San Antonio ISD trustee says district is on track to boost college readiness for students with disabilities; board approved conduct updates

Trustee Stephanie Torres, who represents District 5 on the San Antonio Independent School District Board of Trustees, released a Board Bites update summarizing highlights from the board’s Sept. 22 meeting. "I'm here to share with you highlights from our September 22nd meeting," Torres said.

Torres said the board received an update on a goal to improve college readiness for students with disabilities and that "we are on track with this goal." She added, "More than half of these graduates are college ready, meaning they are not required to take remedial courses in college." The trustee did not provide a specific percentage or supporting data in the update.

Torres also reported that trustees "approved updates to the student code of conduct for the current school year to align with the TEA required codes update." The Board Bites transcript does not include the text of the motion, who moved or seconded it, or a vote tally, and it does not summarize the substantive changes made to the code of conduct.

Torres closed the brief video-style update by inviting viewers to watch "the following video clips of our community engagement" and thanking residents for "allowing us to serve your children." The spoken update was followed by music and ambient audio in the recording.

The two main developments in the update are progress on the college-readiness goal for students with disabilities (more than half described as college ready) and a board approval of student-code revisions intended to align district discipline language with a TEA-required codes update. The transcript does not provide further details about the code revisions, implementation timeline, or any supporting data for the college-readiness measure.