001e e e that we have a quorum we have five trustees present and I would like to introduce Miss Recio from Days of all Elementary School uh who will introduce us to her students who will be leading us tonight in the Pledge of Allegiance okay it works there we go so uh good evening Dr Cardona and board president and everybody with this evening we are very honored to be the first school to be able to say the pledges come here um at your new board room it's very nice and so today just so you know it was pajama day at school so um these students were in school but it was PJD and so I would like to introduce Jillian Bena Axel Sanchez Everly Haynes and Mia Haynes to say our pledges all right so
002you all stand right here and you see how the microphone come over here Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the Texas flag I pledge legiance to the Texas one State under God one and indivisible great job y'all next we'll move into public forum and we have four speakers signed up to speak the first is Jason Roberts just uh hello my name is Jason Roberts I'm class of 99 fighting Rattler uh live here in San Marcus raise my kids and have uh been here for many many years I was born in St Marcus so I'm also the founder of upward communities and the one respons responsible for doing a100 million investment in Kyle or
003Hayes for hay IST building them 300 to a th000 houses for their School District staff so um I was asked to come here tonight to speak the bo by several people after that announcement was made just to basically tell the school board that I love St Marcus and happy to offer the same thing for you guys but only if you feel like you something you need so just want you guys to know in Sam Marcus my doors open uh real short and sweet just want to let you know that here to do the same thing I'm doing for other districts but if it's something that you guys feel that is uh a solution for your staff and the need for you guys but it's all based off of leadership you know we funded um the
004capital for that it's 100% the capital's our risk and we are doing it to solve a much larger problem that with fuel across the country not just here locally and um you we're excited about it it's it's our passion project and uh we hope to do a lot more of it but uh there's a lot to understand a lot to go through and just want to make sure that we've already talked to some people in the community got a great Community that's why we live here so uh in public comment I guess I'm not really prepared I just was told to come up here and so I wanted to let you guys know that I'm available if you think that's something that you'd like to lean into thank you thank you our next speaker is
005Susan seeden good evening board and superintendent and guest I am Susan saton and I am a 25-year educator in San Marcus Texas I want to talk to you about upward communities as you heard Mr Roberts say he's from San Marcus and he is willing to partner with us I know as a member of the Texas state Teachers Association and previously the San Marcus Educators we've been talking about affordable housing for years okay it's something that we've always wanted to do and it's something we haven't been able to do this partnership would allow us to do that I want to give you a couple of facts the median home price in San Marcus right now is 3 $84,000 San Marcus is made up of 71% rental and our occupancy rate is 92.7% there are not enough
006houses there are not enough apartments and nothing is Affordable enough for our employees and right now education is under attack we all know that we know that funding is not there we know that raises and per pupil allotments have not been raised since 2019 so how do we as a community support our education professionals how do we retain the best teachers and how do we recruit the best new teachers I believe that upward communities is a way to do that as Mr Roberts said the investment is his the school district partners with him also these are not Apartments I welcome you to let us bring you some pictures and some information because these are actually homes we have one two and three bedroom houses with yards for our employees and not just teachers it's for
007every employee and there is no way that they can get that kind of affordable housing anywhere in San Marcus so again I want to make sure that Hayes doesn't have the only jump on recruitment I want to make sure that we have those benefits available to San Marcus because this is where I live and where all four of my children went and hopefully my grandchildren will go so I want to make sure that the future of Sam Marcus and the future of Sam Marcus CISD is partnering with us and has the information to make a great decision for our employees thank you thank you very much next we have Blanca Tristen hello my name is Blanca thean and I'm a proud Rattler class of 1993 my son Alejandro is currently enrolled in seventh grade at
008goodnight Middle School my son received special education services as in and is in the ACL alternative curriculum Learning Classroom I have three daughters that graduated from s Marcus high school and they're all successful professionals and I'm really happy with the progress that the district has made um over the years since they graduated it's exciting to see the opportunities that the students are given including the various tracks in health cosmetology culinary arts and I'm here today to ask the school board and as well as the district representatives to give the necessary attention to the special education department you may or may not be aware but the special education department is in dire need of support currently there are excuse me there are nine vacancies listed on the job listings at San Marcus District my fear is
009that San Marcus CISD does not if we don't become competitive with neighbors neighboring districts children like my son will continue to suffer and not make the gains academically to further their education Hayes District recently posted offering um retention incentives for their employees in the sped Department they're also offering recruitment incentives to be paid in the first paycheck I believe it is necessary for smcisd to find their funds to support special education now I'm asking for immediate attention so that my son and the hundreds of students receiving special education services here at San Marcus get the education they are entitled to in the past eight years the special education department has had three different sped directors my son had one teacher at the beginning of the 2024 25 school year and currently his classroom is sharing
010a teacher with the classroom next door last year at the beginning of the school year the class um didn't have the instructional assistance until well until several weeks after school started um do you understand my concern my son and his classmates not only deserve but are entitled to bylaw for now at least a free public education as a parent I share the same dreams and Ambitions for my son that many of you have I want him to further his Education and Training I want him to live independently I want him to have happiness there's a program right here at Texas State for young adults with intellectual disabilities it's called P Bobcat rise it is just one of many offered in Texas but for our dreams to have a chance to become a reality we must
011first find and keep teachers in the classroom for our students now one way to do this is these incentives for these existing special education Educators and the instructional assistants the assistants are vital to the classroom so they deserve an incentive as well just last week as I was communicating with Alejandro's teacher that he was automatically placed in an elective without our choice um excuse me without a choice other students receive when I mentioned to him that Alejandra was cons or to her that Alejandra was considering a different election than the one that was selected by his teacher her response was unfortunately we only support PE and art at this point in the ACL I with ACL support not only is that not acceptable to us but is also not in line with the law that
012ensures that my son has access to other electives I want to thank you for your attention and your time and I look forward to not only your commitment but to your action in improving the district particularly in the special education department thank you thank you and our final speaker this evening is Nicole yoner good evening president Hy Board of Trustees Dr C D um my name is Nicole yoner I'm a second grade teacher at Mendes Elementary I've been with the district for 20 years um I've lived in St Marcus for more than half my life um and I'm the current president of tsta St Marcus Educators recently the district sent out communication to families and staff of fsim site CISD regarding the current political climate surrounding immigration we were reassured that the district is working
013to ensure the safety of our students while the sentiment is appreciated I feel that the message would read a bit vague and left the community with more questions than answers I work at a campus with a large dual language program that supports families from all over the world it's honestly beautiful and I have loved watching the way these students and their families have added to the culture in St Marcus and in our schools I believe that smcisd does a great job of Welcome these welcoming these students and providing resources for families now more than ever we need to offer this support by way of specific measures that are being taken to protect our children teachers want to know their rights responsibilities and obligations regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement I pity anyone who tries to come
014between a sarcus teacher and her student parents need to know what campus Protocols are regarding potential raids students need to feel safe in order to keep learning and growing the same way that we prepare for any other threat to student safety we must must be ready and stakeholders must know what our plan is in the event of a raid I think this is an opportunity for the district to be a beacon for the community the way it has been so many times before in my 20 years here I've seen the community look to us for guidance in the harshest and most uncertain times let's rise to that need and let's get some information out thank you thanks everybody uh we will now receive the superintendent report Dr Cardona all right good good evening everybody uh
015is Mr odm out there he's there's Mr odm as he's bringing in our career technology teachers just a reminder we have our boys and young ladies soccer team are playing and are both in contention for playoff spot still I think the young ladies still the boys just beat Canyon 7 to nothing uh last weekend and then tomorrow night we it's like 55 nothing in football so that's always good uh and then LA tomorrow night we have our young ladies girls basketball team who's in the lead eight uh final eight teams in the state of Texas for class 6A basketball they're playing San Antonio Churchill uh and so that game is at 8:00 after the double header but I am going to turn this evening over to Mr Clayton odm so that he can introduce the
016fabulous yeah Clayton Odum CJ odm uh he can introduce the fabulous career and Technology teachers that we're getting ready to honor so good evening board trustees Dr Cardona um this the we're representing our CTE staff here today uh two things number one February is the is CTE month and so we typically do something to recognize the work of our Career and Technical education staff during this month the city this last Tuesday City Hall recognized CTE month in the for month of February by the city of San Marcus and so this year we had the distinct pleasure of kind of adding to what we would normally do in a February uh thanks to an award earned this month or this year by cat the Career Technical Association of Texas what happened was cat did program reviews
017of CTE programs across the state it was a very intense process it had an 11o rubric so we sent information about financials about student outcomes about test scores and Industry based certificates industry Partnerships programs offered future plans committee members different things like that just to see how the program was run uh as you can imagine the the countless amounts of school districts in the state of Texas finally at the end only after the AR rubric was scored 38 schools in the state of Texas were honored and recognized as a CTE District of Distinction and so one of our teachers has the award that we earned we also got a banner that we can fly at the high school and so so we are proud first of all for this staff to have led the way
018for Sam Marcus cistd to now be a CTE District of [Applause] Distinction so we we we brought students in before and we love doing that but in this case we thought it was appropriate to bring in as many staff members as we could 32 members of our s Marcus cic staff both good night Miller and the high school are a part of making Career and Technical education happen for our students students uh we have 21 programs of study that are available at the high school and for a for kind of a scale when you look at a school the size of Sam Marcus we are legally obligated to offer five and so just the opportunities that we're that we're offering offering to students because of the work of these these folks that you see here
019is incredible we actually have two umbrella CTE programs at the middle schools and so some of our Middle School teachers are here as well we're uh looking to build a third umbrella at the middle schools to again be the premier way that career and College exploration happens for students K through 12 we're very proud of the fact that we have developed that K through2 CTE program that many of these folks have put a lot of extra work into uh those programs don't work if it wasn't for the off the clock and sometimes on the clock alongside that other thing you're doing on the clock to make that happen as we take these guys and their programs and their really cool machines and their students down to the elementaries so that those students can see firsthand
020hey here's some opportunities of what you can do in San Marcus in the years to come how they they can bring them to the middle schools and show those middle school students hey here's some students that are just like you they're doing these incredible things so that they know from an early age I can do that too and so we're just very very proud to recognize the staff members that make this happen uh to make us not only District of Distinction but also to just be a part of the incredible opportunities that we're offering to students so to our CTE staff we certainly thank you for your leadership and for all that you do for our students [Applause] you want to jum [Applause] n don't leave yet so so one of the things they're all
021great teachers are phenomenal but Nino he's trying to hide W raise your wave your hand when when I first got here just so that the community knows he is our first grow your own he's one of our first grow your own he is a San Marcus kid went through University and now he's teaching our kids so you know we do wonderful great work he's the first of many we have EMT kids that are now working for the city of San Marcus that are products of the teachers you see before you culinary kids and cookie all over you can name it welding that epic piping they're all over the place uh being leaders I know Mr Fernandez has a plan to start showcasing those kids and so he'll be reaching out to you all to get
022their name so that we can track them down and spread the word about the great words so that's that's all I wanted to say he's one of the one of many great people that are standing back there that do amazing work so thank yall I want to say thank you too and on I I want to also say thank you'all and Echo Dr cardona's words as a parent I've had had kids in many of your classes and I've seen firstand the work that you do with them and I really really appreciate that also I'll tell you know that I was at a meeting about 12 hours ago with Dr Cardona in this building where he was touting all of your achievements um to the public and saying that because of yall we are going to
023be The Driver of e of the economy the workforce economy here in San Marcus and in in the next 10 years so thank you very much we appreciate you [Applause] uh Madame President that's all for the uh superintendent's report thank you uh next this evening we have two proclamations the first one because we did not have a meeting in January uh due to the weather uh we are going to have a proclamation declaring January uh retroactively as National human trafficking prevention month Miss Lopez would you like to do the honors yes ma'am whereas January is recognized as human trafficking prevention month human trafficking is a public health issue and crime that harms the health and well-being of individuals families and communities often across Generations whereas nearly 25 years of the passing of the trafficking victims
024protection act an estimated 27.6 million people are subjected to human trafficking globally with cases reported in every US state and territory whereas human trafficking can happen to anyone but certain populations are at greater risk including people affected by abuse violence poverty un living situations or social disconnection whereas human trafficking is connected to many other forms of violence and exploitation and often shares common risk and protective factors such as lack of resources in unsafe environments whereas strengthening communities requires Collective action to reduce the conditions that contribute to exploitation build resilience and create environments where people are protected from Human Trafficking and other forms of violence whereas s Marcus CISD is committed to ensuring that those impacted by human trafficking receive services that are trauma informed and responsive to their individual needs bra A's successful response to
025human trafficking requires a coordinated CommunityWide effort that includes collaboration across sectors and with those who have experienced human trafficking firsthand to ensure that services and programs are effective and meet the needs of all survivors therefore the San Marcus CISD Board of Trustees do Proclaim January 2025 as human trafficking prevention month reaffirming our commitment to prevent and combat human trafficking by increasing awareness and building diverse Partnerships to support a comprehensive response for individuals impacted by human trafficking for for for well founded no We the People a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing new shoes for children in San marus in San Marcus in the San Marcus area this organization was donated over has donated over three 30,000 pairs of shoes helping more than 1,200 local students annually assuring that they have resources to succeed in school and
026life and whereas Ral un wavering commitment to Mak K San Marcus a better place for all will continue to inspire generations to come and his legacy lives on through the work of no and the cess lives he touched and now therefore president an Hy and the CM MSS CISD board on behalf of on behalf of St Marcus CC board here Proclaim lasting Legacy of Ral Raphael Ralph Gonzalez Jr and extend our deepest gratitude for his years of Self Service companionship and Leadership let let it be known that robal Gonzalez memory will forever be edged in the hearts of s Mar and his Spirit of given will continue excuse me to shine brightly as an example of the power of love hard work and Community thank you very thank you very [Applause] much we're gonna uh
027thank you very much M Bandoo uh we're going to back up and do one award yes so one of our focuses this year has been uh growing our attendance throughout um the district and we have worked really hard up until November when illness has overtaken us for the last month and a half but our principles and teachers have been working hard Dr Cole who is our director of student Support Services came up with his team with Beth can to an idea to have a competition among schools and so we have been awarding the award so the latest winner for elementary is at nandez Elementary Miss Jennifer Gonzalez if she could come up here wow so they're passing this trophy around so schools it's the game is on and then whoever gets it in May gets
028to keep it over summer uh her and her team do a phenomenal job of trying to ensure uh that our kids come in uh on a daily basis and so we appreciate the work that they're doing uh Mr Joe Mitchell from good night Middle School could not be here good night Middle School is the winner we do have their trophy and we will I will walk it across the parking lot tomorrow and uh deliver it to them the great thing as we're on campuses and the bad thing is we're now on campuses so I get to go in the back way but it's all good but uh they're doing great work uh you'll see some reports on attendance later on and so illness is a big issue right now just had a report for ta
029commissioner this afternoon and we're fortunate not to have the measles outbreak that's hitting West Texas right now but it's hitting West Texas bad so keep healthy everybody uh because it's back and in full force but again thank you all to the work y'all do congratulations trific and then without further Ado we will move into the quarterly academic update with including the district Common Assessment number two please and we have Mr James narez Lacy marowski and Dr Monica valz who are representing team academics good evening Madame President members of the board superintendent Cardona James narez executive director of academic Services joined by Dr Monica valades our director of Elementary curriculum instruction and multilingual education and Miss Lacy Oda moski our director of secondary curriculum instruction today we'll be uh we'll be reviewing a couple of key
030data points from quarterly review two including attendance and student performance data on District common Assessments in quarter one we highlighted our emphasis on 85030 um for approaches meets Masters and we talked about building common data protocols and common language for common language and methodology for reviewing data that continues to be a a focal point as we moved into Quarter Two these expectations have remained like I said a focal point for us continue to guide campus efforts um for the remainder of the year we'll still we're we are still committed to building our districtwide data protocols and naring that Focus for the uh groupings of students that you see on the screen merg bilingual special education economically disadvantaged and are gifted and talented campuses continue to utilize our key performance indicator scorecards to assess progress toward
031achievement across multiple data points from attendance discipline um Ohi information and District Common Assessment performance in January principales presented updated data for district Common Assessment to to their campuses and teachers engaged in a round of data analysis to disaggregate data look at data to see where students are performing and how they can group students so they can set targets for how to improve student performance with distri common assessments and ultimately Drive student performance for our star um they've also used they also used the key key performance indicators to drive comparison between quarter 2 and quarter 1 help gauge Trends do a trend analysis and ensure that the campus has the right focal points for moving into quarter 3 so the first category of data that we'll look at today is attendance and Dr Kona talked
032about um you know some distinction for specific campuses hernandz and goodnight Middle School having received recognition for their attendance over the last quarter the over this quarter quarter 2 roughly there's been you know a negative 1 percentage Point drop in attendance and you see that around the November time frame flu were a big contributor to that Co overall over the course of the last three years attendance has we we are still compared to the last three years are in in a more improved state of about 5.3 percentage points above where we've been so even with that dip in Quarter Two we're still tracking along great progress over the course of the last couple of years I'm going to now hand it over to Dr valades and Dr and Miss Mar can you sorry I I
033don't want to interrupt but um can you just explain the the sizable zip that happens every year between August and September like what is that why is that I don't have any exact evidence to to say what exactly is causing that there are various things that happen and um we we saw the 22 23 year we're coming out of Co you know we're getting back into the hang of school um usually around the November December time frame you see an uptick in flu cases and you know flu based illnesses um don't really have a whole lot of data from the 22 23 school year what you see in the kind of bluish purple color to show that that large dip in atten no I think generally we're trending much better um which is great but
034I just wonder if maybe the campuses could each go back and look and maybe there's something anecdotally that they can figure out it seems like people show up in August and then we lose a chunk of them after Labor Day right so if we could figure out where those people are going that might be we could definitely do a deeper analysis into those that first quarter moving in the second quarter to see if we can get an idea of the type of um attendance issues that may be presenting themselves around that time it just looks like they don't come back right so that would be helpful to know sure good evening so Mr naris is uh handing out a hard copy the data that's reflected on the screen is different that is on your board
035book or in your board book um and so I'll I'll explain a little bit of about why that is so um we noticed a discrepancy in the student scores for rla and this just applies to rla uh it turned out it was some sort of glitch in edoria and so uh the Specialists work with edoria our platform so that they could uh fix the glitch and then rescore those assessments so rescoring those assessments um gave us different numbers than what was reported originally uh so if you can see um all of our um scores went up in all of the performance levels and also all of the subpopulations that Mr NAD has pointed out at the beginning of the presentation um this is an increase between of course our fall uh assessment and then our
036winter assessment for rla and if uh you notice there is 11 areas in which there was a minimum of 5 to 14 percentage points that were incre so for math as you notice they all decrease but um as we had mentioned last time we presented on math scores math concepts are not recursive as rla scores are so rla Concepts typically are build buil upon one another from um really from uh grading period to grading period and from year to year math concepts not always uh are recursive for example algebraic thinking Etc geometry are quite distinct standards uh and so uh the standards that are the students are assessed in in Winter can be uh significantly different than the ones that they were assessed in in Fall um so what we did was we compared also
037to give you some insight um fall 23 I mean winter 23 to Winter 24 so if you look at winter 23 to Winter 24 we put those in the right bottom hand corner and again as in rla we see increases uh in all our performance levels and also in all of our areas uh which is really um spectacular because often times we see some growth in some areas but then dips in other areas and this is across the board an increase in all areas um so um just to add where what some of the things that we're continuing is of course and you all know this continuing to really push on grade level um instruction with rigorous materials in our reading in our math um content areas um and also really aligning that effective instructional
038practices across all our seven Elementary campuses um and then staying on track this is one of the biggest things is staying on track with the pacing uh calendar of those standards so that we are teaching all of the standards um before the star so thank you good evening so we're going to look at algebra scores which from quarter 1 to 2 remained relatively static um I met with all three secondary campuses back when the data came in and so a talking point that they wanted me to to add that's a little bit deeper than what you see here is if you saw this by campus our high school's algebra scores increased from quarter 1 to two and they were really proud of that they put a lot of work into making sure they were following
039their pacing they're really pushing to try to get the conceptual thinking more than more or in balance with procedural and so they feel like that paid off for them and why they saw some gains from 1 to two but in general between our three secondary campuses you can see the data relatively static from q1 to two then we go to US history when you think about our goal of 80503 you can see that they are exceeding that just about and they have given themselves actually a higher goal that they want to meet the state uh average which is 96 69 and 37 so they feel like they are on track to meet that higher standard since they've already kind of met that first goal of 80503 so we're really really excited that they that they
040did that for themselves next is um some rla scores starting with 8th grade again when we du more deep into the data um while we saw a few Point regression here and there our teachers really put some emphasis in the second quarter on the revising and editing skills because again looking at quarter one data they found that that was something that they weren't emphasizing in balance with the reading and writing and so they put some emphasis there and we saw over 10 percentage Point gains in those learning standards so they felt really good about they found an issue they applied their their Solutions and they saw some results so as we've been working through this third quarter we've been making sure that we don't we're not a swinging pendulum right we now we're forgetting the
041other skills but that we're balancing between the Reading Writing revising and editing and so we're excited to see some results on Q3 at the high school we were super pumped to see this growth at our English one level we really attribute that to our close working with Dr gardo she's taken a very um focused approach with the Department uh she meets twice a month with our district rla specialist and we really hone in on the data and we're just constantly monitoring and adjusting uh she's so clear and consistently preaching that 80 5030 goal um staying on Pace having a sense of urgency we we've increased writing opportunities for students with more imediate feedback so again we feel like uh We've identified some things that are working to help us get these these uh double digit
042gains English 2 you'll see we didn't see as much here as much gains as we did um we are really hoping to see a an improvement on our extended constructed responses the camp the high school campus has a goal for now um to have less than 20% of our students scoring a zero on that extended response whether it be skipping the writing or just not a full effort uh so again if you were to see the data at a at a more detailed level of standard uh while English she went back they were happy to see that they've made a lot of progress toward that goal of no more than 20% out of zero and truly the ultimate goal is no body at zero so they just wanted to kind of point out that finer
043detail and then I'll end with Biology who had huge growth from q1 to Q2 they so the state average just so you know is 91 at approaches which you can see they beat 56 at meets and 19 at Masters this is a very exciting group of teachers they are relentless and borderline obsessive with making sure students are learning they really nothing phases them there's no excuses they just teach assess retach I mean they are Relentless they're a very exciting group to watch and I'm so it was great to see how happy they were and in fact their team lead um was named teacher of the year at the high school Britney masella so she was a big factor in helping move that group all right so that is a our report of the data from
044December I have one question um on the high school classes how are you identifying GT students but they're not getting GT services at the high school most of them so is that based on carryover from having received GT in an earlier grade so they're identified here because of that you know marker in the system that pulls their data okay in that format okay any other questions I do have one I'm wondering do you have uh an idea of how these scores I love the comparison on the math because that did look very scary um do you have an idea of how we're looking compared to last year on the rest of the scores have we improved from there as well are we stagnant what's that looking like yes compared to last year it's kind of
045same as Elementary we did see Improvement um and in particular our eighth graders we not only look to see how eighth graders last year so current ninth graders did on this uh second quarter um our current eighth graders improveed from last year's eighth graders but we also looked at cohort data so our current eighth graders did better on Q2 than they did as seventh graders so that's great to see apples for apples same cohort to see that growth from seven to eight so again across the board yes growth from this point last year but we were really excited about our current eighth graders showing that poort growth the only um comment I wanted to make was to say thank you um I have been stopped by numerous uh teachers um in the last few weeks
046who have told me that they really appreciate the way that we're doing plc's and that they find them valuable these are high school teachers and so um whatever doing is great let's keep it up and I just wanted to give you that feedback so thank you thank you very much and we will continue on with the taper report good evening Board of Trustees um Dr Cardona president Hy I'm here to present the 2324 annual report although we are in February of 2025 this is a report for the 2324 school year we have to wait until the paper report is released for the prior Year and that did not get released until December so the information I'm presenting is for the 23 24 school year so the large majority of this you've already heard in one
047way or another there's very little new information here and as such I'll be essentially presenting an executive summary I'm not doing a deep dive into this report this report in its entirety is over a thousand Pages it is all already posted on the district website for anyone who would like to view it and we can also print copies for anyone who would like a physical copy of the report as well these are the eight different sections of the district annual report the taper is a large portion of it um but you'll see all eight um sections and this is housed at www.san Marcus or smcisd.net accountability there's a folder for each of these sections and you can dive into the district level reports as well as specific campus level reports taper is short for the
048Texas Academic performance report and the taper uses different data that's compiled through our P submissions as well as the student assessment data using those two data sources there's a wide variety of informations around the student performance the student growth and different disaggregation of student groups across our e students students receive special ed services um and this is where you will see information where it's broken down even to show the ccmr data how did kids earn ccmr data those sorts of things there's also information about the school and District staff programs that exist and then student demographics as well um there's a cover page for each of the paper reports typically that's where the accountability information is listed however since the accountability for 23 24 is under litigation the cover reports do not include that information
049once again um and then these are the other things that you'll typically see on the reports as they are the sections that are included um if you do not see the years listed it's for the prior two years so the 23 and the 24 school years the categories that have the years listed those are lagging indicators so they're behind for a reason because it takes so long to get the information but once again you'll see Star Performance for the previous two years School progress which is looking at student growth you'll look at bilingual education star participation rates that is something we have to ensure we have a high enough rate of our students taking star then attendance graduation and drop out or for the two years that are lagging same thing for our graduate profile
050and ccmr and then the student and staff information that's listed for just the 23 24 school year so each of the taper reports they are between 25 and 35 pages in length so once again it's a very lengthy document provides a lot of insight about this um student performance at the different campuses the next section of the annual report is the P's financial report this is information that has been presented by the finance department through different board meetings um and this is another logging report it's the most current is from the 2223 school year but for anyone who wants to see the revenue expenditures dispersements tax rates or fund balance for the district it's available as well as by campus by campus you can see the expenditures by object by function or then program expenditures
051so this is a way if someone wants to know well how are the schools spending the money this is the report that tells you exactly that and it comes straight from teams so these are available for the 22 23 school year as part of our annual report the next thing we have is the district accreditation status this is another one that due to the a through F accountability being under litigation we have not received an updated accreditation status typically there's four different categories that are associated to a campus or to a district um so we are still under our 23 or 22 23 accreditation status which is accredited next section is our campus performance objectives and campus performance objectives are found in our campus Improvement plans and each campus has one as as required by
052Texas Education Code the campus Improvement plan has performance objectives throughout those are presented to the board and improved typically early fall semester um and then throughout the year there are the periodic measures to to look at the progress being made so those teams will meet in October January March and then June to reflect on how is the campus doing and Meeting those goals as established so the cips that are posted are actually the ones following that June Summit of evaluation so anyone in the public with who wants to see how did our schools perform can access those reports to see what was the school's starting performance objectives and then how do they finish the school year and what actions they take along the way to try to achieve those performance goals um the report on
053violent or criminal incidents this is something that would be new information um te identifies different incidents that must be reported annually there are 19 different incident types I'm not going to read through all of them for you all um but if the number of students per incident is less than five the information is masked due to fura so typically this report for us comes back practically blank which is a very positive thing um so this next slide um you can see s Marcus High School and niller Middle School both had some incidents that fell under these categories but once again it was less than five so it's mask through furpa good night had zra so once again that just speaks to the safety of our school and the safety efforts that are being provided um
054all day every day with our campuses the next section is student performance and postsecondary institutions this is an area where unfortunately all of those great CTE programs it's not reflected the things we do through ccmr it's not always reflected here and that is a frustrating piece um but it's looking at students this is another one that's very much lagging because it looks at the graduates and then how did they do their very first year in college so this is looking at the class of um 20 3 and how they did their first year in college looking at their GPA for the fall of 23 spring of 24 and summer of 24 and this is the report showing for San Marquez high school you can see that of the 509 graduates we had 160 that enrolled
055in either a 4-year or a 2-year public College you can see the breakdown by GPA type where they fell and then we do have students that are not trackable um and that's down in the notes what that means necessarily it's just the idea Associated that student did not match any of the Texas Higher red institutes and then not found just means that they were not located in any of the Texas highered institutes these are kids who may have gone straight into the workforce these are kids who may have moved out of state this is this report is generated through the Texas higher ed Coordinating Board so that's why there are so many you know why are these kids not included because it's only looking at a very small population going to fouryear or twoyear public
056universities and colleges and to give you some more clarity around this I pulled two high schools that are on our 40 comparison schools for St Marcus High School um so it's a little bit harder to read but s High School and Judson High School are both on our 40 comparison groups so you can see how aligned we are with the different schools that are considered are like schools in Tea's eyes so roughly the same number same percentage of students going to a 2-year or four-year college or university out of the total number of graduates the next section is the progress towards our house bill three goals House Bill three goals were initially adopted in June of 2020 and the 2024 year was the last year that fell under those so we will have new goals
057that will be presented as part of the Strategic plan for the district moving forward but kind of wrapping up where we finished the initial goals that were that third graders would score meets or higher on reading would increase from 37% to 44 looking at third grade math would increase from 38 to 46 and then looking at the increase of ccmr from 47.8 to 57 so from when these goals were presented A lot happened between covid and Then star redesign and the different teques being assessed on the test so there are a lot of moving pieces on this one but you can see how we how we finished up third grade reading finished at 39% these last two years there was the dip down as the writing tis were included these past 2 years so we
058did not meet the goal that we had set out for the end of 2024 looking at third grade math at the meets level same thing we had a goal set that was at 46% and you can tell that after covid we were very much impacted and we never fully rebounded from that the hopes is that with all of the data analysis we are doing this year the active monitoring of our student performance um that we are being more proactive with the needs of our students and having that aligned approach to sure that we are meeting the needs and really that meets are higher once again this is the meets grade level not approaches so we're wanting to get our kids where they are at grade level and then lastly was the ccmr um indicator by
059graduating class initially the goal was to get to that um 57% because at that time a 57% would have given us an 88 for accountability well then the state changed that metric but we won't get into that one um but we finished at a 55 which is just right below that 57% so overall you can definitely see that the CCR is moving in an upward Direction and this is another one that's hard to track because it is a lagging indicator and they change the rules after a group of kids has already moved on and there's nothing we can do to address that group of students so we're looking we're very much looking forward to the information that will be coming out from our class of 2024 graduates the final section is the taper glossery and
060this is available um online right now it's only in English but tea is going to be publishing a um Spanish version as well of the taper glossery so once that is posted that'll be added to the um folders that are available online and if anyone would like to see any of the information once again here is the website and paper copies will also be available here at central office or at the campuses upon request um it is quite a bit to print out but if someone really wants it we will most certainly do that for anyone who asks um and if you have any more questions or if anyone from the public would like a copy of it your welcome to go to your campus or to email or call me directly and I can
061um send you either the full binder as the PDF or get you a printed copy are there any questions thank you very much all right uh I will now entertain a motion to approve the items on the consent agenda so moved second seconded by Miss Lopez any questions all right everybody in favor of approving the consent agenda items please raise your hand thank you and the next item is item for Action uh consider the approval of the agreement to provide joint funding for the provision of Youth Services uh this is something that we talked about first last month and then we discussed further there any questions about this item is there a motion I'll make the motion that we approve the ums for Action we're just doing the joint funding okay so just agreements for
062joint funding for theion and we the motion is to approve the uh joint funding Services Youth Services agreement and I think that that that is at the level that was originally presented that is correct yes the 20,000 over it's 5,000 a year it's what the board could the other organizations are picking up the swap okay so where as a funding that we' originally committed to without an increase just so we're they're all clear on that okay um any other questions all in favor please raise your hand opposed that motion carries um I am going to move the approval of the budget planning process uh to the items for Action following Clos session um so now we are going to move into the consideration of and approval of targeted Improvement plan for tribis lementary school our
063presentation there is no it's not a presentation it it is in your the board packet it is something that uh Mr massini is here if you have any questions he and his team have been working with Region 13 uh and with office of academics I've been working with them we been really focusing on aggressive monitoring and uh getting in the classroom supporting our teachers uh it's the plan that was presented in the book any questions is there a motion I move that we approve the targeted Improvement plan for Travis Elementary School I'll second motion seconded all in favor please raise your hand that motion also carries guys are making this very simple this evening all right uh next we're going to consider the approval of the city of San Marcus's electric utility easement at good
064Junior High School which is the new Mendes Elementary School it's actually ele Mendes Elementary School used to be the junior high school um Mr sandal Mr Dall good evening the uh item for action on this specific is for an electric utility easement at the new Mendes site and it's for the city of San Marcus providing the placement construction installation operation and repair of electric distribution lines and systems consisting of variable number of electric lines Transformers and necessary structures uh for that location so what the city is asking for is simply permission to be able to uh maintain and do what needs to be done with the installation of that those structures and where on the property is this I don't know exactly did they send you a map there's not a map it's just the
065whole property wherever they decide to run mines based on the drawings that we provided them which is in the permitting process right now they'll uh they'll take a look this has nothing to do with the retention Pond that they're looking for okay this is just the ability to run um utilities into new mendal the new M the new M yes so it's advantageous to us in terms of the building that we're doing on the site yes yes all right any questions s a motion so made by Miss Mondo and seconded by Jess um all right all in favor please raise your hand opposed and then consider the appr approval of the city of San Marcus detention water quality easement access at days of all elementary school that's correct and again this is the city asking
066for permission to gain access to the new detention Pond that was built adjacent to the school there to be able to provide um inspect the detention pond water quality of the facilities all related equipment um identified with the city approved development permits and related that that would be related to the uh property questions motion made by Miss Kane seconded by Miss Lopez all in favor please raise your hand thank you very much Mr dual yes ma'am uh on for Action D is consider the approval of the 2025 2026 school calendar yes president Hy so this item was in December and then we asked to bring it back in January and then obviously we've had all the delays and so the two questions that came up during that presentation uh one question was about aligning our
067spring break with Texas state so that is confirmed the second question was is Texas state going to push a fall break for next school year and so they're not looking into a fall break for next school year but they are looking into a fall break for the 26 27th school year um and so those are the two questions that we had had the last the last time we had this discussion um I can bring up the calendar if you like or if you have any questions regarding the calendar I can definitely answer I just had one question were we able to talk to Texas State about aligning our spring break and their spring break with the rest of the I35 Corridor yeah that that was we're unfortunately we can't do that uh UT kind of
068runs their own system and that's the feedback we receed from Texas State as well okay thank you definitely try any other questions have we talked to Hayes ISD about aligning or did they automatically go with UT's plan yes that they align with UT okay is there motion made by Miss vondo seconded by Miss Kane all in favor please raise your hand that calendar is approved thank you very much and then this time I'm going to move us into close session as authorized by section 551.071 551 072 551 074 551 076 and 55112 n of the Texas government code thank you for e e e item uh eight items for action item number A2 consider the approval of the budget planning process for the school year 2025 2026 okay sorry I didn't know we were we
069we don't have anything I think we were just want Direction uh I think we talked the last time about maybe providing a number that you want uh us to be able to go in and try to find savings for um and then on March we would present what that would entail to get to that number is that what we had discussed the last time yeah go ahead want a motion just for a sake of discussion uh yeah I'll make a motion that we board packet because in the board packet it gives like an a drafted planning process language right while was like saying in the real packet hold on one second in the board book it has a motion language have to find it no one has a hard copy I guess I'll make a
070motion that we direct staff to identify $5 million in potential budget cuts for the upcoming budget okay is there a second from Miss Kane yeah okay thank you go ahead me uh so no well that was I guess going to be my question is in the board packet it gave us a range of 5 million to 8 million to to direct staff so if I guess this is is approved tonight miss Gia what what does that look like moving forward so so far we have done some attrition in out uh so we do have some gains already so the next step is to start meeting with the uh campuses uh and go over what other recommendations we can do to reduce the um budget deficit to get to that 5 million uh dollar amount and
071then we'll bring that recommendation to y'all in March um and then as well as looking at where we are you know in the scheme of everything to see if I 5 million is going to be sufficient to be moving forward into the next year or do we need to look at even more Cuts questions so tonight we don't need to I think there was concerned about do we need to identify particular positions or programs and we don't need to do that tonight we're talking with Administration and staff and campus leadership about areas where there's natural attrition because we all want to avoid program cuts and staff losses if at all possible I think is the goal we want to make sure that we are doing everything that we can to protect academic progress and all
072of our activities and our opportunities that we've talked about tonight that students have access to at sarus CISD um as best as we can given the limitations that are upon us with the budget um is that fair assessment that we're all in agree agreement with and the the conversations the board has been having with the superintendent um and administration of the cabinet for the last couple of months about areas where we might have some ability to streamline operations um and to some potential redundancies or areas that might have been Grant funded by money that is no longer available to us um and also looking at places where we can consolidate job duties in some situations um so those conversations will now start happening with campus leadership correct and we've we've kind of already begun and
073if you give us a we're going to take the 5 million it's like a baseline approach and begin from there and so we'll begin the planning process with the principles to start doing their Staffing allocations the idea is they they will they kind of know their campuses and their communities so they can prioritize we want to have some consistency across all districts to protect the things the board has made a priority but also you know look at some areas where um they can say to us like okay our our teachers at 3-5 will be at 27 to1 if we can do this you know and then move things around uh and then I would also suggest that I think we've been really good at working with us together that in that March 3rd Special meeting
074that we bring the principles in and that way the board can ask the principles directly questions because we will already have had discussions with them and they're like when I was talking to principal X at a certain campus she's like I've got 10 budgets 10 Master schedules in my head already just give me the direction of what y'all what the board is important to the board and then I can figure out with my team these 10 different schedules to make sure we address academics number one but I think if they're in the room then we will avoid anything leaving the room there's no we'll all be under the same so when there's anx then there's going to be anxiety when there is anxiety from this process that principles can talk to their staff and say
075like Hey we're we're having conversations together this isn't US versus them this is we're trying to do what's best for the district and address academics first and then uh protect people so uh Miss Kane if you'll indulge me will you withdraw your second so I can rephrase my motion just so it like captures what I I intended to capture yes okay cool all right um so then I'm going to make a motion that the board approves budget planning process for school year 2026 that includes a propose reduction up to $5 million second okay any other questions discussion right all in favor on the proposal to direct the staff to or approve the process that includes a budget reduction up to $5 million please raise your hand opposed that motion carries 5- Z which brings us
076now to the final item on the evening's agenda which is to adjourn the meeting is there a motion uh don't we have to do this do I uh authorizing the you're right I skipped ahead but I'll make that motion please do go ahead oh yes go ahead yes to authorize the superintendent to send a letter to the city manager of s Marcos requesting an exemption of the assessment storm water utility fees against the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District and matters related there too motion made second in any conversation all in favor please raise your hand opposed thank you now I'll entertain a motion to adjourn I move we adjourn motion made seconded all in favor thanks everybody for staying late thank you