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South San ISD highlights benchmark gains, votes to buy 1,700 Chromebooks and accept LASSO grants with NIET support
Summary
District leaders reported mixed benchmark results and a plan to correct industry-based certification coding errors; trustees ratified purchases of 1,700 Chromebooks and 83 charging carts funded by Title I carryover and approved LASSO grant awards with NIET as provider.
At its March 16 meeting the South San Antonio ISD Board of Trustees heard a series of academic monitoring reports and approved several measures aimed at accelerating student achievement and ensuring test readiness.
Dr. Jennifer Gutierrez presented Career, College, and Military Readiness (CCMR) targets and secondary reading progress. The district reported a baseline of 24% industry-based certifications for grades 10–12 with a local target to reach 28% by the end of this school year and longer-term goals to reach 44% by 2030. Gutierrez said some IBCs were not properly coded in Skyward — the Texas Education Agency’s accountability feed — and that the district is retraining staff and will resubmit corrected data to TEA through the June resubmission window. "TEA has given us the opportunity to resubmit…
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