GOOD EVENING, GOOD EVENING, I'M NANCY HUMPHREY, BOARD, VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING
[1. CALL TO ORDER: 6:00 PM ]
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OFFICER DAVID STOLLE, PRESIDENT, IS UNABLE TO BE WITH US THIS EVENING, NOTING THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.I CALL TO ORDER THIS BOARD MEETING OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT SIX O'CLOCK PM ON TUESDAY, JAN.
11, 2022 ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF.
I WISH TO WELCOME OUR VIEWERS AND ALL WHO ARE PRESENT WITH US THIS EVENING.
AT THIS TIME, I ASKED SUPERINTENDENT BONSER TO VERIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT REQUIRED REGARDING THIS NOTICE FOR THE MEETING.
THANK YOU, VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY.
I VERIFIED THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT.
I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MY FELLOW TRUSTEES AND STAFF SEATED AT THE DAIS TO MY LEFT.
SUPERINTENDENT SARA BONSER, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
DR. THERESA WILLIAMS, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND BOARD SECRETARY JERI CHAMBERS SEATED TO MY RIGHT TRUSTEE CODY WEAVER.
HEATHER WANG, TRUSTEE ANGELA POWELL AND TRUSTEE DR.
[2. PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE ]
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU TO PLEASE JOIN ME AND STAND TO RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE TEXAS FLAGS.AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS A NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
NOW IT'S TIME FOR RECOGNITIONS AND AS YOU CAN SEE ABOVE AND ON THE SCREENS
[3. RECOGNITIONS ]
IN THE ROOM, WE HAVE MANY TALENTED STUDENTS WINNING AWARDS AT THE STATE AND NATIONAL LEVELS.FOR INSTANCE, PLANO WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM COMPETED IN DECEMBER AT THE TWENTY ONE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SPEECH AND DEBATE TOURNAMENT HELD AT UT AUSTIN.
COACH ROBBIE HOLLAND WAS PROUD TO SHARE THAT THE STUDENTS BESTED A FIELD OF 108 PROGRAMS FROM 13 STATES.
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS SHOW SHOWN INCLUDED.
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS SHOWN INCLUDE WINNERS IN CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE.
INTERNATIONAL EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING, ORIGINAL ORATORY, DUO INTERPRETATION.
DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION, INFORMATIVE SPEAKING AND PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE.
JASPER HIGH SCHOOL COMPETED AT THE PROSPER ROCK HILL SWING SPEECH AND DEBATE TOURNAMENT IN DECEMBER 22 SPEECH AND DEBATE.
STUDENTS REPRESENTED JASPER AMONG FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE ENTRIES FROM TWENTY FIVE SCHOOLS IN TEXAS.
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS INCLUDE WINNERS IN U.S.
EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING, INTERNATIONAL EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING, ORIGINAL ORATORY, CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE AND PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE.
LET'S GIVE ALL OF THESE STUDENTS A ROUND OF APPLAUSE.
[4. PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION ]
NOW WE WILL HEAR PUBLIC COMMENTS RELATED TO AGENDA ITEMS, DR.WILLIAMS, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, WILL ADVISE IF THERE ARE ANY SPEAKERS REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS. DR. WILLIAMS. THANK YOU.
WE HAVE SIX SPEAKER CARDS THIS EVENING, ONE AGENDA AND FIVE NON AGENDA.
IN ORDER FOR THE BOARD TO HOLD THIS MEETING IN AN EFFECTIVE MANNER, MANNER, I ASKED THE PUBLIC TO ABIDE BY THE RULES IN POLICY BOARD POLICY BED LOCAL AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IN THIS MEETING OCCURS DURING PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION.
AT ALL OTHER TIMES, THE AUDIENCE SHALL NOT ENTER INTO DISCUSSION UNLESS REQUESTED BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER.
AT BOARD MEETINGS THE BOARD PERMITS PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS AND NON AGENDA ITEMS. AT THIS TIME, THE BOARD WILL HEAR COMMENTS REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS, NON AGENDA ITEMS. COMMENTS WILL BE HEARD AT THE END OF THIS MEETING.
INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATE BY SUBMITTING A COMMENT CARD IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING.
COMMENT CARDS ARE NOT TRANSFERABLE AND INCORPORATE COMMENT CARDS AND INCOMPLETE
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COMMENT CARDS MAY NOT BE HONORED IF A SPEAKER IS NOT PRESENT WHEN CALLED UPON.THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE TO SPEAK WILL BE FORFEITED.
FAILURE TO LIST ON YOUR COMMENT CARD THE AGENDA ITEM BEING ADDRESSED WILL RESULT IN THE PRESUMPTION THAT YOU ARE SPEAKING ON A NON AGENDA ITEM AND YOUR COMMENTS WILL BE HEARD AT THE END OF THIS MEETING.
SHOULD AN INDIVIDUAL FAILED TO ADDRESS THE ITEM LISTED ON THEIR PUBLIC COMMENT CARD, I WILL STOP THE SPEAKER AND REQUEST THAT THEY MAINTAIN FOCUS ON THE TOPIC LISTED.
SPEAKERS WHO FAIL TO ADHERE TO THE TOPIC LISTED ON THEIR COMMENT CARD ARE OUT OF ORDER AND WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE PODIUM.
A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES MAY BE PROVIDED FOR EACH COMMENT.
IF THE NUMBER OF COMMENTS EXCEEDS 10, THE TIME LIMIT MAY BE REDUCED.
TONIGHT'S SPEAKERS WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES EACH.
IF YOU ARE NOT FINISHED SPEAKING AT THE END OF YOUR TIME, YOU'RE EXPECTED TO STOP.
SPEAKERS WHO FAILED TO STOP SPEAKING WHEN INTRODUCED TO DO SO ARE OUT OF ORDER AND THE MICROPHONE WILL BE TURNED OFF.
AS A REMINDER TO SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE, IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO DISRUPT A LAWFUL MEETING AND PHYSICAL ACTION OR VERBAL UTTERANCE.
IF AFTER AT LEAST ONE MORNING AN INDIVIDUAL CONTINUES TO DISRUPT THE MEETING WITH WORDS OR ACTIONS, THE PERSON WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.
FAILURE TO LEAVE WHEN REQUESTED TO DO SO MAY RESULT IN REMOVAL FROM THE MEETING BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
WHEN YOU ARE CALLED TO THE PODIUM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
THE AGENDA ITEM RELATING TO YOUR COMMENTS AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU RESIDE WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
WILLIAMS, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL HER FIRST SPEAKER TO THE PODIUM? OUR FIRST SPEAKER THIS EVENING IS KATIE REINHART.
MS. RENARD, I'LL LET YOU KNOW THAT.
YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND BOARD SECRETARY JERI CHAMBERS OVER HERE.
WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED.
OK, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ONE MINUTE WARNING OR DO YOU JUST WANT TO GO FOR YOUR THREE MINUTES? IT'S NOT GOING TO TAKE THAT LONG, PROBABLY.
GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS KATIE REINHART, AND I'M A PARTY TO A RECONSIDERATION PROCESS FOR A BOOK IN A PISD LIBRARY.
I RECEIVED THE RECONSIDERATION FORM COMPLETED BY THE CAMPUS COMMITTEE.
THERE WERE NO TITLES GIVING GIVEN OF EACH COMMITTEE MEMBER AND THE ROLE THEY SERVED ON THE COMMITTEE.
REYNARD, MAY I INTERRUPT YOU? CAN YOU PLEASE STATE THE AGENDA ITEM TO WHICH YOU'RE SPEAKING ABOUT FNG LEGAL TEN POINT ONE GRIEVANCES? HMM.
THAT'S IS THAT IN THE POLICIES.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? YES.
IT'S A CAMPUS I WAS I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH, SO I REACHED OUT TO THE LIBRARIAN FIRST TO ASK FOR CLARIFICATION OF THE TITLES BECAUSE THE FORM JUST HAD THE SIGNATURES OF THE SEVEN COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
THERE WERE NO TITLES AND THERE WERE NO PRINTED NAMES, SO IT WAS HARD TO KNOW WHO THEY WERE.
I WAS DIRECTED BY HER TO EMAIL THE DIRECTOR OF LEARNING MEDIA SERVICES FOR CLARIFICATION, WHICH I DID, WHO TOLD ME TO DO AN OPEN RECORDS REQUEST, WHICH I HAVE DONE.
BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M GOING TO GET THAT INFORMATION THROUGH IRR.
I THEN EMAILED THE PRINCIPAL AT THE SCHOOL FOR CLARIFICATION AND I DID NOT GET A RESPONSE FROM HER, BUT I DID GET A RESPONSE.
ANOTHER RESPONSE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF LEARNING MEDIA SERVICES DIRECTING ME TO DO AN ORR FOR ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION ABOUT THIS CLARIFICATION TO SOMETHING I AM ALREADY A PARTY TO.
THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE IN MY SIGHT.
I AM NOT BEING TREATED AS A PARTNER AS THE LAW REQUIRES.
AND IF PLANO ISD IS UNWILLING TO BE COOPERATIVE AND TRANSPARENT, THEN IT LEAVES ME NO CHOICE BUT TO INVESTIGATE EVERY REMEDY AVAILABLE TO ME AS TO WHY PISD IS NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN POLICIES IN REGARDS TO THIS MATTER.
THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION ON NON AGENDA ITEMS. IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSE SESSION AS
[5. CLOSED SESSION ]
AUTHORIZED UNDER TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSE.SECTION FIVE FIVE ONE POINT EIGHT NINE.
THE TIME IS SIX ZERO NINE P.M..
OK, WE ARE BACK INTO OPEN SESSION AND THE TIME IS SEVEN THIRTY NINE, AND I
[6. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION ]
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WANT TO MAKE A CLARIFICATION WHEN I CLOSED OUT THE PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE END OF THE.AGENDA PORTION, PUBLIC COMMENT, I SAID NON AGENDA, AND I TOTALLY MADE A MISTAKE THERE, AND I APOLOGIZE IF THAT LED TO ANY CONFUSION, NOT AGENDA.
PUBLIC COMMENT WILL OCCUR AT THE END OF THE MEETING, SO I APOLOGIZE IF I MESSED UP WITH ANYBODY AND WE HOPE YOU'RE STILL HERE FOR NON AGENDA AT THE END OF THE MEETING.
SO WE HAVE CONCLUDED THE AGENDA ITEM FOR CLOSED SESSION AND LIKE I SAID, WE ARE BACK IN TIME AT SEVEN THIRTY NINE.
THE BOARD WILL NOW CONVENE OPEN SESSION.
TODAY IS TUESDAY, JANUARY 11TH.
[7. CONSENT AGENDA ]
CONSENT, WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE CONSENT AGENDA AND CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTS OF ROUTINE ITEMS GROUPED TOGETHER FOR APPROVAL WITH NO DISCUSSION BOARD MEMBERS ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO MOVE ANY ITEMS FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, THEN I WILL ASK FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED AND I SECOND ANGELA POWELL.
I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS AND A SECOND BY ANGELA POWELL THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED.
WE WILL NOW PROCEED TO VOTE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
AND THE MOTION PASSES, HOW MANY ARE HERE, SIX, SIX TO ZERO, SO GREAT, WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE 2020.
WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, WE HAVE A NEW PRINCIPLE TO INTRODUCE.
BETH BROCKMAN, WILL YOU PLEASE YOUR ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR EMPLOYEE SERVICES? WILL YOU PLEASE BEGIN THE INTRODUCTION, BETH? ABSOLUTELY.
THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME DR.
SALADO AND OUR NEW PRINCIPAL UP TO THE FRONT.
DR. STOLLE LAREDO, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION, WILL INTRODUCE OUR NEW PRINCIPAL FOR FORMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
GOOD EVENING, DR. BROCKMAN, VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY, SUPERINTENDENT BONSER, MEMBERS OF THE CABINET AND SCHOOL BOARD.
THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE TO YOU, THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE PISD FAMILY OF PRINCIPALS IS TRULY AN HONOR.
IT IS A PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU, SCOTT SCHWEICKERT AS THE NEW PRINCIPAL OF FORMAN ELEMENTARY.
SCOTT SCOTT IS BOTH EAGER AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, READY TO SERVE AND SHARE HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR LEARNING, AS WELL AS HIS CARING DEMEANOR WITH ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE FORMAN ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY.
MR. SCHWEIKERT POSSESSES A STRONG AND WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE PREPARED HIM FOR THIS ROLE.
HE HAS SERVED AS A COACH, CLASSROOM TEACHER AND TEAM LEADER, BOTH HERE IN PLANO ISD AND IN OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR.
ALL OF HIS CAREER HAS BEEN HERE IN PLANO ISD.
AS YOU CAN SEE BY HIS CHEERING SQUAD OF PRINCIPALS THAT HE HAS WORKED WITH ALONG THE WAY, HE HAS SERVED AT A NUMBER OF OUR CAMPUSES AS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, MOST RECENTLY AT JASPER HIGH SCHOOL.
PRIOR TO THAT, HE WAS AT MEADOWS ELEMENTARY AND ALSO AT MCCALL ELEMENTARY.
SCOTT'S FAMILY IS JOINING US VIRTUALLY, SO WE'D LIKE TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ALSO FOR BEING PRESENT, THERE WEREN'T ABLE TO JOIN US TODAY.
THEO, YOUR DAD PROMISES TO PICK UP ICE CREAM ON THE WAY HOME, SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE MENTION THAT.
SCOTT, WE ARE ALL VERY EXCITED TO HAVE YOU JOIN OUR FAMILY OF PRINCIPLES AND ALONG YOUR FAMILY.
WE ALL JOIN IN CELEBRATING THIS ACCOMPLISHMENT AND YOUR APPOINTMENT TO THE PRINCIPALSHIP.
FURTHERMORE, WE ARE ALL READY TO PARTNER WITH YOU AS YOU BRING TO LIFE YOUR VISION OF EXCELLENCE FOR FORMING ELEMENTARY.
WELL, SCOTT, I JUST WANT TO BEFORE YOU SLIP AWAY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND IN IN YOUR HISTORY WITH PLANO ISD AND IN THE DAYS TO COME, AS DR.
LAREDO SAID, PLEASE KNOW THAT YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY A TEAM THAT IS AS INVESTED IN YOUR SUCCESS AS YOU ARE IN THE SUCCESS OF YOUR STUDENTS AND STAFF.
SO LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN HELP AND AND TO YOUR FAMILY WHO ARE WATCHING FROM HOME.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING SCOTT WITH US.
AND THE THE JOB THAT THAT LIES AHEAD.
AND SO AND FOR YOUR YOUR CHEERING SQUAD OF PRINCIPALS HERE, IT LOOKS LIKE WE WON'T
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HAVE ANY TROUBLE HELPING YOU FIND A MENTOR OR THREE.SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TO SUPPORT SCOTT.
YOU'VE BEEN IMPORTANT TO HIM ALONG HIS JOURNEY, AND THAT WAS VERY CLEAR IN THE PROCESS.
ALL RIGHT, WELCOME ABOARD, I'M SORRY, I ALMOST SLIPPED OVER THAT.
WE'LL MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER EIGHT PUBLIC HEARING ON THE 2020-2021TWENTY
[8.1. Public Hearing on the 2020 - 2021 Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) ]
TWENTY TWO THOUSAND TWENTY ONE TEXAS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REPORT, THE TAPER REPORT, AND THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY DR.DASH WIRSING, WHERE SINGER, A SENIOR EXECUTIVE FOR DIRECTOR, ASSESSMENT, RESEARCH AND PROGRAM EVALUATION, AFTER THE PRESENTATION.
THE BOARD WILL CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AS REQUIRED BY LAW.
DR. DASH, THANK YOU BOARD PRESIDENT TRUSTEE, AS REQUIRED BY TEXAS EDUCATION CODE TAPR REPORT, IS A REQUIRED REPORT TO BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD ANNUALLY.
THE TAPR REPORT GOES BACK ABOUT ALMOST TWENTY TO TWENTY FIVE YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF TEXAS EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY, AND IT COMES OUT ABOUT IN MID DECEMBER AND WE HAVE 60 DAYS AMONG THE RELEASED DATA TO HAVE THE REPORT AND THE PUBLIC HEARING.
IN FACT, THE REPORT IS TWENTY EIGHT PAGES LONG AND IN LIKE ELEVEN POINT FIVE.
SO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH EACH ONE OF THEM BECAUSE IT IS IT IS PUBLICLY RELEASED.
WE POSTED IT TO THE TO THE DISTRICT WEBSITE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SO I BELIEVE ON JANUARY 3RD AND ALL THE HISTORY OF THE APR REPORTS GOING BACK MANY YEARS ARE AVAILABLE THERE.
THESE THIS PART OF THESE ARE REQUIRED PIECES WE ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS, THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS KIND OF INFORMALLY COMES OUT IN AUGUST.
BUT THE OFFICIAL RELEASE OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATING AND ACCREDITATIONS ARE PART OF THE TAPR REPORT.
SO THIS LAST YEAR, BECAUSE OF COVID, WE TECHNICALLY DIDN'T HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS.
THE SO EVERY RATING, EVERY DISTRICT GOT NOT RATED, DECLARED STATE OF DISASTER LABEL AND EACH ONE OF OUR 71 CAMPUSES.
JUST TO CLARIFY, WE HAVE FORTY FOUR ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES.
THIS IS LAST SCHOOL YEAR AND THAT'S AN THIRTEEN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND OUR TEN HIGH SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY AND THE FOUR EARLY CHILDHOODS ARE THE ONES THAT TAKES OVER FROM SIXTY SEVEN TO SEVENTY ONE.
HOW DOES THESE EARLY CHILDHOODS HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN OUR WORLD, ACCOUNTABILITY IS TIED TO TESTING AND TESTING STARTS IN THIRD GRADE EVERY EARLY CHILDHOOD CAMPUS NEEDS.
WE HAD TO PAIR IT WITH A CAMPUS THAT FEEDS MOST OF THE STUDENTS TO THE WHICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THEY GO TO.
SO THEIR ACCOUNTABILITY IS TIED TO THEIR FEEDER CAMPUS.
OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION DETERMINATION STATUS IT MEETS REQUIRED AND ACCREDITATION IS WE ARE ACCREDITED AS A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO WITHOUT GOING INTO TOO MUCH DETAILS AND NUMBERS, WHICH WE HAVE GONE THROUGH MOST OF THESE NUMBERS IN THE EARLIER PRESENTATIONS IN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND HAD THE DATA THEY GOT, SO THERE ARE MULTIPLE SECTIONS TO THE TAPER REPORT.
THE BIGGEST PORTION OF IT IS ON START TESTING.
THEN THERE'S TOP PERFORMANCE PAGE WHERE YOU GET ALL THE DATA THAT IS DISAGGREGATED BY ALL STUDENTS AND DIFFERENT STUDENT GROUPS, AS WELL AS COMPARISON TO THE STATE AND THE ALL STUDENTS LEVEL.
THAT'S A SECTION ON STUDENT PROGRESS.
AND THIS YEAR, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE START TESTING IN IN 2020, SCHOOL YEAR START PROGRESS WAS NOT COMPUTED.
SO WHAT ON THE REPORT, WHAT IT HAS, IT REPEATED THE PROGRESS MEASURES FOR STAFF FOR TWENTY, EIGHTEEN AND TWENTY NINETEEN THAT WAS IN THE PRIOR YEAR'S TAPR REPORT IS IS REPEATED AGAIN IN THIS REPORT.
THEN THERE'S THERE ARE SEVERAL PAGES AND DATA ANALYZES ON STAAR AND OTHER INDICATORS ON BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENTS.
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WE HAVE STAAR PARTICIPATION RATES, ATTENDANCE, GRADUATION AND DROPOUT RATES ARE THERE.THAT'S A GRADUATION PROFILE OF TYPICAL OF EVERY INDICATOR THAT GOES INTO PLANO COLLEGE CAREER AND MILITARY READINESS INDICATORS.
AND THEN THAT'S A VERY LARGE SECTION ON STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS BY WHAT PROGRAMS THEY ARE IN BY RACE, ETHNICITY, CLASS, SIZE, CLASS, STUDENT TEACHER RATIOS.
A LOT OF THAT ARE I MEAN, IT'S.
CAN YOU WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT THE NUMBERS IN THERE, BUT WE MUST PROBABLY HAVE GONE THROUGH MOST OF THAT AT DIFFERENT POINTS.
THE LAST SECTION IS MORE ABOUT THE FINANCIAL SIDE, THE OFFICIAL TAPR REPORT ALSO THAT INCLUDES THE FINANCIAL REPORT.
AND JUST TO CLARIFY HERE, THAT'S WHY I KIND OF PUT IT IN BLUE.
THE SOME OF THESE DATA ARE DON'T COME FROM THE SAME YEAR AS GRADUATION, AND DROPOUT RATES ARE TRADITIONALLY A YEAR BEHIND.
AND THE FINANCIAL REPORT TIED TO THE 2021 TAPER REPORT IS REALLY THE 1920 FINANCIALS.
SO JUST IN CASE YOU ALL CLICK THAT LINK AND GO IN THERE, MOST PROBABLY YOU HAVE.
YOU HAVE SEEN MORE NEWER VERSIONS OF OUR FINANCIALS IN OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS.
THE FINANCE REPORT HAS HAS SIX SECTIONS HERE.
THERE'S A REVENUE SECTION, THERE'S ALL THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, THEY'RE LISTED DISBURSEMENTS, THE TAX RATES FUND BALANCE AND TAX INFORMATION PAGE.
SO THE LINK THAT IS ON THIS REPORT IS CLICKABLE AND YOU CAN GO TO ALL THE TAPR REPORTS AND THEIR SUB REPORTS USING THIS LINK.
NOW, THOUGH, WE DID NOT TECHNICALLY HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY.
THE ONLY THING THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE IN ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE FACT THAT.
WE DIDN'T GET THE SCALE ZERO TO 100 SCALE SCORE.
AND THE LETTER GRADE ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
EVERYTHING ELSE THE TEA COMPUTED AND HAS PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE TAPR REPORT.
SO THIS REPORT, IF YOU GO TO THE TEXAS SCHOOLS DOT ORG OR TEXAS SCHOOLS DOT GOV WEBSITE, YOU CAN LOOK UP THE INFORMATION I'M SHARING HERE FOR PLANO ISD OR ANY OF OUR SCHOOLS OR ANY OTHER SCHOOL IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
SO IF YOU GO TO TEXAS SCHOOLS DOT ORG AND THEN LOOK UNDER STUDENT PERFORMANCE SECTION OF THE PAPER REPORT.
THIS IS KIND OF A VERY HIGH LEVEL SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU WILL SEE.
OUR OVERALL STOLLE PERFORMANCE RATING IS FIFTY FIVE AND I WILL EXPLAIN WHAT THAT 55 BASE QUESTION REAL QUICK DASH BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR INTO THIS.
THIS IS THE STAR TESTING THAT WE ONLY HAD LIKE.
SEVENTY SEVEN PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS COMPLETE.
OK, SO THIS IS IN OUR USUAL COMPLETION RATE, THOUGH ON STAR TESTING.
MAYBE I WILL START FROM THERE.
RELATED TO THAT QUESTION, PART OF THAT SECTION, THAT PAGE HAS PARTICIPATION RATES.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT OUR 18 19 PARTICIPATION RATE ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER WAS 100 PERCENT.
AND SO IT WAS LIKE LIKE NINETY NINE POINT SIX OR SOMETHING.
OUR LAST YEAR'S TOP PARTICIPATION RATE WAS 86 PERCENT DISTRICT WIDE VARY BY GRADES AND BY CAMPUS.
YES, I KNOW IN LOWER GRADES, OBVIOUSLY IT WAS IN THE SEVENTIES WITH EOC RELATED BECAUSE THEY WERE REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION.
THEY WERE IN THE HIGH 90S, HIGH 80S.
SO THAT GIVES US AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 86.
SO TALK ABOUT WHAT THIS NUMBER IS BECAUSE MOST PROBABLY THAT NUMBER COMES OUT.
AND SO I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT NUMBER ON THE WEBSITE THAT'S THERE.
DOESN'T MEAN FIFTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE KIDS PASSED THAT FIFTY FIVE IS THE AVERAGE OF THE MASTER'S RATE, THE MEETS RATE AND THE APPROACHING RATE, THE THREE STANDARDS WE HAVE ON THE STYLE ASSESSMENT AND AND ON THE NEXT SLIDE, I WILL EXPLAIN EXACTLY HOW YOU GOT THAT FIFTY FIVE.
OH GOSH, I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION BEFORE YOU DO THAT, CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY UNDER A SCHOOL PROGRESS RULE, COMPONENT SCORE ACADEMIC GROWTH IS NOT APPLICABLE.
AND THEN ALSO ON THE GROWTH STATUS ON CLOSING THE GAPS, PERCENTAGE OF INDICATORS MET, GROWTH STATUS THAT IS NOT APPLICABLE [INAUDIBLE] DEFINITELY, SO ACADEMIC GROWTH.
YOU NEED TWO YEARS OF STAR SCORES TO COMPUTE THAT GROWTH.
SINCE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE STATUS THAT VERY SPRING OF THE FIRST YEAR OF COVID IN 2020,
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THERE WAS NO SCORE TO COMPUTE GROWTH FROM.SO EVERYWHERE IN THE SYSTEM WHERE THERE WAS GROWTH THAT THEY DIDN'T COMPUTE IT.
SO THAT IT APPEARS IN REAL, THAT'S LOWER SECTION.
THEIR ACADEMIC GROWTH IS ON THE DOMAIN, TWO PART OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE TABLE ON THE LEFT RIGHT IS THE DOMAIN.
THREE PART HAS ALL THOSE COMPONENTS AND THEY DIDN'T COMPUTE, BUT THERE WERE NO DATA TO COMPUTE GROWTH, SO THAT'S WHY IT IS NOT APPLICABLE.
DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW THE STATE AVERAGE FOR THE STAR PERFORMANCE? YES, IT'S ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
OKAY, SO OUR GRADUATION RATE IS NINETY EIGHT.
AND REMEMBER, ALL OUR NUMBERS WERE IMPACTED A LITTLE BIT FROM COVID, INCLUDING SOME OF THE GRADUATION, BUT THIS GRADUATION RATE IS FROM THE YEAR BEFORE.
OKAY, THE THEN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE REPORT IS THE DOMAIN THREE OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT.
AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT STATUS IS THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO MEET CERTAIN CAP SCORES AT THE MEET STANDARD ON STAAR.
SO WE MET SEVENTY SEVEN PERCENT OF THOSE INDICATORS AND ON GRADUATION STATUS, THERE ARE 10 INDICATORS IN THERE WITH CAP SCORES FOR DIFFERENT STUDENT GROUPS.
AND WE MET ALL BUT ONE STUDENT GROUP THERE, AND IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, WE MET 100 PERCENT OF THE INDICATORS.
STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVE IS IT'S AN INDICATOR THAT USES STAAR PERFORMANCE RATES BY DIFFERENT STUDENT GROUPS, AND THEY HAVE 11 CAP SCORES FOR EACH GROUP THAT WE HAD TO MEET, AND WE MET 71 PERCENT OF THOSE CAT SCHOOLS.
SCHOOL QUALITY IT DIFFERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
SCHOOL QUALITY IS PRIMARILY STAR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL IN IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS.
WITH GRADUATING CLASSES, IT IS SCHOOL QUALITY IS AROUND GRADUATION AND CCMR RATES.
WE MET NINETY TWO PERCENT OF ALL THOSE INDICATORS.
SO JUST AS A COMPARISON TO DESEGREGATE THAT THAT FIFTY FIVE STAR RATE THAT WAS IN THE PREVIOUS PAGE.
SO THIS SLIDE HAS OVERALL STOLLE RATE COMPARING PLANO TO TO THE STATE.
AND LET ME START, I PUT IT THIS WAY, BUT I'M GOING TO TALK IT FROM FROM RIGHT TO LEFT.
THE HIGHEST STANDARD YOU CAN GET ON THE STAAR IS THE MASTER'S RATE.
AND IN ORDER TO GET AT THE MASTER'S LEVEL, YOU HAD TO GET ABOUT OVER 90 PERCENT OF YOUR ITEMS RIGHT ON THE STAAR TEST.
IT'S A IT'S A VERY HIGH STANDARD IN PLANO ACROSS ALL SUBJECTS.
THIRTY FIVE PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS MEET THAT, WHEREAS A STATEWIDE 18 PERCENT MEETS THEIR TARGET.
THE NEXT STANDARD ON STAAR IS MEETS GRADE LEVEL, GRADE LEVEL AND ABOVE.
JUST TO CLEAR HERE THAT FIFTY SIX PERCENT FOR PLANO, IT INCLUDES THE 31 PERCENT THAT IS ABOVE THAT.
SO AN ADDITIONAL 40 15 PERCENT OF THE STUDENTS AT THE MEET GRADE LEVEL STANDARD.
THAT IS THE STANDARD THAT IS PRIMARILY EVALUATED IN THE DOMAIN, THREE OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
BECAUSE WE STATE HAS DECLARED THAT AS THE OFFICIAL GRADE LEVEL STANDARD.
AND SO THAT'S 56 PERCENT FOR PLANO AND 41 PERCENT FOR THE STATE.
APPROACHES AND ABOVE IS WHAT WE TRADITIONALLY HAS REFERRED TO AS PASSING.
SO 78 PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS WHO TOOK THE ASSESSMENT ACROSS ALL GRADE LEVELS, ALL SUBJECTS, INCLUDING EOC, WAS AT THAT APPROACHING STANDARD.
WE ARE A LITTLE BIT AND US AS WELL AS THE STATE.
THAT NUMBER IS A LITTLE BIT DEFLATED AND I WILL EXPLAIN WHY.
THAT'S BECAUSE ALL STAY AT HOME, ALL VIRTUAL STUDENTS WHO ALL, I'M SORRY, ALL VIRTUAL STUDENTS WHO DIDN'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN STAAR LAST YEAR, WE COULD CODE THOSE STUDENTS AS ABSENT FROM TESTING, BECAUSE OF COVID RESTRICTIONS AND PARENT EXCEPTIONS AND WAIVERS, THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO COME TO TEST.
BUT THEN THERE WERE SOME GROUPS OF STUDENTS THAT DIDN'T WANT TO DO LARGE SCALE TESTING IN THE SAME ROOM, AND THEY OPTED OUT OF TESTING, BUT THEY WERE TECHNICALLY FACE TO FACE STUDENTS.
ANY STUDENT THAT OPTED OUT OF STAAR TESTING, WE HAD TO TECHNICALLY CODE AS THE KID PARTICIPATED IN THE TEST, EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T ANSWER A SINGLE ITEM ON THE ASSESSMENT.
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AND OBVIOUSLY THEY GOT ZERO AND THEY WERE IN THE NON PASSING CATEGORY.SO WE HAD, DEPENDING ON THE GRADE LEVEL AND THE CAMPUS, IT VARIED QUITE A BIT.
BUT ACROSS FOUR PLANO AS WELL AS THE STATE THAT IMPACTED SOME OF THE PASSING RATES THAT ARE OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED.
SO IT SEEMS THE ONE SUBJECT THAT IS BRINGING DOWN THE AVERAGES OF EACH CATEGORY OR STATUS WOULD BE WRITING.
IS THAT SOMETHING SIR, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE OBVIOUSLY AWARE OF, BUT AN EMPHASIS THAT'S BEING PUT ON FOCUS? [INAUDIBLE] THANK YOU.
AND DASH JUST FOR CLARIFICATION ON THE MEETS AND ABOVE THAT FIFTY SIX AND ALL SUBJECTS FOR THE PLAN THAT IS STUDENTS WHO ARE WE ARE COUNTING THEM AS COLLEGE READY.
HOW DOES COLLEGE READY FIT INTO THIS? OH, THE IT IS PRETTY CLOSE TO IT.
COLLEGE READY MAY BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE THAT STANDARD, SO IT'S NOT QUITE.
AND ALSO, IT DEPENDS ON THE DEFINITION OF COLLEGE READY.
IT ALIGNS QUITE WELL WITH THE MEET STANDARD SET.
SO AND MOST OF OUR KIDS, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU GET A THREE OR HIGHER IN A.P.
TEST THAT THEY HAVE TRADITIONALLY COLLEGE READY, A LOT OF THESE KIDS WHO GETS THREE OR HIGHER ARE ALMOST HALFWAY BETWEEN MEETS TWO MASTERS.
SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT HIGHER STANDARD TO GET TO THREE.
SO IT'S IT'S A LITTLE BIT MIXED, BUT OVERALL IT KIND OF LINES UP.
SO COULD YOU ASK ME HOW THESE NUMBERS RELATE, SO IF YOU TAKE THE 78 PERCENT FOR PLANO AT APPROACHING, FIFTY SIX PERCENT FOR ME AND THIRTY ONE PERCENT FOR MASTERS, IF YOU TAKE THOSE THREE NUMBERS, IF YOU ADD IT UP AND DIVIDE IT BY THREE, YOU GET FIFTY FIVE.
THERE WAS 55 COMPARED TO 42 FOR THE STATE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, CCMR IS A BIG EFFORT FOR PLANO AS WELL AS STATEWIDE, SO THERE ARE THERE ARE MANY, MANY CCMR INDICATORS AND THIS IS THE OFFICIAL INDICATORS THAT GET PUBLISHED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND AND THESE ARE OVERLAPPING INDICATORS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, A STUDENT CAN MEET CCMR IN ANY ONE OF THESE WAYS.
AND MANY OF OUR STUDENTS EARN CCMR IN MULTIPLE OPTIONS.
SO ALMOST ALL THAT 45 PERCENT THAT EARN CCMR ON APIB, THAT 45 PERCENT IS IN THAT 62 PERCENT FOR SAT ACT.
SO JERI, YOU ASK ME THE QUESTION HOW THE CCMR STANDARDS LINE UP.
SO FORTY FIVE PERCENT OF OUR AP KIDS AND CCMR, WHEREAS FROM SAT ACT TSIA, SIXTY TWO PERCENT GET IT SO THEY CAN TELL YOU SOMEWHAT TALK ABOUT THE STANDARD OF CCMR. THE THERE ARE OTHER CATEGORIES HERE, AND WE, FOR EXAMPLE, ENLISTED IN THE ARMED FORCES.
WE USED TO GET ABOUT ONE PERCENT, TWO PERCENT FROM THAT ONE.
TEA SUSPENDED THE USE OF THAT INDICATOR BECAUSE NOT PLANO ISD.
BUT YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE DISTRICTS HAD 100 PERCENT IN THAT ROLE.
SO UNTIL THEY CLEANED UP THE DATA, THEY AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS THE VERY LAST ONE FOR COMPLETING A COHERENT SEQUENCE OF CTE COURSES TA TECHNICALLY TOOK THAT ONE OUT FROM AS A CCMR INDICATOR.
NEW VERSION OF THAT IS GOING TO COME INTO PLACE IN TWO YEARS TIME.
AND I DID WANT TO POINT OUT JUST, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE AT HOME, THEY MAY SAY, YOU KNOW, LOOK, WE HAVE OUR AP PROGRAMS MUCH HIGHER THAN THE STATE AVERAGE, BUT THEN OUR DUAL CREDIT IS LOWER THAN THAT.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK IN TERMS OF THE STUDENT PARTICIPATION THAT BALANCES OUT, IT'S A MATTER OF WHAT THE STUDENTS WANT IN PARTICULAR.
SO IN TERMS OF RIGOR AND COURSE OFFERINGS, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT TO SAY, WHAT CAN WE DO TO DO MORE DUAL CREDIT.
IT'S A MATTER OF STUDENT PREFERENCE.
AND YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE A VERY HIGH LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION IN THE APIB PROGRAM COMPARED TO THE STATE.
SO THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD INDICATOR.
AND I WOULD SAY TO CODY THAT EVEN THOUGH THAT DUAL CREDIT NUMBER IS NOT WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD LIKE THAT TO GO UP, THE DUAL CREDIT PROGRAM HAS GROWN ABOUT 400 PERCENT IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR SO.
SO THAT NUMBER IS HIGHER THAN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ANY YEAR PRIOR.
SO THOSE NUMBERS ARE STILL UP.
BUT GRADUATION RATES, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THESE NUMBERS FOR A WHILE, BUT WE JUST TO
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EXPLAIN WHAT THESE NUMBERS ARE WHEN YOU LOOK AT GRADUATION RATES.ONE OF THE PREVIOUS SLIDES ON STUDENT SUCCESS FOR HIGH SCHOOL'S GRADUATION RATE WAS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF IT.
AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR FOUR YEAR GRADUATION RATE FOR ALL STUDENTS.
THAT VERY FIRST COLUMN IS NINETY SIX POINT ONE PERCENT FOR THE CLASS OF 2020.
AND MANY OF OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, STUDENTS AND SPECIAL ED STUDENTS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
TRADITIONALLY, THESE STUDENTS MAY BE NEW IMMIGRANTS.
WE HAVE ABOUT SOMEWHERE APPROXIMATELY 250 STUDENTS THAT FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY EVERY YEAR.
SO THERE'S A LARGE GROUP OF THERE WHO ARE RECENT IMMIGRANTS SO THAT.
YOU KNOW, WE WITH VERY LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH, SO THEY ARE KIND OF AUTOMATICALLY I SHOULDN'T SAY THE WORD AUTOMATICALLY, BUT THEY MAY BE IN A FIVE YEAR, SIX YEAR PLAN, DEFINITELY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, FIRST YEAR IS SPENT ON ACQUIRING LANGUAGE.
SO THAT THAT'S WHY THE FIVE YEAR GRADUATION RATE, AS WELL AS SIX YEAR GRADUATION RATE IS IMPORTANT.
AND WE TRACK IT BECAUSE IT TELLS US OUT OF THE CLASS OF 2019 WHO ARE WHO CONTINUED WITH US FOR THE FIFTH YEAR.
YOU KNOW HOW SUCCESSFULLY WE GRADUATED THOSE STUDENTS, SO I JUST REMEMBER THAT THE FIRST FLOOR IS FOR THE 2020 CLASS TO THE SECOND ROW, THE FIVE YEAR RATE IS FOR THE 2019 CLASS AND OUR SIX YEAR RATE FOR THE 2018 CLASS.
SO WE'VE HAD PRETTY HIGH GRADUATION RATES ACROSS THE BOARD.
THE FEDERAL STANDARD FOR GRADUATION IS 94 PERCENT AND THE STATE STANDARD FOR GRADUATION IS 67.
SO THERE'S A HUGE DISCREPANCY IN IT.
BUT WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO 94 IN ALMOST ALL CATEGORIES.
THE DROPOUT RATE IS ALSO SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT COMPUTATION.
WHEN THE STATE REPORTS DROP OUT, IT IS FOR THE 912 CLASS.
SO IT IS NOT THE GRADUATING CLASS, BUT IT IS FOR EVERY KID THAT WAS IN MEMBERSHIP IN 912.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD SEVENTEEN THOUSAND STUDENTS IN THE 1920 SCHOOL YEAR IN 912, AND OUT OF THAT, OUR DROPOUT RATE WAS ZERO POINT FIVE PERCENT.
I DID INCLUDE THE DROPOUT RATE HERE, WHICH IS THE SEVEN DAY DROPOUT RATE, AND THAT'S BECAUSE IT WAS ZERO.
I'M NOT ZERO PERCENT, ZERO IN NUMBER.
WE ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO REPORT HOW SUCCESSFUL OUR GRADUATES ARE IN TEXAS COLLEGES WHEN THEY ENROLL.
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATION BOARD PUBLISHES THIS REPORT.
SO JUST TO PUT IN PERSPECTIVE HERE FOR OUR 18 19 GRADUATING CLASS OUT OF THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED STUDENTS ABOUT 78 PERCENT, WE TRACKED OFFICIALLY USING NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE TO BE ENROLLED IN IN A TWO OR FOUR YEAR COLLEGE.
OUT OF THAT, SIXTY THREE PERCENT ARE IN TEXAS COLLEGES AND AND THIS AND THEN 60 PERCENT ARE IN TEXAS PUBLIC COLLEGES.
SO T HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATION BOARD GATHERS THIS DATA THEY OFFICIALLY HAVE TO REPORT, AND THEY ATTRIBUTE IT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS.
SO THIS IS THIS IS OUR RESULTS.
SO THIS IS WHAT TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE SIXTY PERCENT OF OUR KIDS WHO ARE IN TEXAS.
THE PURPLE IS OUR FOUR YEAR PERFORMANCE AT THE FOUR YEAR COLLEGES AND TO THE LIGHT BLUE ONES.
STUDENT PERFORMANCE AT TWO YEAR COLLEGES AND OBVIOUSLY A LARGE PROPORTION OF THESE ARE EARNING A THREE POINT FIVE GPA OR HIGHER.
PRETTY GOOD TESTAMENT TO OUR ACADEMIC STANDARDS IN PLANO, DASH WHEN WE GET THESE STATISTICS, DO WE GET TO KNOW WHEN THEY GO TO THE TWO YEAR COLLEGE, ARE THEY GOING TO COLLIN COLLEGE? ABOUT 33 PERCENT OF OUR KIDS GOES TO A FIRST TIME WHEN THEY ENROLL.
THEY ENTER INTO A TWO YEAR COLLEGE ABOUT I THINK I JUST DID THAT NUMBER THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT I.
I THINK ABOUT 24 PERCENT I BELIEVE WENT TO COLLIN COUNTY.
NOTICE THERE'S A GOOD PERCENTAGE OF PLANO ISD GRADUATES THAT END UP GOING OUT OF STATE.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA IF THERE'S LIKE A STATE AVERAGE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
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IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THAT'S A FAIRLY BIG AMOUNT.AND IF YOU'RE GOING OUT OF STATE, IT'S PROBABLY A SCHOLARSHIP OR VERY GOOD ACADEMIC.
IT'S A LOT OF MONEY TO GO OUT OF STATE.
SO USUALLY THAT'S A GOOD INDICATOR, EVEN THOUGH WE'D LOVE TO KEEP THEM HERE IN TEXAS AND HOPE THEY COME BACK.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD INDICATOR.
WE PRETTY MUCH IT HAS TO UNOFFICIALLY GET FROM OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
THE TA DOESN'T REPORT IT AS STATEWIDE, BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE ORGANIZATION THAT PRETTY MUCH DOES THIS.
IT'S CALLED NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE, SO MOST THE TEA AS WELL AS EVERY DISTRICT KIND OF PARTNERS WITH THEM, WE CAN GET THEM IF YOU WANT, MAYBE, FOR INSTANCE, IF THEY WANT TO SHARE.
BUT THEN WE DO KNOW FROM NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE, THEY WERE ABLE TO TRACK ABOUT 90 PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS, OVER 90 PERCENT OF OUR GRADUATE.
THEY'RE ABLE TO TRACK AND FIGURE OUT WHERE THEY GO.
SO I CAN SHARE WITH YOU A LIST OF COLLEGES THAT THE TOP 20 THAT THEY'VE GONE IN-STATE AND OUT-OF-STATE.
DON'T GO TOO FAR OUT OF YOUR WAY.
IT'S A PRINTED REPORT THIS WEEK, IS THERE? SO WHERE ARE ALL THESE REPORTS AND ADDITIONAL REPORTS? WE ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO PUBLICLY RELEASE THE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT THE DISTRICT USES TO PROTECT STUDENTS.
IT'S PART OF THE SAFETY AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT AND IT IS EVERY DAY IT IS POSTED ON THAT LINK.
WE ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO PUBLISH ALL DISCIPLINARY INCIDENTS AT EACH CAMPUS BY CATEGORY, AND THAT'S ALSO IN THAT.
ON THAT LINK AND OUR IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AND CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS, WHICH WE WHICH WE, THE BOARD APPROVED IN NOVEMBER ARE ALL PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON THAT LINK SITE.
SO THAT CONCLUDES THE REPORT AND THEN WE HAD TO OPEN.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THAT'S WHAT I CALL HIM, BECAUSE I ALWAYS SLAUGHTER HIS NAME.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION? ALL RIGHT.
AT THIS TIME, THE BOARD WILL CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE 2020-2021 TEXAS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REPORT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE PRESENT AND WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE TEXAS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REPORT.
PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM AT THIS TIME.
ALL RIGHT, SEEING, NO SPEAKERS COMING FORWARD, I WILL CLOSE THE HEARING.
THIS CONDUCTS IT CONCLUDES THE PUBLIC HEARING.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT INFORMATIVE REPORT.
WE WILL MOVE ALONG TO THE DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEM NINE POINT ONE, WHICH IS THE
[9.1. Approval of the Amendment to the 2021 - 2022 Compensation Plan ]
APPROVAL OF THE AMENDMENT TO THE 2021-2022 COMPENSATION PLAN.THE BOARD WILL NOW HEAR FROM DR.
BROCKMAN REGARDING THE APPROVAL OF THE AMENDMENT FOR THE 2021-2022 COMPENSATION PLAN.
HOW MANY TIMES CAN I SAY THAT? ALL RIGHT, BETH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BEGIN? ABSOLUTELY.
GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME A LITTLE BIT OF TIME THIS MORNING THIS EVENING TO BRING FORWARD A PROPOSAL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
WE ARE RECOMMENDING THE AN AMENDMENT TO THE 21-22 COMPENSATION PLAN FOR THREE DIFFERENT AREAS, AND I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THEM IN IN SEPARATE ORDER.
THE FIRST IS AN INCREASE IN PAY RATES FOR OUR DEAF ED INTERPRETERS.
WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DEAF ED INTERPRETERS, WE HAVE THE BASIC LEVEL AND THEN WE HAVE AN ADVANCED LEVEL INTERPRETER AND THAT'S BASED ON A TEST CERTIFICATION TYPE SITUATION.
THIS IS A GROUP OF EMPLOYEES THAT WE HAVE CONTINUALLY BEEN TRYING TO COMPETE TO COMPENSATE APPROPRIATELY AND ADEQUATELY TO ACCESS SOME PRETTY LIMITED RESOURCES IN THE METROPLEX AREA.
WE FEEL THAT THIS AN INCREASE TO THE DAILY RATE MINIMUM FOR OUR DEAF AND INTERPRETERS WILL ALLOW US TO BETTER COMPETE AND FILL OUR SHORTAGES IN ORDER TO MEET STUDENT IEP NEEDS AND DECREASE OR EVEN ELIMINATE AN OVERRELIANCE ON AGENCY LABOR.
THE SECOND AREA OF CONSIDERATION IS AN INCREASE AND IN SUBSTITUTE PAY RATES EFFECTIVE JANUARY 10TH, WHICH WAS YESTERDAY WHICH WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW PAY CYCLE FOR SUBSTITUTES.
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OUR CERTIFIED TEACHERS THAT HAVE A VALID TEXAS CERTIFICATION.WE'D LIKE TO MOVE TO ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS PER DAY OF SERVICE FOR OUR DEGREED SUBSTITUTES, BUT THOSE WHO DO NOT HOLD A VALID TEXAS CERTIFICATION TO MOVE TO ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAYS, AH TWENTY DOLLARS PER DAY OF SERVICE AND OUR NON DEGREED SUBSTITUTES THOSE WHO HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA MOVE TO $100 A DAY.
OUR LONG TERM RATES FOR TEACHERS WOULD NOT CHANGE.
WE ARE RECOMMENDING A CHANGE IN THE LONG TERM 21 DAY RATES FOR A PARAPROFESSIONAL ROLE TO ONE HUNDRED AND TEN DOLLARS A DAY.
OUR DEDICATED SUBS, THESE ARE THE SUBS THAT WE PUT ON EACH CAMPUS AND HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE COURSE OF THIS PANDEMIC TO TO BE AVAILABLE TO COVER WHATEVER IS NEEDED ON THE CAMPUS ON ANY GIVEN DAY AND MOVING THEM TO 130 DOLLARS A DAY TO INCREASE OUR SUPER SUB BONUS RATES.
THIS IS WHERE WE RECOGNIZE OUR SUPER SUBS THAT TAKE 10 TO 14 JOBS IN A CALENDAR MONTH AND INCREASE THAT TO THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS AS AN ADDED BONUS.
AND THOSE WHO ARE SUPER SUPER SUB BONUS RECIPIENTS, THEY WORK 15 OR MORE JOBS IN A CALENDAR MONTH AND MOVE THEIR EXTRA PAY TO THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS FOR THE MONTH.
WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ENACT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A CRITICAL NEED BONUS FOR TIMES OF CRITICAL SUBSTITUTE SHORTAGES.
EXCUSE ME FOR OUR SUBSTITUTES EARNING LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS PER DAY UNDER THE NEW RATES AS WELL AS OUR SUBSTITUTE NURSES.
THEY WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A BONUS ONCE THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEE ENACTS THE CRITICAL NEED PROVISION, AND THIS BONUS WILL BE UP TO 50 DOLLARS A DAY, DEPENDING ON THE THE NATURE OF THE CRITICAL NEED AND THE AND THE TIMING.
WE ARE PLANNING THAT OUR OUR INITIAL PERIOD OF CRITICAL NEED WILL BE FROM JANUARY 10TH THROUGH 28TH AND WE ARE GOING TO ENACT THE $50 DOLLARS PER DAY BONUS FOR SUBSTITUTES WORKING DURING THOSE DURING THAT WINDOW OF TIME.
THIS WOULD BE SUBSTITUTES FROM PARAPROFESSIONALS, DEGREED BUT NOT CERTIFIED, AS WELL AS OUR CERTIFIED SUBS TO REALLY TRY AND COUNTERACT A PRETTY CRITICAL NEED WE HAVE ON THE CAMPUSES.
WITH AN INCREASE IN STAFF ABSENCES DUE TO COVID, AS WELL AS VERY LOW FILL RATES RIGHT NOW.
AND FINALLY, WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION A RETENTION AND RETENTION INCENTIVE PAYMENT FOR ALL EMPLOYEES THAT WERE ACTIVE AS OF JANUARY 5TH, WHICH WAS LAST WEDNESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OUR STUDENTS RETURNED.
THERE ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS TO THIS, BUT THIS IS GENERALLY FOR ALL EMPLOYEES, THOSE WHO ARE IN POSITIONS THAT ARE 50 PERCENT OR GREATER FTE.
THAT'S A FULL TIME EQUIVALENT.
WE'LL RECEIVE SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS.
WHILE EMPLOYEES THAT ARE LESS IN POSITIONS THAT ARE LESS THAN 50 PERCENT FTES OR FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS WOULD RECEIVE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS.
AND WITH CLOSE WORKING WITH THE FINANCE AND PAYROLL DEPARTMENTS, WE PLAN THAT THIS PAYMENT WOULD BE MADE IN A SEPARATE CHECK OR ELECTRONIC TRANSFER.
THIS FRIDAY, THE 14TH IF APPROVED BY THE BOARD THIS EVENING, AS THIS WOULD BE COMING SEPARATE FROM A NORMAL PAY CYCLE PAYCHECK.
AND IT IS NOT TRS CREDITABLE, IT'S NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THAT.
THE ONLY DEDUCTIONS THAT WE ANTICIPATE WILL COME FROM THAT.
THAT PAYMENT WOULD BE THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX AND FEDERAL MEDICARE TAX.
SO OUR EMPLOYEES WILL REALLY SEE GREAT BENEFIT FROM THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT.
WE WOULD EXCLUDE FROM THIS THOSE WHO EMPLOYEES WHO'VE ALREADY SUBMITTED A SEPARATION AGREEMENT AND THEY'RE LEAVING US IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY OR FEBRUARY.
IN SOME OTHER POSITIONS AND THEN OF COURSE, THE SUPERINTENDENT'S SENIOR CABINET WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS RETENTION INCENTIVE PAYMENT.
I THAT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, AND I WOULD WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS THAT
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YOU HAVE ON ANY OF OUR THREE AREAS FOR COMPENSATION AMENDMENT.SO ONE QUESTION IN TERMS OF THE CRITICAL NEED BEING AUTHORIZED, I THINK YOU SAID THROUGH JANUARY 28TH.
DOES THAT HAVE TO COME BEFORE THE BOARD AND BE REAUTHORIZED? NO, WE HAVE WRITTEN IT SO THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEE CAN AUTHORIZE THOSE TIMES OF CRITICAL NEED.
AND OUR PLAN REALLY FROM NOW UNTIL THINGS ABATE A LITTLE BIT IS ON MONDAY.
WE LOOK AT HOW THINGS ARE GOING AND MAKE A DECISION FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
WE NEED A FEW DAYS FOR THAT INFORMATION TO BE OUT THERE IN ORDER TO FOR IT TO IMPACT FILL RATES THE NEXT WEEK.
SO WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO STAY ABOUT A WEEK AHEAD.
OK, SO YOU HAVE OBJECTIVE MEASURES YOU'RE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING IN ORDER TO DECIDE WHETHER IT'S A CRITICAL YES, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT FILL RATES, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT ABSENCE RATES, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT WHERE THOSE CRITICAL NEEDS ARE.
WE WOULD HAVE THE ABILITY TO TAILOR IT IF WE NEED TO, BUT WE FEEL THAT FOR THE NEXT TWO AND A HALF WEEKS, IT NEEDS TO BE BROAD ACROSS THE BOARD.
OUR FILL RATE RIGHT NOW IS AVERAGING BETWEEN FORTY FIVE AND FIFTY FIVE PERCENT.
AND SO IT'S REALLY SIGNIFICANT AND WE NEED TO BE COMPETING IN THE MARKET FOR AS MANY SUBS AS WE CAN.
CAN YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE IN NUMBERS AT WHAT FORTY FIVE TO 50 PERCENT MEANS IN TERMS OF HOW MANY SUBS OR SURE.
SO FOR INSTANCE, LAST FRIDAY WE WERE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SUBS SHORT.
HEY, COULD YOU SAY THAT AGAIN? WE WERE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SUBS SHORT, SO EVERYONE IN THIS BUILDING WAS OUT SUBBING IN A CLASSROOM.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO BE.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, BUT WE NEED TO TRY TO SHORE UP THE CLASSROOMS TO MAKE SURE AS MUCH, YOU KNOW, I'LL TELL YOU, I SERVED IN FOURTH GRADE, SO IT WAS A OH, LOOK, HELLO.
YEAH, IT'S A PRETTY CRITICAL THING TO BE OUT THERE.
AND DR. TYRER WAS IN A CLASSROOM LAST FRIDAY.
SHE WAS FOURTH GRADE AT CHRISTIE.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE WERE ALL HANDS ON DECK AND AND WE CAN DO THAT.
BUT BUT WE NEED TO COMPETE FOR THE SUBS THAT WE CAN GET A HOLD OF, AND I THINK THIS WILL PUT US AT THE TOP OF THE MARKET.
WELL, I CERTAINLY WOULD SAY THAT IT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE FOR YOU ALL TO BE GOING TO A CAMPUS LIKE THAT.
HOWEVER, I DO THINK THAT IS LAUDABLE, AND I ALSO RECEIVED A LOT OF REALLY HEARTWARMING FEEDBACK FROM PEOPLE APPRECIATIVE OF THE ADMINISTRATION FOR GOING AND BEING ON THE CAMPUS IS A CRITICAL TIME, AND I APPRECIATE THAT JERI.
BUT BUT THE TEACHERS AT THE CAMPUS AND THE PRINCIPALS, THEY'RE CARRYING THE FULL LOAD OF THIS BECAUSE EVERY DAY A SUB DOESN'T SHOW UP THOSE TEACHERS WHO ARE ALREADY TEACHING THEIR OWN KIDS OR ABSORBING CLASSES.
CLASSES ARE BIGGER, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO TO PRESERVE THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS AND STAFF OUT AT THE CAMPUSES.
SO I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WAS FRACTIONS FOR FREE.
THAT WAS UNPAID TEACH TEACHING FOURTH GRADERS FRACTIONS VOLUNTARILY.
AND I JUST WANT TO ECHO WHAT THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS TO SAY.
AND AND HAVING BEEN ON A CAMPUS ON FRIDAY BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, JUST WANTED TO SORT OF DIG IN AND HELP OUT WHERE I COULD, THE THE STAFF IS IS MUSCLING THROUGH THIS WITH GREAT DETERMINATION AND GREAT PROFESSIONALISM AND HIS MUSCLED THROUGH JUST A REALLY EXTRAORDINARY TIME WHERE THEY ARE HAVING TO COMBINE CLASSES.
AND THAT IS THAT IS DISRUPTIVE FOR THOSE STUDENTS, RIGHT? LIKE I WAS HELPING OUT WITH AN ESL CLASS.
AND SO THEY WERE BEING SPLIT AMONG, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY OTHER CLASSES THAT DID OR DID NOT HAVE ESL SUPPORT.
AND SO THE ABILITY TO KEEP THE KIDS TOGETHER, KEEP THE STUDENTS TOGETHER IN THEIR COHORTS BY HAVING SUBSTITUTES, AS WELL AS REDUCE SOME OF THE BURDEN ON THOSE TEACHERS AND AN ALREADY OVERBURDENED TIME.
I JUST, I THINK, IS TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT, RIGHT? AND SO I THE THE SUPPLY, I THINK IS IS AN EXCELLENT PROPOSAL.
THE RETENTION INCENTIVE PAYMENT, THE SAME THING ARE OUR TEACHING STAFF HAS GONE THROUGH SO MUCH AND THEY HAVE SHOWN UP EVERY DAY WITH THEIR A-GAME BROUGHT THEIR PROFESSIONALISM.
AND I SAW THIS FIRSTHAND ON FRIDAY, BROUGHT THEIR PROFESSIONALISM AND TAKING CARE OF OUR STUDENTS.
AND AS AS A COMMUNITY AND AS A BOARD, WE HAVE DEMANDED SO MUCH FROM THEM, SO MUCH.
AND THIS IS A VERY, VERY SMALL PORTION OF THE THANKS, I THINK THAT I HAVE THAT I HAVE FOUR TEACHING STAFF, AND I REALLY WISH THAT WE COULD DO MORE.
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JUST ONE LAST COMMENT ON ON THE DEAF EDUCATION.THIS IS MORE NOT A COMPENSATION QUESTION, BUT A RECRUITING QUESTION.
AND THAT IS IS ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES LIKE COCHLEAR IMPLANTS OR HEARING AIDS HAVE GOTTEN BETTER, AND MORE AND MORE DEAF KIDS ARE MAINSTREAMED.
A LOT OF STATES HAVE STARTED CLOSING THEIR DAY SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF.
SO TEXAS, RIGHT, HAS THE TEXAS DAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF IN AUSTIN, WHICH IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROGRAMS IN THE COUNTRY.
BUT FOR EXAMPLE, MY SON'S PARENT ADVISOR THROUGH DALLAS ISD WHEN WE LIVED IN DALLAS HAD MOVED FROM KANSAS BECAUSE KANSAS HAD CLOSED.
THEY ARE KANSAS STATE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
AND SO I JUST WONDER IF THERE'S A RECRUITING OPPORTUNITY THAT MAYBE WE'RE UNAWARE OF BY LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE ACADEMIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT OTHER STATES OR OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE HAD THAT THEY'RE SCALING BACK BECAUSE MORE AND MORE DEAF STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, ARE BEING ACCOMMODATED IN MAINSTREAM CLASSROOMS. SO JUST, YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, MY SON IS DEAF.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK A LOT ABOUT.
BUT I JUST WONDER IF THERE'S SOME RECRUITING OPPORTUNITIES THERE TO TRY AND HELP FILL THIS NEED BECAUSE FOR KIDS THAT DO NEED THAT SUPPORT, THAT'S THEIR LANGUAGE.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, NOT HAVING ADEQUATE ASL SUPPORT, NOT ONLY IS THAT NOT FILLING THAT STUDENT'S IEP, THAT'S LANGUAGE DEPRIVATION FOR THAT STUDENT AND EVERYTHING THAT STUDENT LEARN STARTS WITH LANGUAGE.
SO CRITICAL NEED CRITICAL SUPPORT? ABSOLUTELY.
AND AND OUR MAIN COMPETITORS, IF YOU WILL, FOR INTERPRETERS OR OTHER REGIONAL DAY SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF THAT ARE CLOSE BY, AS WELL AS DALLAS COUNTY HAS QUITE A SERVICE OF INTERPRETERS THAT WE OCCASIONALLY USE FOR AGENCY LABOR.
WE HAVE BEGUN ALSO DREAMING OF [INAUDIBLE] AROUND HOW TO CREATE OUR OWN PIPELINE OF INTERPRETERS THROUGH STARTING IN OUR ASL CLASSES IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HOW WE CAN MOVE THOSE STUDENTS THROUGH TO PURSUE, IF NOT A PERMANENT CAREER IN INTERPRETING A TEMPORARY.
TWO MORE QUESTIONS OR ONE STATEMENT, ONE QUESTION, SO OBVIOUSLY EVERY DISTRICT IS FEELING THE SQUEEZE ON THIS WITH THE SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS, SO I'M IN FULL SUPPORT OF INCREASING WHAT WE CAN PAY THEM BOTH AS A THANK YOU TO THEM, BUT ALSO SO WE FEEL THE SQUEEZE LESS THAN OTHER DISTRICTS.
AND IF MONEY IS GOING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE ON THAT AND IT'S GOING TO SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS AND BRING THE STRESS LEVEL DOWN AND BRING ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO THE STUDENTS, BUT OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE EDUCATIONAL CONSISTENCY, THEN I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY WHEN AS GREAT AS IT IS THAT OUR TOP ADMINISTRATORS ARE GOING IN AND HELPING.
OBVIOUSLY, YOU STILL HAVE A JOB TO DO AND WE WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT BECAUSE THAT ALSO SUPPORTS OUR CAMPUSES AND SUPPORTS OUR STUDENTS SO VERY MUCH IN SUPPORT OF THAT ADDITIONAL PAY.
IN TERMS OF THE I GUESS RIGHT NOW THEY'RE CALLING IT THE GREAT RESIGNATION.
AND WE'RE SEEING THAT ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES.
AND I KNOW WE'VE SEEN PARTLY BECAUSE OF COVID, PARTLY BECAUSE OF OTHER REASONS WE'VE HAD OTHER TEACHERS RETIRE.
AND ONE THING, JUST IF WE WANT TO GET CREATIVE IN THE FUTURE, SOMETHING THAT MIGHT BE TOP OF MIND, SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION BY SOME TEACHERS THAT ARE NEARING RETIREMENT IS THAT, I GUESS ANY ACCRUED PTO THEY DON'T GET TO, THEY DON'T GET PAID OUT ON THAT WHEN THEY RETIRE.
AND SO IF YOU'VE GOT A TEACHER THAT'S GOING INTO THE LAST SEMESTER AND THEY'VE GOT ENOUGH PTO THAT THEY COULD TAKE OFF THREE DAYS A WEEK, THE REST OF THE SEMESTER, THAT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY BAD FOR THEIR STUDENTS.
AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO PRETTY MUCH BE RELYING ON THE KINDNESS OF THEIR HEART, WHICH OFTEN IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS.
THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE STUDENTS AND THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE OUT ON THAT PTO.
AND I HATE TO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THEIR LAST BIT IN THE DISTRICT WOULD BE LOSING OUT ON AN INCENTIVE THEY'VE RACKED UP BECAUSE THEY'VE SHOWN UP AND HAVEN'T TAKEN THOSE DAYS BECAUSE THEY'RE THEY'RE TEACHING THEIR STUDENTS.
AND SO I THINK MAYBE A GOOD WAY TO HELP RETAIN TEACHERS THAT ARE GOING TO RETIRE, MAYBE KEEP THEM A LITTLE LONGER OR STOP STOP THEM FROM MAYBE LEAVING IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCHOOL YEAR MIGHT BE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM INCREASE IN PAY AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS.
AND IT'D BE A ONE TIME THING FOR THAT PARTICULAR TEACHER.
AND I THINK THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO SEND OFF A TEACHER AFTER YEARS OF COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION IN OUR STUDENTS.
WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK INTO THAT.
AND I WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THE INCENTIVE PAY FOR ALL EMPLOYEES IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE THE THING IS THAT WE VALUE OUR TEACHERS, BUT WE ALSO VALUE ALL THE EMPLOYEES
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WHO ARE IN TRANSPORTATION.WE VALUE OUR POLICE AND THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
WE VALUE OUR PARAPROFESSIONALS.
I MEAN, THE THING IS THAT WHEN MY, YOU KNOW, I STILL HAVE A CHILD IN PLANO ISD AT HIGH SCHOOL, AND THE THING IS THAT ALL THE STAFF IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, THE WHOLE TEAM, THE THING IS THAT THIS IS FOR ALL EMPLOYEES AND THAT IS WHAT I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR, THAT WE ARE GOING TO VALUE OUR EMPLOYEES WITHIN PLANO ISD AND GIVE THEM THE INCENTIVE PAYMENT.
SO I'M VERY, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY THANKFUL THAT WE HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DO IT.
WELL, ANGELA, TO YOUR POINT, AND I AGREE WITH THAT AND I APPLAUD ALL THE EMPLOYEES AND JUST THINK ABOUT IT WHEN WE WENT INTO SPRING BREAK IN 2020 AND THEN IT BECAME AN EXTENDED SPRING BREAK AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAD TO PIVOT TO GO TO ONLINE LEARNING.
THINK OF ALL OF THE WORK THAT THE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT DID AND THOSE EMPLOYEES TO JUST GET US UP TO SPEED.
SO IT'S NOT, I MEAN, NOT DIMINISHING TEACHERS AT ALL.
I'M APPLAUDING TEACHERS, BUT I'M JUST SAYING IT'S EVERYONE WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
WE HAD FANS, EMPLOYEES, FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HELPING DELIVER MEALS, WEEKLY MEALS FOR FAMILIES WHO NEEDED HELP.
SO THIS IS A TREMENDOUS EFFORT.
TYRA SAID, I WISH WE COULD DO MORE AND AS WE WILL HEAR IN AN UPCOMING SEGMENT OF THIS MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE TO OUR DEFICIT.
HOWEVER, OUR ADMINISTRATION FEELS SO STRONGLY ABOUT BRINGING THIS RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD.
THEY UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE IN A DEFICIT BUDGET, BUT IT TELLS ME HOW IMPORTANT THIS MEASURE IS FOR US TO CONSIDER.
SO I JUST WANT TO BE MINDFUL THAT WE REMEMBER ALL THE EMPLOYEES IN THE DISTRICT AND THANK THEM FOR THE YEOMAN'S WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE OVER THE LAST ALMOST 24 MONTHS.
SO THIS IS I THINK THIS IS AN AWESOME WAY FOR US TO DO THIS, AND I WISH WE COULD DO MORE.
CAN I ADD ONE MORE THING, NANCY? YOU KNOW, JUST IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A FINANCIAL COMPENSATION THAT WE CAN GIVE AND I HOPE IT'LL BE APPRECIATED.
BUT ALSO THE OTHER FORM OF SUPPORT THAT WE CAN OFFER OUR TEACHERS IS OBVIOUSLY SUPPORT ON CAMPUS.
AND I'M HOPING AS SITUATIONS ALLOW AND WE'RE ABLE TO GET MORE PARENTS ON CAMPUS, MORE VOLUNTEERS THAT THERE WILL BE MORE FORMS OF SUPPORT.
SO I KNOW THAT'S BEEN DIFFICULT AND I'VE TALKED TO ONE CAMPUS ABOUT THEIR WATCHDOG PROGRAM, WHICH IS TRYING TO GET MORE DADS ON CAMPUS AND HOW IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT TO GET VOLUNTEERS FOR THAT AND TRYING TO BRING THOSE PROGRAMS BACK.
AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I LEARNED ABOUT AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO ASSIST IN.
AND OBVIOUSLY THE THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES ARE NOT ALLOWING FOR THAT.
BUT AS THOSE REGULATIONS GO AWAY, I THINK ADDITIONAL SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN TO TEACHERS FROM OUR COMMUNITY, OUR PARENTS.
AND I THINK THAT'LL HELP OUT A LOT TOO.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS ALMOST LIKE WHEN WE WERE STARTING TO EASE BACK, YOU KNOW, WE IN THE FALL WE WERE, WE WERE GETTING THERE.
AND THEN NOW WE'VE HAD TO KIND OF CLOSE BACK UP A LITTLE BIT AND AND HOPEFULLY THIS AS THIS PASSES THROUGH, THEN WE CAN KIND OF REVERSE BACK, YOU KNOW, AND RESPOND ACCORDINGLY AND GET GET FOLKS BACK INTO THE BUILDINGS BECAUSE IT'S A COMMUNITY EFFORT AND WE REALLY WANT PARENTS AND VOLUNTEERS TO BE A PART OF WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE SCHOOL.
NUMBER ONE IS LIKE, CAN WE USE THE ESSER MONEY FOR THIS INCREASE OF FOR THE INCENTIVE? YES, FOR THE RETENTION INCENTIVE PAYMENT? ABSOLUTELY.
AND I DO BELIEVE TEACHER, WE WISH.
I AGREE WITH WHAT NANCY JUST SAID.
YOU KNOW, WE WISH WE COULD DO MORE AND THIS IS THE LEAST WE COULD DO.
AND ALSO OUR SECOND QUESTION IS LIKE WITH THE FIVE DAY QUARANTINE, THE SHORTENED THE QUARANTINE FOR THE COVID POSITIVE CASE.
SO WHILE THERE HELPED TREMENDOUSLY OR IT'S NO BIG HELP.
YES, WE IT IS HELPING TREMENDOUSLY.
WE'RE ALREADY SEEING THE IMPACT OF THE FIVE DAY QUARANTINE.
SO IT, OF COURSE, MEANS THAT ILL STAFF MEMBERS CASES ARE ROLLING OFF THE LIST, IF YOU WILL, AND GETTING BACK TO CAMPUS FASTER.
WE ARE OBVIOUSLY THEY NEED TO AT THE END OF THE FIVE DAYS, IT'S NOT AUTOMATIC.
THEY STILL HAVE TO BE CLEARED BY OUR HEALTH SERVICES DEPARTMENT BEFORE AN EMPLOYEE CAN RETURN TO THEIR WORKPLACE.
ARE EXPERIENCING A LEVEL OF ILLNESS THIS TIME AROUND THAT SUCH THAT THEY THEY CAN RETURN AFTER THE FIVE DAYS.
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SO WE NOTICED AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT OVER THE WEEKEND THAT BECAME OFFICIALLY WHAT WE COULD DO ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S CALL AND HIS UPDATE OF HIS HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS THROUGH TGA.AND SO THE HEALTH SERVICES TEAM SPENT MUCH OF THE WEEKEND CONNECTING WITH, WELL, MOST OF THE WEEKEND CONNECTING WITH EMPLOYEES THAT WERE ON THE LIST AS WITHIN THAT THEIR 10 DAY TIME FRAME VISITING WITH THEM ABOUT HOW THEY WERE DOING IF THEY WERE NEAR THAT FIVE DAYS AND WORKING TO EVEN GET THEM BACK INTO THE WORKPLACE ON MONDAY IF THEY MET THE CRITERIA OF THE FIVE DAYS, AS WELL AS THE CRITERIA OF THE FEVER FREE AND IMPROVING SYMPTOMS. SO IT IS HELPING A LOT.
SO IS THAT FAIR TO SAY WE HAVE NOW A CRITICAL NEED FOR SUBS AND WE SHOULD CALL ON ALL QUALIFIED? I MEAN, THE BAR IS PRETTY LOW, RIGHT? YOU YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CERTIFIED, RIGHT? I MEAN, THE PART A PERSON LIKE ME CAN VOLUNTEER.
I MEAN, NOT JUST NOT TALKING ABOUT VOLUNTEERING.
OF COURSE, FOR ME, IT WOULD BE VOLUNTEER BECAUSE I CANNOT BE PAID BY DISTRICT.
BUT YOU KNOW, IF I KNOW A MOM, JUST SIMILAR SITUATION GOT A DEGREE.
THEY CAN JUST APPLY FOR A SUB JOB.
THEY CAN APPLY FOR A SUBSTITUTE POSITION.
AND WE ARE PROCESSING NEW SUBSTITUTES ALMOST.
SOMETIMES IT'S TWO OR THREE NAMES THAT CAMPUSES HAVE SENT US, YOU KNOW, A PARENT IN THEIR COMMUNITY THAT WANTS TO SUB AND FILL IN THE APPLICATION TODAY BEFORE WE'RE GETTING THEM IN, FINGERPRINTED, DOING WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
WE'VE WE'VE ALSO BROUGHT THE FINGERPRINTING HOUSE.
SO NO LONGER ARE WE HAVING TO WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO GET APPOINTMENTS ELSEWHERE TO GET THE FINGERPRINTING DONE, SO THAT SPEEDS IT UP.
SOME DAYS WE HAVE A NEW SUBSTITUTE ORIENTATION FOR THOSE NEW FOLKS TO FINISH THEIR PAPERWORK, AS WELL AS GIVE THEM A LITTLE BIT OF TRAINING BEFORE THEY JUMP INTO THE FOURTH GRADE CLASSROOM AND WE CAN HAVE 40 OR 50 AT A TIME.
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE ON OUR SUBSTITUTE ROSTER.
THEY'RE NOT WORKING CONSISTENTLY OR THEY'RE PICKING UP OTHER THINGS AS WELL, OR THEY'VE THEY'VE LOST INTEREST AND THEY'RE THEY'RE NOT SUBBING.
SO IT ISN'T THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE.
WE CAN ALWAYS USE MORE, ALWAYS WANT MORE SUBS.
THERE'S NO CUTOFF IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE HAVE, BUT WE'RE HOPING TO ENTICE THOSE WHO ARE OUT THERE ON THOSE ROLLS TO PICK UP JOBS.
AND THE PROCESS, APPLICATION TO ADMISSION AND THE WHOLE PROCESS, HOW LONG DO YOU ESTIMATE TO BE? SO.
THE THE HOLDUP, IF YOU WILL, IS THE FINGERPRINTING, SO IT CAN TAKE PROBABLY THREE OR FOUR DAYS BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO THEY HAVE TO APPLY AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY MEET WHAT WE WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR A NAME BASED SEARCH ON A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND, CHECK THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
THEN THEY HAVE TO BE SCHEDULED FOR FINGERPRINTING.
WE GET THEM IN, THEY GET FINGERPRINTED AND WE HAVE TO WAIT ABOUT 24 HOURS TO GET THOSE RESULTS BACK.
I MEAN, IT'S IT'S AS FAST AS IT CAN BE.
I'VE NOT SEEN IT WORK THAT QUICKLY IN OTHER DISTRICTS, BUT WE WE HAVE A ALL IN ONE PLACE SHOP BACK THERE IN AIR AND AND CAN PROCESS PEOPLE THROUGH FROM APPLICATION TO GETTING A BADGE, GETTING A LITTLE BIT OF TRAINING AND GOING OUT TO A CAMPUS, PROBABLY IN THREE OR FOUR DAYS.
WE WOULD LOVE TO DO A VIP SUBSTITUTE RED CARPET PROCESS FOR ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS.
ALL RIGHT, ARE THERE ANY MORE QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? MAY I HAVE A A MOTION ON THIS? I MOVE IN A SECOND.
I MOVE THERE, BOARD BOARD TRUSTEE APPROVES THE AMENDMENT TO THE TWENTY ONE TO TWENTY TWENTY TWO COMPENSATION PLAN AS PRESENTED.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE ANGELA POWELL AND A SECOND BY TRUSTEE DR.
LAUREN TYRA THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE AMENDMENT TO THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY
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ONE TWENTY TWENTY TWO COMPENSATION PLAN AS PRESENTED.IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I JUST WANTED TO ADD A THANK YOU TO ALL OF THIS TO BETH, YOUR TEAM.
YOU JUST MENTIONED EARLIER IN THIS CONVERSATION THAT THEY SPENT A LION'S SHARE OF THE WEEKEND.
I KNOW A LOT OF WEEKENDS HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY A LOT OF PEOPLE ACROSS THIS DISTRICT.
I THINK IT'S GREAT, THE COLLEAGUES PRESENTED AND ACKNOWLEDGED FROM BUS DRIVERS TO FANS.
WE ARE VERY BLESSED, AND IT'S AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO VOTE ON THIS MOTION.
OH, AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT TO ADD BEFORE MY LIBRARIAN, MY LIBRARIANS AND MUSIC TEACHERS HOUND ME LATER, BUT I WANT TO INCLUDE THEM TO.
YOU WANT TO INCLUDE I'M SORRY.
I WANT TO INCLUDE OUR MUSIC TEACHERS IN AN ALSO ACQUIRED TEACHERS THAT ARE BAND DIRECTORS AND ALSO OUR ATHLETIC COACHES, ESPECIALLY ONCE WE START LISTING, I KNOW HE'S GOING TO LEAVE SOMEBODY OUT AND IT'S VERY UNINTENTIONAL.
BUT I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
PLEASE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
SO THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ZERO, AND THAT'S AWESOME, I THINK THAT I THINK THAT ADMINISTRATION STANDS READY.
I'M LOOKING AT LESLIE RANGE STANTON BACK THERE, WHO PROBABLY HAS A COMMUNICATION READY.
I THINK EVERYBODY'S DOING THE HAPPY DANCE, SO WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT THIS.
ALL RIGHT NOW, WE WILL MOVE TO SECTION NINE POINT TWO ON THE AGENDA, WHICH IS THE
[9.2. Approval of the Budget Amendment Fiscal Year 2021 - 2022 ]
APPROVAL OF THE BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021-2022 AND THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY CHIEF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER JOHNNY HILL.THANK YOU, VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY.
OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS NOT NEARLY AS EXCITING AS WHAT YOU JUST HEARD.
BUT I WILL TRY TO FOLLOW IT UP AND BE AS BRIEF AS POSSIBLE, PLEASE.
I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH A SHORT PRESENTATION.
PLEASE STOP ME AND ASK ME QUESTIONS IF YOU'VE GOT QUESTIONS ALONG THE WAY.
I WILL SAY THAT ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WE AMEND THE BUDGET JUST ABOUT EVERY MONTH.
YOU WILL SEE IT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THE REASON WHY WE DON'T BRING IT AND DISCUSS IT IN AN OPEN MEETING IS IT'S IT'S THERE MORE NORMALLY ROUTINE AMENDMENTS, JUST MOVING MONIES WITHIN THE DIFFERENT APPROPRIATIONS BUDGET, MAINLY FUNCTION TO FUNCTION.
I THINK THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER, WE'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH THE BUDGET AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF ITEMS THAT COME OUT THAT ARE WORTHY OF CONVERSATION AND OPEN MEETING.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO THIS EVENING.
A COUPLE OF THOSE IT MAY CATCH YOUR EYE.
I'M SURE IT DID WHEN YOU WENT THROUGH THESE BUDGET AMENDMENTS.
BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THIS IS YOU SAW RECAPTURE GO FROM ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT MILLION ESTIMATED UP TO ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN MILLION.
IT'S ABOUT A 14 PERCENT INCREASE.
IT'S QUITE A BIT, AND I'D LIKE TO TAKE JUST A FEW MINUTES TO GO THROUGH AND EXPLAIN THE REASONS WHY.
THE MAJORITY OF THE REASON THAT YOU ACTUALLY SEE AN INCREASE IN RECAPTURE OR EXCESS REVENUE, AS IT'S NOW KNOWN, IS PREDOMINANTLY THREE MAIN REASONS, AND THEY'RE LISTED HERE.
I'D LIKE TO GO THROUGH IT REAL, REAL QUICKLY AND THEN ACTUALLY SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON EACH ONE OF THESE THREE DIFFERENT ITEMS. THE FIRST REASON IS THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE IN TAX ESTIMATED TAX COLLECTIONS FROM THE POINT THAT WE DID THE ORIGINAL BUDGET BACK IN THE SUMMER UNTIL THE END OF THE SEMESTER, THAT ESTIMATED TAX COLLECTION WENT UP.
AND SO THAT'S ONE REASON THAT IT ACTUALLY AFFECTS RECAPTURE, AND I'LL EXPLAIN THAT HERE IN MORE DETAIL.
THE SECOND REASON IS AN INCREASE IN STATE REVENUE.
STATE REVENUE THAT THAT CAME THROUGH AND IT'S CALLED PER CAPITA, IT'S A PER STUDENT ALLOCATION.
THAT WENT UP FROM THE POINT THAT THE ORIGINAL BUDGET WAS PASSED UNTIL THE END OF THE SEMESTER, AND I'LL SPEND A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME WITH THAT HERE IN A SECOND AS WELL.
AND THEN FINALLY, OF COURSE, WE HAVE A SNAPSHOT DATE THE LAST FRIDAY IN OCTOBER.
BUT AT THAT POINT, WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO RECONCILE WHERE WE ARE WITH STUDENT ENROLLMENT AS WELL AS STUDENT PERCENTAGE OF ATTENDANCE.
AND THOSE BOTH OF THOSE FACTORS CAN EITHER RUN OUR NUMBERS UP WITH THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE GET TO KEEP OR RENT THEM DOWN IF WE ACTUALLY HAVE A LOSS IN THOSE AREAS.
SO LET'S LET'S TAKE THESE ONE AT A TIME, WHAT YOU SEE HERE, FIRST OF ALL, IS AN INCREASE IN ANTICIPATED TAX COLLECTIONS.
I UNDERSTAND THAT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION UP THERE.
IT'S SIMPLY TALKING ABOUT HOW WE TAKE VALUES FROM THE CHIEF APPRAISER AND COLLIN COUNTY AND WE CONVERT IT TO TAX COLLECTIONS.
YOU SEE TWO DIFFERENT COLUMNS THERE AT THE VERY TOP OF THE COLUMN.
AND THE GIST OF THE RIGHT OF THAT, YOU SEE THAT JULY CERTIFIES.
SO FOR ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, OF COURSE, YOU HAVE SEPTEMBER ONE START DATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
YOU HAVE JULY ONE START DATES AND PLANO ISD, WHERE A JULY ONE START DATE, WHICH SIMPLY MEANS WE ACTUALLY SET OUR BUDGETS BASED ON AN ESTIMATE VERSUS
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THE CERTIFIES BECAUSE A CERTIFIES ACTUALLY DON'T COME OUT TO THE LAST WEEK IN JULY.NOW, BY LAW, AND THIS IS A GOOD CHANGE.
ABOUT PROBABLY ABOUT A DECADE AGO, THERE WERE THE ESTIMATES WERE ALL OVER THE BOARD.
AND SO A LAW CAME OUT THAT SAID THAT THE CHIEF APPRAISER HAD TO DO A CERTIFIED ESTIMATE.
SO WE DON'T MAKE UP THESE NUMBERS.
WE GET IT STRAIGHT FROM THE CHIEF APPRAISER IN COLLIN COUNTY BASED ON A CERTIFIED ESTIMATE, AND WE BASED ESTIMATED COLLECTIONS ON THAT AMOUNT.
YOU CAN SEE IF YOU COMPARE WHAT WE BASED OUR ORIGINAL BUDGET ON, WHICH IS ON APRIL CERTIFIED ESTIMATES AND THEN COMPARE THAT WITH WHAT WENT OUT, WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON THE JULY CERTIFIES.
YOU CAN SEE THAT WE WENT UP IN VALUE ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN MILLION DOLLARS.
AND I KNOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT, BUT THAT'S ABOUT AN INCREASE OF ABOUT ONE POINT ONE PERCENT, ABOUT ONE POINT ONE PERCENT.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT IT IN THAT VEIN, IT'S A LITTLE MORE REASONABLE HOW IT COULD CHANGE THAT MUCH IF YOU RUN THOSE NUMBERS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM.
YOU CAN SEE THAT ACTUALLY CHANGES ESTIMATED COLLECTIONS OF ABOUT $8.7 MILLION.
NOW, IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE LUCKY 20 PERCENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS OUT THERE THAT ARE CONSIDERED PROPERTY WEALTHY AND ARE ABOVE THAT EQUALIZED WEALTH LEVEL THAN WHAT YOU KNOW IS THAT YOU COLLECT MORE MONEY INTO TAX COLLECTIONS, YOU HAVE TO REPORT THAT AS REVENUE, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO INCREASE YOUR RECAPTURE OR YOUR EXCESS COLLECTIONS.
THE STATE LOOKS AT THAT AS SIMPLY AS AN EXCESS COLLECTIONS.
YOU'VE GOT TO REPORT IT AND THEN YOU GET TO WRITE THEM A CHECK EVERY AUGUST FOR THAT AMOUNT.
SO ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE'RE DRIVING UP RECAPTURE IS THIS IS AN ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN ESTIMATED COLLECTIONS.
OH, THAT MAKES SENSE TO EVERYBODY.
THE SECOND REASON IS WE HAVE AN INCREASE IN BASICALLY A STATE ALLOCATION.
IF YOU LOOK AT OUR BUDGET, YOU'LL ALWAYS NOTICE THERE'S THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT LINE ITEMS THERE.
MAJORITY OF OUR STATE MONIES FOR MOST SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE COMES THROUGH WHAT'S CALLED THE FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM.
THAT'S WHERE ALL THE FORMULAS GO THROUGH.
AND IF YOU ARE BELOW THAT EQUALIZED WEALTH LEVEL, YOU GET FSP MONEY OR FINANCIAL FOUNDATION STATE PROGRAMS ALLOTMENT.
PLANO ISD IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM ALLOTMENT.
BUT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE FOR WHAT'S A SECOND STATE INCOME CALLED THE PER CAPITA ALLOTMENT OF THIS PER CAPITA ALLOTMENT HAS CHANGED A LOT OVER THE YEARS, BUT IT'S A SIMPLE CALCULATION, IT SIMPLY SAYS, AND IT'S DERIVED FROM A SEPARATE FUNDING SOURCES WHY IT'S SEPARATED OUT DIFFERENT THAN THE FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM.
IT COMES FROM A FUNDING SOURCE CALLED THE AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND.
AND I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO A WHOLE LOT OF DETAILS OF WHERE THAT MONEY IS GENERATED FROM.
BUT IT'S THE PERMANENT, THE PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND, THE PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND, AND THAT'S WHY IT HAS TO BE LISTED OUT SEPARATELY.
BUT THAT PER CAPITA ARE THAT PER STUDENT ALLOCATION IS ACTUALLY SET ONCE A YEAR.
IT'S EITHER IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER.
THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY WILL GO THROUGH.
THEY'LL CALCULATE WHAT'S AVAILABLE IN THIS AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND AND THEN THEY WILL ACTUALLY SAY THIS IS HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE.
THIS IS HOW MUCH WE'RE GOING TO ALLOCATE OUT BASED ON THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE IN CHARTER SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STATE.
THEY'LL DO THAT AND IN AUGUST OF SEPTEMBER OF EACH YEAR.
THAT'S NORMALLY BASED ON A LOWER AMOUNT, THE FIRST YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM.
AND I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO THE WEEDS TOO MUCH FOR THE FIRST YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM.
IT'S ALWAYS LOWER BECAUSE A FEW YEARS AGO, THE STATE SAW FIT TO START TAKING THE FIRST YEAR ALLOTMENT OF THIS AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND AND MOVING IT OVER TO FUND THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ALLOTMENT.
SO YOU HAVE A LOWER PER CAPITA ALLOCATION IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM, AND THAT GOES UP THE SECOND YEAR BECAUSE THE IMA ALLOCATIONS ALL TAKEN OUT OF THAT FIRST YEAR.
SO IT'S NORMALLY BETWEEN TWO HUNDRED AND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY PER STUDENT THE FIRST YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM.
AND THEN IT GOES UP TO FOUR HUNDRED OR FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY.
SO YOU'RE ALWAYS ON AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND THIS PER CAPITAL ALLOCATION, YOU'RE ALWAYS RIDING THIS WAVE BACK AND FORTH.
NOW WE'LL SAY THIS IN THE TEMPLATES THAT WE'RE FIGURED TO ACTUALLY DO THE ORIGINAL BUDGET.
THE PER CAP ALLOCATION RATE WAS SET AT TWO HUNDRED.
IT WAS JUST A PLACEHOLDER WHEN THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MET WITH TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY BACK IN AUGUST OF THIS YEAR.
THEY REALIZED THAT THERE WERE THE FUND HAD GROWN.
THERE WAS MONEY AVAILABLE IN THAT FUND, SO THEY ACTUALLY SET IT AT A LITTLE OVER FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS PER STUDENT.
AS A RESULT, PLANO ISD HAS TO TAKE THAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO AND THE 200 TIMES IT'S BASED ON PRIOR YEAR ADA AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE AND THE DIFFERENCE OF THAT IS ABOUT $9.3 MILLION.
NOT TO CONFUSE THIS MORE, BUT USED TO WE WE RECEIVED AND GOT TO KEEP AND SPEND THIS PER CAPITA ALLOCATION, PROUD TO HOUSE BILL THREE.
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ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS LIKE PLANO ISD WERE ABLE TO KEEP THIS MONEY PART OF THE.FINANCE REFORM, SCHOOL FINANCE REFORM WITH HOUSE BILL THREE WAS TO ACTUALLY COLLAPSE THIS PER CAPITAL ALLOCATION INTO THE FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR FUNDING PURPOSES.
SIMPLY BOTTOM LINE WHAT THAT MEANS FOR PLANO ISD IS WE ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO REPORT IT AND RECORD IT AS REVENUE.
AND THEN ONCE AGAIN, JUST LIKE TAX COLLECTIONS, EXCESS COLLECTIONS, WE HAVE TO RAISE OUR RECAPTURE BY THE SAME AMOUNT.
SO IT'S CONFUSING TO THE PUBLIC BECAUSE THEY SEE TAX COLLECTIONS GOING WAY UP AND THEY'RE THINKING YOU'VE GOT EIGHT POINT SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS TO SPEND THEIR CSR STATE MONIES GO UP BY NINE POINT THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
YOU'VE GOT THAT MONEY TO SPEND WHAT THEY DON'T SEE AND THE REASON WHY I WANT TO VISIT WITH THE BOARD AND REALLY THE COMMUNITY THIS EVENING IS IT'S SIMPLY AN IN AND AN OUT.
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES NOT GET TO KEEP THIS MONEY, OK.
AND SO THAT ALSO IS AN INCREASE TO FUND BALANCE.
SO, JOHNNY, THIS IS AKIN TO WHAT HAPPENED TO ONE OF OUR ESSER FUNDS AS WELL.
LIKE WHEN WE HAD THE EXTRA FUNDS, WE HAD MONEY COMING IN, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS RECAPTURED, SO IT CAME IN AS A POSITIVE, BUT THEN IT CAME BACK OUT AS PART OF IT'S A VERY SIMILAR IS A SIMILAR KIND OF, YES, WE'RE GETTING IT, THEN WE'RE TAKING IT BACK.
YES, ESSER ONE WAS HANDLED THAT WAY.
IT WAS SIMPLY TO SUPPLANT THE STATE'S BUDGET.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF SIMILARITIES WITH THE FIRST ESSER THAT CAME OUT.
SO JOHNNY, I ALSO WANT TO KIND OF POINT THIS OUT AND YOU JUST CORRECT ME IF THIS IS NOT IF THIS IS NOT RIGHT, BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONE WHO KNOWS.
SO THE AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND PAYS OUT THE PER CAPITA FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO.
AND THEN WE HAVE TO PAY THE DIFFERENCE BACK, WHICH IS NINE POINT TWO, SIX NINE BACK TO THE STATE IN THE FORM OF RECAPTURE.
SO IT WAS DESIGNED TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION.
THAT'S WHY THE STATE BOARD IS THE ONE WHO GUIDES TEA ON THIS MONEY, RIGHT? IT IS.
OK, SO THEN WHEN IT GOES BACK IN THE FORM OF RECAPTURE, IT GOES TO THE GENERAL FUND OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, CORRECT? IT DOES.
SO IT DOES NOT MEAN I FEEL LIKE A LAWYER, RIGHT? SO IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE MONEY COMING OUT OF THE AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION.
IN THE FORM OF RECAPTURE GOES BACK INTO THE GENERAL FUND AND IN EXCESS OF FUNDING PUBLIC EDUCATION, WHICH WAS LAST YEAR, ONE POINT FOUR BILLION DOLLARS IN EXCESS OF WHAT IT COSTS TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION.
THE STATE CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WITH THAT MONEY INSTEAD OF GIVING IT BACK TO THE TAXPAYERS.
IT GOES BACK INTO THE GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT.
YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S JUST JUST LIKE THE PATH OF THE MONEY.
IT'S FOR EDUCATION AND IT'S ENDING UP IN THE GENERAL FUND.
YEAH, OUR LOCAL TAXPAYERS SHOULD GET A REFUND, REALLY.
BUT YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN THAT, IT'S JUST UNFAIR.
ONE POINT FOUR BILLION DOLLARS JUST SO THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTOOD IT WAS B WITH A BILLION.
SO SARA, YOU KNOW, AND I MEAN THIS IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE TALKING TO OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR ECONOMICS TEACHERS ABOUT USING TEXAS STATE RECAPTURE AS AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE THINGS BEING TAUGHT.
IT NEEDS TO BE AN IN CLASS DEAL.
BECAUSE THESE STUDENTS ARE GOING TO GRADUATE, THEY'RE GOING TO GO TO COLLEGE, THEY'RE GOING TO COME BACK, THEY'RE GOING TO BUY PROPERTIES AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE VOTERS.
AND I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THIS IS A REAL LIFE SITUATION.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS US HERE TODAY, AND A BIG PROBLEM IS PEOPLE NOT BEING EDUCATED ON IT.
AND I THINK THE DISTRICT'S DONE A GOOD JOB.
AND THERE'S MORE WE WANT TO DO TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT TO THE TAXPAYERS ABOUT RECAPTURE BECAUSE IF THEY TRULY UNDERSTOOD IT AND HOW IT GOES AGAINST, YOU KNOW, TRULY OUR VALUES AND FINANCIAL LITERACY, I THINK OUR STUDENTS NEED TO BE SEEING THIS IN THE CURRICULUM AND UNDERSTAND THIS IS HOW IT OPERATES HERE IN TEXAS, AND THAT MIGHT LIGHT A FIRE ON THEM SOMEDAY TO VOTE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON IT.
BUT GUESS WHAT? HE'S NOT FINISHED.
HE BEFORE HE KEEPS MOVING ON THIS, YOU SAID SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AND I WANT TO REPEAT BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE SHELLS AND WE HAVE REFERRED TO THIS BEFORE AS A SHELL GAME.
AND THIS IS A SHELL GAME THAT IS ROBBING MONEY FROM THE CHILDREN OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND FROM THE TAXPAYERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I WANT TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT THAT THAT IS MY BELIEF AND THAT THAT IS NOT OK.
WELL, AND THIS IS THE KIND OF STUFF THAT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE, NOT JUST US DISTRICTS LIKE HIGHLAND PARK, WHERE YOU HAVE SUCH A PROPERTY RICH DISTRICT, US THEM.
BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS TO BE ABLE TO DO LARGER TEACHER SALARY INCREASES.
AND YOU KNOW, WE DO WHAT WE CAN.
BUT WITH INFLATION, EVERYTHING ELSE.
OTHER DISTRICTS ARE JUST THEY'RE BETTER OFF.
THEY'RE NOT HIT AS HARD BY HOUSE BILL THREE AND THE SCHOOL FINANCING.
AND SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE FOR TEACHERS.
AND SO IT'S PUTTING DISTRICTS AT A DISADVANTAGE.
AND CODY, ONE THING ABOUT THAT, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT DISTRICTS THAT ARE RECEIVING
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THE FUNDS, THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO TAX AT THE MAXIMUM TAX EFFORT.AND SO THEY STILL GET THE DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE STATE THAT COME FROM THE RECAPTURE.
AND YOU KNOW, WHERE'S THE EFFORT? BUT THEN AGAIN, THAT ON THERE, WHAT WHAT IS THE EXCESS RECAPTURE? WHAT DO WE CALL THAT EXCESS REVENUE? IT'S HARD.
IT'S HARD TO RECONCILE EXCESS REVENUE WHEN YOU'RE PAYING 213 MILLION BACK TO THE STATE, I KNOW, BUT I THINK THE RECAPTURE THAT'S NOT BEING SPENT FOR EDUCATION SHOULD EITHER GO BACK TO THE TAXPAYERS WHO PAID IT OR, YOU KNOW, DIRECT IT TO EDUCATION.
AT LEAST IT'S GOING INTO A BOTTOMLESS PIT AND THERE'S NO TRANSPARENCY.
AND WHAT'S REALLY SORT OF BEEN ON THIS BOARD FOR 12 YEARS, THIS HAS BEEN A MANTRA FOR 12 YEARS IN MY LANGUAGE.
SO IT'S RIDICULOUS AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR LEGISLATORS ARE ON OUR SIDE.
SO I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT HARRINGTON WHEN RECAPTURE WENT INTO EFFECT, AND I REMEMBER HAVING SOME OF THIS LIKE TEACHERS TALKING ABOUT THIS.
IN THE 90S, AS AN ELEMENTARY STUDENT, LIKE IT'S BEYOND 12 YEARS, BECAUSE WHEN THIS HAPPENED, NINETEEN NINETY THREE, YEAH, WHEN THIS HAPPENED, IT WAS IT WAS A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION THEN OK, I FEEL EXTREMELY OLD BECAUSE I WAS I WAS A FIRST YEAR CFO WHENEVER RECAPTURE CAME AROUND.
SO I'M NOT THE YOUNGEST ONE UP HERE.
I'M JUST GOING TO GROW AND I HAVE GRAY HAIR.
WE RANKED ONE OF THE TOP THREE SCHOOLS THAT HAD TO PAY THE HIGHEST END TO RECAPTURE.
WE USED TO BE NUMBER TWO, BUT NOW THE HOUSTON ISD HAS JOINED THE PARTY.
OK, SO JOHNNY, CAN YOU MAKE LIKE A HALF PAGER OR PAGER? LIKE, EXPLAIN THIS IN LANGUAGE.
IT'S A FOURTH GRADER CAN UNDERSTAND.
SO WE CAN PRESENT THIS TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RUNNING FOR REPS WHO ARE CURRENTLY SERVING AS OUR REPS.
HEATHER, WE HAVE A SCHOOL FINANCE 101 PRESENTATION.
THAT'S WE'RE THAT WE'RE DOING THROUGHOUT, AND WE CAN ADD THE CALCULATION OF RECAPTURE FOR THIS YEAR AND HOW IT GOT TO BE THE NUMBER IT IS.
I'VE ALREADY ASKED FOR PICTURES.
I WANT CIRCLES AND ARROWS SO WE CAN SEE ALL THIS.
SO YES, IT'S DEFINITELY NEEDED FOR US.
ALL RIGHT, SO LET ME GO ON TO FINISH WITH THIS, THE THIRD, THE THIRD DRIVER OF THE INCREASE, THIS TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLAR INCREASE TO FUND BALANCE, OF COURSE, IS JUST A DECREASE IN LOSS OF STUDENTS IN AN AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.
THIS IS DONE THROUGH JUST LOST OF ENROLLMENT.
IT'S ALSO DONE IN LOSS OF PERCENTAGE OF ATTENDANCE.
SO AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, I THINK THIS BOARD IS VERY, VERY EDUCATED ON THIS TOPIC.
BUT WE DO NOT GET PAID BY ENROLLMENT.
WE GET PAID BY AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE, WHICH IS ANOTHER ISSUE WE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN WORKING LEGISLATIVELY TO FIX.
BUT AS AN INSTANT, FOR AN EXAMPLE, WE ARE THROUGH THE FIRST SEMESTER.
WE'RE DOWN ABOUT TWO PERCENTAGE POINTS IN PERCENTAGE OF ATTENDANCE BASED ON WHAT WE ARE AVERAGING OR AVERAGING.
NOW IT'S A TWO EDGED SWORD BECAUSE YOU WANT TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO SHOW UP.
BUT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, YOU ALSO WANT TO ALSO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO BE MINDFUL OF THEIR HEALTH AND IF THEY ARE FEELING SYMPTOMATIC, DON'T SHOW UP.
YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO COME, BUT YOU WANT THEM TO BE PROACTIVE WITH THEIR HEALTH AS WELL.
SO AS A RESULT, I MEAN, WE ARE ACTUALLY LOSING FUNDING, WHICH BASICALLY THE ONLY WAY WHEN WE LOSE FUNDING, IT MEANS WE'RE PAYING MORE BACK AND RECAPTURE.
AND SO THE STATE CAME OUT WITH A HOLD HARMLESS, BUT IT WASN'T ACROSS THE BOARD EVERY UP FOR THAT WHOLE YEAR.
IT WAS ONLY FOR THE FIRST SIX WEEKS.
SO THIS IS THE LOSS IN STUDENT AVERAGE.
DAILY ATTENDANCE IS COSTING US ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT A LITTLE OVER $7 MILLION, BUT IT COULD BE MUCH WORSE IF WE ACTUALLY WERE LOSING IT.
BASED ON ACTUAL NUMBERS, IT WOULD BE ABOUT 10 AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS.
SO WE'VE GOT THE HOLD HARMLESS BUILT INTO THIS.
I WILL SAY THAT MS. BONSER IS WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY WITH THE TA COMMISSIONER TO TRY TO EXPAND THIS HOLD HARMLESS.
AND SO I THINK HOPEFULLY WE MIGHT SEE SOME ACTION OR SOME MOVEMENT ON THAT THAT TO COMMISSIONERS CALL.
ACTUALLY, THIS LAST WEEK WAS A LITTLE MORE HOPEFUL IN THAT REGARD.
AND IF SO, WE'LL ACTUALLY CHANGE THIS ADJUSTMENT ACCORDINGLY.
SO THESE THREE NUMBERS THAT YOU SEE HERE AND LET ME GO BACK TO THAT, THAT'S OVERALL SUMMARY REAL QUICK.
THOSE THREE NUMBERS ADDITIONAL TAX COLLECTIONS, ADDITIONAL PER CAPITA ALLOCATION AND THEN LOSS IN STUDENT AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE AN
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ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN EXCESS REVENUES OR RECAPTURE OF TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.ONE ITEM THAT I DO WANT TO FINISH WITH.
AND THAT IS THIS IS JUST A SIMPLE BAR GRAPH.
BUT BUT WHAT I WILL POINT OUT, YOU KNOW, THEY SAY A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.
IF YOU LOOK IN THE RED SECTION, THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF TAXES THAT WE ACTUALLY GET TO RETAIN.
YOU LOOK BACK OVER SIX YEARS AND THE RED SECTION.
AND GUESS WHAT? INFLATION'S GONE UP AND UP AND UP.
AND YET WHAT WE ACTUALLY GET TO KEEP OF OUR TAXES.
IF YOU GO BACK TO TWENTY SIXTEEN, IT'S 400 TO $9 MILLION.
IF YOU GO BACK TO TWENTY TWENTY TWO, IT'S FOUR HUNDRED AND $9 MILLION.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE INFLATIONARY VALUE OF TODAY'S DOLLAR COMPARED TO, I MEAN, THE 409'S REALLY, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
I KNOW THAT THE INFLATIONARY FACTOR UP UNTIL THIS YEAR HAS BEEN BETWEEN ONE AND TWO AND ONE TO TWO AND A HALF PERCENT.
I KNOW RIGHT NOW FOR THIS YEAR, WE'RE SITTING ON LIKE SIX TO SEVEN PERCENT.
AND SO IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THAT BLUE AREA.
THAT'S THE AMOUNT OF OUR TAXES THAT WE'RE COLLECTING THAT GOES TOWARD RECAPTURE.
YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE DECREASE WITH THE EFFECTS OF HOUSE BILL THREE.
AND THEN GUESS WHAT, WE'RE STARTING TO TAKE OFF AGAIN, WHICH IS WHAT A JOKE HOUSE BILL THREE WAS.
WELL, AND THAT'S THE THING I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO SAY HERE IS THAT FISCAL YEAR 19, OUR PERCENT WAS .
I'M GOING OUT DECIMALS FOR A REASON.
AND THAT WAS THE TIME THAT WAS THE BREAKING POINT.
IT'S WHEN WE SAID WE'VE HAD ENOUGH.
WE HAD A GREAT EFFORT IN OUR COMMUNITY.
OUR CHAMBER GOT TOGETHER, WE WENT AND WE REALLY FOUGHT AND OUR LEGISLATORS CAME BACK FROM THE EIGHTY SIX LEGISLATORS SO HAPPY THAT A RESET WAS DONE.
WE WERE AS THRILLED AS WE'D LIKE TO HAVE BEEN, BUT IT STILL WAS A RESET, IT WAS A BENEFIT TO OUR TAXPAYERS.
AND OUR TAX RATE NOW IS MORE GIVING BACK.
IT'S ZERO POINT THREE ONE THREE ONE EIGHT NINE.
WE ARE IN WORSE SHAPE NOW THAN WE WERE WHEN WE CHARGED OUR LEGISLATURES AND OUR STATE TO WORK AND CREATE HB THREE.
THAT IS VERY, VERY SOBERING TO ME.
IN MY HEAD AS A TRUSTEE SITTING HERE AT THIS TABLE, I THOUGHT, OK, WE'RE WITH RECAPTURE.
AS LONG AS WE CAN KEEP IT UNDER 30 PERCENT, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN LIVE WITH.
WE'VE EXCEEDED THAT NOW, I MEAN, NOT THAT I WAS HAPPY TO LIVE WITH 30 PERCENT, BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT A MOMENT OF PAUSE AND A MOMENT FOR OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS TO LISTEN.
THEY NEED TO HEAR THIS AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO LEVERAGE OUR NOW FIVE STATE HOUSE LEGISLATURES WHO ARE GOING TO BE REPRESENTING US WHEN THEY GET ELECTED TO THAT GIVES US FIVE PEOPLE WHO WE HOPE COME THE EIGHTY EIGHTH LEGISLATURE WILL BE EDUCATED TO GO TO BAT FOR US TO HELP FIX THIS PROBLEM.
IT DID NOT STOP THE CLOCK, IT JUST RESET THE CLOCK.
BUT IT IS STILL TICKING AND IT'S TICKING FAST, YOU KNOW? AND YOU KNOW, NOT EVERY BIT.
WE HAVE A VERY CONSERVATIVE STATE, AND NOT EVERY CONSERVATIVE SEES PUBLIC EDUCATION AS THE WINNING ISSUE OR TOPIC.
BUT IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO MOVE THE NEEDLE ON YOUR COMMUNITY, WHAT'S GOING TO PUT MORE MONEY BACK IN PEOPLE'S POCKETS, WHAT'S GOING TO PUT MORE MONEY BACK IN THE CLASSROOM AND NOT BE RUNNING BUDGET DEFICITS AND TAKING MONEY FROM EDUCATION, PUTTING IT INTO THE GENERAL FUND? IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY HONOR THE FISCAL PRINCIPLES THAT YOU SAY YOU REPRESENT PUBLIC EDUCATION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION, FINANCE REFORM IS, TO ME, SHOULD BE ONE OF THE TOP THREE PLATFORMS THAT ARE TOPICS ON PLATFORMS FOR ANY CANDIDATE OF ANY PARTY RUNNING, BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS EVERYBODY.
AND IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE FIVE THAT'S OWNED FOR PLANO ISD, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MATTERS AND IMPACTS US MORE THAN ANY OTHER DISTRICT.
WELL, NOT ANY OTHER DISTRICT, BUT WE'RE NUMBER THREE USED TO BE NUMBER TWO.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALREADY THE CLOCK GOT RESET, BUT NOW IT'S ON FAST FORWARD AND THIS IS SOMETHING THEY NEED TO HAVE IN THEIR TOP, TOP CATEGORIES ON THEIR PLATFORM.
BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE TAXPAYERS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SAY YOU CARE ABOUT TAXES AND YOU WANT X, Y Z IN TEXAS, IF THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL FINANCE REFORM, THEN THEY'RE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT FISCAL CONSERVATISM AND THEY'RE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT DOING BETTER FOR OUR FAMILIES, OUR CITY OR OUR STUDENTS.
YOU KNOW WHAT? I ECHO WHAT YOU SAID, AND I'M REALLY DISAPPOINTED THAT THE MEDIA IS NOT HERE TO SEE THIS.
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THIS IS THE STORY FOR THIS EVENING, AND I WOULD HAVE ASKED THAT GENTLEMAN TO STAY IF I THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE COVERED THIS STORY.BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE 86 LEGISLATIVE SESSION, WHAT WAS THAT? TWENTY EIGHTEEN? TWENTY NINETEEN.
WHEN THEY WHEN THEY CONSIDERED HOUSE BILL THREE, THERE WAS A TEXAS COMMISSION ON PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE THAT WAS PUT PUT TOGETHER TO CONSULT AND FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM, AND THEY CREATED TWO MAJOR GOALS.
ONE WAS A LONG TERM SYSTEMIC BALANCE BETWEEN THE STATE AND LOCAL SHARE OF FUNDING, AND AT THE TIME IT WAS SIXTY FOUR PERCENT IN TWENTY NINETEEN SIXTY FOUR PERCENT SHARE CAME FROM THE LOCAL TAXPAYERS, AND SO THEY WANTED TO BALANCE THAT THEY WERE HEARING FROM US.
AND YOU KNOW, WE TRUSTEES WENT DOWN TO THE LEGISLATURE AND SPOKE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TESTIFIED, NOT JUST TRUSTEES, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE.
AND THEY REALIZED THERE WAS A PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY EVEN SAID THAT THE CURRENT STATE OF RECAPTURE WAS UNSUSTAINABLE.
AND THEY ALSO SAID THEY WANTED TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE GROWTH RATE OF PROPERTY TAXES AND THE RELIANCE ON RECAPTURE.
I'M JUST GOING BACK A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK.
AND SO THERE THEY THEY CREATED HOUSE BILL THREE, AND DESPITE THE INTENT OF THE LAWMAKERS EXCESSIVE BOASTFUL PRIDE ABOUT HOUSE BILL 3'S IMPACT ON RECAPTURE, WE SEE THEIR EFFORTS WERE REALLY ONLY TO REDUCE THE TRAJECTORY OF RECAPTURE AND CHANGE THE NAME FROM RECAPTURE TO REVENUE IN EXCESS OF ENTITLEMENT.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, STATEWIDE RECAPTURE HAS NEARLY DOUBLED FROM ONE POINT FIVE SEVEN BILLION IN TWENTY SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN TO TWO POINT NINETY EIGHT BILLION AND TWENTY TWENTY ONE.
SO WE'RE RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM OR WE'RE BACK.
WELL, I'M ENDING IT WITH A PROPOSITION.
I'M GETTING MY THINGS MIXED UP, BUT WE'RE RIGHT BACK FROM WHERE WE STARTED.
THAT'S THE APPROPRIATE WAY TO SAY IT, AND THEY DEEMED IT UNSUSTAINABLE.
AND SO IT TRULY IS UNSUSTAINABLE.
AND I KNOW DAVID STOLLE ISN'T HERE TONIGHT, BUT HE WOULD BE BANGING HIS FIST ON THE TABLE AND IN AGREEMENT.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE JUST APPROVED ON DECEMBER 7TH THE PURCHASE OF ATTENDANCE CREDITS, WHICH IS THE WAY WE GIVE BACK OUR RECAPTURE.
THE VOTERS SELECTED THAT METHOD IN NINETEEN NINETY THREE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE JUST DID ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO MILLION.
WE SAID WE WOULD GIVE THAT BACK AND APPROVED IT AND THAT PAYMENT WILL GO OUT IN AUGUST.
CORRECT IT THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST.
AND TONIGHT WE'RE APPROVING A BUDGET AMENDMENT WHICH INCREASES RECAPTURE TO TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN MILLION AND RECAPTURE IS UNSUSTAINABLE.
SO LIKE I SAID BEFORE RECEIVING DISTRICTS WHO RECEIVED THE FUNDS OF RECAPTURE, THEY DON'T HAVE TO TAX AT THE HIGHEST RATE.
AND YET THE GROWTH OF RECAPTURE WILL CONTINUE TO PUT A HEAVY BURDEN ON OUR LOCAL TAXPAYERS, AND THEY EXPECT THEIR RESOURCES ARE GOING TO FUND SCHOOLS AND THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE BEING DUPED.
AND I WON'T SAY ANYMORE, BUT IT'S, YOU KNOW, MARCH 1ST PRIMARIES.
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE AND THAT YOU WANT YOU.
THERE'S EARLY VOTING FEBRUARY 14TH, I THINK.
GET YOURSELF TO THE POLLS AND LET'S ASK THE QUESTIONS OF THE CANDIDATES THAT ARE MAKING THESE DECISIONS DOWN IN AUSTIN.
AND LET'S GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN OFFICE TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION APPROPRIATELY.
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING AS I'M SITTING HERE LISTENING TO ALL THIS IS ONE OF THE THREE OF THE TRIFECTA OF INCREASING RECAPTURE IS THE FACT THAT OUR ENROLLMENT IS DOWN.
SO ONE OF THE WAYS WE COULD FIX THAT IS TO HAVE MORE KIDS MOVE INTO OUR COMMUNITY.
AND YET THE PROPERTY TAXES THAT ARE BEING CHARGED FOR FAMILIES MAKE IT, I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING NOT TO LIVE IN THIS COMMUNITY BECAUSE BECAUSE IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE, THE VALUE IS TOO HIGH.
SO WE GET THOSE TWO DINGS THAT THEY'RE THEY'RE FIGHTING EACH OTHER.
SO I MEAN, I'D LOVE TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BRING MORE FAMILIES IN.
BUT THAT'S THE WAY THE WAY THEIR HOUSING IS SET UP.
IT'S IT'S BECOME PROHIBITIVE FOR FAMILIES.
SO JOHNNY, TELL ME WHAT, WHAT WAS OUR BUDGET DEFICIT ANTICIPATED BUDGET DEFICIT BEFORE THIS AND WHAT IS IT AFTER? SO OUR PREVIOUS BUDGET DEFICIT WAS NINETEEN.
IT WAS NINETEEN POINT SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS.
WITH THIS AMENDMENT, IT WILL GO TO TWENTY ONE POINT EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS, RIGHT? I WANT TO ECHO A LITTLE BIT AND BUILD UPON SOMETHING THAT CODY SAID, AND HE SAID THIS SHOULD BE TOP OF THE PLATFORM FOR EVERY CANDIDATE.
AND I I WANT TO STRONGLY ECHO THAT.
I DON'T CARE WHAT LETTER IS AFTER YOUR NAME.
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I DON'T CARE WHAT COLOR YOUR FANCY YARD SIGNS ARE.I DON'T CARE WHO'S OUT BLOCK WALKING FOR YOU OR WHO'S FUNDING YOU OR ANY OF THIS.
IF YOU ARE RUNNING FOR ELECTED OFFICE IN OUR COMMUNITY, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP US WITH THIS AND PEOPLE ARE OUT BLOCK WALKING RIGHT NOW.
MY MOM CALLED ME ON SUNDAY BECAUSE ONE OF THE CANDIDATES FOR HD SEVENTY CAME AND KNOCKED ON HER DOOR, AND THE FIRST THING SHE DID WAS CALL ME AND SAID, GUESS WHO KNOCKED ON MY DOOR? WHAT SHOULD I ASK THEM? I WOULD ASK THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE THAT ARE GETTING THESE PHONE CALLS, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE GETTING THE TEXT MESSAGES, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE GETTING PEOPLE KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR, ASK THEM, WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON RECAPTURE? WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON PUBLIC EDUCATION? OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUSTEES ARE WILLING TO WORK WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.
ARE OUR REPRESENTATIVES AND OUR SENATORS WILLING TO WORK WITH US AND ARE THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE VOTING FOR? ARE THEY AWARE OF THIS? DO THEY CARE? AND ARE THEY WILLING TO COME TO THE TABLE? I WOULD JUST ASK EVERY VOTER TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS DURING THIS CAMPAIGN SEASON OF THE PEOPLE KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR AND SENDING YOUR JUNK MAIL AND TRYING TO TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU THAT THAT THEY'RE THE RIGHT CANDIDATE.
SO I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH WITH CODY SENTIMENTS ON THIS, THAT THIS IS NOT A PARTY ISSUE.
THIS IS NOT A LEFT OR RIGHT ISSUE OR OR A RED OR PURPLE OR BLUE OR WHATEVER ISSUE.
THIS IS THIS IS AN ISSUE FOR CHILDREN MONEY TO EDUCATE CHILDREN THAT SURPASSES PARTY LINES AND SARA.
CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT IF THERE'S A CANDIDATE THAT WANTS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT RECAPTURE WANTS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SUPPORTING PUBLIC EDUCATION.
PISD STANDS READY TO EDUCATE AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM.
WHAT IS THE CHANCE OF A FB3 THIS THIS THIS GREAT BIG SCHOOL FINANCE REPORT TO BE REFORMED IN THE NEXT SESSION? MINIMAL.
YOU KNOW, I THINK THE WORK WITH THE TECH SCHOOL COALITION, YOU KNOW, OUR OUR HOPE IS THAT SOME LEGISLATION COULD GET DRAFTED ON CAPPING, RECAPTURE OR WHEN THE STATE COLLECTS IN EXCESS OF WHAT IS NEEDED TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION.
THAT THE DISTRICTS THAT HAVE OVERPAID, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE, GET A REBATE.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT'S THEIR MONEY AND IT WASN'T USED FOR EDUCATION AND IT WASN'T NEEDED.
BUT QUIT, QUIT, QUIT TAKING MONEY THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU AND PRETENDING LIKE IT DOES.
LET'S GIVE THE MONEY BACK TO OUR TAXPAYERS.
THAT'S TO ME, I THINK THAT'S THE ANSWER I DON'T RECAPTURE, WE'LL NEVER GO AWAY.
I DON'T THINK THAT THE TENETS OF RECAPTURE THAT SHIP HAS SAILED.
IT'S GONE THROUGH SEVEN SEVEN LAWSUITS.
I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S THE THAT THAT WOULD BE REALISTIC.
BUT THE IDEA OF SUSTAINABILITY IS DEFINITELY WHERE DOES IT END? LIKE, HOW DOES THIS END? WHERE IS THE CEILING? WHERE IS IT THAT SAYS, OK, YOU'VE REACHED AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE? YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO PAY MORE THAN X PERCENT, RIGHT? WELL, AND WHAT DOES IT DO TO THE QUALITY OF PROGRAMS IN OUR DISTRICT WHEN WE'RE HAVING TO GIVE BACK SO MUCH? I MEAN, PEOPLE TALK ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL PISD IS, AND I AGREE THAT IT IS THE PREMIER DISTRICT AND HAS SUCH GREAT SUCCESS OR I WOULDN'T LIVE HERE, BUT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO DIMINISH OUR ABILITY TO FUND THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE RESIDENTS ARE OUR POPULATION IS DEMANDING OF THIS HIGH QUALITY, YOU KNOW, REPUTATION SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND, YOU KNOW, ROBIN HOOD BACK IN THE DAY, THAT'S WHAT THEY CALLED IT WAS DESIGNED TO EQUALIZE SO THAT THERE WOULD BE EQUAL ACCESS TO A CERTAIN LEVEL OF FUNDING TO DELIVER AN ADEQUATE PUBLIC EDUCATION.
BUT WE HAVE KIND OF GONE WAY PAST THAT, AND NOW WE SHOULD BE LOOKING INSIDE OUR OWN DISTRICT AND SAYING, IS THIS EQUITABLE FOR US AT THIS POINT? IF WE UNDERSTAND WE PROBABLY HAVE MORE PROPERTY, WE HAVE MORE PROPERTY WEALTH.
AND SO THERE IS SOME LEVEL OF OF.
EQUITY THERE, BUT WHEN WE'RE BEING FORCED TO MAINTAIN A TAX RATE TO PAY A RECAPTURE BILL BECAUSE YOU CAN'T JUST SAY WE'RE GOING TO DROP THE TAXES AND THEN WE PAY LESS RECAPTURE, IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
AND SO WHERE IS THE EQUITY WHERE, LIKE NANCY SAYS, WE'RE FORCED TO KEEP A TAX RATE JUST
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TO MAINTAIN SOME LEVEL OF PROGRAMING SERVICES AND PAYING OUR TEACHERS WHEN ANOTHER DISTRICT WHO'S GETTING THE MONEY FOR FREE CAN LEVY A LOWER TAX RATE AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO CARRY THE SAME BURDEN TO OUR TAXPAYERS ARE CARING.AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HOUSE BILL THREE TOOK AWAY WAS THE CGI, THE COST OF EDUCATION INDEX, WHICH GAVE SOME, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ANTIQUATED AND TIED TO, I THINK, 1996 NUMBERS.
BUT WHAT LOOK LIKE 80 IN THE MID 80S? OK.
I JUST KNOW IT'S WAY BACK AND IT WASN'T RIGHT WAY BEFORE YOU WERE AFTER YOU WERE OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
BUT THE POINT IS, WHEN THEY TOOK THAT MEASURE OUT, WE IT JUST GAVE US LESS OPPORTUNITY TO KEEP THE FUNDING THAT WE BRING IN.
AND IT'S MEANT TO KIND OF BALANCE THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS IN THIS REGION VERSUS THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS IN ANOTHER REGION.
AND THAT IS A RELEVANT PIECE OF THE FUNDING THAT THEY JUST DECIDED THEY DIDN'T WANT.
IT LOOKS LIKE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY WE'RE NICKEL AND DIMED.
LIKE THE THE PER CAPITAL ALLOCATION ALLOTMENT WE USED.
WE USED TO HAVE A WE HAVE A SHARE NOW BECAUSE IT'S FOLDED INTO FSP.
SO YOU'VE GOT TO PAY MORE, GET LESS.
I MEAN, YOU DO IT ON MULTIPLE LEVELS.
AND THAT'S WHY THAT THE NUMBER SHOULD UP TO TWO HUNDRED SOMETHING RECAPTURE IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, ANY FUTURE LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATORS WILLING TO SAY, HEY, I THINK RECAPTURE PAY IN DISTRICTS LIKE PLANO ISD SHOULD GET A SHARE OF FUNDING FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM, PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY VOTED THEIR MONEY INTO THAT AND THEY SUDDENLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH US.
TYRA A WHILE AGO HIT IT ON THE ON THE HEAD.
I MEAN, WE NEED TO REALLY WORK LEGISLATIVELY TO GET FOLKS IN THERE THAT ARE WILLING TO WORK.
I WILL SAY IT'S A HARD TASK, AND THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE PROPERTY WEALTHY DISTRICTS ONLY MAKE UP ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS, ONLY ABOUT 20 PERCENT.
THE ONES THAT ARE PAYING 90 PERCENT OF THAT CAN BE FOUND IN THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A GAMES OF NUMBERS.
IT'S AN UPHILL BATTLE BECAUSE WE'RE THERE SO FEW OF US.
BUT I THINK DR. TYRA WAS EXACTLY RIGHT.
I KNOW THAT WE'RE MEMBERS OF ASSOCIATIONS TO TRY TO GROUP WITH THESE OTHER DISTRICTS THAT ARE PAYING BACK RECAPTURE TO TRY TO GET MORE BANG FOR OUR BUCK.
AND WE ARE TRYING TO WORK LEGISLATIVELY TO TRY TO HAVE REAL CONVERSATIONS ON WAYS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MAKE REAL DIFFERENCES LIKE CAPPING LIKE CAP AND RECAPTURE.
RECAPTURE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE HERE.
IT'S GONE THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS, BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN RECOMMEND AND WE CAN WORK TOWARD TO ACTUALLY HELP OURSELVES OUT.
I THINK WE'LL DEFINITELY BE DOING THAT.
WE HAVE A HISTORY OF DOING THAT HERE.
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DELAY THE INEVITABLE ANY LONGER THAN WE HAVE TO UNLESS SOMEONE HAS TO BE REALLY IMPORTANT ELSE TO SAY.
SO IS THERE ANY MORE TO YOUR PRESENTATION? NO, MA'AM.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.
BUT IT WAS WITH A GREAT FRUSTRATION.
I MOVE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE BUDGET AMENDMENT FISCAL YEAR 2021-2022AS PRESENTED AND I SECOND ANGELA POWELL.
I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS AND A SECOND BY ANGELA POWELL THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE BUDGET AMENDMENT FISCAL 2021 FISCAL TO 2022 AS PRESENTED.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, I'LL CALL FOR A VOTE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
ALL RIGHT, AND ALL THOSE OPPOSED RAISE YOUR HAND.
ALL RIGHT, SO WE HAVE I HAVE TO CLARIFY.
JERI, DID YOU RAISE YOUR HAND? OK.
[10.1. Adoption of Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Localized Policy Manual Update 118, Affecting (LOCAL) Policies as Indicated on the Policy Action List and Review of (LEGAL) Policies and Exhibits Included in the Policy Update on Second Reading ]
ALL RIGHT, WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM TEN POINT ONE, WHICH IS POLICIES.UP FOR GRABS IS THE ADOPTION OF TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS TASB LOCALIZED POLICY MANUAL UPDATE 118, AFFECTING LOCAL POLICIES AS INDICATED IN THE POLICY ACTION LIST AND REVIEW OF LEGAL POLICIES AND EXHIBITS INCLUDED IN THE POLICY UPDATE.
AND THIS IS ON SECOND READING AND THE BOARD WILL NOW CONSIDER ACTION ON TASB
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POLICY 18.DR. WILLIAMS, WILL YOU PLEASE PRESENT? YES, THANK YOU.
VICE PRESIDENT AND FREE UPDATE ONE 118 WAS REVIEWED BY CABINET AND STAFF, AS WELL AS OUR DISTRICT'S LEGAL COUNSEL.
LOCAL POLICIES INCLUDED IN THE UPDATE ARE PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER SECOND READING THIS EVENING.
I BELIEVE THAT THE BOARD TRUSTEE, AS REVISES ARE, DELETES LOCAL POLICIES AS RECOMMENDED BY TASB POLICY SERVICE AND ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTION SHEET FOR (TASB) TASB LOCALIZED POLICY MANUAL UPDATE ONE 18 UNDER SECOND READING.
IS THERE A SECOND? ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A MOTION MADE BY ANGELA POWELL, A SECOND BY CODY WEAVER, THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADDS, REVISES OR DELETES LOCAL POLICIES AS RECOMMENDED BY TASB POLICY SERVICE AND ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTION SHEET FOR THE TASB LOCALIZED POLICY MANUAL UPDATE ONE 18 UNDER SECOND READING.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
ALL RIGHT, THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY, AND WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM TEN POINT
[10.2. Approval of Policy DC(LOCAL): Employment Practices on First Reading ]
TWO.POLICY APPROVAL OF POLICY D.C.
LOCAL, WHICH IS EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ON FIRST READING, DR WILLIAMS, I'LL ASK YOU TO LOOK AT OR TALK ABOUT THAT.
SO THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO D.C.
LOCAL WILL ALLOW AS WELL ALLOW NEW EMPLOYEES TO BE HIRED AND RECEIVE THEIR CONTRACTS FASTER.
THIS WILL ASSIST WITH THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF NEW EMPLOYEES FROM THE SELECTION PROCESS THROUGH THEIR START DATE.
THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR APPROVAL UNDER FIRST READING AND SUBMITTED BY DR.
MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MADE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY D.C.
LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES UNDER FIRST READING.
I HAVE A MOTION BY SECRETARY JERI CHAMBERS, A SECOND BY HEATHER DR.
HEATHER WANG, THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY D.C.
LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES UNDER FIRST READING.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, I'LL CALL FOR A VOTE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND ANY OPPOSED? NO, THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ZERO UNANIMOUSLY.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO POLICY TEN POINT THREE.
[10.3. Approval of EIC(LOCAL): Academic Achievement: Class Ranking on First Reading ]
WE WILL CONSIDER ACTION ON POLICY EIC LOCAL AND DR.WILLIAMS. I'LL TURN IT TO YOU.
REVISIONS TO EIC LOCAL WILL ALLOW CLASS RANK TO BE PRINTED ON TRANSCRIPTS FOR STUDENTS IN THE TOP 10 PERCENT OF THEIR CLASS.
THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR APPROVAL UNDER FIRST READING AND SUBMITTED BY DR.
ARE YOU TALKING? I.THAT IS CORRECT, AND I BELIEVE AND COURTNEY, I DON'T KNOW IF IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT AS FAR AS THE TIME FRAME FOR DIFFERENT CLASS LEVEL OR GRADUATING CLASSES.
FIRSTLY, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE NEW POLICY OR THE OLD POLICY? OK, AND SO ARE YOU ASKING.SO HEATHER, AT THIS POLICY, IF I LOOK AT IT CORRECTLY, SAYS THAT IT'S GOING TO BE DONE IN FALL OF FALL, FEBRUARY AND JUNE OF GRADE 11 AND 12 AND THEN 12 SEPTEMBER, FEBRUARY AND THEN FOLLOWING THE THIRD GRADING PERIOD.
AND THAT WOULD BE PLENTY OF IT BECAUSE PARENTS, SOME PARENTS ARE CONCERNED THAT THEY DON'T GET THE RANKING ON TIME.
I THINK THAT'S I THINK THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME IT SHOULD BE BECAUSE USUALLY JUST SPEAKING FROM FROM EXPERIENCE, WHEN THE CALL, WHEN APPLICATION OPENS AND IT'S USUALLY IN AUGUST AND THEY'RE USING THEIR LAST AND THEN STUDENTS HAVE THE ABILITY AS THOSE AS THEIR GPA GETS UPDATED TO ALSO SUBMIT IF THEY'RE NOT IN THAT OCTOBER, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THERE'S EARLY DECISION IN OCTOBER.
SO AND AND ADMISSIONS HAPPENS ALL THROUGHOUT THEIR SENIOR YEAR.
SO AS THE NEXT LEVEL OF RANKING OR UPDATED TRANSCRIPTS BECOME AVAILABLE, STUDENTS HAVE
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THE ABILITY TO THEN UPDATE THEIR APPLICATION IF NEED BE AT THAT TIME.SO I MEAN, IT REALLY IS GOING TO BE DEPENDENT UPON THE STUDENTS WHEN THEY'RE APPLYING AND WHERE THEY'RE APPLYING TO.
AND THEN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OFTEN SET THEIR OWN TIME FRAME WHEN THEY ARE ADMITTING STUDENTS ALONG THE WAY.
SO THIS ADJUSTMENT SHOULD ALLOW STUDENTS TO RECEIVE THE INFORMATION WITH ENOUGH TIME TO COMPLETE THEIR APPLICATIONS, LIKE IF THEY IF EARLY ADMISSIONS IN OCTOBER.
I MEAN, IF YOUR RANKING COMES OUT IN SEPTEMBER.
I MEAN, OF COURSE, AFTER YOUR JUNIOR YEAR.
SO THE SUMMER ONE SUMMER CLASSES ARE NOT COVERED RIGHT IN THE.
SO THE JUNE ONE SHOULD BE IDENTICAL.
I MEAN, IN THIS CASE, YOU THINK JUNE AND SEPTEMBER, THE RANKING DOESN'T CHANGE.
NO, IT WON'T NECESSARILY BE SIMILAR.
IT WON'T BE EXACT, THOUGH, BECAUSE OVER THE SUMMER, THE STUDENTS WHO HAVE TRANSFERRED IN, THAT GIVES US TIME TO SORT OF RESEARCH ALL THE COURSES THAT WE'RE GOING TO ACCEPT FOR THEM, CALCULATE THOSE GPA POINTS AND WE SORT OF SHORE EVERYTHING UP.
SO SEPTEMBER IS PROBABLY THE MOST TRUE DEPICTION OF YOUR JUNIOR YEARS CLASS RANK.
THE SEPTEMBER OF YOUR SENIOR YEAR IS PROBABLY YOUR MOST ACCURATE DEPICTION OF YOUR JUNIOR YEAR CLASS RANK BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS KIDS COMING IN AND OUT IN AND OUT OF YOUR CLASS.
AND SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE SORT OF SNAPSHOTS AND SO SEPTEMBER.
SO LET ME GO BACK TO ANSWER YOUR MAIN QUESTION IS WHAT ARE WE GIVING THE STUDENTS TO GET TO THE COLLEGES THAT JUNE END OF YOUR JUNIOR YEAR IN JUNE? THAT TRANSCRIPT IS GOING TO BE MORE THAN ACCEPTABLE THAT SEPTEMBER ONE WILL BE ACCEPTABLE.
I KNOW YOU'RE SAYING THE TIMELINES ARE TIGHT, BUT MOST OF THE KIDS WOULD GET IT AT THE END OF THEIR JUNIOR YEAR.
BUT THE FINAL TRANSCRIPT FOR THE KIDS IS NOT CALCULATED UNTIL THE END OF THE THIRD NINE WEEKS OF THEIR SENIOR YEAR.
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT PART ONLY CONCERNS FOR THOSE EARLY OCTOBER ADMISSION STUDENTS, THEY WOULD USE THE SUMMER THAT JUNE SUMMER.
TRANSCRIPT IF YOU KNOW THEY DIDN'T GET IT OR WHATEVER THEY NEED.
WELL, LET ME ASK THIS QUESTION IF LET'S SAY A STUDENT IS RIGHT THERE AT THE EDGE, BUT NOT QUITE IN JUNE IN THAT TOP 10 PERCENT AND THEN THEY HAPPEN TO BE IN SEPTEMBER THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING TO WAIT.
YOU KNOW, IF THEY THINK THEY CAN GET THEMSELVES UP THERE, THEY MIGHT HAVE TO WAIT, YOU KNOW, SO RATHER THAN APPLY AND GET DENIED, SAY, HEY, I REALLY THINK I CAN GET THERE.
OR MAYBE THERE'S GOING TO BE A BUNCH OF REALLY SMART KIDS THAT LEAVE THE DISTRICT AND I'LL JUST GET BUMPED UP.
YOU KNOW, THAT COULD HAPPEN, BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T HAPPEN.
BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S IT'S A IT'S A NUMBERS GAME AND IT'S A, YOU KNOW, IT'S A TIMING THING.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT TOO LONG BECAUSE THERE MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH SPOTS AT THE UNIVERSITY ANYMORE AND YOU WANT THE EARLY ADMISSION.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO GET THAT.
AND I THINK FROM A TIMING PERSPECTIVE, THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THAT SEPTEMBER ONE OR THE ONES THAT DIDN'T NAIL IT IN JUNE.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT A REALLY, REALLY SMALL AMOUNT.
AND TO THOSE, I WOULD SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, JUST ALL THEY CAN DO BETWEEN JUNE AND SEPTEMBER IS PRAY WELL AND GPA AND RANK IS JUST TWO FACTORS.
THEY ALSO LOOK AT THE TYPES OF COURSES THAT STUDENTS ARE TAKING.
THEY ALSO LOOK AT THEIR COLLEGE READINESS INDICATOR.
SO, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THEY'RE MULTIPLE FACTORS BESIDES THE RANK AND THEIR GPA.
SO YES, I AND MOST OF THE TIME FOR EARLY ADMISSION IN OCTOBER, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS NOT THEIR FINAL.
SO OFTENTIMES THEY ARE REVIEWING THEIR JUNIOR UP TO THEIR JUNIOR YEAR.
TRANSCRIPT INFORMATION ANYWAY.
AND THEN WHAT THEY'RE SLATED TO, WHAT THEY'RE TAKING THEIR SENIOR YEAR.
SO THE SEPTEMBER RELEASE IS EARLY SEPTEMBER, I MEAN.
IT'S JUST SOME PARENTS, SOME STUDENTS REALLY WANT THEIR MOST UPDATED ONES, SO LET'S SEE, IT'S EARLY SEPTEMBER OR LATE SEPTEMBER.
YOU'RE GOING TO RELEASE THAT THE SEPTEMBER.
WELL, IT DOESN'T MATTER, BUT JUST SAY, JUST USE YOUR JUNE ONE.
WE JUST RECOMMEND THEM BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER.
I MEAN, IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE START DATE OF EACH SCHOOL YEAR, TO BE QUITE
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HONEST WITH YOU.I KNOW, IN FACT, FEW, YOU KNOW, NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THEM.
AND I JUST WANT TO ADD JUST ONE MORE THING.
SO OUR DIRECTOR OF GUIDANCE OF COUNSELING AND DR.
GROVER'S TEAM, THEY MEET AND EVERY YEAR AND CONTINUE TO MEET WITH ADMISSIONS OFFICE FROM UNIVERSITY, LOCAL UNIVERSITIES, AS WELL AS REPRESENTATIVES FROM ACROSS THE STATE, SO THAT WE ARE UP TO SPEED ON WHAT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ARE ASKING SO THAT THEY CAN PROPERLY HELP STUDENTS AND FAMILIES ALONG THE WAY AS WELL.
MAY I HAVE A MOTION ON POLICY EIC LOCAL I MOVE AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY ISD LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CLASS RANKING UNDER 1ST READING 2ND.
ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION BY DR.
LAUREN TIRA, A SECOND BY TRUSTEE CODY WEAVER THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY EIC LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CLASS RANKING UNDER 1ST READING.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
ALL RIGHT, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
[11. CONCLUSION OF PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION ]
SO WE ARE FINISHED WITH ITEM 10 POLICIES AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE CONCLUSION OF PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION.DR. WILLIAMS, DO WE HAVE ANY NON AGENDA RELATED PUBLIC COMMENTS THIS EVENING? WE HAVE FIVE NON AGENDA RELATED COMMENT CARDS THIS EVENING.
LET ME JUST REMIND EVERYONE OF THE GUIDELINES READ EARLIER FOR PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION.
IF ANYONE NEEDS THESE GUIDELINES, THE GUIDELINES READ AGAIN, PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU APPROACH THE PODIUM.
ALSO, WHEN YOU'RE CALLED TO THE PODIUM, I'LL REMIND YOU TO PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
THE SUBJECT MATTER OF YOUR COMMENTS AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU RESIDE IN THE DISTRICT.
DR WILLIAMS. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS SIMON SALINAS.
ALL RIGHT, AND MR. SALINAS, I'M GOING TO JUST REMIND YOU THAT SECRETARY BOARD, SECRETARY, JERI CHAMBER IS OVER HERE.
ON THE END IS OUR OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER, AND SO SHE WILL ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS HERE IF YOU IF YOU WANT TO ASK HIM ABOUT THE MINUTE WARNING.
DO YOU WANT A MINUTE WARNING OR DO YOU WANT TO JUST GO THIS THREE STRAIGHT? CAN I PLEASE HAVE A MINUTE WARNING? CERTAINLY THANK YOU.
I'M SIMON SALINAS, AND I'M 17, AND I GO TO PLANO WEAVER SENIOR HIGH AND A MAJORITY OF THE MEETING TONIGHT HAS BEEN TO DISCUSS THE RECAPTURE.
AND THAT SEEMS DISRESPECTFUL WHEN MANY OF MY PEERS AND TEACHERS AND EVEN SUBSTITUTES ARE OUT WITH COVID, THEY SHOULD BE THE MAIN POINT.
WE, THE COMMUNITY, ARE ASKING FOR A MASK MANDATE AND A VIRTUAL OPTION TO BE ADDED TO THIS AGENDA OR MORE LIKELY, CALL A SPECIAL MEETING TOMORROW.
WEARING MASKS WOULD MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T STOP THE LEARNING IN CLASSROOMS. I APPRECIATE THE SENTIMENT IN REGARDS TO STOPPING SOCIAL EVENTS UNTIL FEBRUARY.
BUT LET'S ALSO IMPLEMENT A MASK MANDATE.
THINK OF ALL THE STUDENTS THAT YOU CAN PREVENT FROM HAVING COVID.
IF YOU IMPLEMENT A MASK MANDATE LIKE OUR ISD HAS DONE.
AND THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SHOULD NOT BE QUICK IF THERE IS MORE INPUT.
I CAME HERE EXPECTING TO HAVE A MINUTE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT IT TAKES TIME TO LISTEN.
AND THIS ANTIQUATED POLICY THAT IS DESIGNED TO GIVE SPEAKERS LESS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK IF THERE ARE MANY OF US VOICING OUR CONCERNS TO A MINUTE JUST SHOWS US THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO OUR VOICES AT THOSE TIMES.
FINALLY, WE NEED A VIDEO CONFERENCE OPTION FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO SPEAK BUT ARE AT HOME WATCHING AND ARE CONCERNED ABOUT COVID, AND THERE ARE ALSO PEOPLE THAT WORK AND LIVE ACROSS TOWN.
THE CITY OF PLANO UTILIZES THIS OPTION, AND IT'S TIME TO BE INCLUSIVE AND END THIS AS A CHOICE TO SPEAK AT EVERY MEETING.
AND ALSO, SINCE I ONLY PREPARED ABOUT A MINUTE OF THIS, I WANTED TO ALSO TALK ABOUT A STORY THAT I WENT THROUGH TODAY.
SO DURING FOURTH PERIOD, MY TEACHER THOUGHT SHE WAS FEELING SICK, AND SO SHE CALLED THE VICE PRINCIPAL TO COME IN AS A SUB.
WE DIDN'T LEARN IN CLASS THE PROJECT THAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO.
SHE SUSPENDED IT FOR HER AFTER LUNCH PERIODS AND THEN WHEN I GOT TO SEVENTH PERIOD.
THEY PACKED US IN THE [INAUDIBLE] COMMENTS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE BEEN TO [INAUDIBLE] COMMENTS, BUT THE TABLES ARE LINED UP AGAINST THE THE WALLS AND THEY PACKED FIVE CLASSROOMS INTO THEIR.
WITH TWO SUPERVISORS, I SAW KIDS SKIP A MINUTE BECAUSE THERE WASN'T ENOUGH SUPERVISION.
WE WERE CRAMMED INTO THERE, NO CLASSROOM.
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THIS IS NOT EQUITABLE EDUCATION.THE REASON THAT THIS ALL HAPPENED WAS BECAUSE TEACHERS WERE OUT SICK WITH COVID AND THERE WASN'T ENOUGH SUBSTITUTES.
AND WE JUST HEARD THE CFO TALK ABOUT FUNDING BEING BASED OFF OF ENROLLMENT, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE AT ALMOST 10 PERCENT OF STUDENTS HAVING COVID THIS YEAR.
WE'RE STILL NOT CLOSING SCHOOLS AND FOR 10 PERCENT OR THE CURRENT NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT ARE OUT IS A THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR CHILDREN.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER THIS EVENING IS UM ADINA RITTER.
ADINA, DO YOU WANT THE ONE MINUTE WARNING OR DO YOU JUST WANT A STRAIGHT THREE JUST STRAIGHT THROUGH IS FINE.
OK? FIRST AND FOREMOST, I'M ADINA RITTER.
I HAVE TWO CHILDREN THAT ATTEND PISD, MY FOURTH GRADER THAT WAS AT CARLYLE.
OR IS THAT CARLYLE? AND THEN I HAVE AN EIGHTH GRADER AT [INAUDIBLE].
ONE THING I WANT TO POINT OUT IS IT WAS VERY ENLIGHTENING LISTENING TO THE THINGS YOU ALL DISCUSSED TODAY.
I CAN FIRMLY SAY THAT THERE'S MANY THINGS THAT WE ALL AGREE ON.
THERE'S PROBABLY PLENTY OF THINGS THAT WE DON'T AGREE ON, BUT WHAT WE DO AGREE ON IS THE EDUCATION OF OUR KIDS AND MAKING SURE THAT THE FUNDING IS ALLOCATED CORRECTLY.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK WE CAN JOIN FORCES ON.
NOW MY POINT IN COMING TODAY WAS TO TALK ABOUT THE MASKS.
I BEG YOU GUYS NOT TO CONSIDER BRINGING THAT BACK TO THE TABLE.
REASON NUMBER ONE IS THEY DON'T WORK.
LEANA WEN SAYS A CLOTH MASK IS NOTHING MORE THAN A FACIAL DECORATION WHEN IT COMES TO THE NEW VARIANT.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT MASKS ACTUALLY MASK MANY THINGS.
SEE WHAT I DID THERE? THEY IMPAIR OUR MOST POWERFUL TOOL OF COMMUNICATION, AND THAT IS OUR FACE.
OUR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS COMMUNICATE ALL OF THE FEELINGS FROM HAPPY TO SAD.
FROM CONFIDENT TO WORRISOME FROM PLEASURE TO PAIN AND FROM CONTENT TO CONCERNED, OUR CHILDREN NEED TO BE SEEN MORE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, OUR KIDS NEED TO SEE THE LOVE FROM OUR TEACHERS AND OUR ADMINISTRATORS.
HEARING IS IMPAIRED WITH CLOTHS OVER OUR FACES.
THE ABILITY TO READ A PERSON IS IMPAIRED WITH CLOTHS OVER OUR FACES.
COMPREHENSION IS IMPAIRED WITH CLOTHS OVER OUR FACES.
AND MY LAST REASON, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE CAN SEE THAT THIS VARIANT IS RUNNING RAMPANT AND IT'S GETTING EVERYONE, NO MATTER WHETHER YOU HAVE ONE ON OR IF YOU HAVE ONE OFF, IF YOU'VE BEEN VAXXED UNVAX TRIPLE VAX WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, IT'S COMING.
AND THE BLESSING IS THAT IT'S MILD MOST FOR MOST OF US, WHICH MEANS WE'RE HEADED TOWARDS THAT HERD IMMUNITY FASTER THAN EXPECTED, WHICH MEANS WE CAN ALL PUT COVID IN THE REAR AND RETURN OUR FOCUS BACK TO OUR EDUCATION AND TAKING CARE OF OUR KIDDOS.
THANK YOU GUYS ALL AND GOD BLESS YOU EACH.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JENNIFER ROBERTS.
MS. ROBERTS HAD TO LEAVE EARLY THIS EVENING.
WE WILL MOVE TO DEREK ANTHONY.
SO AGAIN, MY NAME IS DEREK ANTHONY, I'M HERE FOR THE TOPIC OF MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS.
JUST AS A FRIENDLY REMINDER, THERE'S THE LONG STANDING LAW THAT PROHIBITS MASKING CHILDREN, AND I'VE PRESENTED BEFORE.
AGAIN, THIS IS TEXAS EDUCATION CODE THIRTY SEVEN POINT ZERO THREE.
TALKS ABOUT PROHIBITED AVERSIVE TECHNIQUES SPECIFICALLY TALKS ABOUT IMPAIRING A STUDENT'S BREATHING WITH ANY PROCEDURE THAT PLACES A MASK OVER THE STUDENT'S FACE, TO PARAPHRASE.
THAT INCLUDES WHETHER IT'S FOR A BEHAVIORAL THING OR NOT.
SO MASKS ARE FLAT OUT ILLEGAL.
ADDITIONALLY, THE GOVERNMENT'S OR THE GOVERNOR'S MANDATE PROHIBITING IT AS WELL.
LET'S SEE ADDITIONALLY, AS WAS MENTIONED BEFORE.
CLOTH MASKS ARE SHOWN TO BE INEFFECTIVE.
WE'VE ALL SEEN THAT REALLY WITH DISTRICTS THAT MANDATE THEM OR NOT, ET CETERA.
WE'VE SEEN THAT THE PRIOR BOARD MEETINGS THAT WERE DISCUSSED BY THE BOARD MEMBERS THEMSELVES.
CDC HAS ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THIS BY RECOMMENDING NOW UPGRADED MASKS N '95, ET CETERA, WHICH ARE ALSO DEBATABLE AND EFFECTIVENESS FOR THIS VARIANT.
THAT EQUATES BASICALLY TO AN EXTENDED COLD NOW, WITH JABS AVAILABLE FOR FIVE YEARS AND UP.
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ANY PUSH FOR MASKING JUST IS POINTLESS, QUITE HONESTLY.LASTLY, THE IF THEY ARE REINSTATED, IT WOULD REALLY BE SAD TO SEE THE NEED TO HAVE LAWSUITS REGARDING PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE, WHICH IS HONESTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING WHEN MANDATES LIKE THIS ARE PUT INTO PLACE.
THAT'S A FELONY THAT WOULD INVOLVE ANYBODY AT THE SCHOOL THAT TOLD A CHILD TO PUT ONE ON THEIR FACE.
AND LASTLY, THE AUDIT OF ANY ESSER FUNDS COMING FROM THE CARES ACT THAT MIGHT BE INVOLVED WITH PUSHING THESE MANDATES WOULD BE REQUIRED AT THAT POINT.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I WOULD APPRECIATE ALSO, SOME EQUITY AS FAR AS PUBLIC COMMENTS AND WHETHER IT'S AN AGENDA ITEM OR NOT TO HAVE ALL THAT DONE AT THE SAME PLACE WHICH WAS LAID OUT IN THE AGENDA AT ITEM FOUR.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
AND OUR LAST SPEAKER THIS EVENING IS NICOLE EAST.
NICOLE, DO YOU WANT YOUR ONE MINUTE? SURE, WHY NOT? OK.
I ACTUALLY HAVEN'T BEEN A STUDENT HERE SINCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE 80S, AND THANKFULLY IN THESE COVID TIMES, HAVEN'T DEALT.
DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT BECAUSE MY KID GRADUATED ALMOST A DECADE AGO.
THAT BEING SAID, TEACHERS HAVE A THANKLESS JOB.
THEY DON'T HAVE THE TOOLS AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES THEY NEED, ESPECIALLY IN SPECIAL EDUCATION.
TEXAS IS RANKED TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF THE COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO SPECIAL EDUCATION, ESPECIALLY CHILD FIND OUR STATE DISSIPATED TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN DOLLARS MILLION FINE.
I'M HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT THE RESTRAINT DATA HERE AND PLANO ISD.
SO IT'S UPSETTING TO ME, MY NEPHEW IS SERIOUSLY HARMED BY RESTRAINT POLICIES IN A DIFFERENT DISTRICT TO THE POINT HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PTSD AT EIGHT YEARS OLD BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HIS DISABILITIES.
SO IT'S PART OF MY LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS TO WORK WITH OTHER STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATORS.
I SUBMITTED A PEER REQUEST TO TO TO GET THE LOCAL DATA FOR THE FOUR LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS HERE IN COLLIN COUNTY.
I WAS APPALLED BY THE DATA PLANO ISD.
WELL, THE NUMBERS OVERALL, A THOUSAND RESTRAINTS HERE FOR A SCHOOL YEAR.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED RESTRAINTS FOR A SCHOOL YEAR OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
THAT DOESN'T SOUND BAD FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT THE SIZE OF PLANO.
BUT WHAT IS BAD IS THE AVERAGE RESTRAINT PER CHILD EIGHT IN THE 2018-19 SCHOOL YEAR.
NINE IN THE 2019-20 SCHOOL YEAR.
FOR PLANO, 80 PERCENT OF THE CHILDREN RESTRAIN ARE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 40 PERCENT OF THOSE BEING SECOND AND THIRD GRADERS.
AND THE TOP THREE DISABILITIES ARE EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE, SO THOSE ARE KIDS WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
AND EVERY TIME YOU TOUCH THAT CHILD.
YOU CAUSING THEM MORE PAIN AND TRAUMA TO WHERE THEY'RE NOT LEARNING AND IT VIOLATES FAT.
THE SECOND IS AUTISM AND THE THIRD IS YOUR OTHER HEALTH IMPAIRMENT, WHICH IS LIKE YOUR ADHD IN YOUR TOURETTE SYNDROME.
YOU GUYS HAVE MY CONTACT INFORMATION ON THE CONTACT CARD.
I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU GUYS TO COME UP WITH BETTER SOLUTIONS, BETTER DE-ESCALATION PROCEDURES, SO WE'RE NOT HARMING AND TRAUMATIZING CHILDREN.
ALL RIGHT, IF THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS OR OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED, THE TIME IS 9:43 PM ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2022.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.