001Hello, Bloomington Public Schools community. I'm School Board chair Matt Dymoke. Hey Chair Dymoke, and hello everybody. I'm Superintendent Eric Melbye. We'd like to share a couple of highlights from the September 22 business meeting. We started with swearing-in our new student school board representatives, Jefferson junior Elsa Ackerman and Kennedy senior Samia Mohamud will be joining us as the school board representatives at the table this year. We're super excited to have these students representing our student body and look forward to the work that they can do. So great having the students at the table. A big chunk of our meeting was sharing with the board and with the public all the summer programming that we do at BPS. So we highlighted last summer basically. So we have things like over 700 kids here at the Oak Grove
002campuses doing Summer Quest. We have musical theater work happening with middle schools and high schools. We've got our summer high school credit recovery work going on where kids can make up credits if they're behind. We've got more than 500 kids took part in Camp SAFARI, our Office of Educational Equity had great experiences for students throughout the summer. And all that stuff. And swimming lessons if you need them. So, I just wanted to share that because it's a fun thing to share, number one. But number two, it's great to already start thinking about next summer and what experiences your student might be able to participate in. And speaking of next summer, the board approved graduation dates for this upcoming year, so our seniors will celebrate graduation on Friday, June 5, with Kennedy at 2 p.m. and
003Jefferson at 6:30 p.m. in our new venue at U.S. Bank Stadium. Yeah, super exciting to be in a new venue next year. And we also have begun our legislative advocacy work. So on Monday night, we approved the Minnesota School Board Association's resolution to direct MDE to create a pilot program for remote testing for our students who are in an accredited online program like New Code Academy. So, looking forward to the work that we can do this year with legislative advocacy. Fun fact, sometimes we have to send folks as far away as International Falls to proctor tests for our New Code Academy students. So, that would be great if we can get that change made. So, that's it for our board recap this month. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you keep coming back and
004paying attention. And, we're happy you're with us. Thank you all.