Socorro Independent School District officials told trustees on April 16 that they identified and corrected discrepancies in the district’s TAPER submission and have reported the corrected file to the Texas Education Agency.

District leaders said the errors first showed up in January as an anomaly in full-time-equivalent (FTE) counts and later affected salary figures. The problem stemmed from an upgrade to the Munis ERP near the end of the district’s transition to Skyward; changed data tables caused some FTEs to be reported as less than 1.0 and created duplicate salary records in the reporting extract.

The misreported FTEs led to inflated salary entries in the published TAPER report because some teacher salaries were calculated against an understated FTE. Selena Stiles, chief human resources officer, and Alice Ramos, chief technology officer, told the board the live payroll and student systems were not affected: “Nobody was overpaid. Nobody was underpaid,” Stiles said. Ramos described technical fixes and reporting changes that the district has implemented.

Why it matters: the TAPER report is widely used by researchers and the public to compare district staffing and salary data. Board members pressed staff on how the district will make the corrected information visible to outside users who may still consult the originally published report.

What the district has done: officials said they have (1) corrected the data and submitted the updated file to the Texas Education Agency, (2) prepared a corrective-action plan that includes additional cross‑checks and variance reports, (3) converted some reporting from static PDF to Excel to facilitate reconciliations, and (4) added extra checks during the PEIMS (Public Education Information Management System) confirmation process. Chief Financial Officer Davis Solis and Interim Superintendent Mr. Vasquez said the district will work with public relations to post corrected figures and to clarify which published files are invalid rather than deleting historical reports.

Board discussion and next steps: trustees encouraged clear labeling of the original TAPER file as incorrect and asked staff to provide a public version showing the corrected numbers alongside the originally published figures. Vasquez said the district had already reported the issue to the commissioner’s office and would coordinate with the TEA. Trustees also asked for quarterly financial presentations and continued follow-up from finance, HR and IT until the new checks are fully embedded.

Evidence and provenance: district staff traced the discrepancy to Munis data-table changes applied late in the Munis-to-Skyward transition. The corrective-action plan was finalized in the weeks before the April 16 meeting and summarized to the board during the district reports portion of the agenda.

Ending: Trustees did not take formal action beyond accepting the update and directing staff to post corrected data publicly and continue monitoring. The district said it will continue outreach with TEA and provide board-level updates on progress.