001please stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance with me iedge of Al to the of the United States of americe thank you very much I'll ask for public comments are there any public comments Dr all right thank you Mr Torio good evening everyone that is here in the community room in our audience and for those that are watching us online good evening thank you for joining us for our regular scheduled school board meeting at this time we will begin the business of the school board by bringing up our first item for consideration and that is the consent agenda and under the consent agenda we have approval of minutes Financial fiscal extracurricular resignations extracurricular hirings and donations at this time we have two donations under the consent agenda one comes from the world's fastest Triathlon they
002are donating $200 to the athletic department for the use of our inflatable Eagle that they use for their event so we appreciate Their donation of $200 to our athletic fund for that the second donation on the consent agenda comes from the NorthShore Health Centers where they are donating $11,000 to our football program here at Edison and at this time I want to publicly thank both Northshore and the world's fastest Triathlon program for their generous donation to our school district and this time I make a recommendation to the board that they approve the consent agenda as presented to them this evening you heard the superintendent's recommendation so move second motion a second is there any discussion any items hearing none Mr Bigs Miss Curtis hi Mr music hi Mr Wright I and I vote I moving
003on to items under personnel I would recommend to the board that they accept the resignations from the following teachers and staff Lauren miles first grade teacher at Bailey effective at the end of the school year Anna zapa enl par professional here at Edison effective March 22nd 2024 and John good pasture bus driver affected February 22nd 20 24 there have a motion so move second motion a second any discussion take the vote Mr Bigs i m Curtis hi Mr music I Mr Wright I and I vote I item number two under Personnel I would recommend to the board this evening that they approve to hire the following maintenance and custodial staff Richard Pennington and as maintenance grounds keeper here at Edison Junior Senior High School David Ard as an evening custodian here at Edison jior senior
004high school and Sandra Ard evening custodian at Hamilton Elementary School motion accept Mr BS make a motion to accept do we have a second second motion a second there any discussion hearing them we'll take it a vote Mr Mr Bigs hi M Curtis hi Mr music hi Mr Wright hi and I vote I item number three I recommend to the board this evening that they accept and distribute the early literacy Grant provided by the Department of Education to eligible kindergarten through third grade teachers and staff for the grant guidelines the grant amount that was received from the Department of Education was $1,919 44 for pleasure so move second motion second any discussion n Mr Bigs hi M Curtis hi Mr music hi Mr Wright hi and I vot I item number four I recommend to
005the board this evening that they accept the recommendation to hire Rebecca Henderson as fifth grade teacher at Bailey Elementary School we move motion by Mr Bigs we have a second second second any discussion Mr Bigs hi M Curtis hi Mr music hi Mr Wright hi and I vote I Mr President that concludes the business that I have to bring to the board this evening uh except to remind everyone that are next regularly scheduled school board meeting will be held Wednesday April 17th and that meeting will be held at Alexander Hamilton Elementary School thank you do thank you Dr TR I think we might have broke a new record today that was a short it's a quick one yes uh Mr BS have any party comments before we leave yeah I want to thank the ones
006that did come and the audience out there in TV Land that's it thank you m Curtis I think I'll pass we have a lot of people right here that like to come in and um so I I do want to just take a minute I'm gonna you know try not to steal too much from David here and let him say some things but I do want to say uh thank you for hosting us tonight um uh thank you to our kindergarten through third grade teachers um you know that uh that Grant is welld deserved with all the hard work they put in to you know teach those kids how to read and get them on on track uh it's very very important part of your Learning Journey is just getting those initial steps in reading
007and being comfortable with it so really means a lot to us um I want to thank everyone uh I know my wife was you know running around like a crazy person recently um getting uh petitions for the referendum to be placed back on the ballot so that we could potentially do that should we choose um so I want to thank everyone that was signing for us and showing the support for our school system uh once again means a lot to me so thank you all for doing that and I'll I'll let David say some things I won't steal everything from this time so you did good you did good I'm gonna move my desk on that side next week or next month um ah thank you for everybody here person um and on um social
008media and whatnot have a um an employee from the library that came in unfortunately I apologize this was a very short meeting so I really get to see much but thanks for coming out it's nice to see new faces Mr joner thanks for hosting us um special thanks to our donators that's awesome we appreciate it so much uh you guys don't realize how much you're you're helping our our students and our student um athletes when when donations are like that Welcome to our new employees um to the ones leaving for whatever purposes and joy good luck and uh best of luck to you enjoy your spring break stay safe hopefully mother nature makes up her mind and we can actually get some spring break weather uh not all of us are able to take off
009the warm weather uh and enjoy your Easter um that's all I got that's it that's it I don't have much just make Mr Stone Host this say can I put you on the spot and and talk about your I read test scores and how much they improved just so the people at home know how much how much hard work you guys are put into this I don't know if they'll be able to hear you so you might want to have talk very loud yes yes it's my favorite part all right do I have to turn that way or can I this way okay um so our I am so proud of our students and our teachers and our staff um last year our third grade students we had 39% passing rate um I read for
010I read oh sorry okay my bad um this year um we were sitting at 65% pass rate with our third grade which is huge it's a big it's not where I want to be but it's we're moving in the right direction um I you know and I my teachers are amazing my staff is amazing they they've really worked hard with the students so I'm pleased to see where we're going and I I'm anxious to see where we're going to be next year um so I'm really looking forward to finishing out this year and getting into next spring already far way far away but we'll get there um did very well you know their numbers off the top of your head I think she had I'm not gonna even quote it but I think she was
011like 82% yeah that well above the state average yes I just want to let they get the people at home know that good things are happening here at Lake Station they really are um and I'm excited we gave the test this year to our second graders for the first time um so I know and actually I think in both buildings I don't know the percentage but we had about 15 or 16 second graders that passed the test so they won't have to take it next year which is amazing one check off the back so we're excited I think we're moving in the right direction thank you yeah great job thanks for putting me on the spot yeah thanks for responding so well I'd also like to thank Mr music and his wife Katie for all
012those signatures that's amazing a lot of hard work and uh I did a couple but nothing near what what you guys did you has uh truly amazing thank your wife for us would you please that for all our hard work Mr President Miss Hayes is inspired me I'd like to make a comment okay thank you very much for your time um I want to thank all of the people that worked together for uh the Honor Society induction last night I am so proud of those new inductees it was just a wonderful opportunity and thank you for uh representing the school board in your comments um great just great if you ever get a chance just congratulate thank you thank you Mr President yes ma'am and uh I think that's pretty much everything I want to
013say also um we'll give a quick shout out to my favorite teacher who passed away over the weekend Mr Ronald Hughes from forest he taught there for 35 years he's the one that kind of got me into politics first one to register me to vote and uh he passed away and his stre was yes I just want a shout out to Mr use thank you for everything you did for me um with that I am finished Miss be I'd like to wish everyone a relaxing and safe spring break and I'd like to say congratulations to the Honor Society students that's always uh a highlight of the year to be able to watch them be inducted so congratulations to them and congratulations to our third and second graders with their I scores that's just amazing congratulations
014to you and the staff for all that to to get that to happen that's all I have all right thank you Miss pipa uh I too want to congratulate our third graders and second graders for their hard work in passing the IR test and express my appreciation to the teachers and staff that worked with those students uh as well as the students hard work to get those uh test scores up to where they were we're very very proud of them uh one of the things that really benefit bened our students were the reading coaches that we were able to have a full-time Reading Coach at Hamilton and full-time Reading Coach over at Bailey which helped provide significant gains for our students and we were able to provide that because we were able to win the
015referendum in 2017 as we know that we have lost that referendum in last year's election so we are trying to live within our means as we are responsible and expected to do and we are looking at what we can do to keep our reading coaches U but with the unsuccessful referendum last November it's making it more difficult but we will do the best that we can do with that but thank you to the reading coaches and our teachers and staff for their hard work as well as our parents helping those second graders and third graders to learn to read and establish that good strong foundation in Reading uh the Honor Society program was held last evening with the inductions as Mrs Curtis pointed out it was a very fine program worked very very well and
016I too want to congratulate our Honor Society inductees for a job well done working very hard uh to become eligible to be in National Honor Society and we are very proud of each and every one of them for their hard work work as Miss Peep has pointed out in case everyone may have forgotten we are on spring break next week and school will resume on Tuesday April the 2nd so we look forward to a restful and exciting spring break but we're also looking forward to school resuming on April 2nd the last announcement that I have comes from our city of Lake Station they would like to inform our community that they are going to be doing an Easter egg hunt up at Riverview Park this coming Saturday starting at noon so they are extending the
017invitation to all of our families and children here in Lake Station come to Riverview Park this coming Saturday at noon and participate in the Easter egg hunt so I'm hoping that that's something that you can fit into your family schedule and be a part of that annual event at Riverview Park and with that that concludes oh excuse me I have one more one more uh I want to take this opportunity to kind of brag on one of our teachers uh Liz oprisco is one of our Title One facility people working over at Hamilton Elementary School and Miss oprisco had the opportunity to apply to be a presenter at a National Conference that will be held this coming June in Denver Colorado after submitting her proposal as to what she would like to present at that
018National Conference she received notice this week that her presentation has been accepted and approved and she will be going to Denver she will be presenting uh a workshop titled maximizing student growth leveraging Ina test data for tier three reading success so we are very pleased and very proud of M prisco for taking the initiative to apply to be a presenter at this National Conference and receiving that honor of being accepted to attend so we're very proud of her and I just just wanted to make that known to our board members as well as to our audience this evening and with that I have no further announcements anybody else have any comments before we adjourn the meeting meeting adjourn