001If you would open us with prayer, please. >> You for waking us all up this morning, starting us our way. Lord, you you put a roof on our head. And for this, we also want to say thank you, heavenly father. This evening, if you would just protection around us. Lord, help to engage in any kind of conversation. Lord, that is un children. Heavenly Father, this even for those who are still going with their help because all of our help come from you. We can't our hands heavenly father not for a long prayer but for the other parts. We just want to say thank and for this we give you all the honor and glory that is due you and Jesus we count it all done. Amen. >> Callers County School Board of Trustees meeting to
002order. Is there a motion to adopt the proposed agenda? Properly motion by Mr. Oh God help me. probably motion by I'm drawing a blank on your name Jean. Thank you. Wow. And second by Furnest. All those in favor be known by saying I. >> Those post that's unanimous. Is there a motion to adopt the consent agenda approving the >> proper motion by coach Blackman second by Mr. Jean. All those in favor had been known by saying I. >> I. And that's unanimous. I want to thank each and everyone for gathering this evening. Um, also Bill Rosia with the Kershaw County Current and all of those in whom are doing such a lovely job throughout the district. Thank you for being here. >> Our public forum, we do not have anyone that have signed up. That
003moves us down to our old and new business this time. I think that's Becky. Dr. Smith, Dr. Goodwin, members of the board, it's that time of the year where we get the policy manual update from the school board's association. So, over the next few meetings, we'll be bringing you some updates as recommended by the school board's association. And tonight I'm bringing you first the um information just for information policies related to the live streaming of board meetings. In response to the newly passed law which is 591985. We are revising policy BE and proposing a new policy BEA. Effective January 1st 2026. All local school boards and charter school boards are required to make reasonable efforts to ensure that all meetings subject to FOYA are open to the public and live streamed. The new law is
004intended to enhance um transparency and engagement by requiring school boards to provide real time access and to publish recordings promptly. Um the law states under the new law all board meetings whether regular, special called or workshops must be accessible. And as you know, we already live stream our board meetings here. However, um this will change our finance and facilities meetings because we do notice those under FOYA because they're a committee of the whole. We will need to live stream those meetings as well. So, we've begun um getting some quotes and different things to outfit our room that we normally hold the finance and facilities meeting in. And so, we will be working on that and keep you posted. Once our revised live streaming policies are updated, we must submit it to the state superintendent of
005education within 30 days according to the law. So, I'll be happy to answer any questions. >> Are there any questions for Becky? Thank you. >> Next, we Ray Ferris, if you would come for policy review one. Uh Dr. Smith, Dr. Goodwin, members of the board. Uh tonight's policy updates are in response to guidance from the 2025 Sacramento School Boards Association policy and legislative manual. Uh the pro proposed policy updates are based on federal state education related legislature, court cases, or department of ed guidance. Uh we're bringing you these updates tonight as information. The first policy is a new policy JH education excused absences for career and technical student organization experiences. Lawmakers have formally authorized school districts to excuse student absences for participation in certain career and technical student organizations CTSO activities. Under the new law,
006school districts must adopt a policy allowing students to be excused from school trips up to 10 days per academic year to take part in CTSO related activities. These experiences must be supervised by a certified teacher and serve as opportunities to assess students technical and career related competencies. Qualifying activities include organized competitions or exhibitions such as those held by state level future farmers of America organizations and the national FFA organization as well as 4 programs. The law specifically recognizes these as acceptable CTSO events but also permits similar experiences that meet the same criteria. Students and their parents or legal guardians are responsible for ensuring that all missed academic work is obtained and completed in accordance with the school with school policy during these excused absences. We're proposing the new policy in accordance with the new state
007law and with recommend recommendations from the SC SBA model policy. And so you'll see uh policy JH JHE um for your reference. The next policy we're bringing uh is a revision to policy JH, student absences and excuses. Uh essentially updating that policy to reflect the uh policy I just uh proposed. And then uh the third policy is is uh JH-R which is student absences and excuses. The policy revision updates our policy to include the career and technical student organization experiences. So I at this time I'll be happy to talk about those three if you have any questions >> questions. Okay. Uh the fourth policy uh that we're bringing is JFABC- or JFABC that's transfer students. At the start of the 2025 legislative session, lawmakers began considering changes to the administration eligibility funding and oversight of
008the education scholarship trust fund program. Specifically, section 59-8-170 of the South Carolina code was amended, which states a student transferring from one public high school to another public high school in grades 9 through 11 or from one public middle school to another public middle school in grades 6 through 8 pursuant to this program is not subject to any prohibition by the South Carolina High School League on a transfer student from participating in an intercolastic sport upon transfer. After the initial transfer, any subsequent tr transfer by the student to another public school shall be subject to the South Carolina High School League eligibility rules. At this time, we're only revising the athletics section of JFABC in response to this section of the act because the act directs the state department of education to develop regulations, guidance,
009and procedures for inter interdist transfers. We have made no further changes at this time. However, it will become necessary to amend this policy in the future once guidance is received from the state department of education. Um, and then the final uh policy is JFABC-e. It is uh an exhibit of this transfer policy. Uh, I've made several changes to that form uh to uh make it uh easier for administrators and parents and myself to communicate such as adding an email line, adding a place for uh administrators to write reasons that they're denying a student or accepting a student if I need to know that. And so, um, the fifth thing is I'm bringing that to you for review as well. Are there any questions on those two that you would like me to answer? No questions.
010>> Okay. And then lastly, um I've received a request from international experience, i.e. to be an approved foreign exchange student organization according to board policy JFABB, admission of exchange and foreign students. The organization must meet certain requirements. I have reviewed the information this organization has provided me and it meets the standards established by the policy. They have been granted a full listing by the Council of Standards for International Educational Travel, CSIET, and are a nonprofit J1 visa program. Thus, our schools are not responsible for this exchange students visa. Uh they have a screening process for students and host families. They require medical coverage for students before they approved and they require host families to provide medical and emergency type of travel for students. Uh I have provided the request from IE to the board as
011well as information they've sent to me and I'll be happy to answer any questions about that organization if you have any. Are there any questions? Policy JFAB is before us properly for action exchange students. Yes. again the policy that's in our package um JF ABB uh for exchange of foreign student policy that's before us would need a motion. So the the the exchange students not a policy. It's just a approval that we can partner with them and allow them to uh offer exchange students for us for our district. >> Okay. >> This is organization that we've always dealt with. Is that correct? >> Ma'am, >> isn't this the organization that we've always been dealing with in the past? >> Yes. I think this is the third one that I brought um before you chair. >>
012Yes. I know for a fact that by knowing him, Mr. Ferris has conducted complete due diligence with regard to the liability of this entity. So I make a motion we approve with it. >> I do make a motion we approve it as presented. >> Okay. Properly motion by Dr. King, second by coach Blackman. Any discussions or questions? Hearing none. All in favor have been known by saying I. >> I to the post and it's done. Thank you. All right. Thank you. >> Chairman's report. Uh Dr. King has a update for us from the School of Law Conference. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um I had the recent opportunity to attend the uh school law conference in Charleston, South Carolina. Uh it's always one of my favorites. Um, back in the day when I was an
013adjunct professor, that's the primary course that I taught was school law. And we all had to do that as administrators. I know you will recall taking that course at some point in time. Um, I'll try this um is a a short and sweet conference. Basically, just a day and a half. Um, all day on a Saturday, part of the day on a Sunday. And um but you start out by some general sessions of federal law updates uh providing insight into what h what's happening in the federal legal landscape um from the uh from pus all the way through Congress and how that can change and with regard to regulatory changes laws affecting us all the way down to a local school district in one of our states and then court decisions that have impacted K12
014recently in in um our public school setting. Uh the next general session was an overview of developments and changes what's still in the air regarding uh what's always a hot topic and that's the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act idea. It doesn't evolve a whole bunch but there are seemingly always updates to that because the landscape does change and uh it's important for us to realize the impact that that particular law has on our students with disabilities and how it's just so of penultimate importance for us to take care of that cadre of kids. Um some breakout sessions occurred in the afternoon. Employee matters investigations uh freedom of information act which is always a hot topic with uh with school boards and any other elected body. Um and even at the school level you guys have
015to interact with those and I'm talking to principles specifically uh from time to time as well as district office staff. Um, one big thing that happens a lot nowadays, um, es especially as social media is so prevalent is, um, uh, a lot of times we we get, um, well, lambasted, but sometimes we also get allegations made toward us, not necessarily impropriy, but things we should or should not do, may or may not have done. And um there was a good um session on how to respond to those and and uh how we can um counteract those kind of allegations. Uh and it's simply it's it's simple y'all. It's uh complying with schoolboard policy and complying with the law. And as long as we do that, we're going to be we're going to be in good
016shape. Um as you all intelligence is a huge talking point in education right now. um and how it um uh is involved in our schools dayto-day. I think one thing we probably did or the state did. I I actually wasn't completely in favor of it at the time was when we passed the cell phone ban um in our school setting. Um that probably helped a lot with uh quelling a use of AI for certain projects, tests, whatever. Um, but it also is a continuing um, conundrum for school districts to have to deal with that and even more so now probably at the higher education level. Um, and then the last thing we talked about was the next state legislative cycle and how that's going to impact K12. Um, not a lot of hot button topics
017out in the forefront right now. But to backtrack to the session right before that, which was probably one of the more um emotional sessions I've ever sat in on one of these conferences, uh Representative Brandon Guffy from Union, was it Dr. Go? I think from Union Area York. >> York, that's right. York, kind of the same region. Um he and recently um and it and it passed and it's called Gavin's Law. a sad um teenage son um to a sextortion scam. Uh he committed suicide because of extortion and um I would encourage anyone who is not aware of what that is. Um I'm sure Miss Fern I know Miss Furnish knows look up sextortion and how prevalent it is. I had no idea we had um so many cases of that statewide and nationally. And
018I'm, you know, it goes without saying, we know we have that here, too. So, uh, Gavin's law was, uh, passed in an attempt and hope that it will help quell some of that takes place with, uh, increasing penalties, u, some funding streams that will help counteract um, those who commit the acts of sex extorting someone because, y'all, I mean, it doesn't get any worse than losing a child. We all know that. That's a worst nightmare for a parent. Uh but anyway, all in all was a a fantastic conference. It's very well done by the school boards association and um I appreciate the opportunity to attend. >> Thank you, Dr. King. >> Dr. Goodman, >> uh Mr. Chair, members of the board, while Mr. Matthews is bringing his group up to get set settled in and
019started. Um, I wanted just to let you know that we invited the teachers of the year and our principles to attend the board meeting tonight because the progress that we're going to share is a testament to their hard work and dedication to the students of Kershaw County. The data that we're sharing tonight was embargoed until today and I asked the state superintendent last Thursday was she sure it was going to be uh available uh by tonight. Um so and she assured me it was and it it was we watched her uh press conference earlier today. So we were unable to share it with you know the board and stakeholders until today. Furthermore, much of the comparison data we just got recently to compare district and state numbers. So uh that that came in kind of
020late but uh everybody was trying to make sure it was accurate. After seeing this presentation though, if there's more disagregation that you would like us to do of this data, we will be doing more. But if you want any, you know, to be passed on to you, we'll be happy to to prepare that information for you. First, I want to say our teachers, students, and staff work really hard this year to focus on the content and skills needed to increase our performance on SC ready and the end of course assessments. also want to say that the data tonight we're sharing is just a part of the journey and it definitely is not the destination. We still have real challenges ahead of us. We still have work to do, but our assessment results show that we're
021getting on the right track. Now for the hard part, we've got to hold on to this hard one uh momentum that we've we've are encountering. Second, we would acknowledge that the ELA standards and the science standards are different from previous years, as are the assessments that were used to measure mastery of those standards. Somebody might think we were trying to cook the book, so we made sure that we weren't. So, for that reason, we were focusing on how students improved versus how the state improved. This is the only way that we can fair be fair in our and statistically accurate in our assessment of the progress in EL and science. However, I will say though, even if we were were focusing on measured progress year-over-year, our results are equally encouraging. So, whichever way you want
022to slice it, we'll slice it. And math, we'll focus on how students improve versus the state just to be consistent. However, again, if we measure progress year-over-year, our results are equally encouraging. Finally, at this point, we cannot with confidence predict how this data will translate into report card ratings. In fact, we just got data files just a few hours ago that will go into those report card ratings that haven't been unraveled yet. There are certain parts of the ratings that we don't and we do not have the capability of generating a a uh a report card on our own. The state report cards are due to be released in the middle of October and we'll be uh present our report on those results on October the 21st school board meeting. As we go through this
023information, I want to before we start again acknowledge how much work has been done by our teachers and our students and our staff to make sure that we give the students of Kershaw County the best chance at success. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to the charts and graphs guys and let them walk us through their presentation. >> All right. To start off, we're going to let Miss Dove, Mickey Dove, who is our new director of elementary education, which some of you haven't met yet, but I want to be sure you have a chance uh to do that. Uh she'll go through the initial graphs uh that are year-to-year comparisons. Then Miss Corner, who's our director of data analytics, will then go over our uh comparisons within the Midlands data. Uh and
024then I'll go over some takeaways and uh what our next steps are. On the first page that you have though is a link to the whole document so you have all of this at your fingertips whenever you want to get down in it. So with that, >> Dr. Smith, Dr. Goodman, members of the board, thank you. I am honored to be here today to share the results of the good work that the teachers and students of Kershaw County have endured. Um so on your first page you'll see where we're looking at third grade ELA comparison to the state department and um again Dr. Goodwin mentioned that the ELA standards last year were new. The instructional materials were new um and the assessment was new as well. But you can see that um overall we had
025growth in all nine of our elementary schools with six of those schools having more growth than the south um the state department growth. Um additionally you can see that all of our elementary schools um seven of them had surpassed closer sorry not as loud. I guess I need to use my teacher voice. um that seven of our schools surpassed the state average for students meeting and exceeding expectation for their um and they also ended up with double-digit growth in that area. For third grade math, we had five of our schools who surpassed the average for students meeting exceeding and seven of our schools showed greater growth than the state. Moving into our fourth grade ELA, um we had four schools surpassing state average and five of our schools exceeded the state average for growth. Looking
026at fourth grade math, three schools with higher percentage of students meeting and exceeding than the state average and five schools surpassing the state with regard to growth. Moving into fifth grade ELA, eight of our elementary schools showed growth in fifth grade ELA with six of them being above the state growth average and four surpassing the state average for meets and exceeds. In fifth grade math, five schools surpassed the state average percentage for meets and exceeds with six of those schools showing greater growth than the state. The next two slides are looking at the um cohorts of students and so it's showing the historical growth and trends of those students um their learning progression over the last several years. Um looking diagonally you can see that in 2025 all but one cohort the sixth grade um
027showed growth in a in ELA. And on the next slide, you can see the same cohorts, how they performed on the math SE ready over the years. So that's just kind of a colorful little chart to show you the historical of groups of students as they progressed through grade levels. And then finishing out elementary um fourth grade science, we had um of course this is also a new test, new standards. Um but you can see that our students and teachers did a great job implementing those 2021 standards. Um there are five of our schools that surpass the state with regard to the number of students meeting and exceeding. So if we summarize um our accomplishments in elementary school, we see that there are in all seven assessments that were administered to our elementary schools in
0282024 25 um we had we had growth that exceeded the state in all seven of those areas. And then we're moving into middle school with sixth grade ELA. We had two schools who had more growth than the state average. And in sixth grade math, we also had two schools demonstrating greater growth than the state average. With seventh grade ELA, there were three of the schools that exceeded the state growth. and Lou Golf Elementary or Blue Golf Middle School surpassed the state um percentage for students that were meets and exceeds. In seventh grade math, we had two schools that exceeded the state in growth. Eighth grade ELA, two of our schools surpassed the state average for meets and exceed and two of our schools were greater in growth than our state average growth. eighth grade math.
029Um, there were three schools that had greater growth than the state growth and Lug Elgen Middle School surpassed the state with meets and exceed percentages. Our sixth grade science, um, you can see that students and teachers did a great job implementing those new 2021 standards. Um all of our schools, our middle schools exceeded the state average for meets and exceed as well as exceeding their growth over the state. The next slide shows algebra 1 EOC. Um and this is for the cohort of students that are in middle school who would qualify to um participate in algebra 1 for high school credit. Um, as you can see, two of our schools had growth and all four had a passage rate higher than the state average. In mi in high school, in algebra 1, three of our
030high schools had growth in their pass rate that exceeded the state growth average. English two, we had two schools surpassing the state passage rate and North Central exceeded state growth average. For biology one, two schools had greater than the state and Lugoff Elgen High School surpassed the state pass rate. And then our US history, we had two schools with a higher passage rate and growth rate than the state. So that I'm going to pass it over to Dr. Corner. >> Yep. Thank you. question. >> I'd like to know if we can reserve the right to come back and ask questions about all this data since we're just now receiving it this evening. We're with the rapid pace that we're following right now. I'm currently two pages behind everybody. >> That might be my fault. I'm
031sorry. >> That's quite all right. I really appreciate it and appreciate all the effort and getting all of this together for tonight, but I'd like to know if we would have an opportunity should we have questions after delving in this that we can bring this back at another meeting. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Yeah. And I do apologize. I couldn't have it beforehand, but we couldn't give it to you until today. So, I do apologize for that. I definitely would have gotten it to you before tonight if I could have. >> Hey, not you. >> All right. So, uh, in addition to comparing our averages to the state, I wanted to give you a comparison with the Midlands just so you can see how we did compared to districts around the state. So we had
032we compared ourselves with 11 other districts and these graphs were done two ways because I wasn't sure which way you would prefer. So the first one um we did a ranking so you can just see a straight ranking so everybody's numbered 1 through 11 and then the second one it shows the percentage of meats in a seas for every district. So for that one um you could just tell by the size of the graph how far we were from the ones ahead of us. So as you can see for SC ready grade three ELA we were third out of the 11 districts that we analyzed. And if you look at the second graph you can see how far we all we were from the first and the second. So that way you have the information
033two ways. for SC ready grade three math. We were also third and you could see we really want to find out what Lancaster is doing because they did an awesome job there. And being from Lancaster, I want to go back and see what they're doing now. So, we'll definitely pay a visit there sometime this year. For SC Ready Grade 4 ELA, um we were fifth on that one. As you can see, Kershaw is a little lighter blue just so your eyes are drawn there. So that's definitely an area, you know, that we we want to get back in the top three on that one as well. Grade four math, we were fourth in that area. Grade four science, we were number two behind Lancaster again. For grade five ELA, we were number three. And usually
034when we're three, it's behind Lexington one and Lancaster. For grade five math, we were number four. And that would conclude the elementary rankings. Now, moving on to middle school, sixth grade ELA, we rank number five. And you can see when we get to middle school, there's a much larger distance distance between the top couple of rankings and when you start hitting number three. So the districts that are at the top there's they start moving away from the districts behind them when we hit middle school. In SC Ready Math grade six we were fourth and once again you can see the top two are significantly ahead of the other schools. SC Ready Grade six science we actually are second there. Lex one and Lancaster tied but so I named them both number one. So we're second.
035I know technically that makes us third, but we're going to go with second. SC ready grade seven ELA, we were third once again behind Lexington one in Lancaster. SC Ready grade seven math, we were fourth. And you can see the top two are significantly higher. And then there's not that much difference after we hit those top two. SC ready eight ELA, we were number two. And there was not a tie for number one. In that case, we were a strong number two, but you can see number one is significantly higher. And then there's an overall ranking by subject. So you can see an ELA for each grade level where we hit. So you can see where we were um we were second through fifth depending on which grade level. In science, we were second in
036both fourth and sixth. And then in math we hit almost straight fours except third which was a three. So that just kind of gives you a overview of those areas. >> So Mr. Cameron that kind of gives it to you in a nutshell. >> No, that didn't help. Okay. >> Still two pages behind. >> Okay. Well, you'll like that page when you get to it. It kind of sums it up for you. I did that one at the last minute. Algebra 1 EOCC's. This is an area that we're still working on. We did make progress, but we are ranked sixth in that area and Fairfield rocked that one. So, I know I was telling Mr. Hopkins before the meeting, we got to get out and see what Fairfield's doing because they scored a lot higher
037than most districts in that area. English two EOCC's, we were fourth, but in that one, the top four were pretty close. Biology 1 EOCC's we were also fourth. US history EOCC's we were third. And then that last page um just for Mr. Cameron, it gives our rankings in those four subject areas. And you can see we went from third to six in those high school subjects. Thank you. Uh now some takeaways from all of this to try to uh bring it to a conclusion. Uh while we do compare score uh growth on the ELA test and the science test, that comparison isn't really accurate because it's comparing different standards and different tests. However, you can compare the growth uh for us as a district and compared to state growth since we're looking at apples to
038apples comparisons at that point. And when comparing growth in our tested areas as compared to the states, our district exceeded the state in 16 of 18 areas including SC ready and EOC. Kerser County School District made gains in over our 23 24 and 12 out of 14 categories scoring meat for students scoring uh meats or exemplary all of our math scores went up increased and over last year and that's an applesto apples comparison because that's the same test. The English and the science test are different because they're different standards. The math test was the same. We'll run into that this next year with math because new math standards this year. So that it'll be hard to compare the ma hopefully the gains in the math test from this year to next year. Three of our
039elementary schools, Camden Elementary, North Central, and Pine Trees saw growth in every tested area and every subject. Two Laney and Doby's Mill improved in six out of seven areas. As you know from last board meeting, 23 students scored the maximum score on a section of SC ready. All four of our middle schools exceeded the state average in SC ready science. Lugof Elgen Middle School improved in seven of eight tested areas. Camden and North Central Middle improved in six out of eight uh SC ready areas. When you look at the colorful chart and you're comparing cohort growth from 23 uh 24 to 24 25, six out of 10 of the cohorts improve their performance from one year to the next. All of our schools increased their performance in algebra 1. Three out of four EOCC's improved
040their showed growth in their passage rate and exceeded the state growth. When you look at what we're going to do moving forward, we're going to have a clear and consistent focus on our tier one, on our primary instruction through our professional learning communities through observations and through standard-based assessments. Focus on profiting professional development and alignment from elementary through high school. Clear and consistent MTSS practices and interventions to support our tier 2 and tier three intervention. We'll have stronger alignment between special ed and regular ed. We'll continue to focus on our ML students and including a stronger push to achieve uh English proficiency in five years. If they don't prof uh achieve proficiency by that fifth year, it begins to hurt us uh in in our um school report card scores. We'll have professional development with
041all stakeholder groups using relevant data for wraparound uh approach to be sure everything's aligned. We'll do learning walks in our ELA and math classrooms so we can better assist uh with our instructional practices and resources and professional development. And again, targeted professional development support on our new math standards and extra and instructional materials that are all brand new this year just like we did last year with our ELA. Uh, and I'd like to take a personal note and thank the principles and the teachers in this room. None of this happens without your very hard work and it doesn't go unnoticed. Y'all kicked butt. Thank you so much for what you did. Um, with that, other than Mr. Cameron, who can ask questions next time, uh, any questions for us? Dr. Goodman, you want to go
042before questions or >> if that would be okay and then certainly we'll take any questions and we'll we'll also take any questions that you have, you know, for a future board meeting. Um, I will say that that we broke this up this year obviously we did AP and um uh scores and and all earlier then last meeting we we brought you another set of of you know another set of data. Tonight we bring you this and then at the October 16th board meeting we'll bring or October 21st we'll bring you the state report cards because as you recall it really was overwhelming when we waited to do it all at one time. So uh we we've broken it up but much different discussion now because the discussion now is is how do you maintain the
043momentum and make sure that we do that. Well, one of the things that that we have to do, it's easy to pick off what you call the lowhanging fruit and then move forward. But now what you have to do is look at all of your levels of instruction because it becomes very important that you do your gifted and talented students and you do things well there. And then that you do your other students who who are, you know, like I was definitely middle of the pack, certainly not in that high-flying group. And then also students who struggle. You c you can't just focus on one area. you've got to focus on all of them and I know prepared to do that and um you know this is a testament to their hard work over the
044past year and we've seen nothing but a great start in that direction for this year. We're already an eighth of the way through the school year now. That's kind of hard to say out loud, but we're an eighth of the way through the school year. So, uh we're we're really pushing now. So, again, congratulations to them on their hard work. But now, as my dad would tell me, all right, now get back and get to work is what he would say. So, uh, but we'll take any questions that you have. >> Dr. King. >> Mr. Chair, I don't have any questions, just a couple of comments. Um, a 31-year educator, principal of a bunch of schools in the district because I couldn't keep a job at one place. Um, I don't ever recall this this
045much positivity with regard to test results in our district. um in my whole career and as a principal. Uh number one, we've got to change Dr. Corner's name to Dr. Data. Gives me a headache looking at all these numbers, but um I'm I'm impressed. Um and we have our teacher of the year in here, um Randy Ray, who is truly exemplary, but y'all, we have teachers of the year in our district everywhere, just like her. And uh I I got to give a shout out to my my compatriots back there who many of them who I worked with. Um we we have the staffs in place, but it takes leaders like them to get the staff to follow them to see where we need to go and what we need to do to get there.
046So big big shout out is Mr. Matthews to our principles um unsung heroes every day and our district leaders as well. you you know it does not go unnoticed. And and just anecdotally, um as an old retired guy, I like to get out and ride my Harley every once in a while and and take care of my honeydews. I can't tell you how many times since school has started that I have gone by a school facility and and I'm talking four or five cuz I I ride around all over the place. 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, there are always cars in the parking lot in the teacher staff parking lot. And the principal spot is almost always still filled. So these folks aren't putting in 35 hours a week. I know the principles, they put in 50,
04760, and more. And our teachers, a lot of them do the same thing. So y'all salute, prayers for continued growth and effort. Thank you for what you do every day. And thanks to uh to our teachers and our support staff as well. Outstanding. >> Mr. Jean, >> uh thanks. You covered all of that. That was one of my notes there. So, um yes, thank you everybody that's involved with that. I one quick thing that I I would like to see is a breakdown. I I know we did a regional breakdown here with 11 different districts. I'd like to see us compared to more districts like us in the state of South Carolina to see where we fit. Not a problem. >> Coach, >> really don't have a question. Everybody, I just want to say thank
048you to everybody in here. Uh, all administration, teachers, everything. It's outstanding as far as my opinion is concerned. And I just want to take an opportunity to say thank you. Um I represent a north central side of the county and we got some uh outstand uh educators and all of our throughout our county, but I'm extremely proud of um the North Central side is you a little biased, but I appreciate everything you're doing and I just want to say thank you for the improvement that you're making and the difference you're making in our students. With that being said, um I just want to say uh probably one of the best reports I've heard since serving on the board about eight nine years. And the way that we do it is uh stand up and show
049your appreciation to these people out here. [Applause] Is there a motion to go into executive session to discuss resignation, retirement of certified and classified personnel, employment of certified and classified personnel, assignment changes, and transfer of certified and classified personnel. Properly motion by Miss Furnace, second by Mr. Roberts. All in favor, let me know by saying I. I. >> It's done. to to reconvene to to open session. >> So move >> properly motion by Miss Hley, second by Miss Furnace. All those in favor by saying I >> I >> that's unanimous. In executive session, we discussed resignation and retirement of certified and classified personnel, employment of certified and classified personnel and assignment changes and transfer of certified and classified personnel. Is there a motion to accept the administration recommendation concerning employment matters? Proper motion by coach
050Blackman, second by Miss Rebecca. All in favor by saying I. >> And that's unanimous. Is there a motion to adjurnn and close with prayer? probably a motion by Miss Furnace, second by Mr. Donna. >> All those in favor has been known by saying I. And that's unanimous. >> Heavenly Father, thank you evening. We leave here this evening, Lord. We ask that you dispatch your angels and help us make it safely back home and find all those way we get there. And we give you all the honor and glory that is due you. And it's in the precious names of Jes. Well done. Amen.