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Um so we expect that work to be done at school. Um if they're absent or they don't get class their work done in class, they would have that um homework then as well. Um we will ask students to do 20 minutes of reading just to make sure that they're reading and progressing on that. Um we think with our new CKLA curriculum that this will help continue to listen progressively not have to stop and go back and re-teach because some kiddos didn't get their homework done. >> we'll both be focusing on with their staff this year is and our kiddos is reading. And getting books in the kids' hands rather than looking at a device. We want to to have books in their hands and do more reading. Thank you. >> So I our overall goal is for students to give their best effort during the school day while maintaining a healthy balance at sports, academics success, success, well-being, and strong family connections.
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June 18. So, we're literally right up against both of those. Um, we don't have to do anything with that. It doesn't really mean anything. You could appoint somebody who has no intention of of running. But, if you want somebody that's running, they also have to do paperwork by June. 18. I would just like to publicly say that my resignation has zero to do with the financial stability or closing of the Flint Cultural Center, period. It is all because of my work life. I am working out of state next 4 and 1/2, possibly longer, years. And I don't feel that I can be in Michigan and serve the people of Albion Township fairly. So, this is say that out loud and public. That's what was in my resignation letter. Um, it's been a privilege to serve. It It was very sort of kind of thankless at times and kind of painful at times, but I think that's the duty of every patriot is to be a civic servant.
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Uh, speaking of special events, next Wednesday, our preschool bulldog buddies who are moving on to kindergarten will be at the fairgrounds at 12:30. If you'd like to see their sendoff to kindergarten, uh we call it the Bulldog Bash, but that is happening uh next Wednesday at 12:30 for our Bulldog buddies heading to kindergarten. Uh, finally tonight, I just want to uh recognize and thank everyone working in our elementary schools with DARE graduations, field days, music programs, talent shows, award ceremonies, um things happening in classrooms, just our our teachers and staff do so much to make meaningful, memorable moments for our kids. Um they've been pushing hard with high expectations all year. It's been a great year. just uh looking forward to a strong finish. So uh just grateful for everyone and all their hard work. Thank you. >> 6.03 director of secondary education. >> Thank you, Mr.
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As they must know what contaminants are present, where they are, and in what concentrations. What we have before us and what you've explained to us this evening was in the original RAM report that I read last year. Uh and the subsequent RAM reports restated them and you've restated them here. My own perspective is that there's not a whole lot of characterization of this site. This is a big site and I don't understand your comment about you know it was your comment um that um that you haven't checked under the buildings because that's not an industry standard. Um it's not unusual when sites old factory sites um are are transferred to know what's under the building. We know that uh I think that that you know as well that um some of this contamination is probably from Nyanza and some of it is probably not from Nyanza.
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But I just wanted to set the record straight. >> Thank you. >> I'm good with it though. >> No, I apologize if it came across. >> No way. No worries. Thank you, >> Dr. S Magguire. >> Thank you. Um I just wanted to just build off um what Chair Beckwith had suggested and that is compiling really uh a list of all of the sort of audits and reports and different entities that do come in to the school district that are independent of the Department of Education. Um when the department of education comes in to um do a review, they don't come in themselves. They hire an outside group of folks who come in and examine all different uh facets of the school district and finance is certainly one of them. Um so we just want to make it clear and we we just want you to know that when there's an audit done, we're not auditing ourselves.
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Contingency. Yes. Good word. Good word so available that we won't run ourselves into trouble. Yes. So, strike the word padding from the record and replace with contingencies. No money tree, Anne. No money tree. We haven't figured that one out yet. Okay. Well, that was my last Oh, you're very welcome and thank you for paying attention to what's going on and being involved. I think we enjoy having more of a I always call it like a town hall town hall style. Well, it's a subcommittee of three. We can afford to be informal and get people answers. >> As best we can. I'm usually the only one that files those motions anyway so with the city. >> [laughter] >> Truth. Okay. All right, are we good? >> work. So, members of the subcommittee, do we have any other questions? I not about not about the budget update and discussion.
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This position would not be a teaching position, nor would it be an evaluation position. It would uh revolve around uh coaching, serving as a family liaison, um being able to support the trans trans uh transitions between things like birth to three and our uh pre-K programming, um and then ultimately our pre-K programming to K programming uh uh with our staff. They This role doesn't do evaluations, um but it is is involved in things like hiring, um para scheduling, um as I said before, coaching, collaborating with our teachers on the ground in that early childhood program. Because it is really important for our students' success. And um you know, long-term, short-term student success. But also, you know, early intervention is really powerful um for that success. And it does support students our ability to retain kids in our school system um as they they go on rather than looking at outplacements.
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Uh, I think we're kind of gone are the days where you purchase a textbook and that's your curriculum, you know? That's not the right way to do it. So, is there a cost for a license for each student? No, there is not. The online licensing uh is is free. We would have to get a privacy policy in place and that would be a process that we would have to put through uh through with our tech people. Uh but to access the book online for students is free. Um And Marilyn, I assume this $2,420 we have in the total number by day right now. Uh if I can just clarify, that would be the cost to buy a full class set and I think at this point we have kind of decided we really we're going to instead purchase hard copies on a case-by-case basis for the students because as we had dug even more into it, it really is more effective as the online resource.
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Partheon is not replacing teachers, okay? Again, just to explain this cuz I know the board had a lot of questions on this as well. Partheon is a software program that is basically going to take the place of what Real Time did for IEPs, right? And then integrate that with your MTSS, um, structure, uh, with regard to progress tracking, etc. So, we have none of that right now. We used to use something here called Edge Climber. With all due respect, we've had that here for about 5 years, we're just starting to use it this year, okay? So, what this does is now takes that and puts it all together and your MTSS teachers will tell you this. Puts this all together now, again, one-stop shopping, okay? So, if you have a child with an IEP right now, you go into an IEP meeting and I'm sure our team gives you a whole packet of papers, right?
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[cheering and applause] Less than an hour. All right. And now give our kiddos a minute to get seated. Our student body President Carter Dppo and senior class president Cooper Dale will lead the class of 2026 in the acceptance of diplomas and tassel change. Fellow CDIO graduates of the class of 2026, please stand. [cheering] >> [cheering and applause] [cheering] >> Please join us in moving your tassels from right to left. On behalf of the senior class, we accept these diplomas. Congratulations, graduates. [cheering and applause] [music] Heat [music] up [music] Let's [music] go. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat up [music] here. >> [music] [music] >> Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through [music] the wind wanting to start again. Do you ever feel disapp the paper [music] thin like a house apart. One blow from caving in.
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So, I thought hopefully the team could share thoughts so we didn't you and I didn't have to go through every single policy. So, >> I'm wondering if people are not want like not recording if they would like to go through and add a few of those things and we have a complete date by this date so that we could write our script and record. So, then let's do that. So, here's all our completed. Um why don't we if you guys don't mind we just do like in the homework you like kind of look and see um what you're willing to kind of review and go through. Does that work for everybody? Everybody kind of takes something they'll review and add the highlights to the presentation. >> Yes. No. >> I think that seems fine. >> Okay. Um I don't care. So, I can take whatever's left.
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And I joined this wonderful team here in District 62 um in July of 2017, and I always remember that cuz it's right after the Cubs won the World Series. Uh my technology team, um with me included, we make a baker's dozen. Um among many of the things we do is help answer all of the tickets that come in on a daily basis um in our help desk uh ticketing system. Um other things we do, we help purchase and support all technology equipment in the district. We assure all district software is compliant with the Student Online Personal Protection Act. Um we support families with student registration and enrollment. We provide district safety and security solutions, and we support digital literacy and AI usage. And why technology matters, um devices, applications, and online tools are required for students learning and district operations. You can't be a student in this district or an employee in this district without using technology to some capacity.
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Got it." Um so, um that does come across a little bit, too. Cool. Thank you. Hey Ryan, any concern or insight in lack of [clears throat] motivation? That's the largest, right? The largest uh non-qualifier here on the >> Yeah, no, I I mean, I I think >> years, like what were the numbers last year? What cuz Lack of motivation is sort of goes across, right? Because if if you are not if if you and your friends want to do something outside of school, there's a lot of students who do bands outside of school. They like group up and play video games. And then sometimes it's like great then let's go do e-sports. Like man, I don't know. So lack of motivation is sort of a wider range of things. I don't because this we don't Gosh, I haven't really looked at the correlation between kids grades and lack of motivation.
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Uh, any questions about CAT? >> Did you want to do DLT? >> Okay. Um, again, Kyle did the same sort of format. Um, first thing the people said as far as one of the positives, we survived with the interims interims. Um, and then moving forward with uh, future leadership. Uh, they felt the negotiations uh, DLT or this one's DLT. This is with all the district folks. They're appreciative of negotiations for both unions, for the teachers unions and see the best union. Gains at elementary with math and I ready. The CT celebrated some of the work they did with multilingual testing out the access testing out. CT also felt they did well having eight classrooms in mobiles. Going through. Transportation had nine new drivers. You know, and on and on. I mean it's there's it goes to the letter Q. I don't think you guys want me to read all of them.
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Does it just integrate with their current system? Yes. Okay. I just Mr. Stinner, I just want to add an appreciation for their work. The legislature just passed a law that says this kind of tool has to be in place by January 1 of 2027. It's just a testament. Nick mentioned to me a month or 6 weeks ago that they were working on this and I asked, is it possible to get ready for this summer for families that might have devices over the summer? And he said, let me talk to my team and to their credit in a matter of just a few weeks, they managed to get everything um online and and ready to go for this summer. And then uh I don't think Nick might have shared it if he was ready to share it publicly, but we've been looking for a culprit internally for the last several months.
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Um we kind of collaborated with some local schools um and different corporations that implement this kind of no homework policy. Um so that's probably our biggest change that we proposed in our handbook. Questions on that? Cuz I know that was kind of a big one. >> No, that's I I think that's great cuz um there's my cousin in Texas they do the same thing at their school. No homework and they But they get also sunlight year round. >> Yeah. >> So it's a little harder around here but no, just to keep the kids active but the promoting the reading is great. We need to do that. Awesome. >> Couple other updates. Um you know, I wrote them down here for you. Um updated attendance policy to mirror Benton Central's policy. That's where we give those courtesy letters on day three and day five of abs- of unexcused absences and then we will have a meeting on day 10.
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And that's what I was trying to be. Russell, do I'll hold it. All right. >> [laughter] >> I'm not very technology friendly. >> [clears throat] >> Is that all you have, Barry? That is all I have other than I think I think you folks do need to determine the procedures you're going to go through. I don't know whether I mean, you have to discuss it at a public meeting, but I don't know whether that means you have to have a plan worked out or you just have to discuss it. And by discuss, [clears throat] do you mean By discuss, I mean, I think one thing you probably ought to think about is if you're going to if you want to do public interviews. Um, if you're just going to if you're just going to let people apply and then vote at the meeting, you can do that.
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President and board members. Tonight I would like to start by showing and sharing some appreciation for Zach Wells, who is one of our assistant principles over at Crown Point High School. He has been with a team of secretaries and administrators working to administer AP testing which is a very big uh feat to tackle. There's a lot of communication, a lot of planning, um working with the teachers, communicating with families and so they have administered approximately 1779 exams to over 1,193 students in over 29 subjects. Um, in addition to all of the work that that team did to make sure that we had a successful advanced placement testing season, um, I also want to thank the Crown Point Community Foundation. They very generously awarded us with the ability to offset the cost of exams for students who applied um, due to a financial difficulty or financial hardship and we were able to award grants to 43 of our students to offset the cost of an exam so that they could take an advanced placement test.
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And TCE was something that was found in abundance in the Nyanza plume. PCE was not. Which probably suggests that PCE came from the uses at the factory. Um and a lot of your uh testing sites are on the periphery of the property and very few are under the building. My feeling is that that's where the problem is, under the building. And it would be hard for us to deliberate on the best way to approach this if we don't know what is under the building. I would think that you would want to know what's under the building. So that's you can answer that uh Mr. Lucas and then maybe the other commissioners can weigh in. Maybe I'm on an island here. I can start. So um uh other members of the team can chime in here, but there there's a couple reasons. Number one, you have an active building.
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we're being audited by folks who are actually coming in to look for things that we're not doing right. So, that is really the purpose. We just today um got notification from the Department of Ed related to a recent special ed audit around um giving us timelines for things that we need to respond to that they found that the district did need to address. whenever there is a report or somebody comes in to do whatever kind of report it is. So I just talked about a special ed um uh review that was done just this year uh the year that before that I got here a district review was done through the department of ed who contract out and that report is available both on our website and on the department of ed review. I know Mr. Kylie can talk about the different audits that come um related to the state groups that come in and audit our financial records on a regular basis.
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