EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from Comal, Judson & Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISDs
Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD will meet April 19 at 6 p.m. 1060 Elbel Road, Schertz 210-945-6200. www.scuc.txed.net/scucisd Judson ISD will meet April 21 at 6 p.m. 8205 Palisades Drive, Live Oak 210-945-5100. www.judsonisd.org Comal ISD will meet April 28 at 6 p.m. 1404 N. I-35, New Braunfels 830-221-2000. www.comalisd.org MEETINGSWE COVER 1,800 responses, Ealy said. SCUCISD During his March 22 update to the school board, Superintendent Clark Ealy congratulated Steele High School on their success in the UIL One Act Play competition. The Steele drama students were named as an alternate in the next stage of the competition, he said. COMAL ISD During a Feb. 24 board meeting, Comal ISD o cials discussed how their special education department will likely surpass their budgeted expenses for the 2021-22 school DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTS JUDSON ISD During the March 24 board meeting, trustees discussed the importance of the SAT and ACT for students pursuing college after seeing a decrease in test participation. Trustees urged sta to get more students involved, relaying the importance of good scores. JUDSON ISD The board of trustees on March 24 approved moving two portable classrooms from Paschall Elementary School to Hartman Elementary School, a $161,968 project funded with the 2016 bond. SCUCISD During the March 22 board of trustees meeting, Superintendent Clark Ealy reminded trustees that the “budget season is upon us.” The rst budget workshop was held April 5, with ve others scheduled through August. Meetings will be held the third Tuesday of each month. SCUCISD Superintendent Clark Ealy gave board trustees an update at the March 22 meeting on the strategic planning process. An online survey garnered more than year. Comal ISD sta gave an update on di culties in hiring speech language pathologists and diagnosticians. NUMBER TOKNOW 65 The Comal ISD board of trustees in February approved 65 new campus-level positions, and $4.5 million was allocated to fund the positions.
SCUCISD superintendent discusses district enrollment SCHERTZ CIBOLO UNIVERSAL CITY ISD Super- intendent Clark Ealy presented the state of the district during a March 15 luncheon event hosted by The Chamber (Schertz-Cibolo-Selma Area). BY JARRETT WHITENER ENROLLMENT RECOVERY Student enrollment for the Schertz-Cibolo- Universal City ISD is rebounding after a slight decline between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ealy presented the SCUCISD enrollment numbers since the 2012-13 school year, highlighting an increase so far in the 2021-22 school year, after a decrease between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ealy said the 2020-21 school year numbers re ected 15,644 students enrolled. So far, the 2021-22 school year shows 15,878 students, with an anticipated increase to over 16,000 for the 2022-23 school year. Ealy said most students who transfer go to Randolph Field ISD, which re ects the community’s military ties. According to enrollment data, in the 2020-21 school year, 300 students transferred in while 1,591 transferred out. “The only people who transfer in are children of full-time [district] employees, or they are involved in the Interna- tional Baccalaureate or ROTC program, and their home district does not have those,” Ealy said. “We do not have open enrollment like Judson and Comal [ISDs], and some of the others.”
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SOURCE: SCUCISD COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Texas EducationAgency adds 24 teachers to better balance teacher vacancy task force
TEA TASK FORCE The Texas Education Agency on March 10 formed a teacher vacancy task force mostly comprised of district o cials and two teachers. On March 15, the TEA added 24 more teachers. Human resources and operations o cials Superintendents Teachers
BY LAUREN CANTERBERRY
The task force recommended adding more teachers in an e ort to ensure their perspectives were equally represented, according to a press release. Josue Torres, a fourth and fth grade math teacher fromDallas ISD, has been selected as the chair of the task force, which will be organized into several work groups to focus on speci c challenges identi ed so far. Visit www.tea.texas.gov for more information.
TEXAS EDUCATIONAGENCY The Texas Education Agency on March 15 announced plans to add two dozen teachers to the teacher vacancy task force following the group’s rst meeting. When the task force was rst announced March 10, 16 of the 28 orig- inal members were superintendents from across the state; 10 were district human resources and operations o cials; and two were teachers.
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SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Governor, TEA announce funding adjustment for school districts
BY SIERRA ROZEN
Previously, funding was based on the number of students who were enrolled and what the daily in-person attendance was for districts. “Providing this adjustment to the 2021-22 school year will ensure school systems have the funding they need to retain the best and brightest teachers
TEXAS EDUCATIONAGENCY School districts in Texas will now be eligible for an adjustment in their operational minutes for the 2021-22 school year due to lingering e ects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new change was announced in a March 29 press release and is a collaborative e ort between Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency. Eligible districts will have access to funding they may not have received due to declining in-person attendance rates. It will only apply to the rst four reporting periods of this school year, according to the release.
Gov. Greg Abbott
and provide quality education to all public school students across Texas,” Abbott said in the release. “We have made tremendous strides to return more of our students back to the classroom and will continue in our e orts to do so.”
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