So, we're want to make sure that it's the rigorous, that it's aligned to standards, but that it also is going to have that culture and climate aspect. So, that when we are looking at our resources, we want to make sure that the students see themselves, but also that we are providing resources that are accessible to all students. So, for science, we focused on three of our core classes. We focused on biology, chemistry, and Earth and Space Science. And so, our review team was very large. We had myself, we had the AP of curriculum instruction from OE, Kurt Locksco. We had a dean, we had a both department chairs, and then we had a a variety of science teachers representing all of the different courses, and then also having multilingual and special education teachers involved. Science is unique in that it's been working on their curriculum map and scope and sequences for several years um and close to a decade, and we're now finally to the point where we have landed the plane.
Um, and so we should land somewhere between 93 and a half% and 95%. Uh, again, that is a conservative estimate. Um, and we're we're pretty happy with that. So, uh, as we get closer, uh, we'll know more, but right now I feel comfortable telling you that we're going to land between 93 and 95%. And again, we have built a system, uh, all the folks in the back here. So, uh, the the north team is here, the east team is here, uh, Mr. Geel and his folks are here. Um, and they're all working very hard to diagnose individual student needs that that leads to individual student success and then collective success for BCSSC. And so that's exactly the way the system's supposed to work and it's in uh we're we're getting through it. So we're doing a great job. Uh, next slide. So uh we again here are KPIs, key performance indicators.
And I think that Dr. Terrell has done an excellent job of making sure that we don't only call it teacher appreciation week, but educator appreciation week and that everybody that works in our schools is educating our students and makes an impact. Along with being um impactful are many of our extracurricular activities and I want to highlight Green Machine, which is over at Crown Point High School. They, along with the art club at Crown Point High School, um partnered together to celebrate Earth Day and they created rain barrels to um really, I think, explain to others in our community the importance of water conservation and the opportunities that we have here to partner with our community through production of these rain barrels. Animal shelter drive was held by our Pulse Club, which is a service organization that helps problem-solve. They bring together um student leaders from various clubs and so they made donations to the Lake County Animal Shelter and got to go over to the animal shelter not only to provide the donations, but then to see some of the animals as well.
We will see revenue come in and expenditures go out in June. Um and so you will see that in reported in July for June. Moving on to the operations fund, um that of course we will not see the revenue the majority of our revenue come in until June for that Um through property tax revenue. And then with our expenditures, we're really right on target with our expenditures as well. We did have some higher expenditures at the a couple months before when January and February we're starting to level out a little bit now. So we're really on track for where we need to be. Moving on to the rainy day fund, absolutely no activity whatsoever for that one. So we're holding steady at 3.9 million. And so now I'll move on to the historical comparison. If you look at the education fund, you'll see we're at that 3.5 million that I just talked about.
The ultimate goal was to have one of those three partner take over the three partner sites, but that has not come to fruition. And so, tonight I'll be seeking approval to allow the contracts to expire and not move forward with renewal. So, that means we have to think differently and get innovative for next year's programming. So, as we look at um the progress we made this year, our largest sites, Amy Beverland, Forest Glen, Mary Castle, we were able to fully staff those and to ensure that families were able to receive care. All three of those sites are over 150 students with Amy Beverland and Forest Glen at almost 200 students in after care. So, in a way to make sure that we are continuing to offer services to our families, we are proposing and asking for permission to look at implementing cluster sites for next year.
So, Ashley actually did the um faceoff. Won by Ashlin. That's number 13 on Westwood Miller. I have a feeling if Ashlin scores whatever, coach Katie probably will call another timeout to uh stop the game. That's going to be a Kendall might have got her on the head. So, it's going to be Westwood ball. And they did. They caught her for two minutes. So, that's unfortunate. But Kendall, honestly, such a great player, good teammate as well, always has a smile on her face, but very aggressive defender and kind of does her job and and her teammates love her. So, it's just unfortunate play. So Ashley's going to be short one player. >> Wow, great save by Alana. That's at least number nine. >> At least number nine from Alana Duffy. Lana to Samantha. Over to Duffy. I'm sorry. Over to Forester. Ball got away. Wow. All right, that's at least number 10.
>> All right. Thank you. >> Who's doing the motions? >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> She can read my short hand. out of state travel. No child care program. >> So I want to review at the last meeting you had a presentation from early childhood and there was some u miscommunicated information to you based on some information that apparently was misunderstood. So, you had uh Amory Girtton uh report to you that uh we were looking to have all three programs under one. We were able to take all three programs uh under uh chapter 74. Uh but apparently that's not the case. Uh we can we we have to continue to uh support EEC uh staffing. EEC uh falls for our toddlers and our infants have to stay under EEC and chapter 74 falls under uh the uh early childhood students fall under chapter 74 in which uh it was reported that they would be under the responsibility of the school committee.
It's a it's a fairly recent addition. >> freshman in college and she took the PSAT in 8th grade so that was 6 years ago. >> Okay. Um I think it's a good baseline. >> I think maybe that was why that was offered. Um cuz it's an extra. >> Right. PSATs are not required. >> in 8th grade. >> It's required in 10th. >> But the conversation, I don't know if my mic's on, but the conversation, I mean, I think we all feel looking at this degree of detail, it speaks to what we heard at public comment. These cuts are rough. They they reduce what our educators um potentially reduce what our educators can offer. And then it gets worse on the next page, right? >> Let's make sure we're finished on the front. I Oh, good. >> For clarity, this is what the board decided to cut when was presented with 6% to 4.86%.
I think there's more communication going out now. Um and and basically I just wanted to kind of report that out. All right. Thank you very much. Progress, we had an incredible board year. I appreciate the support progress. >> Thank you, Dr. Tomko. Uh Mr. Labou. >> Thank you, Mr. Fulgrino. >> [clears throat] >> Um we just had maintenance done on our on our sound system here. So, for those of you that have been coming to meetings, it's a little bit clearer, I hope. Um we just had our our our training and we had our maintenance done. So, uh hopefully we have the uh clarity that we that we're looking for here. Um our business office just continues to work with building and grounds to complete necessary uh maintenances and complete um upgrades that we've had planned in the past and and so um just navigating the next couple of months of making sure that we follow through uh with things that are expected to be completed from a facility standpoint.
We are We have our curriculum map. We have our scope and sequence, um which is something that the team has been working on for several years, and we're finally able to say that we have those with common assessments um that will be ready to implement in the fall. And so, we worked prior to the school year with lots and lots of conversations happened. Wanted to make sure that we were all in alignment and focused on the next gen science standards. Um and And in January, we pulled the team together and we actually started putting down on paper what our curriculum maps and our scope and sequences were. Then we started working on our common assessments and then we started looking at a variety of resources. And so John will walk through the different resources that we have um chosen based off of the ones that we have brought in vendors.
Uh we continue to meet with parents on a regular basis. Uh and again we are trying to increase participation by both parents and students and that leads to completion. Uh we have seen significant decreases in the number of individuals with FS uh which means more students passing more classes. We have seen a 93.5% reduction in the number of students on the credit deficient list which is a wild thing to say but that again is I guess if it's the we're on key performance indicators that is the key of the key. So again, keeping students on track has led us to be able to post these numbers. So again, last year's historic graduation rate, 92.4%, we should see another increase. Thank you. >> Questions? >> Yeah, real real quick. Um, one thing that this is all great work. So, the the academic coaches are doing everything that we had hoped they would do.
So, really big impact to our community. And last but not least, I want to thank Taft. They um started a construction club this year and so students recently learned how to pour and form concrete as well as how to drive nails. And um we were able to see in Super Things the construction club over at Colonel Wheeler. So, it's awesome that both of our middle schools have had this experience. So, just want to thank all educators um throughout our corporation for everything that they do every day from academics to extracurriculars and co-curriculars. >> Excellent. Thank you, Ms. Morales. We'll move on to item 6.04, Director of Exceptional Education, Ms. Vasquez. >> Good evening, President Smith, members of the board. Uh I'd like to take a minute to thank my team. We held our annual transition fair last Wednesday. Um and it really was truly a team effort um to organize and um implement the fair this year.
And that is approximately 31% cash balance against our appropriation. So we're really healthy still there. And then I will move on to the operations. We're at 699,000. It is low, but it is still higher than we were last year at this time compared to our expenditures versus our appropriation. But we're still strong and we'll we'll be continued to be fine. Just because I love asking questions and I know you won't have an answer to this tonight, but I'm looking for maybe at the next board meeting when you present financials is just an update on food service. That's one of the other funds that I kind of watch. I know we're getting towards the end of the year. Just curious how the health on the food service, where we're at. I do know it's in the all and I have an idea, but I would just love to have an idea at the next board meeting or even at a work session.
This will allow our families to still have the programming that they want, but help us to maximize our staffing efficiency so that we don't have to go back to wait lists. So, the proposed plan for next year would be that Amy Beverland, Forest Glen, and Mary Castle would stay as single sites due to their numbers. And then, we would look to cluster our sites that have less than 60 students. So, all of these are around 50 to 60 students. So, Brook Park and Harrison Hill with our host site being Brook Park. Crestview and Skiles Test with Skiles Test being the host. Oaklandon and Sunnyside with Oaklandon being the host site. And Indian Creek and Winding Ridge with Winding Ridge being the host site.
Got 10 saves from Alana. >> Alana to Payton Trip to Maggie McInness. The junior junior Lana Payton Maggie we need to go over here down by eight >> short-handed. Happy WAC is covering this. We got some action over here. Ashlin definitely needs a goal. >> Uh I think they called offside so All right, we have >> eight. Yep. Ruff is called off sides. Vi Viddy trying to defend over there. Ball over to Westwood. >> So, I'm guessing right now West was just going to try and uh >> Interesting. I thought they were just trying to keep the ball outside and not prevent Ashlin from stealing, but they're trying to score. >> That's a goal by Westwood. So, it's probably going to end the game right now. It's 18-9. So Westwood has four goals this quarter to Ashland's three. Got eight seconds left. Clock does come to a stop.
Uh but the truth of the matter is after we uh after that meeting uh we contacted the uh chapter 74 staff contacted EEC to make that change and they said that that was not accurate. So the truth of the matter is um we will continue to work under the EEC lensure for early childhood uh for the toddlers and uh uh infants and remain chapter 74. So what that means is that students who want to work with um infants and toddlers have to get fingerprinted. Uh the other students do not have to. So, we are going to put a early plan in place um now that we have our uh freshman with us, an early uh plan in place to get them fingerprinted uh trying to get them fingerprinted before the end of the school year. So, we'll be contacting parents and trying to get parents support and come up with a plan that uh parents would feel comfortable with.
So this had nothing to do with the reductions that we now have to deal with. And this is why the argument at the time was we shouldn't maybe pre-cut our budget. >> Okay. Stephen, do you want to >> But for clarity, that's why I wanted to I think for next time, right? Next time we go at this, we can have those general buckets where it says supplies and then the PSAT is in there. Like that was never a lot of these were not you know, information that was forthcoming about it. >> No, and I mean, I sat on the finance committee. We didn't see any of this. So, I think, you know, if we're going into this, right, with our eyes wide open with what the cuts are, we need to know what the cuts are. Not instructional supplies, you know, 4% because, I mean, you need to compare apples to apples.
Uh we're also moving uh in the direction of evaluating and amending our long-range facility plan, which is essentially our district working with our professionals um to to look at our facilities and make sure that we're planning ahead over the the next several years um to determine uh needs. Uh the last piece that I just wanted to share with everyone today is um we completed our third training this year with with administrators and secretaries uh in regards to purchasing, working towards um being um supporting all of our documents um in in a digital way and making sure that we streamline our procurement process, making sure that we um we have all the necessary backup and making sure that that that that information is available for the public uh when called upon. Um so, I want to thank the the secretaries. I want to thank the administrators um who are focusing on on on doing the right things and making sure that we handle uh each case um each purchase order uh with with the type of care and attention that it deserves.
Um we had one that was um zoomed in from England, which was amazing. Um it was like 3:00 in the morning for them, but it was 2:00 in the afternoon for us. It was great. Um and then going through, looking at everything, making sure that we have our resources, we're presenting the resources for information to you now. We will then put it on a 30-day review um and then in June we will come back and ask for um you guys to vote on if these are the resources that you approve for us to use moving forward. So when we were looking at our resources, there were several things that we wanted to consider. One, we wanted to make sure that we were aligned to the next gen science standards, that we were looking at the social emotional learning standards, and that we were being culturally responsive in teaching leading standards.
Um, two real quick, hopefully simple requests to add to this. Would it be possible to not just look at uh uh you know the quantity of students we have, but the quality of graduates that we get? So by that maybe because we're seeing a decrease in failing students, maybe get like an average GPA that we could look at to see hopefully over time we'll see that trend up uh more and more because we've got kids that are are passing and graduating. And then I don't know another metric might be good to look at average SAT score. And so between those two, I think that would give us a really good feel for not just that we're graduating kids, but the kids that are graduating are performing in a much better way. Large in part uh to the effort on the academic coaches and assistant principles in the cohort system.