001e e e good evening this work session of the Board of Education of the Cleveland Municipal School District will now come to order Mr Stockdale please call the role M here Mr PHS here Mr bricks here here here here Dr here Mrs Welch here there eight MERS all right I ask everyone who wishes to rise and participate in the Pledge of Allegiance I PL alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you the chair will now now entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the board business meeting of February 25th 2025 so move second thank you all in favor signify by saying I I any opposed the eyes have it the minutes
002are approved all right this evening we're going to be starting our meeting a little bit differently than we typically do uh the board is going to continue its ongoing Community engagement on our draft goals and guard rails uh we'll start start with um an overview of the process and the draft goals and guard rails and then we will move into um a facilitated conversation or more so a listening engagement to hear from folks who are here to give input on the goals and guardrails and that will be facilitated by Miss Welch how um with myself note taking all right um so we'll go ahead and get started um we've spoken about this at our meeting before but in 7 20 or September 2023 the Cleveland Board of Education initiated a shift to a different type
003of governance known as student outcomes focused governance which is an approach to improving could I get the next slide for whoever is in charge of it am I in charge of it oh all right I'm not used to having this much power with the clicker uh so we initiated a shift to student outcomes focused governance which is an approach to improving Schoolboard governance premised on two beliefs one is that school systems exist to improve student outcomes and two that student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change and when we say adult behaviors we're actually talking about starting with the board and the way that the board behaves in terms of its governance role within the district the overarching idea around the board taking this approach and creating goals and guardrails as its priorities in terms
004of District governance is that school boards that focus on everything actually focus on nothing so so if you are trying to focus on everything that you can think of everything that comes before you everything that's interesting in that moment um it's hard to move forward on any set of priorities and the goals and guardrails that we're going to be discussing today are the district's highlevel priorities the reason that we went through the process of drafting goals and guardrails was to ensure that Representatives as representatives of this community we were understanding the community's vision for the district and we also needed to have clarity about the present reality for our students and after careful consideration of community input and the district's data we developed a set of goals that reflect what students in Cleveland should know
005and be able to do and a set of guard rails that reflect the values the community has shared with us that should be protected along the way to be more specific to inform the creation of the draft go goals and guardrails we looked at District academic performance data to assess the current achievement levels of our students and we applied insights from several Community engagement efforts ensuring that our work reflects the vision and values of the families and communities that we serve these engagements included our CEO's listen and learn tour the board's own CEO sech and Community engagement work and the mayor's Community listening Tour on engagement in terms of our next steps after we adopt these goals um post this community engagement process we will be working with the CEO to agree to interim goals
006that will serve as key performance indicators to track progress towards the goals so to be clear the goals are not the strategy IES for how the district will do anything they are the priorities and the interim goals and the strategies that the CEO and his staff will create to achieve those goals are what will drive the goals themselves the CEO and staff will also be tasked with appropriately uh proposing the allocation of resources in service of the goals and our meetings will be changing going forward as well the board will be monitoring interim goals throughout the year at our regular board meetings so as the months go on this school year you'll see our agendas changing and you'll see that we are um placing academic data at the Forefront of our agendas all right now
007for the goals and guard rails we've put together a set of three goals and three guard rails and that's what we'll be discussing today the goals are very specifically framed as are the guardrails the goals must only measure what students know and are able to do so reflecting back to what I said at the beginning of the presentation around Stu uh school systems existing to improve student outcomes that means for us if we're looking to improve student outcomes and make sure that our students are coming out of our system with the education they need and so deserve we've got to be measuring what they actually know and are able to do sometimes we mix up goals because in our day-to-day lives our New Year's resolutions might look different than what some of these goals would
008and we might say well safety should be a goal or attendance should be a goal and while those are important things and things that could drive us toward our goals the goals of themselves again are things what students know and are able to do so the three goals that the board has drafted are as follows the first is an early literacy goal and that goal is that the percentage of third graders who are proficient in English language arts will increase from 35% in August 2024 to 60% by August 2030 the second goal is a math proficiency goal the goal is that the percentage of firsttime test takers proficient in Algebra 1 will increase from the current 26% or the recent 26% in August 2024 to 50% by August 2030 and the third goal is a
009College and Career Readiness goal and that goal is that the percentage of the four-year graduation coh will meet at least one who meet at least one college ready indicator will increase from a low 8.2% in August 2024 to at least 25% by 2030 now I want to add a clarification on this one because we often get questions about why the College and Career Readiness goal is primarily measuring college readiness and that's because what we are looking to do with this goal is provide students optionality because we know that college readiness is essentially being able to demonstrate Proficiency in academic fundamentals and if our students have academic fundamentals we believe that they'll be set up to either go into a trade training uh career if they are interested in that or go into college if they
010are interested in that and we want our students to be meaningful able to make that decision for themselves and not be stuck in a route because they didn't have the option because we didn't educate them well enough to decide guard rails guard rails are the values that the district must honor even as we pursue the goals and these are framed in a specific way people often ask why are they framed negatively that is a very good point because typically especially for those of us who are Educators in the room working with students young people we want to frame things positively and we want them to know that they're striving towards um something good right the guard rails and the framework that we're using in the student outcomes Focus governance framework are really designed in this
011way that the goals are the Target and as you work toward the target there are things that you're not allowed to let go of that you are not allowed to violate and so they are phrased as the CE shall not the first guard rail is around safety this one and and the other guard rails were things that we heard loud and clear as we listened and as we reviewed our community's input so the safety guard rail is that the CEO shall not fail to promote safety within cmsd facilities along with physical and mental well-being for all students and the next guardrail is called opportunity and that one is that the CEO shall not Implement an academic program that fails to provide access to Artistic athletic and career preparation opportunities for all students so this means
012what we're looking for the district to do for students is achieve this early literacy goal this math proficiency goal this College and Career Readiness goal goal but it couldn't for example say we're going to focus on Ela and math and Creer Readiness and so we're going to defund Arts so that we can put those resources toward those other buckets that's where a go a guard rail like this helps us maintain the other things that we prioritize that are valuable but are not necessarily the thing that students know and are able to do and third the third guard rail is around inclusion and that that is really Community inclusion where we say that the CEO shall not make significant changes to the operation of the district without meaningful ways for the community to provide input and
013we'll be coming back to these other slides when we start our community engagement but um as we move into the community input portion I will conclude by saying that the intent around having goals and guardrails for the district over the next 5 years is twofold one we genuinely want to focus in a way that helps us arrive at measurable positive outcomes and achievement for our young people and to uh this is a shift in the way the board is involved it's really designed to help bring Clarity um to the district as a board and allow us the ability to meaningfully monitor these priorities and shift the way that we govern shift the things that we focus on in our meetings and shift the way that we support our CEO and our staff as board members
014all right um we're going to turn it over to the community input section um for anybody who is who is here to give Community input today could you raise your hand okay great uh thank you so what we're looking to understand through the community input process is we're looking to understand if the goals and the guard rails are aligned with the feedback that the community has been sharing with us so your feedback regarding the specific goals and guardrails and any proposed substitution that you have is going to be really valuable for us here um similarly once we get into the community engagement session we're not going to be answering questions but we will be taking copious notes to understand unless there are you know clarifications about the process but we're going to be taking copious
015notes to understand the input and in a situation where where there's something that a Community member is asking about that you know we believe the CEO or staff can address we'll make sure to turn that over to the appropriate person as well because we want to make sure that people's needs are met um and as I said we'll have one Board member Miss Welch facilitating the discussion and I will be the one taking notes feverishly we may ask community members questions to make sure we're clear on what you're sh in or um we may share your comments back to you so that we can make sure we've heard you right all right and with that um for those interested in participating in the community engagement we'll go over to that Circle of chairs and we'll
016ask the the board to go over there as well and we'll go ahead and get started e [Applause] [Music] e [Music] e e e all right as we get back in into the um the rest of the agenda I do want to uh really thank the community members who have participated today and in our last several inperson Community engagement sessions and also let folks know that um the people can still provide input on the goals and guard rails via the online survey which is at clevelandmetroschools.org goals DG guardrail and um that will be available until uh the end of the day today all right next I'm pleased to introduce CEO Morgan to present this evening's CEO report good evening everyone and thank you chair Elicott uh so uh tonight we have uh just one item
017for the CEO report uh we're going to be bringing uh some updates on the calendar I know you guys have been hearing for the past couple of weeks really some of the work that we've been doing uh to research counter options and um tonight uh we're bringing a couple of finalist recommendation options so in a moment I'll be having my team come up uh but first I want to just share some celebrations I'm so proud of so many of our Scholars um that are State Bound and um as a former uh all Stater myself when I was in high school I know how hard it it uh it is to qualify for state to be a finalist at State and to see so many of our Scholars that are placing at State making it down
018state I'm so so proud so first and foremost um we're in the home of gared Morgan and we have uh a a young lady who is a wrestler uh her name is Kenya Kenya muu who is a student at Garrett Morgan School of Engineering and Innovation she's a senior who plays fifth at state in wrestling in her weight class so this is a huge um accomplishment we're so proud of her uh and she's the first female from cmsd to place at state so very proud of her uh the Glennville basketball team is state-bound so uh Glennville has been all state really for uh the past few years whether it's been football whether it's been track and field cheerleading uh am really excited to um have our basketball team that is state-bound they beat Warrenville who
019was the number one seed uh we beat them 50 to 40 uh to be the regional Champions uh and this week at the State uh semi-final which I believe is on Saturday at 1 p.m. we are playing hawen at the Canton Fieldhouse so really excited about that that game begins at 1 pm. if we win we will be in the state championship which will be on uh I believe Friday March 21st uh later that evening so uh come out support the Glenville team as they make it uh as they make a state run uh or uh send your your thoughts and prayers with them as they go down for indoor track we also have Glenville who the team for indoor track are the state Runner UPS uh we also have a few students that uh
020took home uh some some honors there from CMS gy so khil Bryant who is a uh student at Cleveland School of science and medicine on the John Hay team was a qualifier for Nationals uh this past weekend taking first at the indoor state championship meet he won the division 2 400 meter with a time of 48.2 6 seconds he is in the 11th grade we have Jad stribling a 12th grader from Worlds College and Career Academy finished third in the 60 meter dash with a time of 6.88 seconds and jvier kerr an 11th grader at gen Academy which is also the Glenville team took third uh no took state division three in the triple jump uh so we're very proud of him and then Leila Barrett who is the daughter of Kim Barrett who uh
021Works in our athletics department finished 14th in the t uh in the triple jump at State uh she is a senior at Cleveland School of science and medicine also for the first time a cmsd middle school team robotics team made it to State this is our first Middle School team that made it to State uh in robotics we had some State teams last year to make it in robotics but they were all high school so we're so proud of that middle school team and it is uh the the teams from valview boys Leadership Academy and dougl Douglas MacArthur Girls Leadership Academy who placed 19th and 20 out of 36 schools so we're so so proud State Bound really really proud of our Scholars and one thing I did not have on this slide our All
022City Musical is next week uh this year we are putting on the production of Chicago and if you've ever been to a Cleveland All City Musical you are in for treat our Scholars do an amazing job I am uh working hard to to get to a few of those performances to see our Scholars uh perform uh but they're performing in Chicago go uh that will be I believe March 21st to 23rd at Playhouse Square we have a couple of mad performances that we're doing for students so very proud of our cmsd Scholars with that we do want to transition talking about some of our updates on our 2025 2026 calendar recommendation uh before I bring up my colleague Dr Florence I just want to share uh just some updates on the purpose and our road
023map of how we got here so this the purpose of this is to provide you some updates and information on our calendar recommendation uh tonight we're going to be providing you two options two finalist options uh last week you heard uh the context and some of the research and we were digging and looking at that to really figure out what we will be bringing forth um after bringing you these two uh of course we will want to hear some of your questions and feedback and next week we will emerge with one uh recommendation which will then kick off the 30 days of listening and hearing I believe there's also a hearing next week that we will have on the calendar um with the final vote uh taking place in April so uh as I mentioned
024tonight we'll share that overview our path four the rationale for the calendar recommendation and then also the the two options that we have so just to provide some context currently cmsd runs five different calendar types um they vary in uh the amount of instructional uh days that students have uh they vary in the amount of teacher time in terms of teacher uh that uh students uh that the teachers have and then also uh there are some schools that have extra minutes as you can see the majority of our cmsd schools are on a traditional calendar with no additional minutes uh we do have some schools that have additional minutes uh that have some different unique School models and then also uh a a little over 20 schools that are uh on a uh non-traditional calendar
025type one of the things we noted last week with all these different calendar types it varies in terms of the student experience in terms of what students are offered uh and what they're able uh to demonstrate also when we see performance we see that performance varies across all these different model types not uh and there was no predictor of more time or actually more days that actually contributed to higher performance uh we also not that noted that the teacher and staff experience is wild widely different in uh these these different calendar types where there are some schools where teachers have way more time for professional development work many more days um most notably as you can see on this you see some where teachers uh receive uh 22 11 up to 16 more professional uh
026or professional development days where on our traditional calendars it's only six professional development days so just several inequities and then we see that these models are really really expensive and a time when over the next three years we have to save between 96 and $150 million our calendar types this differentiation costs us $27 million to run this over three years so these are just some of the different things not noting inefficiencies in uh food operations Food Service bus uh operations of the facilities and buildings and so forth and so on so our path forward uh We've we've talked about uh and just what you just heard from chair elott that our goal is really making sure that student outcomes are at the center of everything we do we want to make sure that all students
027have a access to a high quality option we do want differentiation we're not standardizing we're not rubber stamping but in that differentiation we need to provide the Baseline that all what all students have access to and right now there are some students in some schools that are able to offer a lot due to resources due to the differentiation in time and then some schools that struggle to do that they don't have the resources they're not able to do that and so we want to provide that student experience it's worthy of every student centered in um our path forward the other thing I will say is we are committed to the Cleveland plan the Cleveland plan when you read it and it talks about high quality options for all students it talks about expanding Choice it
028talks about high quality and access to high quality uh education for all kids in Cleveland and also uplifting the city of Cleveland there are strategies that were listed in the Cleveland plan the Cleveland plan now has been around for almost 15 years and there were some things in the Cleveland plan at the time uh based on the context that we we tried strategies we had received progress under some of those strategies there were some strategies that we tried uh that you know due to different barers uh variables uh those strategies are no longer working or did not uh progress with time and so we need to take a look at some of the things that we're doing right now to make sure we can accelerate the pace of change and at the same time we
029have to look at State accountability as I mentioned before this is is the first year that College and Career Readiness will be on our state report card even last year College and Career Readiness was not on our state report card we know based on our measure there is a lagging measure we will receive one star and some of our highest performing schools are not even breaking 20% on the College and Career measures so when we designed our unique School models or some of our portfolio schools the state did not have a position on Career pathways on College Pathways because of this and because of the opportunity and the high quality we're trying to have it scale for all of our students we must adapt and change with the strategies while at the same time keeping
030our eyes on the prize that all students will have access to a highquality education um now regardless of Stu of of counter type I just shared this we are committed to offering um a a a student experience for all kids that is grounded in high quality options we talked about high quality curricula in all of our schools we started this year with a a unified Ela curriculum that is high quality it's highly rated on Ed reports we're proud that in most districts when they Implement a high uh a new uh curriculum data decreases our data has increased and that shows you just the high quality not only of the curriculum but our teachers our teachers are working hard our teachers are putting in the work to understand this our teachers are doing the professional development
031and um our midyear nwaa data has shown that uh Ela data has increased and we'll be sharing more about uh that data in upcoming board meetings we talked about offering uh High School Credit options in K8 such as foreign language Algebra 1 physical science these are things we have to do where students can uh begin to earn High School Credit in uh the K8 grades starting the career Pathways as early as the Elementary grades and also exploring them in in grades 6 through eight with the engagement happening in high school stem opportunities and computer science starting in uh the the early grades and then also the ability to uh do co-curricular activities such as arts and Athletics these are all things not only grounded in the board goals and guard rails that you're hearing more
032from the board but also in our commitment to the art Scholars that we want to have in every school with that said I will bring up my colleague Dr Florence and uh Dr Florence just Cee me when you want me to change the slide so a little bit of rationale for our calendar recommendation that you will see in just a few moments um as Dr Morgan just said we have always kept the instructional core and student experience at the center of this decision operating the district um with five separate calendars incur significant expenses um inefficiencies and unintended harm to the student experience um we have very few levers that we can pull next year to help us um meet the budget R reduction targets that we have for next year um we just talked about
033our goals and guard rails how we'll be implementing those beginning next year and we have to really work hard to align all of our work around those goals in guard rails and really think about are there things we need to abandon as far as structures and systems that may not be meeting that specific need um as we move into that work and then building brighter Futures will'll be implementing that in the 2627 school year um and there could be larger impacts for our students and families um if we are still operating with five different calendars next slide um additional rationale so we started this research around calendars in the fall of 2023 so it has been quite a while that we've been looking at um our different calendar options um in our early research we
034did see varying impacts on student performance with a range of performance performers across calendar types so it looked different um with different calendar types um in our most recent research in most cases there was limited evidence um that non-traditional calendar types or additional minutes in a school day related to improved student outcomes so we did not see in our data that student outcomes were were improving based on the calendar types or the extra minutes next slide you saw this slide last month um this data was provided by our talent and Human Resources team um you see the investment that we have been making um around our five different non-traditional calendars um and the associated cost for the extra minutes so the total investment um for this particular body of work is over $9 million next
035slide um board members you ask about uh last at last meeting you asked about um calendar types and regards to enrollment and so we provided this information for for you um schools with nontraditional calendars tend to be enrolled at lower rates versus capacity than schools with with traditional calendar types so only two of our 23 schools with non-traditional calendars are enrolled at 80% capacity or greater all the cmsd schools enrolled at 90% 90 plus per of capacity follow the traditional calendar um but there's also a variation um within each type um and then remember that in our research that um was done by our research team that parents really did um they talked about um the factor that they most used in choosing a school was not around the calendar type it was really around
036safety in the School building so our calendar recommendation is on the next slide so here is the first option all schools will transition to the traditional calendar with two exceptions the school of one and downtown Education Center or the deck will remain on the 205 calendar we remove all extra days for students and teachers from all other schools we remove extra minutes from all other schools as well so that is option one here are the implications for that option um provides the district with potential cost Savings of around 9.3 million dollar allows the school of one and the deck to continue operating in their unique School models in support of students with very specific needs um schools will still have the ability to provide additional professional development if needed for their unique School models and
037also additional enrichment activities for their students so in talking to our principles one of the things that they mentioned the most was time for professional development for their teachers and so they will still be able to provide that with this particular option um creates a more Unified School Calendar and school experience for students and staff excuse me and then students still have the choice about which schools to attend and schools will continue with their unique School models so option two is on the next slide so for this option all schools transition to a Traditional School calendar with two exceptions again the school of one and downtown education center remain on the 205 calendar we remove all extra days for students and teachers from all other schools and all schools with extra minutes continue or keep
038them for the 2526 school year so that is what's different about option to the extra minutes remain um with those schools Who currently have them the implications for that option um the cost savings for the district there would be about 4.1 million again the school of one and the deck would continue to operate their unique School models with their specific students with very specific needs um allows all schools with extra minutes to continue providing additional instructional time for students um schools will have the ability to provide additional professional development again with this model so they would still be able to provide that additional PD if they need it creates a more Unified School experience for students and staff and then students will still have the choice about which school they they would like to attend
039and schools will continue to operate with their unique School models so some of the changes that we've identified that impact both calendar options um one specific change is around teachers who are on non-traditional calendars will no longer receive payment for those extra days um for options one and two and for the extra minutes in option one so we are addressing that by providing all employees with communication regarding the transition in pay and any other relevant information related to this change we've also already posted the calendar the the draft calendars on the website so that teachers can see that already and and understand and know we're moving and so they have now to start thinking about what that might mean for them the other change is also around our St stud and families will need time
040to make the adjustment to the Traditional School calendar and so again we will provide clear and consistent communication we've already been in conversations with the comm's team around what communication looks like to families starting now or as soon as the calendar is approved so families are aware about the first day of school and have a calendar is Shifting so here are our next steps as you heard Dr Morgan say we will bring forth the final recommendation next week and then the board will bow in the calendar on the April 29th board meeting thank you any questions any questions from board members Dr Shar um thank you Dr Florence for your for your comprehensive presentation and also thank you for all of the work that has gone into this I know that this is this has
041been an enormous amount of work that that the District staff have been working on um I have a few clarifying questions um uh on on slide 12 um you say uh only two out of 23 schools with non-traditional calendars are enrolled 80% Capac what what two schools are those I'm going to ask my colleague to assist me with that question let us get that information I don't want to quote wrong we have the whole data set okay thank you um and then and then similar so along those similar lines the other piece that I would also like to see is when we say um all cmst schools enrolled at 90 plus% capacity follow traditional calendar what is our definition of capacity and you know again list of I I would like to see the list
042of schools that actually have 90 plus per capacity as well um and then and then the other um question I have on the previous slide um and this one is U this I'm I'm sure this one also um you will have to provide additional data and I would really like the community to see the additional data um so so when I look at this slide where we where we talk about the additional expenses um to the district when we talk about um you know um uh uh 20 additional days um 10 additional days Etc and you talk about a total of $9.3 million of expense but then when we when we go to the option two which says that we will eliminate all extra days but will keep additional minutes that only saves 4.3 million
043that's a that's that's that's five that's a $5 million difference um so so the so you know I I would like to see some quantification of how just the additional minutes alone without any additional days is um is adding up to $5 million of expenses so so I you know I I think that I think that the community would really appreciate seeing the nuances of these um and so so that that would be U data I would like to see absolutely other questions or comments um regarding proposal number two can you list out the schools that have additional minutes that would stay under proposal to if you go back to oh it's not last we I'll send it to you I'll send it to okay so what I would ask actually um Dr Florence and
044Dr Morgan is that um for the questions that we've asked if we could get them updated into the slide deck so that they're available for the community um as soon as you know you can get those that information in there um and you know I do want to note that the options are actually three right the board does have the option to remain with the current calendar um so we've got two proposals before us and I agree with Dr Shar and what he said appreciate the comprehensive information I think it's it's been really helpful and especially over you know you started out last year doing this research and then in the last board meeting um it's been really helpful to see um kind of the the growth of the information and the way that the
045board has engaged with it so wanted to say thank you for that and then um we'll also mention that at the March 18th meeting we will take public comment in general but we will also take public comments specific to the calendar thank you thank you I apologize one more um one more uh question since we are um looking for more data and and Publishing this data um that chart um actually there's there was a similar chart in the U a chart that corresponded to this in the previous in the last week's presentation last meeting's presentation that talked about um student outcomes by these categories of schools and then there are several schools that fall into each of those things um I I think it would be also useful to disaggregate all that data because all
046that data is is disaggregated on available cuz that's what the care folks did um if you could also present that as disaggregated data that would be also good okay thank you thank you Dr Florence all right this evening we have 60 resolutions for discussion in we're going to read every one of those right no in the areas of education Finance information technology and equity and culture that will be presented to the board for discussion only the board will be asked to consider the adoption of these resolutions at our March 18th board business meeting our first resolution is resolution 6.01 adopting release time for religious instruction policy just a moment all right um Ohio House Bill 8 which was passed by the Ohio legislature late last year and signed by the governor in January requires Boards
047of Education to adopt a policy that authorizes students to be excused from school to attend a release time course in religious instruction this new law takes effect on April 9th 2025 for many years Ohio law gave Boards of Education the option to adopt a policy offering release time for in religious instruction however hb8 has now made it mandatory that boards adopt such a policy this Pro proposed board policy provides that in order for a student to be excused to attend a release time class the parent or Guardian must provide 24-hour Advan written consent The Entity sponsoring the religious instruction must maintain attendance records and make those records records available to the school district the sponsoring entity must provide transportation for the students and assume liability for the students students may not be excused from a
048Core Curriculum subject course and must make any make up any missed schoolwork no school district funds will be spent and no School District staff will be involved in providing the religious instruction this policy also requires criminal background checks for the instructors and volun of the sponsoring entity Dr Morgan do you have any comment on this state mandated resolution thank you Dr Morgan would you please present the remaining resolutions yes the next 52 resol uh similar resolutions resolutions 6.02 through 6.53 authorizing the filing of complaints against valuation of real property cmsd like min school districts in Ohio occasionally files complaints with the County Board of revision challenging the County's valuation of commercial properties located in the school district when the board of revision decides such a complaint in the district's uh favor and increases evaluation of
049such property the result is increased property tax revenue to our school district for many years the filing of these complaints was an administrative District function that required no action or approval by the Board of Education in 2022 the Ohio legislature passed and Governor dwine signed amended substitute House Bill 126 which beginning in 2023 requires Boards of Education before filing a complaint with respect to the valuation of real property Parcels in their school district to adopt a resolution authorizing the filing of such complaints at a public meeting of the board this law also requires the board that the board provide written notice uh that the board provides written notice to the real property owner of the board's intent to file a complaint at least seven calendar days before the adoption of the resolution this Law requires
050Boards of Education to adopt a separate resolution for each real property parcel except that a single resolution May identify more than one real property par parcel and each parcel has the same owner multiple resolutions may be adopted by a single vote of the board provided that such vote does not include any resolutions on any other subject in 2023 the first year this law was in effect our board adopted 12 such resolutions and in 2024 our board adopted 32 such resolutions now for 2025 we are bringing 52 such resolutions to the board for its consideration and approval the required 7-Day notice has already been provided to each property own owner named in each resolution as you can see each resolution includes the name of the property owner the basis for the complaint the permanent parcel number
051for or numbers of the property the property address or addresses and the tax year of the complaint thank you Dr Morgan is there any discussion from the board on this resolution all right and I have to apologize to my colleagues I did not ask for comment on resolution 6.01 adopting release time for religious instruction policy are there any comments on that resolution all right thank you Dr Morgan over to you on the finance resolutions next we have two Finance resolutions 7.01 authorizing the acceptance of gifts and Grant and a grant from the Cleveland Foundation Cleveland Guardians Charities educational service center of Northeast Ohio Sisters of Charity Health Systems and the city of Cleveland authorizing the CEO to spend the funds and grants in accordance with the terms and conditions of the gifts and the grants
052with this resolution the board will be accepting the following gifts and grants and authorizing the CEO to spend the gifts in accordance with the terms and conditions of the gifts and grants from the Cleveland Foundation a gift in the amount of $858 56 for General support of G Academy from the Cleveland Guardians Charities a gift in the amount of $200,000 to support the cmsd Senate Athletic League baseball and softball programs for the 2025 season from the educational centers of Northeast Ohio a gift in the amount of $250,000 for programming support of Integrated Health from Sisters of Charity Health Systems a gift in the amount of $846 125 for the support of student incentives at Maran Sterling School from the city of Cleveland a gift in the amount of $950,000 to support funding for various recreational
053cultural and extracurricular programs from for the benefit of the city of city school children 7.02 approving real property tax exemption under revised Co code section 579.015 establishing an Enterprise Zone agreement with 105th Cedar Partners LLC for the office building located at 10500 uh Cedar Avenue for the purpose of Economic Development the the Ohio Tax Commissioner issued a final determination approving a 10-year 60% abatement of the value of property improvements in 2019 this request did not require approval by the Board of Education because it did not exceed 10 years or 75% of the value of improvements of improvements in 2023 the city terminated the Enterprise Zone agreement due to the loss of both the tenant which was IBM and qualifying jobs the city now seeks to re State and and to amend the Enterprise Zone agreement
054with 105th Cedar Partners LLC or its design Canon Healthcare USA Inc by extending from 10 to 15 years with nine total years remaining Canon Healthcare has announced plans to relocate their head corporate headquarters to Cleveland resulting in the creation of 50 jobs with an estimated payroll of $7.5 million under Ohio Revis code section 5 a board of education May approve a tax exemption of up to 15 years further when the project results in payroll exceeding a million municipalities are required to share the proceeds with the school district with this resolution the board will be approving the real property tax exemption and the extension of the tax exemption authorized by the city of Cleveland in 2016 for up to a total of 15 years to provide a 60% exemption for the remaining N9 years of the
05515-year term all right thank you um I'll point out that a discussion of certain confidential information related to Economic Development assistance described in this resolution is a permissible topic for executive session and the board will have an opportunity for that um limited set of discussion in executive session later this evening are there any general questions from the board about um this resolution at this time or the prior the two resolutions excuse me all right Dr Morgan next we have one it resolution 8.01 authorizing the CEO or designate to implement new and renewal service contracts for the district's eligible e- rate sites for the fiscal year 2025 26 in an amount not to exceed $4 million this resolution is for the annual e-rate program funding submission in which the district establishes contracts for e-rate eligible Services
056e-rate is a federal program that makes telecomunications and Information Services more affordable for schools and libraries services such as Internet Access Data Communications manage internal Broadband Services wireless internet for school buses and many other services can be discounted by up to um 90% through this program the level of discount depends on the level of poverty in a community cmsd has historically received 90% of discounts for category one Services internet access digital subscriber line and wide area network services and 85% discounts for category 2 Services manage internal Broadband services in the past year cmsd has been awarded $9.5 million in funds in October 2023 the Federal Communications Commission approved the declarator declaratory ruling making School Bus Wi-Fi eligible for eate funding for 2024 with this ruling the district can uh can continue providing Wi-Fi on its
057yellow bless Fleet previously funded by the emergency uh federal emergency connectivity fund program appendix a cont uh contains the fiscal year 2024 2025 eate eligible services and notes whether the services are new or existing contract renewals it also notes a new eligible e- rate service for wireless internet unschool buses the district works with our eate consultant funds for learning who reviews The District funding submission as part of their external governance and support services this ensures that the district funding submission and program management follow the eate program policies and procedures any discuss any discussion from board members drar um Dr Morgan um thank you so the this so so I understand it this one um is talking about um so the the the whole 4 million is is really for the the Wi-Fi services on uh
058school buses yeah I have a Janelle on our team that uh can answer that question good evening J green from the Department of it um so the $4 million not specifically for uh the school bus Wi-Fi is for all the services so um from the appendix a I'm just pulling it out here from my folder there are uh various services so you'll see that there's a manage internal Broadband services so uh that's roughly uh $2.3 million so those are the all of the internal um networking and uh manage provided manage services that uh our partner provides which is a renewal there's also internet services um those are general internet services that we provide to the bulk of our our buildings also there's wide area network which also fees into the internet services there's a digital
059subscriber line uh which are from our uh smaller sites that don't get um the larger access or the larger connectivity um from the main internet services um we also have as a the aforementioned um School Bus Wi-Fi which is an expansion for this year also a new service for this year is the hotspot lending program um which is not something that was offered through the eate program before uh it was on a limited basis on the Federal Emergency connectivity fund um that we're transitioning to a lending program for uh next year great thank you so much I I I apologize I didn't see that um before I asked the question um so according to this appendix so 182,000 for school bus Wireless Services which is a whole lot more manageable um the um is there
060a way for us to um is there a way for us to quantify how much and what kind of use um students on buses or are are leveraging from the Wi-Fi I mean you know yes we we have reports um from our our our plat our software platform that can look at the utilization of that it would be nice for us to see some of that data and then the hotpots um could you also um uh capture and provide us some data on how we have been using these hotpots I know that we used um some of the the the essr funds and the federal funds um in the in Prior years to purchase hotspots particularly during um the pandemic cor for students to be able to borrow um it would be it would be
061nice for us to see some data on on what kinds of um use we have had um you know how many students borrow them uh for how long they keep them things like that so um the hotspot lending will be something new for next year but we had distributed hotspots so we do have activity reports on you know how many megabytes or how many gigs uh families utilize and so that's something that we that we often call through to see if there's zero activity and stuff like that so we have a steady decline on the the people that are utilizing that service as they go into more Residential Services uh to uh transition from the hot spot so we do have that information that we can share with the board thank you sure right it's
062it's my understanding that any family in the Cleveland School District can get free um Wi-Fi yes canopy program yes the canopy program as uh distributed by digital C that is a program that we do uh sponsor and we do pay for um so um it is our goal to ensure that our families have steady connectivity because hotpots are you know spotty so we are actively transitioning our families from the hotspots over to the home service and so they'll have uh more connectivity to be able to do the things they need to do for work and school for the families good any other questions from board members yes um is this Briggs is this $4 million before or after the discounts this is before the discounts and it is uh to correction is $4.1 million just
063before the discounts we do have to show that we uh have a an encumbrance on the budget um so we would anticipate 10 to 15% of uh that comes out of our pocket for that so we have to show that um you know we have a hold on those funds but realistically um we have not spent the entirety of those those funds in the past so there's no way that the the cost will exceed $4 million um from What We Gather No it should not because as long as all that the approvals go through from the federal perspective no and I take it that this was in our overall budget uh yes this is for next year so yes this is something that we're um budgeting for we're still in the works of building a
064budget for next year thank you thank you all right the next four resolutions are our excellence and culture resolutions 9.01 authorizing the employment of teaching non-teaching and school-based administrative staff there's a routine monthly resolution authorizing a total of 29 new hires this month the details which are set forth and exhibit a attached to the resolution 9.02 authorizing the reclassification of employee this month we have six employees uh that are up for reclassification and the details are also in the attached exhibit next to the resolution 9.03 accepting the retirements resignations and other separations of employees there's a routine monthly resolution accepting a total of 37 separations of employees this month the details which are set forth in exhibit a attached to the resolution 9.04 authorizing the issuance of limited contracts for differential payment of positions and
065the payment of additional earned compensation to employees there's a routine monthly resolution authorized in limited contracts for differentials and payment of additional compensation to a total of 17 employees this month the details which are set forth and exhibit a attached to the resolution thank you is there any discussion or are there any questions from board members on these resolutions all right that concludes the presentation of the resolutions on tonight's agenda is there any old business is there any new business I have new business it is Dr Morgan's birthday this week just want to wish you a happy birthday Dr [Applause] Morgan all right in in order to avoid meeting during our School District spring break the week of March 24th the next regular board business meeting will be just one week from today on Tuesday
066March 18th at 6:30 p.m. at Memorial School 410 East 152nd Street the chair will now entertain a motion to that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of considering the appointment and employment of public employees and officials preparing for negotiations with public employees concerning the terms and conditions of their employment conferring with attorneys concerning disputes involving the Board of Education that are the subject of pending or imminent Court action and considering confidential information related to negotiations with other political subdivisions respecting requests for economic development assistance where the information is directly related to a request for economic development assistance that is to be provided or administered under Ohio Revised Code section 579.015 motion that was a long so move thank you this motion will require a unanimous vote of the board in order to
067pass Mr Stockdale please call the role Miss elod yes Mr bips yes Mr Briggs yes Miss Jones yes Pastor Jones yes Mrs Peak yes Dr Shar yes Mrs welcha yes the motion unanimously passes with eight votes thank you the motion has unanimously passed the board will now move into executive session following executive session the board will return to this room to briefly conduct some further business e [Music] your lettuce is popping [Music] I smile right here the good thing about theas like that [Music] you want to put it [Music] say and spell your name for me okay now whenever you're ready okay okay Nichelle Campbell officer Patrice Evans hello I'm Adam Goodall his name is lisis Kumba Lu Cuba junor been with the district now 24 years8 years 15 16 years total 28 years in
068the district if I had to name a superhero that represented our safety officers it would definitely be Batman because all we have to do is put the light up and they're going to come and help us out there it's all like the flash right it is just immediately um you know something happens and they are working on it right away Mighty Mouse compare it with Mighty Mouse he moves quick he's fast he's speedy and he always saves the day I worked a lot with kids in the neighborhood and I really got a real passion to helping the kids I know my father a long time ago he was a security officer and my mother was a bus driver for cmsd so I'm part of like a legacy family and I started being assistant coach at
069wrestling at Lincoln West and and then one day I asked one of the lead officers hey this job seems cool you know can you can you help me out I've been doing it ever since then they trust me the kids they they come to me they trust me with stuff they may not even tell their parents even their teachers they just they they trust me I enjoy it I'm I'm blessed to be a part of their life and you know it's really a blessing when they come back to you say Miss Campbell um I'm working here look this is my lady this is my baby and you know just to see the positive things they doing and I really love the ones that come back that works for cmsd I love my position always told
070him I said when you come back I want you to come back as my white shirt I want you to come back as my boss so I need you to do everything you could do oh c I want to be your boss I said I'll be pleasure it'll be a pleasure for you to become my boss so [Music] yeah you go to the website you type in the says code and you're in your kids pictures are there and you can easily I have a kids at two different schools you can easily switch from school to school and keep up on top of it everything's right there like everybody always has their phone with them so you can easily access it to your phone this is a relief for me knowing that my child has the
071best chance that they can knowing every day they wake up they can go to school and you know take advantage of the day [Music] welcome back to another exciting episode of The District dish I am so glad to be here at John Hay Cleveland School of science and medicine with these wonderful Scholars I see them in their white coat uh so excited to hear from them and their experiences and looking forward to diving in you know here at the district dish we tell cmsd stories one dish at a time so with that said let's get a chance to meet some of our Scholars my name is Camila and I'm a junior my name is Esther and I'm a 12th grader my name is Elijah and I am a 12th grader what is your favorite downtime
072activity I don't get a lot of downtime out activity so um I will will so every morning I work out uh whether that is like just going to the gym like I did this morning or yesterday doing a run that that is a time just to kind of Center myself ground myself before starting the day um but I I love just when I don't have anything to do which is very rare but uh I just love to just relax uh catch up on TV I don't get a chance to watch a lot of TV cuz my days start real starts really early and then a lot of times I get in at like 10 or 11 o'clock at night so I may get 30 minutes of TV to watch and it's like okay I got
073to go to bed and start it over again so on days where I have nothing to do I just love to just relax um and um that's that's probably my favorite activity what what are your favorite downtime activities um I would say um when I do have the chance uh I would say playing the piano which is like my hobby it like relieves my stress like from school like outside of school and yeah W that's amazing um I would say running track I run track and I'm day in day out all through the year running track are you cross country uh uh short I do short distance and I hle as well a so um let's go yeah it doesn't feel like it when I'm doing it but that is my favorite downtime activity yeah
074uh I personally don't consider basketball as a downtime downtime activity it's more like work so the only downtime downtime activity I really get to do is uh play video games I've been playing Black Ops 6 recently okay yeah I'm I'm into video games too I have a Nintendo switch have a Xbox um yeah so yeah I like that a ton of uh uh games on my uh phone that I love to play that's another thing on my down time can also create stress because you know on some days when you have nothing to do you realize and I'm speaking for myself like I now spent hours playing this video game so it gets like that sorry by by any chance do you want to tell us what your favorite game is my favorite video game
075I love anything in the Mario series cuz I I was so when I was younger there was no Nintendo out yet um like when my when I was a really young kid we had Atari and so then when the first Nintendo came out of course the Mario Brothers game and I enjoyed it and then I remember Super Nintendo and finishing that I remember the original Mario Kart so anytime that they could have any Mario anything I'm there for it um same thing on the Sega side uh which you can get it for other um other game uh Brands uh but the uh Sonic the Hedgehog so really old school type of games like that too love Mortal Kombat played it uh a few versions of it so so considering the threats con constantly presented to
076schools around the country what precautions have been taken or are being taken to ensure the safety of schools in our district yeah that is a great question one of the things that is always top of mind for me our number one strategic priority in um for our district is safe and supportive schools and a safe and supportive culture um and so we're constantly working to think about ways we can make the school safe of course this year we have our new cell phone free zones um which as I've been going into schools and even talking to Scholars and actually a lot of them said a lot of positive things about it now there are things we can still learn and things that Scholars want us to um consider uh but that's a way that is
077helping us keep schools safe uh we are almost at the process of doing a new badging system and I'm really excited about that we've been um asking uh that been asking our team to do to help us make our high schools and eventually all of our schools more safe to know who's in the building in terms of you know swiping in and out of the building so that's coming and the team has been working really hard on it um so those are things we've been doing we also work really closely with the city so I was in a meeting this morning meeting with the mayor's office uh talking about how do we make the what surrounds the school safer um when I've been meeting doing these small group lunches with groups of students and it's
078been interesting for the most part kids when we ask kids to rate their school on one to five of how safe their schools are most kids gave their School a high rating on safety um they gave the district a high rating on safety but they mentioned the neighborhood as an area that they don't feel safe or coming to and from school so those are areas we want to work with the the the city on and making sure it's safe uh and then of course we we have we have metal detectors in all of our our high schools um not only in all of our high schools in every single one of our buildings and that keeps a lot of things out of our schools we see things of people trying to get things into the
079schools and it stops it and so um you know those are things that we're doing to really make sure our Scholars are safe um and that's top of mind for us I just had a quick question so you said uh the new badge system will that go for students and uh teachers as as well or just teachers it's going to be for students oh yeah part teachers already have a badge uh we knew we have now a badge system also for volunteers so when there are people who don't work in uh who aren't teachers or staff in the school but they're a volunteer they have to have a certain badge to get in and out of the schools but this will be for students and so uh it'll be I know most students have a
080ID but we're going to be moving more towards a required ID system and a required swiping in so that when students go in we actually know that they're in the building safely um Dr Morgan what do you hope uh students will get out of the get more opportunity fund uh so I'm excited now because the way we restructured it uh every school will get dollars and because every school is different the school can determine and the the the scholars in that school the teachers in that school can determine what's best for that school so that's going to be really helpful when we saw uh in the earlier iteration of it there were uh certain schools that were um mainly going out for the opportunity and we wanted to make sure more Scholars can uh get
081the opportunity from it but uh we want to learn from it uh this you know the nice thing about hearing the feedback about bringing it back is that we can always bring something back but also make it better so as we do this I expect it to get better and for us to learn more and evolve um but to know that we have 361 applications it just makes me excited I know we won't be able to fund all of those but uh that is exciting um that there's a lot of interest well uh this has been an amazing discussion um once again just really appreciate all that you guys are doing I'm so proud of you guys um you know the work that you guys are doing and you you plan to do just continue
082to keep going uh High School is challenging and when you get to College it will'll be even more challenging and life can be challenging but as long as you remember uh that with resilience and hard work the RO is yours so just keep going um know that you have a team of people supporting you uh so uh this was another episode of The District dish uh was so happy to be here with our amazing Scholars uh Camila Esther and Elijah join us again next time for another episode of The District dish where we're bring you cmsd stories one dish at a time [Music] a [Music] for [Music] your lettuce is popping [Music] smile right here but the good thing about growing the basil like that [Music] say and spell your name for me okay now
083whenever you're ready okay Michelle Campbell officer Patrice Evans hello I'm Adam Goodall his name is LS Kumba L Cuba junor I've been with the district now 24 years 8 years 15 16 years total 28 years in the district if I had to name a superhero that represented our safety officers it would definitely be Batman because all we have to do is put the light up and they're going to come and help us out it's all like the flash right it is just immediately um you know something happens and they are working on it right away Mighty Mouse compare it with Mighty Mouse he moves quick he's fast he's speedy and he always saves the day I worked a lot with kids in the neighborhood and I really got real passion helping the kids I know
084my father a long time ago he was a security officer and my mother was a bus driver for CMS so I'm part of like a legacy family and I started being assistant coach at wrestling at Lincoln West and then one day I asked one of the lead officers hey this job seems cool you know can you can you help me out I've been doing it ever since then they trust me the kids they they come to me they trust me with stuff they may not even tell their parents even their teachers they just they they trust me I enjoy it I'm I'm blessed to be a part of their life and you know it's really a blessing when they come back to you say Miss Campbell um I'm working here look this is my lady
085this is my baby and you know just to see the positive things they doing and I really love the ones that come back that works for cmsd I love my position I always told him I said when you come back I want you to come back as my white shirt I want you to come back as my boss so I need you to do everything you could do oh miss C I want to be your boss I said I'll be pleasure it'll be a pleasure for you to become my boss so yeah you go to the website you type in the access code and you're in your kids pictures are there and you can easily I have a kids at two different schools you can easily switch from school to school and keep up on
086top of it everything's right there like everybody always has their phone with them so you can easily access it to your phone this is a relief for me knowing that my child has the best chance that they can knowing every day they wake up they can go go to school and you know take advantage of the [Music] day welcome back to another exciting episode of The District dish I am so glad to be here at John Hay Cleveland School of science and medicine with these wonderful Scholars I see them in their white coat uh so excited to hear from them and their experiences and looking forward to diving in you know here at the district dish we tell cmsd stories one dish at a time so with that said let's get a chance to meet
087some of our Scholars my name is Camila and I'm a junior my name is Esther and I'm a 12th grader my name is Elijah and I am a 12th grader all right what is your favorite downtime activity I don't get a lot of downtime out activity so um I will well so every morning I work out uh whether that is like just going to the gym like I did this morning or yesterday doing a run that that is a time just to kind of Center myself ground myself before starting the day um but I I love just when I don't have anything to do which is very rare but uh I just love to just relax uh catch up on TV I don't get a chance to watch a lot of TV cuz my days
088start real starts really early and then a lot of times I get in at like 10 or 11 o'clock at night so I may get 30 minutes of TV to watch and it's like okay I got to go to bed and start it over again so on days where I have nothing to do I just love to to just relax um and um that's that's probably my favorite activity what what are your favorite downtime activities um I would say um when I do have the chance uh I would say playing the piano which is like my hobby it like relieves my stress like from school like outside of school and yeah oh that's amazing um I would say running track I run track and I'm day in day out all through the year running track
089are you cross country uh uh short I do short distance and I hurdle as well a so um let's go yeah it doesn't feel like it when I'm doing it but that is my favorite downtime activity yeah uh I personally don't consider basketball as a downtime downtime activity it's more like work so the only downtime downtime activity I really get to do is uh play video games I've been playing Black Ops 6 recently okay yeah I'm I'm into to video games too I have a Nintendo switch have a Xbox um yeah so yeah I like that a ton of uh games on my uh phone that I love to play that's another thing on my down time can also create stress cuz you know on some days when you have nothing to do you realize
090and I'm speaking for myself like I've now spent hours playing this video game so it gets like that yeah sorry by by any chance do you want to tell us what your favorite game is my favorite video game I love anything in the Mario series cuz I I I was so when I was younger there was no Nintendo out yet um like when when I was a really young kid we had Atari and so then when the first Nintendo came out of course the Mario Brothers game and I enjoyed it and then I remember Super Nintendo and finishing that I remember the original Mario Kart so anytime that they could have any Mario anything I'm there for it um same thing on the Sega side uh which you can get it for other um other
091game uh Brands uh but the um Sonic the Hedgehog so really old school type of games like that so love Mortal Kombat played it uh played few versions of it so so considering the threats con constantly presented to schools around the country what precautions have been taken or are being taken to ensure the safety of schools in our district yeah that is a great question one of the things that is always top of mind for me our number one strategic priority in uh for our district is safe and supportive schools and a safe and supportive culture um and so we're constantly working to think about ways we can make the schools safe of course this year we have our new cell phone free zones um which as I've been going into schools and even talking
092to Scholars and actually a lot of them said a lot of positive things about it now there are things we can still learn and things that Scholars want us to um consider uh but that's a way that is helping us keep schools safe uh we are almost at the process of doing a new badging system that I'm really excited about that we've been um asking that I've been asking our team to do to help us make our high schools and eventually all of our schools more safe to know who's in the building in terms of you know swiping in and out of the building so that's coming and the team has been working really hard on it um so those are things we've been doing we also work really closely with the city so I
093was in a meeting this morning meeting with the mayor's office uh talking about how do we make the what surrounds the school safer um when I've been meeting doing these small group lunches with groups of students and it's been interesting for the most part kids when we ask kids to rate their school on one to five of how safe their schools are most kids gave their School a high rating on safety um they gave the district a high rating on safety but they mention the neighborhood as an area that they don't feel safe or coming to from school so those are areas we want to work with the the the city on and making sure it's safe uh and then of course we have we have metal detectors in all of our our high schools
094um not only in all of our high schools in every single one of our buildings and that keeps a lot of things out of our schools we see things of people trying to get things into the schools and it stops it and so um you know those are things that we're doing to really make sure our Scholars are safe um and that's top of mind for us I just had a quick question so you said uh the new badge system will that go for students and uh teachers as as well or just teachers it's going to be for students yeah depart teachers already have a badge uh we knew we have now a badge system also for volunteers so when there are people who don't work in uh who aren't teachers or staff in the
095school but they're a volunteer they have to have a certain badge to get in and out of the schools but this will be for students and so uh it'll be I know e e e public session the chair will now entertain a motion to adopt a resolution authorizing the 10day suspension of a non-teaching employee so moved thank you Dr Morgan may we have an explanation of this resolution yes this is this resolution is to off authorized the 10-day suspension of a non-teaching employee for violation of District policies procedures and rules thank you is there any discussion from board members hearing no discussion Mr Stockdale will you please call the role Miss elod yes Mr Briggs yes Miss Jones yes Pastor Jones yes Mrs Peak yes Dr Shar yes Mrs Welch how motion passes with seven
096votes thank you the resolution passes is there any other new business there being no further business before the board the chair will now entertain a motion to adjourn this board work session second thank you hearing no objection this meeting is adjourned have a good night