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Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 5/9/17
The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, May 9 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 – 11:30 a.m.
Call to order – 1 p.m. - Pledge of Allegiance, North Point High School JROTC
Recognition – student state winners; Yuko Floyd, student chaperone with Bunkyo University; Carlos Saniel, Home Depot general manager; Ken Weikel, owner/operator of Chick-fil-A, Waldorf; and the 2016-17 student liaisons
Superintendent’s update - Superintendents Report 05-09-17.pdf (132 KB)
Correspondence/Board Member updates
- Palko - State Supt visit; congratulate HR on job fair
- Crawford - Federal Government removes standards for salt; Netflix show, 13 Reasons Why - experts say this show is dangerous for copycat suicides.
- Kelly - congrats to all Math teams, solos, ensembles; DAR ceremony this weekend
Student Board Member update
Superintendent’s elementary school redistricting recommendation - Superintendent's recommendation elementary redistricting 2017.pdf (22,695 KB)
- Dr. Hill recommends Alternative A
Budget update -
Hiring/recruitment/transfer fair updates
Legislative update
- HB Sick Leave Bill
- Protection of whistle blowers in the school system
- Cap on student testing bills in house and senate
- HB978 - state accountability bill under ESSA
- HB1240 - burden of proof bill
- HB174/SB710 - Special education parent consent for IEP
- HB425/SB651 - restrict suspensions of K students
- SB232/HB616 - Policy on student pregnancy and absences
- SB1060 - opiod abuse and overdose medication in schools
- Palko - State Adult HS Task Force; new bill passed.
- McGraw - how we provide bus services, update
- Lukas - Board will continue with the current bus contractor systems.
- Palko - MABE resolution committee; are we interested in changing any of the MABE resolutions. Wants opinions by June 2nd.
- Marshall - Update on the status of goals
- Marshall - case management of special ed
- Crawford - when presentations come before us, wants to know what is law, policy, comar, etc.
- Ruth Ann Hall Scholarship awards - 2017 Ruth Ann Hall Champion Student Recognition Winners.pdf (231 KB)
- Resolution - Washington Post Principal of the Year Awards Program: Accepting: Wilhelmina S. Pugh, Malcolm Elementary School
- Students -
- Talore' Forrest, eleventh-grade, Personal Responsibility, Westlake High School, Principal: Michael Meiser
- Sohail Samar, eighth-grade, Career Readiness, Theodore G. Davis Middle School, Principal: Kimberly McClarin
- Tiwaloluwa Dapo-Adeyemo, fifth-grade, Academic Achievement, Indian Head Elementary School, Principal: Tim Rosin
- Natalie Halloran, fifth-grade, Personal Responsibility, Mt. Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School, Principal: William Miller
- Christal Hardy, third-grade, Personal Responsibility, F.B. Gwynn Center, Principal: Daphne Burns
- Employees
- Megan Parsons, mathematics teacher, Davis
- Rhonda Slater, fifth-grade teacher, Indian Head
- Steven Timmermann, physical education teacher, Mt. Hope/Nanjemoy
- Amy Adams, special education teacher, Gwynn Center
- Jackson Long, theater arts teacher, Westlake High School: Principal: Michael Meiser
- Tasha Shavins - rule that children are not allowed to give out birthday cards to classmates. Has three children with autism. Wants an exception for children with special needs.
- Minutes
- Personnel
- 2018-19 school calendar
- FY 2017 Intercategory budget transfer request
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