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e e e e e e e good evening it's 7 o'clock and I'm going to call to order the March 12 2025 regular meeting of the uh 27j Schools
Board of Education uh all matters on this agenda in any category may be considered for Action as listed any item not so noticed shall not be considered items listed on this agenda may be considered in any order at the discretion of the chairperson first up is the Pledge of
Allegiance Mandy will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance thank you our next item is a roll call for attendance director Alvarado hi director carbahal I director KH here director
green present director Thomas here director tro here director wilham here Mr President you do have Quorum thank you thank you very much our commitment to governing style is the board will govern lawfully observing policy governance principles with an emphasis
on outward Vision rather than internal PR preoccupation encouragement of diversity and viewpoints strategic leadership more than administrative detail a clear distinction of board and chief executive roles Collective rather than individual decisions future rather than past or present and governing
proactively rather than reactively next up would be an approval of the agenda do I have a motion I move to approve the agenda dated March 12 2025 as presented second I have a motion from director Thomas the second from director Trill
roll call vote director Alvarado I director carbal I director Khan I director green of course director Thomas I director tro I director Wilhelm hi motion carries thank you thank you very much next up is our superintendent
Report with superintendent will pierce proceed all right good evening uh two weeks uh is is not a lot of happenings but there's still just a lot of happening so uh started off the the LA March 5th there was BHS inclusion day
they had staff versus the unified basketball game um fun time lots of staff were very sore afterwards and the kids did win um should know that uh then I uh Monday I got to go to uh uh zaye
Walters passing um Riverdale student um sad sad tragic event incredible turnout um uh uh over 750 kids I know Brett was there too like 750 kids and families showed up to support that kid and then yesterday I got to go watch Riverdale be
that was a really sad day and moment for Riverdale Ridge but then yesterday uh unified versus the Thorton Police Department in a game I know you guys are invited there's Andre he he served from our student advisory Council he served as an MC and then in the picture to the
right if you don't recognize the gentleman from the police officer that's our very own SRO uh Ray Ritter uh so he he he played it up he made a few baskets was talking trash to the crowds they started booing him it was he was a show and then in the middle you could just
see cheerleaders lined up kids coming out of that tunnel uh and the kids just were going nuts for for for our unified team it was great if you don't recognize that gentleman that that that's Mark Randall he's a former NBA Nuggets player that is part of unified just a really
cool cool event to be a part of students or the students the ref no they had a a staff member two a staff member and then two kids that were reing but the overall event just just to watch that kind of spirit and how how good kids are to other kids it was just a really cool
if you didn't know uh riverdale's Ridge girls basketballs in the state tournament that they won the lead eight grade eight we had that in the update and then then they upset Highlands Ranch uh last week they play tomorrow at 2:15 at the Denver Coliseum if anybody's
interested in going but that bried crer crendon is is quite the player so um it's it's amazing they move from 4A to 6A and they're back in the final four so good luck to the lady Raven team um last week uh I was grateful to Terry Lucero
Mike Burke and then these fantastic group of uh Prairie View High School kids as we met with Commerce City leadership uh giving them a talk about the the activities Athletics are the activities um the thinking classroom the
the mission the things that we're working on at 27j and then of course Terry talked about U building um Rocky Vista and then these kids gave tours um that leadership team Commerce City was uh fun to hang out with and very complimentary of of our team so that was
that was a good time um a little known fact about uh salude we're always talking about partners and bragging about Partners I I I did I wasn't fully aware of how impactful salude Dental Care is to our families in our community over $100,000 of dental care they've
provided to our our our our kids I just think that that's pretty amazing and so I it's a partner that doesn't always get the publicity and darn it they deserve it from us we're grateful that you can see the numbers of kids and the locations and places that they're helping kids and it's like pretty cool
that we have salute in our community uh another quick celebration Brighton High School Pro start uh last year if you remember they they placed 18th nationally the proart success uh they are back in business again and we'll be going to Nationals again to represent us there's some
bullets um about how well they did proart is the catering program and um both of the um uh anak needen boach she's one of the head chefs and Ellen human is the other head chef they they're doing an incredible job with
that program so it's just fun to have see our kids competing and winning in state and nationally doing incredible things so exciting for that and then I just love the fact that BHS took home a combined almost $67,000 in scholarships I mean when you talk about these CT
centers these industry are mission these kids have a future man it's it's pretty exciting bright days and here are some pictures of the kids and some of the things that they were involved with so that you can see proud to be of those kids for sure uh
um this is really good news we just found out this morning uh Michael CLA at the beginning of last year it was part of our budget report uh we we have been a long-term project of trying to create our own alternative lure program right there's only a couple in the state
usually through univers I ities where a a fantastic Chef like Melinda says hey you know I'd like to teach can I teach it's like most of the time the answer is no you don't have the credentials we now have the ability because of the incredible work of s the Patel and
Kristen Hansen off and Bethany Hager Michael CLA and his team Carla Ryder and their team we we applied to the state could we do our own credentialing of teachers so that second career people could come in and start working and teaching um we just got approv today so
that is super exciting for 27j help our CT home so many holes and so if you know people that are really good good good in business good in life and think they might want a different career change we could we could we could help them hook
them up right Michael so uh pretty exciting stuff yeah yeah that's the thing we're always recruiting so that that that's really I just really proud that we got that information this morning and then I just came out of this today Barb sitting in
the audience and I know that she was tired and a couple of us I just with all of the The Narrative around the world about uh the the certifi uh negotiations and unions and union busting and I understand and I don't want to be
political I just can't believe how unbelievably humble I am and grateful I am for the unions we have if you were watching those meetings if you were in part of those meetings you'd never once even be able to w recognize um what team anybody's on um it's just a group of people that are trying to figure out how
do we do better things for our kids how do we create better conditions for our staff how do we do better work to move our mission and it's like it's just fascinating to be part of that group and I'm humbled that both groups are are just incredibly good people that want want a better district and um we're
lucky to have those negotiates lucky to have those partners and um I just think it's worth noting in my superintendent supports and with that Mr President president I will conclude wow thank you very much look at this we're rolling here uh next up is
matters of public comment uh the board will now hear public comments on the following topics that have been indicated on the signin sheet a reminder that the 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 will listen we are prohibited by state law from taking any actions on the items because Law requires formal public notice prior to any action on an agenda item during our next meeting if appropriate we will consider your comments in our discussion we'll ask that the superintendent attempt to find
an answer for any of your questions by that time the board welcomes the comments of our community members but to ensure that everyone will have an opportunity to participate we have a few ground rules we ask you to follow anyone intending to address the board should sign in the speaker sheet uh I will call speakers in the order in which they are
signed in speakers comments are limited to three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic we ask that the speaker limit their comments to only new information we ask that you do not repeat views already expressed by other speakers although we cannot prevent you from doing so we ask you to
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 a still unresolved to the superintendant disturbing Good
order by inappropriate language or gesture is grounds for removal from the meeting we thank you advance for your participation tonight I only have one name on our signin sheet and that is Janine Runa would you please step forward and tell us if you're in the
district or out of the district and your topic thank you so in District and my topic is literacy um so last month the superintendent responded to my public comment com by acknowledging that reading intervention interventions are important but emphasize that the district's focus is on strengthening
core classroom instruction rather than prioritizing interventions in reviewing the district's fast bridge and Cass data the number of students who are below grade level and at risk for poor reading outcomes remains High last year in the
school district 67% of third graders were below grade level Benchmark for reading on CS in 2024 73.5% of seventh graders scored below grade level on Cass
reading the sth graders at 1,46 of them that same group of students also tested with 67% on the fastbridge a reading in the sumon high- risk categories so the data is similar for both of those tests yes the district interest
instituted replans in the Middle School this year only approximately 60 students at Quist were placed on replans and about 60 students at over last year were placed on read plans for the number of students who are struggling these numbers are really low outside of
special education limited interventions and only for a few select students are implemented except for Lexia if the district is not prioritizing reading intervention for students across grade levels what is the district focusing on isn't the job of a school district to
teach children to read while improving classroom instruction is crucial without adequate intervention many students continue to fall behind appropriate and explicit reading intervention can make a huge difference for a child in just 12 months two hours a week my daughter went
from first grade reading level to fourth grade reading level and was almost on grade level when she was in elementary school the intervention pro pro was provided outside of the school district and now her um reading level is Gap is getting larger without that outside
tutoring while my daughter has a replan it's useless because the progress monitoring is not occurring in a timely manner and progress monitoring is not being used to drive the intervention the district has taken the approach of one intervention for all regardless if it's working or
not to be clear I'm advocating for two things one appropriate and explicit reading intervention that is tailored to a student's need and two increase reading support by adding reading skills classes in middle schools in addition to language arts
thank you we didn't even need the buzzer see was is there anybody else that wanted to speak but didn't know you need to sign it on the sheet okay thank you um next up we'll move on to our consent agenda all matters listed under the consent agenda
are operational matters about which the board has governing policies Implement implementation of which is designated by the superintendent 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 uh
any member of the public who wishes to discuss a consent agenda should notify the president of the board at the time requested be recognized by invitation of the president to address the board seeing none the consent consent agenda items are a approval of the board education minutes dat of February 26th
2025 for the study session regular meeting and approval of personnel items on memorandum dated March 6 2025 and updated on March 10th 2025 do I have a motion move to approve the consent agenda as
presented second gosh fighting over now motion by director will homman second by director carall can I have a roll call vote director Alvarado I director carbahal I director Khan i d dor green you beta
director Thomas hi director tro hi director wilham I motion carries thank you thank you very much item eight is governance process that supports our Global goal we'll now hear a number of reports from our first up is ownership linkage um are we talking planning for
the next linkage you can do what this is your time um so we're exting to meet with um PTO and ptas and we'd like each member of the board to email in their ideas for questions that you'd like to see for the groups um for that next linkage which is going to
be April April 12th April 12th yeah April 9th live how many questions do we want if we send them to you lenan is that okay and you'll compile a list yeah so just send to or three questions to
lenan and she'll compile a list for us and that is April 9th I'm sorry next up is our Capital facility fee Foundation director alado director Khan director Jil what would you like to say um we haven't met since our last
board meeting we're meeting on April 3rd very good next up is Rocky Mountain R director carbahal we have a St Patty's Day meeting hi what great time next 27 I
th yes our nomination form went out um on March 10th Monday um so that was sent on to to staff and then we will recognize um the winners at our April 23rd meeting very good I'm excited because that's exactly what we need there uh the
Commerce City use tax TW committee uh director dream green and director Wilhelm and we have not met yet so we will move on the 2022 mil Levy override oversight oh Bond oversight committee director Alvarado and director Thomas keeps
taking nowes the ly override and oversight committee director Thomas director will home yeah we have not met since the last meeting our next meeting is April 8th April 8th director chil will now report on the Brighton youth
commission yeah so all of the students are still working on speak and they were working this last meeting we did the proclamation I believe you and will should have gotten an email um or will
be soon and then they were working on so trying to get I'm going to make this so everybody can hear some of our schools have not responded so if you're listening out their schools um principals and counselors were emailed by the students they worked really hard
on those emails and so they just want to see if we can get um the schools involved with speak so thank you to the schools that did respond and be looking for those emails and maybe our superintendent can reinforce that point thank you is there any other
matters of information for the board um we skip board educ I did so what would you like to tell us about board education I was I would just report that we had um Carla spoke with us tonight around our um goals around our student
achievement dashboard and um subsequent to that we decided to have a um in August we'll have a full dashboard training for board education where they'll bring in computers and we'll all get to play with the dashboard so we'll do that in August very good I also skipped the facility planning advisory
committee which I did go to the meeting and uh uh our schools are progressing along uh we are getting ready to break ground on uh our new High School uh our uh Middle School is moving forward and will be ready by the fall but there will
still be some discussions about when that school will actually open for students so but we are progressing and uh we'll have our new uh boundaries that will be uh submitted to the superintendent very soon thank you uh next up this isn't I'm sorry I just had
something um I guess this isn't um information for the board just an idea for the board um for a new committee um and not to take away from 27j Believers but I think it's I it's kind of bothered me the last few years that we don't have
um a system of recognizing outstanding teachers and people in in schools who work directly with students um and I'd like to talk about forming a committee for that um they're the backbone right and I
think it's important just clarify for teachers are part of the 27j Believers th those can be nominated in there so who who are you liking to be able to be nominated so as of so from what I
understood this wasn't specifically for teachers this is for people who are reaching into the district right because teachers aren't from our last meeting it was explained that teachers aren't really nominated because we would be here just not long time parents don't
nominate teachers other teachers nominate it and the superintendents and the principles and the like can do it uh but also there are uh groups that are involved with our students that are able to be nominated by people at the schools too would you like to clarify any of
that sorry so 27j Believers it goes out to all staff and anybody can nominate anybody and when we do Awards as classified certified we've had teachers that are recognized we've have groups of teachers that are recognized so yes it is all open to teachers we don't have an
award that's just specific to teachers I know some boards have talked about this previously that a lot of the schools will do something specific at school level for teachers and that we found that if we sent out like um just our 27j
believer Awards it was out for two days and we have 55 nominations already and so we would find that if we just did a teacher nomination that we would get really probably an overwhelming amount because it seems like everybody loves our
elementary school teacher and how do you unless we you came up with a very specific category with very specific guidelines it would really be a lot and I've heard that a lot of the schools do teacher recognitions through PTO ptas
their staff me meetings and those type of things it's something that we can look at absolutely but I think it would be how to facilitate it um we would probably get a lot of Elementary School nominations and you know just like and not as much middle not as much High
School just because that's just kind of the nature eth grade teachers deserve so much I me and then and then what happens is and I always tell them too is when the nomination they can always nominate an external company because you've seen that we've that if that person has
actually reached into the district and that's how some of those external people get nominated so um absolutely and if some people call me sometimes of how do I recognize my teacher I'm like always send it to your principal to the secretary because they have at their
school level they might like I said recognize it during a staff meeting or a staff appreciation day or something like that that they do a lot of those things at the school level so I would just like to explore it something that we can do on the board level something bigger just
an idea I will instruct the superintendent to put that on a study session and we'll have a discussion about that maybe at our next or as soon as about yeah but he usually sets the agenda for thank you next up is our expectations of the boards uh there's
none at this time that we're submitted since the last meeting but we do have Chief Human Resources officer Michael CLA to present the expectations of the board report through 3G compensation and benefits Mr CLA am I on am I on there we go uh uh board
members thank you I want to thank uh my teammates in in finance Stacy and her team my teammates in HR Andy PPP and and his team for uh providing information um related to this report
our compensation Specialists uh Christian Jen uh Sher primis and benefits and ly Martin and wellness all contributing to this report um I'm just going to walk through the report and uh we'll see where we land with questions uh first part of the
report shows data related to salary and benefit against total revenue as you can see the key number there is that 84% of the general fund uh is budgeted for salary benefits of Staff um you can see we've had a good
run in compensation increases starting back in fy22 uh your support for and our community support for uh passing that MLL has certainly made a difference in in that effort and some really good years for us in terms of compensation
increases uh you can see on page four we continue to hire and attract candidates in particular our classified pools increase significantly in FY 24 and we continue to have that positive trend um this year
again I believe our mlo uh contributed to that effort along with um some changes in the labor market our certified turnover rate uh I believe is going to remain in the low pre-teens um which is really good for us
and really competitive uh against other school districts um our classified um turnover rate is a little higher but uh it's higher but that POS those positions move uh tend to move a lot more
traditionally um as I move through the report as you'll see um as a superintendent talked about we maintain strong positive working relationships uh with both our bargaining units and and that
continues page six you'll see uh and this affirms that only you set the paying benefits for the superintendent we've made no changes at his Direction and that's just to affirm that there's nothing else going on uh related to his paying
benefits page seven speaks to the available moves the district has uh to reconcile the budget if uh there's a budget crisis if there are significant shortfalls there are those would be hard things to do and things that we wouldn't
like to do but they're there for us if uh things turn sideways from a budgetary perspective um page eight outlines the processes um for staying connected to our competitors competitors in terms of
salary compensation is about Distributing a very finite resource our money in the fairest most effective least political way possible um as you saw 84% of our budget goes towards this
resource we are a people driven organization uh we continue to be process oriented in how we distribute compensation we want to be intentional about lifting all boats together um through this work and keep the whole
system working coherently in a way that makes some sense and does not create organizational chaos or cultural problems in the distrib ution of that finite constrained resource money um which makes it hard sometimes but uh we
have a rotation for review of jobs by neutral third party that assesses the job against our area school district competition we work to adjust positions based on this analysis every three years uh we use the mlo to include Educators in this process for the first time a
couple years ago and so again that MLL has had an important effect on on this report in this work uh regarding benefits we've had many years of what I would call reasonable benefit renewals reasonable still means often that the increases
outpace the additional revenue generated but when you compare us across the marketplac other districts who are seeing 10 12 and even higher percent renewals we're in a really good Cost Containment position uh at least
relative to our competitor's benefits as is a a growing chunk of the Apple across every system uh rhsa funding to the IRS maximum continues to be the big winner for us and and very unusual in the
marketplace there's no other District that I know of in the state of Colorado that funds even close to the um what we do the key here is that these dollars go to the employee for their care and not directly to Kaiser which then would take a percentage of those dollars so those
dollars are protected from Kaiser's administrative creep um our overall program is strong is a strong option given the constraints that we have in the context it's not the Cadillac option but I don't know anybody who can afford the Cadillac option and
you see a lot of school districts scrambling in that context and then finally you'll find a summary of the ongoing Wellness programming provided by our Wellness specialist Lori Martin overall report compliance in this
report I'll take any questions any questions go ahead yeah I have some questions in regards to you know the graph that kind of shows year-over-year how our compensation amount is growing do you happen to know how we Stack Up amongst other districts
as far as our average teacher salary or first year teacher salary amongst you know the atams districts or the other ones we kind of look at of who's paying the best or where we fall so for uh ba step one for area
averages we are 6% below the marketplace average for starting on step one but the key factor in in understanding that step is to know that districts are have made moves to frontload some of their dollars so if you look at us specifically
against Adams 12 which is our nearest and most important competitor when you hit step five on most of our lanes we outpace Adams 12 for the rest of the moves down um the schedule and so they
front-loaded dollars they're making a move what I would call they're picking some winners and losers and we want to be very careful about that our philosophy has been to lift all boats as much as we can and make small tweaks and moves so we have done some front loing um when dollars are available but we
want to be careful to recognize that we also want to retain teachers and we have teachers who've been serving us for 20 years and we want to make sure compensation is dist distributed to them and and those moves um often create um
culture problems for organizations I've I've certainly heard about those I won't go into detail calling out a specific District here but when they're making those individualized tweets it can create problems for the culture but as you go over to ba step
10 um we're within Market range so we're under that 5% threshold that is our Target for the average um when you go over to ma step 15 we're almost on top of that average so it really depends on how you compare
where the points you pick within the schedule and so that's why I say overall I report compliance although on individual ual data points you could see variances in the salary and benefits uh vers total general fund there's the
outlier in July of um 2024 what was the outlier for tell me again uh keep point to the pages yeah page three things up July there's just a giant outlier I just I'm just curious why oh uh I'd have to
think through that a little bit um can I get back to you on that one yeah that's great talk to my friends in comp and payroll okay there's got there's wasn't that where we paycheck I have to think about it I don't want to say I thought that was when the
milley fs hit so would all got that raise is it was it a one time though so because this looks like a one I'll dig into it and okay thank back just so I get it right does that
make sense about the salary thing Tracy I think that that's important we get us we get asked that question a lot like how do we stack up and it's like there are moves and and people are making them now across Metar to try to because most people talk about beginning teacher salary what's that what's that that's how we compete it's like well you can
you can find a way to that to win but at the cost of somebody else losing up up the salary schedule so you'd have to ask how does Barb salary compare against everybody in the M like it it literally person by person and sell by sell and there's cells that we found that were
winning and just like Michael said I just it's important to know because that that is a that is a strategy districts could use to to increase the starting pay is whatever but then does it stay so just something we didn't do we did that
with Partners so the the other the other part piece to that strategy is Year bye over time we've increased the the entry point that we allow so we'll take up to 15 years of experience which is among the highest in the metro area and so
we're competing for veteran teachers too you can be fooled by going after just beginning teacher salary but um we have a lot of teachers who come to us because they're attracted to the 4day um and they're attracted to this area and so
we've got to be very careful about how we deploy that finite resource I guess I'm I'm really impressed that even with the turnover we have a really good pool to choose from to so you're not necessarily just taking any warm body that walks through the door you can really be selective and
pick the the best ones that you think will fit in our district so very good this was a this has been a better year overall we still have pain points in in um certain positions and certainly a math teacher is is um harder to find than some some other
areas um but it was it's a better year overall bus drivers continue to be a paino for us um you know you always worry about that highly technical um position in the tech department so you know there are areas that we have to
keep an eye on um but we've had more candidates overall any other questions go forward with that new certification that you guys were able to get so that you can certify teachers will that only be in CT e or can you take people that are working in different fields and turn
them into like regular content Educators yeah so um this would apply to secondary not CT CT has its own authorization so if you have a a background as a welder you can get an authorization without going through a
licensed program um this is for someone who has a ba in um accounting and wants to be a math teacher this is this is someone you to have a ba um as your starting point
and um you'll have to uh provide content expertise so it's really helpful if you have a biology degree there's an easy path for you to become a biology teacher through this program and in one year um if you don't have a biology degree and you want to be
a biology teacher or science teacher then you're going to have to pass the practice and so you better make sure you have that content knowledge at some point so some of the pressure points that you're feeling you will be able to do in the Gap because of this new system or pram yeah that that's how this was
born this was born with our colleagues in in the sped Department Kristen Hansen Hoffman and Bethany AER just problem solving like what are we going to do what are we going to do what are we going to do we could do this and and uh so the target is not for every position
the target is for those higher needs positions so math science we can be likely we will be supportive on any secondary position position and then uh special education EC um I have a couple questions about benefits um just background that's what
I do in real life so I was just curious looking at um kind of our overall benefit package I think it's great to see how much the district contributes into um employees personal hsas that's amazing what is the deductible do you happen to know for our base HSA plan and
then that dhmo plan yeah the the deductible for the the um um High deductible Health Plan is 6,000 for individuals 12,000 for families do you know about that other the upgraded plan
also the dhmo I don't have it sitting right in front of me but I can email it to you that'd be great um thank you and then I was just curious as well I know you talked about some other school districts seeing about a 10 to 12% increase at renewal do you happen to know what ours has been I know you said it's been lower
um this year we're anticipating an under 5% in increase but I can you know it take me just a couple minutes to provide the history and you can awesome get you all the renewals that's great um and then the only other question I had just in regards to benefits um and you talked about the medical I assume we have other
ancillary benefits you know dental vision I'm curious what other parts of our benefit package we offer to employees we do we do have a self-funded uh dental plan and we have uh Vision plan and uh life insurance
thank I would accept the motion um oh sh move to accept the expectations of the board report through 3G compensation and benefits as conveying reasonable interpretation of the executive limitations I'll second I have a motion from director
tril second from director will home roll call vote director Alvarado I director caral I director Khan I director green of course director Thomas I director tro I director Wilhelm I motion carries
thank you next up director of safety Health student support and high schools Jamie White will present the global goal report through 1.4 social and emotional learning dashboard the good humans Mandy goal
please director white step forward hello thank you um I brought d brown with me director of intervention services um she's much smarter and she's about to take over this board report um in the next iteration so she is here tonight
um thank you thank you um so you have it in front of you we're also going to do a little bit of data walk today um and also in the end I'm asking for a study session to look at this goal um and some of the the measures that we're going to talk about tonight so first of all um
this is based on, 1600 6,942 I think it is um where it says data reported we've had trouble um consistently measuring this goal for a variety of reasons um one because we can't actually decide what makes you at
risk um for some of these measures right what good human not good human what that looks like what that sounds like um but basically trying to just use a continuous Improvement model so one of the things that changed between last year's report and this year's is that we discontinu the whole child needs assessment the whole child needs
assessment had a hard time taking off um and crash landed on several occasions um we are in the process of of creating a student climate and culture survey that will roll out at the start of next school year um there's a team that has been working on that a study team um comprised of of counselors and different
people from schools um as well as students and parents will see that before that roll out um in some form or fashion um to give some feedback on that that assessment um that basically was one of the tools that we were using to report on this goal um so you're going
to see non-compliance throughout this goal because the measures have changed so many times that you can't there's no continuity of the of the data but there's some there's some definite winds in here and some places that we we see where we're kind of headed um that that group of people probably one of the most
eye openening things for myself and Darcy with that group that study team was that we realized that many of them didn't even know what the board goal was or that we had one um and I think that was a a a great experience for all of us to be like oh maybe we should start
there right um with those that are doing the work all the time and trying to give the assessments and trying to gain um some some Buy in through the through those so um you know that we've never been able to make a real straight line conclusion about the data um there's been a push by the study team to to
potentially think about a different name for the the goal included with good human just because the opposite of good is bad and none of our kids are bad but we know that's not what it was the intention of the goal was at the time and so just trying to get that that piece kind of named in there um and what
that looks like so um I'm going to move down to section A so the interpretation statements that we used for this report right now and likely some of these will continue moving forward depending on how the study session goes with you all or if I'm granted one a and then how it
goes um so this first one was around um we've recently and I'll let Darcy talk a little bit about the changes to the SC District Common Assessment that have taken place over the last year um it's been revamped um three Cycles different tests or different assessments she Cycles you want to talk a little bit
about the work that you guys did with that yeah so prior to last school year um students took the same um seal District common assistant so social District Common Assessment from elementary school through their senior
year in high school so we were asking them the same question so by the time they were like in 7th 8th 9th 10th grade they were like so we didn't feel like we had an adequate data source um we also in the last year moved to um
suggesting highly suggesting to our schools to use District approved social emotional learning resources that are evidence-based um and we have social emotional learning frames so we have now aligned the district common assessments to those resources and to our learning
frames so that they're hitting Target skills at a grade level that they should be so now Elementary has an assessment that it's aligned to frames and to targets and to our resource um for skills that they should possess at grade level just like they should have math at
grade level reading at grade level we now are assessing social emotional learning skills at grade level um and we have middle school and high school so now they have different assessments per grade level that Target the skills that um Castle um The Association of social
emotional learning says we should Target at each level and we have frames to associate with that so this is a change for our students they're used to have seen especially our middle school and high schoolers are like this is different than we've seen before um some of them maybe didn't read the questions um because they're new um but we're more
confident in this data source that it's actually giving us um where our students are at for skills and what skills we should be targeting to help them improve their social emotional learning skills to be prepared for After High
School now you see why I brought her um if you scroll um the interpretation statement that we're going to use for the comparison the main one here there's there's there's you could I could give you 150,000 pages of data for this report there's just so much data so much kid data um and so we're going I'm going
to show you a little bit later um with the data source how we kind of took some of these measures but this first one is if you took both SE uh both Cycles um this year so far quarter one quarter two cycles and you had fewer than two Behavior referrals is there positive
correlation is what we're looking for so as you gain theal skills does Behavior your improve or do you utilize the skills right now we know that some kids will say that they understand everything there is to know about all the competencies and behave like maybe
that's not the case and then we have some kids who um vice versa right don't show that they know the skills in the assessment and we don't see Behavior so there's a little bit of of difference in there but we did we were able to find some positive correlation this first chart that has the pretty colors on it
basically is um all of quarter 2 last year compared to Quarter Two this year um in umal percentage of students proficient are Advanced and you'll see that our elementary school kids um are pretty proficient and advanced in some of those skills that they're being
tested on uh assessed on and then you'll see where it changes as you get into middle school and high school um where those skills maybe aren't as proficient and advanced in those skills but the one that Dary and I really wanted to look at tonight with you one of them is that um
there's a there's a large fluctuation here so let me go through these statements first because report non-compliance and then show you the the part we really want to do um participation rates have have drastically improved if you remember over the last several years we had schools that there was no participation
um we had schools was we had participation only because a few kids moved from one school to another um and so pleased with the fact that we had 87.3% of our students participate in cycle 2al District common assessment which is as high as we've ever been um
much much higher than in the past um OA um Online Academy has a high fluctuation of data you can watch oa's data in reports just move so it fluctuates so much um just want to point out that that is due to um the non-choice enrollments that are at Online Academy um they are
serving all of our administratively transferred kids and our expelled kids um through the Online Academy and so the fluctuation of data depending on the kids they have there at the time really has a big fluctuation in their data especially with the the end count as small as it is at Online Academy the 375
kids um four of our schools had a decrease in those proficiency levels um and 21 of our schools demonstrated 2% or more increase on average um which really was how the goal was set was at all schools would demonstrate that 2% increase um and so 21 out of 24 I'll
take that right had we left the goal the exact same we would have met compliance but we were changing the interpretation statements um to make to get that count a little bit different so so reporting non-compliance but definitely some celebrations um if you scroll down to page F or page six um this is kind of
this different perspective so we took the interpretation statements and found a very um positive correlation between skills and behavior and so you'll see this this data right here I took the charter schools um off of this page so
this is our district schools of 6,967 kids which is that First Column who were proficient or advanced in cycle one and cycle two the next column over is how many of them had two or fewer suspensions none
or two or fewer suspensions referrals and there's only a difference of 10 kids when you look at you you don't even really notice there's a difference unless you look at the very bottom 6967 compared to 6957 so the correlation is that when students participate inal learning which
happens in advisory right when they participate inal or come to us withal skills right some of that could be parent driven and how how we're receiving kids but when those seal skills are high and they can demonstrate that they have the skills the behavior rates are low 10
kids had more than two right or were expelled out of the whole District really interesting data so imagine if all 19,000 that took it right we can get everybody to that proficient in advanc level the the the positive correlation
we could have on discipline rates now that's this is it's pretty high correlation and we'll see what happens in the future um only 10 kids um if a school's not listed it's because they did not participate in cycle one and cycle two or they had no proficient and
advanced kids which was the case with Innovations and options um they did not participate in Cycle One um they missed the window for some reason we got that corrected um but that's why they're not on that list um moving on to Part B um this is kind of the app risk piece and this is
where with the student or with the the uh committee that we put together the study committee we could have listed factors that that are at risk factors for days right and you'll see some that are on here we didn't include things like foster care mckin vento um
homelessness there's there's quite a few others that we could use and we could always change this and this is what we want to have the study session about is to see what at risk factors you guys would like to see included in this report because we can drill this down to find the five kids who have all of those factors or these two or these three or
this which changes the intervention that the kid gets um but right now it's three or more Behavior referrals um Federal absenteeism rates so we wanted kids we want kids to be in class right that's that's a big thing um students requiring full team threat assessments we saw as
an atrisk Factor um high school students with no identified trusted adult um we had that through our EOS survey and so we used some like outside data sources um and then students who um are lgbtq plus um have identity change name change pronoun changes being an atrisk category
of students um and when you correlate things like suicide assessments with lgbtq status you get a high correlate there's different correlations we could correlate students all day for days and days um again reporting non-compliance in this because there is no continuity
of data from the whole child needs assessment which was the atrisk piece on and so having you look at some different data tonight do you have anything to add to that section so looking at some of these pieces of data we could again go for days so in this upcoming study session what we'd like to do is is have you look at some
of the different data sets with us I'm going to demonstrate it here in just a second but we put some some steel tables in here um I couldn't share the link for you to do your own data digs because it's got kids names all over in one of the sheets and there obvious reasons um but this is um two or fewer or three or
fewer suspensions um so you can see which schools have higher numbers of suspension rates um higher number of three or more suspension rates if you see na on columns it means that the student has not been suspended or had a behavior referral at all um that's that first table that's
one way to look at at risk a second way to look at at risk might be Federal absenteeism um which is this is the percentage of time not in class so if you look at the top it says 30 to 40% that's kids that are in class who are
not in in class 30 to 40% of the time so they are in class 60 to 70% of the time does that make sense and it goes clear down to if you look at some of those columns it goes clear to kids who are not in class 90 to 100% of the time likely kids that are not attending at
all on the verge of dropping out maybe you already have attend a class here or there um and and federal absenteeism just one thing to point out is that is not just unexcused and that's one of the philosophies and changes we need help with in our community is that if you are absent from school
you're absent from school whether you are on Sports whether you are excused by parents whether you're on vacation whether you're sick whether you're still absent right and so Federal absenteeism takes into account missing school at all for any reason including tardies and partial absences so um the next way um
here's the full team threat assessments and we have a sheet in the back um that we can give you if you'd like um that actually these this report pulls from the school the kid is currently at currently attending so Online Academy really has done zero full team threat
assessments but they have or one but they have taken kids from all everywhere else who have had them which is why kids are there um safety admin transfer expulsion and so the one excuse me
dou they're not double counted on either chart the chart that darc is giving you is the school where the threat assessments took place yeah so so if you look I think if you look like at Brighton High School's one has six on the chart I gave you they have six kids still there but they have nine in total
so three of those probably are picked up at OA or have left whatever that does that make sense so we kind of wanted to give you both um and the difference between the fact that there's 39 in the the document you have is because my document was due last Wednesday to lenan and since I turned it in apparently
there's been two more this is why this says 41 um this one's as of this morning hot off the press um the next chart is suicide assessments um numbers of suicide assessments done in the district and you can see some of those counts
again another another at risk factor perhaps um the next charts are those trusted adult charts um that's high school only so 506 kids who identified that they do not have a trusted adult um in in our schools um and that was from
last year's EOS survey um and then the next data is a around lgbtq plus identity pronouns pronoun Flags again just another way to look at at risk factors for our for our children um and then there's a box at the bottom that helps explain it and I'm not going to go
fully into this but um basically some kids could have both or one or the other right so some kids may have done a name change but don't use pronouns some could use pronouns and no name change and so it kind of explains it at the bottom um but definitely a way of looking at at risk factors um with our kids um so due
to the changes in whole child needs assessment um we've changed the interpretation statements the section remains non-compliant as I said because we haven't used the same data um there is some difference in resiliency and at risk factors and how they manifest in kids and I think that would be a a great
study session um and those factors are endless and so I'm going to show you quickly um and then I'll I'll give you a chance to ask questions but here's where the data came from and we can look at pretty much anything so there's we created some pivot tables where right
here on the screen um you can see um it starts with a base of attendance so this starts with saying any kid who's federally absent is is an is is at risk to begin with and then we can use any drop down that we want so I can go in here and say of those kids who are
federally absent how many of them have three or more suspensions and it will change the data set and tell you how many um you can go in and say okay well let's see how many of those kids also had a threat assessment and the data set
will adjust now you're down to kids which is why I didn't share this thing because now you're down to like identifying five kids who we could Target who are absent and being suspended for for threat assessments are probably connected they were probably suspended while we did a
full team threat assessment we could look at where they went what they did and what kind of intervention they need well that's one way to look at it but what if you you didn't want to look at that what if you thought kids weren't coming to school because they um had no trusted adult very
possible seems like a plausible idea put the data back where it was we say of all of our kids not attending how many of those are in high school have no one and you see that there's 37 of them could we target those 37 kids is that why they're not coming to school it'd be a totally different intervention right and and we
don't have the the um we don't have the trusted adult data on our on our little on our elementary school kids are middle school right now because that we're getting that through whole child needs assessment so we've got to get that piece back into the student survey but the point with this data here and we'll show you this more if if you
grant us a study session is to say what would the board like to see in the what do you want to see as at risk right um we could have said of all of the federally absent kids how many are experiencing homelessness that'd be one risk factor of those same kids that are
federally absent how many are in foster care we can get all of those data sets it's just that it's so much to share to compile down to one number and so we need some some help in knowing which pieces you'd like to see in this this board report and which pieces maybe not
does that make sense we can get it drilled down to an end count of kids pretty easily at this point I'd be interested to see how many of um how many of the children with like habitual behavior issues have like intellectual or um emotional
disabilities behavioral disabilities and how that affects the data um because I know that's on the rise correct with um we can definitely pull that right now we're trying to we're trying to also figure out how to document and and see kids that are receiving um counseling
and mental health support it it's it's a little bit difficult and the reason we stayed away from some of those factors in this report until we have a study session is because foster care doesn't Define you as a bad as a good human homelessness doesn't Define you as a good human mental health concerns don't Define are
not Define as good right and so some of those outcome factors where we're looking at attendance and discipline you say well the behavior is poor right the child is not bad but the behavior is not what we want to see it's a little bit harder when you get into some of those really value based at risk factors or or at risk factors that aren't necessarily
the kids the kid didn't create the the at risk does that make sense like a 8-year-old or even a high school kid experiencing homelessness didn't probably ask for that or have a role in that you know does that make sense and so trying to trying to see what what at
risk is and what it isn't and what it the connection back to the classroom which I think is also what you're getting at with with learning disabilities in that um would be we could we could get all of that data I'm also curious to see how the questions compare from the whole from the previous
whole child needs assessment to the I guess uh what they're being assessed on for theal district common assessment assessment portion um um if they compare it all yeah they're actually different questions so the seal District Common Assessment um is about practical skills
so decision making self-awareness social awareness um relationship skills those so do you know the skill we taught you the skill do you know how to use those skills um the whole child needs assessment was around risk factors um it was around suicidality it was around um
do you need to talk to someone about this what's going on at home things like that so it was more around um personal impacts and family impacts that led to atrisk versus skill um and I will mention that actually have um we just received information from Colorado
Department of Education this past week that through a house bill um that was passed based on the number of suicides um among school age kids they have come out with a Statewide CDE approved um screener um that's offered to all public
schools so we are looking into that we don't know for we we asked to sign up to speak to their representatives and look at it more but it looks at depression anxiety suicidality substance use um all of these factors so it could help us get the data that we were not able to get
through um the losing the whole child needs assessment so we do have things we just have to look into those options and what it's like but it was passed um through a house bill and it is approved through the Colorado Department of Education the whole child needs the
whole child needs assessment um aspect is that there's a lot of data that was in that assessment that our staff need um but getting that information um is difficult in that um one having permission or not having permission from parents we can't put our
place ourselves into a place where we have to have permission ahead of time we'll never get enough kids to take it um so it has to be one where we know who kids are and who needs the help but that doesn't step over the boundry into um things that that some parents don't want talked about at school into some of
those controversial spaces into some of those spaces where it feels like a like a ethic uh or a value determination on a family some of those questions and so trying to figure out that balance between how do we know who this kid is who might harm themselves tomorrow and
how do we not overstep into into the lives of of of families right and and and people within our district and our kids so I kind goes along my next question and and you know of course we created this because we want to keep seeing Improvement we want to see the
numbers go down uh and and see more green uh but uh you know how can you make progress on this how much staff would you need to start making some interventions and and you know trying to drill down and and trying
to see what we could do to help we've got enough people uh we never have enough people come on I mean I'm I got paid I mean but we do we we do I think I think we're you know it depends on what you're talking talking about right so we do have some data sets that are that are
going down we have come back out of covid into some very very high years of discipline and it is starting to Trend back back down um maybe it's the change in intervention services director I'm not sure um but but what are you at
right now six expulsions eight expulsions um and we were at 50 some this time last year um so we are seeing a decrease in the high level behaviors that we're seeing and and the ones um that she has this year that have been expelled have have earned their expulsion um and so we are seeing some
of that we're seeing some Trends change we're seeing some some different things in in uh but we're seeing an increase in is suicidality drug and alcohol use um a lot of things that are still harming our children right um does
that um um I was just going to say well speaking for myself as a on the um board education committee I would welcome a board ucation study session um so yes we would love to schedule that would um the other thing I would just say is I mean I
recall when we wrote this goal um we also didn't know what to measure and so we said hey um you know you guys that are out in the thick of it living this every day that we we deferred to you to tell us and so now that you've been in it for a while I think it's fair that
it's a team effort that we come together and review what you guys have what you guys have tried what what hasn't worked what has worked and then we can sit down together as a team and and really refine that goal um with the board's direct and what you guys have found and what you want to call it you know if if if good
humans is is not the it will always be the good it will it'll be in parentheses but let's let's you know let let's figure out something that that's a positive that that's gonna help Drive these kids um well was never no the and just just
to clarify a couple things in this report um and and the these guys do incredible job just showing you that this is many of these data points we get we can get for our dashboard we get from when you see the data you not having a
score quantifying how do we keep score of this what's good what's bad how are we getting better we getting worse that's complicated but each of those kids you see the data and number this kid we do know who these kids are and we are intervening with these kids right so
I just I think that's part of the story I just want to make sure that we're not losing like we can't keep score of it so these kids that are ditching school and doing drugs and being suspended there's nothing we could do to help them right we're we're we know the kids the 37 kids
I bet if if you quered that data and you ask the counselors what are you doing with those 37 kids there's a plan for these kids they're working with those kids different degree of success success interventions don't always work kids aren't broken but they do take a long time to figure figure out how to make
this go better so just don't want to be misunderstood in this report just cuz we we can't give you a number to tell you it's seven and it's better than last year six I I would say that because we can identify the kids the way that we have
in this chart does mean interventions are possible and are happening I have okay it's working now on page five when you were showing us that um chart that showed like the 6967 the
6957 obviously it's working but my question for you is student Buy in when we talk about having students take control of their future and their education and then we had the linkage students come in and talk one of the things that they hate doing is arriving to this morning class right and doing
this work and they talk about clicking through it so what is your plan or how do you get the students to be bought into the system if the system's working and then what typ feedback are we taking from them to create the systems for this yeah great question so we are starting
with like I said we're starting with the district approved resources and curriculum that are EV evidence-based that we have research and evidence to show if we use these resources and programs we make an impact on student skill development in that the next step
is leadership and teacher buyin because what we have found in talking to students and walking through and seeing classrooms where our leadership and our teachers are bought in and they are teaching it and they are bought in and they are sing that message students are
bought in where we're not bought in where we're just seeing it as a morning class and here's this assignment they tell us you have to do it do it the students are also not bought in so we're working on that um high school has now changed where they have four days of advisory one is also always social
emotional learning middle school has four days they do two days of social emotional learning Elementary so we're gradually getting and we want to give that autonomy to the leadership and the schools and the teachers to use that time for other things that they use for academic development and climate culture
development as well um and we're working towards that buy in that this is just as important and we need our adults to buy in in order for our students to buy in okay that's awesome because I remember Jamie you specifically said to me like not that long ago the kids are telling us they're telling us what they need
they're telling us what they don't need they're telling us what works they're telling us what doesn't work so I just want to make sure that we're chasing that cuz they were like sitting here at seniors and saying like I can't believe they have to do that 4 days next year and I was just thinking like we need the Buy in if the results are good yeah only
one of those is the social emotional the other days they're doing um we actually have an intern through our CT program um right now in intervention services and her whole um goal and she's doing a wonderful job is she's getting student voice on um our advisory spe
specifically at high school but um yeah student intern I'm sorry let me so she's a riverdell rdge senior um who is um an intern in 20 in intervention services and she is doing student focus groups across all of the high schools including
Online Academy and Innovation as options to get student voice on um vaping initiatives Behavior initiatives and social emotional learning and advisory yeah and we also um helped high schools
Place course advisory um not linked to lunch not the first class so we can ditch it but like kind of where they were kind of stuck there which might help a little bit too right the the last part of the report uh see it connects back to the dashboard um
which you know Carla Carla brought up the other half of it earlier the other half of the dashboard is that climate and culture side this is 22 23 3445 comparison you will see some drops you see that pretty significant drop right there with Online Academy it kind of explained why you see those
fluctuations there if you scroll down you'll see that many schools increased more than 2% um if they did increase it was by more than 2% and then we get down in here to this red high school section um and just to explain that to you and there's a Mis typo on your papers so
this part down here that says High School drop in points was due to years says the wrong thing it should say percentage of students proficient in advance not participation so the dashboard is looking at the percent of kids proficient in advanced now not just
taking it and because of that um you see that we have less students proficient in advance and so that the score dropped so I believe it's due to um attendance and attendance drops and proficient advanced in that that assessment is why you see that um the goal was 80% you can see
that 14 Schools demonstrated Positive Growth 10 demonstrated some negative growth and it came out to 19 uh District managed schools are accomplishing which is 79.2% and it needed to be 80 and the rounding rules I guess I learned in school told me we didn't make it so
there you have it and that's all that we have tonight I would second Mandy in wanting this to be something that we get a study and see more of sure sure the the only other thing that we were we would ask is consideration of
this board report being pushed later in the year to be one of the last ones and potentially a June report because student data stopping it at after cycle two is difficult we'd like to get Cycles one two and three in and a full year of attendance and a full year of behavior and a full year of threats and a full
because it's tough to to to cut it off and so wondering about timing of this report also is a a consideration during that study session sounds good I move to accept the global gold report through 1.4 social and emotional learning dashboard as conveying reasonable interpretation on
the executive limitations second motion from director Thomas and second by director Jill Road call vote director Alvarado I Dr carbajal I Dr KH I director green yes Dr
Thomas I Dr tro I and I noted that director wilham left at 7:46 motion carries thank you thank you I was just going to ask about that uh our policy review schedule thank you guys um April 23rd will be asset protection May 28th
will be treatment of students and the public uh next up the board will discuss policy 2C agenda planning and the Board of Education calendar were you GNA lead that or was it thank you I always just um put on I
think it's page 15 of the agenda I do the second and the fourth Wednesdays of the month and then I add on there the fifth Tuesdays um last year we had some conflicts with Valentine's Day um Halloween those type of things this year everything looked pretty straightforward
um the board can always add meetings as well as cancel meetings if need be as long as there's um sample or ample time to notify the public of that so this is basically just second fourth Wednesdays add in the fifth Tuesdays for those
linkage and everything looked really pretty pretty straightforward this year um I note that there's those joint meetings fifth Tuesdays we have I think four this year uh sorry three and we are going to host one in April of this year
and then it's always just kind of a rotation depending on when they fall um so yeah one of them falls on December 30th not the 31st so really nothing that stands out that would be probably a conflict with um
attendance I you might as well just drop the 30th that December 30th meeting I just don't believe that will you don't think no okay because it's not New Year's Eve it's it's New Year's I think okay I I
think that that and I we haven't really had a lot of luck with our uh fit Tuesday meetings to begin with and so I think that would be doubly hard to F and if you look at the calendar there is one in September and there is another one in March so you would have two that year
anyways so so um absolutely if that is the wish I can absolutely do that would be my recommendation see Mandy wouldn't even be here come on well she's be termed out but okay go ahead man I move to approve the Board of
Education 2025 2026 calendar as edited presented which as edited um with with Tom's revisions I've I've got it removing the December 30th uh fifth Tuesday meeting with cities I'll second thought I can second
died for a lack of okay I have a motion from director Thomas is second from director carbahal roll call vote director Alvarado hi director carbajal I director Khan I director green yes director Thomas I
director tro hi motion carries thank you uh next now you finally get to have a real presentation uh you're going to now we will now discuss the policy 2J policy governance investment uh there is an enclosure and
a separate enclosure so please go ahead uh just a little background you the board has a budget for elections legal fees those type of things which you guys really don't see we just manage those regulatory things that fall basically
under the board this is money that the board of education has set aside for the poly policy governance which is basically your governance model and it has changed a little bit in some years not a lot um currently it's $43,000 and
if you see on page 17 it's a breakdown of what's allocated to each of those different buckets um the big thing is I pay for casby out of this and then I also pay for the food that we actually serve the people that actually come to
linkage meetings and then you can see some of the other things you know outside monitoring if for some reason you wanted to invite a large group and have a forum there would be mailing those type of things so that kind of gives you an idea of anything that kind of pertains to governing linkage that
type of thing um I put Casi on there because it's more of a like professional development type thing so that's why it's always fallen under there um if you have unused money which if you look at the beautiful graph that Finance prepares for me every year if you look
you've only really expended 53.1 6% of that any money that is left over at the end of the year goes back to the general fund and is then reallocated for whatever we would need in the future and then next year they would just allocate $443,000 that we would pay out of it so
it's not like if you don't spend it you lose it it just goes back to the general fund so and you guys normally spend about half of it um some years are a little bit more depending on what it is if we have more linkage meetings and those type of things you could spend more on it but it's not a huge amount of
money that's sitting there and not being used for other resources so I think you guys have been really good on it being a smaller amount but still something that's workable that we don't have to change every every
year what is supplemental salary on that um a good idea would be when lesie and Michael go down to casby and they're paid their regular salary but on Saturday they probably receive
some overtime if they could not Flex that out that next week um that would that would be one or If you hired someone to do work or whatever but that's really kind of what falls under that that bucket okay awesome thank you because it can't be paid out i' I've learned it can't be paid out like
supplies it has to fall under a salary bucket for perah and all that that regulation um I move to approve the Board of Education 27j policy governance investment budget as presented second motion from director
Thomas second from director KH roll call vote director Alvarado I director carbajal I director Khan I director green yes director Thomas hi director Trill hi thank you motion carries thank you very much item 10 the Board of
Education will consider approving resolution resolution 6 for 2024 2025 supporting Equitable and adequate funding of Colorado public education director Thomas has volunteered to read that awesome whereas the 27j Board of
Education understands the importance of a fully funded K12 education system to Colorado and to its local 27j community the education system activates the promise in all children and ensures they all have the opportunity to require the skills to build a successful foundation
in life and whereas Colorado Senate Bill 23287 mandated and funded two studies to assess the adequacy and Equity of Colorado's public K12 education funding the American Institute for research equity and adequacy of Colorado school
funding a cost modeling approach by aen P pin Associates and the Colorado input based Financial adequacy study report both concluded that the tax system that supports Colorado schools is inequitable and inadequate and whereas
in 2010 as a way to balance the state budget during Great Recession during the Great Recession the budget stabilization or the BS Factor borrowed money from K12 education every year until Colorado students suffered a funding gap of more than10 billion while in recent years
State lawmakers have steadily brought down the BS Factor Colorado has only returned to 1989 funding levels and still Colorado's investment in our students is among the lowest rated in the nation whereas the 27j Board of Education recognizes The Chronic
underfunding of public school education with students families communities Educators and employees suffering from the subsequent effects of inadequate and in Equitable funding daily and whereas the 27j Board of Education empathizes with the states with the state budgets
more than1 billion doll shortfall and the challenging decisions involved in balancing it now be it resolved the 27j Board of Education calls upon the Colorado general assembly to commit meaningful and significant funding to the state's public K12 education system
during the 2025 legislative session and into the future at a minimum the board asked that the Colorado general assembly not balance the state budget on the backs of Colorado's children the board fully supports Educators Administration and the community advocating on behalf of our students to maintain and improve
funding to support the state's education needs thank you do I have a motion all moved to approve the Board of Education that's not right dang it I can't do this tonight I move to approve resolution 6 224-225 supporting Equitable and
adequate funding of Colorado public education I'll second in our annual quest to fight at windmills uh director caral has made the motion and director Thomas has seconded
director Alvarado hi director carbajal yes director Khan hi director green yes director Thomas hi director tral hi motion carries thank you thank you uh up next is our schedule of meetings did you have something you
wanted to say yeah I was just going to ask when is the walk please approach the mic so we can if if community members or anyone wanted to join there we go am I on now so on March 20th we're are we're on spring break
we're having a day of action down at the capital um Bea will be there CA will be there community members will be there we would invite you guys to come join us um we're super excited I have shirts for you if you want to come down and walk
with teachers and uh participate in our day of action and Lobby day so come see me after the meeting um I have lots of different varieties of sizes um so it's is it 9 o' 11 it's from 11: to 3: is when they're going to March we're
going to have a Bea sign where everybody can meet so if you want to email me um I can give I can give you hooked up hooked up with our person who's going to be down there it's going to be be a huge event down at the capital walking around the capital and um lobbying we're going
to have Becky Pringle um president of Nea is going to be there as a speaker so it's going to be a very big day and we'd like you to all come down and and show your support with us as we're telling them that we will not accept budget cuts
and that the 1989 funding is unacceptable for our Colorado students thanks thank you for that um our scheduled meetings April 9th again we'll have the PTO and PTA parents in our linkage meeting uh be sure to get
your questions into uh lenan and April 23rd will be our study session and regular meeting and then April 29th a fifth Tuesday meeting that we do have scheduled for this year and we'll see what happens um the board of meeting evaluation director wilham who had to
leave early uh did provide me with her uh board meeting evaluation and then outward Vision rather than focus on internal operations she raked us as five in her strategic leadership she red us as five and in collaborative teamwork
she raked us as five we're working well especially with our additional new member so she even acknowledged you there as an initiator of policy and not merely merely a reactor of to stash initiative she said four uh and no explanation why on the uh
board member code of conduct section arrived on time for the meeting she gave us four because she says we're doing our best uh properly prepared for the meeting she gave us four we she continues to work on being ready and believes that all the board members continue to work on being ready for
their meetings uh gave full attention to the meeting again five all are engaged uh worked in a businesslike manner and maintained appropriate decorum five listened in to and responded to the statements of others in a respective manner a four but she's crossed out with
what she said about that I don't know I think she said Ashley no I'm kidding uh business was conducted lawfully in an ethical manner five and her other meeting evaluation comments good collaboration good team and a shared mission for the kids and you can
clearly see the average is nearly a 5.0 so I I thank her for her excellent remarks uh and her board uh evaluation checklist are there any closing comments do you want to recognize the River Del Ridge Theater I think you
do okay I will um I just want to say thank you to our River Del Ridge Theater students for the the lovely cards that they left for us um honoring um theater month is that education theater Association um Mar where did I read this
at March is oh March is theater in our school's month um so yeah thank you so much for the the kind letter and um and the sweet postcards and look out for their short film fest and their 2025 student directed one act Festival that will be
coming up uh we really do appreciate Riverdale Ridge Jud Farner and all of our theater programs at our schools I think this is the last weekend for the show at uh prview High School which is the 24th annual Plum Colony spelling be if I'm not correct uh are there any
closing other CL otherwise we'd love for uh parents Educators and all of to meet us down uh at the capital March 20 from 11:00 to 3 and show your support for our Educators and our our district will you be there Tom let me I got to look at my
calendar I I said join us uh anything else would you like anything else to say no all right then at this point it is 8:29 and I'm adjourning this meeting thank you for coming and I appreciate you all for