Approved minutes of Noon Work Session and Regular Board Meeting on Monday, September 18, 2006.

Approved submission of Investment Capital Fund Cycle 16 Grant Applications for Houston, Brandenburg and Farine. Each school is requesting $50,000, the maximum allowable grant request. These proposals would provide funds for activities to promote increased student achievement on TAKS.

Approved submission of Verizon Foundation Grant Application for Irving.Net. The grant request totals $36,606, which would underwrite activities, supplies and materials necessary to continue Irving.Net’s program.

Approved accepting an award related to the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and English as a Second Language (ESL) from the University of California for Irving.Net. In coordination with the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) Fellowship Program, the $15,000 grant award will offer $200 stipends to adult students who complete Irving.Net’s adult ESL program and take the GED test. The grant also provides an $800 stipend for each of Irving.Net’s adult ESL teachers.

Approved submission of Washington Mutual Grant Application for Irving ISD. The grant program would help IISD provide high-level staff development in Alan Blankstein’s concepts of leadership for change and in Chris Yeager’s strategies for building academic vocabulary using Thinking Maps. IISD is requesting $10,000.

Approved an application for early release waiver to the Texas Education Agency for hosting Regional Academic Decathlon event January 19-20, 2007 at MacArthur.

Approved an application for a waiver for TAKS testing days from the Texas Education Agency. This waiver would allow senior students who are exempt from February and April TAKS tests to attend school after tests are administered, but not later than 12:30 p.m., and still receive full-day ADA (Average Daily Attendance). IISD has followed these procedures under a similar waiver for the past nine years.

Approved action to permit Good, Keyes, Austin, Bowie, de Zavala, and Irving High to timely submit their respective grant applications to the Texas Education Agency as applicable to the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG). House Bill 1 appropriated $100 million to award schools with high percentages of educationally disadvantaged students and a rating of Exemplary, Recognized or in the top quartile of comparable improvement. Each school will receive $135,000 except for Irving High, which will receive $230,000.

Approved a class size waiver request for fall semester 2006. The fall 2006 class size survey for K-4, conducted September 20, found that three elementary campuses – Hanes, Thomas Haley and Townsell – had a total of three classes that exceed the 22:1 allowable class size limit, each by one student. Therefore, a waiver request form was prepared along with the required compliance plan.

Approved Resolution #06-07-09 accepting gifts and donations to the district in the amount of $11,754 for the month of September.

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