by Michael Robinson |Uvalde Hesperian
02-25-26
For high achieving students who have taken advanced or honors classes at other district’s schools or cand wanting to transfer to Uvalde CISD, the decision from Monday night’s Uvalde CISD school board meeting was likely received with some disappointment.
Uvalde CISD Board of Trustees took up the agenda item regarding waiting transfer students’ grades on honors and advanced courses.
Prior to the board taking up the matter, several junior high students and one parent spoke public comments asking the district to weight the transfers credits in advanced and honors classes to match the Uvalde CISD classes.
After an extended discussion on transfer classes being designated as “honors” or “advanced” classes, several trustees, including Jaclyn Gonzales, Javier Flores and Jesse Rizo and Superintendent Ashley Chohlis asked what district policy currently states, what has been asked what has been done in the past and how to know what the actual content transfer classes contains.
To further complicate matters, Superintendent Chohlis stated that the district has not in the past weighted transfer credits from incoming students.
After receiving some advice from the school district’s attorney, Amber King with Thompson and Horton, UCISD Board of Trustees voted not to weight transfer credits. Gonzales stated that the new incoming board will need to review this policy again.
Just before the vote, an audience member spoke out, objecting to the direction of the motion and board president Laura Perez cut them off, saying this matter is not up for discussion: sorry.
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