001Hello. My daughter's going to be in the parade of choirs. No, she's a freshman this year, but she didn't sensory issues. All right, if everybody's ready, you want to go ahead and call this work session to order. Can I get an adoption of the agenda? I move to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. Motion and second. All those in favor raise your hand and say I. I. Motion passes. All right. Today we have item 2.01 MSBA advocacy positions. So you have all received the packet of the MSBA advocacy positions. So today is an opportunity if you have any questions, concerns, uh if there's anything that you would like to propose as a potential amendment, those would need to typically be submitted um by the MSBA delegate to the MSBA typically around August. So this gives
002us an opportunity to review the MSBA positions, see if there's anything that would like to be modified, give that time for that modification to be presented to MSBA so that that could be later brought to the MSBA delegate floor. Does anyone have any initial thoughts, questions, concerns? I I would just have a question perhaps. Yes. Have we gotten any more clarity on the -ate program? I mean, it's included here, so I was curious. Not necessarily, right, Dr. Whley? There's nothing new news in there. There is a a lawsuit about E-Rate, but we're all waiting for that. Do we need to give everyone a few minutes to review the packet or has everyone looked through it and they have no concerns, questions, proposals of changes? This might be the shortest work session on record. President Foley,
003honestly, the majority of the time I spent in this document was in the last two sections, which was specifically schoolboard governance and the federal regulatory items. So, um, that's kind of where I focus the majority of my time. And honestly, um, I was happy to see that in terms of, uh, where is it down here? Page 16, open enrollment, MSBA still, um, you know, has taken a stand with regards to, um, funding. However, with the current legislation that is out there percolating, um, the current the current the position is it's against it, right? But the all local funding remains with the resident district. If that is about to change perhaps is that part of this going to change as well. So that money will start the the support to see some money flow with the
004student or and again I'm just I don't know that anybody has an answer but that was just something that I had thought of. House Bill 711 which was heard in hearing earlier well last week Thursday. Um it's only state funding that would follow the kid. Local funding would remain in the resident district uh in that particular bill. There is a Senate bill 215 that hasn't moved out of the Senate. Okay. Sorry, I just got to page 16 here so I can see what you were talking about. Um, so this is the it's the MSBA advocacy position. So, uh, even as um, bills might move through the House or Senate, the MSBA will stand strong that this is their position. this is what they're holding on and this is what they're advocating for based on the
005support of their membership. Um and and they will continue to do so if if the law does change. I think that is something that potentially could come back for a modification of their position. Um but I don't I don't see that MSBA would ever say we're now for open enrollment just because it became legalized. I think they would actually work to undo the the bill that passed the next year. I know there was u there was a lot of conversation on the delegate floor last year about holding schools accountable and how um uh different u different districts um different like public school versus private school. There's there's a lot of um areas where uh maybe private schools aren't held to the same accountability standards as public schools and things like that. So, um, there's a
006lot of things that could be changed. Even if maybe something changes on the the front side of things like enrollment numbers or funding, there's ways that they could still advocate to support public schools by then using different accountability measures or things like that. All right. board member Haley, do you have any questions, concerns, anything that you want to discuss that we should look at considering proposing an amendment or anything like that? I do not. Okay. Board member Miller. I do not either. Okay. Board member Garrett. Okay. Thank you. Board member Myers. No. Thank you. Vice President Esle. No. Okay, seven minutes. All right. Well, then I think yes, this might be a record with that. If there are no additional questions, um you all have this uh should something change later on, you are welcome
007to propose that to whoever the next MSBA delegate is or to bring it back in work session. Um or as actually it would go as an agenda item on the the board packet as well. that can be a way you can do it um to be able to have the discussion with the full board before moving forward with anything later um once we get through the full legislative session. All right, thank you everyone. With that, this work session is adjourned.