Trustees to get update on campuses, STAAR
The Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. today in the boardroom at the ECISD Administration Building, 802 N. Sam Houston Ave.
Board members will consider, among other items, the 2011-2012 District Highly Qualified Teacher Status report as well as hear a report on Permian High School, Hood Junior High and Goliad Elementary, the three schools rated economically unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency.
At the Oct. 18 trustee meeting, Goliad Elementary was required to submit a 90-day school improvement plan, which includes targeted performance areas, strategies and evidence of impact, to the TEA. Permian and Hood were not made to submit an improvement plan.
Trustees will also discuss the STAAR end of course exams and the Strategic Plan update.
Mike Adkins, director of information for ECISD, said due to the transition from TAKS to STAAR there will be no accountability ratings this year and there will be no Student Success Initiative (SSI). SSI is the statute that requires fifth and eighth graders to go to summer school if they fail the reading or math TAKS test.
Adkins said, in an email, that most, if not all school districts, wrote this requirement into policy somewhere and the State recommends that districts simply suspend that portion of their local policy for the 2011-12 school year – that keeps districts from re-writing policy now to exclude SSI requirements and re-writing it again when new requirements come down.
Also on the agenda is a request for approval of a School Heath Advisory Council (SHAC) member.
