Remarks by Roberto J. Alonso
229 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
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“All right. Follow-up? Go ahead. How, I mean, because it's so important, right, and you mentioned the videos versus instructional time, how are we going to ensure that parents know where to find, like, these resources on screen time? I know the superintendent has been extremely supportive of our Parent Academy program, and getting that information out there, and how will we measure whether families are actually using them? How do we let families know this, and then how do we explain this information out to families about the importance of screen time through the chair?”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“It's something that gets me excited to talk about. Beyond measuring minutes, you talked a lot about minutes there. How do we evaluate what the digital platforms are actually doing, and how are they actually improving student outcomes? I just came back from ISTE. The superintendent was there speaking, and everybody was talking about outcome-based contracting, outcome-based implementations. Anything that we're implementing has to have an outcome-based sort of review, right? What are we doing as a district outside of measuring minutes to measure outcomes of any of these platforms that were…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay. Final question. And this is one that I'm sure everybody here has at the top of their head. It wasn't really structured into what we were talking about, but goes to AI. And I just came back, as I said, from ISTE. Every software company that are existing software products of ours, their label is AI. Everything's AI now. It's like the new buzzword, which is crazy because AI to me was already always there, but now it's become that. But as it becomes integrated into pretty much every instructional software we're using, I mean, the band-aid's been ripped off. How do we ensure that all these…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Chair, and thank you, Board Member Espino, for this recognition, to the community for recognizing Lincoln. I still kind of get goosebumps as a kid sitting at my grandparents' house in Hialeah and Lincoln giving speeches and always representing the community that he loved so much, right? And it was, Hialeah was the center of his work, so there's nothing more telling or important than to name this school after him because I can tell you, He helped so many families throughout that community that had always come through my grandmother's house or through other grandparents'…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Sorry, Board Chair, I might make your second committee be a little longer again. Again, I know. We'll try to get through it quickly.”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“I'll zip it. First of all, as always, thank you to staff on the work that goes into all these efforts. I reviewed the report, and it kind of was on a perfect day, right? Because earlier this morning, we were talking about staffing and central office and what reductions have been done. And when I was reading the report, it refers... right-sizing and restructuring. Does that primarily mean, when we're talking about right-sizing and restructuring central office, the elimination of occupied positions versus just largely referring to freezing of vacancies and non-filled positions, not filling…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“I have a follow-up. I appreciate the phasing approach, but we sometimes don't have, and we definitely don't have time for phasing. Um, we are going through some very difficult times. Um, when we look at school budgets, we don't phase out their allocations for the year. We were just talking about that earlier. It's you're not getting teachers. You're not going to get these additional two teachers. We're eliminating an assistant principal and it's happening immediately based on enrollment. So when I look at the report, it's kind of deceiving in many ways. And honestly, Many districts are doing…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“I just wanted to follow up on the superintendent's point on the deceiving comment, and we might have different opinions. When I look at cuts, I look at cuts differently. These were vacant positions, much of them. Maybe we can go over the numbers, and I'm happy to sit down with you outside of this. But when I'm making cuts at home or in my personal business, it's to the point of, we're not going to go on a vacation because we can't afford it. It's not, oh, we usually go on vacation to Europe, and this year we're not going to go, so now we just saved $6,000 on a vacation to Europe. It's, no,…”
Academics, Innovation, Evaluation, and Technology Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“All in favor? Aye. Okay. Our next order of business is to move to our E items to the floor. Can I get a motion to move our E items to the floor?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“I do have a question. How many remaining windows ACs do we have throughout our district? Through the chair.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Madam Chair, and I think it's important that we recognize that, right? I think just a few months ago, many in our community were asking us to create noise, right? And to maybe overreact at times when there was rumors about cuts to federal programs and this board, Stayed focused, right? Stayed focused on our mission, which is educating students and not getting involved in the outside noise. And in turn, we see the results. Programs are not being cut. There have actually been increases to programs, specifically, as you stated earlier, on Title III, when we talk about English…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“All right. So with no further questions, all of our items have now been discussed. Mr.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Thank you. So we'll now take a motion to recommend the E items to the board meeting of July 22nd. Move it. Second. All in favor?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“The next order of business is to move our H items to the floor. Can I get a motion?”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, I see that Board Chair Rojas has a question. You're recognized.”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026
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“community and and those that are trying to um understand how with a procurement of such a large magnitude we reach that decision so that's my recommendation thank you thank you any further questions or comments okay i i too um thank the maker the item board member spino i think it's important that we always review these processes um i think there's a lot of other procurement processes that we also need to continue reviewing um we are in the 21st century, and I think a lot of things just kind of stay stagnant, right, over the years, and then questions come up when we go there, so I welcome…”
Fiscal Accountability and Government Relations Committee · Jul 15, 2026