 And good evening, thank you for being here. My name is Lourd Kiekien, I'm the Executive Director for Leadership SAISD. I'm very thankful that Lourd Kiekien is here. Our mission at Leadership SAISD is to inform, empower and inspire specifically-minded individuals to become leaders within the SAISD community. So thank you very much for being here. I want to thank my current Board of Directors. My Chair, Victoria Moreno Quezada. My name is Andrea Rodriguez. Our Treasurer, Chula Boyle. Our Secretary, Mata Matines Flores. They've been in the red. Anita Oliva Martin, Romanita Mata Pareda. And Dr. Barbara Taylor. Thank you so much. Also some special guests here in the audience that I'm very thankful that are here. We have the Honorable John LaGoria for this event. First, the City of San Antonio's Department for the Culture and Creative Development. Thank you for letting us use this beautiful space. Thank you, Superintendent Matines. They represented Dean Oliva Martin. Thank you, SAISD Foundation and the Revard Report. And I would also like to thank the Elmo Bureau Company, who are parents in the SAISD community. This is the first of quarterly end chats that Leadership SAISD will be hosting. So please sign up on our website to stay connected. Like us on Facebook and share the information that you learned today with your neighbors, your families and your friends. We also have to put around no cards. So while this conversation is going on, please write questions and we'll be able to answer those questions for you. It is now an honor for me to introduce the Honorable Patty Radle. She is our President of the SAISD School Board. Mrs. Radle is involved in local community organizing, building a community and being a part of the community. She inspires me every day. And with that, I'd like to welcome Ms. Radle. Thank you very much. It's very encouraging to see graduates of the leadership program here tonight. Some of you that I've talked to who are thinking about it or you've applied with them down. You didn't have time to go to classes. I hope you'll keep trying. And it's good as well to see all the support of other people who have been supporting Leadership SAISD. So we're here tonight for a conversation. And we're here with Superintendent Pedro Martinez and Diego Lebanon. And we're here because we're all concerned and interested in education. Most particularly, we have some issues coming up on the November ballot. We are going out for a bond for $450 million. And we are going out for a tax ratification election, the result of which could bring in annually over $32 million to the district. The bond, again, to support our buildings. As much as we will have 13 buildings renovated and improved, it doesn't kill all our needs. And the teen army will, the tax ratification election will have a tremendous effect on what we are doing in the classrooms, as well as after school bringing up our classrooms and our programs and our opportunities for our students to 2016 and beyond. And we are involved in this because of our sense of equality, the right to equality for our students in a good education, not just within the district, but within the city. And if you travel to the north side and you see their schools, and if you've been in our schools in SAISD, you know that there is not equality. And you also know that the state has abandoned responsibility to helping with that equality. But we, as a school board and as a superintendent as a district as a whole, we are not going to abandon our children. It's our responsibility to try to do whatever we can to make sure that equality happens. And part of that has to be knocking on the door of our legislatures and letting them know how we feel. And we're glad for the bravery of Diego Bernal and being here and having expressed such support for our district. So I believe Mr. Martinez is going to begin and just as a little bit of introduction, many of you know that he was born in Aboca in Mexico. And at the age of five, he moved to his family, moved to Chicago, and he was raised there. And he got very involved in education through a very interesting commitment of his mom to the archdiocese who had helped their families so much when they came to Chicago. He is the oldest of 12 children, 10 of which are still alive. And he came to us by way of Nevada where he was a superintendent for the state of Nevada so that gives you a sense of the respect that he has had in his dealings with superintendency. And we were very, very lucky to have him join us here in San Antonio a year and four months ago. And then also with this, again, Diego Bernal, who you've heard a lot on social media lately or in the newspaper about the tremendous work he's been doing by visiting schools within his state district and having deep conversations and the report that he came out with that showed that he did some good talking with the teachers because so much of what was in the report resonated with what we're seeing in the district. And he is planning on challenging others to take that report in other districts and say, does this resonate? Does this make sense? And then hopefully, next question, can we get together and do something about it? So with those reintroductions, I'll go ahead and turn it over to Pedro and Diego who will have a conversation on these issues. Thank you. And then, you see, for teachers, there's always and your employment agreement is always and others do this as a sign as well as other things as a sign for this stuff. All right, so just so you guys know, we've done this a couple of times, we were doing a report piece in San Antonio at the same time. He and I visited the state of San Antonio. What I thought we would do, because I want to talk a little bit about I don't understand that. I want to talk about what it was like to come up here and tell us what that was like. These aren't interested, by the way, because I'm going to say I did that. I went to, I started off with more teachers and then I ended up at a part of the elementary and the employment school. I was back to my school for a year and got into doubt and they landed at Jefferson Valley. And so my interest was just a little guide and you've heard this before, you've got to know what it's like to sell this sort of thing. My senior year of high school, there was a teacher named Nita Harlan. I was in GTE, which she asked her class, who would like to take or study for anything you could do there? And we always were involved, 28 of us, 32 of us. And then she said, great, I'm so happy to thank you that we're going to meet before class. We're going to meet before school because Jefferson didn't offer the class, it didn't offer you. And so maybe the first couple of times we met, everyone showed up and as time went on, that number got smaller and by the time it took the exam, it were five of us and three of us passed. So I was feeling pretty good about myself and getting this led, I didn't let Jefferson, where on my first day I learned what email was for the first time and what email was for the first time and what was for the first time in the class at number five. And I encountered a classmate of mine who was from New Jersey who told me right away that he was a tired senior year taking nothing but taking course. So then you take those experiences and you go to my first class and I realized that the people I'm sitting with are smart people. Then the friends I still have were who I went to Jefferson and back into the school. But there's no way that my school friends or my class could ever compete if they don't have the same class to choose from, they don't have the same opportunity. So that was the moment for me where I became interested in education. It felt like there was a complication in what I was doing and that other people in the same situation weren't and there was nothing there was nothing regarding American policy that explains what we had with these issues. So, when he came I was very upset because as the time has gone on, as we've been it's like we are six or seven years now he's become increasingly upset and I like that. I guess it's important because to me it tells me that the interest here is doing for the right reasons is coming from the right places. So, I thought my first question was tell me what the thought you were reporting on the other what you had in the other and what now we need to do is to channel it. So, I had done my research before, you know, and I knew we were a high quality district. I also knew that this was like an answer. So, I was, you know, I saw that it was one of the vastest cities in the country. I felt that, okay, this is a district that is struggling and has at least the impact compared to other districts but I said, you know, I think this is a very manageable and frankly, you know, something that could be solved. I grew up in New York, Chicago. My high school was in La Plata. When I look at my old neighborhood when I go to the west side, I go to the south side, I get deja vu. When I go to some of our high schools, I get deja vu. It's literally the same type of students and children I grew up with. Good children, good families that are just trying to do the right thing and frankly just looking for opportunities. So, I knew there were such challenges. I think what surprised me the most when I came here is that so I thought I really was the poverty. I grew up in poverty, I just thought I understood it, right? In the city of Chicago, I could tell you the neighborhood, the blocks in the city, so I thought, did I get it? And I was in La Plata for five years. La Plata is one of the fastest-growing poverty rates in the country. So I thought, I got it, I got it. I came here and at first it was fascinating to me. It was fascinating, though. I have a family of five or two year olds and I noticed, you know, as I was looking at homes and I was looking at where to shop and where to household. Everything took an order. So, first I was making one and I would try to make one and say, my God, then I'd go to the south. My God, for some reason, C.C. of course used to be the the connector of that building. And then when I started turning to the neighborhoods really blocks the different sideways. I saw, you know, blocks that don't have rains. Everything is flooded. Families don't have a place to put their trash. And I thought, my goodness, this is what we fought so hard for in Chicago back in the 70s and 80s. And I really thought, you know, I really thought like, San Antonio is going to be way ahead of us in Chicago. Way ahead of us. I just felt like the San Antonio has a reputation of pioneering so many others. And so when I came to Southern District first I was very sad because I saw children that had the same struggles that I've had when I was a high school student in Chicago in which he and I were very similar in age. I thought that by now so many things would have happened to me. I think that as a time of our lives I got angry is that the more I understood and as I went to classrooms and I left the classroom for the second time this conversation, I look at the working conditions of our staff I look at the learning conditions of our children and then I drive by, right in that little shopping so I thought, where's Costco? Costco's over there, right? There's still a booth, right? 187. And I passed by some of the other high schools these are the old high schools these are not the new ones these are the old ones in our conversations we used to bring in a curriculum that's not a new school and I said, I thought it was a college I thought it was a community college I was like, what are we talking about? It's a community college and then we put in our schools that I'm there that they didn't have silence that they didn't have where the classrooms are 3, 4 or 1 here's a gentleman there are old radiators that are so loud that they just have to yell for the children to be able to listen where the lighting is so bad that you're in the back of the room like I'm looking at a coward how can they hear and see what's happening there's no technology and in many cases these classrooms are dead like that for years or decades and I thought, would somebody in those areas have an example of that so for me what it really brought out for me was a sense of injustice and then I started to demand it because I wanted to because the first thing you want is how did this happen and if you heard me in my community we showed property doubts and the difference one of the things that we did because I get a mind to it more is we actually took our 53,000 students figured out based on the average that they have an analysis of the median income of their families based on the plot the sense is that and here's what we learned so first of all state-wide our median income is over $60,000 the county right about the same amount by the way for more securities median income is well over $60,000 and in our district the median income is $30,000 we have schools at J.C. Bradford's on the west side median income is under $20,000 Sarah King Elementary School $20,000 and we won't use it the same to give excuses what I do is to share with our teachers and I try to think of being really sensitive because when you're meeting with parents not only are you the most educated person in the world most likely but you're also probably the highest being person and that creates a power dynamic that if we don't understand that we don't appreciate it we're not going to be able to touch on it and for me here I think again it's this it's like a mystery that I'm trying to understand and of course what we really get to be angry is one and some of them use the passive aggressive community you know what I'm saying you won't say it but I can tell because I've been in the region for a long time I can tell that some families when they drive by in the west side they drive by the south side there's a little bit of judgment they must live like that because they didn't care about education they must live like that because they're not working hard because you know they didn't do the right things and I can't help but push back on that because as I look at our children I see just amazing children and I'll just give you a couple of data points we have 10 aggressive goals a little about last summer and we wanted to be aggressive so we said no we've got to keep the conversation goes 5, there's a violation rate for the year 2020 both 10, 80% went to college including 10% go to TOA universities yeah but right now there's an amazing role model for a community going to Michigan at TOA university and one of the things that we saw in our history is that we have an average to go to college the majority and by the way are the gems of our country and I'll be able to say that but yeah we had children that were under matched one of the things that I challenged with trustees I think they got sick of the saying we asked every principal to announce where children can tend to go whether they intend to go to college what college, whether they intend to go to the workforce to the military and I said listen to where they're going but listen to who they are so listen to the value of the total listen to the value of the total the number one and number two students in that high school the students that are having national honor society and when you hear with all due respect a community college who are joining the workforce you gotta ask what happened what happened right? we have universities in general around the country they get free tuition and they're going to get in and these are like Yale and Stanford it's MIT I mean they care and they want their children they want their children to be on the phone and I said so we're not doing this we're treating ourselves it was last year our dad is not officially yet but just this last year alone we're expecting our graduation rate to be almost 85% 80% of the highest ever and we expect we have the highest college acceptance rate 70% including by the way 5% up from 2% of our students in Tealwood University ladies and gentlemen the number of students in Tealwood University the only limitation of academy 100% graduation 100% universities children's universities Stanford, Yale, Penn State, Notre Dame man we have schools like this and we work the one thing that I'm asking and let's go to your story so we had an ally for example who was at Yale who was an auditor at the Elimination Academy placement classes she did an amazing job to help her my question is does she and the art to survive at Yale does it get to Yale or Princeton or Stanford or Harvard they're just different worlds and I gotta say ladies and gentlemen the art society is not kind to people of power it is just not it is just cruel for people of power it is what it is growing up in poverty we probably saw things in Michigan we see things in some of our top it is just not kind to people of power so for me our goals, the other goals we have is to build that art because I want our children to be because I know they're just as smart as anybody else and I want the art to be strong because when they need that child I met somebody who was already two years ahead two years of college credit and I thought I had enough people and that person was thinking Japanese because there was so far ahead they got a double major in Japanese while we were studying the signature art of us and I thought that's my competition so that armor has to be built up so for us when we looked at these two doubt questions the bottom was nobody there were 12 or 13 projects that did not have a board for those main buildings since 1965 one of them had a little bit of work under the 1915 I will tell you if they're all the community, you know the board and the strip that they built out of the 2010 version you know basically they said after that 20 times they needed at least two more to finish up the work people were expecting it the only challenge I have on the 20th is the buildings that are not part of the work there's so many individuals they said what about YWA what about Art Garden what about Eilisho there's so many people when we started looking at the texture and it's another piece of art where I had the idea to talk about it so one of the questions that I get is well how are we going to rise to this community like we're a nation by the way anybody here there's a Jefferson area there's an Esmeralda I'm not I trust you but one of the things that I tell the businesses when you go around the state and you don't get a chance to be like in a whole part of the state maybe in a not-perfect city in the state make sure that we meet people that they can't be because when Papua was raised in San Antonio that money gets redistributed state-wide so the way tradition is funded in our state we're funded by families so when we get an additional dollar property it's immediately deducted in the state government and that money is redistributed in all parts of the state's money line the third problem is in gross money and so that's how they balance it there's no free lunch everybody you have to pay for education one way or the other in many states it's a government issue the sales taxes, income taxes, the property taxes here after the death it's all property taxes and our formulas now it wouldn't be wrong if the forms that have been there our formulas have not been adjusted in many cases more than a decade we get a 20% increase so above the government formula of students that are in their Spanish learners that are generally in poverty do this research do this research it's public everywhere look at how much it costs to serve a child who either has English as a second language with a special means child who when there's a poverty it's at least double or triple what it costs that's 93% of our students 93% we have the highest poverty rate in the country what's interesting is there's one district that I found that had a higher poverty rate than we did and that was round for 94% that was the only district I found that had a higher poverty rate than we did and by the way we have of course zip codes in the entire county so we had one chance and that was the lawsuit that the districts put in place all the districts were waiting literally it was waiting for the decision everybody was hoping it was going to be positive then we had some court decisions saying hey these formulas they went to the updated they're outdated and not sufficient but it's not our job to fix that it is the legislature immediately and the representative now will tell you immediately we heard from him all of our administrators said you lost your opportunity for any changes in government and in fact as we said to the government he might have said basically surprise we don't have enough money so pretty much people out here would be able to get it so that's the end the first is when you hear this a lot especially outside of you and that is about managing expectations when you've got a very poor population a bunch of poor kids in the district they're impossible they get the same level so do what you can but don't expect the same kind of machine and a lot of what you said in the face of that notion is I wanted you for a second to talk a lot of the second to one to talk about your belief in the sort of innate ability of all these kids and then I'm going to just for you guys to then ask me about the long and then I'm going to ask about the future so President Ravel says this is the best she says this is everywhere now she said our children have the same brain magic as any other child in the state, in the country it really is about us getting them those opportunities and of course tomorrow I'm going to teach you to do that and I have proof of this so I'll share with you some of that in our graduation, college rates it was an interesting one so algebra by upgrade is a big deal because when you get children this new year, math is one of the biggest gatekeepers in college and so we challenged our high schools last year our high schools are struggling they're struggling, they're at this level they struggle and we said across the board, we want you to increase the number of children in algebra by grade by, we set the target just to a white or 40% so we went from 500 students so almost a little over 700 students in algebra they said, hey then are you ready we said no, I mean look at the students, look at where they're at who can you push, who do you think will be ready so with the 500 students that you had before we had over 97% of them were proficient and over 40% of them were advanced so not only did they need the scanner they were advanced I mean these are students that should be unattracted calculus by senior year and Spanish should be attracted to engineers I mean that's the way I do so we went up to over 700 or 740 so here are the results proficiency rate, 97% advanced rate, 40% keep in mind there were more students and then we did the same thing with the LA those smaller numbers but we also got close by 40% and had similar results and so for me, it was just a group point of course the numbers I would be hiring this year it was a group point to our middle schools that they had the ability to do the day we support them day to day and it was a group point for our children and I'll tell you my goal my mission is becoming we've got to change the conversation because for so many years and I tell you it's important to expect more from us because for so many years we allow ourselves to have this simple mentality of we've seen this we've grown up and we've been to our school you know how many times it's moving in the last three years on the apartment it's had a boom we have over a thousand children here they're homeless so for a simple mentality it's this and we've got a challenge because this is generally the only true thing that really helps people out there's other things that help but to get them out is to have quality education and helping them have those opportunities and making them something that we are that's totally right there's other things that can help but I'll tell you that as the main solution and that's what I saw in my personal life I'm pretty sure there's many examples here in the audience so on the lawn and one of the things that was surprising to me I think the three-fourth decision you're not standing for you fit here in this position for five minutes at this first second you're already able to explain why you felt you had to be that now considering how you are versus I think a lot of us used to things in the same team, very long time long key up, let's have a community conversation which is really let's get people to talk about it and forget that I was the one who knew it but you don't get into this the right way, that's sort of narrowing for something so new tell us why you just had to think so quickly after a while so I got a first start myself and I've already agreed we and I were a team of eight so we all saw the same sense of urgency and I think that's a lot in our just needs to give you guys because you know the community so we talk about it in fact that several of these co-sessions talking about challenging the other industry we started writing about accountability last year I won't tell you the numbers of new principles of the anti-capacities it's not a small number many of them were by design and I'm still fighting some of those battles now about defending some of those decisions and I have our data and I can show it's happening because it's a lot of things that we're putting in our we can talk to our teachers and not say our teachers are working so hard they are doing so precious my thing that's leaving me at work right now is they feel overwhelmed they feel so much again and it's not when I ask them to work around hours or I ask them if they want to teach it they feel it and that is hard for them because they were not to do that so now we're pushing them to be out of comfort zone and that is hard and I said we're going to be doing all this and here I am going into these buildings seeing these learning solutions seeing the fact that we're struggling to put in strong anti-school programs we had some programs that were weak long and they were required by the state because those were children that either failed or put in fast nothing of enrichment here I am pushing more children to be in algebra more children to be in the best case from classes we're setting these up the rest of the laws I said are we really being fair and this is what the company that just sees a nice quote are we really being fair to our staff because we're definitely moving people out and I'll tell you talk to anybody that understands it may not, but it is there that there's an anecdotal pair but is it fair if they don't have the support and the resources and then once the three-core decision came down that was the one thing I said maybe I'm lucky I've always spoken last I've always spoken last I said maybe there's an angel when my sister passed away I was pushing those over me maybe there's an angel looking over me and maybe we're going to get this positive it's a three-core decision oh my god all these additional resources and then when I angered me I found out that the last time I did this session this thing had 6 billion dollars would it be they sitting up session's over but I'm putting it on the side 6 billion dollars would it be and I said who does that who does that sick we have a term to transform our history I've opened up that we needed to do this and at a minimum even if we don't sit here no longer and just like today we've got to have a conversation we have to have a conversation because if we're not having a conversation basically it's not fair to our families it's not fair to our children these agreements have been created over decades in fact we're going to have an event where it's just being thrown in a very very very similar presentation the history of the city of San Antonio and school districts and the systemic inequities that are created over decades and it's a very factual presentation it's very factual we're actually going to have a host community event along with the U.S. Syazema Foundation that will be announcing soon to actually have that conversation publicly so for me the company involved attached to our traditional lecture another reason that it's so compelling is the best our bonds attached to our traditional lecturers and gentlemen imagine Jefferson High School who was now going to be an international faculty in high school we'll be able to design that building which is beautiful so we'll be storing it with an international faculty in the frame of life but then we'll also have the resources of the TRE to put into problematic enhancement because we know that we had an ID diploma we had a small group record that we knew from Burbank those children had the best chance to get into top colleges and Burbank is the most consistent of all of our schools most consistent we look at it over a decade why these are ID diploma children but they need additional support they need classes they need some of the initial support at the school let's go to the bottom I think that a lot of folks believe that say the bonds for the buildings they're looking at just that ability they're looking at just the ability and their minds are thinking that what we're saying what we're saying doesn't need this modernizing the building and I'm not sure that they quite understand the necessity the diagnosis of the situation why this bond is necessary to change the building I want you to describe what that means I'll just say it's not just modernizing the building it's not taking people and polishing it it's not just building it so I'll just give you an example of that so whatever you told me before and so this shot we have our three little hosts going to the schools so we have our science director and he shared with me to a vice university he shared with me that he walked into the science labs at Jefferson High School and many of them have not had money to water for more than a decade and he said so basically children have to go to other schools there was a lot of structural time and he was shocked he said he has to stand he said how long is this going to be more or not you know he fixed it he said it's very expensive for this it's not as simple as fixing something because again it's a very complicated thing and so for us the systems are updated it's not just about fixing the building it's having the learning conditions and I said for me tying it to our strategy Jefferson has to look like he was mentioned by William High School imagine what the history they have there we have Nobel Prize winners two of them that have come out of Jefferson High School imagine the opportunity we'll have to connect alumni in that kind of rigorous curriculum we have all the facility that meets those learning requirements as well as the dollars to be required and programmatic needs that it has it was a story that they told people they hadn't knew it was an old heritage but the company that manufactured the architecture doesn't exist anymore they don't exist so there are a lot of employees whose job is to manufacture our family parts for this architecture because it's the only place that they can get and we have to try to come up and go back adjusted to learn because these systems are so old and nobody needs the parts of the money and I was obsessed with what we know ourselves and so my question all the time is how are students who already established the same need to learn and develop these how are we supposed to do them and things are so important to them often on this wall it isn't just this I'm going to ask you a question I haven't asked you a question I haven't asked you a question because where I only felt this man was over Bapu's and he asked the question sort of quickly how can we let this happen and I think that is an important question you listen to what he's saying he's not just talking about our school he's also talking about our city he's asking a question so let's work this here and when I talk to you guys and the folks I've said exactly the honest ability is and when people are looking for a place to live they're shopping for a school because they're kids and their main their main manager is what's happening inside of those classrooms we'll get to the extracurricular categories for something in a second but let's talk for a second about what happens in the school in Dallas and Bell and how the TRE will change that so the message that I have for you is we just talked about a branch school a partnership with a foundation that I have not been able to respond to before I've been to other institutions to start giving us resources the part of your training which is the top university and I know you're here but one of the top innovation and transportation and it's probably the Mediterranean Academy and I'll tell you we have now these classrooms we have our teachers and they need to work in that 40 minutes they just do they have a little block by genius time where children whatever their strength is whether it's writing, whether it's science or math, they spend that a lot of time just doing math and they're in math so if you're going to have grades they're in math, so K3 is a math so if you have a kindergarten they're in math, they'll go to a first grade classroom and it could be with first grade students by the way, if somebody's struggling it's all over the teams so, you know, math between the two buildings of Austin Academy and POSDAC, we've never had more than 5% of students never more than 5% of students in the last 5 years we now have more than 1,000 students by the time this program is completed we'll close the existing POSDAC programs we'll have 20,000 students we have families coming from everywhere the Austin Academy which has never had more than 180 students who were over subscribed in kindergarten first grade, and this is a K3 building in Crete Bay next year we're already scared here a little bit of what's going to happen in the future never had that high school in parts of the HB that's also going to be on that campus in Tusha so when I look at that program then I say, okay, we're ahead of what we see as future development there but let's go to the east side in the east side, here we have we have Sam Houston and we have Davis Middle School both of them are out of question you're seeing those, imagine there's all these resources that we could do in creating an innovative program Pre-K-12 in most of the campuses we're seeing those, we already have a traditional academy that we're moving away and we want to make sure we can cast those we're talking to the principal by expanding to grade, by the way it's first year, 4th to 6th grade already one of our top preschools in every subject in our industry those same schools in Australia and other places in our business so what the TRE is going to be able to do it's going to allow us to take something that's very innovative ideas whether it's innovative or it doesn't mean exciting on the west side we have Lafoya, Irving, LaNear they're all part of the bond when you connect them with the TRE and JT Breakfast, one of our oldest elementary schools we can do some family that things that I believe we can do and we can again, this will help us but that's how we're going to do it so I got the signal that we're out of time for this part and I think this is the one we're going to take questions and questions they're going back to the TRE and you have that point which is one that I really think is both a little bit stupid and tax-free but you have to find a little bit to stay fine in what they'll do sure, sure so this is really about the TRE so first of all there's a couple of things you need to know so when the board voted on August 15th to pass or go for the TRE immediately that tax went into effect and no greater means to go for the bills so just know that it's a 13 cent tax it's already in your bills so it's not an additional tax and then the bond when you pay them so you put it into the bond they impact literally until a year or two from now that you pay them but the 13 cents is in there what's great about the TRE the state said look we're not going to just upon us but if you're willing to help yourself we will match whatever you raise the dollar per dollar so we can mention our tax payers $15.6 million the state matches it with another $16 million and it doesn't go away and unless we become a very wealthy district we don't need that on the state so just to make that point again right now we're going to say before we're here today the state would collect money from the district and we're going to get back to Austin and then we'd be distributed around the state this is the first time where your money is all sexy and that money is locking it over to New York it's the first time that we are not going to keep the money generally low that's right and then for that problem that's a little bit more than that so we've never had that before we've been sort of swimming in that sea of waters created by the state this is the first time where your money goes directly to your neighborhood school the state comes in and they do a little bit more than that dollar cash and everybody again the 13 cents is already locked in your taxes so that's one of the things that that's what we're using in the past we don't know where to see it or how to get it so although for that we're ratified the tax if it's worth it again then the bill that's being done can definitely come out alright I think when we talk about this bond program we need to do this it's got to be a mess if you can't be with Victoria saying if you're coming back from another bond and you're getting the tax increase what we're asking is what we're going to spend in ourselves with that I wanted to say I'm going to eat a decilometer of the Texas Associates providing the education dual language is by far the most successful program the statewide passage has scarred at 77% but for the dual language kids it's already at 65 in climate so we're closing that achievement yet the Alice has dual language for the past 11 years a humanized English used to be also miserably that this required their dual language Alice is this required I know that there's plans to expand wouldn't you be at some point expanding the dual language this required in 75C so the short answer is yes in fact one of the things that I was very very proud of is we were able to bring back what we had and found this it was the person responsible for the expansion but the authorizing is the largest dual language program in the country the largest in the country called 50 all-interest schools in Growney that provide dual language and worldwide ice cream and she was the person responsible for it so she's already developed a private plan we're actually going to have a dual language summit the new one is going to be really helpful for the understanding of that dual language so that will be coming in the next month so wait for that announcement and then we're going to make an announcement so what we're going to hear about is being transformed to a global economy as early as the fall of something and then anecdotally some of you may have read and had experience that I visited all these different campuses in my house and one of the things that there's a section in the report that says for the schools in Michigan there's a dual language program it's like a cult they say it's the best thing and I don't mean right I don't mean because you've got the bottom of the language but everybody's science scores and their math scores are up so people who live in Growney swear about it thank you for their amazing work because to keep them still is they will take care of them but they're just old and they just have systems that ended up not being so the same as we see we're back into our enemies so you can stay at the school absolutely into the school by a bunch of division a bunch of holes are focused to this talking about accountability because I get this question these resources are past how are we going to hold accountable to make sure they're used well so first of all we have our temples that were very transparent in your report card for us to feel that by a bunch of respect we need to have where our planets is to take each of our schools and make them innovative and provide programming that frankly because aren't you going to have different needs and different needs and more people and you know I use the foster campus we're going to have a STEM high school that's focused on technology the other side of the academy is focused on the commandments and the arts are very innovative and we love the arts that's what an amazing writer that's what she is so there's something for somebody like her but then there's also this computer science and cybersecurity and so for us I said at the school why did Jefferson commit today's international program in the county we're looking at that piece in the data again what can we do about STEM especially in the future so for us we want to make these resources whether it's building resources or the TRE and put it together and create some magic with that because I believe in this fast-forward city that's going to bring back our families and the advanced learning academy is one of the best examples I have since it's first year of prison building very old for two months and I would ask anyway go see what's going on there you will follow up with the school I went to Penn College participating and it was so heartbreaking to see the condition of our special education so where in this roadmap is the innovation for children who will be licensed for children who are great candidates for being a general education classroom but we need different innovative ways of classroom for kids I don't see that in any of the conversations so how do you why? it's a great question so it's definitely especially the big part about our initiative so I'll give you an example so David Penelso who's one of the most neediest facilities I'm going to say one of the most unattractive facilities we have I'll try one there it was a low performing low schools last year they were amazing let's go ahead and take a look turned around in one year came out from improvement quite full campus now has a distinction in science they more than doubled in exports what I love is the story so the east side has a large percentage of special education and what I love was who put in technology and one of the things that I've heard this is what we've been talking about for the past three years I had special evidence that came to us and said I never thought that I should be able to do this type of work and then we had to balance the work in the teams by the self-contained classroom as well as children that were coming in together in classrooms and so when I saw the example of David's this is in the east side the second course that I was in and I saw children with a high percentage of already in middle school a special ed student and I saw this success immediately I told us that we got to get into this so as we modernize our classrooms in fact one of the first things I noticed is that they're prioritized especially in classroom life because we know the best and the strongest one right for a youth who is special ed it has to be the youth and the technology today has the power to help us do that the sad thing is you see my questions David is always showing to do that because they got back from the state to go to school and they invested in training teachers in this type of regular politics learning and invested in technology imagine if we could do that in the classroom imagine if we could do that in every special ed classroom and they did it in every classroom especially that especially that we'll be a priority and we're looking at models like Davis to guide us because we have all the answers but we have all the parents on this and just for the benefit of the audience for one of our SAACC families it's through the public education school system it's through their middle schools and high schools where their children have the only opportunity to learn those life skills they don't have the benefit of having financial resources to be able to send their children to or have specialized instruction at home that will teach children how to self care techniques I'm very lucky that I work for a corporation and my son's needs aren't that exacerbated but we as a family it's just very important for families like ours and families who aren't able to advocate that we keep pushing for innovative innovation and social inclusion and the way it's inspected and discussed and that's the whole example of the way that the law and tiered it the laws alone become a part of this and all of it is the same thing with you so thank you both let me be the guy who does a great job of staying but being that I am the position I have taken to take this moment to ask you guys to vote yes and vote for the development initiatives when you're alive and you've ever had the opportunity to vote on the social development innovation we've never had that opportunity and this is one of them and so that's how strong we get to feel about this and that's why I ask the questions but I ask that a lot of people understand not what we're trying to do but what it means on the ground in application and the way it can change students' lives and their trajectory for every single family that is what we're voting on and so I want to thank you for your time and for your camera and for what you're doing here you know as far as I'm concerned but also I want to make sure that I take the moment to make the presentation that we've got a lot of election day to make sure we vote yes and vote for this another community event tonight at Edison we're going to do this message again so we're having seven community meetings it's so important for us to get our information up to our voters for our parents and so this is the first of seven that we're going to tonight at Edison so that's where we're going to tonight thank you