Titan Families,

We launched our APEX two week-long event on campus last week, and our halls have been filled with cheers and laughter as we celebrate and connect throughout our time with APEX. The purpose of this organization is to mix leadership, fitness, and entertainment in the school day while growing our school funds to support innovative, flexible spaces in our library and expanding our teachers' access to instructional tools and devices. Currently, we are on track to reach out fundraising goal, so let's keep up our efforts to raise funds for our Titan Community! Every little bit helps!

The Fun Run is on Friday, September 23rd. If you signed up to volunteer for the run through PTA or if you plan to attend the fun run to cheer on your Titan(s), please be sure to sign in with our receptionist, Ms. Natasha Lewis. The only preprinted visitor badges will be for our volunteers, and any other families wishing to view the run will need to be prepared to check-in as we typically would through the front offices. Please be aware that some of our grade level lunch and recess time have changed for that day as well. If you have any questions about this process, please call our front office. Many thanks to you for supporting our campus throughout this fundraising opportunity.

Below you will see pictures from our observation of International Dot Day on Thursday, September 15th. On this day our students were provided time to create and appreciate what they courageously bring to our Titan Community as creators and collaborators. Last week, we also had our first Titan Time with all grade levels and our first PTA General Meeting for the year! On Monday, we had our Vandegrift High School Football players or "Viper Readers" on campus reading to our Titans. Check out the pictures!

We look forward to another lively week of striving and thriving in our community, Titans! Please feel free to reach out anytime. We are here to serve.

Thank you,

Dr. Amy Sharp

Proud RPE Principal

Please be aware of the following policies in place regarding parties and deliveries noted in the Leander ISD Student Handbook:

• There will be two (2) official school parties per year for each class to be determined by the individual campus. RPE's two official school parties are the winter party and end of year party held at the grade level's discretion of date and time.(pg. 48)
• A student’s classmates will recognize him/her on his/her birthday and make the student feel special. Because learning is our most important job, we will not take time out from our class time to share balloons or other party favors on birthdays.(pg. 48) At RPE, we will celebrate students at Titan Time monthly and potentially through teacher classroom recognition. If families wish to celebrate a birthday, we encourage Titan Families to bring in a non food item. Some examples of non-food items are but are not limited to: pencils, pencil erasers, donate a book to the classroom with your child's name on it to the classroom library, and other school appropriate trinkets.
• Out of respect and concern for others, invitations to private parties may not be distributed at school unless distributed to the entire class.(pg. 48)
• Parents may provide food for their own child’s consumption, but they may not provide food items for other children. (pg. 48)
• Students are not allowed to have food delivered to school from commercial establishments. (pg. 49)

If you have any questions, please let Dr. Amy Sharp know.

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The ballot for this November’s elections will include two Leander ISD propositions.

Proposition A is an Attendance Credit Election. Due to an increase in local property values, the state is removing about $31.2 million from our district through a mechanism that is often called Robin Hood. If LISD voters approve Proposition A, the district will make its required recapture payment to the state. If Proposition A fails, the state could remove dollars from our schools by forcing some taxpayers to start paying taxes to a different district instead of LISD.

Proposition B is a Voter-Approval Tax Rate Election. By approving Proposition B, voters would ratify the tax rate set by the LISD Board of Trustees and generate an additional $32 million for academics in LISD, including teacher pay and the continuity of programs.

For much more information about these propositions, please visit LeanderISD.org/elections.