001please stand by. thank you and welcome back to the school board workshop. Before we start, we just have to take a board consensus about continuing the time to 5:20, because our time will end at 4:30 for our policy 8 hours, is it okay to end, I say 5:20 because we have a budget time, and we need to time to switch over. Is everybody okay. Next up is, next item on our school and I'll just tell you that we are going to put the office of chief auditor chief auditor evaluation to another workshop. We're going to move the policy and rule of order to another workshop which means we'll have to readvertise it and we'll probably not get to office safe schools quarterly. Now I would like to get to staff for legislation update. go ahead,
002MR. Sullivan he's going to be as brief as the road roper. I'm not going to speaker, they're going to spend three to four minutes just describing the two bills that will impact the redefining bill so the board can consider that in the discussion. We have wendy from the southern group and DR. Mcdugal and they'll go over 110. Wendy if you want to kitchen it off. sure. So sb1105 makes changes to current schools. And the changes they made in statute removed that parental vote from that process. And it ads the concept of a job engine charter school and the fact that a municipality can now propose a job engine pool that will be available to partner with industries in the area to attract them to the area and keep the school going and allow us to
003students to participate. In whatever area of, of economic development, the that they are interested in bringing to that area. So 50 percent of the paerpts that are eligible to vote would have to vote and allows for cte programs at high school but also programs that would feed into a job engine type of charter school. thank you. Kim did you want to describe 2510? sure, just a reminder 2510 included a inclusion about schools of hope. And you MAY recall charter schools that are operate asked low performing schools. Right now, there is 6 charter and 12 schools of hope in florida. And the changes that were made, sorry I have to look at my notes as we pivot here. The new statute in the bill 2510 ads new criteria where the school is low performing school and
004considered low performing. It receives three Cs. And now considered performing if it's in the bottom 10 percent in at least two of the previous three years on the end of your administration in the coordinated and progress monitoring system. So like I said before, there were six schools of hope operators but everybody knows common knowledge, a vendor that is going to come in and work in florida. So a school of hope now, law change can locate outside of florida zone or performing attended zone if the district does not have under served vacant or surplus property. Schools of hope can also apply to a state college as a sponsor. So it's important to know, that they can go with another school so. If you have under utilized school, a school of hope can come in and offer
005aid and the school of hope will not be paying the district any money however, the school district can submit for capital outlay funds for the students that are in the school. At one point there was a student provision but that fell out along the way. There are some new reporting requirement program obviously because the new law passed. So there will be some information about how they're moving from grade to grade. So that's the bigger overview between the two conversion schools that we talked about and schools of hope. It is a big change while funding was not specifically provided for the expanded schools of hope, the school of hope operators got some money but less money they previously got in the prior years for the 12 schools. thank you, kim. So those are the two bills
006that will impact how we move forward. So unless there is any questions for the lobbyist on the two bills, I'll kick it off to the DR. Wanza. okay, we'll move to the next item which is redefining our schools. We'll have a brief presentation to staff and then move to public comment and I'll say in a compromised, students will have one minute adults will have one minute but we have to have this item completed by 5:20 by everybody. I'll DR. Wanza and we'll move through presentation and get to comment sxz board discussion. adrian executive director strategic development management. hi, joe beck director of demographic and enrollment planning. director of support department. good afternoon, willie wood director of performance management. if becon can lower the presentation. We're grateful at the opportunity, I think I'm doing the right
007thing. Figure out how this works, thank you. So, okay. It's moving now, all right, so obviously I'm, the second slide just tells you what we're going to go through very briefly. In slide three, we just like to, those are the actions that the board took that are affective. And as it results to this slide, many of the schools are reporting that while they're 6 to 8, addition of grade 6 is adding students. What they're find ising enrollment in k and 1 is starting to grow as well and that speaks to parents who would never consider giving us an opportunity or not giving us an opportunity because they know that option to remain through the middle grades is there for them. When we came to the board in MAY, this is what the superintendent expresses our
008priority for the school year and we're going to walk through when we get to these. That's slides four and five. And then the big thing, under our policy, so what we did last year and modeled again for this year, we will walk through three slides and we're going to talk about a briefly, those groupings of schools and what that will mean in the upcoming weeks as we start to define our work. So very briefly, 58 schools before the 70 percent capacity, 39 elementary and 16 middle and three high schools. And that's the break down continuing. So the first slide is 5 clusters of groupings that we need to look at more microscopically and look at enrollment. You can see the schools there I will not call them out individually, in the trf time. But there
009is something in this slide that we're going to correct and repost. Choral cove was addressed this year and in the actual verbiage, says no, we're going to correct that and repost. But these are the 8 groupings, you can see that there is a section in the northwest. Central east and central west as well as southeast and southwest as it relates to elementary school. for the middle school map which would be slide number 9, oh I got to, 8, I got ahead of myself, you said fast, I got ahead of myself. I'm sorry. Slide 8 is where you see the middle school groupings. And we have some opportunities there that we will need to look at and speak at communities about how we look address under enrollment at the middle school level. At the high school
010level, you can see that there is not a cluster or groupings of schools. But there are three schools by policy that speak to needing to be addressed and the three schools since this map is considerably smaller. Would be hal en dale high and stranhan these are the three schools by policy that it speaks to we need to address. However, staff is very much aware that at the MARCH 11th, regular school board meeting, the board came to consensus about staffing bringing back an option or option to see consider a choice boundary area for the marjory stowman douglas choral glades boundary that occur a couple of years ago. This slide speaks to by policy and that talks to the actual schools. So the next slide, talks about impact or things for us to consider as we look
011at the actual cluster of schools when we go out to meet with communities and have conversations to address the under unrollment. And I will go through it, but these are just some items that we must consider in our conversations. Many others have spoken on the other slides. And the district has a membership with hanover research and they conducted the survey to current broward schools families as well as families that are now in attending one of the charter schools in the district. And so, slide 12 talks about major findings of families that currently have students in broward county schools and those are the memberations coming out of that research that was conducted memberations for the district to consider. And school and safety. And for charter school families the three things recommendations there that they gave us,
012and I know this is recurring is highlight and communicate the district communities among all the schools and visible leadership and strong school culture and reinforce the district's commitment and safety. As it results to school choice, you can see both in slide 14 and 15, the responses that tends torres nature to the top, is always that one around school environment and that was the highest ranking one in families that apply for choice, as well as you see it again, school environment and families that elect to have their children in home education. This is just a review again of surplus properties, so we will not go through that but this was presented with no changes with the change 20th workshop presentation. And this is the strategies that we will seek to employ throughout this school year as
013we look to redefine, continue to redefine our schools our course offerings and foot print and B.C. Ps as a whole. But what many people are here today is we already have some early from tr and support. We know that the city of ft. Lauderdale is very much interested in a joint with the district to establish a k-12 sports academy. I will not steal their thunder, which know that the city of miramar has been vocal but they have ex preds interest in early learning opportunities. With us today, early achievement world I will not steal their thunder but they have interest that they want to replicate what is in the north and centrally part of the district. But at this time for high school students and surrounding communities and then multiple public and private agencies knew --
014municipalities have approached about opportunities to lease space for either their administrative spaces or community programming in any of our under utilized facilities. And lastly, after today based on the feedback and direction that we received, we will come back to the board at the AUGUST 26 workshop and layout the timeline and start the process officially. MADAM Chair, I hope that is brief enough and I'm done until there are questions. so school choice deadline and communicate to families by OCTOBER first. can you tell us what will be the time? what is in policy, we must advertise to families our timeline. One little feedback that we received is we couldn't do it this year because the policy was still going through the revision process was to open the window early in OCTOBER. So that parents would know before
015they go home for winter break what the decision was because we want it to align it with the notifications that they would normally get if they were applying to other options in the communities. So when we start in AUGUST, with the conversation, we know we have a few decisions but open up the window in OCTOBER so that the first award notifications will go out before winter break and once we open the second window, we typically keep that one open throughout the rest of the school year. thank you, we're going to move to public comment. I'll ask, I'm not sure who is who. So if each student will give their name so I can cross you off. MADAM Chair, before we start. Is understand we're in a time crunch but I would be doing a disservice
016for the three minutes. I wish we were in a different place, but we're they'll have to wait until after 8:00 o'clock to speak again. This is a way to be able to get everybody to talk. So go ahead. don't forget your name. Speaker: my name is harrison and I'm going into sixth grade into sonrise. I love sports and I'm very athletic. I believe in general would be benefit us with team work and focus during the school day. Scientist t has s proved thatat exerci dudus s stssss to kekeep you focused in school and keep you healthy. So I believe that putting funds into sports equipment will benefit us all mentally and academically. Thank you so much. [Applause] thank you so much. Speaker: hi I'm kate and I'm going into sixth grade into sonrise middle school.
017I'm excited about the idea of sports academy, especially those looking for stronger sports programs. I've already seen some my friends leave after school year. It's hard to lose friends because of a program like this. Being connected will make things a lot less stressful. Knowing that you're surrounded by family faces. I think the sports academy will give kids to help us feel more confident and stay on a path that feels money and meaningful. : thank you. [Applause] Speaker: hello I'm kate and I'm going to be a sixth grader sat sonrise this year. While I've been at in school I've seen that when kids are excited about what they're learning, they try harder and do better. when they have something to look forward to, they feel more motivated. For a lot of kids, sports are their favorite
018things. Playing sports and being active helps kids focus. It gives them energy and helps make it easier to concentrate in class. I've also been lucky to go to an elementary school where parents and students want to be there and having a special program that people are excited about means that they're more involved. This sports academy would give more kids to feel that excitement and be part of something special. Thank you for listening and I hope you'll bring the opportunity to our school. Thank you. thank you. [Applause] Speaker: hello my name is gina pollseti and I'm going to sixth grade at sonrise middle school and I'm here to talk about investing in turf will benefit the school. Turf is easier to maintain than regular grass. You don't have to fertilize the grass or water it. Also
019you can have school events and parties on the turf. When athletes play on the turf they wouldn't trip because the turf is smooth unlike the regular grass. And the soccer ball will roll smoother on turf. We want to make sure that sonrise has good facilities so other students will want to come to our school. Thank you. [Applause] Speaker: hello I'm jack and I'm a multi sport athlete at sonrise middle school going into 7th grade. I will not take much of our time but to summarize, when I came into sixth grade, I was disappointed in the football field and track and even the soccer field. I think this will help many students in middle school. Thank you for your time. Speaker: I'm xavier and I'm going into 7th grade in sonrise, I played football and track
020for sonrise middle school. When I first stepped out on the field I was shocked at the condition of the field that we played on. Football, wait, also even the -- wait. you're fine, don't be nervous. Speaker: sorry. I was shocked at the condition of the field that we played football on. And also even the track. Also the basketball court wasn't in the best condition. I believe that upgrading the sport equipment would benefit a lot of people at sonrise middle school. Thank you. [Applause] thank you. excellent, thank you all so much for your input there so we're going to move on to the list in order. So next up is DR. Nathalie lynch walsh. Speaker: DR. Nathalie lynch walsh where I've been a homeowner since 1998, not plan to go move, so what you do to
021the high school impacts my property value. My kids have finally escaped the system. Having said that, whatever editoration, plantation does not go. And there is a lot of plantation that lives in district 6, not just in district 5 it just depends on which hill you live on. Because everybody that I've known from central park elementary, mira lake tends to go but not central park and not much pete pezer surprisingly. If you fix the boundaries which is how I started 14 years ago, and I guess that's that because we're down to one minute as opposed to three. Thank you. next is andrew cohen. I'm sorry lori was suppose to go. She's the boss. you can go second. I'm sorry. Speaker: all right I'm going to speak in any fastest new york language. I'm here today to
022talk about the bowl vision that we've been talking about. You had the vision 16 years ago to do every fifth grader and sixth grader our kids in high school are about to hit the real world. So what we're about to bring to your attention, and you have a booklet in your desk imagine if going down broward boulevard, you're going east. Should uz decide to repurpose north fork elementary school, we are proposing to build a workforce innovation center in partnership with the district, j a will fund the entire building of the center just like we did for ja world but every single high school students and the reason why that property is the property that we're proposing is because essentially located, important we have a 10 million dollars gift that has a time line on it.
023So we just hope that you will make a commitment to building this for our high school and above students. Thank you. thank you. [Applause] Speaker: thank you board chair hixon for having here. I'm andrew I'm a ceo of city furniture and work closely with the world class. And this opportunity is once in a lifetime. We have a donor that is willing to give us a lot of money and there is a time commitment that we have to make to be able to execute on this. What ja has proved out is business, education working together can really help these kids lives and make a better ones and give everybody hope to do whatever they want to do. I feel confident, I represent 70 board memebers and over 450 partners that work closely with junior achievement, they
024will get behind this and we'll get tons of support to make this happen and not put all the burden on you guys. This is going to be fantastic for the kids of broward county. I hope you move forward with this. thank you. Next is manish hurapa. Speaker: I'm ceo of peak activity also a board member at ucf and I'm board member j a as a tech ceo, we've employed thousands of tech leaders in this tech system. We have 27 years old that are make hundreds of thousands a year in tech. But we need an educated workforce, I'm here in supporting of repurchasing north fork, when we think about the pipeline of the future, we need to have high school stud thaents are proficient in ai and technology and the tools that they're leaninger are changing
025so fast, so I'm here as a tech leader to say I'm behind what andrew just mentioned, we're here to support everything we can as far as technology relate asked ai related innovation and we really want to support what we're proposing with north fork. Thank you. thank you. Next is linn goldman. good afternoon, just before my retirement for 30 years, I was with the technical colleges and technical high schools and I know firsthand what the impact of workforce education can do for students, their family and for our community. I fully support creating this work base center because students and their parents need to know what careers are available where they can go on the training and get first hands-on experience in those careers, see what it's like and work with the partners that we have. Ja
026has proven to have a great partnership with broward county public schools and I encourage you to go forward with this decision and create this. thank you. Next is craig thompson. Speaker: good afternoon, DR. Hepburn, chair and members of the school board member I'm craig thompson I proudly serve as chair and bring years of experience and remain committed to community impact throughout my career. Today I speak on behalf of the j a board and our strong support of the proposal to repurpose north fork and what will, innovative workforce center. This new center is about more than programs it's about helping our youth, parents and others identify what is possible in helping them to develop and achieve their objectives. It's about giving students the tools they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world and real exposure
027and skills that they can use the moment they graduate. The j a board composed over 70 dedicated community leaders stands united behind this initiative. Thank you. thank you, so much. Next is arithro, I don't think she's here. Erin ghoul? Speaker: sorry. Good afternoon, I'm going to try to make it short. With you but first, thank you for making sure we included the community. What excites me most about today's presentation is that it goes beyond school commissioners it reflects a thoughtful driven approach that seeks to understand why families are making their the choices they are. I'm here as the proud and coming ptsa PRESIDENT Of the sonrise middle school and you can see we have enthusiastic support. You're looking for programs that attract families look before you. To see our schools and alumni rally around this
028has been inspiring. We heard at today's meeting and meeting after meeting that we want our kids to be making connections around them not our devices. Tht sports program would do just that. It would contribute to for engage environments. I am on the ft. Lauderdale advisory board I'm going to wrap up quickly but they have made such a significant investment in our schools and we can use this as a model to work with other municipalities to create other programs that attract and retain families. Thank you. thank you, tamara rodriguez. Speaker: good afternoon, I'm a proud of broward resident and mother of two and professor of advanced media fyu. I'm here to support the center north fork elementary. I have first firsthand in my career how's positive propels the student's desire to learn which leads to a
029confident student. Storytelling also motivates students to learn and sought after expertise. In the proposal there is a production in the new innovation center. It will be a game changer because the students will have hands-on xaoeshs as well as access to mentors in the industry which will be priceless for the students and a win for the community. Thank you for your consideration. thank you so much. Next is james libery. Speaker: superintendent, MADAM Chair, members of the school board I'm james and I'm a resident homeowner and taxpayer and resident of broward county. I live in for t. Lauderdale in the poinsettia heights, I currently serve as the vice PRESIDENT Of the poinsettia heights association, I come in supporting of the sports academy that includes bennett and sonrise and ft. Lauderdale high school. We believe that physician active
030at this time helps not only to support physical health but mental and emotional health. Additionally we believe there is value as it would attract and retain students and their families. I've got a plot more to say but I know we're rushed for teem. Please know the poinsettia association overwhelmingly supports and we're asking the superintendent and the school board memebers to support the initiative as well. Thank you very much. thank you so much. Next is DR. Trudy generalvich. Speaker: I'm trudy a former sonrise teacher, I want to emphasize the proposal support. sonrise and ft. Lauderdale have swimming schools and students have all become pro efficiently swimmers and being close to the beach, we have a lot of water sports, wing surfing and sailing which could be explored in classroom activities. These threes schools collaborated many years
031ago in the woodberth around the world sailing. I want to remind the world that sports can inincrease the stud ent enthusiasm. Includes science and technology and geography and arts and math. And also they do experiments on the boat to try to see how many micro plastic right side all over the ocean. I also believe, I want to thank you and I thank you and also this is an excellent way to have our schools become really really top notch again. thank you, next is claudia. Alan? Speaker: thank you ellen and I've been a activist in broward county schools for over 35 years. About 35 years ago, a couple of friends, we got together as a community and decided that we wanted a new program. We were told it couldn't be done. We were told it's never
032been done before. We did the research and persisted and it's an extremely successful program today. We think that community driven programs are the best for the community and it ingauges and brought a lot of people back to school that had gone off to private. We didn't have any charters but had gone off to private schools. We were pleased with our progress and I would encourage to you hear the community and perhaps engage the community with the sports academy. thank you very much. Next is mary. Speaker: good afternoon. About five years ago, heather brink and I had an incredible opportunity to work with professional sports team to create a venue for ft. Lauderdale high school and stran en high to play football at lockhart stadium again. Since the 1950s, they played, but a point came whether
033this was no longer happening. As conversations about a pay three, we saw an opportunity to play again and there was talk about other activities on the site we had an idea. What a program could be built if they would offer mentorship by bringing together a unique schools and school board and community and we have a perfect location. A feeder pattern located right in the middle of where all of this is happening. Bennett elementary and sonrise middle school both date backs to the 1950s when the city decided to invest when the city decided to invest 1.725 million and a turf field and more at sonrise we decided that it was a definite sign that the sports academy was meant to be. thank you so much. Speaker: thank you, can I add one thing when a community
034brings you a program and a community embraces a program it's going to be successful I hope you work with our community. Thank you. thank you. Christian glen? Speaker: good afternoon, I'm in the women's team. I've been playing volleyball for the past ten years with some of these years being at south bay football and the lessons and friends that have stuck with me through in journey are irreplaceable. Being a student athlete has taught me to be with other people in collaborating with others, our differences are what can make the most for teams. The ability to create this curriculum would be huge benefit to the students. Given students the opportunity to grow into multi fauceted individuals will produce competency in the future leaders in the area. Enrolling students into sports cannot only be time consuming but extremely
035expensive. With this academy, students can develop confidence and skills that parents can seek out for their dhirn. -- children. It will strengthen their minds as well as their bodies creating creative habits starts young and with this we have an ability to make an impact. Thank you. thank you so much. Heather? Speaker: good afternoon, I'm a prout product of B.C. Ps. Both of them participated in school athletic both of them left high school feeling like most of their education was boring and d irirreleva.. atattracting studen anand kekeining them engage how our public school system not only survives but thrives. Programming matters immensely, k-8 solutions pass fie fears of realities of middle school. The answer lies in innovative program that captures the imagination and offers something for all students. With the parks bond, the pap therz ice
036flex, the pick approximately ball and diving facility, and the city of ft. Lauderdale, it's time to notice what our neighbors to the south have begun implementing and it's time for flh sports and it starts with the sports academy at bennett. Thank you. sarah d, because I cannot read the last name. thank you. Speaker: thank you for bringing out the chairs today, you were raised well. I'm the head coach at for the louder and former athlete and professional athlete. I'm not going to go through my resume but I can tell you how important in the development. And the lessons you learn therefore. There is more than any other student or any other athlete experiences throughout their day. I think a sports academy would be a brilliant idea seeing how it works in other places. And informing
037and running that thing. Write it down. I'm easy to find, there is the brand. I appreciate the time. Thank you very much for listening. thank you very much. And we finish with alex colazo. Speaker: hi I'm PRESIDENT Of the pacific association as gym elaborated that also the community of bennett elementary and sonrise middle. I too am alumni from sonrise middle school and ft. Lauderdale high and like these young students agree that the conditions of athletic programs over there are, well, let's say deplorable, it had not changed since I went there and we were delighted when the city of ft. Lauderdale stepped up to assist with these park programs and fund some of the new amenities that some of these schools will provide. Is would respectfully ask this board to join the city with this board
038to join with our community and the city and match the funds that were provided by the city of ft. Lauderdale to upgrade broward county schools. Thank you very much. thank you so much, so we have 15 minutes left. I want to bring this home. On page 19, if my colleagues will look on page 19. There are four things that I believe staff would like some direction on. That's the idea of what we're doing today so they bring it back in AUGUST? if I can clarify DR. Wanza can follow tup. On page 19, four things. Two of the four are actionable items that we can bring back to the board for more detail and discussion. Four are time sensitive in support of the sports academy k-12, we're a city of ft. Lauderdale has put up funds
039and asked for a matching contribution to finish out the facilities and the other item with junior achievement we have support from business partners and achievement to support the kids with possible repurposing of north fork elementary. So in all of the items, most of the da that has not changed just to let people know where we are and what we intend to do discussing some of the possibilities but to the four items are opportunities for the board that we can bring back earlier, for some type of commitment or a vote while we continue to work on some of the other things that are involves some hard decisions for possible closure of schools and things like that but in the same vein also work to go update and revise magneta cross the district and all those other
040ones. Two to four, right now today's is probably what we need most feedback from. so to, and let's give them direction first and then, whatever time we have left for people to add what they would like to. But is there anybody, let's make this simple is there anyone that disagrees of bringing back to tuesday a sports academy in sonrise and junior achievement on the north fork side? We're not voting on it, we're just asking is that something that we would like to see come back in AUGUST when we have a more detailed discussion with, i promise, no more than three items superintendent, so we can actually give this the time that it needs. I feel like twice we've had to rush what we're doing with repurposing and this is a huge piece. Is there anyone
041that disagrees with having staff bring those two ideas back in AUGUST let's start with that. So either you degree or disagree, that's all asking. Is there anyone online that disagrees with staffing bringing these back. I agree. DR. Zeman? Is he still there. If we get cut off in time, staff is good with bringing those items back. Just for the public to know, today is a workshop so we're not voting today. It will be probably a while before we get to the voting yes and no. So I don't want you to leave feeling like you didn't get what you needed but today was the just the idea of what we're going to be moving forward. So DR. Hol nets. -- holness. regarding north fork, while I don't disagree with the item coming back, this would involve,
042that requires security engagement. Would I hope that we're being very sensitive to that community and that we will come back with relevant information as oppose today just moving ahead without the xhaoufnt being involved so I caution that we're careful with that item as we move forward. MR. Cervera. thank you, MADAM Chair. I want to thank everybody for coming and speaking, as we creep pa ft 5:00 o'clock hour. I believe it was MR. Cohen who I I don't see anymore. If that was the case, I heard there was a strick deadline. I would like some more information on that. MS. Salrove if you have that information. Would I love to hear it. But if we're under some kind of strict timeline in order to receive a lot of money, I would like to know what we're
043work on here. DR. Hepburn. Ye, I'm going to bring -- as she comes. To MS. Hixon's point so no one walks away thinking, what happens in AUGUST of this year are set. So whatever the decisions, the board make as we go through the process. I just wanted to make that plain. to answer your questions, ye, it will be publicly and privately funded. And secondly there is a ten million dollars pledge from a donor that came possibly about a year and a half to two years ago when we began to envision this center for the high school students and began talking to superintendent la ca at -- licata and then DR. Hepburn and that donor said there is a window, I would say she would like to see the land at least committed to by DECEMBER.
044That point, we will have to try to convince her to continue the exploration, but I don't feel hopeful she is anxious. By DECEMBER would be the latest. thank you, ma'am. And just to clarify that does align with our process as well as the process from last year. MS. Thompson. thank you chair. I'm concerned. I love early learning, so I don't want this to be taken but I'm concerned about the miramar early learning simply based on early changes. And I'm concerned that I'm just concerned about that in general. And that also, really want to explore the opportunity to redistrict silver palms because it's the only school in pem brooke pines that is going east and our families are leaving. I've had three families that are leaving to go to charter schools. It's simile because it takes
04525 minutes to get from silver palms to then walt c young after-hours. So this is something that the community has asked for a very long time. I talked to DR. Hepburn about t he said this is the opportunity. So so please for the love of everything, bring that opportunity back because it will keep pines families there. Otherwise, I'm excited about the changes. thank you. We're just going around. I'll say that I'm very excited for the sports academy. I hope we do more of those academy like things in partnership with the municipalities. very also excited about the ja world and what can be done there and how we partner with the verity of different organizations. I think early learn ising very important so it could be that it's a cost base on early learning. When this
046comes back in AUGUST, there have been minimum other things on the agenda, we need to give tt time that it deserves, we need to give the public that the time that they want to speak to the different items. So please, please, please, two items, three would be like if it really really had to be on there and absolutely no special school board meeting. [Laughter] we heard you chair. thank you and first I want to thank every one who came to speak today especially our students. It is always thrilling sitting here getting to hear from our students and courage and o lo quens that eloquence showed is great. And thank you to the community lead sxerz activist who have dedicated their lives to our public schools. I'm very very excited about this sports academy at bennett
047elementary sonrise middle school and ft. Lauderdale high school. this makes me happy I appreciate all the hard work and all the the comment that MS. Leonardi made when the community brings a propeace al, this is demonstrated here, obviously. So we don't necessarily know what we don't know to have you all proactively working together to bring this to make our community better is just amazing so thank you so much for that. The ja proposal I'm a huge fan, I've got one more 5th grade kid to do that. This is engagement with the business community doing what we need to do so give these opportunities to our kids, it's just thrilling to me, I'm so happy to see this. So thank you. And, the other, the you know, early opportunities and obviously working together to come up
048with other partnerships and those things are great. So I just, want you guys to know that I'll be leaving feeling cheered and hopeful today after this presentation. So thank you very much. thank you and we will end with MS. Rupert, we have about three minutes left. I wouldn't need it. I want to thank the community for coming out today. It's best when which actually the original comes -- origin, comes from the community. I 100 percent support this sports academy. And also the j a world especially for our workforce innovation and any municipalities that want to partner with us, I would hope that we form a better relationship with them and partner and I'm hopeful that we will do that. Thank you so much. thank you so much. At this time, do any of my colleagues
049need to bring to the board and student success to share that takes less than two minutes. no. the scheduled business of this workshop of the school board of broward county florida has been completed except for the other items we have to come back. Seeing no obligation, I adjourn the meeting. We will start at 5:30 with the