001Okay, Al's not coming >> here. Michelle's not here. Um, let me see. Terry, not here. Mary, not here. Lauren, not here. Glattis >> Here. I'm here. >> Kate, >> here. Uh, Wanita >> here. >> Okay. >> Rich is not here. >> Okay. >> And Julie not here. >> Okay. Teresa says she will try to get on. She was at the dentist. Okay. >> Perfect. >> Oh, Rich is here. >> Okay. >> Sorry. I'm late. >> If you notice anybody popping up that I don't see, just let me know. >> Okay. Okay. We're gonna We're gonna We know we have the pleasure. and we're all sitting. So, we're going to move on down the agenda because there's a lot to get get through tonight. And uh those that are delegates to the convention and I want
002Michael to start off. Let's go through this and uh get it done. >> Thank you, Miss Cooper. Okay. So, I just shared a link in the chat. Um I'm going to go through uh the what the what's actually going to happen at that delegate um assembly just so we can all sort of frame in our minds just how this works and then once I think we have a picture of that we can walk back and figure out what we think we need to accomplish here today. So uh the document I just shared there's two documents linked in there. The first one is the CABE 2025 consent calendar. The second one is the proposed resolutions. Now, the first one's called 2025 for a reason, and the second one is called 2026. That's not a typo, and
003I'll explain why that is in a minute. So, the CABE 2025 consent calendar, every year, CAB when they before the beginning of the uh uh of legislative session, they have what's called the whole agenda. And the whole agenda is a list of I don't know 30 40 50 things depending on the year that they are supporting that is going to guide their take the positions that they take on on various legislation as it as it comes up. That whole agenda is updated every year. Now the consent calendar is the items from that whole agenda that have not had a request to be edited or changed or removed. So basically no everyone said okay these are all still good. the same ones from last year. We're good on this. We can just roll these forward. They
004want to handle those all in one item, which is why it's on a consent calendar. And the idea is is that everybody in that room is going to vote that existing agenda straight up or down. And if you take my page out here and if you look through that document, it's not short. There's 43, sorry, 46 items in it. Let's see the back page. There's 46 items in it. Now, there is a chance that in that assembly uh delegate assembly um next week at CAB that everybody votes votes it straight through and great, that whole consent calendar will go through. If anyone has an issue with even one item on this, they can raise their hand and say, um, I'm sorry, I have a problem with item 1-XX. They will pull that item off and
005they say, "Okay, we're going to put this now into the discussion section of this. Now, with that item out, can we then approve the consent calendar?" Everyone will vote their paddles and the consent calendar will eventually go through with any items pulled out that people have issues with. Right now, anything pulled out will go into discussion for the second item here, which is the CABE 2026 proposed resolutions. What this is, it's the items that have were in the previous year's whole agenda that were already pulled out because people said, "Oh, this is outdated. This doesn't make sense. We need to change the language or this has already been addressed, right? There was legislation passed last year, so we need to pull this out of the whole agenda." It's those things um plus any items that
006people raised their hand for at the vote on the consent calendar and said, "I want that pulled out." So that's where the conversation is going to be on the proposed resolutions. Now typically there is a there is there there is a process um there's a few deadlines over the course of the year where you could submit things to CAB and say it's this has nothing to do with the previous year's whole agenda. I want to create a new resolution because this is something that hasn't come up before. It's a new issue. You can submit brand new language to CABE and they will put it in this proposed resolutions book. Now, I spoke with a few folks there and they said, "Listen, if you Danberry want to present us fully baked language, right? Not a concept
007that they have to send to the lawyers and have them work through it. If you can present us some fully cooked language and get it to us in advance, we can tuck it into this conversation for the 2026 proposed resolutions, which means there's still an opportunity for us to present some language. If we can agree on that tonight, get it over to Cab. They'll have it all in there and then it will be part of the discussion next week at the Cape Convention. All right. Once when they get into this number two item here, this CAB 26 2026 proposed resolutions, it's not a consent calendar. It's not dealt with as a group. They go through item by item by item by item. Now, sometimes that's a long list. This year, the consent calendar, I'm sorry,
008this year the proposed resolution has It's the This is the blue book section, right? Mine's I just printed it out, but that's this book, which is the proposed resolution. So, my quick math on here is there are 10 11. So, there's 12 items on here currently. Now, if we were to add say one or two things, then there'd be 14. But again, that is the one they will go through item by item. Everyone will discuss the language. Um there will be a microphone in the middle of the room. So if anybody any of the uh uh delegates can get up and and speak on behalf of of Danberry and after all the discussion is is done, we all sit back down at our chairs. They will call a vote. Everyone the delegates will have a
009paddle. The paddle go up and they will either vote the new resolution or they will they will reject it. Whatever comes out of that process for the proposed resolutions will make its way into the whole agenda. And then at the end of this meeting, we have a 2026 whole agenda which is comprised of the items in the consent calendar that rolled forward from the previous year and these new items from the 2026 proposed resolutions blue book that were now just voted on one at a time. That will be the end of the meeting. Everybody will clap and then everyone will go out and have dinner. But that will be the new whole agenda for 2026 and that's how we will arrive at it. Okay, any questions? I hope I hope I was clear. >> You
010were. >> Okay, thank you. All right, so there's a few different ways we can go about this. Um, we teased a few of these. um uh Kate and I did during our community relations meeting last time and there were a few items that we pulled out that that we thought we should talk about. Um but as we've been sort of thinking through this, Dr. Casemiro and I were talking earlier today, there's a few places that that I I think we might want to offer some new proposed language. So I'll leave this either, you know, to Glattis and the committee here. Do do we want to start by going through the resolutions or do we want to start with actually the language of something that we want to present to CABE to be added? >> I
011would go with start with the language that we want to be added. >> Okay, great. Because I think that is going to be the more timeconuming piece of this as well. So let's make sure we start with that. Okay. So, I'm gonna share my screen here and I have some language that I drafted this uh with Dr. Kazmiro. Um Kate sent me some language as well. So, there there's two real items in here that we thought uh were just not really present. Okay, hang. [cough and clears throat] Okay, let's see here. Oh, you've got that one. Okay, let's pop this over here. Okay. So, there were two areas where we thought um needed a little bit of attention that that just didn't have uh good language around it in the existing resolutions. The first one
012was about AI. Um we wanted to get a better understanding of just what was happening with respect to guidance being provided from the state. Um also whether there was some sort of steering committee. uh we didn't think the language needed to say anything specifically about policy on AI but rather some sort of body that would provide continuous direction as it continues to evolve. So Kate, I don't know if you want to start talking a little bit with the language that you proposed here. I can I can start with the language that Dr. Casemir and I came up with this morning. >> Sure. Um, so I actually was looking at one of the newly proposed resolutions that came forward from um the Thomas Board of Education that was uh titled um 2.11 digital citizenship program and
013online safety education. So um in looking at the language here, what I did is I I just added an AI element to the existing language that they had already proposed. Um, and I don't know if it makes sense for us to do it, you know, as a as a separate proposal for AI or or, you know, sticking it in here with the digital citizenship piece. I'm not sure if it makes sense to keep those two things together or or to separate them because AI is going to be such a significant um change going forward. Yeah, I think that's that that is a good idea to to tuck it into the existing digital citizenship. It might have a better chance of of passing if we're sort of adding language into that one rather than creating our
014own. Um, one of the the the thoughts Dr. has mirror and I had was that there would be something like um so down here uh resolution kg is the general assembly to fund and uh to >> Mike I apologize for interrupting could you just make the text a little bit bigger please it's a little hard to see I'm sorry thank you >> that better >> no not really >> sorry it might be limited by the um with the zoom uh window size. >> Okay. >> What about at the top mic where it says 120 125%. Can you adjust that? Maybe that'll help. >> Is that any better? That's at 150. [snorts] Is that more legible? >> It is on my screen. I don't know how other folks are finding it. So you're adding in the
015highlighted language here, correct? >> Yes. So the new resolution would read, K urges state and federal governments to recognize both the benefits and risks of digital access and to take proactive steps to implement digital citizenship education, including AI awareness in all grade levels for both students and parents. CABE supports the ongoing study and pilot program by the CT State Department of Education to assess the benefits and drawbacks of AI for student and teacher use and encourages the general assembly to utilize its findings when determining the requirements for digital for digital citizenship education. I like this language. I'm wondering if if this one should stay pure as a um as a student safety digital citizenship piece which would then allow the steering committee or the working group or whatever whatever the proposed idea is here for
016the ongoing entity um to sort of function almost more as like a you know in a you know I don't know you know bring in psychology experts and you know which was sort you know part of the the the thought um Karen and I had is it it would function at more of a higher level to help guide the creation of policy and regulations and by popping it out I think you you know you almost get more of a yeah you know this one stays sort of pure focused on digital citizenship and and the kids portion of it while the other one is almost more like a like a working group a research group something to you know tied together almost at a higher level you know what's happening. I'll share I'll share the language
017that we came up with. So our resolution K urges general assembly to fund uh the general assembly to fund and the state department of education to convene an AI steering committee to meet quarterly and review advancements in AI to understand their impact on schools learning and overall child development. The committee should be appropriately funded to enable engagement with guest speakers, academics, medical professionals, other leaders in the field who can present new research and insights into the technology to best guide how schools should position themselves for optimal learning and student safety. >> So, similar idea u but but I mean you can see that the there's a little bit of a difference there. So, I'll leave this to the committee. I you know I it's not my job to to steer this. So, just wanted to
018put some options on the table. I like I like that concept. I don't know how elder members feel, you know. >> I agree. Separate. >> Yeah, I agree. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So, we So, we have that one one down that we agree on. Okay. >> All right. So then just to clarify, so we'll we'll we'll present the um Kate's language as an edit to the digital citizenship one that already exists and then we'll propose the steering committee language as a as a new resolution. >> Right. Right. >> Got it. Okay. >> Right. >> Okay. >> All right. So the other one and I I don't have any sample language on this and Kate, do you want to help me with this one? because uh this one was really about alliance funding
019and Dr. Kasmir, I know we talked about this one too. If you wanted to talk a little bit about um let's see, this one's in 2.9 in the proposed. >> Okay, >> so let me get down here. 25 28. Okay, so 29 the school finance system and this is where we got into it down here was 2.9 um under cave supports. So this would be item 11 maintaining full ECS funding to all districts including alliance districts and creating separate grants outside of ECS for alliance district reform efforts. I think one of the concerns about this is there was some legislation last year about changing the the designation of an alliance district and it it wasn't clear whether the change in the designation was in name only or if that had actually changed the money that
020was going and I think part of this was uh we we wanted to be very clear about saying whatever uh whatever happens with the allian alliance district idea or concept. We want to make sure that the existing districts that are getting alliance funding through ECS continue if if you they can't keep increasing it at those sort of larger rates that at the very least there's some sort of cost of living or inflationary increase in it. The justification for this being is that there are a lot of salaries in the alliance grant >> and if those you know those people will continue to grow uh column and step and their salaries will continue to grow. So those, you know, those incremental increases are based on, you know, the 3 3 and 1 half% or 4 and
021a.5% what whatever that contract was agreed on for that person, whatever that contract or bargaining unit they're in, they will grow at that rate. So if we're currently spending Alliance at 100%, as those contracts, you know, as those salaries continue to grow, suddenly Alliance won't be enough to fund them anymore. actually have to dig out of the general fund to to supplement it. >> So, I think in a perfect world, we would love if Alliance just kept increasing and we saw that four, five, six million dollar bump every year. >> Um, and I think it certainly is is reasonable to ask for that. Um, and I'm kind of surprised no one that that's not really and maybe that's what this 11 is saying here. I'm I'm not really sure what they're trying to get out
022of it, but I think maybe we say something, you know, in in the case that Alliance is not, you know, there's no alliance increase, there needs to be some sort of supplemental amount of money to cover just those cost of living increases for the salaries that are already into in in the alliance grant. >> Cara, did I capture that correctly? >> You did. You did. And I and some of that language was sparked by the fact that there was a kind of a a move to uh only have about go back to the original 16 or 17 alliance districts from the original group because so many were included. Um a lot of districts got dropped off the list but Danbury remained on it. Um, but there was a they did manage to embed in some
023type of a hold harmless clause. But the but the language and Mike I did a little refining little AI assisted refining to some of the ideas today but didn't have a ton of time. But um I do have some language. I did just send it to you um and and and had it put in a format that mirrored CABE's CABE's format, but basically it captures the issue of um that alliance districts that does not fully the current state allocation model for ECS and alliance district does not fully capture the impacts of year-to-year inflation, cost of living increases, wage competition, and fixed cost escalation without the automatic cost of living or COLA or inflammation index. ing built into ECS. Districts face fiscal pressure that undermines the ability to deliver high quality public education. So, um I
024have some language. I don't know how much how when does this have to be fully submitted? >> They didn't give us a deadline, but I I would think probably by Thursday or Friday this week. >> Well, I'd like to work on some wording on this a little bit more and send it to this group if that's okay. Okay, I don't want to hold the group up, but I this is this is to me the number one problem we're facing that will cause a ripple effect in everything else we're trying to do. >> Um all the gains and progress that we've made. Um as a as a as an urban superintendent u member for cause um our our superintendents and the alliance districts and the urban districts got together to craft a letter um proposing legislation
025in this area as a as a combined group. Um, and I could certainly mirror and complement that letter with the ideas around ECS and I can put that together for the board to to consider and their proposals. But I think it's big. I think it's a really big it's a really big issue for us. It's going to be >> I've got a question. I'm a little bit confused in terms of I always thought of currently we we use the terminology ECS and it's incorporated the alliance as well as the ECS funding. >> Generally the alliance funding I look at it would be separate uh to us coming back to a point where it used to come to us direct. So I agree with what's been said relative to if the alliance funding is capped, it
026shouldn't be capped because it should be adjusted for cola increases. >> Exactly. What I'm saying is instead of using the word ECS, is it better to break it out and say ECS in brackets, put alliance funding? >> Yeah, we could ECS funding is is a total package of the combination of both. I think >> it is. It is. And it's our it's the share that gets carved out. So, not all of our ECS money comes direct in the form of an alliance grant. Some You're right. some does go to the city. Um we we get direct um and that that money that's carved out. We have to create um you know we have to create strategies. We have to have track data. We have to write narratives. We have to account for every penny. It's
027based on a reimbursement basis. So you know we a significant portion of our of our money though is comes through through ECS. And you know, whereas the city may say, well, you know, the cost of living and the contracts are going up and so therefore we're taking those things into account, we're not necessarily benefiting by that same same factor factorization um on the on the direct alliance portion. It's we, you know, we've worked really hard over the last couple of years to accelerate that ECS formula to advocate, you know, through legislative efforts to accelerate that that number. Well, we've reached the full funding. We are fully We are fully funded now for the first time in that formula and now you know care for what you wish for. We're here. It's a good thing that
028we were fully funded. But that if that number does not go up, the general fund bears the burden of the differential between our contracts contractual increases and the the fixed number that we get every year. >> So I would still think that you specifically mentioned the lines in there for the cola. >> Yeah. I'm I'm almost wondering if we say something like the school share of ECS parentheses alliance because if they do get rid of the alliance designation then we're sort of covered on both sides of it. They say well there is no more alliance so you don't get alliance but because I know in the years past when our share of the ECS increased via alliance the city number stayed flat and you know we were we were guaranteed to get that additional piece
029of alliance. So, I can I can try to play with some of the language, too. And then when we get together on Wednesday for um community relations, we can we can review all the the sort of final versions of this. >> Yeah. And I I think there's more conversation and more legislation, you know, more tweaking in terms of trying to work out ECBS funding and everything that, you know, happened up to this point, including, you know, the variation of demographics and stuff. But >> I've always looked at alliance being specific to certain districts and you know it's important as car had mentioned and you had mentioned that in our budget you know we want to be able to protect ourselves because the principal amount of that money is in salaries and if we don't know
030if we don't at least get a cola then it's going to come out of the general fund when that's >> and and I'll just just as a reminder you know this is just a a statement of what CAB is going to support. There's nothing preventing us from having one of our local elected officials drop a bill with that explicit language in there. So that's already in the conversation legislatively. And then, you know, then this language with cave is sort of a backfire, you know, that we like that pushes it through. >> So, you know, there's we can get a little creative with this, too. Um, and we can drop, you know, drop our own bills, you know, not us, but, you know, our our our delegation can drop bills um, right up until the first
031day of session. So, >> yeah. And just not to be labor, but I'll be working this this angle on all fronts, legislative, policy, advocacy, cape, caps, cause, like it'll be hit from multiple angles. >> Yeah. >> You're going to work the room is your thing, right? >> I am gonna work the room. So you're going to have this that angle that you're going to work you're going to have prepared so when we discuss it on Wednesday night everyone that's going you know can see what we have come up with and can and at least agree on that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So I'll have I'll have so far there's three things. There's Kate's revised language for the digital citizenship. It'll be the new language that we just discussed for the AI steering committee. And
032now this is number three. It'll be the new language that we come up with um for whatever whether we're going to call it ECS or alliance continuation/cola increases. >> Good. Does any other does any board members have any questions? Okay. Continue my >> Okay. So that's th that those are the new items that we really had. Um we've got about a half hour left here. So I I I guess I would put it back to the committee or to to the board here. How do you want to spend this time? Do you want to go through the um the blue book of the resolutions? Is there any of items in the consent calendar that anybody came across that you would like to sort of, you know, dig into? Um I I I'll leave it to
033the board here because I think this is um you know this is this is really you know all you that should be driving this. So um >> could you I I think to because everybody doesn't go to the convention and they don't know what we do. Could we just we have a half an hour to kill just basically go through the regulation the resolutions that's in the blue book and then we'll you know if anybody have any questions concerning those uh resolution we'll just you know talk about and then move on. >> Okay. >> If that's agreeable with the members that are on you have something different. >> It's okay with me Glattus. Okay, >> let's go. >> All right. >> So, I'll I'll what I'll do is so everybody can see the blue book
034on their screen, right? >> Okay. So, I'll go through them and I'll read this is all procedure, voting, amendments, consent. Okay. So, I'll I'll read the sort of highlevel title and um let's see that's a belief. Yeah, read the high level title and then you know maybe the the sort of opening salvo of each one here. I I won't go word for word that would you don't want to >> I was looking at some of the resolution and I start with page nine. Uh there there's a resolution and then there's explanation as to why there's no change. >> Yes. >> Okay. So everyone understand that it has already been voted on. >> Okay. So, if we just start, so I'm on page six here. >> These are the proposed resolution changes. So, starting with 2.1.
035>> Um, public education is a public policy priority. K believes that all citizens, including board members, the governor and the Connecticut General Assembly and the state board of education, must make public education a matter of the highest priority of public policy. The state must heed its constitutional mandate under article 88 of the Constitution of Connecticut. I wonder if that's a typo. to provide a free and appropriate public education for all Connecticut's children. K believes that public policy must assist children and their families in maintaining education as a matter of highest priority for children amidst the continuing economic and social pressures of society. So I think that's an easy one. It looks like um the explanation of the change here editorial adding reference from an existing resolution committee recommends adoption. I don't know the language that
036it was originally replacing but okay number 2.2 school climate culture safety and security the need to address school climate culture and security in a comprehensive manner. The recommendation here in bold uh is to uh maintain policies that reinforce positive school climate. Um, CAB is supporting state efforts to study and recommends the following best practices for reducing school-based arrest for all students. Best practices for addressing higher incidents of school-based arrest for students of color. Training for staff and students on deescalation techniques and cultural sensitivity. The uniform reporting system for school-based arrests. So, all districts are reporting numbers the same way. The first section three was incorporated from the student discipline resolution from an existing resolution of the government relations committee recommends adoption. Right. 11.3 student achievement and assessment. uh the need to use student tests as
037teaching tools and as part of the district's instructional program and to asssure local schoolboard involvement in assessment accuracy and relevancy of data used to assess the condition of education in the state of Connecticut. So this looks like just a small sort of grammatical change in and probably in place of an R. uh strive to review revised district goals, focus on academic personal development, and strive to find methods to remove barriers to learning and create a school climate that fosters an excitement for learning. 2.4 early care and education linking parent involvement. The need for early care and education programs and linking parent involvement to ensure learning readiness. The change is down here at the bottom. Cage Cab urges the general assembly to study fully funding universal prek and all of its public school programs, the state
038approved programs. 2.5 drug, tobacco, and alcohol use. >> Um, one one thing I want to point out, Mike, you're you're going 2.5. The other time you were saying 11.3. Uh, just clarifying. >> I'm sorry. I I said 11. It's a two. It's Roman numerals. I think I just read it quickly. All right. So 2.5. Now I'm on page nine. Drug, tobacco, and alcohol use. The need to eliminate the use of illegal drugs and other substances, tobacco, and alcohol from our schools. The change is down here in 345. Allow more flexibility in the design and delivery of curriculum to address the use of drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and other substances. and gather data on student drug, tobacco, alcohol, and substance use. And commit resources to support student guided extended day programs for appropriate age levels. Okay. Two
0392.6 public school disegregation initiatives need to improve the racial makeup of public schools. Cape urges the general assembly to develop a task force to study the effectiveness of the racial imbalance law charged with developing a newer metric to measure a school's racial makeup and then provide districts with the resources to achieve greater diversity. If any board members have anything to ask or say at these uh and might go down these, just ask, you know, ask Michael the question. >> Well, can I can I ask I mean when they do these laws, don't they already study it? I mean I mean how old is the law? Yeah, they they would and it looks like they're just changing some of the specific language about it. So, for example, this one, CAB urges the general assembly to develop
040a task force to study the effectiveness of the racial imbalance law. >> It looks like they just want to say uh period >> and they're going to remove this section here. So let's see resolution government relations district was paused for nearly two years from existing resolution. Yeah. See explanation of change. The law was paused for near for two years by the legislature and is now back in effect. So they just want to make sure that if it comes back in effect that Cape is supporting it and it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. with social and emotional learning. The importance of providing support for social and emotional learning. K urges the general assembly, state department of ed, and local and regional boards of ed to strengthen the support for social and emotional learning through professional
041development for educators as well as resources for students and parents. Uh explanation of the change district's priority is prek with limited funding uh and staff. So that's why they want to remove this section that says community members. So the limited funding can focus on students and parents. 2.8 school board member PD the importance of professional development for board members. Cape supports a state requirement for an orientation and ongoing professional development for all school board members. The change is here. Examine and discuss annually the roles of the board and the superintendent in order to maintain a strong and effective partnership. This is getting rid of this language that says in the educational process. It's probably just a little bit redundant. Editorial tightening up language. Yep, that's exactly what it is. 2.9 The school finance system. The
042need for equitable and adequate education funding for school districts. The increased burden of the cost of public education largely as a result of mandates imposed on public school system by state government requires more equitable sharing by state and local funding sources. Therefore, state legislation should recognize we have all of these and the change is down here. Okay. And this is the one we were talking about. So instead of restoration, they're re they're recommending the language change to maintaining full ECS funding to all districts, including alliance districts and creating separate grants outside of ECS for alliance district reform efforts. So >> yeah, >> go ahead. >> Yeah, in that 2.9 and going down to uh further down to number 13. Yep. >> Um so currently if they remove a designation of um alliance being an alliance
043district >> Yeah. >> what is the result of having that designation removed? Yeah, I think that's the question. And I and I I think that this is probably worth raising in in that room and and seeing what Cave says about that because I don't think they ever really explained that last year. Um with this with this change, it never went through and therefore there were no real regulations or rule writing around it. So no one really seemed to know if it meant, like I said, a change in name only, if there was funding actually attached to the the change. >> Okay. Okay. >> And we'll have to see if we propose our own language what that means for this resolution. Do they just keep the language here or will they make a tweak to this
044too? So, I'll I'll work that out with Cave and I'll have an answer for us on Wednesday night. Okay. All right. 2.10 10. Magnet school choice and charter funding. Magnet schools, charter schools, and project choice play a positive role in achieving quality and diversity by making unique opportunities available to students. A comprehensive funding system is needed to sustain these programs. H urges the general assembly to and here's the change. This is a full removal of this deletion of number four. Continue to exempt preschool from the requirements that boards of education pay tuition for non-special education students who choose to attend a magnet school. And they're saying this is being deleted because it has been been accomplished. >> So Mike, what does that mean? >> So let's see. Continue to exempt preschool from the requirements to
045pay tuition. >> So it looks like this is So a a board of education >> does not have to pay tuition to a nonsp special education preschool student. So for for example, >> yeah, for example, if we opened up AIS and added a preschool level to AIS non-special ed and a student from Brookfield or or you know, New Fairfield wanted to come, we can't make the there's the preschool is exempt from the tuition. So that those boards of ed would not have to pay for tuition. can come, they can participate in our program. They might help with our our percentages, right? Our out of district percentages, but uh we can't make that school district pay. They are exempt from paying tuition for preschool students only. >> Yeah. >> That's if we have preschool, correct? >>
046Can I >> Right. We do not have a non special ed preschool program. That's correct. >> Um can I also um add um where there we're looking at number two there, ensure that any charter school funding plan um does not compromise local district financing. >> I'm not sure um what they mean and do we need to be a little bit more specific in when we're talking about district financing of services? Um uh >> it doesn't make sense. You're right, Wanita. You're absolutely right. transportation, nursing services, I think mentioned this, bed services, ELLL services. Um, >> you know, like how come New Haven they have uh, you know, charter schools and Hartford and that doesn't uh compromise district funding. >> Oh, maybe maybe that's one. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Teresa. No, no, go ahead. >> Well,
047I was going to say maybe maybe that's the conversation in the room, you know, when this one comes up on on the screen. Um, that's that's the conversation at the microphone is uh raising that issue and and just the ones you said, you know, uh special ed, ELLL, um transportation, nursing, those are sort of the four the four big places. I say big, but the four places that are typically where where the financing issue is felt. So maybe it's a question of spelling those out. >> I agree with you, Michael, because I think what people doesn't don't realize is, you know, it doesffect affect our funding because we have to pay for special ed, we have to pay for bus transportation, we have to pay for a nurse for a charter school. Uh we run
048our schools from uh you know cut off date time for the buses is 2:30 they run 5:30 6:30. So who's going to take on that load? The local school board. And from my understanding the uh representative from the local board of education can sit on that committee but you have no vote. So to me that don't make sense. So what I'll do is >> yeah it's a worthwhile discussion >> yeah to have >> so I'll add this one to our list then. So this will be item number four for Wednesday night when we have community relations. So this will be uh changes or potentially adding or or discussing language to specify 2.10.2 to specifics around financing for magnet choice charter. >> Thank you about that because it it I I still can't understand why Danbury
049is is the outlier whereas everybody else has got a charter school. Was it Bridgeport, New Haven, Harford? Um it just doesn't make sense. Uh and to say that it's uh If it doesn't impact them, then how come it impacts us? Where's the what's the re rationale? >> But it does impact us, Teresa, in a way in funding. >> Well, doesn't it impact New Haven, Hartford, and Bridgeport? >> Because there are there's a we have some schools that are state charter school. Okay. If I'm if I'm hearing the information right, it's they're a state >> state. They're approved by the state and I from what I understand ours is approved by the state but we got no funding if that's >> I haven't heard I haven't heard that our was state I don't know >> I
050think that was recent ju just this year just this year from what I understand they approved it but >> no fun >> it's a overall discussion that we need to have so when we're giving out information that is the correct information. >> I think something to keep in mind as well um is that the funding for uh New Haven and and for Hartford in particular is substantially more than what we receive here in Danbury from the state. Um so that's just another factor that we have to take, you know, take into consideration. >> Well, it's probably because they have a bigger student population. I I would imagine um >> like you said >> the the ECS funding is also developed according to what each area uh you know which each municipality is assessed for being
051able to um pay out of its own pocket through local taxes. Um and our our rating for that is higher than uh either of those two places as well. So the perception from the state >> and I'm not saying this is accurate or inaccurate. This is just what the state has assessed us at is that we have a greater capacity to pay from our local taxes than most of the other regions that you know are are in alliance district. So Mike is going to bring some language that we're going to discuss on Wednesday night concerning this. >> Yes. Yes, I will. >> Okay. So then now if we're moving into 2.11, this is the new proposed resolutions. Uh this is the one we talked about regarding digital citizenship. We're going to be offering some new
052language um here that that Kate Kate crafted for us. We already talked about 2.12. This is another one, a new one. Uh, child neglect. So, CABE supports efforts by appropriate state authorities along with municipalities and school districts to identify and prevent the abuse and neglect of children and youth. And this is um submitted by the K resolutions committee. And it's recommended for adoption. >> Okay. >> This one 3.1. Now we're in deletions. Title three, there's only one deletion here. Uh, student discipline, the need for comprehensive student discipline policies. Cabe urges districts to establish comprehensive student discipline policies that reinforce a positive stu school climate. Uh, they're saying this is deleted because this language is now incorporated into 2.2 school climate culture safety security resolution. So, this has been absorbed by another resolution, so it doesn't
053need a standalone piece. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Can I ask a question, please? >> Um, just backing up for a second to uh 2.12 child neglect. Um, I guess what I'm trying to understand is, and we just went over this in policy, um, you know, that, uh, you know, there's existing policy around this already, um, and we're legally bound, you know, as schools to to address instances of abuse, um, neglect being a form of abuse. Um, so I'm just curious as to why this might be coming forward in pretty limited language. Yeah. >> Um, and I I just wonder if we might ask that question at the delegate assembly to get a sense of where they're going with it. >> Yeah, I think that's an excellent question for the assembly, but I'll certainly add
054it to my list just so we have a full slate of the things we want to talk about and we don't lose track of anything. >> All right, >> thank you. >> Okay, so that's it for the blue book. Um, so if you want I can just do a quick recap of the five items that we're going to be bringing up to community relations on Wednesday and if everything is good coming out of there then we've got our agenda for going into the delegate assembly next week. So number one um digital citizenship will be uh uh Kate's new language that we want to add to the existing resolution about digital citizenship. Number two is our new language around AI that will be presented as a new resolution. Um sorry I can't read my writing here.
055uh the new resolution sorry I put KC and that was Cara Casemiro Keta the Cara Casemiro's language as new um for the alliance funding uh four is changes to 2.10.2 2 that Juanita uh was discussing regarding the charter financing questions and then 2.12 uh that Kate just raised around the child neglect. And those are the five items that we'll be talking about in more depth on Wednesday uh in person just before our board meeting. >> I've got a question. >> Yeah. >> Why is this being brought through community relations? I haven't looked at the agenda, but is this on a board agenda for the board members to approve once you go through and >> uh I no we don't we don't have a vote set up for it. I think it's just reaching a sort
056of consensus um that the uh delegates will then take to take to the assembly. >> It's not an action item on the agenda. It was for us to get together and let other board members know what is going on with the cave and their resolution and what we do when we go to the convention and act on what we believe that we should input into those resolutions. >> I agree with they should have attended the workshop. I mean seems to be redundant but >> I mean that that's the reason I asked the question. >> Okay. No, I you know. >> Thank you, Mike. I think you did a great job. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Thank you, sir. >> Good. >> Okay, there's no questions that no one has to ask. Uh I'll ask the
057motion to adjourn and thank you again, Mike. >> Thank you, Mike. >> Thank you. >> I need a motion to adjurnn. >> Okay, made by motion made by Teresa. Could I get a second? >> Second. Seconded by Louisa. All in favor? I. >> I.