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Residents offer tutoring help; pastor urges board to rescind appointment and comply with open-meetings rules
Summary
Members of the public urged transparency and offered to volunteer as tutors; a local pastor told trustees he had filed a lawsuit alleging the board violated the Texas Open Meetings Act in a board appointment and offered a settlement to rescind the appointment.
Three public commenters addressed trustees during the open forum, urging transparency, offering volunteer help for students and raising legal concerns about a recent board appointment.
Luis DeRusso, a Cedar Creek resident, said he is retired and willing to volunteer to tutor students during the school day. “I would be willing to volunteer and tutor students to help them catch up,” DeRusso told the board, and he asked that the district share its plan for addressing a low state accountability grade publicly so the community can help.
Deborah Carter asked the board for a written…
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