Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 11/8/11

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, November 8 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.

Executive session- 10 a.m.
Call to order- 1 p.m. - Pledge of Allegiance

Superintendent's update to the Board - Read Report

Correspondence/Board member updates

• Wade - attended MABE Directors Retreat at BWI last week.  Survey for State Superintendent; encourages raise in board member salary
• Pedersen - Plays  & choral performances in Charles County high schools; legislative committee updates via email
• Bowie - Library is having holiday giveaway of eReaders, Nook, or Kindle; Daughters of American Revolution, citizenship contest.
• Wise - Adult graduation ceremony

Student Board member update - Read Report

Deputy Superintendent update - Results of Tell Survey.  See Report

CIP update - See report.

• Neal, Davis, and Diggs need to be redistricted.  Committee is forming and will be complete by end of this school year.

CCPS Environmental Education - See report

Substitutes - See report

• Cook - Substitutes should have at least an Associates degree.
• Pedersen - would like a report via updates on what this would do to our numbers.
• Bowie - are recent high school graduates allowed to sub in high schools?   NO, must be 21
• Lukas - clarification on requested report

Testing results - See report

Unfinished business

• Pederesen - non-residents attending schools, update.
• Richmond - 39 students were removed last year and it was a lot of work.  Still following up students.  13 students has been removed from North Point this year.

New business - None

Future agenda items - None

Recognition- 4:30 p.m.

• Students - Sydney Marohn-Johnson, fifth grade, Career Readiness, Dr. James Craik Elementary School; Katherine (Katie) Czysz, fifth grade, Personal Responsibility, Dr. Thomas Higdon Elementary School; Cole Lucia, fifth grade, Academic Achievement, Malcolm Elementary School; Isabella Glaze, eighth grade, Academic Achievement, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School
• Staff - Jillian M. Durr, elementary teacher, Craik; Mary Kate Long, Reading Resource teacher, Higdon; Lori A. Gould, Pre-School/LEEP Assistant, Malcolm, Theresa (Wanda) Proctor, school counselor, Stoddert Maryland School Counseling Association's Advocate of the Year Award: Ronald G. Cunningham, Deputy Superintendent of Schools

Public Forum- 6 p.m.

Action items

• Minutes
Motion to accept October 4th Minutes by Pedersen; Second by Bowie
Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Lukas, Pedersen, Wise;  Abstain = Wade
Motion to accept October 11th Minutes by Cook; Second by Pedersen
Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Lukas, Pedersen, Wade, Wise
Motion to accept October 24th Minutes by Cook; Second by Pedersen
Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Lukas, Pedersen, Wade; Abstain = Wise
• Personnel
Motion to accept by Abell; Second by Pedersen
Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Lukas, Pedersen, Wade, Wise
• Legislative positions 2012
Motion to accept by Pedersen; Second by Bowie
Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Lukas, Pedersen, Wade, Wise
• Ethics policy
Motion to accept by Lukas; Second by Pedersen
Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Lukas, Pedersen, Wade, Wise

Adjournment