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Dickinson Public Schools May 11, 2026, School Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Dickinson Public Schools
Date
2026-05-12
Location
Stark County, ND
Material
Transcript
Extent
915 words · about 6 min
Collected
2026-06-10

Transcript

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001Join me to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation for all. Our first item is the approval of our consent agenda. Additional motion. And we do have a PowerPoint presentation with all of our Congratulations. >> Our next approval of tonight's agenda. Do we have a motion? >> Say I. Our next couple 28 Every school graduating on that looks like we'll have a contract in the coming weeks. Transportation costs are going up just like everything. kindergarten uh pre-registration. We started that February 4th and we ask that we're at 269 right now. It's hard. It's been up up and down with numbers the last five years. We used to look at birth. The only other thing I'll say about that question topics. We have our high school construction

002activities kind of over what they're structural steel got access They're all over the place. in the library. They also got staircase walk up and down. auditorium complete first floor down the south side of the building start going into some of these pictures. This is on third floors to the north. There's another picture looking the other way. layout there. This is down on second floor. So, we got tile picture. We also got displays. This is first floor. They made a lot of progress overhead plumbing. This is that early educator. that all three floors of the building kind of central location. the mainchalling done drywall done it as we So that's kind of the front of house. We also building constructional siding started progress. This is that east stairwell area. So, one of our two ste last

003days of April. on the roof area before I came over there as we speak. Since the last meeting, they framed it all outcome, princip auditorium. There's some big drywalls that hang on those right now. Once I get those starting started. That's all I got for update. This is kind of our overall construction of our changes and our work 52% overall Any questions? Entire level. an update on that project. We have summer renovation this summer a little bit early started progress. Our next item is on the overhead you'll see one of the goals really has to do with a series of survey questions. specific seven to be specific in our climate survey going back to 2019 I believe and so we identified those six questions and we've been tracking We've seen growth over the last four

004years but still looking good. So in order for us to say we're meeting our goal is questions and we want% staff members that agree slightly agree or agree with the question. So we last year. So 11 schools. So the first question right not necessarily every decision but how do we input one of those major times which is coming up but all of our schools have three teams have a guiding coalition team that really identifies resources in that according time district of our 12 schools met their met their goal this year pretty Question two is I feel like I belong in those part of our 12 schools or 80% Question three is I feel safe at that school. Right? Safe and collaborative. We have 10 of our 12 schools. All of these really slight question at

005school students are given the opportunity to take part in decision making that's difficult in elementary right it's really difficult early childhood So you have to get kids opinions especially at the teacher level but it's not always the fifth question I feel comfortable discussing worries and frustrations of the 12 schools in that area still have over 76% of staff with it. It's just questioning work environment at that 80% And a lot of them I meet with principles on these tracks. a lot about you know I was a building staff members leadership team but not everybody send out emails sometimes it's about setting up processes and procedures to make sure we are getting people That's for today. We have some work to do as always. Our next center. So this year started out a little shaky being

006told in July that they were not releasing our federal funds but it worked out in the endoc but I do want to thank the department of education I believe is But I don't know how to provide adults. We do already have our funding estimates for the upcoming school year. As you can see at the top, we had a significant drop in our envir human support. But overall we have 77 students and 79 students. Our measurable skills progress of our students looking very our level student from 43 level for most of our levels we are doing at the state. Some of the other highlights from this year Armstrong the Heritage Center. We also added two new teachers and Jill serves as our math specialist. We also have various presenters and visitors here. We also Those classes

007are citizens. So this year our teacher volunteers officers. So while our prep services are not permitted to pay for tests or federal grant student. However, we do continue to row and they provided And overall question. them too. >> Beth does her team does a really smaller Our next is members Thank you for having us. We're excited this evening to give you an update after a couple years of a lot of works network and in addition to our coordinators. We have Mrs. from Korea, Central Regional Education Association of Hades ago. readiness So we have to do I would say that Part of our absolute focus is not resources for us. Really accessories, how to focus on specialization. Our goal is to do that partnership, right? resources. Start understanding. family. So I know district. We have been

008really wonderful. We also rest. We also wanted to talk a little bit. We have opport hours. students. We also Sorry. We are working I'm not going to partnership. We have We are always societal. had amazing feedback. We are also always remove one of the school boarding programs. You heard about the attendance interventions that's something that replicant previous now you have building skills There's so many support today regional education association can see that you know what is a resource rich district wealth of people that really So rather than contin I'm Great. Thank you. Never received anything likeless. Now moving on to our first breakfast. I move to approve breakfast for adult breakfast for lunch for students in K through 525 for lunch in 6475 for lunches 9 to 120 for lunch for adults for extra milk

009to 127 We'll start with Vice President. >> Our next item is our school policy. Hi Vice President. adoption of one regul second. Our next school offends Policy FDA policy education of homeless students policy disposal of school supplies policy AC policy sava federalis compiance policy and final adoption of Start next meeting. Is that correct? >> July 28th. none. All those in favor open to approve the open enrollment. Application request for publication.

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