CMSD Board of Education Meeting - February 25, 2025

001e e e this business meeting of the Board of Education of the Cleveland Municipal School District will come to order Mr Stockdale will you please call the role miss alod here Mr bips here Mr Briggs here Miss Jones Reverend Jones here Mrs lebrone Mrs Peak here Dr Shar here Mrs welcha here there are seven members present thank you Mr Stockdale I ask everyone who wishes to rise and join in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag United States of America to the indice the chair will now entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the board work session of February 11th 2025 and the board leadership development session of February 15th 2025 thank you all in favor signify by saying I I I any opposed the eyes have it the meeting minutes

002are approved all right as our first order of business I would like to announce the board of education's creation of draft five-year goals and guard rails for the district the board of education has in its last several Retreats been working to create District goals and guard rails under the Council of the great City Schools student outcomes Focus governance framework the board has performed an indepth review and research to understand one the voice of the community and two the current academic performance levels of our students our goals are designed to impact what students know and can do and our guard rails will describe the non-negotiable values that must be honored by the school system while allowing freedom to pursue the goals our goals will Center in early literacy math proficiency and College and Career Readiness the

003goals will be designed as smart goals specifically measuring what students know and can do the guard rails are safety and well-being opportunity and inclusion the district will be posting a website coming up sharing information about the district draft goals and guard rails the board will also be sharing more information about the goals and guardrails and seeking input in three upcoming Community engagement sessions on March 4th March 8th and March 11th please keep an eye out for the information in the next few days thank you next I'm pleased to introduce Dr Moren Morgan to present this evening's CEO report Dr Morgan hello and thank you chair elod good evening everyone and it's uh it's hard to believe that we are already at the end of uh February uh but it has been a great month uh

004one of which we've been uh reflecting on honoring and celebrating Black History Month all month uh so it's been great to uh see the reflections through our posts and social media uh just recognizing and celebrating the contributions uh Black Americans and African-Americans have made in our country and across the world uh and as I shared last uh month and as we've been sharing in our meetings uh this is not just to be celebrated in February as black history uh celebration is American history and it is everyday uh so very proud uh for those Reflections uh and uh really grateful for the cmsd community celebrating that this month um on the next slide and I know in a moment I'll have others up so thank you for advancing that and then the clicker is up there

005I do want to make sure that we uh uh everyone is aware particularly parent if you have a high school uh student that our SAT day for our Juniors uh will be uh taking place March 3rd through 7th uh this is really important uh as we are doing an effort to make sure all of our Scholars uh take the SAT this is a college admissions test even if you do not intend uh to uh go to college as we say in cmsd we're preparing students for both College and Career so it's really important that this is a a test that just shows uh a lot of colleges use it uh to gain admissions but it also allows us to know if students are colle ready when you are college ready you are both career ready

006uh so it's not just choosing either or when you are college ready you are also career ready you can choose to go into your career you can choose to go to college and we want to make sure our Scholars are ready for both so it is important that all of our Juniors uh come to school um are prepared uh take the test during that week uh that you're getting a excellent night uh rest and then also uh uh eating uh eating your breakfast uh eating lunch uh during uh this week too so that's next week and we do want to make sure that uh families are aware that we're taking this test we are really making sure that all of our Juniors do take it uh this has been offered before in uh the past

007uh but we haven't done always the best job of making sure all of our Scholars take the test so we really parents help us uh Educators help us make sure your Scholars get to school uh this is really important and I know that you guys would do well and we're looking forward to supporting you in those efforts uh with that said I would like to bring our chief academic officer up uh Dr Florence who um we'll share some more information I know this board had lots of questions last year there was a recommendation really around our calendar and when we were thinking about the budgeting process this was one of the things when we had to do our State deficit reduction plan and we were looking at Cost savings measures these were one of this

008was one of the levers we were looking at for cost savings measures uh we had done some research we had looked at some different things and it come to a decision last year uh but after hearing uh multiple uh feedback from the community after getting lots of questions even from the board we really wanted to do our due diligence um not only reflecting on the decision we've made but also uh doing our research so during this portion of the CEO update we have some updates to provide to just on the context of where we are with the calendar decision some of the inputs that went into it uh some of the things we're considering as we're wrestling this decision and then after Dr Florence kind of shares the background of this decision and some of

009the things we're wrestling with we did commission a study uh you know that this board asked us uh to do uh and we did this in uh con conjunction with uh several research Partners uh and I'll be excited to invite Dr Deo up after Dr Florence comes up to share uh what we learned during that research uh but with without further Ado I turn it over to uh Dr Florence good evening board chair elod Dr Morgan board members today we're here to discuss an important decision that impacts every student teacher and family within the cmsd community this presentation will provide you with crucial background information on the school calendar decision that we must make in coming months the goal for this presentation is to provide you with background information that should ground your decision as

010we think about the implications of moving forward with five school calendars so to got our conversation here's our road map we'll Begin by setting the context then explore how the current calendar variations impact student experiences and financial planning within cmsd finally we'll have we'll examine the long-term implications for cmsd by the end of the presentation we aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the student experience and financial and future planning applications have led us to consider the transition to one Traditional School calendar for all cmsd schools So currently as you all know cmsd operates with five different school calendars this creates a fragmented educational experience for students and for staff the inconsistency in instructional days and minutes complicates our ability to measure academic outcomes reliably additionally maintaining these multiple calendars requires substantial financial investments

011in separate pay schedules and differentiated Transportation supports when you look across the four non-traditional calendar types you can see the professional development days for our teachers and staff members very greatly ranging from 6 to 22 days there is also variation in the number of instructional days for students the only calendar type that provides a significant number of additional school days for students is the extended year calendar with 205 days students attending schools with this calendar receive 20 additional days of instruction in comparison to students who attend schools with with the traditional calendar the number of student instructional days for the other non-traditional calendars were closely aligned with the instructional days in the traditional calendar we have always kept students at the center of this decision the question that we consistently have asked ourselves and continue

012to ask is is the investment in five different calendars translating into measurable academic outcomes for our students when we began this process last year our data suggested that the school calendars were not translating into measurable outcomes for all of our students our initial review of school calendars during the 23 24 school year revealed significant disparities among the calendar types from the number of instructional days and professional development days to for teachers to the cost implications of extra days and minutes each model presents unique challenges this inconsistency complicates our ability to provide a comparable student experience across all schools in our district on this slide you can see the schools that that follow each non-traditional calendar the schools with an estrict also have extra minutes there are also six schools not represented who represented here who

013follow the traditional calendar who also have extra minutes in their school day last year as we explored the impact of our calendars we kept coming back to whether or not the investment in five calendars is translating into academic outcomes to help us answer this question we did an analysis of each calendar type that included number of days for students number of days for teachers and staff cost of extra days per calendar cost of extra minutes per calendar star ratings for each School OST proficiency for each school and student attendance based on the calendar review from last year our response to the question about the investment in five calendars having an impact on academic returns was inconclusive school by School reviews within each calendar type uncovered a range of performances within each calendar we also found

014that comparing proficiency AC cross calendar types suffer from major issues with sampling biases and demographic differences on this slide you can see some of the data that we used in our review last year the data that we used last year included too many variables including number of schools in each calendar type student demographic data varying Links of instructional days criteria schools Etc this made our comparisons across schools unreliable ultimately the inconclusive data associating student outcomes with calendar types was a key consideration in engaging the care calendar research prodject at the March 2024 board meeting we committed to continue to research the varying school calendars and school models to collect and analyze additional School related data while controlling for school and student specific factors and to meet with additional stakeholders later we will share the findings

015that Sol solidify the need for a decision around how we move forward with our school calendar so how is the cmsd student experience impacted by five different calendars the student the student experience Within cmsd is deeply affected by five calendar types one way that this shows up is in student transfers throughout the school year students who transition between schools with different calendars face disruptions in course offerings credit acral instructional pace of the curriculum and even extracurricular activities including Sports eligibility on the right hand side of the slide you see the number of student transfers that we have had just this year the total number of transfers as of last week was 3,903 and included with 3,464 unique students around 12200 of those transfers were in our high schools where we have the most variation in

016school calendar types the student experience and student outcomes are impacted every time a student transfers to a school with a different calendar than the one they previously attended cmsd students also have vared experiences across schools based on the number of minutes per day and the number of days per year at the school they attend schools with additional days are able to provide more experiential learning but this Advantage is not equally distributed across all schools while and also while the overall student attendance rate at our yearound schools is an area of growth this chart shows that yearound schools struggle with student attendance before our traditional schools even begin I will now turn it over to Mr Stockdale our Chief Financial Officer to discuss the financial impacts of operating with five school calendars all right so um

017my my section is fairly straightforward the this information is familiar to the board uh this is the five-year forecast and really what I wanted to highlight here is that we are we are at a a point um similar to what we were a year ago where we have to make um decisions uh and the reason for that is that in the last November 5-year forecast and in the 5year forecast that we will file in May the window of time that we will have to certify um three-year availability of funds is this 25 through 27 period uh what that means is that we have to have a positive uncommitted cash amount um in that final row and what I wanted to point out is that uh we are moving forward toward November uh we're building our

018budgets for next year and we will have a November 5year forast that uh if it is not updated with really significant reductions so we're talking about more 96 million um negative cash balance at the end of three years that we will be looking at that 26 to 28 time period with a negative cash balance we won't be able to certify and the state would put us into fiscal precaution um in November and that would be similar to what we experienced um last spring with the deficit reduction plan uh it would just be much much larger u based on the size of it we certainly want to take steps now that we can that are within our control so that we can um make those decisions according to our timelines and um that we can do

019so in in a thoughtful way uh so when we've looked at that we've thought about how do we how do we meet this goal of at least $96 million in reductions over the next three years and um you know we feel that an incremental approach is appropriate where we have um savings that we start to accomplish next fiscal year starting with the next school year and building over time um we bring this here to you um publicly to to start aligning over the size of the challenge that we Face we know that we have um every time that we've come to you we've brought forward ideas and we've tried to improve the The Horizon for our cash balance and what this plan would do is improve by two years again uh our positive cash balance

020we have to recognize that we have collective bargaining um that we we would probably re-enter uh the beginning of 2027 and so we've been looking at 96 million as the minimum savings that we must accomplish in order to meet minimum state requirements but that realistically something more like $150 million is a better Target there's a couple reasons for that um one you don't really really want to run the cash balance all the way down certainly it makes uh managing very very difficult um you have companies that look at us for bonds and things like that that are going to say you don't have a sufficient cash balance so you're a risk we want to avoid that we also know that um we need to get to the point where we have more of a sustainable

021um Financial picture where these annual deficits are much much smaller and um really we need to get to the point where we're eliminating those so that we can have a long-term positive outlook the um only other thing I would point out on this is that this is based on what we know right now uh for the state operating budget and for um federal aid that we're receiving certainly that is very much up in the air right now um the early indications are probably negative from what you're seeing here so this this is a starting point for us to make reductions but uh a fair start and one that like I said builds incrementally so we have um some information and I'm not going to go over this in great detail but information about the cost

022uh and these are a direct um cost for staff involved in those programs if you have questions specifically about these my my uh colleague Mr Christian prepared these slides but really talking about the number of school days extra instructional days and um the cost for each of these different models as well as the number of Staff impacted um you can see how they range and really you're talking about something in the ballpark of um $8 million there um do you want to join me for this I'm going to I'm GNA phone a friend good evening board as uh Mr Stockdale noted the number of schools for each of these models is presented on the on the slide as well as the number of extra days for PD and instructional days which vary by the model

023then we've provided the total base wages uh or not base wages the additional pay in addition to base wages for the cost for each of those groups this is limited primarily to PA professional and teacher salaries at the schools there are some additional costs that you'll see highlighted in a forward slide that uh because of additional days in particular we have additional days with nutrition services um secretaries things of that nature so on this slide we have similar information presented uh but with a little bit of color added to the commentary with respect to how our models present our staff with our with our students in their respective experience and so in highlighted in the gray we have our average teacher salary for each model and then respectively the averaged years of service experience for

024our teachers beneath that uh so you might note in the middle our extended year 205 schools have an average number of years of service among teachers of 19.8 nearly 20 years of experience in the district and an average salary of 8,928 and then you can compare left to right PA professionals similarly situated uh average salary average number of years these are limited to salaries these do uh not include French benefits in addition to that which is what we would contribute to strs and to unemployment things like of that nature so all things considered with the extra minutes the additional days we're looking at a total wage impact of $9.2 million there are over 930 staff that are uh across these schools and as Selena mentioned in her open uh some of these staff have both

025extra days and extra minutes um some have only one of the two in addition or comprising into that 9.2 we've highlighted here that there's approximately $200,000 in additional support cost related to the extra days whether that's for secretary schedules nutrition services and then in addition to that we've also over the last few years paid a stip into our school administrators who have additional days leading staff and leading students all of our school-based admin our principles are 260-day employees they're year round but in recognition of some of the additional leadership responsibilities carried forward we've a sipon for those administrators and that is uh has been at $220,000 in the most recent year so there are two major bodies of work that will have long-term impacts on the future of cmsd one of those is our long-term

026planning work and the other is the board goes and guardrails that you just heard our board chair speak about implementing both of these initiatives will require us to make some difficult decisions and in the very near future as a reminder our overarching goal around long-term planning is to improve student experiences and outcomes while ensuring Financial stability however moving forward with five different calendars will make achieving this goal very challenging potentially forcing students to transition between conflicting calendars and schedules and disrupting consistent learning experiences across our schools to provide Equitable Equitable opportunities we need to consider how we might simplify our approach so as we move towards implementing long-term planning work in the school year 2627 we will face some implementation challenges if we are not if we are still operating within five different calendars for

027example students may be forced to transition between schools with different calendar types which could lead to frustrations for students and families providing a consistent student experience may be difficult due to various opportunities that schools with non-traditional calendar types are able to provide these implementation challenges could provide the rationale for us to move forward with alignment around one calendar so these challenges are not impactful as we try to achieve our overarching goal as we move towards implementing our board goals and guard rails in the fall we will have tough decisions to make the focus of our work Shi will shift so that we are best able to meet the goals that have been established for us by the board however as we move to implement the goals and guard rails there are a few things that

028we have to remember we have finite resources as Mr Stockdale just said and we will have to make difficult decisions about how we move forward all of our budget and funding and resourcing decisions will be guided by the goals and guard rails that have been established for us to help us improve student outcomes some of our zixin work structures and systems aligned with the goals and guard rails that have been set some of our existing work structures and systems do not align with the goals and guard rails and we may need to abandon them or think about how we might redesign in the coming weeks and months we will have to sacrifice some things that we want to do for things that we need to do in order for us to meet the goals that

029have been outlined for us so a few additional impacts the Ripple effects of five calendars go beyond cost teachers andair professionals on extended school days or school schedules have different pay calendars complicating staff movement between buildings transportation and Food Services experience increased cost and logistical challenges and students ability to work beyond the school day and school year are also impacted by different calendar types so in summary operating with five separate calers incurs significant cost creates inefficiencies and unintentionally harms the student experience there are also limited levels limited levers I'm sorry available to meet our budget reduction Target of $20 million next fiscal year given our budget challenges and the previous evidence of academic benefits the case for transitioning to one school calendar is clear we have partnered with the Cleveland Alliance For Education research to

030help us better understand the investment in five different school calendars and how it translates into measurable academic outcomes we stand at a critical juncture and the decisions we make today will shape the future of cmsd on March 11th we plan to present a calendar recommendation to you for the 2526 school year thank you for your time this evening what questions do you have for us uh thank you Dr Florence I understand there's going to be more um presid presentation on the research project but first any questions on this section um Dr Shar yeah I do have a question and and maybe this is a Kevin question um is our is the funding formula from the state does it have any performance-based component to it or is it purely based on attendance uh no the the

031state funding formula is not of a performance basis and it is based on enrollment rather than attendance right okay that's what I meant yes so so so the the so if we if we if we talked about um increasing state revenue the only way that would happen is if there is if there is increased enrollment in the district um again when we talk about our goals and guardrails um there is a there is a goal of eventual increase in enrollment when because if if we as a district um are able to produce better outcomes that can have a direct impact on enrollment but that's a long-term goal I want to make clear that yeah Miss W how did you have your hand up earlier Mr Briggs maybe I missed it but did we analyze what

032this impact of the on the students outcomes would be by making these change so that is coming with uh Dr deo's presentation some of the information about student outcomes okay good thank you all right thank you all right with that uh as we mentioned this was the background and context some things that were going into our decision uh but you know there was already questions really around student outcomes and uh we came to this uh board I think it was in October September or October to really um respond to some of the questions last year around um uh the calendar impact minutes impact and commission to study and so uh we're happy to have uh the results of that study or just kind of what we've learned from the research um uh to it was

033not a defining um def defining necessarily that the research will stand alone in the decision but also would help supplement Us in making a decision with all the other information you heard Dr Florence and Chief stockdell and um uh Mr Christian mention as well so uh with that said I'm I'm happy to bring up Dr Deo who will share more about the research that we found and I I believe he has also uh members from the research team with him as well good evening Dr Morgan chair elod um members of the board uh my name is Nick Deo I am executive director of research evaluation and accountability for the district uh I'm one of the members of the team that worked on this research study um we're happy to share our results tonight um it's

034my pleasure to introduce Bob McMahon he is a researcher from American institutes for research so he is one of the independent researchers who helped us do this work um ensured the rigor of it um he's going to start us off tonight um talking about these results and I'll pass it to Bob okay so uh first we'll go over the context the previous presenters went over most of that uh so that'll be brief and then we'll go over the research questions findings and uh conclusion so um just just to add some context on how we approached uh this study um so uh we really sought to isolate the effect of of different school calendars um instead of uh you know perhaps uh differences between students or schools um so that was a big focus and if

035you're curious about how we achieved that we do have the uh the specifics on our methods in uh slides after um the presentation so uh just to go over uh the Cleveland Alliance For Education research real quick so this is a collaboration between cmsd Cleveland State University and the American institutes for research and I'm here from uh American institutes for research and our mission our mission is to improve um outcomes for K to2 students in Cleveland Ohio and uh to do that we conduct and share high quality research uh to inform uh policy and practice for cmsd um so uh in collaboration with the uh leadership in the academics division we developed a set of uh research questions and those fit into several groups um so we have uh demographics achievement engagement culture and cost

036and we'll be going through these uh research questions as we review our findings and um the previous present is went over the different calendar types but um the the ones that we uh that went into these uh the study are the uh the extended year schools with 195 days 205 days the uh new tech uh high schools the yearound schools and of course the traditional schools and you can see how many schools from each of those categories were included um in our research and uh just to note um there are also some schools that have uh additional minutes in the school day and that's something thoughts that we looked at when conducting This research so uh first we'll go over the uh findings for demographics and uh our research question here is do students enrolling

037in schools with additional time differ from uh students without additional time um so what we found for the uh K8 students were that um not the students in non-traditional calendars were more likely to be gifted white non-hispanic and less likely to be students with disabilities uh English language Learners and more likely to be uh gifted students for high schools um we found that student uh schools um with non-traditional calendars had uh similar um demographics of schools with traditional uh school calendars but with the exception of the extended year uh schools with 25 days uh at those schools we found that um students were more likely to be gifted less likely to have disabilities and um students with other uh non-traditional calendary types were more likely to be uh black non-hispanic and less likely to be

038Hispanic um compared to um students at traditional schools uh traditional uh school calendars so for achievement our research question was um how do students with additional school time perform on state test compared to uh students without additional school time uh so what we found here is that um we didn't find evidence um that uh the different school calendar types for kd8 schools were associated with improved scores for ELA or math uh State tests for high schools we found that uh there's no evidence um that these were associated uh for ELA or math instructional time for uh schools uh with additional minutes uh we did find that uh some evidence that everything else equal the extended year 205 day high schools uh actually did have a meaningful uh math score um increase um and you can

039see in these charts the uh the predicted scores of a similar student across uh the different uh school calendar types um so next for engagement um our research question here was does engagement differ between students and staff at schools with and without uh additional time so uh we didn't find strong evidence that a non-traditional uh calendar or additional minutes um in the school day are associated with uh student or staff attendance uh we we did find some patterns of attendance outside of uh the traditional calendar at the schools with the extended years so in the table you can see how a school attendance rate uh changes between um before during and after the uh Traditional School year time so um the next theme is uh culture so our research question here was how does the

040climate at schools with additional time compared to those without additional time so here we found U some evidence that non-traditional calendar is associated with higher student perceptions of support from adults and this was a consistent finding however um when looking at the the magnitude of the differences um they weren't uh too meaningful and you can see that in these charts as well um so the non-traditional school years uh they're a little bit higher up but they're uh still pretty similar um additionally we didn't find any strong evidence that a non-traditional calendar or additional minuts in the school day are associated with improved student perceptions as related to safety academic challenge pure social emotional learning ability to stay focused or ability to regulate off task Behavior um we also found that uh they weren't associated with

041student suspensions and I'll pass off to ni for the rest um continuing in the culture section we also had a question of what do parents staff and students think of the different school calendars so first thinking about parents Guardians and staff we found a very similar result where the majority of those respondents did not want their calendar types to change so almost 60% of these cases that they wanted things to stay the same so we've seen people sort themselves into a calendar type that they have a preference for and want to keep in terms of the reasons people are using to choose the different schools when it came to parent Guardians safety academic ratings these were the most consistently most important factors um for school choices um from the respondents that we heard from while

042the length of the school year was consistently the least important factor for families and Guardians in terms of Staff the important factors for them pay was one of the most important things the most important thing in fact we heard a lot about um compensation as important for teachers when they make their decisions the other top factors were um whether the teacher can continue to have the same position or subject level assignment so teachers want to keep if they're teaching Ela they want to keep teaching Ela or working at their current school um valuing being able to stay at the same school that they're at we also surveyed students so for students there is much more diversity of opinions about the length of school day school year by calendar type so there wasn't as clear of

043a finding here generally though we saw that students um tended to be more in favor of keeping calendars as they are or shortening them um compared to the the parents and staff which were much more strongly in the keeping it uh the same students were more willing to say decrease when we ask students the most important factors for them in choosing to school we heard that was safety academic ratings special course offerings extracurricular activities these were consistently the most important things for our students when they chose where they were going to school and we also heard from high school students that they valued having more time outside of school being able to work jobs so we also conducted focus groups with um parents Guardians and staff to better understand um the reasons why people are

044putting themselves into different categories so when you think about why someone might want the calendars to stay the same or why they want it to decrease these quotes are helped to be meant to be illustrative for you as you think about the different reasons why so we think about parents generally we heard parents valued the ability to make choices um so that idea from the Cleveland plan of making choices having unique models to choose from we consistently heard this was important to parents for those parents that wanted the calendars to stay same or increase they talked about um those non-traditional calendar times them liking the fact that they had extra time for art music other encores for those who thought about decreasing the length of the year the number the length of the day they

045talked about very long school days would be taxing for students particularly those students who are traveling from potentially different sides of the city to go to a particular model so they might be having very very long school days and just generally valuing the ability to potentially spend more time with their children um if the school day were short important when it came to staff some of the reasons we heard about why staff might want to maintain their calendar or increase it for the yearound schools we heard that they thought it helped with Summer slide helped with behavioral routines there was not some significant spring break where um or summer break where kids had to come back and relearn all the routines those shorter breaks helped with those behaviors in their opinions Steph also talked about

046um extra time in the school day or school year helped with school model specific programming um they also liked a lot of the professional development they received when we talked about the struggles people who thought who maybe thought the calendar should um day should decrease or minutes it increase they talked about struggles with attendance um that outside of the traditional school year attendance was a particular problem from their Viewpoint they also talked about how from their vantage point they felt family struggled when it came to different calendar options so if you were a parent with a student in a traditional calendar and a high school student in one of the non-traditional calendars um that it was either driving people from not choosing non-traditional calendars because they wanted to keep their kids on one same calendar

047or that had often caused attendance problems so the students who were the older siblings who might be in a non-traditional calendar were staying home to watch the younger siblings who school year hadn't started yet these were things we heard from staff um and again going to pay we heard a lot from staff who Express concerns about compensation if calendars were to change the final research question was around cost so what is the cost of any potential benefits found for student outcomes either achievement culture engagement you heard a little bit about cost um before from um both Mr Stockdale Mr Christian um for our cost analysis what we're really trying to look at though is really the instructional cost here so trying to take out operational cost so things like the building plant other facilities costs

048so trying not to hold it against a school that they're they just have a program in an old building that is costly to run but really focus on instructional spending how much does it cost instructionally to run these different models we use a um a metric from the state which is adjusted per pupil instructional spending the adjustment is taking into account that there are higher cost associated with students with disabilities or English language Learners so it's accounting for the fact that the more of those students you have the more expensive they are to um to serve but there's other things that go into our our funding for schools as well so we run a student-based um weighted funding model so we're actually literally giving schools more money if they have lower attendance we're giving schools

049more money if they have lower proficiency we're giving schools more money so when we try and really separate out what is calendar related versus other things our goal is really to hold all else equal and focus on what can truly be said to be related to the calendar and not just that maybe the enrollment of the school is small and small schools tend to be less efficient and are going to be more costly to run so we find significant evidence that the extended year 195 schools are related to higher adjusted per pupil instructional spending we don't find any of that significant evidence for the extended year 205 the new tech or the year round calendars um related to um per pupil um instructional spending one thing we're able to do with this model then is

050we're able to take an identical School profile so we could say okay let's just find a school that is has 400 kids has the same attendance rate has the exact same proficiency rates um and essentially transport that different School typology into the different calendar types to see what kind of costs we would predict from our model the thing we find is holding all else equal the calendar types uh holding all else equal aside from calendar types or minutes in a school day we find non-traditional calendars across all um all categories have higher predicted instructional costs now while they all have higher instructional costs it's really only in that extended year 195 where we see a really really meaningful difference where it's almost a thousand ,000 per pupil um in the high school and over $1,000

051in the ka8 example but that's where we see the the most meaningful differences here but um predicted higher costs across all these types that brings us to our conclusions then so we find that in most cases there's limited evidence that a non-traditional calendar type or additional minutes in the school day relates to improved student outcomes based on our student outcome data in all cases we find non-traditional calendars have higher adjusted per pup instructional costs with the most meaningful difference being for those extended year 195 schools we do find the result that for extended year 205 high schools they have substantially Better Math scores compared to traditional schools holding all else equal we find that most parents and staff have sorted themselves into a calendar that they would prefer to stay the same not wanting to

052change we see that the length of the school year and school day were not the most important considerations for parents staff or students in choosing a school and then we also see there's a diversity of student opinions on calendar types with generally higher rates of students wanting to decrease the length of the school day compared to um staff and parents thank you for your attention um thank you for your interest in this um we're happy to take any questions Mr Briggs uh thank you for that U excellent report and Analysis I have two questions um the first is um do you have a recommendation um it's a difficult question there is no statistical test that allows us to come up with a recommendation um so if I were to to bring my own kind of

053point of view to this about what I would recommend I think some of it comes from what's your point of view so again thinking about if our we're grounding ourselves in student outcomes the most important student outcomes I think there's a very clear result that additional school days does not it does not add any additional outcomes for students does not improve student outcomes so the length of the school year for me this was reinforced just from the focus groups where I Heard lots of Staff talk about many times these additional days are tacked on at the end of the school year teachers are winding things down they're not usually using this for extra instructional time they're typically using it for field trips um field days for kids so from my point of view it seems

054the research would point to a very clear recommendation to eliminate additional days when it comes to additional minutes I think the question is more complicated you do see that effect for extended year 205 schools where they do have some meaningfully higher math scores it is isolated in only those schools um and so it really comes down to I think the values you place on what's what's the most important thing for you and is it the academic outcomes um I think if our focus is on academic outcomes uh I would say that we would still want to trim the additional School minutes that there does not seem to be any significant relation to um additional minutes to any of these outcomes that we've looked at with the exception of those extended year 205s um but knowing

055that there is that little bit of a trade-off because we heard from parents that the extended minutes did in their opinion allow them to do art music encor that they valued so recognizing that is a literal trade-off we'd have to make in my opinion I would make it to focus on the academic outcomes the second question is would your opinion be any different if we didn't have uh serious Financial challenges no not necessarily thanks very much Miss Pink hi just wondering um um I think that's uh looking for something of a win-win and uh so do you think any of these um tradeoffs could be uh addressed by maybe some some Community partner or community resource when you talk us specifically about Arts and Music uh we know Cleveland is very well blessed to have

056some of the worldwi worldwide uh programs that um you know our children may be have access to whether that's possible is not something that we studied as part of this research uh so I cannot really speak to it I don't want to get too far out of my Lane of of what we really examined I'd leave it to my colleagues uh in academics to really think think through that and when they bring their recommendation as I was saying looking for a win-win Miss Welch Dr Domingo thank you for that presentation it was helpful a question around the extended year 205 evidence around math proficiency I'm not sure that this would have come up maybe necessarily in the research but are there any h hypotheses that you all have around what's sort of driving that and

057are those things that could be replicated in in instances where maybe the extended time isn't being used in the same way um we have some hypotheses which were not tested so I'm I'm somewhat reluctant to share them um but we we have thought somewhat it could be related to teacher quality those are the extended year 205s are our criteria high schools so they might have a concentration of some of our most experienced um best teachers in the district might be there teacher quality was not something that we studied though so I I cannot state with a lot of confidence that is that is the reason why but that was one thing that we've been thinking about is what could be driving that whether that's replicable across the district um probably not yeah that color is

058helpful thank you a couple of things to add uh one on that comment even though teacher quality is not something we studied something that was looked at was the length of uh the tenure of teachers and I believe in the 205s um the 10e of teachers was longer if I'm if I'm correct yeah and there there's no that's not something we studied to say like T you know length of time is correlation to uh performance but that that is a factor in terms of tenure uh I believe we saw it in the 205s that our most experienced teachers in terms of time were there uh and then uh to your question Miss Peak around uh opportunities I think you know where wherever we go and whatever the the final um recommendation and the vote will

059be uh the opportunity ahead of us to uh Define the student experience that we've been talking about not only through the future of cmsd that we've been talking about but also through the board goals and G rails process um enables us to do that to say what is that academic experience that we want to make sure all students have no matter where they live where they go to school and make sure that's Equitable across the board um and then also what is um uh what are some of those extracurricular and co-curricular experiences we want to have and so that's really the work that we've been doing uh as an Administration and will continue to be furthered through the board goals and guard RS process you um I have a question perhaps for Dr Florence and

060Andor Dr Morgan did do you have any insight or anything notable to share around the enrollment across the schools versus the capacity like like did we look at our um you know is one type of school enrolled closer to capacity versus um another type of school perhaps being less close to capacity you know I I would say one we that that question we could get more specific and actually take back because I do think if we calm through the data we can give you a more specific answer just knowing from what I've seen of the data and also seeing it across the board it varies um you know some of our count types you think about the 205s we were just talking about so for anyone who's listening our uh 205 our 205 schools there's

061four School types that fall into it two of our John Hay campuses so you have early college no um architecture and design science and uh Cleveland School of science and medicine School of one and the uh uh the dec which is our Juvenile Detention Center uh so those are the schools on the 205 model um and when you think about uh a campus like uh the hate campus though they're not one that is uh I would say at capacity or always full it is one that does uh fill up um and is I guess the question is like under enrollment are there are any of the higher performing schools under enrolled probably not and that impacts the way we fund schools as well so not necessarily but you would also see in some of our

062single genders which are significantly under enrolled um and some of them fall under the a different calendar type for the elementaries is that's where it does vary uh but also when we looked at the performance if you're looking at stars which are more holistic some of that was um not you know it didn't stand out um versus sometimes test performance over time did uh so those variables do change I believe if I'm just combing through the data the single genders are the ones that probably would stand out in terms of being under enrolled but performing relatively well y yeah I'd be interested to for you all to at least look at some enrollment data and provide any insights you see yes ma'am excuse me m Dr one more question um so so when we think

063about these um these modifications um supposing we were to um change the number of instructional days specifically focused on instructional days um how much of a how much of a curricular change or lift would it mean for those schools and what kinds of analysis have you had a chance to do about that so curriculum wise we are aligning ourselves around singular curriculum any way and so even our schools who have extended calendars they are still using the same Ela curriculum that our traditional traditional schools are using so when you talk about school models that's very different and we did get some feedback for our principles around that that we can provide to you we believe that we can still operate our school models with a traditional calendar and so that would not be impacted our

064principles have communicated that as well um many of them have have stated to us that we can still do this work with a Traditional School calendar would you make sure some of that absolutely we can one thing I will add that we do have in here is and we we shared this last year we shared it again this year in terms of the amount of extra days most schools under um that are getting uh that have an extended calendar the student instructional days vary from three to six additional days than the traditional calendar now the 205s I believe had the most I think it's 20 student instructional days where the majority of the dollars are going because this is when you think about the money uh and cheap stock do shared this over three years

065and we shared the finances of how much we have to save over the the next three years which is 96 to $150 million the doing this calendar type a loan over three years is I believe 27 to$ 28 million it costs us 27 to2 $28 million and the majority of the dollars in the count protypes are going to staff days one of the things we it's really important for the coherence and the centralization of the work we've been doing it varies in terms of what people do in that time some of the time that people are using is high impact High leverage uh in terms of what students are doing others may not um some of the the staff time that is using is high impact High leverage things to do different trainings for there

066uh you know certifications some may not and so uh when we're thinking about theud student outcomes data that was presented um also some of the other research and also our financial uh areas and no way of knowing across the board exactly how everyone is doing without a centralizing it um that is also a variable we would need to take into account and now is the opportunity with one Ela curricula uh curriculum and some of the other work that we're doing to centralize to have a better position of actually understanding what are the inputs and outputs that are taking place in our schools and that's work we're doing regardless of of uh of what this decision is we have to have a better handle of how we're using instructional time we have to have a better

067handle of how we're using staff professional development time as well um and also uh leveraging uh uh the supports and autonomies that our schools have as well any other [Music] questions thank you one final thing I just wanted to add for you all is um there is more to the presentation so if you've noticed there's about 72 slides here so we've tried to be um as thorough and transparent as possible so as you weigh this uh decision to think about this I encourage you to look at the other slides some are probably more technical less interesting um but all of the survey results are available in linked dashboards that are accessible to all of you all members of the public if you want to for yourself see um how what responses looked like what the

068most important factors were or any of the other analysis thank you and I do want to mention um for all uh watching the meeting that the board will receive the staff's recommendation on March 11th and it will be presented at that meeting and that the board will hold a public comment period specifically for community members to comment on the calendar and so that would be a good time to uh attend the meeting if you have thoughts or questions around this topic anything else that concludes the report all right thank you Dr Morgan and team all right next we will have public participation for a period of no longer than 40 minutes during this segment of the business meeting we will hear all public comment on either agenda or non-agenda items this public participation period will

069be for persons who previously submitted the online request to speak form or called the board office to sign up to speak to address the board for up to 3 minutes each if anyone wishing to address the board has any written material they would like to submit to the board please give it to Mr berlof who is over to my left I think he's waving I can't see him behind the screen and he will distribute the materials to the board as usual we will limit each speaker to three minutes and we will have um your time remaining on each of the screens on either side uh of of where you are standing from as a speaker all right first is Mr Don Freeman hello Mr Freeman it's good to see you again good evening everyone uh

070Dr Morgan I'm calling to inquire whether or not the overall attendance of the Cleveland Public Schools staff is regular or whether or not there are significant absences in regular St you would like me to answer that now yes we can we can follow up and provide uh specific information for you on our attendance uh of Staff it does vary it's an area you know that we we do work on we see some buildings where that's heavily impacted um but if you would like we can in our response to you give you a full um analysis of that okay now am might to understand that I'm must receive that in the mail we yeah we we we'll follow up to see what's the best way you would like we can do it uh via uh mail

071email so yeah we can um I I'll have someone on our team follow up with you and we'll get that to you okay all right do would would like to receive that yes we we definitely will okay all right thank you Mr Freeman next Sabrina Otis Sabrina Otis okay uh and then we have shatori Norris shatori Norris all right that concludes our public participation period Mr Freeman you are the star of the show next the board will consider the adoption of seven resolutions in the areas of Board of Education Finance academics and equity and culture the board discussed all but one of these resolutions at our February 11th board work session the chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolution 6.01 calling on members of the US House of Representatives to preserve education funding

072so move thank you this week and in fact today the US House of Representatives is debating house committee resolution concurrent resolution 14 the federal government's budget for fiscal year 2025 and setting appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2026 through through 2034 this proposed resolution could impose deep Cuts in federal education funding and these budget cuts would have an especially devastating impact on Urban school districts such as ours the proposed house concurrent resolution would cut funding for title one which supports low-income students title two which addresses teacher training and title three which supports English language Learners this legislation would also reduce funding for Medicaid and Child Nutrition ntion programs I'm asking our board to join many other Urban school boards across the country this week and support this board resolution calling on members of the US

073House of Representatives to preserve education funding Dr Morgan do you have any comment you'd like to add just uh appreciative of the uh the gesture uh in in this time as we're thinking about ways we continue to support and the work that we're going to be doing as a system to provide those resources thank you Dr I want to note that it's not merely a Jester it is an Ask of our Representatives um and not intended to be only symbolic but I understand what you meant thank you any other comment all right um hearing no further comment Mr Stockdale would you please call the role elod yes Mr bips yes Mr Briggs yes Robin Jones yes Mrs Peak yes Dr Shar yes yes Mrs welcha yes motion passes with seven votes thank you the resolution

074is adopted the chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolution 7.01 authorizing the acceptance of a gift from Martha Holden Jennings foundation and authorizing the chief executive officer to spend the funds in accordance with the terms and conditions of the gift so Mo thank you this is a finance resolution which the board discussed at our February 11th work session Dr Morgan any further explanation uh yes with this resolution the board will be accepting a gift from the Martha Holden Jennings foundation in the amount of $3,000 for a book vending machine at Waverly School thank you any discussion from board members Mr Stockdale will you please call the role Miss elod yes Mr bips yes Mr Briggs yes Miss Jones say yes oh sorry yes um Mrs Peak I'm sorry Reverend Jones yes Mrs Peak

075uh yes again Dr Shar yes Mrs welcha and I apologize I can't see this side of the days the motion pass and the resolution is adopted the chair will now entertain a motion to adopt the following resolutions eight the .01 authorizing the Cleveland Municipal School District to enter into a primary service agreement with the educational service center of Northeast Ohio as provided by Ohio Revised Code 3313 843 is there a motion to adopt thank you second thank you the board discussed this academic resolution at our February 11th board work session Dr Morgan any additional explanation yes with this resolution the board will be authorizing the school district to enter into another B banial primary service agreement with the educational service center of Northeast Ohio uh this is a routine banial action by the board this

076agreement is for the 25 26 and 26 27 school years uh the list of services is set forth in the resolution and include ins service and continuing education programs for district Personnel curriculum Services research and development programs academic institution and assistance in the provision of special accommodations and classes for students with disabilities the cost of these Services is $6 50 cents per student based on the district's enrollment and is deducted from The District's uh State Foundation payments uh the education centers of Northeast Ohio has asked the district to return the executed agreement by March 13 2025 the es will then file the agreement with the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce by July 1st 2025 as required by state law any discussion from board members Mr Stockdale will you please call the role Miss elod

077yes Mr Bops yes Mr Briggs yes Miss Jones yes Pastor Jones yes Mrs Peak yes Dr Shar yes Mrs Welch motion passes with eight votes thank you the resolution is adopted the chair will now entertain a motion to adopt the following resolutions 9.01 authorizing the employment of teaching non-teaching and school-based administrative staff 9.02 authorizing the reclassification of employees 9.03 authorizing accepting the reti retirements resignations and other separations of employees and 9.04 authorizing the issuance of limited contracts for differential positions and the payment of additional or compensation to employees sove thank you these are our equity and talent resolutions which the board discussed at our February 11th work session Dr Morgan any further explanation yes with these uh routine uh talent and Equity resolutions uh we have resolution 9.01 authorizing uh 109 new hires uh resolution

0789.02 authorizing the reclassification of 14 employees resolution 9.03 accepts 75 separations of employees 9.04 authorizes limited contracts for differentials and payment of additional compensation to 59 employees and further details of each of these resolutions are set forth and exhibit a attached to each resolution thank you Dr Morgan any questions from board members Mr Stockdale hearing no discussion would you please call the role elod yes Mr bips yes Mr Briggs yes Miss Jones yes Pastor Jones yes Mrs Peak yes Dr Shar yes Mrs welcha motion passes with eight votes thank you the resolutions are adopted is there any old business is there any new business the next regular board meeting will be a board work session on Tuesday March 11th 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at Garrett Morgan High School the chair will now entertain a motion

079to 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 their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment and conferring with attorneys concerning disputes involving the Board of Education that are the subject of pending or imminent Court action so move thank you 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 Welch motion passes with eight votes thank you the board will now move into executive session following exe executive session the board will return to this room to briefly conduct some further business [Music] for [Music] you go to the website you type in the access code and you're in your

080kids 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 it's a relief for me knowing that my child has the best chance that they can knowing every day they wake up they can go to school and you know take advantage of the day okay [Music] your lettuce is popping [Music] smile right here got [Music] say and spell your name for me okay now whenever you're ready okay Michelle Campbell officer Patrice Evans hello I'm Adam Goodall his name is Louis Kumba Lu Cuba junor I've been with the district now 24 years eight years 15 16

081years 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 a real passionate 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

082being 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 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

083position 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 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 [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

084get 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 activity 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 with 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

085TV CU 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 to 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

086year running track are you cross country uh uh short I do short distance and I hurdle as well so um let's go yeah it doesn't feel like it when I'm doing it but that is my favorite time activity yeah uh I personally don't consider basketball as a down time 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 creates stress cuz you know on some days when you have nothing to

087do 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 I love anything in the Mario series cuz I I was so when I was younger there was no Nintendo out yet um like when when I was a real 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

088other game uh Brands uh but the uh Sonic the Hedgehog so really old school type of games like that so love Mortal Kombat played it uh play 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 um for our district is safe and suppor of 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

089talking 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 helping us keep schools safe uh we are almost at the process of doing a new badging systems and I'm really excited about that we've been um asking uh 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

090so 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 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 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 have we have metal detectors in all of our

091our 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 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 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

092staff 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 an ID 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 Dr Morgan what do you hope uh students will get out of to get more opportunity fun 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

093to be really helpful when we saw uh in the earlier iteration of it there were uh certain schools that were uh um mainly going out for the opportunity and we want to make sure more Scholars can uh get the 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

094been 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 know you plan to do just continue to 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 and know that have a team of people supporting me 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 bringing you

095cmsd stories one dish at a time [Music] a 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 top of it everything's right there like everybody always has their phone with them so you can easily access it to your phone it's a relief for me knowing that my child has the best chance that they can knowing every day they wake up they can go to school and you know take advantage of the day [Music] your lettuce is popping [Music] smile right here [Music] but the good thing about like [Applause] [Music] say and spell your name for me okay now whenever you're ready

096okay Michelle Campbell officer Patrice Evans hello I'm Adam Goodall his name is Louis Kumba Lu Cuba junr 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 and 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 my father

097a 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 this is

098my 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 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 [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

099their 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 all right what is your favorite downtime activity 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

100anything 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 because 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 then 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 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

101stress 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 are you cross country uh uh short I do short dist and I hurdle as well so um 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 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

102uh 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 and 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 was so when I was younger there was no Nintendo out yet um like when when I was a real young kid we had a tari 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

103Mario 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 so love Mortal Kombat played it played a 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 um for our district is safe and supportive schools and a safe and supportive culture um and so we're constantly working to

104think 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 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 uh 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

105the 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 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 mentioned the neighborhood as an area that they don't feel safe or coming to and from school so those are

106areas we want to work with the the the city on on making sure it's safe um and then of course 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 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 part

107teachers 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 ID 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 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

108every 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 the 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

109makes 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 plan to do just continue to keep going uh High School is challenging and when you get to College it'll it'll be even more challenging and life can be challenging Ching but as long as you remember uh that with resilience and hard work the road is yours so just keep going um and know that you have a team of people supporting me uh so uh this was another episode of The District dish uh

110we're 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 bringing you cmsd stories one dish at a time [Music] theet scratching on the microphone [Music] for [Music] 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 top of it everything's right there like everybody always has their phone with them so you can easily access it to your phone it's a relief for me knowing that my child has the best chance that they can knowing every day they wake up they can go to school

111and you know take advantage of the day [Music] your lettuce is [Music] popping smile right here the good thing about like [Applause] got [Music] say and spell your name for me okay now whenever you're ready okay N Campbell officer Patrice Evans hello I'm Adam Goodall his name is Louis Kumba L cumba junr I've been with the district now 24 years 8 years 156 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 they 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

112Mighty 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 and I really got a real passion 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 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

113enjoy 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 I always told them 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 can do for almost C I want to be your boss I said I'll be pleasure it'll be a pleasure for you to become my boss [Music] so welcome back to another exciting episode

114of 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 all right what is your favorite downtime activity 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

115the 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 CU my days start real starts really early and then a lot of times I get in at like 10 or 11:00 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 just relax um and um that's that's probably

116my 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 are you cross country uh uh short I do short distance and I hurdle as well so um let 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

117I'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 cuz you know on some days when you have nothing to do you realize and I'm speaking for myself like I've 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 I love anything in the Mario series cuz I I was so when I was younger there was no Nintendo out yet um like when when I was a real young

118kid 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 Brands uh but the uh Sonic the Hedgehog so really old school type of games like that so love Mortal Kombat played it uh played a 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

119that 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 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 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 uh 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 and I'm really excited about that we've been um asking uh that I've

120been 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 ALS 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 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

121School 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 on making sure it's safe uh and then of course 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 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

122for 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 teachers already have a badge uh we knew we have now a badge system also for volunteers so when they're people who don't work in uh who aren't teachers or staff in the school but they're a volunteer they have have a certain batch 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 ID 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 Dr

123Morgan what do you hope uh students will get out of to 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 the 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

124back 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 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 to 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

125and hard work the road is yours so just keep going um and know that you have a team of people supporting me uh so uh this was another episode of The District dish uh we're so happy to be here with our amazing Scholars uh Camila Esther and Elijah join us again next time for another episode the district dish where we're bringing you cmsd stories one dish at a [Music] time e [Music] for e for [Music] 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 top of it everything's right there like everybody always has their phone with them so you can easily

126access 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 to school and you know take advantage of the day [Music] your lettuce is [Music] popping smile right here the good thing about like [Applause] got [Music] say and spell your name for me okay now whenever you're ready okay Nelle Campbell officer Patrice Evans hello I'm Adam good off his name is LS Kumba Lu cumba Jr 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

127and help us out there 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 a day I worked a lot with kids in the neighborhood and I really got a real passion 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 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

128then 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 I always told him I said 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

129oh 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 [Music] so welcome wel 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

130favorite 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 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

131okay I got to 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 hurdle as well oh so um let's go yeah it doesn't feel like it when I'm doing it but that is my favorite

132downtime activity yeah uh I personally don't consider basketball as a down 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 time can also create stress cuz 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 yeah oh sorry by by any chance do you want to tell us what your favorite game is

133my favorite video game I 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 real young kid we had Atari and so then when the first Nintendo came out of course the Mario brother this 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 to love mortal comback played it uh played a few versions of it so so considering

134the 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 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 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 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

135but that's a way that is helping 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 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 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

136lunches with groups of students and it's been interesting in 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 have we have metal detectors in all of our our high schools um 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

137of 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 teachers already have a 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

138be I know most students have an ID 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 Dr Morgan what do you hope uh students will get out of the get more opportunity fun 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

139sure more Scholars can uh get the 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 is now back in public session the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn this board business meeting thank you hearing no objection this meeting is adjourned have a good night e