Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 12/12/17

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, December 12 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
Superintendent’s update to the Board - Report

Correspondence/board member updates 

Education Association of Charles County update - Report

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees update - Report

Student Board member’s update - Report

Eligibility/discipline component - Oral Report (Holstein, Benson, Gill)

• Policy discussions took place with principals, teachers, athletic directors and councils, parents and students.  Presented at PAC and SAC.
• Discipline component addition - overwhelmingly all groups disagreed with adding this component.  Extracurricular activities is a positive influence.
• Recommendations for consideration
• change wording on absences to- 5 lawful absences within five days and will accept a note from parents
• keep GPA at 2.25 but allow one F.
• consider transition years from 8th - 9th so all students are eligible the first quarter of their freshman year.
• One more meeting to discuss what falls under extra curricular.

Dreambox math - Report

Project status update - Report

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield - Report

CVS Health Update - Report

Unfinished business

• Environmental Scan Survey - move forward with distribution
• Policy 4000 - Palko and McGraw still working
• Bullying Discussion and program - will add to a future agenda

New business and Future agenda items

• New business
• Future agenda items
• Marshall - invite Greek organizations  for participation as mentors and presentation
• Kelly - Parent Involvement Program
• McGraw - Eligibility Policy
• Lukas - Hanson right of way
• Kelly - Grading Policy Committee updates

Recognition – 4:30 p.m.

• James E. Richmond Leadership Excellence Award - Accepting: Board member Margaret Marshall in honor of her late husband, Cecil Marshall, former Board member
• Students - Charlie Shin, twelfth grade, Academic Achievement, Maurice J. McDonough High School, Principal: Steven Roberts; Diallo Barnes, eighth grade, Personal Responsibility, Milton M. Somers Middle School, Principal: Carrie Akins; Lucy Flynn, fifth grade, Career Readiness, Gale-Bailey Elementary School, Principal: Verniece Rorie; Clinton Cupples, III, fifth grade, Academic Achievement , Mary H. Matula Elementary School, Principal: Carrie Richardson; Joya Thompson, fifth grade, Academic Achievement, Arthur Middleton Elementary School, Principal: Louis D’Ambrosio
• Employees - Annemarie Simpson, mathematics teacher, McDonough; Peter Wilt, social studies teacher, Somers; Ann Herbert, prekindergarten teacher, Gale-Bailey; Samantha Clark, special education teacher, Matula; Karen Ferruzza, library media specialist, Middleton

Public Forum – 6 p.m. - None

Action items

• Minutes

Motion to approve the Minutes from the November board meeting by Kelly; Second by Marshall

Yes=Crawford, Kelly, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko; Abstain=Abell

Motion to approve the Minutes from the Legislative Session by Abell; Second by Kelly

Yes=Abell, Crawford, Kelly, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko

• Personnel

Motion to approve Personnel by Abell; Second by Marshall

Yes=Abell, Crawford, Kelly, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko

Adjournment