--------- This public hearing of the Clarksville Montgomery County Board of Education is called to order. The hearing is being conducted for those individuals who'd like to address the board regarding the 2026 2027 staff zoning recommendations that were communicated to families in
December. If you've not signed up and would like to sple speak, please do so now. The signup sheet is located at the back of the room. Before we open the floor to speakers who have signed up, I'd like to ask Chief Operations Officer Norm Brumley to provide a brief summary
of the phase 2 realignment. Good evening, board. We laid out a plan for freedom over four years ago. Planning began with Kirkwood in early 2022. In March of 2023, we engaged and
work with consultants RSP and Associates. That work involved developing scenarios, community and stakeholder feedback, community engagement, creating a zoning plan, and seeking board approval. Zoning
for Freedom Elementary School was unanimously approved by the board on January in January of 2024. Phase one of the plan was for Kirkwood. It included a phase two for Freedom
Elementary School. The goal was to minimize multiple moves for families with two schools opening within two years. We have again engaged consultants RSP and associates in May of 2025 to review
phase 2 with current regional growth data and updated student data. We updated our models and we validated the process for the purpose of identifying and remedying any imbalances that remained. We had to consider corrective
measures due to the revised design of Freedom. Cutting 10% of the cost after bids caused us to reduce the capacity from over 1,000 students to 840. We also recognized disparities in
capacity due to sporadic growth in our community. We had higher growth in specific areas over the last 3 to four years. And this is emerging growth since the original models were run in 2023. The following realignments shown on the
uh the screens on the map have have been recommended by staff. Uh this map includes three areas. Area one is south of Hazlewood Road and west of Trenton Road. It includes 136 students moving
from Glenn Ellen to northeast. Area two is south of Wilmer Rudolph and west of I24. It includes 137 students moving from Ross View to Kirkwood. Area 3 is south of Guthrie Highway and east of
I24. It includes 70 students moving from Oakland to Kirkwood. Freedom Construction is currently on time and on budget for a 2026 opening. We now have current data we didn't have
in 22 and 23 and a much clearer picture of our growth. Our next opportunity for new capacity will not be until the 2028 2029 time frame. This realignment is necessary to
better sustain capacity until our next opportunity to comprehensively reszone elementary schools with the opening of the proposed elementary school number 27 currently slated for an
August of 2029 opening. Today's feedback is important as we consider this recommendation. All right, we'll now call speakers. You guys will have three minutes to speak. Mr. Nolan,
just a second. Okay. Thank you for not speaker. Um, but I want to speak for my daughter uh who has gone to Rosview now for uh four years. So, she has two
years left at Ross View. Um, and I've understood that she will be moved to Kirkwood for elementary school just to move back to Ross View for middle and high school. And I just don't think that that is going to be good for her
socially um or possibly educationally. She's straight A student. Um, and she's already had kids moved from Ross View. So, she's lost some of her friends just to move back to Kirkwood and then back to Rosview. I just don't think that
that's a good position for her or us to be in. So, that's all I have to say. >> If we could be considered for grandfathering. I know that's not something that is normally done, but I
would like that consideration for us. Kayla Henkins in zone one and we currently are at Glenn Ellen. We've been there since kindergarten. My daughter is going to fifth next year and we were wondering about grandfathering in um to her last
year. She's carpoolled. She's grown there her whole life and I don't think it would be great for her to move one year and then have to go again to a new school for middle school. So, we were also wondering about grandfathering.
That's it. Benjamin Kriezman >> and I have a fourth grader at Rosby Elementary. This would make his fifth year. I also have similar concerns about friends, stability, routine being interrupted with just this one year gap,
so to speak. I did my part before I purchased my home in my zone on Alexander Boulevard and emailed the uh school director at the time if there were any plans for reszoning the elementary school and I had purchased my property based off of that. This is due to a joint custody agreement. My son
simply wouldn't go to Kirkwood if it were reszoned. I would have to fight a legal battle in between Kirkwood and Ringold. It's in my agreement stipulated that if I leave the roster school district, I would lose primary custody of my son. That's just a headache I don't want to go through. So perhaps maybe we could
also consider being grandfathered in or maybe postpone this resoning for at least a year. That would be great. Thank you'all for your time. Shanica Byra. Name is Shenica Bird. Um, I am not I'm
just here for a bus transfer. That's all I'm here for. I did not come I did not know that this is all for just reasonzoning. Um my daughter's in a different situation. She was assaulted at Kinwood High School and she had to be transferred to Rosview because the boy
knocked her teeth out. So he knocked her teeth K9 and K9 loose and knocked her two front teeth out. And um because of the situation happened at Kimwood High School, I'm I need a bus now to go to Ross View. That's the only reason why I came here. So, if if I don't know if I
need to talk to somebody personally, but I just needed a bus for her situation. Okay. Thank you. All right. That concludes our public hearing and we're now adjourned. Thank you. Thank you guys very much for
coming. Part: 2
You ready? Yep. Study session has come to order. Item number one on the agenda, surplus property child nutrition first read. Ford, you have a list of properties from child nutrition with items that are broken and unrepairable. In accordance with TCA forty nine six two zero zero seven, we are recommending these items be declared surplus or salvage and sold by public auction through an online governmental site. All monies will be issued back to child nutrition. Item number two number two, surplus property safety and health, first read.
Board, you have a list of property from safety and health with items that are broken and unrepairable with no warranties. We We are recommending these items should be disposed of or declared surplus or obsolete. Item number three, resolution transfer of surplus bus first read. Board, we have a unique opportunity to serve as good community partners. On September 23, the board of education, you all, declared bus 0786 as surplus property having met the years of mileage to no longer be in compliance for public school
purposes in the state of Tennessee. The Montgomery County Public Library has requested this bus to become a mobile library to serve our community. We are recommending approval for this bus to be transferred to Montgomery County. Item number four, twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven special course application, first read, doctor Sandra Dowdy? Yes. And I believe Anthony Johnson is going to take care of that tonight. Yes. Not as great as her, but I'm gonna try my best. This one is a pretty routine. If you might remember last year, we had a special transfer or, I'm sorry, a
special course application, for military history. So this comes up usually, courses are approved either on a one, three, or six year cycle with the state. And this one, I do believe, is on a three year cycle, and you'll have that in your packet. And this is for our course, AVID. You're probably familiar with Avid or have heard about it. It's a course that we've had around for many years. There were a few years that we didn't have, schools using the course, but after, post pandemic, it's come back. We've got three schools that are using it. So we would ask that you approve this again, to be a special course that
we can offer, for the next three years. Item number five, teacher tenure consideration, first read. What? Yes. For a director of schools to recommend a teacher be granted tenure by the local board of education, the teacher must first be eligible for tenure under the law. A list of eligible individuals is then presented to the board for consideration and approval. This year, the board was provided with a list of one hundred and fifteen fifteen candidates recommended for tenure based on meeting qualifications set forth by the state of Tennessee. Item number six. I'd like to ask doctor Kimmy Saharski to come up.
She is going to talk to us about the accountability data for the state report card. Evening, everybody. It is time. Everything has been unembargoed, so I can now share what we're navigating. I want to remind everybody that in Tennessee, we navigate two different systems of accountability. We navigate the federal which comes from underneath the ESSA law that was signed in in 2015. Each state had to submit their plan and those were approved And that was after no child left behind expired.
And then we have the state, which is, Tennessee code annotated about the report card grades, and it was updated in 2016 and added additional pieces in 2023. So the first piece of the law, the part that carries a lot of weight across all of it is the TCAP assessments. And so what I've provided for you is a chart that says which pieces of the TCAP assessments are used for which accountability model.
So if you look across the top, you'll see those that are used for federal accountability and you'll see those that are used for state letter grades and the state accountability. And then on the end, it's, we've included the piece that talks about educators and their, evaluation. So under federal, it is ELA and math. Under state, it is all contents. And so as you see, when I moved to science and social studies, the state continues. So when I talk about things about federal, I am referring to the math and
ELA when I talk about achievement for accountability. When I talk about the state and I talk about achievement, I'm talking about all four content areas that are administered. The next piece that a lot of people don't realize is not a simple accountability system that looks at one overall score. It has that but it also looks at the performance for 10 subgroups. And so I've listed those subgroups there so you can see. So we're navigating a piece that says all students and then we're navigating a piece
that says here is our each of our subgroups, that are within the system. So under federal, I'm focusing only on the federal at this moment. You'll see on the left, here's a list of each of the indicators we're held accountable to. So under achievement, when it's talking there, remember we're discussing ELA and math. So you have achievement. Growth is the value added. So achievement is what I know and I'm demonstrating it on the test.
Growth is how do I improve each academic year. If I'm making expected growth each year, I'm gaining that academic year. You often see things that are threes across systems. Okay. Chronically out of school absent, that means that the formula includes 10% of a student's enrollment. EL proficiency assessment, that is the ELPA assessment that is measuring EL students' acquisition of the English language.
This is not about conversational aspects. It's how well they grow in being able to navigate our academics in English. The graduation rate and ready grad are those things that have been identified that says I'm ready for post secondary whether it be career or college. On the right, you will see how those percentages are included for k eight schools and for high schools. And, essentially, the difference between the two would be your grad rate for the high
school and the ready grad. Those would not be included for the elementary or the k eight. So under accountability is where we get our designations that you hear about. So a reward school means that the overall accountability score when you take the data from all students, it has a rating in the calculation of 3.1 to four but you also have no subgroup within that that has scored in the bottom 5% of the state. Currently, Montgomery County has nine reward schools.
The next layer that you see is the targeted support and improvement. You'll hear it referenced as TSI. These are the schools that have an overall accountability score that has landed in the bottom 5% of performance. The additional targeted support and improvement means that I am a TSI school and I have a subgroup by itself that is also in the bottom 5%. We have nine TSI schools. We only have one ATSI.
Your last designation is what is referenced as a CSI school. Montgomery County has never had one. We currently don't have one but that means the success rate, our performance in ELA and math is in the lowest performing for the 5% in Tennessee. So we are not in that area, by any stretch. And the second piece is a graduation rate for any subgroup or for the overall that is below the sixty seven percent.
Our graduation rate is ninety five percent. Now this was federal and I lay that aside and that's where your designations are. Now we're going to move to state report card, That's where you see the letter grades, the a, b, c, d. And so again, they have their measurements. It's achievement, the value added and so in the federal, the value added was based on the growth in math and ELA. But when you move into the state, remember we're doing all four content areas.
So you get the value added for that. There's a section called the highest need growth 25%. That is simply students in the prior year who scored in the bottom 25% in this state. Those students, they want you to make sure you focus and grow those so you get you get, points for growing that group of students. And the last is college and career readiness. Similar to Ready Grab but has a more intense list of things. Both of them, navigate around the ACT at 21, the ASVAB at 31, those kinds
of things. So it's a simple formula. They just take your your achievement that you got, your gross score, and the gross score at the bottom. And for the, k eight schools, they simply add those to the high schools. We add the college and career readiness indicator. And based on the score you get at the end, you get a letter grade, and I have defined each of those letter grades for us. So Montgomery County has 30 schools that earned a b. We have eight schools that have earned a c, which is expected if you're doing
all things. That's a c. And then we have four schools that earned a d. We have no schools that have earned an f, and we haven't had one yet. Questions? Thank you, everybody. Number seven on the agenda. Goal number three, continue implementing innovative academic programming across the district. Policy go ahead. I'd like to have, doctor Dana Payne and doctor Becky Padgett present goal three tonight. Good evening. I'm Dana Payne, and I'll start us off with our strategic work goal three. Goal three is to continue implementing innovative academic programming across the district.
We'll start with our elementary schools in Spanish immersion. We launched this program in the twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen school year, and our first cohort of students are now in seventh grade in that program. We're currently serving three forty nine students across grades k seven. And this takes place at two different schools, Barksdale Elementary. Students in kindergarten through second grade take 100% of their coursework in Spanish. And then in grades three for three through five, students start doing, some English Spanish,
instruction in a fifty fifty module so that they will be, doing, some of the English, by fifth grade. And then middle school, looking at, grade six and seven currently, students are taking their instruction in social studies and science in Spanish, and all other content is in English. Moving on to our middle schools, we have our middle school career explorations labs. We're in our second year of these, and these take place as related arts courses
in grades six through eight. Students are exposed to real tools in real world scenarios, and every building, has at least 15 different modules where students work on a rotational basis to learn, about some of the different careers that are aligned to the high school programs of study offered. And so we've got a really quick video that'll show you some of these in action. Welcome to the CMCSS Career Labs. Innovative hands on learning spaces designed to spark curiosity and inspire future pathways for our
middle school students. These labs, known as Paxton Labs, are located in each of our eight middle schools. While every school has its own unique set of labs, each one offers students a blend of foundational knowledge and real world hands on experiences. The purpose of the career labs is simple, to introduce students to a wide range of career and technical education professions. Through exploration and problem based learning, students begin to discover what they enjoy, what they're good at, and which careers might be right for them. Career labs also create a bridge to high school.
The experiences students have here connect directly to high school CTE pathways, allowing them to continue building skills, confidence, and career awareness as they move forward. Whether it's engineering, health sciences, digital design, construction, or dozens of other fields, CMCSS students are gaining early exposure to the opportunities waiting for them beyond middle school. CMCSS Career Labs, where exploration begins, passions emerge, and futures take shape. Our district also offers dual enrollment to our high school students.
You can see over the past four years an increase in the number of sections offered of dual enrollment courses across each of our high schools. You will also see over the last four years an increase of student enrollment in those dual enrollment courses as well. Our dual enrollment partners are listed at the bottom of the screen. These post secondary partners are many of our local partners, Austin Peay, Tennessee College of Applied Technology, Nashville State Community College here in Clarksville, and UT Martin. Advanced placement courses are also offered to our, to our high school students.
Again over the last four years you will see the student enrollment increase in advanced placement courses. You will also see the number of exams taken in advanced placement courses increase, and then for this year you will see that number has not been identified yet as AP exams are taken in May 2026 so we will not know that number until the end of the school year. One thing I would like to note about our advanced placement courses is the increase in the national pass rate, and you can see over the last three years, the
past three school years, an increase in 16% pass rate. That is outstanding for our high school students to say that they have taken and passed the AP exam. I'll get this figured out, I promise. Also offered is our, offered to our students, excuse me, is our junior reserve officer training corps. Each year, each of our eight traditional high schools offers this. As you can see, imaged on the screen is one of our state and national award winning teams here at Kenwood High School. Our JROTC program, includes over 1,400 students, and on average each school year, we're averaging
in the 1,300. So you can see fourteen forty is an increase in the in the average. We also offer industry certifications to our students. CMCSS offers over 35 industry certifications. Our students have earned over 1,800, and then you can see that that certification pass rate for our students is sitting at eighty three percent. Non traditional innovative academic programs for our students, two are on the screen. These are not new to CMCSS. One is the early technical college at Tennessee College of Applied Technology and the second
one is the middle college at Austin Peay State University. A new non traditional program offered to our high school students starting next school year is the accelerated associate program at Nashville State Community College here in Clarksville. This program of study is unique in that students get to remain at their home school for the majority of the day and they will take up to two dual enrollment courses at the college of Nashville State, Clarksville campus. That means students get to stay connected to their home school, they get to engage
in clubs, sports, and activities as a normal traditional high school student at their home school, and then they also can be, exposed to dual enrollment courses, getting them that early start to college. Super excited about this program. We just started this two weeks ago on Tuesday. Our first cohort of students, joined the CDLA commercial driver's license, program. Fourteen fourteen of our kiddos are are started, and rolling really, in the program currently.
So this is a partnership with Armor Trucking Academy and the Clarksville Industrial Development Board. Students will spend nine weeks working, towards earning their class a driver's license, and then they will spend nine weeks, in an internship in some field of logistics. We're really excited about this because it is an entry point into multiple local business and industry placements to include Lineman School. We will be continuing this program. It was open to, seniors who turn eight who turned 18 on or before January
6. That is because you have to be 18 in order to earn your permit and you have to have your permit in order to, earn the license. And so we'll continue this program in January of every school year in hopes of having, students turn 18, enough students turn 18 that are interested to be able to do that moving forward. This is a no cost opportunity to the students as it was grant funded through the TVA. And that grant will allow us 25 total students to go through the program. And then the IDB, did work a a deal with the armored trucking academy for
the land, that will allow us to have another 100 students go through the program over the course of the next ten years. Another really exciting program that will launch in the fall, of 2026 is Founders Inc, where innovate, Inc. Stands for innovate, network, and create. That is going to be housed at the Burt Innovation Center. We are using, innovative school model grant dollars to do some renovations to the Burt, building that will house all of the components of this program.
The space redesign will include, four really unique spaces, where students will be able to, work with, partners and mentors around, around learning about, entrepreneurship and the businesses that they would like to create. There will be maker spaces that will include everything from three d printers to laser engravers to sewing machines, all the things that students would need to be able to build prototypes of products. There'll be a marketing department where students will learn about podcasting and broadcasting.
They'll learn about media art, poster making, design, all of the things that they would need once they've got this business idea up and running to be able to market it. And then there'll be a presentation space, think Shark Tank. So this will be the place where students will, be able to learn to present and to be able to, to see themselves in in this space and practice and repractice before they do the big pitch at the end. And so, really, this entrepreneurship hub, will allow students to develop all the skills that
they need to build a real biz a business. We'll be working with mentors, in business and industry partners to help oversee the the, development and iteration of this. And then it will, be open to students in both grades eleven and twelve. And students will spend one class period a day at founders inc and five class periods a day at their traditional high schools. So that really sums up a lot of the innovative things we're doing across the district, elementary school all the way through high school.
Do you all have questions for us? The so in the CDL program, why the January 6 cutoff? Where where did the number come from? Yeah. So the semester starts that was the first day of classes for the second semester. And so classes were gonna start with students, and we wanted students to be able to do the nine weeks. It's a hundred and sixty four hours of class time, and we wanted them to be able to get through the program before, spring break so that they could do
their internships after spring break. And students have, two weeks from January 6 until January 30 to get their permit. If they don't have their permit by, January 30, then they can't continue on in the program. And so if we had students who who came to us in in January 6, but they were January 15, as long as they could could get that permit before January 30, we did take that into consideration. Well, like, I my birthday is October 28, so there's no way I would've done
that. I just don't know. What would how how many students do you think that we're losing that would wanna do the program that would be like me? Yeah. So, state law says that students can't get their permit until they're 18 years of age, which is part of why the cutoff date is where it is. And so we can't work around the that state law piece of it. We did have 948 students who turned 18, before January 6, and so those were the students that we marketed to.
What's your capacity? In the program? We actually don't have a capacity, at this point as many as as they'll take. We are really looking we could do a second class in the second nine weeks if we had, enough students who were interested. So the school itself, Armor Trucking Academy, can do fourteen in the morning and fourteen in the afternoon. This year, we have a total of 14. That was just the total number of students who actually qualified. We didn't turn any students away who applied that qualified.
Okay. Thank you. Absolutely. Mister Mayberry. Hey. Thank you so much for this presentation. It always excites me to hear all the different things that we're venturing out to do. So I have a question. A lot of this that we're starting off, and I see, like, nursing and and we talk about CDLs and all that. When we're looking at innovating into new areas and stuff, how how do we picking those different places to go into? Is it or industry coming to us? You're looking at trends. Like, how how does that get figured out? Both. So CDL was, somebody coming to us.
That was, that was actually Jeff Burkhart who came to us, with that idea and and said that was something that was needed in this community. And so we worked with him around that and and with both the IDB, and workforce essentials on that. We do try to meet with them regularly, yearly. We have an advisory committee, for our career and technical education programs that we we meet with at least twice yearly, to discuss what the needs are of the community, and then we pull in programs based on that.
Thank you. And god bless you for still making an impact on our community. Yes. How how would if someone was watching this today and they're looking at this like, man, I wanna get involved. Like, how could they reach out to the school system to to partner with us? That's a great question. We do have, on our website, cmcss.net/cte. On there, there is a a place where any business or industry partner or even individuals, can reach out. There's a form that comes directly to me, and then I will reach back out to them following that. That's amazing.
I I encourage the community to do that. I may miss this if you said this. I apologize. Of course, Spanish immersion. Love this, program. I've seen it firsthand. It's incredible. It's in the elementary school. Love this going to middle school. I assume Clark High is where it's going in the high school. Correct. That's the plan. And this and the same concepts, social studies and science? I think we're still to be determined on that. As we we've got another year. Next year, they'll be in eighth grade. We'll stick with the with the science and social studies, and we'll explore those options, as we move into high school. Gotcha. I just wanted to say to everybody, I love the expansion to middle school, programs
that we're doing. Love the focus on nursing as well as our community is definitely gonna need some more nurses, and that's incredible and, encourage partnership, with all the incoming hospitals. And I'm sure they're already reaching out to to to do that. So but, yeah, thank you guys so much for for this, and and I appreciate it. I have a question. The you had mentioned that there's industry certifications. Can you tell me a little bit about what those certifications are for? Absolutely. So, the industry certifications, we've got 35 different industry certifications.
So it really depends on the program of study. So some examples, in aviation, we have a FAA drone pilot's license certification. So students would earn that, specific to that program of study. Health care. So in our health science programs, we have a CNA, which is a certified nursing assistant. We have a CPCT, which is a patient care technician. We have a c CCMA, so medical assistant. We've got EMT. So the the different certifications are really specific to each program of study.
The state of Tennessee department of education actually puts out, a list of of different certifications that are aligned to every program, and they tier them, based on whether, how valuable they are to to be put into the workforce. And so we try to choose as many tier two and tier three, the highest level certifications as we can for each of our programs. And those certifications don't cost the students money? Correct. Yep. So we use, kind of a braid of general purpose funding and Perkins grant dollars
to cover all of the certifications for our students. One more question. Mhmm. The the Founders Inc building looks amazing. You guys I'm an entrepreneur, and so that just warms my heart. Yeah. We have interns that are currently interning that are seniors. Is the are those programs gonna work together at all or are they independent? They'll work together. Yes. Absolutely. So we're hoping to have have kind of a a marriage of those two things so that students will be able to participate in both, be able to reap the
benefits of both. Awesome. Thank you. No more questions? Alright. On to number eight, resolution budget amendments. First read, Jeff Taylor. Good evening, board members. This shouldn't take very long. This is just basically realigning budget, moving of funds Under, special education, we are reallocating salary and benefits about 59,000, $460 to supplies and materials, and as well, we're we're moving, $735 over from 72220 special education support, moving that to the supplies and materials
account. Under other student support, as you can see under the for the EQCCEIS amendment, we're just moving funds out of salaries over into benefits. The $500,001, and the $283 are being moved into equipment for the Open Gate Security System that we will be implementing in the schools, high schools. And, lastly, you'll see the $6,000 in pre k development, professional development, that's moved over to early childhood education under professional development as well.
Then as you can see, the SPED pre k entitlement grant of $735. And then lastly, under business affairs, just moving $112 out of other contracting services, basically, from travel to professional development. Moving on to federal projects, you can see we are just additional revenues and expenditures, additional funding for title one, title one, title one neglected, title two, title three, and APEN grant. The rest of these amendments are just reallocation of funds for title four and the
IDE grant IDEA grants. Any questions? Thank you. On item number nine, I'm gonna hand it over to mister Chris Lanier. School board committee's discussion. We met earlier this week. We're gonna we're still exploring some options of what we can do. So I think we're gonna kinda push this off to a later as we kinda gather some more information on how we can how we can meet. All good? Okay. County commissioner comments? Welcome. We have a new team. School board member comments? Alright. Doctor Luna. Better? Good evening, board members.
This week was the second week back from holiday break for students, faculty, and staff, and we've hit the ground runnings. Hopefully, you're following along on social media as we continue to highlight their teachers of the year for every school in the district. It's great to read more about our amazing teachers and students and families who appreciate them. It's It's hard to believe, but we're already looking ahead to next school year. Eighth through eleventh grade students have already begun the process to choose classes for next fall. Also, pay special attention over the coming weeks as there's several opportunities at schools to
learn more about our programs of choice like you heard tonight. Schools are hosting events highlighting the numerous options to fit the needs of every student. Applications will open later this week and close mid February. Finally, I'd like to welcome our county commissioners who are serving on the education committee for this term. We have returning Jeremiah Walker and welcome to commissioners Beal, Gannon, Pritchard and Shelton. We appreciate you attending and look forward to working with you.
Vice chair Bryant, this concludes my report for the evening. Thank you very much everybody for being here. This ends our study session. Have a good one.