001[Music] test one two live stream test okay [Music] wow [Music] no no no [Music] hello [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] no [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] now [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] so [Music] high school district voter trustees meeting of february well actually john are we good all right anaheim union high school district board of trustees meeting of february 3rd 2022 is called to order at 2 32 p.m the following members are present anna el piercy anne-marie randall trejo kathy smith is running late and uh brian o'neill is absent staff has requested the following amendments to the agenda i'm going to give a little bit of time for everybody to get prepared here so page
002two of the agenda pull closed session item 5.7 page two of the agenda close session item 5.8 full expulsion number 21-10 and then page 12 of the agenda full item 12.15 and 12.15 and page 15 of the agenda item 12.21 correct the budget implication to six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars again that's page fifteen of the agenda item twelve twenty two one correct budget implication to six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and then exhibit a a replace page seven to include the contractor's license number and then exhibit qq replace the page one to include fernando romero what oh okay and there comes uh kathy smith at 2 34. cathy do you want me to repeat the items for you and that's uh we're going to do some uh uh amendments to the agenda
003oh thank you okay and uh i'll repeat it again that's uh you should be good kathy okay it's page two of the agenda pull the closed session item 5.7 and then page two again on the agenda closed session item 5.8 pull the expulsion number 20 21-10 and then we go to page 12 of the agenda page 12. we're pulling items 12.14 and 12.15 now page 12. page 12 pull item 12.14 and 12.15 and then page 15 of the agenda item 12.21 correct the budget implications to six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars okay there's a new sheet right there for it thank you and then the rest are exhibits exhibit aa replace page seven to include the contractor's license number and then exhibit qq replace page one to include fernando romero all right do i
004have a motion to adopt the amendment so i moved second i have a motion on the floor in a second all in favor aye aye you pose motion passes and now we will proceed to the study session and i'm going to uh go ahead and ask dr fred to take the floor thank you we're president jabar welcome board members it gives me great pleasure to be here with you this afternoon just a couple quick things i want to share with you before i bring up amanda being our director of career preparedness systems framework who's going to lead us this afternoon i'm really really proud of the great work the mind work that our ed division has done in prepping for this presentation i'm also really excited about the inclusivity that our team brought to this
005process speaking with counselors working closely with i know mr lara is here from um ed our coordinator of all dad working with his team this has really been a process that we've gone through with with quite significant intention and strategic approaches because we're trying to meet the needs of our students as you know despite our best efforts we have seen tremendous growth over the last several years with our a through g rates our graduation rates benefit historic rates right now in terms of where we've been at the district but despite those best efforts we still have some student groups that continue to struggle and with that our core values in mind equity and justice making sure we're looking to meet the needs of our students where they're at and providing the structure and a system
006right through the lines of justice to make sure it's not just by chance we're really working um with intention to put these things in place so tonight's presentation is going to talk a little bit about that more specifically related to gilbert high school and some things that we're going to want to recommend the other thing i want to share is as you know the pandemic already brought to light a lot of the challenges that so many of our students have faced with with mental health perhaps conditions of that they live in et cetera we really believe that this approach that we're looking at is going to help to address some of those things and really take again those core values and put them at the forefront to meet the needs of our students so with
007that it gives me great great pleasure to bring up amanda bean who's going to walk you through kind of our proposal what we think might be a tremendous option for us to consider in better meeting the needs of our students specifically a smaller group of students who have traditionally struggled in our schools so thank you amanda good afternoon uh board president jabbar board of trustees uh superintendent matsuda cabinet and the guests that are with us today today we're here to share with you a proposal to amend the graduation requirements at gilbert high school as dr fred mentioned it's really important to know that this was done in collaboration with various groups and it's been the results of months of research and planning so i would personally i would like to thank the teams that provided
008input to this presentation so our ed division counselors administrators the gilbert site leadership team and gilbert staff all provided input to to what we're going to recommend today so if we believe that the ultimate barometer of social justice in society is access to meaningful and purposeful jobs to quote superintendent matsuda we know that and we know that a high school diploma is a standard requirement for most jobs and we know that adults without a high school diploma have decreased economic stability impacts to their self-esteem and psychological well-being and an increased chance of incarceration then we have to address our student population that is unable to attain a diploma with the current structures and supports in place so knowing that our students come to school with any number of adverse childhood experiences or what we call
009aces for most students they're able to overcome that and they can thrive in school but there's a population or a group that can't and despite our best efforts and the supports and the intentionality of our teams we need to think differently about how we can support these students to be able to leave auhsd at the best chance of success to a meaningful and gainful employment so as dr fred mentioned and i do want to acknowledge that we have steadily increased our graduation rate over the past several years here in anaheim and even with the pandemic we have maintained graduation rates higher than the state average so we've gone from in 1718 from 85.9 percent to in 2021 90.9 percent and there's been some fluctuation in between those years and a lot has been done to
010to see this so with the support of the board we have been able to make several shifts which directly impact these results so to really acknowledge the efforts of our site level teams our ed division teams and even some of the decisions that the board has made those are nothing short of heroic the work that has gone into supporting our students and meeting them where they're at is is evident and those are some some of those things are switching from grade level counseling which has helped to make sure that our students have more targeted monitoring and support we are offering more credit and grade recovery options we've been doing a hard look at our grading practices and encouraging compassionate grading and grading for equity we are actively strategically implementing the lcap recommendations for our most
011vulnerable student groups and we have the shift to the career preparedness systems framework where we focus on developing youth voice and purpose technical skills and 21st century skills and our students are achieving and finding success however even with this growth there's still a need we know that our students will have long-term effects for years to come the ones coming up from elementary school and the junior highs long-term effects on learning and development due to covet 19. we know that our students are struggling more with mental health for many students their identity and self-esteem are tied closely to school and when they're not doing well they act out they disengage and they give up and the pandemic made even more visible the systemic inequities that make school most challenging for students that need the most help
012and so these conditions are also often worsened um or often worse in mental health or the things that tied to mental health issues in the first place so even though our graduate graduation rate has increased we still want to look at the like this last year for the class of 2021 the 9.1 of students that did not earn a diploma right and if we look at the kids at gilbert high school that was 39.4 of their population that did not earn a diploma we know that once students do not graduate with their cohort very few actually return for a fifth year and we do offer them that opportunity very few actually do return or if they do they don't stick it out because they need to move on get a job support their family whatever
013those things are and very few if any enroll in an adult learning program and if they are they're not completing like our data with noce has shown that students are not completing their diplomas there either so that means that our students are leaving us with no credit for what they did accomplish why they were with us and we're sending them out into the world with little chance of getting a decent job which is further perpetually perpetuating the cycle of poverty in our community so we have talked about well what are some things we can do about that before we talk about our proposal i do want to acknowledge that we have a precedent for graduation waivers and alternate requirements in place so we've already seen it happening so for example prior to the pandemic the
014state has a graduation waiver in place which is 130 credits for the most at risk groups such as homeless and foster youth newcomers and students in juvenile hall so that's already a pre-established requirement first for students additionally there is a handful of neighboring school districts that prior to the pandemic already had diploma requirements that were modified for their continuation schools so our most closest district would be placentia or belinda has a modified requirement during the pandemic the board saw a need to address the needs of additional students by implementing the kovid 19 waiver understanding that there was high need we implemented the waiver of 160 credits for students um in the graduating class of 2020 and 21. and then this year the state saw a need to support students who are affected by the pandemic
015and implemented the ab-104 waiver which is identical to the state waiver for that at-risk group so just 130 credits so we have we have precedent in context in which we can have this discussion so with all of that and what our team has come up with is that we would like to propose to the board that starting with the class of on the district would like to serve the students that have demonstrated a need to have an alternative graduation requirement through our program at gilbert high school and so what that would look like is a reduction of credit requirements we're proposing a reduction of english credits from 40 to 30 math credits from 30 to 20 electives from 55 to 30 and the overall credits from 220 to 175. the reason why we chose this
016um is we looked at the data of our students over the last several years and where they were falling short and and what we could do with um the state minimum requirements like what would be allowable and seeing where students were falling short these were the areas that made the most sense for us to make the recommendation we also felt that this was more rigorous than the state minimum and higher than our previous waivers so there was still that element of expectation there also it maintains the electives and the world language vapa and career ed requirement and through our conversations with with the board we understand we know that access to electives is important and we also know that electives are often where students find their passions and discover their interests through exploration so we
017really felt that it was important not to just reduce the requirement in electives only because we wanted to make sure kids still had that opportunity to to engage in things that were very interesting to them we felt that it was in in important to place the value on the student voice and purpose through that interest exploration so just to make sure like we're very clear that this mod modification to the graduation requirements would apply to students at gilbert high school only not for students at the comprehensive sites and not for alternative education as a whole it would be gilbert high school only and when we think about the system i draw your attention to the slides about equality equity and justice and we've you know we see this all often we talk about what does
018that mean and if in this picture in our system equality would be equality would be the equal graduation requirement of 220 credits for all students equity would be having the opportunity to attend gilbert high school that is a place that we have designed where students can go to get caught up but if you think about it we're actually asking students to go meet the same requirements and do it at an accelerated rate because they do a whole semester in one quarter so we're giving them another place to go but we're not actually changing what we're expecting them to do and we're asking them to do it faster so justice would be to fix the system and adjusting the requirement would demonstrate um justice because we're meeting students where they're at and we're giving them a
019fairer and better chance to access their diploma at the same pace as their peers and so that is um you know very important that we put the element of justice in there i wanted to share a little bit with you some data that just gives a small snapshot of the example of the need and this is just one one class of students but i think if we looked year after year we would see something similar so if we look at the current class of 2023 those are our current juniors at the start of the junior year they would need need to have had around 120 credits to be considered on track for graduation in november there were 436 juniors which is about 10 of our of our junior class that had zero to 80 credits
020typically at that time of the school year based on the structures in place and what students could complete on complete and enough time gilbert would have accepted students with about 60 credits or more so that leaves us with 161 kids who who just have no opportunity to get back on track they were too far behind to even go to gilbert because they can't make up enough classes in time and so so they just have nowhere to go so implementing a set of graduation requirements that would allow us to meet the needs of that most at-risk group would allow us to serve those 161 students and that's equity giving kids what they need and a chance to access their diploma and that gives them hope of earning a diploma on time and with their graduating class
021i think that's the key here when we want to talk about hope we want to talk about on time and with with their peers so i'd like you to meet kayla so kayla is a student a current student at gilbert so we know that gilbert is designed to serve a particular group of students and kayla is one of them in kayla's own testimony she talks about attending magnolia high school and in ninth and tenth grade she had many personal challenges and that were preventing her from being able to access all the wonderful things at magnolia she just could not engage because of everything going on kayla was referred to gilbert she decided to take that offer and according to her it changed her life and i'm telling you about kayla because i want us to
022think about well why gilbert what does gilbert do for our kids right um kayla was able to in that environment turn herself around during her first semester she under 4.0 gpa she now has so much confidence as a student she's joined asb and she's applying to be the student ambassador for next year and she never would have done any of this at magnolia because she was so far detached from this school and what they had to offer she was too worried about getting caught up and just couldn't couldn't do it so sometimes all the kids need is a fresh start like kayla right so imagine if we could provide this type of hope for those 161 kids that we wouldn't be able to serve otherwise with the alternate diploma requirement and think about that 39.4
023of seniors from the class of 2021 that that did not earn their diploma from gilbert that was just out of reach like those are the kids that we would be providing hope for that they get to go have that wonderful environment and have some relief in what we're expecting of them but still keeping a high a high standard so the projected impact so we looked back and we took the waivers out of play and we just looked at what kids were deficient in and tried to calculate what the impact would have been for the last three graduating classes um and we have determined that if these waivers would have been in place or this requirement would have been in place um in 1819 62 additional students potentially could have earned their diploma in 1920 36
024additional students and 20 21 85 additional students and this assumes that students would have attended gilbert and passed all their classes we know that sometimes you know they may go and they still may struggle and that they still may not graduate on time or they may not choose to go to gilbert i think that's the other thing we want to keep in mind that gilbert is a program of choice we never force students to go so we will still see students that may not graduate because they've chosen not to take advantage of that opportunity but if we were to implement this policy there's a couple of things that we you know feel like are very important one would be we would be keeping auhsd students in auhsd we know that our students have other options
025in the community that are far less rigorous than what we have to offer like access or a charter school and so this gives us them an incentive to stay with us and and still stay in our high quality programs access to ct pathways access to work experience access to the aim program access to evapa so on and so on um we believe that our product in our product and we believe that our programs matter to students and so again keeping them with us means that they still have the opportunity to keep developing their voice and purpose their technical skills and their 21st century skills and additionally we have our community schools that offer supports to families and we have a high quality family engagement program that we likely won't find in the other options in
026the community so it's super important that we find ways to keep them with us the most important thing is that we're giving students hope and a better chance to graduate on time and hope means that students will re-engage which would likely lessen truancies and discipline issues because we know that when students lose hope they stop coming to school or they have increased negative behaviors which often then will put them further and further behind and then we also know that giving students to access to a diploma in a system that's meeting their needs like we can meet their needs here it just needs to look a little bit different so with the shift we also will include more strategic planning around the student entry and exit from gilbert high school uh i guess we want to
027reiterate that it's not just that we want to modify the requirement we also want to change the structure in which we're referring students and and and exiting them back out to their comprehensive sites if that's appropriate we want to get to the point where we have the cycle that when students are recruited to go they will know up front if they're a candidate to return to their home site and when they would need to be caught up and do that do that by or if they're going as a candidate to graduate from gilbert because that depends on how far behind they are and so we want kids to know on the front end what the expectation is so they know what their what they're working for and lastly back to our core values this shift
028would be demonstrating that we know that education must work for students and not the other way around and that we will be moving the needle towards equity and justice and that we're working in systems not silos and we're really creating a system around supporting this group of students so i want to thank you for your consideration of our proposal our intention is to submit a revision to the current board policy related to graduation requirements to include the graduation requirements for gilbert high school i'm at the march board meeting with a second read at the april board meeting so for today our team is here to answer any questions that you might have and to provide any information that you might need to help you with this decision so thank you all right thank you amanda
029i appreciate the presentation uh i will open this for questions from our fellow board members okay i have a question okay the diploma that will come from gilbert is it going to be any different than our normal diplomas nothing will look different it will just be a separate set of requirements but nothing on it says that it was modified or that the requirements were different it'll it'll still say gilbert high school they just it's just like a student who gets the state waiver for being a foster youth there's absolutely no difference other than there's fewer classes on their transcript that have they passed okay so um not that i'm against this but then um if students at the regular comprehensive high schools learn that they can go to gilbert and do less how are we
030going to uh prevent that so i think that um if we think back to the system of how kids are exiting and entering gilbert um we would be able to drop down to more kids that are much more deficient and so we are we are going to be able to refer the kids that have zero to 80 credits they would have to be in a really drastic place to even get the referral to gilbert um they wouldn't be able just one day to decide oh like i want to go do less and go like we we're going to dictate who actually gets to get asked um based on that data okay because i on the first one with the uh figures here um when you talked about you know the students uh missing oh they
031didn't even have the 80 credits and yet if we're saying they he's a junior and he doesn't have even 80 credits that's in in the spring how is he going to make up to 175 credits i mean that is what 25 40 45 less than our normal graduation requirement of 220 right yes can he do it i mean i know i i didn't hear part of what you were saying but gilbert is on the same semester base as we are right or quarters right are they graded by quarters instead of semesters so you can do a semester's work in a quarter yes okay so and the way we so in anticipation of this and anybody please feel free to come answer um but in anticipation of of this being approved we looked at the list
032of students we we recruited this time around and we determined that we could go all the way down to the junior zero credits for this semester because if they entered gilbert right now they could earn 50 credits this semester 50 credits in the fall 50 credits in the spring plus go to summer school for their 175. so um so that's where the strategic entry points are like trying to get that group of kids that can go early enough to get back to their home site and graduate with it with their class or take those kids that have as low as zero and still be able to graduate them on time if they enter by second semester of their junior year okay so we're still going to attempt to get them back to their comprehensive sites
033if it's just a matter of catching up so it depends on the entry point right and so if the student is like an 80 credit student they like they have the opportunity potentially by the second semester of their senior year to return and so that's where we want to calculate it so that when kids are being referred they know exactly what situation they're in and they know like before they go i will have to stay at gilbert to the end to be able to make it or they know i have to get to this point by second semester of senior year so so i can go back and so we want to be much more clear about that on the front end for students rather than the ambiguous cycle if you work really hard you
034might be able to make it back like we want to be very clear for them and be very strategic about when we're referring them to go okay now my next question now because i'm not familiar what how gilbert has changed over the years now are all of the students in for a full day or can they go maybe like half a day because they work uh i mean i'm assuming as you know i don't know i mean i i know that we changed things we made them have to you know have the same requirements and and go full time and in seat or what so what is the the system now uh uh thank you board members for uh um allowing me to be here let me ask um jose lara coordinator of alternative education
035currently now at gilbert um we depending on the needs of the students so we have a lot of students who work and provide for their families and support with child care etc this pandemic has not made things easier for our kids and one of the rules that we have here and one of the philosophies is we do no harm and we want to make sure that we're compassionate and we meet students where they're at and so to answer your question is we make sure that students have a plan to be able to graduate on time and give flexibility to those students to be able to modify their schedule if needed to be able to work and meet those requirements as well so the answer to your question is yes we do modify students schedule to
036meet some of their other needs as long as they stay in school and we have a plan for every single one of our students to be able to graduate this i want to be very honest with you a lot of our students right now end up dropping out because of hope you know when you're at a point where you're just hopeless and don't see a way out it becomes very difficult um we talked about this at link with our staff at gilbert and we came down to if this provides hope for our students if this provides a way for them to keep going to school instead of just dropping out completely they're better off on our campus receiving the five c's receiving the education that they can receive opportunities for rop etc then say you
037know what i'm not gonna be able to graduate anyways why am i even going thank you thank you thank you all right uh and mary do you have any questions yes i i think that as most of my questions were answered because they are being held to uh to rigor um as you pointed out in the slide with the equity and my question was what was going to be the breakdown and then you um you have it right here 40 to 30 and 30 to 20 55 to 30 and then the ultimately 220 to 175 but you know my question was just going to be you know how many students have we had to say uh you haven't made it and and and they lose hope um but if they're even close they could even
038just take that summer school and that i i really want to congratulate the entire team for coming up with this plan um because we don't want any of our students falling through the cracks and this just gets them a little bit you know closer to that and and even provides a safety net from what you're telling me um i have heard several uh testimony testimonials from students that say at first they wanted to go back to their site but once they stayed at gilbert and they they they were met with the teachers and administrators they wanted to stay and graduate so uh congratulations to to the team for actually providing them some some extra incentive to work even harder i really love this plan i think this was just laid out so perfectly to to
039really just present the need and um thank you for for coming up with this thank you for really thinking outside the box and really you know providing that that hope for our students um this was tremendous and i'm i'm totally in support thank you thank you all right kathy do you have any questions well ordinarily i would say i am never in favor of lowering standards kathy would you mind speaking into the mic because i think people won't ordinarily i would never recommend lowering standards but i would say today we're living an american tragedy which really is a worldwide tragedy it's not just this school district it's not just california this country it's worldwide and you are trying to necessitate success for young people who are living the unthinkable unimaginable and based on what you
040mrs piercy's questions and your responses i'm very comfortable with this my hope for the future would be that we could raise the standards when we're past this tragedy it makes me cry because teaching is never easy you're dealing with a host of children that come from a large array of population and this has made it almost tragically difficult for you can you all hear me and yes you can hear me thank you and i just want to tell you if i could hug you you can't hug anybody anymore but i would hug all of you because you're doing what you needed to do and my hope is that for our country in the world we're going to get back to some normalcy and i just say bless you for what you've done thank you thank
041you mr smith thank you thank you kathy and final comment for me is that uh i think we skipped over that presentation pretty fast here but i wanted to highlight the importance of doing this because you know not getting a high school diploma it does decrease the economic stability of a family member and impacts of self-esteem and i think uh jose lara mentioned it in terms of hope right some of our students give up because they feel like they can't attain it and this is giving an opportunity to actually attain that and obviously without a diploma you're also putting them in a situation of increased position to be incarcerated right so i'm glad that that's happening my question our graduation requirement is 220 credits correct what have we looked at other districts around us and
042seen what the graduation requirements are for other districts around we have so that was part of our research we looked at all of our neighboring districts and what their requirements were how they were different from mars and then if they had a modified or an alternate diploma requirement for their alternative ed students and so i can share that with you yeah not only alternate but i want to see the comprehensive right we have all of that if you can't give that information because i think that's important for us too because with the pandemic i think you're seeing that not only at gilbert but even at other school sites right you have that challenge so um let's i want to take a look at that as well and see that and discuss that as a policy
043because i think it goes back to giving that opportunity for our students if if you're not compromising on standard and if you can still be above that and still provide it to our students i think we should take a look at that aspect as well i think my other questions were answered by ms piercy's comments and the questions that she asked i have one more okay so this is the one that i highlighted that so when students are recruited they will know if they are candidates to return to their home site and i know you mentioned that but i want to see what the process is i know that students probably not going to pay attention to that right how are we going to make sure that that's clearly identified not only to them but
044also the parents included in that conversation so one thing that we're working on as part of the system is creating more of a centralized like a recruitment or a brief permission slip type thing so right now what happens is the gilbert window opens and sites talk with families and get permission and put the students on a list and that's how they go to gilbert we want to flip that and give them a targeted list of students to recruit with the welcome letter that clearly indicates like you are a candidate to graduate at gilbert you are a candidate to graduate with your home site if and and pre-load that information and then have like a family actually sign off and have that documentation in writing um that's a piece of our system that we haven't had
045in place um it's been up to each site and we want to centralize that as a district process okay perfect i think that's uh yes please yeah so additionally something that we brought on this year specifically because our students come from so many diverse places is our amazing counseling team and our and our site got together and quarterly because our kids get um grades quarterly we do grad checks with every single one of our students so every student knows where exactly where they're at where they're on track to graduate if they have an opportunity to go back what kind of post-secondary plans they want based on the classes that they're taking because that changes when they're exposed to the rop pathway that we have right that changes when they're in the culinary class and now
046they may want to go further into that that changes based on some of the projects that they're doing in their civic engagement projects that they're working on say hey maybe i do want to go into public service i never thought of it before right so those types of things are experiences that they have when we go and take them to the community colleges et cetera so we do grad checks with our students at a quarterly basis they get to learn how they're how to do it on their own as well it's part of lifting up their advocacy and one day a quarter we modify our schedule so we do grad checks with the counselors and we do a lot of social emotional activities with the students on a quarterly basis because that's the kind of
047culture that we create over at gilbert and that's why indeed students say hey coming to gilbert transformed my life whether they go back to graduate with their peers at the final quarter or they stay with us and become part of the gladiator family at graduation all right and they always know there are these options absolutely work toward absolutely that's that's the hope that's the hope i'd like to go back to amanda and ask to see the comparison of the district surrounding us as to what their requirements are because i find it interesting you know that the governor has now put forth ab104 and he's saying 160 credits i guess 130 30 the state minimum yeah so it's like what are some of the other school districts doing in other words i'm just out of curiosity
048to see because we are not going down that far but you know we do have a a schools you know set up for it so just out of curiosity i would like to see some of the statistics of the surrounding areas sure so let me answer a piece of that really quick so what is in place with the state waiver this year we are following for all like for all high schools so we were um tasked with identifying what our at-risk number was and and our cut off and those are the students that qualify for the state waiver this would be for moving forward beyond this year when that's no longer in play that's in play for just this year with the state so then next year unless the state does something every district just
049goes back to their standard set of graduation requirements uh so what i can share with you is what those are for all the districts surrounding us so you can just see how we're comparing in the requirements they're all pretty standard pretty similar slight variations around career requirements and that type of thing but um but i can absolutely share that with you but just know like what's happening with the state waiver is this year only and everybody's doing it so i wanted to so ab104 is just targeted for just this here yes yeah this is for this graduating class it's a graduating class of 2022. correct so that's why in anticipation of all of that ending we are proposing this for starting with the class of 2023 um and you know just to give you a
050little more background um so typically mostly seniors got referred to gilbert um and so again again you know not being able to take those kids younger affects their ability to get caught up faster and the hope that um jose was mentioning um but because the ab-104 waiver was in place fewer seniors actually went to gilbert this year which created a lot of space so we again in anticipation of making this proposal went ahead and invited those juniors that had all the way down to zero credits into gilbert because there was space because we want to make that transition and start getting kids as juniors more so into gilbert rather than waiting till their senior year doing it as juniors allows them to get caught up and get back or it allows them to have that
051sense of hope much sooner and they don't you know check out quite as badly right and so so we saw just everything happening around us this was the perfect time to just flip our system and and just go go for these changes informally in anticipation of a board approval of this policy so um so we were trying to be very strategic around those transitions if that makes yeah if i need to clarify let me know but um but yeah we just saw that we could make a change a very drastic change to what we were doing and this was our moment so we have started working towards it all right thank you thank you for that great presentation anybody else have any questions all right seeing none we will proceed to uh thank you thank
052you very much thank you so we'll go ahead and proceed to public comments for a closed session now uh we're going to move into a closed session is there anyone that wishes to address the board of trustees regarding closed session item only at this time okay seeing none the board of trustees will now hold a closed session to discuss item 5.1 through 5.8 on the agenda and it is now 3 17 and we will move to closed session thank you