001president Davis the live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and start the meeting thank you good evening and welcome to the February 19th regular board meeting of the castr Unified School District the meeting is now in session the time is 5:17 p.m. uh Mrs Hayes can you please call the RO trusty castanos here trusty Pritcher trusty pritch is absent trusty Zinger here trusty Adams here trusty Jones here trusty bulus here trusty Davis here Mrs Hayes before the board recesses to close session is there anyone who'd like to speak to a Clos session agenda item there are none the board will now recess to close session to address the following agenda items student expulsion three cases student readmissions two cases conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation two cases conference with labor
002negotiators CUA CSEA Teamsters Kuma unrepresented employees conference with real property negotiations property 14,692 Acres proposed Randa K8 school project site liability claim 1 case conference with legal council anticipated litigation six cases conference with legal counsil existing litigation five cases Public Employee discipline dismissal release one case the board will now recess to close session e e president Davis the live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and start the meeting good evening and welcome to the February 19th regular board meeting of the capistrana Unified School District the meeting is now in session the time is [Music] 7:02 and Miss hay if you could please call the role student board member verando here truste casianos here truste Pritchard present trusty Zinger here trusty Adams here trusty Jones here trusty bulus here trusty Davis
003here thank you and the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Darren gindra would you mind joining us and thank you thank you and may I have a motion to adopt the agenda move moved by truste Jones seconded by trusty Zinger thank you Miss Hayes do we have any speaker cards for oral communication okay we're going to report on close session action items Mrs Hayes please read the report from close session on agenda item 3A student expulsions items A1 through A3 trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendations on the following cases 202 5 009 case 01 0 and case 011 on agenda item 3B student readmissions trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendations on the following cases case number 2022 021 and case number 018 on agenda item 3C conference with legal councel anticipated litigation
004trustees gave direction to St on agenda item 3D conference with labor negotiators trustees gave direction to staff on agenda item 3E conference with real property negotiators no reportable action on agenda item 3F liability claim trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following case rejection rejection of government claim number 3 on agenda item 3G conference with legal council anticipated litigation G1 through G6 trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following cases ADR case number 202 4729 M case number 202 41218 case number 20251 03 case number 20250 1 6 case number 20250 one13 and case number 20250 one14 on agenda item 3H conference with legal counsel existing litigation cases H1 through H5 trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendations those case numbers are 20247 414 case number 2024 9372 case number 0558
005case number 202 491 084 case number 12317 on agenda item 3i Public Employee discipline dismissal release trustees voted 70 to approve the staff recommendation on the following case number resolution number 24257 c that concludes my report thank you and I'd like to recognize Dr Chris Brown who will present superintendent opening comments followed by trustees good evening everyone welcome to the February 19th board meeting I want to start our board meeting by just taking a few minutes to celebrate some of our incredible teachers on uh Monday February 3rd we enjoyed our annual tradition of announcing our teacher of the year recipients and we did surprise visits to their classrooms often with their families and with trustees and flowers and balloons and if you've seen our social media hopefully you've seen their their uh surprised faces um
006and it's it's a great event that we do it's always great for the teachers to have such a large group of supporters their kids get really excited to celebrate them we get great pictures of the students with the teachers and the the teacher of the year Banner um but I want to announce our elementary school teacher of the year for cusd is sah espanosa Perez uh Miss espanosa Prez is a intervention tosa at San Juan Elementary and she's worked in CD for 14 years mostly in our two-way Spanish emersion programs she shifted to intervention support for the last few years and she also manages the school's AVID program which might be a little theme here we'll come back to um the middle school teacher of the year is Trisha humph a math teacher at leera
007Ranch she's in her eighth year at lrms um and I know that some of our own trustees have some experience with Miss humph as a as a teacher for their children Trisha has taught all levels of math she runs the math club at Lera and uh the math Allstar program and our high school teacher of the year is Aon bro who is an AVID coordinator at San Clemy high school and she's worked in C for nearly 20 years I do believe she's a San Clemy High School alum as well um so she's cusd through and through and and in that time she's been building Avid the program has been honored it serves more than 10% of the San Clemy population and San clemmen is an National Avid demonstration school which um having been a part
008of that and a few other schools is a very very rigorous thing to achieve so um congratulations to our three outstanding winners and and the role Avid has played in some of their their work um and we wish them the best of luck as they move on because the next step for them is to be in the county competition to be hopefully represented as the Orange County uh teacher of the year and we wish them the best of luck for that if [Applause] please if you recall in December uh I mentioned that there'll be some changes coming to the boardroom and so on tonight's agenda you're going to see the contract uh in uh consent calendar to invest in the new technology that'll provide greater access to our meetings increase the transparency of our work
009in the district and really make it easier to watch our meetings virtually and actually see what's going on see our speakers see our board members um and provide clarity about what you're seeing and hearing if you can't attend in person um and really these these investments in technology are being funded through a grant provided by the Federal Communications Commission and the work to upgrade the boardroom will happen during spring break so that's the hopefully the contract will be approved tonight and the work happening in spring break and then finally I'd like to just invite people to attend a few upcoming events we're hosting a workshop on the subject of bullying tomorrow night at Don Juan Avala Middle School at 5:00 pm the College and Career Advantage career fair which is always a huge very packed
010event is scheduled for Monday February 24th at San Juan Hills High School from 5: to 7: the uh Orange County Pathways showcase which will again have our CCA program in attendance is scheduled for Thursday February 277th at the Orange County Fair Grands from 400 to 7M our cusd secondary honors concert is scheduled for Tuesday March 4th at the seagers Center for Performing Arts at 7 p.m. and uh the next coffee with Chris will be at Canyon Vista Elementary School on Friday March 14th at 8: a.m. and this ends my comments for this evening thank you trustees truste ad good evening everyone um so nice to see everybody I just wanted to give a shout out to Kristen Nelson um at RH Dana I was able to go visit that school a couple weeks ago with
011superintendent Brown and I was so impressed and just an amazing campus as was a longtime educator I I look for things in in a school and some of the things I was impressed with was the Rapport and the support that Kristen Nelson the principal has with her staff and um and with the students that was really impressive and just the students engaging in the curriculum and engaging in the learning it was great and it's just a great thriving campus and so I just want to give her a shout out give the whole staff and the whole community at RH Dana shout out was great great visit so thank you thank you other trustees um yeah good evening um I just I've been really trying to dive in and get to as many schools and and
012events as I can but I just wanted to make mention of something that I went to this last month that I was so impressed with um and that was the CAC meeting which is the special education Community advisory committee and I didn't realize this existed but I know I I know now and I'm this is another thing that I want to spread this information if your child has an IEP or um has has is in any part of this bed program this is a way for you to communicate with our district directly which is really powerful there's um we have Clint Collins there who's over special ed he's awesome and he's he's there to answer questions and to and they present on different topics at the different monthly meetings and I just know personally I
013have children who have had IEPs I was an educator before I had children so I was already well versed in IEPs but even as a parent who was well-versed it's still a little bit scary when it's your own child and you have a lot of questions and to be able to join in with other parents and um share experiences and advice I think it's really really powerful those meetings take place here in the boardroom once a month I don't have the dates in front of me but the next one is I think next week but check the website it's all on the website CAC is um the acronym for that and um I just thought it was an awesome opportunity for people to be informed there's a lot of acronyms with in sped is you
014know if you have a child with um special needs and it's like learning a new language really when you jump into that world and so to have this support is really phenomenal and it's here it's another one of um one of the things our district does really well so just wanted to talk about that thank you good evening um I just wanted to share that um oftentimes during The Fall season uh when our kids are attending their classes and their electives and in the vapa world the Performing Art World um many students are brand new to the music or the drama class or whatever it may be um and so they're in the learning mode and I learned that during the Spring season is where all of that practice and talent kind of comes alive
015and there's a lot of different performances that are going on um I just recently in the last 30 days have attended two area concerts um one for instrument Al music both band and Orchestra at cppo Valley High School in Torro that's where our elementary school students and our middle school students join the high school that's hosting it in the big gymnasium and um they start with the younger ones and they perform and um then they perform together and at the end of the evening the elementary school students get to perform with the middle and the high school students and I know I mean the gymnasiums are always packed um and um it's a great time to see the students perform um we also had uh an area concert for vocal at Torro and we've got
016one coming up at Dana Hills High School um and I recently went to I have never been in my years as a trustee to a dance performance so I said I want to go see one of those so I was at San Juan Hills High School um a few Fridays ago and uh watched the senior dance performance and it it's just so refreshing to see these young people Express themselves creatively and their dance and their movements um so I'm going to go back to one of they've got three more um at San Juan Hills High School uh this spring season so I encourage you uh I was also at tiaris Creek uh Beetle juu uh junior so there's a lot of plays happening in all levels elementary middle school high school so um all you
017have to do is kind of tap into your local Local School uh website where they post that information and um It's a Wonderful way to support schools go see children perform and um it'll just bring a smile to your face so I wanted to share that with you thank you thank you other trustees trustee I also went to one of the performances this last month at um um sanan Hills High School they had the unfortunately named year in town I'm I apologize for having to mention it but it's it's about a town where um they have a water shortage and so the only way you can use the facilities is to use pay facilities uh but there's a lot more to it than that the reason I wanted to bring it up is some of
018you have perhaps mentioned one missed all of my exhortations from the Das in the past that you should go see our our school performances dance vocal drama music why would you drive up to Seager Strom and pay $60 when you can park for free right in your own town or nearby and for 10 or $15 see a play that is probably just about as good and supporting your own kids that there's a lady here in front that's nodding and some of the rest of you are nodding they are so good and so many people I know who have been to um um professional performances and go to our high schools and middle schools are just astonished at the Quality please find out about what's going on at your local schools and attend some of the
019Productions I think you will be blown away thank you Christy castanas good evening thank you um so I just wanted to highlight a couple um things that are coming up for me personally I am delighted to be a part of again this year um the annual sack Safari which happens every year around this time where your PTA sends up alleged representative and gets to go up and hear kind of what's happening at the state level that will directly directly impaact us as a district so I'm excited to go up and learn about new bills that are coming down the pike for Education um student member Brando is going with me so we'll both be up there uh learning a lot about what's coming what's coming up for the school district um there is an important
020bill to watch so assembly member um maruchi has reintroduced the raise the base bill so if you've been around in cusd for a couple of years you know that we've been working and advocating very hard within the state to raise the base and get base funding up for our school district so it is back so that's exciting I hope that it makes it somewhere this time um again I just want to reiterate what's kind of happening around the district the superintendent mentioned in his comments but bullying is a very very important issue and we are having a discussion coming up it is the last one uh we've had many of them throughout the district starting in January but I just want to let you know that the workshop covers kind of what constitutes bullying how
021it's identified and how the district addresses the issue um it is presented by our very own Mr Darren gindra um who's in this room and does a fantastic job and so please if you're if it's a concern of yours it is happening on February 20th at Don Juan Aila middle school so that's an important I believe it's at five o'clock if I'm not mistaken is that correct five 5 to six it lasts only about an hour and it's a wealth of knowledge so that you'll get that evening around the idea of bullying so please come um and then just another uh Avenue that I think is very important for parents to be able to have direct contact with the superintendent I think as a parent that's a very important piece to have and you have
022that opportunity in this district and he does coffee chats around the district and he is doing a coffee chat at Canyon Vista on he mentioned March 14th and that's at 8 and 9 in the morning um so it is just an hour but it's an important hour where you get to have um a one-on-one conversation um and ask your personal questions with the superintendent so um just wanted you to be aware of those important dates and what's kind of happening at the state level so thank you thank you okay all right so so many things happening we are in an incredible district and improving every day um was able to attend lunch with loved ones today at Concordia the entire field was filled with families and loved ones and our students and it was beautiful
023um sany High School girls wrestling took second at CIF this last weekend the I mean everyone's mentioned so many of the things right so the surprise it for the teacher of the year was great it was great to see all three and how excited and surprised and um just how much we value our teachers so that was beautiful coffee with Chris at truman um great group of parents and community members that were able to attend and thank you trusty casanas for mentioning the March 14th at Canyon Vista love this opportunity to get get some time and ask your specific questions eighth grade expo at St Clin High School hosted by F hosted future trustee future tritons and their families providing insight and um into the academics and the ex extracurricular opportunities and this is happening
024at all of our schools the s High School area concert great time to see our elementary and middle school students as they are beginning and what happens when they just simply practice a little bit every day and as we all know when we do little things each day by the end of the year it adds up to a lot of time so it's great to see um their Improvement as they go through that process that was able to attend the Futures phase two at San Clem high school that was a career and Community connections and it was our partnership with CCA and the S CL manyi Chamber of Commerce offering real world business and career development experiences as we partnered with Hogue and um it was great I mean the room was completely packed we
025had almost 80 students in there and great opportunity to kind of learn and see some of the opportunities that will be available to you as as adults after you graduate from high school and CIF playoffs boys soccer boys basketball both qualified for CIF girls basketball um they're in their CIF semi-finals tonight and girls water polo will compete for CIF finals on Saturday was able to have the a tour at the Santa no nuclear power plant um as I'm sitting on that board now and and was able to be there with our former trustee um Martha mcnicholas and um great to see what's happening there and um and trusty costano thanks for a reminder of the raise the base and the support that we do need to raise the base and that means the money that
026is coming in for each of our students in California Lots going on lots of things happening thank you for being here and let's go move that over to our student adviser thank you uh thank you um I'd like to start off by expressing our gratitude to all of our incredible counselors uh this month we celebrated National School counseling week recognizing their dedication to supporting our students every day uh for our seniors it's an exciting but busy time as they work on our uh their financial aid applications for college uh futurology has been an incredible resource hosting workshops at each of our high schools to help students navigate this process uh the 2025 uh career fair is happening on Monday March 24th from 5:00 to 7: p.m. at stanwan Hills High School it's hosted by cusd
027in partnership with College and Career advantage and it will give students the opportunity to explore career paths connect with industry professionals and gain insights into emerging Industries as well as access job and internship opportunities also winter CIF competitions are taking place this month uh good luck to all of our winter sports team in their games and finally the middle and high schools uh have been hosting showcases for our fifth and eighth graders respectively helping them in their families navigate for this next chapter in their educational Journey thank you thank you thank you student student board member of randoo all right and we'll move on to oral Communications total time for oral communication shall be 20 minutes Mrs Hy do we have any speaker cards for or Communications we do we have 20 speaker cards so
028set the timer per board policy to 1 minute per speaker I'm going to call the first 10 speakers and ask that you line up Denise is Speaker number one Randall two Dawn Lisa Meyers hatham please forgive me if I mispronounce your name hatham Abdul is Speaker number five Stephanie Judy Carol Lee elain o Conor kathern Hall is number 10 please go ahead hello thank you very much good evening thank you for having me my name is Denise salaya I am a parent of a woman's Varsity wrestler at s Clemy high school as many of you are aware our program is in shambles right now and if you aren't aware I'm going to make you aware our coaches were fired on January 28th I received a call from my daughter in hysterics crying I informed her
029to immediately come home she came home I waited all night for an email I waited the whole next day for an email and it wasn't until I took the initiative to call the school to find out what was going on with the program that is exactly how the last three and a half four weeks have been going as you were aware tonight with Lisa stating we won second in state we're first in District here and these girls deserve much better than what they are receiving I would appreciate if everyone here would look into the program and go further just address thank you Miss Leia our next speaker is Randall Lipton I thank you all for doing what you do for the kids I love kids I'm not that fond of adults but I love kids
030um to follow on to what Denise said uh I love St Clement high school it's great I was thrilled when my daughter started there last year uh there have been some changes there uh her boyfriend and she was were bullied uh it escalated it kind of got out of control I found out about it on the Monday before spring break I went to the school to see the principal my daughter was threatened with rape online this is a 15-year-old girl uh she was hysterical I went in to see the principal he was too busy to meet with me I met with Vice principals I met with the athletic director I met with the uh officer uh Tish Kish excuse me thank you Mr lieuten I'm sorry your time's up uh our next speaker is Don
031hi good evening I had three minutes speech to talk about the um to thank you guys for working with the Jewish Community with the ethnic studies program that's coming in the fall of 2025 um we only have to look to our local for year universities to see how things can go very wrong very fast over the past year when um curriculum is not uh treated the right way when it's not taught without bias and things like that so anyway I'm I want to thank you for that I want to encourage you to continue to work on that and to follow up when it does go into effect and make sure the teachers that are teaching in the high schools and the middle schools are um not putting their personal bias in it um and are
032teaching the way it should be and also just everybody check in on your Jewish friends tomorrow because we all learn that the beus family the mother and the two Bab are coming back in body bags tomorrow tonight to Israel your Jewish friends are not okay thank you our next speaker is Lisa Myers um hello trustees I'm speaking specifically to truste Davis trusty Zinger and truste adnams um you proudly ran your school bus campaign aligned with our president who is now in the process of dismantling the Department of Education for everybody to be aware the idea Act was passed by Congress in 1975 to ensure that students with disabilities would have access to the best free and appropriate education that they were able to and this of course is funded in part by the doe the
033federal portion pays up to 40% of students with disabilities education additionally are very important Title One schools which provide education to our lowincome and often students are supplemented um with grants by the Department of Education so I know you all spoke so frequently about parents rights in your campaign so I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say about parents rights for these important groups of students our next speaker Isam Abdul last week an event called Justice week was held at Capistrano Valley High School speakers had meaningful discussions with students about bias and intolerance one of the speakers Tommy ay brought up parts of America's history and moved on to discuss Palestinian issues after his presentation in a Q&A he was accused of anti-Semitism in 25 form letters sent to the school principal and
034a member of this board most of those letters came from people without students in the school district this is not new nobody ever accused those who stood fast against aarth South Africa of being anti-white yet the moment we defend the helpless and desperate Palestinian people and try to point out the crimes committed against them the conversation is shut down with cries of anti-Semitism just as black lives matter is a bold cry for justice so is highlighting the plight of the Palestinian people social justice is for everyone absolutely everyone regardless of gender orientation race religion or country of orientation when we call out black lives matter everyone knows or should know it is not to say only black lives matter God bless the Palestinian people our next speaker is Stephanie thank you for allowing me to
035speak today I'm here to give you some resources for your schools and principles um in regard to fighting hate and uh anti-Semitism the first would be the Orange CA the Orange County Holocaust Museum maybe you don't know if we have it or not um but there is there is also funding for students uh to be busted over there so if you call um and you have the flyer you'll find out more information about that the next one is called student to student it's where students can come Jewish students come and speak to other students and they learn about what Judaism is and uh what it's like to be Jewish and whatnot so that brings personal level we all know that education is the key to fighting bias and hate and this is done by the
036Federation the next one is survivors it's a play that can be done it's free to the schools as well the next one is Hope in the holy land that is a a documentary and the most important I want you to get to your special needs teachers is Friendship Circle this is a free program thank you our next speaker is Judy [Applause] Yehuda good evening thank you um I am glad to hear that bullying is front and center at the school district because it is really an issue and anti-Semitism in our schools have completely been on the rise since October 7th along with a lot of misinformation um but as to our students they're being harassed in a lot of ways they're being excluded and as my colleague um was just speaking about some of the
037programs that we can offer to help in this area I just want to let you know that I'll be reaching out to you by email in the next few days and I hope that you'll be willing to set up a meeting or that maybe the superintendent of Education would be willing to set up a meeting with us so that we could further that conversation and find some real solutions thank you our next speaker is Carol Lee hi I'm Carol Lee I'm here as a dosent at the Holocaust Education Center of Orange County I'm going to skip because of the other comments that have been made I'm going to skip my whole um speech down to that our Orange County Holocaust Education Center exists to help you uh educate students against any kind of hate and
038we have a remarkable um exhibit of One Survivor for his artwork where he brought artifacts back and we have students also meet with Holocaust Survivors so it's very personal and uh I think it really uh teaches children about the importance of Tolerance and they get to meet people firsthand and the artwork was done by someone who was in the camps when he was 17 or 18 so I think it's very relatable for young students thank you our next speaker is elain O Conor good evening my name is elain O Conor she said that already and I came to share a resource they've talked about hate and I come with the resource about that but it's this is specifically about hate and as it is reflected in anti-Semitism and there is a resource from the Israeli
039American Council and what it is is this educational program where they have a speaker come and give a staff development presentation which addresses that issue as well as related topics so an iaac Specialists have given this presentation in Los Angeles County Orange County including Fullerton school district and they are we glad to come to um to C USD and present it it's no cost so I encourage you to in um contact the Israeli American Council and discuss this program or learn about any of the other ones um thank you for this opportunity our next speaker is Katherine Hall hi um thank you for the time to speak and I was grateful to hear all the positive talks about the arts program and I came here to share a personal story my grandchild was in uh
040deliso Elementary and by third grade he was a handful he was a handful for the students for the staff for the teacher who were looking at IEPs I mean it was it challenging um which is not something a grandparent wants to have to say um in fourth grade same school someone gave him a violin and he learned to read music and started he's not a v virtuoso but he started learning the violin he participated in the school concerts whatever fourth grade he decided he wanted to try the trumpet by the middle of the year he was in Al dis distri band he's now in sixth grade at Marco Forester he's a model student constantly getting positive reports from teachers and staff saying he's a an asset to their classes and I just want you to
041support the Arts thank you I'm going to call the next the next 10 speakers I would ask you to line up Sandra Anderson OLG Shan Mary an Jamie Pam Raymond Karen and Sarah Sandra go ahead hello I'm the parent of a sophomore who attends cvhs and has attended schools within cvhs their entire career as my child progress I was always amazed at the quality of Education my child was receiving our experiences with teachers administrators and other staff have exceeded our expectations parents's willingness to volunteer has also stood out along the way now that my child is in high school it's incredible how much the school has to offer for example a four-year engineering program um an automotive program an international baloria program numerous clubs on topics from coding to gardening to random acts of kindness
042there are also amazing programs through the district that I don't have time to mention those have been in valuable to me and my family I could go on and on but my point is our kids have so many opportunities to learn grow and be successful we have talented and dedicated teachers and staff that give it their all for our kids we're in a very successful district with a higher rate of graduation than the state and County average I know in the last two meetings thank you our next speaker is O good evening I immigrated from the Soviet Union 34 years ago seeking ref Refuge from ethnic persecution under Soviet rule Jews faced strict quotes limiting High higher education exclusion from leadership roles and propaganda portrayed Israel as an aggressor this systematic anti-Semitism led to over
0431 million Jews fleed by 1991 disturbingly I see Echoes of these policies in the United States today diversity equity and inclusion initiatives often prioritize identity over Merit fostering division our education system neglects or misrepresents Jewish history fueling harmful narratives that paint Jews as occupiers or aggressors as a result anti-Semitism has surged 360% since October 7 according to ADL educate thank you our next speaker is Shan [Applause] hello today Liberty Justice Center declared victory for parents rights after the state of California failed to appeal a court decision upholding Chino Valley usd's Authority to notify parents when their children request changes to official or unofficial records for any reason Chino valy USD may continue enforcing its updated parental notification policy I wanted to encourage our board to consider the Liberty Justice Center quote from today's announcement we
044are proud to have defended Chino Valley's notification policy and look forward to continuing our fight for parental rights in California and across the country at no cost to clients or taxpayers on the subject of the doe oversight of iep's 504 plans and special ed will be allocated to HHS so as a parent of a child in this program I look forward to the improvements our children will benefit from thank you our next speaker is Mary this is two parts and so we''re kind of a little out of order I apologize all right um as Jean uh so eloquently stated last month we hope that the ethnic studies curriculum will be a vehicle to inspire and not to divide we love positive things like Judy bulus said about the cultural Fair Dr Robert Gurion from calate
045Fullerton commented that she hoped there wasn't merely going to be a focus on oppressive Western ideology but yet a view of the whole world that's appropriate she felt that the topic of systems of power could be omitted completely when we look at some of the proposed underlying units we see a focus on assistance of powers and Equity these sound very similar to CRT critical race Theory and they can be renamed but they're still the same intention with my misguided ideology the Marxist linen once claimed that if you give me four years to teach the children the seeds that I I I seow will never be forgotten that's precisely what the street marxists did they did not appeal to Discerning adults so they decided in 1960 to come to the schools and they brought their fruit
046into the schools and that's what we see now with the CRT and the seal so please do not let speaker is an an please come forward part two um no we're going to take the speakers in the order please thank you an please go ahead hi um I just wanted to mention the name of Joselyn Roo karanza she's an 11-year-old little girl who died by suicide after being bullied um that her family were immigrants who were going to be caught by Ice we have wonderful amazing immigrant families here and they're scared and I'm happy to hear that there's bullying programs and I love I want all of the children to feel safe whether they're Jewish or Muslim or immigrants or white and um I just think it's really important that we make sure we protect
047the the most vulnerable now which I think are people of color the immigrants and lgbtq who are most at risk for suicide thank you our next speaker is Jamie Jamie please go [Applause] ahead hi thank you I'm a parent of a cusd fourth grader and a credential social studies teacher and I spent about a decade teaching US History I'm here today to address concerns about the consistent language and narrative being repeated by several trustees in regard to the ethnic studies curriculum seems there's a desire by certain trustees to erase our history last month trustee Davis's Davis shared her experience as a child going to visit her cousins in Montana who live on a reservation and her desire to celebrate culture rather than talk about the oppressors and the oppressed and yes absolutely celebrate culture but
048I ask that we also tell our kids the truth question why your cousins lived on the reservation in the first place did your ancestors choose to live there how do we explain the disp I ities in our reservations maternal Health poverty alcohol abuse without mentioning systemic oppression how do we tell the whole story of someone's culture and resilience if we erase part of their history our kids deserve to be told the truth I look forward to hearing a perspectives next Wednesday in the ethnic studies workshop and a and a quote from thank you our next speaker is pam pam please come forward um this is concerning ethic studies please remember the brilliant words of Frederick Douglas it's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men the depression and the mental illness we see
049in youth today are a direct result of the adherent sex education CRT and seal help us build strong children do not allow ethnic studies to become just another version of CRT many of of us are interested in getting access to the webinar on U February 24th and would appreciate if somebody would give us that specific information many of us want to be involved in looking over the curriculum please advertise widely so that the public can be involved thank you our next speaker is Raymond Jackson Raymond please come forward hello my son came to San Juan Hills High School as a nth grader uh truancies behavioral issues conflict suspensions and a failed Orange County Sheriff Pride intervention left him ultimately incarcerated he came from incarceration directly to& hs's TC program at the beginning of the 10th
050grade now almost two years later my son has been on the honor role throughout he's enjoying five periods outside of his tbit classroom my son is co-chair of his Bible Study Club he is considering College my family is living proof that special ed works tbic works please continue to support Jen Blossom and all the tbic programs and I want to thank you for giving my son a future our next speaker is Karen Karen please come forward today want to address a critical issue that continues to plague all of our Educational Systems and that's anti-Semitism in the schools this form of discrimination is not just an abstract or distant problem it affects students teachers and the entire Community every single day anti-Semitism defined as Prejudice or hostility against Jews is sadly not a new phenomenon for
051centuries and despite the progress we've made in human rights and equality it continues to show up in schools it appears as bullying exclusion or even derogatory remarks Jewish kids here in Orange County have had insults hurled and pennies thrown at them we cannot afford to stand by as Educators parents and community members we must work together to address this issue headon teachers play a pivotal role in shaping the attitudes and values of of their students they can act as powerful allies help us to ensure our schools are places where kindness understanding and mutual respect are the cornerstones of our education thank you our next speaker is Sarah Phillips good evening um I'm a mom of two one at the High s High School one at uh Truman Benedict and um so JC started at s
052Clemy High School two years ago and I'm forever grateful to former trustee hanich for bringing that program cuz my freshman daughter loves it and the kids that are in that program are just all in uh a couple weekends ago they participated in their first competition and they placed in three of the different events their all these kids first time competing and running and and uh present presenting a flags and all this kind of map Reading um they're learning learning some really cool skills and I'm really grateful for the program that um my daughter's in it and she's making great friends in there thank you this concludes our speakers for oral Communications president Davis can I just uh um pause for a second can we have I believe the speaker was Stephanie brought flyers and resources
053um you can actually give did you get those okay just I just want to make sure the board got them I do have another little hand okay you can give them to miss hcle perfect I'd appreciate that thank you thank you I wonder if the superintendent could also announce uh when the workshop with the ethnic studies presentation will be I think some people were interested in coming to that and also maybe cover what else will be covered that day because it's not just a workshop only on ethnic studies you could go up with that going on so February 24th there's a webinar on ethnic studies that'll be available to public and there'll be um information about that on our website as well as going out through families so that that's a webinar on February 24th
054and then on February 26 there's an all day board Workshop one of the topics will be ethnic studies um in the afternoon the the also the majority of the workshop will we spent on uh facilities planning and uh looking at the recommendations for the daac and that's on February 26th um that's a board Workshop so public is welcome but it's not there's no public comment it's not an open session like that it's a public uh board Workshop thank you and anyone is welcome to attend and for sure you can um watch the webinar on the 24th and then attend the meeting on the 26th if you'd like to what are times um the all day workshop on the 26 is go ahead you know the workshop on the 26th is 8:30 a.m. till 4:30 p.m.
055like I said ethnic studies is one topic so it'll be agendized but depending on how the board works through things I can't give you an exact time at which ethnic studies will be at you know the uh discussion um and then the webinar I don't know what time it is we will have that put out by staff I don't know Dr M you know yeah we're we're confirming but it's early evening around 5:30 so we will confirm that and that'll be in the advertisement thank you there will be also multiple other webinars and and public engagement opportunities after that thank you right and we'll move on to public hearing public hearing resolution number 2425 D20 of the Board of Trustees of the capist Unified School District approving final acceptance of real property and side acquisition
056for the proposed Randa K8 school project and delegating author already related there too at this time I'd like to open the public hearing regarding this resolution and approving the final acceptance of real property and sight acquisition for the proposed Randa K school project and delegating Authority related there too the time is now 7:52 Miss Hayes do we have any speakers for public hearing we have one speaker I'd like to call Mike balmo to the podium thank you good evening president Davis and trustees Mike balsamo with Rancho Mission vijo um we are now about a third of the way through the buildout of Rancho Mission vijo and we're profoundly thankful to have the responsibility to create new communities down here in South Orange County we try to build complete communities uh one of the most critical
057elements uh of any new community and in terms of quality of life is the public schools in the community and that's why we are grateful to have a partner like Capistrano Unified um I want to thank your professional staff superintendent Brown your attorney Andreas Clark Hampton John forny all of your administrative team uh and Consultants who've worked with us uh to get to this Milestone tonight um the staff has done a very thorough job in terms of their due diligence looking over the property that we've provided uh to the school district for the Renda School uh and really thrilled tonight to be here to present that opportunity to you uh and I'm available to answer any questions thank you thank you with no further speaker cards the public hearing is now closed and The Time
058Is Now 7:54 three thank you and we'll move on to discussion action items um to 13A amendment to purchase and sale agreement and Joint escra instructions for ranch Mission vao the Development LLC have to approve the amendment to the purchase and sale agreement in joint ESC instructions with ranch Mission B opa3 Development LLC so moved second moved by truste Adams get seconded by truste Zinger and we'd like to recognize Clark Hampton Deputy superintendent business support services to present the item Miss H do we have any speaker cards for this item there are none thank you president Davis trustees so this item is related to the uh public hearing on the purchase of the reanda school site and this is some uh some fine-tuning adjustments uh prior to the next item which approves the um acquisition
059so I'm going to call in Andreas chalus District uh legal council to provide background on this item hi good evening president Davis members of the board Dr Brown cabinet pleasure to be with you uh yes this is fine-tuning if you will we entered into a mitigation agreement with RMV pa3 Development LLC as Mike Bama will tell you as Rancho Mission vijo we did that back in 2020 and it's hard to believe it's been 5 years um in 2023 we took an exhibit to that mitigation agreement known as the option agreement essentially a purchase and sale agreement and we executed that moving forward from 2023 we did tons and tons of due diligence um everything coming in the resolution in a moment you will see a list if you will of all that was done site
060approvals received from CD department of toxic substances control etc etc we are bringing to you this amendment to clean up a couple items number one in the due diligence items that we reviewed that's the title report and exceptions to title there were a couple of things there that we just wanted to make sure RMV had accomplished already finalized that is or would and they have um been good enough to tell us yes they did everything they needed to do and we said could we get you to put in writing that you did everything you said you're going to do and if there's anything that comes up you'll still do it and they said absolutely they've been an awesome partner and this is just giving us a little extra Comfort level regarding the property we're looking
061to acquire um the other thing uh was I think of a little bit more significant note uh still par for the course not a rarity by any stretch when you acquire property as a school district as you all know there's a long lead time long escrow period where you do all of your due diligence and get ready for it there's also State funding typically that comes in under those scenarios and that applies here we when we look forward to buying property plan for that state funding and essentially 50% % of the funds for the property that you're about to acquire should you proceed um will come from the state at some point eventually so the purchase and sale agreement has a purchase price that assumes that the developer or whoever we're buying from will do
062what we call Super pad Mass grading construction super pad grading the super pad condition means that rather than just Mass grading they'll specify it compact the soil and stub utilities right to the property line so really good to go you're able to take it and build on it so we want that in our purchase and sale agreements as the purchase price reflecting that work because the state again will give you 50% of all of that so our price here of 65.4 million 50% of which will come from the state eventually uh assumes that level of grading however because of that long lead time of long escros sometimes we don't have it lined up perfectly and the grading is not complete by the time we want to acquire the property the law provides for that and
063it says as long as this seller here RMV is able to as a post closing obligation do the work you can still have that done so after the close of escrow the work will be completed uh we have proposed in this amendment a 90-day clock to get that work completed it's all on rmvs dime so they' be paying for all of that and they've actually also paid for a 100% of the work to be done value performance bond so you have an extra insurance policy to be sure it's done and frankly if anything didn't get done you could do it and Bill RMV but we're very confident it'll get done it's a 2. 581 plus million doll amount of work to do in 90 days and it should be just fine and if it's not
064we have more than enough coverage by way of this amendment that's why we've asked to include that in the amendment any questions I know that's a lot trustees discussion comments questions okay all those in favor say I I any opposed okay and 7 pass a 70 thank you with a preferential I from student board member of Rondo thank you we'll move on to 13B resolution number 2425 D20 of the Board of Trustees capistran Unified School District approving final acceptance of real property and site acquisition for the proposed randic school project and delegating Authority re related there to we have a motion to adopt resolution 24 25-20 for to Trustees of the capy Unified School District approving final acceptance of real property and side acquisition for the prosed Randa K school project and delegating Authority theto
065so move okay moved by trusty Jones seconded by trusty bullus and now we'll recognize Clark Hampton Deputy superintendent business support services to present the item thank you president Davis so the first time now that the uh purchase and sale agreement has been amended the prior item uh this item is to actually uh authorize the acquisition of the property and Andreas is here to give you some more background on it thank you yes thank you hi again um I'll give you some background on this real quick and then tell you of a few quick little tweaks that we need to make which were my fault and I'll explain that this is a resolution that we do Again part for the course when a school district um buys a piece of property prior to making it final
066you pass a resolution indicating all of which all the items that you've done essentially during due diligence so this uh fairly short resolution but kind of honorous if you read through it shows all of the work that has been completed by Clark Hampton and John fory and their team over the course of the last couple of years while we're in escrow um it talks again about the state agency approvals that were received what all the district looked at in terms of the site and recognizes that everything has been done so this resolution frankly is the final step after that hearing that we just had a couple moments ago um in completing this package with this approved we can then close escrow with no further action from the board and that um closing could occur as
067late as later this month uh or early uh March so we will be set to go that said if you can indulge me there are uh three small tweaks to the resolution that's before you tonight so assuming there's going to be a vote um and if that vote were to carry we would want to make sure that the recommendation to approve this resolution also clarifies three things number one in recital 2 you'll see where it says 14.69% R MV uh they're not looking for any more money or anything like that they're just going to give you a little bit more land so that number has to be changed there recital um four two more down from that recital four uh we have in there a date of August 19th 2020 referring to the option agreement
068that's the purchase and sale agreement that is actually April 14th 2023 the 2020 date is the mitigation agreement that you all approved that included an option agreement but it wasn't signed until 23 so that it's my responsibility to to have the right date in there and I didn't that's April 14th 2023 on recital 4 and then lastly the 15th recital um it states that you conducted a public hearing on January 15th of this year turns out of course that was tonight that was two action items ago the public hearing uh or two items ago excuse me um so that date should be February 19th 2025 we had this lined up for last month but pulled the item in order to amend a little further that amendment that you just took action on so with those
069three changes uh we would still recommend approval of the resolution and I want to clarify that all three of those were my fault and I believe your staff is not only top-notch but I think industry leading so I put that out there because that's the truth any questions of me or about the resolution thank you Andreas questions I just wanted to thank Mr chelta and also Mr balamo and the ranal mission yo staff I think that uh this really got cleaned up it was going to be on the January agenda and it was pulled to uh uh do a couple of final clarifications and I think it's come out to be a really nice package and I thank everybody for their work thank you any other comments or questions okay and with that and with
070the three changes is there um oh first we're going to check are there any speaker cards there n okay thank you and this is a roll call vote so if we could please um call in student board member Rando hi trusty casanus hi trusty prer hi trusty Zer hi trusty adnams hi trusty Jones hi trusty buus big guy St Davis I the motion carries 7-0 with the roll call Vote with a preferential vote of I from student work member Rando thank you thank you okay we move on to 13 C award bid number 24251 reanda K TK to8 new school switon Builders may have a motion to approve award bid number 24251 re ended TK to 8 new school for the swine um switon Builders moved moved by trusty Adams and seconded by truste ctios
071and we could recognize Clark Hampton Deputy superintendent business and support services to present the item thank you president Davis trustee so now that we have the property the land now we can build a school on it this item is to approve the low bid for construction of Randa School site District received four bids two uh biders withdrew and the low bid was uh snon um Builders U with the beginning of the construction with the approval of the board on this then this we would expect the school to open in um fall of 2027 thank you and Miss hay do we have any speaker card for this item there are none okay trusty discussion question two biders with Drew and two biders were with left left and swinnerton was the lowest bid is it my understanding
072we always have to go with the lowest bid whether it is the yeah best bid they're sealed bid bids so they're all open together in front of the the biders and it's as long as they meet the criteria that's established prior to the bids then the low bid is awarded okay thank you I was curious about the process because I haven't done this before but is it normal practice that um that you check with references with other schools they've built I'm just curious about timing I'm super anxious to get this going and there's a pre-qualification process so the the builders have to establish this these pre-qualifications and one of that is the size of projects they've built things like that so that's all built into the pre-qualification process so they first have to meet those
073before they can even bid on the projects any other comments questions I did notice that swinton's 100% employee owned and members of the Carpenters Union okay and all in favor and this is all in favor I I any opposed okay passes with a motion carries with a vote of a 70 with a pral vote of I from student board member Rando moving on to 13d English learner annual program evaluation this is an information item only and no board action is necessary and like to recognize Greg mwin associate superintendent student Support Services will present the item okay thank you so much president davidon trustee staff presents item 13d English learner annual program evaluation the annual program evaluation is a followup to the December 18th board present ation where we shared our district dashboard and an overview
074of our state indicator results in multiple areas those areas included mathematics English language arts College and Career preparedness graduation rate chronic absenteeism suspension rates and English learner progress towards English proficiency so tonight we are going to be doing a deeper dive and a focus on the dashboard results of our English Learners with a focus on their data regarding ing progress towards English language proficiency skills we're also going to talk about the assessment tools used to determine the progress we're going to share an analysis of our results by grade level and we're also going to talk about the next steps to support our students including training and resources so our director of language acquisition Dr Rena Mack will lead the presentation for you this evening we look forward to your feedback and your questions Dr M
075please proceed yeah that's just good evening Dr Brown esteemed trustees and thank you for the opportunity to present on the progress of our English Learners and the work that we're doing to support our vision for English Learners as cusd graduates to better interact with the presentation tonight we do present a glossery of reference and terminologies um this list is presented in the back of the room so if anyone would like to be able ble to interact with that that document is presented in English as well as in Spanish farese and Chinese so some of the things that we're going to highlight for this evening's presentation will go through and present that long-term English are the following key points that long-term English Learners or ltels have been added as a new student group in the California
076dashboard that we are proud that we have created and developed more reclass classification Pathways that have contributed to an increase in our reclassification rate that current English Learners declined under English language development as evidence or as stated on the lpac or the lp across most sites grade levels and language domains and as a result we will present some factors and some takeaways and recommendations including that designated ELD implementation continues to be a focal point that ELD professional learning in all content areas will continue to be offered and will continue to be the focus of our department and our work and that the progress of reclassified students or rfps need to be closely monitored to ensure sustained academic success after reclassification so first let's get to know who our English Learners are in the district so
077this is what this diagram illustrates for you you will see on this diagram that the majority of our English Learners are those students that are in our elementary schools with um just about a little bit of over half of that as well being in secondary schools the number or the percentage of students depending on their number of years have remained relatively unchanged in comparison to when I was here last year presenting this data we do have a little bit of an uptake of New Commerce in the secondary level so we have new Commerce or students who have been here for for 0 to2 years in secondary schools this diagram here illustrates the birth countries where our English Learners are coming from we will see that that by and large the majority of our English Learners
078were born here in the United States and in fact started and continued their schooling here in cusd again the number of students in the birth countries where they're coming from have remained relatively unchanged from last year and then to the right are the top 10 home languages that our families that speak a language other than English are reporting to us our bilingual Community Liaisons of which we have one at just about every one of our site do Provide support for our families to interact and engage with their students education by supporting them in their language and we provide this in Spanish farsy and most recently Russian but we also have resources to provide this language support in just about any language that a parent may require or request to best understand the learning outcomes and
079trajectory of English Learners it's important to understand that not all all English Learners are created equal that means when I say e or English Learners that generalizes all students that are still developing their English language proficiency that includes students who may be newcomers but it also includes students who may be close to being reclassified and I'll talk a little bit about what that means reclassification until Els reach reclassification status their academic performance levels meaning their ability to access content area in English and all of their subject areas will very much depend on their English language development within the group of eels we also what we have uh referred to as atrisk Els or atrisk long-term English Learners this would be your students that continue to be classified as English learners for four or five years
080but they have not made any progress in their English language development once that time crosses over to six or more years we are now talking about long-term English Learners I bring this up because it's very important for us to understand the nuances of this when we start to break down the progress of students simply put a student who has only been here for less than one year is going to have a very different progress than a student who has been here for more than six years however when all of this is reported on the dashboard all of the students are all generalized and categorized as English Learners and of course our FBS or reclassified students are those who are at the highest level of of their English language proficiency these are your students who have
081met all the criteria that is established by the state of California in terms of reclassifying or reaching both the language and academic level of proficiency zooming in a little bit on the number of atrisk ltels and ltels by grade level you are presented here with three years worth of data on the rate of at risk and LEL at our sites you'll see here that with the exception of fourth and fifth grade just about every single grade level sees an increase of at risk and ltels within that grade level again I bring that up because that has implications on the progress that they are making on the lpac and how that's presented on the progress indicator on the dashboard which I'll go to a little bit more in depth in a moment so the English language
082progress indicator or the lp is the indicator on the California dashboard that represents the progress made by students on the elpac or their English language proficiency elpac is the annual state assessment taken by all of our English Learners it is the only state assessment that is taken at every grade level by all English Learners and in order for you to be counted toward LP you need to have two years of lpac scores so it is the only indicator on the dashboard that presents growth and not achievement in comparison to data that we may see about sbac Ela or math scores for instance so it's definitely growth oriented and in a little bit we'll see what that LP progress is for our um students but it's important to understand that only current English Learners gets to
083be counted on the lp that is once a student reclassifies they no longer take the lpac and therefore they're no longer counted toward the lp so we need to balance our understanding of LP progress along with reclassification rate a little bit more about that in a moment inter interrupt you for just a moment and I just want to be very clear um when we use language we're calling this the English language progress U report but this is very much the district's progress report in terms of how we are doing supporting our English language Learners right so um I don't want it to be seeming like this is how they're doing this is really more about how we're doing in support of them right and and then what we need to do to change to make
084sure we do better in support of them moving forward so um I don't you know as it goes out public I want there to at least some Contex text with it that it's it's not about the kids it's about our work with the kids I also wanted to interrupt before you went on this is the first place where you talk about the summative uh alternate lpac and it's not in the glossery either but I believe that's the lpac that's given to kids with IEPs is that correct not necessarily students with disabilities the alternate lpac is for yes students that are dual identified English Learners with disabilities but you need to have severe COG nitive disability in order for you to take the alternate lpac so the majority of our English Learners with an IEP take
085the standard lpac but if you are taking the C for instance or if you are in our mod severe program likely you will be taking the summative alternate lpac and it is a very small number of students that take that and noted that we will add that into the glossery of terms for future reference okay okay so here is a summary of our LP for the last four years please note as well the number of students that change in number of students that are included in the lp from year to year so even though it's two years worth of data you need to have two years of lpac score so the number of students that are else every year change because once you reclassify you no longer take an lpac so just please make a
086note of that we'll see from here that in 2024 cusd had just a little over 46% of our English Learners making progress toward LP or their English language proficiency about a 133% decrease compared to 2023 there were approximately 200 fewer English Learners included in the lp compared to 2023 that number could be a combination of students that reclassified graduated or left us okay so again I'm just going to reiterate that when compared to 2019 before covid C SD English Learners have decreased 4% in their LP so the next subsequent slides will explore the different factors that collectively may have contributed to this decrease and more importantly how we're using these takeaways to learn about the ways that we can continue to support our English Learners in the meantime this chart illustrates the change in LP
087level among the Els included in the dashboard you'll see that there has been a decrease in percentage of students who progress at least one LP level the number or the percentage in blue blue represents those students who maintained an LP level of four so they earned the highest possible score but have not reclassified yet right more students maintained an LP level of 1 two and three in higher percentage and can be seen for students who decreased an LP level so as we're Gathering and as we're analyzing this data we need to see who are the students Behind These numbers of course because what we are also finding out is that even as students make Improvement in their overall scale score such scale score does not cross the threshold for them to get to the next
088performance level so I'll get into that when I talk about the different domains in the lpac let's just take a quick pause this is a dense slide deck so let's just stop for a second go are there any questions at this point of the stuff You' SE so far so you don't have to try and remember them to the end must youus go ahead okay so I'm making um questions on slides can we go back to slide seven please um are you going to on this slide because then you reference that you're going to come back to it in terms of why we did this dip in every grade besides fourth and fifth Okay then if you could go back to slide n I'm trying to understand you know the dashboard colors so in 2023
089we've increased 5% and we're in green and then in 2024 where we've declined 13.5 so we've got 40 on less making progress so we go to Orange is the orange the decline from the Green from one year to the next because we declined making progress yes so the percentage of high medium low are based on this percentages right here and the way the dashboard works it's there's a matrix so it's it's there's two factors so one is what is your overall score so go back to slide nine please Roman so the overall score went from 59.6 making progress to 46.1 so so the overall score kind of puts you in a band of possible colors and then the next indicator is did you move up or down and by how much that that then determines
090would you have been yellow or orang so you could have gone down a little and stayed high and stayed green you could have had some you could have been yellow but because we crossed a threshold of lower and had a significant decline we went all the way from green to Orange so it takes both of those factors into account on the dashboard and so what I get out of this that the percentage ranked more points than the number of students which did decline um as to taking it from the green down to the orange because the number of students in 2024 was 2582 versus 2817 and 2023 so they they waight them differently or yeah it's a it's a grid so I'll print the grids out for you so you can see actually the end
091number doesn't really matter they don't look at the number of students unless it's under 30 it's just how what is your raw total and then what was your percentage up or down and then it determines the color yeah so I'll print the yeah I'll print the grid for you um there's one for every dashboard indicator that exists it's agreed on how the calculation comes out for you I know you deal with this every day no that's okay no it's it is very dense data yes I have a lot of questions already so thank you for stopping because I yeah I have a lot of questions I think one thing though it is not worth noting because some people don't understand this and it was a real blinding light when I did understand it that unless
092we started not having new English Learners coming into the system we can't ever really make progress because every year some are reclassifying and some are graduating but new ones are coming in so uh on a lot of things like you can improve your District's math scores you can improve your District's reading scores but you can't but the but yeah it's not a pure pure comparison because well it's it's we're always going to have new Els coming in so so it's it's we're sort of we're a little bit chasing our tals on this so I will say that with the lp though the one of the reasons they did the lp is because you have to have been in both years so the lp controls for newcomers and rfbs so in all the other dashboard areas
093like when you look at English performance or math performance and you see that eel group you're exactly right the fact that rfps are removed means that the eel group struggles to ever make progress because the kids who make progress instantly get disqualified from the group right but LP requires you to have taken the lpac in two subsequent years okay and it looks at your change over those two years so it's a cohorted model so it controls for those two things so that's why we're looking at it and unfortunately it means we've got some work to do it also gives you credit for the growth which growth can be made by both newcomers and students that have been here for five years for instance so how you get credit for the lp is if you move
094a performance level or the students that earned a four remain a four so if you move from 1 to two or from 2 to three but then 2 to three is further delineated from low into high you get credit for that of making growth for your students so yes we need to take into account that newcomers may take more time to develop their English language proficiency but if they move from 2 L to two high we get just as much credit for that than a student going from two to three okay I did not understand that so um back in slide four I just wanted to comment that in elementary school we have only 20 students in all of our elementary schools who are five years enough so really our elel problem is not in
095elementary it's it is almost exclusively the kids who have come here later in life probably in fifth grade or later and that's for the most part how they become lels is because they didn't they they didn't start here no it's because it takes six years to be in LEL and you're not in elementary school that long so if you started in Kinder you'd only be in LEL by fifth grade right so but if you came in first grade you wouldn't even classify as an LEL until you were in middle school so all right yeah so that's why they pull out ltel because ltel means they've been not necessarily in cappo but they've been in our Statewide Public Schools for six or more years all the while being classified as El right so so that piece
096of data is a little misleading because you're just not in elementary school generally now with the new Universal TKS um we might actually see more ltels there um in in fifth because they'll just be designated in fifth grade instead of a sixth grade but I think hopefully we'll make an improvement we won't see nearly good that we only have in elementary school we only have 20 kids in all of our elementary schools who are five years or more now all the other uh Elementary School students have reclassified other than these 20 no no no or they came or they or they came in first grade that's yes or they came later that's simply defining the number of years they've been in a US School mhm so then in slide seven and I think trusty bullus
097was asking about this um why are we seeing that uh fourth and fifth grade are exceptions and is that partly because we now have some different reclassification metrics and we are getting more of the kind of kids on the cusp through is that the reason for I think the work that we've been doing with elementary schools have helped them realize their critical responsibility of reclassifying students by fourth and fifth grade right um and so that there's there's where you might be seeing a decrease in number but then of course that work needs to continue now that they're in middle school we need to then reclassify them by eighth grade so then they can access more courses when they get into high school so each grade level really has its own distinct responsibility in the process
098except that it also becomes much harder in middle school and high school because the tests are so much harder there are definitely more challenges as you progress with more years and contined to be an English learner um then let's see on page eight we say calculating current year status and I I'm I'm we then we never talk about current year status again so where what I I think that you used the term you used a different term later on in the slide deck I'm not sure so number how we how we calculate the current year status right but then what what does current year status become here in the chart current year status become in the chart is the lp over here the current year status of getting us to 46.1% 46.1% is rendered by
099calculating this over here so the lp is the current year status yes okay all right um okay I think that might be well I guess I do then we are on slide 10 that's as far far as Dr Brown let it let you go um um so then again on slide 10 um do we think that one of the reasons we are um doing less well here in 2024 is again that we have more reclassification Pathways and so again those kids on the cusp are getting out so now it tends to be the ones that are were never even close and we never used to have much visibility into them but now we do more because we're getting them out early if there's any way to get them out early that is certainly a factor
100a higher reclassification rate will definitely have an impact on your LP because your students with an over level of four are now out of the pool they're now part of the calculation right so if you're getting credit for students that are earning a four while those students never even took an exam so we want to make sure that we balance an analyzing our e growth and our e outcomes on both the lp as well as the reclassification rate of course yes yes okay go ahead okay I have a couple questions yes um when we look at you talked about the summit of elpac correct and that's mostly given into mild mod students it could include mild mod students do you mean the summative alternate lpac mod severe mod severe so who advocates for a student
101who's struggling to pass the lpac and knows that there's an alternative test available is it the IEP team comes to that conclusion because what if a student has you're going to see that the student is struggling to pass it's very similar to like espac right so these are going to be the same students who who are qualifying for the California alternative assessment as opposed to taking spack so it's that same sort of group of students so um it's not necessarily a situation where you have a kid who's struggling to take the lpac and has an IP and you can go ahead and put them on the on the um alternate El pathway did you used to be able to do that though not that I'm aware no you may be referring to once we had
102something called option b which is the alternate reclassification pathway okay for the IEP students for students with IEP an alternate pathway for students to reclassify yes that no longer exists we still have that you still it's just not called option b it's the reclassification pathway formerly known as option b now you're going to make it even more to be confused okay well all right I'm not sure if you answered my question but I just I feel like there are students and parents out there that are struggling with the lpac I don't know if you understand the lpac that well but it is a very very difficult test most EOS would struggle to pass the lpac your own child could not pass the lpac I have tried very difficult have tried the the 12th grade lpac
103myself and it's hard correct so it's you feel for them when they are in this especially the ltels when they are really struggling to to get to redesignation point and it's so I just so we do have various Pathways for students for English Learners with an IEP to better access the lpac not the least of which are designated supports and accommodations that are built into their IEP there are in very rare cases domain exemptions as well and over the last couple of years in collaboration with our special ed colleagues we've been doing a lot more professional development with case carrier in making sure that those types of e services and supports how those are aligned with their linguistically appropriate goals under IEP okay and then you may be getting to this but when we're talking
104about rfbs and reclassification can you go over the criteria again or absolutely okay yes that is coming up okay yes can I ask a quick question yes please um you mentioned something about I think it was L tells that don't make any progress after four years and there was some kind of impact on the dashboard could you say that again or did I hear that well if they are not making any progress and they continue to be English Learners likely their English level or their lpac score is stagnating so when they're stagnating for instance you have a student who received who who's earned an overall level of three for the last 3 years that student is not making growth so the lack of growth is of that student is counted against us because they're not
105making any growth so not only is it counting against us in the lp that student is also not approaching reclassification because they are not climbing towards the progression that they need in order to get the rec required score of a four and is that kind of like an extra penalization on us or it's just they're not moving up so we're not they're do you know what I'm saying well in the way that it is presented to us is that it's that's our LP right that's our LP status so when we see that we had a decline of about 135% that could be one of the things is that the higher number of at risk and LT we have likely that means you have a higher number of students that is stagnating or not making a
106progress okay thank you you're welcome shall we continue yes okay what this next slide represents is that similar Trends can be found on our summative alternate lpac it is a relatively new type of lpac which is the last few years but we do have data to show it in both 23 and 24 but even if we have very few students taking it the same Trend can be seen here in that fewer students are making growth and fewer and more students are stagnating or or um not earning the the the the alternate lpac level of three okay so summative alter summative lpac standard one it's out of four and then the alternate lpac is out of three okay all right so on to what is the what might be the reasons behind this decline in LP
107so we're going to explore a few factors and these factors are very much informed by both qualitative qualitative and quantitative data and whenever possible we have involved our El site advisors and teachers as well and helping shape our understanding on what's the why Behind These things um as we analyze this at the district level it's important that we get their input and their feedback on the things that are going on at the sites and the classroom so we could truly understand how it is that we can continue to support them so the first factor that we're going to explore has to do with really understanding what the lpac is and the different elack task types that our standards align this is really important because it needs to really inform instruction so what it's telling us
108then is the work that we need to do to expand our teachers understanding of what the lpac is not so much so that they could familiarize and Test Prep students but so that they have a deeper understanding of el standards and the support that they need to incorporate in their lesson development and instruction to support English learners so this right here is a diagram that shows how summative lpac scores how we come to that score so there's an overall level of 1 2 3 4 how we arrive at that overall number is a combination of the composite score of oral language and written language further delineated by each of the language domains of listening Reading Writing and speaking in just about every grade level the breakdown of this is 50% and 50% in weight right
109so you get your score how it's calculated is 50% of your oral score 50% of your written score with the exception of kindergarten at kindergarten that is 70% oral and 30% written so when we work with teachers we are beginning to to truly understand the importance of helping them see what is behind that overall level score let's take a look at Anita for example she's our sample student right here it may appear that she has earned an overall level of three great job Anita but when we look at it very closely we'll see that Anita is actually on the lower end of that three so if we don't hone in on the specific domains where she might need help we can see here that she's doing great in her speaking right she's high in her
110higher in her oral language de development we can leverage that her speaking skills her speaking ability in order to help her with the reading and writing so when we work with teachers in our professional learning it's very important that we emphasize how it is that we can use data like these to inform our instruction so here's an example for instance of the different elpac task types and how we work to support teachers in understanding how to really incorporate this as part of their lesson planning and their instruction when we show this to English teachers for instance who may not be as familiarized with elpac they are surprised by how much this is very similar to just Ela standards right and it that's done by Design that's why it's an Ela El framework for instance because
111the language that you need in English is the same language that you need to perform academically well in all of your content areas I have a quick question here on these um elpac test types um some of these are items that are self-scoring um or you know you're you're doing a a writing you to check a box or whatever but some of them are has to be graded by an individual who does the the evaluations of the performance so the oneon-one which is the speaking um and then all of grade um K and one is done by our testing uh assistance right so they are trained on elpac they're calibrated on the scoring they have to pass a certification that is done by elpac in order to learn how to do that and then the
112rest then is sent out to ETS MH question so is that someone who goes out to each School corre site yes starting on February 1st to the end of May is our lpac season and we have a team of 10 Tas or testing assistance that we send them to our school sites to administer one onone the speaking part and if uh more in some grade levels for each of our English learner MH so uh I forget where we are right here so when we look at the overall growth for instance this is just a different representation of the growth of a matched cohort uh we need to be very cautious and looking at this because it may appear that students are not making as much growth but it's really important to examine which domains need
113to be targeted as areas of focus so we present overall growth of cohort groups but then we also Pres things like how are they doing in each of the domains right for instance we want to celebrate the positive Trends among students in grades 2 4 and 12 that based on this chart here show positive Trends and an increase in their high growth percentages but we also want to understand and examine why there has been a trend of decline among grades 1 3 and five remember what I said earlier that from K to 1 The Waiting of that composite score changes from 7030 to 5050 at at third grade the lpac test changes grade level band as well right then again at sixth grade then again at 9th grade then again at 11th grade it may
114not be the case that it changes on Fifth and eth but these are very key points of reclass classification so it is very important for us to examine why we're not seeing the growth because again that will provide a hindrance to students reclassifying and here is showing that grades seven and 10 show minor changes which um with little fluctuation in growth Trends the second factor that we're going to explore is the rec classification rate right what's the relationship between the reclass rate and the number of students included in the lp so somebody asked earlier uh what is the reclassification criteria so this diagram here shows the reclassification criteria there are four required by the state the first one has to do with of course the lpac of earning an lpac overall four number two is
115teacher evaluation and we use grades as the basis for Teacher evaluation number three is Meaningful participation by the parent for the students to reclassify and number four is basic skills relative to English proficient students so an assessment that all students including students who are not English Learners have to take the reason why this is an important Criterion is basically what you're saying that when an e reaches that standard they are on part to compete with their nonel peers so once they reach that standard we're happy and proud that you're good to go your English language development will not get in the way of your academic growth so the number of students who reclassify every year is always changing we've said this multiple times tonight and the higher reclassification rate while a positive outcome of our
116program does have a an impact on our LP so what you'll see here on this chart is the reclassification rate that we had for the past three years and last year in fact with the lp that we're presenting you today we had about 19% which is 4% more students reclassifying last year so that's 4% few were English Learners participating in the lpac and included in the lp the third factor that we want to explore is the effectiveness of designated ELD implementation the success of English language Learners hinges on high quality ELD instruction this is why this is absolutely the focal point of the work that we do is helping teachers understand what does highquality ELD instruction mean because the work that we've been doing according to the data that we have is showing positive Trends
117in the progress of our students for instance these two charts right here compare the outcomes of students enrolled in secondary ELD course versus those who are not we see here that there's a higher percentage of growth among students enrolled in the class versus those who are not enrolled in the class and a higher percentage of decline among students not enrolled in the designated ELD course um pardon me who are those students who are not taking the designated ELD class there's a variety of reasons why a student may not be enrolled in a designated ELD class one is that the parent has absolutely the right to opt out of ELD services so when they do we don't enroll them in that class however they remain as English Learners and must still take the lpac every year
118so you're not opting them out as an e You're simply opting them out as um uh take e for ELD services and supports and are there other reasons beyond the parent opting them out yeah we continue to find Solutions we have some but not completely for the students with IEPs for instance and just prioritizing the support that the students may need with within the finite periods within a day so that's work that we continue to do with our sites and then at the top of this slide you have um the the light blue didn't take the lpac two years who who Who's that I don't understand that um well if they if they didn't take the two years and the lpac because they weren't there the year before Oh mhm yeah but they're enrolled in
119the class so we simply wanted to represent how many students we have that are enrolled and how many that are not enrolled and among those that are enrolled the ones that took it the yellow the gray and the dark blue are those that took the lpac but we also wanted to represent that we have some students within there that didn't take the lpac for two years okay so they're generally going to be newcomers they may be newcomers there may be transfer students okay okay all right okay the last factor that we want to explore is the impact of our ELD professional learning and the Returns on our investment for the time and resources needed to strengthen uh our teachers understanding and implementation of of el so just by the numbers um here are some facts
120uh and tidbits about that that shape our professional learning we have one K12 ELD tosa in the district she's here tonight her name is Kimberly Hanley and she's an absolute Dynamite to the work that we do around here she supports all of our sites in elementary middle school and secondary school in professional learning for El last year alone we had 14 meetings or professional learning that has nothing to do with instruction those are your parent meetings Community engagement meetings elac deac we had 31 District based PD so that would be groups of teachers coming in here participating in professional learning that Kim and I would facilitate and in addition to that we had 48 site-based ELD professional learning so those would be either Kim and or myself would go to site and work with them
121to customize and curate professional learning that best fit their needs as a site so this is a representation of the different models that we have for professional learning and when we look at that what we we are able to see is that for schools with site based PD support by us we saw an increase of or we saw the average percentage of students making progress and their lpac 5.9% or 6% for those students uh for those sites that we work closely with right that were part of our cohorts for instance it's not to suggest that that the schools without PD support are not doing any PD they are simply not part of our cohort or not part of the one that we had an oversight or coordination of their professional learning so how we're using
122this data is not so much to compare hey your side versus your side it's truly to understand what was the model what was the formula that we use for the sites that made growth and how might we be able to replicate that type professional learning for all of the other sites where we also need to see similar growth and OA is oral language arts uh that would be office of language acquisition I know count on our department to say Ola without the H in the front I know blasphemy trusty Jones I know okay so we're also mindful to make sure that the PD that we are facilitating that we're providing are they effective for our teachers so for the past few years past couple of years we've collected we have a consistent professional development survey
123that we administer to our participants we had 945 unique responses representing 56 different sites we ask questions around the same questions that we ask at the end of every professional learning how relevant was this session for you how useful were the materials and resources that you receive today did your understanding of ELD increase as a result of today and do you believe that you're ready to better support your students as a result of today and so these are some of the summary and takea ways of the elements that our teachers are providing us also very important data that we collect gather and analyze as we continue to refine our professional learning for our teachers so all of that to say our recommendations and steps moving forward I think it's very clear um that we need
124very strategic professional development plan so we are looking forward to working with our curriculum and instruction and assessment team to better refine and to I Really identify how we could be strategic in delivering our professional learning so there is really a true return on our investment consistent implementation of el is key what ever professional learning that we provide that really just is just it's not as good as if if ELD is not being provided for students right so we need to continue to develop mechanisms and tools in place to continue to really reflect on the effectiveness and the quality of our ELD at our sites and then again maximizing the use of our resources per fortunate that the last couple of years interim elpac have come on board so in the the same ways that
125we may use interim asacs iabs these are opportunities for teachers as well to learn and to use as assessment for learning tools additional questions I might answer I have a couple questions yes so it's very similar to the state test right that the students take where they get tested in the spring right your lpac testing session but then you don't really get results until when we get them relatively quick actually yeah we so there's a those the information like this layout that you have of this student Anita so then does it go to that teacher of the current or then does it go with the student to the next grade so then because they're not tested again until the next Spring right right so I can see how I understand yeah with actually we've been
126able with the support from our data and assessment team and utilizing some of our programs such as Mars for instance we've been able to provide teachers current teachers with the students they have from this year as well as the students that they have from last year and breaking it down by domain because that's the real challenge right you don't get realtime data and then you're struggling because you don't know how to teach ELD and designated El ELD in this District I would think would be more challenging because let's say you have fewer students in the class correct your designated time of ELD may be one or two students so that's one of the reasons I think we're we're happy that the interim L Pacs are available now so that we have an idea of of
127a sort of a benchmarking we can do as we go with kids um and then that's where I think we're not going to talk about it tonight because it's a whole another presentation to be entirely honest but the the power of the elevation platform comes in as well um especially for not the designated but the idea that the all of our teachers really should be doing integrated ELD work right so there these elevation strategies that help all of our teachers do highend language acquisition strategies which have been shown to be beneficial for all students including enhancing the that was my next question and very very beneficial to El D students so um really using the elevation platform to help our Stu our content Area Teachers right like a history teacher you can do some elevation
128strategies and get some integrated ELD work happening so so that doesn't all fall in the designated because some of our schools have robust designated because of the populations but other schools but others do not and and it's not the same I was in a class the other day where there were nine kids um and we were together and it was seven languages right yeah um I think so seven languages nine kids it's you know pretty impressive my understanding of the elpek one of the hardest components is the writing piece correct yeah so that's the challenge but also students face that same difficulty right so that's where Dr Brown was talking about integrated ELD and how the whole class can be working on writing and how to you know create better writing samples which would benefit
129the El right so part of the work that we do is for the teachers with integrated elds helping them connected to their content area standards but helping them understand how is that skill measured in the lpac for your English Learners and that's when I said earlier how pris they are when they see those writing expectations and rubrics to be very similar to that that they have in their content area um and just as a last piece the the number of schools that with the site based supported PD and making growth include those sites that really engage in elevation strategies like Dr Brown mentioned the other beauty of the elevation platform is that your your question about where the data goes It goes into elevation so the current teacher can pull it up from the elevation
130platform the teacher of the next year when they have their class list they see all their kids are they can log in elevation and see their ELD students as well and they're integrated elds they're getting it from their Ela curriculum then their Benchmark or their wonders units is that how they're integrating their ELD the designated ELD do you mean or integrated the integrated ELD it's in all of their other it's Social Studies Weekly it's their F and how you use integrated ELD in those all all throughout their en correct correct I think that's it what was the number of students that um were reclassified last year we had about um 447 I believe so I am very glad to see this presentation in case I haven't made it obvious I think this is amazing I
131want to particularly point out all of the slides that say understanding our data you are asking really good questions there i' love to know at some point what kind of tentative answers you learned uh for those questions because it's like oh yeah that's a good question um I think when I got on the board we either did not have an ELD curriculum or we got one right after right before I got on the board I can't remember but my point is it hasn't been around very long you might know Dr mwin uh it it's it's pretty new and sites were just making it up on their own uh so I I'm really very glad to see the progress in these 10 years from just you know trying to figure it out on our own to
132having really analyzing what we're doing and seeing how we can improve um I also um really hope that we are working on helping our students particularly the older students the elementary not so much but the Middle School school students um and parents understanding the importance of of taking it seriously and working towards it and not giving up because I think that's one of the things that creates lels is kids not thinking this is important and then they just see they're on this kind of um you know uh like hamster wheel that that is going nowhere and and I mean some of them are struggling for for valid reasons but some were I think also struggling because they didn't take it seriously enough and their parents didn't take it seriously and if they had only really
133really tried in fifth grade they wouldn't be where they are now um so I I hope we are also working on the parent education and the student education again particularly in Middle School in secondary right so with respect to parent education I think trusty Jes you've had the opportunity to witness just how involved and engaged our deac is in this and over the last few years they've really done a tremendous job in in educating themselves and more importantly educating the the community in in in being Partners in this work with respect to the student participation one of the questions that we had there is the role of the student in that data chat or the student goal setting so we are putting um uh pieces in place to support sites in helping students reflect on
134that data and for them to see growth and to feel empowered to make that progress as well great thank you do we see a large amount of parents attending the meetings our daac meetings yeah with uh thanks to the use of talking points um and to the work that our bilingual special programs leason and our bcls at the sites have done we have had really great attendance and turnout we always want more of course but um this room is a packed room during those meetings and is it made up of parents from our Elementary grades or middle school or High School you would see you would see a um a a smattering of parents from different grade levels but as consistent as it is with PTA for an instance right participation you would have the
135majority of them being um Elementary School parents which is good start them young right well at each school or potentially has an elac which is the English language the at the school but the daac is the district which may only have one parent from each School correct correct thank you for the clarification thank you for the opportunity to present that information to you folks thank you very much Mrs Hayes do we have any speaker cards for this item okay and this was an information item only so we'll move on to 13e resolution 24251 [Applause] thank you authorizing participation in the zero emission school bus and infrastructure incentive project may have a motion to adopt resolution 2425 D21 authorizing participation in the zero emission school bus and infrastructure incentive project so moved moved by trusty ctios
136and second in by trusty buus and we'll recognize Clark Hampton deputy superintendant to present the vote to present the item thank you president Davis so this item is um does not commit the school approval of this does not commit the school district to to um spend any money it allows us to continue in the application process this is a a incentive program run by the California energy commission and they would be primarily funding um the Chargers and the California Air Resource Board which would find the purchase of new electric buses we've been preliminary awarded uh eight uh buses wouldn't fund the full cost of a bus but a significant portion of it and we're hoping that we can then a lir on top of that an AQMD uh Grant which would then cover the full
137cost but that would we would be bringing that back to the board if there was any uh any additional um uh expenditures or anything to uh receive the actual buses we would be coming back to the board for that approval staff recommends approval thank you thank you Mrs Hayes do you have any speaker cards for this item there're n n with that trusty discussion comments questions trusty buus do we currently have a shortage of buses would these buses replace buses or that to receive them they have to replace heavy duty buses that are burning fossil fuels so they have to replace those so we would and we have some uh Surplus buses that we actually keep for that purpose is to then turn them in uh to receive the grant funds we've had legislature that
138has made us do this and yet here there's legislature that you know we can have gas cars again do you know of any legislature that might do a reversal on you mean to switch to not do this that we don't have to have electric buses um because we have natural gas buses yeah we have we started off with diesel and those were then replaced uh the AQMD had incentives to replace those with compressed natural gas which were cleaner yes and they also did some retrofit programs to retrofit diesel buses and then this is just the next phase of getting cleaner and moving into uh zero emission uh buses with electric with full electric well we're lucky that we don't live in the mountains or have really really cold weather understand they don't work as well
139that was actually one of the the difficulties it works well in small districts that are relatively flat but the technolog is changing all the time and this is some of the reasons for these incentives is to have an investment in the industry to make improvements so that they can become cheaper and and more available thank you I have a question I'm I'm actually an e fan of ecars I I drive an electric car so I thought this was super exciting seeing this and that we were going to get the funding for it I was just curious if there were any terms and conditions that are kind of wonky is there anything because we're agreeing to the terms and conditions if we agree to this and we get the let's say we get the buses I'm
140just wondering what those are what the ter the conditions are to turn in a a fossil fuel bus that's yeah okay awesome I wasn't sure and then you would install the chargers to charge the buses and things like that and we'll continue to have diesel natural gas and electric buses is that correct yeah I think we have I I would have to I'll check on the number of diesels that we actually have operating on the road and um let you know what that number is for the the mix between Diesel and CNG buses but you believe we currently have a majority of natural versus diesel yes I believe soy question the charging stations how quickly is that implementable to get a charging station placed into the district busard having trouble the charging stations so it
141would include charging stations yeah is there a delay or I heard there was some uh disruption in trying to get charging stations and and put them up um well just in general oh we looked into using we both have our mics on so actually for regular car chargers we uh we looked into that when we installed the solar panels but it it wasn't cost effective at the time I was thinking for the bus for buses yeah that would be this would be the first time we would be doing this was with this incentive Grant and then you have to build the charging stations or facility for it yeah it would be at the north busher just like the CG refillers are is there any special concerns about building those for no we don't have I
142don't see I don't foresee any issues or concern no permit issues or issues with I can't hear any permit issues or things yeah that we would work with the city just like we did with the CG okay to do the permitting okay any further discussion questions okay and with that Miss hay please call the role student board member Rando hi truste castanos hi truste Pritchard hi trusty Zinger I trusty Adams hi trusty Jones hi trusty bullus hi trusty Davis I the motion carries 70 by a roll call Vote with a preferential vote of I from student student board member um verando thank you okay we'll move on to 13f First reading board policy 3230 federal grants funds may have a motion to approve board policy 33 3230 Federal grant funds on the first reading and
143wave the second reading so move moved by trusty Jones second in by trusty bullus we'll recog recognize Clark Hampton Deputy superintendent business and support services to present the item thank you president Davis trustee so at the last board meeting the auditor spoke to the board about uh our audit and there was one minor Federal finding in our audit and so the Auditors recommended that we um passed this adopt this um policy we do have curiously we have a AR an administrative regulation that that is uh reflects this but now it'll be just officially in um uh board policy and staff recommends approval thank you thank you Mrs Hayes do we have any speaker cards for this item do not thank you thank you and discussion and this is the first reading just this is yes
144this is the first reading so if we do pass it now we need to wave second reading and that was in the motion thank you any comments questions anything to add okay all those in favor say I oh this I this needs to be a roll call vote because this is we're waving our policy thank you student board member verando hi trusty casanas hi trusty Pritchard hi trusty Zinger hi trusty Adams hi trusty Jones hi trusty bulus hi trusty Davis Hi the motion carry 70 with the preferential vote of I from student board member Brando move on to consent counter calendar uh Miss T do we have any speaker cards for this item we do not okay and Trust is there anyone that needs to pull any items I have one question on 15g but
145I could just ask the question and then vote on it um and that is whether uh are these the only courses that we have in the enrollment agreement with Saddleback or are these new ones I don't know if this is the total or if these are just new ones um that's a great question so we have um a multi-year agreement with sbat college we also have a multi-year agreement with um urbine Valley College two separate agreements um and so by Education Code anytime we're adding new courses and we do it basically semester by semester um it has to be reviewed by both this board and the south Orange County Community College Board and they have to designate how many students they think they're going to serve how many FTE of Staffing it takes them a
146while to get Staffing so this is not all the courses we have offered or will offer but this is the courses we will be offering this spring as part of the CCAP agreement okay thank you thank you okay may have a motion to approve the consent calendar items 15a through 18b so moved second moved by trusty Adams second by trusty Zinger okay and any further comments before we call the role trusty Jones did you have anything else to add on that okay um I'd like to acknowledge the retirees listed on this month month's agenda and and especially highlight um some of our some that have been with us over 20 years years Amy shes a teacher at a middle school 29 years Arlene um bagner staff secretary 20 years Katherine cat sorz Pat um par
147educator for she's been with us for 25 years Anthony HBY school bus driver 25 years Moren AA HS campus supervisor 19 years Bonnie Jenkins par educator 2 18 years yes she is and I just wanted to kind of highlight a couple of things we've got the kappo valley Stadium project including the three buildings the two health class classrooms the locker rooms the snack shop the restrooms the storage room which has um already begun excavation and the the San cloney high school gym hopefully will begin in August of 25 moving along in the process to begin pending board approval and the highlight of the Dual enrollment Partnerships for a CCA um program with saddle back in Irvine Valley for the high school and college credit dual enrollment concurrent enrollment and articulated coursework so just some of
148the highlights from this consent and with that Mrs Hayes please call the role student board member verando hi trusty casianos hi trusty Pritchard hi truste Zinger hi trusty adnams hi trusty Jones I trusty bulus I trusty Davis I motion carries 70 with a roll call vote to approve the consent calendar with the student board member Rando casting a preferential vote a i to approve the consent calendar there being no further business before the board may have a motion to adjourn second moved by trusty Jones second it by oh sorry thank you moved by trusty bolus and seconded by by trusty Jones and motion carries oh and all in favor motion carries 70 to adjourn the meeting with a preferential vot of I from student Bo member Brando time is now 9:15 thank you e e
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