June 13, 2012 - Aldine Independent School District

2006, she became the skills specialist and campus dyslexia coordinator at that sameschool. She transferred to Magrill Elementary School in 2008 as a language arts skillsspecialist. Edwards has spent all of her 11 years in education with Aldine ISD.Cicely Bailey was named assistant principal at Harris Elementary School afterserving as a special education counselor at Carver High School and Eisenhower HighSchool. Bailey received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston-Downtown in 1998, her master’s degree in counseling from Prairie View A&MUniversity in 2006 and her master’s degree in administration from that same university in2009. She is certified as a principal. She began her teaching career as a math teacher in1999 at the Brown School. In 2004, she moved to Aldine ISD to teach special educationat Hill Intermediate School. She transferred to Lane School to serve as a specialeducation counselor in 2006 and then transferred to Rayford Road Intermediate School in2010. She moved into her current position as a special education counselor at CarverHigh School and Eisenhower High School in 2011. Bailey has 10 years of experience inthe field of education and she has spent eight of those years with Aldine ISD.Aldine ISD Trustees approved the following administrative transfers during their June12 meeting: Jacquelyn Narro from assistant principal at Nimitz Ninth Grade School toassistant principal at Victory Early College High School; Juan Carlos Vargas fromassistant principal at Stehlik Intermediate School to assistant principal at Aldine HighSchool; Christi VanWassenhove from assistant principal at Escamilla IntermediateSchool to assistant principal at Stehlik Intermediate School; Tami Schuler from assistantprincipal at Jones Elementary School to assistant principal at Spence Elementary School;Denise Butler from assistant principal at Francis Elementary School to assistant principalat Jones Elementary School; Claudia Salcedo from assistant principal at Reed Academyto assistant principal at Carter Academy; Irma Guardiola from counselor at EisenhowerNinth Grade School to counselor at Davis High School; Marva Casey-Flentroy fromcounselor at Shotwell Middle School to counselor at MacArthur High School; and NedraBrown from counselor at Spence Elementary School to counselor at Eisenhower HighSchool.Trustees approve budget, tax rateDuring the June 12 Board meeting, Trustees approved the budget for the 2012-13school year and the proposed tax rate for the 2012-13 school year. Anne-Marie Hazzan,assistant superintendent of finance, recommended the tax rate be set at $1.328388($0.195000 for interest and sinking and $1.133388 for maintenance and operations). Thetax rate will remain the same as it was for the 2011-12 school year. Aldine ISD Trusteeswill not be able to officially approve the proposed tax rate until the district receives thecertified tax roll from the Harris County Appraisal District in late August. At that time,the district will be able to set the tax rate. A notice of the tax rate appeared in the HoustonChronicle, Northeast News and the Leader newspapers. Trustees also approved thebudget for the 2012-13 school year. Hazzan recommended the 2012-13 budget be set at$477,544,051, which is an increase of $25,968,214 from the 2011-12 adopted budget.This represents an overall increase of 5.75 percent. The 2012-13 budget provides fundingfor all programs and activities in Aldine ISD.