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Board hears plan to expand specialty-school recruitment, dual-enrollment outreach and proposed rules for three-year graduates
Summary
Laredo ISD staff outlined a specialty-school recruitment timeline, an ApplyTexas application waiver week, expansion ideas for CTE programs including cosmetology/barbering, and a draft policy approach for allowing three-year graduates to qualify as valedictorian or salutatorian.
District guidance and counseling leaders presented trustees with multiple proposals and implementation items on Oct. 6: the specialty-school recruitment timeline, an ApplyTexas application-fee waiver week, CTE pathway capacity questions (notably barbering/cosmetology), and proposed procedures for allowing some three-year graduates to be eligible for valedictorian or salutatorian honors.
Specialty-school recruitment: Director of guidance Cindy Dominguez laid out the district's October recruitment calendar for specialty schools and CTE expos, including virtual presentations to middle schools Oct. 14'22, an in-person CTE Expo Oct. 22'23 for elementary fifth-graders, and specialty-school recruitment night on Oct. 23. The application window opens Oct. 27 and closes Dec. 17; students accepted in the spring would commit by Feb. 20.
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