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2019-20 School Report Card Now Available

December 17, 2020

 

The school report card (SRC) combines accountability ratings, data from the Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR), and financial information to give a broad view of campus performance. Available for each campus in Texas, the SRC is intended specifically to inform parents and guardians about a school’s individual characteristics and its academic performance.

 

Click Here to view TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports


SCHOOL FIRST MEETING

December 03, 2020

The School FIRST Hearing has been scheduled for December 14th at 6:30PM in the Elementary Library located at 43200 Hwy. 87 South.

This is the 17th year of School FIRST (Financial Accountability Rating System of Texas), a financial accountability system for Texas school districts developed by the Texas Education Agency in response to Senate Bill 875 of the 76th Texas Legislature in 1999. The primary goal of School FIRST is to achieve quality performance in the management of school districts’ financial resources, a goal made more significant due to the complexity of accounting associated with Texas’ school finance system.

The Texas Education Agency assigned one of four financial accountability ratings to Texas school districts, with the highest being “A” for “Superior Achievement,” followed by “B” for “Above-Standard Achievement,” “C” for “Standard Achievement” and “F” for “Substandard Achievement.


COVID Plan Updated

October 23, 2020

The Deweyville ISD COVID-19 safety team met this week to review and update our guidelines to ensure that the guidelines: 

·prioritize safety and continuity of operations,

·are aligned with current best practice recommendations,

·are clearly communicated, and

·are consistently enforced.

 This pandemic has created such a dynamic and evolving landscape that literally every possible solution can be viewed in contrast with past decisions and portrayed as unfair. Therefore, the team was asked to plan from a clean slate, making decisions based not on what was in place yesterday, but entirely on what is best for our students tomorrow. I believe that the efforts of the team have resulted in a plan that not only sets forth reasonable expectations but will also bring a focus onto more consistent application of the agreed upon guidelines.

The updated COVID plan becomes effective Monday, October 26. It can be found on the district website along with the most recent versions of the relevant guiding documents. If you have a question, please contact your campus administrator.

 

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COVID Update 9/21/2020

September 22, 2020

September 21, 2020                                                                                                                                           

 

Pirate Community, Faculty and Staff,

 

In keeping with Deweyville ISD’s practices to respond to COVID-19, we are notifying you that a student/staff member who was lab-confirmed today to have COVID-19 was present on the campus of Deweyville ISD on September 21, 2020. Due to privacy requirements, we will not be releasing the name of the individual or details that may identify him or her.

We are working to ensure the health and safety of our students and staff by isolating those in close contact with the student. After careful review, we have determined that the COVID-positive person did interact in a manner that meets the current guidelines for close contact with students, staff, or areas accessed by students or staff. We have sanitized the campus/building according to Deweyville ISD’s protocol and procedures.

 Operations at Deweyville ISD will continue as usual, and we will keep you apprised of further updates.

While we do not have reason to believe that those who were not in close contact with the infected individual have reason to be concerned, we ask that you, as always, watch for symptoms of COVID-19.

Any of the following symptoms indicate a possible COVID-19 infection:

o    Temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher when taken by mouth;

o    Sore throat; loss of taste or smell;

o    New uncontrolled cough that causes difficulty breathing (or, for students with a chronic allergic/asthmatic cough, a change in their cough from baseline, shortness of breath);

o    Diarrhea, vomiting, or abdominal pain; or

o    New onset of severe headache, especially with a fever or chills.

If you or any member of the Deweyville ISD community do begin experiencing any of these symptoms in a way that is not typical, we encourage you to contact your physician. We encourage anyone in the community who is lab-confirmed to have COVID-19 to please notify the school at 409-746-2731. Employees who are lab confirmed or experience symptoms, please contact your campus principal.

 

Thank you,



 

Dr. Keith Jones, Superintendent of Schools

Deweyville Independent School District

 


Superintendent Notes from TEA Meeting

June 24, 2020
SUPERINTENDENT NOTES FROM TEA UPDATE:
 
Today Mike Morath, Commissioner of Education, along with Representatives Huberty and Taylor, addressed school superintendents to provide information about what to expect for the upcoming school year. There was so much information that it may take a while to process some of the the implications of what was discussed, but I would like to provide a few highlights from my notes so we can begin to prepare for the fall.
 
The first major takeaway is that the government is investing a tremendous amount of time and resources on planning for continued distance learning. If the experts in charge believed we are going back to business as usual this fall, this is not where the focus would be. The state has come up with rules and funding formulas for all types of learning, spanning from in class, to hybrid systems, to delivery that for some groups would be entirely remote.The tone was not indicative of a normal return to school.
 
Next, it seems that schools will need to be prepared to deliver the curriculum remotely as well as in person from day one. Parents will not be forced to send their kids to school so you can bet that some will be staying home. We will be expected to keep the at-home kids and the in-class kids up to speed for accountability.
 
Which brings us to the next topic. Today the commissioner stressed that last year our focus was on providing instructional support but this year we will need to focus on providing instruction. Not only do we need to be ready to do distance learning, we need to be good enough at it that we can meet accountability standards. Accountability returns for the upcoming school year and we must teach all the required competencies. This year we have to be as good at teaching remotely as we are at teaching in the classroom. Commissioner Morath expressed the need to keep a health crisis from becoming a generational education crisis, and he is right. We can't lower our standards just because things have gotten weird. We've got to adapt and ensure these kids are not short changed academically. The call also stressed the discrepancies between the impact COVID has had on the education of rich kids versus poor kids. The lower income students have suffered more due to a lack of connectivity.
 
Reading between the lines, we see that a Representative was given the floor to address the connectivity issue. This tells me that there will be money tied to it, so I think schools that have not already done so should probably make room in the budget to ensure every household has a district supplied internet access device. Under the new system, the TEA will allow flexibility of curriculum plans via the waiver system. It was made clear that these are for the next school year only, and things will change again after this year. The Commissioner outlined two types of remote delivery and explained the funding implications for each.
 
Method A, Synchronous Instruction, involves teaching kids at home as though they are in your classroom. This is two way, real time instruction. You would take attendance and kids would need to be engaged for a certain number of minutes each day to qualify for full funding. PreK - grade 2 are not eligible for method A Method B, Asynchronous Instruction, is more self guided and there are four criteria for a student being counted as engaged for full funding. All grades are eligible for method B.
 
Regardless of the delivery method, we must cover all the TEKs and we will be testing and we will have accountability so the pressure is back on.
We will need to provide attestations that we are prepared to deliver instruction remotely and those will be available on 7/2.
Campuses will have to create plans addressing key elements.
There will be a grace period for ADA.
Funding formulas are now public on the TEA COVID-19 page.
For those of you who do not already know, the TEA is filing everything we learn in one handy and well organized website. If there is ever anything you want to know about doing school in COVID, it is either on this site, or it has not yet been decided. All the rules, formulas, guidance and communications are in one place.
 
Here's the link.
 
This is a lot to process but DISD Pirates are well accustomed to operating out of the norm. You are the best teachers on Earth and because of that, this is going to be an awesome year.
 
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School FIRST Hearing

November 21, 2019

The School FIRST Hearing has been scheduled for December 16th at 6:30PM in the Elementary Library located at 43200 Hwy. 87 South.

This is the 16th year of School FIRST (Financial Accountability Rating System of Texas), a financial accountability system for Texas school districts developed by the Texas Education Agency in response to Senate Bill 875 of the 76th Texas Legislature in 1999. The primary goal of School FIRST is to achieve quality performance in the management of school districts’ financial resources, a goal made more significant due to the complexity of accounting associated with Texas’ school finance system.

The Texas Education Agency assigned one of four financial accountability ratings to Texas school districts, with the highest being “A” for “Superior Achievement,” followed by “B” for “Above-Standard Achievement,” “C” for “Standard Achievement” and “F” for “Substandard Achievement.

 





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