Friday. >> Good evening. It is 7:03 and I'm calling this uh Wednesday, September 24th meeting of the board of education to order. Uh I will say we are technologically uh impaired this evening. So we do not have microphones.
Uh we do not have the normal things that we're used to having. Uh they are on order. Uh so if we ask if you're going to be a participant or we are all going to try to speak up so you can hear us and and we do have a a microphone for uh public comments and and some of those
but for the most part we will not have the microphones and things that we usually have here. So uh bear with us. Uh first thing I'd like to do is the pledge of allegiance. So if you all could please rise >> and director Alvarado lead the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the
flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you very much. Next up will be a roll call for attendance.
>> Say it loud. >> Director Alvarado >> here. >> Director Carvajal >> here. >> Director Khan >> here. >> Director Green >> present. >> Director Thomas >> here. Director Trillo >> here. Director Wilhelm here. Uh, Mr. President, you do have quorum.
>> Everyone is here. Next up would be item three, which is approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda dated September 24th? >> I'll move to approve the agenda dated September 24th, 2025 as presented. >> I'll second. >> Motion from Director Carvajal, second
from Director Wilhelm. Roll call vote. >> Director Alvarado, >> I. >> Director Carvajal, >> I. >> Director Khan, >> I. Dr. Green. >> Uh, yes. >> Dr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Dr. Trio, >> hi. >> Dr. Wilhelm, >> here. I >> Yep. >> Motion carries. Thank you.
>> She's here. Uh, we have some board of education recognitions. Uh, this evening, the board of education would like to honor two of our directors as recipients of the 2025 Colorado Association of School Board Casby McGuffy Award. The McGuffy Award is
named after McGuffy readers first published in 1836. After the Civil War, they were standard school books in 37 states. The readers were a series of seven books with stories and poems that start taught students reading and grammar and helped them to develop good qualities. It was one of the most widely
used and influential textbooks of its time in transferring knowledge and particular virtues required to fulfill the responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. The Casby McGuffy Award has been designated to honor those unique board members whose who are committed and passionate about service
and it's fueled by both their head and their heart. Director Thomas, will you please step forward? >> Be my honor. Do you come with me? >> I don't want to be suspect. >> That would be fine. Or loud, whatever
works. You can be loud, Mandy. It might take a second to turn on. Is it working now? Is it green? It is green, but I don't think it's working. It likes to get close. You're loud. Hello. Okay, I'll just stop.
>> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, my name is Mandy and I'm excited to honor um, Director Carvajal with her McGuffy Award. Here is what I wrote. I am honored to nominate Melinda Carvajal for the Casby McGuffy Award. Melinda is the very definition of this
award, bringing committed, passionate service to every aspect of her board work. In her two years on the board, she has proven herself as a true champion for kids. As a mother of five students in our district, Melinda brings both personal insight and unwavering
dedication to the role. She is an active community volunteer, always showing up to support students, staff, and families. On the board, she serves on the linkage committee where she facilitates engagement with stakeholder groups and helps ensure every voice is heard. Her leadership is thoughtful,
inclusive, and deeply rooted in her belief in public education. Melinda doesn't just serve, she inspires. Her actions reflect everything the McGuffy Award stands for, and our district is stronger because of her heart, her voice, and her service.
[Applause] family happy character. You're so deserving of this. Thank you for all you do for our community and for our school. >> Of course. >> And now it's your turn. >> My turn. I'm up.
>> Oh, it might be working now. >> Hello. All right. Star. Whoa. You've made remarkable contributions to public education in the community, particularly focusing on disadvantaged individuals and those facing homelessness. Quickly stepping
into your role here on the board after being selected to fill an open seat. You demonstrated exceptional commitment by tackling challenging questions during your interview. As a representative on the youth commission, you emphasize the importance of youth engagement in education. Consistently attending meetings and advocating for students in
need through tires through tireless effort and genuine compassion. You embody the spirit of service and advoc advocacy in public education. And I could say more too, but it is very limited. >> It is limited. >> Uh we're just grateful to have you on the board. You do an amazing job and our
students are lucky to have you. You should only leave anymore. >> Yeah, >> we should do that. >> Wow. Thank you very much and congratulations to our two directors. Uh we are lucky to have them on the board
and it is quite an honor to receive the McGuffy Award. So, congratulations. Uh our superintendent is away at a wedding. So, his >> I miss any wedding. Uh well, I don't want to get too personal here, but um it's a >> very important wedding. It
>> It is a very important wedding. It's not his own. Um >> but uh his faithful deputy superintendent has volunteered to step in. So, Deputy Superintendent Michael Clow will report on activities throughout the district. Michael, please take over. >> Awesome. And do we have uh
>> We'll see what we get. >> I I do appreciate the word volunteer. >> All right. Keep going. >> All right. Uh first up you'll see uh >> we'll go through some celebrations. Celebrations of our staff, students, and
our community. Um first up, you see the South Elementary playground ribbon cutting. U that's the that's the final in a long line of things that had to happen to make that happen. And that speaks to our facility staff, our
construction staff who brought us to the finish line to have uh an improved awesome play service o over at South. You you see uh Will flipping the coin for the Riverdale Prairie View New
Rivalry game. And so it's exciting to have our three schools competing with each other and and bringing th those communities together at that event. uh Padilla hosted uh learning for educators from across
the state hosted by CDE or put on by CDE and this is a celebration uh of that program at Padilla of our leadership at Padilla of our staff at Padilla who run a great AS program and as always it's exciting to see our staff and the
learning that they have to continue to do um to uh improve their practice. So, celebrating Padilla and their team for the program they run. In the spirit of community, we want to thank uh Thornton Chamber and Brighton
Chamber for supporting our new teachers. Can think of anything more important than onboarding our teachers and bringing them into the spirit that is 27J. You guys are often a part of that. Um, it sets the tone for how teachers
see this environment. And it's a recruiting tool for us. We hear all the time our educators saying, "This seems like a sane place. This seems like a professional place. This seems like a place that um, everybody cares. We're not fighting just to fight that we can work our craft and and drive
our mission." So, thank you to them. uh celebration of our students, staff, leaders for a successful homecoming. The spirit, the camaraderie um that goes on at these events, the effort that goes in from our staff to make these and bring these events, these
traditions to life for our kids. Um I talked to one principal, four nights in a row, uh 9:00 nights, and that's hard on a family, but it speaks to also their commitment to making these events go for our kids. uh internship fair again, district
partners, uh district partners, business partners, the community uh bringing opportunities forward for for our kids. It takes a village. It takes all of us to create the future and we talk about uh the future for our kids. What better example can you find than an
internship fair as students are dreaming about and thinking about and exploring their futures? Uh this is an example of kind of what happens. So some of these things we know are coming. We're part of there's planning and then you have educators who just make things happen. And um our
adaptive PE team made adaptive track and field happen for our kids. They didn't ask for permission. there wasn't all these other people involved. These educators just saw the need and uh went for it. And an amazing event, amazing opportunity for our students. And we
have educators doing that every day for our kids. Stories that we won't be able to tell, that we won't be able to show. Um where our educators are caring for our kids. Partnership. We We need partners. We We need partners to be successful. We need partners for our kids to be successful
and we're grateful for what the city council approved here. I won't read it out since you can read it. >> I thought they had one more vote in October. No, they approved it. >> That that was the vote. >> And we're really appreciative of it.
>> Yeah, it's amazing. >> Sign of students excelling. I'll I'll let you read that. I won't read it at you. It doesn't hurt. Would >> you prefer >> for the audience for the recording? >> Yes. >> For the recording. Sure. Uh 42 students
scored in the top 10% of high schools of business final exam. This is a national exam and speaks to the incredible opportunities, talent, and effort of our students and staff within 27J at PB and at PBMS PBHS specifically.
And then um to close the celebrations, we'll just I'll read this. Uh we are sending our thoughts and prayers to the families impacted students and staff whose lives were forever changed and to the families
across the world including 27J that are further worried about their children's safety at school. We pledge to continue to make student safety our top priority. We means everyone in the community. See something, know something, worry about
something, call us. Please use safe to tell if needed. It takes all of us to keep our kids safe. And then uh I'll read a prepared statement from our superintendent.
Uh following up on uh previous public comment, 27J schools does not have a policy regarding transgender bathroom use. Our board of education does set executive limitations that require the superintendent and all designates to
follow the law. And this includes law created at the federal and state level. But nowhere in either superintendent policy or our board of education policy will we find a policy related to our practice. We have protocols to work with specific students and families to keep
all of our students safe and feeling safe about the bathroom they are using and those that enter the bathroom they're using. Included in this practice is providing a genderneutral bathroom in addition to the customary boys and girls restrooms. And we build these restrooms
into every excuse me one of our new schools per HP23-1057. These bathrooms can be used by students who are transitioning, have transitioned, feel unsafe, or where the student prefers availability of a
private option. Our locker rooms follow similar practices. But our practice of working with students doesn't legally prohibit individuals from gaining access to the restroom of their gender they identify as. Colorado Civil Rights Commission rules
CCR708-1 require public entities including schools to allow individuals to access their gender segregated facilities, restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms that align with their gender identity. These rules written in 2008,
Department of Regulatory Agencies and challenged in a landmark case in 2013, Koi Matthis affirmed a person's right to use gender segregated facilities like restrooms that align with their gender identity. In my 27 years in 27J, I
cannot recall learning of any material harm taking place in our bathrooms related to this issue. You have every assurance that we will work to ensure that every child feels safe, comfortable, and supported at school while also respecting the needs and rights of all students.
And that concludes my report. Thank you, Michael. Appreciate that. And again, to reiterate that safe to tell is anonymous uh and uh parents can use it, kids can use it. Please uh uh feel free to use that if you're ever uncomfortable
or you hear about a situation or even you know I have a rumor of a situation. Please use the safety tell and and help us get involved uh and intervene in it before it becomes a problem. So uh I really appreciate that notice. Uh next up is item six, matters of public
comment. The board will now hear public comments on some topics that have been indicated on the signin sheet. And a reminder, this board meeting is a business meeting held in public, not a public meeting. The board hears public comments to learn about the preferences and concerns of our community. Therefore, tonight we listen. We are
prohibited by state law to take any actions on the items because law requires formal public notice prior to any actions taken on an agenda item. During our next meeting, if appropriate, such as tonight, uh we consider your comments in our discussions and we ask that the superintendent attempt to find
an answer for any of your questions at that time. The board welcomes the comment of our community members, but to ensure that everyone will have an opportunity to participate, we have a few few ground rules that we ask you to follow. Anyone intending to address the board should sign in the speak the sign-in sheet and we'll call speakers in
the order in which they've signed in. Speakers comments are limited to three minutes. Um, we ask that you refrain from making complaints or negative comments about individual students or district employees. However, we cannot prevent you from doing so. Such complaints and comments should be addressed first at the classroom or
school level and then still unresolved to the superintendent. A disturbing good order by inappropriate language or gesture is grounds uh for removal from the meeting. We thank you in advance for your participation tonight. Uh,
first up, I have David Pockington. He would like to talk about the transgender bathroom policy. David, please uh make sure that microphone is on. >> There you go. Thank you. Yes. And again, in or out of district and proceed >> uh in district. Um last comment, I kind
of find it funny that um person's gender identity. So if a boy wants to be a girl, they can just walk into the girl's bathroom. That's their right these days. So, I want to talk about laws. Um, last time I was here, you guys were
talking about how 27J follows the law. Well, federal law supersedes state law. While state law sets the majority of education and curricula, federal ensures the state and uh is protected by students rights. What happens if state
law and federal law conflict? Federal federal laws takes presidents due to the supremacy clause of the of the US Constitution. You can't pick which law you want to choose. If a federal law comes out saying, "Hey, boys don't belong in girls bathrooms and vice versa." You can't say, "Well, we're just
going to ignore it." That's a federal law. By by rule, you're supposed to get higher by it. Just look at Denver East. Denver is actually being sued right now by the federal government saying that they're in violation of Title 9.
They had the same thing that 27D does. They changed bathrooms, said boys belong in girls bathrooms, girls could go in boys bathrooms, vice versa. So right now they're being sued by the federal government there. The federal government says the policy has to be changed. Bathrooms back
to the way it used to be. No more having boys and girls in, you know, different bathrooms. This is the federal law. Quick story before I finish. I got a phone call last Friday saying that my daughter and another girl at
foundations, which is still under 27 days policies, that a boy had said, "Hey, let's go into the girl's bathroom and take off your panties." What was going to happen in that bathroom? Anybody?
I can only think the worst. But here it is. is I sit up here every single month telling you that how it's bad for boys to be girls bathroom and vice versa. Nobody nobody votes on it. I don't even think that you guys care. As a matter of fact, everybody in the sport should be
fired because of it. Your job is to protect kids to protect young kids at school. Are you guys doing that? Does it seem like it? Some people are up for actually election this year. Okay.
Myself, my wife have decided not to vote for you guys. You guys cannot protect kids and it's shown. You're saying that it's okay for boys to be in girls bathrooms and vice versa.
You will not get our vote and again you shall be fired because of it. Thank you, Mr. P. Uh, next up I have Janine Runa. Please step forward. if you're in a district or out of it. And her topic is
literacy. Hi, I'm Jannine Ful. I'm in the district and I'm here to talk to you about literacy again this year. The CMS results in your handout show clear and troubling pattern across every grade level third through 8th or students perform well below the state average in reading. For example, while around 47%
of students statewide meet or exceed expectations, in 27J, only about 30 to 38 do. In sixth grade, it's even lower, just 29%. Even more concerning, the trend lines show this gap is not closing. Research from the National Institute Institutes
of Health have shown that children who struggle with reading by third grade are four more likely to face negative life outcomes, lower graduation rates, higher unemployment, and even poorer health. A study from the Center of Education and Youth confirms that literacy is one of the strongest predictors of long-term success in schools and in life. The
reality is if our kids can't read, we're filling them in every subject. Colorado's Read Act is clear. Literacy interventions must be provided in addition to English language arts instruction. Yet, in 27J, at the middle school level, interventions not happening in addition to ELA. Instead,
students who are below grade level are simply placed in an ELA class. that is not in compliance with the law and it's not helping our kids catch up. Other districts in Colorado have taken stronger action. They require a mandatory literacy class in middle school for students below grade level.
This way, struggling students receive the targeted structured literacy intervention they need while students at or above grade level continue to advance. The purpose of education is to teach children to read and prepare them to become contributing members of society. Right now, our district's data tells us we are not achieving that
purpose. Until we make literacy intervention a priority beyond third grade and into middle school, our students and our community will continue to pay the price. I urge you to act. Make explicit structured literacy intervention available in middle schools. Our students futures depend on
it. >> Thank you, Jean. Appreciate you coming down. And we do appreciate the public comments. Uh next up would be our consent agenda. All matters listed on the consent agenda are operational matters which the board has governing policies implementation of
which is delegated to the superintendent. Uh they will be enacted in one motion by category in the order listed below. There will be no discussion of these items prior to the time the board of directors vote on the motion unless members of the board, staff or public request specific items to be discussed separately. Any member
of the public who wishes to discuss the consent agend agend consent agenda item should notify the president of the board at the time requested and be recognized. There was none. Uh the items on the consent agenda include a approval of the board education minutes dated August
27th study session regular meeting and September 10th uh 2025 planning session and approval of personnel items on the memorandum dated September 18th, 2025. Do I have a motion? I'll move to approve the consent agenda dated September 24th,
2025 as presented. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from Director Alvarado, a second from Director Wilhelm. Can I have a roll call vote? >> Director Alvarado. >> I. >> Director Carvajal. >> Yes. >> Director Khan. >> I. >> Director Green. >> Yes. >> Director Thomas. >> Hi.
>> Director. >> Hi. >> Director Wil. >> I. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Next up is governance that supports our global goals. Uh at this point we will hear reports. Uh ownership linkage director Carbahal or director Khan anything to report?
>> I don't think anything new from last time. >> Very good. Uh on the board of education directors Khan and director Thomas >> I have nothing to report. >> Uh the facility planning and advisory committee director green we have an upcoming meeting. Uh next up would be
the uh capital facility fee foundation director Khan or director Alvarado or director Trillo. last meeting, but >> no. Yeah, I was in my last meeting. >> I should have waited.
>> I was I was working. I couldn't do it. >> Okay, very good. Uh, next up would be our Rocky Mountain risk. Director Carl. Yeah, I um attended that meeting this past week and we just went over sort of what our policies look like and what premiums look like and how things were growing and um it's something we don't
want to talk about, but um there is a an arm to our insurance for um any disasters like live shootings in schools. And on the back of Evergreen, we did a lot of talking about this. Most districts up until three years ago had zero access to this type of policy. and
we are covered um in 27J with this policy and we're one of the only districts um in the state that currently has this type of work and so it's not something that we want to say hey like we have to have this and it's unfortunate we have to have it but it was really interesting seeing that
policy learning about it and understanding like how important it is now that we have that in place as a measure for our community when it comes to that like backfall of an event like that happening the resources that come from that and those type of things so I'll share that with you guys, that
policy, so you can see what it looks like. Um, but it was really fascinating to just learn about that side of it, things that we never get to in thinking about those type of incidents when it comes to the insurance side of Congress. >> Well, and a real forethought from our voters to to give us that confidence to
give us that so that we were able to place security guards and uh armed resource officers in every one of our schools. And so, uh, that really helps. Uh, and they are there, uh, and even when there's an absence such as there was at the school, we have somebody to cover and move around. We have
secondaries. So, >> and there's training associated with it. And after I asked for that policy to be sent out to the Rocky Mountain Risk Board then, um, there were a lot of questions brought up by legal that sits with us on that board and he just combed through it and asked some questions about how we could right now provide
resources to the districts on training. um for making this part of the activation plan through safety. So, there's a lot of resources in it that we can tap into right now and so figuring out what that might look like or what the district could use from the insurance side is something that we got
to talk about and work through. >> Very good. Thank you. Uh next up is the 27J believers director Thomas. >> Yeah. So, we are we're scheduled to do one heading into the fourth quarter. Last year we did a Halloween themed one if you recall that.
>> It was spooky. Yeah. >> Um, so we'll do one late October, 1 November. So we'll get a a a schedule to Lan. >> Very good. Uh, the Commerce City and 27J schools use tax, Director Green and Director Wilhelm. And we just saw the
fruits of that uh, being voted on this evening and we really appreciate that from the Commerce City Council. Uh, that 2 million plus or almost three million will go a long ways on our new Rocky Vista High School. Very excited about that. uh the 2015 2021 bond oversight
committee. Director Alvarado, Director Thomas, do you have anything? >> Um yeah, we met last week. Um great update on all of the projects. It we are now turning um the the construction team is turning towards deferred maintenance and there is a lot of it. So, um we'll
be reviewing some deferred maintenance um uh at our next meeting. >> Very good. >> Do you have anything else to add? Um, just really great that we're in the very final stages of a couple punch list items to have all of our schools have their secure vestibules done and completed and make sure we're focusing
on safety. So, that's a cool update to share. >> Communications will send out something to the district once it's all done. >> And we have an excellent communications department by the way. Uh, the 2022 Milvy override oversight committee. Director Thomas Wilhelm,
>> you guys just had a report last month. I was I was absent at that meeting Beno they reported last month. We've not met since then. >> We've not met since then. So no update. >> Very good. Uh the Brighton Youth Commission, Director Jill, do you have anything? >> Yeah, so um they have had a couple
meetings. I did not attend. So I just want to give a little highlight about the Burton Youth Commission. Something that's amazing is being student focused. A lot of these leadership groups for youth, it's hard for student athletes to be able to attend and they created a way
where student athletes are there. They welcome them and they allow them to miss meetings and make up hours. So, they have different events throughout the year and you get to make up the hours. Well, where that comes into play with me is they allow me to go see my daughter's game and I get to volunteer and make up some hours. So,
>> I was watching um the Riverdale Carview game softball and Riverdale won, but that's okay. So, anyway, that was my highlight on Brighton Youth Commission. They are doing great things, but they also are very supportive in their um members being student athletes. So, I love that.
>> I think Riverdale is going to be our new powerhouse for a while, especially from that football game. I mean, uh the next would be other matters of information for the board. And I believe Director Khan has something to add to this. >> Um yeah, I'm super excited. Me and Tom and Barb, sorry I've lost my voice. It
sounds terrible. Um me and Barb Hagerty and Tom Green have talked about the possibility of adding a committee to our list of committees um for uh annual educator awards um district-wide educator awards. Um and that would
cover, you know, an educator from each school. Um, plus the it would also give us the the ability to submit an educator every year for the statewide educator award, which I'm super excited about. Um, so yeah, >> and this came >> I don't know what we need to do that to make that happen, but we've talked about
it. >> We're in the process of it. And this came from our discussion of how we could recognize our teachers. Director Cowball, did you have to >> Yeah, just on that note, I had met with uh people from the Kowanas Club, I believe, and they also have an educator one and they don't get a lot of
recognition or like recommendation. So, that just might be an organization that you connect with on that. And they even have funding sometimes attached to those type of things. >> And then, um the I just sent over to you guys the policy and I just wanted to say it's called the active asalent policy. So, when you get that, that's what that
looks like. >> Very good. Thank you. Uh, next up, we're moving through this, which is great. Uh, is there expectations of the board? Uh, we don't have any uh reports submitted since the last meeting, but we do have charter
school liaison Ken Newman to present the expectations of the board report through 3J charter schools as conveying reasonable interpretation of the executive limitations. Kendlin, come on down. And then I have our next report that's going to be in the on deck
circle. So, we appreciate that. She's also my technician. >> Oh, very good. >> Yeah. She's going to help me with the the last part of the um >> Well, let's hope it works. >> I know. We can only hope. >> Thank you. And we look forward to your report.
>> Should I do this or >> Yes, please. >> Yeah. >> Right in rotary. >> Yes. And they have like plunging attacks. There's a lot of things to park. >> Well, let's see if we can include them as part of the committee. >> Or include them in the committee. >> Let's let's make them part of the committee. >> You guys decide.
>> Okay. >> All right. >> Um, thank you. >> Do you have a light? >> I have a green light. >> Okay. She has the green light. That means go. >> Does that mean you can hear me? >> Not necessarily. >> Okay. >> But it could eventually kick in. >> Okay. Um, so this is the annual report
that we do to talk about charter schools. It's got two primary sections. The first section is how we work with our our potential partner schools. So, anybody who wants to come into 27J um and be a part of our our partner school
network. Um thank you. >> Um that part was really easy to fill this year because we didn't have any applications. So, half the report is done and I report compliance. That makes it a lot easier when I don't have to do anything with it, right? Yeah,
>> it's perfect. The second part works primar or focuses primarily on the schools that are currently in our system and how we help and support them. That information there, I believe, starts on page seven. Um, and I do report
compliance in all of the areas. Um, I do want to point out a few items that of interest as we move through this um, material. The first one item is on page 10 and it's number six. Fail to assure
compliance with the charter school contract. We did have some challenges this year with the stud school and their reporting. They did not report um at a rate that we would have liked to have seen them report. Um I think you all had got a copy of the letter of correction we sent out. Bill Cottonsteady who is
their new executive director has such a great uh plan on how they're going to address that for this school year. And so far it's been fantastic. They've been reporting all the all of their items on time. And if they have questions about it because he is new, then we usually give them an extension to be able to
complete that report. Um it's not a material violation. It's more of a this is a partnership expectation. Um and so we report compliance because it's not material. The next section that I would like to go
into um on is on page 12. One of the items that we need to do is report to you on how the performance of the schools are uh is compared to the schools that we have in our own system. So this is the SPF summary which is different than what Carlo's going to be
talking about in a little while. She'll be focusing on the um dashboard, but this is how we compare assets to between our charter partners and our uh district managed schools. Anything with an asterisk next to it denotes a charter
school. So you can see where what kind of plan they have, what kind of performance they have. And you if that performance went up this year, then there's the little I think it's called a carrot. >> Uh we call it a carrot. >> Okay. A carrot. the carrot top that shows the vet performance has actually
improved over last school year. Let's see the the next one that I want to point out is on page 15 and that just shows a historical overtime their SPF rating our schools compared to the charter school compared to the other schools.
Do you have any questions about the report? It's pretty simple. >> I have a few. >> Yeah. Okay. Right. Um, I'm going to go back to I think page seven. Okay. Page eight. Um, so talking about how the charter principles get together for
their meeting. Yeah. >> Um, so I was just curious how well that meeting is typically attended and if you see a lot of value out of that meeting. >> Um, I see a lot of value in it because it's my meeting, right? Good. Um, but we
use that time uh primarily to talk about anything that's upcoming that they need to be aware of. If they're like Susan Hurl, who's here today, came in on Monday to visit with them about Reed Act and some of the expectations and requirements of the Reed Act. Um, I'll have Megan Rhodess come in and talk
about Title 9 expectations. So, it's a great opportunity to have when when they all need to hear the same information. It is attended pretty regularly. I almost always every time have at least one school not represented for a variety of reasons. Brley East was one that was not there on Monday because they had
professional development with their staff on Monday. So it their time they they all go to school on Mondays with the exception of Eagle Ridge. So they it's it's much more difficult sometimes for meeting school. >> Okay, perfect. Um and then I was curious talking about that same page down the
data reported. >> Yeah. Um it has dates for September 24 and then October. So, is this kind of a consistent rolling calendar? Are we going to see that this happens again September 2025 and October? Kind of the same system. >> Yep. And somebody didn't quite get the
numbers changed on the report. >> Okay, perfect. I think probably my other question was going to be um same thing. There was talking about 2023 2024 under the failed the document. Is that just a >> 24? >> Okay, correct. I just wanted to confir that would be my fault completely.
>> No worries. And then my last question was about the the loan from the STE school. Yes. Um I was just curious how much that loan is for if you happen to know of ballpark. I don't know exactly what it is. So every single year for the
first four years we did not charge them direct costs for different types of services. Usually that direct cost is somewhere between $120 to $150 per student. So if you can imagine that multiplied by the number of students
that they have over time. And of course they phased in. And so they had freshman, then they had freshman and sophomores and they so they phased in over the years and now they're paying it back to us. So we get as we we actually withhold money from them every month to
keep to pay that bill back to us. >> And how does that then translate to showing up in our finances? I'm just curious like when we will see that start to to show as that might be a Stacy question. >> Yeah, that's probably a Stacy question. I'm sure that there's some wonderful
line item somewhere that says this is stead paying us back for the long. I did want to share just a little bit of information with you that I don't believe that I've shared in the past and this is just about the trends in 27J for our partner schools. The first one is
enrollment trends. As you can see over the years from 2019 to um September 8th of this year, the enrollment of our schools capstone obviously is the is the one that sticks out the most in terms of it's so only got one year because this is the first year. They are currently at
462 students. Um I think they expected around 600 students and have about 462. And then the other one I wanted to show or another one I want to show you is Bell Creek. Bell Creek you can see has had a consistent decline in enrollment over many years. They were losing
anywhere between 30 and 50 kids per year. Mostly because that area around Bell Creek is it's kind of landlocked, right? You got 76 and or 85 and I mean there's not there not a lot of neighborhoods there, but you'll see that this year it's sort of evening off and
so they're currently at 521. Um and last year they had 519. So I think that's stabilizing quite a bit. Um there is an apartment complex going in in that area that will probably increase the school the school in the next two or three years. That's Bell. And then the
other I wanted to point out was the stat school. We I believe we talked about in the past that their enrollment is not nearly what they had expected nor wanted. Um they uh wanted to have 660 this year. They currently have um 413.
Um and that's about a 63% it's 63% of what they wanted. So enrollment for them is something that's very much a challenge. They are also under uh up for renewal this year. So we'll be spending some time talking about STE and what it is that we want to do. I know that they have some ideas
about how to increase their enrollment but it would fundamentally change the application that they um submitted to us six years ago. So just know that that that work is coming. So, Klin, it's shown that there's still people on the wait list at SE. Do you know if that's correct? If they're under
>> I don't exactly know what that is. Sometimes it goes by grade level. So, for example, if they have a certain grade level, they can't take any more kids in that grade level. That might be the reason why it's there. Um, but that is what they reported.
>> Okay. The She's so good. She's like, you have to push this button, right? Um, so, uh, the next one I, one of the things that I know that the board has asked in the past, what percentage of our students are currently attending a partner school? The blue line shows the
percentage of our students that are attending a charter school. The red line is the is the percentage of kids that are attending a charter school and Colorado Connections Academy, which is not a charter school. It is considered a contract school, which is there's some slight variations. They don't have a
board. It's like we're contracting with this with Pearson to run an online program. So the number seems high 26% which it is high. That's a lot of kids attending a school other than a district managed school. Um but a lot of that is because connection connections is such a
large school. They're an online school with 2,000 kids something like that. Can't the numbers there's quite a few kids. >> But it's important to point out that those are not in 27J. Correct. >> Some of our kids are might be
>> I thought the understanding was is that they >> we can't if if like we worked to not have that happen. Does that make sense? But there's when once a family enrolled we could not we can't actually tell a family no you can't enroll or they can't be denied enrollment for the school if
that's what the family wants. So there are a few but it's not like a handful. >> Okay. >> And that's separate from OA. >> Yeah. And these are kids that attend all across the state. So they could be anywhere in the state of Colorado.
All right. Next one I wanted to point out. This is the percent of free or and reduced lunch in our partner schools currently. Um I wanted to point out Bel Creek. So Bel Creek has 55.3% of their students have free or and reduced lunch
which is quite quite a significant number. And I believe it's even more significant when you start looking at some of the other things I want to talk about for >> Bell. This is the percent of kids who are chronically absent in these schools. And what chronically absent means is they missed 10 or more school days in
last school year. Um you'll notice that STE has a pretty high percentage. 33% of their kids have missed um 10 or more days. Bell Creek also has a significant number. It's still lower than the district, but it's still a pretty significant number. Um I'm sharing that
with you also for Belle. I want to talk about this as well is that they have a much larger percentage of culturally and linguistically diverse students in their school. So they're serving a a very diverse population of of kiddos. And the reason why I wanted to share that is
because they are showing growth. They they did they are working with the kids and academically are showing some pretty interesting things from that school that that what they're doing there is working for the population of kids. So, it's that's pretty exciting to see. This last
one, school performance framework trends. This just shows what was the number um the percent point or the points gained um on the SPF over the last four years. So, you can see the trends just a little bit. You'll notice
our NHA schools um are trending down um which is concerning. Um, our STE is trending up, but Carla helped explain to me that while their SPF rating is really pretty good. Um, their numbers are so low that some of
their data can't be included in the SPF. Did I say that right? >> Yeah, I I would say that is true. And um, some of the items, for example, they have not had a graduating class. >> Yeah. Until this year. Yeah. And so that
graduation component of the high school performance framework, they are exempt from. And so for the components that they can earn points for right now, that's the score that's being produced, but over time as they grow, as they
graduate kids, additional components will be added to their performance framework. And so we'll we'll see in time how that shifts. I'm interested to see the data between chronically absent and tardy the
chronically absent tardy rate versus our graduation rate and how that changes for yearbyear. I'm just curious if that I mean affects um >> and if there's anything we can do about that
>> chronically absent rate. >> Yeah. Are there any district resources available to them from? >> Yeah, absolutely. So I serve as their um intervention services coordinator as well. So when they have um issues of of
attendance or behavior, I work with the charter schools to help work through those those challenges with them and and help provide. The district is amazing in terms of um the services that are provided for our partner schools. And so uh frequently they call me and they have an issue and I I find somebody who knows
the answer because I usually don't. That's why I call a liaison. That's the beauty of it. I don't have to know anything. >> Yeah. >> I I think it's good to point out that the SPF, which is not stand for solar protection or anything, it's the school performance framework, but the majority of our charter schools are all in the
performance level. There's only one charter school that is really uh not in the performance level, which is really good. So, I appreciate that, too. >> Do you work at Kinland directly with leadership in each of those schools? Do you have a board component? Yep. So, um
I go to um their board leads, okay? Sit and listen to the boards because that's part of our evaluation if they've got good leadership or not. So, I go to their board meetings as much as I can. Um and then, uh I not only do I have the partner school leaders every month in
that meeting that I was talking about, I also go to their schools every month and and talk and visit with them and find out what challenges there's they're experiencing and support them in that way. And then then they call when there's somebody's going on. >> Okay. So you know if boards are active
participating if they're not >> and then like the training do you help leadership train boards to be more effective leaders? >> So tomorrow night I have a board training with um the Brley East board. >> Okay. >> Awesome. Thank you. You want to go?
>> Um we had a study session coming up for the National Heritage Academy. Do you want to update us on the project pro progress of that? >> Sure. I I think when we visited last we wanted one of the things we wanted to do is reach out to national heritagemies
and let them know that we would like to have the boards come together on October 8th. Um I did make phone calls that next day after that study session to all of the board presidents asking if they would be interested in attending that. Their answer was absolutely they would like to be here. I'm get I'm starting to
get RSVPs back from them and right now almost whole boards are coming. Um they are just as interested in as you all are in figuring this out because the challenge of course is the frustration doesn't live with their board or our board. It lives with NHA but the
contract is between our board and their board. And so uh I believe that we're still going to have that conversation on October 8th. Um, we have seen some progress in terms of filling the positions that we needed to have filled, but they will not meet the September
30th deadline. Um, and so I be meet with the executive executive director quality schools or something like that for from NHA on Friday with our special education director to get some more information and find out what's
happening with there. and he did make have a request to meet with Will as well on Friday, but of course Will is, you know, being a dad. >> Okay, >> any other questions? >> Um, not a question, but just to for the benefit of the board, um, the board, the
charter partners regularly come to our Millvy and bond meetings. So, they come every year. Yeah. >> Um, and give a presentation and share, you know, how they're using their Milvy dollars. they show us um they report on programs they're doing, projects they have going on. So um I I and I don't
think they're required to do that. Um but I appreciate that they are always willing to come and meet with um our oversight committees to share to share how they're using um taxpayer dollars in their schools and they they enjoy coming. I mean it it
except for when I make fun of them, but for the most part they enjoy. >> Thank you so much. I think it's encouraging that Bel Creek is at least stabilizing um after so many years of decline. Uh so I'm glad we invested in that as part of the
>> uh the dollars there and I'm hoping that um Ste can get it turned around too. Um when you see the chronic absence absenteeism and struggles there, but for the most part it looks like our German schools are doing pretty well. It'd be nice if Brownley East
>> could step up to the plate. They had some great gains this year, which is which is good. So, they're trending in the right direction, I think, is which is great. And we will have multiple conversations about Ste. You will we will become very close as we go through the renewal process with Ste because I do know that they're going to be asking
for some unique changes to their application. Yeah, it's interesting. Um, I have a bunch of kids that work for me from STE and then like through like working at the National Western Center, they do like a whole segment down there. during that month we meet all those kids and there's just this different um
commitment to education in their brains or like how they operate. So I am interested to see if that rate of absentee will or will not impact graduation rates in that because the style of education is vastly different. >> Yeah, it is it is definitely different.
So, um, and that absolutely can be something that they look into as we get more data from them because we have such little data right now, um, in terms of that graduating class, that first graduating class. Thanks. >> Yeah, I think there's a fear it's a little too loosey goosey, but >> yeah, it might be. It might be. It's
really loose. >> Thank you very much. Uh, do I have a motion? >> You'll be feeding under nine beats. Um move to accept the expectation of the board report through 3J charter schools as conveying reasonable interpretation of the executive limitations.
>> I'll second. >> I have a motion for director a second from director Wilhelm. Roll call vote please. >> Director Alvarado >> I. >> Director Carvajal >> I. >> Director Khan >> I. >> Director Green. >> Yes. >> Director Thomas. >> Hi. >> Director Shu. >> Hi. >> Director. >> Hi.
>> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Next up, a direct executive director of learning services, Carla Reer, >> here >> will present rider reader. I, you know, I'm not a good reader, so that's why I don't say writer. Um, present global goal 1.3 academic growth and performance
based on the 27J academic dashboard is conveying reasonable interpretations of the executive limitations. Miss Reader, >> Miss Ryder, please take it over. >> All right. Um so tonight our academic
growth and performance uh report is based on our current goal. So our current goal started in the fall of >> Sorry, I feel there's a lot of feedback. Sorry, just tracking. >> We're going to give you a lot of feedback. Trust me. Yeah.
>> Um, this goal started in the fall of 2021 and the goal specifically states that the academic status of school district 27J and individual schools within 27J will be measured by the 27J schools academic dashboard. And by the
fall of 2025, right now, uh, 80% of district managed schools will have an accomplishing rating on our 27J schools academic dashboard. So, you all have received a copy of the full report.
Um, I'm going to use a slide deck tonight to help condense some of the information that was shared with you through the full report. So the first table that I want to share with you um this is called a pivot table
and in this pivot table you can see a change in um in school uh performance rating continuous improvement rating from one year to the next. And so across
the uh bottom of the graph, that bottom horizontal represents the fall of 2024 academic growth and performance level on our dashboard and on the left side represents the the report this year. So
comparing performance last year to this year. And how you read this chart is um I'll start with entering from last year. So that bottom entering box, it shows a number two above it. And what that means
is we had two schools last year who were in the entering category. And when you look across, they are still in the entering category this year. So those two schools remained the same. You'll notice part of the table is
colorcoded green, part of the table is colorcoded red. The numbers in the green represent schools who increased their um academic growth and performance from last year to this year. Schools in the red or the numbers in the red represent
schools who had a decrease in academic growth and performance from last year to this year. And so um all of the numbers in the white boxes that diagonal are the schools who maintained their their academic growth and performance from
last year to this year. So in short what this uh table shows us is that we had uh about 71% of our schools maintained their academic growth and performance from last year to this year. We had about 21% of our schools increase their
academic growth in performance and we had about 8% or two schools who decreased. Um the two schools that decreased were South Lawn and Stewart. We had um the schools that increased were Brandon
Elementary, Padilla, Penock, Second Creek, and Southeast. And our remaining schools are all in the white boxes that remain the same. Any questions on this chart? >> What's the percentage of district
managed schools that are at accomplishment rate? >> I'm going to get there. >> Okay, >> I will. All right. Uh this next chart um is I wanted to show some uh longitudinal history
about the academic growth and performance of our schools through the 27J dashboard. Um I want to particularly point out um the school year 202021. Um that's where the arrow is because
that is um the school year where we had to uh we had we returned from the pandemic, right? We returned and our students especially in our secondary schools were not in school physically every day um all day long. And so it was
a transition year from when we had to go remote remote in the fourth quarter in 2020 to being able to return full-time. That is also the year um sorry the spring of 2020 is the year that the
state of Colorado put a pause on CAMASS. And so we didn't have CAMASS results in the fall of um 2020 for school performance reports. And that is what actually prompted the goal that I'm currently reporting on is we had to and
thankfully we had our dashboard. We had a way to talk about academic growth and performance internally without the use of our of the statewide school performance framework. And so that's why I point out that year in particular. Um
during that year, spring of 2021, there was also modified administration of state assessments where certain grade levels took ELA, certain grade levels took math. We didn't have the full complete set. Um and so you can imagine
that growth was impacted from one year to the next. So our dashboard really became uh an important tool for us to look at how are our schools uh performing academic for academic growth and performance. So what you can see in
short from this chart is um we're really trending upwards since that time um and um hope to continue to trend upwards. you will see a small dip um from last year to to this current
report. What I would remind you is that our academic growth and performance on our dashboard encompasses all grade levels K through 12. All uh core content areas, English
language arts, math, and then for high school and middle school, science and social studies. It does include our early literacy assessment. It includes uh ontrack measures such as grades for our middle school and um
credits earned in graduation and demonstration for our high schools. So when you see that trend upwards even from 2020 to now that trend line is up. We experienced a small dip this year but
that's within all of those different measures. One can go up. you've seen the the press releases that we sent out um to our community. We've saw some gains. We experienced some improvement in our SEMASS results in our dashboard. That is one of our
measures. Some of our other measures experienced a dip and so um that dip is caused by some of those other measures. >> Okay. And it ask when the cycles take place each year. So you have is that you
know very beginning of the year how many cycles are in a year? >> So we produce our our dashboard. We kind of take a final snapshot each quarter if you will. And the report that I give to you is last year's fourth quarter plus
new seamass results. So it's kind of in between quarter 4 and quarter 1, but it's really the end of the year with new CAMASS results. >> But how many district common assessments are there a year? >> Oh, sorry I misunderstood your question. >> Sorry. No, that's okay. Our district common assessments for secondary, there
are four cycles and then it's pretty much quarterly. Um, elementary, we have three cycles. Um, with one in November, one in February, and one in May. >> And are they doing I'm I'm sorry that I don't know this. I wish I did, but are
they doing math, ELA? Are they doing all of it every cycle? And you're comparing each cycle to each cycle? >> Yep. So, elementary does English language arts and math. >> Um, and then secondary does English
language arts, math, science, and social studies >> each cycle. >> Every cycle. >> Okay. So, you're able to get real time data. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> And that's really the goal behind our dashboard is it does provide us a
snapshot of where our schools are at, where our students are at in that time with their learning. But it also provides data that we can act on before CMAS gets here. >> And I think it's important to point out this is just the 27J schools. This does
not include any of the charters, everything else. And I also like to note I appreciate all the principles that showed up for this. Uh I really appreciate you coming here and showing your interest and your concern about what these numbers show. So thank you for showing. >> Continue.
>> Yep. Um so we we talked about all the different indicators already that are in our dashboard and that's what you know it's it's a combination of these different metrics different grade levels that cause the ups and downs within the dashboard.
So uh Melinda director Carvajal you had asked what's the percent of um students at student schools that are accomplishing or leading. So, um I'm proud to report this is the highest
we've experienced since we've had this goal. We have 33.3% of our schools that are at the accomplishing or leading level. And um I'm also proud that this is the first time we have a school in the leading
category and that school is um Brenner Elementary. So um that 33% um equates to eight of our schools. It is not enough to meet the 80% goal and so I do have to report non-compliance
>> but trending in the right way >> and we are trending the right way. >> Some of them were close like I looking at the data there's just a few points or >> so to that point thank you for for bringing that up. We have um three schools that are within two points of
accomplishing and I'm sorry I didn't write down which three they are so I can't tell you off the top of my head and we have six schools that are within five points. >> So we do have a number of schools that are within range of that accomplishment.
>> If if all of those schools clicked up for the next year will you just I don't know the math. What would be the percentage we'd be close to that? >> We would be close. Off the top of my head, I think we would need 19 schools.
>> To be the 80% and this would be 16. So, we'd be close, >> but still not quite there. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> I love this data, but to be honest, the idea of taking this many assessments as a kid kind of overwhelms me. Like, if I were a child, still like I would We had
like one when I was a kid. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I know like for my kids when they do their DCAs, it's not even that they necessarily realize. It's not like they come home and say like, "Oh my gosh, we're in the middle of Cath like a totally different thing." It's kind of just like, "Oh, that that was that." Like they don't they're in second grade, so maybe it's different, but they don't
have that seeming to have that pressure. I think that we kind of worry about as the parents in that level. >> I wonder why the kids feel so much pressure around Cass though because there is major pressure around that by kids anyway. I know because they have to prepare,
right? But yeah, >> I I think that pressure can come from from different places, >> kids, other kids probably. >> I think I think the data is great though. It's interesting like we don't >> I I said this at their last meeting. We
don't know about like the why as parents when we're sending our kids to get the testing because we're not utilizing this data as a district to create impact. So, like having the conversation at the football field with other parents when they're like, "Well, why do you have your kids do it, Linda? Like, I don't feel like my kids have to. It doesn't impact them." I'm like, "Yeah, but do
you want the district to see growth so that they can identify the gap?" And so, like having that conversation has really, I hope, created impact amongst parents understanding of how it moves like the whole community or whole district to be more effective and efficient. >> Yeah. I wonder how much of our dash
dashboard results is dependent on parent cooperation. You know, like how much we obviously had a jump in seamass participation last year, right? What was our jump? Remember >> um not a big jump in participation, but we saw we did see some um degrees of
gains in terms of the results. Yeah. >> Okay. >> In our in our district common assessments, that's part of our regular curriculum. So, it's really not an opt out situation. >> Um, so I I I do think it's probably
different dynamics in terms of that participation that this like the our district common assessments, they were made by us, they were designed by us in alignment with our curriculum to measure here's what kids should know by this time.
And um and CMSS also aligns with grade level standards, but it's a snapshot of the entire year where this is a snapshot of here's where we estimate our students should be with their learning at this point. >> Question for you. We've been having the
opportunity to have conversations around looking at goals and setting direction and looking at these evaluations and we talk about that 80% as being part of the goal that's set forth for you. Is it a reasonable goal? Would it be something that as a board of education we should look at if we're saying if we the the 16
schools get closed, we're still not going to hit it. Are we setting an attainable goal for our district and growth? >> Ask me that one more time. I'm sorry. >> Like we should we be identifying if that goal is acceptable for continued like
use or is it too high? Is it too low? should we be looking at at like how should we be looking at that goal through your lens of all this data um for the years to come and us setting that direction. >> So when I think about the overall purpose of our academic growth and
performance dashboard, we really want our our schools, our teachers, our students to be engaging in cycles of continuous improvement. And so when I think about uh uh the goal is we want growth. Growth has to come before
achievement, right? And so, are we engaging in those cycles of improvement? Are we seeing gains over time? And if we're seeing that, then that's a reasonable goal. >> If we're demanding too much and overesting kids, how much pressure is
that putting on schools and teachers and principles and like is there a feedback? Are you know, is there a um a place for feedback from school staff? I think uh yes there is a place for feedback and I
think part of part of um all of this is also a mind shift of this is about growth right we want every student of ours to be ready for their future >> absolutely >> and so the mindset of
this is about performance no actually this is an opportunity for us to see where your strengths are where you might need help for growth and we're going to help you grow. >> Yeah. >> Like that's how we need to help shift the lens of what these assessments are.
>> And correct me if I'm wrong, but this 80% goal is the one that we've now changed to the 2.5 goal. >> We're going to have a discussion on that. We haven't changed agenda tonight. >> Okay. >> So, we don't need to keep thinking. >> Yeah. Well, and I guess I would like to
point out I'm I'm I'm probably most proud of our commitment to transparency and and our commitment to uh sharing these scores uh good or bad or otherwise. Uh and we also talked about in our study session of just how difficult it is raising these scores. Uh
and that was why we had such a discussion and why we're considering changing the schools. It's not easy to even get the 2.5 point. It's not easy to get from emerging to developing and then to to accomplishing and leading. Uh so this is a path. It's not necessarily a
race to the top. It's we're going to get there step by step. And I appreciate the commitment that we have and and the uh the diligence in reporting this. Uh that's what the dashboard is about. Uh it's tracking our performance and tracking our improvement and tracking our commitment to improving.
>> Yep. And on on on that note um earlier you heard public comments about um early literacy within our dashboard. One of the metrics is our DEL's aid assessment and um one of the one of the
highlights from the report in the more detailed report that you all have in front of you is um we reported fewer students as with significant reading deficits. um this past school year than in previous school years. So we are
making gains in that um area as well. >> Great. >> I want to piggy back off Tom and say um all the discussions I know you know being on the board and sitting through and understanding the dashboard and hearing this before that all the work we
did with you I appreciate it. I appreciate that I can sit here and understand it more and realize how the principles use it, the teachers use it, and everybody can use it to see that growth within the district. So, thank you. Thank you. >> Oh, yeah. I feel way smarter right now than I was before when we did this for
like, oh, I get that. That makes sense. >> That's why we do those things. Thank you. >> Winning. >> That's a win. That's a win. >> Good. Um, the purpose of this next slide, sorry, I went the wrong way. Um I just wanted to show you um we have been
reimagining what our dashboard looks like. And so this is a snapshot of just that overall academic growth and performance component of our dashboard. On the left side you see a table um with
each school their current points for academic growth and performance and then that gauge in the center. Um, but it's not perfect cuz the box that says 15.7, it's really an average. That's not the district score. It's close, but it's
really an average. Um, so that gauge kind of repres represents the district overall. Um, our new dashboard, this new view, um, and there is a a hyperlink um, in your uh, in this slide deck, and I I
can share it. That's probably not ideal of me to put a hyperlink here. I just realized that um this dashboard is a little more interactive that each page has a a tool where schools can select their own and it will individualize the data for that
for that school. So our new dashboard is a little more interactive hopefully more visually appealing than what we've used in the past. Um but wanted you to have here's what's going to look like moving forward. >> It's really colorful. Yeah, I like it. Let's see that accelerator go.
>> Yeah, that's >> I like how it looks, too. There's something that I like don't love about it is that like >> it really talks volumes to how middle school is struggling in 2017. >> Just said that >> like it really talks volumes.
That's like hard because it's so like grouped together like we're just here. >> We're going to talk a little more about that too. >> Okay, >> Carrie. Okay. So, uh the the rest of the slides here, this is all supplemental um and kind of outside of outside of the
goal that I'm reporting on, but want to make sure that we also share with you our school performance framework summary for um the Colorado state performance frameworks. So, um, this table shows the performance school performance ratings
from 2025 all the way over to 2019. You'll notice again a couple years there that are missing. That's when state assessments were paused, school performance frameworks were paused. Um, the
celebration here is over time the number of performance schools has increased. Um we're working on decreasing the improvement schools, moving them up to performance. But the other celebration here is this is we have fewer student
fewer schools that are on performance watch which either means priority improvement or turnaround. This year we are we have three. That's fewer than we've had. >> Questions about this chart
>> and only one in terminal. That's right. >> And only one in red. >> And only one in turnound. So a special a detail about that turnaround school is uh about 27J online academy is um they
by achievement and growth their rating was priority improvement. However, their participation rate, they did not meet the 95% participation rate that is required and so their rating was reduced to turnaround because of um
participation. So, >> if it weren't for that, we wouldn't have had any turnaround schools. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um Oh, actually, so a little I apologize. I want to go back. You you mentioned middle schools. So, our SEAMASS results
this year did show some gains for our middle schools. So, Overland Trail in particular, they were one of our priority improvement schools last year. They they improved up to uh improvement. And so, um that's one of those
celebrations for middle school. Um Steuart, they they were in turnaround last year and moved up to priority improvement. So on the right trajectory, >> right? So um there are some signs of of
gains in our middle schools and I I just want to draw that out that we're we're seeing some change. We're seeing the trajectory >> change direction. >> Carla, question about Discovery. I know it's an a little bit of an anomaly just because it's our K8. When you look at like are you able to separate the data
to look at six, seven, and eight at Discovery comparing that to our middle schools and how does that >> Yep. um >> and much smaller class sizes. That's for sure. >> They do have smaller class sizes. In context, um off the top of my head, I
probably can't tell you numbers, but it is in the full report. When you look at achievement, it is higher. They do have a a larger percent of students who u meet or exceed the grade level expectations. Um
and their growth was a little bit higher as well. So, yes. Okay. Are we using any of this data to say like this is what some schools are doing, right? Yeah. >> How can we emulate this and help some of these that are >> uh needing improvement, how we can get
them better? >> See, I gave you the softball just >> transitioned perfectly for me. Thank you. >> Um so some action plan, I'll go in a slightly different order just because of that. Um so for our schools that are on performance watch um we do provide um
some additional supports for our schools who are on performance watch um executive director uh Brett Mini um works with our elementary and middle school principles um deputy superintendent Michael Claus working with our high schools this year. So, our
schools that are on performance watch um they will have some additional visits, meeting time with um one of those two individuals. Um really focused on learning about the plan of action. Let's
go see it in action. What are your obstacles? How do we help you over it? Uh help you through those obstacles. So, just trying to increase the support from that level. Um we also have um specialists, coordinators, directors who
act as a partner for our schools to provide support kind of similar to to Kenlin's role as a liaison to to be there constantly present to hear empathize with the with the challenges that they have um to see what support
they can help connect the school with. Um Stuart in particular this year is working with um an external company called Relay and um they they do school visits, they do classroom observations,
they provide very specific strategies to support Stuart and they're they're finding that very helpful. Um and then some of our other schools um on performance watch have a partnership with um a company called Visionary
Educational Consultancy and uh do similar work, help them think through what's our improvement plan, help monitor progress towards that um performance plan, improvement plan. >> How are those funded?
>> Um each of those is funded by a grant. Okay, they're all grant all grant funded and we will learn here in the next actually I think next week is when uh we have an appointment with uh CB representative to learn um what grant
opportunities exist this year for our schools for our performance watch and then we'll work to pursue those opportunities as well to make sure we continue to to get that extra support. Do you know if in those reports there's anything that can come back to us as a district that could tell us how we can
support the schools better? Maybe there's something we're not doing. >> So, we do get access to um all of these partnerships start with a d a diagnostic review and we do get access to those um so we can certainly look for
commonalities along with that. um on the other learning opportunities um box. Um we have engaged this year in a in a study of our middle schools. Um we believe in our school leadership. We
believe in our teachers. what is it systemically that we might need to adjust um that can further help our schools, help our our our school leaders and teachers uh and ultimately impact our
students improve outcomes. And so um we are engaging in that study. Um Jackie Tobias is here. She's our administrator on special assignment. um she's helping us with that and engaging our middle school principles deeply in those
conversations to hear their experiences um to inform that study. >> Um outside of middle schools, the other thing that really stood out to me in all the data was the culturally and linguistically diverse category and that
we are at in red at every school. Um, I think that's me looking at Semass is what I'm starting out looking at, but consistently lower. Um, I know Kinland mentioned that Bell Creek is doing some good things with that specific demographic. Is there anything that we
can learn to adjust to do differently or what do we need to do? What's our plan to attack? >> We actually um I don't know if it's appropriate or not, but our director of culturally linguistically diverse uh education is here, Lucia Gonzalez. Um
that's pretty >> when you look at our school performance frameworks, there actually is evidence that um we are making gains for our multilingual students and it comes through um the English language assessment called access. So there is a
component of the school performance frameworks that um shows the percent of our multilingual learner students who are on track towards proficiency in the English language and obviously that
proficiency is going to have an impact on the state assessments because what language is the state assessment given in >> English >> right so um we we have we do have evidence that we are making a difference for English language learner students
and um in addition to the off proficiency. The other component to that is uh growth score from one year to the next on uh English language proficiency and and those metrics in the school performance frameworks are showing
positive for us. Awesome. Thank you. >> I'm surprised to know that the assessments are only given in English. I don't know why that's a big surprise, but >> there there are some I'm I'm not going to try to go too deep. There are some uh
administrative practices that can help us make some good decisions for kids um based on um how long they've been in the US um what grade they're in. There are some different options, but for the most
part, our student our assessments are given in the English language. There are some we might be able to give some accommodations like directions in in the home language and um but in essence
English. >> Any other questions from Miss Ryder? >> Anything else? >> All right. Thank you. Uh I would uh accept a motion under uh 9C. >> It's going to be on page five.
>> I'll move to accept the global goal 1.3 academic growth and performance based on the 27J academic dashboard as conveying reasonable interpretation of the executive limitations. >> I'll click it. >> You two have just been like exactly. I thought it was going to be
Rachel. Uh we have a motion from Director Alvarado and a second from Director Trillo. Can we have a roll call vote? >> Director Alvarado I. Director Carvajal. >> Hi. >> Director Khan. >> Hi. >> Director Green. >> Yes. >> Director Thomas. >> Hi. >> Director. >> Hi. >> Dr. Wilhelm.
>> I. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. And again, right on the heels of that, uh we did have in our uh last uh study session when we talked about this, we had some uh I think uh fruitful discussions on actually
changing this goal, moving away from the 80%. uh recommendation was uh it's uh there outlined in yellow in our packet there. The 27day school district will increase the academic growth and performance score by 2.5 points or more each year.
That would be the combined uh or each school the combined correct >> I believe it's the combined district as a district recommendation. Yes. So that's district as a whole. the district as a whole. So, we need Brightner to
keep pushing. I'm just kidding. >> Uh, do you guys want to have any more discussion about that or or uh do we want to go ahead with that motion? >> I'll move to amend the global goal three 1.3 academic growth and performance based on the 27J
academic dashboard. Two, the 27J school district will increase the academic growth and performance score by 2.5 points or more per year based on the 27J academic dashboard. I'll second. >> Thank you. Motion by director Thomas and a second by director will home to change
our goal. Can we have a roll call vote? >> Director Alvarado. >> Hi. >> Director Carval. >> Yes. And I'm really excited about this work because it was so collective. So I just want to add that to my yes. >> It's an extra yes. >> Yes. >> I'll put an exclamation point there.
>> Director. >> Hi. >> Director Green. >> I want to be enthusiastically. Yes. >> Director. >> Hi. >> Director. Hi. You're welcome. >> Hi. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Okay. >> Hey, thanks for coming, >> Carla. The 80% is gone. Now you just
need 2.5. >> All right. We wouldn't have made it this year either, but I think the meeting >> uh next up, we're going to quickly go over our policy review schedule. On October 22nd, we'll have the 3D the
financial conditions and activities. In November, we'll have an emergency executive secession. And in December, the board awareness and support and internal financial conditions and activities. Uh, next up is item 10, a resolution for voter registration of high school students. Uh, thank you guys
for coming out again. Appreciate it. Uh, the board is going to consider approving a resolution number two, 2025 2026, which approves the voter registration of 27J's high school students. The board has considered this resolution for approval each year sub since September
22nd, 2015. and Melinda Carvajal has volunteered to read this resolution at this time. >> Yeah, like I don't have my voice on there. I forget. >> Whereas 27J schools is committed to civic education and civic participation by the students and families in our
district. Whereas the board of education recognizes that the election in November of 2025 provides a great opportunity to educate and motivate students regarding civic participation. Whereas the board of education recognizes the opportunity to further civic education by encouraging our students who are
eligible to register to vote. Whereas the board of education of 27J schools recognizes that the Colorado Revised Statute 1-2-41 legislative declaration states that voter registration should be made as convenient as possible for our qualified
high school students, employees, and other persons. Whereas the board of education recognized the number of nonpartisan civic participation organizations including the IM27J group, Brighton High School, Prairie View High School, Riverdale Ridge High School, Innovations and Options, 27J online
academy, the Brighton Education Association, the Colorado classified school employees association, and a youthled coalition through Rocky Mountain Partnership are prepared to provide voter registration efforts in 2024. Whereas the board of education recognizes that these civic-minded organizations will abide by all laws,
regulations, and superintendent policies regarding visitation and appropriate conduct on school grounds and online. Whereas the board of education abides by the Colorado Revised Statute section 1-2-402 that all high schools may have appointed deputy registars on file with the county
clerk and reporter. Now therefore, be it resolved that the district will provide access to our high schools with the approval of the school leader to engage in voter registration of our qualified students, parents, employees, and other persons during school building hours and online.
>> Would you like to move that? >> Wait. The district and school leaders will provide reasonable assistance to these cys groups for voter registration, including assistance by the high school deputy registers. >> I would like to move. You move it. No, move it, Mandy. But I move it. I
approve. >> You move to approve resolution number two, 2025, 20226 voter registration of 27J high school students as presented. >> Yes. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion for Director Thomas and a second from Director Carvajal. Roll call. Vote, please. >> Can I? >> Director Alberado.
>> I. >> Director Carbajal. >> Yes. >> Director Khan. >> Hi. >> Director Green. >> Yes. >> Director Thomas. >> Hi. >> Director Trillo. >> Hi. >> Director Wilhelm. >> I. >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Director Kahal has an additional question. >> No, no. I just want to add something. This is really cool. Brighten High
School through the Youth Commission sent me somebody on my other race and they interviewed me and asked me all of these questions that they're putting in publications out in their schools that are nonpartisan. So, if you're doing any of the work in racing and you have that opportunity and they reach out like
support the kids through their efforts because it was really it was her first ever Zoom interview and it was really special and it was really cool opportunity. So, happy about this. >> Yeah. Uh well, next up is our resolution of support for healthy school meals for the for all. That's a ballot measure that's
also on the uh ballot this fall. The board of education will consider approving resolution number three 202526 which supports the ballot measures regarding the healthy school meals for all program and director Thomas would love to read that. Tony here to
>> Tony thank you for being here all night. if we could >> all night long. >> Tony, would you like to say something first before she reads this? >> Yeah, >> please. >> Sure. >> You're you're our champion. >> I don't know about that.
>> I need you some uh handouts, some old school that way. So, now that they're registered, um, >> now they can vote for
>> they can vote for this now. >> Hopefully. >> Um, well, thank you for allowing me to be here uh this evening to um tell you a little bit about the healthy school meals for all program. Um, I want to say thank you for your consideration of the
resolution. um in favor of Proposition LL and MM. Um I am Tony Georgestad. I'm the nutrition services director for the school district. Um we were talking we've been here we've been here about 21
years. That's what they say. Um but you know we know that a hungry child can't learn. Um and in nutrition services our goal has always been to serve every student a healthy breakfast and lunch meal. Um, healthy school meals for all
has made that goal a lot more attainable. Um, as it allows the district to serve all of our students a free breakfast and lunch meal every day. Um, some things I wanted to share with you.
Um, we've seen huge increases in breakfast and lunch participation since the program began two years ago. Um, we've seen an increase of 157% in breakfast meals served. Um,
we've also seen a 35% increase for lunch. Um, when I was looking a little deeper into our numbers. Uh, one of the things that really stood out to me with our lunch numbers is we've had over 100% increase in all of
our high schools participation. So, >> awesome. To me, that's awesome. And so, um, just broke 900 meals served at Riverdale last week, and that's that's certainly an alltime record for, um, for
that school, for high schools >> in general. So, um, we're proud of that, proud of our staff. Um, but, uh, you know, the work in the kitchens every day to do that. um across the state, other districts have seen similar increases,
right? And so what that's done on a state level is it's caused the program cost to exceed the revenues um that have been generated through the original legislation that was passed by the voters in 2022.
Um so really that deficit um in um in revenues um has threatened the long-term sustainability of the program. Um so um what we know is that the healthy
school meals program um is set to run as normal through the calendar year. Um but parts of the program, I don't know if you're all familiar with this, but um there are there are other parts that have been put on hold from the very
beginning. Um there was supposed to be um funding for our frontline um kitchen workers um the form of increased um salaries or stipens. Um there's also uh local f uh food purchasing programs that
have been put on hold. Um so depending on the outcome of the election this November, um changes to the program could happen as early as January 2026. Um
what Proposition LL does is it allows the program to keep about $12 million. that's already being generated um through the um original legislation. Um
and so really that's the word taperizing um the uh the the money that's already being generated. So it's just asking to be able to keep that money. Um,
Proposition MM allows the state to raise an additional $95 million from the tax base of those people filing jointly making over 300,000 per year. Um, so anyone
any couple that makes less than 300,000 will not see a change in their income tax costs. Um, so what the measures would do is they would repay the state um $8.1 million that was borrowed to fund the
program for this fall. Um, and it would create a fund that would fully fund the healthy school meals for all program and assure that all students continue to receive meals for free. Um it will also uh fund additional aspects of the
program um that were previously mentioned. Um and when those goals have been met, the fund will support the staff program in Colorado. And we have any questions? Do you have any questions?
>> Uh Tony, thank you for coming down and sharing these details. Um, it's it's my understanding that 27J has made accommodations for the healthy school meals for all to last for the entire school year, but it's next year where it may be in jeopardy. Is that correct?
>> No, there could be changes. So, there are there are statewide there's about 300 we just learned this evening from CBE last week. There's about 350 schools statewide that would be impacted starting um January 1st. We just have
one um that we know of um that could um be required to go back to a free reduced paid traditional school because it's not eligible for the program. So that's that's capstone talking to them
about that. Is >> there a reason? >> Is there a reason? >> So they're not qualified. So, we're in a current funding cycle for the community eligibility program um and
can't because it's a new school. This potentially could affect um additional schools that we open. Um they can't be part of that cycle to start, >> but the following year they would be
>> is that >> so new schools potentially could um not be eligible until a new cycle starts in two years. >> Okay. Now, does both need to pass or one
passes? Are we What's I know because we have two ballot measures that we're basically supporting. >> So, we've learned that um getting into this meeting um last week from CDE that
if only one of them passes, that could be enough money to fund the program um to fund the feeding part, right? it wouldn't be enough to >> cover the other stuff >> other part. Um, so and I know it's a
little confusing if you if you look at the word actually on the ballot. The LL is pretty simple. It's basically just asking for the extra money that's being generated. Other one has a lot more
words. Talk some more about the funding mechanism. It's a little complicated. So, I could see where a voter might be able to might look at it say, well, all makes a little more sense to, you know, vote for her,
but I don't quite understand, but we hope that they that they both pass definitely to maintain the long-term sustainability of the program. >> Does MM actually say in the ballot language only if you make over $300,000?
I believe it does. He does. Yeah. >> They surely did that like we did. Lead with the big one, you know? >> Right. >> So only those people make >> and that's what the original one did too. Um so um so is just decreasing
um itemized deductions. >> Yeah. Yeah. So it limits the amount of itemized deductions of those people make $300,000 a year to $1,000. So instead of them being able to itemize reduce their taxes, it limits their itemized
deductions and that money gets referred to the program. So that's way that LL will generate 12 million, MM will generate 95 million. So you see which one has the relative importance there and I don't know about you, but in my
books. Yeah, >> it explains it a little bit more talks about exactly >> and the last measure passed with pretty strong support. >> It did. >> Yeah, >> it did. So, we're hoping >> but it did give us money support.
>> So, so the difference if you think about this before we served about 1.5 million meals a year. Tony and his crew did Tony and his crew did. This last year we served 2.3 million meals. That's a difference of 800,000 meals that this makes a difference.
>> Okay. >> Right. So, >> and we're covering the staff pay on that, right? The front end staff, >> we're covering the >> the staff pay as >> the wages for front end staff, right, for that. >> The extra uh nutrition is is essentially
an enterprise fund. All the money they bring in is what they have to operate with. They do not receive any general fund to operate and they haven't historically. So, so, so they run through their own revenues, right? And so, uh, it it it doesn't
impact the general fund in any way. Uh, they've operated and they carry a fund balance. One of the reasons we'd be able to survive over a period of time is history management of our funds, but the way they purchase that, the the staffing they have allows us to to do that. But it's a it's an enterprise fund. Not
every school district and state does that, but that's what we offer. Even the staff. Even absolutely. >> Oh wow. Okay. >> All the staff and food and equipment equipment and supplies are covered >> in our budget.
>> So we have to have to keep all our costs of reimbursement. It's about 550 for lunches. It's a little over $3 for breakfast. >> That's some juggling. >> That's some juggling. Yeah.
>> And if the program goes away, then obviously we'd be looking at staff >> too. >> Well, you start charging kids >> and then see if it makes up the difference. But we know that it was 1 point whatever million and then 2.3. We'd see an easy shift backwards in
front of basket purchase. >> You could and that's those are things that that you know that we have to watch for adjust for. Um but um we would we would make those adjustments. you know,
we we we basically staff by a meals per labor hour formula and um to to give us a star for staffing at all of our schools. And so, I mean, it's something that we review monthly and
yeah, we definitely adjust if there was a decrease in the number of meals served. So, so, so far, you know, it's been nice to be able to add people when we can find them. >> But that's some that's one of the ideas
with that stipen um piece, too, is being able to help us get staff and keep them. So, but that's that's been one of those things that's basically been put on hold since the
program started. And it's probably important to note that this is one of those that crosses the boundaries. You do supply for charter schools and the 27J school district. So this this is both of them. So la lastly, the resolution goes a step further than most
resolutions do in addition to supporting these measures. It's declaring this as a matter of official concern for school district 27J and allows us to spend district money to to uh provide factual information regarding this. So if the board passes this, we'll be working with
our communications team to to spread the information. You still have to follow and fair campaign practices act about providing factual information. So it's not simply the board stating that they support this. It also says that it's allowing for for the expenditure of district funds to advertise according to
to the fair campaign practices act for people to support it. So it goes it goes a step further than just saying yes, we support the success. This allows us to to spend district resources to to advertise that. >> Well, let's hear the resolution. >> Maybe. >> Wait, can I ask one more question? >> Yeah.
>> Um, when MM passes and LL passes, um, how long does that fund it for? >> Hopefully, forever. >> Well, okay. The 95 million isn't something that was like, okay, now we're out of that. We have to put another ball measure. >> Yeah. And I and that that is a good
point. Um Uh, I think, you know, the language that they used is different. I um you know I think in 2022 I think um there was maybe some shortsidedness in the way that the um original legislation
was written um because they thought on a national level there could potentially be support for meals for every kid across the nation but things have changed and so um so
they could written it it differently. Um but we are where we're at. So um but it Colorado is one of um like seven or eight states that um have the program um
where it is healthy school meals for all students. And um really this this funding mechanism is is unique. And so that is one of the things in a lot of other states they have to go back to do
their general fund every year to keep it going. And so this is this is trying to >> Okay. >> Thank you for the sheet by the way. This is really helpful. >> All right. Innesota.
>> Whereas the 27day schools board of education believes that ensuring all students have access to nutritious meals at schools is essential to their ability to learn, thrive, and participate fully in their education regardless of economic status, zip code, or learning needs. And whereas in 2022, Colorado
voters approved Proposition F, establishing the Healthy School Meals for All program and funding it by limiting state income tax deductions for individuals with annual incomes of $300,000 or more. And whereas the program provides healthy school meals for all students regardless of economic
status, helps districts invest in local food purchasing, and provides location purchasing training and technical assistance. And whereas since the program's launch in the 2023 2024 state fiscal year, it has reduced stigma, improved students physical, mental
health, and well-being, boosted academic success, and saved families money statewide. And whereas in the 27J schools, the healthy school meals for all program has delivered numerous benefits, including an increase in breakfast participation by 157%
and lunch by 35% over the program's 2-year history. And whereas due to increased demand, rising food costs, and changes in federal reimbursements, the program's annual cost is now projected at 150 million, significantly higher than the initial estimate of 48 to 78
million. And whereas two legislatively referred ballot measures, the allow state to retain revenue from Proposition FF measure and the tax deductions and revenue for school meals measure would support the healthy school meals for all
program. The former would allow Colorado to retain tax revenue collected above the initial estimates for Proposition FF and the latter would modify tax law to generate an additional $95 million annually for the program. And whereas if both measures are rejected, phys fiscal
analysts have determined the program will end after fiscal year 2025 2026. And whereas passing both ballot measures would enable the program to continue supporting students, educators, and districts despite the financial and logistical challenges to its continued
success. And whereas the board declares that the allow state to retain revenue from Proposition FF measure and the tax deductions and revenue for school meals measure are matters of official concern. Now therefore be it resolved that the
27J schools board of education officially declares its support for the allow state to retain revenue from proposition FF and tax deductions and revenue for school meals measure measures as these initiatives will ensure the continuation and expansion of
the healthy school meals for all program. The board authorizes the expenditure of district funds to distribute a factual summary regarding the allow state to retain revenue from proposition FF and tax deductions and revenue for school meals measure in accordance with the fair campaign
practice act. >> Do I have a motion? >> I will find that on page seven. Yes, >> I have to read it. Here I move to approve resolution number 3 20252026 supporting the ballot measures and authorizing the expenditure of district funds to distribute a
factual summary regarding the allow state to retain revenue for proposition FF and tax deductions and revenue for school meals measure in accordance with the fair campaign practices act and asking the voters of school district 27J to vote in favor of these measures. >> I'll second.
>> She is Jane on the spot tonight. Motion for Director Thomas, second for Director Wilhelm. Can we have a roll call vote? >> Director Alvarado, >> I exclamation point. >> Okay. Director Carvajal. >> Yes. >> Director K. >> I. >> Director Green. >> Of course. >> Director Thomas. >> Hi. >> Director Trio. >> Hi. >> Director Wilhelm.
>> I. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Tony. I hope it works for the same. >> Thank you. Um, next up is the uh intergovernmental agreement regarding the joint school resource officer program with the city of Commerce City. Uh this is approval of the second
amendment uh to the in aable agreement uh between Commerce City and Brighton School District for school resource officers. Uh anything you need to add? >> I did not go unlock Tony. I'm going to go ahead and sit down. Uh no, just here to um answer any
questions that you might have on the second agreement. My first agreement with uh intergovernmental agreement with Commerce City was uh October of 2022. This is one uh this is second of three that we can do. So after uh next year we'll we'll rewrite the the IG.
>> Thanks. Any other questions for this? >> We got them last time. >> Let's do it. Give me a motion. >> I move to authorize the superintendent or his designates to complete final negotiations with the city of Commerce City regarding the second amendment to the IGA and execute all necessary
documents to extend the IGA through July 31st, 2026. >> I'll second. Everybody just keeps looking at me. So I'll second. >> You guys keep fighting over second. Can we have a roll call vote?
>> I director. >> I director Green. >> Uh yes, of course. >> Thomas. >> Hi. >> Director Tio. >> Hi. >> Director Wilhouse. >> Hi. Motion car. >> Thank you for sticking around. Appreciate it. We like to make it easy for you. Our schedule meeting is uh September 30th. We have a joint meeting
with the Brighton City Council members. We are the hosts that will be here in our boardroom. And October 8th, uh we have a linkage meeting with the charter school board members that sound like they're really excited to go and we'll also conduct the uh regular meeting and have a superintendent evaluation and we
will vote on that. Uh finally, I'm not going to go over all the other ones. I have a board meeting evaluation and uh I went through this checklist and uh I have a number of things that you know the outward vision rather than focus on internal operations. They gave us a four. Sometimes we get into the weeds.
Uh strategic leadership, uh I do believe we are proactive, but sometimes we do tend to be a little bit reactive. So I get also gave us a four on those two. Collaborative teamwork, I think we work really well together. And I gave us a five on that one. As an initiator of policy and not merely a reactor to staff
initiatives, I do believe we've uh moved much forward on that. And I gave us a four, but there's still room for improvement, but I do believe that we are getting back to getting initiating policy. All right, we're on time for meetings. I give it a three on that one. Uh we're
striving on that one. Uh I and again even the study sessions are really important. Uh we we learn a lot and I think that it builds on what we we're going to talk about in later weeks. So I've encouraged participation in the study sessions and arriving on time for the meetings. Uh properly prepared for
the meetings. They gave us a four. Gave full attention to the meetings. Five worked in business like manage at five. listen and respond to the statements of each other in a respectful manner. I think we're five on that one. I I really do think we listen and uh are are happy uh to hear others opinions and we're
conducted in a lawful and ethical manner. Of course, we're five there. And so that is my uh assessment there. I think you guys are doing a great job and I'm really proud to serve on the board with you guys all >> for the record. Thanks. Hop, skip, drive is way too expensive. Like I can't send my kids in a cab.
>> That's why I'm always here at 5:45. >> Um >> I have looked into it though. I'm just I I would encourage more and I know things come up and I I know things happen so I'm understanding but I appreciate your participation here and I do realize your volunteers so thank you.
>> Uh any closing comments? >> I yeah I thought of something I wanted to say after well after the um healthy school meals for all. I just remembered this when I attended the Casby tall conference last year. Um, we talked about this and many of us were surprised
to learn that the funding was running out because we were like, "Well, we voted on this. What do you mean it's going away?" Um, and I just had this reflection as we were as we were voting. Um, at my table, we were talking about it with um board members from um other districts and one shared her perspective
and she said, "Well, I don't support it because I don't believe in a free meal. Anyone deserves a free meal." And I said, "Even children?" And she said, "No, nobody deserves a free meal." So, everyone's entitled to their opinion, but I just want to say thank you to our board for for collectively showing our
support for this. >> Yeah. And and it's a tough one, but again, if we can document how school performance is necessitated on how full your stomach is. The if you can get a breakfast, if I can give you lunch, you're going to do better on these
tests. And we've uh documented as performance as being our goal, our outcome. if we want them to do better in school, we have to give them the resources so that they can feel better about school. So, and I appreciate that new organization and >> thank you all for >> and I like the forethought on this ballot measure because we're going to
make sure we're going to have money for the future. All right? We're not going to have to keep going back and back for this and asking for it over and over again. So, uh I do support that. Anything else for the good of the order? Thank you guys. It is 8:55 and I'm adjourning this meeting.