001e e e this evening let us bow for word of prayer heavenly father in your infinite wisdom you woke us up this morning and you started us on our way and for this we want to say thankful we are a great for people this evening we ask that you continue to put your blessings around us we ask that you continue to empower the village Lord that works with our children help us Lord to keep our mission ever in front of us help us not to get weary in doing what is good and this evening Lord we'll give you all the honor and Glory that is to you Heavenly Father this evening console the hearts of Those whom may be going through sad hours of berment heavenly father this even ask them to look to the
002heels which cometh their help because all our help comes from you Heavenly Father for those who are recognizing this evening law continue to instill in them the Excellence that they portray for the people here in Kershaw County and this evening Lord we give you all the honor and Glory that is Du you and it's in the precious name of Jesus this evening we count it all done amen like to call this meeting of the school board to order our first item this evening evening is the agenda I would ask those who are making motions if you would give your name and the person who is second will you please give your name this evening this is for me I don't hear as well as I used to so if you would dis abide with me
003this evening if you would get me make the motion will you say your name and then if you second if you will give your name as well that's for me Wendy does an excellent job this is just for me this evening and I do appreciate it at this time we will I entertain a motion to um accept the proposed agenda for this evening Charles King okay motion May by Dr King and second by Ron Blackman that we adopt the proposed agenda all those in favor let it be known by saying I any opposers the agenda is adopted a motion is in order now to accept the consent agenda which contains the meeting minutes for March the 4th 2025 board meeting a motion okay all right Jean Cameron motion was made by Jean and second by
004Mr David Roberts all those in favor of accepting the consent agenda let it be known by saying I any opposes the consent agenda is approved introduction and recognitions uh we do not have any of the press here this evening but for those parents and those who for the administration and for those who are here this evening for those who Maybe listening this evening we we acknowledge your presence this evening and thank you for coming and please feel free to come again at this time we're going to do our recognitions and celebrations first we're going to do our student recognition and then we'll do our school program recognitions Miss Haley Dr Goodwin board uh tonight we're recognizing several students for their achievements first I'll ask Brady darmer to join Dr Goodwin and Miss hiy up front
005WTC FFA member Brady darmer traveled to Pendleton South Carolina on February 21st to compete in the Mr FFA scholarship competition out of a competitive group of 71 contestants from all over the state Brady placed first earning him the crown and shield of Mr FFA he will now represent this title for the next year at various FFA events throughout the state Mr FFA is a leadership competition open to FFA members from all across South Carolina this event challenges students to practice their presentation skills articulation and logical thinking and to advocate for agriculture and agricultural education congratulations Brady [Applause] congratulations our next recognition goes to the luga Elian High School archery team will representatives from the team and coaches please come forward the lolf Elan High School archery team was recently named the uh 2025 National archery
006in schools program IBO 3D state champions for the first time in school history the art archery in school is an in school curriculum program designed to teach International style archery in fourth through 12th grades students shoot at Bull ey targets placed before an hour resistant net in the gymnasium students learn Focus self-control discipline patience and life lessons required to be successful in the classroom and in life we will recognize two students who placed at the in the top two at the competition first Aaron Campbell placed first and was named the 2025 National archery and schools program IBO Champion state champion she was also awarded second place in high school females in the 2025 nasp Bullseye state championship tournament Sutton Brookshire placed second for high school males in the 2025 National archery and schools program IBO
007state champion please join me me in recognizing the archery team and Aaron and [Applause] Sutton moms all right Mr L and you just window dressing congratulations we did not have anyone to sign up for a public forum this evening the next thing is the Chairman's report just a reminder of the ethics report that is due by all the school board members it needs to be turned in by March the 30th if not done so you need to do so from the ethics commission from South Carolina this time we hear from our superintendent and the senior leadership team on the 20 25 26 budget updates would ask Mr Willard to come forward uh give you an update as to where we are on the state budget right now as well as a few Federal numbers just
008so that you have those in your back pock thank you Miss Aly board members Dr Goodwin good evening uh as Dr Goodwin mentioned we just wanted to give you a brief update this evening just to keep you in the loop of where we stand on the 2526 budget process um so these few slides have been presented to you before the meeting um first couple of slides you'll notice there's really not much change um we um have just basically changed the header from Ways and Means Committee to the house budget version so the house very quickly passed their budget version last week um with no Market change from the ways and means version so uh the state aid to classrooms information Remains the Same uh increasing the state minimum teacher salary schedule uh uh by $1,500
009uh to 48,500 we did add a small sub bullet in there uh just for your reference to remind you that kcsd currently is starting at 48,00 so to start out we're at least not as far behind uh on the minimum that it's that's going to be for 2526 um but they upheld the uh decision to increase each sale by $1,500 thereafter no changes on the seret portion uh the education scholarship ship trust fund there was no change from the two versions and I'll remind you that the Senate version originally had this funding of $45 million coming out of Lottery but uh the the house put that into the general fund so what that means is when the general fund discussions take place for the budget that's $45 million less to work with overall than what
010they would originally have state aid to classroom rooms for the funding Proviso uh no changes but I do want to mention again uh that the decision of the house on their version upholds the idea to delete the bachelor's plus 18 column from the uh teacher minimum salary schedule so it takes it from five down to four uh components of that and that preliminary version of the minimum salary schedule was released released and it was without the bachelor's plus 18 section so why do I mention that and why do I want to talk about it for just a minute um basically what that does is it leaves it up to the districts to make some decisions uh we know what is being funded um so we have to make some decisions or we think we're going
011to have to make some decisions do we place those individuals who currently have a bachelor's 18 certificate into another category uh but yet fund them differently or do we continue to maintain that portion of the schedule uh for the duration of having any bachelor's 18 certificates in the district which in our mind seems like the correct thing to do at this point in time uh one it helps us in the system and two it helps for identification um so we will be bringing you more on that as it is available um the state health plan as it's been amended um nothing has changed on the presentation since last time but we have received a little bit more guidance so we wanted to clarify two uh items so the first bullet point uh the $367 per
012month increase for the employee uh Health cost that 3676 as best we can tell now represents um one component of the State Health Plan structure so uh you have what is called a a state Health standard plan and it has four tiers employee only employee spouse employee with children and then full family so the best guidance we have right now suggests us that the 3676 increase is based on the first tier and that is employee only so as we mentioned last time that equates to about a $440 increase annually but if that is the case we would expect there to be other increases for those other tiers which obviously may be a little bit higher um again we just wanted to clarify that from the last meeting but again we are waiting on additional information
013and obviously waiting for this to go through the Senate level uh where it could be changed uh but that's the guidance we have at the moment the next component of that is the employer cost increase for retired employees 4.6% again that is employer not employee when we talked about this last time we were uncertain whether this applied to retirees who return to work or if this was going to be a cost impact on the peba side so you'll see in a few moments we actually receive revenue for retiree insurance and those are folks who have retired and moved on that are no longer with us but we still owe that portion to the state for uh continued cost what we are being told is that is the section that this applies to so it is
014not increased cost to The District in the amount of 4.6% um this is actually what you'll see in a moment is an increase to revenue which then flows back out so it's a wash um the 2% increase to the Statewide minimum bus salary schedule uh that is still intact the 2% also uh represents uh what is the the state employee increase at the time at this time um just like the teacher salary schedule we're well ahead of the game so we are well well ahead of the minimum salary schedule so the Mandate is that we would have to change our schedule by the amount of dollars that it changes from minimum increasing 2% so it does not we would not have to increase a true 2% we may have to change 35 cents per sale
01545 cents per sale 65 cents per sale per hour uh to meet the requirement under the Mandate so on the projected Revenue changes you'll notice that this does not represent house version um it still says Ways and Means because the house version has not yet come out for Revenue projections um they may may not even publish an update if the numbers do not change that's pretty common so the ways and means uh projected Revenue changes based on the 45 Day Count you'll see the increase for the retiree insurance and it is noticeably a little bit higher than it has been in Prior years and that's due to the 4.6% change we just talked about so they are putting some additional Revenue in that line to cover those charges um that that eventually come to us
016as Billings or just through the calculations with pea state aid to classrooms general fund and state aid to classrooms eia transfer uh part of that uh is does come in under the old eia calculation and then is transferred to the general fund and then the health insurance piece is an estimate at this point on what our Fringe increased would be based on the change in salaries those are all um Revenue pieces that are covered under legislation and then the only other piece that we have right now is the preliminary tier three uh as a result of act 388 that increase of about $750,000 so if we look at those numbers um you know at first glance they don't look bad um but uh I'll just remind you that the intent of this formula is to
017make sure first and foremost that the teacher salary schedule is covered under State legislation um so we have to we we'll have to wait and see how much meat we have left on the bone to do other things and obviously if we compare this to things that we've showed you for salary schedule changes per the study uh we will be coming to you uh in the budget process for some plans of how we would cover that and maybe asking you for some considerations um of use of of fund balance that we have put away the next slide we wanted to provide you as information related to federal funds um there probably aren't any questions we can answer for you right now with regard to what's going to happen at the federal level but we wanted
018to share with you um what we have in current Awards this year um obviously you can see that title one and idea are the large the two largest ones out of that group um so again we just wanted you to have an idea uh we do not include uh the USDA Food Service on this because that is a reimbursement for qualified meals sold um or served at the district um so that kind of falls into its own little basket when those things are discussed so uh that pretty much wraps up uh our presentation for this evening just to give you an update of where we are we have provided the legisl lative calendar for you so you know when things may be happening so you can stay in tune uh but we'll be happy to
019answer any questions or make any notes and get back to you this evening if you have those couple of questions Mr will if you don't mind yes sir for just for knowledge sake do you have any idea reverting back or going back to the bachelor's plus 18 and why they want to collapse that or remove that that tier any idea why they're proposing that from the state level um I I have not gotten a clear answer uh from our circles as to why that may be the case um I will maybe defer to Dr Goodwin if he has any answer on that but uh again no clear answer at this point no clear answer but if you recall last year at this time we were down to three lines which was bachelor's Masters and doctorate
020only was what they had proposed and it proposed paying those in bands so we're not really sure what they're getting to and why the legislature you know continues to throw this in but you know that's where we are right now uh I do think it's worth noting we only have about 40 teachers who fall into that bachelor's 18 area so it's really not a large population and I understand that's reflective of the state too is that there's not a large population who are bachelor's 18 I guess my spin on that is obviously as a a an educator it's been a million years ago since I was a bachelor's 18 um but I remember working through that process how huge it was to reach that Milestone to get that decent little bump to even incentivize them
021okay you're halfway to the Masters now you can go ahead and get the Masters which is a rais and the Masters plus 30 you know presumably halfway to a doctor get that rais so and I understand that the house and the Senate not made up of many former or current Educators so I don't know if they see that but I don't know I have a lot of mixed feelings about eliminating that uh the second thing just totally out of curiosity I know we've had children qualify under mcken vento uh previously probably some now and why have we not received um that Federal funding allocation until now any idea about that um how have we been assisting those kids what what source new stream right to to the best of my knowledge the the the the
022ways that were available to get those types of Grant funds have changed over the past several years um there is a a state portion that you can get which this actually represents it's advertised as a state Grant but it is a federal pass through so this is that particular one but if you recall um during the time of the uh Esser funds during the co monies there was a section of uh homeless or mckin vento money that was wrapped up into the ARP Esser program so most of the funding that has flowed uh in the past several years regarding that has been wrapped up in those same funds so the availability of those are just coming back out and with the increased population that set us up to actually apply for that we we actually
023had hopes in the beginning it was going to be much higher uh but it was so competitive uh especially coming out of the uh the Esser time frame they had to spread that a little thin any other questions he Sir Mr Reeves I'm assuming that local TBD is the millage portion uh yes sir what's the do we know what the historical average has been um I would uh I can check with the county to make sure that I don't misspeak on that um I think uh it's it's reasonable to say that in the past two budget cycles that I have been under we have estimated early in the process about 2 to 3% um but uh we are approaching Dr Goodwin if I'm not mistaken a reassessment year uh but I'm not sure uh that's
024probably going to be the following year before that would happen and take effect so that may have some influence on it um but uh I can definitely check with the county and get back with you on what our assessed valuation growth has been yes sir any other questions thank you for keeping us a breast of the update about the funds thank you you're very welcome very thank you're welcome at this time um Dan Matthews will come who's our chief academic officers to give us information about the math textbook adoption it wasn't long ago that last year we were talking about the English adoption so now we're talking about the math adoption so just as a reminder uh we'll go through the first several slides sort of quickly the state has made it a priority to
025create high quality instructional materials uh there was the perception that the materials out there weren't aligned to our standards and our ma English standards changed last year so they are fully implemented this year and the math standards are changing next year uh so there was a push from the state to be sure that our math textbooks are aligned completely with with our new standards it's sort of a short go with the math standards because it wasn't long ago in 2021 when there was another math adoption so this is sort of quick on uh turning the math textbooks around uh we we were were rolling out a new textbook in the middle of covid and that made for an interesting roll out uh if if at all possible so um if you go ahead and Advance
026Julie to our slide that says what we're doing all right what are we doing to get ready uh if you'll Advance one more you'll see that in the new Adoption there's a new progression in the high schools and this is sort of the big ticket item that that has changed in the state the Trad traditional pathway in high school has been Algebra 1 GE excuse me geometry Algebra 2 and then whatever you needed to make that fourth class be provin stats uh discret uh pre-cal in into AP calculus or AP Statistics you see a pretty significant change here you see geometry moving in front of Algebra 1 and this is not the traditional geometry tree that I took back in 19 um where the predominance of what we did were proofs we sat and we
027did proofs after proofs after proofs I remember my little geometry teacher Miss zerker sat in front of an overhead projector which was technology back in those days uh and we did Proof after proof this is not that at all this is very much a handson developmental approach to make the algebra more real uh to the students so you'll see geometry then Algebra 1 and then you see a differentiation and the differentiation is based on what your plans are After High School if your plans are to go to a two-year school um Central Carolina Midlands then you'll take applications and modeling or reasoning and Mathematics either one there's no prerequisite uh to or or path whether you take the reasoning first or the uh applications and modeling first but those would complete the four courses that
028you're required to take to graduate high school if you're going to a four-year school you'll take this geometry the algebra one the algebra 2 with probability and then you'll see a sequence of courses you can take for there to complete year four uh pre-cal statistical modeling discreet U AP stats or dual enrollment at Central or Midlands um somewhere close uh and then of course the queen of mathematics with AP Calculus and calculus uh what what the unintended consequence for us next year and we've had meetings with our our guidance counselors about this if you're an uh Advanced 8th grade student and you're taking Algebra 1 this year you'll take geometry next year if you are a traditional student taking algebra one in the High School this year you'll take geometry next year if you're a
029student who's taken Algebra 1 and you haven't been successful you have to take the prerequisite course so you're going to have to take geometry and then you'll have to take Algebra 1 in the spring so you'll double up and that'll keep you back on track uh for your ontime graduation so in the fall we're going to have an inordinate number of geometry classes in our district for one year we will just be inundated with geometry so everybody's going to get a little piece of the pie uh for next year go ahead and Advance it so how have we rolled this out to our teachers number one we held a mini Caravan here uh and at Lugoff Elgen High School in this room and uh in the instructional conference room for our staff just for our
030staff because everybody can't go to a caravan so we held one here with the uh with the textbooks that had been approved at that point uh for our staff and you'll remember January 6 was a teacher work day so this didn't require anybody uh to get a substitute then there were Caravans across the state the ones that our uh teachers attended and uh assistant principal principles were the one on February 18th in Florence uh February 20th in Myrtle Beach uh the 24th in Columbia which is where the ma majority of our people went and then February 26 in Richburg which served the you know I77 crew um and you can see uh in that link uh you don't have to click that but that link is the textbook rubric that our people used to judge
031the text that we did go ahead uh in preparation for the new math standards our math coaches District personnel and classroom teachers from across the district have attended South Carolina department of education training on the new standards uh the Elementary and Middle School coaches have begun uh standards rollouts uh and unpacking the standards with our leaders um from from my office uh and the high schools will begin once specific uh South Carolina department of education course training has taken place of course the big issue is the geometry course that's the one that PE especially our Middle School teachers who have never taught geometry that's a huge ask for them so we're actually hosting South Carolina Department training at WTC on May 29th and 30th so we've asked and anytime they say who will host we're
032volunteering so we have that captive audience and we get get people so that information has been sent out to our principles today based on the rubric and in the memo that you have in your board packet today you can see go ahead that our te textbook selections um are for K5 is the I ready text for 6 through eight and 912 the savis text and you can see the the memo will guide you how we did that process and what we what we went through for our new math courses is the applications and modeling course by BW Waltz and then the reasoning and math and the statistical modeling by savis oddly enough that that savis book uh for statistical modeling uh is also the one for AP stats so that's that's curious we'll see how
033that works out um but those were the texts that our teachers chose um so we're asking for board approval on these adoptions so we can go ahead and request the textbooks and get them in so we can do our curriculum mapping and planning um of our patient guides and our formative assessments uh prior to the start of next year what we would like to do is go ahead and begin that process uh right after testing we don't want to do anything before testing uh but right after standardized testing is done go ahead and begin that planning so uh thanks for all your support we're asking for your approval tonight one comment first um it's kind of nice you know looking at it from a historical perspective to see relatively current copyright dates on the material
034that's one that's one thing but then the second thing is a as our preeminent math guy and also our CEO are you pleased with these selections very much so very much so I'm very pleased with the way this has worked out both um especially in light of of the 20221 roll out uh I'm very pleased with with the organization savis and already ready are very uh userfriendly they're they're going to come to the district and it it wasn't anybody's fault that all that that PD was was virtual we we couldn't help that that was the world we were living in in 2021 and and we're thankful to not be there anymore so we will have them and we'll begin to plan with them once that we have approval yes um just out of curiosity I
035I know we've moved direction of uh books online or digital textbooks will there also be hard copies for students that that's that's a great point and and I appreciate you bringing that up yes there are digital textbooks but most of these texts aren't what you picture I you know as a as a old math guy I had a book and it might be that thi and all the odd answers were in the back of the book and if you wanted to do problems uh you had to have a notebook and you you kept your notebook and you wrote everything down these are consumable texts so we will get text this year or in in the late spring for next year we'll use those text the kids will get an individual they may have two volumes
036of of a book one for the fall one for the spring and then the next year we'll get another round of consumable tax for the life of the adoption am I understanding this correctly that the eighth graders they will geometry is that correct and then when they go to the high school they will take algebra algebra one yes ma'am so that's the that's the pathway moving forward yes ma'am now how they buy in the eighth grade teachers over there well that's why we're having that training on May 29th and 30th um it's again it's not the traditional course of geometry that that we think of um it's going to be more Hands-On more uh problem-based learning okay eoc's how will this still be algebra one thank so the the unintended consequence there is we won't
037have any EOC classes in middle school all of our EOC classes will be in high high school three of them will be during your sophomore year the you know English to the geometry and the biology which is traditionally a j a sophomore level course that yes so in Ence you're saying eighth grade you you don't earn any High School Credit any longer no you get high school credit you just don't have to take an EOC okay got [Music] you you other questions if not I will entertain a motion to um approve the proposed textbooks for math so move Madam chair Charles K motion was made by Charles Kane second by all furnace that we accept the proposed textbooks for 2024 2025 all those in favor let it be known by saying I any opposes the
038measure thank you thank you so much yes go right uh tonight in your folder before we move on we have a teacher of the year invitation for you uh you'll notice that's on April the 10th which is earlier than normal part of the reasoning for that is we have such a late spring break that we get back and and it's all crunch time so that has been moved to Thursday April the 10th at 6 o' at the Camden high school performing arts Auditorium and we hope that you can take time to come and enjoy that evening so um please mark that on your calendar thank you Dr Goodwin is there a motion to go into executive session to discuss resignations and retirement of certified and classified Personnel employment of certified and classified personnel and assignment
039changes and transfers of certified and classified Personnel so move Mr Reeves okay second Mr Reeves thank you for the motion and second by runet all those in favor of of going to Executive session at this time an executive session thank you e e e a motion this time to reconvene to open session second okay motion was made by Mr AUM and and second by Mr Blackman that we reconvene to open session all in favor Let It Be know by saying I any opposes okay thank you in executive session we discuss resignations and retirement of certified and classified Personnel employment of certified and classified personnel and assignment changes and transfers of certified and classified Personnel is there a motion to accept at administration's recommendation concerning employment matters the motion was made by David and second by
040Jin all those in favor let it be known by saying I I and po potion motion Caris thank you yes okay yes um we have contract time coming up um and I hate to catch y'all off guard on this but the um our next board meeting is scheduled to be April the 1st which is coming right back U you know a couple weeks from now uh in light of working on contracts and all for teachers uh wondered if you would entertain a a possibility of moving that board meeting from the 1st to the 8th or if not possible if we you know still want to have it on the first but then we would want to probably ask for a special session on 8 need that yes the April 8th you said I the one
041the eth would be the date that would be better for okay contracts for teachers okay M I'd like to propose that we change the April 1st meeting General general meeting to April 8 okay for contractual reasons okay the motion is made by Dr King and second by Autumn have question I'm sorry I may I'm sorry I think Now's the Time the appropriate time to do that correct now we have a motion on floor yes um Dr Goin will the move itself do what it is that needs to be done or will considering a second meeting on the eth be more efficient for what needs to happen I think it's more efficient if we do it on the eth I think we'll have more issues resolved by the 8th uh the first really we we would
042we would would hold all of them until the eth okay thank you if it's move the entire meeting to the 8th okay okay if there are any other questions we're ready for the question all those in favor of moving our April 1st board meeting to April 8th 2025 let it be known by saying I I any opposes we'll be meeting on April 8th 25 at 6:00 a motion at this time for adjournment with prayer motion was made by a FIS and second by Jean Cameron that we adjourn with prayer all those in favor letting me know my saying I any opposes heavenly father thank you for abiding with us this evening we leave here this evening we ask that you dispat your angels to guide us safely back home and find all this well we
043get there and we will give you all the honor and Glory that is Du you and it's in the precious names of Jesus we count it all done amen