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Notes from the Board of Education Meeting, 10/12/10
The Board Meeting on Tuesday, October 12th 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.
Call to order 10:30 a.m.
Presentation on Space Foundation partnership (I was unable to attend this portion)
Executive session 12 p.m.
Correspondence/board member updates
- Pedersen - spoke about MABE conference in Ocean City. Would like to discuss policy on social media.
- Cook - would like to discuss Data 3.0 during a work session.
- Wade - discussed a seminar he attended regarding minorities and another one on African American Minority Achievement
Student board member update - still awaiting for an advisor to be appointed
Use of tasers update by Sheriff Rex Coffey -safe to use; see video
Recruitment and retention update - see report - lots of nice statistics
FY 2010 Independent financial audit - see report. no deficiencies reported
Legislative audit - see report. 17 recommendations noted
Unfinished business - none
New business
Future agenda items - None
- Resolutions: American Education Week, American Freedom Week
- Al Jackson - NAACP - MD Attorney General report on the use of electronic weapons. Didn't realize tasers, guns, etc were already used in the schools. Why do we have violent weapons in the school? What is the educational value? The demonstration was not the normal level of tasers. Australia has banned for their officers. Wants board to reconsider their use.
- Janice Wilson - NAACP - concerned about the use of electronic weapons in the schools. Task force findings in the MD report. Risk of serious injury or death. Believes police trainings and guidelines severely underestimate the level of injury or death. Believe tasers are used more on African American persons than on caucasians.
- Minutes - Pedersen has one correction on item 16.
- Personnel
- FY2011 Comprehensive Maintenance Plan
- Board chairman election bylaw
2 comments:
Does anyone else find the new CCPS BoardDocs link as convoluted as I do? There is no longer a posting a draft minutes (I thought the elected BoE was committed to that?) and there is no searchable index of meeting minutes. In order to access minutes of a meeting, one must click through four depths of links — agenda, minutes, scroll, open link to .pdf -- and remember to do it in the agenda of the month FOLLOWING the actual meeting. I do not think CCPS could make this more complicated!
In CCPS defense....BoardDocs recently did a software upgrade and we ae "learning" the kinks ourselves. I will bring upi your valid concerns at the November Board meeting.
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