CISD Families 3-Pointers

Hello Dragon Families!

Did you know that Texas ranks 41st in funding our public schools? As our district faces a deficit budget, we estimate that Carroll ISD will send the state $25 million of your school tax dollars as part of recapture. The newly formed Budget Reduction Advisory Committee (BRAC) was established by our Board of Trustees to discuss cost-cutting measures in case the 89th Legislative Session doesn’t provide adequate funding for public education in Texas. We welcome any ideas from parents and community members. Check out our district website where anyone can submit ideas and feedback to the BRAC committee.

We want you to understand how Carroll schools are funded. Your school tax dollars are more than enough to keep our campuses and programs operating at a high level; but unfortunately, CISD doesn’t get to keep all of those funds. Please take time to watch the short video included to better understand how Carroll ISD receives funding for your child’s education.

Do you want your child to perform better academically in class? Are you looking for higher scores on the ACT or SAT? What about improving the opportunity to get into the right college? Success begins with showing up. Attending class helps students stay on track, understand expectations, and fosters important peer social interactions. Increasingly, attendance is being understood as a precursor and leading indicator for a student’s academic success. Your child’s attendance in school matters!

Did you know that Average Daily Attendance (ADA) is DIRECTLY tied to how Carroll ISD is funded?

REMINDER - Carroll ISD takes attendance at the following times:

Intermediate & Middle Schools @ 9:30a

Sr. High/High + ALL Elementary Schools @10a

In an era where children are on smart devices more often, brain research is now highlighting the critical importance of conversation.

MIT cognitive scientists have found that conversation between an adult and a child appears to change the child’s brain, and that this back-and-forth conversation is actually more critical to language development than the word gap. In a study of children between the ages of 4 and 6, they found that differences in the number of “conversational turns” accounted for a large portion of the differences in brain physiology and language skills among the children. This finding applied to children regardless of parental income or education. The research suggests that parents can have considerable influence over their children’s language and brain development by simply engaging them in conversation.

Click on each graphic for reminders from around our District.