Message From the Superintendent, May 25, 2021

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Dear Aldine Community,

I want to commend each of you for your commitment to Finishing Strong! To the class of 2021 — congratulations! You are strong and resilient, and we hope you are leaving Aldine ISD with lots of choices and opportunities. We are excited to send another class of Aldine Legacy Builders into the world.

I hope everyone has a fun and safe summer break. As a reminder, the district has a host of summer learning experiences available for every student. Be on the lookout for additional communication over the summer as we look to Start Strong this fall. We anticipate welcoming all students back to in-person classes on the first day of school, August 16 (or July 9 for students at Ermel and Vines).

As you may have heard, Aldine ISD is receiving Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds from the federal government via the Texas Education Agency. Aldine ISD is seeking feedback from all district and community stakeholders to help determine how the district should best utilize these resources to address unfinished learning and ongoing COVID-19 recovery. Please complete this short survey to provide your input.

Free Breakfast and Lunch Meals
Tuesday, May 25, is the last day the district’s Child Nutrition Services Department will offer curbside meals at all meal sites.

Beginning June 1, Aldine ISD will bring back the summer meals program. Aldine Child Nutrition Services will provide students 18 and younger and enrolled students with disabilities up to 21 years old with healthy, no-cost summer meals. The Seamless Summer Program is a U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition program administered in the Lone Star State by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA). Find more information. 

IMPORTANT REMINDERS 
Preregistration for PreK3, PreK4, and Kindergarten is Open — Families can pre-enroll their eligible students for the 2021-2022 school year in three grades — prekindergarten for three-year-olds (PreK3), Pre-K for four-year-olds (PreK4), and kindergarten. The PreK3 program will be a full-day program starting in fall 2021. Again, pre-enrollment is for new, eligible students entering AISD for the first time. Families can click here to begin the preregistration process by completing online documents. The deadline to pre-enroll students to PreK and kindergarten is May 31, 2021.

La Promesa
We are excited to announce the opening of our newest choice school, La Promesa (“the promise”). La Promesa will open in fall 2021 to provide students who are new to the country with global and cultural competencies for today’s interconnected world, giving them the promise of choices and opportunities after graduation. The school will host two in-person enrollment events to help families enroll their incoming ninth-graders for the 2021-2022 school year. Click here for details.

Tuesday, May 25, from 5:30-7 p.m.
Saturday, June 5, from 9 a.m.-noon
Aldine High School 
11101 Airline Drive • Houston, TX 77037

Coming August 2, 2021: Students’ Families Must Complete Required Annual Update — Previously, once a student enrolled in Aldine ISD, the student’s information remained the same unless a parent provided new information. The annual update will increase customer service and ensure individual student information is updated annually. Starting August 2021, AISD will ask families to complete a yearly update before starting each new school year. Families will access the Annual Update form through HAC. Schools have already begun to reach out to families to ensure that at least one legal guardian — a student’s parent or legal guardian — has a HAC account.

Family and Community Engagement (FACE)
Keep up with the Aldine ISD FACE Department by clicking here for upcoming events and family resources. Happening this week:

Thursday, May 27
Storytelling Sign Up
English storybook at 5:30 p.m.
Spanish storybook at 6:00 p.m.

COVID-19 REMINDERS — Testing, Safety Protocols, and Vaccination News
After May 28, the district will no longer conduct the visitor COVID-19 screening process, and employees will not need to complete the daily screening via Qualtrics. In addition, masks will be optional at all Aldine ISD campuses and administrative buildings starting June 5, 2021.

Vaccinations
As of May 10, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for everyone ages 12 years and older.

Community Vaccine Event
Aldine ISD has partnered with Custom Care Pharmacy, Texas Patient Care Services, Community Health Choice, and Harris Health to provide COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer) for Aldine ISD students, staff, and community members ages 12 and up. This vaccine event will be held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at M. O. Campbell Educational Center, 1865 Aldine Bender Rd. This opportunity is for students ages 12 and up, staff members, and the community who have not previously been vaccinated and would like to be. Register Today

Quarantine Protocols
Following the Centers for Disease Control guidance, Aldine ISD will no longer require fully vaccinated students and staff without symptoms to quarantine if exposed to a lab-confirmed positive COVID-19 case. Students who are fully vaccinated are encouraged to provide a copy of their vaccination card to their campus nurse to enter into their student health immunization records. Staff will only be asked to provide their vaccination records to their supervisor in the event they are identified as an exposure to a positive case.

I encourage everyone to continue doing their part:  wear a mask, wash your hands, and watch your distance.

District Updates
We have so many wonderful things happening in our district! Please make sure to check out the District News page to stay up to date on everything happening in our district.

I wish you a wonderful week ahead. 

With Aldine Pride,

Dr. LaTonya M. Goffney
Superintendent