Um Tommy could I don't know if you can explain it better, but ISB is updating their standards and um this is kind of going into the process of that as well as more PD correct to kind of feed into the adult part of Yeah, got it. Um it's all aligned and uh with theCCL standards uh being updated, it's aligned in and all the shifts that we're making to try and uh continue to push our tier one um you know uh systems that we've been putting in place. And like you said, the student services team uh asked if the equity committee could provide feedback after reviewing all their work. So they got a Google form. Yep. I think their last meeting is May, so they're not done yet. Okay. That's what I got. Any others before I fess up that I didn't make rack this week and ask Tony or Josh to give me a little give a little update.
I mean this is we just know what we'll have to deal with with these next two years. And so um but it will be a complete I I believe it'll be a complete change in our property taxes are managed and figured out. Anything else on that? All right, we move on to new business. Uh, we got a recommendation to approve an overnight extended outofstate field trip for Sharp Creek and Blue Thor spots to the next IQ Robotics Comp competition May 11th through 15th to Dallas, Texas. A motion, a second to approve that field trip. Second motion, a second to approve that out of state field trip. All those in favor say I. I.
It's based on a true story and they modify it slightly, but it's a true actual story and you know they modify it. the this particular group offers bullying presentations for fourth graders. uh whether it's cyber bullying and on the bus bullying. Um we're in the process of trying to hold off of that one to fourth graders this coming year. We can talk, you know, talk to it is too late for this year, but I mean we will probably offer it one more time in two years and after that we'll offer to another school at that point. I think all right and then I can get back to Okay. Anything else? All those in favor of the journ. Second. All those in favor. All right. I opposed.
And I love that we don't discriminate. Um you know, I grew up believing I still believe in the great American melting pot. You know, another thing you learn as you learn the foundations of modern American political uh modern American public edu numbers of immigrants, including some of my ancestors, who can still remember times when there were signs on stores that said Irish need not apply. [Music] Um, so one of the missions of our system, the of our public education system was to teach our teach people our language, our history, our culture, how our government works.
Yep. Most of our dual credit experiences are with Lyola University and we have a really solid dual credit relationship with them. Um but usually it's a kind of end of the scope and sequence course um or a standalone course that might be an elective in a university. And the benefit to the kids is that you know that's college credit that's transferable. Um, but does John decide? So, like we talked about earlier, our directors always collaborate on issues of curriculum with Mark and Troy and then Mark and Troy bring those to the administrative team and then as a team we approve all the letters of intent before we bring them to you. So, nothing gets kind of no nothing comes up from individuals. It all goes through the administrative team. Maybe I'm gonna You're saying how do we make the connections with the universities? Oh, I'm sorry.
I just have a quick question or or Rob, you can give it if you like. Well, that's why I brought this up because it's kind of summarized right there. So, I didn't want to just repeat it, but you could just read it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. No highlights. Everybody can read. So, sorry. That's okay. I just had a quick question with the cat. Um the ELA, what grades was that for for the field test? They want to do that. K through five. K through the We had a K12 team, but we're at kind of a different place with both the secondary level and the elementary level. So, we have a team working on the elementary and we're continuing professional development and some work on the secondary as well. So eventually you'll see more on what's happening with secondary and yelling. All right. Thank you very much.
Any opposed? All right. Un finish business form policy. So you got a video there. Well, video cameras 6110 video cameras. Uh yeah, really this is just um uh left all the uh strikeouts in here and different changes like that. This is just the first reading, but a lot of it's based on some other information we've learned um from video recordings like in the second paragraph here. Uh favor points may become a part of student's educational record under FERPA guidelines or staff members personnel record under access public records act guidelines. District shall comply with all applicable state and federal record maintenance and retention laws. And then explains a little bit about the review of video by school. And then one thing that we haven't had in place is that we need to make sure that we have um we let people know about we have video cameras and some are audio.
And we teach and we say the pledge of allegiance all the time. We're the ones, you know, we're teachers are the ones that teach the kids and they we end with with liberty and justice for all. I say it every day at least once. Um, you know, we're the ones that teach those kids how to make little turkey hams at Thanksgiving. you know, some of the American traditions that we love. We teach them who signed the Declaration of Independence, uh, who wrote the Constitution, and about, you know, all the different people who have sacrificed over the years for the freedoms that we hold and enjoy. Um, you know, I don't like the implication that teachers are acting ever in any unamerican way. That really gs me. I gave up a lot to be a teacher. Um, you know, and it's it's it's a it's aged me.
How does Yeah. How does the class is parallel? The syllabus has to be parallel to the same course at Loyola for instance. Somebody is looking Mark and the director sits down with the rep from the university and they go through the syllabus pretty much unit by unit in some cases to make sure that there's parallel And there's and there's a teacher qualification for many of those too. Um so where a teacher has to have a certain set of education or a certain set of requirements that that gets vetted also. Interesting. And then a lot of a lot of times our teachers become faculty members at the university. Even though they never go there to teach it, they become faculty members there. Sometimes we do it with um College of Lake County. We articulated credit. Correct. Yeah. that that um that there may not be a college class, but there's a class at CLC that could be the capstone class for some of our students and they get they still get college credit.
Wrap up for the committee updates. All right. Items item 7.1, approval of new collective bargaining agreement with BESBA. Tom, do you want to walk us through that? Yes. So, um, I think we heard some of the highlights from both Kevin and Jillian. And you know the one comment I'll just add is I think it was a awesome process in showing that uh both teams had a lot of similar if not identical at times priorities and trying to uh bring forward a really healthy contract but also one that supports our employees and supports the work that they do for our students um and the level of collaboration in that. So really nice job. I'll turn it over to Tony. Tony acted as our chief negotiating uh negotiating officer. So Tony, you want to take it away? Uh, I don't have much to add. I think Jillian and Kevin did a really nice job of contract.
And one way that uh we were told through a council that we could actually have um not local council but through uh schoolboards association that uh we could do this in the student handbook. So we will put this in the student handbooks to make sure that people do know that uh we do have cameras. I think most people already know but just to make sure that's written in there. So this is just the first reading just to clean up some things and course on this next question on that first paragraph which the last why is that content of the video may be used as evidence of student [Music] discip by school. Yeah, it's in the the fourth paragraph. Okay. Yeah. Um, that next to last sentence actually has that. That's a good question.
It's it's a hard job, but I wanted to give back to my country. That was my way of service. Um, so I just hope that we can get past some of the these things and get back to letting teachers inspire our learners, fostering their interests, teaching them how to be good citizens who give back and are proud to be American. So if this vote will affirm my pledge to not discriminate, then I too will vote yes. I motion that the governing board delegate authority to Superintendent Sheri Richards to execute the request for certification and assurances issued by the Arizona Department of Education pertaining pertaining to compliance with requirements of title six of the Civil Rights Act, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, and the Protection of People Rights Amendment in order to preserve eligibility for federal grant funding. I will second. Miss Van Hook said it, but not on the mic.
Yep. But it's from CLC, not not Lyola. Yep. Great. It's a great program. I have a quick question. Yep. For the college algebra, um the course is new course. Is this a 4.0 course or yes 4.0 it's a non AP for students so after completing algebra 2 and then have a chance to study eligible for a little further advanced level but without hitting AP level that's correct okay and we'll talk more about that next month but we want to be very careful not to force kids into an AP track if that's not something they're interested in, right? Like some some of the way that our curriculum was lined up, these are unintended consequences, right? Like the science curriculum, for example, it it kind of forced you into an AP class when you might not have really wanted to do that, you know? So, we were trying to be very mindful about the pathways to give kids more choice.
Say that we're really excited about it, too. Um, this will, I believe, help us with recruitment and retention of of members of this group. And obviously, this education doesn't happen every day without their assistance. This this wouldn't work without them. And so, um, we believe that this contract honors that work and puts us in the heading in the right direction. So, we're excited about it. All right. Any board questions, comments? Rob, anything you want to add because you were there? Um, no. I I guess I'll just echo it. It was very collaborative. Um, and there was uh mutual respect demonstrated uh from both sides throughout at least the the negotiations I saw. So, that was very positive. We used a it was new to me but it I used a interestbased bargaining framework which I think really helped um frame the discussions that we had.
So, if you have any questions between now and then Josh, if you I was going to get with you on this too, but it's some of that same information we got from Lisa Tantel and policies. So, things that we already discussed should No, I think my review makes sense based on kind of some things we came across. Look at it. So that's it for now. It is a revision. It's already one in place, but that's why we have to strike out. All right. Public comment all items. Yes. Uh yeah. So we had originally agreed upon that we would have an answer regarding the transportation situation before the end of the school year. So the switch we did have our kiddos say goodbye. Um, and I appreciated we didn't know that that transportation of Sophie was going to be part of this meeting, but perfect timing.
So, I will write down Van Hook for a second. All those in favor? I I um I'd like to just read something with my vote, please. Um this applies to the um Furpa assurance. Um the importance of signing this document is to ensure that the district adheres to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, Furpa, and to maintain access to federal grant funds. Parents have a right to inspect, review their children's educational records, and this agreement um ensures that the district acknowledges and respects this right. By signing, the district commits to not withholding information about the health and safety of children from their parents, providing um annual furper rights notifications, and informing parents about military recruit recruiters access to student information with an opt out option. From my experience, the district has violated Furpa laws and I'm hoping that going forward that does not happen again and we can ensure that um we follow this um as strictly as possible.
So, okay. But again, next month Mark will do a little tap dance on that. Um, so personnel items, uh, there are many because March is our most significant personnel month. Uh, but April is the second most significant personnel month because a lot of the required dismissals per the school code, um, we then come back and rehire those folks, especially part- timerrs. So, you'll see a long list of those, but a couple notable um recommendations tonight that'll be covered in consent. Um you know that Doug Liyall is retiring from uh communication arts after an amazing career here. Um and uh Kim Yuslaf, you approved last month, this month. Um Nicole or sorry, Christy uh Kolaris is being recommended um for the assistant director of uh communication arts. uh Hhabib Hman is being recommended as our director of facilities and operations. We talked about that last month as well.
Um, so that was very positive and I guess you know shout out to Tony. Um, we lost our I forgot the title, the facilitator that we had due to he was a federal employee and you know there was uh some cuts that that happened in the federal government. So we we lost his services and Tony uh stepped in I think and fulfilled that role. So appreciate that. I helped a little bit. Yeah, I appreciate that. But I would have to say a lot of credit is due to our attorney Justin Petrarcha and his expertise and experiences and then the best uniserve director Susan Thorson. She stepped up too. So helped make that work. So we really appreciate their contributions. Team effort. It was terrible. Any other questions? Well, I just have a comment that I'm really happy to to really to see that this went through and so smoothly and to hear from Kevin and Jul Jillian that you really feel like this is like a new foundation especially going forward into the next years and the next um contract.
Yeah, it was great. Um, would you mind pulling that back up? Is that something that we can go to over? I know that or I can just give you a copy afterwards. That works too. I would like to discuss it now if we could. Um, but I know that it hasn't been approved. Correct. So that my understanding that it was just brought up going to be discussed and approved or not approved the next. That's correct. Okay. So I just want to make sure I'm understanding the draft um on the procedure. There we go. Um, so students currently enrolled, if you have a bus already, you're continuing to get a bus. Um, you will be grandfathered in. Doesn't doesn't bother those people, but the current non-resident students not receiving transportation will follow procedures. So that's us. Um, not that we don't want transportation. We are just not receiving it.
And with that I vote I motion carries 40. 8.5 Consideration of resolution regarding equal education opportunities and guidance from US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. Do we have any comments or questions from the board before I motion? Um President Wade, I would like to read the resolution. Um whereas discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin is illegal and morally reprehensible. Title six of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution and other relevant authorities prohibit discrimination based uh on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Whereas Title 6 specifically states that no person in the United States shall on the grounds of be excluded from participating in be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Whereas all students are entitled to a school environment free from discrimination.