Well, that didn't save my job. So, that's why I'm speaking out now. I know that there are many other teachers and interns in a similar position as I am, and I wanted you to know what it's like on the ground, particularly in special education. I am disheartened that I cannot complete my internship anywhere in Apple Valley just because of what boils down to a personality conflict. I love my job. I love my class. I love my support staff. And I'm sad to be leaving Apple and all the positive relationships I've built here. Thank you so much for your time. [Applause] Thank you. All right, move on again to board member comments. I know Amanda, you had a second comments you wanted to make. Anybody else down there? Anita, do you have any more comments? I just wanted to say thank you very much for those of you who shared.
We hear you. Renee, um, yes. I just clarification. And did we catch the school site she w she was employed at? I did not. I don't believe she she mentioned it in her comments. Okay. Okay. Maria. Well, um once again, um you all know that, you know, special ed is very near and dear to my heart. Um but I don't want to comment on special ed. Uh, but I would like the district uh to come back the next time to tell us how many special ed teachers have been trained in CPI. Come next board. Amanda. All right. So, for the second year in a row, I got to spend my birthday up in Sacramento at delegate assembly um in all day meetings for the entire weekend. So much fun. But I did want to bring back some of the information to the board. Um I'm not going to do all of this, but there was because there was so much legislation right now that's going on.
So SB374 is the Prop 28 reporting now requires a single streamline report for arts funding. So if and if we find any um state required reports that are especially redundant, we're going to pass those on to CSBA and they'll work on those. Um there was a little bit of discussion about AB 1021 and AB 1381 uh for the educational workforce housing and um also providing low or no interest rate loans to districts that are pursuing that. Um AB1224 which would increase our long-term subs from 30 to 60 days. AB640. Right now, CSBA is working to revise the language. They don't support it right now, but they want to support it, but that will address governance team training requirements and make something like required for board members when they first come on to be trained. Um, similar to like MIG, I believe. And that's kind of the problem is right now it's wide open and it could like be any training.
So they want to bring that down. SB98 uh would require notification to the the site, the school, the community um of any immigration enforcement activity on school campuses. And so some of the important dates that we have coming up or they have coming up actually. So May 23rd is the last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the floor bills introduced in their house. So by tomorrow they have to make it out of uh fiscal June 6 is the last day for each house to pass the bills that have been introduced in that house and then by June 15th the budget bill must be passed by midnight and then we'll have like a little more accuracy on on what is coming. Um, I'm going to skip that. They did say, and I I know you mentioned ELOP, but TK, also universal meals will remain fully funded as of right now.
Um, there was talk about movement of various things. And they mentioned Title One, which I'm not 100% sure how, but being moved to the block grant that they're then going to discre decrease. But then they can say there were no cuts to title one funding. So it's little move around. Um CSBA is piloting a new suite of policy resources to help boards better evaluate and develop local policy. And I did volunteer to be part of the pilot this fall. So we would get those documents kind of ahead and we could look them over and provide feedback before it gets published. AI policies are also continuing to grow. There's a new and it actually is really cool. I looked around a little bit, but it's an AI roadmap facilitation guide um on the CSBA website as well as they were looking at updates to several policies uh board policy 044 0441 and 4040.
Within the delegate assembly, there was a lot of discussion about representation for small and rural school districts. Currently, 60 out of the 245 delegates come from these districts. Um, just make sure I don't miss Oh, good news for Kylie. This one's for you. coming in um January they are going to be piloting electronic ballots for delegate assembly. So it wouldn't be the paper I guess in the this first time you you can do both. Um but yeah, so it's going to the simply voting application and so it'll you can do it electronically um which will actually make it a lot easier for them to do for the whole state. But that seemed like it would be good for you. Um the policy platform saw some language updates but no major changes. And then I know we know already but the annual education conference is scheduled for December 3rd through the 5th.
they are moving it up a day so it won't go onto a Saturday anymore. And then I had a really informational session which I just showed her um Maria one of the slides um Mike Vine from Fikmat um and he had a a big presentation um about an hour on declining enrollment trends as well as the financial implications. So, I have that full slideshow available if anybody'd like a copy and it includes data visualizations of our county and the decline which I showed. Um, and that's it. So, that was delegate assembly. All right. Thank you, Superintendent. You okay? Okay. We have no public hearings, no special meetings. We have discussion session. has recommended the board of trustees discuss take action on the following items. First up, discuss the requested amendments to the April 10th, 2025 board meeting and approve one of the following attachments. Original draft of the minutes of the April 10th, 2025 board meeting or amend the draft minutes of the April 10th, 2025 board meeting.
So, I'm not going to rely on staff to give this presentation as the president of the board. I um looked into this. I I watched the tapes and I provide I'm going to provide the uh trustees here the rest with a verbatim documentation. Um it's very detailed. It was done with AI and by by hand as well. So it it picks up all of the comments and it puts them all in order here. What was said at the meeting? Yeah, I'm sorry. I pass all that down. So that's for five of them. So, um, while you're looking over that, it's I I know that, uh, Trustee Longshore made a comment that she wanted to amend the minutes that she um abstained from going into close session. So, what we can do because it does it's not clear at all, Renee, that you said anything um at all other than agreed to go into close session.
We can amend the minutes that you believe that you made uh a comment that um you abstained from it. So, we can make a put that in the record if that's suffices for uh your concern. Yes. So, I just want to clarify. I didn't verbally say I abstained. I just abstained. I remained silent. Okay. That's why we went to roll call vote on everything now because it's confusing uh for everybody that So, yes, because it it shows in the doc, you can read this at another time, but it shows in there that you did not abstain from it. So you want to make we can amend it that you believe that you abstained or you thought you abstained. Is that clarify? I'm not going to change the minutes for the record because that would be a violation because it show the proof is there that what was said by Maria that she opposed going into close session so on.
Um I guess my question to you is is that sufficient that we can amend the minutes that you uh abstained by not speaking? Oh yes, that's fine. Um that we can redo that. So um we will be taking the original draft 2025-4-10 board meeting minutes and on page one under public comments or sorry on page one under close session it will go from on a motion by Mrs. Amanda Buchanan seconded by Mrs. Anita Tucker vote 41. Amanda Buchanan I. Anita Tucker I. Maria Aquara. No. Renee Longshore. I Rick Raleigh I. To page one close session on a motion by Mrs. Amanda Buchanan. Seconded by Mrs. Anita Tucker. Vote 31. Amanda Buchanan I. Anita Tucker I. Maria Okara. No. Renee Longshore. No verbal indication. Um, how do like how do you want me to word that right there and then I can have Rick Raleigh I before we go much further?
Did we have a motion to begin the discussion? Um, it's just to discuss it. I it it has to be then we can open it up for discussion but uh Renee brought this forward so it's really the ball is in her court because she believes she wanted to amend it. So, we we will have to take a vote, okay, on this with a second and a motion as well. So, but I wanted to defer to her on on this. So, I think what um what we're I'm going to propose and then get a motion to and then approve we'll vote on it is what Kylie just said that we are going to not amend the original minutes, but we're going to add an amendment that trustee Renee Longshore believes that she abstained by not speaking. We have to have a motion before we I'm just I'm just right.
She's just taking notes. I'm going to I'm going to ask for a motion that we approve the wording that Can you read it back that what I said there Kylie so we're not confused on that? Yeah. So, um what that what you're um proposing in your discussion is that on page one close session everything would remain as is. There would be notation that would be underneath the original voting as um it sits in a draft form that would um indicate trustee Longshore believes she abstained by not speaking. Okay. So um I'll ask for a motion to approve uh that amendment to the to the minutes. Approve it. Well, we need a motion to approve. Um did you motion it? I'm sorry. Okay. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Um, roll call will be Tucker I. Longshore I. Opara I. Ukanon I. Raleigh. I vote I as well.
We're good. We got through that one. I'm waiting. Is there any clarification that you need? I do not believe so. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. And on item two, approve the course study adoption of ethnic studies integrated course English ethnic studies thematic course ethnic studies. And that will be Thank you so much, Mr. That's me. All right. And so, thank you. Thank you for those of you who hung in there. This is the good stuff. I promise. We're super excited to bring forward these courses that have been developed um by our um teachers in the system. I wanted to give a brief background because I know the board has changed a little bit since we started this journey. In the fall of 2023, the board requested and I remember Mrs. Buchanan making the uh clear request like let's do a process using um the county toolkit and like making sure that this was systematic.
So Para as well you know was uh adamant that we make this process transparent and communitywide. And so we began that and then in October had a board workshop in conference room A. Tracy Chambers, Serena Straka, Lauren Wild came and presented to us and then we did a contract for services for them to do that facilitation work with us and do those community meetings. But the board took action on December 7th. Meanwhile, we scheduled our first community meeting for December 6th. Then Mrs. Nelson and I um accomp board members were there in the audience. presented our first meeting actually at the Granite Hills High School Performing Arts Center and um had a pretty goodsized group of folks who came, church members, community members, parents, staff, and kind of went through the information that we had been provided in that same workshop in October. And so we presented this information, we got lots of really um heated questions and in lots of interest.
We went through this timeline to remind people of the background and why we were even having that discussion and what AB required. I feel silly talking to you with this hat on. I'm just going to say that. Go ahead. I feel mildly unprofessional, but just because it's not me, but I I earned it, I guess. Um, and so, uh, when we saw this timeline at that time, like 25 26 seemed like a ways out, and we thought, "Oh, man. Okay, well, we can probably get that done by then." And here we are. And notice in in the parentheses, it says we had to select between four options. And I'm going to go over that in a moment. And so we looked at this toolkit steps. They had six discreet things for us to do. We broke it in half, one through three last year, four through six this year.
And so last year's process, um, we got busy right away. January, February, March, and April. Community meetings widely attended. We had board members at everyone and the committee meets were excellent. We got to define the terms, gather input, read through the framework, really understand deeply what those four options were as we developed our district lens and kind of worked ourselves toward consensus knowing that our task was to bring back to the board a recommendation of what we were going to do that second year in course development. And so um we did that. The committee recommendations to the board were brought on June 6th um just about a year ago now. And of the four options, the committee really recommended option four, which was a blend. It's really it's it allowed us to blend two. They wanted students to have two pathways to satisfy the requirement.
Either an integrated course or and or a thematic course. We left option one out. It was the least popular and that was the kind of what they call in the framework a standalone course. And so, um, also on the way out of that meeting, we gave people one last time to give feedback, kind of an exit ticket. I read through every one of those this week kind of put myself back in that frame of reference where we asked them not only about, you know, their preferences, but if for the integrated course, which subject matter did they feel they wanted to integrated into? And it was overwhelmingly um, positive for 10th grade English, which was not what we went in thinking. I promise you that we thought for sure this landed in the social studies classroom. But after we had a deep discussion in the room several of those nights about one, how do we make sure every student gets a chance to participate?
Because once you go to US history in 11th grade, some students go to AP, some students go to the college course, and so they wouldn't even have a chance to see the content and thus would not be able to graduate without taking another course. So, we realized quickly that 10th grade English was really probably the right way in 10th grade history, world history. It doesn't fit. It's just it's just too broad a scope. Anyway, I'm getting this is exciting. So, um feedback was overwhelming support. We took that to the board. The board took that recommendation. We were so thankful to have that support. And then the next day, board meeting was on a Thursday. That Friday, we asked teachers to come join us. And if you're still here, are you? Yes. Mr. Hulkf, Mr. Murphy, they hung in there. So, if they'll join me here at the podium, they're going to kind of help represent this.
Um, we got them to come uh come stand with me. because I feel weird with the hat. Um, this group gathered as long as well as all the high school principles that day and they got a chance to kind of review and hear about where we had come as a community because they hadn't all been. Now, Mr. Hulk, I think had been at many of the community sessions as well, but that whole team hadn't been. They needed to hear the background. And so, they kind of started over was great for me to rehear our whole journey from the year before. and they were given lots of materials and sent home for the summer with when we get back we're going to get started developing the course. And so that's what we did. Um we continued with engaging with Lauren Wild. She is fantastic. I hope they share my sentiment.
She was a wonderful facilitator. She really helped us dive into the framework. They worked in two teams. The English language arts group was all folks who either taught 10th grade, currently teaching 10th grade, or will be teaching 10th grade. And so they do dove into that framework and the language arts um standards. And then the thematic course group was almost all social science teachers I think from all our high schools. and they also took a look at the framework and built a course that will it's not a social science course directly because as you know the ethnic studies course doesn't land in a single subject really and the state's given us zero direction as far as what credential but in our minds it's a social science course the thematic course and it lands there really well and so we met five for five full days um I didn't stay for each of the sessions for the whole time I would come in frequently and see all kinds of great work going on on the boards and then they started sharing folders and documents and samples and um the information that was provided was exhaustive.