Jun 11, 2026 Regular Board Meeting

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GOOD EVENING. THIS MEETING IS NOW CONVENED AT 504 . I WOULD

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TRUSTEE GOMEZ, THANK YOU, SIR. WE NORMALLY HAVE A MEMBER OF THE JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS LEAD OUR PLEDGES, BUT SINCE SCHOOL IS OUT, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK BOARD MEMBER MICHELLE CRUZ ARNOLD TO LEAD US. DR. CRUZ ARNOLD.

PLEASE RISE FOR A MOMENT OF SILENT MEDITATION. PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND PLEDGE TO THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE, TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE. THANK YOU, DR. CRUZ-ARNOLD. NOW WE WILL BREAK FROM OUR USUAL MEETING PROCEDURE TO RECOGNIZE SOME

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IN ADDITION TO NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, OUR HISD STUDENTS HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT EXCEPTIONAL LOCAL AND REGIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PARTNERS AND THEY ARE HELP THAT HELP MAKE HIGHER EDUCATION MORE AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE. I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR PARTNERS FROM CITGO, KPRC CHANNEL 2, MARVY FINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION, ROLAND S. MARTIN, STATE REPRESENTATIVE SYMPHONIA THOMPSON, THE HOUSTON LIVESTOCK AND RODEO SHOW, AND THE TEXAS SPRING CYPRESS OF THE LINK THE TEXAS SPRING CYPRESS CHAPTER OF THE LINKS INCORPORATED FOR PROVIDING THESE OPPORTUNITIES TO HISD STUDENTS. SENIORS FROM THE MILES AHEAD SCHOLARS PROGRAM BOASTED 150 COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES AND HAVE BEEN AWARDED MORE THAN $6.3 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS. WE HAVE 3 OF THOSE YOUNG MEN WITH US TONIGHT REPRESENTING THIS PROGRAM, AND I'M GOING TO JUST TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THEM. THOMAS JOHNSON, VALEDICTORIAN OF WHEATLEY HIGH SCHOOL, WILL BE ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS TO PURSUE A DEGREE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING.

EDWIN GARCIA FROM WORTHING HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN TO PURSUE A DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

NAUN AYALA FROM CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS TO PURSUE A DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

NAHUN IS A REPRESENT IS A RECIPIENT OF THE TEXAS LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP. SO HISD'S CLASS OF 2026 HAS MADE BIG STRIDES IN THEIR FUTURE.

THEY'VE COMPLETED OVER 7,800 INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATIONS, PREPARING THEM FOR HIGH-DEMAND CAREERS. OVER 550 OF THE SENIORS GRADUATED WITH ASSOCIATE DEGREES ALONGSIDE THEIR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS, MANY OF THEM BEFORE THEY GOT THEIR HIGH SCHOOL

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WE PROUDLY RECOGNIZE OUR JROTC STUDENTS FROM THE CLASS OF 2026 FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE AND DEDICATION, AND SOME OF THEM ARE HERE, TONIGHT AS WELL. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO, THAT JUST SHOWCASES SOME OF THEIR AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTS.

HOUSTON ISD CELEBRATED YEARS OF HARD WORK AND TOOK THE NEXT STEPS TOWARD THEIR FUTURES. I JUST AM FULL WITH SO MUCH JOY AND SO MUCH APPRECIATION. 95% OF HISD'S CLASS OF 2026 APPLIED TO A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.

AND WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO EARN COLLEGE CREDIT, INDUSTRY CREDENTIALS, AND REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE WHILE STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL, STUDENTS ARE SET UP FOR THEIR NEXT STEP. I'M GOING TO UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON TO PURSUE A DEGREE IN NURSING. I WILL BE ATTENDING TEXAS STATE FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS, CIVIL ENGINEERING WITH A MINOR IN FINANCE.

FROM HEALTHCARE AND ENGINEERING TO BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP. I WANT TO MAJOR IN BIOCHEMISTRY TO BECOME A DERMATOLOGIST, YOUR FUTURE DOCTOR HERE. THESE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY TAKING THE FIRST STEPS TOWARD THEIR GOALS. WHEN I GO TO UT, I PLAN ON STUDYING ECONOMICS WITH A MINOR IN FINANCE. I'M GOING TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN, AND THEN I'M GOING TO GO BACK FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT.

THE CLASS OF 2026 EARNED MORE THAN 7,800 INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATIONS, RECEIVED MORE THAN $500 MILLION IN FINANCIAL AID, FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIPS AND EARNED 790 ASSOCIATE DEGREES AND INDUSTRY CREDENTIALS THROUGH HOUSTON CITY COLLEGE.

DEFINITELY STAYING, STAYING DETERMINED AND POSITIVE IS WHAT I DID TO HELP ME REACH THIS MOMENT. I'M EXCITED TO SEE LIKE HOW FAR I CAN GET AND I'M PROUD OF ALL MY ACHIEVEMENTS AND I WANT TO SEE IF I CAN ACCOMPLISH EVERY GOAL I'VE PUT OUT FOR MYSELF. DON'T GIVE UP, DON'T LET NOBODY TALK YOU DOWN, AND IF YOU DO FALL DOWN, GET UP AND GATHER YOURSELF.

AND FOCUS ON YOUR WAY TO THE TOP. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HISE CLASS OF 2026. WE CELEBRATE YOU AND THANK THE PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS, STAFF, AND FAMILIES WHO HELPED YOU REACH THIS MOMENT. WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU DO NEXT.

ASK OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE HERE TO PLEASE STAND TO BE RECOGNIZED, AND THEN I'M GOING TO ASK THEIR PARENTS TO STAND AND BE RECOGNIZED BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT FAMILIES HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO GET THEIR STUDENTS TO THIS POINT. SO, I'M GOING TO ASK OUR STUDENTS TO STAND, AND I KNOW WE HAVE YATES, WE HAVE WORTHY, WE HAVE LAMAR, WE HAVE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.

HI! HI! ALL THE STUDENTS PLEASE STAND AND BE RECOGNIZED. NOW LET'S HAVE ALL THE PARENTS COME AND JOIN THEM. PLEASE STAND UP, PARENTS AND FAMILIES. WE ARE SO PROUD OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF OUR STUDENTS THAT ARE GRADUATING THIS YEAR. AND WITH THAT CONCLUDES THE RECOGNITION PART OF THE BOARD MEETING.

WHAT A GREAT WAY TO KICK IT OFF. THANK YOU SO MUCH, DEPUTY CHIEF COWDER.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, STUDENTS AND PARENTS. I AM A PROUD LAMAR MOM, GRADUATE OF A SENIOR, SO I FEEL YOU. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU STUDENTS. THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW HEAR FROM PUBLIC

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PUBLIC COMMENT DURING SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE TO THOSE MEMBERS WHO HAVE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK PRIOR TO THE MEETING TIME PER CURRENT PROTOCOL. VERBAL AND OTHER DISRUPTIONS BY PERSONS DURING THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE AS THEY INHIBIT THE BOARD'S ABILITY TO CONDUCT BUSINESS AND THE PUBLIC'S ABILITY TO OBSERVE THESE PROCESSES.

PERSONS WHO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH BEHAVIOR WILL BE GIVEN ONE WARNING. IF THE BEHAVIOR IS REPEATED, THEY WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE MEETING. WE NOW HAVE 91 REGISTERED SPEAKERS WHO WILL BE LIMITED TO 1 MINUTE EACH PER BOARD POLICY. AS WE HAVE MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE SIGNED UP TO ADDRESS THE BOARD TONIGHT, WE ASK THAT YOU STAY ON TOPIC AND REFRAIN FROM NAMING INDIVIDUALS, ESPECIALLY STUDENTS, AS THEIR IDENTITY IS PROTECTED UNDER LAW, BUT YOU MAY NAME YOUR OWN CHILD. I ASK THAT YOU PLEASE RESPECT OUR PROCEDURES AND THE OTHER SPEAKERS AND END YOUR COMMENTS PROMPTLY WHEN YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED AND THE TIMER RINGS. I WANT

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WE ARE BETTER OFF JUST SAYING PART OF THE STORY OR BEING A LITTLE BIT DISHONEST BECAUSE THAT MAKES ONLY SOME PEOPLE UPSET, WHILE WHERE WE HAVE TWO SIDES WHO SEEM COMPLETELY UNWILLING TO LISTEN TO ONE ANOTHER. WHERE ON THE ONE HAND, WE HAVE FOLKS WHO INSIST ON DIVIDING FOLKS INTO PEOPLE WHO SUPPOSEDLY PUT ADULT INTERESTS FIRST VERSUS THOSE WHO PUT STUDENT INTERESTS FIRST. ON THE OTHER SIDE, WE HAVE FOLKS WHO INSIST ON DIVIDING PEOPLE INTO THOSE WHO ARE SUPPOSEDLY FOR THE TAKEOVER AND THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST THE TAKEOVER, WITH "FOR THE TAKEOVER" BEING VERY LOOSELY DEFINED AS ANY I HAVE TO ASK YOU TO GET TO YOUR ENDING. GREAT, GIVE ME LIKE 15 MORE SECONDS. AS ANY AGREEMENT WITH MIKE MILES ON ANYTHING. SO, I KNOW THAT AS A COMMUNITY WE CAN DO A WHOLE LOT BETTER, AND I KNOW THAT IT'S POSSIBLE TO COME TOGETHER EVEN IF IT'S VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. SO, I'LL END THERE. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER.

SPURS AND SEVEN. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, SIR. GOOD AFTERNOON.

HI, I'M DR. MARIA BENZÓN, PARENT, EDUCATOR, ELECTED TRUSTEE. TONIGHT MR. MILES WILL CELEBRATE ALGEBRA 1 UP 5 POINTS TO 82% PASSING, ENGLISH 1 UP TO 8 POINTS, 69% PASSING, BIOLOGY UP 3 POINTS TO 94%.

BEFORE THE BOARD APPLAUDS, LET'S ASK THESE QUESTIONS.

FIRST, WHAT DOES 82% ACTUALLY MEAN? IN RECENT YEARS, A STUDENT NEEDED JUST 20 CORRECT ANSWERS OUT OF 54.

THAT'S 37% AND ABOUT A THIRD OF THE TEST TO REACH APPROACHES. WHAT IS THE CUT SCORE? MOREOVER, PASSING AND LEARNING ARE NOT THE SAME THING. HOW MUCH OF THIS GROWTH NUMBER 2, HOW MUCH OF THIS GROWTH CAME FROM GENUINE INSTRUCTION VERSUS STACKING THE CARDS LIKE REMOVING STUDENTS FROM MORE CHALLENGING COURSES? TEXAS MONTHLY DOCUMENTED THAT EXACT STRATEGY. HARVARD RESEARCHER DAN KORETZ SPENT YEARS PROVING THAT TEST SCORES RISE WHEN YOU TEACH THE TEST, NOT THE SUBJECT. AND WHAT DID THIS COST? THAT'S QUESTION 3.

TENS OF MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS WERE SPENT ON RESTRUCTURING, BLOATED ADMINISTRATIVE SALARIES THOSE UP ON A STAAR SCORE. THE QUESTION BEFORE THE BOARD IS NOT WHETHER SCORES WENT UP.

THE QUESTION IS, ARE HOUSTON'S CHILDREN BETTER OFF? NO, NOT IF 01,000 OF THEIR TEACHERS CHOOSE TO LEAVE, NOT IF THE SCHOOL DAY IS SCRIPTED LESSONS DESIGNED FOR A TEST, NOT IF THEIR ELECTIVES, THEIR ARTS, THEIR JOY IN LEARNING HAVE BEEN TRADED FOR A PASSING SCORE. NOT IF THE TEST IS NOT FOCUSED ON SKILLS. TRUSTEE BENZON, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO WRAP UP, PLEASE. YES, MA'AM, THANK YOU. SKILLS, CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION, PROBLEM SOLVING THAT WILL DEFINE THEIR FUTURES.

STAAR SCORES ARE NOT A VALID, RELIABLE MEASURE OF REAL LEARNING. AND A NUMBER THAT GOES UP WHILE EVERYTHING ELSE GOES DOWN IS NOT A SUCCESS STORY.

IT IS A WARNING. THANK YOU.

TRUSTEE MENDEZ. I'M JUST EDITING HERE REAL QUICK SINCE WE'RE CUT ON TIME. MY CONCERNS TONIGHT REMAIN CENTERED ON THE BUDGET. THE SUPERINTENDENT ADMINISTRATION HAVE AT TIMES PRESENTED INFORMATION EITHER INACCURATELY

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FIRST, I HAVE REPEATEDLY RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THE USE OF FLOORS AND CEILINGS IN CAMPUS BUDGETING. I ENCOURAGE THE BOARD OF MANAGERS TO REQUEST THE SPECIFIC FLOOR AND CEILING AMOUNTS FOR EACH EARNED AUTONOMY SCHOOL. AND BASED ON COMMENTS MADE BY MR. ROSALES AT THE LAST MEETING, THOSE FIGURES WERE PROVIDED TO YOU. HOWEVER, THE ADMINISTRATION PRESENTED THEM AS PERCENTAGES RATHER THAN ACTUAL DOLLAR AMOUNTS. THE PROBLEM WITH PERCENTAGES IS THAT THEY REMOVE CRITICAL CONTEXT. EXCEEDING THE CAP BY 8% AT A SMALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILL BE DIFFERENT THAN AT A LARGE HIGH SCHOOL.

FOR EXAMPLE, YOUR 4 LARGEST HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE AVERAGE BUDGETS, BUDGETS OF $10 MILLION. SO, 8% OVERAGE FOR THEM IS $800,000 CUT FROM THEIR BUDGETS. THAT'S TEACHERS, PROGRAMS, ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES, AND SERVICES FOR STUDENTS. AGAIN, THOSE DOLLARS ARE GENERATED THROUGH THE STATE FUNDING FORMULA BASED ON THE STUDENTS ENROLLED AT THAT CAMPUS. THE STATE EXPECTS THE DOLLARS TO GO TO THEM. YET UNDER THIS CHANGE, THE DISTRICT IS TELLING THE CAMPUS THAT WE'RE LEAVING THE KIDS AND TAKING THE MONEY. SECOND, LAST MONTH, MS. LAMONT FLOWERS ASKED THE SUPERINTENDENT A THOUGHTFUL AND IMPORTANT QUESTION DURING HIS BUDGET PRESENTATION.

SHE WANTED TO CLARIFY WHETHER CAMPUSES RECEIVING FEWER DOLLARS BECAUSE OF A BUDGET CEILING WOULD SEE ANY IMPACT ON STUDENTS. HER QUESTION WAS STRAIGHTFORWARD. SO, NO STUDENTS ARE LOSING ANYTHING, RIGHT? THE SUPERINTENDENT RESPONDED THAT STUDENTS WERE NOT LOSING ANYTHING, BUT THEN ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE REDUCTIONS WOULD BE REFLECTED IN STAFFING, SALARIES, AND TEACHING POSITIONS. THE REALITY IS MUCH SIMPLER. IF MY FAMILY'S INCOME DECREASES BY $1,000 A MONTH, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE THE REDUCTION COMES FROM THE HOUSING BUDGET, THE RENT BUDGET, THE GROCERY BUDGET, OR THE GAS BUDGET, THE FACT REMAINS THAT WE HAVE $1,000 LEFT TO MEET OUR NEEDS. WE WILL FEEL THAT IMPACT. IT STRAINS COMMON SENSE TO ARGUE THAT SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS TO A CAMPUS BUDGET WILL HAVE NO IMPACT ON STUDENTS. THANK YOU, SIR. I'M NOT FINISHED YET.

HOLD ON. IF I MAY, IF I MAY, IF I MAY, RESPECTFULLY. I REALLY NEED YOU TO COME TO AN END, PLEASE, SIR. I'M COMING TO AN END RIGHT NOW. I HAVE TO TRUST THAT EACH OF YOU HAS DONE THE WORK NECESSARY TO REACH YOUR CONCLUSION.

FRANKLY, DURING THIS TEMPORARY TAKEOVER, I HAVE NO OTHER OPTION. SO, IF YOU HAVE BEEN CURIOUS, IF YOU HAVE DEMANDED ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS, AND IF YOU ARE SATISFIED THAT THIS BUDGET IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR SCHOOLS, THEN YOU MAY CAST YOUR VOTE. BUT REMEMBER THAT A BUDGET IS MORE THAN A FINANCIAL DOCUMENT. IT IS A STATEMENT OF PRIORITIES. IT COMMUNICATES WHAT MATTERS MOST TO A FAMILY, A CAMPUS, OR A DISTRICT. YOU ARE DECIDING WHETHER A BUDGET BUILT ON INCOMPLETE INFORMATION QUESTIONABLE ASSUMPTIONS, AND CONCERNING DATA REFLECTS YOUR VALUES AND THE VALUES OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE ALL SERVE.

SORRY, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO END NOW. THANK YOU. NEXT, WE WILL HEAR FROM SPEAKERS WHO IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS HISD STUDENTS OR PARENTS. SPEAKERS, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND TOPIC WHEN YOU STEP TO THE MICROPHONE. MS. SMITH, PLEASE CALL ALL SPEAKERS. I'D LIKE TO INVITE ALL HISD STUDENT SPEAKERS TO COME TO THE FRONT ROW, PLEASE. ALL STUDENT SPEAKERS.

WINLOW FLECKER FOLLOWED BY ANNA GITAN AND SARAH GITAN. MY NAME IS WINLOW FLECKER AND I JUST GRADUATED 3RD GRADE AT DURHAM. ALL YEAR YOU HAVE REFERRED TO STUDENTS AS ANECDOTES. IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT ME RIGHT NOW AND SEE THAT INSTEAD OF A 9-YEAR-OLD HUMAN, YOU NEED A NEW EYE DOCTOR.

THIRD GRADE AT DURHAM WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EXCITING. THEN YOU REMOVED EVERYONE'S FAVORITE TEACHER, MRS. KELLY, AND REPLACED HER WITH AN UNCERTIFIED TEACHER NAMED MISS DEMERSON. ALL YEAR SHE HAS SINGLED OUT STUDENTS AND EMBARRASSED THEM IN FRONT OF THE CLASS. SHE HAS MADE ME CRY ONE DAY AT RECESS AND THEN TEASED ME ABOUT IT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.

BUT YOU THINK THAT IS A BETTER ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN TO LEARN IN? I HAVE BEEN IN GT SINCE KINDERGARTEN.

IN ALL THAT TIME, I HAVE HAD EXACTLY ONE GT PROJECT, AND IT WAS ABOUT A COMMON TREE. IS THIS HOW YOU THINK CURIOSITY GROWS IN OUR MINDS? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WHEN MY CLASS READ "ALICE IN WONDERLAND," IT WASN'T FROM A BOOK. IT WAS FROM A 5-PAGE PACKET. I WAS ABSENT THE DAY THEY READ ABOUT THE CHESHIRE CAT. OUR CAT. SO, MY MOM GOT ME A COPY TO READ.

THANK YOU. I'M SORRY, WE ARE WAY OVER TIME. THANK YOU. NEXT STUDENT, PLEASE. WE ARE GOING TO HOLD TO THE SCHEDULE. NEXT STUDENT.

NEXT STUDENT. THIS IS YOUR

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MISS, THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING. PLEASE SIT. NEXT STUDENT. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.

THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ANNA, AND I AM A STUDENT AT DURHAM ELEMENTARY. FIRST OFF, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THANKS TO Y'ALL BECAUSE I CAME AND TALKED TO ALL OF YOU BACK IN FEBRUARY ABOUT MY SCHOOL NOT HAVING A GT COORDINATOR. NOR HAVING A GT EXPO, WHICH NEXT MONTH I WAS ABLE TO DO A PROJECT FOR THE GT EXPO AT MY SCHOOL, WHICH LATER THE WINNER OF THE GT EXPO WAS ABLE TO COMPETE FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT. NOW I AM ASKING YOU TO STOP MAKING TEACHERS SO DIFFICULT BY PUTTING MORE POLICIES AND PRESSURE TO EVERY TEACHER. MY PREVIOUS TEACHERS HAVE LEFT THIS DISTRICT, AND MY CURRENT TEACHERS ARE ONE MINUTE. LEAVING THE DISTRICT TO WORK AT A PRIVATE SCHOOL, AND THE OTHER WORK FOR KLEIN ISD, WHICH HAS BEEN NAMED THE BEST DISTRICT TO WORK AT IN THE NATION. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES AND THINK FOR A MOMENT THAT MOST OF THE TEACHERS ARE LEAVING ARE HIGH QUALITY AND CERTIFIED AND HAVE THANK YOU. DECADE FOR HISD.

YOUR RULES ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO DO THEIR JOBS PROPERLY AND ARE MAKING THEM MENTALLY DRAINED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU.

NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. EXCUSE ME, CAN WE HELP WITH THE MICROPHONE, PLEASE? NOW THAT SCHOOL IS OUT, I WANTED TO TELL YOU GIVE ME ONE SECOND. NOW THAT SCHOOL IS OUT, I WANTED TO TELL YOU HOW FIRST GRADE WENT. A LOT OF MY FRIENDS LEFT BEFORE OCTOBER. I WANT TO TELL YOU WHY, BECAUSE OF DLS. AND A LITTLE UNDERSTANDING WHAT OUR TEACHERS WAS TEACHING, BUT THERE'S NO TUTORIALS OR FOR WHAT IF I OR YOU NEEDED AN EXTRA BOOST. IT ISN'T A REAL TEACHER, A HUMAN IS. I HAD 3 TEACHERS THIS YEAR. JUST WHEN I GOT COMFORTABLE WITH ONE, THEY GOT REPLACED. MY FRIENDS AND I MADE BEST WHAT WE COULD, BUT FUN WAS SUCKED OUT OF EVERYTHING. THAT'S WHY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. MICAH GEBAY, FOLLOWED BY ELIANA GOTTLIEB AND DANIELA RODRIGUEZ. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ELIANA GOTTLIEB, AND I AM A RISING 10TH GRADER AT HSPVA. THE APPROVAL OF NEW LIBRARY BOOKS UNDER SENATE BILL 13 IS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA TONIGHT.

IT'LL PASS WITHOUT DISCUSSION, SO I'D LIKE TO GIVE IT SOME ATTENTION.

I REVIEWED EVERY ONE OF THESE LISTS SINCE DECEMBER, ABOUT 1,600 BOOKS GOING TO 24 CAMPUSES OUT OF MORE THAN 270 IN THE DISTRICT. THEN I COMPARED THOSE CAMPUSES TO THE DISTRICT'S OWN NES ROSTER. NES SCHOOLS ARE HALF THIS DISTRICT130 CAMPUSES. HOW MANY OF THE 1,600 BOOKS WENT TO NES SCHOOLS? 14 BOOKS. 14 BOOKS! ONE SCHOOL, NEFF ELEMENTARY, BACK IN DECEMBER.

NOTHING SINCE. MEANWHILE, TWO SCHOOLS, OAK FOREST AND RIVER OAKS, RECEIVED MORE THAN 850 BOOKS BETWEEN THEM. MANY NES SCHOOLS LOST THEIR LIBRARIANS.

IF THERE'S NO LIBRARIAN, THERE ARE NO BOOK ORDERS, SO THERE'S NO NEW BOOKS. MY REQUEST IS SIMPLE. TELL THIS COMMUNITY THE PLAN TO GET LIBRARIANS AND NEW BOOKS BACK TO NES SCHOOLS. EVERY CAMPUS DESERVES A LIBRARY THAT'S GROWING. THANK YOU. HELLO, MY NAME HELLO, GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS SARAH, AND I'M A STUDENT HELLO, GOOD AFTERNOON.

MY NAME IS SARAH AND I'M A STUDENT OF DURHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THIS YEAR WAS A TOTAL DISMISS. OUR LIBRARIES AND THE LAST LIBRARIAN TO READ TO US JUST MADE US WATCH HER READ

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THIS IS THE LANDRY THAT MIKE MILES AND THE BOARD MEETING MEMBERS ARE LEAVING BEHIND.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ADIDA SAGE BITTNER, FOLLOWED BY EVE SINHORST AND ELLA TAYLOR. HI, MY NAME IS ADIDA SAGE BITTNER, AND I'M A RISING 7TH GRADER IN HISD. HERE'S WHAT CONFUSES ME. ADULTS TELL KIDS, TELL US KIDS TO STUDY HARD, GET GOOD GRADES, AND DO THE RIGHT THING, BUT THE PEOPLE LEADING OUR SCHOOLS DON'T HAVE THAT SAME RULE.

WHEN WE TRUST PEOPLE WITH OUR EDUCATION WITHOUT CHECKING THEIR QUALIFICATIONS, WE GET LEADERS MAKING BIG DECISIONS ABOUT HOW WE'RE TAUGHT, HOW WE'RE ASSESSED, AND HOW OUR TEACHERS ARE TRAINED WITHOUT THE BACKGROUND TO KNOW IF THOSE DECISIONS ARE RIGHT. IT SEEMS THAT RULES CAN MATTER FOR SOME PEOPLE WHILE OTHERS GET TO SKIP THE LINE. I GET THAT TEACHER CERTIFICATION MAY NEED FLEXIBILITY RIGHT NOW.

THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS HAVE LEFT HISD AND THE WORK ENVIRONMENT MAKES IT HARD TO ATTRACT NEW ONES. BUT CERTIFICATION ISN'T JUST A PIECE OF PAPER. IT'S THE BASIC GUARANTEE THAT THE PEOPLE RUNNING OUR SCHOOLS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. IF THAT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK OF MIKE MILES, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT HOW MUCH OUR EDUCATION REALLY MATTERS? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HI, I'M ELLA TAYLOR, RECENTLY GRADUATED SENIOR FROM CARNEGIE. I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT HIC CELL PHONE POLICY.

FIRST, I'M GRATEFUL THAT YOU'RE MAKING IT HARDER TO SEND KIDS TO DAAP. HOWEVER, I DO HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE MANDATORY 10-DAY PLACEMENT IN DAAP FOR ALL STUDENTS ON THE 5TH OFFENSE. WHILE IT IS ONLY 10 DAYS IN DAAP, THOSE 10 DAYS, A THIRD OF A GRADING PERIOD, ARE 10 DAYS THAT STUDENTS ARE IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND NOT LEARNING WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LEARNING IN THEIR CLASSES. THERE HAVE ONLY BEEN 6 STUDENTS SENT TO DAAP SO FAR IN 2026. THAT'S LESS THAN 1% OF STUDENTS. I CAN'T SEE WHY YOU COULDN'T FIND AN ALTERNATIVE TO SENDING TAKING THEM AWAY FROM THEIR CLASSES FOR 10 DAYS FOR THE SOLE OFFENSE OF HAVING THEIR CELL PHONE OUT, POSSIBLY NOT EVEN DURING CLASS. STUDENTS SENT TO DAAP HAVE HIGHER DROPOUT RATES AND LOWER TEST SCORES. THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR STUDENTS OR FOR THE DISTRICT. ARE CELL PHONES IN SCHOOLS REALLY ENOUGH OF AN ISSUE TO WARRANT THIS? I HAVE LOOKED THROUGH OTHER DISTRICTS' POLICIES AND NONE OF THEM SEEM TO REQUIRE DAP PLACEMENT. NOT KATY, CY-FAIR, ALIEF, OR PEARLAND. WHY SHOULD HISD BE MORE PUNITIVE THAN OUR NEIGHBORS? THANK YOU. MICAH AND EVE. ARE MICAH GABAY AND EVE HERE? GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. AS A RECENT GRADUATE, WHAT I NEED TO SAY IS NO LONGER TO THE BOARD MEMBERS, IT'S TO THE PEOPLE BEHIND ME.

TODAY, I WANT TO THANK THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS WHO STOOD UP AND SPOKE FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR FUTURES. TO OUR TEACHERS, THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO SUPPORT US AND ADVOCATE FOR WHAT IS BEST FOR STUDENTS, EVEN DURING DIFFICULT TIMES.

DIFFICULT TIMES. YOUR CARE AND DEDICATION GO FAR BEYOND THE CLASSROOM.

TO THE STUDENTS, THANK YOU FOR USING YOUR VOICES AND STANDING UP FOR EDUCATION AND OPPORTUNITIES WE DESERVE.

SPEAKING UP IS NOT ALWAYS EASY, BUT IT MATTERS. DESPITE THE STRUGGLES I EXPERIENCED IN HISD, I STILL GRADUATED. I DIDN'T GET HERE BECAUSE THE SYSTEM MADE IT EASY. I GOT HERE BECAUSE TEACHERS BELIEVED IN ME, SUPPORTED IN ME, AND FOUGHT FOR STUDENTS, INCLUDING TEACHERS WHO WERE FIRED FROM HISD. THEY STILL LEAVE A LASTING IMPACT ON ALL OF US. I ONLY HOPE MY YOUNGER SIBLINGS GROW UP WITH TEACHERS AND PEERS WHO CARE JUST AS DEEPLY AND CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR STUDENTS LIKE YOU ALL HAVE. I GRADUATED IN SPITE OF HISD'S NEW EDUCATION SYSTEM.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. THANK YOU. ROSE WALTER, FOLLOWED BY WILLIAM WRIGLEY. HELLO, MY NAME IS WILLIAM WRIGLEY AND I AM A RISING 7TH GRADER AT HISD.

OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, MANY OF MY FAVORITE TEACHERS HAVE LEFT OUR DISTRICT. SOME CHOSE TO LEAVE AND OTHERS DIDN'T HAVE

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THEY TAUGHT ME TO THINK FOR MYSELF, ASK QUESTIONS, AND TAKE ON CHALLENGES. NOT EVERYTHING IMPORTANT CAN BE MEASURED BY A MULTIPLE-CHOICE TEST.

SOME OF THE BEST THINGS I LEARNED CAME FROM READING BOOKS, DOING PROJECTS, AND TEACHERS WHO MADE LEARNING EXCITING.

BUT NOW WE HAVE SLIDES, TIMERS, AND TEST PREP. TEACHERS ARE THE HEART OF OUR SCHOOLS. WHEN GREAT TEACHERS LEAVE, STUDENTS LOSE PEOPLE WHO MAKE US WANT TO LEARN. IF WE KEEP LOSING GREAT TEACHERS, WHO WILL BE LEFT TO INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION OF HISD STUDENTS? BY THE WAY, PLEASE GIVE US A LONGER SUMMER VACATION. WE'RE UNDER A LOT OF STRESS. THANK YOU. LUCA CANDIDA. LUCA CANDIDA AND ANY OTHER REMAINING STUDENTS.

PLEASE COME TO THE FRONT.

BUENAS TARDES. ME LLAMO LUCA CANDIDA. ESTOY TRISTE PORQUE MI MAESTRA Y TODO EL EQUIPO DE TERCER GRADO SE FUERON DE LA ESCUELA. ELLOS NOS QUERÍAN MUCHO. NOS ENSEÑARON MUCHÍSIMO Y SIEMPRE CREYERON EN NOSOTROS.

LOS VAMOS A EXTRAÑAR MUCHÍSIMO.

SU SALIDA ES UNA GRAN PÉRDIDA PARA NUESTRA ESCUELA Y COMUNIDAD. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS LUCA CANDIDA. I'M SAD BECAUSE MY TEACHER AND THE WHOLE 3RD GRADE TEAM MS. LEE LEFT SCHOOL. THEY LOVED US SO MUCH. THEY TAUGHT US SO MUCH AND ALWAYS BELIEVED IN US.

WE'RE GOING TO MISS THEM SO MUCH. HER DEPARTURE IS A GREAT LOSS FOR OUR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY.

THE DISTRICT'S NEW CURRICULUM DID NOT LET THEM TEACH WELL.

ALSO, THE SHORTER TRANSITION TIMES BETWEEN CLASSES WERE VERY DIFFICULT FOR BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.

PLEASE FIX THIS. WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE TEACHERS TO LEAVE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. EL NUEVO CURRÍCULO DE DISTRITO NO NOS DEJABA ENSEÑAR BIEN.

TAMBIÉN LOS TIEMPOS MÁS CORTOS DE TRANSICIÓN ENTRE CLASES FUERON MUY DIFÍCILES, TANTO PARA LOS MAESTROS COMO PARA LOS ESTUDIANTES. POR FAVOR, THANK YOU. HI. CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY. HI, MY NAME IS ROSE WALTER AND I GO TO HELMS. YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER ME, BUT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT HOW LUNCH AT MY SCHOOL IS NOT GOING TO BE FREE NEXT YEAR. SOME STUDENTS CAN'T AFFORD IT. IT'S NOT LIKE WE CAN RAISE THAT MUCH MONEY BY DOING CHORES EVERY WEEK. MY NOTES OF THIS ARE BAD, UNFAIR, AND EXPENSIVE FOR CHILDREN.

I SUGGEST YOU GIVE US FREE LUNCH NEXT YEAR ALONG WITH THE OTHER TWO OTHER SCHOOLS BEING AFFECTED BY THIS CHANGE. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY OPINION.

HAVE A GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU.

TRUSTEE SAVANT MOORE HAS JOINED US. TRUSTEE MOORE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE THE DAIS? GOOD EVENING. I FEEL LIKE LANGSTON HUGHES, I'M TIRED. I'M SO TIRED OF WAITING, AREN'T YOU, FOR THE WORLD TO BECOME GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL AND KIND. LET US TAKE A KNIFE AND CUT THE WORLD IN TWO AND SEE WHAT WORMS ARE EATING AT THE RIND. THERE ARE WORMS IN HOUSTON. THERE ARE WORMS IN TEXAS BECAUSE THERE ARE LEADERS THAT WILL SIT HERE AND WHISPER IN MY EAR AND TELL ME TO RESPECT THEM, BUT THEN THEY DO DISRESPECTFUL THINGS LIKE MACK REYNOLDS BEING 100 YEARS OLD. BUT NOW IT'S CLOSED. A STUDENT ASKING FOR A FREE LUNCH, BUT YET HE DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE IT TO THEM. 5,000 STUDENTS, INCLUDING MY LITTLE COUSIN, THAT'S A SPED STUDENT, BEING REMOVED FROM THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL.

BUT THEY WANT ME TO RESPECT THEM.

WELL, I JUST TELL THEM THAT OCTOBER 19TH THROUGH NOVEMBER 3RD, WE GOING TO BE VOTING.

AND WE GOING TO REPLACE YOUR GOVERNOR SO WE CAN REPLACE YOU.

SO, I SHOULDN'T BE GETTING TEXTS THAT SAYS IF THE CEO TEXTS ACROSS THIS STATE ABOUT

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THANK YOU. NEXT STUDENT, PLEASE. DID WE HAVE ONE MORE STUDENT OR ARE WE MOVING ON TO PARENTS? CAN I ASK THE PARENT SPEAKERS 1 THROUGH 10 TO PLEASE MOVE TO THE FRONT ROW? YOU HAVE A SEAT HERE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO. NICE GUYS, OR NO? YOU WANT TO COME UP? NO? YOU TOO SHY? WE JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT OUR TEACHER. WE'LL START WITH PARENT SPEAKER NUMBER 1.

HI, MY NAME IS DEVANA AND I AM WITH THE HOUSTON PARENT ACTION NETWORK. TONIGHT'S REPORT SHOWS THAT 20% OF 11TH GRADERS MET TSI READINESS BENCHMARKS LAST YEAR, EXCEEDING THE DISTRICT'S TARGET, AND STUDENTS ARE ON TRACK TO MEET THIS YEAR'S GOAL AS WELL. PROGRESS MATTERS AND EVERY STUDENT WHO BECOMES COLLEGE READY REPRESENTS A SUCCESS WORTH CELEBRATING, BUT PARENTS CANNOT IGNORE WHAT NUMBERS ALSO TELL US, IF 20% OF STUDENTS ARE MEETING THIS BENCHMARK, THAT MEANS 80% ARE STILL ARE NOT. AS PARENTS, WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENT.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE.

WE WANT EVERY CHILD, REGARDLESS OF NEIGHBORHOOD, RACE, INCOME, TO GRADUATE TRULY PREPARED FOR COLLEGE, CAREER, AND LIFE. THE PROGRESS IS REAL, BUT THE URGENCY MUST REMAIN.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS REBECCA BRISCOE, AND I'M HERE AS A PARENT DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY AFTER A CHOKING INCIDENT INVOLVING MY 8-YEAR-OLD CHILD AT MCGREGOR ELEMENTARY ON APRIL 16TH.

AFTER REVIEWING THE VIDEO, I'M DEEPLY TROUBLED BY THE FORCE USED BY THE RESOURCE OFFICER WHILE MY CHILD WAS SEATED, UNPROVOKED, AND VISIBLY IN DISTRESS.

SINCE THEN, MY CHILD HAS NEEDED MEDICAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, AND OUR FAMILY STILL HAS NOT RECEIVED CLEAR ANSWERS, ANY ANSWERS, PERIOD, FROM HISD. I'M ASKING THIS BOARD WHY THE SECURITY COMPANY REMAINS IN PLACE AFTER REPEATED SECURITY FAILURES, NOTING TWO TODDLERS THAT LEFT UNATTENDED TWO MONTHS AGO INTO INCOMING TRAFFIC. IN FEBRUARY. WHAT VETTING AND DE-ESCALATION PRACTICES EXIST AND WHY THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL WHO FAILED TO PROTECT MY CHILD, FAILED TO RENDER AID, AND THREATENED TO CALL THE POLICE ON ME REMAINS ACCOUNTABLE. I ASK WHY MY CREDIBILITY IS QUESTIONED DESPITE MY CREDENTIALS, EXPERIENCE, AND LEADERSHIP IN HOMELAND SECURITY WHILE THE DISTRICT'S TOP AUTHORITY THANK YOU, MA'AM. HELLO THERE. MY DAUGHTER HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE OF BEING IN MISS JENNY D.

GUY'S KINDERGARTEN CLASS AT SINCLAIR ELEMENTARY. 75% OF MISS GUY'S STUDENTS PERFORMED ABOVE BENCHMARK ON THE END-OF-YEAR EXAMS, AND AMONG THE CLASS, HER STUDENTS PERFORMED THE BEST ON THE NWEA MATH EXAM. DESPITE THIS, SHE'S BEEN RENDERED TO ONE NUMBER: 1.5. THAT'S THE

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MISS GIESE HAS DONE EVERYTHING RIGHT, INCLUDING TAKING CARE OF HER FATHER, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE'RE PUNISHING HER FOR IT BY FIRING HER. THIS POLICY IN PLAY IS DRACONIAN, IT'S CRUEL, IT'S IRRATIONAL, AND IT'S INTENTIONALLY MOVING THE TEACHER BELL CURVE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. MISS GIESE DESERVES TO BE BACK IN HER CLASSROOM THIS FALL, AND IF SHE'S NOT, WE'RE NOT PUTTING STUDENT OUTCOMES FIRST.

THANK YOU. WOO-HOO! GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS CLAIRE WRIGLEY, AND I'M A PARENT AT HISD. AS THE BOARD LOOKS AT THE BUDGET, I ASK YOU TO REMAIN FOCUSED ON WHAT DRIVES FAMILIES TO STAY AND TEACHERS TO REMAIN. THIS YEAR, THE DISTRICT WILL APPROACH A 35% TURNOVER OF TEACHERS WITH 700 POSITIONS CURRENTLY OPEN.

SINCE THE STATE TAKEOVER, MORE THAN 19,000 STUDENTS HAVE LEFT. THESE TRENDS WEAKEN SCHOOLS AND STRAIN THE BUDGET.

STRONG TEACHERS ATTRACT STUDENTS AND HELP KEEP ENROLLMENT STABLE, BUT EXPECTATIONS SHOULD BE CONSISTENT. IT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY TEACHERS COULD BE TERMINATED FOR NOT GETTING CERTIFIED WHILE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT MAY BE WAIVED. ACCOUNTABILITY SHOULD BE THE SAME FOR EVERYONE.

FAMILIES DESERVE TRANSPARENCY, IN HOW RESOURCES ARE ALLOCATED.

PLEASE ASK THE QUESTIONS AND PRIORITIZE TRANSPARENCY, TEACHER RETENTION, AND STUDENT ENROLLMENT IN EVERY DECISION THAT YOU MAKE. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS LATRICIA ST. JULES, AND I'M WITH THE HOUSTON PARENT ACTION NETWORK, AND I'M ALSO THE MOTHER OF A CHILD THAT ATTENDS PHILLY I APPRECIATE THE PROGRESS REFLECTED IN TODAY'S REPORT.

ANY IMPROVEMENT FOR OUR STUDENTS IS IMPORTANT AND SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED.

HOWEVER, WE CANNOT CONFUSE PROGRESS WITH EQUITY. THE REALITY IS THAT BLACK AND HISPANIC STUDENTS CONTINUE TO FACE ACHIEVEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY GAPS THAT IMPACT THEIR LONG-TERM SUCCESS. AS A PARENT, I BELIEVE THE GOAL SHOULD NOT SIMPLY BE HIGHER SCORES THAN LAST YEAR. THE GOAL SHOULD BE ENSURING THAT EVERY CHILD, REGARDLESS OF RACE, ZIP CODE, OR BACKGROUND, HAS ACCESS TO THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES AND OUTCOMES.

OUR FAMILIES ARE NOT ASKING FOR PERFECTION. WE ARE ASKING FOR TRANSPARENCY AND A CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO EQUITY BECAUSE OUR CHILDREN DESERVE MORE THAN PROGRESS. THEY DESERVE OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS BEATRIZ AND I'M WITH HOUSTON PARENT ACTION NETWORK, A PARENT AND A PARENT OF A SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENT.

THE REPORT SHOWS THAT 26% OF GRADUATES WERE BOTH TSI READY AND EARNED AN INDUSTRY-BASED CERTIFICATION, MEETING THE DISTRICT'S TARGET.

AS A PARENT, I SUPPORT ANY EFFORT THAT EXPANDS OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS AFTER GRADUATION.

BUT READINESS IS NOT JUST ABOUT EARNING A CREDENTIAL OR PASSING AN ASSESSMENT. READINESS MEANS STUDENTS LEAVING OUR SCHOOLS WITH REAL CHOICES AND REAL PATHWAYS TO ECONOMIC MOBILITY. PARENTS WANT TO KNOW THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT ONLY GRADUATING, BUT GRADUATING WITH THE SKILLS, SUPPORT, AND CONFIDENCE TO THRIVE IN WHATEVER FUTURE THEY CHOOSE. I ENCOURAGE HISD TO CONTINUE EXPANDING ACCESS TO COLLEGE READINESS PROGRAMS, CAREER PATHWAYS, AND INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS SO THESE OPPORTUNITIES ARE NOT LIMITED TO A SELECT GROUP OF STUDENTS. EVERY CHILD DESERVES A FUTURE FILLED WITH OPTIONS, ESPECIALLY OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 3 YEARS IN AND YOU ARE STILL FAILING.

FAILING TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT THIS DISRUPTION, LOSS OF LOCAL CONTROL, AND SWEEPING POLICY CHANGES HAVE PRODUCED ANY AGREEABLE POSITIVE RESULTS FOR THE COMMUNITIES YOU SERVE.

FAILING IN YOUR CLAIMS OF PROGRESS THROUGH GERRYMANDERED METRICS THAT COME AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURES.

WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS, RESULTING IN HIGH TEACHER TURNOVER AND LOWER ENROLLMENT.

FAILING SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS BY EXCLUDING PARENTS, EDUCATORS, AND TAXPAYERS FROM MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT ABOUT IMPORTANT DECISIONS.

TO BE CLEAR, FAMILIES OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES DESERVE CONFIDENCE THAT THEIR CHILDREN'S NEEDS ARE A PRIORITY AND THAT DECISIONS ARE MADE WITH THEIR SUCCESS IN MIND THROUGH CLEAR COMMUNICATION AND A SEAT AT THE TABLE WHEN POLICIES AFFECTING THEIR CHILDREN ARE DISCUSSED. TO MY FELLOW PARENTS AND EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO CONTINUE TO SHOW UP, SPEAK UP, PUSH, AND PUSH BACK AGAINST FLOYD THE FAILURE AND HIS FLUNKIES, THANK YOU. STAY

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WHEN SOMETHING NORTH OF 100 FAMILIES OUT OF A STARTING ENROLLMENT OF 571 STUDENTS AMERICANS VOTE THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN, WITH THEIR FEET, AFTER YOUR EFFORTS TO TURN THINGS AROUND. THAT SHOULD SOUND ALARM BELLS FOR YOU. YOU BRUSHED THESE OFF AS IGNORANT HATERS, DEPORTATIONS WERE MERE ANECDOTES, BUT THEY KNOW THEIR KIDS BEST, SAW YOUR INTERVENTIONS UP CLOSE, AND COULDN'T STAY. THE FAMILIES WHO ARE LEAVING ARE OFTEN THE MOST COMMITTED, THE ONES WHO HAD THE BEST VIEW OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, THE ONES WHO SAW MOST INTIMATELY THE VIOLENCE OF YOUR TAKEOVER. , AND SO WE ARE LEFT WITH THE QUESTION, WAS IT WORTH IT? THANK YOU.

TAYLOR MUNDY, DURHAM PARENT.

DURHAM LOST CLOSE TO A DOZEN KEY ADULTS, TEACHERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE 2025 TO 2026 SCHOOL YEAR. SOME WERE HIGH-PERFORMING BUT CONSIDERED POOR CULTURAL FITS IN THE WORLD OF YOUR RECREATION. SOME REFUSED TO TOLERATE THE MORE TOXIC AND HIGH-STRESS ENVIRONMENT. SOME WERE BEDROCKS OF THE SCHOOL CULTURE. SOME WERE NEWCOMERS THAT WE BARELY GOT TO KNOW, BUT ALL OF THEM WERE SOME KID'S SAFE PERSON ON CAMPUS. ESPECIALLY AT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHERE YOU SEE THE SAME TEACHER ALMOST THE ENTIRE DAY. IMAGINE SHOWING UP ONE DAY AND ONLY TO HAVE YOUR TEACHER SUDDENLY GONE. THAT CREATES A LEVEL OF EMOTIONAL DISREGULATION THAT IMPACTS A CHILD'S ABILITY TO LEARN AND DIRECTLY FEEDS INTO THE HIGH RATES OF FAMILIES LEAVING HISD. IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT DURHAM'S 3RD GRADE, WHICH LOST 3 TEACHERS, HAS ALSO SEEN THE HIGHEST DECLINE IN ENROLLMENT AND STRUGGLED THE MOST EARLY ON WITH DOLS. WAS IT WORTH IT? THANK YOU. SPEAKERS 11 THROUGH 20, PLEASE MOVE TO THE FRONT ROW. HI, NEELY STEWART. PROUD DURHAM PARENT.

AT DURHAM, FAMILIES WERE TURNED FROM BEING RESPECTED PARTNERS INTO BEING TREATED LIKE ENEMIES AT THE GATE.

PARENTS BEGGED JUST TO BE ALLOWED TO MAKE COPIES, ORGANIZE LIBRARY BOOKS, AND READ ALOUD TO PRE-K STUDENTS, BUT WEREN'T ALLOWED TO DO ANY OF THIS. WE HAD TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL TO HOLD OUR CULTURAL AND ENRICHMENT EVENTS THAT EXPAND STUDENTS' HORIZONS. WE HAD EXACTLY ONE COFFEE WITH THE PRINCIPAL THE ENTIRE SECOND SEMESTER AFTER BEING TOLD THEY WE OFTEN HAD NO IDEA WHAT CHANGES WERE BEING IMPLEMENTED, GOT FREQUENT MIXED MESSAGING, AND GENERALLY GOT SHUT OUT OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT ON EARTH WAS GOING ON AT OUR OWN SCHOOL. THE SHARED DECISION-MAKING LEGALLY MANDATED UNDER THE TITLE I-A EXISTED LARGELY ONLY ON PAPER. THINGS LIKE TITLE I-A PLACE A HIGH STANDARD ON SEEKING PARENTAL COLLABORATION TO HELP FUEL A SCHOOL. AT DURHAM THIS YEAR, THIS WAS DISMANTLED. WAS IT WORTH IT? WE HAVE BARELY SEEN ANY DATA SHOWING HOW DURHAM STUDENTS PERFORMED THIS YEAR DESPITE OUR REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND WHY THE IMPLEMENTATION FROM NORTH DIVISION WAS NEEDED TO BE SO FORCEFUL AND SO SLOPPY. WE WERE TOLD IRT SCORES WENT UP AND STUDENTS ARE MASTERING DOLS, BUT THE DISTRICT HAS FAILED TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE ACRONYMS, STAAR TEST PREP, AND THE WORKSHEETS OUR CHILDREN ARE DOING. SO WE DON'T CARE ABOUT BEING FORCED TO CLAP FOR THEM. OUR MID-YEAR MAP DATA WAS PRESENTED TO US WITHOUT A COMPARISON TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR. WHEN WE FOLLOWED UP TO REQUEST THE COMPARISON, WE CONFIRMED FROM THE SCREENSHOTTED CHARTS THAT AFTER EVERYTHING WE WENT THROUGH THIS YEAR READY FOR IT DURHAM STUDENTS WENT UP 3 POINTS IN READING, 6 POINTS IN SCIENCE, AND DROPPED 6 POINTS IN MATH. SINCE ALL OUR CHILDREN EXPERIENCED THIS YEAR FROM THE DISTRICT INTERVENTION WAS. MAYBE OUR SCORES WENT UP SIMILAR TO THE DISTRICT AVERAGE, BUT SCORES ARE TRENDING UP STATEWIDE, THE PANDEMIC IS MOVING MORE BEHIND US AND TESTING IS SIMILAR TO LAST YEAR. THANK YOU. IF THERE ARE CHANGES, NOTHING CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO YOU EXCEPT THE ATTEMPTED DISMANTLING OF ANOTHER COMMUNITY. WAS IT WORTH IT? YOU MIGHT SAY THE DATA SHOWED DECREASES AT DURHAM, SO YES, WE MUST RESPOND WITH URGENCY.

THAT'S A FALLACY THAT BORDERS ON GASLIGHTING. MAKING CHANGES TO DURHAM DIDN'T HAVE TO MEAN THIS. WE KNOW

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YES, THE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DATA SHOWED A NEED FOR CHANGE. ACHIEVEMENT WAS FLAT WHILE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS WERE WIDENING. THE COMMUNITY THOUGHT OF ITSELF AS INCLUSIVE, BUT THAT'S WHAT BUT THAT WASN'T EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCE. YOUR APPROACH TO CHANGE WASN'T TARGETED, PRECISE, OR DATA-DRIVEN. YOU FIXED THINGS THAT WEREN'T BROKEN, SUCH AS 3RD GRADE MATH, AND YOU BROKE THINGS THAT NOW DESPERATELY NEED FIXING, LIKE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.

WAS IT WORTH IT? JESSICA YANEZ, DURHAM PARENT. LET'S TALK ABOUT DURHAM IN 2024-25 AND WHAT CHANGED FROM 2023-24. THE SCHOOL DID NOT SUCCEED AT CLOSING ACHIEVEMENT GAPS, BUT IT WASN'T DUE TO OUR LACK OF A TEAM CENTER OR A LACK OF HIGH-STRESS CULTURE OR A LACK OF AI-GENERATED CURRICULUM. 2024-25 WAS THE FIRST YEAR WHERE KIDS WHO STARTED KINDERGARTEN DURING COVID TOOK STAR. IT'S ALSO THE SAME YEAR THAT DURHAM LOST PAID AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING FOR TARGETED INTERVENTIONS.

WHICH ARE USE REALLY USEFUL IN CLOSING GAPS. WE ALSO LOST A FULL-TIME WRAPAROUND COORDINATOR FOR A TITLE IA SCHOOL. THIS MEANT OUR FAMILIES WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE 20 OR 30 MINUTES OR TRAVEL 30 MINUTES TO AN HOUR VIA METRO TO ACCESS SERVICES AT OUR NEAREST SUNRISE CENTER. THERE WERE OTHER OPTIONS TO ALTER THE COURSE OF THINGS AT DURHAM. WHAT WAS DONE AT DURHAM OVER THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR WAS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO CLOSE THE GAPS. WAS IT WORTH IT? JOCELYN COMPTON, DURHAM PARENT. NO ONE HERE BELIEVES THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS. WE WANT STUDENTS TO LEARN, WE WANT TEACHERS TO SUPPORT THEM AND FOSTER THEIR DEVELOPMENT. WE WANT ALL THE CHILDREN OF HOUSTON TO HAVE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL, SUCCEED AT LIFE, CHANGE THE WORLD. THE DISTRICT'S MEANS ARE HARMFUL EVEN AS THEY ACHIEVE THE RESULTS THAT YOU'RE SO EXCITED ABOUT. AT DURHAM, YOU'VE DRIVEN AWAY TEACHERS, YELLED AT PARENTS, SHOVED HIGH-PERFORMING STUDENTS INTO DESKS FACING WALLS, AND TOLD THEM TO STAY QUIET.

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO COLLABORATE, HOW TO MEND.

YOU ONLY KNOW HOW TO SMASH AND OBLITERATE. AS SO MUCH OF THE WORLD MOVES AWAY FROM ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL SOLUTIONS, YOUR DISTRICT OF INNOVATION RESEMBLES A PERSON WHO ONLY HAS A HAMMER AND THUS TO WHOM EVERYTHING IS A NAIL.

WAS IT WORTH IT? SANDRA BULGER, DURHAM PARENT. IF WE'VE LEARNED ANYTHING THIS YEAR, DURHAM'S EXPERIENCE IS EMBLEMATIC OF THE WHOLE DISTRICT.

IN YOUR 3 YEARS AS UNCERTIFIED SUPERINTENDENT, YOU DROVE OUT HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS TO BE REPLACED BY UNCERTIFIED ONES. YOU SPENT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF OUR DOLLARS ON YOURSELF, ON PROPAGANDA, AND ON A MUSICAL ABOUT YOU. YOU ACCELERATED DE-ENROLLMENTS, LITERALLY PUSHING PEOPLE TO SUBURBS. YOU FORCED US INTO A GAME OF PRINCIPAL MUSICAL CHAIRS.

YOU CREATED AN ILLEGAL SPED RELOCATION PROGRAM THAT VIOLATES PEOPLE'S CIVIL RIGHTS.

YOU SELL PROPERTY AND CLOSE SCHOOLS WITHOUT A MANDATE FROM VOTERS. YOU SOW CHAOS TO ESTABLISH CONTROL AND MAKE YOUR MARK RATHER THAN EDUCATING CHILDREN, ALL FOR A 7-POINT JUMP IN 3RD GRADE READING. SO HOUSTON, WAS IT WORTH IT? AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHERE WE WILL BE NEXT YEAR, TO QUOTE A VERY, VERY SAD MAN, "DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT I WON'T BE HERE NEXT YEAR?" YOU CANNOT WAIT IT OUT. AND ANGELA, YOU PROVED THAT THE ROT IS STARTING TO SPREAD BY CUTTING OFF A 9-YEAR-OLD'S HEAD. MY NAME IS SARAH MAHLER, FORMER DURHAM PARENT. WE COULDN'T ALL STAY. WE HAD TO DO WHAT WAS RIGHT FOR OUR CHILDREN, AND FOR ME, THAT MEANT TAKING MY KIDS OFF THE FIRING SQUAD, OFF IN FRONT OF THE FIRING SQUAD OF YOU. AT DURHAM, YOU SIMPLY CAME IN AND YOU DESTROYED RATHER THAN UNDERSTANDING THE THINGS THAT YOU WERE SMASHING.

DURHAM HAD A UNIQUE, STRONG, AND ECLECTIC CULTURE AND COMMUNITY WITH DEEP RELATIONSHIPS AND CONNECTIONS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. IT WAS ONE OF THE SCHOOL'S KEY ASSETS, AND INSTEAD YOU JUST DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO PUSH PEOPLE AWAY.

DATA DROPPED SLIGHTLY. I DIDN'T CARE. IT WAS FINE. WE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE FALLING APART SCHOOL.

INEQUALITY WIDENED. RATHER THAN CRAFT SOMETHING TARGETED TO OUR NEEDS, LEVERAGING OUR EXISTING STRENGTHS, YOU RIPPED IT DOWN AND YOU BUILT ANOTHER PATENTED MILES BOX. AS IF THE NEEDS OF EVERY SCHOOL IN ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE CITIES ON EARTH CAN BE MET WITH A STANDARDIZED PLAN.

THERE WERE OTHER WAYS THAT YOU DID THIS THAT DIDN'T HAVE TO RESEMBLE A MILITARY OCCUPATION.

REMEMBER, THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN. THESE ARE HOUSTON'S CHILDREN. YOU SHOULD HAVE

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THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ARE BEING REASSIGNED ACROSS THE DISTRICT, AND FOR THESE CHILDREN, SCHOOL IS NOT JUST A BUILDING.

IT'S THE PLACE WHERE THEY FINALLY LEARNED THE ROUTINE, TRUSTED THE ADULTS, FOUND THEIR FRIENDS, AND FELT SAFE ENOUGH TO LEARN.

FOR THESE STUDENTS, HAVING STABILITY IS A HUGE PART OF THEIR SUPPORT. WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU TO STOP IMPROVING SPECIAL ED.

WE ARE ASKING YOU TO PAUSE AND VERIFY BEFORE DISRUPTING THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS. AND IF THE PLAN IS LAWFUL, SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE, AND IN THE BEST INTEREST OF STUDENTS, IT WILL WITHSTAND REVIEW. IF YOU GET THIS WRONG, THE DAMAGE WILL. TO CALL THE DISTRICT SPECIAL EDUCATION CONSOLIDATION PROPOSAL A PLAN IS NOT ACCURATE. THERE WAS NO MEANINGFUL PLANNING AND NO DETAILED IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS OR CAMPUSES. A KEY SLIDE IN THE PROPOSAL THAT YOU SAW LAST MONTH FROM THE DISTRICT WAS INACCURATE AND MISLEADING. YOU WERE TOLD BY DISTRICT LEADERS WHO WERE USING STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE THAT THE CHANGES WOULD AFFECT ONLY 5,000 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES RECEIVING SERVICES IN SELF-CONTAINED SETTINGS AND WOULD NOT IMPACT STUDENTS IN INCLUSION SETTINGS. SPECIAL EDUCATION IS NOT LIMITED TO TWO PLACEMENTS. FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES A CONTINUUM OF PLACEMENTS, AND THE DISTRICT'S CHANGES AFFECT FAR MORE STUDENTS THAN WERE REPRESENTED AT THE BOARD, WHICH SHOULD HAVE TRIGGERED SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT NUMBER 3. THE PROPOSAL IS ALREADY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ED. ONE RELATED POLICY DISAPPEARED FROM THE HISD WEBSITE AFTER PARENTS STARTED TALKING TO THEIR CAMPUSES ABOUT THEIR SENIORS STAYING FOR NEXT YEAR. I HAVE A COPY OF THIS, THE POLICY. COULD I ASK REMAINING HSD PARENT SPEAKERS TO MOVE TO THE FRONT ROW, PLEASE? GOOD EVENING, BOARD. MY NAME IS MIREILLE PATMAN. LAST MONTH YOU WERE PRESENTED WITH AN OVERSIMPLIFIED PLAN FOR SWEEPING CHANGES TO SPECIAL EDUCATION. KEY INFORMATION WAS MISSING, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THE BOARD COULD NOT ASK THE QUESTIONS OUR COMMUNITY EXPECTS.

SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT NUMBER 3 IS TRIGGERED, AND NOW YOU MUST ACT. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT THE PLAN WAS INTRODUCED IN MAY AND SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST ROLLOUT, BUT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PAUSE IMPLEMENTATION UNTIL YOU HAVE THE FULL PICTURE. YOU WERE NOT SHOWN A TRUE NUMBER OF STUDENTS AFFECTED, PROJECTED IMPACT FOR YOUR OWN STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL NUMBER 04, THE BUDGET RAMIFICATIONS FROM THE NEW STATE FUNDING RULES, RESEARCH SUPPORTING THIS MODEL'S EFFECTIVENESS, OR AUTHENTIC STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT. THESE ARE YOUR RULES. PLACE CONSTRAINT NUMBER 3 ON THE JUNE 25TH SPECIAL SESSION. REQUIRE INDEPENDENT LEGAL ANALYSIS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND RELEASE THE FINDINGS BEFORE THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDS. THIS IS YOUR DUTY. NOTHING. HELLO, GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS VANESSA. I AM A PROUD PARENT OF TWO BEAUTIFUL AND WISE DAUGHTERS AT DURHAM ELEMENTARY. I WANT TO START OFF WITH THIS QUOTE, WHICH I KNOW MR. MILES, YOU SHOULD KNOW BY HEART. NEVER SHALL I FAIL MY COMRADES. I WILL ALWAYS KEEP MYSELF MENTALLY ALERT, PHYSICALLY STRONG, AND MORALLY STRAIGHT, AND I WILL SHOW SHOULDER MORE THAN MY SHARE OF THE TASK, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, 100% AND THEN SOME. YOU HAVE A LOT ON YOUR SHOULDERS AND MANY ANGRY PARENTS, BUT LIKE ME AND ALL OF US TOGETHER, WE WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR CHILDREN, BUT SADLY WE ARE BLIND SOMETIMES TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT HARM OUR CHILDREN INSTEAD.

WE ASK ONLY TO REVOKE THE DAMAGE THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE AND TO THINK TWICE ABOUT FUTURE DECISIONS, WHO WILL BE IMPACTED, AND IF IT IS WORTH IT. BUT LIKE YOU, CREECH SAYS, PLEASE DO NOT FAIL THE CHILDREN, WHICH ARE YOUR COMRADES. AND

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LIKEWISE, MIKE MILES' BRAND OF LESSONS IS BUTCHERING OUR KIDS' EDUCATION IN EXCHANGE FOR SHOWY NUMBERS IN JUNE. BUT AS A SKILLED EDUCATOR WILL TELL YOU, THOSE NUMBERS BELIE A WEAK EDUCATION THAT WON'T STAND THE TEST OF TIME. YOU NEED TO PUT THE STUDENT BACK IN STUDENT OUTCOMES. IT'S BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED THAT THOSE ON THE BOARD DO WHAT MILE WANTS, SO TODAY I'M GOING TO TALK STRAIGHT TO OUR TEACHERS.

FOR THOSE WHO PLAN ON STAYING INTO NEXT YEAR, THANK YOU. I HOPE YOU FIND THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDED FOR THE CONSTANT SUPERVISION, HIDDEN POCKETS OF TIME TO GIVE OUR KIDS THE HANDS-ON PROJECTS THEY NEED BUT AREN'T ASSIGNED, AND HAVE A STAFF WHO'S WILLING TO FIGHT YOUR BATTLES AGAINST THE DISTRICT.

FOR THOSE WHO ARE LEAVING, I GET IT. THE CURRICULUM IS BORING AND NOT GEARED TO CHILDREN. BEING ABLE TO CHANGE LESSONS BASED ON THE STUDENTS IN YOUR CLASSROOM IS A THING OF THE PAST. JUST KNOW THAT WE SEE YOU. WE UNDERSTAND THE BATTLE YOUR MIND FOUGHT BEFORE YOU DECIDED YOU NEEDED TO PUT YOU AND YOUR MENTAL HEALTH FIRST. SO HERE'S TO ANOTHER YEAR OF FIGHTING THIS TAKEOVER BEING OVER AND GETTING READY TO TAKE ON THE NEXT. LAURA HENRY. I'M A TEACHER IN ANOTHER DISTRICT AND A PARENT. I JUST CAME FROM THIS AWESOME ELPS TRAINING WHERE I HAD A FLIP BOOK AND WE HAD CASE STUDIES AND I FIGURED OUT HOW I DIFFERENTIATE FOR DIFFERENT KIDS. AND THE WHOLE TIME ALL I WAS THINKING IS, MAN, I WISH HISD TEACHERS COULD HAVE THIS. BECAUSE I FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR DIFFERENT KIDS BY DIFFERENTIATING. YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT TEST SCORES TODAY. I DID NOT THINK THE DIFFERENCES WERE THAT IMPRESSIVE, BUT THE ONLY ONE I CAN TALK ABOUT IS ENGLISH. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I KNOW AND I KNOW BETTER THAN MIKE MILES BECAUSE I'M AN ENGLISH TEACHER. AND I KNOW IT BETTER THAN KRISTEN HULL BECAUSE I'M AN ENGLISH TEACHER. AND WHAT I KNOW IS THAT Z 49%, HALF OF ENGLISH 1 STUDENTS MADE A ZERO ON THE ESSAY. 38% OF ENGLISH 2 STUDENTS MADE A ZERO ON THE ESSAY. THE KIDS IN HISD CAN'T WRITE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T THINK. BECAUSE ALL WE'RE DOING IS TEACHING THEM HOW TO FIX THAT RIGHT ANSWER ON THE TEST. CRAYOLA CURRICULUM IS ACTUALLY VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT TEACHES KIDS CREATIVITY AND IT TEACHES THEM HOW TO THINK. 50% OF KIDS. WE LOVE ELEMENTARY. THE PRINCIPAL AT MY SON'S SCHOOL VIOLATED VIOLATES HIS RIGHTS DAILY.

THIS HAPPENS AT LOVE ELEMENTARY EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I'M TALKING ABOUT SITTING IN AN ARD MEETING, AGREEING TO SERVICES, LITERALLY CHANGING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION TO SUGGEST THOSE DISCUSSIONS NEVER HAPPENED. CHANGING THEM AFTER THE FACT. ARE YOU WATCHING? ARE ALL OF YOU WATCHING? WE FILED TEA COMPLAINTS. THEY CAME BACK SUBSTANTIATED. AND YET OUR PRINCIPAL CAME BACK TO AN ARD MEETING AND DID IT AGAIN. HOW IS THIS EVEN HAPPENING? HOW CAN A PRINCIPAL REPEATEDLY GET AWAY WITH BREAKING THE LAW? I KNOW A LOT OF HERE UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS NOT TO HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT ARE YOU WATCHING WITH DECISIONS YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR, PRINCIPALS YOU APPOINTED? MY SON IS PAYING THE CONSEQUENCES.

ARE YOU WATCHING? TAKE A STAND! DO WHAT'S RIGHT! SOMEONE SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!

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THIS DECLINE IS NOT PURELY DUE TO ENROLLMENT. IT IS BECAUSE THE DISTRICT DELIBERATELY CHOSE TO PHASE OUT IB PROGRAMS THAT TOOK A LONG TIME TO QUALIFY FOR, FOR MIKE MILES' UNPROVEN NES CURRICULUM.

BY FORCING TEACHERS TO STRICTLY FOLLOW THE HISD SEQUENCE AND SCHEDULE, PUNISHING THEM WITH POOR SCORES IF THEY DON'T, YOU'RE ACTIVELY HOBBLING THEIR ABILITY TO DELIVER AN IB EDUCATION. WE WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE THIS VALUABLE PROGRAM FROM THE REMAINING IB SCHOOLS.

DO NOT ALLOW MIKE MILES TO CONTINUE DISMANTLING THE GREAT PROGRAMS HISD USED TO OFFER, LIKE IB, WRAPAROUND SERVICES, AND CTE. LISTEN TO US. DO BETTER. THINK ABOUT GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS JENNY MCDAVID, HISD PARENT WHO A STUDENT AT WALTRIP HIGH. MY CHILD'S SCHOOL HAS UNDERGONE SEVERAL UNWELCOME CHANGES. CTE PROGRAMS ARE BEING CONSOLIDATED TO THE BARBARA JORDAN CENTER, A PLACE NOT REMOTELY CONVENIENT TO OUR FAMILY. A QUESTION FOR THE BOARD: IF YOU HAVE CAR TROUBLES, THERE'S ONLY ONE PLACE IN THIS VAST CITY WHERE YOU WOULD GO TO GET YOUR CAR WORKED ON? OF COURSE NOT. AND IT'S SHORT-SIGHTED TO THINK THAT OUR STUDENTS SHOULD BE RELEGATED TO ONE LOCATION TO GAIN NEEDED VOCATIONAL SKILLS. THE SECOND CHANGE INVOLVES MY CHILD'S SPED CASE A RESOURCE MANAGER GETTING LAID OFF. THE BOARD HAS TO KNOW THIS IS A HORRIBLE IDEA, AS EVEN THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, WHICH WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION, IT HAS TO BE A PRETTY LOW BAR FOR THEM TO GET INVOLVED, HAS LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

AND THIRD, I WAS INFORMED THAT WE NEED TO APPLY FOR THE FREE OR REDUCED MEALS PROGRAM.

SINGLING OUT STUDENTS BASED ON ABILITY TO PAY IS NOT A WAY TO OFFER OUR KIDS EQUAL TREATMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS. AND WE CAN'T GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT THAT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY IS DRIVING YOUR DECISIONS. MILES, SIDE GIG.

YES, LITSAHAYA MATA. AS A PARENT AND A FORMER 15-YEAR TEACHER, SPECIAL EDUCATION BACKGROUND, I URGE YOU TO RECONSIDER ALL THE VIOLATIONS HISD HAS UNDERTAKEN WITHIN THE INCLUSION PROGRAM WITH HISD WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS BEING SENT TO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.

BEFORE HISD IS BEING UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, I URGE YOU TO PAUSE, PAUSE THESE CHANGES UNTIL THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DECIDES WHETHER THIS IS EVEN LEGAL.

PARENTS HAVE NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THESE DECISIONS. MANY CHANGES ARE MADE AND PARENTS ARE ASKING A TON OF QUESTIONS IN WHICH PERSONNEL IN SCHOOLS ARE NOT EVEN READY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND LEAVES PARENTS UNAWARE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING. PARENTS HAVE NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THESE DECISIONS. I'M SCARED OF ALL OF THESE DECISIONS. THE TEAS DISTRICT IS REQUIRED NONE HAS ISN'T HASN'T REQUIRED NONE TO MAKE INDIVIDUALIZED DECISIONS FOR ALL. ASHKEW, RAY K. DALY, SHADOWBRIAR, WESTBRIAR. THOSE ARE THE SCHOOLS JUST IN THE WESTSIDE FEEDER PATTERN THAT WILL HAVE A NEW PRINCIPAL NEXT YEAR. 5 OF 8 SCHOOLS. FOR 3 YEARS NOW, WE HAVE WATCHED THIS GAME OF PRINCIPAL HOT POTATO PLAY OUT ACROSS HISD. FOR 3 YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN BEGGING FOR STABILITY. AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN. A 7TH GRADER AT MY SON'S SCHOOL WILL HAVE HAD 5 PRINCIPALS IN 5 YEARS JUST BY MOVING FROM HIS NEIGHBORHOOD ELEMENTARY TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL NEXT DOOR.

WHEN HIS MOM ASKED IF HE WANTED TO MEET THE NEW PRINCIPAL, HE SAID, "WHAT'S THE POINT?" WHEN YOU TOOK THIS ROLE, WAS THAT THE SORT OF ANECDOTE YOU'D HOPED TO HEAR? YES. MR. MILES WILL HAVE YOU BELIEVE THAT STABILITY IS FOR THE WEAK. BOARD OF MANAGERS, DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT? DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT CHAOS

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LAUREN ZINTZ, YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF. GIVE US ONE GIVE US 1 MINUTE SO WE CAN SEE YOU.

I'LL ADD MEDIA AND PUT THE CAMERA SCREEN UP. GREAT. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. UNMUTE YOURSELF. GIVE US 1 MINUTE SO WE CAN SEE YOU. CAN YOU SEE ME? YES, PLEASE GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD.

OKAY. MIKE'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY LESSONS FOR ADMINISTRATORS AS RECITED BY SPECIAL FOCUS SCHOOL PARENTS. DESTROY EVERY AM I THERE? HOLD ON. OKAY, SORRY.

MIKE'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY LESSONS FOR ADMINISTRATORS AS RECITED BY SPECIAL FOCUS PARENTS: DESTROY EVERY SCHOOL STRENGTH IN PURSUIT OF STAAR SCORES.

TELL PARENTS TO CHEER LOUDER FOR STAAR SCORES.

IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BUILDING TRUST, MAKE FREQUENT BALD-FACED LIES.

GASLIGHT TEACHERS AND PARENTS BY ACTING LIKE THE VICTIM AND BLAMING THEM. DESTROY LIBRARIES, QUICKLY BUT TAKE FOREVER TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. REPEAT WORDS LIKE GRIT AND HIGH-QUALITY INSTRUCTION WHILE EVERYONE WATCHES INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY DROP FASTER THAN ENROLLMENT. SAY YOU'RE A REFLECTIVE TEAM BUT NEVER CONSIDER OPINIONS OTHER THAN FMM'S. CREATE A CULTURE OF FEAR AND A TOXIC WORK ENVIRONMENT.

ELIMINATE A SKILLED TEACHING WORKFORCE. SQUANDER TAX DOLLARS IN AN ALREADY-STARVED SYSTEM.

HIRE UNCERTIFIED TEACHERS AND APS AND OTHER RANDOM PEOPLE.

SAY IT'S BECAUSE THE EXPERIENCED TEACHERS CAN'T HANDLE THE PRESSURE. 1 MINUTE.

MAKE IT HARD FOR PARENTS TO VOLUNTEER. DON'T ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS. LIE ABOUT SDMC MEETINGS. YELL AT THEM. MAKE DELUSIONAL STATEMENTS LIKE YOU CARE MORE ABOUT THESE KIDS THAN THEIR PARENTS DO BECAUSE PARENTS PUT POLITICS FIRST. CLAUDE BITTNER, PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF AND YOU MAY BEGIN. HI, I'M CLAUDE BITTNER, AN HISD PARENT AND A COMPUTER PROFESSIONAL.

MR. MILES LOVES AI. HE USES IT TO CREATE CURRICULGENERATE DATA, AND MAKE PRETTY SLIDESHOWS. AI CAN DO SOME COOL THINGS, BUT IT'S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A REAL PERSON. CHATBOTS IMITATE FRIENDS, BUT THEY DON'T ASK YOU IF YOU'RE OKAY WHEN YOU SMELL AWFUL BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T BATHED IN 3 DAYS. RELYING ON THEM TOO HEAVILY LITERALLY INDUCES PSYCHOSIS. LIKEWISE, AI CAN BE A TOOL FOR TEACHERS, BUT IT CANNOT BE A TEACHER.

JUST AS A CHATBOT DOESN'T NOTICE BODY ODOR, THE COMPUTER PROGRAM CANNOT NOTICE A CHILD'S FRUSTRATION OR SEE HER PUTTING FORTH EXTRA EFFORT AND ENCOURAGE HER TO STICK WITH IT. ONLY A TEACHER CAN DO THAT. THE REST OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD IS FOLLOWING THE RESEARCH BY REDUCING SCREEN TIME IN SCHOOLS, WHILE MR. MILES IS FORCING KIDS INTO EXPERIMENTAL NEW SCHOOLS THAT ARE DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE, THAT'S NOT LEADERSHIP. THAT'S AN EGO TRIP.

GOOD NIGHT. THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC COMMENT OF HSD PARENTS, STUDENTS, AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS. I'M SORRY.

[Board Member Reports and Comments]

THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO PRESENT SCHOOL BOARD AWARDS AT 5 GRADUATIONS OVER THE PAST WEEKEND AND PARTICIPATE IN ONE GRADUATION CEREMONY. AND EACH EVENT WAS DIFFERENT, AND A VERY BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO NOT ONLY THE STUDENTS BUT THEIR FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITY. AND I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE CAMPUSES AND THE ADMINISTRATION FOR CREATING SUCH A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY FOR NOT ONLY THE STUDENTS BUT THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

ANY OTHER BOARD REPORTS? YES, YES, SIR. THANK YOU.

LIKEWISE, I WAS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN 3 GRADUATION CEREMONIES: SHARPSTOWN INTERNATIONAL, WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL, AND BEL AIR HIGH SCHOOL. I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE ORGANIZATION AND THE FACULTY AND THE PRINCIPALS, AND OBVIOUSLY THE STUDENTS AND THE PARENTS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. YES, TRUSTEE GARZA-LINDNER. THANK YOU. I'LL ECHO THOSE COMMENTS. I WAS HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO ATTEND SOME

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THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WILL ADD, I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND THE GRADUATIONS OF 6 HIGH SCHOOLS: JONES FUTURES, LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL, MIDDLE COLLEGE, LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL, AND EAST EARLY COLLEGE, AND EASTWOOD. AND AGAIN, EACH COMMUNITY CELEBRATION WAS DIFFERENT AND SPECIFIC TO THE CAMPUSES, AND I JUST SAW SUCH CARE AND THE RELATIONAL THE IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE ADMINISTRATORS AND THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS.

SO I REALLY APPRECIATED BEING PART OF THE CELEBRATION. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SENIORS. SAME.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SENIORS. IT WAS GREAT PARTICIPATING IN GRADUATION.

THEY ARE ALL SPECIAL. AND THE IMPORTANT PART FOR ME IS ALWAYS SEEING THE FAMILIES THAT ARE THERE SUPPORTING THEIR STUDENTS THAT ARE THERE PARTICIPATING.

SO THANK YOU, AND I WAS HONORED TO SERVE.

CONTINUING THE THEME, I WAS AT YATES, I WAS AT NORTHSIDE, AND I WAS AT HOUSTON ACADEMY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES.

YATES WAS A FORMER F-RATED SCHOOL, NOW A B. THOSE KIDS OVER THE 3 YEARS HAVE ALL LEARNED AND I THINK GAINED FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE THE SAME NORTHSIDE, WHICH I UNDERSTOOD WAS A D AND IS NOW A B. AND OF COURSE, HOUSTON ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES HAD 103 GRADUATES, 85 OF WHICH HAD EARNED ASSOCIATE DEGREES.

SHOOK A FEW HUNDRED HANDS, HANDED OUT A BUNCH OF AWARDS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY GOT TO MEET THE ADMINISTRATION OF THESE SCHOOLS WHO ARE ALL VERY ENCOURAGED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WHERE THOSE STUDENTS ARE GOING.

SO I FELT REALLY FIRST TIME FOR ME BECAUSE I'M A NEW TRUSTEE, SO IT'S REALLY THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER HAD THAT EXPERIENCE.

IT WAS REALLY SOMETHING. THE LAST HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION I ATTENDED WAS 57 YEARS AGO, SO THAT WAS GOOD FUN. IT HADN'T BEEN 57 YEARS FOR ME, BUT IT HAD BEEN A FEW, AND IT WAS WHAT STRUCK ME HAS BEEN I'M NOT SURE IT'S RIGHT. WHAT STRUCK ME WAS A LOT OF THE SAME THINGS THAT Y'ALL HAVE TALKED ABOUT. IT WAS THE CONNECTION, THE WAY THAT THOSE PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS LOVE THOSE STUDENTS AND STUDENTS LOVE THEM BACK. AND IT WAS THE UNIQUE THINGS ABOUT EACH ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH 275 SCHOOLS, YOU DON'T GET TO SEE. WE GO ON SCHOOL VISITS EVERY NOW AND THEN, BUT TO BE THERE FOR SEVERAL HOURS, TO HEAR THE STUDENTS, TELL THE STORIES ABOUT THE HISTORY IN THE YEARS THEY WERE THERE, TO TALK TO THE PRINCIPALS ABOUT THE THINGS THEY'RE PROUD OF, TO TALK TO MEMBERS OF THE CABINET ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING AT THESE SCHOOLS. IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR'S ALREADY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE WILL NOW YES, SIR, SUPERINTENDENT. YES, AND JUST ONE POINT ON THE GRADUATION. I WAS AT I WAS AT 3 GRADUATIONS, BUT I WAS AT SHARPSTOWN IN PARTICULAR, AND THE PRINCIPAL THERE IS PRINCIPAL CARTER. AND 3 YEARS AGO, THE GRADUATION THE GRADUATING CLASS, ALMOST 50% OF THAT CLASS WALKED ACROSS THE STAGE BECAUSE THEY GOT THESE THINGS CALLED IGCS, INDEPENDENT GRADUATION COMMITTEE EFFORT. AND IT WAS AN IGC WAS NEVER MEANT FOR STUDENTS TO THAT MANY STUDENTS TO USE.

IT WAS FOR A STUDENT THAT SPENT 2 MONTHS IN A HOSPITAL AND NEEDED SOME WAY TO FINISH, TO COMPLETE THEIR DIPLOMA.

THEY COULDN'T HELP BECAUSE THEY WERE IN IN A HOSPITAL.

IN HOSPITAL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND IT GOT ABUSED WHEN YOU HAVE 50% OF YOUR CLASS GRADUATING THANK YOU THAT'S AN ABUSE. PRINCIPAL COULD SO THERE'S 260 GRADUATES, ABOUT 130 OF THEM GOT THESE IGCS 3 YEARS AGO. THIS CLASS, ONLY 4 GRADUATED WITH AN IGC. 4? AND THEIR SCORES ARE HIGHER.

YEAH, THAT'S WORTHY OF APPLAUSE. AND THAT'S BECAUSE PRINCIPAL CARTER IMPLEMENTED A MORE RIGOROUS CURRICULUM. AND IT TURNS OUT IF YOU RAISE THE EXPECTATIONS AND THE RIGOR, OUR KIDS WILL MEET THAT. AND THERE WAS A LOT OF PRIDE, NOT JUST FROM CARTER, IT WAS FROM ALL THE STAFF AND THE STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR

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AND, BUT THE KIDS WERE JUST, I MEAN, THEY WERE SCREAMING. WE PUT THEM IN THE UPPER BLEACHERS, AND THEN EVENTUALLY THE POWER CAME ON. THEY STAYED, AND MY REMARKS TO THEM WAS, IF YOU CAN TURN ON THE LIGHTS HERE, YOU CAN TURN ON THE LIGHTS ANYWHERE. AND THEY ALL CHEERED AT THAT. IT WAS REALLY A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE. YES, AND CHIEF JOLIVET, I WAS WITH HER ON ANOTHER CAMPUS AS THIS WAS HAPPENING, AND SHE WAS CALM, COOL, COLLECTED, AND GOT IT HANDLED. SO WE APPRECIATE THE ENTIRE STAFF, ALL THE GRADUATIONS. IT WAS FANTASTIC. WE WILL NOW ADDRESS

[DISCUSSION AND REPORT ITEMS (Part 1 of 3)]

MS. GARZA LIDNER, CHAIR OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THE BOARD AUDIT COMMITTEE MET ON JUNE 2ND. OUR OUTSOURCED INTERNAL AUDIT FIRM, RSM, UPDATED US ON THE STATUS OF INTERNAL AUDIT PLAN, WHICH IS PROCEEDING ON SCHEDULE, AND THEY PROVIDED DRAFT REPORTS ON THE PROCARD AND CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION AUDITS, WHICH ARE BEFORE THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL TONIGHT. RSM ALSO SUGGESTED A NUMBER OF AREAS TO CONTINUE AUDITING FOR THE '26-'27 FISCAL YEAR, WHICH THE AUDIT COMMITTEE WILL CONSIDER AT ITS NEXT MEETING.

IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MY COLLEAGUES

[Reports from the Superintendent]

SUPERINTENDENT MILES, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. YES, MA'AM, I'LL DO IT FROM THE PODIUM AT THE FIRST PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. SO AS YOU KNOW, THE STATE PUT OUT OR PUBLISHED THE END-OF-COURSE EXAMS, AND WE HAD THE STATE AVERAGES AS WELL.

AND THEN WE HAD THE K-8 PRELIMINARY, THE STATE STATE WILL PUBLISH THOSE NEXT WEEK.

SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THE K-8. WE'LL DO THAT AT THE NEXT MEETING BECAUSE THEN WE'LL HAVE MORE FIRM NUMBERS FROM THE STATE AND WE'LL ALSO HAVE THE STATE AVERAGES. BUT WE DO HAVE THE END-OF-COURSE EXAMS. AND A COUPLE OF THINGS TO NOTE BEFORE I GO THROUGH THESE NUMBERS. NUMBER 01, 99% OF OUR KIDS TOOK THE STAAR EXAMS. DESPITE SOME EFFORT TO DISCOURAGE PEOPLE TO TAKE THE STAAR. IT'S AN IMPORTANT EXAM. IT'S TAKEN ALL ACROSS THE STATE AND PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION. AND THEY PAY ATTENTION BECAUSE THE NUMBERS MEAN SOMETHING. MAYBE NOT ON ITS FACE, BUT IF YOU GET A MEETS PLUS, THAT MEANS YOU'RE READING AT GRADE LEVEL. AND THAT'S IMPORTANT. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR KIDS HERE IN HOUSTON, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR KIDS ALL OVER THE STATE AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WHEREVER THEIR EXAM IS.

THE NAEP LOOKS AT THAT AND THERE'S BIG AGGRAVATION AND CONCERN IF THE NAEP NUMBERS GOES DOWN. SO THE NUMBERS ON THESE ASSESSMENTS ARE IMPORTANT. THEY MEAN SOMETHING.

THEY ARE NOT SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD JUST BRUSH ASIDE OR IGNORE. AND WHEN PEOPLE DISCOUNT THAT, THEY ARE DISCOUNTING THE KIDS' EFFORTS.

THE TEACHER'S EFFORT. IF THEY'RE POO-POOING ESPECIALLY OUR UNDERSERVED KIDS AND THEIR SUCCESS, THAT IS NOT SOMETHING WE SHOULD ADMIRE. THAT IS NOT

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I MEAN, I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT SORT OF CRITICISM LEVELED AT THE STAR SCORES WHEN OUR UNDERSERVED KIDS AND OUR OTHER KIDS ARE IMPROVING IN. AND BY THE WAY, THAT'S WHY WE WERE BROUGHT IN.

THE INTERVENTION IS BASED ON AN A THROUGH F RATING, MOST OF WHICH IS ON THE EOC AND THE STAR EXAM.

AND THIS DISTRICT WAS FAILING TERRIBLY. IN FACT, SINCE THE HISTORY OF THE STAR EXAM THE HISTORY OF THE STAR EXAM, WHICH STARTED IN 2012 STARTED.

THERE WAS ANOTHER TEST BEFORE THEN.

IN EVERY SINGLE YEAR, THIS DISTRICT ONLY HAD ONE TEST IN, IN 2017 OUT OF THE 20 EXAMS WHERE THIS DISTRICT PASSED THE STATE AVERAGE. AND THEN IN 2022, ONE TIME.

IN EVERY SINGLE OTHER CASE, THEY WERE BELOW THE STATE AVERAGE.

INCLUDING ALL 5 EOC EXAMS. AND SO WE WERE NOT DOING WELL. WE HAD 121 DNF CAMPUSES. SO THESE NUMBERS ARE IMPORTANT NOT ONLY FOR THE INTERVENTION BUT FOR WHAT THEY MEAN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS.

THE GOOD REASON HOUSTON PUT OUT A REPORT, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO ABOUT A LIVABLE WAGE. IN THAT REPORT THEY SUGGESTED NOT SUGGESTED, THEIR RESEARCH SHOWED THAT IF KIDS CAN DO ALGEBRA I AT THE PROFICIENT LEVEL, STUDENTS BEFORE THEY GRADUATE, AND ENGLISH OR 8TH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS, THE CORRELATION TO A LIVABLE WAGE IS MUCH HIGHER.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU CAN DO THOSE TWO WELL, YOUR CHANCES OF HAVING A LIVABLE WAGE 6 YEARS AFTER GRADUATING WOULD BE MUCH BETTER. IT IS A FACT, AT LEAST TODAY AND IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, THAT IF YOU CAN READ AT GRADE LEVEL AND DO MATH AT GRADE LEVEL, YOUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE MUCH EXPANDED. NOW SOME PEOPLE WOULD HAVE YOU SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, LET'S JUST SEE IF THEY SOMEHOW MAGICALLY LIKE TO READ AND WE DON'T NEED A NUMBER, WE DON'T NEED A TEST. WE DON'T NEED NWA, WE DON'T NEED NAEP, WE DON'T NEED STAR. AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT IS JUST SUCH MISGUIDED NOTION OF WHAT KIDS NEED TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE. SO WITH THAT, PAM, I'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE AND THEN I'LL GET TO THE ACTUAL DATA. WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, THERE WAS A FOCUS IN THE DISTRICT WHEN THEY REPORTED OUT SCORE ON APPROACHES. AND I KEPT SAYING, AND WE TRIED TO EDUCATE PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT, THAT APPROACHES, YES, WE SHOULD REPORT IT, BUT THAT'S NOT THE BAR.

APPROACHES IS LESS THAN PROFICIENT. YOUR APPROACHES SCORE COULD GO UP AND YOUR MEETS PLUS GO DOWN. MEETS PLUS MEANS YOU MEET EXPECTATIONS.

THAT IS THE BAR FOR WHETHER YOU CAN READ AT GRADE LEVEL, NOT APPROACHES. AND SO FOR 3 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING ALL OF IT, BUT IN PRESENTATIONS LIKE THIS, AND THE FOCUS HAS BEEN MEETS PLUS, WHICH IS WHAT PARENTS WANT TO KNOW. IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

LET'S RAISE THE BAR. IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO SAY, LOOK, MY KID PASSED.

IN MANY COURSES YOU COULD PASS WITH A D. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IS HAPPY ABOUT THAT.

AND IN THE STAR TEST, YOU CAN PASS, BUT YOU ARE NOT AT MEETS PLUS, WHICH IS MET EXPECTED GROWTH. SO WHEN YOU READ THE PAPERS OR YOU DO YOU LOOK AT ANY OTHER DATA, MAKE SURE YOU ARE FOCUSED ON THE MEETS PLUS. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING. AND THAT TELLS THE REAL STORY OF WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE RIGOROUSLY RAISED EXPECTATIONS AND MET WHAT KIDS NEED. BECAUSE YES, APPROACHES IS IT'S BETTER THAN NOT DO NOT MEETS, BUT IT DOESN'T TELL THE WHOLE STORY. IN FACT, IT DOESN'T TELL THE BEST STORY. IT CAN BE A FALSE STORY IF YOUR APPROACHES GOES UP AND YOUR MEETS PLUS GOES DOWN. THAT MEANS FEWER KIDS ARE READING AT GRADE LEVEL. SO YOU'LL SEE ME REPORTING ON MEETS PLUS AND BY THE WAY, ALL DISTRICTS AND COLLEAGUES OF MINE KNOW MEETS PLUS IS WHERE IT'S AT. YES, THEY WILL REPORT DID NOT MEET MASTERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT THAT'S THE ONE THAT WHERE THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE DOING WELL OR THEY'RE NOT DOING WELL WITH MEETS PLUS. SO LET'S LOOK AT THESE DATA. ONE SECOND HERE.

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AMEN. FROM 2023 TO 2026, THAT IS A HUGE GROWTH, AND WE ARE WELL ABOVE THE STATE AVERAGE NOW WHEN WE WERE WAY BELOW. WE WERE 11 POINTS BELOW IN 2023, AND NOW IT IS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE, AS YOU CAN HEAR FROM THE AUDIENCE, ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE THAT WE'RE AT 58, IN 2026. THAT'S A REAL CREDIT. AND BY THE WAY, MORE KIDS ARE TAKING THE ALGEBRA 1 TEST THAN EVER BEFORE. MORE 8TH GRADERS ARE TAKING THE ALGEBRA 1 TEST. I THINK ABOUT 1,400 MORE 8TH GRADERS TOOK THE ALGEBRA I TEST. WE'LL GET YOU THE I THINK YOU EITHER HAVE THE NUMBERS OR WE'LL GIVE THEM TO YOU THAN THE YEAR BEFORE.

SO WE'RE PUSHING BECAUSE OF OUR ACCELERATED MATH. WE ACTUALLY HAD 700 7TH GRADERS TAKE THE ALGEBRA I TEST. AND SO WE ARE PUSHING, AND YOU'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS NEXT TIME WE PRESENT BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE 3 THROUGH 8, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT 7TH GRADE MATH AND 8TH GRADE MATH. THAT'S ALGEBRA 1, WELL AHEAD OF THE STATE IN ALGEBRA 1. AND REMEMBER, THAT'S ONE OF THE TWO THINGS THAT YOU REALLY LOOK AT AS A LEADING INDICATOR FOR LIBERAL WAGE. ENGLISH 1, WE WENT UP 5 POINTS FROM LAST YEAR, WHICH IS GREAT GROWTH. THIS IS THE ONLY EOC WHERE WE'RE NOT ABOVE THE STATE AVERAGE.

OKAY. REMEMBER WHEN 3 YEARS AGO WE WEREN'T ABOVE THE STATE AVERAGE IN ANYTHING. YOU CAN SEE WE'RE HOW MANY POINTS BEHIND? 13 POINTS BEHIND 3 YEARS AGO, AND NOW WE'RE JUST 2 POINTS BEHIND. ENGLISH II, WE'RE TIED TO THE STATE AVERAGE WHEN WE WERE 12 POINTS BEHIND 3 YEARS AGO. HUGE INCREASE IN ENGLISH II.

BIOLOGY, 17 POINTS BEHIND, NOW WE'RE 2 POINTS ABOVE THE STATE AVERAGE. SO THOSE ARE THE 5 OH WAIT, ONE MORE, U.S. HISTORY. U.S.

HISTORY, AGAIN, WE WERE WHAT WAS THAT, 8 POINTS BEHIND 3 YEARS AGO, NOW WE'RE 1 POINT AHEAD. AND SO IN EVERY SINGLE EOC, WE ARE AHEAD. THERE WAS ONE OTHER PREAMBLE I NEEDED TO TELL YOU, AND THAT IS THIS. WHAT IS A GOOD SCORE? AND AT THE STATE LEVEL AND AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL? IF WE WERE TO GO UP, AND I HAVE SAID THIS BEFORE, I HAVE SAID THIS EVERY YEAR, AT A DISTRICT OUR SIZE, IF YOU GO UP 2 OR 3 POINTS, IN A YEAR, THAT'S GOOD ON ONE EXAM. AND WE'VE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, SPOILED Y'ALL BECAUSE WE'RE GOING UP ON AVERAGE WAY MORE THAN THAT.

THE OTHER THING, OUT OF THE 20 EXAMS, AND WE HAVE THE RESULTS BACK ON 18 OF THEM, ON EOCS AND K-8, K-8 SCORES OR 3-8 SCORES, THERE ARE 20 EXAMS. HOW MANY SHOULD YOU GO UP IN TO BE, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE A GOOD YEAR? AND WE KEEP GETTING 18, 17, 19, AND THAT IS REALLY GOOD. THAT'S UNHEARD OF TO DO YEAR AFTER YEAR. AND SO TO HAVE THESE SCORES, ESPECIALLY IN EOCS, GO UP, ALL 5 OF THEM, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE OTHERS HERE IN A MINUTE, IS REALLY GOOD AND UNHEARD OF.

TO DO IT 1 YEAR, THAT'S GREAT.

TO DO IT 2 YEARS IN A ROW, THIS SORT OF GROWTH IS INCREDIBLE. AND THEN 3 IS JUST UNHEARD OF, 3 YEARS IN A ROW OF THIS SORT OF GROWTH. BECAUSE YOU'LL NOTICE IN THE STATE A LOT OF TIMES, EVEN IN THIS DISTRICT, IN THE PAST THERE'S BEEN UPS AND DOWNS AND UPS AND DOWNS, AND IF YOU WERE TO GET JUST 15 OUT OF 20 UP, THAT WOULD BE A CELEBRATION.

SO WE GOT TO HAND IT TO OUR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS AND THIS TEAM OVER HERE FOR ALL THE WORK THEY'VE DONE, AND OBVIOUSLY OUR KIDS WHO TO WHOM THESE RESULTS BELONG.

AND SO AT A MINIMLET'S JUST LET'S JUST GIVE IT UP FOR OUR KIDS. NOBODY'S GIVING IT UP FOR THE KIDS. HERE'S THE LONG RANGE. YOU CAN SEE OVER 3

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AVERAGE GROWTH IN HIGH SCHOOL IS 13 PERCENTAGE POINTS. AVERAGE. EVERY YEAR. 3 YEARS. OVER 3 YEARS. I MEAN.

AND THEN I TOLD YOU IN 2017 THIS DISTRICT BEAT THE STATE AVERAGE ONE TIME, OR ONE EXAM OUT OF 20. IN '22 2022, ONE EXAM OUT OF 20. ALREADY WE KNOW FOR SURE THERE'S 4, AND WE HAVE THE 3 THROUGH 8. WE'RE GOING TO BEAT THE, THE STATE IN 12 OUT OF THE 20 EXAMS. 12 OUT OF 20, FIRST TIME, I MEAN, ANYTHING OVER A 1 IN THE HISTORY OF THE STAAR EXAMS. THAT'S A HUGE IMPROVEMENT FOR THIS DISTRICT. THAT'S WHAT THIS TEAM HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO. THAT'S WHAT OUR PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO. THAT TAKES SOME REAL SKILL. SO LATE NIGHTS AND SOME COURAGE. WHO'S GOT THE FIRST QUESTION? SUPERINTENDENT, CAN YOU GIVE US AN IDEA OF ABOUT HOW MANY STUDENTS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? LIKE, SO FOR INSTANCE, IN THOSE END OF COURSE, LIKE HOW MANY KIDS ARE TAKING THAT? AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT KIND OF MOVEMENT, HOW MANY HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF KIDS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HAVING SOME SORT OF IMPROVEMENT? THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF KIDS, IT VARIES BY GRADE, IS ABOUT 10,000.

IT'S ABOUT 10,000 STUDENTS. SO YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A ROUGH ESTIMATE, BUT IT'S ABOUT RIGHT.

QUESTION. SO THAT'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF KIDS WHO ARE NOW READING AT GRADE LEVEL MORE THAN A YEAR AGO. THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE GRADES AND THE PROFICIENCY INCREASE. THAT'S MANY MORE KIDS HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY AT GETTING A LIVABLE WAGE AND EXCEEDING IN HIGH-DEMAND, HIGH-WAGE, AND HIGH-SKILLED JOBS. THE OTHER THING IS WE WILL BREAK IT DOWN FOR YOU LATER BECAUSE WE ONLY JUST GOT THESE DATA AND WE'RE STILL ANALYZING. BUT IN THE LAST 2 YEARS, THE MINORITY ACHIEVEMENT GAP, MEANING THE GROWTH, THE INCREASES IN OUR BLACK AND BROWN STUDENTS IS MUCH HIGHER THAN OUR OTHER STUDENTS WHO ARE DOING WELL ALSO, OUR WHITE AND ASIAN STUDENTS.

YES. STUDENTS, FOR EXAMPLE.

THEY'RE ALSO IMPROVING. BLACK AND BROWN STUDENTS ARE IMPROVING ABOUT 4 TIMES WHAT OUR WHITE AND ASIAN STUDENTS ARE DOING. SO TALKING ABOUT SERVING UNDERSERVED KIDS, PAYING ATTENTION TO UNDERSERVED KIDS, MAKING SURE THAT THOSE SCHOOLS AND THOSE KIDS HAVE JUST AS GOOD AN OPPORTUNITY AS ANYBODY ELSE IS UNDENIABLE.

THANK YOU. SUPERINTENDENT.

YES, SIR. SUPERINTENDENT, I JUST LOOKED REALLY QUICKLY AS YOU WENT THROUGH THE SLIDES.

IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE THE STATE IS RELATIVELY FLAT. THERE'S BEEN VERY LITTLE GROWTH IN THE STATE AS YOU GO ACROSS THIS, A LOT OF THESE CATEGORIES, MAYBE ONE OR TWO, SOME HAVE GONE UP, GONE DOWN, GONE UP, BUT THEY'RE RELATIVELY FLAT COMPARED TO A DISTRICT THAT HAS NOW BEEN AT LEAST DEMONSTRATED GROWTH.

IS THAT NORMAL FOR THE STATE TO BE FLAT LIKE THAT? I THINK IF A STATE REPRESENTATIVE WAS HERE, THEY WOULD SAY, "LOOK, GOOD GROWTH FOR A STATE THIS SIZE, 5.2 MILLION KIDS, THERE'S REGRESSION TO THE MEAN SO YOU CAN'T HAVE WILD SWINGS BUT YOU CAN GO UP 1 OR 2 A YEAR, 1 POINT A YEAR OR 2 POINTS A YEAR WOULD BE GOOD." AND AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, I THINK THAT THEY WOULD BE

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THANK YOU. YES, SIR.

SUPERINTENDENT MILES, YOU HAVE TALKED BEFORE, YOU KIND OF PREDICTED THIS MAYBE A YEAR AGO. YOU SAID THAT YEAR 3 WOULD BE THE BEST YEAR YET BECAUSE OF THE CUMULATIVE OF THE BETTER INSTRUCTION, MORE ALIGNED CURRICULALL OF THOSE THINGS.

FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL, YES. WHAT I GUESS GRADUATION WAS AWESOME AND HAVING THE STUDENTS HERE WAS AWESOME, AND NOW I'M THINKING SCHOOL STARTS IN ABOUT 2 MONTHS AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT GOING FORWARD? I THINK THANKS FOR ASKING THAT. THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. SO, LOOK, ONE YEAR DOES NOT MAKE A TREND, BUT THREE STRONG YEARS CERTAINLY DOES. WE CAN'T WIN THE SUPER BOWL EVERY YEAR, BUT WE CAN GO TO THE PLAYOFFS EVERY YEAR.

THAT'S HOW STRONG OUR TEAM IS, IF YOU TAKE MY ANALOGY. AND SO WE'VE HAD THREE STRONG YEARS, AND THE THE THING ABOUT THE THIRD YEAR IS THE FIRST YEAR YOU COULD SAY IT WAS ALL ABOUT GROWTH. YOU STARTED SO LOW, SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD ROOM TO GROW AND WE DID GROW. THE SECOND YEAR, IF YOU KNOW ABOUT STATE ACCOUNTABILITY AND HOW IT'S RATED, IF YOU DON'T GROW AS MUCH, YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY SCORES WILL GO DOWN. ACCOUNTABILITY. MAYBE NOT YOUR STOCK, BUT ACCOUNTABILITY GOES DOWN.

YOU HAVE TO MAINTAIN THAT WHAT THEY CALL DOMAIN 2A OR 2B. THE THIRD YEAR, EVEN IF YOU GROW THE SAME, YOU HAVE TO MOVE DOMAIN 01, WHICH IS THE ACHIEVEMENT PART, THE PROFICIENCY PART. SO WE SHOWED THIS YEAR, THIRD YEAR, WE COULD GET THE SAME KINDS OF GAINS AND THAT CAME NOT JUST ON GROWTH BUT ON WHAT WE CALL DOMAIN 1 ACHIEVEMENT. SO HAVING SAID THAT, I THINK NEXT YEAR, BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A STRONG TREND AND WE HAVE GOOD SYSTEMS IN PLACE, THAT WE'RE GOING TO GROW AGAIN. AND REMEMBER, WE HAVE THE HOUSTON CHALLENGE OR THE HOUSTON PROMISE. YES.

WE DON'T HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS FOR YOU YET. MY GUESS IS THAT WE WILL CUT DOWN CONSIDERABLY, IF NOT ALL, OF THE D SCHOOLS AND HALF OF THE C SCHOOLS. I'LL HAVE A BETTER PREDICTION FOR YOU IN A MONTH OR IN 3 WEEKS OR SO.

AND REMEMBER, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GET TO ONLY A AND B SCHOOLS IN 1 MORE YEAR. AND SO WE'LL SEE IF THAT IS THE CASE, BUT WE HAVE MADE THAT PREDICTION BECAUSE OF THE TREND. IT WOULD BE UNLIKELY FOR THE TREND NOW TO JUST DROP OR GO FLAT. WE'RE JUST GOING TO KEEP GOING UP.

CAN YOU CLARIFY SOMETHING FOR ME? WHEN YOU STARTED TALKING ABOUT DOMAIN 1 AND DOMAIN 2 ACHIEVEMENT VERSUS GROWTH, WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE MEETS OR EXCEEDS, THAT'S ACHIEVEMENT. THAT'S ALL ACHIEVEMENT. THAT'S ACHIEVEMENT. ALL RIGHT, YOU HAVEN'T BEEN SHOWING US ANY SORT OF GROWTH STATS HERE TONIGHT.

NO, THIS IS AN INCREASE IN PROFICIENCY. YEAH. INCREASE IN MEETS. AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING ABOUT THE APPROACHES.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S YOU CAN GROW IN APPROACHES AND STILL GO DOWN IN ACHIEVEMENTS. AND SO THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO REPORT OUT ON A HIGHER BAR. NOW, FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, AND I KNOW THIS IS A QUICK RERUN FOR YOU ALL, FOR ACCOUNTABILITY YOU GET THE HIGHER OF GROWTH OR ACHIEVEMENT, BUT AT SOME POINT YOU GROW THIS FAST THAT YOU CAN'T MAINTAIN

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SUPERINTENDENT, ALONG THOSE LINES, IS THERE A TIPPING POINT WHERE, WHERE WE HAVE DONE WHAT WE CAN WITH GROWTH AND LIKE WHAT IS THE LIMIT HERE? I MEAN, THIS IS EXCEPTIONAL, BUT AT SOME POINT IF WE KEEP BEATING THE LIKE DO WE HAVE A LIMIT WHERE WE SAY WE NEED TO ADJUST? YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SEE THESE 18-POINT SWINGS BECAUSE NOW WE ARE IN THAT LIKE, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT DOWN THE LINE WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE? YEAH, WE ARE IT IS A HARD QUESTION TO ANSWER. I WILL DO MY BEST.

IT IS A GOOD QUESTION.

LIKE I SAID, WE CAN'T WIN THE SUPER BOWL EVERY YEAR.

AT SOME POINT, EVEN ACHIEVEMENT GETS HARDER TO MEET, AND THAT IS WHY THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY OUR HIGHER SUBGROUPS ARE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE ALREADY AT THE 85TH PERCENTILE, YOU KNOW, MOVING IT 3, THAT'S A CELEBRATION. 3 ACHIEVEMENT POINTS TO THE 88TH PERCENTILE. SO AT SOME POINT, AND WE'RE NOT AT THAT POINT YET, BUT WE'LL GET TO A POINT WHERE THE RUNWAY DOES SLOW DOWN.

YES. OR YOU HAVE LESS RUNWAY AND SO YOU START TO SQUEEZE THE TOP. WE'LL GET TO THAT POINT. WE'RE NOT THERE YET. I THINK WHEN WE GET TO ABOUT THE 65TH PERCENTILE ON AVERAGE, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO START TO SEE 1-POINT GROWTH OR 2-POINT GROWTH, YOU KNOW, A YEAR RATHER THAN THE 3, 4 POINTS THAT WE'RE GETTING NOW ON AVERAGE. SO THAT'S THE TIME.

THANK YOU. OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, TRUSTEE GOOSEN.

BY THE WAY, IF WE EVER GET TO THE 65TH, THAT WOULD BE SUCH A NATIONAL WE'D BE ABOVE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE AND WE WILL BE WHERE WHITE STUDENTS IN AMERICA GENERALLY ARE.

THANK YOU. I HAVE A TECHNICAL QUESTION ABOUT SUBSTITUTES FOR THESE END-OF-COURSE EXAMS, MAYBE A CLARIFICATION HERE.

DOES A STUDENT HAVE TO TAKE AN END-OF-COURSE EXAM OR ATTEMPT IT BEFORE THEY'RE ALLOWED TO USE AS SUBSTITUTE CRITERIA? SO DOES A STUDENT HAVE TO TAKE, LET'S SAY, AN ALGEBRA EXAM OR BIOLOGY EXAM BEFORE THEY'RE ALLOWED TO USE A SCORE ON THE SAT OR ACT TO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE EOC? THEY DO HAVE HAVE TO TAKE TO TAKE THE EOCS. AND SO, MELISSA, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT? OUR KIDS NEED EVERY KID HAS TO TAKE THE EOC. CAN YOU PLEASE STEP TO THE MICROPHONE? THANK YOU SO MUCH. EVERY STUDENT DOES HAVE TO BE CONTINUOUSLY ATTEMPTING THE EOC, BUT AN IGC CAN BE PUT IN PLACE WHEN A STUDENT HASN'T, HASN'T REPEATEDLY BEEN PASSING THE EOC, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.

SO WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO RETEST FOR THE ONES THAT COUNT FOR GRADUATION. OKAY, GO AHEAD.

THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY MORE QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. WE DOING CCMR HERE? WE GOING TO DO CCMR NOW? YES.

OKAY. MADAM PRESIDENT,

[DISCUSSION AND REPORT ITEMS (Part 2 of 3)]

PROGRESS MONITORING REPORT.

THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING,

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TO BEGIN WITH, WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW WHERE DATA LANDED IN THE 24-25 SCHOOL YEAR RELATED TO THE OVERALL GOALS GOAL 3, AND DATA FOR CCMR IS LAGGED. SO HERE WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT DATA FROM THE CLASS OF 2024. AND WE DO EXPECT FRESH DATA FOR THIS OVERALL GOAL TO ARRIVE IN THE EARLY FALL.

SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR THE OVERALL GOAL DATA TO BE REFRESHED IN THE FALL, BUT CURRENTLY OUR PROGRESS MEASURE, IS TRACKING OUR PROGRESS TOWARDS THIS. SO FOR THIS YEAR'S CURRENT 11TH GRADERS, AS OF THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR, WHICH WAS APRIL, 21% OF OUR CURRENT 11TH GRADE CLASS IS MEETING TSI CRITERIA IN BOTH READING AND MATH, AND WE ARE ON TRACK TO MEET OUR END-OF-YEAR TARGET OF 22%. WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW STUDENTS ARE PERFORMING BY SUBJECT AREA, WE SEE THAT, OUR CURRENT 11TH GRADERS, 27% OF THEM ARE MEETING MATH CRITERIA. 35% OF OUR CURRENT 11TH GRADERS ARE MEETING READING CRITERIA, AND THERE ARE 21% THAT HAVE MET CRITERIA ACROSS BOTH SUBJECTS. THIS GRAPH HERE HELPS YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE WAYS IN WHICH STUDENTS ARE MEETING THOSE CRITERIA. SO TO ORIENT YOU, IF WE LOOK AT THE MATH SIDE OF THE GRAPH AND THEN WE FIND THE 25-26 BAR HERE, WE CAN SEE THAT 16% OF 11TH GRADERS MET THIS MATH CRITERIA ON THE SAT EXAM, AND 6% OF 11TH GRADERS MET THROUGH TSI, AND 5% MET ON MULTIPLE EXAMS. THEY'VE MET THE MATH CRITERIA. SIMILARLY, ON THE READING SIDE, IF WE FOLLOW THAT BAR, WE CAN SEE THAT 29% OF STUDENTS MET, THE CRITERIA THROUGH SAT. SO ACROSS THE BOARD, WE HAVE THE MAJORITY OF OUR STUDENTS MEETING THIS CRITERIA THROUGH THE SAT EXAM. OH, A NOTE HERE THAT WE DO OFFER THE SAT EXAM TO ALL 11TH GRADE STUDENTS IN THE SPRING. SO THAT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYBODY TO SIT FOR THE EXAM, AND THEN THE OTHER EXAMS ARE OFFERED AS NEEDED. HERE, WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR STANDARD BREAKOUT OF STUDENT PROGRAMS AND STUDENT GROUPS, WE DO SEE GROWTH IN OUR BLACK AND HISPANIC POPULATIONS AS WELL AS OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND, EMERGENT BILINGUAL STUDENTS AS WELL.

AND LASTLY, IF WE LOOK AT THE DATA BROKEN OUT BY SCHOOL TYPE, WE SEE THAT OUR NES STUDENTS HAVE INCREASED THEIR TSI READINESS BY 50% YEAR OVER YEAR, INCREASING TO 9% OF OUR NES STUDENTS DEMONSTRATING COLLEGE READINESS HERE. THANK YOU. SO PREVIOUSLY WE COMMUNICATED A FEW STRATEGIES THAT WE PUT INTO PLACE THIS YEAR TO SUPPORT OUR TSI, METRICS.

SO FIRST, WE OFFERED A TSI CLASS TO 11TH GRADERS FOR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS IN MATH. ADDITIONALLY, WE OFFERED TSI PREPARATION VIA BOOT CAMPS AND SATURDAY ACADEMIES, WHICH HAPPENED OUTSIDE OF CORE INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. AS WE HEADED LOOKING AHEAD INTO NEXT YEAR, THERE'S 3 BIG BUCKETS OF WORK THAT WE'LL BE TAKING TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS.

IN MATH, WE'LL BEGIN ALIGNING TSI TESTING TO ALGEBRA 1 COURSEWORK, AND SO REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ASSESSING AS KIDS LEARN SKILLS ON TSI. WE ALSO WILL BE ENHANCING DIGITAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS, AND PROVIDING MORE SUPPORT THAT PREPARES THEM FOR BOTH MATH AND READING.

ON THE ENGLISH PORTION

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FOR CONTEXT, THIS YEAR WE HAD A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THEIR JUNIOR YEAR WHO WERE VERY CLOSE TO HITTING THE CUT SCORE ON SAT, SO WE'LL SUPPORT THOSE STUDENTS THROUGH THE SUMMER AND INTO NEXT FALL. AND SO WITH THAT, WE WOULD LOVE TO OPEN IT UP FOR ANY QUESTIONS. CAN WE GO BACK TO THE SLIDE WHERE IT'S BROKEN DOWN INTO THE DIFFERENT STUDENT GROUPS? THAT'S THE ONE. ALL RIGHT. SO AM I? I'M READING THIS CORRECTLY WHERE IT SAYS THAT 14% OF BLACK STUDENTS STUDENTS ARE MEETING IN BOTH MATH AND READING AND 17% OF HISPANIC STUDENTS? YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. SO THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO. YES. OTHER QUESTIONS? YES. DR. KUSANO. THANK YOU.

YOU MENTIONED A TSI COURSE FOR 11TH GRADERS. IS THAT DURING THE SCHOOL DAY? YES, MA'AM, IT'S PART OF THE DAY, SO THEY TAKE IT AS PART OF THEIR REGULAR SCHEDULE.

OKAY, AND CAN YOU, JUST FOR CURIOSITY, IS IT CALLED A TSI COURSE OR IS THERE ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT? THE COURSE CODE IS ALGEBRAIC REASONING, SO THAT'S WHAT SHOWS UP ON THEIR SCHEDULE. OKAY, THANK YOU. IF YOU COULD GO MAYBE IT'S FORWARD OR TOWARDS THE END OF THE PRESENTATION. NEXT, NEXT. NO, SORRY. THERE WAS ONE WHERE IT SHOWED THE COUNTS OF STUDENTS BY NES VERSUS NOT. HERE, SORRY.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THE NUMBERS WE WERE SEEING HERE, THE 338 IN NES AND 206. HOW MANY THIS IS THE NUMBER OF 11TH GRADERS THAT MET, BUT HOW MANY STUDENTS TAKE IT? IS IT ALL OF THEM, OF 11TH GRADERS? I THINK SORRY, TRYING TO GET MY QUESTION OUT. THIS IS HOW MANY MET THE CRITERIA, BUT ARE ALL STUDENTS TAKING ONE OF THESE TESTS? JUST TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND.

OKAY, YES, SO ALL 11TH GRADERS TAKE THE SAT IN THE SPRING. YEAH. AND THEN TSIA IS OFFERED TO STUDENTS WHO ARE CLOSE TO THE CUT SCORE AFTER WE GET SAT SCORES, AND THEN PERIODICALLY THROUGHOUT THEIR SENIOR YEAR. SO THESE STUDENTS WILL HAVE MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT YEAR TO DEMONSTRATE PROFICIENCY.

GIVEN THEN THE FOCUS IN NES AND THE SORT OF THE LEVEL OF DISCIPLINE AND RIGOR. WHAT IS YOUR REACTION THEN TO THESE RESULTS HERE? I THINK THESE RESULTS SHOW US THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO, AND WE BELIEVE THAT THE STRATEGY WE'RE PUTTING IN PLACE AROUND SUPPORTING STUDENTS IN 12TH GRADE WITH THE MULTIPLE WINDOWS OF INTENTIONAL TESTING AND PREPARATION WILL HELP THEM BE SUCCESSFUL NEXT YEAR. SO THIS WILL TAKE SOME TIME, BUT KIND OF LIKE THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION, LIKE, WE, WE EXPECT THIS TO, TO CONTINUE TO, TO GROW, HOPEFULLY MORE SIGNIFICANTLY, MAYBE EVEN, THAN, THAN MAYBE OUR EAS SCHOOLS, WHERE WE EXPECT TO SEE MAYBE MORE GROWTH.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY, THAT'S OUR HOPE. AND I THINK NEXT YEAR THE STRATEGY WE'RE PUTTING IN PLACE WILL BE SUPPORTING STUDENTS IN MATH, READING, AND THEN SUPPORTING TEACHERS ACROSS BOTH SUBJECTS TO CONTINUE TO SEE GAINS.

SORRY, IF YOU DON'T MIND, AS A, AS A REMINDER, NES CAMPUSES QUALIFIED TO BE NES BECAUSE THEY SERVED LARGE PORTIONS OF STUDENTS THAT WERE BEGINNING THEIR TIME IN THESE HIGH SCHOOLS UNPREPARED. SO IN ORDER TO CLOSE THAT GAP, I THINK THE FIRST STEP IS MAKING SURE THAT THEY CAN MASTER THE HIGH SCHOOL COURSEWORK, WHICH I BELIEVE THAT SUPERINTENDENT MILES' PRESENTATION SHOWS THAT WE'RE DOING A GREAT JOB OF THAT.

BUT WE KNOW WE HAVE MORE WORK TO CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND BE COLLEGE READY.

THANK YOU. MY QUESTION WASN'T CLEAR, BUT YOU ADDRESSED IT, WHICH IS OUR THE REASON IT'S NES, OUR STUDENTS DO NEED ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS THERE, AND WE'RE DOING THAT. WE I DO CELEBRATE THIS GROWTH, RIGHT, FROM YEAR OVER YEAR. IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE IT NEXT TO THE EAS NUMBERS AND GO, OH, WE NEED TO KEEP WORKING. NO, IT'S GREAT. THANK YOU. DO ANY STUDENTS TAKE PSATS ANYMORE? ARE THE PSATS STILL USED AS ANY

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AND THEN NEXT YEAR WE'LL STRENGTHEN OUR BOOT CAMPS AND USE OUR BEST TEACHERS TO PROVIDE THE BOOT CAMPS TO STUDENTS IN BOTH MATH AND READING. AND ARE THE BOOT CAMPS INVITATION ONLY? LIKE, HOW DO THE, HOW DO THE STUDENTS ACCESS THIS? THEY'RE OPEN TO ANYONE, AND THEN WE ADDITIONALLY TARGET STUDENTS WHO WE KNOW ARE NOT YET TSI READY, SO WE MAKE CALLS AND SEND HOME COMMUNICATION THROUGH PARENTSQUARE TO INVITE THOSE STUDENTS IN PARTICULAR. GREAT. AND THEN CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT YOU SAID WE HAVE ENHANCED DIGITAL RESOURCES. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SO THIS YEAR WE'VE BEEN USING KHAN ACADEMY, AND SO WE'VE BEEN TRACKING OUR STUDENTS' USAGE TO HELP MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE GETTING THAT ADDITIONAL PRACTICE. HEADING INTO NEXT YEAR, WE'RE REIMAGINING AND TAKING SOME TIME THIS SUMMER TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT DIGITAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS WITH TSI PREP. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, JILL AND ALLISON.

OUR LAST PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD THIS EVENING IS ON THE RECOMMENDED 2026 WAIT A

[Public Hearing Regarding the State Compensatory Education Evaluation Summary]

BEFORE THAT, WE HAVE DIRECTOR ALISON LEVEQUE WILL PRESENT THE STATE COMP ED EVALUATION SUMMARY. GOOD EVENING. IT'S STILL ME. I AM HERE TO PRESENT THE PUBLIC HEARING RELATED TO THE STATE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAM. AND AS A REMINDER, THIS IS LAG DATA REPORTING ON THE 24-25 SCHOOL YEAR. SO STATE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IS LAID OUT THE GUIDELINES ARE LAID OUT IN TEXAS EDUCATION CODE, AND IT IS A PROGRAM THAT HAS ADDITIONAL STATE FUNDING WITH IT THAT IS DESIGNED TO REDUCE DROPOUT RATES AND INCREASE THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE DESIGNATED AS AT-RISK. THE REPORT, THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE 24-25 YEAR IS POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE FOR THE PUBLIC TO REVIEW. AND JUST AN OVERVIEW OF THE GOALS OF THIS REPORT, THEY WERE TO DOCUMENT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ACCELERATED INSTRUCTION PROVIDED TO THESE AT-RISK STUDENTS, TO PRESENT THE DISPARITIES THAT MAY EXIST IN HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION RATES BETWEEN OUR AT-RISK AND NON-AT-RISK STUDENTS, TO EXAMINE AND SUMMARIZE, HOW THE COST FUNDS FOR COMPENSATORY EDUCATION WERE USED AS LISTED IN DISTRICT AND CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS, AND LASTLY, TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACCELERATED INSTRUCTION PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS THAT WERE SERVED UNDER HOUSE BILL 1416. SO AGAIN, I ENCOURAGE YOU AND THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT ON THE DISTRICT WEBSITE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. ALL

[Public Meeting to Discuss Budget and Proposed Tax Rate]

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AT THIS TIME, SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF BUDGETING DANIEL FLORES WILL PRESENT ON THE RECOMMENDED 26-27 BUDGET. DANIEL. THANK YOU, SUPERINTENDENT, BOARD MEMBERS. LAST BUDGET WORKSHOP, I WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THE ONE SLIDE THAT YOU WILL FIND AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION.

BUT LEADING UP TO IT, WE WILL DISCUSS IN MORE DETAIL ALL 3 FUNDS THAT ARE NEEDING TO BE APPROVED ON THE 25TH. FOLLOWING THE AGENDA, WE WILL DISCUSS THE PROPERTY VALUES AND THEN THE 3 FUNDS FOR ADOPTION ON THE 25TH ON THAT ONE FORM THAT I WAS DESCRIBING. OF COURSE, WE HAVE OUR GOALS THAT WE GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE BUDGET WORKSHOP PROCESS, ALWAYS KEEPING IN MIND THE BOARD GOALS WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BUDGET. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER POINT OF REFERENCE. WE SHOW THESE EVERY TIME. AND THEN THE TIMELINE. WE ARE IN THAT LAST BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND CORNER, PRESENTING THE BUDGET, RECOMMENDED BUDGET, AND THEN NEXT, BOARD MEETING WE WILL VOTE FOR IT. AND THEN KEEPING THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES SET FORTH BY SUPERINTENDENT MILES, AS WE GO THROUGH THIS ITERATIVE PROCESS.

ONE OF THE LARGEST ITEMS PROPERTY VALUES, RIGHT? WE HAVE A LARGE REVENUE SOURCE OF LOCAL REVENUE THAT IS GENERATED BY THIS PROPERTY AND OUR TAX RATE.

SO THE NUMBER HERE TO KEEP IN MIND IS THE $232 BILLION $232.6 BILLION. WE TAKE THAT NUMBER AND WE MULTIPLY IT BY THE M&O TAX RATE AND BY THE INS TAX RATE. THE TAX COLLECTION RATE HERE FOR M&O AND INS IS ABOUT 97, MAYBE 97.4% ROUGHLY TO GENERATE THE $1.5 BILLION IN REVENUE FOR THE M&O SIDE.

AND THEN GENERATES ABOUT $378 MILLION FOR THE INS. SO PART OF THE GENERAL FUND, YOU LOOK AT THE COLUMN ON THE FAR RIGHT, THAT IS THE COLUMN THAT'S GOING TO MAKE IT INTO THE FINAL SUMMARY SHEET AT THE VERY END. WE WILL BREAK THIS DOWN FURTHER, SO I WILL GO GO OVER THE REVENUE IN MORE DETAIL. SO HERE'S THE $1.99 BILLION, THE LARGEST PORTION BEING LOCAL REVENUE OF $1.6 BILLION, $364 MILLION IN STATE REVENUE, AND THEN FEDERAL SOURCES $20.8 MILLION.

ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, IN THE SUMMARY SHEET YOU SEE IT BY FUNCTION. WHICH IS WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR ADOPTION. THIS IS A DIFFERENT LOOK THAT SHOWS THE MAJOR OBJECT SET FORTH BY TEA. THE LARGEST OBVIOUSLY BEING PERSONNEL COSTS AT $1.5 BILLION.

BUT A TOTAL EXPENDITURE OF $2,015,000,000. WE HAVE A SUMMARY, OF COURSE, THE REVENUE AND THE EXPENDITURES GETS US TO OPERATING, IN THIS CASE, AN OPERATING DEFICIT OF $24.5 MILLION. THEN WE HAVE OTHER SOURCES, WHICH ARE SIMILAR TO OTHER REVENUES AND OTHER EXPENDITURES. AND THEN THE NET OF THAT IS $23.6 MILLION. ADD THAT TO THE OPERATING, AND SO WE HAVE A NET CHANGE, PROPOSED NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE OF 1.2 MILLION.

A DEFICIT OF $790,000.

FORECASTED FUND BALANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR '26, WHICH ENDS ON JUNE 30TH, $730 MILLION. AND SO THE FORECASTED FISCAL YEAR '27 FUND BALANCE WOULD BE $729.5 MILLION. THIS

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SO ON THE TOP SECTION OF THE GRAPH, WE ARE THE CHART, WE HAVE THE '25, A COMPARISON OF THE '25-'26 ALLOCATION PER STUDENT, AND ON THE RIGHT SIDE WE HAVE THE '26-'27. THE AVERAGE ALLOCATION PER STUDENT.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NES AND THE EAS IS A LITTLE OVER $2,600 IN THE '25-'26 SCHOOL YEAR.

AND THEN IN '26-'27, THAT GAP IS NARROWED A LITTLE BIT, JUST UNDER $2,200 PER STUDENT. AND THEN THE BOTTOM SECTION TAKES THE '26-'27 INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL TO SHOW WHERE THAT ALLOCATION IS MORE PREVALENT, WHICH IS IN THE SALARIES, RIGHT? SO ALMOST $2,000 OF THAT $2,200 IS IN THE PER PUPIL PER SALARIES.

MADAM PRESIDENT, IF I MIGHT JUST STAMP THAT. THIS SHOWS THAT THE PRIORITY AND MORE DOLLARS HAVE BEEN DEVOTED TO NES AND OUR UNDERSERVED STUDENTS, THE KIDS WHO ARE MOST BEHIND.

MOST OF THOSE 121 D&F CAMPUSES ARE FROM 3 YEARS AGO ARE NES SCHOOLS. AND THEY CONTINUE TO HAVE GREATER CHALLENGES THE COMMUNITIES OF POVERTY AND LANGUAGE BARRIERS. AND SO AN EFFECTIVE DISTRICT, AND THE ONE THAT WE WERE CHARGED TO DO, DOES PUT THE MONEY WHERE THE NEED IS. AND SO WE DO HAVE, AND THIS IS EVIDENCE OF IT, AND ACTUALLY SOME PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT, MORE MONEY GOING TO NES STUDENTS PER NES SCHOOLS PER PUPIL PER PUPIL. YOU WILL ALSO SEE THAT MOST OF THAT, $2,200 OR SO, IS IN SALARIES.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS TEACHER APPRENTICES, LEARNING COACHES, NO SUBSTITUTES BECAUSE YOU HAVE THESE OTHER FOLKS, DIET, THINGS LIKE THAT, THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THE DIET PROGRAMS. SO THAT'S THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE HERE. IT'S MOSTLY PEOPLE, BUT IT ALSO SHOWS THAT OUR RESOURCES ARE GOING WHERE OUR NEED IS, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE'RE CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, WHICH IS ONE OF THE TWO BIG THINGS IN THE VISION STATEMENT. THE NEXT FUND IS THE DEBT SERVICE FUND, TAX RATE OF 2.5%. OF 0.1667. KEY THING TO POINT OUT WITH THE DEBT SERVICE FUND, WE DID GET OUR BOND RATINGS, AND SO WE HAVE AAA RATING WITH MOODY'S AND A AA+ WITH STANDARD POOR'S. VERY, VERY GOOD RATING, FINANCIALLY STABLE. THIS IS WHAT OUR DEBT SERVICE GOES TO PAY. RIGHT? SO OUR BOND PROFILE AND THE OUTSTANDING PAR IS OUR PRINCIPAL. SO $1 BILLION OF PRINCIPAL. AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THE GRAPH ON THE BOTTOM LEFT, WHICH SHOWS THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT 17 YEARS, 15 YEARS. SO MOST OF IT IS IT'S FOR THE FRONT-LOADED HERE OVER THE NEXT 3 YEARS, AND THEN IT STARTS TO TAPER OFF. SO WE'RE VERY FINANCIALLY STABLE ON OUR DEBT SERVICE SIDE. I'M SORRY, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THAT ONE FOR JUST A SECOND? SO OBVIOUSLY THE DISTRICT NEEDS A BOND DESPERATELY. IS THIS ARE WE FRONT-LOADING THIS, REPAYING THIS NOW SO THAT IN A COUPLE OF YEARS THE DISTRICT WILL BE IN A BETTER POSITION TO TAKE THAT ON FINANCIALLY? ABSOLUTELY. THE TAX RATE DEFINITELY SUPPORT THE BOND.

AND IF I CAN ADD, I MEAN, JIM TERRY AND HIS TEAM ARE REALLY GOOD AT MANAGING THE MONEY, BUT PART OF THIS LOW DEBT IS BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD A BOND, YOU KNOW, SINCE 2012 AND NO ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL BOND SINCE 2007. YEAH. SO, AND THAT'S PART OF IT. NOW, JIM AND HIS TEAM HAVE REFINANCED AND DONE, YOU KNOW, THINGS

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AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR, RIGHT? WHAT I'M ASKING ABOUT IS WE'RE NOT ALL GOING TO BE HERE FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS OR 10 YEARS. I WANT TO SET MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING THE THINGS TODAY SO THAT THE DISTRICT IS PREPARED AND IN A GOOD PLACE FINANCIALLY.

YEAH. TO GET A BOND AS, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BUT WHENEVER THAT DAY COMES, THAT WE'RE DOING THE THINGS NOW THAT WE NEED TO DO SO THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS IN A GOOD POSITION TO GET A BOND. YES, SIR. LET ME AND LET ME ANSWER IT THIS WAY.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND WHAT WE CAN DO AND WHAT WE'VE DONE IS TO KEEP A AAA RATING IN MOODY'S. MORE IMPORTANT IS TO WE GOT RID OF ALL ALL THE ESSER DOLLARS, OR ALMOST ALL OF THEM, THAT WAS IN RECURRENT EXPENSES, AND WE GOT RID OF OUR HUGE DEBT THAT WE INHERITED, AND WE ARE WE'RE ALMOST AT A BALANCED BUDGET, AS YOU CAN SEE, FOR THIS CURRENT YEAR BUT ALSO FOR NEXT YEAR. AND THAT'S WHAT INVESTORS LOOK AT, THAT'S WHAT MR. CHAIRMAN, WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST INTEREST RATE ON YOUR BOND IS LOW DEBT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WE WON'T KEEP THAT RATING IF WE DIDN'T HAVE A BALANCED BUDGET AND IF WE DIDN'T DO THE HARD DECISIONS TO RIGHT-SIZE THE BUDGET AND GET OUT OF DEBT. THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT I JUST SAID. SO HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO OTHER DISTRICTS, PARTICULARLY ON THE DEBT SERVICE SIDE, DO YOU MAKE ANY OF THOSE SORTS OF COMPARISONS? YES, SIR, WE DO. SO WE CAN COMPARE A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS. I THINK ONE OF THE WAYS TO COMPARE WOULD BE THE TAX RATE ITSELF.

SO WE'RE AT 0.1667. AUSTIN ISD'S AT 0.123. DALLAS IS AT 0.242, KATY'S AT 0.39, CY-FAIR'S AT 0.4. SO OUT OF, YOU KNOW, THOSE 5, WE'RE SECOND OUT OF THOSE 5 LARGE SCHOOLS.

WHAT IS THEIR WHAT? YES.

WHAT'S THEIR RATING? OH, CYFAIR. OH, CYFAIR. WHAT'S THEIR RATING? ARE THEY AAA? I'M NOT SURE. I CAN GET YOU THAT INFORMATION. I MEAN, IF I'M A RAIDER, I WOULD BE A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT THAT IN TERMS OF THE SIZE OF THE TAX BURDEN THAT THAT CREATES FOR THE LOCAL PEOPLE. BUT DALLAS JUST DID A $6 BILLION BOND ISSUE. IS THAT RIGHT? SOMETHING LIKE THAT, MIKE? YES. YEP, $6 BILLION. YEAH.

OKAY. IF I COULD CLARIFY, WHAT YOU BOTH WERE SAYING TO JUST MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND, RIGHT? WE THE POINT OF WE NEED A BOND AND THE POINT OF TOUGH DECISIONS, LIKE WITHOUT A BOND, WE'RE WORKING WITH ONLY THE MONEY WE'RE COLLECTING FROM TAXES. THAT'S IT. LIKE, WE DON'T GET ANY MONEY FROM ANYWHERE ELSE, BASICALLY. SO TO ME, THEN HOW I HEAR THAT IS WE CONTINUE TO HAVE TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS.

ON THE OTHER SIDE, WE HEAR PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE AC OR THE CONDITIONS OF THE SCHOOL AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THOSE WILL CONTINUE THOSE ISSUES WILL CONTINUE TO GROW, RIGHT? OR WE SPEND LESS ON OUR WE CHOOSE BETWEEN SPENDING ON OUR TEACHERS AND ON OUR PROGRAMS AND SCHOOLS AND WHAT OUR KIDS NEED VERSUS, LET'S SAY, FIXING THE AC. AM I INTERPRETING THIS RIGHT? WE WHEN WE WENT OUT FOR A BOND, WE SHOWED THAT WE HAD $10 BILLION WORTH OF NEED, AT LEAST $1.03 BILLION OF SECURITY AND SAFETY NEEDS.

AND SO THAT NEED DOESN'T GO AWAY, AND IT JUST INCREASES IN INTENSITY OVER TIME. I SAW SOMETHING HAVE YOU SEEN ON THE NEWS ABOUT CORNELIUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL? YES. THAT WAS ONE THAT WE TOOK PEOPLE AROUND AND TOOK PICTURES OF AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO STOP ROTTING WOOD, YOU HAVE TO KIND OF BUILD ANEW. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT YOU CAN'T JUST REPLACE PIECEMEAL. SO THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS THAT ARE PROBLEMATIC AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE TO SPEND THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE TO SPEND MONEY ON MORE MONEY THAN USUAL ON OUR BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES. AND THAT WILL EAT INTO ALL THE

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SORRY, ONE MORE. YOU NOTED THE COLLECTION RATE EARLIER. I THINK IT WAS 97.4%. ROUGHLY, YES. SO THERE'S A GAP THERE.

IS THAT TYPICAL? IS THAT TYPICAL, THAT 97.4%? HOW DO WE GO GET THE REST OF THE MONEY? SO, I MEAN, WE DO THAT BIG CHUNK OF MONEY. WE DO HAVE DELINQUENT TAX ATTORNEYS. SO FOR WHATEVER WE DON'T COLLECT, THE DELINQUENT TAX ATTORNEYS ARE PURSUING. AND FOR THAT PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST, YOU KNOW, HERE'S THE BUDGET. SO THE REVENUE TOTAL REVENUE FOR THE DEBT SERVICE IS $399 MILLION. OUR TOTAL EXPENDITURE IS $444 MILLION. AGAIN, WE HAVE OTHER FINANCING SOURCES AND USES. IN THIS CASE, ALL REVENUE COMING IN BELOW THE LINE, SO $30.8 MILLION. NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE DEFICIT JUST OVER $14 MILLION. SO THAT WOULD DECREASE THE FUND BALANCE, $2 MILLION. THEN WE HAVE NUTRITION SERVICES, AND THIS IS A FEDERAL PROGRAM WE GET REIMBURSED FOR. SO YOU'LL SEE MOST OF THE REVENUE IN THE LAST LINE OF FEDERAL SOURCES, $123.9 MILLION TOTAL REVENUE FOR THE PROGRAM. TIMES $131 MILLION, AND THEN WE HAVE $130.5 MILLION IN TOTAL EXPENDITURES. SO ABOUT $500 MILLION WOULD BE ADDED TO THE FUND BALANCE. AND THEN HERE'S THAT ONE SLIDE, ALL THREE FUNDS BROUGHT TOGETHER TOGETHER INTO THE ONE-PAGE THAT WILL BE ADOPTED ON THE 25TH.

ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS TO MY RIGHT. YES, DR. KUZONO.

THANK YOU. AND YOU CERTAINLY DON'T HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO SLIDE 7. MY QUESTION IS FROM, I BELIEVE, SLIDE 7 ON TAX PROPERTY VALUES. AND I WANT TO CLARIFY CLARIFY THAT I BELIEVE THAT THE PRELIMINARY VALUES ARE AS OF APRIL 2026, RIGHT? AND THAT THE CERTIFIED VALUES WON'T BE AVAILABLE UNTIL THIS SUMMER. JULY 25TH.

JULY 25TH. OKAY. DO YOU ANTICIPATE ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES BETWEEN NOW AND THEN? SO THE TAX OFFICE DOES GIVE US A RANGE OF ABOUT 5% ACCURACY.

THAT'S WHAT MINUS 5%. THE RANGE THEY DO GIVE US IS BETWEEN $220 BILLION AND $244 BILLION.

THIS PAST YEAR WE SAW ABOUT $2.3 BILLION DECREASE FROM APRIL TO JULY. GOOD. YOU SAY MILLION. BILLION. OKAY. SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE $232.6 BILLION. YEAH, WE ONLY GET A SMALL PORTION OF THAT. THAT'S THE VALUE, RIGHT? THEN WE MULTIPLY IT BY THE TAX RATE IN ORDER TO GET THE REVENUE.

OKAY, THANK YOU. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? YES, SUPERINTENDENT. YES, THANK YOU, DANIEL. ONE THING I HOPE THE BOARD REALIZES, THIS IS NOT JUST A NUMBERS EXERCISE FOR US. THE REAL KEY WHEN YOU HAVE SCARCE RESOURCES IS TO DO THIS IN A WAY WHERE YOU PRIORITIZE THE NEED AND YOU ACCOMPLISH WHAT WHAT THE DISTRICT NEEDS TO DO IN ITS VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT WITH SHRINKING NUMBERS OF DOLLARS. AND SO YOU WILL SEE CLOSELY, AND I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE MUCH MORE DATA, BUT WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU LOOK THROUGH THAT, YOU'LL SEE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT INSTRUCTION TAKES PRIORITY. YOU SEE THAT WE PUT THE DOLLARS WHERE OUR KEY ACTIONS ARE., AND, WE DO SO IN A WAY THAT WE CAN REDUCE THE NUMBER OF, D&F AND NOW C CAMPUSES. IT'S NOT JUST A MATTER OF BALANCING THE BUDGET. AND SO, OUR OUTCOMES SHOW THAT IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, WE'VE BEEN DOING JUST THAT.

WE'RE GETTING THE OUTCOMES, KEEPING OUR SCHOOLS SAFE, MAKING SURE THAT JO LEVETTE IS

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AND WE'LL REDUCE THE D AND C

[Speakers to Agenda Items (Part 2 of 2)]

PLEASE COME TO THE MICROPHONE IN YOUR NUMBERED ORDER BEGINNING WITH NUMBER 53, AND PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND TOPIC. IF 53 TO 63 COULD MOVE TO THE FRONT, PLEASE. JACKIE ANDERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE HOUSTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS. TERRY GREER, THE FORMER CERTIFIED SUPERINTENDENT, STATED THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION A SCHOOL BOARD OR SUPERINTENDENT MAKES, BIGGER THAN ALL THE REST, IS WHO THEY NAME TO LEAD AND MANAGE. WHEN YOU NAME THE WRONG PERSON IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE, NOTHING FIXES THAT BAD DECISION. NOT COMPENSATION, NOT BENEFITS, NOTHING. THE DISCUSSION TO WAIVE MILES' CERTIFICATION FOR THE FOURTH TIME IS ABSURD.

MILES CONTINUES TO EXHIBIT MINIMUM STANDARD, YET HE LIED THAT HE WOULD NOT ACCEPT THAT FROM TEACHERS OR ADMINISTRATORS. HIS OWN CERTIFICATION CLEARLY STATES THAT IT IS INACTIVE.

UNDER TA CERTIFICATION, THE INACTIVE CERTIFICATE DOES NOT CURRENTLY ENTITLE THE CERTIFICATE HOLDER TO WORK AS A PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. YOU AS A BOARD OF MANAGERS SHOULD REQUIRE MILES AT LEAST MEET MINIMUM STANDARDS, THE SAME THAT HE REQUIRES OF EMPLOYEES. EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP STARTS AT THE TOP.

AND YES, IN NOVEMBER WE WILL REMEMBER. GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS DR. CORETTA FONTENOT. I AM READING THIS STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF A CERTIFIED TEACHER WHO'S BEEN CERTIFIED FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THEIR 20-PLUS YEAR CAREER.

WHILE HISE POLICY REQUIRES UNCERTIFIED TEACHERS TO ACHIEVE THEIR CERTIFICATION CERTIFICATION WITHIN 2 YEARS OF HIRE OR THEY WILL BE FIRED.

MILES' CERTIFICATION HAS BEEN INACTIVE FOR ALMOST A DECADE, AND INSTEAD OF RENEWING THAT CERTIFICATION, HE HAS CHOSEN TO ASK THE BOARD TO SIMPLY GIVE HIM YET ANOTHER PASS. TRUE LEADERSHIP MEANS NOT ONLY TELLING OTHERS WHAT TO DO, BUT MODELING THE BEHAVIOR YOU DESIRE. THEY CONSISTENTLY MODEL THIS FOR THEIR STUDENTS. THEY EXPECT THEIR STUDENTS TO CALL THEM OUT WHEN THEY ARE WRONG.

AND IF THEY'RE BEING HYPOCRITICAL.

FOR THE APPOINTED SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE TO DEMAND CERTIFICATION FROM HIS EMPLOYEES WHILE NOT BOTHERING TO GET THAT HIMSELF, IS THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY.

KEEP IN MIND THAT MR. MILES AND MR. MUMM BOTH DO NOT HOLD CERTIFICATION. THE BOARD OF.

GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS CARMEN NUNZIO. MIKE MOUSE, YOU HAVE MADE A LIVING HARASSING TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS FOR TOO LONG. WHY ARE YOU STILL TRYING TO MOONLIGHT YOUR WAY TO MORE MONEY? WILL THERE EVER BE ENOUGH? OUR KIDS DON'T DESERVE HARASSED TEACHERS AND THEY DO NOT DESERVE TO BE IN THE TEXAS HEAT INSIDE THEIR OWN SCHOOL SCHOOL GYM. NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS WENT MONTHS WITHOUT THE AC BEING FIXED AND WERE SWEATING AND MISERABLE SO THAT THEY COULD SO THAT YOU COULD SAVE A DIME. FIELD TRIPS WERE CANCELED DAYS BEFORE BECAUSE OF YOU. WHY IS MONEY MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR KIDS? I KNOW YOU WERE SENT HERE TO DO A JOB, BUT WHY DO YOU DO THAT? I PRAY FOR YOU. MAYBE THERE'S HOPE FOR YOU, FOR YOUR SOUL. EITHER WAY, YOU WILL LEAVE AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. I SAY AGAIN, GINA HENAO. GOOD EVENING,

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NOW, AFTER STRIPPING AWAY OPPORTUNITIES AND ALLOWING THE BUILDING TO DETERIORATE, YOU POINT TO LOW ENROLLMENT AND AGING FACILITIES AS JUSTIFICATION FOR YOUR CLOSURE DECISION.

DON'T PISS ON US AND CALL IT RAIN.

YOU KNOW, AND DATA SUPPORTS, THAT ENROLLMENT DID NOT DECLINE IN A VACUUM. CONDITIONS DID NOT WORSEN ON THEIR OWN. THE CHOICES MADE BY THIS BOARD AND BY HISD LEADERSHIP CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLY TO WHERE BURRIS STANDS TODAY. YOU HAVE REDUCED THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK, BROWN, AND SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS AND TREATED THEIR FUTURES AS EXPENDABLE.

GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS NATHAN YANKEE. OUR SON JUST COMPLETED KINDERGARTEN AT SINCLAIR ELEMENTARY. HE IS A BRIGHT, SPIRITED KID WITH ADHD.

I FRET EACH NEW SCHOOL YEAR KNOWING THE WRONG STUDENT-TEACHER MATCH COULD BE A DISASTER. FORTUNATELY, OUR SON IS A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF EARLY INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. THE ADAGE, "IT TAKES A VILLAGE," RINGS TRUE IN HIS CASE. HOWEVER, I WANT TO MENTION SPECIFICALLY OUR SON'S KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, MISS GINNY D. GUISE.

FROM DAY ONE, MISS GUISE MADE IT HER PERSONAL MISSION TO ENGAGE OUR SON. IN ADDITION TO GRADUATING FROM SPEECH THERAPY, OUR SON IS FOR THE THE FIRST TIME PERFORMING AT OR ABOVE GRADE LEVEL IN ALL AREAS IN FORMAL ACHIEVEMENT TESTING.

HE EARNED STUDENT OF THE WEEK TWICE AND A/B HONOR ROLL. MOST IMPORTANTLY, HE IS HEADED INTO FIRST GRADE WITH FRIENDS, A JOY FOR LEARNING, AND SELF-ESTEEM INTACT. I WAS SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT MS. GIES IS FACING THE POSSIBLE LOSS OF HER POSITION IN HISD DUE TO HER PTO, AS MENTIONED EARLIER BY ANOTHER PARENT. MOST TROUBLING IS THE IMPLICATION THIS IS HAPPENING BECAUSE SHE IS NOT A SUFFICIENTLY DEDICATED TEACHER. GOOD EVENING. I'M JACKIE CROSS-LACKFORD, THE PROUD GRADUATE OF HOUSTON ISD, A SON WHO FINISHED ON AN IEP DESPITE THE CHALLENGES WITH AUTISM AT WESTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL, A DISABILITY ADVOCATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ADVOCATE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND A 1980 GRADUATE OF JONES HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M HERE TO PETITION THE BOARD TO PAUSE THE SUCCESS INITIATIVE BECAUSE I BELIEVE MIKE MILES HAS VIOLATED THE SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRAINT NUMBER NUMBER 3, HISD SAYS ONLY 05,000 STUDENTS ARE IMPACTED BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING MOVED INTO HUBS, BUT THE NUMBER DOESN'T TELL THE WHOLE STORY.

THIS PLAN ALSO IMPACTS STUDENTS WITH IEPS WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY MAINTAINED NON-SELF-CONTAINED STATUS DUE TO SUPPORTS PROVIDED BY THE VERY PROGRAMS THAT YOU ARE PROPOSING TO REMOVE. YOU CANNOT CALL IT SUCCESS WHEN IT MEANS STRIPPING AWAY SUPPORTS FROM STUDENTS WHO NEED THEIR RESOURCES, THOSE RESOURCES TO STAY IN THE GENERAL ED CLASSROOM ALONGSIDE. MA'AM, THANK YOU. SPEAKER 58. I WAS GOING TO RUN DOWN THE PURCHASES AND IT PRIZE YOU ALL, WHICH YOU'RE BOARD OF MANAGERS, YOU SHOULD BE BETTER PREPARED.

YOU NEED TO READ A NEWSPAPER, YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY DO.

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET IT FROM TV, OBVIOUSLY YOU DIDN'T, AND YOU NEED TO READ A NEWSPAPER. SAT IS NOT A TEST OF PROFICIENCY. IT'S A TEST THAT WAS MEANT TO FIND WHITE BOYS IN THE, IN THE FARM BELT. IT'S ALL IT WAS. CONAN A BROKE MAN GRADUATED PRINCETON. YOU SHOULD KNOW IT. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT IF YOU GO 200 POINTS ABOVE WHAT

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TO GO AROUND. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE GRADUATIONS. DID YOU NOT KNOW THAT? DO WE HAVE JUAN GALLEGOS, RUTH HOFFMAN-LACK? HASANI TAYLOR OR SISTER MAMASANYA, LUCAS ROBERTS. I AM DR. RUTH HOFFMAN LACK. I WANT TO CORRECT ONE OF THE ASSERTIONS THAT MR. MILES HAS PUT FORWARD TO JUSTIFY THE SPECIAL EDUCATION CONSOLIDATION PLAN. ON HELLO HOUSTON, MR. MILES CLAIMED NOW ONE TEACHER WON'T HAVE A CLASS WITH DYSLEXIA, AUTISM, AND BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS ALL IN ONE CLASS. THAT IS JUST FALSE.

FIRST, SELF-CONTAINED CLASSROOMS FOR AUTISM AND BEHAVIOR SUPPORT ARE ALREADY SEPARATE. SECOND, MANY CHILDREN WHO ARE SERVED IN THOSE CLASSROOMS HAVE MULTIPLE DISABILITIES. A CHILD WITH AUTISM MAY ALSO HAVE DYSLEXIA. A CHILD WITH A BEHAVIOR PROBLEM MAY HAVE A LEARNING DISABILITY.

IN FACT, IT'S OFTEN THE CASE THAT AN UNDIAGNOSED THIS LEARNING DISABILITY IS REALLY THE CAUSE OF BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS. EVERY SPECIAL ED TEACHER IS TRAINED AND EXPECTS TO TEACH CHILDREN WITH MULTIPLE DISABILITIES IN ANY CLASSROOM. THE CLAIM THAT TEACHERS WILL NO LONGER HAVE MULTIPLE DISABILITIES IN ONE CLASSROOM IS BLATANTLY FALSE. THAT'S NOT TRUE. YOU COULDN'T CREATE THAT SITUATION EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO. IT DOESN'T EXIST. BUT YOU KNOW.

SPEAKERS 61 THROUGH 71, PLEASE MOVE TO THE FRONT ROW. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS HASSANI TAYLOR. I AM A 19-YEAR VETERAN TEACHER WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE IN SECONDARY ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS INSTRUCTION, CERTIFIED IN 2 STATES IN 4 THROUGH 8 ELR, 7 THROUGH 12 ELA, ESL, GIFTED AND TALENTED. I WILL BE SWITCHING MY CONTENT IN THE FALL BECAUSE OF THE PAY FOR PERFORMANCE MODEL. I HAVE CURRENTLY TAUGHT THE LAST 3 YEARS ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES, ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION, AND UNDER THE PAY FOR PERFORMANCE MODEL, MY DATA COMES FROM STAR. THE CRITERIA FOR MY CLASSES MEANS YOU'VE BEEN IN THE COUNTRY 3 YEARS OR LESS AND YOU'RE INTERMEDIATE OR LOWER FOR ENGLISH PROFICIENCY.

WE HAVE TELPAS FOR ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TESTING, SO WHY IS STAR DATA THAT NATIVE SPEAKERS FAIL AS AS WE SAW, 30% OF THE TIME WHEN THEY TAKE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME, USED TO EVALUATE MY EFFORTS AS A TEACHER, BECAUSE NOW THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT HOW MUCH I GET PAID MOVING FORWARD UNDER THE PAY FOR PERFORMANCE MODEL. I DON'T THINK IT'S LEGAL TO SET UP A SYSTEM, PAY FOR PERFORMANCE, AND THEN CREATE A FORMULA THAT INTENTIONALLY PLACES ME LOWER THAN ANYONE ELSE.

FROM THE USUAL SUSPECT, DR.

PAMELA BOVILLAND, WHO IS RECOVERING FROM A STROKE.

FOR THE 2025 SCHOOL YEAR, I'VE SPOKEN ABOUT THE LACK OF LIBRARIES IN OUR SCHOOLS.

THANK YOU, BOARD OF MANAGERS AND S. BLACK MILES, FOR RESURRECTING THE VESTIGES OF THE ENSLAVEMENT PERIOD WHERE MY ANCESTORS AND ANCESTORS LOST THEIR HANDS, LIMBS, EYES WOGADZOW.

FROM THEIR FAMILIES SAWED FROM THEIR FAMILIES, EVEN KILLED JUST BECAUSE THEY WANTED A BOOK. YOUR ACTIONS OF REMOVING THE ACCESS OF BOOKS TO BLACK STUDENTS ARE REMINISCENT OF JIM CROW, KU KLUX KLAN, JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY, AND ALL THE GARDEN VARIETY RACISTS. OH YEAH, I FORGOT MAGA AND PROJECT 2025. AS WHITE MOUTHS AND BOARD OF MANAGERS, YOUR ACTIONS ARE EVIL, HATEFUL, AND HEINOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO TO THE SCHOLARS AND BOOKS. I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING WHAT HARM YOU ARE HEAPING ON OUR MOST PRECIOUS COMMODITY,

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GOOD EVENING, I'M CHRISTY MICHELLE BREWSTER, RETIRED CERTIFIED EMERITUS SCHOOL NURSE. WELL, MILES, IT'S BEEN A WHOLE 3 YEARS. YOU'RE STILL HERE HIJACKING OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. Y'ALL THOUGHT WE 5 PERCENTERS OR NAYSAYERS WOULD BE TIRED AND QUIT? IT? NOT. WE STILL HERE. STILL HERE WITH 190,000 REASONS TO BE ON YOUR BACK. LIKE THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY. YOU TALK AT THE PARENTS, NOT WITH THE PARENTS IN REGARD TO YOUR EDUCATIONAL PLANS. YOU KNOW, THE SPECIAL ED HIJACKING, THE CONSTIPATED CONCEPT OF THE CTE CENTERS, THAT COLOR-COORDINATED SCHOOL CLOSURE. YOU KNOW, THE COLOR BLACK AND BROWN. REFUSAL TO GET YOUR CERTIFICATION FOR SUPERINTENDENTS. ARE YOU SCARED YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PASS THE EXAM, BROTHER? AND THEN YOU BRAG ABOUT THE OUTCOMES. SO HERE WE ARE, WE STILL HERE, BUT YOUR TIME'S RUNNING OUT.

COME NOVEMBER, WE VOTING FOR GINA. SPEAKER 63, JACKIE CROSS ECKFORD. SHADY. OH, 65, LAURA BERGAMASCO. GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS LAURA BERGAMASCO.

I'M A PARENT OF A NEWLY GRADUATED KINDERGARTNER AT ST. CLAIR ELEMENTARY. HE ACTUALLY HAD A FANTASTIC YEAR, AND IT WAS WHOLLY IN PART BY INCREDIBLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY FULL OF ADMINISTRATORS WHO REALLY CARED, A WONDERFUL PTO COMMUNITY, AND SPECIFICALLY HIS KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, MISS JENNY D. GUYS, WHO YOU HEARD FROM FOR TWO OTHER PARENTS. WE LEARNED AT THE VERY END OF THE YEAR THAT UNEXPECTEDLY THAT SHE HAD BEEN TERMINATED DUE TO GOING 1.5 HOURS OVER HER ALLOTTED PTO DUE TO TAKING CARE OF HER FATHER FOR A FAMILY EMERGENCY. COMING IN, SHE IS A BRAND NEW TEACHER.

SHE WAS EXCITED, EAGER, WILLING TO LEARN. AND MISS ROSALES, SHE WAS ALSO ONE OF THOSE TEACHERS WHO LOVES HER STUDENTS, AND HER STUDENTS ABSOLUTELY LOVED HER BACK.

THEY FOLLOWED HER AROUND THE KINDERGARTEN, SAT AT HER AT LUNCH, REALLY PICKED FANTASTIC.

BUT MOSTLY IMPORTANTLY, SHE DID EVERYTHING SHE WANTED, OR EVERYTHING YOU GUYS WANTED BASED OFF OF YOUR SHORT-TERM KPIS. SHE GOT THE ACADEMIC SCORE, SHE DID WHAT SHE WANTED, BUT INEVITABLY BY LETTING HER GO AND AS WELL AS A VERY SHORT.

I'M SORRY, I KNOW Y'ALL HAVE STRUGGLES WITH COUNTING, BUT YOU SKIPPED 64, AND THAT WOULD BE ME. THANK YOU.

BRANDY DOWDA, FORMER CERTIFIED LIBRARIAN OF HISD. I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO Y'ALL. REBECCA SOLNIT SAID THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE SHOULD NEVER BE ABANDONED BECAUSE OF THE APPARENT OVERWHELMING POWER OF THOSE WHO SEEM INVINCIBLE IN THEIR DETERMINATION TO HOLD ON TO IT. THAT APPARENT POWER HAS AGAIN AND AGAIN PROVED VULNERABLE TO MORAL FERVOR, DETERMINATION, UNITY, ORGANIZATION, SACRIFICE, WIT, INGENUITY, COURAGE, AND PATIENCE. MILES HAS BEEN REFERRED TO AS A COMMUNITY BREAKER, BUT WE'VE PROVEN HIM WRONG.

LOOK AT HOW MANY SPEAKERS CAME ON A THURSDAY IN JUNE.

THE TIME TO DIG IN OUR HEELS AND REACH ACROSS TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN AUSTIN, FORT WORTH, AND BEAUMONT IS NOW.

BY BUILDING BRIDGES TO OTHER OCCUPIED CITIES ACROSS TEXAS, WE CREATE A SEA WALL AGAINST HER SPEAKER 65, LAURA BERGAMASCO.

SHE WE ALREADY WENT? OKAY.

67, MINH DANG TRAN.

OKAY. HI, I'M MINH DANG TRAN.

I'M SPEAKING ON ITEMS 25 TO 31. YOU ALL KNOW ME. I'M A CERTIFIED HIC TEACHER.

TEACHERS HAVE AN END OF THE YEAR CHECKLIST THAT WE ALL HAVE TO DO BEFORE WE CAN CHECK OUT. SO

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GIVE MILES A $126,000 BONUS FOR GETTING A FAILING SCHOOL SCORE OF 67% ON HIS EVALUATION. OH, SORRY, THAT WAS OUT OF ORDER.

FIRST, YOU GOT TO STEAL MONEY FROM HCC DUAL CREDIT TEACHERS THAT HCC PAID. HOW MUCH DID YOU STEAL? $126,000. THAT NUMBER SOUNDS FAMILIAR. NOW WE CAN GIVE MILES HIS BONUS. OKAY, YEAR 2, WE USE ENHANCED TIA, WHICH ISN'T EVEN APPROVED YET, AS AN EXCUSE TO WITHHOLD HOUSE BILL 2 RAISES FROM TEACHERS. AND NOW WE HAVE ENOUGH TO GIVE MILES $82,000 BONUS AND A $30,000 BONUS FOR ALL THE EDS. OKAY, CONVENIENT. YEAR 3, TEACHERS WHO EARNED MASTER TIA DESIGNATION WERE AWARDED MONEY BY THE STATE, BUT WE'RE KEEPING THAT MONEY FROM TEACHERS TOO. SO HOW BIG WILL MILES' BONUS BE THIS YEAR? HI. I'M MACKENZIE BOYER, FORMER HISD TEACHER. MIKE MILES HAS SERVED AS AN UNCERTIFIED SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS. IT'S MADDENING AS HE APPROVES RAISES FOR HIMSELF, CLOSES CAMPUSES, AND ENFORCES DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES THAT HAVE ZERO BASIS IN BEST EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES THAT LEAD TO SHOCKING DROPS IN ENROLLMENT, ALL WHILE THERE IS AN OBVIOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST AS HE IS A FORMER MANAGER SLASH CURRENT CONSULTANT FOR A CHAIN OF CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT RECEIVE SUBSTANTIAL PAYOUTS FROM TAXPAYERS. THE FACT THAT HE'S UNCERTIFIED IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO MOST ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS WHO INVEST YEARS OF SCHOOLING, TRAINING, AND TESTING TO GO THROUGH LEGITIMATE CERTIFICATION PROCESSES, ALL WHILE WORKING THE HARDEST AND BEING PAID THE LEAST. THIS AUTHORIZATION TO WAIVE THE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT WITH THE COMMISSIONER SETS A PRECEDENT FOR ALL THE OTHER DISTRICTS BEING TAKEN OVER, THAT ANY GRIFTER OR CONMAN CAN SERVE AS SUPERINTENDENT AND MAKE SIMILARLY CORROSIVE CHANGES TO A SYSTEM THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING IN CHARGE OF. 3 YEARS AGO, I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TEACHERS THAT WAS PLACED IN THE TERMINATION PROCESS FOR HISD FOR SPEAKING UP AND ASKING THAT THE BOARD OF MANAGERS BE ABLE TO BE COMMUNICATED WITH BY THE COMMUNITY. AND YOU'RE STILL HERE. SO THE WHOLE THING IS THIS FOR THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. WHEN HE LEAVES, AND HE IS LEAVING, AND WHEN YOU ARE NO LONGER ON THE BOARD OF MANAGERS, YOU STILL HAVE TO LIVE IN HOUSTON. SO THAT MEANS THAT WE CAN SEND EMAILS, WE COULD CALL, WE COULD DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU DON'T GET ANY MORE JOBS. AMEN. YOU DON'T DO ALL OF THAT STUFF.

AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU A BOND. WE WILL CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANY BOND OR ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE SET UP OR WANTED TO SET UP. SO THE WHOLE THING IS, IS HE SAID APPROACHES IS NOT WHERE WE ARE.

AND I'M TALKING ABOUT AGENDA NUMBER 11. HE'S JUST APPROACHES SUPERINTENDENT. HE HADN'T MET, HE HAVEN'T, HE'S NOT MASTERED, HE'S DONE NONE OF THAT. AND I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN. I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE. TO ALL OF YOU. DON'T MAMA. MY NAME IS DR. JUDITH CASTILLO. I'M THE EDUCATIONAL CHAIR FOR THE GREATER HOUSTON JUSTICE COALITION AND ALULA COUNCIL NUMBER 19. I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY OF LUIS MEDINA HERNANDEZ, A STUDENT OF WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL. MY CAREER IN EDUCATION BEGAN RIGHT HERE IN HOUSTON ISD. I BEGAN AS A MIGRANT TUTOR. I LATER EARNED MY TEACHING CERTIFICATION, MULTIPLE GRADUATE DEGREES, AND ULTIMATELY MY PHD BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT SERVING STUDENTS REQUIRE PREPARATION, TRAINING, AND ACCOUNTABILITY. TODAY I'M ASKING FOR TRANSPARENCY.

ACCORDING TO THE PARENT, LUIS WAS REMOVED FROM CAMPUS IN A WHEELCHAIR WHILE UNCONSCIOUS.

THE PARENT WAS CONTACTED ONLY TO PICK HIM UP, YET NO INCIDENT REPORT WAS PROVIDED AND NO CLEAR EXPLANATION.

WE ARE STILL AWAITING RECORDS FROM PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE, HOUSTON ISD POLICE. THERE'S ALSO AN ONGOING CPS INVESTIGATION AND ACTIVE GRIEVANCE REGARDING THIS MATTER. WE ARE EQUALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY EDUCATE COMMUNICATION WITH SPANISH-SPEAKING FAMILIES.

TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION ARE. APPROVE

[02:50:43]

THAT WAS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME OR HERS. IT'S IN THE FINE PRINT OF THE AGENDA, BUT I WONDER IF ANY OF YOU READ IT. COMPANY CARDS ARE THE MOST COMMON AVENUE FOR FRAUD. RSM CALLED THESE HIGH-RISK AUDIT FINDINGS, WHICH YOU CAN EXPECT WHEN THE CONTROL ENVIRONMENT IS JUST WHATEVER MILES AND TERRY SAY IT SHOULD BE. BUT WE CAN COUNT ON MR. CAMPO TO TRUST THE SYSTEM. HIS RESPONSE WAS, MAYBE THE LIMITS ARE JUST TOO LOW. THE DASHBOARD INDICATES A SLUGGISH RESPONSE BY MANAGEMENT FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS TO AUDIT. COULD I HAVE THE REST OF THE SPEAKERS MOVE TO THE FRONT ROW, PLEASE? WE'RE ON NUMBER 72, MORGAN CHAVERS. HELLO, BOARD MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS JOSEPH BURKE. I AM AN ALUMNI OF BURRUS ELEMENTARY, AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT WAS WAS A SAFE HAVEN FOR ME, AND YOU ARE TAKING THAT AWAY FROM THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN. I WAS RAISED BY BLACK WOMEN, WOMEN THAT TAUGHT ME HOW TO BELIEVE IN MYSELF, AND YOU'RE TAKING THAT AWAY FROM CHILDREN. HOW COULD YOU? THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

I ALSO WANT TO ADD THAT I'M ALSO A PROUD BUSINESS OWNER IN EAST END, WHICH I DON'T THINK THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH REPRESENTATION OF.

BUT ANYONE CAN TELL YOU THAT MIKE'S WHATEVER THAT WAS IMAGERY IS A JOKE. IT'S A COMPLETE SHAM, AND IT SHOWS HOW TO WRECK AND REBUILD. HEY, VOTE IN NOVEMBER SO WE CAN GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF HERE. YEAH.

DIANE OLMOS GUZMAN. GOOD EVENING, I'M DIANE OLMOS GUZMAN AND I SERVE LULAC DISTRICT I SERVE AS LULAC DISTRICT DIRECTOR FOR DISTRICT 19 SOUTHEAST PORT CITIES. I'M HERE TODAY TO URGE GREATER TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT FUNDING, WHICH IS USED TO SERVE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN HOUSTON ISD. THESE FUNDS EXIST TO SUPPORT STUDENTS, NOT SYSTEMS THAT INCLUDE VENDORS WITH ISOLATION CENTERS THAT MUST BE VETTED TO PROVIDE REQUIRED SERVICES FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. FAMILIES DESERVE TO KNOW TO KNOW CAMPUS BY CAMPUS WHETHER SPECIAL EDUCATION DOLLARS ARE TRULY REACHING THE CHILDREN THEY ARE MEANT TO SERVE. LIMITED IDEA FUNDS SHOULD NEVER BE USED IN WAYS THAT SEPARATE STUDENTS FROM THEIR PARENTS.

[02:55:23]

FOLLOWED BY RUTH KRAVITZ.

FOLLOWED BY JALEN WILSON. GOOD EVENING. MY STUDENTS KNOW ME AS MISS D. I AM A SOON-TO-BE LICENSED MASTER SOCIAL WORKER, A GRADUATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, AND A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER WHO HOPED TO BECOME A SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER.

ACCORDING TO CHILD PSYCHOANALYST ERIK ERIKSON, YOUNG CHILDREN LEARN CRITICAL SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SKILLS THROUGH PLAY. YET IN OUR CLASSROOM, I WITNESSED 5 AND 6 6-YEAR-OLDS SITTING FOR HOURS FILLING OUT WORKSHEETS AND SITTING THROUGH TEST-HEAVY ASSIGNMENTS.

I REMEMBER KINDERGARTEN AS STORY TIME, MAKE-BELIEVE, ARTS AND CRAFTS, LEARNING HOW TO SHARE AND COOPERATE WITH MY CLASSMATES. CHILDREN NEED OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAY, MOVE, IMAGINE, AND EXPLORE. WE DENY OUR CHILDREN THOSE EXPERIENCES. THE EFFECTS DON'T DISAPPEAR. TEACHERS IN FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD GRADE BECOME OVERWHELMED MANAGING BEHAVIORS, TEACHING SOCIAL SKILLS THAT CHILDREN HAVEN'T HAD THE CHANCE TO DEVELOP, LEAVING LESS TIME FOR ACTUAL INSTRUCTION. OUR CHILDREN DESERVE SAFE, DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS THAT NURTURE THEM AS WHOLE HUMAN BEINGS, NOT JUST FUTURE TEST TAKERS.

THANK YOU.

GOOD EVENING. AS ALWAYS, I HAVE A DIFFERENT SPEECH. I KNOW YOU SPOKE FOR ABOUT 40 MINUTES ABOUT THE SCORES. I'LL TRY TO REBUT IT IN A MINUTE. YOU SAID TONIGHT THAT THE NUMBER OF ALGEBRA TESTERS IS UP. THE TRUTH: 3,000 LESS STUDENTS TAKING ALGEBRA NOW THAN IN 2023, AND NO STUDENTS TAKING ALGEBRA IN 8TH GRADE IN MANY NES SCHOOLS JUST TO SKEW THE RESULTS. YOU SAY THAT THERE ARE HUGE GAINS IN HISD. THE TRUTH? THE SCORE GAINS LARGELY MIRROR GAINS ACROSS THE STATE, PARTIALLY, OF COURSE, BECAUSE THE STATE LOWERED THE SCORES TO BE CONSIDERED PASSING THIS YEAR, NORMAL FOR AN ELECTION YEAR.

WHAT YOU DESCRIBE AS HISTORIC BIO GAINS ARE THE SAME AS THE STATE'S, BUT YOU DID SO BY DEMOTING NES SCHOOLS' STUDENTS TO 2 FULL YEARS OF BIO PREP AT THE EXPENSE OF STUDENT ACCESS TO RIGOROUS COURSES. YOUR STAFF SAID WE OFFERED A TSI PREP COURSE TO JUNIORS CALLED ALGEBRAIC REASONING. YOU LEFT OUT THAT TO DO SO, YOU REMOVED 50% OF NES JUNIORS FROM ALGEBRA 2, EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THEM WERE PREVIOUSLY SUCCESSFUL IN THOSE COURSES.

THE NUMBERS DO NOT. SPEAKER 79, SABIRA ROBINSON. I CALLED ARE YOU JAYLEN? GO AHEAD.

THANK YOU. MY NAME IS JALEN WILSON, FIRST-TIME SPEAKER. I'M AN ORGANIZER. I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE A FEW WEEKS AGO I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH 15 BLACK STUDENTS FROM YATES ABOUT THE HOUSTON ARROW AND THE RACISM THAT GUIDES HISD'S SYSTEMATIC UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF BLACK CHILDREN. YATES IS SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO UNIVERSITIES, AND WHEN I ASKED THE STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR COLLEGE AMBITIONS, NEITHER UH OR TSU WERE MENTIONED. WHEN I ASKED THEM WHY THEY THINK THEIR SCHOOLS ARE BEING SHUT DOWN AND WHY THEIR FOOD IS SPOILED AND NOT OTHER STUDENTS', THEY TOLD ME THE GROUP WAS ABLE TO DEDUCE RELATIVELY QUICKLY THAT IT'S BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR. I TOLD THEM, YES, IT IS THAT SIMPLE, IN FACT. I WISH I HAD TOLD THEM THAT IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE CAPABLE, BECAUSE THESE STUDENTS' NEW DEMONSTRATIONS OF LEARNING DEMONSTRATE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

THEY'RE GRADED ON COMPLETION, NOT DEMONSTRATION OR LEARNING.

SO WHY DO YOU THINK THAT BECAUSE YOU CAN PASS, FLOYD, THAT YOU GET TO FAIL OUR CHILDREN? WOO! IF 50% IGC USAGE IS ABUSE. WHAT IS 50% OF THIRD GRADERS BEING UNABLE TO READ UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP? YOUR LEADERSHIP.

MY NAME IS SABRA ROBINSON. I AM A MENTOR, YOUTH MENTOR IN THIRD WARD, A MASTER'S LEVEL SOCIAL WORKER, AND A FORMER

[03:00:01]

THANK YOU. MICHELLE WILLIAMS, HOUSTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. FREDERICK DOUGLASS SAYS KNOWLEDGE MAKES MAN UNFIT TO BE A SLAVE. WHAT HIS SYSTEM IS CREATING ARE SLAVES. THERE IS NOT ANY KNOWLEDGE OR LEARNING TAKING PLACE IN HOUSTON ISD. HE SITS HERE, YOU ALL ARE LISTENING TO A MAN WHO LISTENS TO A PREDICTION RING. YOU'RE LISTENING TO MIKE MORATH, WHO SAID HE WAS SENT HERE BY GOD.

BOTH OF THEM, THAT'S QUESTIONABLE. AND YOUR INCOMPETENT ATTORNEYS, YOU ALL HAVE ALLOWED THIS MAN TO SPEND $458,565.23. WHAT? TRYING TO BEAT ME, AND THAT INCOMPETENCE. AND THEN THEY HAD TO COME BEFORE YOU TO OVERTURN THEIR INCOMPETENCE.

THAT IS EGREGIOUS. YOU ALL NEED TO DO BETTER. AND ALSO, CONSEQU. THIS CONCLUDES OUR

[DISCUSSION AND REPORT ITEMS (Part 3 of 3)]

WE WILL NOW TAKE VOTES ON TWO OF OUR DISCUSSION AND REPORT ITEMS. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT ITEM 1, THE REPORT FROM THE BOARD AUDIT COMMITTEE CHAIR? OKAY. IS EVERYONE ON HERE? OKAY. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER COLON AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER ROSALES. YES, PLEASE VOTE. VOTING IS CLOSED.

THAT'S YES. THAT'S 7 IN FAVOR, 0 OPPOSED, AND NO ABSTENTIONS. THE MOTION PASSES. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT ITEM 2, THE BOARD MONITORING UPDATE ON GOAL PROGRESS MEASURES 3.1. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER ROSALES AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER COLON. PLEASE VOTE. I'M GOOD.

VOTING HAS CLOSED. WE HAVE 7 IN FAVOR, 0 OPPOSED, 0 ANY ABSTENTIONS? THE MOTION PASSES.

I VOTED YES, BY THE WAY, ANDREW. OH, I'M SORRY. SORRY.

[Consideration and Approval of Agenda Items]

BOARD POLICY REQUIRES BOARD MEMBERS TO ABSTAIN FROM ALL DISCUSSIONS AND VOTES PERTAINING TO CONTRACTS THAT MIGHT INVOLVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. BOARD POLICY BBFA LOCAL DEFINES A CONFLICT OF INTEREST AS ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

[ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT AGENDA]

[03:05:01]

OH, YES. THANK YOU. SO WE HAVE 8 IN FAVOR, 0 OPPOSED, AND 0 ABSTENTIONS. THE MOTION PASSES.

MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 7, ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION REGARDING SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION REGISTERED NO-LOAD MONEY MARKET MUTUAL FUNDS COMPLIANT WITH FEDERAL SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION RULE 2A-7 PROMULGATED UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940? I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER COLON AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER GARZA-LIDNER.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? PLEASE VOTE ON THE MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 7. I VOTE YES.

THANK YOU. VOTING HAS CLOSED.

WE HAVE 7 IN FAVOR, 0 OPPOSED, AND 1 ABSTAINING. ANY DISCUSSION? ANY ABSTENTION? THE MOTION PASSES. MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 8, ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION APPROVING THE REVISED LIST OF APPROVED BROKER-DEALERS? I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER GARZA-LIDNER AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER ROSALES. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? DISCUSSION.

PLEASE VOTE ON THE MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 8. VOTE YES.

THANK YOU. VOTING HAS CLOSED.

[CONSENT AGENDA]

[Recess to Closed Session under Sections 551.004 through 551.089 of the Texas Government Code for the Purposes Listed in this Notice]

AT THIS TIME, THE BOARD WILL RECESS TO CLOSE SESSION UNDER CHAPTER 551 OF TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, OPEN MEETINGS ACT, SUBSECTIONS 551.004 THROUGH 551.089.

SHOULD BOARD FINAL ACTION, VOTER DECISION ON ANY MATTER CONSIDERED IN THE CLOSED SESSION BE REQUIRED, SUCH FINAL ACTION, VOTE, OR DECISION SHALL BE TAKEN AT THE OPEN MEETINGS COVERED BY THIS NOTICE UPON THE RECONVENING OF THE PUBLIC MEETING OR AT THE SUBSEQUENT PUBLIC MEETING OR THE BOARD UPON NOTICE THEREOF.

THE BOARD HAS RECESSED 813 PM TO CLOSE SESSION AT ON JUNE 11TH, 2026. GOOD EVENING. THIS

[ Reconvene in Open Session]

[Consideration and Possible Action on Matters Discussed in Closed Session]

THAT THE BOARD APPROVES SUSPENSIONS WITHOUT PAY FOR CONTINUING, TERM, AND PROBATIONARY CONTRACTS AND AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEE TO PROVIDE NOTICE OF SAME. THAT THE BOARD VOIDS CONTINUING, TERM, PROBATIONARY, AND PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS AND

[03:10:02]

PLEASE VOTE. I VOTE YES. THANK YOU. VOTING HAS CLOSED. WE HAVE 7 IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED, AND 0 ABSTENTIONS. THE MOTION PASSES. IS THERE ANOTHER MOTION? YES, PLEASE. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD ADOPT THE RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD REGARDING THE SALE OF SURPLUS REAL PROPERTY, WHICH AUTHORIZES THE BOARD VICE PRESIDENT TO COMPLETE THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS SB 260397 KIRBY OREM ACREAGE, O-W OREM DRIVE, HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77047. IS THERE A SECOND? I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER GARZA LINDNER AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CRUZ ARNOLD. PLEASE VOTE. I VOTE YES. THANK YOU. VOTING HAS CLOSED. WE HAVE 7 IN FAVOR, 0 OPPOSED, AND 0 ABSTENTIONS.

THE MOTION PASSES. THAT'S ALL.

THE BOARD WILL HOLD A SPECIAL MEETING ON THURSDAY, JUNE 25TH AT 5 PM. THE NEXT REGULAR BOARD MEETING WILL BE HELD ON AUGUST 13TH, 2026. THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS, THIS MEETING IS OFFICIALLY ADJOURNED AT 847.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.