001[Music] go ahead and call the meeting to order. It is 6:01 p.m. Second item on the agenda is to see if our our board members uh I'm going to ask that you identify from my right to the left. Carlos Marggo present. Anita Chavez present. Graalo Arnandez present. Senomez Jr. present. Thank you. Uh and Julian Alvarez President is present. We do have two board members that are not here, but we do have quorum. Next item on the agenda is our pledge of allegiance. If you're able to do so, I ask that you please stand and face the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. Ladies and
002gentlemen, we'll now transition into our public comment uh section of the hearing or I should say public hearing 4.1 uh Texas academic performance report TAP R. Dr. Little, if you could make your way to the podium and go ahead and introduce your guest and anyone who else may be providing remarks. Good evening board, Dr. Sorenson, and the many great members of the community who are here tonight. Uh we will make this part brief so we can get to all of the excitement that is behind us. Uh but we do appreciate uh being able to present this report to the board and to the community tonight, which really is a look back at our work last school year. This is a requirement that TEA has for school districts in the state uh to annually make a
003report on the Texas academic performance report which is something they provide every district. Uh so I'm happy to be joined again by Miss Flores and Mr. Duk who's actually going to walk us through uh a summary of that report and then we'll make sure at the end to show you and the community where you can find access to much more information uh about this data. So I believe Miss Flores is up next. Thank you Dr. a little and I apologize, but I should have stated that it's 6:03 p.m. and we will go ahead and start with our public comment portion or public hearing, I should say. You may proceed. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um, when it comes to the taper report, the Texas Education Code subchapter 39.306 306 does require that every district publish
004that annual report, hold a public hearing of the annual report and widely disseminate that annual report throughout the district. And so our complete annual report is going to be available u at the La Hoya ISD website along with our assessment and accountability department which is Mr. uh Sebastian Duki our director. Uh it will be on his website as well. Um there's five different I mean I'm I'm sorry there's uh different elements and components of the annual report. A lot of these you've already been receiving updates throughout uh previous board meetings in the fall and up to this spring. And that includes our uh accredititation status, our Texas academic performance report, our PE's financial report, our campus performance objectives, uh any violent or criminal incident reports, as well as our post-secondary performances. And so, uh, where
005does La Hoya ISD stand with this report? When it comes to the accredititation of status, you're going to see accredited, but you're also going to see that it reads for the 2223 school year, and that is uh for the reason that's on the footnote. Um, currently the Texas Education Agency has not released uh any issuance of A throughF a uh ratings due to legislation and some uh hearings that are taking place. Uh um so we are being required instead to publish those 22 23 accredititation status reports. One of the other items uh that we're required to rec uh include is our first rating, our financial rating where La Hoya is an A receiving that superior achievement and you've already received that previous board presentation on those elements. When it comes to the 2024 accountability rating,
006again, that is currently on hold and has not been released. when it comes to the 2024 special education determination status, La Hoya ISD does meet the requirements. So, one of the things uh while there was a pause on our accountability, La Hoya ISD did go the extra mile of verifying what our um accountability rating would have been. And so, our current verified accountability rating with TEA is AB. And that is a verified score of an 84. And so what this rating reflects is uh the elements of our three domains. And that is our student achievement, our student progress, and our closing the gaps domains. And again, we're very hard uh we we've got a lot of staff working very hard to achieve this. And we've got our goals set to making sure we're maintaining and
007getting better. And so the other elements are highlights of those star results. And so with me this evening is Mr. Sebastian Duk, our director for assessment and accountability, who will be going over the next slides. Nice to see you, Mr. Duk. Good good evening. Nice to see you everybody as well. Uh, thank you, Miss Flores. Uh, the table report is comprised of many different data elements that are provided to us by the Texas Education Agency. Every year, the agency is required to publish this report widely. They develop a report for every campus at La Hoya ISD and the district as well. Tonight's report will mainly focus on the district performance and we're going to briefly come back to the data that we've already reviewed as a district as a board. Uh the only difference is
008now it's final and it's been provided to us by TEA instead of us uh providing the preliminary projected data that we had on hand. This slide you've seen many times before and it is our performance as compared to the region and state. Final data shows that as a district there is still a performance gap in reading uh science and math between the region and state as a district. However, if you note as a district in math we are leading both the region and state in performance at the meets level performance. The hidden story in this slide is that as a district, we grew or we maintained our prior year's performance. While the state only maintained their performance in uh reading, they actually regressed in math, science, and social studies, the region regressed as well in
009math, science, and social studies. So, as a district, we maintained and we're growing and we're moving in the right direction. With regards to our CCMR performance, again, La Hoya ISD leads the charge, outpacing both the region and the state in the annual graduates for CCMR and the career and military ready graduates. However, there's still a lot of hard work that needs to be done with regards to our college ready graduates. We are really lagging in that aspect and so there's a lot of work that needs to get done this school year and possibly many school years after this one to ensure that we remain very competitive with the region and state with that regard. This is our House Bill 3 update. So this is current spring benchmark data at meets performance. Um, in third grade
010reading, we are currently at 26% meets with a couple of weeks to go before we start our star administration assessments. And we're a little over halfways there or halfways there um to our goal of 42% at meets. In third grade math, we're actually halfway there. Uh, our goal is 36 and we're currently at 18%. Eighth grade reading, however, um is got a very short distance to go with the goal set at 49 and current performance at 40. The CCMR portion may be a little bit alarming, but keep in mind that uh we still have a lot of certification assessments to to administer during the the late portion of March and most of April. And we'll continue to to do certifications all the way sometime into June. So, that number typically will will taper off and
011and it'll kind of set itself up. but we don't um foresee us having too many issues getting to that 93 uh goal that we have for House Bill 3 with regards to CCMR. Lastly, we would like to provide the board, the community, and the district with the key links for all of the elements that are included in our taper report, including our PE's financial information, our violent uh incident report, our post-secondary performance, our tapered demographics, our house three goals, uh our performance objectives by campus and by district. Uh and then our um final report is linked to this presentation and will be linked to our district website as well. Does the board have any questions for us? Members of the board, do you have any questions for Miss Flores, Mr. Dooker, or Dr. Little regarding
012the report? No. Thank you. We don't have any at this time. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, board. We also appreciate the flexibility and being able to move this report from last meeting to this one. So, apologies for that confusion. Uh, but happy we were able to do that tonight. So, thank you. Okay. I'm assuming at this time we take an opportunity to ask anyone that's here for public input regarding what you just heard regarding the report. Is there anyone here that has anything they'd like to say? If you do, please make your way to the podium. Seeing that we don't at this time we will close the public hearing. It is exactly 6:11. Okay, one of our favorite portions of um of our school board meeting is to have again Mr. Silva
013and Mr. Chapa who will be doing a presentation regarding the history centennial. And so I'll be turning that over to you. So thank you. You can introduce our guest. Good evening, Mr. President, board members, Dr. Sorenson, members of our community. And once again, we come to you from our centennial committee presentations. But before we start our presentation, I'd like for everybody to acknowledge that we have these wonderful 3D models displayed throughout our central office administration. We want to thank all of our campuses that participated. As part of those of the celebration, we've asked them to do namesakes at their campuses to display the reason why they have the name that they do, but also these 3D models. And so they've done a wonderful job and so they're really awesome. When you have an opportunity, please
014make sure that you go by. We also have some in over here by the Tabasco room. And so thank you for that opportunity. And so as we continue our decades of excellence this time around, we have 1966 to 1985. Mr. Silva, Mr. Chapa, come on up. Welcome gentlemen. Thank you for joining us again. Thank you. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. We're very pleased to be back before the board and the uh community to talk about the next 20-year installment of our historical development. So, today the time period we're looking at is again 1966 to 1985. And during this period, we've continued to see a lot of growth, which is one of the kind of like a theme for our district. We talk about growth and numbers. Uh so at this point in time I'm going
015to go highlight some of the leadership changes that occurred between these 20 year uh this 20-year period. We had superintendent join us like Murray R. Garner between 1964 to 1967. uh Aruro Medina uh 1967 to 1970 which is uh the first Hispanic superintendent uh not only in Idago County but the Dalgo and Cameron County area which is a point of significance and pride I think for our area to have have that representation uh for our community. Uh additionally we had Luther Pearson in 1970 to 1972 and Mr. Lao Valdez in 1972 to 1976. Uh on the last two uh bullets here, I'm going to go ahead and defer to Mr. Chapa because he does have a little bit more insight on those particular members. Thank you. And again, thank you for having us here. Uh
016the last two individuals, Alco Salez and Dr. Miguel de los Santos. I've had the privilege to to serve with them. Um I was elected to the board of trustees uh in 1971. And so, uh, the the, uh, I guess, uh, the superintendent from Luther Pearson on down, uh, I was on the board of trustees when these gentlemen served. The last two, uh, the district growth really started exploding toward the end of Ale's tenure. And at that time, one of the highlights of that was a 2.9 and uh n uh two two million $950,000 grant that was gotten from Washington DC, but not without a struggle. The grant was initially turned down. They went to they made a trip to Washington DC to to um ask uh for the decision uh to be turned and to
017be reconsidered. uh it was turned down again by by the federal agency and then they went to visit congressman de laarsa he tried to intercede and intercede came back and said well they they don't want to change the decision at that time then the district served notice that it would be threatening a lawsuit because the grounds that they were using was that there was one page missing from the application we had met all the other criteria and I guess when they got that news that what the district was contemplating on the September of that year, they get a letter informing them that the grant had been granted. And so with that money, uh, a new library was built, uh, elementary schools were built, uh, e extra classrooms were built, and, uh, it it was, uh,
018the district's entry to trying to play catch-up with the growth that was happening in this district. When Dr. De Los Santos came in, we were experiencing a growth of almost almost a thousand students per year. the district was growing so fast that it was becoming very difficult for the district to to find teachers to fill the slots that that that we had vacant. So there were a couple of initiatives under Dr. the Los Santos and one was that to in I don't know uh we'll show a slide in a minute that talked about the district raised the teacher salaries and for a while there La Hoya was the highest paying district in the valley and we had to do that not so much that that we had a lot of extra cash but uh it
019was one of the the the things that we had to do to try to attract the needed teachers And and another thing that we did was we offered free transportation for teachers that lived outside of the district. A lot of teachers or applicants or teachers that we were approaching said, "Well, it's a big district. U gasoline, I think around that time there was a we went through one of those uh uh periods where gasoline prices really went up. there was a boy. The Arabs were were cutting back on production. And so the district uh uh told all applying teachers that one of the things that we had to offer is to send a bus to Macallen. And so at meeting at the they could park at the Macallen Civic Center, get on the bus and
020then we would bring them over to La Hoya and then take them back after school. That was one of the tactics that we used also under Dr. Los Santos, we we uh we made a trip to Johnson City. At that time, there was a Dr. John Champlain had gotten national recognition for uh outcomesdriven uh education program that they were uh implementing in Johnson City, New York. It had made uh national news. Uh we attended a conference up there and then after that, Dr. Champlain was almost uh an annual visitor to this district uh and trained our teachers into how to use that uh planning model. uh the um let me see well under that as you can see you'll see in in your report we had uh several elementary schools that were built uh GMO
021Flores uh Leo J Leo um Benvides and it uh from there on uh up to the end of this period uh these schools started filling the need that we had to accommodate all the kids that were starting to come into the district. This Leo J Leo obviously uh uh dedicated to this uh political leader, mayor of La Hoya and a and a man that was one of the biggest supporters of education here in in this area. This is Mr. Benavides, prominent citizen. Um okay. Oh yeah. Okay. Now another another well point of pride for us back back in those days and still to this day is that uh in 1968 there was a a student walk out in Edelsa. It made national news. As a matter of fact it was on the CBS evening news.
022Walter Kronite introduced the that news item. It talked about uh the walk out in in Edcow Chelsea. Uh that led to the the the um superintendent recommending to the then board of trustees in Ed Cowelsa that the students that were involved in that walk out and students that uh refused to uh ask forgiveness for for having walked out and for leading the walk out were going to be expelled. And this was going to have a very detrimental effect especially on the seniors that were involved because they were told that they would not graduate, they would not get a diploma and if any of them had aspirations going on to college uh that that uh they were not going to get it through at cowelsa people in the community then reached out to some of the
023surrounding school districts PSJA Edinburg and some of the others asking if there was any way that the students could attend school there. They were turned down. So then they contacted Mr. Leo over here in La Hoya and because he was involved with the political association of Spanish-sp speakaking organizations um and we had the first Hispanic superintendent uh in place. La Hoya uh accepted uh 20 of the students. By that time, some of the students and their parents were still negotiating with the school board, but 20 of the students that their cases still had not been resolved. Um the parents provided a bus for them. So they would drive from Ed Couch Elsa to La Hoya and they they were with us for a brief period but at least they were catching up on their classes.
024And uh there have been several uh recognition uh local community recognitions in ATC Chelza anniversary dates for that walk out. and they always invite representatives from the community of La Hoya, especially members of the Leo family to attend because they they they felt so indebted to this district for for reaching out to them and and and in talking to some of the students that are now my age um that were involved in that walk out, they said they could not believe that in La Hoya uh students were not being punished for speaking Spanish on the school grounds. And when they went into the cafeteria, they couldn't believe that there was a jukebox with Tahano music on it. And so they they just so there was something that stuck with them again. So thank you. Sorry
025about Okay. So then as we see on this particular slide, this kind of covers the large growth that the district was seeing throughout this time period. So enrollment increased significantly because the area was growing and expanding as more people moved in and commerce developed. So if we look at the chart we can we can kind of see the growth that was happening between uh starting in 1934 into late 1968 and is an exponential growth. Uh and so this is the response that the district took on to bring in more teachers and to continue educating our community. Uh and so this is a point of pride not only for our district because of the response that we had but it kind of talks about how in our district we take care of community but also we
026continue to foster growth and as a community's needs change the district has always adapted to support those changes as we've been doing over the last several years as well. Uh and during this time of growth and change the district started making a lot of headlines. So we were picked up by a lot of the newspapers. Some of the headlines you'll see here is like La Hoya's class some 1926 honored a lot of youth achievements and these highlight the programs that came with the initiatives in the district. In 1985 the La Hoya student council hosted a district-wide leadership convention where they invited 16 schools in the area to participate. Uh students also actively participated in both UIL and academic honors program continually making it not only to the regional level but the state level which coincides
027with today's presentation because we will be um observing and honoring the students who attended the district meets as well. And in 1976 um there were events honoring the class of 1926 with a 50-year milestone for the district. So again continually celebrating and looking at our roots and history. Uh, additionally, you can see on this slide some of the other stories and headlines that captivated the area, including the reference to the grant that Mr. Chapa spoke about, the 2.9 million grant for school projects that funded the building of libraries and schools in the district and that continued growth. Um, and one of the things that I always heard growing up and being a student of the district is that not only do we have the best schools, the best teachers, but our district always very competitive
028with wages. And so again, these are kind of like the myths and and not myths as in like it's we're making it up, but the myths and the lore that makes La Hoya a place to be a part of and the best place to be is La Hoya ISD uh because of this continual growth and support of both employees and the district. Uh additionally, you'll see several other headlines and I'll cover them uh here. uh as we've always stressed education at prek and kindergarten which are not necessarily some of the programs that other states and other districts also offer but for our district we continue to strive this strive for this including we have the prek3 program that we are supporting today which is very important to our academic development um and I'll just kind
029of slide through some of these images uh again of some of the highlights and accolades of our students throughout our history. Uh moving into some of the changes and new programs that were brought about uh in the 80s. Uh my one of the programs that uh we're again very proud of and and continue uh to have the community and and district support is the uh initiation of our mariachi balorico program. This was uh initiated under Dr. De Los Santos administration. Um and um I was very proud at the time uh having been on the school board to have um recommended that the district start this program because I had seen a mariachi at a at a magnet school in Austin, Texas in 1980. And I was really floored by it because in that mariachi there
030were three African-American students, three Asian student, Asian-American students, four Anglo-American students, and about four Hispanic students. And it just and and so I came back and told Dr. to the Los Santos what I had seen and I said and it and it's unconscionable that here in the valley where we have so many u students and this is so much of our culture that mariachi music or cultural music couldn't be put at the level of music that we had in choir and band and and elevate that uh to to an academic level. So he he talked to the commissioner of education to see if it if he could get his okay to do that. The commissioner agreed and so we started and and the thing about it is that LA this is 1981. La Hoya was
031the first school district in South Texas, I would say south of San Antonio to start these programs. And you can see now it is now a nationwide phenomenon and with very large mariachi competitions being held and it it eventually led to UIL accepting mariachi as as a UIL activity and it started here in La Hoya. Okay. And then this group then opened up a lot of doors for our kids. And one of the things that that the the kids and their performing and their teachers in the district then started to get statewide and national recognition and the mariachi program received invitations over the the history of this program to perform at the White House to perform uh at Governor Anne Richard's inauguration to perform at various uh folk music festivals. throughout the United States and
032were invited to perform at Marty Gro in Nice, France. Uh and uh and all this exposure then was an impetus for other school districts then because there was about a 7-year gap between the time we started our program and any and any other uh school district south of San Antonio to start a mariachi program. So there was that gap. But when they saw all the recognition that La Hoya was getting, they wanted in on it. And as I say, now it is a statewide and nationwide [Music] phenomenon. I believe that for that that covers for that. And then on the screen here would just see some other highlights from not only our mariachi but of our clitical programs that were developed during this time period. Um some of the notable performances or events where our
033students perform with the mariachi vargasa or tradition the annual concert showcasing Mexican Spanish and Latin American folklore. uh again the performance at the White House and the festival in France and the Mariachi collaboration with renowned groups uh and they have shared the stage with many esteemed ensembles again like the mariachi Vargas but also the mariachi Vargas de teatlan and so they've hit the national stage uh historically several times uh then as we move towards our closing for today's presentation two more uh points uh to share with our community so in the 80s We also had two things that occurred. One of them was the establishment of the mascot for our athletics and our district, which is the Coyote mascot that we see emlazed in on many of our shirts and our walls. Uh this mascot
034was actually the production of a student in the school district. the uh administration called for a competition and students submitted their ideas, their sketches, their drawings and so this is the product of a middle school student uh that was in Miss Leo's class at the time who won the competition and has become the mascot that we still use today. Uh and then uh also as far as our school district, we'll see emlaced uh behind our board which is the emblem and logo and insignia for the school district which was a chap and tell us a little bit about as we bring this to a closing. Thank you. And we'll close with this. I this is a story I shared with Dr. Sorenson and and the centennial committee. It was just something that you know I
035I I sort of took for granted for for most of my life. But uh the elements of of our district uh uh logo uh were developed by me and I I showed her the original sketch that I had done back in the 80s again when Dr. the Los Santos was here because up to then we were using there were two kind of uh letter head that would that we had. One was a grouping of grapefruit and the other one was a howling coyote and and I I just thought that there I had been uh a guest speaker at a Head Start conference and I saw this Head Start logo. It was a ladder that had a home in the middle of it in the shape of an arrow pointing up and it you know how
036Head Start was to lift students up in their ed in their early education endeavors and that just stuck with me and I came back and I shared it with Dr. to the Losant and I started I came one day and I did a sketch standing out front of the building and so I came up with the red building and then I used the head start uh home arrow in the middle added the diamond and the rays and to symbolize that our students because of La Hoya are the Hoya are the the jewels under the care of the home and from the home they're entrusted trusted to us the red building and the raise is the hope that we have for all of our students to succeed in the world as they leave La Hoya as
037they leave our classrooms and venture out into the state the nation and the world. Uh uh Dr. Los Santo told me that he uses that that symbol when he's teaching his PhD classes at at UTRGB and to stimulate discussion. Now the um the educational excellence uh the right of every student came also in Dr. De Los Santos and it came from from an exercise they did uh under the guidance of Dr. chaplain from again from Johnson City. And it was a group of of community members and teachers that met to discuss and come up like what what did the message that they want to adopt as the official slogan for the district. And so uh educational excellence the right of every student was what they came up with. That wasn't part of my initial uh
038initial concept. And then it was a professional drafts person artist that put it together. I had a very crude sketch, but uh uh I hope that we're all proud of that symbol. Uh Dr. Delos Santos says that that uh his students are amazed at the representation that we had captured in in that symbol and and I hope it it'll be with us for many many years to come. Thank you so much. And again, please excuse me for rambling on. I have I have that tendency and I know you're on a So before we excuse you, I'm gonna ask Dr. Sorenson if she has anything she'd like to add to your presentation or just anything she's learned. I'm sure she's learned a lot the last year and a half we've been here. It has just been
039my honor and my pleasure to sit and learn. And that's really a great great word. um to sit and learn and um be humbled by the history and the legacy that exists here. Um you use the word lore and um it's a great way to describe um all that's happened here um prior to what we're going to do next and to honor the history, honor the work that's been done. It's good to see prek right in the slides, right? knowing that we've just launched some really great preK work, but honoring the work that was done before us. Um, your storytelling around how the, you know, the logo, the symbol all existed before you tell the story much better than I do. So, thank you for retelling the story. But I'm always so honored and humbled
040by the history of the district and so grateful to be a part of the committee and so grateful that I get to be here during our 100th year celebration. So, thank you so much for all your work that you do and the contribution that you bring back to the community in these presentations every single month. Thank you, Mr. Silva and Mr. Chapa. Before you leave, are there any members of the board that'd like to add anything to Dr. Sorenson's remarks? I just want to say thank you for the very informative information. So, I don't know, there's just something about you, Mr. Chapa, when you attend these meetings with your hat. I mean, it just kind of sets me back, right? And I appreciate the fact that you've taken the that era that you referenced, you
041know, you took that that uh place in time and you shared with us what was going on. The the fact that we uh we we created a middle school or created our mascot and then you explained to us what we wear, we take pride in when we come to this building and the rays of uh this lapel pen. We don't take it for granted that it's just a lapel pin or the literature that we see. We know that there's history behind it. So, I do want to thank both of you for the time that you've taken to share with not only those that are here, but those that are watching with us the history of this great institution and this great Thank you for the work you're doing and and your caring about our district,
042our people, our students. Thank you so much. Great. Thank you again. We look forward to the next I guess it'd be the end, right? So, we look forward to that. Ladies and gentlemen, if you could uh help me and thanking them. I don't know if you'll have the same attendance at your next report, but but it was a good one tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, the next portion of our meeting is a public comment. Um if you are signed up for the public comment, we will ask you to make your way to the podium. Do we have anybody that signed up? If you've signed up, just so that you know, you do have three minutes. Uh after your three minutes, uh our vice president, uh Chavez will indicate to you your time is up. But seeing
043that we have no one that signed up, we'll go ahead and move on to agenda item number eight. So, this is probably going to be the the reason why the majority of us are here, and we're excited. As you know, it was a recommendation by the board that when we do recognize our students of this fine school that we do it in one evening like this so that we can highlight your accomplishments and that we can celebrate you. So with that said, I'm going to ask Dr. Carlos Marggo and my vice president, Anita Anita Chavez, if you can go ahead and step to the front. So, our next item on the agenda will be the recognition uh let's see uh La Hoya students for outstanding achievement at the 65th Rio Grandandy Valley Regional Science and
044Engineering Fair. Uh Miss Unos Mr. Inos [Music] Good evening, Mr. Board President Alvarez, Superintendent Dr. Thorenson, esteemed board members, and our beloved La Hoya ISD community, and proud parents. Tonight, we celebrate our exceptional middle and high school students who are who have competed and placed at the RGB regional science fair held at UTRGB Edinburg in February. and those who had advanced to the Texas State Science Fair. Out of over 20,000 students across the state of Texas competing in district and regional fairs, we had 18 of ours earn this honor. An incredible achievement and will compete this weekend at the Texas State Science and Engineering Fair in College Station, Texas. Thank you for the school board and administration for supporting our students endeavor in science. These students develop critical thinking, communication, and perseverance by defending their
045research to expert judges. This experience builds important 21st century skills and memories that will last a lifetime. Thank you for our parents, teachers, and administrators for supporting these future innovators. Laoya ISD remains a proud hub of scientific excellence. Let's give these remarkable students a round of applause. From Irene Garcia Middle School, led by our principal, Miss Mel Melissa Artiaga, we have Roel [Applause] Voan, Sophia Deo, Anali Valon, David Mandola, Judith Ramirez from Memorial Middle School under the current leadership of principal Mr. Daniel Variel. We have Hariel Canu from Dr. Science Middle School led by principal Marina Contas. We have Carlos [Music] Bautista and Leili Galvani from Lorenzo Davala Middle School under the leadership of Principal Laura Salenas. We have Luis Bera, Nathan Montilongo, Isaac Vasquez, Rodriguez, Alviel Garcia. This is our junior division competitors who
046competed at the RGV Science Fair. And so if we have any sponsors or principles that would would like to join us in our meeting. Yes, our definitely our sponsors. Congratulations. Thank you again. Congratulations. Now we're continuing with our senior division. Congratulations. Starting off from La Hoya Early College High School, led by Mr. Domingo Varian, we have Alyssa Martinez. From Telmasina STEM Early College High School, led by principal Miss Irene Fernandez. We have Fernando Re, Rolo [Music] Chavaria, Marita Gonzalez, Rihanna Vowi, Diego [Music] Santiago, Mario Flores, Caitlyn Portillo, and Gary Montongo. Again, if we have any principles or sponsors who would join our for the picture again, ladies and gentlemen, the future of STEM is strong and bright at La Hoya ISD. Thanks to the brilliance of our students and the unwavering support of our educators
047team. Thank you again for allowing us to celebrate. Congratulations. Ladies and gentlemen, our next our next agenda item is 8.2. Recognition of La Hoya ISD campus crimestoppers productivity award for 2023. Most cases cleared. Blanca, it's all yours. Thank you, board president. Good evening, board president, Mr. Alvarez, Superintendent Dr. Sorenson, board members, and community in attendance. This evening we have recognition of La Hoya ISD campus Crimestoppers for bringing home the campus Crimestoppers Productivity Award for 2023 2024 for most cases cleared from the 29th annual Texas Crimestoppers Conference held in Sigin, Texas this past February. La Hoya ISD District Campus Crimestoppers was created in 2002 to offer La Hoya ISD community a confidential and safe way for students, staff, and community to report potential criminal activity or suspicious behavior on campus. Our our members our student board
048members are Miss Ariana Montoya, 11th grade student from Hottest Lincoln High School. Miss Estrea Sanchez, 10th grade student from Jimmy Carter Early College High School. Miss Loose Morado, 10th grade student from Jimmy Carter High School Early College, could not be with us today due to some UIL activities. Miss Nyla Morales, 12th grade student from Palm View High School. Diego Salasad, 12th grade student from Hues Lincoln High School. and Miss Kendra Chavez, 12th grade student from Hottis Lincoln High School. We have our adult board members, Miss Sochi Garcia, Huises Lincoln High School President, Mr. Victor Garca, athletic director member. [Applause] Thank you, Mr. Luis Salenas, coordinator, La HoyaD Police Department. Mr. Leonardo Sanchez, chief of police, La Hoya Police Department, and could not be with us today, um, Mr. David Torres, La HoyaD Police Department. Miss
049Maril Lutz, member Lincoln High [Music] School. And Mr. Christopher Pettis, treasurer, La HoyaD Police Department. Congratulations. No one. Let me see. Thank you, Blanc. I'm assuming we're going to move on to the next agenda item. Yes. Okay, it's all yours. Our next recognition is recognition of La Hoya ISD crime campus crime stoppers ambassador, Miss Naida Nyla Morales from Palm View High School. She cannot be with us today because she has a UIL activity going on. But I would like to have Mr. Chief of Police, Mr. Leonardo Sanchez accept her award and Miss Soil Garcia. She is the Texas Crimestoppers Ambassador Program selects only 12 high school students from the state of Texas to spread awareness about Crimestoppers programs to their peers and community. Miss Nyla has served for two years as the cre as a
050Texas Crimestoppers ambassador. So congratulations to her. Thank you very much. Next agenda item is agenda item 8.4, recognition of the La Hoya ISD students advancing to UIL CX debate state meet. Mr. Simona, good evening. Um, our first recognition of the night will be students that qualified for the state uh UIL CX debate contest in Austin. They spent their spring break, three days in in Austin competing. Um, we had four teams from the district make it to to state. We had two from Jimmy Carter and two from La Hoya High. First up recognize uh for Jimmy Carter, we've got Leslie Torres. [Applause] Valeria Kamacho, their coordinator, Mr. Ivan Silva. Congratulations. And principal, Mr. Bokene, Jimmy Carter, St. qualifier for today. Nice work. Congratulations, partner. Good job. Nice work. Thank you. Congratulations. Next up, we have students
051from La Hoya High School that also qualified for cross examination state meet. First we have Hu [Music] Portugga, Joanna [Music] Castro, Leia P. Gonzalez, and their sponsor, Mr. Joseph Males. La Hoya High School Cross Examination State qualifiers. Congratulations, sir. Congratulations. Great work. Thank you. [Music] Good job, guys. Congratulations. Congratulations to all of you. Mr. Simony, you may proceed with agenda item 8.5. Yes. Next up, we have the elementary district champions for the 24-25 school year from LA ISD. First up, we have Chave Chapa Elementary and we've got Briana Dominguez in chess. Damian Ramirez. Sebastian Karansa, Victoria Skills and Isabella Rios or Reading. We have their principal and teachers and coordinator as well joining us from Chapa Elementary. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] I was worried about you. [Laughter] No, no, no. [Music] Congratulations. Next up from Diaz
052Val, district champion in listening skills, Ethan Gera. Congratulations. Congratulations, ladies. Thank you. Congratulations, Ethan. Next up, we've got Kamaso's elementary district champions in creative writing, Juliet Pineda. Spanish poetry. Paola, calculator. Calculator. Jose Hernandez. Calculator. Alexandra Calderon. Calculator. Alberto Ramos. And also in calculator, Hime Rodriguez, Kavas Elementary District Champion. Great job. Congratulations. Congratulations. Next up, we have the district champion from Paris Elementary in science, Nicole Contas. of teacher and principal. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Next up from Sapata Elementary, district champion in marathon charts, Samuel Torres accompanied by his principal. Very handsome man right there. Okay. Yo, congratulations. Thank you. Congrats. [Music] Thank you. Congratulations. Next up, we've got Benson Elementary in calculator. Mate Benort in mathematics. Aruro Cvantes. M in charge elementary accompanied by the principal sponsors and coordinator. Congratulations. Congratulations. Hi. How are
053you? Thank you. Hello. [Music] Good job. Congratulations. Next from Clinton Elementary, listening skills district champion Antonio [Applause] Kan or reading district champion Joshua Carelius. Accompanied by the coordinator and principal from Clinton Elementary. Congratulations, sir. Congratulations. [Music] Congratulations. Good job. I would never play silence. Congratulations. Thank you. Next up, we have Raina Elementary District Champion in listening skills. Alexandra Viel, storytelling district champion. Elizabeth Garca, graduating district champion, Amelia Rios, calculator Andres Alvarez, Spanish poetry, Randy Lopez, Zena Elementary finished third in district elementary for 2425 school year. Accompanying them is their coordinator and principal Good job. Good job. Good job. Thank you. Congratulations. Next up, we've got Escandon Elementary Spanish poetry district champion Tuciana Garcia, studying Ruben Pñena. The elementary district champions from Escandon are accompanied by their coordinator and principal. Congratulations. Thank you. Hey, this is
054my favorite. Thank you. Thank you. I know, right? [Music] I've never received so much swag. I know. I know. Got a whole section for my closet. Then I open my cabinet. Thank you. Congratulations. Next up, we've got the district champion GarcAl Elementary accompanied by the coordinator coach. Congratulations. [Music] Good job. Congratulations. Next up, we've got the district champion from Flores Elementary and calculator Diana de Luna. Congratulations. How are you? Congratulations. So cute. [Music] Picture. Congratulations. Next up, we have JFK Elementary District Champion in oral reading. Ana [Music] Velasquez, old or reading district champion. Aliyah Torres, Spanish poetry district champion, Kitia Estar, science district champion, Ruben Rivera. Congratulations accompanied by their coordinator and principal. Congratulations, sir. Congratulations. Good job. Nice job, principal. Nice to see you. Nice job. [Music] Thank you. Congratulations. Next, we have Menola
055Elementary District Champions. All in third grade calculator. We've got Amarani Segura. [Music] Laura, great job. And Lonardo Sanchez accompanied by their coach principal and coordinator. Great job. Congratulations. You like your shirt, man? I'm sorry. In chess, we've got Darian Canu as well. He's there. Yes. [Applause] [Music] Congratulations, guys. Next up, we've got Tamasco Elementary Calculator District Champion, Santiago Carlos. Number 10 champion, Robert Flores. Dictionary skills, Jovan Gonzalez. And ready writing, Marian Chap. Love the shirt. Good job. Great job. [Music] Great job. Hi. Good job. Great [Music] job. Congratulations. Next up, we've got Ford Elementary in numbers. Eileen Montilongo secondary [Music] school in mathematics Rodriguez number Noah Montongo and for math and number sense Kevin Bar. Yeah, for Matt and accompanying them as a coach and you got all principal holding their third place district title.
056Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Good job. Love you. [Music] Thank you. Congratulations. And now we have our elementary district champions from Kamarena Elementary, Spanish creative writing, Victoria Burman, spelling No Gonzalez, ready writing and spelling. Tiana Ranga in Lu [Music] Pjo and Alex. Accompanying them is the coaches coordinator and principal holding their first place district title. Congratulations Elementary. [Music] Show that trophy off. Come on. Show it up. [Music] I think we're in middle school. Congratulations once again elementary. This concludes the elementary district champions and we move on to the middle school district champions. You may proceed, Mr. Sam. All right. Thank you. First up from Chavez Elementary, district champion in dictionary skills and social studies. Next in mathematics, Patricio Alan math and choice. Alan Salina, science and ready writing. Alan Reyes [Music] Geram. The district champions for
057Chavez Elementary are accompanied by their coordinator, Miss Rodriguez and principal, Mr. Gonzalez. Great job. [Music] Congratulations, partner. Good job. Don't walk away. [Music] Congratulations, Travis Middle School. Next up, we have Garcia Middle School in poetry, Emma Rubio. Gustavo Deon accompanied by their principal. Good job, sir. [Music] Thank you, Garcia Middle School. Next, we have JD Selenas Middle School. Thank you so much. District champion in chess and math class and charts. I'm sorry. Charge and social studies. Gel Hernandez. Number 10 district champion. Santgo Gonzalez. Number 10 district champion [Music] Mendes. With them is their leader, Miss Alejandro and principal, Mr. Pña. I like your guys. Congratulations. [Music] I like those. Congratulations. [Music] Thank you guys. Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Next up, we've got Dr. Science Middle School in pros district champion Alina Gonzalez. science district champion
058with some of their coaches and principal [Music] mission. [Music] Congratulations Middle School. Next up from Trevino Middle School, district champion in Spanish poetry Rodriguez with him is coordinator and coordinator Miss Karina and principal. How you doing, sir? Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job. Yes. Nice to see you. The [Music] cookies looks like [Music] good job middle school. Next up, we've got Ann Richards Middle School District Champion impromptu, David [Music] Harden. And in calculator, Julio Castillo, coach and coordinator. Congratulations. Congratulations, ma'am. Congratulations. Thank you. Good job, Adrian Middle School. Congratulations. Next we've got Desala Middle School impromptu district champ Hannah Gomez listening skills district champion Luis Vera Spanish poetry scaring Roberto Carlo champions are accompanied by our coach coordinator and principal. Congratulations. Thank you. You're welcome. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. So cute. So cute. They all know
059my daughter, right? So cute. Like say hi, right? You don't show it off. Okay. and records. So humble. So humble. Congratulations. Our last middle school of the night is Memorial Middle School District Champions Chess Daniel Santiago. Dictionary Skills Christian Estrada. impromptu. Isaiah Nandez, listening skills, good job listening skills and ready writing. Louisa [Music] Rios in math. Yonardo Gutierrez in math. Mecca's in charts and science sister champion three events. Roelu Gutierrez in pros. Valerie Sto in number sense. Daisy Kintania Memorial Middle School was this year's district champ from for 2425 PIL academics. Accompanying them is their coordinator and principal. Congratulations Memorial Middle School on the district title. Look at Memorial Middle School. Congratulations. Memorial Middle School. Great job everyone. Mr. This morning, you may proceed with our high school uh recognizing Ohoy High School UIL festival
060state champions. Next up, we will be recognizing the film festival state qualifier and state champion, John Carella. John Caru is only the second student from La Hoya ISD to qualify for the film festival and was is our first state champion. So good. Once again, congratulations. I know. You may proceed, Mr. Sam. Our next group is also from La Hoya High School. They are the best robotic state title or sorry, state qualifying team. First up from we've got Ariel Lopez, Alejandro Jose Arona Garza, Lydia Gonzalez, Marcuses. [Music] Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations, my friend. Great job. Congratulations, Alex. Aland. Mr. Simone, before we proceed, can we call the principal up to this group? Can we call up the principal? The principal to this group. We certainly like to recognize them. There he is. Their coach, Mr. Julio Garcia,
061and principal, Mr. Estrada. a high school. Good job. Congratulations. Good job. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh, next item on the agenda. Thank you, Mr. Samura. Thank you very much. Next item on the agenda is recognition. 8.9 Lincoln High School band student Roas uh Mr. All yours. Good evening, President Alvarez, esteemed members of the staff, superintendent of schools, Dr. Marcy Sornson, central office leaders, and all our wonderful community members joining us tonight. It is truly my heartfelt honor to stand before you and recognize the incredible achievements of several of ISD fine arts students, teachers, and programs. Their hard work, talent, and dedication continue to shine brightly, bringing pride to our district. Race car driver Mario Andred once said, "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit
062of your goal and a commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek." This powerful quote speaks directly to the spirit of the individuals we are celebrating this evening. Their relentless pursuit of excellent and love for the arts have led to remarkable accomplishments. And tonight, we have the joy of honoring that success. Let's take a moment to celebrate these outstanding students, programs, and educators who continue to make La Hoya ISD shine. We begin tonight's recognition with an exceptional an exceptional young musician from Plus Lincoln High School, bass trombonus Roloto Roas. has earned an extraordinary series of accomplishments this year. He secured a chair in the 2025 Texas Music Educators Association All Region Orchestra, the TMA All Region Band, the TMA Area G Band, and most notably, the highly prestigious 2025 TMEA
063All State brand, where he performed among the finest high school musicians in Texas this past February in San Antonio. Being selected for a TMEA all-state ensemble is the highest honor a high school music student can receive in the state of Texas. Out of more than 70,000 students who begin this rigorous audition process each year, only 1,830 students are selected. That's just 2.6%. These elite students are chosen to perform in one of 18 ensembles representing the very best in Texas music education. Rodulfo's accomplishment is historic. He is only the third student in the history of the Quitus Lincoln High School band and the fourth overall in the school's music department to earn this recognition. Joining the local tonight are his mother Adriana Garca, his dedicated band directors, Mrs. Zinaya Manda and Mr. Jose Rodriguez, and the
064principal of Huarees Lincoln High School, Mr. Jose Pena. Please join me in giving a welldeserved round of applause for 2025 band member. Mr. Adama, before you proceed on 8.10 10. For those that are being recognized, uh, if we could have the principles in the picture, we'd love to have that. So, if you could make your way up as your roof is being identified or pictured, please make your way up to the front. Mr. You may proceed. 8.10. Thank you, sir. Up next, we are proud to recognize three outstanding vocalists from Palm View High School's mariachi program who are named outstanding performers at the 2025 UIL State Mariachi Festival held in Sigin, Texas. The UIL outstanding performing award is a prestigious honor granted to students whose performance exhibit exceptional skill and artistry leaving a lasting impression
065on the judging panel. This rec recognition is equivalent to receiving a UIL state champion gold medal. The very medals proudly worn by the students who we are honoring this evening. It is with great pride that we celebrate the following students. Mari Gurbe, Sophia Garca, and Ariana Marutin. And they are the recipients of the 2025 UIL State Mariachi Outstanding Performer Award. Joining me, Sophia, and Ariana tonight are their parents. With me, we have Mauricio Uribe and Nidia Rios Uribe. If you're here to please come up to the to the to the front, take a picture. with Sophia. Her parents are Juan and Sonia Garca. Ariana, her parents are Jose and Anna Marukin. Mariachi directors Myra Garcia, assisted by Ashia Camia. And principal at Palm View High School is Mr. Leonel Perez. Please join me in giving
066a well-deserved round of applause to these three young ladies for being named the 2025 Royal State Festival. And my daddy, while you're there, you might as well just stay there. You may proceed. Thank you, Mr. Zum. We are incredibly proud to recognize Palm View High School mariachi vocalist Mari Uribe for reaching an exceptional uh level of musical achievement by being named a 2025 mariachi extravaganza national vocal finalist in San Antonio, Texas. This prestigious competition is one of the most competitive in the nation, showcasing the top high school mariachi vocalist from across the country. Out of thousands of talented vocalists who auditioned, Meratti earned a coveted spot as one of only six finalists in the 2025 National Mariachi Extravaganza Vocal Finals, placing her among the top high school Miachi vocalists in the nation. Please join me
067in congratulation of congratulating Matti on this remarkable honor. Taking a picture with Minady is her instructor Myra Garcia and her principal Mr. Leonel Perez. And we'd like to acknowledge her parents on this achievement, Marisbe and Nia Rios. Congratulations. Mr. Adam, you may proceed with agenda item 8.12. Next, I am thrilled to share some incredible news about our La Hoya ISD mariachi programs. All three of our high school mariachi ensembles earned a division 1 rating at the 2025 UIL South Texas Mariachi contest held on January 18th at the Alejandro Alex H. Science Performing Arts Center. This top rating qualif this top rating qualified each group to advance to the prestigious 2025 UI state mariachi festival which took place last month at the sigin ISD performing arts center. Since July of last year, these talented students and
068their directors have dedicated countless hours to rehearsals and community performance performances all in preparation to represent La Hoya on the state stage. We're also proud to announce that both La Hoya High School and Palm View High School received division one ratings at the state mariachi festival. A remarkable accomplishment considering only 30 out of 97 mariachi ensembles statewide earned this distinction. Please join me in congratulating the outstanding students and directors of La Hoya ISD's high school mariachi programs for their hard work, passion, and this welldeserved recognition. Students representing the Hues Lincoln High School, Mariachi Sold Deoro for receiving a division one rating at the 2025 UIL South Zone Mariachi contest and advancing to the 2025 UL state mariachi festival are Jesus Ramirez Nuridalia Ernnandez Francisco Inohosa Christian Santos Jose Martinez. Mariachi director is Ruben de los
069Santos assisted by Daniel Choa and principal at Lincoln High School is Mr. Jose. It's okay. I know you're there. I went to the the UIL competition. I know you're there. Congratulations. Good job, my friend. Nice to see you. Good job, guys. Students representing the La Hoya High School Maria Los Coyotees for receiving a division one rating at the 2025 UIL South Mariachi contest. Advancing to the 2025 UIL State Mariachi Festival and receiving a division one rating at the UIL State Mariachi Festival are Jesus Chavez, Joy Gara, Alleti Arnandez, Diego Pimementel and Modesto, Mariachi director is Nicolas Alan assisted by Karina Alap and principal Estrada. Thank you. Thank you. You guys are not terrible. This is your last one. You seriously like it's so cute. I was telling him I went to the competition the competition
070and all three schools ran division one. I was so proud of him. Just literally looked over at you, right? Like if you didn't know I was looking at you. [Music] Congratulations. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Lame. Before we proceed, I'm going to ask Dr. Rosalva Ernnandez and board member Selso Gomez to make their way to the front. You may proceed, sir. students representing the Palm View High School Mariachi Los Loos for receiving a division 1 rating at the 2025 UIL South Mariachi contest. Advancing to the 2025 UIL State Mariachi Festival and receiving a division 1 rating at the UIL State Mariachi Festival are Maratti Uribe, Melanie Min, Valeria Gonzalez, Sophia Gara, and Ariana Marukin. Mariachi director is Myra Garcia assisted by Ashley Esamia and principal at Palm View High School is Mr. Le. [Music] Congratulations again.
071Thank you. Great job everyone. Great job. Want me to go to work? for the day. Congratulations [Music] Hello there. Hello there. How are you? Good to see you. How you doing? [Music] All right. Next item on the agenda. Coach, we have you on there for 8.13 recognition of Huades Lincoln High School Special Olympics floor ball team regional and state qualifiers. Coach, it's all yours. Thank you, Mr. President, Madam Superintendent, uh, board members, administration, and community. It gives me great pleasure to introduce and bring to you our tremendous athletes that have performed outstanding not only in the classroom but in the out on the field. Today we're going to we have a group of uh individuals and thank you for your support. They are the only two high school teams south of San Antonio that represent
072floor ball and Special Olympics in the state of Texas. And for that we have great the coach before you proceed I mean and I want you to make it really quick. Can you tell us what floor ball is? Floor ball is similar to hockey. Okay. It's it's used with a little bit they're plastic sticks and it's a little bigger ball and all the rules are similar. They do wear protective gear. Good. Which has been uh brought on. They took the challenge last year. What is Lincoln? and this is their second year in a row going up to the state level and doing excellent up there and for that we do thank you for for the support that they get administration and in regards to giving them that opportunity. Thank you. Great. Thank you. All right.
073First group we have Lincoln. We have Giovanni Belg finished up fourth. Good job. Thank you. Congratulations. Next, Jose Rodriguez. Congratulations Rodriguez Kevin Roas. [Music] Abigail coaches are walonz and alvare. Thank you. Thank you. No, great job. And these are your fourth place state finishers in four [Applause] ball. Congratulations, Mighty Husky. Good job, Coach Gladisa. You may proceed with 8.14. Our next group is a fifth place finishers at the state level, our mighty coyotes from La Hoya High School. First, we have Dalisa Davila. Melanie Martinez. Congratulations. Adriana Munos. [Music] Congratulations. Jesus Munoz. Congratulations. Clarissa Pñena. Mariano Sanchez and Roberto Vasquez. I want to make a quick note if I may on Roberto Vasquez and we're we're very very proud of him. Next week we do have our summer track uh competitions competitions opening up opening ceremonies.
074Mr. Roto Vosquez is an expert digital editing young man and has um sketched out the banner that they will be coming out and during the the beginning ceremonies. That's one. And two, I'm proud and just found out first on his passion. He is a second place finisher in welding and will be representing along with our Kate with our students from La Hoya High School competing in Corpus Christi in a couple of weeks in Kate in welding. We're very very proud of Mr. Roberto and thank you for your hard work assisted by Jesus GarcA Mr. Alec Ramos and Miss Brenda Garcia, our high school athletic coordinator, head coach, Coach Ruben Paras, our educational leader, Mr. Ricardo Strada. Great work. Great job. Thank you, sir. Congratulations, my friend. Good job, sir. How are you, sir? Thank you
075mighty Kyle and thank you to the parents of both groups. And a reminder, we do have opening ceremonies on April 2nd in Edinburgh and the track and field um Special Olympic track meet that'll be going on next week. Thank you, coach. Next item on the agenda is 8.15. You may proceed, coach. Yes, sir. Next up, we have um great strikes that we're doing with our middle schools. We have a group from Dr. JJ Science, Division 3, 7th grade girls soccer district champions. We are very, very proud. They went out there and blew the competition away. That we can say we have three divisions in our in our middle schools that we compete. We intermix our our schools with the Macallen schools with the FAR schools and we go by enrollment. So we compete so that
076we don't just compete with Hoy ISD by it all eight. We try to thin out and spread out the competition. So, we're very proud. These are the district champions from Dr. Javier Science Middle School. Genesis Loreno, Estria [Applause] Ramirez, Mia Orteon, Nigelene Rosro, Victoria [Applause] Agira, Denise Vargas, [Applause] Brenda Ramirez, Ramirez, Congratulations, Mariana Garcia, Milan Torres, Araceli Roa, Catalina Moroy, Louisa Gonzalez, Great job, Mia Castelliano. Great job. Great job, Delila Gonzalez. Adali Santana, Naomi Morales. Congratulations, Anita Garcia. Great job, Anita Garcia. Great job. The coordinators are coach coordinators coach Garza. Great job. Coach Elasar Garcia and their coach coach Hector Gonzalez. Congratulations. Their principal is Maria Marena Contas. Thank you young ladies. Thank you. [Music] Great. Thank you, Mr. Garza. Next item, sir. 8.16. [Music] All right, Dr. Gdison, I mean Mr. Got, you may
077proceed with 8.16. Thank you, sir. Our next group is a young group of well disciplined, talented young men from Memorial Middle School. They blew the competition in the division as the eighth grade A team. And the way they're dressed tonight is not just tonight. That's the way they dress to their games. They come to school dressed in class. They they travel in class and they play with class. And they highly represent La Hoy ISD. They highly represent Memorial Middle School. And for that we thank their coordinator, their coach and the ball players and their parents for their support. First we have Eli Medí, Troy Anton. Congratulations, Land Alan Gonzalez, Jose Kintania, Darien Salasaral, and our head coach and athletic coordinator at Memorial Middle School, Coach Eduardo Yanos. educational leader, Mr. Danny. Congratulations. Nice job. Our
078memorial group belongs to Division 2 A group. Thank you guys. Congratulations. Coach Garis, you may proceed with agenda item 8.17. Yes, sir. Our next group is division three. Um, four groups coming off of division three off of the same school. We're very proud of them. JD Selena's division 3 cross country team, seventh graders. First we have Aiker Piga Gel Mata Mendes Ramirez. Good job. Congrats Tristanto. Congratulations. Nice work. And Angela, their head coach is coach. Nice work. And their educational leader is Mr. Leo Pñena. Good job. Their campus coordinator is Mr. Coach Rudy Mendes. Adulo Mendes. [Music] Good job. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Good job, guys. Coach, you may proceed with agenda item 8.18. And I can tell you, uh, Dr. Sorenson, we will be putting a work order for a trophy case because
079JD Selenas, this will be about their eighth trophy. And, uh, we're very proud of that. So, Dr. Giri, we've got a work order in coming for a trophy case. Our next group is division 3 7th grade boys district champions and we have first [Music] piga menristto and angel and their head coach is Rudy Mendes again and their campus coordinator Adul Mendes and again their instructional leader Mr. Leo got one more [Applause] Great job, guys. Good job. Coach, you can proceed with agenda item 8.19. Yes, sir. Next group is our division 3, 7th grade boys soccer district champions. Once again, from JD Salenas, I figured Ma, Tristan, [Music] Angela, Jesus, Their their team was made up of 25 student athletes, but these are the ones that showed up today. Head coach Adulo Mendes, instructional leader, Mr.
080Leo Pña. [Music] I'm probably going to have you once more. Thank you, gentlemen. Good job, coach. You can go ahead and proceed with agenda item 8.2. 820. Yes, sir. Next group from JD Salenas Middle School, division 3 eighth grade boys soccer district champions. First, Christian Casaros. Valent Valentine Garcia. My bad. Valentine Garcia, Jacob [Applause] Lopez, Andrew, Martinez, Jose Maka, Jose [Music] Ramos, Santiago, Rodriguez, San Antonio, Coach George Lopez, campus coordinator, coach other members, instructional leader, Mr. Leo. You're so [Music] Thank you, Husky. All [Music] right, coach. You may proceed with agenda item 8.21. Yes, sir. Our next group from Laoya High School, our mighty Lady Kyle basketball team. They battle through a high competitive 31 district 6A schedule. They claimed a fourth uh place spot making it their fourth playoff appearance in seven years. Special
081recognition, she had to leave this evening. Uh she had another engagement gobin. She was named 3168 newcomer of the year. And just wanted to make that note. With us tonight is Lydia Bane Gonzalez, second team of district, Cynthia Nicole Longoria, our district honorable mention and their head coach, coach Juan Gonzalez. Congratulations, their session leader, Mr. Ricardo and campus coordinator, coach Ruben Pia. Congrat Yeah. Right here. [Music] Coach, you may continue with agenda item 8 point. You and I, we're on the last one this page. Thank you everyone. Great job. All right, coach. We're at the agenda item 8.22. Yes, sir. The next group is also from LA High School, a mighty college basketball team from the the high [Music] school. Uh those teams came out second in district play. They have made the playoffs of
082the three years in a row with two district titles. Along with that, that's the first time in the program's history. Also, he was unable to make it tonight, but I do want to point out that La Hora High School has the district's most valuable player by the name of Daniel Previnho. We congratulate the young man for his efforts and for contributions to the team. We have Eric Garcia. [Music] We have John the senior. We have freshman Anthony Romero. Good job. Congratulations. Love the shirt. Nice job, sophomore Benoir of district. Honorable mentor. Good job, sir. Congratulations. Hey, you. How are you? Senior Hunter Morales, first team our district and the head coach coach Eric Montalgo. Congratulations, campus coordinator for Ruben Paras, instructional leader, Mr. Ricardo Estrada. Congratulations. Yeah, sure am, sir. Let's do it. Got it.
083Got it. Got it. Sure. I can do it. We'll let you know. Okay. You're fired. Mr. Garza, before we proceed with the next item, um President Alvarez and Superintendent Marcy Sworner will be uh coming up. Yes, ma'am. Our next group is our wrestling team from La Hoya High School. The La Hoya High School wrestling teams qualified six boys, eight girls to the regionals with one boy and two girls advancing to the state level, setting a new program record. We're super proud of them. Team members at the 100 lb classification, sophomore LA Gracia, second place finish the regional state qualifier. Sophomore 107 lb classification Ayana Kavasus regional qualifier Ro 114 classification sophomore regional qualifier Alejandra Gambetta 120 lb classification sophomore regional qualifier congratulations 132 lb Senior regional qualifier. Barbara Sapata, 152 classification, a junior, second place
084in district, regional qualifier. District champion, second place in regional, state qualifier. Sophomore, Jacqueline Garcia. and senior Jade Bella regional qualifier. Our head coach, our head coach for our girls wrestling team and campus assistant athletic coordinator, Christopher Hernandez, assisted by Steven Hernandez, athletic coordinator, Kuban Paras, instructional leader, Mr. Ricardo Estada. Good job. Mighty Kyle. Thank you everyone. Mr. Garza, you may proceed with the next item 8.24. Yes, ma'am. Our next group also from Mighty Coyote Land, our boys wrestling team, first junior, 132 lbs, second place in district regional qualifier, Brandon Casarin. District champion, fifth place at regionals, state qualifier, Jose [Music] G. Regional qualifier, Maximiano Rio. Regional qualifier, Andrew Rodriguez. Regional qualifier, Aaron Ruthia. Regional qualifier Pedro [Music] Vargas coaches is head coach Christopher Hernandez also campus assistant coordinator and Steven Hernandez assistant coach campus coordinator
085coach Maria and leader Mr. Ricardo. [Music] They were also assisted by Leandro Garcia. The end of the tree has been time to Good job, Mighty Kyle. Good job, guys. Congratulations. Mr. Garzo, you may continue with the next item. 8.25. Yes, ma'am. Next, we have La Hoya High School Swimming. I'm excited to share with you the achievements of La Hoya High School swim team. The dedication, hard work of these talented athletes have truly paid off as they now not only earned a medal at the district level but advanced to regionals as well. I'm pleased to announce that the individual qualifiers who represented La Hoya High School at regionals first, we have Himea Lopez who qualified in the who qualified in a 15 who qualified on the 100 and who qualified in his two individual events facing
086third in both the 200 individual me and the 100 stroke also California and all the girls and boys relays. A total of six. We have Lydia Gonzalez, Arainho, Alisa, Andre Martinez, Jonathan Rodriguez, Edgar Rocky Rosales, I'm proud to acknowledge the leadership of coach and her friends to [Music] all coordinator section leader Ricardo. Another group. Another group that travel with class. They dress with class. They travel with class. And they participate with class. Congratulations, coach, and the team for your presence tonight. As classy as you are. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Thank you, Kyle. [Music] Congratulations, La Hoya High School swim team. Mr. Garz, you may proceed with the next item. 8.26. Yes, ma'am. the next group of individuals. While a lot of us while a lot of us were relaxing last week, these individuals were competing.
087So, not only did they have to continue to eat properly, rest, but be ready to participate at the state level in which they were competing. Our powerlifting team or individual qualifiers, state qualifiers are Alio. [Music] [Laughter] Amelia placed ninth at state and We also have Norberto [Music] Gara also state qualifier. Then we'll proceed to our our lady cards Carla Vera regional qualifier. Samantha Solis regional qualifier. [Music] Juliana Carvajal, regional qualifier, head coach coach Andres Gonzalez and coach Tamez, assistant by coach, [Music] Juanz, campus coordinator, coach Ruben Parz, educational leader, Mr. Ricardo Estrada. A little side note while the athletes exit, the Kyo program has qualified 26 athletes for regionals since 2021. won seven to state, including a state champion in 23 of Ka Kaylee Guzman. Very proud of their hard work, dedication, and performances at
088the competitions. Very impressive. La Hoya High School powerlifting team. Mr. Gzer, you may proceed with item 8.27. Yes, ma'am. Our next group is our What is Lincoln powerlifting team. We start first with senior Danielle Lemon, regional qualifier at the 114 mark. Great job. We also have Mr. Ivan Ramirez, regional qualifier. Good job, sir. Now bring our our lady huskys. Our Lady Huskies advanced eight girls to regionals and ended up advancing six girls to state. It gives me great great honor and pleasure to introduce the next young lady. She's the little dynamite. She is your state champion at 105 lbs from what is Lincoln? Jennifer Villa. Junior third place at regional state qualifier. Kaylee Matino, fourth place state finisher, sophomore Melanie Flores. Congratulations. Regional qualifier, Briana [Music] Isag. Another young lady battled it all the way
089to the end. Silver medalist second place winner. Sophomore Maria Esco. Fifth place state finisher, sophomore Jasmine Pettis. Regional qualifier Mia Ortalo head coach coach Melendez head coach for the mighty Huskies coach Daniel Cortez instructional leader Mr. Joe Pña [Music] Congratulations. [Music] Thank you. Thank you for the support. [Music] All right. [Music] Long power. You mean water is thinking power? He just We just did. What is Lincoln power lifting? Oh, all of these Dials, three Dials. Mr. Ger, you may proceed with the next item. Yes, ma'am. Our next group will present is our mighty Palm View High School level powerlifting team. Our power lifting team had a strong showing during this rebuilding year, sending seven girls and four boys to regionals. And we celebrated a new regional record in the bench press category by a young
090man by the name of Gamasio Almagel. He lifted 530 lbs in a bench press. I wanted to make sure that we under He said a record. Okay. Let me correct that. Hold on. 555 easy. Good job. But once again, that was a bench press record at 555 lbs. Congratulations, Our Lady Lobos Sarah Solis, regional qualifier. Junior Maya Perez, congratulations, regional qualifier. their head coach, coach Tamez, Coach Renzo Tamez, their instructional leader, Mr. Leo Perez, and I would like to invite our chief of student, family, and community, a parent also. very proud and big supporter of our athletic [Applause] groups. floor. [Applause] Congratulations. U Mr. Garz, you may proceed with the next item. 8.32. Yes, ma'am. Our next group was our boys and girls wrestling teams. Our wrestlers saw seven Lady Lobos earned three regional spots
091and one state qualifier. While the boys had five regional qualifiers and one boy advancing the state and earn a second place in district as a team on the boys side. We congratulate them for that. With us tonight, we have Rodrigo Nunio, senior, regional qualifier. Senior Air Nantiano, regional qualifier. Sophomore Urban Garcia, regional qualifier. [Applause] and our regional champion and state qualifier, Estean Estean Carr. They were led by coach Mario Monte Longo and Coach Hme Alvarez. Thank you, Coach. Instructional leader, Mr. Leonel Perez. Thank you so much. [Music] Congratulations, boys. Very impressive. Mr. Garzer, you may continue with the next item. 8.33. Yes, ma'am. Our next group is our Lady Loos wrestling team. We have two young ladies that are with us tonight. Junior, threetime regional qualifier, Jasmine Martinez. Junior regional and state qualifier Christina Rocha.
092Head coach coach Isabelle Hernandez and assisted by Hitella Ramirez leader Mr. Neil Perez. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations, Lady Lobo's wrestling team. Mr. Garz, may we continue with the next item. 8.34. Yes, ma'am. I'll be presenting our Lady Lobo's basketball team. The Palm High School girls basketball team delivered an unforgettable 24-25 season, finishing with an impressive 27-8 overall record and a commanding 15-1 district record, earning them the title of back-to- back district champion. Well well welld deserved to our lady lo their hard work and chemistry powered them to this historic by first by district championship in 16 years that we've had they were outstanding during their playoff run. We will continue to grow. We will continue. We've got that taste of what it is and what it takes to get there. And
093we want to congratulate and present to you our mighty Lady Loos girls basketball five district champions. First senior all district MVP and AL region team Nicole Flores senior all district offensive MVP Mia Roas junior Miley Monttoayor Junior second team of district, Marina Rodriguez. Junior, Valerie Pñena. Second team all district, sophomore, Sophia Benitez. First team all district, sophomore, Aliyah Garca. Sophomore Clarissa Pere Perez Freshman all district honorable mention Haley Teo. Our Lady Lobos were led by coach Katie Gaza who undertook that responsibility and did an outstanding job in her first head coaching experience, her first head coaching team. She was the head coach of the year for our lady. [Applause] As I wrap it up, together these teams exemplified the district's priority of student success through opportunity, perseverance, and support. Not only did they learn life
094lessons, life challenges, and how to endure them and and overcome them, but these all of these groups that we presented to you today, like Michael Jordan once said, some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, but others make it happen. And tonight, we present it to you the people that make it happen. We thank you for your support. We invite you to next and I'll send it out to to um join our Special Olympians and the opening ceremonies on the track and field next week. Oh, another announcement. Our mighty Huskies are playing Friday. They're at the Sweet 16. 16 teams left in the state. Five out of our six soccer teams made the playoffs. They're the only surviving ones. They'll be playing Cedar Park next week at Buccaneer Stadium. I mean Friday
095at Buccaneer Stadium. We wish him nothing but the best and Husky Land doing the job. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. Those welld deserved. Let's again let's again take this opportunity to recognize everyone that was recognized today uh for this special board meeting. So if I could ask everybody to give me give them a hand. They did a great job. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time it is 8:21. Uh we will be going into close session under Texas Government Code 551.071 551.074 551.072 551.076 551.0821 551.084 084 concerning and all purposes permitted by act including but not limited to the sections and purposes listed below. We will now go into close session. We're back from close session. It is 9:35 p.m. All right. Uh we're going to go over agenda item number 11, which is
096the calendar. April 20 25th is autism autism month. Autism. Autism month. Yeah. I'm going to take my time so that that way we'll get all wet. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. We're going to make this quick. That's dumb. Um, next item on the agenda is April 2025 is National Poetry Month. April 2nd, 2025 PAR professional appreciation day. Let's not forget our pair of professionals, please. April 4th, 2025 school librarian appreciation day. Same thing with the librarians. April 7th through the 11, 2025, National Assistant Principal Week. April 9th, uh, 2025 regular called board meeting. Members of the board, do we have anything you'd like to say before we adjourn? Dr. Sorenson. Um, I just again would like to before we wrap up tonight, just congratulate all of our students, all of our coaches, all
097of our mentors, all of our fine arts directors. every single person, all of our parents obviously who support our students in all of the excellent work that we saw displayed this evening. I think that that says it right. I think the universe agrees. Um it takes everyone to make all the excellence that we saw tonight happen. So, I just again want to thank everybody who goes into supporting our students display all of their talent and excellence that we saw tonight. So, thank you everybody for lifting up our children to have the opportunities to excel here in La Hoya ISD. Thank you, Dr. Sorenson. Any anybody else have anything to say before we adjourn? No. Okay. Before we adjourn, I and we make a motion. And I do want everybody to those that are here in
098staff, drive safely home. Dana, I'm not sure if you're driving, but please drive safely home. Uh security, please let us know if there's anything you need from us. Be safe tonight. Uh staff, thank you for the great work you continue to do. With that said, do I have a motion to adjurnn? I move to adjourn this meeting at 9:37 p.m. Do I have a second? I second the motion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. We are journ.