to of the United States of America and to the stand Nation thank you New Jersey open public meetings La was an act to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice and to attend the meetings of public bodies of which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with provisions of the act the portly board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be published on January 10th 2025 and posted on the
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members of a public body held with the intent on the part of the members of the body present to discuss or act as a unit upon the specific public busness of that body roll call please M buyers K here miss go here miss Curry here Mr Knight here M K here Mr Lopez here M Morel here Mr here M RoR here the board will be
convening to Executive session to discuss legal personnel and other confidential matters the board will reconvene to public session at approximately 7:30 p.m. we have a motion to go into executive session motion Morel second Curry all in favor any opposed
to flag of the United States of Amer stand Nation God indivisible withy and justice for all the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice and to attend the meetings of public bodies in which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of the act the forly board of education has caused
notice of this meeting to be published on January 10th 2025 and posted on the district website at www.foe.com published in the board's designated online media Outlet newspaper the record and the Star Ledger filed with the clerk of the bur of Fort Lee and mail to all persons if any who have requested said notice please be advised this meeting is being recorded and may be broadcasted on local TV and online at a future date the open public meeting act allows for remote participation at board meetings and defines meeting as
any Gathering whether Caporal or by means of communication equipment which is attended by or open to all of the members of a public body held with the intent on the part of the members of the body present to discuss or act as a unit upon a specific public business of that body roll call please K yes here M Curry here M here M Cain here Mr Lopez here Morel
hereo here M here everybody the board can be executive session at 6:30 P.M to discuss legal personnel and other confidential matters Dr pravit Will You Begin by sharing the superintendence report thank you president RoR good evening everyone and thank you for joining us uh when we last met the district was about to celebrate the Lunar New Year and I will say that many different events took place in our buildings and it was just phenomenal uh while I was unable to attend every
event uh I was attending some of them it was a clear Testament to how great our community is as we celebrate diversity in our community so I want to thank publicly all of the organizations that organized those events all the PT the kacs uh the Japanese parents Chinese parents everyone participating Lear year which is fantastic um since our last public meeting we have had seven HIV cases in which three were founded and now tonight we will talk about our we have our high school Representatives
Jessica H and Isabelle ly we're here to talk about what's happening in our high school on January 18th at JP Stevens High School will 11 audition and was accepted into the njmp New Jersey music um Educators Association All State and Orchestra this is the top honors in state and Li is now recognized one of the top high SCH musicians in um Isabella Sila Martha and Lauren
have participated in the 2025 the Valley New Jersey high school craft Invitational at Peters Valley School of craft in L new the show runs from January 18th to February 15 honors emble of the high school department to annual honors winter concer onday at 7 p.m. in the school auditor the concer will feature the honors choir orchestra and ad mission is free and all are
welcome congratulations to senior Angela Kim and Junior philong for being selected to perform in the semifinal round of the Lincoln Center chamber music society's Young Musicians concert if selected from his round they move on to the finals which will take place at Alice Hall that Friday January 31st the agents living Alliance in collaboration with the Korean and Chinese language classes celebrated un new year with cultural and educational activities students
participated in watercolor of a snake to the snake engaged in traditional both games and is part of the handson experience of and this celebration provided an opportunity for students to ERS in the rich Traditions ofer culture appreciation and additionally AG Alliance will Chinese in America to Eng collaborative and active discussion called where stereotypes come from to discuss the
Orin furthering their understanding of culture representation senior Amad trayor took home a gold medal and became a state sectional champion in the MJS section meat in the 55 me he broke the school record previously held by him and broke meat record F since 2018 for his accomplishments amadu also was selected Bergen records athlete of week additional track and field news there
were several metal owners that have advanced the mjsa state group three championships Adriel Lee in the full Vault Hazel orta in high jum and VA Frankie forero in the high jump Olivia pinski in the p and Jaylen in the H the boys team finished third overall in our group the jior class of 2026 is excited to host the har music basketball event on March 13th this Community event is open to all GRS with
the special focus on Elementary and intermediate students teachers from the elementary and intermediate schools will become a part in an exciting and entertaining day on incredible night of basketball laughter and school should come and support information will be shared soon finally the National Honor Society along with the science League were able to visit the Richard and Catherine Nest adult Activity Center where students spent time connecting with the senior residents through conversation and Hands-On arities as part of the visit
students LED engaging science experiments sparking curiosity and joy among the parps it was a wonderful experience that fostered intergenerational connections and created blasting memories for both students and seniors Alik okay thank you very much for that report we also are very proud tonight to have our BFW representative Chief former Chief Tomy here um we have a few winners of the BFW awards for the Patriots pen voice of democracy and teacher of the
year so the Patriots pen Award winner is sewan Lee she is not here this evening the teacher of the year from school number two is Christina tazi but we do have our voice of democracy winner here this evening ammani Sanders so I'm GNA ask ammani Sanders the chief of Po and stand up you want to say anything chief
micone you can come up too why not did a great job heard her speech at the BFW post we're very proud of our employees and our excuse me our students I'm employees too yeah sorry uh I just want to congratulate this young lady on the uh great report she gave us and u should be proud sheach should be proud
school system should be proud uh she's also a terrific singer she sings at National Anthem at all our events and she has a lot of talent and uh she's going to be a success in life also conrat you can s in front of people you can say something no okay let's take a picture if you don't mind I'd also like to reind the board first
of all I'd like to thank the board and the superintendent for our relationship that you have with us and uh we should continue that so the students realize what veterans do how we live our life and all that thank you okay appreciate it and all that you uh when you attend our events and uh I also like to say um March 29th is National be today and uh we're going
to honor two veterans who were fly high school graduates it's long overdue so if anybody can make it it's March 29th from 8: in the morning till 4 in the afternoon if any is like to stop please you're welcome at any thank you [Applause]
okay congratulations to all the winners and have a great week and don't forget next week we're Clos for two days hopefully no snow
gotow com that's my report all right thank you okay do we have any committee reports the curriculum committee met on February 6 um we discussed two topics we discussed uh feedback from parent regarding the the new pable 6 I'm sorry pable 4 math program um mainly parents are looking seeking more support for
with the new Invision program and also continue uh continuing education on NJ math and parents and to that end we want to thank the administration and District leadership for taking um some proactive um steps to address the concerns um first there will be a week uh a a pre-chapter parent engagement resource that will be throwing homei to
the start of a new math chapter so parents will will receive material to support the children learning uh there will be virtual meetings to present the current current math curriculum involving staff as well possibly um Sav who is the publisher for our program and then we continue encourage parents to come forward work with your teachers raise concerns so that they can respond and help make the program better the program can't get better without a
two-way street feedback so please go to your teacher your child's teacher um if you need additional support our staff the building principal um District supervisors please keep working with them we want to make our program even stronger and um we also discuss the block scheduling presentation is now up on the website so please go on they are translated please again work with the
high school principal and her staff to continue to answer questions address concerns and and let's make this work you thank you are there any other committee reports uh yeah okay February 3rd the uh strategic planning committee met uh it was a very productive and effective meeting uh we discussed things such as the our facility plans um our fiveyear
uh strategic planning um and uh our next meeting will be February 24th at 1:30 so our information will be coming thank you meetings the 25th 25th thank you any other committee reports okay do board members have questions or
comments on tonight's agenda or any other topics so I just wanted to make a comment on the field trips um I think it's great to see that some teachers are taking students to the LG um facility and is an incredible facility and everything think it's great they make available to us also I wanted to um just mentioned something I know this major was taking some students to the impr rank exhibit and I just wanted to give her kudos for doing that making that
opportunity available for the kids and encourage other teachers because I know often times as the teacher that decide kind of push for where the fields might be I would encourage other teachers to consider that as well I have a question on for C if um someone may Mrs or yes explain in dep a little bit about
it so we are required um by law to um have an affirmative action team to develop A needs assessment for the comprehensive Equity plan um that's something that has to be updated I believe every three three five years so we are required to submit that to the state and our plan is up it's actually the state gave districts one year um for a waiver but now we have to do it again
and that is for the students needs or for anyone that it's the district the district so it could be a parent or someone staff it's looking at our policies making sure they're updated we're compliant with that compliance measure thank you and then the next question I had um is actually on a 5B um well hold on Yeah by P up it's at the bottom of it um it's
about the suspensions so I was um trying to look at um go back and look from last year it looks like in January 2024 we had a lot less uh suspensions than we did um and this year am I seeing that correctly that's correct and it looks like there is a a quite a large number
um in this is there is that something that what's going on so you know we'll be meeting with our administrations to discuss that I know Port our attention when we do the numbers when we run the refor system that is something we have identified as a concern that we will address thank you I just want to thank you for adding previous years data onto this chart
because it makes it a lot more it gives a context so when we look at the number we know whether it's a jump or not so thank you for taking that suggestion one more one is H Saturday suspensions it's something that I or I should say Saturday DET it's something that's coming up in the in the community I'd be lying if I said I didn't have to do it once or twice when I was a kid but um it's something that's come up I'm
curious um as to if that is indeed happening what sort of resources we using for that how many kids we typically see and want get an idea of what's going on I don't have all that information I can get that information distributed to the board Paula do you have any questions before we move on no thank you okay may I have a motion to open the floor to the public motion motion morale
second Curry uh all in favor I any opposed or extensions okay we will hear first from the members of the public physically located here with us in the cafetorium then we will take questions and comments from those participating remotely participants are limited to three minutes in which to make their statement for remote participants please select the raised hand button Mr rerro will recognize each Community member in the order of the raised hands please remember to unmute your microphones everyone please state your
name and address for the record and begin your comments please limit to 3 minutes anyone here with us tonight wish to speak in person good evening Andrew 326 Bridge North I want to remind everyone that upcoming CAG our meeting CAG is special education parents advis group is open to members and Families our next meeting will be in person
actually right here on February 19th um we will have a special guest Our Guest will be Steve C the fire from the ply fire prevention Bureau he will be talking about the special need registry and we also have forms for parents to to out uh we also have a child care medable so they might need a child care please the information is up oned site so thank you very much Dron team
okay always Mak up there so please you know any questions please email us.net please everyone say hello welome to that also um in addition we will have our meeting we have a parents and for you know Q&A and also want to know what topics that that parents of Guardians would like us to you know to get our presentation on we're open you
know we we want the parents input please and also we will have a little gift for the kid like I say what it is at me but it will be a special gift for them so please come on more thank you very much thank you thank you
good evening Keith C 2185 L Mo Avenue happy birthday um I wanted to address a couple things um with um not the CPAC meeting answer just mentioned that but I do want to ask uh Dr K what are like the barriers for the bus tracking that are holding it up and and I know I have to ask all my questions so I ask that because I know like if we said we'll give you $100 million could it happen answer yes so let's work our way back from that and
figure it out is what the parents are saying to me that I'm hearing from I know the social storm um exacerbated that which is going to happen traffic now or whatever but um you know we can trct everything heck we have a phone we're all being TR so why not the buses that's why we're we're struggling to understand that um the other thing I wanted to talk about because I do have another daughter I know someone disputed that with me recently but I do have an older daughter a 13-year-old entering
high school and um I have the benefit of I've been I think three or four presentations now on the Block scheduling and I feel like I'm an expert in the slides this is just unsolicited advice for everybody those slides really helped me explain it to my daughter's mother and she knows it as well so um we're pretty excited because it feels like it breaks up the anotomy of school in my opinion so we just wanted to say that we're excited about that for our daughter who's entering high school next
year and that's it thank you as far as the bus track can probably a little bit more detail but just so the bus rops that we run um we're working to add that that's a system and we just don't have enough manpower to get everything set up one of the biggest concerns we get especially for special education students is that request fortunately when we go out to bid we cannot ask for the bid to include the bus tracking software so we go out
by by way of soliciting South Bergen jointure which is the small District in Burgen County but they also handle out the bidding process for Burgen County they put out the bids to all the bus companies first student John Ley with whoever takes that that offer um there is no legisl that legislation that mandates that they have to have bus tracking so even if we put it in to a bid there will be there's no bus company like first te that does it say any way so that's the biggest stumbling black
box back stumbling block to that issue sorry I have one more thing to and it's kind of personal um and it has nothing to do with back and forth so don't yell at me um the bus aid for our daughter seems to not be so sensitive to my daughter's disability um and and not she just it's not that she's mean but she keeps complaining to us about my daughter's behaviors so so we just think maybe there needs to be a little education
with the bus companies because a kid with autism she'll take her shirt off a thousand times and if you tell her to stop again she'll take it off again it's just over and over again it's like dripping water so we just want them to be a little more H do
Roy how are you guys um so I went to the meeting with the new schedule I thought that was a really positive meeting meeting and explained a lot I still I'm not sure about the lunch block for the kids it seems like it's going to be very overwhelming for the town so I don't know if anything has gotten cleared up about that for the high school student and then the other thing that I have a issue that I wanted to ask about the way
that for Cur is written it says um air the following affirmative action team I thought that the Supreme Court said that we can't do affirmative action any longer so maybe we need to rename the team or have more detail about exactly what they're going to be doing and this seems to go all the way through to 2028 so maybe this should be a year-by-year
thing instead of 2025 to 26 27 to 28 um I I just don't know what that exactly means review the district needs assessment for Equity is that like a Dei thing or what is that that's what I'm trying to get to the bottom of um and then is there an extra cost to the district for this like if there's teachers working also doing this do they get paid for
doing this or is this a voluntary role or is it just three people that are in administrative positions already that you're moving into that that's my main stuff question on and than all thank you thank you so regarding the no more questions well my main question is the wording of this it's it says at the superintendent uh at a recommendation of the superintendent so that doesn't say
it's by law number one it says that it's your recommendation and two the wording of it is just weird to me because affirmative action was struck down by the Supreme Court and um if it's for the district need sure but what is an equity plan what does that mean oh and there's one other thing if I want to find out how many children are are illegal within our district schools and
and funding that we're getting do I need to do that through a Foya request because I would like to go back and look at the plan where we said there were so many Spanish kids that were in um you know the special needs program how many of those are citizens of Fort Lee how many of them are at a district or are many of them potentially illegal or you know I just want to know what the numbers are within our
district um does that conclude your comment yeah okay um the agenda almost every item on the agenda is to be voted on upon recommendation of superintendent that's why it says upon recommendation of super as to your questions regarding the affirmative action uh that item is placed on the agenda because it's required that every board education of state of New Jersey uh addresses that as to
the um as to your other question regarding the uh immigration status the Department of Education has some guidance it's on their website that will answer any of your questions that you had on that when I say Department I mean the New Jersey Department of Education I said specifically for our understand that but if you were looking for more information there's more
information you can submit an open request like any other member of the public and it will be responded in accordance with Ru okay thank you and where would I find that law the open public records no no for you said about um if you go to the New Jersey Department of Education website there's guidance that they've issued regarding immigration status okay thank you so much you
anyone else stand 9 Harvard Place New Jersey [Music] 0724 answer both my questions I just have a couple on you answer so this will be quick um one I have questions about the BL schedule which we didn't understand um I didn't get the paper you
sent me on what the parent uh submit survey was um and I I still a little confused about lunch you can can you explain that again about lunch what they going to be doing about lunch and also I've been meeting on other websites and other other schools um there's been a few issues with if the kids are out school like say they're out for a week they're sick um I understand they're going to be doing more work dur their day um is that going
to affect them how do they get their I've been reading that they've been having issues with you know kids when they get sick my daughter was out for one whole week for she had the flu so how would we uh go about that when you miss so much in the course don't so much now the day in 55 minutes of the Box um U and also just about the my daughter s wants to know you know which field they going to be plan in the field that's it okay thank you so as far as
the lunch um you know we have we've working with the Port Police Department regarding lunch it's going to be a single period lunch there are other areas in the high school that we will designate as as lunch rooms we've been exp on it sure and and it was actually done the presentation your wife was there sat behind me so the we set up a actually have a picture we show the picture at the presentation of Propst making the small gym in lunchroom between those lunchrooms and knowing that about 46% of our current students eat inside that are allowed to go out so
you know when we look at that number we determine kind of where we would Place everyone that should be enough seating for everyone that's we predict to be in inside eating lunch additionally we looking and we're the process of working on ideas about having clubs and other activities as well as uh remediation and and learning going on during that time meaning working with children if they want to work with a teacher having that flexibility that's not finalized that's something that we'd like to see in the future um as far as security we
mentioned that we have an enhanced our security system we have now three class three officers who would be assigned at that time right now we only have one in the district so as we move to that as well as our security guards so it's while it may Seema chaotic 83% of the schools in Burton County are doing that single period lunch or one or two period lunch and we think we can be just like everybody else so that you know it matches what we're trying to achieve which is maximize that day um as far as when your child is absent when any child is absent there's a process regarding
making up the work so if a class is now meeting four times a week instead of five times a week There's still the a available time and again looking at the Block lunch the one period lunch that's an opportunity for your child to actually possibly work with that teacher during that time to make up that work and sit there and say can I help you so those are the the concerns as far as the softball field the athletic director has assured me that he'll have an area that's closer and you know I leave it up to his hand thank you very much thank you Jason for your help today you
too is there anyone else in person who wishes to speak uh Brad 2298 um just wanted to uh respond to something that I heard in the curriculum committee uh report uh that part of what is now um being uh planned is to provide
further resources chapter by chapter uh to parents to help them better understand uh the new math curriculum I think that's a fantastic idea uh I think that I know there have been comments about the new math curriculum listen I'll agree with something that I heard the last meeting which is when I look at for example the math homework that my son is doing on a day-to-day basis it doesn't look like the way I was
taught math 30 something years ago um what I'll also say and and why I as a parent I'm really excited that we are trying something new and there's going to be more resources for parents hopefully to understand uh how to assist kids with that is something else that I've notic that's really different from when I was learning that 30 something you see can't even do that
um my first grade can do a level of math in his head without pulling out a pencil without piece of paper without a calculator that I never could have dreamed of doing when I was in the first grade and I honestly credit a lot of that to the fact that he is getting this instruction he's getting this homework that isn't just teaching him how to mechanically line up Columns of numbers
but to actually think about numbers actually understand that when you're doing mathematics it's not about symbols on the paper it's about actual numbers I'm very excited I'm excited to learn more as a parent so I can further support that but I did just want to add my voice to the parents saying yep it looks very different from the way that I was taught and from what I see in my household it's having results that are very different from when I was learning math in a really
wonderful way and so I hope that other kids are seeing that same benefit and I hope that the new materials will help parents to support their kids in seeing that benefit I think it's tremendously um exciting and I'm glad to the curriculum committee was responsive to um public questions in that way that's all thank you thank you
um I have two things actually I'm my child and I feel like I'm getting to run around um person at school told me to ask pediatrician for they at school Patrician doesn't to do it so it's number one next one the next item that I want
to talk to you about is um I asked my daughter why it was important for her to have school closed for the Muslim holiday which is e it's at the end of Ramadan I asked her why couldn't she just take the day off because it's allow and her answer was well I'm not Christian po SCH takes off her Chistmas in Easter I'm not Jewish the whole school takes two days off the rash I couldn't argue with that so I am
asking that we need to have a pral way to treat various religions equitably and with the respect that we deserve I've spoken a few months now a few years actually about this um I really feel that it needs to be discussed and something has to happen um I don't think it's fair it's not appliable um if I need to get a position I
will that's it so thank you thank you as far as uh the even we are looking at the calendar we're looking to include it for next year's calendar yes to have that yeah so we want to be equable to all as far as dyslexia um um if you want to call contact me tomorrow send me an email we can discuss the process and and we'll go
over it that's amazing thank you so much you're wel is there anyone else in person who wish speak okay Mr rero REI Anaya you've been promoted to panelist please unmute your microphone and feel free to share your video please state your name and address for the
record you have 3 minutes hi um hi my name is priy and I live at 429 uh model Avenue I just wanted to um I guess request uh Dr Kravitz and the board to please look into the bus uh tracking app I heard what Dr kravit said about you know shortage of staff and the bidding laws but I just like to sort of
um uh let the board know that in tenly who's our neighboring District they run a summer camp the Kaplan and they run a program for children with special needs and they do have a bus tracking app so if if if um if the administration could reach out or if you would allow the CAG representatives to reach out and try and understand how how they've managed to do that it could really really help a lot
of parents across the board um and not just for parents who have children with special needs but for anyone who's using the bus services to you know ease communication when it comes to delays and and anything else so yeah that was what I wanted to um share thank you thank you thank you for your question just to clarify so if it is an our USS we can install the tracking so I don't know if 10li is using their own
buses one of the concerns that I did mention just to clarify again is that some of the many of the special education routes within our district are outsourced to for student or know any other companies that doing it but when it's an outsourced company they are not required we cannot ask of them to put it in the bid so those routes cannot unless the just the company chooses to do it we cannot force them by by law I'm not
mistaken specializ small vehicles chairlifts um we do the bid through them then it's not guarantee that they can do that um then we use north northern Valley for everything else so so unless it's and maybe tenly runs their own routes I know our buses we will be putting the tracking in but for outsourced routs we
REM a question um is there technology that we can purchase that we could install in in our vendor buses I mean because I know there's like apple we can put anywhere and we can track everything all around the world so I'm wondering maybe there's a there's a commercial solution the answer to that question that would be a legal question if we're we're putting in so I can get back to you on
that Nancy you've been promoted to panelist please unmute your microphone and feel free to share your video please state your name and address for the record you have three minutes hi everyone I do Nancy Hatter um Lynwood Avenue I don't need a response to this I'm just here um to say thank you c ceg um Keith Andrew Cynthia all my fellow
special needs parents for always um stating what you need what your child's needs and I'm here to support them in their goal of getting the bus app done so I don't need a response I've heard everyone's responses and um yeah thank you thank co- family you've been promoted to panelist please unmute your microphone and feel free to share share your video please state your name and address for the record you have 3
minutes oh hi uh my name is l Co I'm at 12:21 Inwood Terrace oh can you hear me yes oh okay um yeah I was another one of the parents that were waiting outside for half an hour uh for the bus uh it was a miserable experience and I just want to uh again just please beg for you to somehow push uh or the board to push an
app any app um and if it is a matter of uh you know the bids and the companies like can we consider in the future at least going with only with companies that have a sophisticated tracking system because it's just a really it's it's it was scary out because my son is not able to stay still and you know we live on a busy Street we just really need an app to you know stay safe and to
plan ahead because you know everything needs to be planned in advance for our kids to be able to you know stay safe so yeah I'm just asking for that and thank you thank you and hearing everyone but look into what we can do but again limited to some of those resources that buses don't do um but we can look at other companies but I don't know how many here actually
have that and try to put it again in the bid as we go out bid for next year as well male you've been promoted to panelist please unmute your microphone and feel free to share your video please state your name and address for the record you have three minutes uh hi Mel kesco 254 Tom Hunter Road um so I was looking over the leave of abson and one thing that stood out is a grade one special education
teacher uh she's going to have a personal matter and she's going to be out from the end of May this year to beginning of September next year so one thing that I would like to bring up to the board is I hope that the board budgeted for not having a teacher in class especially for a class with special needs uh me experiencing personally I can tell you that not having a teacher was quite detrimental
to my kid not being able to keep track with what's normally required of the curriculum and um the other thing that I was want to bring to the board's attention it's in regards to the curriculum I think that the English and the way in which they structur the phrases at least for first grade it's not proper it's especially I can see that with some tests for example on the math curriculum one of the topics
was not how much is 69 minus 64 but instead was knowing the difference in between has and had well I looked over the curriculum and it seems like that difference becomes important as a subject and it's being taught in second grade somewhere in the middle of the year so with that in mind I mean I have a kid he's not an English speaker as a first language he's doing supplemental lessons when it comes to teaching uh to learning English and he struggles with
even basic understanding what's required on those tests because they're so involved in terms of where they are they're at spelling we got homework for example like here's a bunch of words see if they rhyme okay we'll do that and the next assignment is like write a PO poetry with those words making sure that they rhyme I'm like really it's like this is first grade you know so this is the kind of homework that we and this is the kind of testic that we get I would like the board to consider
that perhaps the reason why so many non-english speaking teachers fail math and some other subjects it's not because of the kids or some mean or you know malicious intent behind the teachers or at the district level it's just because the curriculum might not be appropriate for their situation so that's it thank you thank you very much for your comment I remind everyone that what we do in on curriculum matches the state standards
uh in the case of what we're supposed to be doing and you're welcome to this the state standards on our I believe that on our website as well and the Department of Education so we match what the state is requiring us to teach at every grade level if you go to our website and you look at curriculum instruction you'll see everything mapped out is consistent with the state standards that we are achieving um I agree with you it is more uh language based in mathematics you can also Google or if you reach out to your
teacher or your principal at the building you'll they'll show you some samples they have access to sample from previous years of the exams that are given in our students given to our students and that is the shift uh that came about with the common core and has continued to evolve over the years so you'll notice that the standard of just using that you know five times on is not on most standardized tests anymore which are required under the current law so as are adjusting and every District in the state matches the state standards we're meeting that with our curriculum and
resources that we use thank you there are no more raised hands may have a motion to close the floor to the public second motion Morel second rabbino all in favor I any opposed or extenstions okay moving on to resolutions may have a motion to approve items 1B through 5B motion moot hurry roll call
please M bars K yes Miss kbat yes Miss Curry yes yes M K yes Lopez yes M Morel yes Rino yes M rard yes may have a motion to approve items one Cur through 4 Cur
motion second motion Rino second Kang roll call please Miss K I'm Sorry Miss buers K M Kat yes Miss Curry yes M Knight yes Miss kotang yes Mr Lopez yes M Morell yes Mr Rino yes m r yes may I have a
motion to approve items 1f through 8f motion motion morale second Curry roll call please is buyers okay just go back yes except I abstain on 1 F and 2f ited M Curry yes Mr Knight yes sco to the d
project this go time yes and thank you to our Don on Lopez yes Morel I yes I stay on one and two of and on my name three of noted Mr REO yes and Miss Ricker yes may I have a motion to approve items 1 p
through 11 P motion second motion Rino second Morel roll call please miss buyers K Miss Miss KAC uh yes and thank you to the two employees in 2p and 3p for their 27 plus years with the district noted M
Curry Mr Knight yes M Kang yes thank you to u to those to employ and also thank you to Mr District you for services Mr Lopez yes M Morel yes Mr Rino yes M Rick yes okay moving on is there any old
business okay any new business I just wanted to say congratulations to my precious teacher M for being named for the Year by F BFW post I think it's fitting that she would recognize bar of these Heroes as in my eyes she hero right she's one of the kindest brightest most patient human beings I've ever met her GI for connecting with kids as my daughter and her peers thriving as result we love you
appreciate thank you I just wanted to lend some support to um who spoke about his child learning learning all the subjects while I was still try to master English as a second language speaker I couldn't feel your pain anymore it's it's incredibly difficult to try to learn Academic Way when you don't speak the language we I want to ask you to continue to lean into the support in the
district lean into the teachers get extra help um she will make it um but it is not easy so I just want to just recognize that to all the second I I had a question on that subject um when someone come when we have students who have English a second language are they Benchmark for or not benchmark but are they do they do like a placement so just are they placed in a class because
of their age or because maybe if their ability to understand the material based on their their ability to understand the language isn't at the grade level that their age would represent then perhaps they're in the wrong grade so regardless of a child's language proficiency they are placed in the grade that is most aligned to their age um and then there is a screening process to determine whether they are eligible for English language services
so there are multiple criteria that we use to identify those students and then based if they meet those criteria they receive supplemental English language instruction in a out format with an ESL and or bilingual certified teacher thank you okay may I have a motion to adjourn MO second coack uh all in favor any oppos
thank you for coming