January 20, 2015

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The board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Tuesday, January 20th, 2015, and the time is 7.15 p.m. The board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting. This is a meeting open to the public, not a meeting of the public. There are students and other guests present. To maintain decorum, respectful behavior is expected. Disruptive behavior and or comments will not be allowed. out. KDSD Board of Trustees meets monthly in a regular meeting generally to receive reports from the staff and to take action on recommendations from the superintendent. Whereas there may not be lengthy discussions or a litany of questions tonight, please know that we've had the agenda for over a week. As a board, we reviewed each agenda item in a public work study session with the administrative team where we were able to ask and receive answers to our questions. Thus, as a board, we should have appropriate knowledge and should be prepared for our responses regarding regarding the content of this meeting tonight. Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Law in regard to the notice for this meeting? Mr. President, we're in compliance. The first item is the personnel report.

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Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent. Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, seconded by Mr. Adams, that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent. Is there any discussion? We will proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Motion passes 6-0. Please note that Mrs. Fox was unable to join us this evening and she definitely sent her regrets, especially when we have children performing for us and all the PTA people that are here tonight. So she is sorry that she had to miss this evening.

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President, we'll have our pledge led by Ms. Samantha Weston. Okay. Will everyone please stand for the pledges?

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I pledge allegiance to the flag under 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 to the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas and say under God one and invisible

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all right great job Samantha this is Samantha wish the Western to an at Randolph elementary and share parents or Shane and Amy Western think I'm gonna see on the front row looking kind of Brighton and mom has the iPad to take pictures and she has a sister Miss Madison question uh which one was the nicest again Samantha her interests are she likes art actually wanted to cover the yearbook contest this year congratulations on that she's also interested in math and science experiments and I saw the school she loves to tumble play volleyball open from Tramboline and hug her sister. Oh that's not written down there. She loves math and reading and what teachers say about Samantha is she's just a wonderful, wonderful person.

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Samantha, glad to have you. Anything you want to say to us ma'am? This is my third and only elementary school to open in KISD. I live in Cross Creek Ranch so I get to go to all the brand new schools. Randolph Elementary is the best because they do more activities. PE is really cool because we get to do games for warm ups and the games change for the seasons. The teachers are so nice. They push me to do hard things and I like that because it helps me to be able to do more things. better student mrs. Harper always says to to know you as a person not just like hey dude she she knows my name and says hi in the hallways one of my favorite parts about Randolph is the way we have fun in the middle of our learning just like on Fridays we do a Friday dance where everyone dances even the teachers I just love this school so much and I am excited to be here today representing Randolph Elementary

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Miss Mancy did an outstanding job. Thank you for what you've done And of course we have Miss Kristin Harper as the Randolph principal on the front row there miss Harper glad to have you here this evening

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Turn around and look at all these people So you did something that's very important for us by leaving us a pledge. That's a big honor. Also, very too. But you did a great job and we want to thank you for that. Tonight we want to give you a little recognition for the thing that pledges, the president and the secretary, this. Also to give you a little award. You only get this whenever you do the pledges. Thank you so much

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Okay, do we have any scouts with us this evening if so So please stand up, tell us your name, your troop number, and what badge you're working on. We have a whole group of scouts this evening. Welcome. Go ahead and start. Name, troop number, and whatever badge you're working on.

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All right, welcome.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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All right, welcome to all of you. Thank you for being here tonight, and we will do our best to get you home by midnight. All right. Mr. Fraley, we are to the recognitions portion of our agenda tonight.

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Mr. President, I'm glad to recognize Ms. Lindsay Tiger, Communications Specialist, for our recognitions this evening. Ms. Tiger?

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Board Members and Superintendent Fraley, the month of January has been proclaimed School Board Recognition Month by the Governor to help highlight the contributions of dedicated men and women who take the time to serve our local schools. Katy ISD joins districts across the state to thank its Board of Trustees for voluntarily tackling the enormous job of governing local schools. To kick off our School Board Recognitions this evening, I would like to introduce the honorable mayor fable our Hughes to read a proclamation from the city of Katy

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good evening president my house key superintendent fairly members KSD school board ladies and gentlemen I'm proud to be here tonight representing the city of Katy I have a proclamation here for school recognition month and President Mahowski, could you join me please? Offices of Mayor, City of Katy, Texas Proclamation School Board Recognition Month Whereas a solid education establishes the foundation upon which the economic, social, and intellectual strength of our state is built, and whereas the furthering of education is dependent not only on the effectiveness of the teaching staff, but also on the support of parents, administrators, the local community, and the Lakely School Board, and whereas KDISD's seven member board of trustees shares a commitment to serve investing countless hours of volunteer work to ensure that that students in our school district are given every opportunity to excel through education now therefore I fable Hughes mayor fable Hughes do hereby recognize recognize January 2015 and school board recognition month in the city of Katy Texas and encourage all citizens to join me in saluting the tireless efforts and dedication of our school board members in official recognition whereof I hereby fix my signature and the seal of the city of Katy this 20th day of January 2015 they will use mayor here. Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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Superintendent, if I may say one thing. We started off the day together this morning. Looks like we're going to end the day together, don't we?

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Thank you. I think you should get home before I get home tonight though. I'm going to beat you home. I wanted to tell you as Mr. Mahouse takes his seat that uh had a breakfast meeting where the mayor spoke about the future of katie city of key is an outstanding job we're in great hands in city of katie to be a partner with you sir

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next i would like to introduce sundown elementary's choir the sundown super singers for a special performance the group is directed by nancy bransom

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Thank you.

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Hey, how are you?

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You make us feel so special and very lucky We're very glad that you are here We know that you will not decide the truth

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Thank you! Thank you!

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Sent out super singers, thank you so much for being with us this evening

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me yes thank you so much for performing for us I often say that the biggest reward of being on the Board of Trustees is getting to watch our students perform whether it's on the ball fields or in our Performing Arts Center and tonight in our boardroom so thank you very much you guys

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are quite talented give them one more round of applause

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for our next recognition this evening I turn it over to board president mr.

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Brian Mahalski Thank You Lindsay in honor of school board recognition month we have some very special guests with us this evening as KDISD trustees we do not do our job for payment or recognition but because we have a passion and desire for educating our children and bettering our community tonight we would like to recognize those who came before us and help lay the foundation for KDISD our former Board of Trustee members KDISD is successful because of the many talented individuals who willingly give their time and resources as former KDISD trustees we want to thank each one of you for your inspiration and dedication to creating a richer learning environment for all KDISD students tonight we have with us and I would like for you to come up to the front and invite you to be recognized and take a photo as I call your name tonight we We have with us Chris Crockett, Bill Caligari, and Don Elder Jr.

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Thank you.

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in KT ISD we're blessed to have a very strong group of parents who work tirelessly to support our schools our PTA presidents are here tonight for a special recognition for our board members at this time I would like to introduce you to the Katy Council of PTA's president, Ms. Laura Freeman.

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Good evening. My name is Laura Freeman. I'm a Katy ISD Council of PTA's president. This is a school board appreciation month and because PTA's know a little bit about volunteering. We wanted to thank you for donating your leadership, your time, and your service to the students of Katy ISD. Beginning in 2006, In 2006, KDIC Council PTAs asked their PTAs to recognize school board members for their service by donating a book in one school board member's honor to their school library. This will be the tenth year that we have donated a book to our school libraries in your honor. In total, PTAs have grown the libraries of KDIC schools by upwards of 350 books. tonight we will add to that poll and we did know that Miss Fox is not going to be here tonight so some PTAs who adopted her have decided to recognize her in their own way at another time so we did not forget her we are just doing it a different way when she can be with us so I'm not gonna wait I'm just gonna read names um Maria Connor president of Cinco Ranch Junior High is donated unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand to Ashley Vann. Christy Barker, president of Nottingham Country Elementary is donating 10 times 10 by Herve Tule to Ashley Vann and these are in no particular order. Ashley's not gonna get all of them? Yeah, no, sorry. She won't get any at the end. It's like Christmas. Tina Wood, president at Seven Lakes High School is donating the The Giver Quartet Omnibus by Lois Lowry to Henry DeBrell. Jennifer Gaughan, president at Seven Lakes Junior Night, is donating The Book of Olympus by Rick Riordan to Mr. Fraley. Michelle Mason, president at Woolman Elementary, is donating Pipsqueak by Leslie Ann Clark to Ashley Vann. Carrie Brecken, president at Tom Wilson Elementary, is donating Malala, a brave girl from Pakistan by Jeanette Winter to Mr. Adams. Nikki Alvarez, Bonnie Holland Elementary PTA President, has donated Rutherford B. Who Was He? Poems About Our Presidents by Marilyn Singer to Mr. Adams. Joy Siebenman, the Treasurer at Williams Elementary, is donating Malala, A Brave Girl from Pakistan by Jeanette Winger to Ashley Vann. Jeanette Lees, Morton Race Elementary President, has donated an animal book by Steve Jenkins to Mr. DeGrow. out. Karen Calland, Katie Junior High PTA President, is donating Freedom Summer by Susan Goldman-Rubin to Mr. Adams. Amy Christensen, President and Friends Elementary, is donating Can You Survive Extreme Mountain Climbing by Matt Doden to Mr. Griffin. Jennifer Lowry, the VP of Membership at Schaefer Elementary, is donating Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Palacco to Ashley Vann. Becky Morris, okay this is getting tricky. Becky Morris, PTA member at Kilpatrick Elementary and VP of VIPS at Wood Creek Junior High is donating the Curious Garden by Peter Brown to Mr. Mihalski from OKE and I Am Malala by Malala to Courtney Doyle. Kristen Bridant, president at Beck Junior High is donating a snicker of magic by Natalie Lloyd to Courtney Doyle Kathy Boyd president at King Elementary is donating the world's greatest lion by Ralph Helfer to Mr. Dubrow Lorna Blount president at Pattison Elementary is donating the matchbox diary by Paul Fleischman to Courtney Doyle see it's coming back around Cindy Cruz Davis president at Beckendorf Junior High is donating Mercedes and the chocolate pilot by Margo Tice Raven to Mr. Griffin Carolyn Smith Smith, president at Memorial Parkway Junior High, is donating National Parks, a guide to America's parks, monuments, and landmarks by Aaron McHugh to Mr. Adams. Jan Killam, president at Creech, is donating The Right Word, Roger and His Thores by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet to Mr. Griffin. Angie Steinhauer, president at Memorial Parkway Elementary, is donating The Three Bully Goats by Leslie Kimmelman to Mr. Griffin. and Shelly sorry Shelly Shelly Rajagopalan sorry president at Randolph Elementary is donating help me mr. Mutt by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens-Crummel to mr. Freyley Hayley Zelota president in May Creek Elementary is donating the ten rules of being a superhero by Deb Paludi to mr. Freyley Kim Black third VP of membership at Cimarron Elementary is donating memoirs of a goldfish by skilling to mr. debrow Liz O'Donnell PTS essay member and May Creek Elementary and also PTA member oh sorry PTSA member at May Creek high school but also a member of every single PTA in our council is done the world this star will go out the life and words of Esther grace Earl by Esther earl to ashley van carrie lowry principal at rhodes elementary is donating i am amelia earhart by dog melzer to mr griffin lindsay vallejo president and mourn ranch junior high pta is donating under the egg by laura marx fitzgerald to mr fraley ann malali is president at mcmain's junior high is donating independent study by joelle charbonneau to mr adams sorry Shannon Kim present at Alexander Elementary is donating tall tales to read together by Maryann Hoberman to Joe Adams and Jeannie Griffith present at Hayes Elementary is donating I am Malala by Malala to Courtney Doyle and there are a lot of things going on in the district tonight and so I am donating in their absence the map trap by Andrew Clements to mr. McColl see from Stanley Elementary the mountain dog by Margarita Engel to mr. Griffin to from Exley Elementary and the underdogs by Michael Pica to mr. Mahal see for for Bear Creek Elementary. Thank you very much.

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Next, we have another very special performance from the Morton Ranch High School Theater students. They will be performing the opening song from their spring musical, Little Shop of Horrors, in honor of School Board Recognition Month. This group is directed by Troy Minn and Pam Wilson.

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Thank you so much, Morton Ridge, for being with us.

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Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. I think we need one of these for every board meeting.

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I've got to say, I mean, at KDSD, we do a lot of things really, really well. and our fine arts departments are second to none thank you so much this year the

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district was once again recognized for achieving academic success through cost-effective operations the financial allocation study for Texas or fast is an annual study that examines both academic performance and financial efficiency to identify school districts charter operators and campuses that deliver high quality education at relatively low costs. KDISD was awarded the highest rating of five stars for 2014 and as a result received the Texas Honor Circle Award for outstanding performance in the FAST analysis. Accepting this award on behalf of KDISD is Christopher J. Smith, KDISD's Chief Financial Officer. sir congratulations on this outstanding achievement I know I'm accepting this

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award and I won't be long but I this is this is a war for the community and it starts with mr. Freyland his leadership and obviously the Board of Education this is what I like to call the bang for the buck award obviously all our principals and budget managers play a great role in this and our teachers and students and it all I'm accepting the award but by all means it's it's everybody it's a team effort and mr. Fraley

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your leadership in this. Mr. President, if I could, Mr. Smith, I want to thank you and your team as well. And I want to again remind you what Mrs. Tiger just said. You know, this is a recognition from the Comptroller of the State of Texas. And what she says is this is a way to examine both academic performance and financial efficiency, her standards, that deliver high quality education at relatively low cost. And this is from the the comptroller so I want to thank the entire team from the board stewardship from my staff brother Smith you and your team and all the budget managers out there for what you guys do but also to the teachers who really every day knock it out of the park make certain that we get the high performance academically otherwise it wouldn't matter how little money we spend yeah thank you all very

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much and that concludes our recognitions this evening

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and tonight we saw the secret sauce PGA our parent volunteers yes we did thank you okay

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now we will move on to public hearing portion of our agenda tonight we first we have a presentation of the 2013-2014 Texas Academic Performance Report will be presented by Dr. Cassidy, Dr. Matney. Okay. Add both of your names on here.

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Welcome Dr. Matney. Good evening. Thank you Mr. Michalski, Board of Trustees and And Mr. Fraley, I am here this evening to present to you the taper report. And I may be having some technical difficulties. I have no song and dance for you this evening. I apologize for that. I do have very good news, which helped lead into the last recognition that we had with our first award.

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Okay, perfect, thank you.

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Okay, so this evening we are here as a result of state requirements, but it's always good to share great news when we have state requirements. The state does require that we hold a public hearing of reports that include the TAPA report, a campus performance objective piece, as well as a report of violent and criminal incidents and post-secondary student enrollment in academic performance. So that's what we're here this evening to discuss. I do want to share before, at the forefront of this, several highlights. We have a lot of great things to share and a lot of details this evening, but to highlight, we continue to outperform Region 4, which is our Region Service Center, as well as the state. So we are not just looking at our own results and seeing the high achievement with our own results, but we're outperforming all the schools in Region 4 as well as the state in all of these areas. Our STAR performance in many levels, SAT and ACT results, graduation data, and even post-graduation data. How our students are doing once they leave us and go on to their lives. So I look forward to sharing the details of each of these pieces. So with STAR results we're going to start with a little bit of a lesson because as we move from tax to STAR we also have a phase-in process of standards to allow for time for systems to catch up and we've talked a little bit about that in the past so our first slide talks about our phase in one level two standard or above that's what we traditionally call met standard we have a three phase in process and so this is our very first phase in at the very first standard we will eventually get to phase in two and phase in three and then our final standard in the year 2020 so as you can see in all subjects and in each of the subjects outlined on the slide, Katie is significantly outperforming the region in the state which is always great to report. Here we have all of the same data but reported out by our student groups and we still have our groups outperforming the region in the state with very very solid numbers and great great scores across the board. This next Next slide, there was a lot of talk as we rolled STAR out of what would be considered a post-secondary readiness standard. So how can we look at third grade reading and decide that this third grader is post-secondary ready? And what the state decided is, as we look at that phase-in system, we have our phase-in one all the way to final standard. This is our percent of students who've already met that final standard, even though they're not accountable at that final standard right now. So these are our students that aren't just meeting the standard the state is setting for us this year But they're already well surpassing that and as you can tell in Katy We're doing a fabulous job at getting our students already to the final standard well above what's expected of the state Then there's that advanced standard and that advanced standard is Where students are at the very top of the test missing maybe one or two or three questions and that advanced standard stays the same through all the phase-in processes but again you can see that we're significantly outperforming the state in each of these areas as well for our end of course we see similar results and this is at the phase in that satisfactory the very first phase in so the met standard for end of course and then a new process came in with our new accountability system and it looks at meeting or exceeding progress this isn't just about meeting a standard but how How are we adding value every year to students and watching them progress over time? So this meeting or exceeding progress, you can see that KDISD again is outperforming. We are taking students where they come to us and we are adding value and continuing to see them grow and not just settling for meeting standard. And on this slide we see the exceeds taken out and again we are outperforming the region and the state in this area as well for exceeding progress. These are all areas that are different from our former accountability system, but KDISD is already surpassing what we're seeing in the state, in the region, which means that we're having a grasp of these ideas and we're really pushing our kids forward to get to that next level. So these are exciting results to report. We still do administer tax and so it's reported in our taper results and this is cumulative pass rate. So this is taking the class of 2014 and looking at over their course of their high school career what's their cumulative pass rate so 98% of Katy ISD class of 2014 has has met standard on all the tax tests that they took so this is again a great thing to be able to report and as you can see higher numbers in the left-hand column than in the other two right-hand columns now we'll look at attendance dropout and graduation rates our attendance rates here again we're surpassing the two other comparison columns our annual dropout rate and in this one we're used to wanting to see the high numbers in the left-hand column but this in this slide we want to see a low number and we want a low dropout rate as you can see our dropout rate is half of the state it's seventh through eighth grade grade nine through twelve again significantly lower than the state dropout rate as we get into our graduation rate slides we'll start with the four-year longitudinal rate this is looking at a cohort of students who enters high school and four years later class of 2013 they leave us and for the graduation rate you can see each of the criteria down the left-hand side we consider students who graduated received a GED continued high school the next fall dropped out graduates in GED and graduates GED and continued rates so we look at all of these components together And again, with 93.3% of our students graduating from the class of 2013 compared to the region and the state, we are doing a great job getting our kids ready to go to the next level. There's also something called the federal graduation rate. And there's a difference in the state in the federal accountability systems. There has always been. The federal graduation rate includes two additional lever codes that we don't as the state. But we're reporting this here as well. the class of 2013 again outperforming in KTISD as well as the five-year graduation rate so students who come to us and they take just one additional year so we're recouping students through that process as well when we look at how students are graduating we want them to graduate on the recommended or the distinguished plan we like that they're graduating with a high school diploma but we want it to be one at the highest level so when we look here we can see that KDISD is graduating students, 84.2% from Class of 2013 earned either that recommended plan or the distinguished plan diploma. And then we look at it as every student who graduated in 2013, the percent receiving that diploma as well. When we go on to SAT and ACT results, we can see that our class of 2013, we tested more students, a higher percentage of students than the region or the state did. So we're getting more and more students in to take the tests, which is very important because that's about opportunity. But we also have a higher percentage of students that are scoring at or above the criterion as well. So So it's not just about getting them there, but having them prepared to score at high levels on SAT and ACT. Our average SAT score is 1580. That's significantly higher than the state average of 1422, which increases opportunity for where students can enter college. And then our average ACT score is again significantly higher than the region and the state at 23.6 for Class of 2013. For the violent and criminal incident portion, this is a requirement. We go through level four offenses and level five offenses, which are all mandatory placements. There's no discretion for these placements. And so before you, you'll see a chart of at each of the levels, high school, junior high, elementary, and then a district total for the number and percent of each of those incidents. We address decreasing the number of these incidents through the district improvement plan and you can see one of the quotes here from the district improvement plan. The district will provide presentations, training and resources to make sure that we are decreasing these numbers and to continue to keep all of our students safe. post-secondary student enrollment and academic performance this is where we look at we take our files that we send in and we look at how our students doing after they leave us so before you from the class of 2012 because we this is even an additional year behind because we have to wait until they're actually at the post-secondary institution and stay there for a year and but it looks at the number of students who are in a four-year public university in Texas a two-year public college in Texas an independent college and university in Texas not trackable is there are data anomalies maybe they didn't have a social security number with us but they do at the university or vice versa so those are some some data anomalies and then not found that may look like a strange number but in actual when you when you examine the data behind this these are students that just weren't found in a Texas institution they may be at Stanford or Harvard or Princeton they're just not at a Texas institution so that's not necessarily students that didn't go anywhere quite the opposite in many cases and that's out of our total high school graduates for the class of 2012 so in summary this is all very good news we have superior academic results in KTISD. We have a strong college assessment performance across the board, high graduation rates, and then it's always nice to see that we have continued post-secondary success also, that they didn't just do a great job when they were with us, but they're continuing to do a good job when they leave us as well. Now it's time for any discussion. Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. Thank you for the

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outstanding briefing and thank you Mr. Fraley for continuing to improve on the the academic performance of all of our students and I know it's been difficult with House Bill 5 our graduation rate is at the top of the state the top of the region what's the primary reason that we're still having students drop out is there is there one particular thing that that they're hitting what I would add

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also one thing dr. Madney it's hard to know because when they drop out we don't always get a report back from them but some of the things we learned that are important and we discussed this earlier tonight is students have to feel connected to the school they have to have some caring adult in their life at the school and preferably have a we call that level of support about the community we found that students who are engaged in co-curricular activities and have higher GPAs Mr. Bryan gives that report every year and it's very accurate they tend to stay in school, they tend to have fewer other things we would call negative behaviors. And so that's why you've asked me to continue to look at ways to engage more and more students. The other thing is you have to have quality instructional programs and quality support mechanisms for the instruction. And we have that. My goal is 100% graduation rate. Okay. You all would like that. that there are too many variables that we deal with that will probably make that a very difficult and to achieve, I don't wanna say we can't, but very, very difficult to achieve. We have a lot, we're a fast growing district, and the fact that it is the number that it is, it is very, very good, and it shows that the campuses are doing a great job of finding these students when they enroll, and they're getting them engaged, they're supporting them, and the expectations from the family. Families are pretty high as well. But why they drop out, there are various reasons. But we focus on what we can do to keep them in.

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Thank you.

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Any other questions? I have one on the post-secondary enrollment in Texas. Well, of course, that not found category, I know My daughters have graduated last year, and I know many of their friends that went to schools out of state Is there a way I guess or to move toward in the future that we could potentially track up and? back you know the post-secondary

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Graduation rates and all of that there actually is it's not through this system specifically But there is a company that does provide that and has about a 95% participation rate of colleges and universities Across the nation and we just began working with them And so that's that's exactly the reason is because of our high Non-trackable students as we want to know we want it We want to validate that that our suspicion is correct that those students are somewhere outside of Texas. Yeah, I

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Pretty well know that but it yeah Yeah, it drives me crazy to have that as such a large number, and you just don't know.

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As far as I can add, and again, the Communications Department and I, we've been talking about this, is putting us on our website so the alumni from across the country can let us know where they are and work with our foundation as well. Because right now it's hard for them to let us know what they're doing. So we've got to have a system in place to do that. And so last fall in my Communications Department, they were kind of involved with something else. And so we'll be looking at that work during the springtime so we can put in place maybe maybe for next year We hope so No promise no pressure But but we are we're looking at that. We do look forward to having that data January 21st 2016 I'm like

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Hey Other questions, thank you very much With this agenda item was also a public hearing However, since we had no one sign up for that public hearing I will now close the public hearing It's not next item on our is a report for the Katie's Yes. So moved.

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Yes.

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We will go to our report, the Katie Summer Academic Term Update, presented by Mr. Marcus Forney. Welcome, Mr. Forney.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, President Mahalski, Superintendent Fraley, Board of Trustees. Let me just begin at the outset by saying typically I have our KSAT specialist presenting, and that's Ms. Adella Nugent, but she has retired in December, so we wish her well. And so tonight I will be presenting information about our KSAT, KD Summer Academic Term for the 2014 school year. Our mission statement states, KD Summer Academic Term, KSAT, is a seamless extension of the the academic school year which provides KDISD students differentiated learning experiences and opportunities to earn original and restoration credit. First program in our case that I wanted to highlight is the elementary program which consists of our ESOL bilingual pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students, our English language development students grades one through five, fifth grade SSI star summer clinic reading and math and student student enrollment was approximately 1,745 students. ESL bilingual pre-k and k are the largest programs with 1,182 students 68% of elementary and summer school. Pre-k and kinder bilingual ESL this is an intensive language program for pre-k and kindergarten students currently enrolled in an ESL or bilingual program. This program focuses on language development and the skills needed to be successful in the next grade level. The Department of Other languages determines if a student is eligible for this program based on state guidelines. This program is a Texas state mandated program. Pre-K and kindergarten students benefited from tuition-free programs, breakfast and lunch service, as well as transportation provided within the students' transportation cluster. The English language development program is an intensive language program for students of limited English proficiency who participate in ESL or bilingual and meet the following eligibility criteria. criteria. The student is identified as an immigrant born outside the U.S. and is within the three years of attendance in the U.S. and the student has not yet scored above the intermediate level on the TELPAS composite score or does not yet have a TELPAS score. This program is funded through a Title III grant and the English language development students benefited also from tuition-free programs, breakfast and lunch service, as well as transportation. The fifth grade SSI STAR summer clinic and testing, the STAR clinic The first clinic is an intensive intervention program provided by the district only for students who did not meet the expectations on the second administration of the fifth grade reading and or math star test. The second group that we will highlight is the junior high group. Junior high summer academic tournaments for those students in grades six, seven, and eight who did not meet the junior high promotion standard during the regular school year and who need to restore credit in order to pass to the next grade level. students are required to take two courses and there is a tuition fee of $150 per course the academic summer term includes the core subjects areas are math English science social studies and reading it also includes the newcomers and intermediate and advanced English and math for ESL learners students attending the academic campus benefited from breakfast and lunch service as well as transportation the eighth grade SSI star clinic and testing these are the intensive intervention programs provided by the district for those students who did not meet expectations on the second administration of the eighth grade reading and our math star test instruction is designed to meet individual student needs in order to improve basic reading and our math comprehension and test taking skills again this program also is a state mandated program in the eighth grade SSI star students benefited from tuition fee programs as well as breakfast and lunch and transportation services our next Next group is our high school group. High school students are able to receive original credit and credit recovery. The high school program provided credit courses to be taken in order for students to complete courses for on-time graduation or to repeat courses not successfully completed during the regular school year. These were tuition-based courses. The cost was $200 per semester and all course offerings were subject to having sufficient enrollment and certified instructional staff. Students benefited from transportation services provided by the district. OLA, KD Online Learning Courses provided credit recovery through computerized instruction. This is an open exit program allowing students to work at their own pace. ADISD students in grades 9 through 12 who failed a core course during the previous school year and received a grade of 60 to 69 are eligible to apply. Students must receive approval from their home campus and counselor to ensure eligibility. On mastery of the curriculum, students may exit the program. The course credit is restored. The failing grade is replaced on the transcript with a 70 and then calculated into the GPA. The summer start end of course remediation opportunities, also the remediation classes were offered for those students who needed to retake any start end of course test in July. Students received no course credit for attending any of the remediation sessions. There is no cost to take these classes to the students. All classes were held at Morton Ranch High School and students provided their own transportation. Snack items could be purchased or the student may bring their own lunch. Students were encouraged to attend their selected sessions daily to get the most benefit from that particular program. Students could attend multiple sessions if needed and the council was available for advisement. Our next slide highlights the number of students that we had participating in our 2014 KSAT. I just want to highlight at the bottom. We had four elementary campuses. They included Huxle Elementary, Stevens, Patterson, and Rylander. And the two junior high campuses were McDonnell and Morton Ranch Junior High. Three high school campuses that we used on this past year were May Creek High School, Morton Ranch High School, as well as Raines High School. Notice the numbers of our elementary students for this year. we had 1,740 students, 660 junior high, 2,878 high school students, and a total of 5,283 students. And this slide just basically shows the number of students who were attending and the amount of credit that was either earned or recovered. That number was 3,606 credits. Also note, for note there that's important, that we had 525 incoming freshmen who took took a summer course in preparation for high school. Our next slide basically shows our KSAT fees that we have. All elementary programs are tuition free. Our SSI STAR program, grades 5 and 8 also tuition free. Our exit tax, EOC claims were tuition free. But the credit recovery was a tuition based course. Junior high, of course, again, $150 per course. And high school, $200 per course. Also of note, we do have scholarships that are available on an as needed basis.

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Our next slide shows our expenditures that were incurred during 2014. Our grand total at the bottom was $1,489,874 in terms of the cost of the program. Our next slide basically shows the revenue that was taken in against that $1.4 million, dollars 652 thousand six hundred ninety five dollars which brings the cost of the district to eight hundred and thirty seven thousand one hundred and seventy nine that was cost of about 158 dollars per student time we open to any questions that you may have mr. president mr. Rowe when you mentioned

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two programs that were state mandated you will receive any type of reimbursement for those mandated courses or is it all just on us I'm not sure of

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that response I can't get the response to you on us

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I could add the state used to provide some supplemental revenue and I believe that ended when they kept the budget years ago any other questions um I'm

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Kind of glad we got this report right after Dr. Matney's presentation before, because we were talking a little bit about dropout rate graduation rates and things of that nature. To what extent does this, and especially, I guess, at the high school level, and specifically, I know, COLA, help in credit recovery that helps our students graduate either on time or shortly after their scheduled time?

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This KSAT program gives our students another opportunity to be able to gain credit that they may have lost during the course of the school year. I will consider maybe comparing the KSAT as analogous to a safety net for our students, particularly those who did not pass during the course of the regular school year and also for those who are trying to recover credit at the high school level as well as on the junior high level.

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So it was reasonable to say that these opportunities are just another tool that we have for dropout prevention? Absolutely, yes, sir.

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Okay, no other questions? Thank you very much for your report. Yes, sir, and let me just say in summary that we will be identifying the campuses for 2015 this week. Okay, very good. Thank you very much.

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Our next item on our agenda will be our open forum. So at this time the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons who wish to speak. By Board policy, a maximum of 30 minutes have been allotted for this forum. The time allowed will be divided equally among those requesting to speak. The maximum amount of time allowed for any one speaker is five minutes. Individuals who have written comments to present to the Board are encouraged to provide the statements to the Assistant Superintendent for School and Community Engagement, Dr. Andrea grooms who is to my left on that side of the room these written statements will be shared with the board due to posting requirements of the open meetings act the board is only able to respond to a presentation that is directly related to a posted agenda item for clarification purposes the open forum is not a dispute dispute resolution forum the board is not trying to prevent any patron from speaking the intent is to redirect patrons to the proper grievance process so that action can be taken as appropriate employees or members of the public who wish to express complaints about a student matter or district personnel are reminded that they must follow and exhaust all administrative remedies prior to presenting complaints to the board as I announce your name please come to the mic and state your name tell the board whether or not you reside in Katy ISD and whether or not you have children presently enrolled in Katy ISD we have two speakers this evening so each it will be allotted the full five minutes our sergeant-at-arms miss Courtney Doyle will give you a verbal indication of when you have one minute remaining. Our first speaker tonight is Glenda Patton. Welcome Mrs. Patton.

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Board members, my name is Glenda Patton. I do reside in Katy ICD. I reside in Wood Creek Reserve and I'm here with a couple of my neighbors. We're having some problems with the afternoon pickup traffic that goes through the streets in the residents. As a result of this, someone, we don't know who, took it upon their own to take our snap picture of what our well-being and our safety should look like in our neighborhood and took it to the city. And as a result, we have an ordinance number 2661 that went into effect September 29, 2014. I did provide each board member with a copy of that ordinance. As a result of getting this ordinance, there was one of the residents who addressed a letter concerning the ordinance and that was submitted to you also. That was submitted to the city. The same group, I don't know who they were, put a copy of an explanation in the paper. I didn't necessarily agree with that. I don't think that this needs to be a public thing. I think that it needs to be settled between the between the residents and the school I don't think we need to advertise that I want to share with you that I have resided in Katy for the last 30 years I have three adult sons who went through the Katy ISD school district I support you 100% when I'm with my friends I do nothing but give you accolades for the great job that you're doing that you did then and continue to do so this is why I feel that something like that should not be put in the newspaper and I feel that if there need to be changes I think everybody involved in the changes need to be a part of the decision or the discussion we knew nothing about it as a result of that we looked at our door one day and the city was placing the signs signs, no parking signs on school bus yellow poles on every lot line inside the school zone. It looked like you were entering the Southwest Freeway. So as a result of us calling and going down there, in about a week they came back and removed almost all the signs. They discovered that it was overkill. I mean the value of our homes immediately went down. Nobody's going to buy a home with all those signs on every single lot line on the north side of our street. We had nothing to do with it. We were not aware of it. We looked out. The signs were being put up. We looked up later. The signs were being picked up. Okay, as a result of that, with the traffic that's coming through our neighborhood, we do have problems. People are turning around in the driveways to cut in line and all this. But what they have to realize is every child on my street does not attend school. Their children are not playing. So when you make a U-ey in the street or you come to the driveway and turn around, there's a possibility you may hit a child. So our concern first and foremost is safety. And I'm going to tell you why I'm a proponent of safety. When my children were attending KDISD, my youngest who is now 22 was hit by a car at at Nottingham Country Elementary within the school zone. I'm at work in Houston. I get a phone call telling me that my child is going to be taken to the medical center and I have to meet them over there and he's being taken by Life Flight. And then we'll forget it was a Friday afternoon, it was raining. So I had to leave my job in Houston, go pick up my husband and we had to go to the hospital in the medical center to meet my first grader who had just been hit by a car inside the school zone of Nottingham Country. And when I get there he's strapped to a board, me not knowing what's going on. They go get me a counselor quickly. My husband being an EMT he understood what was going on. So I don't want another parent to go through this. But if things keep happening and there are rules put on top of rules, I mean you got your common sense rules and And then you've got your school zone rules. And now we've got the signs up. So we have, like, rules stacked on top of rules. And when you do that, that gives people an opportunity to break all the rules. So what we're doing, we're proposing, asking you if you can help us with this, if this traffic can be redirected to a street outside the school zone, which is Wood Creek Bend. There are no houses on Wood Creek Bend. This is all we're asking, if this is possible. And if you want us to input on that, I mean we can't but sooner or later something is going to happen It's not going to be a positive thing Thank you

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Thank You miss Pat me if I could ask you real quick So you said you gave us a copy of the ordinance?

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Yes, I did to give you a copy of the ordinance a copy of the article that was placed in the paper all we will

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Get that appreciate and we're talking about Wood Creek Elementary School Okay, thank you very much Our second speaker tonight is the KDISD FFA. Our two members of the KDISD FFA, welcome this evening.

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Good evening, Board President Mr. Michalski, Superintendent Fraley, board members and guests. My name is Haley Thompson. I'm the president of the Morton Ranch FFA chapter. I'm here to represent all the KDISD FFA exhibitors and members showing at the KDISD Livestock Show and Rodeo located at the pavilion right over here. We would like to formally invite you to our show February 19th through the 21st. The buyers auction and dinner will be held on the 21st of February. Our barbecue dinner will be served at 11 a.m. in the ESC for all of y'all. We would love to see all of you there as this would be a great opportunity to support FFA exhibitors and members. Thank you in

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advance for attending. Thank you very much for coming and inviting us and I can say I have attended before and it is a great event. Thank you. Mr. President, I want to

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recognize we have probably the largest FFA chapters in the state of Texas and these young ladies and young men do an outstanding job and they work. They work. We appreciate you guys very much. Thank you very much We into all of our citizens community members and folks who donate to the auctions It's amazing what the screening has done even in tough economic times. They still support the project. So thank you

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That's what you guys do. Thank you. Thank you. We get your cohort to introduce herself

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My name is Natalia Torres Perez and I'm a part of the Tompkins FH

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Okay, good. Thank you. I'm a jacket. Let's see the back of the jacket

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I'm kids there you go all right thank you for coming tonight for the

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invitation I will tell you we've the last year we had on display in the hobby airport more mention of a jacket more than Katie

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all right trustees I will now direct you to the consent agenda portion of our agenda tonight president mr. Adams move the board trustees

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approved consent agenda is recommended in items 9.1 through 9.12 second have a

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motion by mr. Adams seconded by mrs. van that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda is recommended in items 9.1 through 9.12 all those in favor please raise your right hand say aye motion passes 6 to 0 well direct you to the discussion action portion of our agenda and our first item is to discuss consider board approval of voting sites in option 2 for the May 2015 board election I will entertain a motion mr. president mr. Dubrow move that the

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board of trustees approves the voting locations in option 2 consisting of 5 early voting sites and 13 election day sites or May 2015 board election second

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I have a motion by Mr. DeBrell, seconded by Mr. Griffin, that the Board of Trustees approves the voting locations in option two, consisting of five early voting sites and 13 election day sites for the May 2015 board election. Do we have any discussion? Please note that we had a presentation and a lengthy discussion on this at the work study last week. So hearing none, we will proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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motion passes 6 to 0 next item is consider board approval of option B for the 2015-16 instructional calendar mr. president this door I move that the

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Board of Trustees approves option B for the 2015-2016 instructional calendar as

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presented by the administration okay have a motion by mrs. Doyle seconded by mrs. van that the Board of Trustees approves option B for the 2015-2016 instructional calendar as presented by the administration any discussion okay also discussed at length last week hearing them we will proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand say aye aye motion passes six to zero and our final discussion action item of the week is considering board approval for a proclamation for National School Counseling we present mr. Adams

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booth board trustees approves a proclamation for National Council

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of what we know is but have a motion by mr. Adams seconded by mr. Dorr that the Board of Trustees approves the proclamation for National School Counseling Week well is there any discussion before and I will read the park lamation shortly okay the proclamation for National School Counseling week is on February 2nd through the 6th 2015 KDSD is blessed with more than 120 school counselors who are committed to helping our students reach their full potential National School Counseling Week annually highlights the tremendous impact our counselors have and helping students achieve academic success and plan for their careers the proclamation states proclamation of the KDI 80 is D Board of Trustees National School Counseling Week whereas school counselors are employed in public and private schools to help students reach their full potential and whereas school counselors are actively committed to helping students explore their abilities strengths interests and talents as these traits relate to career awareness and development and whereas school counselors help parents focus on ways to further the educational personal and social growth of their children and whereas school counselors work with teachers and other educators to help students explore their potential and set realistic goals for themselves and whereas school counselors seek to identify and utilize community resources that can enhance and complement comprehensive school counseling programs and help students become productive members of society and whereas comprehensive developmental school counseling programs are considered an integral part of the educational process that enables all students to achieve success in school and therefore the Katie KDISD Board of Trustees do hereby proclaim February 2nd through the 6th, 2015 as National School Counseling Week. Signed this 20 day of January, 2015, Brian Mohoski, President, KDISD Board of Trustees. Is there any further discussion on this item? If not, I will reread the motion and we will proceed to vote. I have a motion by mr. Adams seconded by mrs. Doyle that the Board of Trustees approves the proclamation for National School Counseling Week All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye aye the motion passes 620 Trustees I will Point you to to the information items, and portion of your agenda that you have in your materials, donated items to the KDSD, and the quarterly investment report. Our future meetings, we will have a board work-study meeting on Monday, February 9th, and our regular board meeting is also going to be on Tuesday, Tuesday, February 17th. I would like to thank group 73 for hanging in here this evening and I will get you up before midnight so there being no further business we are adjourned at 828 p.m.