It's our online summer school option. Our instructional design for 1st and 2nd grade, again rising 1st and 2nd grade, will be ELA aligned to the science of reading and math. For 3rd and 4th grade, so that's our current 2nd and 3rd going into 3rd and 4th grade, it'll be tightly aligned to IREAD-3, especially for students who have not passed, including vocabulary and phonics, literature comprehension, and non-fiction comprehension, as well as some test-taking strategies. Uh and it will also be ILEARN aligned for math. It'll be ILEARN aligned in both math and ELA for grades 5 through 8. And all curriculum instruction will be in English, including at our dual language schools. And we'll offer both a pre and post assessments to measure how our students perform. Who will be invited to attend? Um in our elementary uh we will be inviting um students to attend. All 2nd and 3rd graders who do not pass IREAD will be required to attend.
Um so any uh comments on their own uh that they say are on their own as individuals, not as select board members and would not be an open meeting law violation. >> Thanks, Joe. Welcome. Thank you, sir. >> Yeah, Mr. Lopez, the floor is yours. >> Yeah.
So I think we are making great efforts through our schools and our principles and the transportation department to move forward in that. Some of the assumptions and guidance in this FY27 school budget proposal would be to provide adequate resources to meet legal mandates. We obviously have to comply with collective bargaining agreements and other contractual obligations to maintain our programs and staffing levels to utilize the best available information to project changes in costs such as tuitions and revenues. Establish funding levels estimate sorry level funding for all federal and state grants. reducing and shifting costs so that we can save some money and aligning our Greenfield School Committee policy budget planning by ensuring the educational welfare of the children in our schools while attempting to balance the valid interest of our taxpayers because we know that people pay, you know, pretty decent taxes here in Greenfield and there's only a limit each year that things can go up.
Um no matter how much the school puts out nutritional lunches, they get thrown away. And you still see the kids who cannot afford school lunches go to McDonald's or or fast foods. Um so, how does this actually translate into better nutrition? I mean, it sounds good. It's so hard to vote against something like this, but you know, when you come down to it, is the money actually the value of changing people's way of nutrition and eating that this is going All of these positions are going to change that. So, this approach is as Brian said, this community-based. We are bringing to bear our care centers across the state, 22 of them, so that we can engage with the local community in a way that it is a partnership. It is beneficial to both sides and provide not only the education, food as medicine is a one of the new programs that we are now working with the medical school.
All of students get to make their own outfits. They're not allowed to use any fabric, and they rock that runway. Those are our MC's up there, Quinton Rufo and Gabby Baines. They're wonderful people. If you see them in public, tell them I said hi. Um, and Tri, the Music Honor Society, is having their own um like recital. It's the first year that they've done something like that. And anyone that's in honor societ or in their honor society gets to sign up and perform a piece for all of their peers. And that is the 26th, I believe. Yeah, that's all of my music things. And middle school, I don't have a lot about them. Obviously, they're performing in Showtime, both their ac cappella group and their show choir. Um, and their basketball season is over. Uh the girls basketball team uh their well their A team lost to Geneva which was really sad but their B team won their conference tournament which it's pretty impressive if you ask me and they have their first little track meet next week I believe.
Taking away that that bus service of students creates a financial hardship on families within our school community. Many families, such as ours, are now faced with the possibility of taking our students away from their home school, their friends, their teachers, their administrators, and places that they're familiar with. Moving them from there to their school could potentially cause emotional and emotional damage and sadness for others. My children are already crying over leaving their friends, missing joyful bus rides with their peers, and missing ICS in general. I am asking the board to reconsider this poor decision. It will change ICS from the community it is to just another neighborhood school. For reference, I have three children there. That would be $1,290 next year just for bussing alone. >> [snorts] >> If a family of three starts at ICS for the duration of time over 9 years from K through 8th grade, it would cost that family, if there is no increase, $11,610 for school bussing.
The ones that we list are what I would call our standard general education courses, and you'll notice we have more listed than in previous years. Um there's a variety of different reasons for that. Um part of it is that we we have a lot of really exciting courses, elective courses, for our students. And while that's fantastic, it sometimes can lead students to going in a variety of different directions. So, while, as you know from the memo, we have 43 courses, many of them are capstone courses, what we would consider capstone courses. Many of them are AP. So, for example, whether it's an AP course stacked with other courses or a standalone, uh 10 of those courses are AP, six of them are dual credit, three are Project Lead the Way, and 19 are capstone courses. And so, when we look at what courses we'd like to run with under 20, we oftentimes look >> [clears throat] >> not just at the numbers, but also the courses in terms of the pathway of courses, where they fit within the pathway, and how those courses impact students in their learning.
>> Any discussion? Hearing none. If we could take a vote, please. >> Julie Jetty, >> yes. >> Jason Jansik, >> yes. >> D. Darling, >> yes. >> Bridget Sandlin, >> yes. >> Okay, that motion is approved. Next up, we have uh the approval of the treasures report. Mr. Shepard. >> Yes. Yes. So, just a reminder that we're bringing the treasures report this week. We normally would do this to the committee the whole, but because of the tight time frame, uh, and we're still working our way through uh uh the kinks with uh with Skyward and making sure that data is uh um being sent appropriately to forecast 5, which handles our our projections, which allows us to put together uh this slideshow for you. So, uh I don't have much to say on the treasur report, so we'll go through it fairly quickly. And of course, we'll uh uh stop and pause at the cash flow slide, which is the most important slide of the the slide deck.
Correct. We uh health services follows 10 month. So, what is unique about this district is the RNs, those nurses who are not certified school nurses, they do get to start three days before certified staff. And that time in their building is used for exactly these purposes. So, myself and there's three other certified school nurses, we cannot come in until well, we can. We we just are volunteering hours. Um but we don't our schedule isn't set to go until the teachers and then the expectation of following their schedule for the day. So, there may be um a need to look at the the certified nurses in coming in the same time the RNs start. Because they're >> unusual in in most districts that nurses are starting even school certified school nurses three days, sometimes up to five days prior to staff coming in. So, it's it's kind of unique here that they actually start the same day as as all the teachers do um in the schedule.
uh we're looking at language, communication, cognitive development and the approaches to learning and what is best for them developmentally. uh we have as s uh Sandra said that we have the observations that help um our students to respond to individual students needs and again we've ex received that extensive coaching and I mean they practically live here and are with us once a week and in those classrooms and I do want to say again thank you to our prekk team and then also thank you to those brave uh nine teachers that stepped up to say yes come in and look at my practices and help me to um become a better practitioner. >> I do want to add to that and just let you know that there is research that shows that the kids survey the data from that does impact and have you can look at that to guide what's going to happen in third grade on your AR.
And um working with students. And then we also have two teams, one an elementary team visiting Earhart Elementary. Um just to see conscious discipline in a school that's had it for been going on there about 6 years. And then in April a small team visiting Jeff. So those are just some things that we have coming up. >> [cough] >> A lot [snorts] going on. Yeah. Uh-huh. I have a quick question on the the mandatory math screening that they're doing for the K2. Is that an additional like screener or is there something we're already using that can act as that screener? No. The we just received word from the IDOE that uh we do write the formative assessment grant. And that grant will pay for the screener, but you have to choose one of two, either Forefront or I-Ready. Um so and we will want we want to use the grant to pay for the screener.
Uh they will also be receiving new title services. We restructured our title title services. We got rid of the ones that passed, uh kept the ones that still needed to be in, and added some more so that we can get them a little more progress before May. Uh the ones that will be taking it in the summer, obviously or they will be attending our summer school with the Boys & Girls Club, and we'll be testing them in June of 2026. >> [cough] [clears throat] >> For our second graders this year, preliminary, we have 47% passing and 23% on track. Now on the screen you can see that we are right on par with the state. Actually, we're a little ahead of them with the on track kids. So we're we're pretty excited about that, and there's a bubble in there in the 20% at risk for our kids.
So, we have um, last year was the first year that our second graders were required in Indiana to take IREAD. Before that it was a pilot option, which we did do, um, but we wanted to um, step up the game with how we incentivized and um, kind of motivated our second grade team and teachers to do IREAD and be successful on that. So, we were very excited for this data. So, 54% of our second grade students passed IREAD um, this year, which is amazing. They do not have to retest in third grade, which is a huge load off of our third grade teachers. So, we are super excited about that. Um, in the second grade test it divides them into three chunks. So, they can either pass, be on track to pass in third grade or at risk to not pass in third grade and we had 19% of our students on track to pass in third.
>> Yeah. >> I just wanted to make sure it's for the whole year. >> Yeah. And the contracts that we're going to run um this would these contracts if accepted would start July 1st. >> Okay. >> And go through June 30th, which is also what we are negotiating with the association as well. a July 1st through June 30th contract. So, >> all right. >> Okay. Thank you, gentlemen, for coming today. Appreciate it. >> Thank you for the information. >> You're welcome. >> Do I have to go out the same way or can I go out to school? >> Um, do you mean come go out these door? >> Come out here. Can I go straight out past the jam or do I go go all the way back to the main head? >> No, you can head out. >> I can go out this way.
Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> I will start with Secretary Dere. >> I. >> Vice President Moore. >> I. >> President. >> Hi. >> Trusty Kefir. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Uh Trusty Hollingsworth. >> Hi. >> Trusty Ragland. >> Hi. >> And Trusty Caitlyn. >> Hi. >> Okay, that's unanimous. Uh with one abstension and it passes. Thank you. Uh next on the agenda is the consideration of personnel recommendations. Michelle Williams. >> Good evening, President Duckworth, members of the board, Dr. Hoover. Tonight's personnel recommendations include the following: retirements, resignations, termination, regular appointments, position reassignment, temporary appointment, sick leave bank, resignations from extra duty, appointment to extra duty, reassignment of extra duty, after school appointments, and consideration of the administrative appointment of Matthew Han, head boys track coach at Central High School. These recommendations are presented for your approval. Move approval. >> Second. >> A motion and a second uh on personnel items.
So, we've got about almost 114,000 left in there that we will then use for those projects of the resurfacing that Mr. Gib was spoke of. So, um yeah, I guess that's all we have there. And I just have a very detailed note about everything I just said. So you could read that in there if you'd like.
Um that's our current 2nd and 3rd grade. So, right now, since we've closed the IREAD window, we are talking with families now. Students who are below proficiency on iReady or who are 10 points or less above proficiency, so right on that line, will be encouraged to attend. Any exceptions to these two descriptors will be made at the principal's discretion. Year-round preschool continues, and so we will be happy to offer year-round preschool at all uh six of our preschool sites through June and July. And then for students who will be attending summer learning academy, do we do have aftercare options? Um we will offer aftercare for families Monday through Thursday, June 8th to the 25th, just like the summer learning academy. That cost for those four afternoons a week would be $50 a week. In June, there are only two Fridays in June where we will have summer learning academy, and that's not a holiday.
>> Uh thank you and uh good evening members of the commission. For the record, my name is Israel Lopez with the Guitarist Company. on behalf of the applicant. Um the only uh thing I would add just in the form of additional background and summary um to augment uh the vice chair's comments is uh there were in addition to those broad topics that uh were laid out, there were um significant numbers of uh improvements to the to the plan set that we submitted initially. and we haven't talked about uh all of those at each of the hearings, but I I think it's fair to say that there isn't a single uh sheet on that drawing set that hasn't been modified with additional notes and clarifications at at the request of uh the commission and and the peer reviewers. Uh and we also um exchanged a number of uh comment memos uh with the conservation agent um responding to emails and and comments from the agent uh with respect to uh changes to the plan.
also achieving the greatest educational returns and contributions to the educational program for dollars expended and establishing levels of funding that will provide highquality education for all of our students. So, some of our budget numbers, you'll see the FY27 budget is a 6.39% increase in the all funds. That's all funds. And what you see a lot though is the local appropriation and that's what we talked about at 7.46 and you'll see that going from 23,600 to 254 for the local appropriation. When you total everything in you potentially could have a budget of 297 on that. Some factors that contribute to the local increase on the next slide are outof district special education tuitions increased by $67,000, right? A 19% increase. Um you guys have done a nice job here. You can't plan for that. You you can't plan for moveins unless you had a big bucket of money at the end of the rainbow.
And this kind of approach, if the issues that are identified, we will pivot to address those as and assess our impact simultaneously. That's the difference moving forward. We believe we lost SNAP-Ed program because the impact assessment may have not been as optimal as we would have wanted. And this is an important issue as you as you know, it is something that we must try and we are trying to take a different approach to address this particular issue. Um we provide from our stations uh last year we provided over 20,000 lb of fresh produce to uh different communities, food banks on all our islands. And on Oahu, over 16,000 lb of food. So, what we are saying is if community identifies a community garden is needed in a community, we would enable our own place, create a community garden because it's one person at a time, changing lives one person at a time.