001Good afternoon my name is Kathleen Brown chair of the Virginia Beach School Board and I call this administrative informal and workshop session on Monday June 9th 2025 to order at 400 PM Madam Clerk would you please call the role thank you Madam Chair present in the school board chamber or Chair Brown Vice Chair Weems Mr. Bohenstiel Mr. Callan Mr. Culpepper Mr. Cummings Miss Dwyer Miss Felton Dr. Green Miss Melnyk and Miss Rogers thank you that brings us to school board administrative matters and reports do any board members have anything to report miss Rogers sorry about that our screens are I did try to sign Okay um I do so uh due the elimination of resolutions without the full board's ability to discuss and vote i would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the following
002recognitions and celebrations within our community in the month of May the community celebrated AsianAmerican Pacific uh Islander Heritage Month to take time to reflect and celebrate the important role that Asian-Americans Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have played in our shared history the community also celebrated Jewish American Heritage Month to celebrate the rich history culture and achievements of Jewish Americans the community further celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week to acknowledge and appreciate the vital role teachers play in shaping the minds and futures of students the community celebrated Mother's Day to express gratitude appreciation and affection to our community's mothers and recognize their contributions to families and society and finally in the month of May the community celebrated school nurse appreciation day to recognize and celebrate the contributions of school nurses in promoting student health safety and academic success
003in the month of June the community will recognize National Cancer Survivors Day honoring cancer survivors raising awareness about cancer survivorship and supporting those who have been affected by cancer the community will recognize the strength resilience and hope of cancer survivors it will also recognize I'm sorry the community will also be celebrating Father's Day to honor and celebrate the role of fathers and father figures in our lives offering an opportunity to express appreciation and gratitude for their love care and support the community will further celebrate Junth to commemorate the announcement by Union General Gordon Granger on June 19th 1865 and recognize and celebrate the end of slavery in the United States and in the month of June the community will also be celebrating Pride which commemorates the Stonewall riots of 19 uh 69 uh a pivotal
004event I'm sorry a pivotal event for civil rights movement for the LGBTQ Q plus community and Pride also celebrates the achievements and contributions of the LGBTQ plus community and is a call for greater unity visibility and equality thank you do any other board members have anything to report okay seeing none we will now welcome Joel Andrus from Kemper Consulting for a legislative update good afternoon it is good to see you all and I also want to say to all of our seniors and our families out there congratulations this is a great week to be here i know it is so exciting all the hard work uh that they've put in it is a great accomplishment and very proud of of what everyone has done and look forward to seeing and hearing about their achievements in
005the future so this is a great week to be great week to be here and uh excited for them um I'm going to as always give you a quick recap of where things stand after the legislative session and kind of a preview of some of the things that are ongoing throughout the summer um as well as a sort of snapshot of what might be happening in November because I think as you all know it is a big election here uh in Virginia so let's see oh okay all right so backing up real quick uh just kind of really big picture it was a short session which means we had no budget however if you follow the news at the beginning of the year session began with a water crisis in the city of Richmond believe
006it or not we really need running water to host public meetings it's pretty important for things like fire suppression systems and restrooms and all types of things so session technically started on time uh but everyone immediately went home uh because again there was no water so we actually started a few days late which kind of made everything a little bit more truncated than usual uh during session um no changes in leadership uh during legislative session uh we continue to see divided government with uh the governor lieutenant governor attorney general all Republicans and the legislature both the House and the Senate with a narrow control by Democrats it is a nonbudget year so we're in the middle of our bianial budget uh so we did not technically actually have to pass a budget this year even
007though they always make revisions to the budget uh every single year we'll talk a little bit more about that there are some kind of ongoing concerns about what is happening again elections kind of playing this big part of of what is happening out there in terms of some bills and the outcome of some bills and then the state is continuing to look at how to respond to the changing federal landscape and what those impacts may mean for Virginia specifically what they mean for Virginia in terms of state revenue i'm not going to focus on this but just as a reminder uh House controlled 51 uh Democrats 49 Republicans speaker of the House is uh Delegate Don Scott who's from Portsouth um and this slide is actually a little bit out of date as of just
008a few days ago where the minority leader actually's now changed from Todd Gilbert and Channidoa to uh Terry Gil Kilgore from Scott County so that just actually just happened recently uh Senate uh narrowed Democratic control by uh again 2119 uh Scott Surville from Fairfax is the Senate majority leader and uh the chair of the Senate Finance Committee as well as prom is Senator Louise Lucas kind of interesting that not only does Hampton Roads kind of have a pretty significant um presence in terms of leadership in the general assembly but actually um specifically from the city of Portsouth i think this is kind of an interesting slide to kind of set up a little bit of the dynamics for session um this slide shows governor's vetos for the last several governors and as you can see
009when you look at um previous governors we've seen more vetos this past couple years than we've seen um from many uh governors in the past uh I think the stat I heard is maybe 20% or something of the bills that the legislature sent to the governor he ended up vetoing um again this is a little bit of those partisan dynamics between both the House Senate and the administration like I mentioned at the beginning we're in the middle of a banual budget um and so we have seen strong revenues in Virginia um that continues to happen we have pretty conservative budgeting however for several years now particularly staff of both the Senate and House uh committees have been warning a little bit about ongoing revenue concerns and so it created a greater focus on one-time spending
010versus ongoing cost the concern that is out there is if we continue to spend on ongoing costs uh eventually our revenues and our spending will take up catch up with each other this is sort of a short-term problem it gets better as we get to the to the outy years so again one focus on one-time spending also with the um I'm sorry that slide got a little bit um cut off there but with with elections coming up there was a a focus on tax breaks became a priority for both uh the general assembly and the governor's office which we'll talk about here in a second as well and I would say that the the concern about spending has been talked about for several years now and is not necessarily a direct result of any changes
011at the federal level so I'm going to talk about some education funding specifics and I'm going put them in three categories kind of technical updates that we see every year some policy updates or that the general assembly took in uh enacted as well as a few things specific to the department of ed that school divisions and everyone sort of needs to be aware of i think many of these you already you already know about um as you work through your budget process but I'll kind of highlight them as I go through this presentation anyway a couple quick technical updates as you can see sales tax revenue was increased uh school enrollment was increased so ADM is up obviously depending on your school division you may or may not get more money out of the ADM
012uh English learner proficiency there was some significant dollars for that this was based upon legislation that was passed during the 2024 General Assembly session so really paying for policies that the general assembly enacted and then an increase uh lottery revenues um over the forecast and as you can see what those numbers are right there looking at a couple of major policy initiatives and again I think you probably know about all these but I'll just highlight some of them uh a $1,000 bonus for school uh personnel so these are SOQ um position so teachers and those support staff uh there was a just as a reminder there was a uh raise given at the beginning of the banium for both years so there's no changes to that raise that was given uh we finally funded the
013support cap uh after I think 16 years of asking for the support gap to get funded however they funded it by putting in place a support cap that funds the support cap um which is great because they've now actually recognized fully recognize all those support positions the challenge is we're going to have to be constantly looking at the ratio to make sure that the general continues to fund the support cap at where it should be pre prior to 2008 they funded on the prevailing cost um and they have not gone back to that there was a special ed add-on u which is for uh as you can see for uh level one and level two supports a couple of other items is school construction a little bit more money in school construction again this number
014is so big on a statewide basis uh probably doesn't significantly reduce any one school division's um uh construction or maintenance cost certainly very helpful for smaller urban rural school divisions and then the one thing that we did not see any movement on even though we saw some policies related to it is changes related to the joint subcommittee on education funding as we've been talking about for the last couple years the joint legislative audit review commission came out with several recommendations uh 20 or so of them about changes and updating the state funding formula the general has a special subcommittee working through what those changes may or may not be and they have not made any uh long-term policy changes around that i would say though that the support cap and the special add-on were part
015of the JAR um discussion and recommendations but the bigger ones dealing with formulas has have not really been uh enacted or or even discussed significantly at this point waiting for that work of the joint subcommittee a couple of funding proposals related to DOE that are just worth noting the so contract and we're going to talk about this here in a second too relating to the so legislation because some of this stuff works together uh extends the contract through 2027 to allow VDOE to procure a new contract currently Pearson has that contract uh so we need to as as a DOE and as a state need to really think about what we want our SOS to look like moving into the future uh additional um help around math improvement program this was sparked by legislation from
016this past session with a really focus on u math a statewide LMS was continued through the year i think it's about $5 million uh and then other enhancements to the Virginia I IEP last year you may recall there was legislation that made a number of changes to Virginia special ed program in including enhancements to the statewide IEP the legislation does not require school divisions to use the state IEP as is the currently the case but they're trying to beef up the state IEP so it is a more useful resource for school divisions specifically for those who have opted not to use the statewide IEP uh moving on to legislation uh we saw about 2,000 bills not including res uh resolutions get introduced uh this year roughly 900 of them were sent to the governor's desk
017we were also of those 2,000 bills there's about 300 a little more than 300 or so of those that we are tracking that impacted school division so you can see a really a large number of bills out there that are introduced impact schools or local governments uh in some way or another some of those bills also had to deal with FOYA or or other types of things that do impact local school divisions and school boards uh so um a lot of lot of work that gets done in a very very short period of time here's kind of a snapshot of what that looks like i like I like to think about it in terms of in Virginia most bills get hearings at least one and so you the general assembly has to get through about
018a hundred bills a day in order to stay on track and obviously this year with losing a couple of days because of the water crisis that that pace had to speed up even a little bit more so a couple of highlights out of those 300 bills that we are tracking this past session um one is the standards learning reform you might have been there's been a number of articles about this uh pretty recently uh this is something that we knew was going coming as a pretty big issue from this past session the this legislation does a lot of different things including probably the the thing you've heard about the most which is requiring standards of learning to count as 10% of the grade uh they also require SOS to be given within the last two
019weeks of school sos have to be on a 100 point scale among other things what the legislation also does is it makes some significant changes to how SOS are administered and so we really it's important to think about all those policy changes like 10% or two weeks kind of in conjunction with some of the other work that is being done with so redesign it also allows for school divisions to develop their local assessment for some SOS and so there's a lot of different pieces in it the legislation is delayed for a year so it does not go into effect for one whole year and then another big portion of that legislation also has what's called a reenactment clause on it which means and before it goes into law the general assembly has to vote on
020it one more time so there's a lot of work that still is going to likely get done on this legislation and none of it is going to affect right away so we've been talking Dr roberts and I had some conversations about you know what do we want this to look like since this is kind of the first time it has gone through i think there's still some more work that needs to be done from a policy standpoint also from a uh logistics and practical standpoint around this legislation and it will certainly be a point of discussion coming up for the 2026 uh general assembly session without a doubt uh other big piece of legislation uh there was there was a bipartisan bill dealing with cell phone usage uh the bill does a couple of things
021that requires school boards to develop a cell phone policy and I'm going get the words not quite exactly right but that is both um age and developmentally appropriate that restrict cell phone usage to the maximum extent possible from bell to bell there's a lot of questions about what is age appropriate and developmentally appropriate what is restrict to the maximum use possible I think that based upon talking to others that gives school board some leniency of what they may want to do or not do with that cell phone policy um I so that is out there now uh we've been talking about the delayed accountability system a lot that that is going to go into effect next year there was some legislation to delay that for a year uh that did not pass we did see
022some really good legislation on CTE lure that creates new uh provisional license for teachers who want to go into the CTE field so that that is good news for us something we've been working on for several years now and then um another bill dealing with um making sure that students who are leaving high school are prepared for the next chapter in life and if whether that chapter is employment going directly into the workforce making sure they have the skill sets that make them uh employable if they're in deciding to uh enlist in one of the uh armed services and serve our country there's making sure we're preparing them for that or if they're looking at a a a another higher ed institution making sure that they're prepared for that so that is now going to
023be part of the accountability framework work that is I think good uh something that we we've been excelling at as well so uh looking forward to seeing some of that stuff be on the board that is agenda in the in the coming months and years a couple of other last minute things i think what I just went through were kind of the the big ones uh there's a lot of talk about teacher training this is something we've been talking about for several years now there was a bill to limit the teacher training requirements one of the challenges it's really focused on limiting more the local side than the state side because some of those are in statute we're going to have to keep working on that piece of legislation however it also there's another piece
024of legislation that really creates an index of teaching training requirements one of our challenges is we don't really know what's out there in terms of what teachers are required to do so we're going to start to get a lot more data back on that uh there was legislation to expand virtual Virginia to all middle school students that didn't go anywhere um some changes to highquality instructional material this has DOE creating a new list of highquality instructional material uh does not require school boards to use their list uh but they're going to be doing more work in that space uh local sales tax for school construction we've seen those last couple years it it passed but was vetoed by the governor um we continue to see uh work around students with disabilities the Commission on Youth
025is continuing their study on dispute resolution uh so that is um continue to be an issue i suspect it will be more significant come 2026 and then as I mentioned before all the the bills dealing with SOQS or education funding reform ended up not passing waiting for the re recommendations and the joint subcommittee to continue their work and finish what they are doing so I'm going to pause there and I can answer questions or I can kind of continue through and get to the other things i'm up to you depending on how you like to Mr. Bohenstiel hello good afternoon um I'm just a little curious and kind of confused on the cell phone uh situation i was under the impression that it was a law and that we were pretty much that was it
026we didn't have any way to put our voice in but this says here what I'm reading is that it's kind of up to the school board to come up with their own i I I might let Miss Lannetti re respond to that but there's words in that legislation that is things like developmentally appropriate restrict maximum possible and I think there there might be some some welay but leeway but I defer to her on that one this was an issue we went some of us went to the ESBA leg law day um I want to say June 5th I think and um no sorry May 30th and this is brought up by Stacy Haney who's a BSBA legislative consultant and JT Kesler who is the BSBA um legislative um representative and they both said the same
027thing that you're hearing Mr and just talked about is the fact that it's confusing right now and there seem to be a lot of school divisions are confusing way I understood the statutes that went through was it when it said restrict it was going to leave you as a school division some leeway in deciding what to do there were several amendments on this one of the amendments was there was a subsection C that said nothing in here would prohibit you from you as a school division from making rules that you determine were appropriate for the school day um that was taken out there was a section talked about prohibition that was taken out but left the word restrict in there so my assumption with the PRC was that it was going to be left to
028you to be able to make a decision what you thought was age appropriate i will say this has come up and we have a long discussion with the council of school attorneys it's really not clear right now whether it means you have the ability to make decisions on there because we're not clear what the word restrict means it does talk continue to talk about making age appropriate decisions about there and leaving them but it's not clear on the bell-to-bell when it says restrict if restrict means completely prohibit i do think if you completely prohibit you're not going to have a problem there is a possibility if the word restrict is intended to mean absolutely you cannot have it during the school day or val time period that there might be some argument that's not what
029it was intended to be so we're not we have not seen guidance from the video department of education right now um nothing's coming out for the governor's office so the safer plan might be to stick with restrict meaning don't allow it bell to bell but outside the bell to bell like on the bus or after school if you allow it you might be able to restrict it there but unfortunately I can't give you really good guidance my when I was doing the PRC my I thought it would be okay for you to do i'm not 100% sure that's accurate right now mr ken thank you for your report thus far i look forward to completion of it as well and I do have a question that would fall under the category of a history review
030if you will slide number seven makes reference to the lottery revenues being increased and I'm going to reveal how challenging it is sometimes to remember facts and figures but my understanding historically is when the lottery system was introduced the intent was the revenues that were realized were going to be directed back to the school systems for their needs life got in the way and those rules were changed and the dollars were directed elsewhere but it's my understanding that dollars are slowly being returned to the original intent that surrounded the legislation when it was enacted my question for you if you have an answer is if lottery revenues are increasing do you know how far away or how close we might be getting to what was originally intended or is there still miles to go before
031we get there um thank you Mr k that's a that's a good question i don't know if I can give you a specific on kind of what the if there's there's a deficit so to speak i think what you do see the lottery funds do go to education what you see is that lottery funds will will be used to supplant general fund obligations and so while they do go to education it offsets sometimes what the state would ordinarily put in and so that's where you would have to kind of look at what is what what what would it be if the state did 100% of what they said they would do and then you had the lottery funds also coming fully to K12 and I don't know what that is i'll see if I can
032do a little more digging and figure out what that what that number would actually look like thank you but I think that is also you know part of as we rethink funding formulas in Virginia for K12 all of these types of things are going into that discussion of what is the general fund obligation to funding the education system in Virginia and what does that look like both from um a a policy side and a uh formula side for individual school districts any information you can return with is greatly appreciated yes sir miss Melnik well first the law did not change for the uh appropriation of funds from lottery dollars it was just a recession that that led that and I think it was nice to have that money and I'm glad that it's being reallocated
033where it's supposed to and I look forward to that those numbers increasing but back to the cell phone policy when do you think we'll have more clarification from the VDOE because school boards are now being tasked with making these decisions um and clearly there's some ambiguity which really puts us in a bad in a bad spot i'll be honest I'm not seeing anything from BDOE i do know um I'd asked that question of Daisy Haney and JT Kesler if they knew if anybody was asking for an opinion on it and right now they're not aware of it when I spoke with the other school divisions nobody at this time was overly concerned about where they were going with their policy so I don't know when we'll get guidance but use with VOE it doesn't come
034out until July sometime when you see the guidance because it because I mean you're you're pulling language that you've seen that says cell phone usage requires school divisions to develop a policy and includes the words age and developmentally appropriate and with some leniency attached to that and so yeah I can read you the section B of the bill says each school board shall develop in each public elementary and secondary school shall implement age appropriate developmentally appropriate policies relating to students cell phone and smart device possession and use on school board property from bell to bell and such property shall include and it sets out a couple sections the first one is one except as provided subsection 4 which has to do with special ed students restrict students cell phone smart device possession use on school
035board property from bell to bell okay um and then there was a section that no longer appears in this and that the final version sorry there was another section that talked about you would not be prohibited from you would not have to prohibit all use on nothing prohibit you from doing all use on school poly that section did not appear in the final version of the bill bill so that the question is by not take by not using the prohibit word which you've seen before in this bill by living restrict did they actually mean prohibit for restrict or does restrict mean um you have some leniency and that's what's not clear how do we find that and I would just add add to it there was some discussion that the legislation did specifically use the
036word restrict and not pro prohibit which also is part of the discussion I'm certainly I I can Oh it said restrict but not prohibited correct that was you know that was the word that that they chose to use in the legislation i will be happy to check with DOE of whether they intend to release any guidance uh on this or not and let me see what I can find out about that i think I can help with that so on Friday afternoon we got our weekly superintendent message from the Virginia Department of Education and the the headline was bell-to-bell law the land and it had a picture of Governor Yncan and members of um his the DOE uh right underneath the caption and I'll just read to you a couple of things from this says
037in a triumph of bipartisan good sense Virginia has officially made bell-to-bell cell phone free education the law of the land it's not just good policy but it's also great news for our students parents and teachers who are tired of watching young minds be consumed by scrolling instead of sharpening sharpened by learning thanks to Governor Youngkin's executive order 33 and early leaders like Copwell City Schools and 104 school divisions to date with bell-to-bell phone policies in place general assembly members heard loud and clear that this policy is working for our students and teachers it goes on to say um by banning phones from the opening bell to the closing one Virginia's made a strong necessary choice to put education and our students first and then it concludes to Miss Melanie your question uh the last statement
038is we will have a special edition next week which would be this week for our recent legislation and implementation support stay tuned so perhaps this week when we get this update on Thursday or Friday there's going to be additional clarification on what is meant by uh bellto okay yeah that would be good because you know either we have something to vote on or we don't right so okay I appreciate you thank you go ahead all right so looking next steps um primaries are coming up here in just Oh we got off there that's right primaries are coming up here just in a week or so uh uh June 17th um as we've talked all the bills are going into effect on July 1 with those few exceptions uh the so reform bill being one of
039them get ready November 4th is big election year in Virginia as we like to say there's not a whole lot happening nationally right now there's one other gubernatorial election and that's happening in New Jersey believe it or not people are less interested in the elections in New Jersey as they are in Virginia so we get a lot of national attention and then both the House and the Senate have created special uh either subcommittees or committees to look at what the federal action means for Virginia uh so right now we're kind of in the state of unknown um we do know that a reduction in federal workforce will have some impact on the Virginia budget the Virginia budget relies heavily on uh uh nonwithholdings um to balance or withholdings to balance the budget so that's a
040hit what does that mean for the state we do not yet know what is some of the other reforms around Medicaid education all these things that are happening out there what they mean for the state is still to be known um that the House actually has their uh special committee coming to Hampton Roads here in a couple weeks on June 20th and my understanding is one of that focus of that discussion is specifically going to be around the impact on education so we will know more uh there's a lot of talk about a possible special session once we understand what the impact will be on Virginia if there is one uh that has not yet been scheduled but the sort of word is potentially end of the summer beginning of fall as we kind of
041continue to sort through what the impact will be if there is one that the state needs to respond to one way or the other i'm going to talk very very briefly about the elections and then I'll let you get back to to your other good work um as I mentioned all 100 members of the House are up for election re-election all three statewide candidates as a reminder we have a one-term four-year governor so Governor Yncan cannot run again he is terming out um and there's no Senate election so we this is a weird off-year election for us even though we do have statewide candidates on the ballot um and so looking at that real quick former governor I'm sorry former representative Abigail Spanberger is running against Lieutenant Governor current Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears um the
042Lieutenant Governor race certainly on the Republican side is uh been kind of decided with John Reid running and then the primary there's a there's a number of individuals running in that primary several current state senators including Senator Aaron Rouse as well as former Richmond mayor and others so that will be decided here in a couple of weeks and then for the attorney general former delegate Jay Jones from Norfolk is running against the Henrico commonwealth's attorney Shannon Taylor so again um looking at uh June 17th for that i throw this map up there just because it was one of the presentations I could find to kind of talk about the House elections i like to say about elections uh much like the weather they're actually predicted three hours in advance so really difficult to say what
043happens and as we all know the Virginia electorate is sometimes uh finicky a little bit which is why Virginia remains you know very much a toss-up state and we've seen a lot of back and forth over the years which is also why Virginia gets a lot of attention nationally uh if you sort of look at the kind of the raw numbers coming out of November certainly the uh I would say the the the momentum is certainly behind on behind the Democrats in terms of the the elections in November but there's a lot that can happen a lot can happen between now and November so certainly not saying and I don't think anybody is saying that one side or the other is going to win very much depends about voter turnout Virginia is also uh feels
044a lot of what is happening at the federal level good bad or indifferent and so a lot of times people vote locally based upon how they feel about what the the federal government is doing as well so all that remains to be seen um but but stay tuned there will be a lot this is the one piece of advice that I I do like to give people this is my only election advice I'll ever give is if you don't want to keep getting the ads if you go and vote early you come off the list so that's the one thing I've got for you that's the only thing I can give you um so just just as an FYI so all right so uh I will pause there to see if you have any more
045questions thank you again it is always great to work with you all and look forward to keeping you posted on what's happening as we get through the next couple of months dr green thank you Madam Chair and mine is not a question but um just a statement um as you know Madame Chair and and my colleagues on the day I serve as the chair of the legislative committee um and on my committee is Miss Rose Dryer as well as Miss Melinda Rogers and I would like to say on behalf of our subcommittee thank you Mr andrew because he has worked very closely with us um in answering questions and um after we get through our retreat this summer for whatever comes out of that um that you all will need for us to take um
046back to the committee um I will continue to stay in contact with Mr. Andrus so thank you thank you very much look forward to uh circling back with you all thank you have a great graduation week appreciate it with that we are now on to our summer programming update and we welcome Mr. Thomas Quinn executive director of secondary teaching and learning well uh good afternoon Chair Brown uh Vice Chair Weems school board members and Dr. Robertson i am Tom Quinn executive director of secondary teaching and learning with me is Dr. Lorena Kelly executive director of elementary teaching and learning mr bobby Jameson executive director of student support services miss Adrienne Day director of student support services and Miss Natalie Megs coordinator of military connected and academic support programs this afternoon I'll provide you with a
047high level update of summer learning opportunities for our students while we no longer have the support of ESR funding which sunset last fall we are happy to announce we will continue to provide robust learning opportunities just as we have done in the past due to the support from our all-end in and title one grants summer opportunities will continue to exist for all students in grades K12 that will offer both remediation and acceleration of student learning each designed to support a strong start to the 2526 school year as you see on or as you will find on the overview on this slide so you will find an overview of the learning opportunities that will be provided for students as we move through the presentation we will describe each of these in greater detail i will give
048you a moment to familiarize yourself with the list some of you may know we have summer opportunities available for all students registered during the 2425 school year all families will have access to digital learning opportunities we refer to as booths as indicated on the screen families may visit BB school's summer school site for more information on the left the QR code links elementary families to a video with directions to assist our students with accessing class link on the right the QR codes provide links for programs offered at the middle and high school levels with our overview complete we'll begin by sharing summer learning opportunities available at the elementary level as stated on the previous screen BBCPS summer learning boost is available for all students preK through 5 the boost site has been updated to align
049with the new math and language arts standards the site contains numeracy and literacy lessons families can access throughout the months of July and August students will log in via class link and simple click they can select the lesson that best reinforces key skills and concepts from the previous school year and provide opportunities for a strong start to 2526 summer learning camps are being held at select sites including 13 Title One elementary schools and 15 additional elementary schools for a total of 28 sites the same 4 and 1/2 hour structure used for summer learning camps last year will again be used this year we will continue to center our learning on literacy and numeracy instruction our team has also enhanced these experiences with increased focus on inquiry integration and STEM partnerships with community organizations such as
050the Virginia Beach Public Library will continue title continue at title one summer learning camp sites to continue nurturing the joy of reading schools who are not implementing summer learning camps are provided with tutoring funds to support summer learning activities designed to serve their student populations they are continuing to prepare and will provide learning opportunities in July in addition to the opportunities shared on the previous slide we would like to highlight additional opportunities occurring at schools receiving Title One funding current fourth and fifth grade students attending Title One schools will have the opportunity to attend STEM camps where meaningful STEM exploration and learning will be facilitated the camp will run for three hours daily immediately following summer learning camp in July in collaboration with the United Way of Southampton Roads six Title One schools will offer
051learning camps for students in kindergarten through third grade the purpose of this camp is to provide students with enrichment experiences to support literacy numeracy and science and STEM learning this camp will run for three hours daily immediately following summer camp learning in July and also as you remember last year we piloted a fan favorite better known as Ready Set Kindergarten a program featured in three of our Title One schools this summer we are excited to expand this program to a total of six title one schools program will run from August 11th through August 14th and is designed to offer students with little to no prek experience a soft start to kindergarten we now shift to the secondary summer learning opportunities available this summer new for summer 2025 will be a revised summer school format to
052support students who need a second try at a course to earn promotion instead of two sessions both middle and high school students will experience a single face-to-face session beginning on July 7th and concluding on July 30th recall this format increased the number of instructional days from 10 to 15 to provide more support face-to-face repeat courses will be provided at the locations indicated on the slide students needing two courses will be supported using utilizing imagine learning an online asynchronous platform esl students will be assigned to each of these sites to support English learners enrolled in repeat courses so fast track tutoring is an optional program to support middle and high school students who meet the needs or who must meet the standards of learning verified credit diploma criteria this program is designed for students who pass
053their classroom instruction and receive credit but did not earn a verified credit because they were unsuccessful on their corresponding so assessment fast track is also available for the financial literacy students who need to earn the wise financial literacy certification first-time courses will be offered through the Virginia Beach digital campus and the course session runs from Tuesday June 17th through Tuesday August 5th it is important to note these courses are full-year courses and require lengthier time frame due to the new course content registration for both programs the face-to-face repeat session and the first time course offerings opened on Monday May 5th parents will continue to utilize the regworks web store for registration and payment this is a tiered fee associated there is a tiered fee associated with the secondary summer school programming which is dependent on
054students verified free and reduced priced meal eligibility to provide additional support and strengthen students foundation of learning step up offerings will be available in the face-to-face format for rising grade 78 students who earned a D as their final grade in 2024 2025 in English or math it is also available for rising grade six students to earn an overall proficiency score of development many developing proficient on select fifth grade report card standards additionally boost opportunities will again be offered in science and math during the summer 2025 these are online asynchronous preparation courses designed to help students build their skills and confidence needed for success in classes they plan to take in the upcoming school year available subjects include algebra 1 algebra 2 geometry pre-calculus earth science biology chemistry and physics there is no registration required for
055boosts and a link will be provided for students and families by June 17th to access these opportunities via the Canvas platform which can be found on the summer school website and is accessible to students through class link know that both step up and boost opportunities are offered at no course no cost britzan High School will serve as the ESY site for all middle and high schools and Renaissance will serve as the site for students served by CSEP as a reminder most students with disabilities receive the majority of their special education services in the general education setting therefore many will have the opportunity to participate in the general education summer programs offered by the school division described throughout this presentation some students will receive extended school year services or ESY and know that consideration of ESY
056services are part of the IEP process these services are the individualized extension of specific special education and related services provided beyond the typical school year esy services may be delivered through a variety of settings and methods and in short it is a continuum service and it is the IEP team who collectively determines the setting or method based on the individual need of the student esy dates are July 7th through July 31st with elementary student hours running from 8:00 a.m to 11:00 a.m and secondary hours being held from 9:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m some students with disabilities will receive classroom based ESY services at school clustered sites shared on previous slides as you can see our robust and our summer learning offerings are ready to go we would like to close by ensuring our families are
057aware that all students enrolled in VBCPS during the 2425 school year automatically have access to the opportunities discussed in this presentation as previously mentioned families interested in elementary level opportunities may use the QR code on the left and on the right you can use the QR codes provided for links to programs offered at the middle and high school levels we do encourage anyone interested to visit the vbschools.comacademicschool for additional details we thank you for your attention and stand by to answer what questions you may have dr green thank you Mr quinn and your team uh for the very thorough presentation which schools um title one schools have the um ready set kindergarten program i will call the future Dr silverman up here to answer not Dr. Silverman yet working on it um the schools that
058we have there's six it's Bayside Elementary School Diamond Springs Elementary School Green Run Elementary School Pembroke Elementary School Point O'View Elementary School and Theia thank you you're welcome Mr. Callan Mr. Quinn you made reference to repeat courses on slide number seven starting July 7th through July 30 and that's uh just a period of 18 days so my curiosity is if I have failed a class and am taking it to repeat it and hopefully pass it how does the 18 days and however many hours in the classroom how does that compare with what might be taking place during the course of the regular school year are we talking apples to apples or is it apples to oranges as far as classroom time i would tell you it's going to be a more focused approach uh looking
059at the students uh I need a comparison of fruit apples to apples or apples to or answer that one so several years ago the state made an adjustment where if you failed a course you didn't have to take the normal requirements 140 hours okay they reduced that down to 70 hours so in reducing that down to 70 hours it allowed us to roo reduce the number of days so the what the state felt was that you've been through the course one time you should have enough information um from the the tests that that were given to identify where the weaknesses were to modify the curriculum to offer the repeat in a se in a session that is 70 hours long so that was a state decision and that's why the face toface um which is
060now online is much longer because it's 140 hours so my conclusion from that is the classroom hours of 18 days is approximately 70 hours yes okay thank you Miss Felton thank you Mr. Quinn for this detailed information my ears popped perked up when you talked about the pre-k and kindergartners getting started especially at our title ones and elementary schools my question is transportation will there be transportation and how will this transportation be um litigated to all of our students um interested in finding it out thank you thank you Dr. Silverman yeah Miss Silverman but keep saying it um one day um we are providing transportation for all um students and families who are selected it's for the students who are being offered the opportunity it's for their home school so they will be um participating
061by completing a form we've worked with school registrars and principals to ensure that they're knowledgeable and offering this opportunity to every kindergarten registration it's not for every single student we don't have enough slots for that it's for interested students and remember the intention that the school board kind of gave us guidance on um last year when we implement it was we're really trying to ensure that students who have little to no pre-k experience have the first opportunity so that they can get familiar into the school it doesn't mean that if you're a pre a student who's currently in a pre-k program outside of our school division or within our school division that you are not eligible but we are trying to make sure that we provide that opportunity and then they provide the information of
062their home address and we personally call every family who gets in to provide them the information and to let them know and help guide them on like where their transportation route is we have to thank the transportation department because they're really wonderful in ensuring that they create these routes especially for this program thank you you're welcome i wonder if I could add one more point real quick um just because we have uh so many new members on the board you go back five years in Virginia Beach here are your choices for the summer you could take a course you failed you could take a new course or you could go to extended school year learning so we probably served five years ago under that model which we had used forever even in a even in
063a busy summer we might have served 3,000 students with this model right here we'll touch 10,000 students over the summer and who not only are looking for enrichment opportunities through boost courses but summer learning camps STEM learning camps and the changes we've made at the way we're offering our our new courses using online is saving a significant amount of funds for the division as we lost esser funds so I'm really proud of the work that this group has done because every year they iterate and they make some type of adjustment based upon what needed to be improved from the previous year but just five years ago you had three choices and that was it not anymore right well thank you i'm looking forward to all these summer offerings um I know it really benefits our
064students so thank you so much um Vice Chair Weems would you please read the motion to go into close session i move that the school board recess into close session in accordance with exceptions to open meetings law as set forth in code of Virginia 2-2.2-3711 part A paragraphs 1278 is amended to deliberate on the following matters one discussion consideration or interviews of prospective candidates for employment assignments appointment promotion performance demotion salaries disciplining or resignation of specific public officers appointees or employ employees of any public body and evaluation of performance of departments of schools of public institutions of higher education where such evaluation will necessarily involve discussion of the performance of specific individuals any teacher shall be permitted to be present during a closed meeting in which there is a discussion or consideration of a disciplinary
065matter that involves the teacher and some student and the student involved in the matter is present provided that the teacher makes a written request to be present to the presiding officer of the appropriate board nothing in this subdivision however shall be construed to authorize a closed meeting by a local governing body or an elected school board to discuss compensation matters that affect the membership of such body or board collectively number two discussion or consideration of admission or disciplinary matters or any other matters that would involve the disclosure of information contained in a scholastic record concerning any student of any public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth or any state school system however any such student legal counsel and if the student is a minor the students parents or legal guardian shall be permitted to
066be present during the taking of testimony or presentation of evidence at a closed meeting if such students parents or guardians so request in writing and such request is submitted to the presiding officer of the appropriate board number seven consultation with legal counsel and briefings by staff members or consultants pertaining to actual or probable litigation where such consultation or briefing an open meeting would adversely affect the negotiating or litigating posture of the public body for the purposes of this subdivision probable litigation means litigation that has been specifically threatened or on which the public body or its legal council has a reasonable basis to believe will be convinced by or against a known party nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to permit the closure of a meeting merely because an attorney representing the public body is
067in attendance or is consulted on a matter number eight consultation with legal counsel employed or retained by a public body regarding specific legal matters requiring the provision of legal advice by such counsel nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to permit the closure of a meeting merely because an attorney representing the public body is in attendance or is consulted on a matter namely to discuss A school board internal auditor evaluation b decision on student discrimination appeal c status of pending litigation or administrative cases d consultation with legal counsel regarding probable litigation and pending litigation matters okay moved by Vice Chair Weems is there second seconded by Mr. Culpepper any discussion seeing none the voting board is open to go into close session mr wy how do you vote i can record your vote do you
068vote Yay or nay so Madam Chair we have 11 eyes the motion did pass to go into close session [Music]