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Welcome to this public meeting of the Princeton Board of Education. The Board is an elected unpaid group of 10 citizens who set policy and make decisions on educational, financial, and personnel matters for the Princeton Public School on behalf of all residents. We're always pleased when members of the community attend our

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meetings. The Board and the school district operate under applicable New Jersey laws and under regulations of the New Jersey State Board of Education. Each meeting includes an opportunity for those attending to comment on items on the published agenda or other matters of interest to them.

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The Board reserves the right to limit the time allotted to public participation. Law limits discussion of individual personnel and confidential matters. We hope our meetings provide useful opportunities for communication between the Board and the community. Thank you for attending. >> Pursuant to [clears throat] the Open

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Public Meeting side of N.J.S.A. 10:4-6, adequate notice was given for calling this meeting and was authorized by the Board of Education and Board of the Municipal Clerk, Princeton Packet Times, on January 9th, 2025. Distributed to the schools and others on the standard distribution list. The Board reserves the right to enter

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into executive session during all meetings of the Board of Education. Board Policy 0168 will be revised as it requires the need to inform those attending this in-person meeting. Proceedings are being recorded. This meeting is being live-streamed. Representatives of the sending district is authorized to vote on such matters

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that affect sending district students or affect the governance of Princeton Public Schools as more specifically designated in N.J.S.A. 18A:38-8.1. Sending district votes pertaining to personnel actions for Princeton High School, Central Administrative, and district-wide staff only. Votes

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otherwise are considered sanctions. In the event that N.J.S.A. 18A:38-8.1 is amended, the law shall take precedence over 115-1. Roll call. >> Yes, please. Thank you. >> Ms. Beer man? >> Yes. >> Madam Bierman? >> Here. >> Mr. Testing? >> Here.

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>> Mr. Hubbard? >> Here. >> Mr. Lawyer? >> Here. >> Mr. Lascelle? This person is not present. >> Here. >> Erica Snyder? >> Here. >> Susan Kanser? >> Here. >> Stephanie Kelly? >> Here. >> David Warach? >> Thank you, Mr. Harris. Um, moving on, now can I have an

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adoption uh a motion for the adoption of the minutes of May 19th, 2026? Mara, second. Oh, Eleanor. That's for May 19th board meeting. >> Matt Barbour? >> Here. >> Matt Barbour? >> Yes.

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>> Marsha Schesky? >> Yes. >> Eleanor Hubbard? >> Yes. >> Dr. Lara? >> Yes. >> Chris Santarpio? >> Yes. >> Erica Snyder? >> Yes. >> Susan Kanser? >> Yes. >> Stephanie Kelly? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you, Mr. Harris. Can I get a

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motion for adoption of the minutes for May 27th, uh 2026? Erica, second. Mara. >> Matt Barbour? >> Yes. >> Matt Barbour? >> Yes. >> Marsha Schesky? >> Yes. >> Eleanor Hubbard? >> Yes. >> Dr. Lara?

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>> Yes. >> Dr. Griswold? Sorry. Chris Santarpio? >> Yes. >> Erica Snyder? >> Yes. >> Susan Kanser? >> Yes. >> Stephanie Kelly? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you, Mr. Harris. All right, well, welcome everyone. This is our last

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meeting of the school year. It's very hard to believe. Um Um, we had the middle school moving on ceremony today this morning and on Thursday at 5:30 in the beautiful sunlight, we will have the high school graduation. It will be hot. Wear your sunscreen. Um, before I turn it over to Dr. Lisa, I

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just want to say uh this marks our 12th um regularly scheduled board meeting uh this school year. And so, um we're just about wrapping up uh your first uh year with us. And I just wanted to say um thank you um for taking a chance on

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us and uh we couldn't be more grateful and lucky that you're leaving our district. So, thank you. Then I'm going to turn it over to you know what, I'm going to turn it over first to Tamara.

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For the for student uh board member recognition. Uh Every year we have two student board reps that serve on the board with us and uh they're graduating so their service ends. And we like to say goodbye. >> This is a resolution recognizing Ash

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Neman's um service and we're sadly she cannot be with us but whereas Ash Neman is leaving the board of education due to graduation and whereas Ash Neman has fulfilled a year of service, be it therefore resolved that the board of education recognize the contributions that Ash Neman has made to the district and its

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students. Thank her for her time and effort and wish her much success in her future endeavors. >> Thank you Tamara and thank you Ash for your service. WE APPRECIATE IT. >> [applause] >> ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE UH KATHERINE LARA AND CAN I do a little inside baseball or not? All right, so for those

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who watch but don't know Katherine is Annie's mother. >> [laughter] >> So, with that [clears throat] >> Thank you. And while we will miss her collectively, I will be seeing her quite frequently. >> [laughter] >> Yeah.

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Um Whereas Annie Bettencourt is leaving the board of education due to graduation and whereas Annie Bettencourt has fulfilled a year of service, be it therefore resolved that the board of education recognizes the contributions that Annie Bettencourt has made to the district and

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its students. Thank her for her time and effort and wish her much success in her future endeavors. >> [applause] [laughter] >> IT'S ALWAYS OKAY TO HELP YOUR DAUGHTER THOUGH. REMEMBER THAT. >> [applause] >> ONI, it's been a pleasure having you on

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the board. Thank you. We appreciate your insight and all the energy you brought to the role. We wish you all the best in college and you know, we're here most Tuesday nights. So >> [laughter] >> if your mother should let you know, happy to see you. So good luck with

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everything. >> Thank you. It's been a pleasure seeing you guys. It was good. >> Great. Thank you. We didn't scare you off. >> [laughter] >> Education or public service or anything. Excellent. Well, good luck to you. All right, now we're going to move on to the superintendent. Thank you.

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>> Thank you Oni for your service. We appreciate it. Thank you Miss Kendall for your incredibly kind words. The last time you had kind words like that, I think I broke down in tears because it was a difficult day in the district. So your your

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Your feelings are reciprocally felt. Thank you for taking a chance on me and giving me the privilege to lead this school district and work with the people around this table. It's been an absolutely wonderful year for me and I want to thank everyone here as well as all the folks in the community from

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parents to staff members to others who have given me a nice start and have helped me keep moving and hopefully run through the tape these next few days. Um recognizing that of course there have been some moments of

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of tragedy and and real challenge this year. But arriving at this point two days before high school graduation is a wonderful feeling and I think it's been a very productive stable positive year overall in the district. So, thank you to everyone.

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UH >> [applause] >> JUST A FEW BUSINESS UPDATES ON MY END. I do plan to send one more communication out to families by Thursday or on Thursday probably. The last communication I sent was right after spring break. So, I want to hit on

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a couple of familiar topics like the state of construction that we anticipate beginning very soon after this weekend. I did want to mention that the board has had meetings since the budget process was finalized or the our

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operating budget was finalized at the end of April regarding the student activity fee that was included in the budget to generate roughly $200,000 of revenue. There is a draft or a first reading of a policy on this agenda that the policy committee vetted last

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week. In short, the the policy calls for a $100 activity fee at the middle school for any or any activity extracurricular activity that is board funded in some some degree and a $150 fee at the high

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school level for any extracurricular activity that is board funded to some extent. So, that would include all athletics and um and extracurricular clubs that students might be involved with. And a family would have to pay the fee one time and

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that would entitle a student to participate in as many clubs or activities or athletic programs as they would like. And there would be an automatic waiver of the fee for any student on free reduced lunch. So, the policy is included in the documents for

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tonight's meeting. I will send a note outlining some of what I just said on Thursday, but I just wanted to make that clear this evening. And as we get closer to next school year and the fall athletic season which begins about August 10th or so, uh we will have the mechanism for payment

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available on our website right alongside the uh insurance uh program that we usually offer for district devices. And um they'll rule There will be additional communication, not only from me, but from the principals of those two schools. Uh the second update I just wanted to provide is about the cell phone law or

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the internet-enabled device law that uh bans all cell phones from from public schools uh from bell to bell, as well as any other internet-enabled device, including any kind of watch that could connect to the internet. Um we've had a lot of discussions about

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this. Obviously, I think as everyone knows, our standing policy right now in the district is that in all of our schools pre-K through 8, cell phones are not permitted. Uh if a student is caught using a cell phone, they are disciplined. Um the high school is a place where it's

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much more difficult to uh control uh what students are doing, in part because they are adults in some cases, like the one that's sitting right here, and also in part because they have much more freedom and unsupervised time uh during the lunch hour, which we call

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break, and at other points in the day. Uh and we have 1,500 of these young adults in our hallways and uh roaming through the school at any point in the day. So, um it's more challenging at the high school. Our intention right now, after a lot of discussion and um

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consideration of all kinds of ways to to manage this, is to really essentially extend what we're doing pre-K through 8 right through 9 through 12, have a standing policy that cell phones are not permitted, uh try to remind, educate, partner with our

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students and our parents regarding uh device use, and set the expectation before the school year begins that there will not be so that cell phones will not be permitted uh in the school, uh and then discipline students if they are caught with their devices. The high school has drafted a um

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uh progressive discipline scale for students who violate the policy. Uh by the second or third uh violation, there will be in-school suspension. Uh as of right now in terms of the draft. Uh so we are finalizing that. Um we are

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continuing to evaluate whether there are other tools that could serve us on a voluntary basis uh including one of the apps that has been presented to uh faculty and parents in the past month. And in short, what we are considering

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right now, again having not committed to anything, is that perhaps an app that um essentially freezes the phone. And again, it's on a voluntary basis, meaning the student could still unfreeze the phone in an emergency. It just would notify an administrator. That perhaps uh

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having that available to some students uh with their parents' permission um would help reduce the temptation to check the phone uh on a regular basis during the day. And the way that would work is that when they enter the building, they would just scan it. Uh the phone the phone would essentially shut down, if you will, or

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or kind of be locked, semi-locked. Uh and then uh it would open up automatically at 3:21 when the when the final bell of the the day uh hits. Um again, that would be something we're just considering right now on a voluntary basis for any student who thinks it might help them avoid the

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temptation to check the phone. Uh but we will finalize that the policy um over the summer with our policy committee of the board uh before anything is enacted. Uh but certainly it is a definite that there will be a progressive discipline policy for

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students who are caught with their cell phones because the law is that students cannot have their phones. Um so that is where we are right now. I just wanted to kind of mention that before I send out something in writing on Thursday. And um all of that will follow or there will be

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additional information and more detail on all of that as we get into the summer and closer to the end of July. >> Thank you. >> I have a question. Does the law apply to all to all cell phones or just ones that are connected to the internet?

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>> I believe just internet enabled devices. >> phones, like those simple flip phones are are still are not >> I want to reread the law just to be >> I I think I remember that but I'm not positive. Okay. >> I have a question. I hope I hope everyone

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appreciates it's going to be stops and starts and it's going to be growing pains with this technology is always changing quickly. Students bringing burner phones into sometimes so they're always going to find ways to try to circumvent the ban but hopefully over time

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normality will set in and the rules will take over. I hope. >> Agreed. >> So the way it works with our policies, they're on today for a first reading. Our next board meeting we think is July 21st. Is that correct? Yes. >> Yes.

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>> So at which time it possibly will be up for a second reading and at that time it will become it will be in effect. So if people have any questions or comments, they're welcome to direct them to you

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over the next few weeks until the until our next meeting. >> Sure. >> Okay. >> I guess they've been doing so and I'm sure we'll continue so and that just reminds me that we did talk about potentially shifting some of our Board

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of Education meeting dates and that was something we just discussed a little bit about in closed session but it would probably fall under board business if the dates that we just discussed are amenable to everyone so that we can line them up better with

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other dates in the school calendar but we probably need to specify that under board business is what I'm thinking. >> Okay. >> If we want to change the meeting dates now and July would be the next one and that would be that would require a change. >> Okay. So, um can we discuss that now?

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>> If you're okay with those dates that um >> So, we're going to So, right now um the new dates are July 21st, um August 18th, September 15th, October 13th, and then the remainder are

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the same which is November 17th and December 15th. So, uh we're changing um July, I think July was the 28th, we're going to the 21st. August was 25th, we're going to the 18th. Um September was very late and so we're

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going from the 29th to the 15th. October, we're going from I think the 27th to the 13th. And then uh the others are unchanged. Okay. Um Yeah, I mean um

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again, we can always change them again. Um but for now, we we wanted um we didn't want the meetings are just very late in the month and I think it's easier for the admin to have it earlier in the month. And our September meeting to have September 29th is a

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little late. I think we can just shift it cuz we never Did we adopt Did we adopt it? >> I think you do adopt the board meeting dates so you'll just have to >> I want to make a motion that we make those changes. >> Um yes, can I have a motion to make those changes? Beth, second. Susan.

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Is this roll call or uh All right, let's do roll call. >> Catherine? >> Yes. >> Catherine? >> Yes. >> Mark Entrup ski? >> Yes. >> Eleanor Hubbard? >> Yes. >> Katherine Laird? >> Yes. >> Chris Pertierra? >> Yes.

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>> Eric Snyder? >> Yes. >> Susan Kenser? >> Yes. >> Catherine Kenser? >> Yes. >> Question from the public? >> Thank you, Mr. Harris. And we will update the website. >> Yes, that's correct. >> Okay. And then we also will update our committee meeting dates as well. So that'll all be on the website probably by next week.

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All right. >> We'll work on that. >> Okay, great. Um So now moving on, uh we have our first public comment session. Um please come up, just state your name, uh and the street you live on. And so first up is uh Evelyn. Hi, Evelyn.

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>> Hi. >> Remember, green is green. >> It's green. >> Uh hi, my name is Evelyn Levine. I live on the Urban Street, and I'd like to talk about a recurring issue at my school. Um I'm a seventh grade student at Princeton Middle School, and starting on

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Thursday afternoon after my grade got back from the pool trip, I was at my locker getting ready to go, and then a student was in the hallway just yelling free Palestine and Israel sucks. And I asked him to stop cuz he was like

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shouting this over multiple times. Other I was not the only one that was upset with this. Other people were constantly telling him to stop as well. Um I didn't think much of it. I went home, came back Friday, he was doing the same thing, but this time he was coming up to me in particular saying like, "Hey Abby, hey

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Abby, free Palestine." He was doing it into me, and then he played down by saying like, "Why? What's wrong with saying that?" I I don't I didn't really know what to do then, so I just didn't think much of it. After I came back from my weekend, um it the same thing

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happened Monday, and then today after school, um one of my friends had told me that the student was seeking was seeking me, he was trying to find me in order to harass me about it. And um I I just was surprised that he was even

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trying to go that far into doing that, and I thought that was just something that I should probably address, cuz I did not feel comfortable um just living with the thought of that. Thank you. >> Thank you, Abby. >> No.

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>> Well, I'll I'll just I'll um insert myself here. I mentioned I was going to send a correspondence out on Thursday. The first correspondence I sent this year was in August, and one of the sections in that correspondence was about the harassment, intimidation, and bullying law, and it was about how important it is to treat everyone around

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us with respect, and that the school district upholds the law, just like we will the cell phone law, and that any incidents that could be considered harassment, intimidation, or bullying, and any incident for that matter in which one student feels

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mistreated by another is something that we will investigate in accordance with our policies and our rules, and um will then make determinations as appropriate based on what the what the findings of those investigations are. So, of course, any student who ever feels

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that they are being targeted or mistreated in one of our schools should report that to the authorities in the school, like the principal or the assistant principal or teacher or counselor, and then those individuals are trained to make sure that they

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fully investigate and fully treat every student as they should be treated. So, not knowing any other details than the ones that you just provided, and not being able to comment on individual student matters, I would just say that we have rules and

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procedures and policies in place to make sure that our schools are places of respect and places that value every single one of our students. So, thank you for your comments. >> That was very brave of you. Thank you.

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All right, next up is uh Constance uh Farah. >> Thank you. I'm going to be so brave as I said talking so freely. I'm very shy. And this is difficult for me, but I feel very friendly. No, I know, but it's I don't like public speaking, but I

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thank you. Good evening. Thank you for all your services. I'm here tonight because I'm concerned about a growing pattern of silence and missed opportunities in our district. First, we experiencing a quiet drain of talent. Excellent teachers and our principal, you know, Little Brook, are

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retiring from our district only to take jobs elsewhere. If our educators are leaving, but they're all still looking for job elsewhere. We could ask ourselves, what is happening that we aren't talking about publicly? Second, this culture of tuning out like

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teachers and what they're thinking, it's also like maybe forbidding that future growth. Um I'm personally aware of a teacher who put forward a proposal to link marketing, communications, entrepreneurship and even like the middle school and the high school. And she the

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proposal is not moving forward and they're just opposing like budget constraints. The cost is $2,000. And I even proposed like financing that or even Someone told me like, "Oh, but it's a one-year. What will happen later?" I'm like, "We can find out. It's $2,000. We can put like endowment like

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Fine, so I'm not going to go into that. But we have had no response from the assistant superintendent or any leadership, no reply, no trying to meeting, nothing at all. So, when I have $2,000 potentially self-funding and I don't even have the initiative, congratulations of like being paid for the clubs in the middle

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school and the high school. That would benefit children who still would go to go even during the summer. It's ignored. Like is there something else? Is there political agenda? Is there politics within the teachers. And whose agenda are we serving? >> [clears throat] >> We have seen what happens when something

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to leadership like Charles Town and they don't say. We remember what happened to Mr. Schmiel. And this has occasionally massive legal and retirement payouts, consultants. And that's not the best for us as taxpayers. And also related to your experience, my

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concerns extend beyond the financings and it's also to student safety and accountability. Today we are not today, but yesterday there was praising how the HIB numbers have been going down. And I was asking myself, are those numbers dropping because our schools are

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safer? Or because of certain cases are swept out with us? I mean, I don't know what's your religion if you're directly involved, but I know of cases that >> Mhm. >> construction managers among others. I construction attorney. Uh we thank the following organizations, Latino Heat.

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Those club, class the class of 1968, Jay Stewart Johnson Jr. Garden at Monroe, Monroe and Montgomery newspaper for generous donations for scholarships. And finally on the agenda this evening, we have many agreements and authorizations

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that must be approved yearly and can be found on today's consent agenda. And it's also all the uh appointments for this coming year can be found on the website and on the agenda. >> Yeah. >> All right. Everybody got the short. All right. >> Yeah. We We long-term planning meeting

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today. >> Yeah. >> This afternoon. >> Yeah. >> Um and we talked about um the five-year plan for sustainability that's been developed with Sustainable Princeton, Jenny Ludmer. And that contract is on the agenda tonight. Um and I guess I mentioned last month um we are obviously

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prioritizing future projects that target energy efficiency and changing the culture in our elementary schools like the uh what's it called? Power Up for for for performance. Uh foreign language teachers are in the staff and everybody's competing to try to bring down energy usage in the buildings.

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Um we also continue to talk about um the demographic review and to when are we going to do it, who are we going to use to help us, what's the timing. We haven't really settled on that yet, but it's something that we will do regularly. We haven't done it for 2 and 1/2 years and we will be doing it probably sometime in the fall. So, more

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to come on that as we make some decisions, which we have not yet. Um our next meeting is on July 10th. >> Thank you, Beth. Moving on to personnel, Mark. Chris. >> Sure. With personnel on June 9th,

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Tuesday, we discussed a number of topics including personnel and staffing updates which you'll find on section B of today's agenda. We also discussed the new role of district director of security and safety and the appointment of Scott Goldsmith, who is also on this

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evening's agenda for approval. We look forward to the positive changes in the leadership Scott will bring to this important role. In addition, last Wednesday, June 10th, Valley Road hosted a retirement celebration honoring 34 Princeton Public School

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employees who collectively dedicated more than 700 years to the district of service to the district. We thank them for their dedication and commitment and wish all of the retirees relaxation, joy, and many new adventures in the next chapter

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of their lives. >> That's it. >> That's beautiful. Thank you. Um moving on, policy. You again? >> Uh I'm just going to >> I'm right over here. >> So, um policy, we don't have a lot more to say. Dr. Kuzma really covered the big

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uh things that we talked about. The activity fee, we had a lively discussion about that. We wanted to make sure that families only pay once and that uh the clubs that are are covered, the extracurriculars, I wanted to say the ones where we pay a stipend or we pay

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for transportation, we pay for a coach. That's one of the ones and there are some that are just very simple, the clubs that are run by the kids. Obviously, it doesn't apply to those if if people are concerned. Um at least in the terms of the current policy. Um we also talked about the cell phone ban and

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and how we're going to implement that and the logistics of that, which is quite tricky as Dr. Kuzma has explained. And one of the things the committee talked about and we encouraged the administration was to take a collaborative approach with parents >> [snorts] >> and this is an opportunity for us to educate our community and and and really

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emphasize to people that this is not a pro pro problem really just of the schools. This is a societal challenge. And so we need to give parents and families resources and suggestions on ways to restrict and monitor screen usage um in addition to the GoGuardian systems. We need to give them best

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practices regarding screens for student health and readiness, informational articles and other resources making this a team community effort. Uh calling out the large larger societal challenge that schools cannot solve alone. So this is a big big topic for all of us and we're doing our best to meet what we can do

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bell to bell but we need everyone to kind of understand the importance of it. Um we also talked about the acceptable use policy that's been updated today by our tech department um and it's really just brought the language into the current current uh century. I think it was about 5 years

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old and um so the language is much more succinct. We also have some uh regulations there for students and for staff. Um very clear language again. It's first grade so if anyone has any thoughts or comments they can come speak to us about it. Um and that was the main uh thrust of

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what we talked about on our meeting and uh we meet again next around July 8th we may be working on that date. >> Sounds good. Thank you. >> If I could just add a couple of remarks about the acceptable use policy um I think

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the spirit of our uh revisions have to do like Beth said with bringing that policy up to speed and alignment with uh current 2026 uh device use uh and making clear to all students as well as staff that these

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devices are district owned property. The network is district owned. Uh we've spent a lot of time and effort this year trying to rein in some uses that were inappropriate on both the network and our devices and that

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includes use of proxy sites to avoid any type of content filtering, going to sites that students may exploit to bully or harass others like discord for example,

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viewing explicit material while they're in school because they use proxy sites to get around our filters and then of course we piloted a content monitoring system earlier this spring that we will roll out for next year which

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has a system built into it or is software that enables us to monitor for any um very concerning self-injurious type of um searches or or input into devices that

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rise to a level where we think we need intervention and we have had a couple even during the month-long pilot we did have a couple of incidents that did require intervention for the for the well-being of students. So I just want to make clear that also

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is going to be part of the the changes as we move into next year is just having more control and also giving parents more control over how kids are using the devices and our chief technology officer will be communicating with parents the

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parent portion of GoGuardian that parents can use this summer to set limits on device use that that that the school district enables students to take home with them in the summer, set limits on when kids can access the internet on those devices and all sorts

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of things like that. So that's all sort of part of bringing this policy on acceptable use back up to speed. >> And I just want to thank Todd McDonald, our chief technology officer, because he's really taken on this task of looking at our policies. There's there's

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not just one, two, or three policies on this. There's probably a inter interlocking network of probably about 15 policies, which he is now kind of starting to rewrite and and work through for us. And so, we really appreciate his support and his his thinking on all of this, as you say, bringing us up to 2026

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and making sure everything's current. And then, it's going to be a big process also of educating our staff and our and our families. So, um we appreciate all the work that's being done, and there's a lot more to come. We'll be working on this over the next few months. >> Great, thank you both. I'm moving moving

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on to uh student achievement with Elina. >> Okay, so um student achievement met twice since the last uh board meeting. The first time was on May 21st at 1:00. Um we uh we looked at a new statistics

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textbook being uh recommended for AP statistics. Uh and the purchase of that textbook is on the agenda um uh tonight. The previous textbook was uh I think uh over 10 years old. So, this is a normal updating of materials. Uh and we also got a sort of an informal

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report on how character strong the social emotional learning um curriculum for elementary schools has been going now that it's been adopted um for a year. And then, we met again on June 4th, uh also at 1:00. Uh we saw um the

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professional development plan for the coming year, all the the kinds of um work that the the staff are going to be doing. Uh and we also um uh discussed the recommended purchase of an AP African American studies textbook

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uh for the coming year. This is a new course for the high school uh having AP African American history, uh and we're really excited to be able to to be able to offer this uh course to our students. Uh it's really important history, and we're happy to support it at a time in

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which it's being um, sidelined on a national uh, scale. Thank you. Oh, our next our next meeting, when is it going to be? Let's find out. Uh, [laughter] it's going to be on uh, July 6th. Does that work for >> 16th. >> 16th. 16th. >> That's fine with me. >> Okay. At 1:30.

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Okay, great. It's like all surprises today. >> Yeah. >> That's good. All right. Uh, thank you Eleanor and uh, Equity Denali this month, right? >> Right. >> But, we're going to have a good announcement next month. Got it. All right. Um, moving on now. Thank you

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everyone. Um, the consent agenda items. So, policy we have these two policies that passed that Dr. Luscious spoke about. Uh, we don't have any policies for second reading. Uh, moving on to personnel. Uh, we have uh, retirement. So, uh, the

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board of wishes all the best to uh, Mr. Casey who's retiring from PMS after 14 years uh, with district effective July 1st. We wish him all well, all the best. Um, and we have uh, resignation. We have um,

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appointments. Um, then we have some transfer reassignments. Um, and I just want to highlight that um, Dr. Luscious' uh, executive secretary uh, is one of the retirees that was honored at the June 10th uh, meeting and

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uh, in lieu of replacing that position, um, we will we will not be replacing that position. Dr. Luscious will not be replacing that position. Um, and um, one of the things I love that you have brought to the district is that your um, promoting from within. So, um,

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Glorianetta Johanna Di Lorenzo and Juliana Brzuski will take on um, that role um, at a fraction of uh, the salary and so, I want to thank you for recognizing uh, the staff that we have here and uh,

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Goldie as um, Chris alluded to, Scott Goldsmith. I'm not sure anyone knows him by Scott Goldsmith, but Goldie. So, we look forward to seeing all the good things Goldie will do in his new role. Um

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Okay. So, then we have personnel items. Um We have lapses. This We have substitute student placement, curriculum and instruction, athletics, student services, district cured

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compensation. Um The central administrators contracts, which is everyone around this table will have to submit that every year. And again, all this information is on website for people who would like to look at it more. We have a press

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sidebar agreement, which enables Dr. Moses to make some of those changes. Uh and then we have termination of an employee. Moving on now, we have curriculum and instruction. We have an overnight trip for the cheerleaders. We have a textbook

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that Eleanor spoke about for AP statistics. Um we have materials purchased. Um and we have another district approval for AP African American studies. Um we have additional materials.

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We have preschool provider contracts, which we have to do annually. We have our annual field trip approval. Um and then we have student services special education. Um We have a revised contract approval

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for Who's it for? Retention opportunities. We have a contract approval revised for Learn Well. We have a revised contract. Then we have a rather contract approval for um Solange

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Lucas Murphy for Tutoring and Jan. Um a renewal for frontline IEP. Uh, and then are these all the renewals that we have now that are annual to like our our uh, school doctor, Dr. Helmreich?

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Am I in that uh, radical right now? No. >> in student services. >> Okay. Um, Okay, Dr. Helmreich who does a great job for us. Thank you. Uh, Bi-County Health Care, Bucks Developmental Pediatrics, Children of the Kids, Dr. Anthony Sci, Educational Services

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Commission of New Jersey, uh, Dr. Elliot Gursky, Invo Health Care Associates, Dr. Michael Ronnie Carr, Adam Press Consulting, Learning Tree Multicultural Multilingual Evaluation Consulting, Learn Well, Princeton Translation,

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Summer Gate Prep, and H.A. Wolfson and Associates. And then now we're moving on to uh, the business the financial report which is the roll call. Can I get a motion? >> Please. >> That's second, Chris. >> Beth Behrend. >> Yes. >> Andrea Breen.

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>> Yes. >> Laura Francesca. >> [clears throat] >> Yes. >> Dana Hooker. >> Yes. >> Catherine Miller. >> Yes. >> Chris Christopher Paladino. >> Yes. >> Erica Snyder. >> Yes. >> Susan Kanter. >> Yes. >> Daryl J. Johnson. >> Abstain. Thank you, Mr. Harris. Uh, moving on now

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we have uh, our contracts um, for procuring goods and services. We have the uh, re-appointment for Sustainable Princeton, uh, construction payments, um,

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there's some change orders um, that Uh, it's just because we delayed medical lines. >> Yeah, this this is a zero-dollar change order. That's just to Yes, just to base time. >> Oh, so this has to do with the middle school that we had uh um

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uh someone contested the bid and we're just redoing it cuz the time lapsed. >> This one's actually CP. We haven't received that one yet. So, this is also there was some delay in it. >> Yeah, okay. >> And then the second one is actually the uh district's going to bring my money back to reduce the contract and close it out as we can never use any of the um

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uh as we were allowed to cuz it's in the old one. >> Oh, that's fantastic. >> Start over. >> Great. Thank you. Oh, we didn't even know anything about that. That's pretty. Um All right, now we're moving on to fire and evacuation drills.

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Funds transfer um and the grants that uh Susan mentioned. Um Latinos Unidos Class of 1968, Casey Johnson Jr., Latinos Unidos again, Ardens, Edwin Rowe. Um Muriel Rose uh

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who was an English teacher here and there's a scholarship in her memory and Montgomery High School newspaper. >> [snorts] >> Which is a scholarship award for a senior that worked on the newspaper. We're very grateful for um those donations and and uh very much appreciate them. Moving on now

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to the registration travel agenda. Um and then we have a review appointment of um bond counsel, construction attorney, uh the renewal of the sending receipt annual tuition agreement with Cranberry.

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Um this is year This was uh 2020 20 It's a 10-year agreement. This is year six. So, every year we're required um to uh renew this uh agreement and we want to thank Cranberry for joining us on this

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educational journey. Uh 13, we have appointment of treasurer of school moneys. And uh this is a new treasurer of school moneys, Karen Groffer. Is that right? All right, we wish her all the best in her new position.

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We have a word of contract for special third party inspection services. Um Am I in the right order yet? >> Not yet. >> All right. >> Okay. >> [laughter] >> We have lots tonight. >> This is not even This is just regular

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business. Okay. Someone's working very hard. >> What you get for 18? >> 18, okay. MTCS agreement and certification agreement. We have renewal of our transportation contract. Uh we have renewal of our athletic transportation contract. And uh we have

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approval of cooperative pricing uh system. And uh then we have annual items which um are plenty and it's on the website. I'm not going to take up everyone's time. Um but everything new would have been discussed at some point during the year.

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These are just renewals. Great. Um I got to move it around. I'm moving it. Oh, now we're next. Sweetheart, everything? All right, I'm moving now to um our public comment. I have a question. Are we reappointing

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any insurance people? >> Uh you know what? You got it correct. >> That is correct. >> There is one on the on the You'll see right there is 12 lines and our good guy is on number 25. >> 25, all right. Can I get a motion

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for 25? Beth second, Chris. >> I favor. >> Yes. >> I favor. >> Yes. >> Mark and Justin. >> Yes. >> I favor. >> Yes. >> Kathleen Miller. >> Yes. >> Chris Pisani and Pia. >> Yes.

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>> Eric Schneider. >> Yes. >> Susan Kanzler. >> Yes. >> Bethany. >> Abstain. Thank you, Mr. Harris. All right, so now we're moving on to our last public comment. So, anyone who would like to speak to us again? No, no one?

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Nothing? On the topic of graduation? >> Just please don't let it rain. >> [laughter] >> Just please don't let it rain. >> Yeah. But we already said at 5:30 it's going to be sunny. >> And I love that. >> Thank you. Yes, so we will all think it will happen. All right. Um

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All right, so there's no one else for public comment. Uh and now can I get a motion for the consent vote? Mara second, Artha. >> Mr. Harris. >> Yes. >> Mr. Harris. >> Yes. >> Mara Christensen. >> Yes. >> Eleanor Hubbard. >> Yes. >> Catherine Clark.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Christensen Clark. >> Yes. >> Eric Schneider. >> Yes. >> Susan Fincher. >> Yes. >> Catherine Clark. >> Yes. >> Mr. Harris. >> Excellent. And thank you. Seriously, all of you around the table for all your hard work. Uh this is the biggest thing you've done and there's another you have to do. Um

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so, two more days of school and it's going to be sunny, but very hot graduation. But we'll get through it. All right. Um our next meeting uh we think it's going to be on July 21st. So, unless correct. And um you know, stay tuned. There'll be a lot of good things happening over the

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summer. And with that, can I please have a motion to adjourn? Mara second. No one wants to go. We can just stay here. >> [laughter] >> Eleanor, all in favor. All right, we're adjourned. Thank you. >> Oh, you'll be there. >> Yeah.

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>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Um I will be >> That is not