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THE TIME IS 4 16 P.M. WE HAVE A QUORUM AND THE MEETING HAS BEEN DULY POSTED. GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE BOARD BRIEFING OF THE DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES. WE WILL FORGO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND SALUTE TO THE TEXAS FLAG AS WE JUST DID BOTH MOMENTS AGO. THE FOLLOWING TRUSTEES ARE PHYSICALLY PRESENT OR PARTICIPATING SIMULTANEOUSLY BY VIDEO CONFERENCE. A QUORUM OF THE BOARD IS PHYSICALLY PRESENT AT THIS LOCATION.
TRUSTEE FOR DISTRICT 2 SARAH WEINBERG, DISTRICT 3 DAN MICHKE, DISTRICT 4 PRISMA GARCIA, DISTRICT 5 BYRON SANDERS, DISTRICT 6 JOYCE FOREMAN WAS HERE IN HIS IN THE BUILDING, DISTRICT 7 BEN MACKEY, DISTRICT 9 ED TURNER, DR. STEPHANIE ELIZALDE, OUR SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, JOINS US AND I'M JOE CARRERO, TRUSTEE FOR DISTRICT 8 AND BOARD PRESIDENT.
THIS MEETING WILL BE AVAILABLE SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH AT DALLASIST.ORG.
IN ORDER FOR THE BOARD TO HOLD THIS MEETING IN AN EFFECTIVE MANNER I WANT TO LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THIS MEETING WILL BE CONDUCTED IN AN ORDERLY FASHION AND ASK THE PUBLIC TO ABIDE BY THE RULES OUTLINED IN BOARD POLICY B.E.D. LOCAL PERTAINING TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE FOR A PERSON WITH THE INTENT TO PREVENT OR DISRUPT A LAWFUL MEETING TO SUBSTANTIALLY OBSTRUCT OR INTERFERE WITH THE ORDINARY CONDUCT OF A MEETING BY PHYSICAL ACTION OR VERBAL UTTERANCE AND THEREBY CURTAIL THE EXERCISE OF OTHERS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
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IF THEY ARE UNSURE OF THE LEGAL EFFECT OF THEIR REMARKS, THEY MAY WANT TO SEEK LEGAL ADVICE PRIOR TO THE UTTERANCE. ANY PERSON WHO BECOMES BOISTEROUS, DISRUPTIVE, OR FAILS TO ABIDE BY THE RULES OF THIS ASSEMBLY WHILE ADDRESSING THE BOARD OR WHILE ATTENDING THIS MEETING SHALL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.
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TO LEAVE WHEN REQUESTED TO DO SO MAY RESULT IN THE PERSON BEING ESCORTED FROM THE MEETING AND SUBJECT TO ARREST. TRUSTEES WILL NOW TURN TO AGENDA ITEM 3.PUBLIC FORUM. OUR AGENDA NOW CALLS FOR THE PUBLIC FORUM SEGMENT OF OUR MEETING. WE WILL HAVE SPEAKERS TO NON-AGENDA ITEMS. I AM ASKING SPEAKERS TO BE MINDFUL
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OF CHILDREN THAT ARE IN ATTENDANCE. CHILDREN AND UNWILLING ADULT RECIPIENT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN ATTENDANCE AT THIS MEETING SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO LEWD, FILTHY, VULGAR, OBSCENE, OR EXPLICIT LANGUAGE FROM SPEAKERS. SPEAKERS THAT INSIST ON EXPOSING THE PUBLIC TO THIS LANGUAGE SHALL BE ASKED TO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY.FURTHER, PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF YOUR FELLOW SPEAKERS AND REFRAIN FROM USING THE INDIVIDUAL'S NAME, NAME OF THE PERSON, OR NAME OF THE PERSON.
IN ORDER TO INCLUDE STUDENTS' NAMES AND TO ADDRESS THE BOARD AND NOT INDIVIDUAL TRUSTEES, THE DISTRICT HAS ADOPTED PROCEDURES TO HEAR AND ADDRESS COMPLAINTS ABOUT SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS, AND IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT SPEAKERS AVAIL THEMSELVES OF THE GRIEVANCE POLICY TO SEEK RELIEF VIA THOSE PROCEDURES.
AUDIENCE, I AM ASKING NOT TO ENGAGE IN COMMENT THAT WILL DISRUPT THE MEETING. THE RULES OF ORDER IN THE QUORUM WILL BE ENFORCED DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TO ENSURE EFFICIENT MEETINGS ON LAWFUL OR DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT, INCLUDING INTERRUPTING SCHEDULED SPEAKERS, SPEAKING AT A TURN, CROSSING OUT THROAT THOUGHT BARRIERS, OR INTERFERING WITH THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
EACH PARTICIPANT IS LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT AND CONSEQUENCES OF HIS OR HER OWN STATEMENTS.
SPEAKERS, PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT SUBSTITUTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED. IF YOU SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, YOU CANNOT SPEAK ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE.
SPEAKERS WHO FAIL TO ADHERE TO THIS RULE WILL BE INTERRUPTED AND INFORMED THAT YOUR COMMENTS ARE OUT OF ORDER. MS. FLORES, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE NAMES OF THE SPEAKERS? GOOD AFTERNOON. I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND THE SPEAKERS THAT YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
WILL SPEAKERS ROBERT CECCARELLI AND MIKE HOOK PLEASE COME TO THE MICROPHONE? GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY. I GAVE YOU THESE SHEETS HERE.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE BOTTOM. IT SAYS 24-25, THE RANKINGS OF THE SCHOOLS.
AT THE BOTTOM THERE, WHEN YOU START THE FIRST COLUMN, WHERE IT SAYS WOODROW WILSON, EVERYBODY FOLLOWING THAT PLEASE? WOODROW WILSON, THIS IS THE OVERALL GRADES OF THE SCORES BY CHILDREN AT RISK.
WOODROW WILSON HAD A C, AND NOW ABOUT FIVE OR SIX DOWN. YOU SEE ALL THOSE D'S AND F'S? EVERYBODY SEE IT? SAY YES OR NO, PLEASE. WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT EVEN PAYING ATTENTION, YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE HERE.
OKAY? SO HE HAD SIX F'S, THIS IS 24, AND HE HAD ABOUT 14 D'S FOR COLLEGE OVERALL SCORE FOR THE HIGH SCHOOLS. GO TO THE FOURTH COLUMN, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. GO ACROSS, WOODROW WILSON, THE FOURTH COLUMN, C, AND GO ALL THE WAY DOWN NEAR THE MIDDLE. YOU SEE ALL THE D'S AND F'S, STARTING WITH MELINA, THE FOURTH COLUMN.
TAKE A LOOK, PLEASE, AND GIVE ME MY ATTENTION, PLEASE. YOU SEE ALL THOSE F'S.
SEVENTH COLUMN. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN. SEVENTH COLUMN, GO DOWN THE MIDDLE, F, AND ALL THOSE D'S, AND LOOK AT ALL THOSE F'S AT THE BOTTOM. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN. TEN F'S. COLLEGE READINESS.
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PARENTS LOOK AT COLLEGE READINESS. TEA DOES NOT SCORE COLLEGE READINESS AT ALL.NOW, ALSO, WITH THE TEA, THEY DO 70% PROGRESS OR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IS NOT EVEN INCLUDED. IT NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED. THAT'S WHAT THE PARENTS LOOK FOR. THAT'S HOW SOUTH OAK CLIFF DID SO WELL, BECAUSE OF THEIR PROGRESS.
THEY GOT A C IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE FINAL GRADE, AND THEY DID NOT DO IT.
I DON'T THINK NOBODY KNOWS HOW THEY SCORE THE HIGH SCHOOLS BY TEA, BUT I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, AND THE 30% IS THE EDUCATION GAP. I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS.
DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE BLACKS DID 10% BETTER ON THE STAAR TEST, AND THE WHITES DID 20%? DOES THAT MEAN THE BLACKS DID MINUS 10%? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
OKAY? MAYBE YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO ME, MS. ALZADRE, WHAT THAT MEANS.
ALL I'M SAYING TO YOU IS THAT THEY HAD THE RANKINGS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCHOOLS. THERE WERE FOUR OF THEM LAST YEAR GOT THE BOTTOM TEN. KIMBALL IS AT THE BOTTOM, SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR, MS. FOREMAN. KIMBALL AND WILMA HUTCHINS. WILMA HUTCHINS ALSO. OKAY? BUT THIS IS A GOOD GUIDE FOR THE PARENTS TO RECEIVE TO SEE HOW THEY'RE DOING. ALL RIGHT? NOW, YOU CAN TELL ME WHAT COLLEGE READINESS IS, BUT IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
WITHOUT THAT, THEY'RE ONLY GOING TO HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA.
OKAY? ALSO, THEY ALSO INCLUDE MILITARY, RIGHT, FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
THANK YOU, MR. CHECKER. YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. MIKE HOOK, WILL YOU PLEASE COME TO THE MICROPHONE? MIKE HOOK, NOT PRESENT. MR. PRESIDENT, THIS CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC FORUM.
THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. WE'LL NOW
[5. CLOSED SESSION - The Board will retire to closed session pursuant to Texas Government Code Section 551 concerning the following sections]
TURN TO AGENDA ITEM FIVE, CLOSED SESSION. THE BOARD WILL RETIRE TO CLOSED SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551 CONCERNING THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS. THE BOARD WILL RETIRE TO CLOSED SESSION. THE PUBLIC AND STAFF ARE WELCOME TO STAY IN THE ROOM OR CONNECTED ONLINE WHILE THE BOARD LEAVES THE MEETING TO ATTEND THE CLOSED SESSION.THE PUBLIC PORTION OF THE MEETING WILL RESUME AFTER CLOSED SESSION.
THE BOARD WILL RETIRE TO CLOSED SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551 CONCERNING ANY AND ALL PURPOSES PERMITTED BY THE ACT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING. SECTION 551.071 FOR PRIVATE CONSULTATION WITH THE ATTORNEY ABOUT PENDING OR CONTEMPLATED LITIGATION OR ON A MATTER IN WHICH THE DUTY OF THE ATTORNEY TO THE GOVERNMENTAL BODY UNDER THE TEXAS DISCIPLINARY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS CLEARLY CONFLICTS WITH THIS CHAPTER.
SECTION 551.072 TO DELIBERATE THE PURCHASE, EXCHANGE, LEASE, SALE, OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY.
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AND WE ARE BACK IN OPEN SESSION.
46 P.M. AND WE ARE BACK IN OPEN SESSION THE BOOK THE BOARD TOOK
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NO ACTION IN CLOSED SESSION TRUSTEES WILL NOW TURN TO AGENDA ITEM 6 A BOARD POLICY A LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES ANNUAL REPORT SUPERINTENDENT. THANK YOU PRESIDENT CARRY ON MEMBERS OF THE BOARD I'M GONNA HAVE CHIEF HEWITT POWELL ALONG WITH DEPUTY CHIEF ALVARENGA AND DR. CHERYL NEVELS COME BRING US THIS FOR A REMINDER THIS PRESENTATION USUALLY WAS DONE BY DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT BRIAN LUSK WHO IS NOW SUPERINTENDENT IN EL PASO ISD SO WE NOW MOVE THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES CHIEF HEWITT POWELL HAS TAKEN SOME OF THIS ON AND AS YOU ALL KNOW SOME OF THE OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES LIKE ATHLETICS WENT TO OUR CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER NOW, WE'RE CHIEF ACADEMIC ATHLETIC OFFICER ANGIE GAYLORD, SO YOU'VE SEEN THE PRESENTATION THAT DISCUSSION THAT WE'LL HAVE THIS THIS AFTERNOON YOU'VE SEEN ALL OF THESE DATA BEFORE BUT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THEM COLLECTIVELY AND SO THIS IS I THINK MAYBE CONNECTED TO YESTERDAY'S DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION WHERE ARE YOU MONITORING AS A BOARD POLICIES? THAT ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO STUDENT OUTCOMES OR YOUR GOALS AND I WOULD SAY THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THIS IS A LOCAL POLICY NONETHELESS RELATED COMPLETELY RELATED TO STUDENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SO WITH THAT I AM GOING TO AND I WOULD LIKE TO I KNOW WE HEAR FROM SOME SPEAKERS I'M NOT SURE SPEAKERS UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF BOARD MEETINGS AS WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO INTERACT. IT'S JUST A PUBLIC FORUM HOWEVER, OUR TEAM HAS ACTUALLY WE ARE INTERESTED IN SOMETIMES WHERE DATA COME FROM THAT ARE PRESENTED TO THIS BOARD CHILDREN AT RISK DEFINES COLLEGE READINESS IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY THAN THE[00:10:01]
TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY DOES AND SO FOR THIS UPCOMING BOARD UPDATE, I'LL BE SHARING WITH YOU A SIDE-BY-SIDE THAT CHIEF HEWITT POWELL'S TEAM ALONG WITH I THINK I SEE MR. CORTEZ IN HERE OVER THERE HAS HELPED US FROM ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN HIS TEAM SO THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND AND ACTUALLY TE8 DOES EVALUATE COLLEGE CAREER MILITARY READINESS AND COLLEGE READINESS. THEY JUST DO IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY AND SO WE ARE COMPARING APPLES TO LETTUCE BECAUSE IT'S NOT EVEN A FRUIT. IT'S VERY DIFFERENT. SO THIS IS NOT APPLES TO ORANGES AND WE DO WANT TO SHARE THAT BECAUSE WE ARE ALWAYS INTERESTED AND DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR INFORMATION TO OUR PUBLIC IS TRANSPARENT AND AND IS ACCURATE BUT IT IS THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY WHO EVALUATES SCHOOL DISTRICTS SO WITH THAT WE'LL GET TO A LOCAL E A LOCAL. EXCUSE ME E A LOCAL. I'LL TURN THAT OVER TO CHIEF YOU A PILE THANK YOU.GOOD AFTERNOON PRESIDENT CARRY ON SUPERINTENDENT AND TRUSTEES BEFORE I BEGIN I'M GOING TO SHARE THIS STORY WANT TO STAY IN LINE WITH HOW DR.
LESK I'LL STAY TRUE TO HIS HONOR AND SHARE A STORY ABOUT A STUDENT AND I WANTED TO SHARE THE STORY OF NAYA ROSETTA SHE'S A STUDENT AT THE TOWNVIEW SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SHE JUST RECENTLY COMPLETED AN INTERNSHIP THIS PAST SUMMER AND ALSO HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE HER EXPERIENCE WITH STUDENTS AT OUR RECENT CAREER EXPO FAIR AND SHE STARTED THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SHE DID AN INTERNSHIP WITH DALLAS ISD COUNSELING SERVICES AND NOW THIS THIS FALL SHE WILL BECOME A FRESHMAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORK AT WORD TO STUDY PRE OPTOMETRY AND SO YOU'RE THINKING HOW DOES SHE GET THERE? AND I THINK HER STORY REALLY REFLECTS OUR GOAL TO ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENTS GRAD GRADUATE WITH REAL PATHWAYS AND THAT EVERY STUDENT ALSO HAVE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SORT OF CHOOSE THEIR OWN PATH BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES AND THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE GIVE THEM NEXT SLIDE SO I'M GOING TO BEGIN A BRIEF SUMMARY OF OUR EA LOCAL METRICS BEFORE WALKING THROUGH EACH OF THESE WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL SO OVERALL THE BIG TAKEAWAY, I THINK FROM THIS SLIDE IS THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO SEE PROGRESS ACROSS ALL OF OUR FIVE CCM OUR METRICS WITH INCREASES IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATIONS POST-SECONDARY CREDENTIALS FINANCIAL AID IN COLLEGE ENROLLMENT OUR TSI READINESS INCREASED BY EIGHT PERCENTAGE POINTS REPRESENTING 02,910 STUDENTS FOR THE CLASS OF 2024 MEETING THOSE COLLEGE READINESS BENCHMARKS AND THIS REPRESENTS SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY MORE STUDENTS THAN THE PRIOR YEAR FOR INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATIONS WE HAD 42 PERCENT OF THE CLASS EARN AN IBC EVEN UNDER THE INCREASED STATE RIGOR AND OUR LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO CERTS INCREASED BY MORE THAN 200 FROM THE PRIOR YEAR FOR FASTA AND TASFA, WE CAN SEE STRONG COMPLETION RATES AT 94% AND OUR COLLEGE ENROLLMENT INCREASED TO 52% AND THIS MEANS THAT FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN COLLEGE IMMEDIATELY UPON GRADUATION AND SO ALL THIS TOGETHER JUST MEANS THAT MORE OF OUR STUDENTS ARE LEAVING DALLAS ISD WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCESS BOTH COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS PATHWAYS NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE AND SO AGAIN, I'M JUST ECHO WITH DR.
ELIZALDE STATED AND THIS JUST JUST TO SAY WITH PRIOR REPORTS YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE THIS PARTICULAR METRIC KEY METRIC ONE REPRESENTS OUR LAGGED DATA AND THIS WE'RE GOING TO REPORT ON CLASS OF 2024, WHICH IS TIED TO OUR 2025 ACCOUNTABILITY DATA AND BELOW YOU'LL ALSO SEE THE CLASS OF 2025 ESTIMATES AND WE'LL RECEIVE THAT OFFICIAL DATA THIS SUMMER DURING OUR 2026 ACCOUNTABILITY CYCLE SO YOU'LL SEE IT BELOW THREE POINTS OF REFERENCE CLASS OF 2023 2024 AND 2025 FOR THE CLASS OF 2024 WE INCREASED FROM 26 PERCENT TO 34 PERCENT IN EACH PERCENTAGE POINT GAIN AND AGAIN, THIS REPRESENTS 600 MORE STUDENTS MEETING THAT BENCHMARK FOR THE CLASS OF THE 2025 YOU CAN SEE MAYBE A SLIGHT DECREASE OF A PERCENTAGE POINT BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE LOOK AT THIS WITH IMPORTANT CONTEXT IF YOU LOOK WE CAN SEE THAT WE ACTUALLY TESTED 8,477 STUDENTS IN THE CLASS OF 2024, BUT NINE THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY STUDENTS IN THE CLASS OF 2025 WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF 800 STUDENTS AND WHAT WE CAN ALSO SEE IS THAT WE HAD MORE STUDENTS REACH OUR BENCHMARK BY 160 STUDENTS AND SO THIS JUST TELLS US THAT EVEN WHILE WE'RE EXPANDING ACCESS WE ARE ALSO INCREASING MORE STUDENTS WHO MEET THE BENCHMARK I ALSO LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT OUR POSITIVE TREND FOR OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND OUR EMERGING BILINGUAL STUDENTS WHICH REFLECTS A PROGRESS ACROSS ALL OF OUR STUDENT
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GROUPS AND JUST IF YOU WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE FOOTNOTE AND I KNOW IT'S VERY TINY BECAUSE I CAN BARELY SEE IT WITH MY READING GLASSES ON BUT I WILL JUST SAY THIS THAT THIS METRIC IS ACTUALLY ALSO ALIGNED TO OUR GPM 5.1 OUR PRIOR GPM 5.1 AND IT WAS TO ENSURE THAT WE MET THIS BENCHMARK BY 39 PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS BY AUGUST 2025 AND IF WE WERE IN THAT BENCHMARK ACTUALLY INCLUDED THE COLLEGE READINESS COURSEWORK SO IF WE WERE TO TAKE OUR TSI ASSESSMENT DATA AND THAT COLLEGE READINESS COURSEWORK AND PUT IT TOGETHER WE'D ACTUALLY HAVE EXCEEDED THAT BENCHMARK AND MET IT AT 70% OF OUR STUDENTS AND FAR EXCEEDING THAT PARTICULAR TARGET NEXT WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATION SO THIS PARTICULAR KEY METRIC AGAIN IS ALSO LAG DATA AND IT'S ALIGNED TO OUR FORMER GPM 5.2 WITH A TARGET OF 37 AND WE CAN SEE THAT WE'VE LANDED AT 42 FOR EXCEEDING THAT PARTICULAR TARGET AND SO OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS YOU'LL SEE IN THE 2025 ESTIMATE YOU CAN SEE SORT OF DECREASED NUMBERS BUT AGAIN, I'LL ALSO PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT IN THE PAST THREE YEARS WE'VE HAD SOME CHANGES IN HOW THIS PARTICULAR METRIC IS EVALUATED SO IN CLASS OF 2023 STUDENTS CAN EARN THIS THIS PARTICULAR CCMR CREDIT BY TAKING A COURSE WITH THAT IT HAD AN APPROVED CERTIFICATION AND THEY COULD PASS THAT COURSE THEY COULD RECEIVE IT AND THEN IN 2024 THEY HAD TO TAKE THE CERTIFICATION ALONG WITH ONE ADDITIONAL COURSE BY 2025 WE HAVE TO HAVE TWO ALIGNED COURSES PLUS WITHIN THE SAME PROGRAM OF STUDY AND PASS YOUR CERTIFICATION MEANWHILE THE CERTIFICATION COURSES THAT WERE APPROVED BY TEA HAVE SHIFTED EACH YEAR AS WELL AND SO AGAIN, WE CAN SEE CONTINUED PROGRESS IF WE WERE TO APPLY THOSE SAME METRICS ACROSS ALL THE YEARS WE WOULD SEE IMPROVEMENT AS WELL NEXT SLIDE KEY METRIC 3 AND SO FOR KEY METRIC 3 WE CAN SEE THAT WE HAD 741 STUDENTS EARNED CERTIFICATION OUR ORIGINAL GOAL FOR G OR TARGET PARDON ME FOR THIS FOR GPM 5.3 WAS TO EARN 450 CERTIFICATES CERTIFICATES, PARDON ME LEVEL 1 AND LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATES BY 2025 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS CLASS FAR EXCEEDED THAT GOAL AND AN INCREASE ALSO BY 200 FROM THE PRIOR YEAR AND AGAIN JUST TO REMIND YOU ALL AND TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL CONTEXT LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATES REQUIRE 15 TO 20 42 CREDIT HOURS AND LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATES REQUIRE 30 TO 51 COLLEGE CREDIT HOURS AND SO I JUST WANT TO ALSO SAY THAT THIS WORK WITH INCREASED AND WE CAN SEE POSITIVE TRENDS EVEN WHILE THE TEAM WORKED TO ALIGN THESE COURSE SEQUENCES IN THE WAY THAT WAS MEANINGFUL FOR STUDENTS SO THAT WE COULD TRANSFER THESE COLLEGE CREDITS TO FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITIES NEXT SLIDE OKAY, AND AGAIN FOR A KEY METRIC FOR WE CAN SEE THAT THE CLASS OF 2025 ACHIEVED A 94% COMPLETION RATE, WHICH IS EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG AND WE KNOW THAT AGAIN THIS METRIC WAS ALSO IMPACTED BY CHANGES OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS NOTABLY THE CLASS OF 2024 HAD A DELAYED ROLLED OUT IN DECEMBER. I THINK THEY ROLLED IT OUT IN DECEMBER OF 31ST OF THAT PARTICULAR YEAR IN A FULL ROLLOUT IN APRIL AND HOW THEY COULD COMPLETE THEIR TASKS ON FAFSA AND SO THIS PAST CLASS OF 2025 THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ROLL THEIRS OUT IN DECEMBER 1ST BUT WE KNOW THAT THERE WERE CHANGING TIMELINES WE HAD SOME OPT-OUTS DUE TO SOME NATIONAL CHANGES IN IN RULES AND IN SPITE OF THAT, WE KNOW THAT OUR COUNSELORS OUR SCHOOLS HAD REALLY TIGHT SYSTEMS. THERE WAS REALLY PROACTIVE REACHING WE THEY MADE PROACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO REACH OUT TO PARENTS AND TO FAMILIES AND STUDENTS AND SO WITH THAT WE CAN SEE STRONG PROGRESS HERE AND THEN FOR THE FINAL METRIC OF THE PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS WHO GRADUATE WEEK WITH POST AND ENROLLED IN COLLEGE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED IN THEIR SENIOR YEAR. WE CAN SEE THE INCREASED FROM 49 TO 52 PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS AND SO ACROSS THESE STUDENT GROUPS IF YOU WOULD JUST TAKE A LOOK BELOW WE CAN SEE A REALLY POSITIVE ENTRY AND WHAT OUR EMERGENT BILINGUAL STUDENTS INCREASING BY SEVEN PERCENTAGE POINTS FROM 22 TO 24 AND THEN OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS INCREASING BY FIVE PERCENTAGE POINTS FROM THE PRIOR YEAR NOW WE KNOW THERE ARE STILL SOME GAPS AND THERE'S STILL SOME WORK TO DO BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY SEE SOME POSITIVE PROGRESS HERE AND WE KNOW ONE KEY DRIVER OF THE THE IMPROVEMENT IN THIS WORK IS THE SUMMER MAIL PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN A KEY LEVER FOR FOR THE TEAM AND FOR OUR STUDENTS IN DALLAS ISD[00:20:02]
AND WE JUST THINK THIS OVERALL IT REFLECTS A MORE AN INTENTIONAL SYSTEM WITH HELPING TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR NEXT SLIDE AND SO WHILE WE'RE SEEING PROGRESS AGAIN I'LL JUST RESTATE THAT WE KNOW THERE'S MORE WORK TO DO AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE NEXT STEPS THAT WE'LL SEE IN THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR FIRST. WE'LL SEE IN AN AREA OF FOCUS. WE'RE AWAITING SOME TASK THE GUIDANCE REGARDING A LOCAL WHICH WILL REQUIRE US TO INCLUDE MILITARY READINESS WE ARE ALSO GOING TO BRING FORWARD SOME ADJUSTMENTS MAYBE TO OUR LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO CERTIFICATE CERTIFICATES METRIC AND IN ADDITION TO THAT THERE WILL BE SOME REFINEMENTS AND HOW THIS PARTICULAR POLICY IS REPORTED TO TO THE BOARD AND SECONDLY, WE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK ON OUR ADJUSTMENTS TO OUR CURRICULUM FOR TSI WE HAVE REALLY IMPLEMENTED SOME ADAPTIVE PLATFORMS TO HELP OUR STUDENTS AND EMBEDDED CURRICULUM DAILY EMBEDDED CURRICULUM SUPPORT AND THEN FINALLY, WE'LL CONTINUE OUR QUARTER MONITORING OF OUR CCM OUR METRICS WITH ALONG WITH IPC IBCS AND OUR CLEAR TARGETS AND WITH THAT WE ARE PREPARED TO TAKE QUESTIONS TRUSTEE WEBER GREAT REPORT SO THOROUGH.I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS JUST CLARIFYING QUESTIONS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAVE IS RELATED TO THE ESTIMATED 33% OF KIDS MEETING THE TSI JUST CLARIFYING THAT IS DOES THAT INCLUDE COLLEGE BRIDGE OR NOT INCLUDE COLLEGE BRIDGE? THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE COLLEGE BRIDGE. AWESOME. OKAY, AND THEN IS THAT SO IT'S BOTH LANGUAGE AND MATH, CORRECT? SO DO YOU HAVE THE NUMBERS OF WHAT PERCENTAGE STUDENTS? PAST LANGUAGE PAST MATH YES, WE DO AND FOR 2025 WE HAVE 46% OF DO YOU WANT IT FOR 2025 OR FOR 20 TO 25? OKAY FOR 2025 WE HAVE 40% OF 46% OF STUDENTS WHO PASSED ELAR 42% PASSED MATH AND THEN 33% PASSED BOTH AND IF WE WERE TO SAY HOW MANY PASSED ONLY ELAR IT WAS 12.9 PERCENT PAST ELAR 8.9 PERCENT PAST MATH WITH A TOTAL OF STUDENTS PASSING ONE THE OTHER OR BOTH BEING A 55% THANK YOU IF I COULD ADD JUST A LITTLE COLOR TO THAT SO IF WE TAKE THE 13% THAT PASSED ELAR BUT DIDN'T PASS MATH AND THE 9% THAT PASSED MATH BUT DIDN'T PASS ELAR WE WOULD ABLE TO ACTUALLY ADD 21% 22% MORE OF OUR STUDENTS ACTUALLY MET PART OF THIS REQUIREMENT AND SO THESE ARE THANK YOU FOR ASKING US THAT QUESTION THAT THAT'S THAT OTHER AREA THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON BECAUSE WHEN WE CAN GET THOSE STUDENTS TO MEET THAT OTHER COMPONENT AND HOW FAR ARE THEY IF THEY MET THE MATH NOW I JUST NEED TO WORK ON THE ELAR WE CAN YOU CAN SEE THAT IF I GET WHEN WE GET THAT 22% OVER WE'RE GONNA SEE A REALLY BIG JUMP FROM A 33 YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WE'LL BE ABLE TO ADD 22 AND THEN WE'LL BE AT 55. THOSE ARE REALISTIC THEY'RE AUDACIOUS, BUT THEY'RE REALISTIC. WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP AND WE'RE GETTING THERE EACH YEAR. WE ARE MAKING IMPROVEMENT, BUT THE TEAM IS REALLY FOCUSED ON MAKING SURE WE WE ARE ABLE TO FIND AND IDENTIFY WHAT AREAS IF I DIDN'T DO THE ELAR WHAT IS IT THAT I NEED TO WORK ON? THANK YOU, I THINK Y'ALL FORGOT TO START MY CLOCK OH, THERE IT IS, OKAY. THANK YOU OKAY, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WAS ON TIME OKAY, CAN YOU REALLY QUICKLY ALSO TALK ABOUT THE 2025 BEING AN ESTIMATE JUST THE TIMING I JUST TO REITERATE YEAH, SO 2025 THERE'S WE HAVE THIS ESTIMATE AND IT'LL BE A PART OF THE 2026 ACCOUNTABILITY CYCLE SO WE'LL GET THAT DATA IN IN JULY AND THIS SUMMER SUMMER FINAL DATA THIS SUMMER AND THEN AND THEN WE'LL SEE ESTIMATE DATA FOR 2026, BUT IT WON'T BE FINAL FOR A REALLY LONG TIME FROM NOW, RIGHT? BUT WE'LL GET TO SEE KIND OF WHAT PROGRESS WE'RE MAKING YES, DESPITE THAT, BUT IT WON'T BE OFFICIAL FOR TEA AND FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND FOR OUTCOME DOLLARS OKAY YOU MENTIONED MILITARY READINESS AND THAT YOU ALL ARE GOING TO BE KIND OF REVISING HOW YOU TRACK THAT DO WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO KNOW THAT NUMBER NOW? WE YOU WANT TO YOU WANT TO ANSWER IT'S A LITTLE COMPLICATED I'LL ASK I REMEMBER IT'S HAVING THE CONVERSATION THAT IT'S COMPANY WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET THE CURRENT NUMBER IT HAS NOT BEEN PROVIDED TO US
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IN THE PREVIOUS IN THE PAST WE USED TO GET WHAT ARE CALLED THE DD FOR FORMS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FORM FOR AND THEN WE USED TO GET THAT PHYSICALLY, BUT THEN THEY SWITCHED IT AND SAID WE'RE GOING TO GET IT ELECTRONICALLY AND WE HAVE YET TO GET THAT SO WE'RE JUST THAT'S A PIECE OF DATA THAT WE ARE HOPING TO GET IN IN OUR ANTICIPATING. OKAY, GREAT AND THEN I GUESS WHAT TOOLS I HEAR YOU TALKING ABOUT SORT OF THE MATH IS PAST THAT THE LANGUAGE IS PASSED AND SORT OF WHAT TOOLS ARE YOU USING TO? TO TO HELP STUDENTS UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS I CAN ANSWER THIS, BUT I'D LIKE FOR A DR.NEVELS TO ANSWER BECAUSE IT'S REALLY COMPLEX. GO AHEAD COMPREHENSIVE YEAH, SO FIRST WE DO STILL USE THE TEXAS COLLEGE BRIDGE TOOL IN THE COLLEGE PREP COURSE AND AT THE END OF THAT COURSE WE DO ASSESS ANOTHER ADAPTIVE TOOL IS KAPLAN. AND SO WE'VE USED KAPLAN AT MULTIPLE CAMPUSES AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE TOOLS WHERE THAT'S COUPLED WITH FACE-TO-FACE INTERVENTION FOR STUDENTS WE ALSO HAVE THE EDGENUITY PLATFORM THAT IS USED AND THAT'S BEEN USED FOR MULTIPLE YEARS WE HAVE COLLEGE SPRING. SO THERE ARE SEVERAL TOOLS THAT WE'RE IMPLEMENTING WITH CAMPUSES.
THAT'S HELPFUL WHAT I THINK I DIDN'T PHRASE IT QUITE RIGHT IS HOW DO YOU ALL HOW DO THE CAMPUSES KNOW? WHAT TOOL DO THE CAMPUSES HAVE TO KNOW YOU KNOW THAT THAT TIFFANY AND CHERYL AND SARAH? HERE READY NOT THERE READY, YOU KNOW KIND OF THEIR THEIR MULTIVARIABLE EQUATION THAT MAKES THEM READY FOR THEIR NEXT STEP THANK YOU FOR THE CLARITY SO WE DO HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE DASHBOARD A SALESFORCE DASHBOARD THAT WE USE AND CAMPUSES CAN PULL REAL-TIME DATA FROM STUDENTS AND SO IT TALKS TO ACCUPLACER SO AFTER STUDENTS TEST WE HAVE REAL-TIME DATA CAMPUSES CAN GO IN AND PULL DOWN STUDENT REPORTS AND THEY CAN SEE EXACTLY WHERE STUDENTS ARE AND AND STUDENTS KIND OF HAVE AN IDEA THEMSELVES THEIR OWN AGENCY AS WELL TO KIND OF KNOW THAT THEY'RE MAKING PROGRESS ON THEIR PATH GREAT WAIT ONE LAST QUESTION AND I HAD A QUESTION ON THE JUST CLARIFYING ON THE EMERGENT BILINGUAL AND HISPANIC IN THE VENN DIAGRAM HOW CAN YOU GIVE ME THOSE BUCKETS OF NUMBERS OF WHAT PERCENT OF EMERGENT BILINGUAL OR HISPANIC AND WHAT PERCENT ARE NOT WE WOULD NEED TO PULL THAT DATA OUT FROM YOU BECAUSE THEY CAN BE DOUBLE COUNTED, OKAY, JUST IN THE TRACKERS GREAT. YES, GREAT ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH JUST IMAGE GOOD THANK YOU FOR THIS REPORT, IT'S VERY VERY ENCOURAGING LET ME ALSO THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT THE RAW NUMBERS IN A COUPLE OF SITUATIONS AND THERE WAS ONE THAT THAT THAT IS ACTUALLY NOT A FOCUS OF THIS METRIC BUT THAT REALLY JUMPED OUT AT ME AND THAT WAS THE THE NUMBER OF TOTAL GRADUATES SO WE HAD IN THE CLASS OF 2024 8,477 IN THE CLASS OF 2025 9,280 THAT'S A THAT'S A PRETTY BIG JUMP AND AND I THINK CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER FOR THAT. THANK YOU AND ANOTHER ANOTHER ITEM THAT DID JUMP OUT AT ME WAS IN ON THE PAGE 7 THE PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES ENROLLED IN COLLEGE FOLLOWING THEIR SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL YOU KNOW AND AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE LEADING AWAY ON THAT ON THAT METRIC SO VERY PROUD OF THE PROGRESS PROGRESS THERE I DID FIND IT A LITTLE HARD TO FOLLOW THE CHANGES THE TRYING TO GO APPLES TO APPLES OR APPLES TO LETTUCE APPLES TO GIRAFFES WHATEVER THE ANALOGY IS AND I'M JUST JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DETAIL LIKE IF THE OLD RULES WERE IN PLACE HERE'S THE WHAT-IF BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT DOESN'T REALLY SHOW THAT WE'VE MADE PROGRESS FOR ANYBODY WHO'S JUST PICKING THIS UP. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE WE WE WENT BACKWARDS OR YOU CAN DO IT THE WHAT-IF THE OTHER WAY, YOU KNOW WHAT IF THE NEW RULES THAT APPLIED IN THE PRIOR YEAR, BUT BUT I BUT I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WE'RE HOW WE'RE MOVING AND AND IN THIS CASE, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE MOVING BACKWARDS WHEN WE'RE ACTUALLY MOVING FORWARD AND I THAT'S THE KIND OF FOR ME THE WORST OF ALL WORLDS THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE MOVING BACKWARDS WITHOUT WITHOUT THE APPENDIX FOR THAT SO I DO CAN APPLAUD
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THE PROGRESS GOING FORWARD BUT I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE MORE CLEAR THAT WE ARE GOING FORWARD THAT WHEN WE CHANGE THE RULES THAT THEN GIVES THE GIVES OF GIVES A FALSE IMPRESSION I DO I DO WANT TO RESPOND THOUGH. I MEAN THEY'RE SMILING BECAUSE WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION AND WE AND ACTUALLY ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT CORTEZ ATTEMPTED TO HAVE HIS TEAM DO THE ANALYTICS BECAUSE IT IS A MULTI-LEVEL CHANGE IT AFFECTS EVERY SINGLE STUDENT IN DIFFERENT WAYS. SO WE ACTUALLY COULDN'T DO A APPLY THE RULES ACROSS THE BOARD. IT WAS WAY MORE COMPLEX THAN WHAT WE THOUGHT SO WE'LL GET BACK TOGETHER THOUGH TO FIND ANOTHER WAY BECAUSE THAT'S THAT'S YOU'RE HAVING THE CONVERSATION THEY'RE LOOKING AT ME BECAUSE WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION ONLY YOU'RE TALKING. I WAS TALKING TO THEM THAT DAY IT'S THE SAME THING BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY TO YOUR POINT TRUSTEE MITCH GAVE THAT 59, RIGHT? THAT SHOWS EVEN ON THIS KEY METRIC 2 AND THEN IT'S LIKE OUR ACTUAL FOR THE 2425 IS A 42. IT'S LIKE WAIT, WE WENT MINUS 17. NO, WE DIDN'T GO MINUS 17 THERE WERE A WHOLE BUNCH OF IBCS THAT COUNTED TOWARDS THAT 59 THAT DID NOT COUNT WHEN WE ENDED UP AT THE 42, SO WE'LL TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET YOU A MORE QUANTIFIABLE NUMBER LET ME AMEND MY REQUEST WHERE IT IS REASONABLY EASY TO DO SO CAN YOU HIGHLIGHT IT IN A IN A MORE VISIBLE WAY? EVEN IF THE FOOTNOTE IS IS BIGGER BECAUSE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE WAY I THE WAY I I LOOKED AT IT AT FIRST IT WAS LIKE HOW DID WE FALL BACKWARDS? AND EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS THIS REALLY SMALL PRINT FOOTNOTE DOWN THERE I COULDN'T QUITE MAKE MAKE SENSE OF IT. AND I I JUST THINK I JUST WOULD HOPE WE CAN CLARIFY THAT A BIT THEN ON THE TEXAS SUCCESS INITIATIVE THIS THIS IS AN AREA WHERE FUNDING IS ATTACHED TO TO EACH TO EACH STUDENT WHO ACHIEVES A TSI RATING. IS THAT CORRECT? AND UM, AND I KNOW IT VARIES BY BY STUDENTS OR DOES IT VARY BY DISTRICT IF IT'S AN ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED THE DOLLARS VARY SO IF WE HAVE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED KIDS THAT ATTAIN THE SAME THE METRIC IS THE SAME BUT THE DOLLARS THAT ARE ATTACHED ARE BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC FILTERS AND JUST IT'S BALLPARK. WHAT ARE THOSE NUMBERS? DOES ANYBODY HAVEN'T YOU KNOW, IS IT LIKE A THOUSAND OR FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS? WE HAVE SO YEAH, YOU CAN ANSWER SO FOR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, IT'S FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND FOR NON ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED IS THREE THOUSAND AND THEN FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS.IT'S AN ADDITIONAL FOUR THOUSAND OKAY, SO NOT NOT INSIGNIFICANT SO AND AND YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR TSI IF YOU EARN AN ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE CORRECT. OKAY. SO I TOLD YOU THIS QUESTION WAS COMING SO WE DID SEE AND I WANT TO THANK COMMUNICATIONS FOR HIGHLIGHTING CONRAD HIGH SCHOOL WE'RE A HUNDRED AND THREE GRADUATING STUDENTS EARNED AN ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE.
THAT WAS OVER 40% OF THE CLASS I KNOW I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY HAS HEARD THAT FOUR TIMES SO BUT BUT WHAT I WAS REALLY REALLY GETTING AT ON THAT IS THAT THAT'S THAT SCHOOL IS OUTPERFORMING EVERY OTHER SCHOOL AND THERE ARE A COUPLE THAT ARE KIND OF CLOSE MOLINA AND I THINK WT WHITE AND AND THEN THERE ARE A LOT THAT ARE NOT REALLY VERY CLOSE AND SO, YOU KNOW, MY MY QUESTION WHEN I SEE THAT IS OKAY THERE ARE SOME THERE'S GOT TO BE SOME REASON WHY THAT THAT IS AND IT COULD BE THE KIND OF PROGRAM THAT IS IS THERE THAT IT'S ONE THAT KEEPS KIDS INTERESTED AND THEY WANT TO STAY THE COURSE OR IT COULD BE THINGS THAT THE SCHOOLS ARE DOING LIKE, YOU KNOW EXTRA COUNSELORS OR MORE CHECK-INS OR BETTER PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE BUT I WOULD JUST THINK THAT WHEN YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, SUCH A PHENOMENAL RESULT. I MEAN YOU THINK ABOUT DALLAS ISD STUDENTS AND PARTICULARLY IN THAT FEEDER PATTERN WITH TWO-THIRDS OF THE KIDS NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH AND OVER 90% OF THEM BEING ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED. THAT IS AN AMAZING STORY AND YOU KNOW, WE WE SHOULD
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LIKE WE ALWAYS TRY TO DO I KNOW THIS WE TRY TO FIND BEST PRACTICES WHEREVER THEY ARE BUT HERE'S A PLACE WHERE WE'VE GOT SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY GOING SO WELL, AND YOU KNOW, SO MY QUESTION IS WHY ISN'T EVERYBODY UP THERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT? WHAT THE SECRET SAUCE IS AND APPLY IT IN OTHER SCHOOLS? SO I'M GONNA BEGIN THIS QUESTION, BUT REALLY THE WORK IS DR.NEVILLE'S AND SO I'LL LET HER CONTINUE THE ANSWER WITHOUT TAKING UP TOO MUCH TIME THAT YOU TOLD ME THIS QUESTION WAS COMING AND I WENT AND ASKED THE TEAM AND SHE SAID OH, BUT WE ARE AND SHE SAID NOT ONLY, YOU KNOW CAN WE SEE THE CAMPUSES THAT ARE DOING EXTREMELY WELL BECAUSE WE'VE TAKEN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM CONRAD WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE GAINS AND OTHER CAMPUSES BY 15 AND 20 POINTS BECAUSE OF THE LEARNING AND SO SOME OF THE LEARNING INCLUDES THE WORK THAT THEY DO WITH THEIR COUNSELORS AND WITH THE TEAM ON BEING REALLY PROACTIVE ON HOW THEY USE THEIR COLLABORATIVE. SO IT'S A REALLY TRUE A PLC IT'S COLLABORATIVE PLC AROUND THE THE IN THE DATA THAT THEY RECEIVE FOR STUDENTS SO WHEN SHE'LL TALK ABOUT INTERVENTIONS IN A QUICK SECOND, THEY ARE REALLY INTENTIONAL ABOUT THE INTERVENTIONS AND HOW THEY USE THAT DATA AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING YOU JUST HEARD. DR. NOVEL SPEAK TO THAT. THEY HAVE APPLIED NOW ACROSS THE SYSTEM IN ADDITION JUST QUICKLY THAT YOU KNOW SHE SAID THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY THAT YOU CAN SEE A CAMPUS IS THAT ARE VERY SUCCESSFUL AND THAT IS THAT P TECH IS A PART OF THE ENTIRE CULTURE SO WHETHER YOU'RE THE COACH THE CUSTODIAN WHOEVER IT IS A PART OF THE CULTURE OF THE ENTIRE CAMPUS AND IT'S NOT SEEN AS SORT OF A PROGRAM ON THE CAMPUS AND SO SOME OF THE LEARNING THAT THEY'VE GOTTEN FROM CONRAD WHETHER IT'S CULTURE WHETHER IT'S HOW THEY USE THEIR COLLABORATIVE TIME OR HOW THEY RESPOND TO INTERVENTIONS ARE THINGS THAT THEY'RE APPLYING ACROSS THE SYSTEM FOR OTHER CAMPUSES AS WELL AND YOU'LL SEE THAT IN OUR IN THE UPDATES THAT THEY'RE DOING ESPECIALLY THIS SCHOOL YEAR OKAY THANK YOU. I IT'S JUST A PHENOMENAL STORY AND I THINK EVEN WITH THE ATTENTION THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVING IT LATELY IT'S JUST SO DALLAS ISD FOR FOR THE KIDS WITH THE MOST CHALLENGES TO HAVE THAT KIND OF SUCCESS AND IT'S A IT'S A GREAT STORY, AND I HOPE WE TELL IT MORE AND I HOPE WE FIGURE OUT A WAY TO REPLICATE IT ACROSS THE DISTRICT. THANK YOU ALRIGHT NEXT I HAVE A TRUSTEE FOR ME THANK YOU JUST JUST A FEW QUESTIONS, AND I WANT TO START WITH MILITARY READINESS HOW DO WE HAVE? THE UNITS ON ALL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES AND MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES OR IS IT JUST ON SPECIFIC HIGH SCHOOL AND DO YOU MEAN THE ROTC CLASSES THE JUST YES, SO WE JUST HEARD FROM CHIEF GAYLORD, IT'S ALL HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES. I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S ACROSS ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES SO COULD COULD I ASK FOR THE CAMPUSES AND THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT ARE ENROLLED IN EACH ONE OF THOSE? BECAUSE I FOR ME, I THINK THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN MILITARY READINESS IS A PART OF WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE TRYING TO DO SO I'D LIKE TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS PLEASE AND ON THE SECOND SO ON THE CERTIFICATIONS WE HAD I'M TRYING TO SEE HOW MANY STUDENTS WE HAD WITH CERTIFICATIONS ONE SECOND 50S PAGES HERE SO I'M ON PAGE FIVE THE LEVEL ONE OR LEVEL TWO AND I SEE AN INCREASE IN NUMBER OF GRADUATES. HOW MANY ACTUAL? STUDENTS DO WE HAVE IN THE THE SWIM BLANK ON THE CENTERS THAT WE HAVE THE CAREER INSTITUTES SO WE CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION ARE YOU ARE YOU REFERRING TO WE HAVE FOUR CAREER INSTITUTES WE HAVE THREE THAT ARE OPEN THREE THAT ARE OPEN. AND SO HOW MANY STUDENTS DO WE HAVE CURRENTLY? WE HAVE ABOUT 6,000 ABOUT 6,000 CURRENT STUDENTS BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THE CLASSES 2025 WE SHOW NINE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY. SO DID WE DROP IN NUMBER OR?
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THOSE ARE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GRADUATES NOT A NUMBER OF STUDENTS. OKAY CAREER INSTITUTE SO WE HAVE A AND THIS IS FOR THEIR YEAR. IT'S FOR THE CLASS OF 25. SO IT'S LAST YEAR. YES, MA'AM OKAY, SO WE HAD NINE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY, BUT NOW WE HAVE SIX THOUSAND NO, BUT THOSE ARE TWO THE SIX THOUSAND ARE A SUBSET OF THAT NUMBER SO NOT EVERY STUDENT GOES TO A CAREER INSTITUTE, RIGHT? SO WE HAD LAST YEAR NINE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY GRADUATES AND OF THOSE LAST YEAR WE MAYBE HAD AROUND 800 SENIORS 800 SENIORS OF THIS NINE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY WERE OF THE NINETY TO EIGHTY AROUND 800 WERE AT THE CAREER INSTITUTE AND THEY GOT A CERTIFICATION ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED AND ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY ONE DID YES, MA'AM GOT A CERTIFICATION SO CAN I CAN I JUST MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THAT SO THE LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO CERTIFICATES ARE RELATED TO DUAL DUAL CREDIT AND COULD COULD BE THERE BUT I THINK WHAT WE'RE MOSTLY LOOKING AT OUR CERTIFICATIONS WHICH ARE ON SLIDE FOUR FOR FOR THE CAREER INSTITUTE SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT CAN BE CONFUSING, RIGHT? YEAH, THIS IS THE WAY TEA THIS IS THE WAY THAT THEY WE WERE ONLY PUTTING IT THE WAY TEA THEY HAVE INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATIONS WHICH IS ONE LIST AND THEY GIVE US CREDIT FOR THOSE WHEN STUDENTS ARE SUCCESSFUL THAT'S METRIC TO TRUSTEE FOREMAN ON PAGE FOUR AND THOSE STUDENTS ARE ATTENDING OUR CAREER INSTITUTES SOME OF THOSE THOSE OF THOSE STUDENTS WE HAVE A GOOD PERCENTAGE THAT ARE EARNING IV C'S THROUGH CAREER INSTITUTES THEN ON METRIC THREE WHICH IS ON PAGE FIVE WHICH IS THE ONE YOU STARTED WITH THESE ARE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF CERTIFICATION IT'S A CERTIFICATE AND IT HAS TO BE IN CONJUNCTION WITH DALLAS COLLEGE OR ANOTHER INSTITUTION OF HIGHER ED BUT WE MOSTLY PARTNER WITH DALLAS COLLEGE AND SO IT'S IN CONJUNCTION WITH GETTING ASSOCIATES THESE WERE THE ONES IF YOU RECALL WHEN WE WERE DOING SOME OF THE ASSOCIATES THAT WEREN'T ALL TRANSFERRING TO TO FOUR-YEAR DEGREES SO SOME OF THESE WE DON'T ALWAYS WANT STUDENTS NECESSARILY GETTING THE ASSOCIATES DEGREES THAT ARE CONNECTED TO THESE LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO BECAUSE IF THEY GO TO A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE, THEY LOSE THOSE COLLEGE HOURS DON'T TRANSFER OVER I GET THAT I GET THAT BUT THE REPORTING CAN BE SOMEWHAT CONFUSING WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO BREAK DOWN ACTUALLY WHAT'S HAPPENING PARTICULARLY IN SPECIFIC AREAS.I DO GET YOU TRYING TO REPORT BASED ON WHAT TEA IS ASKING BUT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING IN SPECIFIC AREAS SO THAT CAN BE SOMEWHAT CONFUSING AND IF YOU COULD BREAK IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR ME WE CAN WE CAN SIT WITH YOU SO I CAN I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET YOU WHAT YOU'RE WHAT HOW YOU'RE THINKING SO WE CAN GET IT TO YOU THAT WAY. YES, MA'AM.
YEAH, FIRST OF ALL, CONGRATULATIONS I THINK IF I LOOKED AT IT CORRECTLY ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL RED YELLOW GREEN ARE GREEN, RIGHT? THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS BACK.
ALSO, IT'S SUPER HELPFUL I KNOW THERE'S SO MUCH WORK THAT HAS GONE IN BEHIND THE SCENES ACROSS ALL THE CAMPUSES TO DO THIS AND TO SEE THIS KIND OF SUSTAINED GROWTH OVER TIME. THAT'S NOT EASY TO DO. SO KUDOS I'D LOVE TO KEEP UP ON THE CONVERSATION ON TSI SINCE THAT'S ONE THAT IS ONLY GOING TO BECOME MORE AND MORE IMPORTANT AS THE STATE CHANGES IT'S ACCOUNTABILITY METRICS, ETC AND AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS REALLY STRONG GROWTH TRUSTEE MITCH CAN'T KIND OF HIT ON SOME OF ONE OF MY QUESTIONS HERE DO WE HAVE A RANGE IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT HIGH SCHOOL FEEDER PATTERNS, FOR INSTANCE? WHAT THE HIGHEST LIKE WHAT'S THE RANGE BETWEEN THE HIGHEST PERFORMING FEEDER PATTERN AND THE LOWEST PERFORMING FEEDER PATTERN? WE CAN PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU YEAH, I'D BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE THE HIGHEST PERFORMING FEEDER PATTERN WE CAN PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU.
YEAH, I'D BE REALLY INTERESTED TO SEE THAT. IT SEEMS LIKE DAN HAD ALREADY DONE HIS HOMEWORK AND FOUND THAT OUT BEFOREHAND BECAUSE I'D BE REALLY CURIOUS TO HAVE A DEEPER CONVERSATION AROUND WHAT ARE WE LEARNING FROM THOSE HIGHER PERFORMING FEEDER PATTERNS THAT WE ARE NOW EXTENDING? SO I'M CURIOUS IF WE HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT THOSE BUT ALSO WHAT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ARE WE PLUGGING IN WITH OUR LOWER PERFORMING FEEDER PATTERNS TO HELP MOVE THEM UP BECAUSE WE KNOW? IT'S NOT A DIFFERENCE IN STUDENTS. IT'S A DIFFERENCE IN THE SUPPORT AND THE EXPERIENCE THAT THEY'RE GETTING I WOULD REALLY LOVE FOR THAT CONVERSATION SO I WANT TO SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON EITHER OF THOSE WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED AND ARE EXTENDING EVERYWHERE OR TO WHAT WE'RE DOING TO BRING UP THE ONES THAT ARE STRUGGLING THE MOST SO I CAN JUST SAY
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REALLY QUICKLY LIKE WE HAVE ONE CAMPUS THAT HAS INCREASED BY 26 POINTS PERCENT 26% AND DR.NOBLES YOU JUST WANT TO SPEAK JUST ON TWO THINGS THAT WE KNOW THAT THIS PARTICULAR CAMPUS DID TO MAKE THAT INCREASE THAT WE LEARNED FROM CONRAD. CAN WE CALL THAT CAMPUS OUT? SURE, JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL WAY TO GO 26% GROWTH IS HUGE.
WE'LL TAKE IT AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE CAMPUSES THAT REALLY IS INTENTIONAL ABOUT THE USE OF DATA AND THAT SALESFORCE DASHBOARD AND USING THAT TO ADVISE THE STUDENTS WORKING WITH THOSE STUDENTS AND ALSO THE DASHBOARD THEY'RE USING AND THEN THE ADAPTIVE PLATFORM THAT THEY'RE USING WITH THE STUDENTS AND SO THEY HAVE IMPLEMENTED THOSE STRATEGIES WITH FIDELITY AND SO WE'VE SEEN THAT GROWTH OVER TIME SO IT SOUNDS LIKE IN BOTH OF THOSE AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG ARE LESS ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES THAT LIKE THE KIDS AREN'T NECESSARILY RECEIVING SOME DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE WHAT THEY'RE GETTING IS ACTUALLY MORE INTENTIONAL CONVERSATIONS FROM ADULTS WHO ARE USING THESE DASHBOARDS, CORRECT? I WOULD SAY IT'S THE QUALITY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THOSE RESOURCES, RIGHT BECAUSE THEY'RE AVAILABLE TO ALL THE CAMPUSES BUT I THINK WHEN THE TEAM WAS TALKING TO ME ABOUT MADISON IT WAS THE WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED THAT INTENT LIKE THIS IS WHAT THIS STUDENT NEEDS AND THEN THERE'S A WHOLE PLAN AROUND MAKING SURE EVERY STUDENT. OKAY, SO THEN THIS WORKS BETTER WITH THIS STUDENT SO WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THEM ACCESS TO THIS AND THIS IS WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO DO IT LIKE HELPING THE STUDENT EVEN ENSURE THAT THE TIME WITH THAT ADAPTIVE PARTICULARLY THAT ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE IS PART OF THIS LIKE HOW DO I WORK THIS INTO THE SCHOOL DAY? HOW DO I WORK THIS INTO ENSURING THAT THERE'S TIME AFTER SCHOOL IF THEY'RE STAYING AFTER SCHOOL? SO THERE WAS IT WASN'T A HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE GO SEE IF IT WORKS OR IT WAS IT WAS THE SUPPORT I THINK THOSE THAT'S THE WORD YOU USE IT IS IT IS THE SUPPORT OF THE EXISTING TOOLS. I ALSO THINK TWO THINGS I THINK THEY'VE DONE THE TEAM HAS DONE THIS WORK. WE HAVE TO REMEMBER. THIS IS LAG SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME SOME LEVELING UP TO TRUSTEE MINSKY'S POINT AND TO YOUR POINT I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME LEVELING UP TRUSTEE MACKEY BECAUSE WE HAVE TAKEN SOME OF THESE OBSERVATIONS AND DR.
NOVEL SAYS LED THAT WORK IN WITH EACH OF THESE CAMPUSES. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME OF THAT I ALSO THINK BOTH WHAT TRUSTEE MINSKY AND YOURSELF HAVE POINTED OUT THE THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO BE MORE INTENTIONAL OURSELVES IN HOW WE DO THE RANGE WHAT IS THE HIGHEST PERFORMING AND HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY MOVE EVERYBODY UP? I DON'T KNOW THAT I CERTAINLY HAVE TO SAY I HAVE NOT BEEN THAT INTENTIONAL WITH OUR TEAM AND SAYING THIS IS WHAT I THINK I WANT TO SEE NEXT SO IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US YEAH, SO DIVE. THANK YOU FOR THAT SO DIVING DOWN THAT I THINK I REALLY APPRECIATED THE CONVERSATION AROUND SO IF WE HAVE 33% OF STUDENTS THAT ARE MET IN BOTH IS OUR PREDICTION HERE AND THERE ARE 22% I THINK WE SAID THAT ARE MET IN ONE AND NOT THE OTHER I WOULD LOVE TO UNDERSTAND AND MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE THIS ANSWER YEAH, BUT THIS IS WHERE I'D LOVE TO GET THIS CONVERSATION TO GO IS IF I'M A STUDENT WHO HAS MET IN ENGLISH BUT NOT IN MATH WHAT LOOKS DIFFERENT IN MY DAY THAN SOMEONE WHO IS MET IN MATH AND NOT IN ENGLISH VERSUS SOMEONE WHO IS NOT MET IN EITHER? DO WE HAVE ANY PARTICULAR STRATEGIES OR DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE ARE PLUGGING IN WITH THE STUDENTS BASED ON THEIR INDIVIDUALIZED NEED THIS YEAR WE DID IMPLEMENT SOME PILOTING PROGRAMS AND SO WE WORKED WITH THE PRINCIPALS THERE WAS A TOOL WE USED MASTERY PREP AND SO WE DID SOME IN DAY SCHOOL INTERVENTION OR DURING THE DAY SCHOOL INTERVENTION AND SO WE TARGETED STUDENTS TO YOUR POINT WHO WERE MET IN ONE AREA AND NOT THE OTHER AND SO IF I'M JOHN I'M AT AN ELAR THEN WHAT WE DID WAS WE WORK WITH THE PRINCIPAL TO BRING IN AND TRAIN TEACHERS DO INTERVENTION DO LIKE A BLITZ DAY WORK WITH THOSE STUDENTS LET THEM KNOW WHERE THEY WERE WHAT THEIR NEEDS WERE AND THEN DO TARGETED INTERVENTION AND THEN TESTING AND SO WE SAW SOME SIGNIFICANT GROWTH WITH DOING THAT WE DID THAT WITH APPROXIMATELY SIX OR SEVEN CAMPUSES JUST AS A START TO SEE IF IT WAS WORTH SCALING FOR NEXT YEAR THANK YOU, I'LL BE CURIOUS TO SEE HOW THAT GOES AND WHAT WE DO THERE I KNOW THAT PART OF THIS IS OF COURSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE KIDS FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THE FORMAT THERE IS SOME KIND OF BLITZ AND TEST PREP AND THAT WILL ALWAYS BE THE CASE FOR THESE TYPE OF EXAMS DON'T HAVE DON'T HAVE TO GO ANY FURTHER THAN THE LAWYERS ON THIS BOARD WHO STUDIED A LOT MORE FOR LSAT IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE LSAT THAN IN THEIR COLLEGE? I THINK THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT BUT ALSO I KNOW FUNDAMENTALLY WE ALSO ARE TEACHING THESE SKILLS IN ALGEBRA 2 AND SOME OF THE OTHERS SO WHAT WORK ARE WE DOING TO EMBED AND ALIGN THE WORK IN OUR ACTUAL CORE COURSES TO THIS AND HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT? YOU KNOW, DO WE DO ANYTHING WITH LIKE TSI FITS BEST WITH ALGEBRA 2 HENCE WE HAVE OUR ALGEBRA 2 STUDENTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT ABOUT HOW WE'RE EMBEDDING THESE SAME SKILLS AND ALIGNING THEM WITHIN THE CORE COURSES WELL,
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THAT ALSO WAS ANOTHER STRATEGY AND THIS IS REALLY EXCITING FOR ME BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING SO MUCH GROWTH THIS YEAR BUT WE DID A PARTNER WITH ACADEMIC SERVICES AND SO THEY DID EMBED STRATEGIES FOR THE TEACHERS IN ENGLISH 1 2 & 3 ALGEBRA 1 GEOMETRY AND ALGEBRA 2 FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS SO THAT IS REAL-TIME DIRECT INSTRUCTION SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS DURING THOSE CLASSES AND SO THERE'S ALSO GROWTH THERE BECAUSE THEN AT THE END OF ALGEBRA 2 AND ENGLISH 3 AND WE'RE ABLE TO ASSESS STUDENTS AS JUNIORS AND SOPHOMORES NOW IN AN IDEAL WORLD, WE'RE NOT THERE YET, BUT WE'RE GETTING THERE TAKING THE INFORMATION. DR NEVILLE'S JUST DID THE WORK THAT ACADEMIC SERVICES DID TO ALIGN CURRICULUM REALLY THE NEXT THING IS TO GET HOW MANY STUDENTS DO I HAVE THAT NEED THE ELAR? WHICH TEACHER HAS THE HIGHEST PERFORMANCE AND HOW DO I MAKE SURE THAT THOSE STUDENTS JUST LIKE WE STARTED DOING AT THE ELEMENTARY OF USING OUR HIGHEST PERFORMING TEACHERS? WITH OUR STUDENTS WHO NEEDED THEM THE MOST WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT OF COURSE, YOU'RE A FORMER HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL SO, YOU KNOW WHEN I SAY THE MASTER SCHEDULE SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD DO AND YOU KNOW THAT AT A HIGH SCHOOL TRUSTEE MACKEY TO DO THAT IS FAR MORE COMPLEX, BUT THAT'S THE NEXT AREA SO THAT WHEN YOU WOULD ASK THAT QUESTION, WE'D SAY NOT ONLY HERE'S THE PLAN FOR STEPHANIE BUT HERE ARE THE TEACHERS THAT THESE STUDENTS HAVE AND THEN HOW WE'RE MONITORING THAT THAT'S INCREDIBLE IF WE CAN GO THANK YOU FOR THAT. I MEAN, IT'S EXCITING TO SEE THIS GROWTH ONE MORE TECHNICAL QUESTION HERE ON THE TOP WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE YEAR IN WHICH WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DATA BUT THAT IS YOU'RE SAYING IT'S LAGGED BY A YEAR FOR THE CLASS I'M NOT SURE WHAT CLASS OF 2024 IS REFERRING TO ON THIS SIDE, BUT MAYBE KEY METRIC CLASS OF 2024 AND THEN SO ON AND SO FORTH BUT AM I ACCURATELY THINKING ABOUT THIS TO SAY OUR 2025 26 ESTIMATE IS ACTUALLY THE CLASS OF 25 ESTIMATE CORRECT. SO CLASS OF 25 WILL BE THE 25 26 ACCOUNTABILITY YEAR, RIGHT? I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE US ALSO, I'M SURE WE ALSO EVEN THOUGH THIS YEAR IS NOT DONE I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHEN WE DO THIS TO LOOK AT WHAT WE THINK IS HAPPENING FOR CLASS OF 2026 KNOWING FULL WELL THAT WE ARE NOT LIKE IT'S NOT GONNA BE RIGHT BUT IT'LL PROBABLY BE A MINIMUM BECAUSE I THINK YOU KNOW ALL OF THESE KIDS EVERY SINGLE KID ON THIS PAGE IS LONG GONE BUT IT'D BE REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THE KIDS CURRENTLY HERE BECAUSE WE CAN THEY DO DR. NEVELS AND CHIEF YOU APOLLO DO DO HAVE THAT THEY'RE MONITORING THAT.YES, SIR I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT ON THIS AS WELL.
SO IF THAT'S POSSIBLE, BUT THAT'S JUST A THOUGHT HOW DO OUR CLASS OF 2026 LOOK THAT IF WE'RE MONITORING THAT DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA YEAH, IT'S EXCITING DR. NEVELS IS YOUR WORK. YOU WANT TO SHARE IT? SHE SAID OKAY SHE RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE WINDOW OF TESTING SO WE JUST STARTED THE WINDOW OF LIKE ABOUT A WEEK AGO AND ALRIGHT AT THIS POINT THIS CLASS IS AT 38.4 PERCENT MET THIRTY EIGHT POINT SIX OR THIRTY EIGHT POINT FOUR PERCENT MET THIRTY EIGHT POINT FOUR PERCENT MET THAT'S AMAZING.
CONGRATULATIONS. THAT'S STILL WITH A NUMBER OF MONTHS TO GO ALL RIGHT, WELL THAT'S TEN MINUTES SO I WILL YEAH, YEAH TRUSTEE SANDERS YIELD JUST A FEW QUICK QUESTIONS BECAUSE A LOT'S BEEN COVERED ALREADY ONE YEAH, AND WE COULD PUT THIS FOR THE TRACKER I WOULD LIKE TO SEE JUST HOW EACH INDIVIDUAL HIGH SCHOOL SQUARES UP WITH ACROSS ALL OF THESE DOMAINS THAT WOULD JUST BE GREAT OF COURSE DEEPLY INTERESTED IN IN MY DISTRICT AND I FEEL LIKE MY COLLEAGUES PROBABLY FEEL THE SAME SO THE OTHER IS I KNOW IT WASN'T THE POINT, BUT I'M ALSO VERY INTERESTED IN AND IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT JUST GRADUATION RATES BECAUSE THEY YOU KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING PRETTY GOOD, BUT THAT'S A BIG JUMP SO SO WHAT WHAT DO WE CREDIT TO THE TOTAL GRADUATE NUMBER GOING UP THAT MUCH? WELL, I DON'T THINK IT'S ANY ONE THING I THINK IT'S A MULTI-FACTOR ONE YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO WHERE THESE STUDENTS WERE GOING BACK TO KOVAT AND SO THERE IS IF YOU WILL A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF STUDENTS THAT KIND OF LEFT THE SYSTEM AND THEN CAME BACK TO A SYSTEM SO YOU GET A BUBBLE THE SECOND ONE IS AS WE DO BETTER WITH STUDENTS, THEN WE MAY BE KEEPING SOME STUDENTS INSTEAD OF THEM GOING, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY STUDENTS THAT START OFF WITH US SO THERE HAS BEEN A AND THEN THIRDLY THERE WAS A BUBBLE IN THIS GRADE LEVEL SO
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IF YOU TRACK THIS GROUP OF STUDENTS THERE HAS BEEN THERE WAS LIKE A STATEWIDE THERE WAS THIS KIND OF A LARGER NUMBER AND THEN YOU HAVE STUDENTS PARTICULARLY THEIR FRESHMAN YEAR WHO ARE UNSUCCESSFUL, THAT'S THE AREA AS YOU ALL KNOW THAT WE'RE ALL SO FOCUSED ON IS ENSURING BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE A GREAT FRESHMAN YEAR WE HAVE WE IT MAKES IT VERY VERY DIFFICULT FOR STUDENTS TO EVER GET CAUGHT UP THAT WE STILL HAVE A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND IMPROVING THAT THIS PARTICULAR NUMBER IS ALSO INDICATIVE OF THE FACT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO RECOVER THEM SO WE MIGHT HAVE A LARGER NUMBER OF FIFTH YEAR GRADUATES IF YOU WILL, OKAY YEAH BUT WE WERE ABLE TO CAPTURE THEM AND SO IT'S A LITTLE OF THIS A LITTLE OF THIS AND A LITTLE OF THIS GOT IT OKAY, GOOD.WE'LL KEEP THE LITTLE OF ALL THOSE THINGS GOING THE THE LAST QUESTION I HAVE IS IS ME JUST GETTING UP TO SPEED CAN YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF? WHAT WHAT IS IN IBC THAT WOULDN'T QUALIFY FOR OUTCOMES BASED FUNDING WHAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF THAT? SO WE HAVE LIKE OSHA 10 WHICH ALL OF OUR FRESHMEN TAKE AND THAT IS NOT ON THE A THROUGH F LIST OKAY, BUT THAT'S A CERTIFICATION THEY TAKE SO WHAT IT WOULD NOT COUNT IT'S NOT ON THE A THROUGH F LIST GOT ANYTHING THAT'S ON THE A THROUGH F LIST DOES COUNT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND FOR OUTCOMES BASED FUNDING AND HOW TO IN THAT LIST IS CONTROL OF THE STATE IS THERE A POTENTIAL ESPECIALLY IF WE HAVE LIKE A NUMBER OF KIDS DOING IT WHAT WHAT COULD PUT THAT ON THE STATE LIST EVENTUALLY? SO THEY WERE ON TWO-YEAR CYCLE. SO THAT'S WHERE BUSINESSES GET TOGETHER AND THEY SAY HEY, WE WANT THIS ON THE IBC LIST CURRENTLY THERE'S 500 CERTIFICATIONS.
WE'RE IN A FIVE-YEAR CYCLE FROM 25 TO 2030 WE HAVE VERSION FOUR OF THIS LIST, BUT EVERY YEAR WE CAN GET ONE OR TWO IN THERE AS THE AS TA OPENS THAT UP THEY CAN MAKE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS WHAT'S OUR AGENT? WHAT'S I GUESS DALLAS ISDS AGENCY IN DOING THAT? DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE A GROUND SWELL OF A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT ISDS OR DO WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY IF WE SEE? THIS IS REALLY HIDDEN FOR US CAN WE ADVOCATE FOR THAT? ABSOLUTELY WE CAN ADVOCATE FOR IT OKAY AND THEN YOU SAID IT'S ONLY LIKE ONE OR TWO A YEAR AND THEN THERE'S A BIG REVIEW AT THE END OF SO THEY THEY ARE NOW IN FIVE-YEAR CYCLES BECAUSE BEFORE THEY WERE CHANGING EVERY TWO YEARS GOT IT AND THEY WERE PUTTING A HUNDRED ON TAKING A HUNDRED OFF AND THAT'S WHAT WAS THROWING US AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE THAT CAUSES PROBLEMS BECAUSE KIDS ARE IN A FOUR-YEAR PLAN YEAH, BUT IF YOU CHANGE WHAT WE PUT YOU ON FOR TWO YEARS AND NOW YOU CHANGE IT NOW, THAT'S NO LONGER COUNTING RIGHT. WELL NOW WHAT DO I DO? YEAH, AND SO THEY HEARD QUITE A BIT OF FEEDBACK FROM A FEW OF US I'M NOT SAYING IT WAS ME AND IN THAT PROCESS WE ENDED UP THEN THEY GAVE US NOW WHAT MAKES MORE SENSE WHICH IS A FIVE-YEAR REVIEW SO THAT THAT WAY WE HAVE KIDS IN A PATH YEAH, RATHER THAN HAVING TO CHANGE MID-CYCLE. ARE WE SEEING? JUST YOU KNOW DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT, BUT ARE WE SEEING THAT THERE'S POTENTIALLY QUALIFYING IBCS THAT AREN'T ON THE LIST, BUT THAT OUR KIDS REALLY ARE TAKEN TO OR WE HAVE A NUMBER OF CHILDREN THAT ARE DOING IT THAT WOULD THAT WE'RE TARGETING FOR ADDITION SO WE'RE CURRENTLY MAKING SURE THAT STUDENTS RECEIVE AN A THROUGH F CERTIFICATION, BUT THEY RECEIVE MULTIPLE THEY DON'T JUST RECEIVE ONE RIGHT THEY'LL RECEIVE TWO AND THREE AS CERTIFICATIONS COME UP AND WE'RE WORKING WITH INDUSTRY PARTNERS AND THEY SAY HEY WE REALLY WANT THIS ONE WE CAN GO AHEAD AND DO IT BECAUSE THEY ALREADY MET ACCOUNTABILITY BUT THEN WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE CAN SAY TO THE STATE. HEY, THIS ONE IS REGIONAL THIS IS A VERY GOOD CERTIFICATION. WE WANT TO PUT THIS ON THE LIST AND WE CAN GET BUSINESSES TO ADVOCATE AS WELL OKAY. ALL RIGHT. GOT IT. I I'M JUST DEEPLY CURIOUS ABOUT THAT ONE. SO I'LL PROBABLY PULL YOU ASIDE AND PICK YOUR BRAIN, BUT GOT A COUPLE NO, BUT THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS TRUSTEES FURTHER QUESTIONS OKAY TRUSTEES, YOU KNOW FURTHER QUESTIONS, THANK YOU ALL
[7. INFORMATION/REPORTS]
FOR THE PRESENTATION TRUSTEES WILL NOW TURN TO AGENDA ITEM 7A THE SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT INCLUDING BUDGET UPDATE SUPERINTENDENT THANK YOU PRESIDENT CARRY ON MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OUR DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT ED RAMOS AND OUR CHIEF OF HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ROBERT ABEL OR COMING UP AND WE'RE GOING TO AS YOU KNOW, WE'LL AS WE'VE DEVELOPED TO THIS POINT WE STILL HAVE QUITE A BIT OF WORK TO DO BUT AS WE'RE BUILDING FOR THE 25 26 WE'LL TALK FIRST ABOUT THE 25 26 GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW AS WELL AS SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BUDGET DEVELOPMENT FOR THE 2627 SCHOOL YEAR AND[01:00:01]
OF COURSE THEN AT THAT POINT WE'LL TAKE SOME QUESTIONS SO AND REMEMBER THAT FOR THE BUDGET, IT'S A TO READ SO WE'LL BE DOING SOME DISCUSSION TODAY AND THEN IT WILL BE BACK BEFORE A BOARD VOTE IN MAY. SO THIS PARTICULAR ITEM YOU WILL NOT BE VOTING ON THE BUDGET IN APRIL THIS WILL NOT BE A VOTE UNTIL THE MAY 9TH MEETING AND WITH THAT I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT RAMOS GOOD EVENING PRESIDENT CARRY ON SUPERINTENDENT ELIZALDE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD WANTED TO GO OVER THE BUDGET SPECIFICALLY WHERE WE ARE WITH THE 25 26 BUDGET AND WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT FOR THE 26 27 BUDGET SPECIFICALLY NEXT SLIDE LOOKING AT WHAT WE ADOPTED FOR THE CURRENT BUDGET. WE ADOPTED A 91 MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT. AND SO WHERE ARE WE PROJECTING TO END THE YEAR? WE ARE PRETTY CLOSE TO WHERE WE HAD PROJECTED OUR LOCAL TAX COLLECTIONS ONE POINT ALMOST ONE POINT FORTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR LOCAL TAX COLLECTIONS WE HAVE TAKEN A HIT WITH OUR STATE REVENUE THAT INCLUDES LOWER THAN PROJECTED ENROLLMENT NUMBERS AND AS WELL AS WE TOOK A HIT WITH OUR WHOLE HARMLESS REVENUE ESTIMATES WE RECEIVED A MEMO FROM THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY LETTING US KNOW THAT THERE WERE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CALCULATIONS AND SO IN OVERALL STATE REVENUE ESTIMATES THEY CAME IN AT 58 MILLION DOLLARS LOWER THAN PROJECTED SO THAT HAS TAKEN A HIT WITH OUR REVENUE OVERALL FEDERAL ESTIMATES ARE 17 MILLION BELOW ESTIMATES AS WELL WE HAVE DONE A PRETTY GOOD JOB IN CONTROLLING OUR OVERALL PAYROLL COST DURING THE YEAR WITH VACANCIES AS THEY HAVE OCCURRED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AS WELL AS WITH THE LOWER IN ENROLLMENT NUMBERS WE HAVE ALSO REDUCED OUR OVERALL FTS IN THE DISTRICT AND SO WE HAVE CONTROLLED OUR OVERALL PAYROLL COSTS OVERALL AS A DISTRICT AND SO WE ARE PROJECTING DESPITE THE LOWER REVENUE ESTIMATES WE ARE AND HAVE MADE A REAL GOOD EFFORT WITH CONTROLLING EXPENDITURES AND SO WE STILL PROJECT TO COME IN WITHIN OUR OVERALL PROJECTED DEFICIT CURRENTLY AT NINETY POINT EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS AND SO WE STILL HAVE THREE MONTHS LEFT TO GO IN THE YEAR AND SO OUR GOAL IS STILL TO COME IN BELOW THAT NINETY POINT EIGHT MILLION. SO WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT REDUCING EXPENDITURES WITHIN APRIL MAY AND JUNE AND SO IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE EVERY YEAR WE PROJECT A BUDGET AND YOU CAN SEE THE PAST THREE YEARS. WE PROJECTED DEFICIT BUDGETS IN THE DISTRICT WE HISTORICALLY DO OUR BEST TO CONTROL OUR EXPENDITURES AS A DISTRICT AND WE HAVE ENDED THE YEAR BETTER THAN PROJECTED AS SOON AS LAST YEAR THE 2425 SCHOOL YEAR WE DID END WITH A 68 MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT COMPARED TO THE 187 MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT WE PROJECTED SO AGAIN ENDING THE 25 26 SCHOOL YEAR WE ARE PROJECTING TO END THE YEAR WITH A DEFICIT BUT NOT AS HIGH AS THE 91 MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT SO WE ARE THERE IS WORK TO DO WITH OUR OVERALL DEFICIT BUT AGAIN, WE HOPE TO END THE YEAR BETTER THAN WHAT WE PROJECTED DESPITE THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE FACED WITH LOWER ENROLLMENT AND THE WHOLE HARMLESS HIT THAT WE HAVE TAKEN FROM SOME ADJUSTMENTS WITH THE CALCULATIONS AS A DISTRICT WE ALSO ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUING TO INVEST IN PROGRAMS WITHIN THE DISTRICT THESE ARE PROGRAMS THAT WE KNOW IMPACT OUR STUDENTS AND DO BRING IN SOME ACHIEVEMENTS FOR OUR STUDENTS AND THOSE ARE SPECIFICALLY IN THE AREAS OF CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY WE SPEND FORTY FIVE POINT FOUR MILLION IN THAT AREA EARLY LEARNING TWENTY THREE POINT FOUR MILLION COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS 21.9 MILLION DISTRICT SCHOOL INITIATIVE 17.9 MILLION AND HIGH QUALITY TUTORING 13 MILLION. SO THIS IS PART OF OUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT DATA QUALITY THAT WE LOOK AT AS PART OF OUR BUDGETING PROCESS. AND SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS AS WE LOOK AT OUR BUDGET AND SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT TOTAL COMPENSATION RAISES BEING PROPOSED FOR DALLAS ISD STAFF FOR NEXT YEAR TOTAL AROUND FIFTY SIX POINT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS THAT IS FOR ALL STAFF THE LARGEST CHUNK OF THAT IS THIRTY SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION DOLLAR IN TEACHER COMPENSATION RANGES WITH THE MAJORITY OF THAT GOING TO BE OFFSET[01:05:01]
BY THE EXPANSION OF THE THE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT TEACHERS WILL RECEIVE THE UNDER THIS PROPOSAL WILL RECEIVE THE GREATER OF THE TEI LEVEL CHANGE SO IF THEY MOVE UP A LEVEL ON TI A CHANGE TO THE COMP LEVEL OF THE TI IF THEY MAINTAIN THE SAME LEVEL OR A TWO PERCENT OF THE PAY RANGE IF THOSE TWO DON'T APPLY A VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE IN THOSE TOP TWO CATEGORIES IT'S ONLY A FEW HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WHO FALL IN THAT BOTTOM CATEGORY OTHER EXCELLENCE INITIATIVES ARE GOING TO BE PROPOSED FOR 3.8 MILLION DOLLARS IN RAISES THAT'S GOING TO INCLUDE OUR EDI OUR PEI AND HER A PEI AND FOR THE FIRST TIME OUR SCHOOL COUNSELOR EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE OR SCI AS WELL DALLAS ISD AS PART OF THIS PROPOSAL. WE WANT TO MAINTAIN OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR SUPPORT STAFF AND WE'RE GOING TO PROPOSE TO INCREASE OUR DALLAS ISD MINIMUM WAGE FROM SEVENTEEN DOLLARS TO SEVENTEEN FIFTY DOLLAR OR SEVENTEEN FIFTY PER HOUR THIS WILL HELP US MAINTAIN OUR REGIONAL LEAD AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL WE'RE THE HIGHEST PAYING SCHOOL DISTRICT ON MINIMUM WAGE ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT EVEN THOUGH THAT IS OUR MINIMUM WAGE A VAST MAJORITY OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE WELL ABOVE THAT THAT IS JUST FOR ENTRY LEVEL FOR A COUPLE POSITIONS SO MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE ALREADY MAKING ABOVE THAT BUT WE WANT TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE THAT MINIMUM WAGE UP AS OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR SUPPORT STAFF AND THE AWESOME WORK THEY DO FOR US AND THEN PAY FOR THE ADDITIONAL COMPRESSION FOR THOSE OTHER HOURLY EMPLOYEES AS WELL THE DISTRICT IS ALSO RECOMMENDING INCREASE TO OUR INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT STAFF TWO AND THREE AS OUR TEACHER SALARIES HAVE RAISED INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT TWO AND THREE ARE GENERALLY GOING TO BE POSITIONS THAT ARE EITHER TIED OR MARKETED OR BANDED TO THOSE TEACHER SALARIES SO AS TEACHER SALARIES HAVE WENT UP WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP THEM COMPETITIVE SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THAT GROUP ARE GOING TO BE YOUR MEDIA SPECIALISTS YOUR NURSES YOUR COUNSELORS YOUR LSS P'S AND YOUR SLP'S AS WELL THOSE EMPLOYEES IN THIS PROPOSAL WOULD GET SOMEWHERE AROUND A 3.8 TO 4.2 PERCENT INCREASE JUST DEPENDING ON WHERE THEY LIE WITHIN THOSE DIFFERENT PAY GRADES AND THEN OTHER STAFF WOULD RECEIVE 2% IF THEY'RE NOT IN THOSE SPECIFIC GROUPS. NEXT SLIDE THIS SLIDE CONTAINS OUR PROPOSED TEI COMPENSATION LEVELS AS YOU CAN SEE EACH LEVEL INCREASES ABOUT $3,000 SOME KEYNOTES WE WANT TO MENTION IS OUR PROFICIENT ONE COMPENSATION SALARY FLOOR WOULD BE $78,000 SO ALL PROFICIENT ONE AND HIGHER TEACHERS MAKE AT LEAST $78,000 AS BASE SALARY AND BASE SALARY FOR OUR MASTER TEACHERS WOULD BE A HUNDRED AND THREE THOUSAND SO A GOOD GOOD POINT OF NOTE IS THAT IF YOU'RE A MASTER TEACHER AT A PTE AND YOU GET THAT PTE STIPEND YOU HAVE A HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLAR BASE SALARY AS A TEACHER AT A PTE CAMPUS PRIOR TO ANY BILINGUAL STIPENDS OR ESL STIPENDS OR SPECIAL EDUCATION STIPENDS, ETC AND ONCE AGAIN WE MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT THE TEACHERS WILL RECEIVE THE GREATER OF THE TEI CHANGE A TEI COMPENSATION CHANGE OR A 2% OF THE SALARY RANGE AS WELL IF THAT APPLIES TO THEM ON THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU'LL SEE OUR NEW TEACHER OR PROPOSED NEW TEACHER HIRING SCHEDULE SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT A ZERO-YEAR TEACHER COMING IN. I WOULD START OFF AT $68,000 AND AS I TYPED THIS PRESENTATION UP, I REALIZED THAT'S SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN THE TWENTY SIX FIVE THAT I STARTED AT SO I'M VERY HAPPY THAT WE'VE MADE SOME PROGRESS SINCE I JOINED THE CLASSROOM ANYWAY NEXT SLIDE THIS IS JUST SOME ESTIMATES ON SOME VARIOUS EMPLOYEE GROUPS WE USUALLY GET QUESTIONS ABOUT SO THAT JUST GIVES THE THE AVERAGE SALARY INCREASE PREDICTED FOR THOSE THOSE INDIVIDUALS AS YOU CAN SEE ALL TEACHERS ON TEI WOULD BE AROUND SOMEWHERE AROUND A FIVE PERCENT AVERAGE IF YOU'RE PROGRESSING ONE OR TWO YOU WOULD AVERAGE AROUND FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT IF YOU DON'T MOVE TO THE PROFICIENT ONE OR HIGHER PROFICIENT ONE AND HIGHER WOULD AVERAGE AROUND FIVE POINT TWO PERCENT OUR TEACHER ASSISTANTS THEY WILL LAND SOMEWHERE AROUND THREE POINT EIGHT PERCENT DUE TO THAT COMPRESSION OF THAT 1750 OVERALL OUR FOOD SERVICE EMPLOYEES, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY WOULD ALSO BE IMPACTED IF THE 1750 PER HOUR MOVE IS APPROVED AND THAT WOULD MOVE THEM UP TO AROUND TWO POINT SEVEN OR TWO POINT EIGHT PERCENT RAISE INSTEAD OF TWO PERCENT FOR BOARD APPROVED AND THE SAME THING APPLIES FOR OUR MAINTENANCE AND TRANSPORTATION AS WELL AND I THINK ANOTHER GROUP WE MENTIONED EARLIER WAS THE COUNSELORS AND MEDIA SPECIALISTS LS SP'S AND THOSE GROUPS AND NURSES THEY'D BE AROUND THREE THREE POINT EIGHT TO FOUR POINT TWO PERCENT AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE AS WE CONTINUE TO DIVE INTO OUR EXPENDITURES WE WANTED TO GIVE THE BOARD A PICTURE OF WHAT DISTRICTS ARE FACING STATEWIDE THE TASBO THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIALS RECENTLY DID A SURVEY FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND THE DISTRICTS RESPONDING.THIS IS BASICALLY SOME OF THE DATA THAT THEY RESPONDED WITH 31% OF DISTRICTS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT CASH FLOW OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS, WHICH MEANS THAT ALMOST 69 PERCENT OF DISTRICTS ARE LOOKING AT THEIR CASH FLOW OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS 52% OF DISTRICTS ARE ANTICIPATING SALARY INCREASES, BUT THEY ARE FUNDING THEM
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THROUGH BUDGET CUTS FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR 69 ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF DISTRICTS ANTICIPATE MAKING BUDGET CUTS FOR THE 26 27 SCHOOL YEAR SIMILAR TO WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT AS A DISTRICT AND THE TOP THREE CHALLENGES THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FACING IN THE STATE DEFICIT BUDGETS LACK OF RESOURCES DECLINING ENROLLMENT AND AGING FACILITIES. SO THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR IN DALLAS ISD THAT IS WHAT DISTRICTS ARE FACING THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF TEXAS NEXT SLIDE SO AS WE LOOK AT NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET SOME OF THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT WE'RE LOOKING AT A TAXABLE VALUE GROWTH OF FOUR POINT SEVENTY FOUR POINT FIVE PERCENT PROJECTED ENROLLMENT OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO THOUSAND FIVE THIRTY THREE PROJECTED TAX RATE OF NIGHT NINE POINT NINE EIGHT EIGHT SEVEN THREE FIVE THAT IS WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF INCREASING THE DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE BY ONE PENNY THAT ALSO INCLUDES A PROJECTED TAX RATE FOR NEXT YEAR LOWER THAN OUR CURRENT TAX RATE OUR RECAPTURE ACTUALLY THAT ESTIMATE HAS BEEN RE ESTIMATED AT 80 MILLION VERSUS 110 THAT YOU CURRENTLY SEE UP THERE AND THEN THE STARTING TEACHER SALARY $68,000 AND MINIMUM HOURLY RATE OF 1750 WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN HAVING COMMUNITY BUDGET MEETINGS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT THEY WILL BEGIN STARTING IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE MAY 6 MAY 7TH, MAY 11TH, MAY 12TH AND MAY 13TH THE LOCATIONS WILL BE AT THE CAREER INSTITUTE SOUTH CAREER INSTITUTE NORTH THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER OUR RESOURCE CENTER WEST AND WE WILL ALSO HAVE A VIRTUAL MEETING WILL IT OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS? TRUSTEE MICHIGAN WELL, THANK YOU FOR THIS REPORT IT DOES LOOK LIKE WE HAVE SOME SOME BIG CHALLENGES AGAIN THIS YEAR I WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE HOLD HARMLESS PROVISION AND I'VE LOOKED AT THAT MYSELF AND IT IS UNBELIEVABLY COMPLICATED AND I KNOW THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE AND THE TEA HAVE CHANGED THOSE COMPUTATIONS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS SINCE THE SCHOOL FUNDING LEGISLATION PASSED LAST YEAR AND I THINK CONCEPTUALLY WHAT THE HOLD HARMLESS? PROVISION IS INTENDED TO MAKE DISTRICTS WHOLE FOR THE INCREASE IN THE EXEMPTION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS RIGHT SO THAT IF THAT HOUSE DID NOT HAVE THE SENIOR CITIZEN EXEMPTION HOME SENIOR CITIZEN HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION ON IT THERE WOULD BE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF TAXES PAID ON IT. BUT BECAUSE IT HAS THAT EXEMPTION AND THE STATE INCREASED THAT EXEMPTION THE DISTRICTS CAN'T GET LESS LOCAL REVENUE AND THE STATE IS SUPPOSED TO REPLACE THAT REVENUE UNDER THIS HOLD HARMLESS LEGISLATION SO MY QUESTION IS SINCE THAT CALCULATION IS SO BYZANTINE IS ARE WE AT A POINT WHERE WE HAVE THE FINAL? CALCULATION OF HOW MUCH THE STATE IS IS GOING TO MAKE GOOD MAKE US WHOLE OR IS THIS SOMETHING WHERE THE CALCULATIONS ARE STILL IN FLUX AND THERE'S SOME HOPE THAT MAYBE WE CAN ARRIVE ON A NUMBER THAT WAS MORE IN LINE WITH WHAT EVERYONE'S EXPECTATIONS WERE SO WE HAVE A CURRENT ESTIMATE BASED ON THE REVISED DATA ASSUMPTIONS AND SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE EXPECTING TO RECEIVE AN ESTIMATED 23 MILLION DOLLARS IN WHOLE HARMLESS REVENUE FROM THE REVISED CALCULATIONS AND AT ONE POINT WE WERE ANTICIPATING AN ESTIMATED 70 MILLION. OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S A BIG SO I ASSUME THE TEAM IS IS WORKING TO APPEAL THAT WHETHER INFORMALLY OR FORMALLY TO TO SEE IF IF THAT THAT NUMBER CAN MOVE RIGHT THAT I SAID, I I'M NOT A PROFESSIONAL IN THAT AREA, BUT IF THE CALCULATION JUST DIDN'T SEEM SEEM LIKE IT WAS LET'S JUST SAY I'VE MADE A LOT OF CALLS OKAY OVER THE LAST 10 DAYS AND WE'RE WORKING ON IT. THANK YOU ANOTHER QUESTION, I IT MAY BE TOO EARLY TO KNOW IF THE COMPENSATION CHANGES THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED HERE STILL KEEP US ON THE HIGH END OF THE MARKET DO YOU HAVE A FEEL FOR THAT AT THIS POINT? YES, SO WHAT WE DID IS WE TOOK[01:15:03]
THE THE COMPENSATION TEAM IN HCM TOOK ALL THE SURROUNDING MARKETS AND THEY AGED THEIR THEIR CURRENT SALARIES BY TWO TO THREE PERCENT. WE DO BELIEVE THAT'S GOING TO LEAD US AS A KEEP US AS A MARKET LEADER THOUGH YES, SIR. I WILL SAY I CUT TEXT FROM THREE SUPERINTENDENTS THEY WANTED TO KNOW THEY SAID THERE'S NO WAY THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAKE OUR TEACHERS NOW AND I SAID, THAT'S CORRECT. YOU CANNOT TAKE OUR TEACHERS YEAH, AND AND THEN I GUESS THAT THIS MIGHT HAVE TO BE DEVELOPED A LITTLE BIT FURTHER WHEN WE SEE WHAT WHAT OUR RESERVES ACTUALLY TURN OUT TO BE BUT WHAT WHAT DO WE ANTICIPATE? THAT OUR RESERVES WILL BE IF WE ADOPT A BUDGET ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT'S SUGGESTED HERE SO BASED ON OUR CURRENT RESERVES, WE WILL STILL MEET OUR LOCAL FUND BALANCE POLICY OF THE THREE MONTHS OF RESERVES AND AND WE STILL HAVE AT LEAST TWO ASSUMING WE DO NOTHING WITH OUR DEFICIT BUDGETS THAT WE PROJECT WE STILL HAVE TWO YEARS THAT WE CAN SUSTAIN THE CURRENT DEFICITS THAT WE ARE PROJECTING OKAY, AND THEN I JUST SAY THIS FOR ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC IS LISTENING TO THAT TO US WHEN WE GO FOR THE BOND WHEN WE HAVE THE BOND ELECTION AND IF IT DOES PASS THERE WILL BE AN INFUSION OR OF AUTHORITY ANYWAY TO SPEND MONEY ON THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS BUT THAT MONEY CANNOT BE USED TO SPEND ON WORKFORCE AND AND SO IN ONE SENSE, WE'RE DEALING WITH THE AGING FACILITIES THROUGH THE BOND PROGRAM BUT WE STILL ARE SUFFERING FROM THE OPERATIONAL SIDE WHERE THE STATE HAS NOT MADE DISTRICTS WHOLE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PACKAGE OF FUNDING FOR INFLATION THAT WAS THAT WAS VERY HIGH SO WE DID GET AN ADJUSTMENT BUT IN THE AGGREGATE THE ADJUSTMENT DID NOT COVER THE INFLATION IN OUR OPERATING EXPENSES THAT'S CORRECT. THANK YOU.THAT'S ALL TRUSTEE FORM THANK YOU, JUST A FEW QUESTIONS AND SO WE'VE ADOPTED A DEFICIT BUDGET FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS, CORRECT? YES, AND ARE WE PROPOSING ANOTHER DEFICIT BUDGET? WE WILL PROPOSE A DEFICIT BUDGET FOR 26 27. YES OKAY, IS IT GOING TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR THE DEFICIT BUDGET THAT WE HAVE THIS YEAR? YES, IT WOULD BE CLOSE TO AN ESTIMATED 90 SOME MILLION DOLLARS OKAY, AND SO THROUGHOUT THE STATE OR THE LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS PROPOSING DEFICIT BUDGETS AT THE SAME RATE. WE ARE SO CURRENTLY THERE ARE I WOULD SAY THE MAJORITY OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS ARE PROPOSING DEFICIT BUDGETS BASED ON THE TASBO SURVEY THAT WE RECENTLY SAW AND SO THE WAY I GUESS THAT WE COME UP WITH THE ADDITIONAL MONIES IS THROUGH THE FUND BALANCE TO BALANCE IT OUT, CORRECT, CORRECT SO HOW MUCH DO WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN THE FUND BALANCE AND HOW MUCH IS ASSIGNED AND HOW MUCH IS UNASSIGNED? CURRENTLY IN A UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE. WE HAVE SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE MILLION IN ASSIGNED FUND BALANCE. I BELIEVE IT'S TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE MILLION AND ON THE TEACHERS ROBERT, SO ARE WE KEEPING THE SAME NUMBER OF TEACHERS. I'VE NOTICED THAT WHEN I STARTED OUT IT WAS ABOUT TEN THOUSAND. WE HAVE ABOUT NINETY FOUR HUNDRED. ARE WE PROJECTING FEWER TEACHERS? YES, MA'AM ARE OUR TEACHERS AND ARE GENERATED BY STUDENTS SO AS WE WENT THROUGH OUR SPRING BUDGET PROCESS THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS WOULD HAVE BEEN REDUCED FOR NEXT YEAR VERSUS THIS YEAR SO, HOW MANY DO WE HAVE THIS YEAR? I THINK IT'S AROUND NINETY FOUR HUNDRED MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OFF AND I CAN GET A FIRM NUMBER AND HOW MANY WOULD WE BE PROJECTING IN THIS BUDGET? I WOULD NEED TO GO BACK AND PULL THAT DAY, BUT I CAN GET THAT IN THERE AT THE TRACKER FOR SURE COULD YOU COULD YOU PLEASE GET THAT FOR ME AND? I'M ON PAGE OKAY, IT'S THREE OF THE PRESENTATION AND I'M LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENCE IN
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2022 2023 AND THEN THE BUDGET VERSUS ACTUAL DOLLAR AMOUNTS.WHY IS WHY ARE THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS ACTUAL SMALLER THAN THE BUDGETED AMOUNT? SO THE BUDGETED AMOUNTS IS WHAT WE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR PROJECTED WHEN WE ADOPTED THE BUDGET AS WE GO THROUGH THE YEAR AS A DISTRICT WE DO OUR BEST TO CONTROL OUR EXPENDITURES AND SO WHEN WE END THE YEAR BECAUSE WE HAVE VACANCIES AND PAYROLL WE TRY TO CONTROL OUR CONTRACTED COSTS OUR SUPPLY COSTS WE END THE YEAR BETTER THAN WHAT WE PROJECTED AND SO THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE OUR EXPENDITURES COME IN LOWER THAN WHAT WE HAD PROJECTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR NOW I'M ON PAGE FOUR AND WE HAVE ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL PROGRAMS ARE THEY STILL BEING FUNDED AT THE SAME AMOUNT THAT WE FUNDED THEM AT THIS YEAR BASED ON THIS THIS PROJECTION? SO I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE HISTORICAL DATA WHAT THIS SLIDE IS SHOWING IS THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUING TO INVEST IN THESE PROGRAMS AS A DISTRICT BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'VE BEEN INVESTED PREVIOUSLY AND IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UPPING THE DOLLAR SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT THE FACT THAT WE'LL HAVE FEWER STUDENTS I CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU. PLEASE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO HAVE ROBERT THAT SAME INFORMATION ON COUNSELORS, I KNOW AT ONE POINT WE DID INCREASE THE NUMBER OF COUNSELORS THAT WE HAVE WE HAD SO IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE THAT SAME NUMBER ON COUNSELORS OKAY, I CAN GET THAT FOR YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH TRUSTEE MACKEY THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENT WORK HERE IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO SLIDE THREE REAL FAST JUST A FEW CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. I MEAN THIS I MEAN IT SHOWS THE THOUGHTFULNESS FOR WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE THIS WORK TO BUDGET CONSERVATIVELY AND THEN SHOW UP BETTER THAN WHERE WE'VE BEEN AT EACH OF THESE BY LARGE AMOUNTS TO AM I RIGHT TO ASSUME THAT? OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE IN THE 24 25 OR 25 26 SCHOOL YEAR NOW WE DON'T HAVE THE ACTUAL FOR THE END OF THE YEAR BUT IF WE HAD THIS LINE FOR 25 26 IT WOULD READ THAT 91 MILLION DOLLARS ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE AND NOW WE'RE TRACKING TO GET TO AROUND 90 MILLION DOLLARS STILL, RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE AND CAN I SAY SOMETHING TO THAT? WE WEREN'T TRACKING WE WERE TRACKING TO BE LEFT THANK YOU, IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS WE WERE TRACKING TO BE ABOUT 20 OR SO BEFORE THE STATE CHANGED ITS RULES. THAT'S CORRECT. GOT IT I'LL SAY JUST FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND I APPRECIATE YOUR DILIGENCE LOOKING AT THIS AND I KNOW WE HAVE WE HAVE A FUND BALANCE ABOVE BEST PRACTICES, WHICH IS ABOUT THAT THREE MONTHS IT'S NOT A TERRIBLE THING BUT I WOULD ALSO NOTE THAT LIKE JUST FROM MY OWN PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE THAT MONEY IS HERE TO EDUCATE KIDS AND WE JUST SAW FROM THEIR LAST PRESENTATION WHILE WE'RE MAKING GREAT MOMENTUM WE HAVE MORE WORK TO DO AND SO I WOULD PERSONALLY BE IN FAVOR OF MAKING SURE THAT THAT MONEY GOES TO MOVING THE OUTCOMES FOR KIDS THOUGH JUST ALSO FROM MY OWN PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE IF THAT WERE TO START TO BE PROJECTED TO DROP BELOW THREE MONTHS I WOULD HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT TAKE ON THAT BUT WE'RE NOT THERE AND SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU AND YOU DR I THINK WE SHOULD BE UTILIZING THAT TO IMPACT OUR SYSTEM IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE THAT YOU ALL SEE I'D LOVE TO KNOW AND IF YOU CAN GO A FEW MORE SLIDES TO THE STAFF THANK YOU.
AGAIN. YOU ALL HAVE BEEN COMMITTED TO THIS FOR A LONG TIME ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE A MARKET PAY LEADER ACROSS THE BOARD. I'M SURPRISED WE DIDN'T SEE THE DAN SLIDE IN HERE DIRECTLY BUT AS YOU NOTED YOU ALWAYS HEAR FROM CERTAIN GROUPS, OF COURSE AS THIS WAS BEING PRESENTED I HEARD IT FROM A COUPLE OTHER GROUPS THAT SAID WHAT ABOUT US IS MY ASSUMPTION THAT IS EVERY EMPLOYEE CATEGORY REFLECTED IN THE INCREASES THIS YEAR.
YEAH, THE RAISES WILL BE FOR ALL EMPLOYEES. WE JUST PICKED SOME AND THEN SO I GOT A COUPLE THAT I'LL ASK I SEE LIKE COUNSELORS ON HERE NURSES WHERE WOULD THEY FALL IN THIS TODAY CAMPUS SUPPORT ESSENTIAL STAFF. YEAH, AND NURSES ARE GOING TO BE THE CAMPUS SUPPORT, BUT THEY'RE GONNA BE THAT INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT TWO AND THREE MOVES SO THEY'LL GET SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A THREE AND A HALF TO FOUR POINT TWO BASED UPON THAT COMPRESSION OKAY, AND THEN WHAT ABOUT LIBRARIANS, WHERE DO THEY FIT IN THIS? THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO BE ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT TWO AND THREE SO THEY'RE GOING TO GET THE SOMEWHERE AROUND THE THREE POINT EIGHT TO FOUR POINT TWO FOR OUR MEDIA SPECIALIST YOU GOTCHA AND THEN LIKE PHYSICAL THERAPISTS OR WHATNOT AND I'LL NEED TO CHECK PHYSICAL THERAPISTS.
GOTCHA. ALL RIGHT THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THEN IF YOU CAN GO TO THE TEACHER SLIDE, I THINK IT WAS THE NEXT ONE. I KNOW THE LEGISLATION CHANGED QUITE SUBSTANTIALLY THE STATE TIA PREVIOUSLY, I THINK MOST DISTRICTS WERE ONLY CERTIFYING UP TO ABOUT 33% OF TEACHERS BUT THEY ADDED A FOURTH DESIGNATION AND UP TO 50% OF TEACHERS DO WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF HOW THAT WILL IMPACT US AND HOW MUCH MORE WE WOULD LIKELY EARN FROM THE TIA ALLOTMENT BASED ON?
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OUR SYSTEM YEAH, GENERALLY I WOULD SAY A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE IS IS THAT WE'RE AROUND 28 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR NOW PLUS OR MINUS IT FLUCTUATES A LITTLE BIT WITH TEACHER TURNOVER AND MOVES WITHIN THE DIFFERENT ATTENDANCE ZONES WE'RE WE'RE ANTICIPATING AT LEAST A FORTY FOUR FIFTY FOUR MILLION DOLLAR TOTAL INCREASE WITH THE NEW TIA ALLOTMENT SO IF WE GO BACK ONE SLIDE THEN ONE WAY TO THINK ABOUT IS FIFTY SIX MILLION THIRTY SEVEN POINT FIVE OF WHICH IS FOR TEACHERS ROUGHLY SOME TWENTY TWENTY FIVE MILLION IS LIKELY FROM AN ADDITIONAL INCREASE FROM THE STATE TIA AS WELL.YEAH, CORRECT I MEAN THAT'S A GOOD POINT TOO IS THAT THE TIA IS COVERING A LOT OF THE RAISES BUT REMEMBER IN DALLAS ISD EVEN THOUGH THE LAW ALLOWS US TO KEEP 10% FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS IN DALLAS ISD NOT ONLY DO WE NOT SPEND ANY OF THAT MONEY ON CENTRAL STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT, BUT WE ACTUALLY PUT IN SOME OF OUR OWN MONEY AS WELL FOR OUR TEACHER RATES SO WE GO ABOVE WE GO. WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE IF WE'RE GETTING 25 MILLION MORE AND WE'RE GOING 37 MILLION. THAT'S A WE'RE ALMOST DOUBLING IT THANK YOU FOR THAT. THAT'S SUPER HELPFUL.
AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS ON IF WE GO SORRY GO BACK TO SLIDE FOUR I THINK IT WAS THE DIFFERENT INITIATIVES AND DALLAS ISD HAS BEEN A LEADER IN THIS FOR A LONG TIME I ASSUME IS THERE ANY WAY AND YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE IT NOW? I WOULD LOVE TO SEE I KNOW WE DO A RETURN ON INVESTMENT ANALYSIS I'M MY ASSUMPTION AS WE PROBABLY HAVE ROI ANALYSES BROKEN OUT IN EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES FOR DIFFERENT THINGS WILL THE BOARD BE ABLE TO SEE THAT BEFORE WE CONSIDER THE BUDGET IN MAY? WE HAVE PLANS TO BRING IT IN MAY WONDERFUL, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH AND I APPRECIATE THIS PRESENTATION AND IF I CAN SAY MYSELF ONE SMALL TRACKER THE PHYSICAL THERAPISTS ARE ALSO INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT TWO AND THREE SO THEY'LL BE THE THREE POINT EIGHT FOUR POINT TWO NO TRACKER NEEDED TRUSTEE SANDERS JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE. I HAVE TO LEAVE A LITTLE BIT EARLY TODAY, BUT ONE QUICK QUESTION ON THE HIGH QUALITY TUTORING REMIND ME THIS IS THE STRATEGY MOVING FORWARD THIS IS THE WORK THAT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN AFTER SCHOOL OR IS IT GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN SCHOOL SETTINGS? THE HIGH QUALITY IT CAN ACTUALLY BE BOTH OKAY, SO THERE'S SOME HIGH QUALITY TUTORING THAT GOES ON WITHIN THE SCHOOL DAY AND THEN THERE'S SOME THAT'S GOING ON, YOU KNOW AFTER THE SCHOOL DAY. SO IT'S A IT'S A VARIETY OKAY, GREAT RECAPTURE THE RECAPTURE CHANGE CAN YOU REMIND I KNOW? IT'S FROM 110 TO 80 I BELIEVE CORRECT. CAN YOU EXPLAIN JUST IN? LAYMAN'S TERMS THAT DIFFERENCE SO RECAPTURE IS BASICALLY DETERMINED BY THE ESTIMATED ENROLLMENT AND PROPERTY VALUE GROWTH SO YOU PLUG THOSE TWO NUMBERS AND THAT DETERMINES BASICALLY YOUR RECAPTURE GOT IT SO BASICALLY THE RECAPTURE DIFFERENCE IS IN THE DECLINING ENROLLMENT PRIMARILY, CORRECT? WELL, I I WANT TO CLARIFY AND CORRECT ME IF I'M MISUNDERSTANDING IT'S ALSO A FUNCTION OF THE TAX COMPRESSION THOUGH BECAUSE OUR PROPERTY VALUES THEN BECAUSE WE HAVE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS THEN THE VALUES OF THE PROPERTIES WHILE THEY'RE GOING UP ON OUR ROLLS THEY'RE GOING WE'RE GETTING LESS CREDIT FOR THOSE BECAUSE OF THE GROWTH BECAUSE SO WHEN STUDENT ENROLLMENT GOES UP YEAH, AND PROPERTY VALUES IF STUDENT ENROLLMENT GOES DOWN AND PROPERTY VALUES GO UP YOUR RECAPTURE IS GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY MORE MONEY SO WE HAD OVER THE STATE OVERESTIMATED WHICH IS ALSO THOUGH NOW HITTING US ON THE OTHER SIDE ON THE HOLD HARMLESS BECAUSE THEN THEY DID NOT MAKE US WHOLE SO WE LOST DOLLARS ON OUR PROPERTY VALUES. SO YEAH, OKAY. WE'RE GONNA SAVE SOME ON THE RECAPTURE BUT THEY THEN TOOK IT AWAY FROM US AND THEN SOME ON THE HOLD HARMLESS SIDE SO THERE'S SO MANY AND EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL DISTRICT GETS AFFECTED DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE THE SCHOOL FUNDING LAWS ARE SO CONVOLUTED IT DOES NOT HIT EVERY BUT IF YOU'RE THIS IF X BUT Y THEN Z BUT IF Y BUT NOT Z THEN X I MEAN IT IS IT'S REALLY HARD FOR ALL OF US BECAUSE WE'LL SIT AND GO WELL HOW COME THIS DISTRICT THIS AND WE'RE THIS IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR US TO EVEN RUN CALCULATIONS AND MODELS AND IT'S GETTING HARDER THE WHICH KIND OF BRINGS ME TO MY POINT I'M GONNA STEP ON THE SOAPBOX FOR A LITTLE BIT I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE THRONGS OF PEOPLE OUT HERE IN THE CROWD TO HEAR BUT YOU KNOW KUDOS AND CONGRATS TO ALL THE EFFICIENCIES THAT WE'RE FINDING ALL OF THE SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING BUT THE ENTIRE STATE IS
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ON AN UNSUSTAINABLE PATHWAY FOR EDUCATION WE ARE IN A WORLD WHERE WE KEEP SAYING MOVE TO TEXAS COME TO TEXAS BE IN TEXAS GROW LIVE RAISE YOUR KIDS IN TEXAS AND MOST OF THE LARGE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND A LOT OF THE SMALLER ONES ARE RUNNING DEFICIT BUDGETS RIGHT NOW FOR MULTIPLE YEARS RUNNING AND WE'RE GONNA YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA DO THE WORK WE'RE GONNA WE'RE GONNA NITPICK WE'RE GONNA BE SIX SIGMA CERTIFIED FOLKS WHO WILL GET IN THERE AND TRY AND FIND ALL OF THE EFFICIENCIES THAT WE CAN FIND BUT WE HAVE GOT TO GET SOME HELP AND WE'RE GONNA NEED TO RALLY THE BROADER TROOPS THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH BECAUSE WHILE THEY MIGHT NOT BE HERE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS PART IF TOUGH DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE THAT AFFECT THEM AND THEIR COMMUNITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR KIDS EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE UP IN ARMS, BUT THE CONVERSATIONS AND THE IRE IS NOT GOING TO BE DIRECTED TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE DIRECTED AND WE HAVE GOT TO GET PEOPLE AT THE STATE TO HELP US. I KNOW WE ARE ADVOCATES FOR THAT, BUT THERE'S GOT TO BE A BIGGER PIE OF FOLKS THAT ARE PUSHING FOR INCREASED FUNDING AND WHEN WE GOT THE UPDATE THAT WE GOT DURING OUR TRAINING YESTERDAY THAT THERE'S NO APPETITE PRESENTLY TO INCREASE EDUCATION FUNDING THAT'S INSANE, THAT'S CRAZY AND WE CAN'T STAND FOR IT SO YOU'RE SITTING AT THE TABLE RIGHT NOW. SO THAT'S WHY I'M TALKING TO YOU.BUT ALSO I'M TALKING TO OUR BROADER COMMUNITY WE HAVE GOT TO FIX THIS. THIS IS NOT A SUSTAINABLE PATHWAY AND THEY'RE ASKING US TO PERFORM MIRACLES AND AT THE SAME TIME SOME OF THOSE SAME VOICES THAT DON'T WANT TO FUND US WILL THEN TAKE A SWIPE AT PUBLIC EDUCATION SAYING WHY AREN'T YOU DOING YOUR? JOB IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE STARVING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS TRUTH OCCURRED WELL, I WOULDN'T GONNA MAKE A SPEECH BUT NOW I WANT TO MAKE A SPEECH NOW I DO WANT TO JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT FRUSTRATION IT'S WHAT I'VE TALKED ABOUT FROM THIS DS FOR A LONG TIME NOW I GET CONSTITUENTS ALL THE TIME WHO WANT TO GO WHITE. WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY MORE MONEY? MY PROPERTY TAXES KEEP GOING UP AND UP AND UP I DON'T UNDERSTAND AND THAT'S BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOUR PROPERTY TAXES GO UP THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE'RE ALLOWED TO SPEND PER STUDENT IS SET EXPLICITLY BY THE STATE SO IF YOUR VALUES GO UP, BUT WE'RE ONLY ALLOWED TO SPEND THE SAME AMOUNT.
WHERE'S ALL THAT EXTRA GOING? WHAT'S GOING BACK TO THE STATE WHO PUTS LESS AND LESS DOLLARS INTO PUBLIC EDUCATION EVERY YEAR AND THEN EVERY TIME WE GO TO LEGISLATIVE SESSION WE HAVE TO GO BEG THE LEGISLATURE TO LET US KEEP THE PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS THAT THE PUBLIC THINKS ARE GOING TO PUBLIC EDUCATION WHEN THEY'RE NOT AND IT'S JUST EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING TO GO HAVE TO BEG AND THEN THEY COME AND SAY WELL, WE GAVE YOU A SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS LAST SESSION WELL, THAT'S THAT'S SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS OF THE MONEY YOU ESSENTIALLY KEPT US HELD HELD FROM US AND YOU ONLY GAVE US PART OF IT BACK AND NOW WE'RE STUCK SO ANYWAY, NOW I'M I WOULD ALMOST WENT TO THE WHOLE MEETING WITHOUT TALKING NOW. I GOT FRUSTRATED SO I COULDN'T HELP IT. UM, OKAY SPEAKING OF FRUSTRATIONS ON THE HOLD HARMLESS ADJUSTMENT WERE WERE WE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED AN ESTIMATE BY TEA OF WHAT HOME HARMLESS WAS GOING TO BE? YES, AND DID WE HAVE THAT NUMBER IN HAND AT THE TIME WE CREATED OUR BUDGET? YES, AND SO WE ADOPTED A BUDGET WITH A SET OF ASSUMPTIONS THAT THE STATE TOLD US WE COULD RELY ON IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, AND THE STATE IS NOW I'M TRYING TO FIND ANOTHER PHRASE OTHER THAN PULL THE RUG OUT FROM UNDER US BUT I'M REALLY STRUGGLING TO DO SO THE STATE HAS NOW AFTER WE HAVE ADOPTED THE BUDGET AFTER WE HAVE ALREADY TOLD THE TAXPAYERS YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WE'RE RUNNING INTO DEFICITS, BUT WE THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO CLEAR, YOU KNOW DO OUR BEST TO BE STEWARDS THEY'VE CHANGED THE RULES ON US AND NOW OUR DEFICITS GOING TO BE MATERIALLY HIGHER TO THE TUNE OF 50. SO WE'RE 50 MILLION DOLLARS OR SO. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT I'M FRUSTRATED AND HOPEFULLY THE STATE WILL REALIZE THAT YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE RULES ON US ONCE AGAIN LIKE THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST AND THEY WILL CORRECT THIS AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE AN END RESULT MORE IN LINE OF WHAT WE WERE HOPING OUR EXPECTATIONS WOULD BE MY LAST QUESTION WAS, YOU KNOW I KNOW YOU'RE YOU CHIEF RAMOS YOU AND YOUR TEAM PLEASE DON'T LET MY FRUSTRATION IN ANY WAY COME ACROSS AS A REFLECTION ON THE WONDERFUL WORK YOU GUYS ARE DOING AND AND AND EVERY YEAR YOU FIND WAYS TO BE EXCELLENT STEWARDS
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OF OUR TAXPAYERS DOLLARS AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DRAMATICALLY REDUCE THE DEFICITS THAT WERE PROJECTED FOR THE LAST MANY YEARS I AM JUST CURIOUS, YOU KNOW, THERE IS AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME LEFT IN THE FISCAL YEAR DO WE ANTICIPATE BEING ABLE TO CLOSE EVEN FURTHER AND TOWARD THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING AT SLIDE TO WHERE WE'RE PROJECTING A BUDGET DEFICIT OF 90 BASICALLY 91 MILLION DOLLARS IS THAT KIND OF WHERE WE THINK WE'LL END UP OR DO WE THINK THERE'S SOME HOPE THAT'LL GET EVEN SMALLER OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, YOU KNOW, OUR GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO REDUCE THAT DEFICIT, BUT I'M GONNA ANSWER IT WITH I'M GONNA UNDER PROMISE SO THAT I CAN TRY TO DELIVER I I EXPECT THIS TO BE A LITTLE BETTER.BUT AGAIN, I WE JUST WE DON'T WANT THIS TIME. WE'RE VERY IN A VERY DIFFERENT SPOT THAN WE WERE AND IT'S LATE IN THE YEAR AND SO THAT'S MY HESITANT THE OTHER TIMES I FELT COMFORTABLE SAYING HEY, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO DO THIS WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO DO THAT. WE ARE ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW HALFWAY THROUGH APRIL WE HAVE TWO MONTHS LEFT IN THIS BUDGET YEAR AND WE JUST GOT NOTIFICATION RIGHT IN THE MEMO IN MARCH BEFORE SPRING BREAK WITH REGARD TO THIS CHANGE. SO WE WE ANTICIPATE DOING BETTER AND JUST REALLY UNSURE RIGHT NOW WHAT WE CAN DO IN TWO AND A HALF MONTHS. WE WILL DO SOMETHING. I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT AND AM I CORRECT THAT THIS CALCULATION CHANGES? OUT DISPROPORTIONATE THE RIGHT WORD, BUT IT'S HITTING US AS A DISTRICT MUCH HARDER THAN IT IS OTHERS RIGHT NOW WE CANNOT FIND ANYONE THAT IS HAVING A PERCENT HIT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO WHAT WE ARE INCLUDING HOUSTON I'M NOT A MATH WHIZ OR I DON'T WANT TO SHOW IT'S ON MYSELF I'M PRETTY GOOD AT MATH, BUT I HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU CAN HAVE A CALCULATION CHANGE THAT HITS ONE DISTRICT OUT OF THE STATE DRAMATICALLY WORSE THAN EVERYONE ELSE THAT THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AND HOPEFULLY THE STATE WILL REVISIT AND CAN MAKE A CORRECTION. SO, THANK YOU TRUSTEE TURNER I WANT TO SAY A GREAT PRESENTATION AND I FEEL THE PAIN THAT MY COLLEAGUES ARE TALKING ABOUT MY MAIN CONCERN EVEN THOUGH WE'VE HAD THESE CUTS I WILL STILL BE INTERESTED AND MAYBE WE'LL JUST HAVE THIS IN A ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATION ABOUT SOME THINGS IN THE BUDGET THAT I'VE TAKEN A LOOK AT THAT I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT BUT I WILL TALK TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OFFLINE ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU TRUSTEE LAMBERT WELL, EVERYBODY HAD SUCH GREAT QUESTIONS THAT I APPRECIATE THE DILIGENCE WITH WHICH WE'RE ALL TAKING A LOOK AT THIS I ALSO APPRECIATE THE DILIGENCE WITH WHICH YOU PREPARED ALL THIS INFORMATION AND I FIND IT. I JUST WANT TO SAY HAVING A YOU KNOW 50 ISH MILLION DOLLAR HIT FROM A CHANGE IN A CALCULATION FROM FEBRUARY TO NOW IS TOUGH. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR ROLLING UP YOUR SLEEVES DIGGING DEEP TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE CLARITY SO THAT PERHAPS WE CAN WE CAN MAKE IT RIGHT. SO I WANT TO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT. I I ALSO WILL HAVE A QUICK QUESTION ON THE ASSUMPTION OF THE FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT RATE, WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? SO THAT COMES FROM LOOKING AT OUR HISTORICAL GROWTH AND ACTUALLY WE JUST MET WITH THE CHIEF APPRAISER TODAY AND THEY GAVE US A CONFIRMATION THAT THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS PROPERTY VALUE GROWTH. OKAY, GREAT THANK YOU.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE GREATER DETAIL ON THE ROI CALCULATIONS AND YOU KNOW IN MAY WHEN WE TAKE A REALLY ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THE BUDGET AND TAKE OUR VOTE SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND I ALSO CIRCLING BACK TO TO TRUSTEE MISH CASE POINT IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY IT'S NOTED THAT WE HAVE TWO BUCKETS OF MONEY. SO WE HAVE THE BUCKET BY WHICH WE'RE GOING TO THE VOTERS AND THEY GET TO OPINE ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANT TO FUND FACILITIES AND THEN WE HAVE THIS BUCKET WHICH IS WHICH IS DESIGNATED OR DICTATED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE. IT IS NOT IN THE HANDS OF VOTERS IT'S IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE AND THEY TELL US AND THOSE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS AS HE MENTIONED I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO DRIVE HOME AND TO CONTINUE TO EDUCATE OUR JUST YOU KNOW CONSTITUENTS ON THAT THE TWO BUCKETS OF MONEY ARE VERY SEPARATE FACILITIES IS VOTER DECIDED AND OPERATING FUNDS THE DAY-TO-DAY, YOU KNOW PAYING THE TEACHERS INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION COSTS, YOU KNOW GAS, ETC. UTILITIES. ALL OF THAT IS REALLY WE KIND OF GET WHAT WE GET AND APPRECIATE WHAT WE GET VERY MUCH AND AT THE SAME TIME HOPE THAT WE CAN GET MORE SO THANK
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YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE DETAIL.I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR CONVERSATION IN MAY I KNOW IT'S GOING TO MAKE A GOOD DETAILED ONE.
THANKS TRUSTEE GARCIA THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, THIS IS VERY HELPFUL AND UNDERSTANDING SOMETHING WE'VE ALREADY KNOW THAT WE'RE ON A STARVING BUDGET. I THINK WAS SAID BEFORE AND THIS SOUNDS LIKE A RHETORICAL QUESTION, BUT IS THERE A WAY TO PREP FOR FALSE PROJECTIONS IN THE FUTURE. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT? CHIEF RAMOS, MAYBE YOU'RE A MAGICIAN LIKE THAT. I MEAN THAT THE ONLY THE BEST WAY TO PREP FOR IT IS JUST TO BE CONSERVATIVE WITH YOUR BUDGETING BUT OKAY, WELL THERE ARE SOME AREAS OF THE BUDGET THAT I WILL ADDRESS CONTINUE TO ADDRESS IN MY ONE-ON-ONES AND ALSO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AROUND DIFFERENT ROLES. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW EVERY ROLE I DON'T NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY ALL DO BUT SOME YOU KNOW HIGH-LEVEL UNDERSTANDING AS A NEWER BOARD MEMBER AND THEN I ALSO JUST WANT TO I THINK IT'LL IT'S STUCK OUT. I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THERE'S COMMUNITY MEETINGS HOW HOW DO TRUSTEES SUPPORT THESE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND HOW CAN WE ENGAGE? I KNOW THAT WE GET SO MANY QUESTIONS OUTSIDE OF THOSE MEETINGS, BUT YOU HAD A LIST OF THEM. I KNOW I SAW ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER SO SO DOUBT YEAH, SO A PARTICIPATION AT THE MEETINGS IF YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED AND IS THERE THE ARE THE DATES ALREADY OUT? YEAH SO THE LAST SLIDE HAS THE DATES AND THE TIME AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM HAS ALREADY STARTED PUSHING THOSE OUT AND THEY'LL CONTINUE TO DO SO AND WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT OUR CAMPUSES PUT THAT INFORMATION OUT THROUGH THEIR OWN YOU KNOW CAMPUS INFORMATIONS WHETHER THAT'S THEIR ORGANIZATION'S PTAS SBDMS WE'LL USE ALL AVENUES THROUGH CHIEF YOU AT POWELL AS WELL AS YOU KNOW ANY ANY EVENT THAT WE'RE HOLDING WILL MAKE SURE THAT THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO READILY AVAILABLE SO ANYONE CAN ATTEND TO ANY OF THESE WONDERFUL.
THANK YOU ROUND TWO TRUSTEE CURRY JUST A REAL SMALL POINT WELL TRUSTEE MISS KAY AND TRUSTEE WEINBERG TALKED ABOUT HOW YOU KNOW, THIS IS ABOUT THE SORT OF CAPITAL SIDE OF THE BALANCE SHEET AS OPPOSED TO THE OPERATING SIDE BUT JUST TO SHOUT OUT TO PROPS SEE JUST SO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT DOES IT DOES REFINANCE SOME DEBT WHICH WOULD THEN AS PART OF THAT SHIFT SOME OF THE DEBT PAYMENTS FROM THE OPERATING SIDE TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHEET WHICH WOULD FREE UP AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT OF OPERATING CASH IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT YOU KNOW WHILE THE LEGISLATURE CONTROLS THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE OPERATING BUDGET THERE'S AT LEAST A SMALL THING THAT TAXPAYERS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON RELATED TO ADDITIONAL DOLLARS IN THE OPERATING BUDGET JUST YOU EVER JUST QUICKLY IN THE MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE WITH THE PUBLIC I'M HOPING THAT PERHAPS IT YOU ALL I ALWAYS THINK OF THIS SO BEAR WITH ME IF YOU ALREADY HAVE WHICH I IMAGINE YOU HAVE BUT JUST KIND OF THAT BASIC OVERVIEW OF HOW SCHOOL FINANCE WORKS ON BOTH SIDES AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW KIND OF I THINK WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT YESTERDAY AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO TELL THE PUBLIC ALSO THE DISTRICT'S RESULTS AND SORT OF AS AS PART OF RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN THE OVERARCHING SENSE, RIGHT? HOW THE INVESTMENT THAT WE'VE MADE? RELATES TO HOW STUDENTS ARE PERFORMING. I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE. THANK YOU JERSEY FOR ME. I JUST WANT TO QUICKLY SAY WHEN WE GO TO THE PUBLIC WHAT? WE STRUGGLE WITH WHAT YOU'RE TELLING US.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC'S GONNA STRUGGLE SUPERINTENDENT I HOPE THERE IS A TAKEAWAY SOME KIND OF QUESTIONNAIRE OR SOMETHING TO GIVE THE PUBLIC AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTERJECT AND TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THEIR OPINION RATHER THAN JUST A PRESENTATION. WE NEED A TAKEAWAY FOR THE PUBLIC THANK YOU I'LL ALSO COMMIT THAT WE WILL PUT WHAT OUR FIRST DRAFT OF OUR PRESENTATION WITH DOING SOME SORT OF TAKEAWAY FROM OUR PUBLIC.
WE WILL PUT THAT IN A BOARD UPDATE SO THAT ALL OF YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE WILL BE UTILIZING AND THAT WAY IF NECESSARY WE CAN CERTAINLY MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS. SO THANK YOU FOR RAISING THAT AND WE'LL PUT THAT IN IN A BOARD UPDATE THAT'LL PROBABLY BE ME COMING WITH THE SUGGESTIONS TRUSTEES
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FURTHER QUESTIONS SEEING NONE.[9. MINUTES SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL]
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE PRESENTATION TRUSTEES.WE'LL NOW MOVE TO AGENDA ITEMS OR QUESTIONS UNDER MINUTES SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL. HOWEVER, THE MINUTES TRUSTEES WILL BE POSTED INDELIGENT
[10. STATUTORY ITEMS]
FOR YOUR REVIEW THE TRUSTEES UNDER STATUTORY ITEMS 10A I WANT TO MAKE YOU AWARE AT THE LAST REGULAR MEETING OF THE MONTH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES BEFORE AN ELECTION OF TRUSTEES THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF EACH LOCAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS REQUIRED TO ANNOUNCE THE NAME OF EACH BOARD MEMBER WHO HAS COMPLETED THE REQUIRED CONTINUING EDUCATION WHO HAS EXCEEDED THE REQUIRED HOURS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION ANYWAY, AND WHO IS DEFICIENT IN MEETING THE REQUIRED CONTINUING EDUCATION AS OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DATE OF EACH BOARD MEMBERS ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT TO THE BOARD COMPLETING THE REQUIRED CONTINUING EDUCATION IS A BASIC OBLIGATION AND EXPECTATION OF ANY SITTING BOARD MEMBER UNDER THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION RULE IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED YOUR REQUIRED TRAINING, PLEASE DO SO BEFORE THIS MONTH'S APRIL 23RD MEETING OR ELSE I GUESS TRUSTEES ANY QUESTIONS? UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS UNDER STATUTORY ITEMS 10 NO HOW ABOUT POLICY UPDATES WHICH IS 11 THERE'S ONLY ONE 11 A ANYONE OKAY OKAY, WHAT ABOUT ACADEMICS AND TRANSFORMATION DIVISION WHICH WOULD BE 14 14 A ANYTHING[15. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION]
THERE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION 16 A I SEE TRUSTEE FOREMAN, RIGHT? OKAY OKAY 16 A I'M JUST CURIOUS DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER CONTRACTS FOR IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OR IS THIS THE ONLY ONE? SO WE HAVE CONTRACTS FOR INSTANCE WITH POWER SCHOOL, THERE'S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BAKED INTO THAT CONTRACT THIS IS SEPARATE FROM ANY OTHER OVERARCHING CONTRACT FOR ME, I JUST LIKE TO KNOW AND SEE HOW MANY OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACTS WE HAVE. YES INCLUDING THIS ONE AND A DOLLAR AMOUNT AND THE YEAR WE ACTUALLY LET THAT PARTICULAR CONTRACT. YES TRUSTEE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU OKAY TRUSTEES ANYONE ELSE FOR[17. FINANCIAL SERVICES DIVISION]
16 A OKAY, THEN WE'LL GO TO FINANCIAL SERVICES DIVISION WHICH IS 18 A YES THROUGH WHICH ONE 18 A YES, 18 A 18 A TRUSTEE TURNER YEAH, I HAVE A CONCERN MY MAN CONCERNED A BUDGET IS LOOKING AT A YOU BASICALLY WITH TRANSPORTATION AND THEY'RE ALREADY AT 75% OF THEIR SPENDING ALREADY HERE IN FEBRUARY SO IS THAT RELATED TO FUEL COSTS? IS IT RELATED TO OVERTIME? LIKE CAN YOU TELL ME WHY? IT'S THE COST YEAH THAT'S ACTUALLY RELATED TO THE PAYROLL ESTIMATE AND IF YOU LOOK AT NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, WE HAVE ADJUSTED OUR TRANSPORTATION ESTIMATE AND IT'S BECAUSE WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE HISTORICAL SPENDING ON PAYROLL WE WERE MISCALCULATING OUR PAYROLL ESTIMATE SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'VE ADJUSTED THE PAYROLL FOR NEXT YEAR BECAUSE I SEE IN THE PROPOSAL BUDGET THAT YOU HAVE OVERTIME FOR A MILLION DOLLARS, IS THAT THE ADJUSTMENT THAT YOU'RE MAKING? YES ALSO, IS THAT ONE OF THE TOOLS THAT YOU'RE KIND OF PUT IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T GO OVER BUDGET WHEN IT COMES TO OVERTIME SO OVERTIME ACTUALLY THIS YEAR AND LAST YEAR. WE'VE REDUCED OVERTIME BY 30% SO THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH REGARDS TO OUR BUDGET SO WE'VE MANAGED TO CONTROL OVERTIME IN A DISTRICT WIDE HOWEVER[01:50:01]
IN THIS PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT WE ARE CHALLENGED BY THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH DRIVERS AND SO OUR ONLY OTHER OPTION IF WE DON'T AND WE'RE THANKFUL I ACTUALLY WANT TO THANK OUR DRIVERS WHO DO PICK UP THE EXTRA RUNS BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS LIKE THE FIRST PLACE WE'D HAVE TO CUT. I MEAN WE COULD KEEP FROM GOING OVERTIME WE WOULD JUST HAVE TO CUT ROUTES SO FOR INSTANCE THE FIRST AREA THAT COSTS US THE MOST THAT'S NOT REQUIRED WOULD BE MAGNET TRANSPORTATION BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT IF WE CUT MAGNET TRANSPORTATION THAT'S AN ACCESSIBILITY FOR MANY STUDENTS AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE WE IT COSTS YOU MORE YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT COST US MORE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PAY TIME AND A HALF WHEN WE PAY OVERTIME BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE ANY ENOUGH DRIVERS, THEN OUR OPTION IS TO REDUCE SERVICES AND SO WHILE WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB OF OVERTIME DISTRICT WIDE I DEFINITELY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M BEING TRANSPARENT I DON'T SEE US BEING THIS PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT WOULD NOT BE A PLACE THAT I WOULD BE ABLE TO CUT OUR OVERTIME NOW I'M NOT SAYING TO CUT OVER TIME. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MANAGING IT PROPERLY AND ALSO KNOW LIKE ANY EFFICIENCIES WITH ROUTES SCHEDULE CHANGES THINGS OF THAT NATURE. IS THAT SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE ARE EXPLORING? YES, WE ACTUALLY REDUCED OUR SPECIAL ED ROUTES LAST YEAR. OKAY. NOW WE'LL TALK ABOUT FUEL COSTS, BUT ESPECIALLY WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW WHAT IMPACT ARE WE FORECASTING FOR A RISE IN FUEL ESPECIALLY GOING INTO THE SUMMERTIME? SO FUEL WE'VE WITH REGARDS TO FEW WE KIND OF PRICED OUT OUR CONTRACT AND IT'S A FIXED COST SO THAT MINIMIZES OUR IMPACT WHENEVER A FEW COSTS INCREASE SO WE BUY LIKE FUTURES. YEAH. OKAY. YES THANK YOU, SO IT JUST A QUORUM IN 18 A YEAH, JUST JUST REAL QUICK SO WE'RE TELLING HOW MANY SQUARE MILES IS DALLAS ISD 340 320 300 AND I THINK IT'S IT'S RIGHT UNDER 400 LIKE 380 ALMOST 390 SQUARE. IT'S HUGE.YES, MA'AM. SO AND THAT I ASKED THAT QUESTION FOR A SIMPLE REASON. I UNDERSTAND THE FRUSTRATION OF TRUSTEE TURNER LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS, BUT BECAUSE IT IS SO LARGE I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL EVER HAVE ENOUGH BUS DRIVERS IN YOU CAN PROP YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER WHEN WE TOOK OVER TRANSPORTATION FROM DALLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS, AND WE KNEW AT THE TIME THAT THAT WAS GOING TO BE A STRUGGLE AND I THINK IT CONTINUES TO BE A STRUGGLE TRYING TO MANAGE THAT PARTICULAR SITUATION AND WITH ALL OF THE OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE TRANSPORTING KIDS BACK AND FORTH IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT'S CUMBERSOME AND WE ALSO HAD CUT BACK ON SOME OF OUR OUR FIELD TRIPS WHICH HOPEFULLY WE WILL PICK UP ON MORE OF THOSE FIELD TRIPS, BUT THAT'S ALSO TRANSPORTATION COSTS AND ALSO DRIVERS, SO I THINK THAT'S A REALLY DIFFICULT AREA TO TO WORK WITH WITH SUCH A LARGE DISTRICT IF WE WERE SMALL, I WON'T CALL ANY SMALL DISTRICTS NAMES BECAUSE I GET IN TROUBLE, BUT IF WE WERE A SMALLER DISTRICT, I THINK IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE MANAGEABLE OKAY, SO I SAW RAMOS SHAKING HIS HEAD AND AGREEING WITH ME TRUSTEES ANYONE ELSE FOR 18A OKAY, THEN ANYTHING ELSE UNDER FINANCIAL SERVICES DIVISION WHICH IS 18A THROUGH 23A OKAY OKAY, AND HOW ABOUT OPERATION SERVICES DIVISION, WHICH IS 25 AND 26. OH, I HAVE 22 DID YOU SKIP THAT OR DID I FORGET TO SAY OKAY, SO A 22 A YEAH, OKAY 22 A TRUSTEE WARNBERG. I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.
THAT'S THE FEDERAL GRANTS AND IT'S JUST I'M CURIOUS HOW WHEN DO WE GET CONFIRMED THAT THIS FUNDING WILL ACTUALLY BE AVAILABLE TO US? HOW AT RISK IS THIS AMOUNT OF FUNDING? IT WAS A HUNDRED SIXTEEN ONE THAT HUNDRED EIGHTEEN MILLION 116 POINT FIVE MILLION. YEAH, SO THAT IS THAT IS THE FUNDING THAT WE ARE EXPECTING TO RECEIVE SO IT'S
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BEEN CONFIRMED. THAT'S THAT'S NOT AT RISK IN ANY WAY.CORRECT. THAT IS CONFIRMED AS FAR AS WE KNOW. YES OKAY, NO RECALCULATIONS OR THAT WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW OF THANK YOU OKAY, ANYONE FOR OPERATION SERVICES DIVISION 25 OR 26 OKAY WHAT ABOUT
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CONSTRUCTION SERVICES DIVISION, WHICH IS 28 AND 29 I HAVE A QUESTION. OKAY. I SEE TURNER WHICH ONE WHICH UH, WHICH ITEM I JUST WANTED BRENT TO GET OUT OF SEAT THAT WAS IT. OH, REALLY? NO, HE'S THERE'S OH MY GOODNESS. ALL RIGHT. HE WANTED YOU TO EXERCISE. OKAY. OKAY.ANYONE ELSE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES DIVISION SO, YOU KNOW SUPPOSED TO DO THAT'S MY JOB.
THERE YOU GO OKAY, NOTHING ELSE, OKAY LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE GOOD RIGHT? OKAY, THEN TRUSTEES WILL TURN TO AGENDA ITEM 30 WAIT, OKAY. I DID GET CLARIFICATION BECAUSE OF THE QUESTION WE DID WE ARE 384 SQUARE MILES AND HOUSTON IS 320 OH, THERE YOU GO. TRUSTEES WILL TURN TO JUNE. I'M 30 ADJOURNMENT.
THE TIME IS 6 34 P.M., THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.