Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 3/13/12
The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, March 13 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 – 12 p.m.
Call to order – 1 p.m. - Pledge of Allegiance, Thomas Stone High School's JROTC unit
- Abell - MABE budget meetings in June and July
- Bowie - thanks for the student shadowing us at the last board meetings. Suggests board members shadow a student. Liked the Bunkyo University farewell party. Library - bullying seminar.
- Pedersen - senior portfolio interviews at Westlake and Lackey were very good. Enjoyed time at Read Across Charles County; congratulations to basketball teams
- Cook - Destination Imagination - very impressed
- Wise - Science Fairs, very impressed with second place winner who built a robot to clean up leaves in the yard
Superintendent's redistricting recommendation - see reports
- Cook - miscommunication and disparaging remarks about Barnhart from fellow citizens was disappointing.
- Bowie - transportation issues?
- Lukas - Neal redistricting, growth numbers?
- Barrett - projections based on units: some factual, some subjective.
- Lukas - Some children will be attending 3 different elementary schools; special consideration for 5th graders to stay at Neal
- Wade - Wants to know the number of students Lukas is talking about
Proposed FY 2013 operating budget - see report
Update on 2013-14 school calendar - to be posted on the website for comment later this week
- maintenance of effort waiver legislation
- teacher pension
- length of time a bus can be in service
Board goals - see report
- Abell - quantitative measures
- Wade - doesn't believe the board should be issuing goals for the system
- Richmond - we should wait until next year after the new Superintendent is in place and discuss with him/her any new goals and their implementation.
- Lukas - review the "goals" and use them as a monitoring device over the next year
- Richmond - add virtual high school to #4
- Bowie - new library will have tutor rooms
- Abell - HSA, SAT, ACT; read the definition of a goal, should be something striving to attain.
- Richmond - should be achievable and have resources
- Wade - 4 athletic teams at state level; if state champions in a particular area, we recognize at the board level
- Bowie - continue with plan to meet with commissioners on planning and budget
- Wade - Black History month at La Plata HS via tele-presence. Requests a board meeting be done this way
- Wade - Ms. Arnold should be addressed by Dr.
- Abell - students are requesting the possibility of drug dogs patrolling in schools
- Pedersen - Requests presentation by the Southern Maryland Food Bank for backpacks home with needy kids on the weekend.
- Students - Shad Kirkham, fifth grade, Academic Achievement, William A. Diggs Elementary School; Elijah Neagle, fifth grade, Career Readiness, Arthur Middleton Elementary School; Geneva Long, eighth grade, Personal Responsibility, Piccowaxen Middle School; Amanda Hobgood, eighth grade, Academic Achievement, General Smallwood Middle School; Bianca Watson, twelfth grade, Personal Responsibility, Thomas Stone High School;
- North Point High School senior and national winner in the 2012 National Future Educators Association (FEA) essay competition - Elijah Steele
- Mattawoman Middle School's first-place MathCounts team
- Employees - Leroy Pressley, vocal music teacher, Diggs; Barbara Woods-Miazza, reading recovery teacher, Middleton; Nancy Buter, language arts teacher, Piccowaxen; Tamra Nissen, mathematics teacher, Smallwood; Philip Jones, science teacher, Stone
- Charles County's Outstanding Educator for Use of Technology - Courtney Brunone
- Resolutions: Month of the Young Child and National Student Leadership Week
Public Forum – 6 p.m. (names are approx. spelling)
- Kristen Cuttner - Project Lead the Way at North Point is by application into the engineering program only. They do NOT offer the program to students actually zoned for North Point. All other high schools offer the program to the students within their zone.
- Roseman Dia - redistricting at Davis Middle School, PG County students are allowed to pay tuition and attend
- Jennifer Dugan - Redistricting at Davis. Should not move current students to accommodate future construction
- Paul Handwork - Redistricting at Diggs and after school care would need to change to accommodate him driving to North Point campus and Henson. Get rid of PG students and illegally attending students.
- Dawn Sutherland - Redistricting, at previous hearing and commissioners hearing. portable trailers.
- Cindy Handgarter - Redistricting. Berry Hill Manor. Davis to Henson, after school activities would be harder, longer bus rides, making room for children that are not even here.
- Leanne Evans - Redistricting. Bensville corridor. One daughter at North Point and one at Davis and convenience to go to one campus. Hopes both can stay at current schools for the coming years.
- Jose Schwam - Redistricting. Eutaw Forest. 3 children. Will affect bottom line when selling house.
- Lourdes Saignon- Redistricting. Davis. Thank you for meeting with me during the recess. Apology for being disrespectful during the last hearing. Allocations. Reassign new developments, not current neighborhoods.
- Irene Fletcher - Redistricting. Son bullied during last redistricting. Daughter at Henson. Don't move the children, they suffer. Children are not a number. The board is going to be held responsible for her children's medical bills for their counseling
- Minutes
- Personnel
- Policy #3430 Accounts: opening and closing accounts
- Superintendents rule #5126 – student transfers
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