001[Music] it is 6:01 p.m. and we will go ahead and start the meeting our first item on the agenda is to make sure that we have Quorum and if we do if you're here today go ahead and identify yourself starting from my right Jesso choa present Carlos Margo present Anita Chavez present alisaa Pres rosala Hernandez present s Gomez Jr present great we have everyone here and so we do have Quorum ladies and gentlemen next item on the agenda is agenda item number three which is our Pledge of Allegiance if you're able to do so please stand and face the flag I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with Liber and justice be seated all right we are now
002on agenda item number four which is always one of my favorites we will now do a staff um recognitions if I could have Anita Chavez and Carlos Margo or board members to the front of the Das so before we get started um I would like to take this opportunity I think um most people have the opportunity to see this on social media as well as experience it throughout the district but I thought it would be a really um warm and celebratory kickoff to really celebrate our 243 teachers who receive the teacher incentive allotment across our district um I really do want to thank publicly Chief Jamie Miller for leading this effort across our district um you and your department did an incredible job but we had the opportunity as central office leadership so thank everyone
003who did it um with us to go out and really recognize and celebrate our teachers for their incredible accomplishments um as Educators across the district um in really achieving Excellence with our students and so we wanted to start the meeting with a video um just to again recognize their hard work and celebrate our teachers across the district thank you Dr sens we are so excited today we are visiting campuses to surprise our 243 teachers across La Hoya ISD who have earned the honor of the teacher incentive allotment through their incredible hard work of growing our students academically across all grade levels so we surprised our teachers in front of their students and we gave them plaques and boards and we WAP pcoms but most importantly we recognize their excellence in academics with their children and
004their students were there celebrating and cheering for them showing them their appreciation and their love for all that they do every single day in the classroom so the process is that we submit data in the fall for the previous year so this is actually based on the 23 24 school year and we submit our data in the fall and paa does vet our data and it is so exciting because they get extra money it comes along with us but the really exciting part is our students are growing because they have amazing teachers in La Hoya istd I couldn't be proud of of my teachers dval Elementary has a total of nine teachers that were awarded the teacher incentive allotment and this is just a testament for their hard work and deduc to our students here
005at Diaz V Elementary in La Hoya a I really want to thank everybody who has had a part of this work the human capital and Talent Development Department led by Chief Jamie Miller really lifting up our teachers and celebrating our motto in person that educational Excellence is the right of every student really celebrating our principles for supporting our teachers knowing that they do hard work every day to make sure that our teachers in the classroom can deliver on that promise of educational Excellence for every student I am so proud and I am so honored to be the superintendent today days like today when you get to celebrate great teachers for the work that they're doing with your brilliant students these are my favorite days [Music] thank you for sharing that Dr zoron I was one
006more to share oh okay I'm sorry preset see lights will go you [Music] and I will try to fix you [Music] now what I wanted to say Dr senson is that first video that we seen or we saw earlier uh I think I've seen it like five or six times I you guys did a really good job the second one was a treat so thank you for that uh and I also want to take this opportunity to thank uh Blanca and her team you know every day I see that some's out there are posted or that you all are showing some type of video I appreciate that U so thank you for the great work and please convey that message to your staff uh Joseph you may proceed yes sir thank you Mr board president
007school board members Dr senson members of the La Hoya ISD Community it is my absolute distinct honor and privilege to stand before you today and recognize an exceptional group of individuals our public relations and Communications Department it's for their outstanding achievements at the 2025 Texas school public relations Association conference in San Antonio this past February this talented group brought home an impressive 12 gold Awards and two best in category Awards a remarkable accomplishment that reflects their dedication their creativity and commitment to Excellence these awards are more than just trophies they symbolize the countless hours spent crafting impactful stories designing engaging visuals and ensuring our district message reaches our community in powerful ways their hard work has placed La Hoya ISD among the best in state earning the high recognition for their incredible work please join
008me in giving a well-deserved Round of Applause to our public relations and Community occations department for making us proud and for their commitment to sharing the amazing things happening in La Hoya ISD um members of the team please be Rec stand and be recognized come forward and be recognized Judith Garcia Eric Zuniga Sonia Hernandez Tony salace W buos Ashley Garza and it's Blanca Ean congratulations how you helping up good better than expected go like I was getting up who's taking pictur Tony's over here Joseph if you don't mind can I uh can I ask Blanca to say a few words Blanca you want to say a few words regarding not only the award but I mean there was a lot of work involved in this right so for those that are not aware of everything
009that's involved in receiving sub type all these types of accolades a lot of hard work a lot of hours but we love what we do and work here for the kids so we enjoy every single minute of it hey Blanca just so that you know before we let you go uh one of the things that I admire that you say or you said when you came up to Dr senson and it really means a lot to all of us is that it's all teamwork and so it's certainly evident when you're up here and when you're working that you not only represent this fine institution but you're truly dedicated to those that you work with so I appreciate that team effort it's a big it's a we're a small team but we're a mighty team so
010we enjoy everything that we do and I couldn't I wouldn't have it any other way have a lovely staff thank you we're so proud of you and your staff members of the board you have anything you want to add I mean I think you would all agree that we watch your videos every day and how impressed we are with the work they do and how well you represent this fing School District I mean I mean the fact that you're highlighting individuals and everyone everyone's being highlighted it's not the Blanca show it's not the teacher show it's not it's everyone's show so we appreciate that you know so members do you have anything to say I want to I want to say how since the beginning when we came in um it was you know being
011in front of camera taking pictures at least for me that was new but you guys made everything so seamless and like it's so natural for you guys to get out there and get you know everybody's uh stories captured um and you guys have you make it seem like it's you know easy to do it but you I know I know it takes a lot because I can't even edit one picture but um yeah your product what you bring out to the community on Facebook and stuff like that it's amazing thank you and we just hope you all enjoy everything we do thank you all the swag that we have that's why we we thought today we'd wear our Lya shirts because everyone here wears some type ofay attention to a lot of detail members do
012you have anything you'd like to add I just want to say good job congratulations uh to all I know that um I'm a little camera shy and you guys have always been very helpful making sure that those videos come out great so thank you very much appreciate it thank you so much the whole team is here so the they be able to hear everything you're saying so it it means a lot to us so thank you thank you well we're still learning the different the different mascots I'm I'm learning especially with my left hand but thank you again Blan I convey that message to your team thank you so much next item on the agenda is the recognition of national athletic trainers month ma'am good evening Mr President board members Dr senson and members of
013our community so this evening I am going to ask our athletic director Mr Victor vagara to come in and recognize a great group of individuals that work with our students day in and day out good evening um Mr President AES superintendent Dr senson board members uh Administration Community um I also on behalf of Athletics and the and the student athletes of La Hoy ISD want to thank and congratulate our public relations they're a big part of showcasing and making our student athletes shine when they need to and for that we do we know that that award plus many more uh they they uh deserve and we congratulate them today I'm in front of you uh I come before you to um recognize a great group of individuals March is recognized as National athletic trainers month
014therefore La Hoy ISD proudly recognizes and honors the dedication and expertise of our athletic trainers these professionals play a vital role in ensuring athletes perform at their best by preventing injuries promoting recovery and maintaining optimal physical condition athletes coaches and fans alike understand the significant significant impact athletic trainers have on the safety and well-being of sports participants La ISD extends a heartfelt big thank you to our athletic Trainers for their commitment and invaluable contributions to our athletic programs their hours are crazy it it's I think they sleep 3 hours and they're awake the the other 21 and they're with the athletes by 5:30 6:30 in the morning they're on campus doing training rehab and and late afternoon we were just coming in from 101 degree weather running a track me but we had um them
015participating in regards to attending to the kids so today from Palm View High School on our first year of service we have Jada doc Scott from what is Lincoln High School in his 22nd year and 17th Year all 17 of what is Lincoln existence is Carlos doc Pras from La Hoya High School on her 40th year of service in athletic training and 17th at La Hoya High School is Maria Olga Doc Thompson we do have one of our principles here is Mr Leo pis from Palmville high school we do thank because he they're all integral part in allowing the opportunity for the services that they do at their campuses for not only their campuses but even the sister schools and our middle schools so for that once again and we talked about it we serviced
016them with a luncheon today uh we honored them a little token of appreciation of big things that they do once again on behalf of La Hoy ISD thank you for what you do thank you yes thank you very much okay next item on the agenda will be recognizing social workers week March 3rd through the 7th yes may proceed so another great group of individuals that we have at our schools working with our students day in and out providing wraparound services to each and every one of them so I'm I'm going to ask our director of guidance and counseling Miss Gabriela Velasquez to come in and do this recognition for us good evening upward member superintendent Dr Sor and Este teemed guest this evening I have the privilege of recognizing a group of professionals whose dedication
017compassion and unwavering commitment make a profound impact on our students families lives which are our district licensed social workers our licensed social workers are the bridge between school and home ensuring that students facing challenges whether emotional Financial or social receive the support they need to succeed they Advocate and intervene and they Empower whether it's concerning whether it's connecting families to essential resources supporting students through crisis promoting mental health and well-being their work is invaluable this month we celebrate Social Work month we honor their dedication and the difference they make every single day at this time I would like to call the names of our 13 District licensed social workers who this morning were from 7:30 to 11:30 at they were helping out at the RGB food distribution um I know it was kind of hot
018at towards the 11:30 but thank you so much and their names are Mr Leonardo Garcia at La Hoya high school so you guys see quis Lincoln High School Jose Oscar Ramos Palm High School La Gila College and Career Center Sonia ernandez Jimmy Carter early High School congratulations now good night with us tonight miss jacn Flores from HSP and pelma congratulations Mariel c not with us this evening roio Salazar from Doctor Science middle school Ana Gonzalez and Richard Middle School congratulations Priscilla Weber Irene Garcia and Moreno from Hope Academy con and those two more names that we they couldn't be here with us was Miss Ena Flores from dtms thank you for everything that you do on behalf of our students families and District leadership I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to our social workers
019thank you [Music] congratulations to all of you thank you thank you very much for that next agenda item uh is 4.4 recognition of national breakfast week which we celebrated March 3rd through the 7th doctor good evening everyone I'm excited to share that let me go ahead and get the great in March 3rd through 7th was National breakfast week and we celebrated oh thank you March 3rd through 7th was uh National breakfast week and we celebrated across all of our schools with the theme [Music] clue in to school breakfast so cafeteria managers and helpers gathered around they did line dances and played festive music and had all kinds of fun and played mystery games to just celebrate the idea that we all need to have a healthy breakfast and encourage students to make healthy choices and
020I I have asked um our assistant director uh Mr Louie pestor to come on up and get a picture today so we can celebrate that he's one of the lead people on this initiative and I want to thank him for joining us this evening and um just thank all of you for the opportunity to have this amazing week of breakfast celebrations I'm sure your kids came home telling them telling you all about it as well stay close by Dr garyi you mean we don't have the picture of Mr Hernandez dressed up like a milk carton dancing around the cafeteria we'll we'll be sure to post that on the website I I think everybody needs to see Mr Hernandez dancing around like a mil carton we have to share that sir we definitely will I I'll
021pass it to Blanca um cuz it definitely was a celebration right that's a great one yes I think we're looking forward to Dr gear I know you have the next agenda item which is probably one of my favorites and that is the recognition of national maintenance worker appreciation day which was March 7th you may proceed thank you so the month of March is obviously a time when we really celebrate and hone in on all of the amazing things that are going on with our employees and our uh March 7th was if if I could ask Mr Sido to come on down with his entire team please to get a picture go ahead while I'm speaking come on down come on so this this humble group um Works night and day they're on call on the
022weekends uh when you and I are sleeping quite frequently respond to all kinds of calls regarding um maybe uh water pump or HVAC repair things like that and this group of of ladies and gentlemen are very hardworking on March 7th we had a luncheon for them and gave them some small tokens of our appreciation and really celebrated them but it's important for all of you to see the faces come on around the faces of the amazing people who serve our schools they keep them keep all of the um equipment functioning every day they do our groundskeeping they ensure the AC is working thank you they repair the doors they repair the floors all of the things that we know our kids need to have a safe environment these are a representation of some of the
023amazing workers that are out there doing this work across our district for everyone and we definitely are so very thankful for each one of them thank you guys thank you very thank you very come on over and and join on the jewel make sure I st H and c and as you can see as I mentioned they're very humble and they take their work very seriously very much Mr sad got them some very new uh safety vests as you can see as well that are now one of the the key points of their uniform so that we can make sure we're watching for them go ahead thank you for everything thank you both thank you to see you again got my trees I know thank you sir Dr gear before you call up the next
024group um I just want to say I appreciate the fact that we're recognizing These Fine men and gentle these men and women that that make sure that our classrooms are ready for the week you know especially on Sunday when many of us take for granted uh our games we have games that are well I mean I think of all things that they prepare for that we have games our our campuses look nice our students are safe I mean I really appreciate all the the work and and you could tell that these gentlemen are not and the ladies are not used to being in front of a camera and they're shy but we're very grateful for everything that they do so thank you again for acknowledging them and for celebrating them it's a pleasure to be
025able to do that absolutely Dr Gary next item on the agenda is recognition of national child and adult care food program we celebrate this March 10th through the 14th you may proceed thank you so it's a this is a campaign designed to bring awareness to the uh usda's child and adult care food program and it's um campaign to Fight Hunger the program promotes healthy choices foods to the table for adults in daycare and children in child care um and in after school programs uh in particularly it focuses on our students who join in on the enrichment programs after school and ensures that they have some healthy choices for some supper um perhaps they may have to ride the bus home afterwards so this is a great program that really um helps them uh normally it
026would be celebrated next week uh March 16th to 22nd but we'll be on spring break so we celebrated this week and we highlighted it by having competitions there as well and a theme as well after school for the supper program and we are very grateful for the opportunity from the USDA to be able to do so so thank you thank you Dr garyi so next item on the agenda is that all recognitions for the evening that concludes recognitions great again a round of applause to everybody that was recognized ladies and gentlemen that brings us now to agenda item number five which is public comment do we have anyone who signed up we do not have any public comments for tonight okay since we have no one that has signed up for public comment we're going
027to go ahead and move on but before we get to the superintendent updates and announcements do I have any comments or do I have any motions before we proceed with any of the items that we're going to cover under agenda item six uh yes Mr President I move that we remove item 6.1 from the agenda please do I have a second I second all in favor signify by second saying I I all oppose motion carries all right Dr senson uh agenda item number six superintendent updates and announcements thank you board president Alvarez um I would like to bring forward U merette creso to come on up um I know that she will also be joined by Dr little and Miss Miller um we had promised not only the board but the community that we would
028continue to provide budget process updates it's okay miss creso it happens um that we would continue to provide budget process updates throughout the spring semester um committing ourselves as always to the district priorities of transparency and fiscal responsibility and so I wanted to bring forth um not just miss Crespo this evening because part of the conversation that we'll have this evening is budget but coupled with budget is also Staffing and how we are doing on the Staffing process as we talk about budget there is Staffing that couples with it so um Dr little and um Miss Miller are a part of the presentation so miss creso if you'd like to get started thank you very much thank you Dr senson uh Mr Alvarez board uh members of the community good evening today presentation is part
029of our promise to be here every month to tell you where we are and being transparent on how we are processing our budget this year and and the uh outcomes of that uh work that we are doing as a school district so right now La Hoya Independent School District must reconcile critical realities with difficult choices during this process we have to we have committed to be very analytical and very conscious on how we are budgeting in the future and what we are doing understanding that there are three big things that we have to to be aware of first of all falling enrollment and de cleaning average daily attendance rate second the increasing cost of living that we all are experiencing right now and finally legislative decisions because we are in a legislative day year in
030the state what do we know what is happening around us and what we information that we can control right now first of all that we are failing enrollment and the declining aage attendance and or increasing cost here is your aage daily attendance we have seen this presentation before in the last this is the reality we need to consider and take in account we had lost around more than 5,000 students in 10 years almost 8,000 students in 10 years and we are projecting 900 reduction for next year so as you see this has been consistent the biggest impact is a simple math we we receive revenue from our daily attendance rates and or enr lower enrollment means lower uh revenue on the increasing cost one of the important things that we want all of us to
031be aware of is that we are looking at a race across all the staff so we had to consider what that impact on salary is for all district during the budget considering that 79% of the budget is payroll also we need to to contemplate the maintenance of operation cost knowing that inflation had grown more than 36% over the last 10 years and there is no proposed increase in maintenance and operation funding from legislation what do we don't know we don't know what our 89th legislative session will be coming for education in the state the legislative session ends on June second and as a legislative lead year we can no budget with complete certainty until certain definitions and bills are uh finalized we have there are around 1,400 bills being discussed at the state level and
032some of the ones the important ones and this is just a sample um are these four that we are having here we have the house bill two that is the one that is defining our next po location plus other things and is increasing the per popular location from 6,160 to 6,3 80 unfortunately that's tied to a lot of conditions um we don't know what it's going to be approved as I say but we don't we have the question of how much of that per pil allocation will need to be reallocated for Teacher compensation we have experience from 2019 when the last time this was done which most of the funding was required to be allocated on teacher compensation which Li limited the districts to make decisions on those fundings because we couldn't address address any
033need except increasing the salary of our teachers and other employees which that decision if is done will leave or per allocation at the same rate that we have right now remember as I mentioned before we have over 30% increase on costs for by inflation the last 10 years the other proposal from the Senate bill for is a home state exemption that is going to increase from 100 ,000 to 150,000 or 140,000 pending approval um passing the house and one of the things that is if you remember when we passed the tax rate in September um we only receive income from the houses that are above the home home state exemption therefore we will lose that portion of the tax rate the other two are more positive no a lot but there are more positive one
034is a revised allotment weight for the state compensatory education on the house bill to also and an adjustment in the school safety allotment to increase the per po allocation that we already getting um to make it match the unfunded mandates that we have under school safety allotment and that is under Senate bills 260 if you remember the chart this was or my um sample for you to see the status based on efficiencies and other cost savings that we have been achieving so far during the year so we have on the losses we is what we have what we know uh 10.4 million doll of deficit that we have the loss of the revenue due to enrollment that's our estimation based on the number students that we are projecting to lose then the disaster pennies that
035we approve in September that are going away for next year year that is around $5 million for a total of 21.4 and then you see or savings based on efficiencies School actions and other uh personal processes improvements such ation correction of uh position control and other um items so I have for you today an estimated Revenue super estimated with quote unquote I have some assum assumptions that we have to do in order to um do this estimated Revenue this was done in order for in order to help my my colleagues um to have a frame of reference of how we're going to budget to and is based on the same precept that we have this year so there is no an increase on um or per po location we are doing this on 6160 the
036tax collection rate is done at the same level and we have also um other estimations such uh the refined Ada and um the TRS and other federal revenue are established at the same level than this year so as I say um is a very it has a lot of ifs on it but is a projected minus $8 million so that is a frame of reference what we have been working on knowing that I want to remind you where we are in the timeline between March and April that means that we are working already with the Department budgets they we are discussing what we are doing and how we are working and we are preparing the depart the campuses budget so they can align those with their need assessment and establish what they are their priorities
037are and can um budget with more information than just um their funding so the other part that I want you to remember based on our last agreement this is the four priorities that we had commit to go on for this year budgeting process and is invest in a student achievement balance the budget increase the salary a do a pay rise and high quality instructional materials these are our four non-negotiables this is what is front uh in for all of us when we are starting budgeting and every analysis we do for academic return of investment is centered on those premises on those four priorities reviewing academic return of investment these are the kind of questions and um expectations that we have for each one of us to be able to budget properly for the district so
038what objectives we want to achieve with programs what are we using to meure that we are achieving those objectives and what is the definition for us to report to each other that these activities are successful centering then or four priorities and knowing that we want to measure what we are achieving that's how we are budgeting we are in the need to design and Implement programs that monitor and monitor initiatives that improve results in our schools so we are learning this is a continuous improvement process and we are learning as a district to look at our programs and initiatives with a clear understanding what works for our students and the community for which students it work and at what cost and knowing these things help us to decide and is helping us to make decisions and
039we are going to continue refining the process um to see what we are keeping for next year what we are adjusting so we can do more effective work what we are reducing because it's only work for a particular number of students or a particular set of schools what we are going to expand because it's efficient it's showing impact or what we are going to eliminate because it's not giving us the results that we want for the amount of funding that we are investing on it sounds a lot of challenge but it's a reative process and we are very clear that we are learning how to do this as we go so we are very excited to keep working for the Improvement of our students this is an example on some of the conversations we are
040having um in this case we are reviewing positions grounded in certain initiatives and outcomes this is going to be completely hypothetical but let's say we have a position I call it XYZ because I couldn't figure it out something more nice uh in a specific location or School set of schools first question we are going to do during the review of the budget is how long this position has being in existence is this a new initiative from last year or is an initiative we have been coming for several years how many positions are there in this initiative is one is more than 10 is 12 is in several schools or in one school um and then we review the outcomes expected for the position so is this impacting an academic result is impacting attendance it's impacting
041the performance of a set of teachers it's impacting the performance of of a set of schools those outcomes have to be established and clear for all of us and then we do the academic return of investment questions has this impact students and which students is the work impacting District services at what level has the work for this position provide the expected results if so are they what we looking for to call that initiative successful and what the cost and when we talking about cost we don't talk about only the playing salary if this is an initiative but it's the all loaded cost is what it brings for that initiative the salary the supplies the training everything that is related to the initiative not just the position per se but also every other cost that it
042comes with that implementation knowing that we will make decisions on are we continuing with the project are we not contining with that project are we continuing in a specific schools let's say the best the most the best performance or the lowest performance so the elementary schools or the high schools it depends on what we are doing we will make those decisions and then we will proceed on analyzing how what what will be the impact and making the decision on adjusting your budgets yes it's a lot of work but that's the exciting part we started early enough that we can take now the luxury because I take it as a luxury of being able to be conscious and do our decisions working on our students Center on our students and our staff so how this looks
043like and and our processes and where we are right now at departmental level we are doing finalizing budget hearings where we are ensuring the high impact and high alignment on all budgeted activities based on board goals District priorities description expenses measure of success and those four priorities that we establish for budgeting after that we will Implement uh academic return of investment for the planning of next year because this is a continuous process so now we are going to establish what is what we want to see at the end of the year next year so we can evaluate again what we are using the funds on and reiterate the process again to keep and let go whatever works for us or not work for us for the campuses um the process at this point is on
044comprehensive need assessment they are working on that they are determining the root cause of the gaps in student performance this is done an individual base on each campus by a team the the leadership team of the principle where they are going to Define their strategic drivers and how those align with the district priorities and the district goals coming uh the end of March They will receive the budget and staff allocation so now they will have three points to make decisions they will they will be able to have clear they will have clear expectations of the use of funds they will have their budget they will have their Staffing ratios and they will have their needs and drivers with that they will be able to budget and do their plan for next year next I want
045to um deep we will be deep down a deep a little bit of knowledge on what we are doing on Staffing um so for that I have Miss Miller here to help me good evening the human capital and talent development department is kneee in the Staffing process and we are ensuring that we have high quality instruction and programs in our schools but also we know that we have to be fiscally sound and that we are going to have to right size we are ensuring that we are following Tas be guidelines and I know that you've seen this slide before but we want to go back over this slide so in 2011 tasby pointed out that there was about $5.5 million of positions that could be absorbed through attrition so that would mean that somebody would
046vacate the position and the position would be closed in 2019 there was 20 million um dollars in position I that we were overstaffed so we were overstaffed by more than 300 positions in 2023 it was 206 positions um which was 24.3 million and in 2024 there were over 540 positions that were overstaffed but and many of those were in Esser which all know we do not have anymore and had to be brought back so um we were facing a $ 55.3 million deficit um but we did end up closing the budget Gap by closing some positions so do know that we are following tasby guidelines to ensure that um we are Equitable and doing what's right for our kids so in the Staffing process you will see that we do have ratios so it's how
047many uh teachers and per student I do want to make sure that that misconcep ction is cleared up we will not be placing you know tons of students in a classroom to ensure that we are fiscally responsible no we will be fiscally responsible like I said giving high quality instruction using ratios within the classroom so we are looking at tasby guidelines we are looking at return of investment but also the funding source as we are making datadriven Staffing decisions for our district we also understand that Staffing affects our Master scheduling so I'm going to hand it over to Dr little who is working with um our Master scheduling tool thank you Chief me uh Chief Miller good evening board sorry about that uh as Chief Miller just said uh Staffing is implicated in what we
048actually end up offering in terms of courses and programs and Pathways to students this slide just tries to lay out conceptually that process uh beginning with hearing from our students directly we actually did this right after winter break when we returned in January uh having conversations with students about what courses they needed to take to either meet graduation requirements or finish their their program or pathway and also what courses they wanted to take uh as part of their middle school or High School experience once we have those course selections that then goes into this sort of iterative cycle between Staffing allocations and master schedule creation we are working this year with an organization called timely uh which has shown really great results in other places in Texas helping schools get really clear and efficient in
049their master schedule design and what we mean when we say master schedule design really is here all the classes that we have to offer here's the best way to structure that puzzle to get as many students into the courses that they need and want as possible and be as efficient as we can be with Staffing that also determines literally if you're a high school student you're remember what class you go to first period second period third period sort of those things uh so that's that middle cycle and then when that's really good and set students get their actual schedules this is also an exciting time like I remember as a student many high school students certainly eighth graders going to high school next year for the first time they can't wait to get that high
050school schedule like what is freshman year going to look like for me and what is that going to feel like so that's the end result from the students perspective of this process uh and we are working to do that much earlier uh this year than than we did last year so students potentially are leaving school this school year with that schedule in hand uh for August which will be really exciting for folks over the summer the other thing we just wanted to give a brief update on is a key service and support that we provide to our students who need it in special education and what that looks like in relation to Staffing and to master schedule design uh we are undergoing it's no secret we're undergoing a special education audit we know that we
051have significant transformation work to do in special education in La Hoya ISD and part of that transformation comes to how we are referring students to special education and ultimately deciding and identifying whether or not they qualify and if a student does really matching them to the right services and placements for that student to maximize opportunity for Success this flowchart on the right is something that our team worked on in the fall and have since uh gone through training with our diagnostician school psychologist sort of internal special education staff as well as with principles which lays out a decision tree for how to determine the best placement for a student because what we want in La Hoya ISD and what students deserve is to be in What's called the most inclusive setting possible that means a
052student in special education is in a regular general education classroom with their peers learning Ong grade level content achieving that in meeting those Milestones that we've set out in Lone Star governance uh the four things on the left of the slide really describe that Continuum as you may hear us uh refer to it as with inclusion being the thing again we want most of the students in receiving in-class support so I'm in Algebra 1 with everybody else in Algebra 1 and yes I may have a special education staff member coming in to support me or other students in the classroom but I'm still receiving that Ong grade level sort of core content uh as we want all of our students to receive there are also some cases where students may get pulled out for targeted
053services that should be limited uh certainly in scope and then for a few of our students they do need a specialized setting and that's a specialized setting um in in the school building life skills classrooms are something that's traditionally been referred to as self-contained units or SCU in La Hoya ISD we are intentionally making name changes here to get to a more student centered holistic sort of description and approach uh in our services and life skills are spaces for students that really need a a smaller more targeted environment to be able to thrive and succeed they may have challenges in larger spaces they need may need more intensive support uh from the teacher and educator so these are spaces designed to help them really Thrive and then even more specialized environment is a behavior intervention
054classroom those historically in La Hoya have been called SAU uh classrooms these are spaces for students who have even more extreme Behavior or emotional challenges many of these students are on the far side of the autism spectrum and need even more specialized support and care and to give you a sense of how specialized this is there's only six of those in the entire District right now so these are really special places for for students who really need that the most this is going to be a change in feeling in nomenclature in description for our community for our Educators for our students all again moving in service of how do we best support students to get the outcomes that they deserve um but it does change some entrenched practices and belief systems that we have seen
055and that we've held in the district so this is an ongoing conversation that will certainly exist uh throughout the rest of this school year but also moving into next school year as we engage with Educators principles and and families as well as our sped staff to ensure students are in the right places moving forward than you thank you um so where we are right now where our next steps um first of all monitor legislative bills um there is a lot as I say before that you have to decide and we need to pay attention to it next is continue conversations with this three staff as I say before this is a re reiterative uh learning process um we are getting there with our vocabulary on what we need to do for decision making we have
056uh started a preliminary budget review for central office divisions with cabinet we will continue Staffing in alignment with tasby recommendations and master scheduling constraints and outputs we will adopt a board fund balance policy to ensure healthy fund balance thank you for that is T in tonight agenda release for of Campus budgets and Staffing in l March engage with you and other stakeholders to increase transparency and we expect to B the budget adoption um by June 2025 and or tax rate adoption is a scheduled in September 2025 so that uh that is our um our next um process so any questions for me members of the board do you have any questions for those to presentation I do not have a question but I do have uh just a comment thank you for you and your
057team and Dr senson for keeping pay raises as a priority for our staff um obviously as we see the economy and inflation and how it's affecting everybody in our day-to-day I think this is um just important for us to keep in mind for for all of our staff so thank you well said any anybody else like to make any comments okay see we have n thank you very much merette that was a great presentation to you Miss Miller and Mr little Dr little I see you have the next agenda item as well uh and that is our Early College High School grade point average update that's right yes sir you may proceed yeah very happy to come back and close the loop here when we made the final recommendation and the board granted approval for
058the Early College High School consolidation we acknowledged that there were a few things that we still had to work on and and tonight's conversation is really the biggest one from a student's perspective so we're going to close the loop uh on that discussion and it relates to how we will determine uh class rank for students moving forward as you recall you certainly heard from public testimony uh in in the late fall and early winter this year that this was a top concern for students families and and even Educators how is this consolidation going to impact my class ranking how will it impact my ability to earn validator and or salutatorian honors because we know those are pretty large Stakes for students certainly those seeking competitive uh higher education opportunities so I'm really happy that we've
059been able to navigate through this as a team uh to figure out a path that really holds students harmless through this transition and what that specifically means is if I'm a student right now who thought I was going to be ranked against my 200ish peers at my high school that's not going to change that is still the group of students that I am you know technically competing against from a class rank perspective that's still the group of students out of which the valid dictorian and salutatory and honors will be determined by whatever campus they are currently enrolled in so just to walk through this explicitly it's most obvious for Jimmy Carter students because that is the school obviously that we are consolidating everything into but if I'm right now a junior at Jimmy Carter Early
060College High School I've spent three years with this group of students and that's who I've been thinking about and I'm ranked number two and like I want to keep that that's not going to change of course if you continue to earn the the second place ranking but that group of students is not going to change for you so those will still be just based on Jimmy Carter students the same thing for Thelma Selena's Early College High School students they will continue to be officially enrolled in Thelma Selina's Early College High School if they're a current 10th or 11th grader uh throughout the rest of their High School career career and therefore their class Rank and balance out honors will just be based on that population of students La Hoya Early College High School are officially
061La Hoya high school students already they will stay that way and then for our students coming from HSP into Jimmy Carter they will still officially be part of whatever Comprehensive High School that they are officially enrolled in right now so again big headline here we're not changing the system the rules or the game that students are playing from a class rank perspective we're going to honor that for the next two classes so that's the class of 26 and the class of 27 part of this uh is due to some structures in our current policy so that's EIC local and that relates to how courses get weighted you actually earn your rank in class based on how well you do in the course so what was your grade and how much does that course weight towards
062the ranking calculation current policy waights courses differently so advanced placement or AP courses actually get the highest waiting right now you get nine times the points for an AP class unlike dual credit courses which right now get eight times the point so there's an advantage from a class rank perspective of taking AP over dual credit we obviously just made a really big deal that we want students to earn associate degrees you do that through the Dual credit pathway and that is what the Early College High School is about so we will be coming back to the board at a later date this spring to actually make some amendments to this policy to equalize those waiting with your approval but this actually would have been a disadvantage in the consolidation if we just put all the
063students together if I've been attending HSP which prioritizes AP classes over dual credit I immediately then have a ranking advantage over La Hoya Early College Stella melenas early college and Jimmy Carter Early College the other key factor here is current policy uh requires that you've been continuously enrolled in the same high school for the previous two years to your graduation to be eligible to to earn the validator and or salutatorian honors if we just put everybody together at Jimmy Carter this would ad meant that only Jimmy Carter students could actually earn this honor that obviously isn't the fairest treatment in recognizing the hard work that our students have done so those two things coupled together is why we're we're pursuing this hold harmless uh path finally it's super important for our ninth graders their parents
064our community to understand everything I just said is for current 10th and 11th graders so it is for the graduating class of 2026 next year and the graduating class of 2027 2 years from now if you are a sitting freshman in any of those schools or program and you're going to Jimmy Carter next year you will become part of that Jimmy Carter cohort and that cohort is who you will be ranked against moving forward um so they will have a different group of students than they originally thought uh but that will still be their students for the bulk of their High School career three out of the four years uh of their time and then that will continue moving forward for all new classes coming into Jimmy Carter Early College High School uh so happy
065to take questions on that members of the board you have any questions for Dr little I will tell you that when we first when we first started discussing what we were going to do I think this was something that we were all very concerned with but I know you've put a lot of time and effort in the fact that you met with the students it means a lot so thank you for that I think you did a really good job of of explaining what you're going to do and I think uh uh I think we're all comfortable with the process that's going to take place so thank you for that Dr little yeah thank you board thank you superintendent any questions all right no further questions our next agenda item I think is it you
066Dr little as well well it was supposed to be me and my literacy buddy but she's actually very sick so it's just me uh tonight and so that is the is that the kindergarten Readiness it is it is our next Lone Star governance update we're going to look tonight at goal progress measures for goal one and goal two so we're going to take a look at literacy and math although we're going to spend most of our time actually in the literacy space uh and we're specifically looking at GPM 1.3 so this is Kinder to second grade matap reading fluency data uh and we'll take a quick glance at GPM 2.1 which is uh kindergarten Readiness data from the Texas Ka math assessment so our typical summary page here as we look at these two gpms
067we are saying we are slightly off track for GPM 1.3 again as we think about those three criteria that we've laid out for on track slightly off track or off track status uh we are slightly off track here so we are yellow we do not have a status for 2.1 due to Prior data comparisons and the lack thereof so I'll show you the data of where we are now but we don't really have a sense of how that compared year pass so it's hard to to create a status at this point we will begin with GPM 1.3 so again that is our K2 mat reading fluency data we're actually going to spend the bulk of this presentation actually unpacking this but just to to show where we are officially for the GPM uh if we
068look at our line graph at the top left we actually are moving in the right direction so middle of your data is better than beginning of your data that's a really great sign and a really good progression but we're slightly off track track because we haven't hit those targets yet across all of our student groups and again we have variation uh still at the campus level the bottom left the blue and the red bar charts here again that does plot every Elementary School Blue is where we were at the beginning of year red is where we are at middle of year getting very happy and proud of the work our campuses and teachers have done red is higher across the board so like again we're seeing really good progress here we just got to see
069more progress and part of that Rel you all could probably present the slide and the continuous Improvement thing at this point because you keep hearing us sort of say these things CU they're still true but we did make foundational literacy adjustments in January that didn't fully have time to show up in this data yet but we're expecting those to catch up as we get into end of year and certainly into next year uh we've refocused what our reading Specialists are doing uh what I wasn't able to say was happening last time we gave an LSG update on literacy but we foreshadowed it but it's actually under way now is that professional learning on research-based instructional strategies we've laid out hopefully very clearly to you in the community that we made an initial big focus on
070high quality instruction materials in math and science this year knowing that literacy is to come and as we talk about ma math data even on the next slide that's important foundationally but it isn't sufficient we've also got to have really great instruction with those materials and that's why we're super excited that these RBS or research-based instructional strategies trainings are underway on the mass slide here really briefly for 2.1 this is the Texas kindergarten entry assessment so it is not coming from map or the map Suite it is an entirely different assessment uh built homegrown here in the state of Texas and this is looking at how our kindergarteners are doing with like basic uh math skills we at the beginning of the year we're at 50% of our students meeting that math Readiness Mark we
071set a Target at the end of the year for 78.4 but notice that we don't have a middle- ofe data point here so that's part of why it's really hard to status this at this point uh we rtaa has made some changes and expectations around assessment here so moving forward we actually should have all three uh data points starting with next school year but we did want to show you because you haven't seen it yet where we were back in the fall and where we're still trying to go uh for the end of the school year the last thing I'll say before we go spend the rest of our time in the literacy space is this kindergarten class is obviously the first class that's using Eureka like so those five and six year olds are
072getting an entirely different approach to learning mathematics than any other cohort that came before them but not only are they getting that different approach right now what's super exciting and Powerful about this is that's what they're going to get for the rest of their time in elementary and even through through the middle school space so we should start to see pretty dramatic differences as this cohort progresses through over time from what we've seen in the past because they've had access to a much more conceptual approach to mathematics instruction they've had really great instructional materials and just like on the literacy side we're doing more with their teachers and principles on building great instructional strategies and high quality instruction as well so we're going to spend the next few slides just digging deeper into our math
073reading fluency data and I will do my best to do miss loan well here uh but reading fluency you remember we shared this slide back in the fall when we first introduced Matt reading fluency it really is the language of reading like as a math guy algebra is the language of mathematics like knowing what letters and symbols and sounds do and how they relate is the only way we actually become proficient readers and ultimately communicators so that reading fluency data breaks down with the map assessment in two big buckets as a reminder we're looking at foundational skills where decoding is what are all these crazy things on the page and can I actually break them apart to understand their meaning and their sounds language comprehension am I able to understand what people are are saying
074to me and then as we build those skills we move into oral reading fluency so am I actually able to see a sentence comprehend it and in this case match it to the correct picture ultimately getting to to the place where I can have a fluent oral reading rate and I'm able to uh attack and understand passages on grade level this first slide is a look at those foundational skills I want to just remind us we want to move from left to right in this progression and that's actually what the assessment does it starts students with questions around decoding and foundational skills as they get those right and language comprehension skills right we then move into the oral reading part of the assessment so as we look here at the foundational data we actually want
075these bars to go down so this slide you may think oh that doesn't look good it's actually moving in the right direction here because what it's telling us is that we have fewer students at middle of year than we did at the beginning still working on foundational skills so over time as we get into the second grade space like amazing success here would be at zero we don't have any second graders Still Still Still In the foundational skill space they've all moved into that oral reading uh place so progression here is is going in the right direction same thing alternatively in the oral reading we want these to get better over time because we want these students to move in to that oral reading space uh so again the fact that we have fewer students
076there in Kinder at this point is not surprising uh we have many more at second grade Al so that's not surprising but we obviously want to start pushing these into much higher levels in in the later spaces not just hovering around 50% but getting into much higher rates of students in the oral reading space to go a bit deeper and we'll do this a bit more slowly at Kinder and then we'll go a bit quicker through first and second grade as we look at the components of the assessment we can also better understand how students are moving through that progression over time so if we just take decoding for example remember that was the first component of foundational literacy you see in the far left that tiny little bar um that was beginning of year
077phological awareness that's really understanding sounds we didn't have many students getting into that meets or exceeds level the green and the blue aren't very big in that case and the bar isn't very tall like students were still sort of struggling in the Kinder space in that level but if you look at the one right next to it for middle of your phological awareness you see one the height of that bar is much taller so we have many more students actually in that space and the blue and green got much larger in that context that's what's necessary to move those students off of decoding into the next part of their fluency and literacy development so across the board here for Kinder for both decoding and language comprehension you can see in those bar pairs comparing left
078to right beginning to middle of year we're getting better in the blue and the green colors which means we're getting more students to the meets and exceeds level in this skill same same thing in Spanish we are able to use map reading fluency to track growth and progression in both English development and Spanish development uh and we see the same thing here like we are improving across the board in decoding and in language comprehension uh in Spanish as well for first grade we actually put these on the same slide just to show a bit of a different comparison um on the left we have English on the right we have Spanish again looking at decoding and language comprehension we've got one thing called out here in that dotted red oval and that's just a look
079at part of our language comprehension data again noticing that the number of students that were in the green here in the the meets level in the fall has increased as we moved into the spring by 20 plus percentage points like these are pretty substantive changes in academic outcomes and achievements for students over the last sort of 5 to six months of the school year and really exciting to see that in both languages whether they were testing in English or Spanish we're we're seeing those gains uh from a dual language perspective the ultimate measure to go back to our GPM slide is this it is sence reading fluency so are students able to read a simple sentence or two and match that to the correct picture describing that sentence uh we've got donut charts here again
080English on the left spanish on the right uh we're looking at two things really are more students getting in into this part of their development and are they getting better at this part of the development uh the English donut chart for example shows that we had a 14 percentage Point growth at the meets plus level from Fall to to Winter from beginning to middle of year and you see that as the green and blue part of that doughnut got much larger Spanish was even better it was 22 Point growth here uh from beginning of year to middle of year for sence reading fluency for first graders now when we talked about about map growth data and it was all red and we had to come up here and L own that it was all red
081second grade wasn't looking so great and we can see that in this data as well here you see a lot more red and yellow just on the slide visually than you did at Kinder in first grade uh we talked about last time again we're still committed to working with our teachers making sure students are getting targeted interventions that we're building good strategies to improve second grade overall uh we see some growth but we don't see enough growth and on the Spanish side in decoding if you look at those far too left bars you see that that red increased pretty significantly there is a Nuance to this data that makes it a little complicated because students are moving into different buckets over time the number of students in any bucket at a given time changes and
082so that makes it a little hard to compare but you still don't want to see what we see in decoding here for Spanish where we've gone from yellow and green to now almost all of those students who are still there are red so that's a real call to action for us that we're digging in with those team leads those teachers and those those principles around that for cence uh reading fluency in second grade again progression here is still really good we're getting double digit growth from beginning to middle of year in both English and in Spanish so we see much more green uh than we did at the beginning of the year in English we we see uh a little loss of blue but much more green in Spanish on the right but to the
083earlier slide you still see a lot of students struggling in that red space that sort of below grade level space so that's really where we have more work to do again this this story is still the same for us as we are working through this spring semester uh really reinforcing the need for explicit phonics based science of reading instruction in our classrooms uh with our early grades teachers uh we are actively in the process of preparing for a new curriculum adoption we've done some Showcases of those options already we have more planned for after spring break for both teachers and families to come see blue bonnet amplify English spish like give us that feedback uh cuz we'll be coming back to you in April actually with that recommendation and seeking approval uh for that adoption
084and then we've mentioned multiple times the reading specialist revamp really focusing on a cohort or a case load of students providing additional science or reading based uh approaches to them and then as I mentioned earlier we've actually begun that research-based instructional strategies training with our K2 team lead so that's a teacher leader from each School in those grade levels uh our principles and some Central staff support as well and then we will be launching later this spring into the summer uh that training on letters which is another really good explicit phonic foundational literacy based approach for our teachers and that concludes our uh update tonight there's a lot of slides in the appendix again not to present but for you and the community to see transparently both as a reminder of what's happening with Matt
085reading fluency as well as some more description of [Music] it anyone have any questions Dr senson Dr little can you go back um to the second grade slide thank you so this is an example um of the kind of catchup that we have to play when we're not laying strong foundations prek Kinder and first and so that not and we are fully committed to doing that work and continuing to support our Educators our principes our families to make that shift so that kids catch up but one of the things that I talk about consistently is that if we get it right in prek to second then 3rd through 5ifth we're not intervening our way to grade level instruction and so this is a clear example of how when we W aren't doing evidence-based practices for
086the past couple of years in prek and Kinder and first our second our second graders are struggling to catch up and so here it is in the data as we are shifting to evidence-based practices and so I really want think that this slide really um you know shines a spotlight on our why we can't have second graders who then go into third grade and then go into fourth grade behind because we are not doing the correct type of instruction and so um with the correct materials and so this is for me um our why right here in this slide so I just wanted to lift that up the other thing Dr little that I I would appreciate if you could um call up for the board and I know that Dr Margo asked this um
087a couple meetings ago when we first tied of talking about map is that these reports are also meant to be instructional and so um what do the teachers have access to in order to really help our Educators because it's one thing to educate the board and educate the public but one of the great pieces of map is that it is really an instructional tool and so what kind of kind of data is available to our teachers and to our principls and those doing the the you know boots on the ground instruction so that they can really have an impact with students um as they look to move the needle on say those second graders that are that are here yeah I'm actually going to go to one of the appendix slides to to help with
088that uh superintendent so for map growth the other big part of map that we've shared a lot we showed in the last presentation that that breaks down to each individual standard so what is the expectation Texas has set for that grade level for that content for students to master so it plots students to the standards that they've mastered the ones that they're ready to learn and the ones that are a stretch for them if I'm a second grader right now that could show that I'm ready to work on some second grade content but it could also show that I have some Kindergarten things back here that I didn't fully uh grasp or master that the teachers got to go back and intervene and support me on so it gets super targeted to the specific expectations
089Matt reading fluency gets even more targeted into the reading development space there's a lot of like education and like reading speak on this slide uh but let's look at number three down the page on the left so blending and my eyes are terrible blending and segmenting um that's a you do this all the time and you don't even know you're doing it which is how do you take multiple sounds in a word and put them together to actually say the word you aren't thinking about each part you might remember syllables when you were in the past you may even had a teacher like have you put your hand under your chin to like feel the syllables we don't do that so much anymore but that's a way to think about it like you're not thinking
090I just said the word thinking I'm not I'm not processing all of the sounds of that word as I'm going through it because I'm now a fluent speaker and reader as we're working with young young children particularly Kinder first and second grades who are building these skills they're actually having to put a lot of effort into thinking and how am I putting those together what does a th sound even sound like what does a ck sound sound like how do we think about these Blends or graphemes isn't a fancy word that we'll use to to describe those there's actually very mechanical things that teachers are getting data on from this assessment to say you've got CK but you don't have TH or you don't have sh or you don't have the G sound and how
091it can show up differently in different words and so as they're pulling small groups uh I was in a classroom a few weeks ago and actually saw a teacher doing this really well and we were all very excited um but she was working with a small groups on blend so that was two or three letters together to make one sound and playing a little game with students but this data helps her know which students should be in that group and and which sound she needs to be working on with them to progress to the next part thank you Dr little I just wanted um both the board parents um public to know that we are also as we are growing and developing our Educators um to continue to to grow in the science of teaching
092reading that we are also arming them with the data that they need in order to provide immediate um intervention support differentiation as students need it because not only do the map reports come for your class but they also come individual and so you can look at individual students or you can look at your class and say what are the trends in my class you know so that I as I think about small groups but then you also get it for individual children um so we want everyone to know that you know we are working on our teachers not working with them on reading the reports and knowing the reports but then Translating that into shifts and instructional practices so that we're meeting the needs of individual kids and groups of kids thank you for that
093Dr senson Dr little what is the feedback you're receiving from the instructors considering that we're improving yeah I think what's been amazing the entire time as we think about HQ IM implementation overall but even the literacy changes that we made in the spring is teachers are working to do that work again this classroom that I just referenced um part of the curricular material she was using in that small group was for this adjustment that we made so four months ago she wouldn't have been using those materials most likely but now she was and those students were making really great progress uh as a result so I I think we have folks who understand to the superintendent's earlier part like if we're not getting it right now yeah that matters for my colleagues down the hall
094but it really matters for this student and the rest of their life so I think got like General commitment to that approach and willingness to engage in the learning and so people who coming through the Arby's training the folks who come later through the letters training it's going to be a bit of a life-changing experience for them because they're now going to have tools in their toolbox they're going to have language to describe their work that they've never had before yeah well that was a really good report members of the board do you have any questions for Dr little I just like to say thank you the map assessment is very clearly broken down for the parents where it tells us what grade level our student our child's at and but what resources are there
095for parents we're talking about resources for teachers but what about for parents yes one of the biggest things with map is a direct family report so when your child takes the map assessment what we've asked and encouraged um even a few weeks ago when students did their sort of spring open house uh the the uh learning SU is to make sure that you're providing those family reports and talking to families about that we know that we've got room to grow there right that's not happening consistently sort of family by Family School by school and that's a practice we need to get better at but that helps you as a parent really see where your child is right now compared to where they should be based on grade level norms and then the other thing uh
096we launched this year and and the team back there really does all of this work is those parent curriculum communicators so every six weeks we're putting out here's what's happening in fourth grade science over the next 6 weeks here are some tips and suggestions that you can use at home to help your student with those skills so knowing where your child is on the family report using those curricular resources together um is meant to be a resource for for families appreciate board member Cho that was a great question good question anyone else Dr little thank you for your presentation thank you I want credit from Anette that I used the word thinking which has multiple Blends in there t h n g n k like all kinds of stuff thank you thank you very much
097and I hope Miss loano gets better yes thank you uh our next presenter is and our next agenda item is number8 our tea conservators report Dr good evening everybody I won't take much of your time this evening um just to let you know to update you I have turned in the very first report um of this whole process I'll be turning in monthly reports but at the beginning we wait 3 months just to get a good feel for what's happening and so that should be approved and ready for me to share with you at the next board meeting so I will do that go through where we are um we will need to still write some go progress measures for each of the exit criteria goals and I met with the superintendent this afternoon and
098we're thinking about um beginning with the governance go progress measures uh those are the most important right because we that's how we uh that's how you govern the school district um and so we'll be proposing not proposing I will be sharing uh the gpc's with you based on the information that I have which is uh the initial report to that from tea regarding um the reason that we have a conservator right there was a special investigat and all of that so a lot of the things that we're going to put in our uh gpcs are going to be directly related to behavior from the previous board because remember the whole goal for all of this is to develop sustainable system so that when all of you are gone and the elected board members take your
099seats that they're continuing to follow everything that you've put in place so this just to let you know when you read all of these I don't want you to think oh my gosh we don't do that we don't have that problem well that was the case before and the information that we have that we write these um goal progress measures from and the exit criteria is based on the initial letter for the appointment and for the assignment so uh we'll bring that forth the next meeting to show you what the report looks like um so we said governance in probably April we will set those in aprils in April and then we will do business and finance in May and special ed in June we could um flip those around if needed but we are
100waiting for the audit to come back and also the specialed audit so we're going to base everything that we're doing based on all the things that are found that are needing Improvement right and then again aligning to that letter so at the next meeting I'll be sharing the new report and then our regular Cadence will be I'll just share at the second board meeting uh share the report with you and then it'll be posted on the district website for anybody to view any questions anyone Dr but I have a question so yes sir those findings that you're going that that obviously are going to surface uh are those going to be discussed in an open meeting uh the findings are the letters are posted on the website I believe if you look on the website
101they have the tea investigative report that is the one that that we're looking at right and then the audit findings Dr soron is going to share those publicly so that everybody knows what the the audits um what the results of the audits were I think he wanted Clarity on your report yeah your report Miss but what was that your monthly reports that you submit to the a yeah those are those are public those are public documents so I will share those with the public and they'll be posted on okay good thank you for that yeah we're excited about that thank you members of the board do you have any questions for Dr P really appreciate the fact that you're here and I'm glad you're traveling safe and and you're and you're taking advantage of the
102restaurants here in the local community so thank you for that members do we have any questions for danana no no thank you Dr bar okay our next agenda item is a consent agenda item do I have a motion I move to approve the consent agenda do I have a second a second motion all in favor signified by saying I I all oppose motion carries all right the next agenda item are closed session will be held for the purposes authorized by the Texas open meetings act Texas government code sections 5510 Z 00 okay I'm getting these wrong government code sections 551.071 551.074 551.071 55112 n 551.071 0821 concerning any and all purposes permitted by the ACT including but not limited to the sections and purposes listed below I am not calling this we are now going
103into Clos session it is 7:32 p.m. ladies and gentlemen we're back from Clos session and it is 9:45 p.m. agenda item number 12 will be uh action item 12.1 approval of the La Hoya ISD school board members to elect the board of directors of regional Educational Service Center do I have a motion I move to approve 12.1 do I have a second I second all favor signified by saying I I all oppose motion carries next item is 12.2 approval of CP 2025-the for Palm viw High School through TurnKey Solutions do I have a motion I move to approve 12.2 do I have a second a second motion all in favor signified by saying I I all oppos motion carries next item on the agenda is 12.3 approval of CSP 25-45 the fire alarm system replacement
104for Cesar Chavez Middle School through turn key Solutions do I have a motion I move to approve do I have a second I second the motion all in favor signified by saying I I all oppose motion carries next item on the agenda is 12.4 approval of CE local policy update annual operating budget fund balance do I have a motion I move to approve item 12.4 do I have a second I second the motion all in favor signified by saying I I all oppose motion carries the following item is item 12.5 consideration and approval of policy dbd local employment requirements and restrictions do I have a motion I move to approve 12.5 do I have a second I second the motion all in favor signified by saying I I all oppose motion carries the next item
105on the agenda is item 12.6 consider and take possible action to propose the non-renewal of term contract of Administrators and teachers at Thelma R Selena stem Early College High School Jimmy Carter Early College High School Academy of health and science professions and stem and La Hoya La Hoya Early College High School in accordance with the early college program change reduction in force do I have a motion I move to propose the non-renewal of the term contracts of Administrators and teachers at thma AR Selenas stem Early College High School Jimmy Carter early College High School Academy of health and science professions and stem and La Hoya Early College High School has presented in close session in accordance with the early college program reduction en force and to authorize the superintendent or her designate to provide notice
106of the same I further move to authorize the superintendent to retain one or more licensed attorneys to serve as a board designes on any hearings requested on the proposed non-renew authorized under this motion do I have a second I second the motion all favor signify by saying I I I all oppose motion carries next item on the agenda is 12o set 12.7 consider action regarding level three grievance filed by edric Alvarez for the record trusty Gomez is um abstaining from this board decision do I have a motion I move that the board uphold the level two decision of the administration and deny the grievance do I have a second I second the motion all favor signified by saying I I all oppose motion carries ladies and gentlemen the next item on the agenda is our
107calendar March 13 2025 Elementary Music Festival centennial celebration uh March 17 through the 21st is uh spring break there'll be no school March 26 2025 centennial celebration display of 3D School models and Nelly Scher central office administration building uh March 26 2025 special called board meeting student recognition that evening and it'll be held here in this building if I'm not mistaken before we adjourn uh Dr senson or any board members do you have any comments Dr Sorenson um I will start first and foremost by really encouraging everyone to come out on Thursday that's tomorrow um for the Elementary Music Festival it's going to be delightful very excited to see all of our elementary kiddos um for our Elementary music w but most of all I am really wishing our entire District a restful spring break
108everybody works so hard and just unplug disconnect restore rejuvenate relax do all the RS and have fun or just chill out you all deserve it everybody has worked so hard and enjoy yourself but be safe members of the board do you have anything to add I'd just like to take this opportunity for those that are here present and those viewing uh for everyone to have a safe uh spring break we're very grateful for everything that you all do the presentations that were done tonight thank you uh to you Blanca and your team we can't say it enough I mean every day we look at what's going on uh on YouTube or what you're putting out social media and you're truly a great reflection of what's going on in this great Campus of ours to our
109new staff thank you for attending I see you're still with us the guy with the be I I pick on him because he's so quiet like he's just there like I just for now he's new now yeah yeah it's certainly good to see all of you and you all did a great job I mean I know we don't we don't tell you enough but we're very grateful for everyone that's here um and and for all you do for our kids um you know and and again I think we're extremely happy uh Dr senson with all the presentations that you've made you know since you've been here you you're you're you were true a word where you wanted to meet with folks and you're certainly transparent in the work that you do so with that we're
110very grateful to have you and to my board members it's so good to see us all wearing gray as a team we're very United that we're all here today so I'm very grateful to that and to be a part of this family with that being said is there a motion to adjourn I move to adjourn this meeting at 9:52 p.m. do I have a second I second the motion meeting is adjourned all in favor signify by saying I I should all oppos we needs a jour