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Socorro ISD moves to measure meeting minutes to focus more time on student goals

Socorro ISD Board of Trustees · April 1, 2026
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Summary

In the March 31 workshop, trustees were introduced to a five-category time-use tracker that will count minutes devoted to priorities vs. other items; the board targeted raising minutes spent on goals and agreed staff will report time-use breakdowns going forward.

Trustees were introduced to a time-use tracking system intended to measure how board meeting minutes are spent and to help shift public meeting time toward student-outcome priorities.

Lone Star coach Ben Mackey described five categories for accounting minutes: priority-focused work (goals and constraints), systems/processes (voting items), other public…

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