city and Equity Committee calling the meeting to reconvene at 10:05 a.m At this time if we can have the roll call to determine a quorum Good morning everyone Good morning
Adopt a family Jessica Pagan Best foot forward Debbie Elman Present online Best foot forward Karen Spagnadi Black Chamber of Commerce of Palm Beach County Cassandra Oliver present
Card at FAU Sabina de Gorgeous present Online card at FAU Jack Scott Coalition of Black Student Achievement Dr Deborah Winsson
present online Coalition of Black Student Achievement Jacqueline Callaway Campus Amenda Kennedy Present online Compass Rex Barnes
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District ESC Advisory Committee Kimberly Pio O District ESC Advisory Committee Michelle Bey Division of Blind Services of Pump Services I'm sorry Caesar
Vego Economic Council of Palm Beach County Craig McKenzie Elso Jupiter Suzanne Widbeck Florida Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce Juan Pagan Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Evelyn Vargas for the children Reggie Duendees Gold Coast Down Syndrome Sue Deiskillian Guatemalan Maya Center Moana
Blanco Guatemalian Ma Guatemalian Maya Center Mya Cordinz East Spanish Chamber of Commerce of Palm Beach County Maria Antonia Hispanic Education Coalition of
Palm Beach County Dr Gabriela Mendes NACP Dedric Strong Palm Beach County Council of PTAs Shamine Postol present
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present online Tri City Education Committee Mary Mary Evans Urban League of Palm Beach Tony Vinceline Barbier
President online Volunteer Association America with Lynn Pierre Volunteer Association of America Colleen Paul uh present it's a volunteer association in funds of Florida
Okay Is it online Did the name change Is that called Pier Who Who's that is Did the name change I always knew it to be volunteer association and funds of Florida unless there's some adjustment that were made
to the corporation Okay I'll I'll check the records after and reach out to you Uh thank you Was that Colleen Paul Mhm Yes Present online Thank you Miss
Paul Classroom Teachers Association Gordon Long Hoffer Two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 Yes this one
Okay we have a vacancy We're okay We have 12 We do have We We have 11 organizations in terms of vacancy Oh okay Good morning Stand that we have a quorum at this time I do want to um ask if
there is any objections that we have the new business department of adult education um presentation go prior to just a sh change in the agenda go prior to the update from the chief of equity wellness Are there any
objections Hearing no objection or before the DDEC ad before the appointment minutes No no We got to have it Okay Um are there any objections hearing None At this time approval of March minutes
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comments Any public comment in the virtual settings at this time At this time if there is anyone that is online that was not recognized during roll call or is visiting that's online please introduce yourself and
your agency you're representing Uh Thomas I know you're getting Oh that's Vincent Barber She's the name is changed but that's Vincelin Barber I just recognized the face Yeah that's Urban League That's Urban League Yeah Yes
Um go ahead Pete Stewart is online Pete you want to introduce yourself Pete Stewart or anyone that's online um whether your staff or anyone that's presenting that may be online at this time please unmute and introduce yourself for the record Uh Pete Stewart
a health education specialist teaching and learning and Mr Ferguson school board member Edwin Ferguson Good morning Good morning Everybody good morning Thank you you at this time in the room If there is anyone who is here
for public comment at this time if you're in the room and you were not introduced during roll call please introduce yourself for the record Yolanda Morgan Office of General Counsel Good morning Gina Lizer Office of General Counsel
Jean S um budget equity and wellness Jannina Simmons manager of compliance and special projects Fred Bart director of adult and community education Deoswell chief of equity and wellness
Lisa Anderson Department of Adults and Community Education Thank you At this time hearing no further public comment update from the DDC ad hoc subcommittee So um at the recommendation of the chair the subcommittee the data
we just got yesterday so it was postponed We'll meet again next month so there's time to review the data that was submitted Thank you Uh at this time new business Department of Adult Education Um Mr Fred
Burch Director of Adult Education I'm I'm going to go ahead and uh introduce um Mr Burch And your colleague can come to the table Lisa Lisa can you come to the table She can sit up here Yeah
So um so I wanted uh I think this important that you all see a presentation from adult community education wanted to educate you on what is available through the school district through this particular department any
questions you may have about it um or additional resources you might need or feedback for this group I I think it will be important for uh you all to see So Mr Barge um is been uh I wouldn't say long-term employee but
employee around a bit uh also former principal both the elementary and secondary level and um he's done a really good job with this department So we turn over to you Mr Burch Thank you Mr Oswald I appreciate the opportunity to be able to present our programs to to you Uh so one of the things that we have
been doing is trying to promote a lot of our programming to high school seniors who may not have a pathway to college We know that that is you know what the the schools are pushing to to go to college and I think that's wonderful But there are great opportunities for students who
may not have an opportunity to go to college So we share our information at uh high school uh job fairs and career fairs We've been doing that around the county for the last couple of years We've also started a scholarship program to be able to provide scholarships to
some of the programs that we offer So what I'm going to do today is kind of give you an overview a very large highle overview of some of the programs that we offer Uh so first of all what we started to do a few years back is kind of bring
back the idea of technical centers Um and if you've been in the district for a long time you know we used to have uh uh technical centers at south uh north and west areas uh to serve the regional uh communities So what we've done is uh
started to to transform in what we were always doing which is basically uh uh uh helping students get their high school diploma if they've withdrawn from school uh and a lot of ESOL education GED education So bringing on the technical
center concept and trying to transform adult ed into a true postsecary option that is good for graduating seniors who may not go go on to college or anyone in the community And we do serve students This year our student of the year was 87
years old Um so uh one of our best students So I'm just going to go through briefly the the the technical centers We have Chuck Shaw Technical Education Center just a little south of Okachchobee and Military serving that uh in the community in uh the western air
western part of uh West Palm Beach We also have Delray Full Service Historic Carver uh which is serving the south end Uh we have North Technical Education Center in Riviera Beach serving the North and soon we will have uh Roosevelt
Fullervice Adult Education Center opening in we think it's going to be December January It may be pushed uh as late as March uh due to some changes in some of the design Uh and we also have West Technical Education Center serving the Glades So just to get a a quick
overview of programming and and just just uh seven years ago we had really no CTE programs Esau GED and some pre-apprentice So what we've added is electroc cardioraph technician phabbotomy home health aid uh uh those
those programs in the medical Uh in the fall of 25 we're adding medical assisting and eventually we'll be adding licensed practical nursing Uh on the pre-apprentice and apprentice we offer HVAC and electrical at Chuck Shaw So
just to give you an overview of pre-apprentice they're they're free programs totally free Uh well I I guess you'd say it's an investment in time because it meets twice a week for about seven months in the evening So what we promote to our high school graduates who
may not be going to college is you can learn a trade And you'll see in a minute that we have welding electrical carpentry plumbing and HVAC You can learn a trade while you're working So if you're working a regular you know job in the day and you want a skilled trade
come to us at night and and commit to those seven months And at the end of seven months we give you approximately a $1,000 tool package that's specific to the trade that you studied So if you're in welding you get the welding helmets and the gloves and and all the tools
necessary If you're in electrical you get all those tools that are that are set up for an electric electrical uh to get a job in electrical So these are really exciting programs And what we've done now is we've linked our pre-apprentice to apprentice So
basically you have a free uh program in pre-apprentice For apprentice you need to be employed in the industry And once you get a job in the industry that industry then sends you back to school for an additional four years At at the end of four years you get what is called
a journeyman's license where you can open your own business and you're making very good money Um so those are opportunities that we offer that are free So when you look at a college uh uh degree and and sometimes the cost that
associated with a college degree it it could put a burden uh on student loans for almost a lifetime Uh where these programs you can make a really good living and earn while you learn Um so I I put a couple other programs there IET
Phabbotomy H uh HHA These are programs that help students either learn the language or they're working on their GED We blend GED studies or Esau studies into those areas so that they can learn
a little bit about the health care And we found the majority of our health care students keep moving upward and they they go to the next level and then they go to the next level our our folks who started with HHA moved to phabbotomy EKG tech now they're going on to medical assisting So that's a very exciting uh
program Those are some of the things that we're doing at Chuck Shaw Uh Delray full service historic Carver We have home health aid phabbotomy medical assisting Medical assisting has been going on now for a year We've already got a graduating class there Uh we have pre-apprentice in electrical and HVAC
Remember those are free Those are free programs Uh we're also going to do the HVAC in um in in what's called a career certificate program So it'll be a much longer program And we actually just
finally after interviewing for almost a year we were able to find someone and hire them So they're starting I believe next week uh to start that program up Um we also have the CNA prep to be able to get our HHA students a level up Uh we
have apprentice HVAC and apprentice electrical Again continuation of their education for free while they're getting paid Uh we also have the IET HVAC IET electrical meaning they could learn the language or get a GED while they're uh
learning that trade Our future programs the HVAC we we uh hope to start that in the fall Uh we actually have a grant a mini grant to start a a quick certification program that we hope to start in about a week or two Um the future we'll have cosmetology uh
computers network cyber security Um there is a phase two to Delray The building that you see just opened in April of 24 So it's it's basically one year old Uh there's a phase two coming online which will have a professional culinary
arts program a cosmetology program and also we're going to be working with light automotive and the phase 2 will also have a health care center uh to serve the community which will be really nice because we can actually do our
clinicals with our students in that health care uh setting The next up we have North Technical Education These are more of our hard trades You have the welding the carpentry the plumbing HVAC and electrical We run both uh
pre-apprentice and apprentice Uh in all those trades at Northtech and we plan to do some renovation of Northtech in the future uh to be able to uh add on a few other programs which are still being determined possibly marine uh something with the marine industry uh at that
location West Technical Center Um uh this is a uh a site that has we we've started our CDL class A program and it is a uh it's been very successful It's got full classes every time I've always
told any presentations I do I tell people CDL class A is the fastest way out of a poverty situation you can go from unemployed to doing very well in
less than 13 weeks And we we've been very successful at getting our students through the program We were able to get Westech to become a statecertified testing range Uh so we have a a state certified testing range on site which is
helpful And those students you know get an opportunity to drive these trucks We have women in every single cohort Uh in the trucking industry a lot of people kind of shy away from it because oh I have to be away for a month you know if you're doing long hauls Yes you can make
$140,000 doing long hauls uh if you if that's what you want Uh but you can also uh work with trucking companies that have transfer stations So you work four or five hours driving a load from one location to another and then you return home with a with another load So that is
a way to do and I could tell you my instructor one of my instructors was hired away and he was offered 120,000 with a $20,000 sign on bonus and he drives from West Palm Beach to Orlando and back every day So um the opportunities are real and uh the
potential is great to be able to make very good money in that area And you know I asked one our one of our first classes our cohorts I asked the student I said "What what made you decide to to enter this field of trucking and I will never forget this The student said "I
have never been out of Pokei Belglade and I want to see the world you know I want to see the country." And uh you know we actually due to that we market it that way now We show pictures of trucks in Colorado you know over snowcap mountains and things like that So that's a great uh program We're hoping to bring
that east but one of the things that we uh are working on is trying to build the fleet We started with two trucks and two trailers and we realized that it just doesn't work Uh now we have seven trucks and eight trailers and we're we're
getting by Okay Um these trucks are very finicky uh they're meant to run constantly and anytime we have a break like a you know holiday break or whatever our trucks are going down so there's something always in maintenance but that's an exciting program we want
to bring it east so we can serve students in the eastern county as well but these are programs at Westtech uh medical assisting phabbotomy home health aid electronic systems tech is brand new um and forklift training we do uh
actually there's a program called GATE which I address a little later Gate stands for graduation alternative to traditional education Uh it's a grant that we received We bought our first brand new truck because we were buying used stuff to get this up up and running Used trucks and trailers We bought a
brand new trailer and brand new truck um to to be able to serve students that are 18 and over who've withdrawn from school It's totally free program So uh and we have multiple gate programs that are free to students who have withdrawn
uh out of high school and they're in that range of 16 to 21 That's the grant uh guidelines I think I saw a raised hand Miss Paul you're recognized Thank you very much Uh Madame Chair uh I am very
happy to hear some of these information and at the volunteer association we'd love to move those information out to the community via Haitian radio and Haitian television because it is I met a gentleman yesterday that told me that he
goes he travels to Port St Lucy um to take um the truck classes So you said you are you trying to come east How far east are you planning to come and where are you now So what what we're looking at is we need a lot of space and that's
why West was the perfect location They have a huge huge uh parking lot area where is Oh Weste serves Belglade It's out in Belglade Belgade Pokei uh South Bay
It has an enormous back uh parking area and we were able to get the state to approve that as a testing range What I need and it could be coming from a community organization like this is if there is space that we can have where we can actually uh that's one thing There's
also the funding of adding additional trucks and trailers which is ext you know very costly uh to expand But I will tell you that all of our student almost all of our students are scholarshiped into this program
So many I won't say most but many uh are able to get funding uh and this is funding directly from the state of Florida uh to be able to provide uh full tuition uh re reimbursement or assistance um for this program because
this is our most expensive program it's about four $4,200 But if you go to a private company you're going to be paying about $6 to $8,000 Uh so the if I understand cor if I understand correctly this program is geared really for um students
in high school that are graduating and getting into um um a trade school or wanting to learn a trade or learn something to go to work versus going to college Yes So uh for CDL there there's an important thing to remember If you're
driving trucks you can actually get licensed by us um if you're 18 years old But um you can't drive out of state until you're 21 That's an that's a national uh law So um we do have a lot
of local trucks that run around you know the the county Um and and also what we what we have added to this is we are starting class B um uh driving which is driving like cement trucks uh dump
trucks and things like that heavy equipment So that class B program will be starting in the fall uh also at Westech One of the things that uh but to clarify yes I wanted to clarify it's open to any community member in Palm Beach County Yes Any community member in
Palm Beach County However uh due to the nature of our funding we we do not we cannot uh uh service students who are in K12 Um they have to be uh out of school or or
withdrawn from school Okay So adult adult students um that are interested in becoming a truck driver or having a CDL driver's license as long as they can find themselves under West at
West Tech they can apply and become a student and be part of the program Yes Thank you Yes And I think you'll probably share this PowerPoint right with everyone So my my I put all my contact information there and for everybody in person I have a variety of things to give you in multiple languages
uh flyers and things like that Bur you still have some time on your um present You still have some more on your presentation All right So I'm going to ask that we hold um questions until the end of the presentation because some of the questions may be answered um towards the end Okay No problem Yeah I I'll try
to move along because I know I don't have that much time Oh okay Okay So uh that that's basically it with Westech Uh um uh Westech and Chuck Shar are two of our accredited sites So they're acting basically as colleges a post-secary
institution Actually we hope in the future to change their name to technical colleges uh because it just elevates uh our standing with with with students that might be coming out of high school that want to go to a technical center called they are accredited technical
centers Del Rey will go through the process this year Um we did not meet certain FTE guidelines It's a very stringent process It took uh West and Chuck Shaw two years to go through that uh accreditation process Um and then
Roosevelt will be online as well once we get up that up and running Uh and this is Roosevelt uh which is a little behind schedule This constru It says the schedule for late fall I just found out it probably will be January to March Um but uh if you are familiar with the site
this was the one of the first African-American schools prior to desegregation So it has tremendous uh importance to the community just like Del Rey was also an African-American uh school So what we're doing is trying to
preserve both of those sites um Del Rey and Roosevelt the the front part of that site is going to be uh remodeled and preserved as it was back you know in the day So uh there's been a lot of work done on this It's moving along very nice
nicely Uh we have cosmetology electrical solar tech ESOL GD aerospace tech These are some of the programs that we're looking to launch We may if possible if they allow me I'd like to do a soft opening Uh if we can get because the the delay is going to be on the gymnasium
which is in the upper part of the uh picture that you see here upper left side is is has some delays on it due to some changes I'm hoping we can start with the uh the school a little earlier uh while construction is still going on we can at least start with some
programming Um moving along this is this is an updated picture I was just up there uh a week or two ago So it's really starting to come together look look nice and that will help to serve that that community So we're really excited about that Um these are this
kind of gives you a a little view of what we've been doing in the way of career and tech programs Um we can't open all tech programs at one time because we just don't have the funding to be able to sustain them So we've been opening strategically and slowly over
time But you can see we've gone from uh just seven programs up to next year where I think we're actually going to hit 30 Uh and then after that with Roosevelt we'll probably kick that number up as well I try to be conservative on my estimates so that we can uh meet or exceed um what what we're
our goals are Um we've started scholarships about uh three or four years ago We started out just giving out a few scholarships because we have a funding source that we can use Um so programs that do cost money we really
market this heavily to high school seniors Uh all guidance counselors we present every month at guidance counselor meetings Um all guidance counselors were sent this information And uh I'm happy to say that our numbers have gone up steadily You can see in
2021 we we just we changed what we were doing in 2020 to start offering um scholarships We did almost the same number in 20 uh 222 to 22 23 You can see we upped it slowly This year we have 51
uh students who are in high school who are now going to be you know committed to coming to one of our programs throughout our technical center uh technical center So that's very exciting I don't know how we can continue to sustain this We're looking at creating a
golf scholar uh golf tournament where we can raise money to be able to continue to expand those scholarships Uh we also the only time we can touch students that are K12 uh we can enter into that is what's called
co-enrolled for credit recovery So we actually serve um we fund a part-time teacher for credit recovery at at our high school sites and uh students have made up over 700 courses in 2324 We don't have the numbers yet for this year
but I can tell you that helps to impact our high school graduation rates Um and we also run some specialized pilot programs This is really exciting but it's hard to do because I have to get volunteers to be able to offer it Uh we
happen to have a couple of electricians that live near John I Leonard They're willing to start a program called Are You Wired to Be an Electrician And uh we kind of made that unique name up so that it would it would attract students And
we've this is the second year of that pilot We have two electricians that volunteer their time every every uh um year and with working with high school only high school seniors because those are students that benefit also our electricians because there's a win-win
here We get our students exposed to being you know an electrician Some say I don't want to do that Others who do want it get offered a job by the end of the period So we by the end of the year So we start that in uh February because I know as a former high school principal
that students start getting nervous in you know winter when they start hearing oh I'm going here I'm going there you know for college or whatever Uh so we we provided this opportunity It's been excellent We also started can you dig it which is uh a group of underground
utilities Uh it's an organization that that they do everything prior to construction of a building underground and it's really uh it took off We have 30 students enrolled at Forest Hill High Um so that's that's an exciting program
and these are some pictures of the actual students working on the left Are you wired Can you dig it on the right We're going to try to do something with cool and HV I got to think of a unique name to attract students at Del Rey to be able to do this because this is we
run it through community school and that is through our fun and leisure program So it's separate from adult ed but I'm able to get the high school principles to fund the registration fee and to feed the students and and doing that and
offering this free program has been successful at both John Leonard and um Forest Hill So we'd like to expand that Uh but it does take people these are all volunteers uh that are that are doing this Um so there's another program
called graduation alternative to traditional education This is something the state rolled out Um it's actually law now that guidance counselors must give our information to any student and
their parent who is withdrawing from K12 Um and this allows us to provide free any program they want at an accredited site So that's only right now our two sites any program they want and
enroll in our high school diploma program adult high school or GED So we have students that we're we know we're going to be doing this Um this is only for Westech and Chuck Shaw at the current time
uh and that the state is looking actually at changing that age limit to from 18 to 21 I called and said "What if a student's 22 you know and withdrawn?" So we're trying to get them to lift that cap um to to enroll more students Uh
Westech is going to do electronic systems tech which is high-tech uh computer and uh security cameras fire alarms anything that's considered low voltage Uh so they'll be working with
that as a hands-on program These are the other programs that that they could enroll in Uh and our home health aid is only a a pathway It it exposes students Some students say "I don't want to do this." Other students say "I want to continue my education." Uh we've also has have
articulation with Palm Beach State which is huge That gives college credit for any of these programs to a student who then goes on to Palm Beach State Okay these are a little bit about our trucks and trailers The picture on the left I love that's it's actually a motheraughter team who opened a trucking
business So they got their CDL license at at uh Chuck or Westech and uh moved on to open a business Kind of a little overview of what we offer Um future programming you know the things that we hope to start I mentioned earlier you
know culinary uh cosmetology and solar tech Um this is huge too We're starting our very first career dual enrollment providing it gets approved at uh tonight's board meeting But it's a career dual enrollment uh agreement with
adult education which is post-secary and secondary the school district We actually have to create an agreement We're going to do welding at Westech for the first $300 Students will earn acceleration credit The schools get an acceleration
credit and those students go will uh articulate over to Palm Beach State to continue the program after they graduate So this is a really exciting f this is the first time we've done this ever Uh so we're really excited to partner with Palm Beach State and to move this
program forward So uh that that uh we are going to start in the fall We've marketed to first Pokei uh high school Glade Central and Crossroads Uh and then if we don't have the numbers we'll move to Wellington Royal Palm and Seminal
Ridge Um after graduation what's next This is just a slide we put in every single graduation ceremony The district does it for us There's two slides This one just This is shown to parents before as
they're waiting before graduation starts but we give all of our contact information This is a digital flip book Can you click on that Yeah Uh if you could click on that digital flip book Um uh you you can actually flip through
this Uh and if you flip through uh just get to the first page there So we have Adult Virtual Academy Atlantic Community High School and it goes through and lists all the programs that we offer And that's on PBCLearn uh.org
pbclearn.org and you could get all the information You get all the contact all the different programs that we offer And you can expand that make it bigger There's a little plus sign in the corner If you go to the end of it it will show you a map of Palm Beach County uh of how
all the different locations I know it's kind of hard to see there but uh if you you could magnify that but if you go one back page uh Mr Oswald there you go This this breaks it down into fun and leisure You know there's photography classes
scrapbooking and all that That's our community and there's also all the CTE programs So they're listed as a course and program index And then on the last page if you don't know where the sites are located it shows all the sites It shows a map of the Palm Beach County and
where all those sites are located So uh this is something that we send to every household every apartment every condo in Palm Beach County twice a year It's it's a it's a postcard Has a QR code on it
has our websites on it and you know it h it has three languages like as an introduction uh and for you today I think you know the oh I go to the next slide here go uh for oops can you okay uh I for for today anybody who's here in
person I have all of our flyers uh in Portuguese Spanish creole English uh I have little uh traffic cones because it's kind of funny I presented to students students yesterday and they love the traffic cones and I I told them you know your your life and you're
you're always a work in progress because you know you don't you don't give up you you uh constantly are learning and I I you know told them about the 87year-old uh student it was student of the year constantly learning and she loves learning so I gave those little traffic cones out they loved them they're little
stress relievers as well but they also have our website on a PBCLearn I got pens with our PBCLearn and all these pamphlets that you can uh have as well if uh those folks folks that are in person C can you just explain what you did for the superintendent student advisory committee and the feedback that
you received Yes Thank you Mr Oswald The um I presented yesterday to the superintendent's student advisory committee which was a outstanding group of of people They were they were really interesting to to to speak with and I gave him a presentation actually very
similar to this but at the end of the presentation which Mr Roswell uh recommended that I put some questions to the students So I I asked a couple of questions One is I I don't know how many of you have heard of our programs before but a lot of people you know we we push
out things We have Instagram we have uh Twitter and Facebook and you know we we send postcards to every single household twice a year and still people don't know about these great programs So I asked them I was like "How do we reach your generation How do we market to your
friends family and the greater community And it was very interesting Some of the things I didn't even think I understood but they were talking about you know how you can have Instagram uh what do they call them Ambassadors at every site You know they did mention coming to the
school sites and speaking to class assemblies which we'd be happy to do We do visit every school site that we that you know we can We have started a uh process of putting our flyers at every single elementary middle and high school
front office at every school in Palm Beach County It takes us a while We did central area towards the end of last year We did south area this year We're uh we're going to do north area next and West area I believe is you know I think
uh uh West Tech uh put all the but we're we're going to hit West area as well if they uh need any additional items uh that we offer But we also put together something that uh is called careersp.org uh it kind of takes you to our website
But the unique thing about careers PBC is you know how do you know that you want to be an electrician if you don't have any experience or haven't seen any or know anybody in that field So you know that's one of the things that we we struggle with How do we get this
information out So we did put this together where we have very short video clips just to peique the interest of students you know that most of them are 60 seconds or less Uh taking that off of Tik Tok which is usually like I hear
five or 10 seconds but we we you know what is it like to be a truck driver So we we have this 60-second clip on that What it's like to be you know in the plumbing industry because people think of plumbers totally different than what plumbing plumbers actually do So we do a
little piece on that Um so it it's a nice way for students to uh to to delve into that area And then their second uh my second question was what type of programs can we offer to
appeal to your age group and maybe students that had just recently graduated because we can't go down into uh secondary so much Well they had testimonials from students who've been or students or adults who've been successful in the programs and
success including how much money they're making because I think they were quite surprised at some of the salaries and uh what you could be making in these Yeah that was one of the things that they asked about or is to say you know could we take a graduate from last year or two
years ago and where are they now and what are they doing and what does it look like because you know we could all talk as adults you know about our programs but sometimes the most impact comes from someone their age or you know just slightly older So that was a great
uh thing They also looked at the you know uh suggestions on you know like new tech courses which we want to add uh as well So um that's that was really exciting and uh thank you very much for allowing me to present today and
inviting me Yeah let's go ahead open up to Q&A Q&A At this time Dr Corbin Daddies you're recognized You um this was really a an excellent presentation So thank you so much for the information Um two really
quick questions One is I think you just mentioned a minute ago about adding additional um opportunities Have you thought about u mechanical uh opportunities for students That's the first question And then the second question is um how do you follow up to
see the success and continued support um that might be needed um for students that enter Okay So as far as mechanical uh we are looking at Light Automotive uh down at Del Rey but that that's going to be a little ways off And we're also
looking at a possibility at Northtech which actually does have a lift or two that is functional at the old North Tech site So we are looking at that as potential in the future It's very uh we we have to start some of our programs we
have to start part-time because in in my funding picture I to hire a full-time person to you do auto mechanics if we don't get full classes you know we we can't we can't maintain or sustain that program So we've been in communicate
we're uh work uh Seminal Ridge High has a uh automotive mechanic who may be interested in working uh at Northtech So if we can get them on as a part-time that could definitely be um you know something that we could add into uh mechanical you know for students Is my
experience as an educator a lot of students who don't do maybe real well in the classroom could do extremely well with hands-on activities And um that's where even mechanical pieces like the electrical or the HVAC you know you've
got to have a different mindset to be able to work on in in those areas And um I think those are great opportunities uh for students But uh your second question was I'm sorry it was it was around um just how is
there followup like support for folks once they get into um these spaces and and kind of graduate Yes So we have uh we hired four career navigators for basically regional uh career navigators which they go out to with uh two classes
of our adults and they they speak we also have them speak to high schools when when requested but our career navigators uh help to track So under the uh accreditation system we have to track So the students at Chuck Shaw West and
we already started with Delray to get them in line You you uh like our last graduating class at Delray was um a week or week or two ago and I think there were 12 or 13 Nine of them had jobs So we had to record that We had to we had
to follow up with the ones that did not get jobs which are moving on to continue their education in our medical assisting program So those that all has to be recorded and then there's a six-month check Uh we don't go beyond that Uh and
that gets very difficult even six months to try to follow up with with folks to see where they are But that good question Thank you I I just want to ask just real quick just so I understand K2 I know we you don't um you know there's options not for them but after that is
it is there an age limit No No age limit whatsoever Uh we have our I could tell you our average age I believe is 28 is because we I I just checked that with our data to see what our average is So we run our students average around 28
but it's very common to see 30 year olds 40 year olds 50 year olds Uh and then you know we get even you know 60 and like I said we've got 87 this year And can you briefly speak to also the ESAU Yes because a number of these
organizations do support um you know constituents who are working on a Yes So we uh we have a very large Esau uh population Uh we have Esau at just about every one of our sites uh to help our
students learn English Uh we have um uh people who uh speak multiple languages at our sites to assist students Um and that is a big thing that we do That's why we're expanding our integrated education and training program to you
know if if a student is learning the language and they also want to learn how to fix air conditioners or how to become an electrician that's where we blend those courses together And they can learn a trade while they're learning the
language And that is is kind of relatively new We started about 3 years ago but we've really ramped it up uh where now we have IETS at uh Delray Chuck Shaw uh and Forest Hill and we're expanding down into Bokeh out to West
Tech and uh we're just continue to expand that program because it is such a good opportunity for students to learn language learn the language and and do more with learning about a trade And you know it could be they don't want to move
forward with that which is fine then they you know exit that and just continue on with their uh language uh classes Just a quick question you know if I understood correctly that means even if I've been even if I've been out of high
school that graduated already three five years ago and all of a sudden I was lost in a space but I want to come back and learn something So that's still an option for me Please come back Please come back because we we will take uh everyone We'll take everyone and you
know many times we could we could scholarship them into programs So that is Yeah Just come back Yeah There's also a program they have for students who are in high school who are uh considerably off track for
graduation that they can track into work on a GED Yeah So if they're far from a regular high school diploma they can track them quicker to get a GED program And and this is available throughout the
whole county Yes Yes we have it all over the county And we also have virtual So if they can't make it in we can do adult virtual And we do have counselors on We have career navigators who are all counselors former counselors And we also have a counselor on staff where we look
at every single student if they if they were going like a high school track We take a look at every single student and we uh analyze is it better to go the GED track or based on their high school transcripts A lot of people left high
school for a variety of reasons They were close to graduation They could make up those courses through our adult high school program I want to turn Lisa if you wouldn't mind saying because Lisa heads up our literacy program Uh and and she does some great things with literacy
as well Lisa Um good Okay Okay It's on Great Um and so in regards to literacy and other ways that we you know call people back into education into the classroom uh we also have u hubs of beginning literacy
support So regardless of where a student is starting if they stopped out of school or dropped out you very young before they completed their education and are not strong readers we can support them as well with one-on-one tutoring We work together with the
library literacy program to develop it Our program intensifies what the library can offer So it's really a um a leg up for them to really advance themselves into mainstream education That's awesome We're trying from all angles
Dr Robinson you're recognized That's awesome Oh sorry I think Andre Thaddy's hand had his hand up before me I'm sorry Mr Thaddis It was answered Um it was answered Thank you
You're welcome Okay Thank you So um well good morning Mr Bart Thank you for the presentation Um I'mma limit myself to three questions So the first is uh and I won't give you any comments So
the first question is um did you not add entrepreneurial skills to each program or did I make that up No we try to especially with our pre-apprentice because those are so entrepreneurial in
nature We share information with them and almost every instructor has either worked with a business or had their own business So they share that information with students We we don't have a uh there is no adulted entrepreneurial
program However we try to incorporate ways that you can start businesses Uh we that that is some area that we could put through our community community education or workforce initiative It's not an adult ed program
Okay So I am going to insert a comment because I do think that's a marketing tool If you include that in your marketing um information that they they will receive entrepreneurial skills as part of it because folks I talk to everybody wants
to run their own business I mean and I get it might not be tomorrow might be in 10 years but I I just think it's a sales a selling point Second question um and forgive me if I missed it So I I heard you say that you got the instructor for
the HVAC um C certificate program if I'm using the right term Yes For at Village Center right And so I just want to clarify I didn't hear you say it but just so that everybody knows that's for high school students right
No the uh HVAC program is a career certificate program It is for um adults at Del Rey Now we could run that What we're looking at trying to do is I mentioned
in the HVAC slide about doing a program for like a career exploration program which we do at John I and we do it at uh Forest Hill would like to do something there with uh with high school students
Okay Well I certainly misunderstood prior conversations Um and I'll circle back on that because you know that's a if we're going to dream the dream of creating the centers similar to what Broward has we
have to work on the high school dual careerism Yes Yes And that that's the that's the objective to move forward in that to start Uh we're not there yet Uh it took quite a while to get the correct uh FTE
for you have to have a certain number of courses and students enrolled in adults in CTE to be able to move forward with the accreditation process We are there now So that we're going to go through that process of applying But we did not they look at years past and we had the
COVID impact We we put an appeal in to the Centers for Occupational Education and they denied our appeal So we will we will apply again I remember all that I'll circle back oneonone cuz I think I'm okay I think the question I'm trying
to ask is not being answered So I'll do that oneonone The last part is would you just um tell us about the current programs and the planned expansion of programs under the medical careers
banner Sure Uh so current programs that we have in medical and I I could throw those up there real quickly Hold on a second Right here Uh under the medical we have medical assisting which has already
started at Del Rey Um and they they did get through one class of medical assisting Um we have it at Chuck Shaw We have it at Chuck Shaw starts in the fall and then in uh it's already running at Westech as
well So that's our medical assisting EKG Tech is at Chuck Shaw uh although that program is going to sunset because it becomes a part of medical assisting And then we have
phabbotomy at Westech Delray and uh uh Chuck Shaw And we have HHA at all three HHA is one of those IET programs that help develop uh high uh students that are learning the language or getting a
GED We also have phabbotomy and HHA both IET programs for Esau at Forest Hill High Uh and we do have the the goal is to move to LPN and that was on one of the slides
that I had mentioned before That will be only accredited sites as we move forward in that area which is right here Uh let's see Chuck Shaw Yeah there he is Licensed practical nursing
Okay I don't know I don't see it But thank you for um for that update Do you have a timeline Wait a minute That the slide that's up says Chuck Shaw Yes I don't see LPN Okay But as I understand
the plan building one at historic Carver with the and you made reference to the medical clinic Yes And that and part of that was to support a LPM program At least that's what the community believes
And so if that's not true I need to say that So the healthc care center which is going to go in the I believe the first floor of building one at Del Rey will allow us to do our
clinical programs for all of the the nursing programs we have at that center Right now they go off to different hospitals or doctor's offices uh they could still do that but you know the intent is to move to licensed practical
nursing That's that's the the the move We want we're continuing to move up And if you look at the the the chart that I showed I mean we've we've advanced quite well through the medical program We're held back a little bit We need to get our COE certificate or COE uh
accreditation at Del Rey and that will help us to be able to uh offer career dual enrollment which is I think what you were mentioning earlier where we could bring students in to do the HVAC to do the medical programs Yeah I won't take up any more of the
committee's time Thank you You're welcome Miss Paul you're recognized Carlen Paul you're recognized Okay I'm sorry I was still muted Um one question and that I had I wanted to know if the adult and
vocational education department is working with the local churches because due to a lot of stress from immigrants that are going to adult and vocational education they find themselves staying home and they're requesting in their
church if they can provide the ESOL teachers um which is closer to them and where they feel safer Do you have any of those programs available within the Palm Beach school system So we when we reach out to uh churches
um it's very there there's it's a little challenging to be able to send teachers to the church uh to work there We've got to go through a you know an agreement with the school board What we have done is where churches have reached out to us
or we've reached out to churches We have set up online programs For example there was a church I can't remember the name of it Lisa the one on uh Military Trail that reached out to us They were actually doing their own ESOL program So what we said is what we can do is we can
enroll those students into our adult virtual program and we could support those students virtually with our our teachers and you know we we do that at at one or two churches I am meeting with
a um a Haitian church in uh Belgrade uh next week uh to talk because they have a um they have some ESOL classes that they're running independently So we're trying to get them connected to Westech and you know if they don't want to go to Westech or they can't travel to Westech
we'll look at enrolling them in the online virtual piece where they can have access to our to our instructors as well Okay One of the experiences that I had working as a teacher in Miami date county public school the adult education
department the principal had a number of community outreach sites that they were responsible for and all the FTEEs and everything was controlled through that school So one adult education like North Miami senior where I work North Miami
adulthad um we had uh the principal had four um different um churches and we coordinate we had a coordinator that coordinated with all of these program to make sure that the FTE the attendance and then we go and do spot checks on the
classes to check the attendance and everything that is going on out in the community and they were under that particular school that was uh taking care of this particular uh territory I I think that would be something that
you could uh we could talk offline about to see what we can do uh with you know I'd like to learn more about what they do specifically It sounds like they're doing what we we have the option of doing we could take them under our umbrella and we could provide resources
through our adult virtual program uh like lesson plan making sure that they are FTE uh students they have all the regulation absentes are checked in and then um as somebody that was an outreach
worker for the for the school my job was to spot on every schools that were working with the center that I worked with So I can give you more details and and and and we can explore it because some churches since the increase of fear
in the community with ICE the people from what I was told are not going to school as much So and Miss Paul I I can I'll connect you an email with Mr B so that you guys can set up a followup
and maybe talk more about that Okay Thank you very much Mr I do want to add too that the this department does a lot of community outreach and community events So if there's something um for example Fiesta de Pueblo um
they've set up tables um for outreach um many many things So if there's something that comes up um definitely want to reach out to them to help educate you know your constituents that you support and represent they'd be more than happy
to come out Okay great Any further questions for Mr Burch There are none Mr Burch that was a fab presentation Thank you I do want to connect offline Um but it's not it's relating to the presentation but I don't think it is something that is relating
to a question specifically just a followup Um but hearing no other updates thank you so much for joining us You're welcome More than welcome to stay until the end of our present uh the end of our meeting Um if not you're uh free to go
for today Jimmy did you have your hand up No Oh sorry Did anyone in the room Oh the handouts Yeah I I'll pass out all of our handouts and and my my card Uh you have those in electronic version that we can email them out Yes So if you package
it all in one email then we can send that out out Okay They just won't get the nice little uh glossy handout Okay the the props construction the construction uh thank you props for the people who chose the few people that chose to show up in the room will get
multiple little props guys yes that'll be a motivator to come in room in in person next month at this time updates from chief of equity and wellness SEQ data presentation All right Good morning again everyone
Give a second here Um thank you very much As you all know the school effectiveness questionnaire something we kind of provide updates on an annual basis for those of you who have been around
Um so do you want to We have the results for this year So let me just see if I can get it up here I got it last night All right here we go
Okay So uh school effectiveness questionnaire um we revised this three years ago and we have seen um there's been a concentration from the district to
increase participation rates So the first landing page I'm on if you all recall is just around participation rates So um when it comes to students um last year we're at 80% so this year we're at
79% So it is just down one percentage Uh staff uh is also down just a few percentages compared to last year So not super significant So again a good turnout especially from the students
um who we often want to hear their voice as well as staff Um next I'm going to jump into the item ratings So this is a big area that we spent a lot of time discussing and uh and I'm trying to make
this bigger and kind of scroll around so you can see better So the first uh set of questions is around committed and impa impactful employees So this has a lot to do with how uh the teachers and
staff at the school feel and so what and just to orient to you how this is organized it's over the last three years FY23 24 25 So overall um in this category it's up just a slight 2% Um so
in each question is relatively stable within uh high 80s to 90% of likely or are strongly agreeing or agreeing with that these particular statements
um family involvement um and we look at this from all three students staff as well as parents and our participation rate the parents group is always difficult Uh but
again relatively stable up up slightly and some of the categories uh in particular I would say under students uh stronger around teachers inform parents about uh students academic progress
um just about a percent up mental health and wellness is where we spent the most time discussing um and some of the safety uh areas with a particular focus Um and the one question we're focusing on that
we have been working on as a district and as well as this committee has supported it with one of our grants that students have at least one adult at school who they can talk to about problems So I'm finally pleased to announce that we actually finally started going up in this area uh stat
statistically significant as well So we see um roughly over 3% increase with more students who have someone they talk to And again we have an initiative here that allows for that is actually tracking that we're
actually asking students on campuses if they have someone they can talk to If they answer yes we ask who If it's a no we work to match them up So this is uh playing out here in this question This was a big area of concern Students
respect each other at school Um we were always hovering just above 50% and a concern But we see a significant jump to 65.5 So 14% jump in the students saying students respect each other in this
campus Still nothing to write home about but it is worth noteworthy to see uh that much of an increase over one year In addition I want to drop down to the question around students school
staff will act quickly if students are bullying And here again almost a over last two years about a 10% increase So that is huge Um obviously we know that when students feel that they are being
bullied whether it's real or perceived it's going to affect their learning And to see that much of an increase is fantastic Um a slight increase too of students feeling safe at school
Um I thought it was interesting as well Students use ideas taught in school in daily life went up about 5% which is uh really interesting That's good that students see maybe school becoming more relevant
Um however they don't feel teacher they slightly declined in teachers prepare students for what they need to know next year So um this is what it looks like um overall and then we can also go down to
subgroups We also talked about subgroups last year So um also let me just go down the left first Supplement So we can also drill into what these look like by every grade level Uh as an FYI
um student subgroup uh I'm looking for student subgroup overall so that you can see um what this looks like So what we're seeing here is each of the subgroups uh
in particular the areas that were in the red um so if we take for example students respect each other at this school what we're seeing over three years um for uh overall we talked was
65.5 black students we see went from 42.8 to 56.8 8 Hispanic 55.8 to 67.8 uh multi-racial 52- 63 uh white 55 to 69 So overall you're
seeing significant increases across all of the subgroups and that and and we'll send this out This pattern kind of uh I'm sorry if I'm getting you dizzy Um this pattern tends to be
consistent Um if I go back to the landing page here also we we can drill in by actual school types actual schools Obviously that's what's most important what we spent a lot of time particular in my division to work with schools to work on the culture
and climate of a school Um but we can see there is significant differences at elementary middle and high So if I drill into elementary you're going to see elementary had a big increase on that students respecting each other on campus 10% gain Also the
bullying significant gain So a lot of big increases there at the elementary level um at the middle school level we were really trying to push and focus in and um it went up
37% to 50% So 13% increase but again 50% of our students still saying students respect each other is a concern So we saw a big increase We saw a big increase in um reacting to bullying is up but
still work obviously to be done but glad to see that we finally turned a corner Um high school again was at 50 last year went up to 67% gain at the high school level So that's significant Also the bullying at
the high school I was pleased to see going from 67 to 81 That's huge that students are seeing that the adults and the staff are reacting to issues that are happening Um so that's what it looks like just by
level Um and then you know we can drill into this in different ways But again I want to thank this particular committee for their support I think some of the grants that we were able to receive um have assisted at the school level
especially with the student voice and trusted adult as well as outreach for attendance and getting more students and I and I'll share more on the attendance and discipline um uh probably in our June meeting
uh because things have uh a knock on wood are trending very well so far this year and I don't want to jinx myself in this last month Um but things are moving positive that way as well So um I'm going to stop here and
just see if there are questions I have a question Madam Chair Madam Vice Chair you're recognized Thank you Mr Oswwell Will you go back to the slide that had the questions where students felt respect Sorry So that's that one there students
respect each other and it it appears that and then I think you um showed another slide showing the demographics also but it appears that the students in the question section when they said I felt respected versus
others or did I misread that It seems like it was there were mostly green when the students said I am respected but when the question was asked are students in general respected the color was I don't think we have we don't h uh we
don't have oh this safe at school okay I I yeah I belong at the school so it seems like there might be a perception issue for the students feeling safe at the school compared to what they're viewing their peers are unless I misread the
slide for safety So I students feel like they belong to school So they answer that as an I So that 82.6 it dropped a percent Okay I misread it Thank you But it when they actually
do it it is like an I Okay Um so in this overlap and there is uh actually let me go to the items because this gets the actual questions So this is uh where's safety Here it is The answer
I feel I feel safe at the school I feel like I belong at this school school staff will act quickly if I'm bullied Um so that one shows the exact questions They actually Thank you so much because
it it you know it seems like this the students are equating their respect level with their safety levels It seems like there's a mismatch there If you feel safe that's my perception and I could obviously be wrong So if they're feeling safe in school how's that translating to their
respect levels of each other or even feeling respected in school I'm not seeing the correlation cuz the safety numbers are beautiful when they're green Yeah But then when they're discussing respect questions amongst each other or
how they're perceiving respect um from each other or adults that section was read So I'm I'm trying to make the correlation in understanding how we can improve the red if they're feeling safe in green
Yeah And I so I've always kind of interpreted how they see their peers reacting with one another or how their peers are reacting to them even though they may feel safe but peer-to-peer seems to be some challenges that we've been trying to
work with the schools to focus in on Um also there's still the that that perception gap too with the adults however think that the peer-to-peer is not really as bad as the students think it is So is that things that are more subtle that are happening that teachers
don't see Um after we did train this year on the Fortify Florida tip app I can tell you it's been a huge increase all year long on the tips because I get all of them for the district and charter schools big increase on kids reporting bullying reporting uh when they don't
feel safe So it's interesting that kids are really using the tools more when we directly teach them to reach out for support So but it's interesting I'm going to drill into that more probably deeper school by school to see if I see
patterns like that what that looks like Thank you Uh we have a couple hands Dr That is yes um I am I'm glad to see that the the
trend is moving um in the right direction My question is more about what is happening first of all let me back up which schools this the trends are moving which schools are having the
upward trajectory and what are they doing so that we're able to learn and share with other schools and I I just I'm curious where we are noting the learnings from the upward trajectory of the of this
Yeah absolutely It's a great question Um that's what I ask my teams all the time is to drill in deeper now So I have started going AC right now The pattern patterns I see right now are pretty much positive trends for all schools
except for a few outliers Um when I look at the attendance and discipline data I'm seeing positive trends across all schools as well not and some may not huge but I'm I'm hopeful that maybe some
of the things that we're pushing as a district is working But as far as outliers at a particular schools um I'm we're still going through that because this is kind of hot off the press It just came out like two weeks ago So I haven't been able to analyze to that depth yet And I can provide updates
as we do because you're right if there's some that are significantly higher than others definitely want to find out what the heck they're doing so that we can uh work to replicate that and for them to share out And what we did start doing this year um well we've always kind of
done but more intentional schools that had positive trends last year especially at the beginning of the year around some of these areas we had them share out like for example schools with strong uh PBS at their school positive behavior support um where we saw decrease in
discipline um last year shared out the things that they were doing So we did more of those share outs especially in the beginning of the year so more schools could try to replicate those and hear uh right from their peers We do want to continue doing that because that's always seems to be
well received by uh at the school level Also we started like having uh more virtual monthly meeting support around some of these topics like uh student voice trusted adults So there's a monthly meeting where people can get
additional resources to support or hear from others that are on the front line doing the work and how it's working for them Thank you And I do I'm going to make the assumption that you're talking about the schools that are in the red and moving as well as the schools that in the are
in the green in terms of sharing out Yeah the schools are in the green are the ones that we really want sharing out But I I would I'd like to hear from the schools in the red who are also moving and um Oh I see Yes You see what I mean
Like I'd like to know what they're doing to start to move the needle at that school or those schools Sure Yeah And and when you get this too you'll be able to drill into each
school Um and there are like a lot of different patterns for different schools Uh some with you know more work to do like So yeah I see what you're saying We can definitely do that That's a good
suggestion Any other questions about this Mr Pagan you're recognized Thank you Just a good question We don't in the current political environment that we are facing now with
DEI and threats of funding cutting and so on What are going to be the implications for programs like this and we can keep supporting and we can moving in the right direction because it's going to impact our students And of course the school
district is isn't put in a bind because he's against the wall with a knife right Because of the budget cutings and we're talking about $45 million going to disappear So yeah And I do have legal here to keep me honest Um so right now a
lot of the language and I do have just a couple updates at the end but none of these programs are considered an issue as it relates to some of the the noise that's out there right now It's really looking um at any exclusionary practices
that exclude a particular class of individuals um from something So that is offered So thank you
I'm getting a shake So I'm good Yeah Any additional questions regarding the SECQ presentation data presentation No I I don't see any hands hearing none at this time We do have a couple of
announcements and unfinished business So I will turn it over to Keith for any announcements or unfinished business or new business Yeah a couple things I want to um uh Miss Simmons has been working and
myself closely with the uh superintendent's uh black student uh excellence committee and I know was a couple of you have been on especially uh chair postal and we've been focused in on uh this past year and going into next
year around um bright futures uh scholarships and educating individuals around bright future scholarships and we want to continue that work to increase in particular that focuses around our black students who
have significantly um across the state receive that bright future scholarship at a lower rate than uh other particular group of students So there's three committees I definitely will we can provide an update uh at the
next month but encourage that if you are interested in participating uh any one of the three subcommittees to support that work Um a lot of it um is has to do with outreach and education education on
parts of families and community members about what the requirements are we've done a presentation here uh but the you know the devil's in the details uh of receiving that and we want to just increase those numbers and I would be
remiss if I didn't specifically ask if you would like to participate specifically in marketing and outreach um you know just to be on the safe side connect me with someone else in your agency so that um we can come out and um
uh market and and outreach um and share about Bright Futures but also we would would like to collect some data from um the community on Bright Futures and students all stakeholders students parents the community um those who are
standing in the gaps for our um for black students I do would like uh do want to offer that Uh again just to be on the safe side connect me with someone else from your agency but join marketing and outreach Um then I do just quickly on uh some of
the legislation the legislation that's happening right now Um if you've been following the headlines there uh right now the House Senate and the governor's office have not been able to settle on a budget Um there's significantly significant differences between the
house and the senate that have um some significant impacts on that will have significant impacts on our budget as a school district You probably have seen the headlines in particular as it affects our high schools and acceleration is to res uh cut that FTE
and roughly in half which is uh about a $30 million impact to our district um we're we're like the third highest in uh revenue from that So just to provide some statistics
85% of our seniors in the past year took at least one accelerated course So this is where we're talking about ACE API IB uh uh our industry courses Um as you
know they th that's a a savings for families for college credit more rigorous coursework to prepare them Postsecary schools receive uh 80% of that funding where they use to pay the
tests the uh bonuses out Teachers receive a bonus for every pass rate uh they offer additional extra uh courses because they're able to purchase teachers or extra period supplements to
to buy additional staff to offer more uh they pay for tutoring uh and other professional development for teachers to teach those courses So um right now there's um a lot going on throughout the state A lot of people contacting
legislators to to kind of push back on this and not to make these kind of cuts Um you can do as you wish but uh we are concerned that it will have a big impact Obviously our high school principles are very concerned um because we've done so
much to open up enrollment to so many students We don't want to see that slip back So please be sure to follow that In addition the House and the Senate budget proposals overall are uh the House is
um the House is a 69% increase in the funding where and the Senate's 1.5% increase in funding across different categories I won't get the details um with that kind of increase is going to result in a budget shortfall when you
talk about the other costs that we have for annual costs So those are are great concern as well Um right now there's a lot if you follow the news there seems to be a lot of infighting um going on between the house senate and the governor's office and we have a week to
get a budget and right now um they're they're billions of dollars off between the house and the senate So we'll have to stay tuned to see what happens Um but I strongly encourage you as leaders within the community to pay attention and take whatever appropriate action you
think your organization or agency may need to take to uh address a support for public education And then lastly um as you may have seen in in the news
the school board um today uh is going to have a a board workshop and then take action on 10 policies to to revise those as it relates to updates uh that are being proposed Those updates
are based on uh United States and Florida Department of Education directive requiring certification of compliance with the current federal executive branch interpretation of the title six and the students for fair admission versus Harvard
decision So uh some you'll see that being categorized as DEI and that's kind of like the headline news So we are updating those to the board for emergency action So that'll take effect immediately and that'll um provide uh 90
days for uh permanent action to make those changes Um superintendent across the entire country had to sign certifications to make sure to ensure that they don't lose any federal funding Um this action is taken make sure that
um we're not at risk most of the all of the changes pretty much I think all the changes have not been in practice or being utilized So we just want to take this action to ensure that we're not at risk at all There may
be some additional changes in certain policies uh potentially including this one that runs this committee policy that may come up in the future as we continue to work with our legal department and looking at interpretation Um uh we'll keep you updated as that go
along but again we don't want to uh put ourselves at risk of losing those kind of funds Um it is shown um tomorrow my title if the board supports it will change to chief of uh health services
and wellness Uh I'm sorry chief of student health and wellness I'm still working out So so uh after board action tonight if that's approved So those are some
updates Um and I appreciate some of you reached out to me that you were contacted by the media You may have been contacted Um as you know your agency's listed as this is a board policy So some of you may have been contacted by the media about some changes Um and again
it's up to you whether or not you want to comment Um yeah I'll leave it there And so and those are the updates I have We do have one hand raised Thank you Just want to add as you comment just um remember you are commenting on behalf of your agency
not on behalf of the DDEC or the school district Um it is important to uh even if you're interpreting um whatever it is that's going through policy comment on behalf of your agency not the district or this committee Um Miss
Paul you're on mute Miss Carlen Okay I'm sorry Yes Thank you Madam Chair I to understand some of the policy changes that are going to be happening um as far as the school system
is concerned so our funding doesn't get affected by the federal changes uh that are occurring How would we be able to see what the languages were before and what we are changing them into
So if you go to board docs everything's listed So if you go to the to board docs um on the district website if you go to schoolboard meetings there's a link where you can go and there's a public viewing where you can pull up the 2M
workshop meeting or the the regular meeting But if you pull up the workshop meeting there's an attachment where you can see each policy um that's being changed Uh and the new language will be redlined and crossed out would be any
old language Okay Thank you very much You're welcome Legal anything to add Do you guys have anything to add Do you have anything to add or correct me if I said something against Remember keep me honest
Okay Any additional questions to come before the body or business to come before the body Um Miss Carlen you're loud and you're you're not on mute Any additional items to come before
the body Hearing none I will entertain a motion to adjourn Time out Oh time out or announcements And announce Well I just want to make sure make a comment regarding two weeks ago uh our organization in co coordination with
PBSO Palm Beach County Sheriff We held a meeting for the Hispanic community leadership of the Hispanic community at the Hilton Hotel The whole idea was everything that is been going on with immigration ICE and things like that and also calls to some of the uh principles
of the school for ICE to pick up kids over there and they were denied you know they were told no you you cannot come here and that was the right motion to do Uh the whole thing was Sher Bradshaw was very clear what are the rules of the game because there was a lot of parents
that might not be sending their kids to school right now because they're afraid that ICE is going to come come and do a raid So that was something very you know critical throughout the whole thing Uh we have the pastor's association we have
over 600 people attended the the meeting and uh Mr Sheriff Bracho was very clear If it's administrative administrative order of eyes you can say very polite no thank you We don't need you Thank you If
it's a court order is a totally different story because that means there's a judge who already ordered the arrest of somebody because committed a crime or whatever violation But the whole thing was very clear Everybody feel very good over the position uh Sheriff Brashel was very clear said they
do not work for ICE or immigration you know so it is two separate organizations and they respect each other at least that's in Palm Beach County other counties might be working the game a little bit different but
that's the policy here FYI keep everybody a breast thank you any additional questions to comfort body or comments announcements here and now hearing none
I will now entertain a motion to adjurnn adjourn motion so moved motion adjourned by Mr So um second by Miss Paul Miss Paul Have a great evening or afternoon Thank you all See you guys on May 15th at
10:00 a.m in the boardroom May 15th Thank you