001You can just go through the public. No, I like to feel special. I like to feel special. I already forgot my partner next to you. It feels so good. Yeah, I guess it is. Okay. What's this? I would just go through the public. Yeah. Not able to get on. Terrible. not just log in. I did something wrong. They didn't they didn't read them. Okay. So, let me try to log out. I guess I really I think it's that computer that have me all the time. Okay. I save my password on this one. Uh, yes. Do it. No, girl. You going down there at the next meeting. No. We're calling the order meeting of Day Public School Board uh meeting at 1703. Roll call. President Bailey here. Dr. Goodwine. Uh Dr. Good one will be a
002little late. Mr. Lacy here. Mr. Smith present. Miss Rhina present. Mr. Walker present. Miss Garrison present. Miss Woods present. Seven present. Let it be noted that Dr. Goodwin is present. I'm sorry. Let it be noted that Dr. Bill Wine has just arrived. Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and empower. Our vision is to inspire, educate, and empower scholars for a lasting impact. And our purpose is to cultivate a supportive and engaging educational experience. At this time, since we did not have vice president voted on last week, um the floor is open for nominations for the last time. If I may, Dr. Bailey, I would like to nominate Jamaica Garrison. I
003would nominate Mr. Will Smith. All right. I will nominate uh Cresander Goodwin, but I also have a question. Under under Robert's rules, I believe if if you don't have if there is no vice president in the event that a president doesn't act, it's it's the prom, correct? is technically the white then the pro t would if there's no one chosen then the prom would be effectively the vice president. Correct. And just to clarify as well if a vice president is not selected today then at any time a motion can be put out on the floor to nominate to reopen nominations for vice president too. Okay. So at this time we will get the uh treasurer. Okay. You have to close nominations first. Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. Uh nominations have been closed and at this
004time the treasurer would do a roll call and please just give the person's name. President Bailey. Dr. Goodwin Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Lacy, Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Smith, Smith, Miss Rhinard, Garrison, Walker, Mr. Walker. Uh, Smith, Miss Garrison, Garrison, three for Dr. Goodwin, two for Mr. Smith, and two for Miss Garrison. Okay. At this time, those nominations to be closed, we'll move on. DPS Wellness Day. Thank you so much, Dr. Bailey. Uh DPS Family Wellness Day. Uh join us for a day dedicated to mental and physical wellness with the free self-care lab, yoga classes, speaker sessions, prizes, giveaways, and lots of other things. It was our first one last year at Ponents, and it was packed and it was great. Miss Spurlock also, they had inter murals that morning. So the inter mural parents would come right
005over to the wellness fair. It was just a a great day upon it. So, we having inter murals on that same day again this year. Same setup. It's going to be wonderful. So, uh come out to see your murals in the morning, but also that family wellness day. Um massages, um foot rubs, um all type of good stuff. Can I just say that I appreciate you all having one central location for events going on in the district? My school. We know you go to Pence. I just got Well, thanks a lot. We appreciate it. We We bottom line is we found that athletic events like inter murals are really packed. Lots of parents are there. So, why not put a program there uh on the same day like like the wellness day instead of having
006two separate events and you actually been talking about that a lot today. Uh that's the meeting after the meeting after that budget meeting to determine how we can best utilize our efficiencies by doing those type of things. If I may, Mr. was I will say I got to attend last year and it was a really great event. The massage therapist was amazing. So if you do come and you don't do anything else, go ahead and get that 10-minute chair massage cuz it will change your life for 10 minutes. You just going to feel so relaxed. So I'm excited to see that this is back and I know it's going to be even better than last year because the first year is always a yay and now they get to see what's going on. So you
007guys did a great job last year. I look forward to what's happening this year. Thanks a lot, Dr. Goodwin. Any other comments, questions? All right, we'll move on to uh special presentation. Special presentations. Uh Dr. Bailey, I think you said I want to hear about kids this year. Let's talk about children. Children. Children. Um and how well they're doing or not and what we're doing to fix it if they're not. So, we're going to start off today with the smallest of our children, early literacy update by Connor Waltower and supporting cast. I'm sure the academics will jump in if they have to. Good evening, board superintendent Lawrence. I'm here to talk about uh early literacy, specifically the kindergarten ready assessment which uh was administered earlier this year. Uh if you see this presentation, uh what
008is the KR? The K is a state required assessment that is administered to all kindergarteners. Uh it is this past year administered from August 18th all the way to September 15th. uh per the state that needs to be administered within the first 20 days of instruction. There are four domains to the kindergarten readiness assessment. That would be language and literacy, mathematics, social foundations, physical well-being, and motor development. On the next slide, you will see the results. Um this is a infographic that I created that has each of our individual kindergarten schools. Um there are four categories that a student can fall under. That would be if they did not participate, approaching readiness, emerging readiness and demonstrating readiness. Based upon the colors, you can see that did not participate uh would be the lowest followed by
009the approaching readiness followed by emerging readiness and then demonstrating readiness. If you also look at this table, you will see based upon this infographic that the number of students is on top and the percentage of the students as a whole is on the bottom. When looking at this, we can see that 70% of the district uh students that are in kindergarten were either emerging or demonstrating readiness and nearly one in four of those students were showing demonstrating readiness. When looking at this next chart, you can see just a visualization from a bar chart form of all of our students that show demonstrating readiness and emerging readiness. And most of them are hovering around that 70% area. When looking at the next, this is a historical comparison of the fiscal year 26 through the fiscal year
010of 24. When looking at this, this is solely looking at demonstrating readiness in the differences from the fiscal uh from last year to this year. Uh we could see from 24 to 25 that there was a decline, but from uh 25 to 26 that there was a strong rebound. Specifically at Charity Adams, we could see that there was a 19% increase. Horse man 13.9% increase. Luis Troy followed by Kaiser followed by Fairview. The district overall saw an increase of a 3.3% when compared to the fiscal year 24. Looking at the next slide, uh this is specifically looking at students who attended Dayton public schools preschool. So, what I was able to do was I was able to grab the students that attended our preschools last year and do a VLOOKUP through an Excel and make
011sure that that matched with the corresponding students at their current building. And we can see that there were 370 students who participated in the KR that also participated uh at preschool last year. Based upon this table structured very similarly with the number followed by the percentage uh 35.1% of students who attended a DPS preschool uh showed demonstrating readiness on the kindergarten readiness assessment. If you look at that small little graph over on the side little table you'll see that those are the students who did not participate at a DPS preschool and only 14.1% of those students demonstrated readiness for kindergarten. Looking at the next slide, you can see that this is just two different tables. Uh this just shows the breakdown of the students who attended a DPS preschool on the uh left hand side
012followed by the right hand side of students who did not attend a DPS preschool. Followed by uh the next slide. You can see that this is a comparison of demonstrating readiness of showing students who participated in DPS preschool followed by list of uh who did not. I solely looked at the percentages just because the number of students were obviously different with 370 students who uh attended DPS preschool versus 500 plus students who did not. Uh when looking at this, you can see that there was a 21% difference in terms of those who attended a DPS preschool versus those who did not. So based upon that data, we can see that DPS preschoolers were more than twice as likely to be ready for kindergarten versus a student who did not attend a DPS preschool. Uh this
013is going to be followed by a quick uh MAP assessment just to make sure that everybody's aware of our MAP assessment. MAP is a nationally normed assessment that is given three times a year. Uh what we do is this is an assessment uh that is kind of supposed to be a predictor for a student on how they do on the Ohio State test. Uh based upon what we have, we have untested, limited, basic, proficient, accomplished, advanced, and advanced plus. At the very bottom, you can see a table of what those weights look like. Um so based upon this, you can see proficiency rates. They only count students who are proficient. Performance index will count everybody. So that's why I prefer using a performance index versus a proficiency rate. When looking at the next slide, you
014can see how our kindergarteners did this past winter. uh we can see that the performance index had increased by 3.5 when comparing students from the previous two years uh for the performance index. We can also see the proficiency rate had also increased by 5% when comparing it from the previous year. Uh the bar chart just shows a nice little graphic just to show what those performance index uh comparisons look like. Any questions? Any questions? Uh Dr. a good one. Thank you for the presentation. On the other school preschool, do you have a breakdown of those who are part of the preschool promise program? Uh, as of right now, I do not. Is it possible to get that breakdown? Uh, if it's coded in e school, then potentially. Okay. I'm tell when would you know if
015if it's possible? I would have to talk to my team tomorrow. Okay. Can you send that out to everybody? Yes. And with the 31% of individuals who were persistent or proficient for kindergarten, do you kind of know kind of so how long is preschool? Let me ask that first. Is this one year, two years? How long? Depends. Okay. Preschoolers can start at the age of three. So with this 35.1%, do we know if those individuals were in preschool one or two years? Can it be drilled down further? It could be drilled down further. Yes. Okay. Can you guys drill down further? I'm interested. I mean, 35% is still pretty low for me because that's still in the F range, but I am interested if that 35% are individuals who was their first time in preschool
016or their second time to kind of just see what that piece is. And do you know any like data about the kids before they come here? like if they were in a child care facility, if they were in a step up to quality type childcare facility or anything like that, that that information is not recorded until they're of age. When a student becomes like a kindergarten or and they let's say transfer from TRA to DPS, then we have that file in the Odex. But prior to that, this one is for Dr. Lawrence. Can we send out like a survey to the parents to see if they would self-disclose that type of information for us? just interested really in what's happening with them because the theory is the earlier that children start the more prepared they
017are and our data is showing 35.1% students are prepared. So if we can just if there was a way for us to figure out kind of some of those different variables at the starting point that would be useful to us to figure out how we increase that. Thank you. Y uh answer your question. Yeah, absolutely. You have a question concern. I I did, but I think Miss Bird was about to say something, too. We did work with Preschool Promise this year and we did send out a a survey. We actually did that amongst our first four days of kindergarten to complete a survey to see if they attended a DPS preschool, a Head Start preschool, or a daycare. Um, we are waiting for those results. Okay. You said you guys started that at the beginning
018of We did. We We sent those to Preschool Promise and they tally that for us and so we should have that information. We can cross compare. When did we send them? Like what month did we send? Um, we sent that in um probably October. So I will ask for that report. They still working on that? Um I don't know. I will ask. Okay. Thank you. Welcome. Uh so for the students that did not participate is that because of that window being closed at that time or what was the reason for not participating? Uh it could be a whole multitude of factors. I mean they just based upon what we have in E school uh those students did not participate at Dayton public schools. Not to say that they didn't participate in a different preschool but
019they didn't participate at Dayton public. Okay. And then so the percentage is 35%. Mhm. How do we grow that? I think that would be a question directed at our preschool um staff. I I think you mean grow the percentage. Yeah. Yeah. This is a this is urgent. I've been asking the question the same question you asked. Not how only how do we grow it, but how do we do it rapidly? And I think part of that plan that you we were talking about earlier. Got it. Yeah. if we can get certified teachers in front of them. And then also, we need to double down on the leadership in these buildings. I'll be honest. Um I'm I'm getting um I'm getting uh a little frustrated with that. Meaning that it's it's the job of the building
020leader, the instructional leader to ensure that high quality instruction is going on from bell to bell in schools where you have them and in preschool that's going on all day and that you're using the curriculum uh Frog Street that we spent quite a bit of money on with Fidelity. Um there there should be no more options, no more opportunities to say I want to opt out. Um when you have a like I like saying this, when you have a knee surgery, arthoroscopy, they do them all about the same. Um and so you don't get a chance to not use the curriculum and I'm really um going to going to have some conversations with the leaders about um how we're monitoring instruction and making sure that's happening. I appreciate it. Thank you. Uh if it hasn't
021been happening, what who's monitoring that? I mean we we we we are we are monitoring actually I I sent a transformational walkthrough I think in one of the updates and if I haven't I will so it gives you like an overview of how we go into buildings and give that feedback. Um I think this is um I think it's a new thing Dr. Bailey to say that you don't have the option in education. A lot of times we want to talk about autonomy. Uh we call it tight and loose. Some things should be loose, but there are some things that should just be tight and we have to tighten up too. Anybody else? Uh Garrison, hi. Thank you for the presentation. Um do you guys have data um on uh DPS uh preschool demonstrating readiness
022prior to the implementation or passing of preschool promise? So maybe uh 20 years going back maybe 15 20 years. Yes. Uh that's something that is from the state website that I could download and look at and see. Okay. If you could provide that as well because I remember at one point Dayton public school had the best preschool program in the area and then competition through preschool promise and I'm curious to see if that's where potentially the numbers may have dropped. Thank you. Second that. Thank you Dr. Batley, thank you for this presentation. I really appreciate it. Um, and especially in light of some other conversations that uh I've been having with some of the administration, there's been a bit of a hiccup for the public to know. There's there's been a little bit of a
023hiccup in terms of preschool enrollment and how that affects funding. And I remain committed to providing highquality preschool services for our students. Um, most of my kids went to preschool and it was really, really great for them. Um you've got on slide uh five year-over-year from fisc uh from 24 to 25 the demonstrated readiness declined and the 25 26 had a rebound. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with COVID and um these these kids that were born during the most intense periods of CO were you know socialization a lot of the really really critically needed services or experiences these kids needed to be ready um and to demonstrate readiness was not as available to them. Could you get uh the board um the maybe the last five six years of the percentage
024of uh readiness um approaching readiness just for our better understanding um our preschool program has not changed significantly. So I don't think that those numbers would be drastically different except for the fact that you know COVID and all the things that that is there. Um and and so I would like to see those numbers. And then h my question for you is how does this information inform your work and the work of the kindergarten teachers and the kindergarten team? Um I think the main thing especially where my office is located right next to preschool. I have the unique opportunity to talk to the director and the assistant director uh about Frog Street. Uh just for transparency reasons. My background is high school math, so about as far away from preschool as humanly possible. Um, it
025is interesting to kind of see that growth and kind of be able to get an idea of what students developmentally should be uh ready for by the time they're in preschool to the time that they're in kindergarten. Um, I've had the unique opportunity to also go to Rosa Parks, talk to their staff, talk to other elementary uh, principles and just kind of see how their um, their views of the uh, Frog Street application have going. So, in terms of looking at the data, a lot of it is just kind of talking about the data and analyzing the data with principles. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Bailey. Anyone else? Miss Mr. Smith, thank you. I appreciate the information. I do want to highlight and I think maybe more so for Dr. Lawrence and then um the
026other leaders in this district and how we how we work to look beyond the numbers as well. Um I think we talk about it a lot when we talk about standardized tests. We talk about it a lot when we get to the high school level. We don't talk about it as much when we talk about kindergarten readiness. And that unfortunately these are the scores that you see across urban districts. across Ohio and that it's it is highly reflective of a child's socioeconomic status and the experience that they're getting before they come into kindergarten. Um then you look at some children, they could be taking this assessment at four, some are taking it at six. Some are coming from a a family caregiver provider space, some are coming from a comprehensive preschool. Um, so it's how
027do we then on top of the work because I know that outstanding work is going in to our preschool programs just as as I know that that kind of effort is going in across our district. But how at that young level um are we and I think this is a reflective point. How are we working with partnerships across the city? How are we working with parental engagement to to tap into the fact that even at our youngest age, it's not enough just to send our children to preschool and think that's going to save them. Um, there are so many other resources that I think our parents still don't know about. There are so many resources that are afforded that we don't tap into because there's so many other issues and barriers going on in our
028community. So, I definitely would like um, as Dr. Dr. Goodwine said to look deeper into some of these numbers, but then also look into how are we approaching what the numbers are and what the the these readiness assessment what it really reflects because that is something that's come down from the national children's who even puts the kindergarten readiness assessment as part of their their scale when they're looking at you know um issues that may occur at a young child. they're looking at this readiness assessment, but on the other hand that they're openly saying this really still reflects the the experience that a child has. What's going on when they go home? What's going on when they're not in the care of DPS? So, I definitely think it's a space for us to try to tap
029into these parents because I think we've done that initial piece of getting more parents to understand that their children should be in a comprehensive preschool program and that we have great preschool programs. I think that next step for us is then going how do we help parents when they're at home? How do we help parents when those children are not with our uh with us? So, I appreciate the information and I think Dr. Lawrence, I think that is our next lift of what we need to do is how do we get to that p uh space cuz we're we're going to see you're not going to have great schools in a city where you do not have great services or people taking care of those services or taking use of those services. And so I
030think that there's so many things going on and I think putting that out for our preschool parents and really working there and having that engagement arm uh could really do wonders as far as trying to change these numbers. Appreciate you, Connor. Anyone else? Uh I want to thank you for your pres presentation. You know, when I was in uh kindergarten, I'm not done yet. Hello. Hello, Conor. Hello. Hello. My class was dismissed. No, no, not yet. Not yet. When I was in uh preschool and kindergarten, we always had uh either a parent or someone in the um neighborhood who would come and and help with class. One question is uh do you still have that? And how often do you have parents who come and volunteer or community leaders that come and volunteer? And if
031you do, how for for those that are out there, how do they get involved too? help the students in the classroom. I can answer on the secondary level and on the secondary level I can answer and as far as coming from elementary. So yes, there are parents and grandparents that are out. Uh just the other day I was in Waggleman and so they that's a they're a consistent staple at Wagaman. Um, I have to think about um systematically how that how that started and how we can continue to ask them to participate across the board. I think by the time you get to high school, they don't they're not, you know, the high schools don't want to see them, but middle school is is happening and I'll have Miss Spurlock talk about elementary. Certainly. So,
032um, a couple different things. We do look at preschool and we look at making sure that we have so many family events uh for each quarter and there normally there's a theme um to really help prepare um our families and our students for kindergarten. We normally do um we always have four days where we set up parent meetings at the beginning of the year. Um we have parent teacher conferences twice, but we do a theme. Normally we do a reading literacy theme, a math theme, and we always do a kindergarten readiness theme in order to prepare um and work with the families to say these are the skills that our students need in order to prepare them for kindergarten. Last year we moved it kind of fourth quarter. We're moving it up this year to
033this quarter right now, third quarter. We also had um tied that into a family night in many of our elementary buildings to encourage uh families to come out and to see and also invited um our partnerships in preschools and daycare centers in surrounding those schools so they can get an understanding of what families and students need to do to prepare for kindergarten. So we kind of partnered with that. We also have partnered um in different areas with Head Start um and with Preschool Promise to try to kind of build that out um so that we have more um collaboration between. We used to have that a great deal, but we're trying to build those back up because we certainly cannot provide preschool to all of the students in uh Dayton that require we just don't
034have the capacity. So, we really have to partner with our our groups. Also, for families that we always invite our parents to come out, we have um a place where they can um volunteer. Um there's a process for that um for them to volunteer online and go through that so they can volunteer in our buildings on a more permanent basis. So, what's what's that process? Oh, so they can do a couple different things. Um if they want to be like a regular uh parent involved in the building, it's a voluntary process. There's an application you can fill out online. Um, and I know the board has made some concessions so our parents can be much easier to to go and do that. Um, if they want to volunteer in their building, they should contact their
035building principal. Um, and we can make and we always need parents to come in and certain things. Um, so every building's a little different what they need of the family so they contact their administration. Thank you, Mr. Gar Mr. Smith. and me. Miss Garrison can go first. Miss Garrison, ladies first. So, um, Dr. Lawrence, another thing to potentially think about, um, I know the Croc uh, Community Center does a lot of, um, great summer programming for various ages. And um I really believe cuz again I can go back to when I was doing tap dance and ballet at Dakota Center um that a lot of those summer enrichment activities even for our preschoolers going into kindergarten can help them retain what they just learned the previous year going into kindergarten so that when they're assessed,
036you know, they remember some of those teachings because that's a pretty big gap from the end of the school year to the next school year for a lot of the children to retain. ain some of those literacy things that they've learned in preschool. So potentially looking at those collaborations, you know, at the Croc Community Center, but also, you know, whatever services city date might be able to provide in McGomery County as we move toward, you know, more collaborative uh way of approaching this village mentality for our children. Uh thank you so much for the feedback and I think I'm not sure when you're scheduled to meet with Dr. She's our chief academic officer. We we have uh I'm going on record as saying this. We have the most robust summer school program in the region
037in Montgomery County. Nobody can touch it in terms of its scope, size, and span. But I think I I do not believe I remember specialized programming for preschool. So we actually do we have uh we do have a specialized program. We actually team kindergarten teachers and preschool teachers together uh for that transition from preschool to kindergarten. We've had that the past two summers. It was very successful. my people people. You see, if you if you would have let me go before you wouldn't have had to say that out loud. So, hey, we got it. I was going to ask with our data, are we are we tracking the data for students that were part of the Ready Set Grow program versus uh students that were not. I don't believe it was in this presentation, but
038we absolutely I think have pulled that data. Okay. Yes, I would love to see that. Um, that's what I was actually going to to comment on and ask because um, just seeing that firsthand as a parent, I saw the difference that it made, not in just keeping students active and keeping that that educational piece going, but also teaching them that transition. But I just know for my son, he his first two days already said grow. He was ready to give it up cuz he said, "They don't get to take naps the same. They not outside the same." And so, but just getting him to that space to understand that yes, this is what kindergarten is going to be like and getting um our children that that acclamation there. Um it was a wonderful program, you
039know, multiple field trips, you know, some of them first time they were on a school bus, you know, um just being able to have that space where it was a little step up from what they were just getting done with. So I think you had like a about a month almost of that and by July they were going and it stopped right before school started. So I was going to ask with Ready Set Grow, are we offering that to students only that come through DPS preschools or any student that is then entering into DPS for kindergarten? They have to be entering kindergarten. I'm going to refer to um Chief Shehy. Yes, they have to be Those students need to be enrolled in DPS. What we found though is that even though they are enrolled at
040the time that they come to Ready Set Grow, by the time they enter kindergarten and they may go somewhere else, go somewhere else. Yeah. So, I was wondering is what that looks like for because I know that's when I heard about it was from my son being in preschool and then heard about that and then was there. Um, and then I'd love to see what is what does the capacity look like for trying to expand and get more students in there. Um, because I do I just think that it was awesome. I think the the the co-working of the preschool instructors with the kindergarten instructors. Um, especially when you have that that perfect match where you know you have a child who then is going to be with that kindergarten teacher that next year too.
041So I think I would really be for trying to try to look at how we can expand and grow that. um just seeing the the effort there and how it really grows our own talent as well. So you really saw some some employees really step into their leadership uh through that summer program as well. So appreciate that. Well, thank you. I should have let you go first. You should have, man. I told you. Actually, you called me about that. I should have remembered that. I definitely did. You did call me about that. If I'm a a kindergarten parent, what would be reasons that I would take my kid out of DPS after kindergarten? You mean after kindergarten? Yeah. So, like if if they're coming in, they've did preschool and now they've went through kindergarten and
042now they're leaving DPS, what triggers the departure? Um, I think what she was referring to that they might have signed up and then they may have gone before they entered our kindergarten to another school. Um, so I don't know. I know that we um we don't lose as many students going from kindergarten to first and first to second um and second to third. Those those are normally our our families stay with us unless they've moved overall. Okay. I think that goes back to our other conversation. So I I appreciate it. All right. Anyone else? Thank you for your presentation. Thank you for letting us hear about the kids or students. Hearing from the bargaining unit, any bargaining units madam treasurer. Uh anyone from hearing from the public? Yes. This only you Yes. your statement. There
043you go. Seven and eight. All right. Those who wish to to speak, limit remarks to three minutes. The president has the discretion to extend the time. When your time is up, you are to stop speaking. It is uh inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes, grievances under a labor agreement, disciplinary action involving an employee or a student, ongoing labor negotiations, concerns, or matters that have already been settled and or any matter which because of its nature is deemed appropriate to be discussed in executive session. The purpose of this public hearing portion of the meeting is for members of the public to express viewpoints and public concerns. Madam treasurer Kihi Bailey Kalihi Bailey Camaro Watenza Hello sir. Good evening and good evening everybody. Um my name is Kimaru Aenza. I'm a retired Dayton public school
044teacher. Um and um when I was teaching at Kaiser um preK28, my students had the highest scores on the proficiency test of any of the teachers in the building. Nobody else was close. Um, in fact, I had more students score above um proficient than all the other teachers in my cluster combined. But there was a problem uh in my mind. the principal of the school um thought it necessary that and even encouraged uh students who were academically ineligible to compete uh athletically and I thought that was a problem. So um I talked to him about it said he was going to do what he wanted to do. Um, I then got in touch with the um, at that time there was a um, athletic director for the middle schools and I got in touch with
045him and he brushed me off. I contacted the superintendent. Uh, Lori Ward was the superintendent at that time and she acted like it wasn't a problem. So, I turned it into the state. the state sanctioned the school and uh got in touch with Superintendent Lori Ward who got in touch with me and I explained that I tried to tell her about this. She ignored me and she instructed me to then go see Jonas Smith who was then the athletic director for the whole district. And I did. And when I went to that meeting with Jonas Smith, um, uh, Dr. David Lawrence was there also. And, um, Jonas Smith, uh, I told them who would competed while he was ineligible and he lied and he said that that student did not compete. But I had the
046proof right there um on the spot in my phone. Showed it to him and um so he dismissed that. Um I mean he stopped trying to say the student didn't compete. So um during during that meeting uh Dr. Lawrence told me that he was then going to do my evaluation. So, um I guess I want to know uh why is it that uh when I was doing something that was right that um then then an administrator usurp the authority and responsibility of the principal of that building and decided to do my evaluation. uh was this uh intimidation because I chose to do what I thought was right. Excuse me. That's 3 minutes. Thank you. That is a question. Thank you. That's it. Superintendent. Thank you so much. Uh I would like to pull B2 myself.
047I get some more information. I thought that was grant funded. This is General Pun. And outside of B2, I'd like I'd I'd like the board to vote on my recommendations B, C, D, E, F, and G. So moved. Second. Time to look over it. Some questions. question. Yes, we didn't have a reason for Sarah Scott resignation. I thought usually there was a reason next to an except you on paper. Any other comments or questions? Call madam madam treasure call for vote. Okay. President Bailey. Yes. Dr. Goodwin. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Miss Reard. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Garrison. Yes. Miss Woods. Yes. Together. Eight. Yeses. Superintendent's recommendations. Uh, I'd like to take a look at the budget. Um, and if you have any questions, I would actually refer them to the finance
048committee. We've met twice this month already, and we're probably going to have another meeting. All right, I'd like to move on to my recommendations for consultants and contracts. There are no I don't think there are any new consultants or contracts from last week. There is new here um a 48 hour waiver. I need that for the um school calendar that we just put on here. We did that was not on here last week. We're working on that. I just want to bring attention to the fact that we really um need that to be taken care of. Contract my school calendar. Oh, Elevate K12. Two things in Elevate K12 and the school the school u calendar was not on there last week. Elevate K12 was on initially last week for 40 40 periods of intervention specialist
049support. I mentioned that in the board review on Friday. I then called and had it taken off because we had some internal questions about it. We met with Elevate K12 and we've come back with um this contract again after some internal um review from the academic team. So the calendar and and the and the elevate K12 which was on then off and now back on. I do want to make another note about the calendar. Uh uh President Bailey, we're going to return with a recommendation for 2728 and 2829 to have a three-year calendar. I was asked to go down that path, but we have kind of been struggling with this school calendar because we've been dealing with the 24 pay and trying to make sure we get that right with the teachers. Uh they're 25
050this year and we'll transition to 24 next year. So, we're working through that. So, um, we'll be back, um, in a couple months with two more versions of two more years of the calendar. Okay. I'd like to make a motion that we accept the 48 hour waiver for contracts. Second, I'm treasur vote. Point of information, we didn't we didn't do A. I know I skipped A, did B to do the 48 hour waiver, but the consultant piece is separate from the contracts. Correct. I'm still doing the motion on the 48 hour waiver. We have a tendency to combine stuff. Okay. Don't know if we're going to do that or not today. I got you. If you do that, President Bailey. Yes. Dr. Goodwin, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Rhina, yes. Mr. Walker,
051yes. Miss Garrison, yes. Miss Woods, yes. Eight yeses. Dr. Bailey, I would ask, is the board interested in combining those? Mr. President, can I make a motion for superintendent A, C, D, E, F, and G together? Second. Thank you. Any questions or concerns? Mr. Smith? Yes. Dr. Lawrence, what if you could share were some of the concerns that you guys had with the Elevate K12 uh implementation uh with with fidelity? Um the inconsistencies sometimes of the instructors themselves and then support when instructors weren't there. Um what was another one? Um those are the two that come to mind in terms of challenges that I think that I thought we had going in. and they've been a they've been a really good partner the first couple years. I mean, they provide a a valuable support because
052we have a national teacher shortage in general and it's even worse with intervention specialist. Um, so our goal is to get certified teachers, which Elevate K12 is, in front of our our students. And so I think it was just a hiccup in the transition um in terms of the number of years we've been with them and then the kind of ex extending the services themselves. So, thank you for asking. All right. So, if I may follow up, excuse me. Oh, got um how are we ensuring that those hiccups don't continue? Um something I've heard from students in buildings that that has been their issue in some of those programs is having that disconnect. then having that disconnect with also having someone in the room who then isn't the instructor but still has to be in
053the room and how that connects. Um so with those qu like what is the answer? What is are we going to continue to do things how they are? Is there some change in how we're going to have this offered? What what leads you to believe that that would change? Uh I'm going to ask Dr. Shei come to come up and capture some of the Friday meeting, but I am going to say this. I said about when I we first started this meeting, I talked about leadership and instructional leadership. I probably was really focused on secondary and part of that is making sure we get to those elevate K12 classrooms on a daily basis as the secondary principles and then immediately reporting any problems to the chief academic officer so that we can respond to them.
054So we we have to be tight in terms of our communication and monitoring. That's part of the issue right now that I think we're that I think I know we're going to change. Yes. So, um, we did have some concerns about our collaboration and communication. Um, we've been working, um, since we've been in partnership with them to make sure that they are connected with our IT, our HR, business plus. Um, so getting all of those pieces in place have been a struggle, which um, creates barriers to instruction. So for example, um if our IT team has not onboarded all of our teachers, they don't have access to our resources. So that becomes an issue. We finally got that um completed. We had a an individual that worked with us from Elevate K12 that was amazing
055at working with all of the different departments. Um he's no longer there. And so I've been able to communicate that to um Elevate K12 and they've identified um a person that they say can take over um for the person who left. So they are guaranteeing that that collaboration is um better moving forward. Um with regard to um staffing, they have staffed us with 100% now of certified teachers. We had a couple of hiccups at um Dumbar in our biology class because uh we had a person that was absent um and then when she came back she resigned. But they immediately found a replacement for that teacher. And so now we are totally staffed with 100% Ohio certified teachers um because they may be um licensed in another state. They have to go through a lot
056of hoops um which again that we need someone that's going to work with all of our departments um to make sure that we have certified teachers. So, I'm positive now, but I was concerned with um moving forward when what we currently have um we had a few snags. So, I did not want to move forward with a larger investment of time and resource um when I really want to focus on what we have now and making sure that it's tight. Our data suggests that um you know our students that took that class those classes last year performed very well. Um so I'm satisfied with that but I want to make sure that moving forward the investment we get impact for the investment. Appreciate that. I'll wait just in case anybody else has any questions. Appreciate
057you miss. Anyone else? Don't mind if I do. Um, this is for Dr. Lawrence. Dr. Lawrence. So, this Did we have this up last week? Elevate K12? We did, but we I took it off. Um, it was Friday, Friday of the executive session, I mean, board review session, and then I called um Monday and had it taken off because of some of the concerns that we had. And I knew we had that Elevate K12 meeting coming up that Friday, so I wanted to sit sit sit with that for a week. Okay. Yeah. And that would be my concern and I don't want us to get in a pattern of that as we start off a new year. Um being that we just added this on now for a full board view to have this conversation
058without a review and then we're asking to put a vote to it on the same afternoon that we got it. Um I just don't want us to start moving in that space because I don't want us to then feel like we do not have the necessary information to vote on something. Um, and I would say especially something like this where we've had questions from board members about the program since we started the program. And so I would just suggest in in the next situation where something like this comes up that we try to move in a space where then we can look into these questions, have these answers, and then have board members coming in with full information of what we're voting on. Because when we're putting something up and then we're removing it before
059we have a conversation and then we're putting it back up outside of a review, it it creates a different kind of move where we're trying to ask all of these questions and wanting this information that sometimes may take more uh more time. Um so I just don't want us to move in this new iteration of this board in that way. But I appreciate the work of everybody and once again appreciate you, Miss Shei. Uh, I want you to know, board member Smith, that I really wrestle with this um because we've not had a 48 hour waiver. That means we that means operations, academics. We haven't had any uh in in quite some time because we wanted to clean that up. There was a lot of that going on and so we wanted to clean that
060up to demonstrate being prepared. Um, I think because uh I have some rest I was really under the gun in terms of some time restrictions because a lot of these resources will be directed um directly toward Jackson Center. Um, and I wanted to I didn't want to I didn't want to wait another month. I thought about it, but I I need to I need to get these folks in Jackson Center and get some work done. Anyone else? All right. Madam Treasure, President Bailey, yes. Dr. Goodwin, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, I'll go. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Garrison, yes. Miss Woods, I need to bring something. Yes. Eight. Yeses. Dr. the Bailey. I've got I checked on B2 and that B2 has been changed from general fund to grant funded. So I
061would like to bring that um bring that bring that back for a vote. So move second B2 treasure. So, did we I'm sorry. Did we vote on that? Sorry about that. We did not. I We We pulled it down the last time because of some questions around the workload of another piece. So, have those questions been addressed or I think for me, yes. um as a superintendent, I think they they have been addressed in terms of what the other employee is currently doing um and what this employee does. So, no, maybe too. I'm just curious of our conversation earlier and you said I'm sorry. What did you say? of our conversation earlier and like would this be what would this do based on that conversation earlier? That's why I made it clear that it's grant
062funded. Okay. Um that's why I took it off because I saw it in general fund and based on that conversation there was no way to go down that route. Okay. Mr. Smith. Yes. Um if I may, Dr. Lawrence, you know, I don't like to try to put your people on the spot, so I'll ask you. Um, I had an enlightening conversation with I want to say it was Don't even see her here no more now. Oh, I do see sister Ryan here. That's why she was smiling. See, see sister might have know what I was about to say. Um, and and Chief Douly about the differences in that space. Um, I think it may be good if they're able to share kind of briefly just what those two roles the difference between them because I
063know we had some conversations without getting into, you know, any personals there. I know that when we first brought this up, Miss Garrison wasn't on the board and now she is on the board and I don't know if others were able to have that conversation. So, if you would like, if not, I am fine. Your prerogative, sir. Sure. I have no problems. Uh, Miss Mart to come up and have She did reach out to you and have a have a conversation. I know. Good evening. Um, this position would focus solely on bringing volunteer groups to the community to service our most vulnerable population and special populations. And it wouldn't be them mentoring our students for pay. It would be setting up a system where they have a significant person in their lives to help motivate
064them and encourage them because we have such a large number. The other position that we were discussing uh actually supervises a a team of people that have a case load that works on the college career readiness, grades, attendance, behaviors, and things like that. These would be community people assigned to these students. Many of them that may be in foster care or living in group group homes may not have a family, but they need a one-on-one person to to be with them and to support them throughout their career to make sure they're successful. And we know what the research shows about uh students having that significant person beyond the principal and the teacher and things like that, staff members to support them. And that's the position that um this position was uh developed to service that
065role because we have such a high population. And what are the number of students that this individual will service? Well, of the special populations, we have over 500 in the district. So that would be her case load. All of those individuals. Well, it would be her bringing in volunteers to train them and train them to support those students. She wouldn't have them one-on-one at all. It would be her bringing in teams of people and we have corporations that have said they want to service our special populations and they've said they need training and support and that's what this role would do. bring them in and do the orientation and make sure they have the training needed to support these students. And what do you have the number of organizations that she will be partnering with?
066I I know of one that's uh Premier Health was one that Dr. Lawrence and I were working with. They've been waiting for about a year for us to respond and they have a large number. Um, and then there's other community groups that have come forth and said, "We're really help when you're ready." And meetings set up with some of the judges and people like that who are wanting to support this initiative. I And what you explained, I I just don't see the need for this type of position. I I'll just be honest. I I think that we have enough people currently this year that are already doing the work that we can just allow them to continue doing the work. I think adding another person to essentially do the work that a team of 18
067to 20 and then not including the um federal programs already with the parent engagement piece and them bringing people into the district to do work with parents and those that the other group they do have a case load but they don't this would be a one-on-one support for this student. Yeah. But what I'm looking at is if we bring one person in, what is the number of that actual case load that they're actually going to be working with to try and get partners? And again, if we are being transparent, the same individual has ran three different nonprofit groups or whatever for mentoring. And all of them has closed down like none of them are still operating the way that they were for mentorings. One of them was uh Montgomery County Minary Clever was around for
068decades and was grant funded and then closed down because they did not have a contingency plan after grant funds ran out. Well, well, I said it was around for decades, but I think for for us, I was asked um to draw the differences between this position and other ones. And you know, I'd like to move again forward uh with a vote because I think this is best for kids. This is this is our position. Dr. So, thank you guys for bringing this forward. The Which grant is this out of? Uh, Title 4. Okay. And this is one of those grants that if we don't utilize funding, we potentially lose that type of funding. Um, that is correct because 15% carryover, we'll lose it. I just want to make sure like the individual that you guys
069are offering this position through, they did go through a competitive process. Did they go through a competitive process? There were other Oh, yes. There were several interviews. They are aware if we lose grant funding that we would also lose this position. All right. So, I I have no idea whether this person will be successful or not. But I do believe that you need to try ideas to see if they do come to fruition in that piece of it. And if this is you guys's recommendation, I do think we just need to vote to see if the board supports it or not. Thank you. But thank you for the information. Any other comments, Madam Treasur? President Bailey, yes. Dr. Goodwin, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, all right. Miss Rhina, yes. Mr. Walker, no. Miss Garrison?
070No. Miss Woods? Yes. Five five yeses and two no. Dr. Bailey, that concludes my recommendations. President Bailey. Yes. Had a followup comment on that if I could make a recommendation for going forward. Go ahead. So, for for things like this, Lawrence, for me, it would be helpful to um you know, though I'm I'm excited that this passed for you guys, it would be helpful for me to have more details um going forward when new positions like this are presented um to understand a little bit more to actually have the organization signed up that they will be working with as opposed to, you know, saying there are several and just to have more things that are actually definitive and ready to roll out as opposed to a person, you know, getting into a role like this
071and having to try to figure out who those organizations are and building those relationships takes time. And by the time the grant is used and over and done with, you know, half of that time would have been spent trying to establish who these individuals and organizations are that we're going to be working with. understanding that there this is a grant that we could lose funding for, I think we should be more strategic when we put things forth like this to ensure this individual success so that it's not just, you know, us spending money because there's money to be spent. So, that's just my recommendation for positions going forward under grants. Thank you for your feedback. I think I think we did a we didn't do a good enough job of kind of filling in the
072blanks just now. I would say Premier is not a speculative partner. Um they have 13,000 employees. We've met with them u probably a dozen times over the course of two years. Um we used to use their space for student senate uh given to us by the president um by Mike and and they have been super supportive. They have a person committed directly to Dayton public schools part of their job. Micahil former science teacher in DPS and Dumbar Grant. She is premier's sole person for DPS. Uh so they've committed a lot of human capital. Um we just um we just need to get the person to link up with them to train their people to become mentors. They when they asked to commit to mentorship they had the conversation was aspirational. They said we have 13,000
073employees and you have 13,000 kids. We hope one day that we can have a onetoone match for every kid. That was that was the aspirational conversation. But the back conversation was, hey, give us your students who who are really struggling, those who are unhoused in foster care, um who who may not have anyone. And so we we have a partner and I look forward to moving forward with Micah to develop um a pipeline for mentors for those 500 students. And then I went over to St. Vincent on Christmas maybe December 22nd uh to talk to the um the operating manager of St. Vincent and ask her um if she thought this would be a good idea and she said absolutely um we we would love to participate. I know the kids would love to have
074a mentor. So we have some work to do u but thank you for your your feedback and we'll follow up on it. Thank you sir. Mhm. Madam Treasure, I recommend the approval of the following monthly financials as reviewed uh today, this afternoon. Uh donations, uh approval of minutes, contracts, purchase requisitions, and then in now as reviewed last week. So move. Second. Any questions or concerns? I'm trying to trying to remember. Did Dr. Lawrence, did your team email email out the places for the college tour? Yeah, I sent it um last Thursday. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? and treasur president Bailey. Oh, she was calling the vote. She's calling the vote. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, Dr. Goodwin. Mr. Lacy. Yes, Mr. Smith. Yes, Miss Rhina. Yes, Mr. Walker. Yes, Miss Garrison. Yes, Miss Woods. Yes. Eight
075yeses. All right. Thank you, Mr. Manager. Thank you, board president. Um, I recommend ratification of the contract with Broombach Construction Incorporated. Second. Questions or concerns? There are none pressure. Okay. President Bailey. Yes. Dr. Goodwin. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Miss Reinard. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Garrison, yes. Miss Woods, yes. Eight yeses. Thank you. New category board members travel expenses and reimbursement. Look over that. Dr. Brother, before we get into into this one, I know we had or Miss Kids emailed us out the individuals going to this one. I just need us to be conscious as a board that we only have limited funds. So, even if we do approve all of this, please check with other individuals to see if they want to travel because it would be unfair if only a
076couple of us get to travel and some don't because we exhaust our funds. All right. Thank you. um on this as well. I I think that we might need to think about as a board uh limited limiting how many uh events that we go to something to think about that we can talk about later uh so others can be able to and that we don't go over our budget. Any other concerns or questions? Yes. Regarding that, I believe this falls under the external um organizations committee that I'm chairing. Would you like us to have a conversation about that in that committee and bring some recommendations forward? Yes, please. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Oh, go ahead. Question. So, if we're going to do that, there are two of these that are relatively soon. Can
077we just vote on those first two and then save the rest until we have that conversation? I'm good with that. So, I'll make I mean, I'm ask the the two that are relatively the March one. Can we if we're going on on passing if we can do the January and February or January, February, March, that way we can just have time to talk about the rest. Dr. Bailey, if I may, there might be like early bird registration for even the March and April. I'm I'm not sure. Um, yes, your concerns are valid, Dr. Goodwine. I'm thinking about I always try to make sure that the registration is done as early as possible so we can save the district um money when we go to these conferences. Right. Can I ask Miss Kit if there is
078one for the March one? Early bird or April. The March or April. March. April. The four that are in March and April. If you're asking me right now. So, but the the March April I'm thinking we would still have time in February to approve it if there is an early bird one at that first meeting or honestly if we approve these ones just with the with the condition that if there is like whomever these are for if there are other individuals and you guys have already gone to two conferences in this calendar year that those people have the preference to go to That way it's just balanced out in that piece. And if we don't have the funds for it, then just because we approve it doesn't mean that we're going to necessarily be able
079to go. Oh, we missed. Okay. So, I make a motion that we approve the actually I said a lot of things. I make a motion that we approve the board travel and expense reimbursement as listed with the condition that if a individual on the board who did not sign up for these ones, they've already gone to two events that another board member has the option there so long as we have the funds. Can I can I ask are these the only conferences that board members will be going to this year? I do not know unless they send something in. Well, and you talking about this fiscal year, not the calendar year, correct? Yeah. Yeah. Because I think in that breakdown this kid had it had like OSBA conference on there, but that was that's this
080fiscal year, but then it starts over again in July. So then the correct money starts over again with this July conference. Correct. So there at least the top everyone except for the last one is in this fiscal year. Okay. You all okay with that? Mr. Smith has a question. Oh, Mr. Smith, go ahead. Well, I appreciate the conversation and I do think we should be cognizant of those things and spreading out that opportunity. My question is with the motion as it is stated Dr. Bailey, what would be our mechanism for ensuring that if we've already voted on someone's travel and then say someone else says, "Hey, I want to do this." What is what is this mechanism for someone to say, "Okay, you're going to go with me." Like, how would we enforce that? Or
081would it just be on good faith that I'm going to do it? Because if it's on good faith, we really don't need to vote on that. But I think if we're going to do it in good faith, then we would just do it because unless we have some kind of way to say you're not going to go, this person is going to go. So I'm asking you, how would you want to handle that? Uh I think that we could still do in good faith and and still vote on it. Go ahead. So I'm saying if so say I say I want to go somewhere it is voted on it and then I've gone to seven places and then so board member Garrison is like hey I want to go to this one but if I
082already have my itinerary and my ticket what makes me then not go yeah go ahead you already kicked it to board member Riner to come up with a system in that committee to bring back at the next meeting just in case if you don't have an answer right now that one, but you did already assign another board member a task to come up with those mechanisms. Yeah. So, are we going So, would that mean that we're still going to vote on all of these or are we going to unvote up until I would imagine the only one that we could leave off is July? Well, the mo we can actually just ask Miss Kid not to do the other one even if we approve them now. So, the motion right now has them all in
083there and we can ask and we can ask Miss Kid not to do the March ones until Miss Reiner brings back kind of that recommendation since we've already missed that early bird. Yeah, let's do that. So now, so even though we're voting on all of them, the request is still not to for us to register for the CASA or or Costco on down until Miss Riner brings back that recommendation for us. All right, Mr. Smith, I'm good. Anybody on that? Anyone else? All right, Madam Chair. President President Bailey. Yes. Dr. Goodwin, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Reard, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Garrison, yes. Miss Woods, yes. Eight yeses. Thank you, Miss Garrison. I'm sorry. What did I do? Comments. Um, I do not have any comments. All right, Mr. Smith, good
084evening. Thank you for everybody coming out. First, I want to thank um Dr. Jones and his team for getting back to me on some of the questions I had last week. I didn't raise that up during the vote on it, but I appreciate getting that information out to help me with that vote and with that information there. And I would love for you guys to share uh the progress of those projects. I think it'd be very exciting to kind of learn more of the inner workings of what goes on over there. And then especially with the uh cafeteria piece as well. Um I went to a couple of events. It's always good seeing some people out. Looking forward to doing more. Starting to get some invitations for our Black History Month programs. Uh, so I'm
085really excited to see people working ahead um with that. I look forward to seeing um just just the learning that goes on during that month and then trying to find ways that we can connect to our students so they can really see themselves as part of continuence of the history that goes on in our country and across the world. You know, we have some great students. Um, and I would ask that we do try to focus on some of those things, focus on some of our recent history as well and how people are currently changing the trajectory of our community in a good way. Um, I want to thank you for all the people that stand in the gaps. Um, I've seen a lot of things recently where people are really going above and beyond
086and I just ask that in leadership we are cognizant of the mindset of people that are really going out there and doing this work. Um, sometimes from our different scopes, some are looking macro, some are looking micro and sometimes those visions don't always align on a base level. And so I just ask us to give um each other grace and understand that there are people who are really really tapped into this work. And just because it doesn't seem like they are tapped in in the way that you are tapped in, it does not mean that they are not doing an amazing thing and would be um in a huge loss for us to lose people because of just visionary alignments when at the end of the day we're all wanting our children to succeed and
087our families to succeed. So that's all I want to put out there for today. Please take care of each other. Keep the main thing the main thing. Thank you, Mr. President. All right, Mr. Smith. That's a good one. Thank you. I ain't got much to say. Well, first I want to say if you didn't make it out to any of the MLK Day celebrations, you were warm because a lot of us were cold. So, it was a great march yesterday. It was nice to be out there. I did see the pictures from the concert. That was good. I want to highlight we had a seventh grade student from Styvers who actually did the welcome at the MLK dinner banquet and that's always really good to see our students be able to be on those type
088of platforms. I also want to thank Chief Jones and the entire Belmont administration team during the first quarter, end of the first quarter at the JB game, we had seven students who were awarded $17,000 each to go to Wilberforce University. So, always great to see our scholars get offers to go on to the next part and I appreciate them for helping to make that happen. And then it was it was JB. Oh, which I I'll be going to. And then finally, I do want to us to prepare us to come back at our next meeting, Dr. Lawrence, for the River's Edge, the extension of 8th grade. I think we got a good presentation on that last year. So board members, if you guys could re review that so we can actually make that decision so
089families can know if they're going to stay with us, if we're going to approve it, and if we're not going to approve it, then they are able, they have enough time to go figure that out in that piece. I mean, I'm ready to go today. I'll make a motion that we put eighth grade at reserves. I second it. Move to second. Any questions? Any questions? Concerns. Can we still get the presentation um so that we are aware of? We already had it. They came out. I I thought I thought that it was just stated that we were having a presentation in the next No, no, no, no. I was asking for people to go watch. We had one already. I mean, they put on a whole show. So definitely I remember that river deserve a
090All right, Mr. Smith. Only a comment on the u the motion. Dr. Lawrence, could we and I asked you back then, could we do something similar for our other middle schools as well? Because we do not do that. And so I would hope that we could do that and let those students be able to come down here and shine in front of the viewing public of Dayton the same way that we do for certain schools in certain buildings. Absolutely. Thank you, sir. What else? Madam Chair, President Bailey. Yes. Dr. Goodwin. Yes. Mr. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Rhiner, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Garrison, yes. Miss Woods, yes. Eight yeses. Thank you. And my final comment, I want you to know I'm back in the debate contest. Hopefully, I don't get cheated this
091year. I got assistant or associate business manager, Dr. Vincent Taylor. We coming out. Charity Adams. Girls, y'all going to see us out here. We're really late to the game, so that first one will be a little rocky, but after that, we going to get get going. Y'all be sure to come out. Please support the debate program. I'm sure you will see the schedule that comes out the same way. I mean, support anything that our kids are doing after hours cuz they definitely need you to show up. Any of our minor sports, our major sports, our academic pieces that come out, come out, support, watch, give them praise, give them feedback, just help them continue to keep going in these pieces. That's all I have. Thank you, Miss Woods. Do I have I don't have anything
092today besides saying happy holidays cuz you know MLK day was yesterday. I didn't go to the banquet or the walk. I'm pretty sad about the banquet because I was really excited about it. But I don't have any thoughts today besides asking you guys to just keep my family in your prayers. Thank you, Mr. Walker. Uh thank you. I would like to thank uh Dr. Lawrence um his team today for our presentation um and then our meeting earlier. I would like to highlight that we will not meet again um until the 10th, but February 7th is the district science fair and I'm looking forward to it. I did decline the invitation to judge. So I just want to put that out there. I I judged two schools already, so I'm good on that piece. Um, I
093will say that it is getting closer and closer to the new state house legislative sess session starting. So, please pay attention to these lame duck bills that will be coming out that affect public education as it is today in the state of Ohio. Um, I think that's all my comments. Miner. Thank you, Dr. Bailey. Um, just for the board's information, um, Dr. Goodwine and board member Walker are on the external organization committee with me. So look for the invitation for that. That has not yet been scheduled. Um but I'm looking forward to having that discussion. Um we asked last year I also chaired the committee last year and we asked that board members bring reports back um from the conferences that they attend. Um, and I would like that to also be a priority for
094board members who travel. Um, on behalf of the district to collect information and bring it back. Um, I was not able to attend any of the MLK events yesterday. Um, as I stated last week, and once again, I want to extend my thanks for to everybody who uh was able to participate. Um, those marches are cold and wonderful. I'm grateful that we live in a community that celebrates this. uh and makes this a priority. Um in terms of legislation, there is one that I wanted to bring uh to the attention of the public just for um everybody so you guys can keep an eye on this one. Uh Senate Bill 19 passed the Senate in December and it was introduced into the House. This bill would require schools to provide for tutoring, extra instruction, and
095other intervention services to students who score low on math, English statewide tests. Um the intention of this is great. I have zero objections to the idea of students needing um further supports if they're scoring low. The frustration from myself, from other educational experts, from um people who understand funding is that there is no additional funding attached to this at all, excuse me. And the additional expectation without financial resources, without funding, excuse me, is what's really difficult uh especially when we are looking at budget deficits happening in districts all across the state. We need these services. Uh I would love to have these services, but we also need to understand that they need to be they need to be funded. We need to be able to pay the experts, to pay the teachers, uh to pay
096the tutors. This is not something that we can just uh magically provide with a wave of the wand. We need to make sure that the people who are doing this work are paid uh for the services that they provide for the expertise that they bring to this district for what they're worth and what we all agree that they're worth. Um so I would encourage bills like this to be funded and not be unfunded mandates. Um and that is all I have. Dr. Bailey. All right. Uh I'm going to see if I can do this. from if she makes it quick. I said I won't do this I won't do this often but go ahead I'll let you go back thank you President Bailey you caught me off guard when you called me first I'll get
097used to this I just wanted to thank u the presenters today uh Mr. Connor and I also wanted to thank Mr. Watenza for coming out and offering some uh public speaking. Uh public speaking is not an easy task and I appreciate anyone who had the courage to come up and do so in front of uh this audience in this particular setting and um praying for everybody's safety. Thank you. That's all I have. Mr. Lacy, as it's been mentioned, we had a finance committee meeting today. It was a a good discussion and it will continue on the finances of the district. Um, next Tuesday we have the audit committee meeting that I'm looking forward to and um uh there and I wanted to make some comments on a working group that was put together by by
098our congressman Turner to address the perception of criminal activity in our downtown. Part of the goals of this group are to encourage Dayton public schools to not use the RTA for transportation. It is difficult to take this group seriously or support this group when members of this group are currently fighting in court to make it against state law for Dayton public school students to change buses downtown. Especially when you consider that in a preliminary hearing of this court case, the the people fighting to keep this state law admitted in court um on the witness stand that part of the rationale for this law was that they don't want to see Dayton public school students downtown. This and the working group's lack of outreach go against any sense of bringing our community together to tackle our
099problems. Uh quite the opposite. This approach effectively demonizes Dayton public school students. If they want our involvement in in this working group, this is my opinion. Uh they can start by repealing the state law um telling us that we can't uh we can't have our our students uh um change buses downtown. Thank you. See, it's not always me. Thank you, sir. Mr. Brock, I have nothing to share tonight. Miss Hamilton, Dr. uh Jones. Thank you, board president. Uh first, I'd like to publicly congratulate our um reelected and newly elected board members. I did not get an opportunity uh to do that uh the last time. So, uh congratulations. I'd also uh like to implore the adults in the community, uh parents, um teachers, um aunts, uncles, we're halfway through the season, our our winter season,
100and uh it's something to see um when, you know, students are on the court competing, the level of intensity just goes up when they see faces in the crowd. M um I really do hate seeing uh gaps. Um and so come out and support these DPS kids. Um it makes a difference. Uh also on February 5th, we have our annual um who's in the jersey event and the theme is cowboy boots and uh cowgirl boots. So, well, I'll get some cowboy attire. Dr. Lawrence, uh, I just want to thank the all the teams, treasurers team, academic teams, and operations. We've been working very hard, uh, on the budget, and we've been making great progress. I want to thank the board members who have been invited and stepped out to be a part of these budget
101discussions. So, you can hear our conversations. Um, I want to thank the board members who are on committees. We've been doing a much better job of working through ideas and and providing information in in committees. And so I'm really pleased with the start of this year. And um speaking of basketball, I did uh go see a seventh grade game on um Sunday at 3:30 and I saw one of the top guards in the nation, um Marvin Sun. that. Oh man, he can go. Uh, in fact, Dr. Jones will probably only be with us for five or six years. His son will be drafted in NBA and he would bid us a do I did just ref one of his games like Yeah. Yeah. Hey, go ahead and record that to let Buddy know I called
102him out. All right. Uh, I just want to thank all the board members. When I reach out to them, they've been there to help me out uh, in this new process and this new position. It's been great. So, thank you guys. Uh, I went out to MLK, a couple of MLK events. I went to the concert uh, the other day and I want to give a shout out to one of the Styvers High School students. I think her name is Jan Janiah Belchure uh who did a wonderful poem. Uh it was beautiful. Um so I give her kudos on that. Uh I did go to Waggleman versus uh Wright brothers game. I was there with uh Dr. Jones who uh left early. He had some things to do but he missed a wonderful ending. Uh
103Man, that was a great game. Uh, and it's just good to see these these students work real hard and get out here and compete with each other. That's all I have. Motion to adjurnn. Second. You got to motion to adjourn. You got to hit the G. I motion Miss Reiner. Second. Okay. Second. We still We still got a vote. Vote. We still got to vote. We We still got to vote, people. President Bailey. Yes. Yes. You see that? Goodwine. Yes. Smith. Yes. In Janiah, daddy went to me. Lacy, yes. Miss Reard, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Garrison, yes. Uh, Miss Woods. Yes. Eight. Yes.