds but yet we're going from a highly rated School backwards after supporting the district and and and trying to to to grow and and bu and build schools so we're we're going from a a a very highly rated School a newer school back to an old school so I mean it's it's like there's your fairness again uh I I appreciate your time I I wish you'd take into consideration of just holding off one year waiting for Bentley the numbers to change and and uh have an option to to get us to
062go to Bentley for our neighborhood to go to Bentley for the for the foreseeable future because it's it's a little bit more more comparable School defrost thank you our next speaker is Lance Williams good evening appreciate the opportunity to come and speak and also represent uh Frost Elementary on the ABC uh my name is Lance Williams I am the dad of three Lamar CISD students one at Frost who is he in third grade he's in third grade still uh and a grader and a sophomore um Brisco and then at Foster um I just wanted to come up I guess I want to change a little bit before I get to what I wanted to say because I've got five minutes and I'm used to two or one in this room um and I am a
063pastor so I talk long so there you go uh nonetheless I would like to say this I think um for all my wife is also a teacher at Frost which I've tried to keep out of the public um my comments anyways um she's there she has to deal with all the things that Mr Jeter was talking about on a daily basis they are doing a great job managing all the chaos um to delay for another year I think would be I don't want to use a u too much of a word here but it's it would be catastrophic for that campus just having um the amount of students in that in that building um it's got to be limiting uh up against the limits of the fire code but uh I would just plead with
064y'all to not do that having said that the reason why I wanted to come up tonight was very simple and I think I can do this in three minutes and less or 45 seconds or less is just to thank y'all uh to thank y'all for being humble um humility usually uh it gets paired with curiosity and with listening and I sense that y'all have done that y'all have restored my faith in local politics I don't know if y'all consider yourselves local politicians but I do um y'all have restored my faith in that um in that y'all have gone out of your way to hear us um even when it's been angry even when it's been a bit incoherent y'all have responded I think with Grace and humility and that's been evidenced by the by the
065process that you've gone through so far so I just want to come up and tell all of you thank you uh for being humble and curious and having listening listening ears but especially the two Trustees of uh trusty hotel and trusty Welch who I don't think represent me as a homeowner maybe you do I don't really see or understand how that works out um but um without your uh creativity problem solving abilities practicality even miss bronzelle bringing up maps that it felt like in the room didn't make a lot of sense but I knew why you were doing it it was to show like there's no other option this Bentley option that keeps being brought up was proved to not be an option in a board meeting that's still online somewhere again with the new
066elementary school was proved to not be an option it seems like y'all have done in my estimation everything you can do to make everyone happy and yet you know you can't do that and I know that you can't do that we all know that you can't make everyone happy but you have done your best to listen and to attempt to do that and make the most Folks at least happy uh I know that the kingdom Heights folks will disagree with that and I I I I don't know what to do with that but I do want to say thank you uh for you to especially for bringing practicality and humility uh creativity and curiosity uh to be able come up with a solution which did turn for my neighborhood in ban Lakes um a situation
067that was of Maximum loss and minimal gain maximum loss in my neighborhood minimal gain for the district and it's turned the tide now to where be a will hopefully and I don't know how this is all going to shake out it's yet to be determined but um ultimately even if it doesn't turn out that way I would still say thank you for being humble and and and having listening ears for all of us um I would also like to say thank you to the ABC members uh that could have been a real ugly couple days and it wasn't even when we disagreed between Kingdom Heights and other neighborhoods it was cordial um it was mostly kind um it didn't get out of hand and I want to thank all of them for uh just being
068kind uh this can be we've seen it very emotional very difficult and so I just wanted to spend my time appreciating you all saying thank you for your efforts to make sure that there is a districtwide solution that is a little bit uh out of the box it wasn't on the first three and you were able to listen and establish a fourth option for I think the better of the whole District so thank you very much that's all the speakers we have all right Madam President we will have our uh Southeast Lamar CISD um presentation by Miss Miss Buchan again thank you Dr nens so you've heard the reason and rationale to why and how we approach our ran management and this is another item to present leveling much like the central Lamar we formed
069the southeast Lamar to address um leveling concerns on that side of the district the attendance boundary roster is featured on the screen right now those in blue attended one or both of the meetings and the individuals in Gray were unable to join us our chairs this evening are Christina Garcia and Danielle CR but during the ABC this committee had an opportunity to reverse to review survey data um surveys were sent to 4,288 email addresses we received 1,220 responses that equated to 28% and the survey results showed was pretty close 48% wanteded option one uh 52% preferred option three so at this time we will bring up our committee chairs to talk about their experiences and ultimately what the committee um would like to present to you all this evening as their ranking recommendation good evening
070uh Board of Trustees and Dr nens thank you for having us here to present our ABC's choice to the Board of Trustees we are honored to be the co-chairs for the southeast Lamar ABC I'm Danielle CR this is Christina Garcia we are both parents and Educators so we understand the impact that these difficult decisions have on both families and schools this process was necessary yet extremely challenging due to logistical constraints as well as the desire to disrupt as few homes as possible while still making a concerted effort to level campus enrollment Whenever there is rezoning or leveling in a district there's going to be disappointment because many students are potentially being separated from their friends their teachers in a school culture that they have been a part of changes hard especially for kids um and
071it was really important to us that we kept that in mind during these deliberations and as a committee we knew that it was important to make sure that we did this right in order to avoid being in the same situation over the next few years good evening I value how lcisd involves parents in the resoning process and gives them a voice LCC has been stated many times as a hypergrowth district and it's important to fully utilize the current facilities we have to balance the growth this is the second ABC committee I've been a part of and it's provided me with a deeper understanding of the difficult decisions school districts must make on a daily basis while the process is challenging as Danielle stated it is a necessary undertaking parent and students are very passionate about
072their schools and It's upsetting to all involved to relocate students to different campuses it's hard for students to be separated from their friends teachers and administrators as well as their Beloved School community our goal as a committee was to cause a least number of student disruptions while utilizing the current facilities to balance the overcrowding we work diligently as a committee to meet the zoning principes set forth by the district as a committee initially we set out to create a new map we worked really hard and came up with a few scenarios that were close to viable options however our goal was to choose a map that balanced the schools and provided student stability for the longest amount of time and that meant the committee um we were not able to come up with anything better
073than what was presented um we did overwhelmingly choose option three for a variety of reasons but most importantly the fewest number of students were impacted in this option um I think in option one it's over 700 students 759 students that were going to be rezoned in option three is 350 addition Al this option best utilizes the facilities in the Southeast and does not affect schools that were reorganized in 2022 option three breaks up the fewest neighborhoods and we felt very strongly that students should not be crossing highway 59 to get to their campus nor should students who currently walk to their campus have to change schools again to reiterate our ABC committee overwhelmingly chose option three additionally our committee supports the Legacy provision as well ing fourth graders to be grandfathered in for their fifth
074grade year Danielle and I both than would like to thank our campus principles for choosing us to be a part of this committee and thank the rest of the committee members for choosing us to be the co-chairs for the evening at this time we're open to any questions any of you board members may have thank you so as stated trustees even though this is a future action item part of the um plan would be to allow current fourth grade students the option of the Legacy provision which means that they'll be fifth graders next year and they can remain at their campus this option is not extended to siblings and parents would provide transportation and much like the previous presentation um trusty once you do take action we will update the zoning page at the website
075with the final approved attendant zone maps and then we will notify impacted families within 30 to 45 days of the board's decision which be by the end of May and we are going to send messages directly to those impacted families thank you any questions okay Madam president I I I want to make one comment um I I appreciate the chair the the co-chairs uh for coming and making a comment uh as a superintendent you know I'm the lead advocate for our students our staff and also for the board and so uh as they said you know they they tried to create a map and I sat in the room and we about an hour hour and a half and tried to create a map and um and uh could not create one that was better
076and so in that meeting I said you know we you know I have a team up here that's uh they're Experts of what they do they use a lot of data this mean this is what they do all day every day and um I made a comment that while some of the communications that the board and I received and my team received were nice and cordial um I would say 80% were not uh and they were very tactful they're very hurtful um um made some personal taxs at people at seven folks who are volunteering their time uh and other people who do this every day all day and so while we want the feedback uh the way you send the feedback is always better appreciated you know there's a famous author that said you know
077people seldom remember what you say but they always remember how you make them feel and so you know as my staff is here working every day doing the best they can and I have seven trustees up here volunteering at time and they could be at home right now now uh running elections paying money for signs and doing all the things that I asked them to do making the hard decisions I asked them to make you know I just ask the community you know when you when you disagree with what's happening in our school system first you know watch the board meetings get engaged get involved but when you have questions and comments they don't have to be attack full they don't have to be hurtful we don't have to disagree and be disagreeable we could
078disagree and still go have chocolate cake at the end of the disagreement right and so I just want to say that because as we continue to do this we are having grow school system uh and this is not the end we we are opening nine campuses in the next 18 months we're opening nine campuses in the next 18 months and so although we may not have to do this again you know next year it's going to happen again and any decision we make in the school system I need you to know that we have people that are doing the absolute best they can no one wakes up every morning and says what's the worst thing I can do for kids today no one does that and so as you're considering sending us feedback uh wrap
079it around something that's a little bit more positive so it could be it could be better received I I would appreciate that okay at this time we'll take action on the action items um bring all right it's the it's the Great Bean show tonight good evening board trustees and Dr n tonight we will bring forth a discussion and possible action for our uh design development for our CTE Center our St our CTE Center will be located at the corner of claer Hoff in Spur 10 our design committee uh these are our committee members this was option one that they looked at this was option two this was option number three and the ranking that the committee came up with was option three was ranked first at 14 votes option one second at 13 votes and
080option two third with five votes our bidding for this will be two separate gmps um first one will be in June of 24 second will be in September of 24 we're going to be begin Construction in October of 24 with a construction completion in June of 2026 with a fall of 26 opening are there any questions no questions okay um do I make this motion yeah is there a motion I I'll make a motion go ahead um I move that we accept the committee's ranking of option number three of as the first as as the option to go with okay is there a second second okay and any discussion no I I just want to say that the folks who might be tuning in now for the first time to hear conversations about this most
081of this conversation has been had in the last couple of months on previous meetings archived on YouTube on the on the Lamar channel so there has been discussion about it even though there's not tonight necessarily okay um I'll Now call for the vote all in favor say I I any opposed no motion carries all right next board we have item 10B Miss cooh hamson thank you sir and I would like to invite the following in attendance to come sit in the front row at this time Tiffany Moyer and Julie Gomez okay trusty so what Melton Elementary and Randle Elementary and Terell Elementary opening in August 2024 um and 35 and 36 opening in August 25 we've got to rezone some Elementary campuses to create the population of students who will attend these new campuses so
082this item is to talk about the Melton Randall and Elementary 36 attendance boundary committee the ABC roster is presented on the screen before you again those in blue were in attendance for one or both meetings and those in Gray were not able to join us our committee chair for this ABC is Miss Tiffany Moyer and much like our previous ABCs they did receive survey data as well as maps and this particular survey went to 4,42 email addresses we received 1,7 responses which was 24% and now for our rezoning we had two map options they had to select a preference for the 2425 school year and a 2526 school year so for the 2425 school year option one via the survey respondents was the preferred option and for the 2526 school year option one remained the
083preferred option at this time I am going to bring up Miss Mo so she can share her perspective as an ABC Committee Member hi hi good evening Dr nans and Board of Trustees I am Tiffany Moore I'm representing uh the purple track for the ABC during our process we studied each map and looked at the projected numbers given to us by the district and their employees um we tried to see if there was a better option out there by um using their computer program that showed us how many students were currently enrolled in different sections of neighborhoods um unfortunately we did not come up with a better option and we would like to recommend option one um be the new boundaries for our um track the reasons why we chose this option um it provided
084leveling for all of our campuses it did not move neighborhoods that were previously moved in a resoning um it helped keep buses off Texas Heritage Parkway um it was voted most from the survey that was sent home to the parents and staff um and it kept most neighborhoods together besides two sections that were in Tamron like I said we tried to see if it was possible to keep them in Tamron but it did not work out um by choosing option one we believe it did a good job in balancing the number of students at all schools and provided the least amount of disruption for students we also recommended that the Legacy program and um be allowed and all fourth grade students currently enrolled at their campuses be ow to continue in their fifth grade year
085thanks and so trusty as she stated that fourth that Legacy provision um would not be extended to siblings parents would provide transportation now trustees this is an action item for this evening so after you take action we will update the zoning page at the district website with the final approved attendant zone map and then within 30 to 45 days of your board decision this evening which would be the end of April we intend to notify um send messages directly to those impacted families now in addition trustees um with uh the opening of Milton Randall and the elementary school we had the chance to uncap some campuses as you know for about two years we've had to uh limit enrollment at some campuses so uncapping information will also be sent to those families and the Triple
086C is recommending that we apply Legacy provision in that instance as well meaning that any student who is a current fourth grader who will be a fifth grader can choose to remain at that overflowed campus should they decide and again per our Legacy provision the parents would have to provide transportation otherwise once we uncap a campus all students who've been overflowed will be um rezoned back to their original campus any questions yes ma'am does this map uncap almost all of the ones that are capped now or is any of them going to have to stay capped next year only yes ma'am we're going you want to speak so we're going to uncap the campuses yes ma'am we'll be uncapping lay Tamron Huggins and Morgan Morgan but not cuet well that is a that's item that's
087what oh I'm sorry sorry I'm getting I'm just like we getting ahead myself that's Lindsay any other questions no and okay um is there a motion I'll make the motion to consider approval of the Elementary attendance zones presented for number number one number one option for option go back make the motion that we accept option one presented by the committee is there a second box seconds um all in favor say I I I any opposed okay motion passes okay all right board now we have item 10 C thank you Dr nans so our final item regarding leveling rezoning is the rezoning for the attendance Elementary zones for Terell Elementary and Elementary 35 um Terell Elementary opens next school year Elementary 35 opens in August 25 the attendance boundary committee roster is displayed for you on
088the screen those in blue attended one or both meetings those in Gray were not able to join us our committee rep for this ABC is Miss Julie Gomez this committee much like the others did receive survey results this survey went to 5,157 email addresses we received responses from 1,2 48 which represents 24% um much like the previous item they had the chance to pick maps for the 2425 school year as well as a 2526 school year and so for the 2425 it was a pretty close split um with option three coming out slightly ahead with 37% preference but then we went to look at the next school year option one came out slightly ahead with a 37% preference and so this evening we do have our committee chair here to talk through the committee process
089and rank and answer any questions for you hi thank you for having me here today um my name is Julie Gomez as she just said um I am from my home Campus of ail Elementary and what I really appreciated was how diverse of a group they had for our attendance boundary committee they really got a pretty good representation of everybody that was there everybody was very passionate and really felt um for the students and wanted to do everything in the best interest that they could for them every map we were presented I felt was very detailed and we were given lots of extensive knowledge about why these Maps were presented to us and ways that they were trying to uh minimize impact to students but also level out how many students were enrolled in each
090one um we chose to support option one with ours um we felt it was imperative for us as a committee to protect the Integrity of our students support systems that they have within each of their home campuses and keep our communities together and that was essential um we felt for the well-being of our students and provides the best environment for them to learn and when they can stay with their communities in that support system um option one also had improved logistics for commutes to school um parents as well as school and bus transportations um having the Legacy clause in place I feel like was a wonderful idea it really helped make us feel comfortable and give some sense of comfort to the students that are having to move from campus to campus um while we
091know that many campuses with our choice won't feel relief um of the Overflow during the 2425 School schol year they will feel that relief um and the the long-term relief will come with our selection in the 25 26 school year um the students and staff will experience the benefit that the students and staff will experience by waiting that extra year um will really make the difference for these kids to have that long-term relief versus it feeling kind of temporary wanted it to be a lasting um effort where you could still enjoy that community that you're used to and we chose to rely also or refer back to our survey results which on the first initial one for the 2425 school year we uh were very you can even in the survey we were very split
092in our first votes as well as a committee we were split between options one and three um revisiting the survey brought us back to our 24 25 26 school year where we saw that option one was the more of a long-term goal where we saw more leveling amongst the students amongst all campuses and felt like that was going to be worth the wait that seeing that um leveling occur was going to be worth that weight and even the 24 and 25 will still be tight we'll still have campuses that are pretty high on capacity we're hoping that that you guys will agree with us that that will be worth the wait and to see the relief in okay and trusty is much like our previous items questions questions I'm sorry I just decided I notice
093I step back too soon uh can you talk about what the committee talked about regarding HUAC Elementary because HUAC has been overcrowded for the longest of any of our schools if I'm not mistaken and I've gotten an email and there's been some chatter that if we go with the option that you all recommend it won't give enough relief to cubc Elementary so was there was there discussions of that in the committee there was do we have a slide that kind of pulls up options one two and three next to each other prepared it's like what they would show um so all of them actually are um pretty high for Hub neck they won't see a ton of relief in all of them um option two which is the one where they did see some uh
094relief there it wasn't very like people just didn't really support it um for options one and as well as options three it was a little it was tighter for the opinions but the representatives we have there from Hub we had to take they they did share their opinions on that and they even though they know that they're still going to stay very high to being capped they felt like it was still like they could do it like they didn't want to tear their school apart too much they wanted to keep that community that was very important to them was keeping that Community feeling and and they do HCK does see some relief in option one um across it's just not going to really be felt until the 2526 school year for option one whoever highlighted
095for me so you all are recommending option one we are uh M option one and whoever had my little pointer pointed option three so am I not seeing something correct uh if you if you play that out through the years 2728 he is still over 900 kids all those years is that is that yes it is it was something that they discussed um but it's what they what the committee voted for um the discussions they brought up they still wanted it they really wanted to keep their Community tight it was very important to them and the survey results that we were presented we weren't presented survey results based on zoned areas so I don't have the votes for we weren't presented with the results for just HCK so I don't know What the residents of
096humanic preferred if they preferred option two or option three that was undisclosed to us so the only information we could go on was the information that was given to us with the total number of surveys that were sent out so the total number of surveys that were sent out to all schools uh can you pull the slide up that shows the uh the breakdown of who responded to the surveys which campuses um give me a second okay so we had did have responses but you can as you can see it shows that 22% from Adolph is 29 37 for Hub neck I don't actually know what those 37% said it was undisclosed to us because they wanted it to be um more of an open representation of how everybody would feel um so the survey
097results didn't show even though they had the most responses Hub did they had 37% responding their survey results didn't show that it didn't relay over um and I did go through and read the comments and people did put on the bottom and we we were given all those additional comments it was page I don't know how many pages it was of additional comments it was a very very long list and even reading through those um the committee together decided on option one which provides some relief to HUB neck not as significant as the other options do but they still felt that that was going to be a good decision um for us to go with yeah can I just say I was looking at the numbers and so with option one ad Dolphus option one
098and option three ad Dolphus stays the same Bentley stays the same henac gains 200 students in the first year um mcneel still gets some relief um thank you sir they get Rel they get a little bit more relief with option one but they still see relief with option three Terell stays the same and um Elementary School 35 stays the same so really it's human Act is gaining 200 students in the first year I will say my cus is Elementary so we serve as an overflow campus and while that number does say like 923 right now and it says 743 for next year right now we're above 900 and if we stay the Overflow campus we're going to still be over 900 this does not show that we're the Overflow campus and we have people uh
099students that are bust in from other areas that come to M so do you know what areas those are would those be schools that are uncapped because wouldn't wouldn't um Lindsay and tamon would any of them go to so miss box yes in option one hubac would continue to stay capped um they have about 180 something students that currently go to McNeil Elementary would stay there um the Triple C uh campus capacity committee has met um and what we're looking at is probably changing that overflow campus from McNeil for next year and basically stopping the Overflow from huite to manil and flowing them in a different direction but yes option one does keep act even though those additional 200 uh students are there in their attendance Zone those 200 students will have to go to
100another campus in option one for next school year and that's that's something they said was well that was something that we did ask about and that we were told that that's kind of a separate committee so this is just discussing the boundaries themselves um and then of course there's like future projections for new campus is opening um and this it's kind of hard cuz this was were only that you can't see everything on these numbers um and the only reason that I know personally that mcneel has such an overflow we have almost 30 students in some of our fifth grade classes and I know that because I'm there on the campus I'm also a substitute teacher there at the campus and right now I'm serving as a permanent preka so I'm there with these kids
101a lot and I've seen how the kids we have coming over that are moved from other campuses from the ones that I know they're doing really well at mcneel and I'm glad that they're doing well at mcneel and like that they're it's becoming home for them um and I McNeil is I I love our school and I know a lot of our schools in LCD are going to take these kids and and give them a home even when they need it um I know that this projection that we have set up with option one does not give the relief that everybody wishes it does but the support system of lcisd is there to help these students through they're not going to be crammed in like sardines even though I know the numbers on the screen
102show that yeah there's a support system there for them I feel and it's we do have the Legacy clause in place which I which they talked about as well so I know personally a fourth grader that is a reone to mcneel because of an they're an overflow from another school and they've made their home there and they'll be able to continue their fifth grade year there as well you mentioned several times one of the um com comments from the committee was they wanted to keep communities together were you meaning neighborhood did some of this they see that some neighborhoods would so they did feel like the neighborhoods kind of needed to stay a little bit together so for example Parkway Lakes was a big disgusted one if you pull up the bone Zone boundary I
103if you're familiar with that area the area over by Sam's Club um that one was a very heavily impacted area I love that we had a rep from there and she talked about how um the moving the communities around kind of really um affects the kids they get bounced around quite a bit and then with the new elementary schools being built again uh coming up Elementary School 36 coming up in the 25 26 school year there's possibilities of them getting moved again um which is something that I know he's thought very thoroughly on and they that Community goes now to mcneel or HCK currently they do go to the map please I need the map too there's too many Nam so they go to human they go to human the section that you're looking at
104is is the allow district West departments and then you have the Club Estates at Parkway Lakes The Meadows at Parkway lakes and the grand Meadows at Parkway Lakes um that section that you're looking at is it's Grand Parkway as it comes down so that's the the one section that was if you'll look at option three is the one that we were looking at possibly moving over to McNeil permanently was an option three so you leave a Dolphus attendance on the way was that section east of 99 would stay east of 99 it wouldn't have to go across Grand Parkway and by doing that that's how the projections change that's how huet becomes uncapped and then the 891 sits down in McNeil as you look at that so that's why option three came about was to
105use 99 Grand Parkway as our dividing boundary and keep those from having to go back and forth but it would be moving those sections of grand the Grand Parkway that we looked at in option three the parkway Lakes section all three sections that north and south of berair would shift into mcne so I don't know if that that quad answered your question and this was also taken into account there's Elementary School 37 which isn't we didn't talk about its attendance foundary but when it opens there was they were advising us that those people if we move them might might move again when Elementary School 37 opens up if you can kind of dot it for them but answer your question that I think Mr Welch had was yes hub's been capped since 21 and this
106would continue to keep it capped um all the way through 25 would be the first year so it' be four years capped and their students would be attending both mcneel and another elementary school because McNeil won't be handling their overflow next year another campus would have to handle that overflow as well but when it's uncapped it's still going to be over 900 students which is more than is that right so when you look at M Neil on this one it drops below capacity so in option three it gets back within the building option one no it would continue to stay in Portables unless something were to happen that's what I mean so we take option one the ABC recommendation hubac is uncapped but it's still over capacity as far as what the building is built
107for yes what'll be capped for 2425 right uncapped in 2526 and still in Portables still Portables that's what I mean yes sir not not not everybody not all the kids inside the physical building that's what I mean by over that's correct it's not overc capacity and function wise but it's it it has the the temporary buildings yes sir and all options presented at least two schools that stay Portables yeah ofers open it wouldn't it would be the opening of 3 six it keeps so the fall of 24 is the opening of Terell and then the numbers from Fall of 25 fall of 26 fall 27 is the opening of 35 which would be on the Tomas High School site but no sir we we didn't have options for 37 that would open up possibly in
108the fall 26 or fall 27 I just know as long as I've been on this board even before then Huck has always been overcrowded has had two schools in it they they they miraculously do an excellent job I mean the school runs beautifully but at some point this school needs to I mean it just seems every time we would try to open another school we open a Dolph we open it still was overcrowded we just we keep finding Band-Aids for that school and just nothing ever works and I don't know if it's just the area they're in or if we're ever going to just have to finally get more schools built out that way which we've been trying to do and then hopefully 37 might leviate but somehow I just human X has been that
109one school that we've been dealing with for years trying to figure out a way to bring the numbers down and every time we move somebody another neighborhood opened so with the survey results can we see see those again the numbers for one and so it was very close option one and three were both chosen yeah uh option one and one and three were close and then when you look at the longer like people saw this the for the longer term in 2425 they preferred option three but then in 25 26 it shifted a little bit to option one so when you look at the differences option three that is so the one that they have preferred for option one included moving those sections over that was the highest rank from from the survey results that
110got put out is they would rather that shift over I I I'm assuming the only effect that they had is they didn't they didn't prefer the attendance Zone a 35 as much in option three as they did during option one but the shifting of Parkway Lakes is part of that option one that the survey preferred more than option three and like you can see Elementary School 37 is right on that border which should relieve some of those hubn students once it opens even though it's not part of our committee that's part of the reason why we didn't really want to move the students and then have to move them again Greg I have a question um I feel like I remember that at some point cuz I know there was a public comment about Kingdom
111height to Bentley and on here it shows Bentley going pretty far down in numbers to 500s but did we run the numbers for Kingdom Heights and decide that if we were to send Kingdom Heights to Bentley that 35 would open capped So currently right now at the 716 they would open the 2425 school year more than likely Bentley would be capped when it opened um the thing that we're looking at is you have sento and Candela South that is in the Bentley neighborhood um and they are really putting up homes there in a hurry um and that number may drop to 526 it may stay down there or it may go back up um there's just those two major developments that're just south of Bentley that we're worried about for both of them because they're
112really ramping up right now there's also one uh west of Bentley as well that is correct there's the one on the West Side that's torento which is De Horton and they are just man de Horton's putting up homes right after another Candela South they've already got all the roads done I have already utilities um and from what we've been talking about with Johnson development they're planning on having pad mounts and houses up before beginning of school which is a little faster than they originally had told us and AD DOA stays pretty high too in all of these yeah its numbers don't change actually at all can I'm sorry to inter it's it's about communication with Mr any other questions okay yeah I do yep um pivoting off of Mrs hotel's point this is for the
113kingdom Heights folks they're putting up the neighborhoods left and right and they're selling homes we anticipate are are those numbers those anticipated numbers not built into your projections here they currently are they are but they're based on the information that we have gotten and the rate at which they're putting in so there's a difference between them saying hey we're plan on closing a 100 homes a year and building that many and then all of a sudden they ramp up and they say oh homes are selling faster we're going to 200 now just because we can and they're selling so that's something that we have to monitor ex we monitor it every month every month we come in and we look at and say hey you said you going to build 25 homes this month did
114you build 25 or did you build 55 so the number projection are built into these but again the Dynamics of the economy continually change so just because they tell us one thing and we build those projections in doesn't mean that due to in some areas they may slow down and those numbers shrink but yes the projections are built into it but the projections are again the information that we've gotten from them then we have to actually go out there and physically look at it and say reality says they're doing faster or they're going slower than what they said yeah I I hear what you're saying um but again there's you know the further those numbers go out the less reliable those numbers become just because the number of factors that are in there right so
115yes you could move Kingdom Heights but then possibly be capped and then once it does and those neighborhoods do get to a certain point then we're rezoning again because Bentley's full so we would just be moving it to move it again or some other areas during that time and and I'm sorry what when did you think that would happen that it could possibly get re get filled up again I I missed but well so so if you're looking at this right now there's I there's just over 300 students currently with coming out of Kingdom Heights um I think it's like 330 something like that I had to pull the actual numbers once you look at that plus the development of those neighborhoods well Kingdom Heights is continued to grow as well so with that growth
116and the other neighborhoods growing yes you would probably look at it capped in 24 it would probably dip during 25 become uncapped and would possibly be capped again about 26 27 okay and at that time we would be capping and overflowing those and then looking at where we need to level again okay thank you so you're basically saying if we sent Kingdom Heights to Bentley can it be in the same situation we're currently in with sending Kingdom Heights to frost because the neighborhoods around Bentley are going to possibly explode and growth and we have a another neighborhood that is being trans transported independently that's correct that really should be going to Jackson because it's 2 miles away is is yes sir what I'm saying is we have some underutilized campuses that are closer to that
117neighborhood yeah than than a campus that we look at that we see developments coming around yes these are our projections um but again once you put because it's a large community it's it's not like it's 100 Kids 150 students um it's a large community that continue to grow yeah so because of that you know we have to keep that factor into all these numbers yeah any other questions nope okay okay um is there a motion want to make a motion to put forth option three while I appreciate the work that the ABC did I feel like cuck has not seen relief in many many years and um that all the numbers remain the same and huat goes goes is the only one that goes up by 200 students um I just feel like the other
118way with with option three everybody sees some sort of relief and in some sort of way so okay is there a second oh second okay any discussion yeah I'm I'm I I really don't like ruling against against the or voting against the ABC because I really respect the Public's input um but HUAC is the HUAC seems to be pressing in my mind stronger than the others right now so um I I'm going to support option three on this vote and see how it goes well I also think the community did speak as well and it was very very close um so I don't know okay any further discussion um I'll Now call for the vote all in favor say I I I um against opposed okay motion carries um we will now have reports and
119presentations on the information items all right uh Madam president Mr ban is going to talk about an update to our uh bus rider management system good evening board trustees and Dr nans um so some current issues if you remember back not not too long ago on in August of 23 this was one of the headlines that we had um some frustrated parents as we went to our um four tier Bell System um for our transportation during our school start times um and this was our our tar bus so what a tardy bus is is a bus that arrives at a campus after the first Bell so if you look during the first two days of school we had 95 uh buses arriving late which is roughly about 18% of all of our buses were running
120to the campus after the first Bell um as you can continue to see as as the weeks progressed um we started getting better and better and we've continued to refine that we're averaging less than one tardy Bell a week right now for the entire week so one thing that we currently have is through our our bus rider registration is is currently our practice has been that we route every student whether they request Transportation or not there has not been a a method for a parent to say would like to see receive bus services or we don't want to receive bus services so by doing that we have to Route 4,900 students even though we don't have the ability to transport that many as well so right now we're averaging between 20,000 and 21,000 students per
121day so an example of that would be a bus route that has 183 students assigned to it but only 50 students ride that bus every day so there may be 20 stops on that bus route that we start the school with because we don't know which of the 183 will be riding well and only 11 of those 20 bus stops have students at it so that chart that we showed you how it refined better and better as so as students stop riding buses or not riding buses at all they get removed from the bus route if we continue to go by stops stops after day and those students are getting off we start removing those stops because those students aren't there so it takes a time for us to be able to get that through
122the system to be able to know what students are actually writing what students aren't um currently our uh bus rider management system our current system that we have now it only allows us to update any changes that we make to any bus route twice a day so it gets made at noon at 1 p.m. and then it gets made at 11:59 so if a campus calls or a parent calls and says I need bus services we may update it within the routing system at 2 p.m but the parent won't see it until they get up the next morning of Hey where's my bus stop what time am I supposed to get up and I have to figure that out in the morning because it doesn't update it in real time so the other thing is
123our current solution and our routing system which is Versa trans the information doesn't flow back and forth it flows one way in and it does not flow back the other uh our current solution that we have you have to get through a web browser to be able to monitor the bus or to be able to see anything that happens it does not have a smartphone app for you to be able to download app and be able to access that app on the phone no matter what bus rider management system you currently have I mean there's technology involved so there's tablets and there's card readers and every bus um if you can only imagine what a tablet and a card reader within your car would be like but imagine during a school bus every four years
124that's the life expectancy of that equipment so every four years we're going to have to pull all those tablets and card readers out um currently we are due to to replace all that equipment this coming summer so now we're starting to look at some some solutions um what we've come up with was a bus rider registration form um the registration form will be housed inside scard um it would be assigned to every student much like all the other forms that we currently have for parents the forms will be attached to each year so this would be something that would be filled out year after year as things change so what we're looking at is asking just three questions um for our Forum first will your student ride the bus during the first two weeks of
125the 24 25 school year so what we're looking at doing is smoothing out those first two weeks instead of having that large hiccup as we come back and it'll be simple yes or no um the second question that we would ask is what is your students main form of transportation to school and it would be car Rider bike rider daycare or bus and then our third question is the same question for the afternoon um the reason that we added the two other questions on there was it helps our campus staff know how many Walkers bike riders do I have how many car pickups how many in daycare how many in buses so they can better plan for the first two weeks of school and know how much staff they need to allocate to what areas
126depending on the fluctuation and the number so the communication plan uh that we've developed out as we've communicated this to our principles and got feedback from them today um we're communicating to the Board of Trustees this evening um we're going to present this plan to the assistant principles on Thursday um April 1 the form will go live and Skyward um and we'll be posting messages on the Transportation website along with um putting out messages on Sky alert so in April and May we'll send out one in April and one in May for every we going to send out sky alerts post per bus route so we can send that information to the form um informing all the parents that current students at rer bus that this is a form that you need to fill out
127for transportation we'll do that in April and May we're also going to put backpack Flyers out in April and May um to get that word to our parents and then in April through September we're going to keep it in our campus monthly newsletters um so every newsletter that comes out from the campus along with the districtwide um newsletter it will be put out those um information will be in there as well um the communication plan that we have now is on June the 17th July the 15th and August the 1st we'll send out a message to every parent that hasn't completed the form this says you haven't completed the form if you don't complete the form you know you're not going to receive Transportation coming the first two weeks of school so we'll send that
128out three separate times on August the 5th we'll send out a a message that says you have signed up for transportation um here's the app that you can download and monitor the app as we continue to run those it allows us to use the first week of before school starts to finalize all the routes know what students are there to be able to run those routes Thursday and Friday before school starts for our bus drivers to know where they're at and to check the timing of them so any parent that completes the form by August the 4th will receive Transportation on the first day of school which is August the 12th any form that's completed between August the 5th and August the 21st will receive Transportation beginning August the 26th which is the third week
129of school so what this will do is allow us to get through the first two weeks to get everything smoothed out and then once they complete that Transportation form during that period Then the third week of school transportation will pick up for those students so any form that would be completed after August the 22nd will receive Transportation within 5 days um some will be able to get on sooner because there may already be stops there some of them it might take a little longer because we may have to redevelop the route or shift some depending on the student load so our current practice is if a parent fills out this form after the 22nd if they need to change that status they contact the campus to say I'm not a car rider I'm going to
130daycare or I'm going to be um going on the bus that will not change for our campuses so again that process will stay exactly the same um the other system that we're looking at is leaving our current system and going to Tyler Drive um Tyler Drive is a um software another software platform that's the same as our routing system so what it does is it allows for communication to be instantaneous so any changes that made in the bus system automatically updates within the uh the Tyler Drive which is the parent app that they'd be able to look at so if a campus calls and says I need to add this student to a stop they add it to the stop as soon as they add it it automatically updates on the portal for the campus
131and it also updates on the Pari on the app so they can immediately track anything and see any of those those changes in real time the other thing is because it's integrated with our Versa trans routing system information flows in and out of that system so it's not just locked into information going One Direction um Tyler Drive does have an app so parents will be able to download an app to have an app on their phone and just push the App instead of having to log into a web browser to be able to access this information again we will be changing out all the equipment um May the 15th through June the 15th um so we have roughly about 450 bus that we'll be pulling all this equipment out and redoing that equipment within a
132small little window of time we are planning on using summer school as our pilot um so we'll be rolling this out in this uh new Rider management system um for them to be able to monitor to be a to make any tweaks or adjustments that need to be made before school begins I know there's a lot of information do you have any questions I have a few so with the Tyler Drive what you said at the beginning about parents have to say yes or no is that part of that too or is this in place of Ty no ma'am so Tyler Drive is the actual badge where you badge on and off the bus but you're still looking at doing the program of yes ma'am because if if we don't fill out that form and
133say yes or no we'll end up routing you know we're projected to have 45,000 46,000 kids next year we're routing 46,000 kids and not knowing which one of the 21,000 will actually be riding and we'll be sending this both in Spanish English to all the yes parents and what about new students to the district so if they're registering after August 5th they're not going to get Transportation so what we've done is is we've worked with our regist our registration our student services department what they will do is after April 1st any student that registers this is part of their registration packet now when we normally go back you'll have your back to school forms that are the well they're happened between August the 5th and August the 10th well those during that time we won't
134be able to get the information back fast enough to be able to build the routes so that's why this is only for our current students our sped students are separate so it doesn't affect our sped students it doesn't affect our um campus to campus shuttles for our staff has nothing to to affect any of that this is just our regular ed students that we currently have within the system and does that information go back to the campuses letting them know which students are riding which buses do they get that information yes they'll get that the first week but what they will be able to do is they just like any other form in Skyward they'll able to pull down that data and disaggregate that data to know who filled it out who hasn't filled it
135out um and also they'll be able to pull that data down to say okay here's my list of car riders here's my list of Walkers here's my list of daycare um so they'll be able to pull that data down at any point in time they want to and principles over the summer can they pull it down and try to contact those parents that have not yes ma'am um but we're planning on those those three dates that we talked about for communicating to those June 17th July 15th and August 1st we're planning on both doing an email and a call to parents and I guess during the beginning of school when they have those before school meetings where the parents come in the teacher can say this remember this is what you chose to remind parents
136what they decided to do because they might change their mind I see it better for you I see some problems that parents might think well because I didn't get it on time my child's being punished not to be able to get on the bus but again this is trying to make it more efficient for the district with 45,000 kids okay so this is for elementary and secondary yes ma'am okay um so what if like a high schooler shows up at the bus stop I mean is a bus driver going to be like hey you're not on my list can't get on the bus I'm just asking because I mean or they're like oh man I I've lost my missed my ride to school but I can still catch the bus after school go get on
137my bus after school would be a different um in the morning I mean we would have to take the student safety into consideration if a student had to stop yeah I'm just saying because secondary students will do that kind of thing their parents aren't home they missed the ride they're just going to go catch the bus or just if they're there in the morning it's definitely a safety issue we don't want to leave students without you know within the neighborhood if they're out bus stop we would pick them up as long as it's not 30 kids doing it on one bus yes ma'am that that that's where you know we would have to start adjusting and looking at that but coming home is where we would have to say these are the people that have
138ride because um the afternoon is where the traffic is really hitting us the most um but if they're at a current stop yes ma'am we won't just I mean because when high schoolers get on the bus it's not like they're being led to their bus and tracked and or maybe when they badge on but yes ma'am so like anybody's got a line and they're like follow me to the bus you know it's totally different so yes ma' but the card lets them know so the system when they C on if they're not on the register for the bus it sends out a red alert that says you don't belong on this bus because you may belong on another bus or you don't yeah it alerts them in the afternoon in the morning you know for
139student safety we would we would definitely you know we're going to take them to school gotcha okay the uh timelines there um on when uh parents can request transportation and so we we're doing this now you know for a reason of course everything is strategic uh because we're talking about this in March and it's actually going to go into to effect in August and so uh we're going to push out a lot of information on the website we're going to have phone calls to parents but we know when the decision is made and when it happens we're going to get the emails and the calls about you know we're not being transparent and you know we didn't say anything about it and so we're going to push out as much information as possible um via
140email via website via phone calls but I'm just I'm just saying understanding now that when it comes same you know same thing about the resoning piece right we were talking about for six months and you know everything so when it comes I just want to prepare everyone that when it comes we'll get the same conversations about you know we we didn't say anything and so we're going to push out as much information as possible um and so when when M when M banan and and uh Mr Sloter came to me with the plan uh it sounds great it looks great and I'm I'm I'm approving it but I just want to make sure to we going and eyes wide open that when yeah when when they miss the timeline that you know we we'll get
141some public comments about it but we'll do everything we can to make sure we push out as much information as possible as frequently as possible I have one more question to just may me think what she said what trusty box said um so if a student is not signed up in the morning um will the system like after 3 weeks reroute that bus okay yes this person lives over here there's no stop there it'll be a set route no matter what so that bus driver has to drive that that route even though no oneide that they'll just keep going so so remember the example that we talked about is if I'm on an elementary a tier right if I deviate from my route and add five or six minutes to it it's going to just
142continue to snowball and by the time I get to my middle school junior high I'm going to be getting to the school Lake right so that's why we're developing those routes knowing exactly what kids are there so we can maximize the efficiency and know what students are riding and what students aren't and then be able to slowly add those students on cuz right now what we're doing is we're taking an educated guess on who's going to ride the bus where the stops need to be and it takes us the first two or three weeks of school to flush it all out to get where we could be using this possibly within the first week of school so if this if if the system says okay we should have X amount of people's writing and then
143after it flushes out and we say this x number over here is not here but the system can figure out a faster way to get there it won't remove that stop even though there's a potential student that can go there yes okay that's I think it helps with her question of B if for stud it's happens the show but they never ride and okay because some students aspect at secondary level they may go a mile to the wrong stop to get on right okay cuz they want to be with their friends or other things like that thank you all right board we have uh M uh Mrs Katy Martina to come give us an instructional update good evening president bronzelle Board of Trustees Dr nens I'm thrilled to be here this evening to share an
144overview of our K12 math program with you all um you can see here an a commitment statement from our LCC math team Lamar cic is committed to providing a superior mathematics education for all students so that as graduates they will have mathematical competence to enable them to achieve their full potential our mathematical information for teachers is outlined LED in our lcisd instructional handbook and more specifically for elementary details are outlined in the guide to lcisd elementary mathematics and through curriculum resources housed in the canvas courses our instructional minutes um for K5 each math each student has math for approximately 80 to 90 minutes and at high school each student has math for one class period each day and you can see here how our how that math block is divided up every student starts with
145a math warmup deep practice numerical fluency and number talks at the elementary level and then at secondary more deep practice and um mathematical warm-up skill review and then they move on to whole class instruction a mini lesson of sorts and then small group instruction which couldn't be math conferencing math Workshop or math assessment each grade level or con grade level is divided out as you see on the screen based on the length of minutes they have and each campus creates their own schedule when we think about how our mathematical instruction is happening we have state adopted resources at each level at elementary we use ho Mifflin hardcourt Texas GO Math and at secondary in 6 through 8 we have McGraw Hill Resources Glenco math for 6 through eight and then Pearson for most of our
146High School courses um with the exception of pre-calculus where we have a sage state adopted resource we have number of supplemental resources available for our teachers to meet the specific needs of their students you can see here a variety of those resources both at elementary and secondary they continue on here to the next slide in addition to purchase resources we have Prov variety of District created curriculum resources as we dig deeper into elementary mathematics our elementary math instruction daily instruction is follows the guide of math framework from Lany salmon within this framework teachers strive to provide learning environment that supports mathematical thinking and meets the needs of all students and you can see the guide of math framework components there on the slide teachers follow the concrete representational abstract model they use this to help
147students develop a deeper understanding of ma mathematical concepts by gradually transitioning from concrete experiences to abstract representations we spend a lot of time at elementary developing number fluency and fact fluency we specifically have an lcisd fluency plan that is designed to help students develop flu fluency and automaticity with their Bic basic math facts it's accomplished through a balanced approach that focuses on conceptual understanding during daily instruction the instruction of Matha fa fact strategies and the continued practice of mastering automaticity through daily work with grade level fluency activities you can you can see here on the screen the breakdown of the kind kindergarten fact fluency strategies each row is in nine weeks here is a snapshot of the fact fluency overview for kindergarten and in this fact fluency plan the numeracy strategies for each grade level
148are organized by nine weeks skills building complexity throughout the year and from grade level to grade level so I'll give you just a brief snapshot this is kindergarten first grade and second grade you can see we're starting addition and subtraction in first and second grade moving on to third grade where we introduce multiplication and then in fourth and fifth grade of course addition subtraction multiplication and division the math fact fluency strategies are taught through the use of number talks during number talk students are encouraged to explain and justify and make sense of mathematics teachers engage in number talks with students during the war War up piece of instruction at least three times each week we have a specific focus on problem solving in all of our mathematics classrooms on the screen you see the mathematics
149problem solving plan that LC see follows as we dig deep it looks a little bit different at elementary than it does at secondary at elementary we use the three reads protocol developed by Donna bushe students read the problem first first to understand context they read the problem that same problem again to understand the quantities in the word problem and then we encourage them to read a third time where they're really focused in on the question that they need to answer in secondary to help students develop their problem solving skills we use the thinkal plan where students and teachers focus in on the same problem for the entire week through their warm-up process on Monday they're digging into the to the stimulus or the text involved in the question and the pictures that are included but
150they're not looking at the question itself then on Tuesday they're talking about what they know what is important in this story and how would they get started solving on Wednesday they actually solve on Thursday they compare that question that they've been studying to another question that is very similar and then on Friday they're reflecting on their learning again this is this helps them develop a deeper process for attacking problems that they may come across moving into secondary we have um a specific compacted curriculum beginning in Middle School mathematics we offer two math Pathways that allow Learners to pursue the opportunities that best fit their mathematical goals either on level or Advanced students following the advanced math pathway would take Algebra 1 as an eighth grader just recently in the 20 in the 88th legislature um
151we have the Senate Bill 2124 that requires the district to enroll students her perform at the top 40% of star fifth grade math into that advanced math pathway and we have to have a plan and we have to lay that out for parents parents May opt out of that automatic enrollment you can see here the different courses at each level depending on the onlevel pathway or the advanced math pathway again the change happens in Middle Junior High with their compacting curriculum so they can take e8th grade algebra 1 grade six Math preap that advanced math pathway has all of the sixth grade teaks in addition to half of the seventh grade teques our students in sixth grade preap take the sixth grade star test because they haven't mastered all those seventh grade teaks yet in
152seventh grade they're mastering the other half of seventh grade teeks and all of the eighth grade Tis so they're tested on the eighth grade star assessment progress monitoring throughout looks very similar as it did in ela in our conversations earlier this year our kindergarten teachers administer the text key assessment in beginning middle and end of the year it has a mathematics component the mathematics subtest specifically focuses on math skills related to numbers and counting operations patterning and math in the real world in grades one all the way up through Algebra 2 we use the map growth assessment again that's an interm Adaptive assessment and you can see here all of the different mathematical components that are included in the map growth test in addition to these two progress monitoring assessments teachers use Quick formative assessments
153and summi of classroom assessments to monitor progress we give a districtwide fall Benchmark and spring Benchmark for those grade levels that are tested with star and Then star is our end ofe assessment teachers use the data that they're Gathering through that assessment process to provide intervention and enrichment as needed for students and that intervention enrichment time is built into campus daily schedule to look specifically at third grade math star data as a checkpoint as to where we stand just a reminder when we're looking at Star data we have levels of Master's meets approaches and did not meets grade level approaches grade level is the minimum passing standard for Star when we look at our third grade star data from 2023 83% of our third grade students met approaches or above 55% of our students performed
154at the meets level or above and 23% of our students performed at the Master's level or above well or the at the Master's level you can see on the screen the blue bars are the state comparison and the regional comparison for Region 4 so we're above the state and region at approaches meets and mastered to ensure that our teachers have everything that they need to be able to deliver high quality instruction for students we provide a a variety of professional development opportunities two specific opportunities that have been designed to Target need is the guided math Cadre for teachers in grades K through three participating teachers are represented by a vertical team from their campus they attend a workshop series for the entire school year and they dig deep into guided math working with the author
155Donna bushe the author of guided math workshop and guided math workstations you can see here a few of our teachers participating in that opportunity after the completion of this third year of Cadre we will have vertical teams from 27 of our 30 Elementary campuses that have participated we also have specific professional development to address needs in seventh grade mathematics this is our second year of the seventh grade math Summit a professional learning series for teachers specifically designed to address that postco dip during the seventh grade Summit teachers focus in on the teaks for seventh grade really de developing a deep understanding of the content the standards and the curriculum resources um to use with their students teachers leave each session with Hands-On lessons and activities that they can Implement right away in addition to these
156two specific opportunities our campus instructional coaches our district level math content Specialists and our district level coordinators Provide support for teachers in coaching professional development modeling in the classroom and support during the PLC process we also provide lots of specific math professional development opportunities throughout the school year and in summer based on our assessment data and the needs that we've identified through conversations with teachers and administrators be glad to answer any questions you might have I have a couple questions sure um okay so you said we have um the Kea assessments is that an a test or is that just something that a teacher Works through as the students are doing their work and then they look at their work are you asking about the Tex Kia assessment yeah maybe that's it K is it
157K in kindergarten so texia is an assessment that's been developed at the state level okay for kindergarten um it is a one-on-one assessment so it's an interview process where they're working through specific skills with a student and they're developing or demonstrating Mastery and then the teacher recording that information and that information is sent off to the state okay and at what grade do they start map map maps testing and bench map is grade one okay first grade and all the way up through Algebra 2 um and then benchmarks Benchmark is star tested grade levels so it starts in third grade and works up for a mathematics through algebra one so they do all that along with the the testing regular testing six weeks testing or just like The Benchmark or the maps test count as
158a you know a DAT a double grade like a test um it depends the teacher has that autonomy to make that decision map is not usually graded because it is an Adaptive assessment so your assessment might look different than my assessment based on how we're answering those questions that test is changing and so we're not assessed equally right but the fall Benchmark and the spring Benchmark are going to test tis that we've already taught so we can assess Mastery using those te okay and then one last thing the math Cadre um so when the teachers go and they they learn those things they come back and they share that with their math team how do they do that like when do they do that when do they have the time to do that kind of
159thing right so it's a vertical team it's one kindergarten teacher one first grade teacher one second grade teacher and one third grade teacher and the expectation is that they are going back to their planning meetings their PLC conversations and sharing what they've learned so they're going back with resources they're going back with examples and they're the coach is along there with them to help facilitate that conversation we all do that again next year as well until all the schools have been the plan is to continue to get as many covered as possible yes as long as the need exists awesome right thank you oh sorry can you go to the screen about the third grade math scores star no that's I I want to ask a question that I think a lot of parents might
160be asking and a lot of folks who would just be looking at this from the outside so we're we are higher than the state average uh as far as the meats category well all of them actually but I'm talking about the meats category meets expectations is am I seeing that right 45% roughly for the state and we're 55% so keep in mind the names are a bit deceiving and that the approaches is actually the minimum standard okay so that is actually passing the test and then the meets grade level is the next level and the Masters is the top level so approaches passing we're at 83% the meets grade level at 55% and above the state average in both of those so just the minimum that we expect a third grader to know in math
16183% of our third graders meet that expect that minimum standard is that right that is correct so we have 17% of our state average is 73% that is correct what what can we do to get that to 93% to work with our kiddos on growth right that's why we're using the progress monitoring assessments all the way down to first grade so seeing where gaps are and being really intentional about the interventions and support that we're providing for those students who are not Bea grade level to really increase their growth exponentially so they can hit that Mark in third grade imagine that tails off to those 177% that aren't meeting that and as they get further in their schooling career that they're not getting the the building blocks to continue on right that's why that key3
162Foundation is so critically important because we know that they need to hit that Mark when they hit third grade so is that like getting a 70 I mean if you were to put on a grade scale it it varies year to year and grade level to grade level so the the bar changes every year based on what how the state sets it so trustees as as you know uh you know right now the agency Texas Education Texas Education Agency uh They delayed our scores and so if you recall a couple couple months ago we had a conversation about uh how the agency has CH changed the scale scores and the marks after the fact and so uh you know as our students take a test we don't know what the Mark is and so you
163know our our teachers are doing a phenomenal job just trying to make sure our students learn as much as possible when they can but we we still don't know what the what the scores are even for last year's data and so that's a conversation that that uh most a lot of districts are having with the agency because it's a moving Target it's very hard to hit a moving Target and so that's the conversation that we're having right now but also to address your question Mr Welch uh you know we talk about summer slide and so you know we have programs during the summer where students able to read uh same thing in math you know we have stem camps we have a lot of things we like parents to be able to bring their students
164up over the summertime so we can assist with that uh we have a lot of students I don't say a lot of students but we have some students who um who may not crack open the book at all during the summertime you know and we have some who will go travel and they'll read they go to the library and so uh we try to fill in the Gap as a school system to offer a lot of summer camps and the summertime activities so we can prevent that sumers slide so we can close that Gap when so the Gap won't be as wide when school starts in August so does the district reach out to maybe the students that don't the 17% and say hey this is what we have going on in the summer and
165these are the programs yeah okay absolutely yep so they're a targeted audience for sure so they're getting extra communication many of them might be involved in um like Dr nens mentioned a stem Camp a jump start Camp a lot of our campuses will bring kiddos in before the school year starts and do jump start work with them prior um grade level review and then jump start into the next year's curriculum and that group who did not pass as the target audience for that we won't get our star data until after the school year finishes so it's that summer work that has to happen to prep for August okay thank you that was it right um are there any items on the future consent agenda items that trustees would like to pull for discussion at the
166April board meeting I got one okay 12K discussion of instruction instructional material recommendations uh I think a presentation would be uh good talking about the process that the administration went through and and why they chose certain materials over other materials because we get I get a lot of questions um from folks who wanted to know why we chose this over that okay any others okay it is now 8:53 p.m. we're adjourning to close session pursuant to Texas government code section 551.071 55 1.07 2 551.074 and 55 1.08 2 open meetings act to discuss Personnel land acquisition or consultation with our attorney we're now back in Open Session it is 9:34 p.m. and we have a quorum um are there any motions to be made yes Madam president I move that the Board of Trustees approve
167the property lease as presented in Clos session is there a second I'll second any discussion all in favor say I I oppose motion passes any other motions yeah I move that the Board of Trustees approve the superintendent's evaluation is discussed in closed session is there a second uh any discussion all did oh I didn't even know there was another one that's either way Jackie okay um any discussion wait did I take the vote already okay take any discussion no okay all in favor say I any opposed motion passes um are there any future agenda items the board would like to add no okay the meeting is adjourned it is 9:35 p.m.