So I don't know that you're getting the true answers of what that child can give in the first few days of school or few first few weeks. So if you give that test again towards the middle or sometime after the child has gotten adjusted to being away from home, would there be a difference or have you guys or do you have to pay again? No, the we do need to you're absolutely right. We do need to continually assess the students and we have appropriate assessments whether it be from the curricular assessments or the universal screening that will take place later in the year. the purpose of this um kindergarten entry um assessment, which most states do have a kindergarten entry um and from a teacher's viewpoint, it is very valuable information as the teacher sets up their classroom um as they plan on what they're doing, how they're going to group their kids, um how they can provide the best instruction for the whole child of their incoming kindergarteners.
>> Nice. >> So, um hopefully we'll hear back from them soon. >> Has are they the only one that's been submitted to to help us get to safe harbor? >> Correct. For right now, I think the appeal period has to lapse if it if it hasn't already before we can do that with it. Okay. But really all we need is >> just that one that that's does it. >> Yeah, that one will will should give us the twoear safe harbor um you know because of um because of the housing production plan. So that's good. >> Um so yeah, the appeal period still um still going through with um 10 to 60 Main Street. Waverly is before the concom um and as you heard Carl mention things are moving along that way and then they have their first hearing with um 10 to 60 on March 2nd as well.
W >> really quick though, can I clarify that the Thursday and Friday are the fundraiser for the art show, not the actual art show. The art show is in April. >> Oh, that's interesting. >> Yeah. So, February 19th and 28th, Thursday and Friday is a fundraiser pop-up shop. So, there'll be all kinds of fun little things, goodies and stickers on sale. >> Okay. >> For the go get your stickers. >> The Ardo is actually in um April. >> They would be really early for that. Thank you. >> Um WMS um on Friday. So, February 20th is the your first payment for the eighth grade DC field trip is due. Um February 27th, BHS Future Teachers of America are visiting the students at WMS. March 3rd is parent conferences. there's early dismissal and March 4th is the seventh grade band and chorus field trip to the Blue Man Group >> and BHS um 224 or is National Honor Society blood drive from 7:30 to 2.
And quote, "Continual surveillance induces fear and psychological harm." End quote. So, not only is this system expensive, an invasion of privacy, and frankly creepy, it's likely to do the opposite of what is intended. If this system becomes a reality, my school will no longer be a welcoming place. I'm glad I'm in Debute College Connections program because it means I'll be able to be somewhere where I'm trusted, somewhere that doesn't foster a big brother culture. Thank you. Thank you. Um, Ana Lisa Petraani. Good evening. My name is Anelisa Pedinati and I'm a junior at Chico High School. And today I would like to discuss the recent multi-million dollar contract signed inconspicuously for new AI technology at all of our schools. I'm confused as to why our school administrators have signed away millions of dollars without any public discussion. Our input has not been asked nor our consent.
I think we all kindergarten is um not an easy grade to teach and it takes great skill. And part of that great skill and expertise is knowing your students. And this is a a a quick way for the teacher to know the students at the beginning of the year to um appropriately plan. >> But how long does it take for the teacher to get the assessment information back? >> The assessment information when they enter those scores in it's automatic. Oh, it's automatic. Okay, >> that's what I wanted to know. Thank you, >> Sure. >> Just Thank you. >> Uh, so when you folks do get these assessment backs, like what does that mean? Does that mean that they go sit at a certain table? Does that mean that the curriculum changes? Like how would that affect the classroom setting, the teachers involved? >> Yeah, that's a great question.
Um the other thing is did everybody get the map the screenshot of the map I sent yesterday? >> Okay. I did not >> I don't think >> if I got it I didn't note >> I did not recognize it as having received it. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So it was it's basically um a revised bus route uh from the MWRA. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that. >> Yeah. So, um, so I did talk to Jim Ne, executive director, and they're actually they're going through a route reconfiguration plan. >> And so, one of the things that they're looking at doing is actually having their bus now go along Waverly and actually come into downtown, go past 10 to 60 main, and then go towards the train station and then circle back. So, I know we wanted uh more public transportation options uh coming out of 1060 just to facilitate getting to the train and not having to use a car.
Is that only for students? Mark >> uh staff can do it too. >> Okay. >> Students and staff. Great. >> That's a week from yesterday. Yeah, >> I I'll come donate. um >> yesterday, right? >> Yep. 2:24. Um same date, there's a PTO meeting at 6 PM. The 20 February 26, the grad party meets at 6:30 p.m. 35 is parent conferences, so half day. Um and then going out a little bit further, um for the high school, the 11th, March 11th is all sports booster club meeting at 6:30. And then the High School Musical is uh March 13th through the 15th. >> So, all right. >> It's early, but it'll get out there. >> Got a lot coming. That's great. >> June 27th >> before we know. >> All right. Well, that concludes our regular session of the board of ed meeting. I can call to um >> No, I'm sorry.
The public has not even so much as received an explanation for this decision. In class, we theorized that this decision was made with the question of safety in mind. our safety, student safety. And yet this decision has been made without consulting the group that supposedly needs protection and that and it has left us feeling controlled and washed as apparently our principal can access our surveillance on his phone 24/7. I also did a quick search into the company you are using for this technology, Vicata. And I cannot emphasize enough the surprise I felt upon the discovery that in September of 2024, Ricarda was sued by both the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commissions for failure to enact proper security measures that led to that led to sensitive footage from both hospitals and schools being leaked. I was also confused about the legality of this project because you see, according to the California Department of Justice, neither businesses nor schools can gather, use, or sell the biometric information for children under 16.
So, to your first statement, no, I would hope that it wouldn't mean a different table because that would not be appropriate. Um the ideal situation that would occur is that the teachers are going to pay attention to those areas that a child is struggling with. If a child has a skill, awesome, we move on. We have kei that are coming in and we don't have any developmental needs we're observing and it's kindergarten continuous in a typical fashion, but we do have some that come in that might need extra, for example, small groupoup support or they might need additional attention from an educational assistant, a pair of professional. And this does help teachers to determine really specific skills that they might need alongside of course what you're all saying. Excuse me. >> If you could continue your comment. I need to vote. I will be right back though.
>> So, hopefully that'll help a bit. >> Sorry, I I was looking for it and then I saw the email about um >> the $500,000 grant that Doug mentioned and I'm like, what? What grant? >> So, it was a complete streets grant. That's great. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Thank you. So, so that's what I have on the 40B process. And obviously, we just talked to Carl and Con today. >> Wait, wait.
>> I'm ending. >> I'm not ending anything. So I move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing safety and security. >> All in favor? >> I I >> Any names? >> No. Okay. >> Actually, um I this probably should be on the record because this may be the only >> probably should be on the record because this may be the only time it'll ever happen. Uh but I saw an email from um an audience member reminding us that the um there there are five exemptions to FOIC to go into executive session things that cannot be public right and um whereas security is one of those safety is not >> okay >> so >> okay so I move to um >> we'll just do an amend motion. So I move to amend the motion. >> Huh? >> At school at the public at the EPS school system or school.
And according to the 2016 Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, K through2 edtech operators cannot use our biometric information to create profiles without explicit parental or student consent. Neither I nor my parents consented to this action, nor have the majority of the families in this district. This begs the question, how could this project possibly move forward given this law? And there is one final concern I feel the need to express. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in order to biometrically identify you, a company will take your will take your image and extract an exact face print that is saved for later identification. This means that the faces of thousands of children, some as young as four years old, will be in the hands of Verata, the same company known for security breaches. And now, I greatly appreciate this district's vow to stand with immigrant families.
>> That was actually the end of my comment. My apologies. >> So you said that there's assessments going on constantly throughout throughout a child's performance in school, right? >> Yes. >> So this kindergarten one assessment in the beginning. So there's other assessments that the teacher will make within that first year. >> Oh, absolutely. Yes. >> And so how many assessment programs do you have? >> Well, the the teacher is always assessing the learning there for the day. >> So you can they can assess after the initial assessment. They're not good enough to to for you to get any kind of data from them to do the first assessment, but it's okay after the first assessment that these teachers can then give you that data. I would contest that they absolutely are good enough. It would require um a reimagining and reshaping of our entire data system and they would still have to work within certain parameters for what type of data that they would have to provide us and it would require retraining and restructuring around what they would be sending us.
Does anybody have any questions on 40B before we move on? >> No, I'm just I'm being distracted by the new five the bike lane at that intersection. >> Okay. Did we have any luck getting the the developer at 61 Waverly to put sidewalks in on their side of the street? Um, don't believe so. >> No, >> don't believe so. >> Really? >> No. They've agreed to replace the >> the culvert. >> The culbert, >> right? >> Yeah. >> That's too bad. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. The next item on our agenda is discuss um legislative earmark requests. We had a meeting with um Representative Jack Lewis and um um Dennis and Jess from um Senate President Karen Spoka's office last Friday and they are in the middle of the budget process and um while they said that there is literally no guarantees about anything this year which is kind of a sad sad state affairs.
>> Yes. >> So wait under that umbrella security. Yes, for sure. >> That's what I'm saying. >> But safety >> security at BHPS. >> Security at BHS public. >> Yeah, because safety is is typically >> not BHS. >> I I I don't think that falls under the exemption. I don't know. No, just secure. Just security. >> Yeah, >> just security is fine. >> Yeah. >> Okay, great. Thanks. >> So, I move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing security at Brookfield Public Schools. >> Second. >> All right. You got that right. All in favor? Please say I >> I unanimous. Thank you very much. >> You all right? >> You can just Yeah. No. No. >> Thank you very much. Sanger. Thank
However, we have received no such promise from Verata. The data of thousands of children, parents, and teachers risk being sold or breached or accessed by ICE who do not require consent for taking biometric information and have been using AI surveillance to um identify and detain both illegal and legal immigrants such as my father, my sister, and I. I will graduate in a little over a year, and this is the world I will be welcomed into, where I see innocent people on the news be detained, kidnapped, assaulted, and shot in our streets. I'm 16 years old. I should not be up here asking my school board to reconsider a contract that could lead to our own students facing the brutalities that thousands already are. And yet, here I am. So, please reconsider this contract. Thank you. Okay. Uh, Noel Sie. Um, hello. My name is Noel Sie and I'm a sophomore at Chico High School.
>> Right. Ultimately that would take time. >> Yeah. But that's something that you you should have had to begin with instead of relying on an outside type of assessment. um from the mainland. I think that was some of the push back from a lot of the teachers and also especially the Hawaiian immersion. That's why you had to go through this whole system of getting them their own so that they could assess. But at the end of the day, the teachers in the classroom is doing the assessment. At the end of the day, this first assessment in three months is no good already. Only the only value is to have some data >> to look at to see what that class did. But as far as that particular child, because there's going to be other problems that that child may develop that didn't show up in the assessment or there going to be problems that did show up that has been corrected along the line.
They did um ask if we wanted to put together a a a sort of a short list of of things that we very specific items that we needed um potentially for earmarks that they could advocate for from both the Senate and the House side. >> Concrete wings. >> Concrete. >> That's what we were told. So >> So concrete list >> a concrete list >> meaning you know something tangible. No programs. So like a sidewalk from public safety building >> all the way to Waverly Street to Firmingham. >> I don't think we can get all of that covered. You know, they said what? Two >> Yeah, they were talking about like 200,000 is kind of like the Yeah, I mean it's not it's not going to be a a big project. I I would suggest u you know some of the current projects that we have going on maybe that we are planning with additional fund or with actual taxpayer funds maybe looking at a way to um get an earmark for those um and then that way that money gets freed up that's being used in the general fund that money gets freed up for >> what about on the school side because I know that there's conversations about capital on the school side Is there anything that would we could add to that list that would be a concrete need?
People seem to believe that letting this company install AI cameras is harmless, but it isn't. It can seriously affect students, hurting them more than helping them. AI cameras are often incorrect and have gender and racial bias. AI security cameras can get people confused, especially it often mixes up people of color and women. According to AC Minnesota, um we shouldn't get students in serious potentially lifealtering trouble because of the failure of this technology. It is not advanced enough to be installed. We as students are able to opt out the yearbook and social media, but we can't opt out of these cameras. If I decide to work a job that has AI surveillance to um I can just decide not to go. Um I do not have a choice about not going to school. I have to. It's getting to the point where this is an is about safety and it's also about control.
And so the whole thing changes, but again, you know, you're starting out with a with an assessment that that the teachers are in the best situation um to make that and you can tailor the questions if you think it was so valuable from John Hopkins um into the assessments and that should go on throughout the child's life, first grade, second grade, third grade. Otherwise, what you're going to have an assessment at first grade to what they learned in kindergarten, how ready they are for the next grade. Do you have that? >> We do screen them in first grade. Yeah, >> you do assess them in second >> with John Hopkins. >> No, no, with a screener. >> With the teacher, right? Or >> the formal screener. >> So, why don't you do that consistently? >> The formal screener that's not appropriate for income. is appropriate for other grade levels but it's not appropriate for income but you can make it appropriate to answer that I don't know what the answer is okay no other questions thank you Okay.