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District to use STAR assessment as a data point; superintendent estimates roughly $20,000 annual cost
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Ricardo Sotto said the district will send STAR assessments built from class data to students in the coming weeks to provide one research‑based data point for teachers; he estimated the program costs "around 20 something thousand" per year.
District leadership described a planned rollout of STAR assessments intended to provide a sampling of student performance to help inform instruction, while stressing the test is only one measure among others.
At the meeting Dr. Ricardo Sotto said teachers will use STAR as “one data” point to sample how students are performing and to inform instruction. He said the district will send assessments built from class data to students “sometime in the next month or so” and emphasized that the STAR result is not the sole indicator of progress, noting there is “a lot of anecdotal material that teachers use.”
When asked about cost, a board representative asked, “do you know how much it costs per year?” Dr. Sotto responded informally, estimating “twenties, like, around 20 something thousand, I think, off the top of my head,” and said the district is preparing communications to inform parents about the assessment and how it will be used.
The discussion in the transcript records intent and timing for the assessment and an approximate cost estimate from the superintendent; it does not include a procurement motion, vendor name, or a recorded budget vote in the provided segments.
