001I now call this regular meeting of the Board of Education to order at 7:00 p.m. Please call the roll. >> Ms. Pearson present. Ms. Chavez >> Present. >> Ms. McCall >> Present. >> Ms. Bennett Mr. Carpenter >> Here. >> Ms. Haley >> Here. >> Ms. Stanford >> Here. >> With six present, one absent, we have a quorum. >> Thank you. We will now take a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. As we start each board meet- meeting, it's important to remember that the mission of Rockford Public Schools is to collaboratively engage all students in an equitable, first-class education for a changing world. Um we'd also like to thank Kim Patterson and Aaron Hill who are working behind the scenes to produce the board's broadcast via YouTube live stream and Comcast Channel 20.
002We will now call on those individuals who have submitted public comment cards seeking time to speak. I guess that that section was pub- section three for petitions and communications. So, we'll move on to peti- section three and come back to section two. Um the board will not respond to the comments at this time. If it is appropriate, you will be contacted in a timely manner by staff. Each speaker will be allowed no more than 3 minutes to address the board. It is not appropriate to discuss matters that would otherwise be confidential in such open meetings. If you look to your left, you will see two digital clocks. One shows the total time allotted to public comments, and one shows the total time for each speaker. We thank you for your cooperation with our guidelines. Our
003first speaker is Anne Rundall, and following her will be Claudia Marshall. >> I'm going to be speaking tonight for Eliminate Racism on the characteristics needed in our new superintendent. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated track record of implementing policies and practices that close achievement gaps and eliminate discipline disparities. The superintendent should have a history of prioritizing the recruitment, hiring, and retention of teachers and staff of color. They should be able to articulate a clear strategy for building a diverse workforce that reflects the student body of RPS. The new superintendent must set a culture in the district with administrators and all staff based on heart and high expectations. The candidate should be an expert in developing and implementing equitable funding models and resource distribution policies, ensuring that schools with the greatest needs receive the necessary
004support to succeed. The new superintendent must be deeply knowledgeable about effective, evidence-based reading instruction. They should have a clear vision and strategy for ensuring all scholars, by the end of third grade, are proficient readers. The ideal candidate will be skilled in using disaggregated data to identify disparities and inform strategic planning. They should be able to translate data into actionable plans that improve outcomes for all scholars. The superintendent should understand and promote culturally responsive teaching practices that affirm students' identities and connect learning to their lived experiences. The candidate should have a history of building strong, authentic partnerships with community organizations, families, and stakeholders, which would include poorer neighborhoods, and Rockford residents of diverse cultural backgrounds. The new superintendent should be a skilled communicator who listens to and values diverse perspectives. The ideal candidate will be committed
005to a holistic approach to education, understanding that social and emotional well-being, as well as academic achievement, are crucial for a scholar's success. We clearly need a superintendent who thinks outside the box. If we continue doing what we've done for years, we will get the same results. We need a creative problem solver, an original thinker, someone who can implement a non-traditional approach to our challenges in RPS. We need someone who can surround themselves with other administrators who do not shy away from unconventional ideas. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, stakeholders. Claudia Marshall, REA. After new teacher orientation, I represent almost 2,000 members, your employees. Here are the bulleted facts focusing on inequities in RPS. There have been several mold issues at Ellis, Guilford, McIntosh, and Spring Creek. The back and forth with the district is too
006much to share, but all stakeholders are aware of the safety concerns, and the union has proven they have been misled on the details and solutions given by RPS. We thank Board President Paul Carpenter and VP Nicole Bennett for their attention and follow through with this problem. The week before school started, REA VP Christine Fowler Nash reached out to the board member who has these schools in their quadrant to share the inhumane conditions students are subjected to. We continue to wait for a response. A separate safety concern was responded to with one board member stating they are not paid to do the school board job, and therefore they feel picked upon. You all are elected officials representing the community and have taken an oath to represent the community without payment. Thanks to all of you that
007do respond to the constituents you serve. The REA was told that all schools impacted were cleaned and sanitized. We were assured that the AC would run 24/7 to continue clearing and combating the problem. Staff and admin returned to those schools on 8/11 and the mold had reappeared and the carpet was still wet. I myself visited with wretching reactions to the barnyard smell and deplorable conditions. Having recently visited both the Boone and Winnebago County Fairs, I can confirm that those smelled better than room one at McIntosh. Carpets were replaced at our East Side schools, Spring Creek and Guilford. The reason stated was a pipe leak. Ellis and McIntosh had no leak, but just as bad conditions and we're told they couldn't get new carpet because because there was none left for their school. One of those
008principals said as long as it was clean and not mismatched carpet in one whole classroom, they would take whatever was clean, safe, and appropriate. The admin at both Allison and McIntosh were told they would not receive new carpet. The carpet at Spring Creek was replaced with a carpet from Eisenhower, even though it doesn't match. Exhibit A, I'm going to ask Mr. Morgan Gallagher to please pass this out to board members, or you can leave it here. Exhibit A, because this is how I now feel dealing with this district, is that we're already in a courtroom, guilty until proven innocent. Shows that many pallets of carpet are in storage. They're even marked McIntosh. Did you know that a student fell on wet and humid drenched floors at Ellis yesterday? Last I knew, he's being checked for
009a concussion at the hospital. It was confirmed with staff in an email that the student fell due to the wet conditions at Ellis. Your own admin are confirming the problem. What you as the board really need to ask yourselves is this. Why did we give an excuse to the Westside schools while honoring the Eastside schools enough to repair the problem? Or you could ask yourselves this. Why can we replace mismatched carpet on our Eastside schools, but ignore our Westside students who sit a classroom that smells like a barnyard? >> Thank you. >> Next will be Craig Corcoran, followed by Ricky Nailer. >> Uh thank you for the opportunity. I wrote a lot, but I'll try and say a little. Uh I'm here to talk about the CCEC, which was rebranded the Quad. Uh last uh
010November, we were kind of made aware of the CCEC and all the operations that would happen there in moving all the academies out to that project. Um so, I I know what the um total dollar amount on was to brand the CCEC, but now we're going to rebrand it the Quad and we had another uh, outlay of cash for the marketing of that. Tonight, you're going to approve another $73,000 for the marketing of the Quad. Is there an ROI on that marketing that we're getting back because our Rockford students want to go to another school? Um, I don't know what the marketing component of that, how that serves the district in the best. Uh, for marketing and because we're going to have it as a economic engine because other s- other schools are able to
011send their students there from Boone or from Winnebago High School, uh, that would be great. I don't think that's the plan at this point. Uh, I just want to speak a little bit on the CCEC and what it could be. I don't think it's a bad thing. I think it could be a great thing. The concern I have is we have a large number of students that need our service. These students are in ALOP. There are students that have EIAs, they've been expelled. We're still paying for their education. We have students that have other support needs. Why don't those students have the opportunity to attend a place like the CCEC or the Quad? The best, the newest place for those that are the most deserving, the most needing students. Why don't we give them the
012opportunity to go there, meet their high social emotional needs, provide them with the opportunities to learn a trade or skill? We have culinary there, we have automotive there, we have welding there, we have other trade opportunities there. These people These young students are going to be our community members for life. My students in my engineering program at Guilford that go away, most of them don't come back to Rockford. We export brain power. The students that we need to fill our economy are being left out of the opportunity because they're being put in the programs that aren't giving them the education they need to meet the need that we have in our community. I don't want to become a community that is full of warehouses and that's all we have. If we could rethink what the
013CCE could be, that would be amazing to give the students that need the most the best possible place to go and meet their need. There's lots of board docs you can find on the amount of money that's being spent outside in these programs and if that money could be reinstituted into our school district, that could be a potential benefit. The programs the academies at Guilford, the academies at all the schools aren't broken. They don't need to be transported somewhere else. We have grown and we're we're thriving. Please stop, rethink the opportunities. Thank you. >> All right. All right, school board members. I mean, I know you guys got that little you got your own little motto or whatever motto every time y'all start these meetings. Y'all should be this when this when this guy here
014leaves and these people go with him or if they if they stay or whatever, but you guys should open this meeting up every time and say, "You know what? We are always open to discussing new ways to adjust our policies to make sure that we advancing the education opportunities of all our students." And then you actually go out there and do that. Now, Dr. Jared, he was right about a superintendent needs to listen, but what he forgot to say was about that new super superintendent needs to get out of his way. This guy has been 13 years getting in his own Every time he fight against us, he getting in his own way. He need to stop doing that, but it's too late now because where he going now, back up to Rockton, he can
015do all that up there. They don't care. Now, also, I'm sure that Dr. Gallagher and and and uh Miss is watching this lawsuit, I've been watching the the education department going against those five schools in Virginia about the gender bathroom stuff, whatever. But, what this school district here did, you guys ran from Donald Trump from day one. You didn't even try to fight this guy at all for your black students. And now we sit here now, you got a $30,000 bag program this guy designed. That is not enough money to fix these problems. You guys saw the data. I sent it to some of y'all. Your black students took in more consequences than all the rest of these students combined, and that's ridiculous. So, if the Department of Education or the government said, "Look, y'all
016can't help these black students." I said, "Well, you know what? You look at our data. 56% of these consequences is going to black students." And you got three black board members up there and and Miss Chavez sitting there, too. So, you guys got the power to do this. This guy has shown you guys that he don't know what he's doing when it comes to racial This guy here don't, either. So, that So, that all this stuff here needs to change if you guys are going to help these students. Cuz right now you're not helping these students at all. Back in 2020, when he Before this guy came here, another black woman in that job that he got, and she said, "We're going to help all these black students. Oh, we're going to do all this
017good stuff. We're going to get these numbers down." Four years later, those numbers have went up. So, you know you're doing something wrong. And what And what y'all doing wrong is really listening to him. We We We got all kind of people lined up to come in this in this school district here and show y'all how to get those numbers down, but y'all listen to him. Don't Don't respond back to him. Don't respond back to them people. He said one time in the email, he said, "I don't want nobody responding back to Rick Naylor." That's what he said to his own board members. And the board member told him, said, "Dr. Jared, this guy got some good ideas." I don't care. I don't care. So, I don't care. And his time is up. >> Thank
018you, John Tech Frankly. >> Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. You know, each one of the board members up there was elected by the peoples. And when did this area become a sanctuary where you can't talk to a board member? This past couple of weeks we took 66 kids to Magic Waters. And I want to thank Dr. Reed for providing us with a school bus. But I also want to get on Dr. Reed's case about when I come into a meeting stop joking with me. And when I call you, answer the phone. When we calling you, we want to talk about after school program. Right now, we started I started with three kids that I take in the school. Ellis, Lewis, Lenny, Naken Torch,
019and Kennedy Middle School. Now, I'm moving 20 kids and all four of these schools have called me. I'm looking at the teacher union to step up to the plate like they mentioned to me last year. We have some parents I only ask $25 a week to transport our kids to school. If I didn't get them to school, they wouldn't get to school. This weekend we plan on taking them to the apple orchard. And once again, this past weekend Dr. Reed had event where they had 2400 people to show up. Brothers for change. Mind you, the brothers for change everyone of them mentioned the fact that everything that brother John doing is what they are going to be doing and what they are planning on doing. They gave me an honorary t-shirt. I don't want an
020honorary t-shirt. I want to see the brothers of change actually do a change in our community working with our young people. I'm still uh away at the fact that I dug up the history of Melvin great great grand 22 years old back in 1969. They had a protest of 200 people and he was arrested for and he had to pay a fine of $70. Then 25 40 other people had to pay a fine of $25. They protest because of the way the whites was treating the blacks at the school. The lack of um a black administrators, a black a black teachers, and the lack of uh ethnic studies. Right now today, we don't have no ethnic study. Right now today, we have less than 5% of ethnic teachers. We have more janitors and more uh
021people working in the cafeteria than we do this working in administration. And then the fact that we're the only city in the country of a civil rights movement that the Supreme Court voted 9-0 in our favor. But yet our bourgeois disaffected cons still sit on the sideline and they follow our master blindly. And if you want to know what I'm talking about bourgeois disaffected cons, it's a polite word for house and what it because they follow master blindly and they do whatever master tell them to do. It's time for us to step up to the plate. >> you. >> I'm just going back to section two, which was public hearing on the tentative 2025-2026 budget. That was if any had individuals who had submitted public comment to speak on the budget, which no none did.
022Um so then we will be moving back on to section four, which is a consent agenda for the performance and monitoring committee. Um may I have a motion and a second to approve the items listed in section 4, the consent agenda for performance performance and monitoring. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Are there any consent items in section 4 that board members wish to have pulled for separate consideration? Seeing none, uh would you please call the roll? >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? Yes. Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses, one absent. >> Thank you. We are now on the Planning and Development Committee. Um section 5A, resolution to approve the fiscal
023year '26 budget. Is there a motion and a second to approve item 5A, resolution to approve the fiscal year '26 budget? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Ms. Pearson? >> Yes, thank you. Um I just have a question. Have we um taken um have we taken another look at what we could do to not pass an unbalanced budget? >> So, the one that you have in in in front of you got really, really close to being balanced. Uh it's about $500,000 short overall in the operating funds. Uh so, we we will manage through to have a balanced budget, I believe, by the end of the uh fiscal year, but uh we have taken all the steps that we can to get to a balanced budget as of today. >> Okay, um
024how frequent will you give us an update on the continued work? >> yeah, you'll actually get an update monthly on with the financial statements that we'll present. >> Okay, thank you. >> You bet. Thank you. Anyone else on that topic? Um, would you please call the roll? >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? >> Yes. Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses, one absent. >> Thank you. Um, next is section 5B. Project Lead the Way. Is there a motion and a second to approve item 5B, Project Lead the Way? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion? Ms. Chavez, did you have any Does your light just go on? >> Sorry.
025>> Thanks. Um, would you please call the roll? >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? >> Yes. Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses, one absent. >> Thank you. Moving to 5C, is there a motion and a second to approve item 5C, Cal Ripken prize acceptance. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? Seeing none, would you please call the roll? >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? Yes. Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> I had my light on for discussion. >> sorry. I didn't see that. I apologize. >> That's okay. Never mind. Yes. >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six
026yeses and one absent. >> I'm moving to 5D, 205 Direct Dental Services. Is there a motion and a second to approve item 5D, 205 Direct Dental Services? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? I'm seeing none. Would you please call the roll? >> Ms. Haley? >> Yes. >> Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses and one absent. >> Moving to item 5E, is there a motion and a second to approve item 5E, Sunbolt Campus XL Solar Table Donation? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, would you please call the roll? >> Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >>
027Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses and one absent. >> Moving on to section six, the planning and development consent portion of our meeting. May I have a motion and a second to approve the items in section six? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Are there any consent items in section six that board members wish to have pulled for separate consideration? Seeing none, would you please call the roll? >> Ms. Pearson. >> Yes. >> Ms. Chavez. >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter. >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley. >> Yes. >> Ms. Stanford. >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses, one absent. >> Thank you. We are now on the governance committee
028portion of our meeting. Um section seven, item 7A through 7F. Is there which include revisions to board policy 7.70, attendance and truancy. So uh revisions to board policy 7.140, search and seizure. Revision to board policy 7.190, student discipline. Revision to board policy 7.250, student support services. New board policy 7.255, students who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence. And revision to board policy 7.300, co-curricular activities {slash} athletics. Is there a motion and a second to approve the proposed policy changes in item 7A through 7F? Is that a motion, Ms. Pearson, or were you we I would take a motion to approve any of those. >> So moved. >> Thank you. >> I second. >> Thank you. Are there any items in section 7A through 7F that board members wish to have
029pulled for separate consideration? Uh seeing none, is there any discussion on the board policies? Seeing none, would you please call the roll? >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? >> Yes. >> Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses, one absent. >> Thank you. Moving on to section 8, consent agenda for governance committee. Um may I have a motion and a second to approve the items listed in section 8? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Are there any consent items in section 8 that board members wish to have pulled for separate consideration? Seeing none, would you please call the roll? >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? >>
030Yes. >> Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses, one absent. >> Thank you. We are now on the um closed session consent agenda, including uh section 9, items A through E. I 9A, workers compensation settlement agreement CEG. 9B, workers compensation settlement agreement GG. 9C, workers compensation settlement agreement JF. 9D, workers compensation settlement agreement PH. 9E, HR organizational report. May I have a motion and a second to approve the items in section 9, closed session consent. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Are there any closed session consent items that board members wish to have pulled for separate consideration? Seeing none, would you please call the roll? >> Mr. Carpenter? >> Yes. >> Ms. Haley? >> Yes. >> Ms. Stanford? >> Yes.
031>> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> The motion passes with six yeses, one absent. >> Thank you. Moving on to section 10, closed session consent item student discipline. May I have a motion and a second to approve the item in section 10, closed session consent item student discipline EIA? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Um would you please call the roll for the that item? >> Ms. Haley? >> Yes. >> Ms. Stanford? >> Yes. >> Ms. Pearson? >> Yes. >> Ms. Chavez? >> Yes. >> Ms. McCall? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carpenter? >> No. >> The motion passes with five yeses, one no, one absent. >> Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the superintendent's report, Dr. Jarrett. >> Uh I'm going to
032be calling up Dr. Antoine Reed in just a minute. Um so you can kind of start heading up, Dr. Reed, to talk a little bit about um an event that I think was a really powerful example of the way we can connect with our community led by the Brothers and Sisters for Change group. Before we do that, I do have a couple announcements I want to make to the board. One being the state just recently uh announced that there will be new cut scores that are set that set Illinois more in line with um other comparable states across the country. In order to make sure we have time to have this conversation with our board and and community prior to November when we get the 2024-25 academic data, we're going to be spending some time
033reviewing last year's data that is already been released from the embargo so that we can see how the year over year scores translate. What you'll find generally speaking is fairly significant across the board increases for the state averages as well as the RPS averages in literacy and numeracy third through eighth grade. We have not yet projected out on the ACT scores but those will also be impacted. Essentially Illinois had set its cut scores as the top as the top level cut scores in the country. In other words, it you had to be about at the 70th percentile depending on the grade level to show proficiency and that led to Illinois having pretty low pretty high performance on the national the nape test and some of the national metrics but our actual state scores were not
034reflecting that. So state superintendent Sanders embarked on a journey to work with people across the state to level those out and we'll spend a whole bunch of time talking about that October board meeting depending on when performance monitoring wants to do that. I'm also offering up some time with our team for our board members to learn a little bit more about that individually. Another new practice that is going to be happening that I really want to applaud our stakeholders committee and our performance monitoring committee and the board as a whole. The board has committed to having the committee meetings each month starting next month. The first one will be at Reesa middle school and we will be having schools that are hosting the meeting will be giving a presentation on how they're doing on their
035school improvement journey. Also have that in the performance monitoring committee at the meeting at the regular meeting that will be hosted here. So really excited about the the conversations we'll be able to have about student achievement both with the new cut scores but also throughout the entire year and I want to applaud the board for their commitment to having those meetings in schools. Our communications team and others have really stepped up to make sure that we can still run a high quality meeting, so I want to thank them as well. And now I want to turn it over to Dr. Reed to talk a little bit about what I think was one of the more powerful community engagement events we've had to start the school year. So, thank you, Dr. Reed, to you and your
036your team, and I want you to have some time to share what we were able to collectively accomplish under your leadership. >> Thank you so much, Dr. Jerry. Just want to remind us we had an event that started with our board and their ambition to make sure we listen to our scholars. They started a couple years back. We said we're going to listen to our scholars, we're going to listen to our families, we're going to listen to our staff. And from Dr. Jerry's vision there, listening shouldn't have stopped at just listening, it should have been active. So, we moved on to active listening. From active listening, we we realized that we had a population we wanted to reach, and these these brothers were all doing active things in their communities and their buildings, and they
037began to come together. They went to an event in DC where they looked at restorative practice. They came back hungry to do work. And we have been fortunate to have board members, June Stanford and Ms. Haley, that have just pushed these groups of brothers to do things that we have about seven districts asking, "Well, how can we develop a group like that?" because we have similar challenges. These brothers at an event this past week, right before we started school, we had an event that we had went out the week before to all of our inner-city communities. We had went to the Orton Keys, we went to Blackhawks, we went to Fairgrounds, Auburn Manor, and we just hung out. We hung with the families. We were there, and we were comfortable in that space. I think
038the only thing that was fearful, it was a large cat. I thought it was a battle cat, but Maureen Kursman was there. She just picked the cat up, hugged the cat, and went on about her business. So, that was the most scary thing, but it was really exhilarating to sit with our families and just hang out with them. And uh Ms. June Stanford was right there with us. It was hot as all outdoors, but we went everywhere, and we stayed, and we hung out. And so, when we came to the event, we were expecting, okay, well, we went out and it's it's a Friday. We we little turnaround. We weren't expecting that many people. And so, we prepared for 600 people. We got food for 600 people. We got materials for 600 people. And I
039get to Auburn and I see families walking with their babies, black, Hispanic, white, all races. They're walking to Auburn. And I'm thinking, well, well, Van Fleet must have a basketball tournament going on. This is a lot of people. I walk in the door and people are just waiting there. And so, I'm looking for my brothers, like, what is going on? And this is what the event. Uh they were quiet, calm, peaceful. They didn't come for the food, just a celebration. They sat down and made goals with us. They got about 200 haircuts and they had appointments for the future because social emotional for a lot of our young scholars, they're not coming to school if their hair not did. So, they got haircuts that day. Calm Ed talked about how to keep your lights on.
040United Way for the first time, they got more books than you can imagine, ran out of books. And they sat there in the hot We were running out of food, scare. It was a calm environment and the parents kept saying it was it was not about the message. It was about the messenger this time. We needed you guys to come and sit with us to regain trust. And to have 2,700 families inside of Auburn at one time, coordinated, organized, sitting down, writing goals for the school year was the way you start the school year. Equity is not just how well you shout, how well you scream. It's how well you show up with what you bring to the table and be a part of the solution. A winning organization has two solutions for every problem.
041So, no matter how much you shout and scream, we became the solution for the families that sometimes got forgotten. And to see 2,700 people in Auburn High School, not for a basketball game, not for a football game, but to set goals about coming to school, about passing classes. And one of their only messages when they left was, you got to come back. Don't make this a one-time thing. So, we're committed every month to go sit down and be comfortable with our families. We're going to be alongside of them. I I I feel I failed at getting book bags to to scholars because they wanted everything we had to offer. We came with a boatload of everything and we left with nothing to the point I was taking my shirts off. Whatever they needed, we gave
042away everything. We kept the tables there, but everything they wanted, they walked away with. But most important, they walked away with a sense of somebody that reflected them, was able to talk to them, was able to sit with them, was able to partner with them for the rest of the school year. And they gained agency and they gained trust again with us and we want to continue that trust. And I think that I'm thankful to have a board like our board because they're comfortable with that. I see you know Tiana, all you guys out all the time at the town hall everybody was there. That meant a lot to our community. They need to see us there with them. They need to know that this is where I go home every day. So, if you're
043too scared to come out here with me, don't talk to me about what you want us to know. And I think that bridge was crossed that day. The innovation we saw that day was very important and I'm just thankful for us and I'm thankful that we're going to be out there every month with a new focus. I even got Greg. He's coming out to do financial literacy with me in October, so I'm ready to roll. Thank you all. >> Thank you Dr. Reed. That concludes my report. >> Uh excuse me. >> Uh can Ms. Pearson ask question? >> Not so much um well yeah, it is kind of a question. So, thank you for the presentation. Thank you for the work that the brothers are doing. Um I had a send-off for my godson that
044same day as he is a product of RPS 205. Um because of his dad's job, they had to move to Ohio. Nonetheless, in RPS 205 who was a black young man that maintained a 4.0 GPA. So, I wanted to make that note. But secondly, um we know that Senate Bill 100 clearly states restorative practices. How are we going to balance restorative practice while supporting our educators? And you may not have the answer tonight, but if that's something that we can think about because there's a threat on Senate Bill 100 as well, and it could soon be if not already I'm still looking at bills um could be non-existent. Or um rewritten. So, if you could give that some thought and because we definitely need restorative practices in place, but we also need to simultaneously be
045supportive of our educators as well. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. Um moving on to section 12. Board member comments, other business, new business, agenda recommendations. Does any member have any comments? Ms. Pearson. >> Uh I just have a quick question. I know that um there will be a conversation regarding the return on investment on 101, but will there be um another overall presentation?