NOTES from Board of Education Meeting, 2/9/10

The Board Meeting on Tuesday, February 9th will be re-broadcast on Comcast Channel 96, Verizon FIOS Channel 12 and is available via webstream at http://www.ccboe.com/ . To view the full agenda and the various reports, please visit BoardDocs.

The below notes are my personal notes and are not intended to be all-inclusive or official minutes for the Board of Education meetings and are provided as a request from my supporters and the general public in a personal effort to be more transparent. Although I have diligently tried to make these notes as unbiased and accurate as possible, I am only human and do make mistakes.

(PLEASE NOTE...THE MEETING WAS CONDENSED FROM THE ORIGINAL AGENDA DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER)

Executive session - 11 a.m.
Call to order - 11:20 a.m.

Pledge of Allegiance

Reports of officers/boards/committees

Superintendent's update

• DVD on new high school

Correspondence/Board member updates

• Wise reported on the annual Beg-A-Thon in Annapolis
• Carrington-Thanks students at Dr. King breakfast...Canadian Embassy/Space Foundation
• Pederson-Unity in the Community Forum

Education Association of Charles County update

• See Report

Student Board member update

• See Report

Race to the Top grant

• See power point presentation, lots of information...EACC is strongly against...see separate post
• Evaluations tied to student achievement
• Compensation tied to student achievement
• Difficult to staff schools in trouble
• Tenure

Report item: FY 2011 budget

• See power point presentation

2011-2012 school calendar

• See proposal and provide input to CCPS

Legislative update

• Labor Relations Bill H#243; S#590 (Middleton is one of the leads)
• Eric Schwartz says we oppose

Unfinished business

• Review RSVP's for What Counts and call them

New business and future agenda items

Resolutions

• Read Across Charles County
• Women's History Month
• Fine and Performing Arts Month

Action items

• Minutes - YES Unanimous
• Personnel - YES Unanimous

Adjournment