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That placement isn't just going to a certain program or going to another school. Placement is the amount of time that the student spends in the general ed environment versus the special ed environment. So if you're in the general education environment for at least 80% of the time, that's a very inclusive type of placement. If you're in there from 60% to 80% of the time, it's a little bit more restricted. But when we talk about least restrictive environment, it is calculated. We we generally assume that a full inclusion program in general education is the least restrictive for students. So that's always what we're striving for. But not every single student learns the best in that environment, which is why we may offer pullout services or specialized programs or things like that. Because for one student full inclusion might be the thing and for another student full inclusion is a complete and total nightmare and least restrictive for them might be something that has a little more structure in a smaller group and things like that.
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It doesn't Nobody I Nobody That's not our current form. We replace it with our current form. I have no preference for form, but I do think it's best practice and to have some version so long as it's publicly accessible. Well, I think it's most important to have something on our website that kind of, you know, grabs a person attention so they don't have to go digging for it. And, you know, to me it's redundant. maybe to have it in here. But if you want to have it in here, it just has to be the same thing as when they go to that hot button and click on it and get the form. I think the form has to be consistent just as long as and I think when this was discussed in committee my understanding was that the form itself was a procedural part but the board establishes the our stance or the board stance on access to district public records and as well as around around the foyer information.
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May I have a motion to approve the proposals by audio enhancement for installation at Briergate, Oaknull, and Three Oaks for a total of $886,3441. The breakdown is as follows. Three Oaks, $347,45127. Oaknull $285,3001 penny and Brigate $253,292.13 as presented. So moved. Second.
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We want to continue to strengthen PLC's. We're aware that that's a pro process and it takes some time uh to really tighten those up. um expanding the studentled innovations um again supporting the whole student continues supporting the whole student and uh again prioritizing the quality of life beyond the diploma and if I've said that once to a student I've said it a thousand times um we want to give them the opportunity when they leave here to decide what that quality of life is and not let life decide that for him. Uh we want to continue to build on the select program. That is our our biggest tier 2 support. Um in the past, as Miss Upurch has said, in the past, it was mostly juniors and seniors to try to get them caught up. Um now we have the opportunity. Earlier this year, uh we had a couple of freshman students who um at the end of term three mathematically were not going to be able to pass uh a couple of classes.
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Yeah. I'd prefer not to be. Okay. I don't have an interest. No interest. Are you willing? It's just I mean I don't I don't mind doing it again. I'm just making sure to say because your daughter's my daughter's a junior so I should One thing I I think I should do it. I other than uh I do know I move to appoint it. All your vote. All in favor? I Okay, it's me. We have to appoint Mary Lou as well. We've done that in the past. I move to appoint Mary Lou Hunt as well. All in favor? I All right. Excellent. uh ultimate frisbee head coach athletics type end negotiation. The ultimate frisbee as you know is a varsity sport now and just recognizing the fact that it's going into our stipen position. Chris worked for the union. You you've tracked whatever that stipen is to sort of matching up with other correct.
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So if that is in fact the case, then we need to perhaps discuss that and make sure that that is outlined in the policy in the handbook. We as a committee um approved this current subcommittee functions and duties document except for the change to the one-word policy to plan at prior meetings. So, I think that um I certainly would be um happy to have the ad hoc committee um in addition to the work we're tasking you with tonight on um on the redistricting to also um put forward uh recommended changes to the um functions and duties document. But just to be clear, this is something that this committee has voted on in the past. Can I Yeah. Member St. I think that's why I'm sort of asking about it because last time we did vote on it, I was the chair that was basically being told I couldn't call my own meetings at that time, which I did note and that was the reading at the time.
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Wyman. Um I'm teaching assistant program. Um, but I'm going to kind of generally speak on what I know all my peers in the CTE um, world are doing in the background behind this. We see their scared to death faces that have never ever been through interviews before in their life. And we're asking them to write cover letters, resumes, showing them how to do that because not only are we all tasked with um their competencies and and in incorporating educational standards, um all the technical standards, but we also have to incorporate professional standards. And so we take it very um seriously. We conduct our programs in a professional manner. When they come in, they are coming to work. Um, and so this is very valuable to them because it shows them um, exactly what it is going to look like. And this is the fourth year um, that I've done it with them.
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We do talk about transportation extended school year and then just have some general sections additional notes for any notes we take at the meeting or any other comments we might make about the uh how the services will be delivered. If the student is identified as having autism, there are seven factors we review for each student to look at uh accommodations. I accommodations are attached very specific accommodations and then if a student requires a behavior plan that goes in as well. Um I will say that and special ed program extending the school year. Do you mean by the summer program? The summer program is so beneficial to the children. I mean it keeps the progression of learning going without I it probably reduces the gaps in their knowledge and stuff. So that is really a really beneficial for for children. Yeah, it's definitely the way we uh work on um keeping too much learning loss over the summer for students that have limited recruitment or it takes them an extremely long time in the fall to get back to where they left in the spring.
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So that was why the recommendation was to re remove 250 E1 250 250 still exist. Um but yes, if the board decides we I would my only recommendation is if the if the board is requesting 22 250e1 that at least be the updated one and then we just need to make sure that any each if there's ever changes to FOYA laws that we would then have to bring this back before the board to change that which I mean we would be a one you know within when that law goes into effect and when the board would take action on it would would be the change. So I think that was the purpose of having it not in the per in the policy manual is because that way we can be and we can make changes to the form as needed without it having to come back before the board each time to be changed.
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Any discussion? Hearing none. If we could take a vote, please. Ann Sanuchi, yes. Stacy Salt, yes. Jason Jansen, yes. Julie Jetty, yes. Darling, yes. Mindy Hartman, yes. Okay, that motion is approved. 8.9 is the approval of the transportation center site layout. Mr. Shepard. So, at the committee of the whole, we unveiled the the site layout for the transportation center at its new site and the property we just uh purchased next to Aldi. Uh the basics of the original plan for when it was going to be housed at the Maplewood property uh were the the base for this and it and then it just became more of how do we get it to fit uh within our our new property space. So, uh, the the benefits of the the new property location allow us to, uh, increase the size of the the facility, the the building, possibly increase storage space, uh, storage needs.
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we're able to pull them out, put them in, select, and at least get them started on some of that credit recovery. Odds are that they're not going to recover those credits just in one term, but they can continue that on into next year and continue um and then recover those credits um to include first semester so that we don't have them doubled up and tripled up. Uh I tell students all the time, you know, I'm an English teacher. I love English class. There's no way I'd want to take three of them in a day. And so if we can help them with things like algebra and um uh English um the sooner we can help them then then the more that frees that up. Same with work-based learning is going to be a big part of the new diploma uh the pathways um and so forth.
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You have yes. So and so what's that motion that we to accept the ultimate bead head coach athletic statement amount. What was it? Do you remember? Yeah. What was the number? I don't know. Yeah. Even uh No. $3,370. Uh well, $4,280. I'm assuming Mosh is at or would be at the top. There's There's three of them. There's three. There's three. There's three steps. I move to approve the ultimate frisbee head coach athletic statement. Second. All in favor? I just a memorandum. I shouldn't have any. Sorry. Okay. Yep. I'm going to open the hearing for the school choice participation for the 2025 2026 school year. Okay. Let me pull this up because it's a little more complicated than still here. Okay. So, as you know, each year um as required by law, we're supposed to come before the school committee to see if school committee will participate in school choice uh for the next school year.
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So, if the reading of that wording has changed, great. I fully support that um and would be very happy for that to be the case. But I do just want to clarify that that is what's happening. At at the time of the meeting, the ad hoc committee did not have a charge either from the full committee or from the superintendent. So subcommittees, all subcommittees basically do work that this full committee tells you to do. Um and so no, there should not be meetings of ad hoc committees when the when there when the work that the full committee has charged you with doing has been completed and a new charge has not been given. So that is the that's the that's the purpose of that language and the purpose of tonight's vote is to say thank goodness we have a redistricting and reorganizing ad hoc committee already existing because now tonight we as a committee can charge you with taking on a project on behalf of the full committee and to report back to us and bring us that work.
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And I have had um, at least one student every year get a job offer at one of these events. And this year we had four. Super super proud of them. Yes. Very proud of these guys. But you probably want to hear their experience um, more because they can tell you exactly how it went for them. But just know um this is an incredible event and the fact that we were able to get all the seniors on board with this as well I can imagine was a feat and um but it seemed to run very smoothly and I always tell my students I want the community and the industry partners because we work with our regional advisory committees that's how we got Banner Health Premier you know a lot of these people to come out to us and and support us and so that work with the regional advisory committee actually have them come and speak at the regional advisory committee as well Um but just you know this is very important for them and and steps for them but I'll let them go ahead and speak on their experience.
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Um so that's what we do there. And then the continuum of services. I kind of broke this down by what's available in all the schools on the lefth hand side. So we have inclusion support, resource support, specialized resource support, um which is really a program that was designed for students who had a lot of heavy duty uh academic needs more. Um and we've really peeled that back a lot in the last several years to do more inclusive uh work as opposed to pulling a student out for all of their math instruction or all of their uh language arts. and then related services and there's a whole list of things are available in any school depending on the individual needs. Um and then we have a lot of specialized programming probably the bulk of our specialized programming um starts in uh at Oaknull in our early childhood programs.
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Well press has press right has a form that would just be updated if the law changes. Is that right? Yes, that's correct. But even if we wanted to make any changes for our managerial purposes such as going beyond the law or asking for additional information or specific information of how they want it responded, we can make changes to our current form as long as we abide by the law. So anytime we want to make a change to that form for what I can't think of a reason right now, but anytime we would want to make a change to our current form, we would just need to bring it back before the board. People don't even have to use a form though to submit a foyer request. they can just write an email and then it's like but this is just one I'm just saying this should be in here because if somebody's looking around um for it they may look for it here right and it's that's that's the board's disc decision I just wanted to make the board under understand that if we do make changes we would just need to bring it back for the board so if we see it come back that's why we would need to bring it back would have to do whether whether that form changed or whether a polic or it changed within the state uh uh mandating us to have something change in it as well.
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Uh, but it also gives the the transportation center more flexibility with washing buses, fixing the buses as well. Uh so tonight we're pleased to present to the board for their official approval of the preliminary site plan which after tonight we'll be moving forward uh with. Keep in mind that there's very limited avenues to to make changes. Uh the uh design team spent a lot of time trying to make sure that everything would fit uh during our due diligence period uh with this new property. So uh we're uh pleased to recommend this site layout. Um, I'll wait for my questions in just a second. So, I'll do uh May I have a motion to approve the transportation center site layout as presented? So, moved. Second.
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So it's no longer just the core classes and then these elective classes and you give up the elective classes to make up the core classes because now you have to have your pathways too, right? and you have to have the opportunity to go out and do the um the workbased learning. Um response to teacher feedback. Um teachers over overwhelmingly asked, "What can we do to help students before their senior year?" Um you know, we had a hard push last year. Um about this time last year, we had 54 seniors who were in jeopardy. Um I think we had 20 of them were select seniors and all 20 of those uh graduated. Um and I think we only had two that didn't and they were uh virtual students out of out of all of those. Um so to strengthen the the select program and use that as our big tier two.
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So any student who would have already been in school choice uh is still in school choice. So but the district could say hey we're not going to participate moving forward. Uh those kids would still be allowed to be here. Um traditionally what we have done is we have looked at uh choice slots by grade level and we approved them by grade level. Uh so what you'll see on this uh document here I shared with you is this is anticipated enrollment for next year. So we're anticipating 190 at the K level. They only have like 156 that have registered currently but we're assuming it's going to get to that number. Um in the so then it slides down. So first grade is the current kindergarten class. Okay, that makes sense to folks. And just and then um elevators down. So in the newly enrolled students, so 2425, you'll notice five and then so go to the first grade five and then parenthesy five.
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But be becoming a member of an ad hoc committee is not licensed to meet whenever you want for whatever you want. You have to actually be told to do something by the full committee. You're an agent of the full committee essentially. Member child's. So the reinvisioning our schools our school facilities committee was not an ad hoc or is it this ad hoc? I'm a little confused. I might be scrambling things. So I wanted to make sure I had things straight. Sure. So each year um the the chair puts forward a list of committees and committee assignments and now also now that we're trying to adhere to our committee policy on providing lists of functions and duties, we're doing that work as well. At the time that I formed the uh redistricting and reorg the the I basically took the reinvisioning schools and renamed it redistricting and reorganizing and yeah so it's basically and so it is the same one.
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