001Waiting for our YouTube stream. And our YouTube stream is good. Mr. Rush, meeting is yours. >> The meeting is now in session. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes of the last policy meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. Any comments or discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. >> Uh items recommended for work session action meeting of uh policies 103 and 104 and repeal policy 2603. >> Dr. Kim or Dr. warders. You want to take over, please? >> Sure, I'll jump in. Um, good evening everybody and uh happy uh August. Time to
002welcome all of the students back. The staff came back today and it's always an exciting time. Um, so we're looking forward to another great year. Um, tonight, as Mr. Rush stated, we just have some minor changes in policies 103 and 104, and we are repealing policy 2603, which is advertising. So, Mr. Summers, if you want to give a quick uh overview, we'd appreciate it. >> Sure. Thank you, Dr. Waters, and good evening, everyone. Um, for policies 103 and 104, uh, the only changes to those policies is the updating of the contact information for who is the Title 9 coordinator for the district. So, one of the things that um federal uh regulations have indicated is that we need to notify the public of who they should contact if they have a concern under Title 9
003or any other uh sort of harassment or discrimination concern under our policies. So, we actually put um the contact information in the policy itself. It's one of the few policies that we do that for. Um, but we we do it because it's they're obviously important policies and we want to make sure that if anyone needs to figure out who the Title 9 coordinator is, they can do that. Um, for uh when the policies were last adopted or last revised, the Title 9 coordinator had been the assistant director of human resources. Um, and so it had that person's title and con phone number and contact information. So really the only revision to the these two policies is to revise that to say that the title n coordinator is the assistant director of student services which that's
004Dr. Neil Brockster. Um so he is serving in that capacity. Um anyone who would look on the district's website would would certainly be able to see that he is the title N coordinator. Um, but sometimes people will go to our the the policies themselves and we want to make sure that the correct information is there in the policy. So that's the only change to those two policies is just to change the title of who is serving as the title 9 coordinator from assistant director of human resources. It's no longer in that um position. Uh it's the assistant director of student services and that is Dr. Neil Brockster who is the title N coordinator. So um these policies are very legally uh heavy uh in terms of the legal references in them. Um we kind of
005frequently revisit 103 and 104. So it's certainly possible that those will come back before the committee again uh at some point, but um tonight the only change is is just changing the contact information for if anyone needs to contact uh the Title 9 coordinator. Um, so before we talk about the repeal of 2603, any questions on on 103 and 104? >> No. >> Okay. Um, so 2603, uh, that numbering, if that seems odd to anyone, it's because it is under the district's sort of former policy numbering system. um for many years. I think going back to 2018 at this point, uh the board has been working on updating and revising policies and there are just a few policies that are still um out there in terms of um being under the district's former policy manual.
006And so um this is one of them. It was a policy that was last uh revised in 2012 um and and really governed or talked about the district um and advertising. At the time there was a lot of discussion about where in the district um advertising could occur, under what circumstances and there wasn't a policy that necessarily covered that. So, uh, the recommendation is to repeal this policy, which is is, you know, has not been updated in over a decade. Um, and to have the issue of advertising be addressed through our new policy, uh, manual. And specifically policy 913 um which the board previously adopted is called non-school organizations, groups and individuals and it covers um access uh uh to school facilities by outside groups for distributing information and advertising is certainly one subset of
007that. So, um that policy 913 um says that any outside organization that wants to distribute their materials uh or make postings on school district property, they need to submit that request to the Office of School and Community Engagement. Um that's the office that uh was involved in in the uh advertising policy and reviewing advertising that we're repealing. Um, and it will continue to be the case that any sort of request for advertising would go through that office. Um, so, uh, from a practical standpoint, this shouldn't have any practical impact on the district. It's just, um, removing an outdated policy. And, um, to the extent that there's any need for greater detail about advertising, uh, the recommendation is to develop an administrative regulation under this new policy 913. uh instead of under the old policy. Um
008and that concludes uh the policies up for discussion tonight. >> Any questions from the board? Hearing none, I re recommend the following policies for first read 103 discrimination title 9 sexual harassment affecting students. Policy 104, discrimination, title N sexual harassment affecting uh staff. Do I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. Uh any comments or discussion? >> No. >> Um uh seeing none, can I have all those in favor say I? >> I. I uh do I have a motion to repeal policy uh 2603? >> So moved. >> Second. Uh any comments or discussion? >> No. >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Uh uh are there anyformational items for discussion tonight? Yeah, I just have oneformational item tonight and that is that um I just wanted
009everybody to know that uh gifts to school uh which is policy 702, the administrative regulation that goes along with that, we did make a change um that does not have to be board approved, but we certainly wanted to make sure that you are aware. And the only change in that rag is that the gift um that needs to be a board approved has moved from $100 to $500. It's been $100 I think since I was teaching at Oak Park back in I don't want to say what decade because then makes me feel really old. Um but it's been a really long time. Um and uh with discussion with the home and school presidents as well as the principles, we thought it was time to up it um with prices going up of course over all
010of these years. And that's the onlyformational item tonight. >> Thank Thank you very much. That's a good change. >> Uh does anyone from the community wish to speak? >> Yes, we have one hand raised currently. >> Okay. Individuals attending this meeting virtually and intending to speak to the committee should be aware that they are being recorded. In order to meet the requirements of Pennsylvania's sunshine law, it is necessary to record the names of all citizens who speak to the committee during the meeting. To assure compliance with this requirement, it is essential that those planning to address the committee raise their hands electronically and state their name and municipality. As a reminder, the public comment portion of this meeting is designed for residents and taxpayers of the district to provide comment and feedback on matters being
011discussed at tonight's meetings or matters that may come before the policy committee. It is not designed for debate or discussion with members of the committee. When appropriate, committee members may choose to respond to to public comments that have been made or request that a member of the administration follow up with the speaker after the meeting. To allow time for all those who wish to speak to the committee, the chairperson may ask an individual to yield the microphone to the next speech speaker. Thank you. >> Okay. Up first is Jason Laneir. Jason, I've enabled your microphone. So, when you're ready to begin, please state your name and municipality for the record and begin your comments, please. >> Uh, Jay Laneir Lansdale. Um, I I am again struck by, you know, you guys are revising the policies.
012I guess some of it sort of minor details, uh, kind of bring them up to date and fine, that that's great. You want a new, uh, numbering system for the policies, again, great. Um but in in reflecting on upon the policies that you have enacted for express purposes and their their unmititigated failure, would you are you going to re are you going to re uh repeal those? And if not, why? If I guess maybe I'm uh I have a different opinion of what a unmitigated failure is, but uh again, you know, not without beating around the bush, we're talking about uh education equity 832 policy, and you can you can read what it was for in in uh the description. It says promptly, this is part of uh the introduction of the purpose of uh
013education equity. It says promptly identify and addressing barriers and uh uh cultiv uh cultivate achievement and opportunity gaps for students. Has that been done? Because when you look at the again when you look at the keystone results that hasn't been done. the kids who were historically underperforming uh back in 2015 are were doing much better than any demographic of kids today except for uh what kids that are um categorized as Asian. So how how is this better? I I mean I guess maybe you're just reducing the gap by making everybody less proficient. Is is that the goal? I I wouldn't think that's the goal, but I guess maybe some of the policies that the the the the uh the structure that was made to achieve this goal has caused further decline in proficiencies. Uh second
014on on the proposal or the purpose for for the equity it says is ensuring that students educational achievement is neither predictive or premedit uh pre pre-interminative by explicit or implicit bias. Again has this has this happened because if you look at the the data kids who were historically underperforming are doing much worse now. So whatever it is that you put in place seems to have been like I said an unmititigated failure. What are you doing to make kids be more successful? And if it means maybe stepping out there and and enacting policy that is actually going to be uh beneficial to education, stricter, higher standards and and so forth, uh then you should do it and and maybe re uh reject these things that are are uh politically motivated. And I'll leave it there. I'd
015like some feedback on that. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Lair. As you recall, at the action meeting, Dr. Bower uh went through step by step uh and refuted everything you just said. Uh so I would refer you back to the action meeting and listen carefully to what Dr. Bower has said. He has told you those he has told you these items time and time again. So I don't know why you're not listening. But uh thank you for your comment. Um is there any other business before the board? Seeing none, summary of items for work session. Uh we're going to move policy 103 and policy 104 on and we're going to repeal policy 2603. Uh the next meeting is September 29th at 5:00 virtually. And can I have a motion to adjurnn? >>
016So moved. >> Thank you everybody. Have a good night. >> Thank you. Have a great night everyone. Thanks. >> Bye bye. Yep. Thank