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Superintendent reports attendance initiative, summer programs, assessment schedule and salary-schedule delay after legislature
Summary
In his superintendent’s report, district leaders described a new attendance focus committee, summer school participation, assessment timeline updates, grant awards to teachers and a delay in finalizing the salary schedule while district staff interpret recent legislative changes and await TEA guidance.
Superintendent Brown and district administrators used their report to brief trustees on student assessments, summer programs, a new attendance initiative, grant awards and a delay in adopting a new salary schedule as the Texas Education Agency finalizes guidance after the recent legislative session.
Attendance focus committee Dr. Hale described an attendance focus committee formed after principals identified attendance as a priority. The committee aims to improve district-wide daily attendance toward a 97% target. The plan includes consistent messaging to families, tiered interventions (tiers 1–3) that campuses will adapt locally, age-appropriate attendance goals for students and regular data monitoring.
Assessments and summer school Administrators said preliminary 3–8 results would be shared with parents the following day and that final STAR EOC results are expected July 16; final 3–8 results were expected July 25. The district reported a summer school program running June 2–June 19 (8 a.m.–noon). Staff said 109 students were invited and 80 students were attending at the time of the report.
Grants, staffing changes Superintendent Brown highlighted several staff awarded mini-grants through the Ray Foundation for classroom projects and thanked the foundation for support. He also read a list of employee resignations and listed recent hires (a sample of names given in the meeting transcript). Principals were reported to be actively recruiting replacements for resigned staff.
Salary schedule and legislative impacts The superintendent told the board that finalizing the district salary schedule is delayed because the Texas Legislature changed funding formulas and the Texas Education Agency has not yet provided final guidance and numbers. Meeting remarks summarized the new law’s teacher raise structure as discussed: the district expects statutory teacher raises (the transcript referenced amounts that staff said will vary by experience, e.g., a larger raise for teachers with five or more years of experience). Administrators said the district must translate legislative language and TEA guidance into a local salary schedule and budget and that work would continue in July, with the possibility the district would adopt an initial budget based on current numbers and amend it later if TEA numbers arrive late.
Other items Superintendent Brown introduced Patrick Kamisky, the new city manager, and noted ongoing intergovernmental cooperation among the city, county, district and hospital district.
Quotes from the record - Dr. Hale (attendance committee lead): “We would like to be at 97% district wide, and so we have put together an attendance plan.” - Superintendent Brown on TEA timelines: “If they don't get it to us in time, we would probably pass a budget that's based on what we've had this year. And then as soon as we could get it together, we would come to you guys and get that amended and have to back pay and things like that.”
Administrators said additional details on salaries and budget implications will be presented when TEA provides final numbers and district staff complete modeling.
