November 2019 Photo archives of completed and in-progress projects, page 9 GIRL POWER page 12 A team of all-female instructors leads STEM summer camps for young girls and boys. Hillsboro School District Superintendent's Message Career and Coll ege Pathways Text Alerts Opt-In Opportunities afforded by the Growth in career HSD will now include text Student Success Act program offerings message alerts page 2 page 13 page 16 Superintendent’s Message 2 Feeder Updates: Century 3 | Glencoe 4 | Hilhi 5 | Liberty 6 Bond 7-10 Miller Education Center 11 | Hillsboro Online Academy 11 Community Partners 15 3083 NE 49th Place Hillsboro, OR 97124 503.844.1500 www.hsd.k12.or.us 2 │ A LOOK INSIDE Hillsboro School District November 2019 HillsboroEngage and challenge School all learnersDistrict to ensureMission :academic excellence • Increasing instructional time Special Education Parents Group and others • Improving students’ health, wellness, to gather input. In addition, we held a public and safety. comment session and created a survey for all The overall goal of the investments is to stakeholders that, to date, has generated more increase the academic achievement and health than 2,500 responses in multiple languages. and wellness of our underserved populations. Because SIA money sits outside of the SSF and Results of this feedback will inform our is made available to school districts through District’s Continuous Improvement Plan that a non-competitive grant process, each district we will submit to the State in early December, must complete and submit both a plan and an and will also guide our application for SIA application for the funds. funds in the spring. Superintendent’s Message The historic opportunity of The other area of investment being made the Student Success Act possible by the SSA is full funding of Measure 98—the graduation attainment, dropout $16,000,000 prevention, and career-technical learning bill On Thursday, May 16, 2019, Governor Kate 6% Brown signed into law House Bill 3427—the that was passed by voters in 2016. That measure Student Success Act (SSA). The SSA calls for has received partial funding since 2017, but is a new gross receipts tax on businesses and a $39,576,735 reduction of income taxes for the payers in all 14% the Statewide Education Initiatives Account but the highest of the state’s four tax brackets. (SEIA).one of theFull investmentfunding will areasallow identifiedour high schools under The new business tax, offset by reduced income and middle schools to expand support and taxes, is estimated to generate approximately $231,905,143 educational offerings for students. $1.6 billion in the 2019-21 biennium due to 80% the delayed implementation of the tax, and $2 That said, it is important to remember that, at billion per biennium in future biennia. the same time we will be adding money from the SIA and SEIA, we will also be continuing a Here are more details: cuts-budget within our general fund. I say that • The business tax is projected to raise General (operational) not to be negative, but merely to ensure there is not an expectation for restoration of all things Special Revenue (i.e. Title funds, that have been reduced both in this school year $1.608 billion in 2019-21, with the first M98, Nutrition, Transportation, second quarter of 2020. Construction Excise Tax, etc.) and cumulatively over the past 11 years. It will collection taking place in the first or • The bill allowed for a “pre-appropriation” Student Investment Account also likely be the case that we will be in the of $200 million from the expected new (anticipated) position of remaining tight with or even further revenue to the State School Fund (SSF) reducing our general fund in future years, while in order to get the SSF allocation to $9.0 A large part of the planning process for at the same time relying on funds from the SIA billion for the 2019-21 biennium. how to utilize funds involves soliciting the and SEIA to carry us forward in targeted areas. • There will be a loss of funds due to the personal income tax cuts that are part of • Reducing academic disparities (gaps Regardless, we are extremely grateful for the the bill. Those are estimated to total $423 community’sbetween academic input in five outcomes areas: for different additional money and are committed to using million in 2019-21. student groups) • There will be approximately $951.5 • Meeting students’ mental and behavioral students. We are also committed to continuing million remaining for distribution to the health needs the conversationfunds with fidelity with our for stakeholder the benefit groupsof our following accounts: • Providing access to academic courses even after the plans are submitted. Please m Early Learning Account: $190.3 million • m Statewide Education Initiatives collaborate, review data and develop strategies form on our Budget Matters page or e-mailing Account: $285.5 million toAllowing help students teachers stay and on stafftrack sufficient to graduate time to share your feedback with us by filling out the m Student Investment Account: • Establishing and strengthening partnerships [email protected]. $475.8 million Chief Communications Officer Beth Graser at Have a wonderful fall and winter! Assuming the entire $475.8 million from the from students and families who are historically Student Investment Account (SIA) is made underserved.A majority of this input is to specifically come Respectfully, available to K-12 districts in the 2020-21 school year, HSD could theoretically see up HSD’s approach to gathering information and to $16 million in additional funds. However, feedback has been very broad. Not only have we with administrative requirements heavy at the undergone several needs assessment processes Mike Scott state level, we may see less. This money can be over the course of the last three years (e.g., Superintendent invested in one of four areas: AdvancED Accreditation, DM Group program review for learners who are struggling, survey • Reducing class size of 1,000 high school students, etc.), we are also • Providing a well-rounded education (e.g. utilizing the structure of pre-existing groups, STEM/STEAM, art, advanced classes, etc.) such as the Latino Parent Advisory Committee, HSD Board of Directors, 2019-20 Erika Lopez Martin Granum Mark Watson See Eun Kim Lisa Allen Jaci Spross Yadira Martinez Maria Isabel Danny Adzima Andrew Goodwin Chair Vice Chair Aguilar Alvarado Student Student Student Representative Representative Representative November 2019 A LOOK INSIDE Hillsboro School District │ 3 ● Century High School ● R.A. Brown Middle School Elementaries: ● Butternut Creek ● Imlay ● Indian Hills ● Ladd Acres ● Reedville ●Tobias For the fi rst time in Century High School's history, all home-fi eld sports will be hosted on the campus' new turf fi eld. participants to reward them for their hard work. Our wellness, garden and art rotations have started. We are excited that our art focus this year will be theatre arts! We are looking forward to a year of dreaming big, reaching for the stars, and achieving success together! ● Reedville The Reedville Rams have been fortunate with the generosity of our local School Highlights been doing an awesome job of showing up community. First, we would like to thank ● Century Century celebrated a successful to school every day. On Thursday, Oct. 3, we Reedville Presbyterian Church, the Faith Homecoming Week from Sept. 23-28 that celebrated our highest daily attendance rate Center community, and RE/MAX Realty for was full of pride and spirit. Students cozied this year at 98.93% with only four students donating backpacks and school supplies to our up in their PJs on Pajama Day for one of the absent! This was a record for us and we students. We are also very grateful to CAN’d are determined to beat it. We look forward Aid and Craft Pour House for planting the seed to seeing what other accomplishments the of a healthy and active lifestyle and gifting our enjoyedfive spirit an days, amazing celebrated assembly our CHS and pride football with Butternut Creek Bulldogs can achieve this gamea barbeque on Friday and withbonfire featured Thursday performances evening, year! bicycles and helmets. To read more about this from our marching band and color guard generousfirst- and second-gradersdonation, go to page with 14.their very own during halftime, and concluded with a 33-14 ● Imlay An unwavering goal of the Hillsboro School District is to provide all learners a ● Tobias The Tobias Tigers have been hard Century’s history, we got to play all of our fall positive and safe learning environment while at work this fall and have so much to be victory over Centennial. For the first time in knowing each student by name, strength proud of! Our bus drivers have recently been our own campus—thanks to the bond—as and need. With that goal in mind, Imlay recognizing excellent behavior on rides to opposedfield sports, to includingtraveling soccerto Hillsboro and football, Stadium. on Elementary is implementing an innovative We had an early Homecoming week this year community system called “Nests” (because students. Recognizing excellent behavior we are the Eagles). Our plan is for the Nest notand onlyfrom helps school us by build awarding positive certificates connections to part of that celebration. Finally, we ended the system to create a safe zone within the with our bus drivers, but also helps us set the weekand the with new an Alicefield inand Wonderland lights were “Down a valued the school that fosters a sense of belonging example with our peers for what it means to Rabbit Hole”-themed Homecoming dance by encouraging leadership, community, be safe, responsible, and respectful on the on Saturday where students celebrated the camaraderie, friendly competition, and bus.