Yep. And you have to make sure the popsicles are bought through charts. Correct. Um it can be donated or no has to be by through char. It has to be meet nutritional standards, but we could do some kind of reward like that. Yes. Um, right now our surveys for the families are anonymous. However, years ago we used to get them on paper. Erica has done a wonderful job of putting them all. Um, but that is something we could possibly go back to.
Does any board member have any questions for Mr. Bogart? Okay. So, this isformationalformational only and there is no action required tonight. On to J2. Miss Rey, >> good evening. >> New high school courses. >> Good evening, Mrs. Mcronis. Members of the board, Dr. Straer and members of our in-person and virtual audience. I feel like I'm a re I feel like I come back every time I have a few more high school courses for you for approval. Um, this evening I have four courses for consideration of your approval. I am asking for your approval for honors integrated math and honors integrated math 2. A year ago, you approved integrated math as a course that we could utilize at the Vista campus, a course that integrates algebra and geometry principles um as a part of their personalized learning um approach. And tonight, I'm asking you to approve the honors courses for those same for those two mathematics courses.
Expanded staff staff training related to bullying prevention and response, and public reporting of district bullying data on the school corporation website to increase transparency. Expanded student education and events related to bullying prevention, suicide prevention, and mental health resources in the [clears throat] 2026-2027 school year. Additional actions may be recommended through the work of the community advisory committee. The reporting of bullying by students, parents, and community members is an essential part of this process. If you have concerns, please reach out using the Say Something reporting portal, Parent Square, email, or by contacting your child's school principal or district administrators. Your partnership helps us respond quickly and provide support for students. Personnel concerns. Jennings County Schools is not able to publicly comment on specific personnel matters. Employee privacy laws and district policies require that personnel issues [clears throat] be handled through appropriate internal procedures. Staff members who have concerns have multiple avenues for support, including contacting their direct supervisor, reaching out to the human resources department, contacting central office administrators, including the superintendent, communicating with school board members, and using the anonymous Say Something reporting system.
Yep. >> Carter with the Octane with precision can hit those corner shots like no tomorrow. >> Where if he was using That's why it's best to run two Fenix and one Octane >> if you Oh, that was a double. >> That was a double double demo. We >> go Jordan, GO. >> NO, JORDAN. NO, JORDAN. You colorful man. >> When are we going? He's very He's very colorful in comparison to their triple purples. >> Oh, >> I wonder >> when we're going against >> passing it back to his team. >> Okay, >> Carter going up in the air. Carter in the air. >> Oh, they just barely blocked that. Bouncing it back over. Bounced it back. Bounced it back over there. Ariel, redeem yourself. >> Set it up. >> He already did redeem yourself. >> Set it up. Set it up. Set it up. Set it up.
Um, we're going into the second year of our transportation contract. So, we do see an increase in that as well. And then we've heard a lot about our health insurance. It started out as 18% that we were projecting and we it's been now finalized at 8 and a half%. So that's the the increase for our health insurance. Um and then there's other insurance like um the liability insurance and things of that sort that fall under other insurance and benefits. Um then I wanted to so the next page in the budget book I won't go through these pages. These are a little bit more detailed. um that you can take a look at and I would like to come down to um this page. So this is the information for how Pelum's budget is funded. Um so again we have the FY26 information on the left and then the FY27 information over here.
Um, and the reasons for that are the following. Um, it basically comes down to it's difficult to say how many appropriate sites there are to plant trees. So, I don't want to commit to a really big number before we know like what can actually fit. um plant uh if we're restricted to town owned properties, the biggest potential of course uh a lot of people think of is the road layout. Um but planting within the road layout uh makes it actually somewhat difficult to guarantee that these trees survive into maturity, which is whenever I plant trees, that's the goal. Uh I do want them to be there after I am gone, preferably. Um, if there's a pre-existing canopy, it starves the nursery, transplants of light and water, which they need uh quite badly after going through the transplant process. Uh, and if it's a forested street such as how and most of cross, uh, replantings um on those streets specifically are necessary to preserve the forested aesthetic.
So, we earned 68.7% of our overall points in those areas that were on the previous slide. Um, in the uh 2324 school year, we uh were at 66.2. So, we had an overall a 2.5 percentage point increase. We were identified as having an ELA performance index gap as well as a graduation rate gap for our 2022 cohort. So, when we have a 2022 cohort, that's our six-year graduation gap um that I'm referring to. So, when you have your highnee students, what they do is they break out highnee students and non- high need students. As a reminder, our high need students are anyone who qualifies as a multilingual learner, a student with a disability, or someone who qualifies to receive free and reduced lunch. You could be in one of those categories or you could be in all three and you would count as one. Okay.
There will be a teacher assigned to that that can help support those programs. Um students who need interpreting services will also have those interpreting services there. Um we'll have supervisory we have supervising staff that also will be going out. the directors, myself will be going out making sure that that that community is um getting the getting what they need in terms especially the training and supports that that school is going to need because it is going to be very different for a school site. You know, we're used to it through an through in itinerant services, but now you're talking about having kids there on a regular basis. And so that's going to inquire in need a lot more intensive training and supports. And that is where we'll definitely want to be reaching out getting other agencies involved. I know when I was in Texas, I had cooperative sites in Texas and we I always reached out and got resources wherever I could to come in and provide.
having me and bug me whenever she offer three minutes of free play free game heads up seminars or something. The students have to be opted in. we have to parent and that's another part of our our struggle is that parents have to agree to allow their students to take the surveys to bring back the letters by their parents whether they get yes or no like I got all back but two and those two kids haven't been in school the last three days so you can't expect them to bring back No, no, one of the ladies who was in um my set of meeting um said we need to stop thinking like teachers and start thinking like parents um as to what parents want from us. Well, I know when my daughter bugs me and buggs me to do something, most of the time it's because she's going to have a reward or an extra point or something.
Similar to having honors algebra or honors geometry like we have at our comprehensive high schools. This would just be the honors course that our students at Vista who had a readiness level for honors course would would take. One note is that these are not additional sections. These courses, the honors sections would be offered concurrently um with the regular sections at Vista. The next course is called a capstone course. It's an elective course that would also be utilized at Vista. It would be the equivalent of a 1.0 elective credit and students would work on their capstone during their time at Vista. And once they have demonstrated um the competencies for the capstone and in a mastery based learning approach, um students would then be eligible to earn that credit. And so there's a home room like type there's a home room like course that currently exists where students work on a lot of different things and one of those is their passion project and so it would be um action researchbased a lot of data and um research would go into the project and it would definitely be a project um and a problem that students would like to explore to further develop their critical thinking and problem solving skills.
When concerns are reported, the district follows established procedures to review and investigate the situation. These processes may involve individuals who are not directly connected to the concern in order to ensure fairness and objectivity. District policies, including those related to employee conduct and procedures, are publicly available on our website, jcsc.org, under the board section. Our employee handbook and teacher contracts are also available on our website. In closing, thank you for taking the time to review this information. Jennings County Schools is filled with students and staff who care deeply for one another and work each day to create a safe, supportive, and positive learning environment. We value the partnership with our families in the community. If you have questions, concerns, or need support, please contact your school administration or use one of the reporting methods to share information. Thank you. Then included um on now posted on our website or will be posted shortly, sorry, um is a one-page bullying data sheet.
>> Oh. Oh, they hit it up so far. >> It was a Fenick. If it was the Octane, they would have got it. >> Mhm. >> Ooh, they're playing very heavily aggressive. >> Come on. Come on. >> Oh, >> what? >> Oh, did Jordan hit it away? >> No, it was their uh other dude. He came flying in from the side and blocked it. >> Okay. I thought it was Jordan because I saw him leave the net. >> Yeah. No, Jordan hit it in. Yeah, >> we for real never let him know our next move. >> Come on, Jordan. >> Jordan, please. >> Carter, catch it. Carter catches it. He touched >> but gave it to him. Yeah, >> it's fine. It's fine. Steals it, >> but they >> goes into Buddy fights it. >> Brings it back neutral. Gets it in the air for Carter.
So the salary information that I showed you on the previous screen and the expense information comes down and then we want to look at the bottom and this talks about how the the budget is supported. So we have normally we anticipate from Pelum from the town of Pelum a 2 and a half% increase over the prior year. Um however this year the town has stated that they will be level funding um all of their departments and not um providing an increase. So while the amount so we would have expected to have um 1.913 here if the budget was fully funded um and no reductions. Um then we have our separate payment for charter. So the town of Pelum is going to cover the charter tuition cost that we must pay. So it's in the budget as an expense that we'll pay, but also the town of Pelum is going to offset that.
Um there is a there as we saw on the sitewalk uh for those who were there um there is a very vibrant um layer of young naturally regenerating trees that the forest is producing. Um and the existing canopy trees next to the proposed removals would also fill in the space over the next few years. Um, the road layout tends to be somewhat hostile to trees. Um, even outside of whether or not there's an overarching canopy from the forest, they got to deal with road salt. They have to deal with compacted soil, poor soil, urban soil, uh, not what they're used to growing up in in the wild. Um, they can get whacked by snow plows. um you know, when they're plowing the roads, their priority is to clear the roads, uh not necessarily to watch for small trees that are easy to miss at night.
So, what they look at is how um students who were non- high needs graduated compared to high needs. If we were an outlier according to where the state was, you're considered to have a graduation rate gap. Um so that was the case. Our gap was 11.4 and the state was at 8.6. So because we're above that state gap as an outlier, then we um we we are actually considered to have a graduation rate gap. Our ELA gap, the state threshold, which was the gap plus one standard deviation was 16.9. We were 17.7. So that's putting us in having an achievement gap of how our high need students are performing compared to our non- high needs perform. and we can ask a couple questions about that later if if you have um any clarifying questions. So for academic achievement, what we have here is how it breaks out and what that looks like of how our students are performing on each content area.
I've already been in contact with Galedet and their programs and seeing they said that they would be happy to come out and train um as well. So uh Paul Saunders helped me get in touch with some people there. So we already have building some of those networks uh throughout national organizations to come help us uh train the site locations and really get a better understanding of what the impacts of deaf deafness is going to be for those students and how we can build support for those kids within those within those populations and re within the the regular ed populations within the specialed teachers within that whole community. Right. That's the that's the real goal is building all that within that community. You're right. It is a big task. >> Thank you very much uh for covering those point. But I'm really specifically targeting the access to American Sign Language and how much we need to make sure that the staff who are supporting those kids are able to communicate with the kids who need to communicate with them.
If they turn it in by this date and it's on this date, then she's so excited that she will she will like in my face. Do this, do this, do this. Yeah, we got some interesting feedback in one of our proarian and she said um you guys are really bad at communicating with us but we post a lot of digital and I I made this and I was like we post everything we said in some paper home but not as much as we used to. So I think there aren't a lot of parents that want paper as much as you know that's you know taking like the teacher and the educators and you know all the things like there are some parents who want it on paper. Plus the thing I'm sure we have a lot of parents don't even have computers at home. Yeah.
Um the last course is a course that we actually that you all actually approved at the December board meeting uh advanced placement business with personal finance. I think days after the board meeting we found out that the state had provided us with a crosswalk to the fourth year math essential standards. And so we're just rebringing it to your attention so that we could count this course as a fourthyear math course. and we have certified that the essential math standards required by the state of Arizona are embedded within this course. Thank you for your consideration. >> Can I get a motion? >> I move the governing board approved the new high school courses as presented. >> Second.
And so, I'm just going to briefly read through what's on that paper, but again, this will be posted online soon. We are going to keep an updated by quarter bullying and reporting data on the website. So, this is 2026 for quarters 1, 2, and 3. Um the number of reports that we've received uh regarding bullying or harassment to our tip platforms have been 14 in total this year. Six were turned in on our Google form um August-October. Once we implemented Say Something in November, we have had since that's been implemented in November to now, eight um reported on that portal. Total tips to Say Something though in 2026 have been 18. The top two categories have been uh five reports for harassment and three of bullying and cyberbullying. But other category examples um that could be included in that 18 have been tips about suicide, depression, anxiety, cutting, self-harm, school safety, and then there's other additional choices about student well-being.
Carter is going crazy. Carter is going insane in the aerials. Sitting at 478 for a score with >> a very nice 1 minute 48 score >> and a 48 mile per hour. >> Hey 4848. >> Ooh. If we win this, we got a state against Hobart. >> That's going to be fun. >> Looks like we have someone in the chat saying, "There we go. Good work. Wait. Be patient. >> That way. >> Right there. They can't see us. >> Ooh. As we were distracted, they scored. Uhoh. Oh, Jordan tried to fight in the air again. >> Oh my god. >> I missed it and it set it up for the team. >> Who's coach Nate? >> Oh my god. >> Who's coach Nate? Yeah, he's the Super Smash coach. Reinhardt, >> like the only of the three coaches you haven't met because you don't do Super Smash.