School Board Meeting - 05/13/2025

001KATHLEEN BROWN CHAIR OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD I CALL IS FORMAL MEETING TO ORDER ON TUESDAY, MAY 13TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AT SIX P.M. MADAM CLERK AT THIS TIME WOULD YOU PLEASE ANNOUNCED THE ROLE >>? >> THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. PRESIDENT IN THE SCHOOL BOARD CHAMBER OR CHAIR BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMES MR BOWEN STEEL MR. CALLEN. MR. COLPEPER MR. CUMMINGS, MR. WYO, MISS BELTON. DR. GREEN. AND THAT'S AND PRISON ONLINE IS MISS MELNYK IN MISS MELNIK FOR THE RECORD CAN YOU TELL US THE REASON WHY YOU WERE ON ZOOME AND YOUR LOCATION YES I'M SICK AND SICK AND I AM AT HOME. THANK YOU. OK, AND ALSO MISS ROGERS TAKING HER I MEAN A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BY THE UNITED STATES STANDS IT STANDS ONE

002NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL WE LEADER LEADER BECAUSE YOU TALK TO THEM . ALL RIGHT, CHAIR BROWN NOW WE ARE SUPER EXCITED FOR MISS FELTON TO READ THE AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS FOR TONIGHT WE'VE GOT SOME GREAT STUDENTS OUT HERE GOOD >> EVENING EVERYONE AND I AM SUPER EXCITED FOR OUR FUTURE TEACHERS THAT ARE HERE TONIGHT AND WITH RECIPIENTS YES WE CAN CLAP LATER BUT I WANT TO CLAP NOW I'M GOING TO GIVE A BIG CHEER >> KNOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS EVENING WE ARE PROUD TO HONOR THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2025 FUTURE FIVE FUTURE TEACHERS AWARD REPRESENTING COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOLS AND TECHNICAL AND CAREER EDUCATION CENTER THESE STUDENTS HAVE SHOWN EXCEPTIONAL COMMITMENT THE FEEL OF EDUCATION EACH OF EACH OF THESE CANDIDATES IS BEING RECOGNIZED THE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC

003ACHIEVEMENTS DEDICATION AND POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS AS FUTURE TEACHERS WAR RECIPIENTS THEY WILL RETURN TO VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC READY TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY THAT HELPED SHAPE THEIR JOURNEY. WE ARE SIDED WITH THAT TO YOU OUR TWENTY TWENTY FOOD SHORTAGES OF WAR. WE SET THE AMBITIOUS GOAL OF ANOTHER HANDCLAP FROM >> THE ACHIEVABLE DREAM ACADEMY ETTLIN HAVEN DANIEL CHANK JONES >> IS A ONE FROM >> BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL OUR ARTISTS >> HAVEN BROWN SHERRIES DAILY DILDAY ZACHARIE HUBBERT CHINITZ MORE KAYLA SHEPPERD'S VIVIAN TASRAIL BASSAT HIGH SCHOOL IN THE HOUSE FROM CAR HIGH SCHOOL IRMA BAILEY SOPHIA FISHER COLE LUXFORD WHO COULDN'T BE WITH US TONIGHT. CHASE PARKER CAROLINE QUICK COLLY WORKMEN CUT TIES GO FIRST GO ON YOUR HIGH SCHOOL >> ISABELLA CLOCK >> JEANNA LUTFUR FROM FIRST COLONIAL MARBLE OMADA YES THOSE ALSO

004GREEN RUN COLLEGIATE >> ALENA BRITTELLE AULANI GET ME RIGHT AULANI BRITTLE ARE YOU GOT ME OFF NOW >> ORIANNA COAT MEN GOKMEN KELA MCLENNON WHO CAN BE WITH US TONIGHT. ARE TWO RECIPIENTS FROM REREGULATE YOU GIVE THEM A GIVE THEM ANOTHER HAND AND REPRESENTING >> GREEN RUN HIGH SCHOOL GINA BRITT GOIRAN REPRESENTING >> KLM HIGH SCHOOL JOANNA JONES >> YES KANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL >> ALEISHA HANGE AULANI >> OTTWAY ON THESE TWO ARE REPRESENTING >> KITZB÷HEL HIGH SCHOOL HOW TO READ LANDSDOWN HIGH >> SCHOOL ADRIAN FALKENBERG BARRY RACHEL HOLD DUSTIN RESEARCH RISK TOLD YOU IT WAS YES. HANGING OUT AT JOEL WESTBROOK >> WITH OCEAN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL THOMAS DILLARD WHO COULD NOT BE WITH US TONIGHT ALEA AGAN ALLISSA >> MOLLY SMITH WHO CAN BE WITH US TONIGHT AARON TOOK OUR KEY TOOK ALL KEY

005PRONOUNCE THAT FOR THERE YOU GO SAMAEL WILSON SAMIH SALMI SAMIAH LESNER PRIZZI'S AND HIGH SCHOOL DESTINEE HOLIDAY HOLLAWAY I'M LOOKING AT THIS LOOMA GUY LYDIA MONSOON READ SHERMAN THIS IS THAT HIGH SCHOOL CONGRATULATIONS SAY HARLEM HIGH SCHOOL JAHNAVI GEOVANI AND YOU WANT TO PRONOUNCE THAT LAST NIGHT. THERE YOU GO MIREIA CLOCK >> EZEKIAL CLOCK AZEALIA KNOWLEDGE NAHLAH HEAL AND HAND AND HOLLOWELL OH >> JOHN JOCE LIN JORGY LIN GABRIEL MONDAY I'LL BE ROCKHILL YEAH. NOW THERE'S NO TALL >> WOULD HIGH >> ANANYA GUY MARGARET LANDSBURG GREGORY REESE >> JENAVEVE STEWART ADA TORTAS AYDAN THE >> VIRGINIA BEACH AREA AND TECHNICAL CENTER HALEY AKERS GRACE MELENDEZ CONGRATULATE >> SHEN'S CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS . AWESOME CONGRATULATIONS AND MERCY ON ME >> I JUST RECEIVED IT TONIGHT YOU GET IT DID NOT MATCH TO ALL OF THESE AMAZING STUDENTS

006WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU BACK TEACHING IN VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL AT THE COLLEGE PLEASE JOIN ME AGAIN AND AROUND THE PASS ALL THESE OUTSTANDING FUJIKI JOE SAMIAH PENETRATION. YEAH. GOING TO TELL ME THAT WAS SO DID A PRETTY GOOD PRETTY AWFUL JOB OF KEEPING THAT LIGHTHEARTED. I MEAN A TRUE OK SO THIS BRINGS US TO THE ADOPTION OF OUR AGENDA ARE THERE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED? OK, TAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED MOVE BY MOST SECONDED BY MR BONESTEEL ANY DISCUSSION >> SEEING THAT I CALL FOR THE VOTE TO TOP THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED >> MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE 11 I SAW THE MOTION DID PASS FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AT AGENDA AS PRESENTED >> THANK YOU AND WE ARE NOW ON NOW ON THE

007SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT AND RECOGNITIONS >>. THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF RECOGNITIONS THIS EVENING WE ARE ON TO THE APPROVAL THE MEETING MINUTES THERE ARE TWO SETS OF MEETING MINUTES. THE FIRST ONE IS GOING TO BE THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MINUTES ARE THERE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE APRIL 8TH? TWENTY TWENTY FIVE REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MINUTES AS PRESENTED SEEING NONE I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE APRIL 8TH MEETING MINUTES AS PRESENTED MOVED BY MR IRE SECONDED BY MR CALLAGHAN. ANY DISCUSSION CNN TO CALL FOR THE VOTE TO APPROVE THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SO MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE 11 HAVE ELEVEN I'S. THE MOTION DID PASS THE APPROVAL OF THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE MEETING MINUTES THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW ON TO

008THE APRIL TWENTY SECOND TWENTY TWENTY FIVE REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MINUTES. ARE THERE ANY MODIFICATION TO THESE MINUTES AS PRESENTED SEEING NINE I CALL FOR CALL FOR THE MOTION AND MOTION BY DR GREEN SECONDED MRS DWYER ANY DISCUSSION SEEING THAT I CALL FOR THE VOTE TO APPROVE THE APRIL TWENTY SIX POINT TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD MINUTES AS PRESENTED SO WE HAVE A LEBANESE HAVE ELEVEN EYES. THE MOTION DID PASS THE APPROVAL OF THE APRIL 22ND TWENTY TWENTY FIVE MEETING MINUTES THANK >> YOU. WE ARE NOW ON TO PUBLIC COMMENTS THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL NOW HERE PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS AND DELEGATIONS SIGNED UP WITH THE SCHOOL WORK CLARK PRIOR TO NOON TODAY ON MATTERS RELEVANT TO PRAY K THROUGH 12 PUBLIC EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND THE BUSINESS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE

009SCHOOL DIVISION THE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION IS FOR THE SCHOOL WORK BOARD TO OFFER AN ORDERLY FOR HIM TO RECEIVE COMMENTS RELATED TO MOTION DURING THE MEETING RELATED OH I'M SORRY AND RELATED TO THIS BUSINESS DURING THE MEETING I CALL UPON ALL SPEAKERS AND ALL PERSONS IN THE CHAMBERS TO BE CIVIL AND DISCUSSION DECORUM WHATEVER YOUR VIEWS ARE THAT ARE THAT YOU WISH TO EXPRESS THE SCHOOL BOARD WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU AND TO ENSURE ALL VIEWPOINTS PERSPECTIVES OR HEARD THE BEST WAY TO DO TO DO THIS IS FOR US TO SURVIVE STRIVE FOR CIVILITY AND RESPECT MADAM CLARK WOULD YOU WOULD YOU PLEASE ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST SPEAKER >> MINIATURE BEFORE WE DO THAT THERE ARE SOME CANCELATIONS NUMBER TEN CANCELED NUMBER SIXTEEN CANCELED AND SPEAKER NUMBER THIRTEEN REQUESTED TO MOVE ONLINE SO

010THAT WOULD BE OUR FOURTH ONLINE SPEAKER THIS EVENING OUR FIRST SET OF SPEAKERS ARE STUDENTS SPEAKERS. WE HAVE MADELIN SHEETS, BRYCE DAOUDI, HARRY FRIEMAN AND THEN HOPE MANUSKY. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MADELEINE SHEETS AND I'M A SOPHOMORE CURRENTLY ATTENDING FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL AND THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY AND I CAME HERE TO SAY I'M TIRED I'M TIRED OF THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT CLAIMS TO REPRESENT ME AND MY PEERS NOT LISTENING A WORD WE HAVE SAID YOU ALL CLAIM TO REPRESENT THE REPRESENT THE STUDENTS BUT YOU DON'T LISTEN THE STUDENTS THERE'S NOT BEEN A SINGLE STUDENT WHO SINGLE STUDENT WHO HAS COME HERE AND SAID I'M SO HAPPY YOU TOOK AWAY THE IT HAS MADE IT IT HAS MADE IT SO UNFAIR FOR ME AND MY PEERS AND I THINK YOU AND THANK YOU SO

011MUCH FOR LISTENING TO ME THERE HASN'T SO HOW ARE YOU REPRESENTING US EVERYONE WHO HAS COME HERE HAS SAID PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING. WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS NOT A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE IN SOME WAY IT WILL AFFECT EVERY STUDENT IN THIS ROOM BUT INSTEAD YOU SAID LISTEN TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM WHO PROBABLY DON'T HAVE KIDS CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SO WHY ARE YOU LISTENING TO THEM THEY? THEY HAVE NOT GIVEN ONE SOLID FACT OR ARGUMENT ARGUMENT ON HOW D IS AFFECTING THEM SO START LISTENING TO THE STUDENTS. SECONDLY, THE ACTIONS OF THIS BOARD PROVE A FEW THINGS. ONE, YOU AREN'T LISTENING TO CONSTITUENTS YOU'RE ACTING BASED ON YOUR PERSONAL BELIEF AND NOT AS A REPRESENTATIVE TO YOU DON'T CARE IF IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO

012DO OTHERWISE YOU WOULD HAVE WAITED FOR THE COURT TO RULE ON THE LEGALITY OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THIRD EVEN AFTER EVEN AFTER THE COURT'S MADE IT CLEAR THE ORDER AND THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS LIKE THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER ARE TOO VAGUE AND YOU REFUSED TO TAKE A PAUSE AND AND STARTED TO THINK THAT MUCH LIKE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPORTING WROTE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ISSUE IS. YOU SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED TO HAVE SUCH A FUNDAMENTAL MISUNDERSTANDING AND TO REFUSE TO EDUCATE YOURSELF NO GOOD WILL COME OF THIS. YOU'RE SQUANDERING YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE RIGHT THING TO CLOSE. I'D LIKE TO QUOTE LINE FROM HANSON HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRYCE DLT HARRY FREEDMAN AND AND HOPE AND ENSCHEDE GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR

013THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU AGAIN. HI MY NAME IS BASICALLY AND IF YOU RECALL I SPOKE TO YOUR LESS THAN A MONTH AGO TO DEFEND KEEPING DIPOLES WHOSE UPHELD UNFORTUNATELY I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE TO ADVOCATE FOR THOSE OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AND OTHER MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES WHO FEEL SILENCED BY THESE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE SCHOOL BOARD IN THESE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS I'VE SEEN STUDENTS OF ALL RACE, GENDER AGE AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION OUTRAGED AND SHOCKED AT THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD TURN THEIR BACKS ON THE VERY COMMUNITY THEY SWORE TO PROTECT WELL I UNDERSTAND YOUR HANDS MAY BE TIED I DON'T BELIEVE THE BOARD ONCE THE COMMUNITIES IMPRESSION TO ME THAT YOU CHOSE MONEY OVER MORALS REMOVING DIE FROM OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY IN MY OPINION IS UNFAIR AND SENDS THE WRONG MESSAGE TO THE TEACHER PARENTS

014YOU THE COMMUNITY. THE UNIVERSAL UNDERSTAND IS IT THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS TO DEVELOP A PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE CREATE AN INFORMED CITIZENRY AND PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY WHERE THE SUSPENSION OF THE ECONOMY IT COUNTERACTS EVERY NOTION WITHIN THIS UNDERSTANDING HOWEVER, STUDENTS HAVEN'T JUST GOT TACKLING VIOLATED DUE TO THE LACK AND REMOVAL OF EXPECTATIONS AND RULES. BUT THE RULES DO NOT APPLY TO HAVE SEEN THIS AS A GREEN LIGHT ,AN OPPORTUNITY TO CRITICIZE SPREAD AND DISCRIMINATE THEIR PEERS I FELT. I HAVE FELT THIS FIRSTHAND IN SOME OF MY HORSES AND AS I'M WALKING IN THE HALLWAY STUDENTS HAVE MANY NICKNAMES FOR ME SUCH AS TENNIS FRUITY AND MOST COMMONLY DUESLER. IT IS TRULY TO EXPERIENCE HATE FIRSTHAND BECAUSE WHILE MY STRONG PERSON WHO CAN WHO CAN SPEAK UP FOR MYSELF OTHERS ARE TRAPPED IN

015THESE SITUATIONS THAT COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN AVOIDED IF THE NARRATIVE INCLUSIVELY WAS PROMOTED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD ALSO WITHOUT THESE RULES AND BOUNDARIES ENCOURAGES BULLYING WITHOUT PROTECTION HOW CAN THIS BE THIS BE TOLERATED WHEN THE SCHOOL BOARD CLAIMS HAS A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BULLYING THIS TIES BACK TO MY NEXT POINT THAT THE SUSPENSION ISOLATES PEOPLE OF MINORITIES AND INSTEAD OF LIFTING STUDENTS UP WHICH YOU CLAIM TO ON THE VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEBSITE WE ARE TEARING ARE TEARING THEM DOWN, ISOLATING THEM AND ENCOURAGING THE LABELING OF THEM I FIND IT DISTURBING THAT THE VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEBSITE DOESN'T ACTUALLY MERE REALITY I UNDERSTAND AND I'M WELL AWARE THAT POLICIES YOU EVOLVE AND CHANGE AND WHILE THAT IS NOT ALWAYS INFLUENCING PEOPLE IN A NEGATIVE WAY THE COMPOSITE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE WHICH I REFERENCED

016IN MY LAST PAGE ORIGINALLY DETAILER FOUNDATIONAL EQUALITY EMPHASIS FOR EACH OF THE SIX GOALS BAFFLINGLY >> BAFFLINGLY AS I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT I CAN INFORM YOU THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD DID NOT LIVE UP TO ITS THOMAS WITH THESE EQUALITY AMBITIOUS GOALS WHAT WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS. THE SIMPLE QUESTION MONEY OR MOLES RECURS YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER YOUR PREVIOUS POSITION AND SHE WAS MORALS BUT THAT'S COMPLETELY UP TO YOU MATTER WHAT THE SCHOOL OR CHOOSE TO SAY DO OR ACT UPON I KNOW IN KNOW IN MY HEART THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL UNITE TOGETHER AN ADVOCATE FOR WHAT'S RIGHT EVERY STUDENT DESERVES THE RIGHT TO FEEL THEY'VE GAINED EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND TO HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND SCHOOLS. NO WHAT AND THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE AS IT AGAIN

017TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME SPEAKER IS NEXT SPEAKER IS HARRY FREEDMAN AND THEN WOLINSKY HELLO MY NAME IS HADI HARRY FREEDMAN AND I'M A SOPHOMORE AND ILLEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY AT FIRST GLANCE ALREADY HIGH SCHOOL ALREADY TAKEN TO AP THIS WEEK HAVE ANOTHER ONE ON THURSDAY THE TRUST ME THIS IS NOT HOW I WANT I WANT TO SPEND MY TUESDAY NIGHT BUT HERE I AM I'M HERE BECAUSE I CARE DEEPLY ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AND I CANNOT STAY SILENT I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHER STUDENTS IN MY FRIENDS WHO CANNOT MAKE TODAY OR WE'RE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP AGAINST BOARD I KNOW YOU HAVE ALL VISITED A DECENT AMOUNT OF SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA SO YOU ALL KNOW HOW DIVERSE OUR STUDENT POPULATION REALLY IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVOTE VOTE YET AGAIN

018TO CAUSE CAPOZZI MR. COLE PEPPERS RESOLUTION UNTIL THERE MORE CLEAR GUIDANCE FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON WHAT REMOVING DGI REALLY MEANS AS YOU'VE ALL HEARD PROBABLY A MILLION TIMES BY NOW AN EXECUTIVE IS NOT ALONE IN FEDERAL FUNDING IS FUNDING IS NOT AFFECTED AS OF RIGHT NOW THE SCHOOL DIVISION MAY ACTUALLY END UP LOSING MONEY DO LEGAL FEES SO I ASK HOW ASK HOW DOES THIS HELP STUDENTS I ASK YOU ALSO WHAT IS SO SCARY ABOUT DCR I'M ALSO HERE TO CALL OUT MRS. BROWN IMAGES WINS MRS WEEMS THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD WHO TOOK IT INTO THEIR OWN HANDS TO NOT PUT RESOLUTIONS ON THE AGENDA THAT RECOGNIZE IMPORTANT TOPICS SUCH AS ASIAN-AMERICAN PACIFIC JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH SCHOOL NURSE APPRECIATION DAY, ETC. ALL OF WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN

019RECOGNIZED ON APRIL TWENTY SECOND MEETING THEY'RE CALLING THEY'RE TAKING AWAY DTI IN THEIR OWN HAND WITHOUT TALKING THE BOARD WITHOUT CALLING IT OUT TO THE PUBLIC WITHOUT PUTTING, WITHOUT PUTTING IT ON THE AGENDA THE SIX OF YOU HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO ALIGN YOURSELF WITH RACIST, ANTI-SEMITIC HOMOPHOBIC MAGGA AGENDA MY PEERS AND I ARE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THESE POLICIES WITH REWRITES WILL DO TO US WHEN DGI STRUCTURES ARE DISMISSED. ALIF STUDENTS OPEN TO DISCRIMINATION I'M ON EMAILED THE BOARD AND HAD VERY SHORT MR BOWEN STEEL ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY PASSING THIS POLICY AND I'VE YET TO RECEIVE A CLEAR A CLEAR ANSWER FROM THIS BOARD YOU ALL DO NOT KNOW WHAT PASSING THIS POLICY WILL DO THAT CLEAR ALL YOU KNOW IS IT SHOULD BE DONE BECAUSE DONE BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP SETSUO BEFORE THIS MEETING I

020WAS IN TEARS BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE MY VOICE DOESN'T MATTER AND WHAT I SAY NOTHING WILL COME OF IT. BUT NEVERTHELESS I'M HERE HOPING TO BE PROVEN WRONG. I HOPE THAT THIS BOARD PROVED ME WRONG TONIGHT AND I URGE YOU TO PLEASE PAUSE THE SUSPENSION OF THE SHOW THE STUDENTS THE FUTURE VOTERS AND THE PEOPLE YOU SWORE TO REPRESENT THAT YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT US IF YOU'RE RACIST JUST COME OUT AND SAY AT THIS MORNING. THANK YOU. MY NEXT SPEAKER IS HOPITAL GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS HOPING TO SKI AND I'M A JUNIOR THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY AT FIRST COLONIAL LIKE THE SECOND WHAT HAD HE SAID I HAVE SAID I HAVE AN AP EXAM TOMORROW ACTUALLY APPLYING FOR THIS SPEECH KIND OF DID HELP ME PREPARE FOR IT HAVING TO WRITE IT FOR YOU

021GUYS SO YOU HEARD FROM ME LAST WEEK ABOUT THE BENEFITS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION THAT I SEE IN SCHOOL AS SCHOOL AS A STUDENT AND THESE INITIATIVES DON'T ACTUALLY PERFORM PEOPLE. HOWEVER, LAST MEETING AFTER I LOVE TO GO HOME YOU AS A BOARD VOTED DOWN PAUSING THIS POLICY THAT IS FOCUSED ON GETTING RID OF THESE PROGRAMS ORDER TO COMPLY WITH THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION'S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO STOP RACIAL INDOCTRINATION WHAT I FIND HARD TO WRAP MY HEAD AROUND IS THAT YOUR LAWYER STOOD UP HERE TELLING YOU THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE CASES GOING ON THAT SEEM LEAN IN THE DIRECTION THAT THIS ORDER IS UNLAWFUL BECAUSE OF ITS VAGUENESS BUT YOU STILL DIDN'T STOP THE ENACTMENT OF THIS POLICY. IT MAKES SEEM LIKE YOU AS A BOARD ARE NOT JUST TRYING TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW IF

022YOU TRULY YOU WOULD HAVE WAITED TO SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO INTERPRET THE LAW A.K.A. JUDGES AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM SAY ABOUT THIS KIND OF EXECUTIVE SO I ASK YOU IF YOU SUPPORT YOU SUPPORT THESE KIND OF POLICIES JUST SAY YOU SUPPORT THESE POLICIES AND DON'T OPERATE UNDER THE VEIL THAT YOU SIMPLY TRYING TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW MANY OF YOUR FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DEFEND ALSO KNOWN AS THE STUDENTS HAVE TOLD YOU HOW THEY FEEL ON THESE ISSUES YOUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT I AS A STUDENT OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL SYSTEM AND GETTING THE EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY I DESERVE IN SCHOOL WHAT ISN'T YOUR DOG IS TO BE A LAP DOG FOR THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO DON'T HAVE KIDS THE SCHOOL SYSTEM

023AND THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY THINK A CERTAIN WAY THAT EVERYONE RUN THE MUST CONFORM TO THESE IDEAS. WHAT YOU WHY ARE LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ME MY PARENTS OR PARENTS OR EDUCATORS ON THE ENVIRONMENT? I SHOULD BE RAISED IN ON PEOPLE THAT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE SUPPORTED AND ENCOURAGED ON THE COMMITTEE THAT I AM MY FELLOW MEMBERS SHOULD FIND IN SCHOOL I WOULD JUST LIKE FOR YOU TO NOTICE HOW MANY PEOPLE HERE SUPPORT THE INITIATIVES THAT ARE TAKING THE TIME OUT OF THEIR DAY TO SPEAK TO YOU OR PARENTS WITHIN SCHOOL SYSTEM WHO ARE SPEAKING BECAUSE THEIR KIDS CAN'T OR SPEAKING WITH THEIR KIDS DIE IS WHAT MANY STUDENTS AND PARENTS WANT BECAUSE IT HELPS THEM IMPROVE GROW AND FIND A SPACE WHERE STUDENTS FEEL SAFE I ASKED YOU TODAY

024THAT YOU LISTEN TO WHAT YOUR STUDENTS, PARENTS AND EDUCATORS ARE SAYING AND LET THEIR TEACHERS DO THE JOB WITHOUT FEAR THAT THEY TALK ABOUT HOW THE EUROPEANS COLONIZED THE NATIVES. THEY WILL LOSE JOB LET YOUR STUDENTS YOUR STUDENTS DISCOVER AND EXPLORE NEW CULTURES LET THEM LEARN ABOUT HISTORY TO ITS FULLEST AND EVERYBODY UNITED STATES AS A NATION FAILED. MINORITY GROUPS LET GROW AND STOP TRYING TO FILL US IN A BOX BECAUSE THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION TOLD YOU TO PUT US THERE. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS AMANDA KIMBLE THEN JANE SHELDON, THE MINDY FREEMAN GOOD EVENING CHAIRWOMAN BROWN, VICE JAMES MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND DR. AND DR. ROBERTSON MY NAME IS MANDY KIMBLE AND I'M IN KINDERGARTEN TEACHER HERE IN VIRGINIA BEACH AFTER LISTENING PAST TWO WEEKS OPINIONS ON THE RESOLUTION I FEEL THERE

025FEEL THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS LET'S REVIEW THE DEFINITION OF EQUITY EQUITY IN EDUCATION IS REDUCING BARRIERS AND PROMOTING ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYONE CAN ACHIEVE THEIR BEST EVERYONE NOT PROMOTING ONE GROUP OVER THE OTHER NOT LOWERING STANDARDS AND I EARNED MY MASTER'S DEGREE OF EDUCATION AT DEPAUL UNIVERSITY A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN THE HEART OF CHICAGO. ONE OF MY MOST DIVERSE AREAS I'VE EVER LIVED GROWING UP IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA BACK WAS ACTUAL FARMLAND I LIVED A LIVED A PRETTY SHELTERED LIFE. THE EXPERIENCE ARROGANT LIVING AND WORKING AND VOLUNTEERING WITH THE CHILDREN THE CHILDREN IN CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROFOUNDLY CHANGED MY LIFE AND SHAPED MY PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING MOST TEACHING PROGRAMS REQUIRE YOU TO TAKE DIVERSITY COURSES CERTIFICATION MOST TEACHING MOST TEACHING PROGRAMS REQUIRE YOU TO OH SORRY AND WHETHER ITS FUNDAMENTAL

026PRACTICES OF TEACHING ELEMENTARY MATH OR BASIC PSYCHOLOGY THE ULTIMATE THREAD OF TEACHING COURSES IS FULFILLING ALL THE NEEDS OF ALL YOUR STUDENTS FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT BEING ABLE TO REACH CHILDREN OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS IS SO FUNDAMENTAL AND FOUNDATIONAL THAT VIRGINIA BEACH IS OWN TEACHER EVALUATION STANDARDS INCLUDE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND EQUITABLE PRACTICE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU BEGIN TEACHING THE DISTRICT YOU ARE PROBATIONARY CONTRACT FOR THREE YEARS EACH YEAR YOU HAVE YOU HAVE TWO OR THREE FORM OBSERVATIONS BY ADMINISTRATION AT THE END OF THE YEAR YOU ARE EVALUATED BY RUBRIC PROVIDED BY THE DISTRICT WITH GUIDELINES FROM THE VIDEO THEY ARE 10 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND ONCE TEACHERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE EFFECTIVE IN TEACHING STANDARDS IS PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE, INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING, INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY THAT DEFINITION FOR PERFORMANCE STANDARD SIX CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND

027EQUITABLE PRACTICES IS AS FOLLOWS THE TEACHER DEMONSTRATES A COMMITMENT TO EQUITY AND PROVIDES INSTRUCTION AND CLASSROOM STRATEGIES THAT RESULT IN CULTURALLY INCLUSIVE AND RESPONSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS ALL I WOULD ALSO LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT NO OUR STANDARDS NOT BEING LOWERED IN OUR CURRICULUM IS NOT WATERED DOWN. WE HAVE THE VIRGINIA STANDARDS OF LEARNING THAT ARE FOLLOWED BY THE ENTIRE STATE AND AS TEACHERS WE ARE REQUIRED THAT ARE LESSONS ALIGNED WITH THEM ARE MATH AND READING SCORES ARE SLOWLY RISING AND ARE WELL ABOVE STATE AVERAGE RSL OUR SOIL TEST SCORES MAKE THE HIGHEST IN THE AREA DO WE HAVE WORK TO DO. YES BUT, BUT THIS IS NOT THE PICTURE THAT WAS PORTRAYED LAST WEEK MISS MELNYK MELNIK IS CORRECT. OUR STUDENTS ARE COMING INTO OUR CLASSROOM TRAUMA AND STRUGGLES NO

028CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE TO ENDURE WHEN WE REMOVE THE LANGUAGE SUPPORTING THEIR DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND WITHOUT RECOGNIZING AND ADDRESSING THEIR STRUGGLES WE ARE NOT BEING TRUE TO OUR STUDENTS THEIR PAST OR THEIR EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES. THESE REVISIONS AND GUARDED POLICIES ARE HEARTBREAKING AS TEACHER AND WILL NOT ATTRACT THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST TEACHERS TO OUR CITY. THANK YOU FOR NEXT YEAR IS ADJOURNED SHELDON THE MINDY FRIEDMAN THEN ELIZABETH YOUR GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TONIGHT ABOUT THE RECENT HAUNTED BY RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE SCHOOL IN NOVEMBER OF TWENTY 22 DAVID CULPEPER TOLD A REPORTER I RAN FIRST AND FOREMOST PARENTAL RIGHTS AND TWENTY TWENTY TWO MISS WEEMS TOLD BALLOT PTA PARENTAL RIGHTS AND MUST BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALL POLICY DECISIONS MADE BY THE SCHOOL BOARD IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR MRS. DWYER ANSWER

029DEVELOPED A QUESTIONNAIRE INSTATED IT STATED IT IS ALMOST IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO SAY ALL SIDES OF AN ISSUE AND RECEIVE INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC PRIOR TO MAKING A DECISION WE MUST BE SURE THAT EVERY DECISION WE MAKE IS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND NOT A POLITICAL AGENDA WMS BROWN'S OWN SCHOOL BOARD PAGE STATES KATHLEEN VOWS TO FIGHT FOR PARENTS RIGHTS TO PROVIDE FULL PUBLIC COMMENT ON ISSUES THAT IMPACT THEIR CHILDREN AND WILL THOROUGHLY AND OPENLY CONSIDER THEIR BEFORE VOTING ON ANY POLICY CHANGES. THE MAJORITY OF PARENTS THAT HAVE COME TO THESE RECENT MEETINGS HAVE SPOKEN IN FAVOR DCI INITIATIVES IN OUR SCHOOL YET YOUR VOTE SHOW VOTES SHOW YOU HAVE IGNORED THEIR CONCERNS AND INSTEAD REPRESENT A SMALL FRINGE RIGHT WING EXTREMIST MINORITY WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CAMPAIGN PROMISE TO PUT PARENTAL

030INPUT AT THE FOREFRONT A POLICY DECISIONS AND NOT FULFILL A POLITICAL AGENDA SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER WEEMS ADDRESS THE WEEMES ADDRESS THE PROGRAMS THAT WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE RESOLUTION PASSED ON APRIL 8TH. OF THOSE MENTIONED THAT WOULDN'T BE AFFECTED WAS THE RECOVERY SCHOOL I ASKED THE SCHOOL BOARD HOW THAT IS POSSIBLE WHEN THE RECOVERY SCHOOL CLEARLY FALLS UNDER DCI IT IS CLEAR THAT A SCHOOL CREATED TO SUPPORT A SMALL GROUP OF CHILDREN I BELIEVE RENTS SEVEN FROM VIRGINIA BEACH FOR SUCH A SUBSTANTIAL PRICE TAG WILL ULTIMATELY FALL UNDER REVIEW NOT ONLY IS A RECOVERY SCHOOL A FORM GUY BUT HOW WILL THE RECOVERY SCHOOL SUCCEED WITHOUT INCORPORATING INTO ITS CURRICULUM THE ASSOCIATION OF RECOVERY SCHOOLS HAS MADE THE FOLLOWING MISSION STATEMENT WE AT THE ASSOCIATION OF RECOVERY SCHOOLS ACKNOWLEDGED THE DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN RECOVERY,

031EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE WE ARE COMMITTED TO BEING VISIBLE AND VOCAL IN SUPPORTING THE DIVERSITY OF PEOPLE THROUGH INCLUSIVE, ANTI-RACIST AND EQUITABLE PRACTICES MEMBER SCHOOLS ARE EXPECTED TO SHARE IN THIS COMMITMENT WHICH IS REINFORCED BY THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED ABOVE AS WELL AS REGULAR DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION TRAINING FOR STAFF. THESE PRACTICES FOSTER A CULTURE OF RESPECT UNDERSTANDING AND EMPATHY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY IT IS CLEAR THAT THE MAJORITY RIGHT WING EXTREMIST SCHOOL BOARD IS NOT HERE TO REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF ITS CONSTITUENTS. IT UNCLEAR TO ME WHY MANY OF YOU EVEN WANT TO SERVE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD. IT CLEARLY ISN'T FOR THE TEACHERS WHEN YOU VOTE DOWN A REASONABLE SALARY INCREASE AND IT IS CLEARLY NOT FOR THE STUDENTS WHEN YOU ELIMINATE PROGRAMS THAT SEEK TO FOSTER AND HELPED DEVELOP THEIR GROWTH AND POSITIVE EDUCATIONAL

032OUTCOMES, WE WILL SEE MANY VIEW AT THE BALLOT BOX IN TWENTY TWENTY SIX BUT IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT WE WILL SEE YOU ON THE DICE AGAIN AFTER PEOPLE OF THE CITY HAVE CAST THEIR VOTES. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS MINDY FREEMAN ELIZABETH SHORE AND THEN GENE FITZ. YOU THAT EVENING IN NINETEEN THIRTY SEVEN MY GRANDMA WAS JUST SIX YEARS OLD WHEN HER FAMILY THE DIFFICULT DECISION TO LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND THEY SAW WHAT SAW WHAT THEY COULD IMPACT RESTON SUITCASES AND GATHERED AT THE FAMILY FARM NEAR US IN HAMBURG, GERMANY TO SAY THEIR GOODBYES MANY TRAGICALLY WOULD BE FOREVER THANKS TO A RELATIVE ALREADY IN THE US AND THE HELP OF A CONGRESSMAN CURT THEY SECURED VISAS AND BOARDED THE SS WASHINGTON MOST OF THEIR FAMILY WASN'T SO LUCKY AT THE PROCESSING THROUGH ELLIS

033ISLAND RECEIVING AMERICANIZED NAMES THEY BOARDED A TRAIN BOUND FOR OPELIKA, ALABAMA A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN THAT WELCOMED WITH THEM WITH OPEN ARMS. THE COMMUNITY EVEN THROUGH THEM UPGRADE THEIR THEY REBUILD THEIR LIVES. MY GRANDMA TURNED A LOCAL SCHOOLS LEARN ENGLISH WITH A SOUTHERN ACCENT AND HER FAMILY OPEN THE DEPARTMENT STORE OUR MAIN STREET THAT'S THE AMERICA I WAS RAISED TO BELIEVE ONE WORD DIFFERENCES WERE WELCOME AND DIVERSITY WAS SEEN AS A STRENGTH I WONDER TODAY WHAT AMERICANS STILL BE SO WELCOMING TO FAMILIES MINE THAT QUESTION HIT ESPECIALLY HITS ESPECIALLY HARD AFTER SEEING POLICY FIVE DASH FOR GUTTED BY THE PRC. THE FIRST LINE SCHOOL BOARD VALUES THAT DIVERSITY IN OUR COMMUNITY AND STAFF WAS A RACIST THAT WASN'T JUST A LINE OF TEXT IT WAS A STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE LET'S PAUSE TO CONSIDER THAT WHAT

034DOES IT MEAN TO VALUE SOMETHING TO VALUE SOMETHING MEANS THAT YOU TREAT IT WITH CARE AND RESPECT. IF WE SAID WE DON'T VALUE SOMETHING WE'RE SAYING IT'S NOT IMPORTANT THAT IT DOESN'T BELONG IT DOESN'T HAVE WORTH AND WHAT IS DIVERSITY IS THE PRACTICE OF INCLUDING PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, IDENTITIES AND EXPERIENCES THE OPPOSITE OF SAMENESS, UNIFORMITY WE CHOOSE TO VALUE IN OUR SCHOOLS DEFINES OUR COMMUNITY OUR COMMUNITY STRIPPING FROM CORE VALUES AND THE CLEAR TROUBLING MESSAGE. DIFFERENCES AREN'T WELCOME CONFORMITY IS THE POLICY HAS JUST BEEN REDUCED FROM SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO SOMETHING HOLLOW. THIS ISN'T JUST POLICY REFLECTS A MINDSET WITH DANGEROUS HISTORICAL UNDERTONES CHARTS THE COURTS AND SETS THE COMPASS BACK IN BACK TO 1930S GERMANY AND I REFUSE TO LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF. MR. BONESTEEL YOUR SILENCE FOR THE LAST TWO MEETINGS IS DISAPPOINTING.

035THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR PASSIVE OBSERVATION LEADERSHIP MEANS STANDING UP AND ASKING HARD QUESTIONS I RESPECT YOUR EFFORTS FOR VISITING ALL THE SCHOOLS BEING ISN'T JUST ISN'T ENOUGH. ARE YOU TRULY LISTENING OR SIMPLY HERE TO PLAY A ROLE AS A RUBBER STAMP FOR THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR PUSH POLICIES ALONG WITH THE PRESIDENT WHO UNDERMINES THE CONSTITUTION AND TARGETS PUBLIC EDUCATION MISS DWYRE YOU REPETITIVE TARDINESS PHONE TARDINESS, PHONE SCROLLING AND LACK OF ENGAGEMENT DURING MEETINGS SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR ITSELF. ARE YOU HERE JUST TO COLLECT A PAYCHECK TO ADVANCE A POLITICAL AGENDA RATHER THAN SERVE THE STUDENTS IN THE FAMILIES IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT NEEDS TO BE CALLED OUT WE MUST FIGHT. WE MUST PROTECT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT LIFT UP ALL STUDENTS NOT JUST THE ONES FIT A NARROW MOLD WE MUST SHOW

036THAT SHOW THAT WE CARE ABOUT EVERY CHILD NOT JUST SOME. WE CAN'T GO BACK. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ELIZABETH YOUR JANE FIT YOU AND THEN HEATHER SCIP GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ELIZABETH SHAW AND I'M A FORMER VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL TEACHER PARENT AND CITIZEN OF DISTRICT SIX THIS IS NOW THE FOURTH TIME OF ADDRESS ADDRESSED THIS BOARD REGARDING THE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION RESOLUTION PASSED ON APRIL 8TH MATT BROWN AS BOARD CHAIR YOU MADE A STATEMENT AT THE AT THE APRIL 8TH MEETING JUST BEFORE THE RESOLUTION VOTE AND I QUOTE WE ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS AT THIS TIME WE ARE JUST NOT AND WE HAVE TO GET INTO COMPLIANCE. WE ARE GOING TO LOSE FUNDING FOR FEDERAL AND REDUCE COST LUNCH READING MATERIALS FOR VULNERABLE STUDENTS FUNDING FOR TITLE WHEN SCHOOL, SPECIAL EDUCATION

037AND THOSE THAT NEED IT MOST. WELL EACH TIME I HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE ABOARD YOUR FAKE URGENCY JUSTIFICATION FOR THE RESOLUTION HAS THAN MORE AND MORE EXPOSED WHAT THE POTENTIAL FOR OUR SCHOOL DIVISION TO BE OPEN TO CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND LITIGATION HAS INCREASED THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE RATIONALE FOR THE RUSHED APRIL EIGHT RESOLUTION IT IS SIMPLY THE BOARD MAJORITY ACTING AIR FORCE ITS WHITE FRAGILITY IDEOLOGY UPON EACH MEMBER OF THIS SCHOOL COMMUNITY YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD COVER FOR THIS IDEOLOGICAL ACTION BUT THAT DISAPPEARED FIRST WITH THE DEADLINE EXTENSION THEN WITH THE THREE COURT ORDERS ON APRIL TWENTY WORTH A RESOLUTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE DEMANDS DUE PROCESS AND ADHERENCE TO PROPER PROCEDURE. THIS OBVIOUSLY DID NOT OCCUR PER THE APRIL 22ND SECOND PRESENTATION BY MISS WOODHOUSE. OUR PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS HAVE BEEN IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH

038FEDERAL AND STATE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS. THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION UNDERMINES THIS FACT IT WAS HASTILY DRAFTED IN PAST PASSED IN ITS LANGUAGE IS AND CONFUSING WITH THE FULL BOARD IN PUBLIC PUBLIC INTENTIONALLY LEFT THE DARK THE BOARD THE BOARD MAJORITY CONTINUES TO LAMENT THAT THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION AND MISS AND DISINFORMATION WELL OF COURSE THERE IS YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR RESOLUTION WILL IMPACT PROGRAMS IN SCHOOL COMMUNITY NO GUIDANCE HAS GUIDANCE HAS BEEN COMMUNICATED TO DIVISION ADMINISTRATORS TEACHERS AND STAFF SO THEY ARE FORCED TO INTERPRET THIS RESOLUTION ON THEIR OWN THIS FACT ALONE SHOULD STRIKE FEAR MISINTERPRETATION VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND LITIGATION AGAINST BBC CPS IN FACT THE NEA LAWSUIT SPECIFICALLY AND JOINS THE GOVERNMENT FROM ENFORCING PENALTIES UPON BBC'S WHAT DOES WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS YOU

039OUR BOARD MAJORITY OWNS THIS HOUR OUR DIVISION IS NOW EXPOSED THE SAD THING IS YOU KNOW BETTER EVERY BOARD MEMBER KNOWS WE ARE DATA DRIVEN DIVISION THE PROGRAMS WE DEVELOPED ARE BASED ON ACHIEVEMENT DATA AND SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT DATA THEY ARE NOT DESIGNED TO SIGNAL SPECIFIC WRAITH RATE RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR DISABILITY THEY ARE CREATED TO ADDRESS GAPS ACHIEVEMENT AND STUDENT WELL-BEING TO ENSURE EVERY STUDENT CAN THE HIGH STANDARDS SET BY THIS DIVISION THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS WE OFFER PROGRAMS TO POST LIFT STRUGGLING STUDENTS AND CHALLENGE THOSE ALREADY ACHIEVING WE DO NOT HELP ONE GROUP AT THE EXPENSE OF ANOTHER IT IS TIME TO STOP THIS PAUSE THIS RESOLUTION HANDS OFF POLICY FIVE POINT FOUR LANGUAGES AND ACT RESPONSIBLY THAT IS TIME >> NEXT SPEAKER IS SPEAKER IS JANE VICHA, HEATHER SCIP AND THEN MARY

040ARRINGTON DS THE SOFT THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS IS THE ASSESSMENT THAT SAYS I DON'T LIKE ME AND I'M GOING TO HATE YOU TO WELL I'VE HAD ENOUGH HATE IN FACT WE'RE GOING TO PUT AN END TO IT TONIGHT SHAKESPEARE WROTE WHEN TROUBLES COME THEY COME IN BATTALIONS WELL THE NURSES OF GOD COME IN BATTALIONS AND WE SEE THEM ON THE HORIZON AND THE VOTERS IN YOUR DISTRICT COMING IN BATTALIONS WE'RE GOING TO CURRY THE COUNTRYSIDE UNTIL WE LIFT UP THE DESTINY OF EVERY CHILD IN YOUR DISTRICT WHO WANTS AN EDUCATION FREE OF HATE, FREE OF BIGOTRY FREE OF LOW EXPECTATIONS FREE OF I CAN'T DO CAN'T DO THAT FREE OF THIS IS TOO FREE OF I DON'T KNOW HOW TO READ FREE OF SELF PITY TAUGHT BY ADULTS WHO WANT TO CREATE VOTERS

041OUT OF A DEPENDENT CLASS THAT SAYS ONLY THE GOVERNMENT IN THE ONLY THE GOVERNMENT CAN SUPPORT ME ONLY THE GOVERNMENT CAN TELL ME WHAT TO DO WELL I'VE GOT A BOOK FOR YOU HELPING YOUR CHILD BECOME A RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN AND IT'S WRITTEN BY THE GOVERNMENT NO MORE GROOMING, NO MORE INTERRUPTING THE HAPPY LIFE OF A NORMAL CHILDHOOD. YOU'RE DONE. DO IN YOUR HOME ON YOUR TIME WITH YOUR SPOUSE AND YOUR CHILD. GOT IT MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SAID INTELLIGENCE IS NOT ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE PLUS CHARACTER THAT IS THE GOAL OF EDUCATION. MARTIN LUTHER SENIOR WENT TO GERMANY IN NINETEEN THIRTY FOUR AS MICHAEL KING CHANGED HIS NAME AND HIS SON'S NAME AFTER FINDING THE EXAMPLE OF A DEVOUT WHITE GERMAN MONK. HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES IT BEGAN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND CULMINATED IN A VAST

042ARRAY OF LEGISLATION WHICH STILL STANDS AND MAKES REDUNDANT WHAT HAS FOLLOWED IN AUGUST NINETEEN SIXTY THREE MICHAEL KINGS RENAMED SON STOOD AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL TOOK A NATION WITH HIS WORDS LET ME APPLY THOSE APPLY THOSE WORDS FOR YOU TONIGHT I HAVE A DREAM WHEN ALL THE THIRD GRADERS IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND READ I HAVE A DREAM WHEN ALL THE SIXTH GRADERS CAN PASS THEIR MANIFESTO WELLS I HAVE A DREAM WHEN THE SEVENTH GRADERS WILL USE THEIR LIBRARY CARD NOT THE RACE CARD. I HAVE A DREAM WHEN THE MIND OF EACH CHILD IS FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING NOT GENDER DYSPHORIA I HAVE A DREAM WHEN EACH CHILD'S HEART FILLED WITH FAITH HOPE AND HOPE AND LOVE NOT DOUBT, FEAR AND DARKNESS I HAVE A DREAM TONIGHT. OH DEMOCRAT THE DAYS ARE NUMBERED WHEN

043YOU SHACKLE THE BOYS AND GIRLS WITH YOUR DOCTRINE OF HATE AND LIMITATION GROOM OUR CHILDREN FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITY NOT HARD WORK OBEY THE OVERLORDS OF YOUR PARTY AND CHANT PAUSE PAUSE PAUSE WHICH IS CODE FOR PRESS OPPRESS OPPRESS I BATTALIONS OF VOTERS ON THE HORIZON WHO WANT TO FREE AMERICA AFRICOM WEALTH A FREE VIRGINIA BEACH WHERE LITTLE BOYS AND LITTLE GIRLS HOLD HANDS WITH THEIR MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND SAY FREE AT LAST FREE LAST THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE'RE FREE AT LAST >>. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HEATHER SITE THAT MARY ARRINGTON THEN ELAINE LOMBARDI GOOD EVENING TO WOMEN BROWN VICE YOUR WILLIAMS MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND DR. ROBERTS IN MY NAME HEATHER SCIP AND I'M PRESIDENT OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION I'M HERE THIS EVENING TO ADDRESS THE TEACHER EVALUATION RUBRIC AS PERTAINS

044TO THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO POLICY FOR IN THE BBC STRATEGIC FRAMEWORKS AND THE DEFINITION STANDARD ONE PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE TEACHERS ARE EVALUATED ON THEIR ABILITY TO PROVIDE RELEVANT LEARNING EXPERIENCES TEACHERS NEED TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THEIR STUDENTS AND BE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE IN ORDER FOR THE LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO BE RELEVANT TO THE STUDENT AS STANDARD TO INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING TEACHERS ARE EVALUATED ON THEIR USE OF NOT ONLY THE VIRGINIA STANDARDS OF LEARNING IN THE SCHOOLS CURRICULUM BUT ALSO STUDENT DATA AND RESEARCH STRATEGIES THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS DIFFERENCED VERSION OF INSTRUCTION AND ACTIVITIES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS ENGAGING AN EQUITABLE PRACTICES TO ENSURE NO STUDENT IS LEFT FALTERING LET'S LOOK AT STANDARD THREE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY AND STANDARD FOR ASSESSMENT AND FOR STUDENT LEARNING IN ORDER TO BE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE A TEACHER MUST FLUIDLY

045MODIFY STRATEGIES, MATERIALS AND GROUPINGS TO OPTIMIZE STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND USE ASSESSMENT DATA, REEXAMINE AND FINE TUNE TEACHING ON THESE DATA, MODIFY REEXAMINE AND FINE TUNE. THIS IS EDUCATIONAL EQUITY NEXT TO STANDARD FIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHER AND ENSURES ALL STUDENTS HAVE INPUT AND FEEL A PART OF THE CLASSROOM COMMUNITY THERE ARE ALSO TO BUILD STRONG RELATIONSHIPS SKILLFULLY ADJUST TO ENSURE PERSONALIZED LEARNING. FOSTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISCOURSE BASED ON MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES AND FOR SURE THAT STUDENT VOICE AND CHOICE ARE SORT OUT AS VALUED PART OF THE STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE THIS HITS ALL THREE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION STANDARDS SIX CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND EQUITABLE PRACTICES THERE IS AN ENTIRE RUBRIC STANDARD ON THIS STANDARD SEVEN PROFESSIONAL DEMANDS TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE A COMMITMENT TO PROFESSIONAL ETHICS COLLABORATE AND COMMUNICATE APPROPRIATELY AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE

046PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL GROWTH THAT RESULTS IN THE ENHANCEMENT OF STUDENT EARNING WE CANNOT DO THIS IF WE ARE TOSSING OUT DECADES OF RESEARCH BASED BEST PRACTICES AND GOING BACK TO THE DARK AGES WHERE WORDS LIKE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION ARE TABOO AND FINALLY THEIR STANDARD STUDENT ACADEMIC PROGRESS TEACHERS ARE TO ACT ON STUDENT RESULTS TO REVISE GOALS WERE FORMED NEW GOALS THAT RESULT IN ACADEMIC FOR EACH POPULATION OF LEARNERS COLLECT VARIETY OF WORK EMPLOYEE WORK, EMPLOY AUTHENTIC MEASURES OF LEARNING SUCH AS PORTFOLIOS AND STUDENT REFLECTIONS. WHAT A DIVERSE AMOUNT OF STUDENT PRODUCE WORK TO ASSESS AND WHAT AN EQUITABLE WAY FOR STUDENTS TO SHOW THEIR LEARNING BUT NOW THE DIRECTION OF THE MAJORITY THE SCHOOL BOARD POLICY FIVE FOUR FORMERLY EDUCATIONAL EQUITY IS BEING GUTTED IN THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK IS HAVING ANY LANGUAGE AROUND DIVERSITY EQUITY

047INCLUSION, INCLUSION AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING STRIPPED HOW OUR TEACHER SUPPOSED TO BE EVALUATED ON A RUBRIC THAT DEMANDS A VERY TIDY >> NEXT SPEAKER IS VERY HARINGTON GUILLAME LABADIE AND THEN ABIE CAWSEY GOOD EVENING CHAIRWOMAN BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMES SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND DR. ROBERTSON FORGIVE ME FOR PARAPHRASING WHAT ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES SO ELOQUENTLY TOLD THE BOARD IN THE PAST WE DO NOT CREATE POLICY OR DELETE POLICY BASED ON FAIR YET THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT MISS BROWN MR. CALLEN MISS WEEMS MR BOWEN STEEL MILLS DWYRE MISS DWYER AND MR. COLPEPER WANT TO YOU AT THE CURRENT TIME THERE IS NO REASON TO COMPLY WITH AN AMBIGUOUS EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING ADJUDICATED AND CANNOT BE ENFORCED THE COURTS HAVE ISSUED AN INJUNCTION PREVENTING DISTRICTS FROM CERTIFYING COMPLIANCE WITH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IF THEY

048EMPLOY ANY AND E MEMBERS AND YET SOME BOARD MEMBERS WANT TO REMOVE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND COMPLY WITH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WHICH WILL ONLY LEAD TO THE DISTRICT INCURRING MORE LEGAL BILLS TO DEFEND AN INDEFENSIBLE POSITION FOR GROUP OF ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES WHO LIKE TO TOUT THAT THEY ARE FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE AND PUT STUDENTS FIRST YOUR ACTIONS REFLECT THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR WORDS HAS ANYONE KEPT A TALLY OF HOW MANY PERSONNEL HOURS AND DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SPENT TO REMOVE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION FROM ALL DISTRICT PUBLICATIONS FROM WEBSITE? HOW MANY PERSONNEL HOURS ARE BEING SPENT TO REMOVE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION FROM THE CURRICULUM WHO HAS DECIDED WHAT IS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION? WHAT EXACTLY WORD FOR WORD WAS THE CRITERIA USED TO REMOVE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF REMOVING DIVERSITY EQUITY AND

049INCLUSION HAS NOT BEEN TRANSPARENT. IT STARTED WITH MR. COLE PEPPERS ELEVENTH HOUR ATTEMPT TO A RESOLUTION TO GOT POLICY FIVE TO FOUR WITHOUT PUBLIC COMMENT SINCE THAT MEETING THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY CONTINUED WITH THE PRC REVISING POLICY FIVE DASH FOR INTO SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT REFLECT THE BBC CORE VALUES TO PUT STUDENTS FIRST SEEK GROWTH BE OPEN TO CHANGE DO GREAT WORK TOGETHER AND VALUE DIFFERENCES IT IS TIME FOR THE BOARD TRULY PUT STUDENTS FIRST ALL STUDENTS AND FOREGO SIGNING THE CERTIFICATION MENTIONED IN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER SHOW OUR STUDENTS THAT YOU CARE FOR THEM . SHOW SOME COURAGE AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR DIVERSE STUDENTS. GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO BE ON AN EQUAL FOOTING AND INCLUDE ALL OF THEM IN EVERYTHING. OUR NEXT SPEAKER ELAINE LOMBARDI LABORIE BECAUSE AND THEN CODY CONNOR HI.

050GOOD EVENING DR. ROBINSON CHAIR BROWN VICE CHAIR WINGS AND THE REST OF THE BOARD I HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD MOTHER'S DAY. I DID A WEEK AGO I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND A TOWN HALL HOSTED BY MISS ROGERS I'M TOLD IT WAS THE FIRST OF MANY THERE WERE ABOUT 50 OF US IN THE AUDIENCE NOT BAD FOR A FIRST TIME EVENT IT WAS QUITE INFORMATIVE AND WE HAD THE CHANCE TO ASK QUESTIONS LATER AND I LOOK FORWARD TO ATTENDING MORE I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE EACH OF YOU TO DO THE SAME THING WITHIN OWN DISTRICTS AND WHEN YOU DO LISTEN TO WHAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE SAYING LISTEN TO WHAT WE'RE SAYING MR MISS BROWN, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK DOING I THINK YOU'RE TRYING VERY HARD TO DO THE VERY THE VERY BEST JOB YOU CAN

051BUT I BELIEVE YOU'LL FIND THAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS PLACE MUCH MORE VALUE IN DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION THAN YOUR VOTE INDICATES. MISS WEEMS, I CONTINUE TO BE COMPLETELY FLABBERGASTED AT YOUR VOTE TO END DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND CONCLUSION PROGRAMS THAT ARE SCHOOL DIVISION WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY PUSHING FOR A RECOVERY SCHOOL SO THESE TEN STUDENTS WITH VERY SPECIFIC NEEDS GET EQUITY BUT TO HECK WITH EVERYBODY ELSE HOW DO YOU SQUARE THAT IN YOUR MIND? MISWIRED IN MY STUDENTS HAVE THREE PARTIES I HAVE TO CALL THEIR PARENTS AND INFORM THEM THAT CONTINUED PARTIES WILL RESULT IN ISIS SO WE NEED WITH YOU PLEASE RESPECT YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS ENOUGH TO BE HERE ON TIME CONSISTENTLY AND ALSO TO LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EQUITY AND EQUALITY I'M SURE MOST OF THE FOLKS UP ON TODAY IS CAN HELP YOU

052OUT WITH THAT. MR. KALIN MY GUESS IS THAT YOU DO IN FACT LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND I BET YOU SPEAK WITH THEM FREQUENTLY AND MR BOWEN STEEL I DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH ABOUT YOU I DON'T KNOW THAT ANY OF US DO. BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOUR CONSISTENCY IN BEING HERE AND I WANT TO THANK BOTH OF YOU FOR THAT PLEASE GO OUT AND HAVE THOSE TOWN HALLS. MR. COLPEPER DO TO YOU CAN DO IT. IT WAS GREAT BEFORE ALL VOTE TONIGHT I WANT TO ASK WHICH PROGRAMS WOULD YOU CUT AT THE TOWN HALL I LEARNED THAT THE ABC HAS BEEN TOLD TO TABLE GIRLS IN STEM ORGANIZATION. THAT'S DISGRACEFUL WHAT ABOUT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE SUMMIT? I'VE ATTENDED THAT SUMMIT WAS HIGHLY IMPRESSED PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM NEITHER AFRICAN-AMERICAN NOR BUT I WAS WELCOMED

053AND I REALLY WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SOME THINGS HERE NOW I KNOW THAT IDEIA ADA OUR FEDERAL LAWS THEY WON'T BE IMPACTED BY THIS BUT JUST JUST LIKE WE'RE HEARING ABOUT THE OTHER DOCUMENTS IEPS IN FIVE OFFERS ARE FULL OF WORDS LIKE INCLUSION AND EQUITY THERE IN THERE ARE ALL THOSE DOCUMENTS GOING TO NEED TO BE REWRITTEN WHAT A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME INVALUABLE BUT LIMITED RESOURCES EVEN. EVEN OUR MISSION STATEMENT WILL NEED BE REWARDED AND WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST THROW THE COMPANIES TO 20 TWENTY THIRTY RIGHT OUT WINDOW AGAIN A RIDICULOUS WASTE OF TIME AND RESOURCES LET'S NOT THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER FOLKS. WE COULD DO THAT IS TIME NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ABBY CAWSEY, CODY CONNER AND THEN NATALIE BRAY. GOOD EVENING. MY HIM IS ABBY CAWSEY

054AND MR. CULPEPER PLEASE NOTE I AM A CONSTITUENT A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF VIRGINIA BEACH AND ALSO WORK AT A PARISH IN YOUR DISTRICT MY OPINION IS MY OWN AS A PARENT OF STUDENTS AT PRINCETON HIGH SCHOOL AND IT MIGHT BE ON APRIL 8TH I IMAGINE THAT THERE ARE TWO REASONS MEMBERS VOTED FOR THE RESOLUTIONS IN SUCH AN EXPEDITIOUS MANNER NUMBER ONE YOU ALIGN YOURSELF WITH THE WITH THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION AND OPPOSE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND WACKNESS NUMBER TWO YOU GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT FEDERAL FUNDING CUTS FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE AND ACTED IN IF YOUR REASON WAS THE LATTER THEN LATTER THEN TONIGHT YOU HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON AND WAIT FOR THE COURTS TO RULE BECAUSE WITHOUT DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION POLICY AND PROGRAMS THE FUNDING YOU ARE TRYING TO PROTECT IS

055ONLY HALF OF THE SOLUTION FOR A CHILD TO FULLY FLOURISH IT REQUIRES EFFORT INTENTIONALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS TO SEE STUDENTS, STUDENTS BEYOND THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN AND THEIR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCE AND THE WORDS OF A TULSA MASSACRE SURVIVOR QUOTE INJUSTICE PLUS TIME DOES NOT EQUAL JUSTICE END QUOTE IN 1973 A GAS STATION A GAS STATION ATTENDANT ON HOLLIN ROAD REFUSED TO PUMP GAS FOR MY MOM AND ASKED HER TO LEAVE BECAUSE THE OWNER SAID THEY DIDN'T SERVE HER KIND IN THE 1970S MY SISTER ATTENDED PRESCHOOL AND LITTLE NECK AND A CLASSMATE TOLD HER SHE WAS TOO DARK TO PLAY WITH IN 2003 WAS JOGGING TO MY BIRCHWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD AS I RAN PAST MALIBU ELEMENTARY BOYS FROM THE BASKETBALL COURT STARTED TO YELL CHANGING CHILDREN IN 2015 FIFTEEN I WAS WORKING AT A CHURCH LYNNHAVEN PARKWAY AND

056RAN ACROSS THE STREET TO GET MY CAR FROM THE SHOP AS I MADE IT TO THE MEDIAN I HEARD SOMEONE YELL RUN EDWARD RUN AND I TURNED TO SEE A WHITE MAN IN A MUSTANG DRIVE OFF MY PARENTS NEVER TAUGHT ME TO GO LOOK BUT RATHER TOOK ME TO ASSIMILATE WHITE TO PROTECT ME BECAUSE INJUSTICE PLUS TIME DOES NOT EQUAL JUSTICE AFRICAN-AMERICANS MAKE UP 14 FOURTEEN PERCENT OF THE POPULATION AND CULPEPER IN MY ALMOST FIVE YEARS AT THE PARISH WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PROGRAMS EACH YEAR DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY BLACK STUDENTS HAVE HAD ZERO IF YOU THINK YOU DON'T NEED TO INTENTIONAL ABOUT DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION ASK LATINA STUDENTS DISTRICT EIGHT WHO ARE U.S. CITIZENS HAVE BEEN CALLED WORKERS CLASSMATES HAVE THREATENED TO CALL ICE ON THEIR FAMILIES

057CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE IN. STUDENTS HAVE TOLD YOU AND WE'LL TELL YOU DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION POLICIES AND PROGRAMS DON'T HURT THEM THEY EMPOWER THEM TO BE KIND COMPASSION GLOBAL CITIZENS IF. IF SCHOOL BOARD IS JUST A POLITICAL STEPPING STONE FOR YOU KNOW, KNOW THIS THEY WILL BE AT VOTING AGE WHEN YOU RUN FOR YOUR NEXT OFFICE THEY WILL REMEMBER WHO LISTENED TO THEM AND WHO DID NOT LEST THEY FORGET YOUR CONSTITUENTS WILL BE HERE TO REMIND THEM VOTE TO PASS. THANK YOU NEXT SPEAKER IS SPEAKER IS CODY CONNOR. NATALIE GRAY AND THEN LINDA LABUTTA. I DON'T OF YOU ARE ATTACKING DTI BECAUSE YOU CONVINCE YOURSELF THAT RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE IF YOU JUST CONVINCE YOURSELF IT'S OK WHAT I DO KNOW IS KNOW IS THAT WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS STILL FEEL EMBOLDENED ENOUGH

058TO MARCH OPENLY IN AMERICAN STREETS. PEOPLE ARE PROUDLY PROCLAIMING THEMSELVES RACIST AND BIGOTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND EVEN NATIONAL TELEVISION AND I KNOW THAT WILL BE THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE CHEERING AND APPLAUDING FOR YOU THE LOUDEST WHEN YOU DECIDE TO DISMANTLE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION IN OUR SCHOOLS AND THE FACT THAT DOESN'T GIVE YOU PAUSE THAT IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU FEEL SICK AND SLIMY TOLD ME EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOU WHEN I LOOK AT YOU THE 60 VOTE WILL VOTE AGAINST THIS. I'M DISGUSTED BUT I'M ALSO GRATEFUL AND GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE EXPERIENCES I HAD TO KEEP YOU FROM BEING LIKE YOU. YOU SEE THERE'S RACIST AND BIGOTS MY FAMILY I HEARD THE N-WORD THE N-WORD AND DEROGATORY JOKES GROWING UP BUT WHEN I FOUND MYSELF ON MY OWN BEFORE IT EVEN GRADUATED HIGH

059SCHOOL FAMILY WASN'T THERE TO HELP ME MY. MY FRIEND THE LIANAS FAMILY WAS THERE GUATEMALAN IMMIGRANTS IF IT WASN'T FOR THEM I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A LOT MORE TROUBLE THAN I DID YOU KNOW THAT IMMIGRANTS ARE LESS LIKELY TO COMMIT CRIMES US CITIZENS STATISTICALLY AND THEN THERE WAS MY FRIEND TREISMAN TAKING CARE OF ALL THOSE KIDS ON OUR OWN STILL SOMEHOW ALWAYS ABLE STILL FIND A PRAYER AND A PLATE FOR ME TO JUST KNOW THAT BLACK MOTHERS ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS LIKELY TO BE SINGLE MOMS AND WHITE MOTHERS STATISTICALLY IT WAS A KIDS THAT HELPED ME LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE LIFE ON THE STREETS IT'S NO THAT LGBTQ KIDS ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS TWICE AS LIKELY THAN THEIR PEERS TO BE HOMELESS STATISTICALLY BUT BECAUSE OF THOSE KIDS WHEN MY CHILD

060CAME OUT TO ME I WAS ABLE TO BE THE FATHER THAT THEY NEEDED DESPITE ALL OF THE RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION I'VE BEEN SUBJECTED TO. DID YOU KNOW IT'S MORE LIKELY TO BE A PREDATOR THEN YOUR KID WILL BE TRAINED STATIVE NOW I KNOW YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT MY STORIES OR MY STATISTICS YOUR FEAR AND IGNORANCE GOT YOU SO TURNED AROUND TURNED AROUND RATHER THAN EMBRACING THE FUTURE ARE CLEAN DESPERATELY TO ECHOES OF THE PAST BUT THAT FUTURE IS STILL COMING AND IT DOESN'T LOOK MUCH LIKE YOU STATISTICALLY SHOUT OUT TO THE STUDENTS SPEAKERS YOU MAY BE BLIND BUT THESE KIDS AREN'T THEY SEE YOU MORE THAN THAT YOU SEE THAT YOU DO NOT SEE THEM. SO TONIGHT AFTER VOTE AGAINST THEIR FUTURE AND GO HOME TO BASK IN THE APPROVAL OF RACISTS AND BIGOTS DON'T MISTAKE

061THIS VERY DAY THAT WE STOOD IN YOUR WAY CAN STOP YOU KNOW TODAY'S THE DAY YOU DECIDED TO STAND WITH THESE KIDS AND THEIR FUTURE AND SOMEDAY SOONER THAN YOU THINK THEY'RE GOING TO RUN RIGHT OVER YOU ARE NOT EVEN LOOK BACK, MAKE GOOD DECISIONS NEXT SPEAKER IS SPEAKER IS NATALIE BRAY AND LINDA LAVENDER . THEN DARRELL CLARKE. GOOD EVENING MY NAME IS NATALIE BRAIN I LIVE IN DISTRICT EIGHT DISTRICT EIGHT AND I HAVE THREE SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN. THIS IS MY THIRD TIME SPEAKING TO YOU ON THE TOPIC OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN OUR SCHOOLS. I'LL SHARE SOME OF MY CHILDREN'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH D.C.I IN THE CLASSROOM BUT FIRST A BRIEF RECAP DESPITE ITS POLITICIZATION EACH PART OF DTI REFLECTS A LONG STANDING BEST PRACTICES IN EDUCATION STUDENTS LEARN BEST WHEN LEADERSHIP DECISION

062EDUCATORS AND PIERS REFLECT A REFLECT A WIDE RANGE OF VIEWPOINTS EXPERIENCES AND DEMOGRAPHICS THIS IS DIVERSITY. STUDENTS HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS AND THEY SUCCEED WHEN THEY RECEIVE SUPPORT FOR THOSE NEEDS. THIS IS EQUITY INCLUDING STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSROOMS BENEFITS BOTH OF THOSE STUDENTS AND THEIR TYPICALLY DEVELOPING THIS IS WHERE INCLUSION WHAT INCLUSION MEANS. THESE ARE ALL RESEARCH BEST PRACTICES IN EDUCATION. MY CHILDREN AND I OFTEN TALK ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS INCLUDING THESE VARIOUS SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS LIKE MANY KIDS THEIR AGE, THEY UNDERSTAND THE D'S SUPPORTS FAIRNESS BELONGING CORE VALUES OF GOOD EDUCATION. HERE ARE SOME OF THEIR EXPERIENCES ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS IS QUIET ACADEMICALLY DRIVEN AND HER CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR IS IMPECCABLE. SHE WAS OFTEN SEATED NEXT TO INCLUSION STUDENTS WHO NEEDED EXTRA SUPPORT FOR THEIR BEHAVIOR OR UNDERSTANDING OF THE MATERIAL WORKING

063ALONGSIDE PEERS WITH DIFFERENT LEARNING NEEDS SHAPED HER INTO A DEEPLY ATTENTIVE, PERCEPTIVE AND EMPATHETIC PERSON SHE'S AN ENCLOSURE AND THIS AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LIFE AND WORKPLACE ANOTHER DAUGHTER RECENTLY TOLD ME OF A SPONTANEOUS LUNCH TABLE CONVERSATION ABOUT ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH THIS MONTH HER CLASSMATES SHARED THEIR EXPERIENCE OF FAMILY TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL FOODS AND SHE CAME HOME EXCITED TO LEARN MORE THAT KIND OF NATURAL JOYFUL CURIOSITY ABOUT DIVERSE CULTURES IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD NURTURE, NOT ERASE. MY THIRD DAUGHTER HAS A SPIKY LEARNING PROFILE. SHE EXCELS IN LANGUAGE ARTS NEED SUPPORT IN MATH SHE'S A SHE'S A LEARNER WHO BENEFITS FROM DIFFERENTIATION AND HER TEACHERS RESPONDED ONE TUTORED HER IN MATH BEFORE SCHOOL ANOTHER VOLUNTARILY READ THROUGH HER EXTRACURRICULAR CREATIVE WRITING SHE WAS SUPPORTED AND ENCOURAGED TO THE POINT OF EXCELLING IN

064SCHOOL THESE ACTS OF EQUITY HELPED HER GROW AND WE ARE FOREVER GRATEFUL HER TEACHERS SO BACK TO THE TO THE CONVERSATIONS I HAVE WITH MY KIDS THEY WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF SCHOOL COMMUNITY COULD POSSIBLY WANT TO DO AWAY WITH BEST PRACTICES IN EDUCATION HOW CAN YOU DISREGARD WHAT YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE STUDENTS WHO SPOKEN IN SUPPORT AT THESE MEETINGS HOW COULD YOU IGNORE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAUSE BEFORE OVERHAULING THE EQUITY POLICY? I DON'T HAVE GOOD ANSWERS FOR MY KIDS DO YOU WHAT DO YOU SAY TO YOUR FAMILIES WHEN THE QUESTION YOUR RECENT ACTIONS YOU MUST KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS ONE IN THE EYES OF YOUNG PEOPLE RECONSIDER YOUR CHOICES POLICY APRIL 8TH REFERENDUM TO OPERATE AND OPERATE WITHIN UNEDITED POLICY

065FIVE DASH FOR YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO REDEEM YOURSELF AS MANY STORIES OF OUR SCHOOLS >> OUR NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS WHEN THE LAVADA UNDER OATH. THEN CHERYL SMITH GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS LINDA LAVENDER. I AM A CYBER DEFENSE TEACHER AT THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CENTER . I'VE BEEN WITH A DIVISION FOR 27 YEARS I'M. I'M ALSO A CAREER SWITCHER AS FEMALE WORKING IN STEM I KNOW FIRSTHAND THE CHALLENGES THAT ARE WOMEN FACE IN THIS FIELD I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE SOME OF YOU HAVE A VERY MISTAKEN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THIS IS AND WHAT IS NOT YOU PLAN TO CUT POLICY FIVE DASH FOUR WITH SOME MISTAKEN BELIEF THAT SOMEHOW THIS POLICY DOES NOT BENEFIT ALL OUR STUDENTS. THE PROBLEM IS ALL OF OUR STUDENTS ARE NOT THE SAME THERE'S GIRLS, THERE'S BOYS, THERE'S WHITE

066STUDENTS STUDENTS THAT ARE NOT WHITE STUDENTS WHITE. THEY'RE STUDENTS THAT SPEAK MULTIPLE LANGUAGES OTHER STUDENTS THAT ARE ONLY ESL STUDENTS YOU ARE NOT TELLING ME WITH THIS DECISION AS AN EDUCATOR THAT I'M NO LONGER TO VALUE AND EMBRACE THE UNIQUENESS OF THESE STUDENTS OR FOCUS NEEDS OF THESE STUDENTS WE STUDENTS? WE HAVE WORKED VERY HARD AT SINCE IT OPENED TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO JOIN AND BECOME PART OF THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU SO RIGHTLY HAS SUPPORTED OVER THESE YEARS. DIVERSITY HAS BEEN A BIG INITIATIVE. WE HAVE SPONSORED A WOMAN IN TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS THIS GROUP HELPS OUR FEMALE STUDENTS EMPOWER THEMSELVES TO DEAL WITH SITUATIONS THAT THEY WILL ENCOUNTER IN A PREDOMINANTLY MALE WORKFORCE FOUR OF OUR STUDENTS WERE JUST RECOGNIZED LAST MONTH IN RICHMOND BY THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR

067THEIR OUTSTANDING SUCCESSES AND POTENTIAL OF WHERE THEY WILL GROW IN STEM. SADLY NOW YOU HAVE PROVIDED US NO DIRECTION ON WHERE WE'RE GOING OUR CLUB IS IN HIBERNATION LIKELY AND HOPEFULLY NOT ON THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE EXAMPLES OF THE RECKLESS DISREGARD THE DEVALUATION OF DIVERSITY IN OUR CLASSROOMS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NEXT DEMAND COMES IN. ARE WE GOING TO HAVE D.C.I. BOOKMAN'S COWGIRLS WOMEN WHO PROBABLY SAVED YOUR LIVES? OUR IN WORLD WAR TWO OR THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS WHO PROBABLY SAVED MANY MANY LIES MANY, MANY LIVES DURING WORLD WAR TWO IF I SPEAK FRENCH TO MY NATIVE STUDENT AM VIOLATING YOUR POLICY. WE MEET THE STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE AND WHO THEY ARE. THAT IS WHAT WE DO AS EDUCATORS YOU'VE DRAWN A LINE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD VALUES THE DIVERSITY IN OUR COMMUNITY

068AND STAFF THAT IMPACTS ME IT IMPACTS MY STUDENTS IMPACT MY CHILDREN MY GRANDCHILDREN AND MY COMMUNITY WE FOUGHT VERY VERY HARD VERY HARD TO MAKE THIS SCHOOL DIVISION EXEMPLARY AND WITH THIS DRUG GIVE YOU A PEN AND PUTTING POLITTI IN FRONT OF STUDENTS YOU'VE MANAGED TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US. PLEASE YOU CONSIDER VOTE. THANK YOU NEXT SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER IS THE REAL CARD THAT CHERYL SMITH AND DIANE MUSCOVITE YOU NEED TO PAUSE AND WE THIS WHOLE THING IN HONESTLY ,I DON'T EVEN THINK THE MONEY REALLY MATTERS I FEEL LIKE EVEN IF Y'ALL WEREN'T AT RISK OF LOSING FUNDING I THINK I WAS TALKING TO REPORTERS ANYWAY BECAUSE YOUR HISTORY SHOWS THAT I MEAN THIS WHOLE THE STUDENT VIRGINIA GROUP Y'ALL OR JUST SOUR DEGRADATION OF THE EDUCATION PERIOD ALL SIX OF Y'ALL AND MANAGED

069TO JUST TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE WILLIAMS SAID AT THE TIME SHE SAID LAST MEETING THAT THE WILL OF THIS BOARD VOTED ON THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION WHICH DOESN'T MAKE SENSE ME BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS MORE OF A MOVE FOR YOUR AGENDA >> ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EVERYONE WAS HERE FOR THE MEETING AND WITH IT BEING WITHOUT PUBLIC NOTICE THROUGH SLAM DUNK STUFF AND IT JUST I >> MEAN WHAT WHAT WOULD YOU DO NEXT? YOU KNOW, TRUMP WERE TO SAY TAKE ALL THE TAKE OF THE BANNED BOOKS OUT AND SET IT ON FIRE IN THE PARKING LOT. WOULD YOU DO THAT? YOU WOULD YOU WOULD TO TRY TO SEGREGATE SCHOOLS AGAIN I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED TO BE HONEST. ALSO YOU NEED TO TAKE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HIS NAME OFF YOUR WEBSITE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW SAYS WE

070SUPPORT THE TEACHINGS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. THAT SHOULD BE JUDGED BY THE CONTEXT OF THEIR CHARACTER AND NOT THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN WE GET OPPOSE THE SOCIAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL EQUITY AGENDAS THAT PROMOTE EQUAL OUTCOMES RATHER THAN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL THE CONTENT OF YOUR CHARACTER IS SO UGLY, SO WHATEVER YOU GOT TO DO THE CLINTONS YOURSELVES OF THAT. YEAH, I KNOW SMILE AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY OR WHAT BUT IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT YOU WHICH IS OF COURSE NO SURPRISE. KALYN SAID THAT HE WANTS TO BE MORE TRADITIONAL LEARNING AS OPPOSED PROGRESSIVE I MEAN WE'RE NOT STUPID. WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOU EXPLAIN BUT I FEEL LIKE WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. IT'S JUST AN YORK TREATING THESE STUDENTS LIKE THEY'RE

071COMING UP HERE TO EXTRA CREDIT WHEN THEY'RE TALKING TO YOUR ABOUT THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCES AND THEIR PEERS EXPERIENCES THIS IS NOT A GAME TO THEM. THIS IS THEIR LIVES. THIS IS THE FUTURE OF OUR LIVES TOO. AND YOU KNOW MY COAT CODY SAID I MEAN THEY'RE GOING TO ROLL OVER ON YOU SO >> MY THING WOULD BE TO ABANDON YOUR WHOLE FASCIST YOU KNOW PLAN THEY THIS TO HAVE AN ACTION OR ELSE I DON'T KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER SOME THE WAY THAT IS TIME >> FOR OUR NEXT SPEAKER SHERYLL SMITH I MUST GO BACK THEN. DR. KOBAR GOOD EVENING I'M. I'M CHERYL SMITH. I LIVE IN DISTRICT FIVE AND I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS I HAVE A MASTER'S

072DEGREE IN EDUCATION I TAUGHT I TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THIRTY EIGHT YEARS 16 YEARS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL. TWENTY TWO YEARS IN ELEMENTARY IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME OF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY TEACHING EXPERIENCE BUT I STILL HOPE YOU WILL BASE YOUR DECISIONS ON ACTUAL FACTS AND YOUR MISSION STATEMENT NOT REPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS WILL DGI PROGRAMS HELP EMPOWER ALL STUDENTS TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL WILL THESE PROGRAMS HELPED CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE ALL STUDENTS FEEL SAFE AND INCLUDED? THE SCIENTIFIC ANSWER IS YES SO LET ME ADDRESS JUST ONE CONDITION THAT HAS A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON LEARNING STRESS DURING ANY STRESSFUL VENT CORTISOL AN ADRENALINE ARE RELEASED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM PUTTING BODY INTO SURVIVAL MODE. THE STRESS RESPONSE DOES NOT MAKE A SMART, CREATIVE OR RATIONAL IT ALSO TAKES A LONG TIME FOR

073THESE HORMONES TO BE FILTERED OUT OF THE BODY SO IF A CHILD HAS A STRESSFUL EVENT AT HOME BEFORE SCHOOL IT COULD TAKE HOURS BEFORE HER BRAIN IS READY TO LEARN I WISH I HAD MORE TIME TO SHARE ALL OF THE SITUATIONS THAT CAUSE KIDS STRESS BUT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SO I'M YOU'VE EXPERIENCED A FEW MANY. MANY OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE PTSD AND YOU CANNOT LEARN WHEN YOUR BODY IS AND FIGHT OR FLIGHT MODE. STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT CREATING A CARING, SAFE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT CAN IMPROVE A CHILD'S IQ AS MUCH AS 20 POINTS OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO IDEA WHAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH EVERY DAY AND WHAT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED DIVERSITY IS NOT JUST ABOUT SKIN COLOR, MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES, DIVERSE LEARNING BACKGROUNDS LIFE EXPERIENCES MAKE US ALL

074DIVERSE WITH BRAIN COMPATIBLE PROGRAMS THAT CREATE ENVIRONMENTS THAT VALUE AND RESPECT THESE DIFFERENCES. LEARNING IMPROVES EQUITY PROGRAMS MAKE SURE THAT ALL STUDENTS GET THE SUPPORT AND RESOURCES THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL WHICH REDUCES STRESS. THEN LEARNING IMPROVES INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTS WHERE EVERY STUDENT FEELS VALUED SUPPORTED FEELS A FEELS A SENSE OF BELONGING AND IS SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO BOOST SELF-ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE AND LEARNING IMPROVES SO I HOPE YOU ARE ON THIS BOARD BECAUSE YOU HEAR MORE ABOUT PEOPLE THEN POLITICS AND IF YOU ARE TRULY CONCERNED ABOUT EMPOWERING ALL STUDENTS TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL THEN YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE ALL THEM FEEL SAFE AND INCLUDED . THANK YOU SPEAKER IS DIANE BACK DR. KOBAR AND THEN MY KARSLAKE SCHOOL CHAPLAINCY REESTABLISHING GOD IN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 60 YEARS GOD IS

075BEING WELCOME BACK INTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH THE PASSING OF THE TEXAS CHAPLIN AT SCHOOL CHAPLIN'S CHAPLAINS ARE NOW PLAYING A KEY ROLE IN RESTORING SPIRITUAL AN EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING IN EDUCATION THE NATIONAL SCHOOL CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION REPORTS POWERFUL OUTCOMES FROM INTERNATIONAL DATA INCLUDING IMPROVED INNER STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS STUDENT MOTIVATION AND GOAL SETTING RESPECT FOR TEACHERS AND AUTHORITY FIGURES, TEACHER MORALE AND RETENTION AND OVERALL SCHOOL SAFETY. IT HAS DECREASED ALCOHOL DRUG USE AMONG STUDENTS, TEEN PREGNANCIES, DISCIPLINARY INCIDENTS SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND STUDENT SUICIDES THE CRISIS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION IS UNDENIABLE. TEACHER RESIGNATIONS CLASSROOM VIOLENCE, STUDENT DEPRESSION, ANXIETY SUICIDE HAVE REACHED UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OVER ONE MILLION FELONY ASSAULTS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY STUDENTS AGAINST TEACHERS FORTY FOUR POINT TWO PERCENT STUDENTS REPORT PERSISTENT FEELINGS OF HOPELESSNESS HERE'S WHAT PARENTS AND TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE IMPACT OF SCHOOL CHAPLIN'S IN THESE

076ARE QUOTES FROM DIFFERENT TEACHERS AND STUDENTS SCHOOL CHAPLIN'S ARE A LIGHT IN THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA NEEDS THIS PROGRAM OUR SCHOOL FEELS LIKE A COMMUNITY AGAIN THERE'S DEFINITELY MORE PEACE. MY SON OPENED UP FOR FIRST TIME IN MONTHS THANKS TO OUR SCHOOL CHAPLAIN AS PARENT I FINALLY I FINALLY SAW HOPE RETURN WHEN THE CHAPLAIN STEPPED IN THE SCHOOL CHAPLIN HELPED BRING PEACE AND GUIDANCE DURING A FAMILY CRISIS THE SUPPORT GIVEN TO GRIEVING STUDENTS WAS PRICELESS. THIS PROGRAM HAS BROUGHT EMOTIONAL HEALING TO SO MANY OF OUR KIDS WE FEEL SAFE KNOWING A CHAPLAIN IS AVAILABLE FOR OUR CHILDREN EVERY DAY CHAPLIN'S CHAPLAINS ARE NOT JUST SPIRITUAL GUIDES THEY ARE ANCHORS OF STABILITY, COMPASSION AND HOPE IN THE HEART OF OUR SCHOOLS LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO CHANGE THE HEARTS PEOPLE STARTING AT

077A YOUNG AGE AS EARLY AS KINDERGARTEN GOD'S CHILDREN DESERVE TO FEEL SAFE IN SCHOOL. LET'S VIRGINIA THE NEXT STATE TO PASS A CHAPLAIN BILL AND AS A SIDE NOTE DEAH IS A MANMADE FORUM DESIGNED TO ELEVATE SOCIAL STATUS OVER MERIT. IN GOD'S EYES ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL AND QUALIFICATIONS AND MERIT OR WHAT SETS US APART. THANK YOU OR NEXT SPEAKER IS RECALL WHAT YOUR THAT MY KHAZALI SAID SUSAN BERMAN GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. MY NAME IS DR. RICK KLOBUCHAR JUST PRONOUNCED PHONETICALLY KLOBUCHAR ALL RIGHT I'M A PH.D. NUCLEAR CHEMIST CHIEF SCIENTIST AND FORMER CHIEF SCIENTIST FOR A BILLION DOLLAR YEAR THREE THOUSAND PERSON BUSINESS UNIT ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS THAT WAS PUT BEFORE YOU TODAY WAS PEOPLE WHO COME UP TALK AGAINST THE I AM NOT GIVEN WHAT ONE ARGUMENT AGAINST IT AND IS AFFECTING

078THEM WELL I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT THAT THE FIRST OF ALL LET ME TELL YOU THAT I'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY CIRCULATE AROUND A PETITION AND I PREVIOUSLY CIRCULATED WE HAD 70 SIGNATURES 70 SIGNATURES. WE PICKED UP AN ADDITIONAL THREE SIGNATURES LAST NIGHT. QUITE HONESTLY WE COULD HAVE PICKED UP A THOUSAND AGAINST IT SO HAPPY YOUNG WILL BE COMING UP AFTER ME WILL BE PRESENTING THE SIGNATURES WE'VE GOTTEN THAT WE'VE GOTTEN. SO THE COMPROMISE PETITION THAT WE HAVE IS RECOGNIZE THAT IS DEAD AND IT SHOULD BE DEAD YOU COULD ARGUE FOR FUNDING YOU CAN YOU CAN ARGUE FOR YOUR PROGRAMS REMOVE ANY RACIAL AND GENDER BIAS BIASED WORDING IN YOUR PROGRAMS YOU CAN DO THAT IN YOUR POLICY AND ESPECIALLY IN AREAS OF HIRING. I'VE HEARD WELL EQUITY IS ONLY JUST ASSURED

079EQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY WELL THAT'S THE IDEA TO IDEA TO ENSURE EQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY USE THOSE WORDS, USE THOSE WORDS, USE WHAT YOU MEAN TO SAY EQUITY AND EQUALITY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY WILL ALWAYS BE AND THEY WILL WILL ALWAYS BE THAT WAY. NOW AS FOR ARGUMENT ABOUT D.C.I AFFECTING ME INDIVIDUALLY ONE OF THE THINGS I DID AS A CHIEF SCIENTIST I INTERVIEWED EMPLOYEES AND I INTERVIEWED A LOT OF STUDENTS COMING FROM THIS DISTRICT HERE WE SEEK THE BEST, MOST QUALIFIED PERSONNEL WHEN WE HIRE NOT SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO GET A JOB JUST BECAUSE THEY GRADUATED AND PASSED THAT THE MINIMUM LEVEL THAT WERE NOT ABOUT MEDIOCRITY WE'RE ABOUT EXCELLENCE WHEN WE HIRE AND I MIGHT WOULD HAVE LESS JOBS AHEAD AS A AS A CHIEF SCIENTIST AND ENGINEER

080WAS TO SERVE AS THE PRINCIPAL ENGINEER FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONS MIGRATION TO THEIR NEW ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS THAT WAS 100 MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT AND I AND I CUT MY COMPANY ONE I COULD TELL YOU I'VE NEVER SEEN A SEEN A PLACE THAT HAS BEEN SO MUCH MEDIOCRITY WITH IT NOW LET ME MAKE ONE OTHER POINT ABOUT HOW IT AFFECTED ME. THIS IS A PERSONAL ONE LAST YEAR I APPLIED TO BE A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER I WOULD SUBMIT THAT I'M PRETTY WELL QUALIFIED WILL IN CHEMISTRY. I'M STILL VERY GOOD MATH AND ENGINEERING AND I CAN TELL YOU I NEVER HEARD BACK >> NEVER HEARD NEVER HEARD BACK AND THAT AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER. SO DOWN WITH DTI BUT PLEASE ARGUE FOR THE PROGRAMS, GET THEM FUNDED. THANK YOU >> OR NEXT SPEAKER IS MY KARSLAKE SUSAN BERMAN

081AND THEN JANET BURNS GOOD EVENING SCHOOL BOARD HAPPY. HAPPY TO SEE YOU HERE TONIGHT SO FAR TONIGHT I'M KIND OF IMPRESSED WITH A MAJOR THEME IN THE ROOM. THE THEME IS ATTACK EVIDENTLY DEVISE A GREAT THING OR TWO A LOT OF PEOPLE EVER I'VE HEARD SPEAK TONIGHT BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME ATTACKING OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS BY NAME BY SAYING THEY'RE TERRIBLE PEOPLE I'M A FAN OF THE I SEE A LOT WITH A LITTLE FRIEND I MR. KARZAI, DID YOU DIRECT YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT BOARDS THANK YOU. I'M, SIR. THANK YOU THIS ROOM SO. SO I FORGOT TO BRING MY FAN TODAY BUT I'M JUST WONDERING IF IF MAKES SUCH GOOD PERFORMING PEOPLE AND TEACHERS MENTORS WHY DO WE NEED WE NEED TO ATTACK PEOPLE TONIGHT WHY IS THAT THE THEME

082TONIGHT DCI DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION BUT I WOULD SUGGEST WE MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENTLY HOW ABOUT DISCIPLINE WHAT DO WE WORK AT BRINGING JUST WENT DISCIPLINE BACK IN OUR SCHOOLS THAT'S A WEIRD I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM ANYONE DISCIPLINE ABOUT EXCEPTIONALISM NOW I KNOW A LOT OF YOU OF YOU ARE HAPPY WITH DGI BECAUSE YOU'VE POTENTIALLY BEEN TURNED INTO EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS I HOPE FOR SOME GOOD SPEAKERS FOR A LOT OF GOOD SPEECH AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BENEFITED FROM PROGRAM HERE THERE THAT'S GREAT I WENT TO SCHOOL I WAS I WAS THE TOP TEN PERCENTER I FOUND OUT IN SCHOOL THE TOP 10 PERCENT OR SAT IN FRONT OF THE CLASS RAISE THEIR HAND THEY GOT RECOGNIZED BY THE TEACHERS AND THEY PROBABLY DID WELL THEY PROBABLY GRADUATED HIGH IN THE CLASS AND I

083KNOW YOU HAVE ALL THOSE KINDS OF KIDS BUT THAT'S ALL WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. A LOT OF DGI CLAIMS TO PUT STUDENTS FIRST. WELL IF THE STUDENTS ARE BROUGHT INTO FIRST PLACE BECAUSE OF EQUITY, BECAUSE THEY'RE RAISED UP BECAUSE SOMEONE DOESN'T WANT TO FAIL THEM BUT THEY HAVEN'T PASSED READING AS MR. KAPLAN POINT OUT LAST WEEK DIDN'T PASS READING IN THE FIRST GRADE THE SECOND GRADE THE THIRD GRADE TO THE FOURTH GRADE SOMEBODY'S GOT TO BE TUTOR TUTORED IN THE FIFTH GRADE I'M NOT SURE IT'S REALLY WORKING IF THIS IS SUCH A GREAT IDEA NOW WAS OUR SCHOOLS DOING BEFORE THE YEAR 2000 WHERE WE COMPLETE FAILURES? WILL WE COMPLETE RACIST IN OUR SCHOOLS REALLY BEFORE THE YEAR 2000 TO THINK SO BECAUSE YOU WERE TEACHERS BACK THEN AND THAT IS TIME NEXT SPEAKER IS

084SPEAKER IS SUSAN BERMAN. THEN JANET BURNS, THEN THERESA STANLEY GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS SUSANNE BERMAN I'M THE MOTHER OF THREE AND I'M THE PRESIDENT PTA PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE LARGEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA BEACH FOR TWENTY YEARS I HAVE WORKED IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ADVOCACY AND FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS I'VE WORKED FOR AN EDUCATION ORGANIZATION. I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE LAST WEEK'S FRAMING OF LAWS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS WAS DEEPLY CONCERNING AND I'D LIKE TO REITERATE TO THE BOARD AND EXPLAIN TO MY FEDERAL MY FELLOW CITIZENS AND YOUR CONSTITUENTS HOW EDUCATION POLICY IS DETERMINED FIRST AND FOREMOST ONLY CONGRESS CAN MAKE LAWS. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS LIKE THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTERS IN THE QUEUE DOCUMENTS ARE NOT LAWS THEY CANNOT OVERTURN LAWS OR SUPREME COURT PRECEDENTS. RATHER

085THEY BUREAUCRATIC TOOLS THAT DICTATE HOW AGENCIES FUNCTION BUT THEY CAN ONLY BE IMPLEMENTED IF THEY DO NOT VIOLATE EXISTING LAWS NOR VIOLATE CONGRESSIONAL INTENT I KNOW THAT WE'RE ALL CONCERNED ABOUT FUNDING BUT THE PRESIDENT BUT CONGRESS HAS THE POWER OF THE PURSE AND THEY ARE EXCLUSIVELY RESPONSIBLE FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING THE PRESIDENT CAN CERTAINLY MAKE AND DOES MAKE A PRESIDENTIAL BUDGET REQUEST BUT THAT'S ALL IT IS A REQUEST AS THEY WE SAY ON THE HILL. THE PRESIDENT PROPOSES AND CONGRESS DISPOSES LEGALLY THE PRESIDENT CANNOT PREVENT AGENCIES FROM SPENDING FROM SPENDING FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY CONGRESS INCLUDING IT IS ALLOCATED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, THE TENTH AMENDMENT THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS SUCH AS THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT AND THE EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT GIVES STATES AND LOCALITIES THE POWER TO ESTABLISH EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS AND

086CURRICULA INCLUDING BOOKS ARE ON LIBRARY SHELVES AND WHAT PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED THE POWER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS INTENTIONALLY LIMITED THAT MEANS THAT THIS BOARD ALONG WITH THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE WHAT OUR STUDENTS LEARN SO I ASK DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULDN'T GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE WHO THEY ARE THAT WE SHOULDN'T ACKNOWLEDGE THE PEOPLE OF COLOR WERE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY SEGREGATION, COLONIALISM, SLAVERY OR THE GENERATIONAL WEALTH WAS NOT DENIED TO CERTAIN GROUPS IF YOU CONTINUE TO DISMANTLE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION YOU MUST ADMIT WHY YOU ARE DOING IT YOU AREN'T DOING IT TO FOLLOW A LAW THERE IS NO LAW YOU AREN'T DOING AREN'T DOING IT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO THE COURTS ARE STILL DECIDING THAT PLEASE DON'T MAKE A DECISION BASED ON FEAR

087OR MISINFORMATION OR HASTE I TEACH MY CHILDREN THAT WE OFTEN LEARN THE MOST FROM OUR MISTAKES THAT'S TRUE FOR OUR COUNTRY AS WELL AS THIS BOARD TONIGHT MY EIGHT YEAR OLD SON JONAH ASKED ME WHY I WOULDN'T BE HOME TO PUT HIM TO BED TONIGHT I SAID I AM I AM HOPING THAT SOME IMPORTANT PEOPLE MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION THE COURTS HAVE ISSUED AN INJUNCTION THAT IS A PAUSE. WE CAN DO THE SAME THAT IS TELLING THANK. THANK YOU >> FOR SPEAKER IS JENNIFER STANLEY. I THINK FLORY >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JANET BURNS AND I LIVE IN DISTRICT FOR MY OLDEST GRADUATED FROM BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL. I CURRENTLY HAVE A CHILD AT ALL GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY AND MY YOUNGEST WILL BE STARTING PRE-K IN THE FALL I STAND BEFORE YOU AGAIN TODAY REQUESTING

088THAT YOU PAUL'S THE APRIL EIGHT THE RESOLUTION WHILE I HAVE AN IDEA THAT REGARDLESS OF WHAT STATED TODAY YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE UP YOUR MIND BUT I WILL HOLD ON TO HOPE IN URGE YOU TO CONSIDER HOW OUR CHILDREN WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE DECISION TO RENDER THIS EVENING OVER THE PAST FEW SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS I HAVE HEARD COUNTLESS PEOPLE'S OPPOSITION IN SUPPORT OF THE POLICY. SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE EXPRESSED YOUR REASONING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A HEARING TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER DUE TO FUNDING. BUT WHAT GOOD IS THE FUNDING IF OUR CHILDREN ARE ACADEMICALLY SUPPORTED EQUALLY THIS POLICY PROVIDES EVERY CHILD REGARDLESS OF A RACE AND GENDER FAIRNESS AND WITHIN THEIR ACADEMIC STUDIES IT DOESN'T PROVIDE ADVANTAGES FOR SOME BUT IT ENSURES ALL STUDENTS AREN'T OVERLOOKED PAUL'S THE RESOLUTION FOR THE CHILD WHO

089NEEDS EXTRA SUPPORT BECAUSE OF THEIR DISABILITY IS THE RESOLUTION FOR THE CHILD THAT NEEDS ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE IN THEIR CARETAKER CANNOT AFFORD A TUTOR PAUL'S THE RESOLUTION FOR THE CHILD WHOSE FIRST LANGUAGE IS IN ENGLISH IN IS JUST TRYING TO NAVIGATE WITHIN THIS COUNTRY PAUL'S THE RESOLUTION FOR THE GIFTED CHILD WHO HAS PARENTS THAT HAS NEVER RECEIVED A HIGHER EDUCATION AND IS IN NEED OF RESOURCE IS SO THEIR CHILD SO THEIR CHILD CAN MOVE FORWARD IN LIFE TO BECOME PROTECTIVE SUZANNE CITIZEN CITIZEN PAUSE THE RESOLUTION FOR A TEACHER SO THAT THEY CAN RECEIVE TRAINING ON CULTURAL AWARENESS AN IMPLICIT BIAS TO IMPROVE THEIR TEACHING PRACTICES. PAULISTA RESOLUTION FOR THE CHILDREN WHO ARE BULLY AND SILENCE EQUITY INCLUSION ARE BENEFICIAL FOR ALL AND IT HELPS OUR SCHOOLS OPERATE BETTER ELIMINATING THE POLICY LEADS TO LESS TRANSPARENCY AND

090ACCOUNTABILITY ON HOW VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL SERVES STUDENTS BEFORE YOU SWORE INTO YOUR POSITION EACH ONE OF YOU AT SOME POINT HAS EXPRESSED TO US THE IMPORTANCE UPHOLDING A HIGH STANDARD OF SUPPORT FOR OUR CHILDREN YOUR COMMITMENT TO SERVE THEM EFFECTIVELY INCLUSION IN UPHOLDING VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS CORE VALUES WHICH CONSIST OF PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST SEEKING GROWTH BEING OPEN TO CHANGE, DO GREAT WORK TOGETHER IN VALUE DIFFERENCES THESE VALUES ARE PART OF VIRGINIA EACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS MISSION TO EMPOWER STUDENTS TO BECOME LIFE LEARNERS AND RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AGAIN I ASK YOU TO VOTE YES AND PASSED A RESOLUTION FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN. THANK YOU. SPEAKER IS THERESA STANLEY FLORIDA AND THEN SUZANNE RICHMOND GOOD EVENING SCHOOL BOARD. I'M THERESA STANLEY I ATTENDED VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SO HAD MY CHILDREN

091AND GRANDCHILDREN AND UPCOMING GREAT GRANDCHILDREN I'VE BEEN ACTIVE A COMMUNITY PARTNER WITH THE SCHOOLS FOR DECADES THROUGH THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP WORK I AM HERE TO URGE YOU TO PAUSE SUSPENSION PROGRAMS UNTIL THE COURTS RULE THAT THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER MUST BE ENFORCED AND LEAVE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY POLICY FOR IN PLACE AS HAS BEEN STATED BY OUR SUPERINTENDENT VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS HAVE ALWAYS COMPLIED WITH THE LAW THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT STATES THAT NO ONE GROUP CAN BE FAVORED OVER ANOTHER AND THERE CAN BE NO UNNECESSARY MORAL BURDEN TO ANY OUR CHILDREN MAY NOT GET A RENDERING FROM THE COURTS THAT IT LEGAL BUT EVEN IF EVEN IF IT DOES PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW ARE ANY OF OUR CURRENT DCI PROGRAMS VIOLATE DISORDER UNLESS THERE IS A CLEAR DEFINITION FROM YOU ABOUT WHAT WE ARE CUTTING

092AND WHY I THINK THAT THIS IS A PREMATURE WAY OF OPERATING BY DISMANTLING DECADES OF EXPERTIZE IN IMPLEMENTING TRIED AND TESTED PROGRAMS AND IT'S KNEE AND PERILOUS EQUITY ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT NEEDED SO THAT EVERY STUDENT CAN REACH THEIR FULLEST EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL HAS BEEN INTEGRATED IN VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS FOR DECADES AND HAS LED TO A SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT IS HERALDED THROUGHOUT OUR REGION. MANY FOLKS HERE COME HERE LIVE HERE AND STAY HERE OR EVEN MOVE HERE BECAUSE OF OUR SCHOOLS AS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, MANY OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH AND SUPPORT THE TYPES OF PROGRAMS THAT MEAT STUDENTS NEEDS WHERE THEY ARE AND ADDRESS THERE NEEDS TO SUCCEED TO INCLUDE MENTORING SUBSTANTIVE RECOVERY AND SPECIAL EDUCATION. I'VE PARTNERED WITH SOME OF YOU ON THE SEASON FOR NONVIOLENCE WHICH ENGAGES THE STUDENTS FOR COMMUNITY

093THROUGH THE ARTS THE ARTS TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE FEELS LIKE THEY BELONG AND HAS ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH, WELLNESS, ANTI-BULLYING SUPPORT, MEDIATION SKILLS CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING IN 2022 THIS BOARD THIS BOARD VOTED UNANIMOUSLY FOR AN INTEGRATED EQUITY POLICY WHAT HAS CHANGED? I COMMEND SCHOOL BOARD MELINDA ROGERS FOR CALLING A TOWN HALL ON THE ISSUE IT WAS A GOOD FIRST STEP BUT I LEFT WITH LEFT WITH MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS MANY STUDENTS HAVE COME BEFORE YOU ELOQUENTLY TELLING YOU WHAT THEY NEED AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND THAT IMPORTANT INPUT IS BEING IGNORED TIME IS PRECIOUS. IT IS A PRECIOUS COMMODITY THESE DAYS WE OFTEN DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF IT BUT TONIGHT YOU'RE GETTING ANOTHER CHANCE TO BE OFFERED THE TIME YOU NEED TO VOTE ON THE SIDE OF INTEGRITY THE INTEREST OF

094THE SEVEN THOUSAND STUDENT TIME OR NEXT SPEAKER IS A CLUE FOR SUZANNE RICHMOND AND THEN BARRY NOLAN, SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. HI I'M FLORA A LONG TIME A LONGTIME CITIZEN OF VIRGINIA BEACH AND CO-CHAIR OF THE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE AT THE BEACH WHICH IS A DIVERSE GROUP OF COMMUNITY ADVOCATES AND FAITH LEADERS COMMITTED TO JUSTICE, COMPASSION AND THE DIGNITY OF ALL PEOPLE WE URGE YOU TO PAUSE THE SUSPENSION PROGRAMS AND POLICIES RELATED TO THE E I IN THE VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM I ATTENDED MEETING LAST WEEK. HAS ANYTHING CHANGED WITH STATUS OF THE FEDERAL COURTS ENACTED PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE ORDER? YOU TALKED ABOUT VAGUENESS LACK OF CLARITY LAST WEEK. HAVE YOU RECEIVED MORE ACCURATELY AND CERTAINTY SINCE THEN? PLEASE VOTE HAS A SUSPENSION OF THESE PROGRAMS

095AND POLICIES THEY ARE ESSENTIAL FRAMEWORKS THAT ENSURE EVERY CHILD REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND, ABILITY, RACE, GENDER IDENTITY ,RELIGION OR FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES SUPPORTED IN REACHING THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL. I APPRECIATE THESE ARE DIFFICULT DECISIONS. BE BRAVE. THANK FOR NEXT WEEK SUZAN RICHMOND BERRY. NO AND THEN GEORGIA ALAN GOOD EVENING. I'M SUSAN RICHMOND. I'M A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF VIRGINIA BEACH MR. CULPEPER COLPEPER, I LIVE IN YOUR DISTRICT I HAD A SPEECH WRITTEN TONIGHT BUT I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO GO OFF SCRIPT BECAUSE I SAW SOMETHING TONIGHT THAT TERRIFIES ME. THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE WHAT MR. FITS, YOU EVEN RIGHT NOW THIS SMIRK IT'S DISGUSTING. IT'S REALLY SICK YOUR PROFESSIONAL AND YOU AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M A PRODUCT OF VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS I WENT FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL I WAS BULLIED IN VIRGINIA BEACH

096MIDDLE SCHOOL I WON'T PEOPLE LEAGUE NOW AND I WILL NOT STAND BY WHILE YOU SMIRK YOU CAN'T EVEN LOOK ME IN THE EYE RIGHT NOW. I WILL NOT STAND BY AND WATCH YOU SMIRK AT A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WHO HAS ENOUGH COURAGE TO COME UP HERE AND SPEAK ABOUT VERSUS WRONG. IT DISGUSTS ME THAT YOU ARE ON THE BOARD. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO COME UP HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST DII ARE WHITE PEOPLE AND IT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME THAT YOU WOULD BE A BULLY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MEGA IS THERE BULLIES. THEY'RE SMALL MEN WHO NEED FEEL POWERFUL SO THEY'RE BULLIES. I SAW ON YOUR CANDIDATE PROFILE THAT YOU WENT TO THE NAVAL ACADEMY MY MOTHER WAS A FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN HER GRANDFATHER FLED NAZI GERMANY IN THE NINETEEN TWENTIES MY GRANDFATHER CAME TO THE

097UNITED STATES IN NINETEEN THIRTY THREE HE WAS TEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE CAME HERE HIS FATHER FORBADE FROM SPEAKING GERMAN BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THEY WERE GERMAN 10 YEARS OLD AND HE COULD NOT SPEAK HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE MY GRANDFATHER WENT ON TO GRADUATE FROM THE NAVAL ACADEMY IN NINETEEN FORTY FOUR THAT WAS THE YEAR THE MIDSHIPMAN OR GRADUATED EARLY SO THEY COULD GO FIGHT THEY DIDN'T SEND HIM TO GERMANY THEY SENT HIM TO THE PACIFIC. THEY SENT HIM TO GERMANY AFTER THE WAR SO THAT BECAUSE HE SPOKE GERMAN AND REBUILT THE PORT OF BREMERHAVEN WHERE MY MOTHER WAS BORN DISGUSTS ME THAT YOU WANT WENT TO THE SAME SCHOOL HIM AND NOW IN THE ACADEMY THERE ARE TWO COPIES OF MINE COP BUT I KNOW WHY THE CAGED SINCE HAS

098BEEN TAKEN OUT. YOU ARE EVERYTHING ON RAISING MY CHILDREN NOT TO BE AND YOU KNOW WHAT I WENT TO NORMANDY TO NORMANDY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS BUT WE'RE AMERICANS STORMED THE BEACHES OF FRANCE TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND I BROUGHT BACK A CLICKER. AMERICANS WOULD ONCE AND THEN IF YOU WERE AN ALLY YOU WOULD CLICK TWICE MY SEVEN YEAR OLD SON WAS PLAYING WITH IT AND EXPLAIN TO EXPLAINED TO HIM WHAT IT IS HE COOKED IT AND HE SAID MOMMY I'M GOING TO GO INTO THE GO INTO THE ROOM AND I'M GOING CLICK THIS AND I'M GOING TO SAY DON'T WORRY EVERYBODY. I'M AN AMERICAN. AMERICANS WANT FREEDOM AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS VERY NOLAN GEORGE ALLEN AND THEN A VERY YOUNG BARRY NOLAN

099GEORGE ALLEN READING ZOL. I'M GEORGIA F.L. LIFETIME RESIDENT VIRGINIA BEACH VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA SCHOOL SYSTEM A BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING BECAUSE I BELIEVE YOU NEED TO VOTE TO PASS A RESOLUTION. WE HAVE HEARD FROM CITIZENS CLAIMING THEY DON'T WANT DEA BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT INDOCTRINATION BUT MARRIED. WELL BEG TO DIFFER. AMERICA NOTHING BUT A PROPAGANDA INDOCTRINATION MACHINE. YOU SEE AS CHILDREN WE WERE PROVIDED WITH THE WORST BOOKS, THE WORST RESOURCE SINCE YOU DIDN'T WANT US TO READ OR WRITE YOUR MONITOR TO SEE IF WE WERE DOING BETTER THAN YOUR CHILDREN . YOU THEN SENT MORE PROPAGANDA REQUIRING MORE FROM US WITH LESS RESOURCES WHEN WE OVER PERFORM YOU DISCOUNTED OUR KNOWLEDGE. YOU UNDERMINED TEACHERS AND YOU SENT MORE PROPAGANDA REQUIRING US TO ANSWER QUESTIONS WITH YOUR CONSTRUCTED LIES THE MISEDUCATION WITH YOUR INITIAL LIE PLACED

100IN OUR BOOKS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA WHERE PEOPLE WERE ALREADY HERE WE WERE TAUGHT THAT THE NATIVES SAVAGES BUT YOU ARE PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW TO GROW CROPS ON THIS LAND TO PROVIDE THEIR OWN FOOD AND ULTIMATELY TO KEEP THEM FROM STARVING TO DEATH. YOUR ANCESTORS HORSES WHEN THEY HAD NONE LEFT. GUESS WHAT EACH OTHER OH THANKSGIVING WHERE THE WHERE THE NATIVES AND SETTLERS GOT TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE ANOTHER LIE. UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE NATIVES YOUR KINDNESS WHICH PREVENTED THE INVADERS FROM STARVING TO DEATH COST THEM THEIR LENIENT. YOUR FOREFATHERS SHOWED THE APPRECIATION KILLING STEALING A AND DESTROYING AS MANY NATIVES TRIBES AS POSSIBLE. THOSE WHO DIDN'T KILL THEY PUSH WITH YOUR FOREFATHERS SIGNED TREATIES THAT THEY NEVER KEPT NO MORALS AND ETHICS, NO INTEGRITY AND NO MERIT YOU EARNED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR ME BUT FROM TERRORISM AND

101DEATH YOU KNOW ALL INVENTIONS AT THE CENTERS TO SEND US STILL PROFITING FROM TODAY NONE OF VERY FEW OF WHICH THEIR FOREFATHERS DISCOVERED AND WENT TO SCHOOL WITH LITTLE WHITE CHILDREN DOING INTEGRATION, I LEARNED THAT YOU HAVE THREE LIES AND YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR CHILDREN ALSO CHEATED THE LIE THE WHITE LIE IN THE MIDDLE WHITE LIE TODAY YOU HAVE ALTERNATIVE THAT'S HOW MANY DIFFERENT LIES ONE CULTURE HAVE MY GOT YOUR YOUR LITTLE GIRLS WROTE THE ANSWERS ON IT THAT'S IN THE BOOK THE SONS ON THEIR ARMS THEY PULLED UP THEIR SKIRTS AND PULLED BACK SLAVES WHO CHEAT OVER. OH YES THEY STOLE TEST TO IMAGINE A PASSIVE DAUGHTER AROUND A CESSPOOL OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY WE BELIEVE IN GOD JESUS. YES WE DO AND WE BELIEVE USED TO PASS THE RESOLUTION THAT YOU PUT BECAUSE EVERYTHING

102ELSE HAS BEEN PRETTY MUCH IN LINE. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS YOUNG THEN CINDY MOSLEY THAT AARON SPECKLE I OPPOSE THE AND I ONLY CONCERN WITH A THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY VIRGINIA BEACH THE STATE OF STATE OF VIRGINIA AS A BORDER TAXPAYER IN A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY. THE TEACHERS ARE OPPRESSED VERSUS OPPRESSOR STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT TO DIVIDE PEOPLE INTO OPPRESS MRS. OR OPPRESSORS PRIVILEGE OR AGENTS OF DOMINATION PRIVILEGE ARE DENOMINATOR'S WHITE MALES HETEROSEXUALS BODY HEALTHY ILLITERATE HEALTHY AND ILLITERATE INDIVIDUALS AND SO FORTH CONDEMNATION OF WITNESSES IN AS IN THE BOOK TWENTY EIGHTEEN CHILDREN IN HIS TITLE NOT MY IDEA TEACHES CHILDREN THAT THEY CAN'T SIGN THE CONTRACT WITH WHITENESS WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY A COLLAGE IMAGE OF THE DEVIL WHITE CHILDREN GET STOLEN LAND STONERIDGE SPECIAL FAVORS IN RETURN WHITENESS GET

103MISSED AND ENDLESSLY WITH THE LIVES OF YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, LOVED ONES OF FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS OF COLOR AS WELL AS YOUR SOUL RESISTORS MUST MEET OPPRESSORS WITH RESISTANCE DARKER SKINNED FEMALES AGGRESSORS LGBTQ TIKU DISABLED ILLITERATE SO FORTH. WILLIAM CLARK HE'S A SON OF A BLACK MOTHER HE WAS MIX YOUNG MEN MAN IN A CHARTER SCHOOL IN LAS VEGAS REFUSED TO LABEL AND IDENTIFY HIMSELF LIKE THIS. HE HAD TO DO A PAPER BUT ONE OF THE THINGS IS THE SCHOOL FAILED HIM BECAUSE HE FELT THAT THIS WAS AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH AND THEY FAILED HIM BECAUSE HE DID NOT WRITE THAT PAPER AGAIN HE HAD ONE PARENT, ONE PARENT BLACK AND THEY WANTED HIM TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF WITH THOSE TWO THINGS ANYWAY THEY THREATENED TO ALSO AFFECT HIS GRADUATION. HIS MOTHER SUED SCHOOL IN ONE THIRD GRADER

104IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN CUPERTINO CALIFORNIA THEY HAD TO READ A PASSAGE A PASSAGE FROM THE BOOK CALLED ANTI-RACIST IT'S ABOUT BEING A WHITE WOMAN OF BLACK COLOR AND THAT THERE GREATER DISADVANTAGE THEN THAN THEIR SOCIAL IDENTITIES IN SUBORDINATE CULTURES HAVE LITTLE TO NO PRIVILEGE AND POWER THE FACTS OTHERWISE HARVARD ECONOMIST SHETTY FOUND THAT HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION AND COLLEGE ATTENDANCE RATES ARE UNIFORMLY HIGHER FOR BLACK WOMAN THAT WHITE MEN ACROSS THE PARENTAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION BLACK WOMEN DO BETTER THAN THEIR SUPPOSEDLY LESS DISADVANTAGE COUNTERPARTS BLACK MEN AMONG BLACK STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION LIKE WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY THAN MEN TO EARN DEGREES. SIXTY FOUR BACHELOR'S SEVENTY ONE POINT FIVE PERCENT OF THE MASTER MASTER'S DEGREES SIXTY FIVE POINT ZERO HAVE DOCTORATES MEDICAL AND DENTAL DEGREES. THEY EARN MORE MONEY THAN WHITE WOMAN CONDITIONAL ON PARENTAL INCOME.

105THESE ARE FACTS RONALD FRYER ECONOMISTS HE. HE ALSO SAID THAT WOMAN AS FAR AS THEY HAVE 12 POINTS TO MORE EARNING HOW THE WOMAN ON AVERAGE SIXTY EIGHT PERCENT HAVE THIS GREAT INCARCERATION SINCE 2000. WELL, WHITE WOMEN HAVE INCREASED 12 PERCENT ALSO WHEN IT COMES TO EQUITY AND THAT YOU KNOW CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA STATE IT CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY THEY DROP THEIR CITY ADMINISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. ONE OF THE PROFESSOR FREDDIE THE BAR WHAT HAD TO WRITE A PAPER AND THAT IS TIME THAT IS TIME AND OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CINDY MOSTLY PARENTS AIR INSPECTOR AND THEN BARRY DATTO IN WORDS OF HUMAN I'M GOING TO SPEAK MY TO SPEAK MY MIND EVEN IF MY VOICE SHAKES AND I'M NOT ATTACKING ANYONE, I'M JUST DATING MY OPINIONS AND HOW I FEEL. MR. AND I WAS BRAGGING ON YOU

106BECAUSE OF THE WAY YOU UNLIKE SOME OF THE OTHERS IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN TO US YOU'RE YOU YOU'RE THERE HOWEVER YOUR PREPARED THE SPECIAL MEETING PROVED ME WRONG LET ME . LET ME HELP YOU OUT IF YOU HAVE A FIFTH GRADER WHO CANNOT READ YOU GET THEM HELP. YOU SAID I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER IS. WELL, I BELIEVE THE ANSWERS EARLY INTERVENTION AS A SCHOOL BOARD IF YOU WOULD FOCUS ON PROGRAMS WHICH STUDENTS WHO NEEDED AN EXTRA BOOST IN THE BEGINNING AT THE BEGINNING AND THROUGHOUT THEIR EDUCATION YOUR OUTCOMES WOULD IMPROVE AND YOU COULD ALSO WITH THE ABUNDANCE OF ADMINISTRATION YOU HAVE HELPED THE TEACHERS WITH THE DISCIPLINE THAT SHOULD BE THEIR JOB NOT THE TEACHERS AND THAT BRINGS THAT BRINGS ME TO THE RECOVERY SCHOOL I'M SORRY I DIDN'T COME AND

107SPEAK BEFORE IT WAS VOTED ON SINCE THERE ARE SUCH FINANCIAL UNCERTAINTY NOW THE RECOVERY SCHOOL EFFORT SHOULD BE PUT ON HOLD. WE WOULD BE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY ON A SCHOOL THAT MAY NEVER SERVE A SINGLE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL STUDENT WHO'S GOING TO WANT TO DRIVE OR RIDE A BUS ALL THE WAY GREAT BRIDGE THAT THE CHESTERFIELD RECOVERY SCHOOL AFTER THREE YEARS HAS YEARS HAS THIRTEEN STUDENTS WE AND BETTER SERVE OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION AND CHAIRWOMAN BROWN YOU'RE PROBABLY READ THE MEETING DECORUM RULE AT A PREVIOUS MEETING. MAY I ASK THAT ALSO SETS IN SCHOOL BOARD MEETING DECORUM AND PROFESSIONALISM RULES FOR YOUR BOARD HALF OF HALF OF THE BOARD SITS THERE WITH THEIR HEAD DOWN DURING THE MEETING AND EVEN YOU ADMIT THAT YOU EMAILS DURING THE MEETING THIS IS

108VERY DISRESPECTFUL TO THE SPEAKERS AND YOUR AUDIENCE AND PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIEND MISS MANNING THAT ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDERS ARE JUST A GUY WITH A CODE OF VIRGINIA IS THE LAW THAT GOVERNS PUBLIC PUBLIC BODY MEETINGS IF YOU'RE TIRED LISTENING ALL THIS IS VOTE TONIGHT DO IS VOTE TONIGHT TO PASS THE RESOLUTION IF NOT THE CODE OF VIRGINIA ALSO COVERS AGENDA ITEMS I SENT AN EMAIL TO YOU LAST NIGHT AND MR AND MISS BROWN, YOU DID ANSWER BUT I DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR ANSWER. SORRY IF YOU DON'T MIND I'D LIKE TO READ PART OF THE EMAIL BECAUSE I BELIEVE ORIGINAL MAY 8TH WAS UNLAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL AND SHOULD BE MADE NULL. CODE SECTION TWO POINT AT LEAST ONE COPY THAT PART AT LEAST ONE COPY OF THE PROPOSED AGENDA AND LEGEND PACKETS UNLESS EXEMPT ALL

109MATERIALS FURNISHED TO BOARD MEMBERS OF A PUBLIC BODY FOR A MEETING SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE REPUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE SAME TIME YOU DID NOT DO THAT YOU SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO VOTE ON IT SO YOUR VOTE ON APRIL 8TH VIOLATED THE LAW AND I FEEL IT MAY NEED TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE A JUDGE SO I THOUGHT THAT IS TIME FOR NEXT SPEAKER IS ARENDSE BECC THEN MARIDA THE GARY MCCULLOM GOOD EVENING JERRY BROWN, VICE CHAIR WEEMES AWARD DR. ROBERTSON THANK YOU FOR THE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION TO AMEND THE PLATE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD CAUSE FURTHER ACTION COURT CASES RESOLVE AND CLEAR DIRECTION EMERGES ON THIS ISSUE MATTERS ENOUGH TO ME THEY GOT ME OFF MY RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS TO COME SPEAK TO YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME I'VE LIVED IN

110VIRGINIA BEACH SINCE NINETEEN NINETY THREE I'VE HAD THREE KIDS GO THROUGH K THROUGH 12 ON THE SCHOOL SYSTEM THEY ALL THEY ALL HAD A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND I WANT EVERY STUDENT TO HAVE THAT SAME OPPORTUNITY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE EQUITY PLAN ITSELF WHICH I THINK HAS LARGELY BEEN OVERLOOKED IN THE PUBLIC DEBATE IT WAS BASED ON A TWENTY TWENTY AN ASSESSMENT THAT COLLATED A LOT OF DATA BUT THERE WAS ONE PIECE TO REVEAL SOMETHING STRIKING FOR ME IS THAT ONE IN FIVE STUDENTS THAT THEY DON'T FEEL THERE WAS INCLUSIVE THAT TRANSLATES TO FIVE KIDS IN A CLASS OF TWENTY FIVE THREE HUNDRED KIDS IN A SCHOOL. FIFTEEN HUNDRED THAT'S A LOT AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ME IS BECAUSE IN MY 33 YEAR FEDERAL CAREER 19, 19 OF THEM AS A SUPERVISOR I

111I'VE SEEN FIRSTHAND THAT PEOPLE PERFORM BETTER WHEN THEY FEEL SAFE AND INCLUDED THIS IS SUPPORTED BY RESEARCH I LIVED EXPERIENCE AND BY THE DISTRICT'S OWN DATA FROM THE SAME ASSESSMENT THAT THE STUDENT GROUPS WITH THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF FEELING INCLUDED HAD THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE. IT'S ABOUT PERFORMANCE I'VE HEARD CRITICISM OF THE EEYE BUT I'VE YET TO HEAR OR SEE A SPECIFIC COMPLAINT THAT REFLECTS WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN THE SCHOOLS EQUITY PLAN. THERE ARE NO HIRING QUOTAS THERE'S NO LOWERING OF STANDARDS. THERE'S NO INDOCTRINATION AND REGARDING THE CONTENTION THAT THE EYE HURTS PERFORMANCE THE DATA SHOWS THAT SO SCORES HAVE SCORES HAVE REMAINED STEADY OR GONE UP IS TWENTY TWENTY ONE RECENT THE HISTORY OR STUDY WRITING IS BY SEVEN POINTS. MATH BY TWO. SCIENCE BY THREE AT VIRGINIA BEACH STILL OUTPERFORMED THE STATE IN

112EVERY AREA THE EQUITY PLAYER IDENTIFIES AREAS WHERE PERFORMANCE IS LAGGING. IT PROVIDES RULES TO DETECT AND TRY TO REMOVE PERFORMANCE BARRIERS. IT DOESN'T GIVE UNFAIR ADVANTAGES. IT IDENTIFIES OR REMOVES UNFAIR DISADVANTAGE IS FOR EVERYONE. LEGALLY THE ISSUE HAS BEEN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL STATE LAW THREE COURTS HAVE COURTS HAVE CALLED THE EXECUTIVE ORDER VAGUE PLACED IT UNDER INJUNCTION THERE IS NO THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE LEGAL OR FINANCIAL RISK THAT THE BUDGET IS ZERO POINT ZERO SIX PER CENT OF THE TOTAL GENERAL FOR THE SCHOOLS SO IT'S NOT RIGHT NOW TODAY IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY OR LEGALITY OR PRACTICALITY. IT'S BECOME IDEOLOGICAL SO I'D ASK HIS IDEOLOGY REASON ENOUGH TO REMOVE TOOLS THAT OUR TEACHERS CAN USE TO HELP STUDENTS THRIVE I CAN NEVER FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT VARIOUS GROUPS OF PEOPLE LIVED THROUGH WHAT I CAN

113LISTEN AND LEARN AND ADVOCATE TO ENSURE THOSE STORIES ARE SEEN HURT AND VALUES JUST LIKE EVERY STUDENT OR SCHOOL SHOULD BE PLEASE PASS THIS ACTION UNTIL WE GET CLEAR GUIDANCE NOT VAGUE THREATS. THANK YOU SPEAKER IS ALMEREYDA YOU KNOW GARY A COLUMN THEN ANDY VON GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK I WANT TO EXPRESS DEEP CONCERN NOT OVER THE CALL TO PURGE THE REMOVAL OF DCI PROGRAMS BUT OVER THE FACT THAT WE'RE EVEN HOLDING THIS EMERGENCY MEETING TO REVISIT A DECISION THAT WAS ALREADY DEBATED, VOTED ON AND FINALIZED ITS BOARD MADE IT CLEAR DEMOCRATIC DECISION SIX TO THREE TO REMOVE DCI PROGRAMS BASED ON EXECUTIVE WITH A WINDFALL ONE NINE UP NOW INSTEAD OF MOVING FORWARD AND FOCUSING ON WHAT OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS NEED MOST WE ARE ALL HERE AGAIN SPENDING

114MORE TIME ENERGY AND TAXPAYER MONEY REHASHING A SETTLED MATTER. LET'S BE HONEST THIS BORJIGIN ABOUT NEW INFORMATION OR URGING NECESSITY. IT'S ABOUT RELITIGATE ABOUT SOME PEOPLE SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE ME AND WHILE OUR SCHOOLS FACE REAL ISSUES LEARNING LAWS, STOPPING SHORTAGES OF JUDGE DISCIPLINE CHALLENGES AND BUDGET PRESSURES WE COULD BE WORKING ON ANY OF THOSE TONIGHT INSTEAD WE'RE HERE BECAUSE A FEW MEMBERS WANT TO DELAY WHAT WAS ALREADY DECIDED. MY GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA BEACH. SHE STARTED IN SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY FOUR ON OCTOBER SIX I WAS VISITING HER SHE DREW A PICTURE OF A FAMILY EXCITED SHOWED IT SHOWED IT TO ME. SHE DREW HER BROTHER OR SISTER ,HER MOM AND HERSELF. I ASKED WHERE IS DADDY SWEETHEART? SHE DADDY IS A DIRTY WORD AND I CAN'T SAY IT I SAID YOUR DADDY IS

115STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU BABY. SHE REPLIED NO G.G HE'S GONE YOU NEVER COMING BACK. NEEDLESS TO SAY I VERY CONCERNED ABOUT POISON OR EVEN TAKING A CHANCE OF MAKING THIS PERMANENT. WHERE IS THE READING THE WRITING AND ARITHMETIC EVERY EMERGENCY MEETING LIKE THIS TAKES TIME AWAY FROM CLASSROOMS PLANNING AND REAL PROGRESS. IT SENDS A MESSAGE STAFF AND PARENTS THAT DECISIONS DON'T MATTER HOW MUCH EVERYONE AGREES WHICH UNDERMINES THE CREDIBILITY THE BOARD WE. WE HEAR PROPONENTS OF DCI CONSIST LET ME SPEAK OF THREATS DEMOCRACY AND HERE WE ARE AT THE BEHEST OF THE MINORITY WHEN MAJORITY HAS ALREADY RULED THIS IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY WE OWE IT TO OUR STUDENTS, OUR EDUCATION GENERAL TAXPAYERS TO RESPECT THE PROCESS HONORED VOTE AND USE OUR TIME WISELY. LET'S NOT SPINNING OUR WHEELS AND GET BACK TO

116WORK. IT TRULY MATTERS. THANK YOU NEXT SPEAKER IS GARY MCCOLLUM GARY MCCOLLUM AND THEN ANDY BOND GOOD EVENING. I'M REVEREND GARY MCCOLLUM I LIVE IN DISTRICT NINE CHURCH POINT MISNAMED I THINK YOU I THINK YOU REPRESENT THAT AREA DISTRICT I HAD PREPARED REMARKS BUT YOU'VE HEARD EVERYTHING I WAS GOING TO SAY SO I WOULD BE MISS THOUGH BEING A LICENSE ORDAINED BAPTIST MINISTER AND HAVING SOMEBODY IMPUNE THE CREDIBILITY OF DR. KING. I HAVE TO READ THIS QUOTE WHY IS EQUALITY SO ASSIDUOUSLY AVOIDED? WHY IS WHITE AMERICA DELUDE ITSELF AND HOW DOES IT RATIONALIZE EVIL IT RETAINS THE MAJORITY OF WHITE AMERICANS CONSIDER THEMSELVES COMMITTED TO JUSTICE FOR THE. THEY BELIEVE THAT THE AMERICANS SIDE IS ESSENTIALLY HOSPITABLE TO FAIR PLAY AND TO STEADY GROWTH TO WHAT A MIDDLE UTOPIA EMBODYING RACIAL HARMONY BUT UNFORTUNATELY THIS

117IS A FANTASY OF SELF-DECEPTION AND COMFORTABLE VANITY. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING SO LET ME FORGET MY REMARKS AND LET ME JUST TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOVE ME I GREW UP IN A HOUSING PROJECT IN RICHMOND IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, A PLACE CALLED WHITCOMBE COURT TWENTY THREE SEVENTY FIVE AMBER STREET AND I ALWAYS GIVE THE ADDRESS BECAUSE PEOPLE WONDER HOW A KID FROM THAT NEIGHBORHOOD COULD GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL DAD COULD NOT READ OR WRITE MOM EIGHTH GRADE EIGHTH GRADE EDUCATION GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE ATTEND COLLEGE GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL AT 10:00 ATTEND GMU A PREDOMINATELY WHITE INSTITUTION GET COMMISSIONED AS AN ARMY OFFICER, SERVE MY COUNTRY, GO INTO TELECOM BUSINESS AND END UP RUNNING A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. WHY DID THAT HAPPEN? BECAUSE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT GREAT TEACHERS TEACHERS WHO SAW ME FOR ME THEY

118SAW ME THEY SAID THIS KID IN THE FIRST GRADE SHOULD BE NOT GOING TO THE SECOND SO THEY SENT ME TO THE THIRD I LEARNED IN LEADERSHIP IN THE MILITARY AND BUSINESS AT THE MOST UNEQUAL THING YOU CAN DO IS TO TREAT EVERYBODY EQUALLY THIS POLICY THIS, THIS CHANGE THAT YOU MAY JUST WHITEWASHING EVERYTHING THINKING EVERYBODY IS THE SAME THAT'S THE MOST UNEQUAL THING YOU CAN DO IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP US YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE KIDS YOU'VE KIDS. YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE PARENTS AND SOMEBODY COMING ABOUT BODY LANGUAGE. I LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO THE FIFTY FIVE THIRTY SEVEN EIGHT RULE FIFTY FIVE PERCENT OF WHAT YOU COMMUNICATE IS HOW YOU LOOK THIRTY SEVEN PERCENT ARE THE WORDS AND EIGHT PERCENT IS THE TONE. SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS YOU'VE HEARD WHAT

119PEOPLE WANT EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT BUT WE'RE TRAINING STUDENTS TO BE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD NOT JUST CITIZENS OF VIRGINIA BEACH WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE. I'M A FORMER SPEAKER AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT THESE AFRICAN-AMERICAN THESE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES NEED TO SEE PEOPLE LIKE ME SUCCEED IN THAT PROGRAM GOES AWAY AND OTHERS LIKE IT THAT'S NOT GOING TO HELP US. LET'S GO FORWARD AND NOT BACKWARDS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH SPEAKER IS AN BUBON GOOD EVENING MR. HARPER MR. PIPER. I'M ONE OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT YOU HAVE PROPOSED FIRST AND I THINK VERY IMPORTANT IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH PARAGRAPH A IT SAYS TOWARD ACHIEVING POSITIVE ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL AND THANK YOU FOR DELETING THE N SOCIAL OUTCOMES AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LACK OF DILUTION

120OF ACADEMICS AND THAT'S MY FOCUS HERE TONIGHT. I DON'T THINK I DON'T THINK SOCIAL OUTCOMES AND WORRYING ABOUT THEM OUTWEIGHS SUCCESSFUL ACADEMICS AND IN THAT VEIN I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED BUT VERY GLAD THAT YOU DID ADD THE WORDS PREPARING STUDENTS TO BE FUTURE ALREADY ENGAGED AND PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT YOU HAD TO AD THAT WASN'T THERE TO BEGIN WITH NUMBER THREE AGAIN THE FOCUS BEING ON ACADEMICS USED IT USED TO SAY THE SCHOOL BOARD THE SCHOOL DIVISION ARE COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING A CAPACITY FOR CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND COMMITMENT TO EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND I THINK INCLUDING THOSE WORDS AGAIN DILUTES THE ACADEMICS THAT YOU SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON. IT'S THE ACADEMICS THAT ARE GOING TO BRING EVERYBODY UP AND TREATING THEM AS INDIVIDUALS ARE GOING TO GIVE THEM THE EDUCATION THEY NEED TO OVERCOME ALL OF

121THE DEFICIENCIES THAT THE SYSTEM HAS PUT IN PLACE THAT THEY FACE THAT NO ONE THEY EXIST. AND THEN FINALLY PARAGRAPH BE SEVEN USED TO SAY IN AND YOU DELETED IT AND THANK YOU FOR THIS EQUITY GAPS MEAN THE DISPARITY IN A METRIC AND ACHIEVEMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR TREATMENT THAT CAN BE REASONABLY CALLED CORRELATED TO RACIAL OR SOCIAL INEQUITY PRACTICE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO THAT WAS IT WAS PURE NUMBERS AND I'M GLAD YOU'VE DELETED 72 . SEVENTY TWO PERCENT OF THE NBA PLAYERS ARE BLACK. IS THAT BECAUSE IT'S CORRUPT WHEREAS CORRUPT. WHERE IS IT BECAUSE THEY'RE GOOD THAT GAME? IS IT BECAUSE THEY'RE THEY CAN BE THAT CAN BE CORRELATED TO RACIAL OR SOCIAL INEQUITY I DON'T THINK SO. I THINK ALL THE TEAMS IN THE NBA WANT TO WIN SO I'M GLAD YOU'RE DELETING THAT

122BECAUSE THOSE STATISTICS REASONABLY CORRELATED CAN BE ABUSED IN SO MANY OTHER WAYS AND I'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON ONE OF THE TEACHERS THAT I SPOKE EARLIER TALKED ABOUT NO LONGER VALUING THE UNIQUENESS OF STUDENTS AND I WOULD SUBMIT THAT THE DELETION OF THE CAUSES TEACHERS TO VALUE THE UNIQUENESS AND NOT JUST THEM BEING MEMBERS OF A PARTICULAR GROUP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR. IT IS EIGHT O'CLOCK EIGHT O'CLOCK OK SO, SO WE ARE IN OUR AGENDA GOING TO GO TO OUR INFORMATION. WE WILL RETURN FOR THE REMAINING 12 OR THIRTEEN SPEAKERS THAT WE HAVE LEFT AFTER WE HAVE HAD OUR PRESENTATIONS YEAR WE ARE GOING TO START WITH OUR POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS. WELCOME COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY CANADIANS MADAM CHAIR VICE CHAIR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND DR. ROBERTSON COMMUNITY THE SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY

123AND ON BEHALF OF THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE I'M GOING TO BE BRINGING YOU RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE APRIL TWENTY THIRD TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING THE POLICY FIRST WE WERE LOOKING AT IS THREE EIGHT THIS IS IN OR BUSINESS SECTION IS A IS SMALL WOMEN-OWNED SERVICE DISABLED VETERANS MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES PARTICIPATION SCHOOL DIVISION PROCUREMENT AND THE OLD RECOMMENDATION WE ARE MAKING A CHANGE IN THIS ONE IS TO UPDATE THE LEGAL REFERENCE TO A SPECIFIC STATUTE UNDER THE CURRENT CODE THAT ACTUALLY THIS MATTER AND THAT IS OUR ONLY OUR ONLY RECOMMENDATION FROM PRC FOR POLICY THREE IT OR THE ANY QUESTIONS OF POLICY THREE QUESTIONS ON POLICY THREE I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO POLICY THREE THIRTY TWO WHICH IS EMERGENCY SMALL SOURCE PURCHASES THE NUMBER OF SMALLER CHANGES IN THEIR YOU'VE SEEN US WORKING OUR

124WAY THROUGH THE PROCUREMENT CODE AND THE CONTRACTING POLICIES LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS AND THE CHANGES WE'RE MAKING OUR MINOR CHANGES MOSTLY INVOLVING CHANGING THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT MONETA INJURIES FOR QUESTIONS ON HOW WE ACTUALLY OR PROCESS CONTRACTING OR PURCHASING MATTERS YOU'LL SEE THROUGHOUT THEY'RE AND THEY'RE REALLY NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OTHER THAN THEN CORRECTING NAMES POLICY PROCEDURES ON THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS ON POLICY THIRTY TWO WHICH IS EMERGENCY SMALL SOLE SOURCE PURCHASES MR. CULPEPER GOOD QUESTION. THERE'S QUESTION. THERE'S NO PLACE IN HERE WHERE YOU CHANGE PURCHASING AUTHORITY TO REQUESTOR DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE REQUEST WAS THEN SOMETHING A DOCUMENT TO A PURCHASING AUTHORITY? SO WHERE DID THE INDIVIDUAL THAT IS FOLLOWING THE PROCESS THERE'S IT MAY NOT BE THE PURCHASING AUTHORITY WHICH MIGHT BE THE DEPARTMENT OR SOMEONE ELSE'S IS THE ACTUAL PERSON IN

125THAT ONGOING HEARING? NO FOR THE QUESTIONS ON THAT I WILL BE MOVING ON TO POLICY FIVE FOUR THIS THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY POLICY THAT IS NOW RECOMMENDED THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THIS. THAT INITIAL IS THE TITLE WHICH WOULD BE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY ACHIEVEMENT. ACHIEVEMENT WOULD BE THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE ON THEIR THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN POLICY A POLICY PARAGRAPH A ON THEIR THEIR CONDITION IS TO ME THAT WE REMOVE THE FIRST SENTENCE THE SECOND SENTENCE WOULD THEN BE ADJUSTED TO READ THE. THE SCHOOL BELIEVES THAT ALL STUDENTS STAFF AND COMMUNITY COMMITTEE MEMBERS REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUNDS DIVERSE AND RIGOROUS, RESPECTFUL, ALERTING AND WORK ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYONE COULD TOWARD ACHIEVING POSITIVE ACADEMIC OUTCOMES IN PREPARING STUDENTS TO BE FUTURE READY, ENGAGED AND PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS THE SECOND SENTENCE WITHIN THE SCHOOL BOARD IN SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SCHOOL DIVISION

126ARE COMMITTED DEVELOPING AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT THAT FULFILLS ITS CORE VALUES AND LIFELONG LEARNING CONFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO STRIKE THE REST OF THAT PARAGRAPH THE ORGANIZATION THEN WOULD BE TO REMOVE SECTION B IN ITS ENTIRETY THEN YOU WOULD RENAME WHAT WE'RE DOING S.C. THE TO SCHOOL BOARD COMMITMENTS WILL BE THE SCHOOL WORK TO COMPLIANCE WITH STATE AND FEDERAL LAW REGARDING NONDISCRIMINATION AS SET FORTH AND POLICY FIVE SEVEN AND OTHER POLICIES AND REGULATIONS THE SCHOOL BUT ALSO COMMITTED TO PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL WORK ENVIRONMENTS FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACCESS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AND WORK OPPORTUNITIES THAT DISCRIMINATION HARASSMENT THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD BOARD WOULD THEN HAVE THE FOLLOWING COMMITMENTS ONCE FOR IN THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PROVIDING PROCESSES PRACTICES THAT ARE NOT DISCRIMINATORY NATURE STRIKE OUT THE REST OUT THE REST OF THAT SENTENCE TO

127RESPECTING THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL DIVISION'S CORE VALUES AND STRATEGIC GOALS . THREE WOULD BE ADOPTING PROCESSES PRACTICES, INITIATIVES THAT INFORM STUDENTS STAFF CONDUCT AGENTS FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD'S COMMITMENT TO NONDISCRIMINATION AND ITS EXPECTATION THAT RESPECTFUL, DISRESPECTFUL, HARASSING BULLYING INDISCRIMINATE CONTACT WILL NOT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. SUCH POLICIES AND PRACTICES FINISHES WILL ALSO INCLUDE HOW TO REPORT AND SEEK RESOLUTION. FENSTERMAN CONTACT CONDUCT AND THEN YOU WOULD STRIKE OUT THE REST OF THAT SENTENCE FOR WOULD BE IDENTIFYING ACKNOWLEDGING WHERE A LACK ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITIES EXIST IN SCHOOL DIVISION AND TAKING DIVISION AND TAKING ACTION TO ADDRESS IS ISSUES STRIKING OUT THE REST OF THAT SENTENCE STRIKEOUT FIVE RENAMED SIX WE NUMBER SIX AS FIVE AND OUT WITHIN READ REQUIRING MANDATORY TRAINING FOR ALL SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS

128AND STAFF REGARDING FEDERAL STATE LAWS REGARDING HANTA HARASSMENT NONDISCRIMINATION YOU STRIKE OUT THE REST OF THAT PARAGRAPH WHO THEN WE NUMBER SEVEN TO BE SIX WHICH WOULD BE ENSURING THAT EDUCATIONAL AND WORK ENVIRONMENTS PROVIDE STUDENTS STAFF THE COMMUNITY WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF OPPORTUNITIES EXPERIENCES THAT SUPPORT SCHOOL DIVISIONS CORE VALUES WE WERE WE WILL STRIKE AT EIGHT AND NINE WOULD ALSO STRIKEOUT SECTION E IX. WE WOULD BE NO EFFORT TO SEE WHICH THEY ALL THE CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION QUICKLY WILL NOT CHOOSE DIFFICULTY BUT IT WILL READ AS THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEES WILL ENSURE A CURRICULUM CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS REFLECT THE SCHOOL BOARD'S COMMITMENT TO NONDISCRIMINATION ONE WITHIN RECORD COMMAND STRUCTURE MATERIALS FOR ALL GRADE SHALL REFLECT A RANGE OF PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES I GOT THE REST OF THE SENTENCE ALL CORE CURRICULUM MATERIALS WILL BE EXAMINED FOR

129BIAS BY DEPARTMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING RAW MATERIALS UNLAWFUL BIAS TEACHERS UTILIZING THE MATERIALS WILL ACKNOWLEDGE AND SEEK TO UNDERSTAND THE BIAS AND COMMUNICATE IS IMPORTANT CONTEXT TO STUDENTS AND PARENTS GUARDIANS PRIOR TO INSTRUCTION THREE THIS GOAL DIVISION WILL DEVELOP SUPPORT AND IMPLEMENT CURRICULUM EXTRACTION AS WELL AS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND DETERMINED NOT TO PROMOTE UNLAWFUL BIAS FOR CLASS SEXUAL ACTIVITIES AND EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAMS WILL BE ASSIGNED RIGHT OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN TO EXPLORE A VARIETY OF POINTS OF VIEW AND EXPERIENCES STRIKE THAT PARAGRAPH OF THAT PARAGRAPH FIVE WOULD NOT READ MIDDLE IN HIGH SCHOOL WILL OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPPLEMENTAL COURSEWORK WITH THE SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM STUDY SKILLS OR TUTOR PROGRAM TUTORING DURING OR AFTER SCHOOL TO STUDENTS INTERESTED IN MOVING TO HIGHER LEVEL COURSES THE INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS

130AND FAMILIES SCHOOL COUNSELOR SCHOOL BOLTON'S AND BULLETINS AND WEB PAGES AND THEN STRIKE OUT S.G. AND THEY WE ARE MOVED RELATED LINKS WITH WHICH LEADS TO POLICIES AND REGULATIONS RELATE THAT SUPPORT THIS PARTICULAR POLICY AT THAT TIME . THOSE ARE THE RECOMMENDATIONS COMING POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE CONCERNING COMMITTEE CONCERNING POLICY FIVE FOUR. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS MR. ROGERS? I HAVE A FEW FIRST SO POLICY FIVE DAYS FOR WAS BROUGHT TO US ON SEPTEMBER 9TH 2020 AND THERE WAS ONLY THREE ABSTENTIONS AND THERE WERE EIGHT PEOPLE WHO SAID YES THE FIRST ABSTENTION WAS MRS. MANNING AND SHE HAD SAID I ABSTAIN BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO MAKE AN INFORMED VOTE FOR MY CONSTITUENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS. MRS HUGHES WHO IS ON THE BOARD AT THE TIME STATED AIM I AM ABSTAINING AS WELL I'M IN

131FAVOR OF AN EDUCATIONAL EQUITY POLICY MANY POLICY. MANY QUESTIONS WERE NOT ANSWERED AND FINALLY MRS. REINSTATED IMON STATING INSTATING AND I'LL GIVE MY REASONS I DO WANT AN EQUITY POLICY BUT I THINK ONCE BEEN DONE A LITTLE BACKWARDS WE HAVE A LACK OF DIVERSE COMMUNITY INPUT SO I WILL ABSTAIN. SO IF EVERYONE IS AN AGREEMENT IN 2020 THAT THEY DID WANT AN EQUITY POLICY I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT'S CHANGED. I'M DR. ROBERTS AND HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO CREATE THIS POLICY THE ORIGINAL POLICY? YEP. I CAN ACTUALLY SPEAK TO THAT. IT WAS BROUGHT TO US BY DR. PARENTS. IT CAME INTO THE POLICY REVIEW AT THAT TIME WE SPEND A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME WORKING THROUGH THAT PARTICULAR POLICY THEN IT WENT BACK AND FORTH WITH DR SPENCE AT WANTED TO TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS

132TO DEVELOP THAT DEVELOP THAT POLICY. OK AND HOW MANY STAFF WERE INVOLVED? I'M NOT IF I KNOW THE AMOUNT OF STUFF I KNEW THE REST OF YOUR MOUTH STAFF MEMBERS INVOLVED THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DO DOCUMENTS IN HIS STUFF I KNOW POLICY REVIEW RECEIVED POLICY REVIEW RECEIVED IT HEARD FROM MANY STAFF MEMBERS THAT WAS THE AREA I WAS DEALING WITH DO WE HAVE EXPERTS COME IN AND IN AND WEIGH IN ON IT? I THINK OUR EXPERTS WHO CAME IN THE WAY ON HOW TO DO WHEN WE DEVELOPED THE EQUITY PLAN NOT SO MUCH THE POLICY ITSELF AND HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR US TO RED LINE IT LIKE HOUR THIRTY MINUTES THIS VERSION? YEP. I'M NOT SURE TOOK 30 HOURS AND PROBABLY GOT AN HOUR OR TWO YEAH LIKE AN HOUR SO LIKE WE

133LIKE WE TOOK ABOUT AN HOUR TO REMOVE A BUNCH OF WORK THAT TOOK MONTHS ON THE HEELS OF APPRECIATION I'M GOING. I'M GOING TO MOVE ON THOUGH SO PART OF THE REASON THAT WE WERE DOING THIS IS BECAUSE OF TITLE SIX AND I WAS LOOKING AT TITLE SIX AND I NOTICED AT THE OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS PROVIDES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND POLICY GUIDANCE ABOUT TITLE SIX. IT SAYS THAT OCR WHICH IS THE OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS IS AVAILABLE TO SCHOOL AND COLLEGE COMMUNITIES TO COMPLY WITH TITLE SIX OBLIGATIONS BY PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE INCLUDING RESPONDING TO TELEPHONE AND EMAIL INQUIRIES AND PRESENTING AT TRAININGS CONFERENCES AND COMMUNITY MEETINGS TO REQUEST TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE YOU MAKE CONTACT THE REGIONAL OCR REGIONAL OFFICES THAT SERVE YOU IN YOUR GEOGRAPHIC AREA BY PHONE EMAIL OR EMAIL. DID YOU MRS ON ANY

134OR ANYONE ELSE ON THE PRC CONTACT THE OFFICE CIVIL RIGHTS TO ASSISTANT DISMANTLING THIS POLICY DIRECTION PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION IS TO BRING IT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE FEDERAL GUIDANCE WHICH WAS THE YOUR COLLEAGUE LETTER OR THE FAA USE PERFECT THE OCR ALSO ISSUED A NOTICE IN 1994 THAT A SCHOOL COMMUNITIES AND UNDERSTANDING THEIR OBLIGATIONS UNDER TITLE SIX AND DISCUSSES SOME CONSIDERATIONS FOR SCHOOLS WHEN TAKING ACTION TO REMEDY REMEDIATE A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT TITLE SIX THE EXISTENCE OF A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT BASED ON RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN THAT IS CREATED ENCOURAGE ACCEPTED, TOLERATED OR LEFT UNCORRECTED SCHOOL CAN CONSTITUTED DISCRIMINATION IN VIOLATION OF TITLE SIX WHEN A SCHOOL TAKING ACTION TO REMEDIATE A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT JUST AS WHEN TAKING ANY OTHER ACTION TOTAL SIX PROHIBITS THE SCHOOL FROM DISCRIMINATING AGAINST STUDENTS ON THE BASIS

135RACE COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN HOW DOES DISMANTLING HOW DOES DISMANTLING THIS POLICY ALIGN WITH THE ENSURING THAT ARE STUDENTS WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT WHICH IS WHICH ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS ILLEGAL YOU ARE STILL REQUIRED TO HAVE DISCRIMINATION ON DISCRIMINATION POLICIES AND THEIR POLICY FIVE SEVEN POLICY FIVE FOUR FOUR POLICY FOR FOR ALL REMAIN IN EFFECT AND THAT IS WHAT THE GUIDANCE CURRENTLY IS FROM THE FEDERAL THE GOVERNMENT IS THAT YOU MUST WITH THOSE NONDISCRIMINATION POLICIES OK WELL ON THE WEBSITE THE WEBSITE FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SORRY FEDERAL PARLIAMENT OF EDUCATION THE OCR IN THE DOJ TOGETHER PUBLISHED A DEAR LETTER THAT YOU JUST REFERENCED THAT SAYS SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PROCEDURES AND THERE'S A PDF THAT EXPLAINS THAT UNDER FEDERAL LAW STATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE REQUIRED TO

136PROVIDE ALL CHILDREN WITH EQUAL ACCESS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY LEVEL . HOW DOES DISMANTLING THIS POLICY ENSURE THAT WE HAVE POLICIES IN PLACE THAT WILL PROTECT ALL CHILDREN WITH EQUAL ACCESS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS I BELIEVE YOU YOU IF YOU THINK THAT POLICY FIVE FOUR IS THE ONLY POLICY THAT ENSURES EQUAL ACCESS I THINK YOU NEED TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE OTHER POLICIES THIS. THIS IS YOU'VE ALWAYS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE EQUAL ACCESS TO REMAIN? THIS POLICY IN EFFECT THIS POLICY CAME TO 2020 IT IS NOT A QUIET A FOREIGN POLICY. IT IS SIMPLY A POLICY THAT THE SCHOOL DIVISION PUTIN AT THE TIME TO CONFIRM VALUES BUT SUPPORTS TITLE SAY THAT IT SUPPORTS TITLE SIX THIS POLICY BY FOUR IT'S ONE OF THE LAW'S

137SUPPORTERS SO I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING IF WE'RE TRYING TO SUPPORT TOTAL SIX AND MAKE SURE WE'RE COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW WHY WE'RE DISMANTLING IT AGAIN. IS IT BECAUSE ARE ACTUALLY TRYING TO FILES STATE AND FEDERAL LAW OR IS IT BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T WANT IT ANYMORE? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE SOLUTION DIRECTED ME IN THE SUPERINTENDENT TO DRAFT THERE BRING RECOMMENDATIONS TO TAKE THIS POLICY TO COMPLY WITH THE FDA FEDERAL GRANTS AND. AND WHY WAS THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION RAFTED BECAUSE THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ASKED YOU TO ADDRESS IT CONCERN ADDRESS WHAT THE FEDERAL GUIDANCE THAT WAS PROVIDED AT THAT TIME IS THAT FEDERAL GUIDANCE NOW BEING SUSPENDED THERE ARE THREE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIONS THE COURTS SAY DIFFERENT THINGS DEPENDING ON WHICH COURT SO IS IT NOW ARE IT NOW ARE WE BEING ASKED TO SUSPEND TO

138WHAT WE'RE DOING UNTIL THAT HAS BEEN SETTLED I AM COMPLYING WITH YOUR RESOLUTION >> BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED IF YOU ARE NOT A PARTY TO THE THE FEDERAL LAW SUITS YOU ARE TO THE PRELIMINARY JUNCTION SO YOUR CHOICE AND HOW YOU COMPLY IS A DIFFERENT ISSUE YOU ARE NOT AGAINST ONE MINUTE I CANNOT HEAR CANNOT HEAR HER IF YOU'RE SAYING THINGS IN MY EAR. I DON'T NEED TO HEAR YOUR OPINION ON THIS I'M ASKING QUESTIONS THAT I'M LOUD YOU I'M ALLOWED TO ASK QUESTIONS DWYRE AND ASTROLOGERS MR. ROGERS PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR QUESTIONS CONTINUE YOUR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU ANYWAY I'M SORRY WHAT WERE YOU WERE YOU SAYING? I COULDN'T HEAR I BELIEVE WHERE I LEFT OFF IS THAT THE SCHOOL DIVISION IS NOT A HARDER TO ANY OF THOSE LAWSUITS NOR ARE YOU SUBJECT

139TO THE INJUNCTION THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SUBJECT TO THE INJUNCTION TO PROHIBIT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM IMPOSING THE TERMS OF THE ACCUSED DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER OR EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO UNTIL THE COURTS HAVE MADE A DETERMINATION SO ON APRIL 8TH WHEN THIS CAME FORWARD SPECIFICALLY STATED THAT I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT OUR LEVEL OF LIABILITY FOR OPENING OURSELVES UP TO LITIGATION IF WE WERE GOING TO BE WRITING RESOLUTIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT STATE AND FEDERAL LAW, THEY WERE BASED ON EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT WERE UNDER LITIGATION. I SAID THOSE WORDS AND I CONTINUE TO SAY THOSE WORDS ARE WE OPENING OURSELVES TO LITIGATION FROM OUR STAFF I'M SORRY FROM OUR STUDENTS, OUR STAFF AND OUR FAMILIES IF WE MAKE THESE CHANGES AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENS AND

140WE ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH WHAT THE COURTS DECIDE ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO DO REDO ALL OF THIS? I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT THE COURTS ARE GOING TO DECIDE. I DIDN'T KNOW THE QUESTION ARE PUTTING OURSELVES IN A POSITION WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE LIABLE IF THERE IS AN AN INJUNCTION, IF ALL WHATEVER EXECUTIVE ORDERS MUST BE REVERSED AND WE'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION ALREADY THEY HAVE REVERSED EXECUTIVE ORDERS SO SHOULD THAT HAPPEN AND WE REMOVE ALL THIS, ARE WE PUTTING OURSELVES IN POSITION WHERE WE ARE OPENING OURSELVES UP TO LIABILITY I THINK IT'S TOO BROADER QUESTION FOR ME THE ANSWER TO ANSWER. WHY DO I THINK I CAN TELL YOU IS AS DRAFTED THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY SAY THAT YOU WERE GOING TO VIOLATE ANY LAW BUT WE'RE REMOVING WHY DID

141WE PUT THAT POLICY THAT POLICY IN PLACE TO BEGIN WITH IT CAME FORWARD TO AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF YOUR SUPERINTENDENT SO HE JUST DECIDED THIS ON HIS OWN. WAS THERE NOT ANY STATE REQUIRES IS NOT A STATE REQUIRE IT'S. IT'S NOT A FEDERAL REQUIREMENT TO HAVE THIS THIS POLICY IN PLACE PERFECT OK THEN I HAVE SOME HAVE SOME MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT VIRGINIA THE CODE OF VIRGINIA THE CODE OF VIRGINIA SECTION TWENTY TWO POINT ONE DASH TO FIVE THREE POINT THIRTEEN ONE SAYS THE GENERAL SIMPLY IN THE BOARD BELIEVE THAT THE FUNDAMENTAL GOAL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE COMMONWEALTH MUST BE TO ENABLE EACH STUDENT TO DEVELOP THE SKILLS THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR SCHOOL AND SUCCESS IN SCHOOL PREPARATION FOR LIFE AND REACHING THEIR FULL POTENTIAL THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN THE BOARD FINDS THE QUALITY

142OF EDUCATION IS DEPENDENT UPON THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE WORKING ENVIRONMENT BENEFITS SALARY OF NECESSARY TO ENSURE THE AVAILABILITY OF HIGH QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL PERSONNEL THE APPROPRIATE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT DESIGNED TO PROMOTE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND QUALITY INSTRUCTION THAT ENABLES EACH STUDENT TO BECOME A PRODUCTIVE AND EDUCATED CITIZEN OF VIRGINIA IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ADEQUATE COMMITMENT TO OTHER RESOURCES IN KEEPING WITH THIS GOAL THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL PROVIDE SUPPORT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IS SET FORTH IN THE ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION ARE WE STILL GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE OUR STUDENTS WITH THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY NEED WITHOUT THE POLICIES THAT PROTECT THEM LIKE POLICY? BUT I FOR POLICY FIVE TASK FORCE FOR IS ONE OF YOUR POLICIES YOU STILL ALL YOUR NONDISCRIMINATION POLICIES IN PLACE BUT THAT'S NOT POLICY. FIVE DISHWARE DOES A LOT

143MORE THAN JUST NONDISCRIMINATION I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ASK SUPERINTENDENT WHAT PROGRAMS YOU HAVE DISCONTINUED AS A RESULT OR WILL CONTINUE AS A RESULT OF THIS PARTICULAR REWRITE TO POLICY FIVE FOUR. OK WELL THE CODE OF VIRGINIA SECTION TWENTY TWO POINT ONE TWO FIVE THREE DASH THIRTEEN ONE IT STATES LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS SHELL ALSO IMPLEMENT THE FOLLOWING A PLAN TO MAKE ACHIEVEMENTS FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE EDUCATIONALLY AT RISK. A DIVISION I'D PRIORITY THAT SHOW INCLUDE PROCEDURES FOR MEASURING THE PROGRESS OF SUCH STUDENTS DID WE NOT TAKE AWAY OUR EQUITY OUR EQUITY DASHBOARD THAT SPECIFICALLY MEASURED ARE EDUCATIONALLY AT RISK STUDENTS RESOLUTION THE RESOLUTION WAS TO LOOK AT THE DASHBOARD EQUITY PLAY ON THE PLAY ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND BRING TO THE SCHOOL SO HOW ARE WE THEN GOING TO GO AHEAD AND

144PER THE CODE OF VIRGINIA WE ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE A PLAN FOR ACHIEVEMENTS FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE EDUCATIONALLY AT RISK THAT'S WHAT THIS PLAN DOES NEXT EXPECTATION RIGHT. TEACHER SO PLAN AGAIN POLICY FIVE DASHBOARD EQUITY PLAN ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE FOR THIS SPECIFIC CODE I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT OPENING OURSELVES UP TO LIABILITY YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED BUT THAT COULD HAVE AN EQUITY PLAN YOU HAVE A STRATEGIC PLAN WHICH IS YOUR NEXT PRESENTATION SO THAT'S WHERE YOU WOULD PROBABLY WANT TO BE LOOKING FOR A PLAN REGARDLESS OF MAJORITY OF THIS BOARD PASSWORD AND I BELIEVE. I KNOW I I UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED I WAS HERE I'M JUST I'M JUST ASKING ABOUT THE LIABILITY. MISS ROGERS WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO DR. GREEN SO THAT OTHER BOARD MEMBERS HAVE A CHANCE. GO

145AHEAD, DR. GREEN. I YIELD THANK YOU SO MUCH, LEONETTI. I'M GOING TO VERY QUICK AND TO THE POINT BECAUSE IF I'M NOT DISAPPOINT AND PEOPLE OUT THERE BECAUSE THEY KNOW HOW I SPEAK I OF COURSE WAS HERE FOR 17 YEARS AND WE GO ALL THE WAY BACK AND I DO REMEMBER DR. ROBERTSON WHEN WE DEVELOP THAT POLICY AS WELL AS SOME OF THE REST VIEW AND THE INTENT WHICH I THINK IS WHERE PUBLIC IS MISSING SO. SO I SAY TO TO SAY SINCE WE'RE DOING A LOT OF MARTIN LUTHER KING TONIGHT I'M GOING TO SHARE A QUOTE AND IT'S GOING TO BE VERY STRONG AND I WILL PROVIDE LATER THE REFERENCE AND I'LL GET TO MY QUESTION LEONETTI THERE WAS IN HIS SPEECH IN 1964 WHEN WE WERE DEVELOPING ALL THESE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS THAT

146I THINK ARE NOW BEING MANIPULATED AND MISCONSTRUED AS TO THE ORIGINAL INTENT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT WITH DR. KING BEING HAPPY THAT WE WERE MOVING FORWARD WITH GETTING LAWS TO ADDRESS EQUALITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY HE STATED THAT THE LAW CANNOT MAKE YOU LIKE ME BUT THE LAW CAN MAKE SURE YOU DON'T LYNCH ME MOVE >> AND IN THIS IN THIS CASE FOR ME THAT POLICY CARNAHAN PROTECTS A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND MY QUESTION IS, MISS EDDIE AND IT MAY NEED AND MADAM CHAIR YOU KNOW I CANNOT DIRECT ANY QUESTIONS TO ANYONE THE DYS BUT BUT WHAT CAN WE DO TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT WHERE WE CAN PUT SOME PIECES BACK INTO THAT POLICY SO THAT PEOPLE DO NOT FEEL THAT THEY ARE BEING VALUED, DISRESPECTED NOT SEEN AS A PERSON

147OF MANY GROUPS THAT HAVE OFTEN BEEN MARGINALIZED SUCH AS WOMEN MINORITY SENIOR CITIZEN. NOW THAT POLICY SAYS YOU DON'T SEE ME OR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOOK OF A CERTAIN PERSUASION THAT IS WHAT THAT POLICY SAYS TO ME NOW WITH ALL THE EDITS. SO WHAT CAN WE DO MISS LINGERIE TO BROKER TO TAKE THAT BACK SO PEOPLE WILL FEEL VALUED AND NOT EXPOSE AND THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE RUNNING ROGUE WITH EVERYTHING IN VIRGINIA BEACH WHEN SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE HOW SOMEONE HAS THEIR HAIR PARTED ON THE SIDE OR THEY COME TO SCHOOL WITH MITCH SOCKS THAT SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE WE NEED TO TAKE THAT POLICY THAT THAT POLICY IS ABOMINABLE AND I'M JUST APPALLED THAT THAT WOULD EVEN MAKE IT OUT OF A COMMITTEE. YOUR PROCEDURES FOR A POLICY RECOMMENDATION TO GO TO THE POLICY

148REVIEW COMMITTEE THAT IS WHERE THE POLICY COMMITTEE SHOULD COMMITTEE SHOULD BE WORKING IT OUT AND BRINGING IT UP TO YOU ONCE IT'S HERE IT'S YOURS YOU. YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT IS THAT THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY. THAT'S WHY WE BRING THAT INFORMATION YOU DO WITH ALL YOUR POLICIES IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE TO MAKE A CHANGE A CHANGE AND WE BRING IT BACK. IT IS NOW IN YOUR LAP THE DIRECTION THE RESOLUTION WAS TO BRING RECOMMENDATIONS TO PRC SO IT COULD COME UP TO THE SCHOOL BOARD EVERYTHING PLANS AND FEDERAL AGENTS IN YOUR LIFE NOW NOW IS THE TIME TO WORK WITH THIS POLICY. MISS MALNIK. OK, FAIR ENOUGH. AND SO I'M GOING TO FORMALLY REQUESTS THAT THIS POLICY BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE AND THIS IS WHY MRS.

149LOMBARDI ARE TURNING ATTORNEY WORKS FOR ALL ELEVEN AND SO SHE TAKES SHE TAKES HE PRETTY WELL STANDING THERE IN THIS KEY IN THIS HOWEVER THIS WAS THE THIS WAS THE ORDER OF THE HEAT. HER ATTORNEY, MRS. BROWN DID NOT WANT FIVE DASH OR AT ALL. SHE WANTED THAT REMOVED MRS. WEEMS CAME UP TO THE SCHOOL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND WORKED WITH MRS. LEONETTI TO CHANGE THIS POLICY THIS THIS POLICY WAS BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE COMMITTEE COMPLETELY RED LINE IN THE HISTORY OF THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEES COMMITTEE THERE IS NEVER A POLICY BROUGHT FORWARD THAT HAS BEEN RED LINE TO THAT DEGREE EXCEPT FOR THE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME THAT MRS. MANNING WAS CHAIR AND SHE BROUGHT HER OWN POLICIES POLICIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WORKED ON BY A POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE AS A

150GROUP IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT DAY THAT THAT WAS BROUGHT FORWARD MRS. ROGERS VIDEOTAPED THAT MEETING AND THE ONLY PERSON WHO REALLY ASKED ANY QUESTIONS OR ASK FOR CHANGES WAS MRS. FELTON AND NONE OF THOSE CHANGES WERE ACCEPTABLE AND EVERYTHING CAME FORWARD THE WAY THAT WAS CREATED IN THIS IS HIS OFFICE MR BOWEN STILL DID NOT ASK ANY QUESTIONS IT WAS ALL IT HAD THE APPEARANCE OF A DONE DEAL AND LET'S BE HONEST WE HAVE A 65 BOARD AND FIVE BOARD AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BOBBY SIX PEOPLE THAT ARE THAT ARE JUST GONNA BOX CHECK THIS AND WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON AND FIVE FOUR IS GOING TO BE DISMANTLED WITHOUT THE PROGRAM PUT IT REALLY SHOULD GO BACK TAKE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION COMMENTS FROM OTHER BOARD AND IT SHOULD BE REWORKED AND

151I'D LIKE THAT WHATEVER YOUR WRITING RIGHT THERE I'D LIKE A COPY OF THAT ON THIS AS WELL. AND SO THIS IS THIS THIS WAS ACTUALLY VERY IMPROPER AND OUR PAST POLICY REVIEW CHAIRS WHO HAVE WHO HAVE WATCHED THIS HAPPENED WHO HAVE READ IT I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN REALLY DISAPPOINTED WITH THE AMOUNT REDLINING THAT OCCURRED. AND SO AGAIN, I RESPECT REQUEST THAT BUT THIS COME BACK TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER REVIEW. THANK YOU, MR. CUMMINGS. YES, THANK YOU. I HAVE SOME GENERAL COMMENTS BUT ALSO SOME SPECIFIC COMMENTS FIRST AND FOREMOST DID IMO MY COMMENTS TO COMMENTS TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE LOOKING THROUGH SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD ALSO RECOMMEND AND ADD ON THERE I THINK WE DO NEED A DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS THERE'S SOME THINGS ON HERE. I THINK THAT WE

152NEED TO FIND FOR THE AUDIENCE THAT WILL READING IT TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE THE LANGUAGE BEING UTILIZED. BUT I THINK IF ANY GENERAL CITIZEN LIKE PICKED UP A DOCUMENT LIKE THIS AND SAW THE AMOUNT OF RED LINING THE BIG AT THE FIRST QUESTION WE HAVE IS LIKE WHERE DOES THE WORD DIVERSITY GO AND WHY IS IT CROSSED OUT WHERE IN THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT I'VE READ AND ETHICS WHICH I'VE READ SAYS THAT WE CANNOT SAY THE WORD DIVERSITY RIGHT I'M ASKING YOU . ASKING YOU I BELIEVE THE DIRECTION YOU WERE TO LOOK AT CERTAIN WORDS ON THERE BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY YOUR APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION TOLD US TO LOOK AT WORDS LIKE DIVERSION DIVERSITY AND ISSUES ON THERE. WHAT WE WERE READING FROM THE DEAR COLLEAGUES LETTER WHICH I AGREE IS NOT COMPLETELY CLEAR WITH

153THE FAKE NEWS WAS THAT WORDS DIVERSITY THE OTHER ISSUES WERE POTENTIALLY GOING TO BE ISSUES THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE LOOKING AT. SO WHEN YOU TOLD TO AND THE RESOLUTION TO TAKE THE RESOLUTION TERMS AND LOOK AT THESE POLICIES AND STRATEGIC PLANS, WE TRIED TO REMOVE THOSE THINGS WHICH WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BE WITH WHAT THE FEDERAL AUDIENCE WAS I DON'T SEE ON THE RESOLUTION WHERE YOU SHOULD TAKE OUT THE WORD DIVERSITY BUT I THINK JUST READING THAT FIRST SENTENCE. I MEAN I THINK DOESN'T SIT TO I MEAN MAJORITY OF THE FOLKS THAT HAVE SHOWN UP AND SPOKE THE CONSTITUENTS IN DISTRICT SEVEN I MEAN THE DEPARTMENT THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT EDUCATE BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS DIVERSITY WITHIN YOU KNOW, ON THEIR WEBSITE IN THE VISION WHERE IT SAYS THE VISION EDUCATION AND

154SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION AND COOPERATION WITH OUR PARTNERS TO CREATE AN EXCELLENT STATEWIDE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, THE RIGHT STRENGTH FROM OUR DIVERSITY AND SO ON AND I THINK THAT THESE WORDS MATTER. I THINK HEARING FROM OUR SPEAKERS WHO SHOWED UP TO OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WORDS DO MATTER AND IT'S DISHEARTENING TO SEE KIND OF WHAT YOU KNOW FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE JUST SOMEONE DOING A FIND AND REPLACE ON THIS TERM DIVERSITY BECAUSE I THINK IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT WE HAVE SO MANY FOLKS FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES, DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, DIFFERENT RELIGIONS DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND IT'S NOT ABOUT PUTTING PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT BUCKETS AND SAYING AND WHATNOT AND IN THOSE THINGS IT'S MORE ABOUT HOW DO WE VALUE AND HONOR ALL THE EXPERIENCES THAT SHOW TO OUR FRONT DOOR AND TO JUST THE COMPLETE GENTRIFICATION OF THAT WORD

155REMOVED FROM POLICY JUST PERPLEXES MEAN IT REALLY DOES PERPLEXED ME THAT THIS WORD GAINED SO MUCH NEGATIVE CONNOTATION TO SO MANY FOLKS. YOU KNOW, I'VE WORKED IN SCHOLAR RESEARCHED, WORKED IN EQUITY BASED PROGRAMS FOR 15 SOME YEARS WORKING TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD AND NOWHERE IN THE ACADEMIC RESEARCH DO I SEE THINGS COME UP THE TALK ABOUT EQUITY SOCIALISM EQUITY A QUALITY OF OUTCOME. IT'S ALL ABOUT HOW WE GIVE PEOPLE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO SUCCEED AND THRIVE AND I JUST WONDER HOW WE'VE LOST OUR WAY WITH HOW THIS TERM EQUITY HAS BECOME A BAND WORD HIS 20 YEARS AGO IT WASN'T A BAD WORD IN FACT LET ME READ YOU READ YOU SOME POLICY FROM TONY TWO YEARS AGO THIS SUB PAR. THIS IS SOME EXECUTIVE POLICY THERE'S SOME PART MAYBE CITED AS THE

156WOMEN'S THE WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL EQUITY ACT OF 2001 AND THEN IT GOES ON TO LIST FINDINGS ABOUT WOMEN'S EDUCATION. YOU KNOW, IT TALKS ABOUT SEXUAL TALKS ABOUT TALKS ABOUT REPRESENTATION AND CLASS CLASSROOM TEXTBOOKS TALKING ABOUT HOW WOMEN DO NOT TAKE AS MANY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE HORSES AS WE HEARD EARLIER ABOUT WOMEN AND STEM THIS CONCEPT OF EQUITY HAS BEEN AN EDUCATION FOR TWENTY THIRTY 40 SOME YEARS IT'S NOT IT'S NOT A BRAND NEW CONCEPT GEORGE BUSH PUT IT IN NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND WHICH WE ALL I HAVE MY OWN THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT POLICY BUT THE FACT THAT EQUITY SHOWS UP IN THAT POLICY SHOWS THAT THIS IS A NONPARTIZAN THING WE ALL BELIEVE THAT KIDS SHOULD HAVE THE TOOLS TO SUCCEED AND SORT OF SEE THIS DISMANTLING OF THIS POLICY I UNDERSTAND WHY THE COMMUNITY IS

157FRUSTRATED I UNDERSTAND WHEN WE REMOVE WORDS THOSE WORDS MATTER TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW IF YOU INCLUDE YOU INCLUDE JUST A SENTENCE ON THE JOB DESCRIPTION THAT SAYS WE ENCOURAGE APPLICANT APPLICANTS FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS ALL DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS TO APPLY YOU, YOU WILL SEE AN INCREASE OF APPLICANTS FROM THOSE BACKGROUNDS THAT'S BACKED BY RESEARCH IS BACKED BY THAT AND . AND I THINK THAT THESE THIS POLICY THAT WE NEEDED TO SURVIVE. NO, WE'RE NOT LEGALLY OBLIGATED BUT WE NEEDED TO THRIVE BECAUSE WHAT IT DOES IS IT SHOWS OUR STUDENTS THAT THEY MATTER THAT THEY'RE NEVER THEIR NARRATIVES MATTER AND SO MY CHALLENGE TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE IS DON'T ACCEPT THESE RED LINES I KNOW THAT WE'RE GIVEN GUIDANCE FROM THE EXECUTIVE ORDER FROM FAKE NEWS WHICH I MEAN THE OF VAGUENESS THOSE POLICIES AS JUDGES THAT

158IS CONCERNS ME BUT . BUT I KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN SOME DIRECTION AND ORDERS BUT I THINK THAT THIS IS A COMPLETE OVERSTEP OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY WAS SAID AND I THINK THAT I REALLY WANT TO SHOW THAT THESE THINGS DO MATTER TO OUR KIDS, TO OUR COMMUNITIES, TO THE FOLKS WE REPRESENT WE HEAR IT FROM THE STAFF WHEN AND THEY ARE FROM OUR OUR PARENTS FROM OUR CITIZENS WHEN THEY SHOW UP AND I AND I ENCOURAGE YOU JUST TO LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES AND YOU DON'T COMPLETELY RED LINE ALL THIS STUFF THE WORD DIVERSITY IS OK THE WORD INCLUSION IS OK AND THE WORD EQUITY IS OK. THESE ARE NOT NEW CONCEPTS CONCEPTS THAT SHOWN UP IN EDUCATION POLICY FOR DECADES SO IT WAS DISHEARTENING. IT WAS SAD TO SEE THIS AMOUNT OF

159>> CHANGE IS BEING MADE THE REALM OF WHAT WE HEARD LIKE OURS WHEN IT TOOK MONTHS TO BUILD SO THOSE ARE SOME MY THOUGHTS I'VE THOUGHTS. I'VE ALSO EMAILS MY THOUGHTS TO CHAIR AS WELL SO. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE. VICE CHAIR WEEMES AND YES I JUST WANT TO CLEAR UP SOME FALSE STATEMENTS THAT WERE MADE THE POLICY COMMITTEE HAS MET SEVERAL TIMES AND WE HAVE ALWAYS FOLLOWED THE SAME PROCESS WE MET JANUARY TWENTY SECOND FEBRUARY 19TH, MARCH 19TH TWENTY APRIL TWENTY THIRD THE SAME PROCESS WHEN A POLICY COMES FORWARD OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT MRS. 180 RED LINES IT SOMETIMES SHE THINKS THE POLICIES FINE SHE DOESN'T TOUCH IT. IT'S GIVEN TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE DURING THE COMMITTEE MEETING WE DISCUSS IT. THAT'S WHEN WE CAN MAKE CHANGES. WE CAN LEAVE IT AS IS WE

160CAN NOT DO ANYTHING WITH IT. WE CAN AT IT WE CAN TAKE AWAY BUT IT STARTS WITH MRS LEONETTI SOMETIMES SHE AS DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT HEADS FOR THEIR INPUT IF IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO THOSE DEPARTMENTS IS THE SAME PROCESS THAT WE HAVE FOLLOWED SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE FOR FOR MEETINGS. I CONTACTED THE LAST TWO POLICY REVIEW CHAIR UNDER DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP UNDER DIFFERENT SCHOOL IS THE EXACT SAME POLICY THAT WAS FOLLOWED LAST YEAR IT'S THE EXACT SAME POLICY THAT FOLLOWED THE YEAR BEFORE SO. SO THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRS THREE DIFFERENT POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE CHAIRS HAVE FOLLOWED THE SAME POLICY. SO I DO TAKE ISSUE WITH PEOPLE SAYING THAT THIS WAS NOT FOLLOWED CORRECTLY BECAUSE IT WAS MUSLIM THAT HE HAD A TASK, A DIFFICULT TASK TO DO AND SHE WAS FOLLOWING THE DIRECTION GIVEN I

161DID. I DID NOT COME DOWN HERE I DID NOT COME DOWN HERE BECAUSE I WAS ON SPRING BREAK. I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MALNATI THE DAY BEFORE OUR POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE. SO AGAIN THE PROCESS HAS BEEN THE SAME SINCE WE'VE HAD A POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE. SOMETIMES WE DECIDE TO SAY WHAT WE'VE GOT TOO MANY QUESTIONS ON THIS POLICY. WE'VE GOT THE THREE OF US WHO ON THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE WANT TO BRING SOMEBODY AND AND SO WE ACTUALLY VOTE TO BRING IT BACK THIS TIME THIS POLICY WAS VOTED THREE ZERO TO BRING FORWARD INTO IN ONE OF THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. OBVIOUSLY SOME MAY BRING IT FORWARD BECAUSE THEY JUST WANT THE WHOLE SCHOOL BOARD TO LIKE IS ONE THAT HE SAID IT'S IN OUR HANDS SO WE'RE FINE WITH SOME MAY WANT

162CHANGES BUT DURING THAT COMMITTEE MEETING IS WHEN WE DISCUSS WE CHANGE. WE AGREE WE DISAGREE WE EITHER ASK FOR MORE INFORMATION WE ASK IT TO COME BACK AND AND THIS COMMITTEE THE THREE OF US VOTED TO BRING FORWARD IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE BOARD BUT I JUST AGAIN JUST AGAIN WANT TO STRESS THAT THE PROCESS HAS BEEN FOLLOWED EVERY EVERY PASSING MEETING THAT WE'VE HAD THIS YEAR AND FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS THAT I KNOW OF I DIDN'T GO BACK FURTHER THAN THAT. BUT I ASSUME ABOUT THE PROCESS HAS BEEN FOLLOWED ALONG. THANK YOU, MISS MELNIK SO ACTUALLY THE DIRECTION WAS GIVEN TO THE SUPERINTENDENT THE SUPERINTENDENT IF, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, DID NOT WANT TO TOUCH THIS POLICY AND I DON'T BLAME THEM THAT'S HOW THIS HAS ALREADY GOT THIS POLICY ANALYSIS WE'VE GOT

163TO ADD TO POLICY AND WHY IT WAS BROUGHT REDLINED TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE. THERE WERE PROBABLY FIVE PEOPLE SITTING UP HERE TONIGHT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS BROUGHT BACK TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE AND DISCUSSED AGAIN AND BROUGHT FORWARD THIS THIS THIS POLICY WAS BROUGHT FORWARD BECAUSE OF THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON MY QUESTION TO YOU IS ALREADY POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE HONESTLY IS IF THE EXECUTIVE WATER IS DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL, HOW DO WE UNDO IT'S BECAUSE WE OWE IT TO THE PUBLIC TO UNDO SOMETHING THAT WAS DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL MY FEAR IS THAT THE SIX PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD WILL JUST VOTE TO LEAVE IT AS IS EVEN EVEN IF THE ORIGINAL REASON FOR EVEN BEING HERE WAS DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND THAT'S MY WORRY IS FOR OUR PUBLIC OR PUBLIC YOU ASK HOW MANY IN

164ROW AND HAS GIVEN YOU THEIR OPINION AND IT'S BEING A IGNORED AT LEAST THEY DESERVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE GO BACK AND AND AND AND REALLY TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THIS BASED ON THE COMMENTS OUR PEOPLE HAVE MADE ALL OF OUR DISTRICTS HAVE SPOKEN THEY HAVE AND AND AND THEY DESERVE TO YOU HEARD A LOT ALL I'M ASKING MARTIN MISS FELTON, THANK YOU. CHAIR BROWN TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY AS ONE OF THE OFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO MY AND I THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING OR QUESTIONING THE PROCESS HOW MANY TIMES THE POLICY THE PRC HAS MET I FEEL PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS EQUITY POLICY BECAUSE FIVE FOUR BECAUSE HE WAS PUT FORWARD IT WAS A BIG GREAT THING FOR NOT ONLY THE

165SCHOOL BOARD BEFORE FOR THE STAFF AND STUDENTS THAT KNEW THAT WE WERE PUTTING IN PLACE AND PAST THE FIVE FOUR SEMI HAS BECOME THIS BIG SHINY OBJECT THAT THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER HAS TARGETED AND FROM WHAT MY COLLEAGUES ARE SAYING YOU KNOW, WHEN IT'S QUESTIONED WHEN THE COMMUNITY COME FORTH HAD QUESTIONED ABOUT IT, I THINK IT IS UP TO US TO DECIDE THAT WE TAKE BACK WHEN I GOT BACK TO THE POLICY METING AFTER BEING ABSENT FOR COUPLE OF WEEKS AND WHEN I SAW THIS POLICY AND HOW IT WAS RED LINE SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES USE THAT FOR A MORE POLITICAL WAY OF PUTTING RED LINE I WAITED AND ASK THIS HAS THIS HAS BEEN TOTALLY CUT AND I TRY TO GO THROUGH THAT POLICY AND ASK QUESTIONS WHY WAS THIS REMOVED? WHY WAS THIS

166REMOVED I DO WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE MR MARK BONESTEEL FOR SAYING LET'S WITH THIS UNTIL THIS HEALTH AND GET BACK FROM HER AGREEMENT AND DO IT THEN THAT WASN'T EVEN TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION AT ALL BUT WHEN I GOT BACK TO SEE THIS POLICY WHICH HAD BEEN PUT TOGETHER SO DILIGENT FOR MONTHS FELT LIKE A YEAR THAT WE PUT IS A GUEST STRATEGICALLY INCLUDE EVERYONE ON STAFF AND STUDENT ENTIRE ORGANIZATION WE WERE ONE ON ONE OF DIVISIONS IN THIS AREA AND THE SEVEN FIVE SEVEN HAVE PUT HAD PUT THAT MUCH EFFORT AND PUT INTO A EDUCATIONAL EQUITY POLICY AND WE GOT COMMENDED BY OTHER DIVISION AND WHAT THEY DID THEY LOOKED AT OUR POLICY CUT AND PASTE AND MADE THEIR POLICY FROM OURS BECAUSE IT WAS SO JUST TO PUT TOGETHER

167IT WAS A STRATEGY WE WORKED ON SO IF WE AS A BOARD AND IF WE WANT TO FOLLOW DUE PROCESS AND IF ANY ANY MORAL COMPASS RESIDE >> IN US WE SHOULD HEAR THE PUBLIC AND TAKE IT BACK AND DO SOME OTHER WORK TO IT AS I REMEMBER BEING HONEST BOARD FOR EIGHT YEARS I WAS BORN HERE AND SOME OF OUR COLLEAGUES WOULD LOOK AT HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME TO SPEAK HOW MANY EMAILS WE GOT AND THEY WILL USE THAT PERCENTAGE AS TO HOW THEY WOULD MAKE THE DECISION WITH WHETHER OR NOT TO GO BACK AND DO SOMETHING TO ANYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING THAT NOW WE'RE NOT USING THAT PROCESS IT IS WHAT IT IS. BUT IF YOU MORE COMPASS RESIDE IN YOU ANYWHERE THE PUBLIC ASKING YOU TO GO BACK

168REVISIT I MEAN IT IS IT WAS IT WAS SO WEIRD. I JUST SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW THE CITY WHAT YOU WOULD NOT TAKE THAT. IT WOULDN'T EVEN TAKE IT TAKE TOO MUCH TIME FOR ME TO GO THROUGH IT. SO LET'S TAKE IT TO THE BOARD. LET'S TAKE IT TO PUBLIC NEVERTHELESS THIS WAY AND SEE WHAT THEY SAY AND THEN WE SAY AND THEN WE MAKE A DECISION THAT THE PUBLIC HAS SPOKEN SEVERAL NIGHTS AND WE ARE STILL HERE SAYING IT'S NOT GOING BACK LIKE THAT THE GREENS SAY WE'RE NOT ASKING WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU TO PUT BACK ANYTHING THAT YOU'VE TAKEN DOWN BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT BUT WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO USE YOUR MORAL COMPASS FOR YOUR STUDENTS THAT HAS COME BEFORE YOU THAT I'VE SPOKEN THAT THEY USE THIS PARTICULAR POLICY AS A

169SYMBOL OF BEING SAFE, INVESTED, INVOLVED, BEING SEEN NOT MAKING THIS UP IS FROM CONVERSATIONS HERE WITH THEM EVEN IN DR ROBERTSON SUPERVISED SUPER TEN ADVISORY BOARD STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER OUR DIVISION WHEN MET WITH THEM AND THIS WAS THE MAIN TOPIC THAT TALK ABOUT THIS AND NOW WHAT IF YOU CHANGE THIS POLICY MISSPELLED AND THEY SAID THIS FIVE FOUR POLICY THIS YEAR STUDENT IF YOU CHANGE ITS POLICY THEN WHAT ELSE WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU TOUCH WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU SO MOVE SO YOU KNOW, FOR EVERY CHANGE THERE'S ANOTHER CHANGE. SO I ASK YOU IF YOU'RE MORE COMPLEX IS THERE AND YOU RECOGNIZE YOUR PEOPLE AND U.S. ESPECIALLY A STUDENT WHO STUDENT WHO THIS WILL IMPACT THEM MORE THAN ANYONE LET US TAKE THIS POLICY BACK AND WE DO SO WHAT WE'VE DONE YET DISMANTLE THE

170VERY CORE WHAT YOU'RE STUDENTS BELIEVE IN. PLEASE HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE DURING INFORMATION SECTION OF OUR MEETING, MR CUMMINGS SO I GUESS I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT EXACTLY DO WE WANT TO GO THROUGH LIKE YOUR SAY YOU'RE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK FROM SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS I THINK LOOKING AT THIS I PROBABLY WOULD NEED MORE INFORMATION ON WHY SOME OF THESE THINGS WERE THOUGHT TO QUALIFY TO BE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER BUT SPECIFICALLY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR US IS TO GO THROUGH AND COMMENT ON EACH INDIVIDUAL LINE AND OUR THOUGHTS WHAT IT SHOULD SAY SHOULDN'T SAY WHAT IS WHAT'S THE BEST WAY OF GIVING FEEDBACK THIS IS YOUR POLICY. YOU CAN DECIDE THE WORDING IS NORMALLY THERE ARE SUGGESTIONS A SUBSTITUTE LANGUAGE MRS. FELTON ASKED FOR A CHANGE ONE RED LINE THINGS THE PRC THAT

171WAS THE ONLY REQUEST OF THE PRC TO CHANGE WE ARE WE ON RENDERED WHAT SHE DONE RED LINE NORMALLY COME BACK WITH A SUBSTITUTE FOR SPECIFIC LINES I DID SEE YOUR COMMENTS MR CUMMINGS THAT YOU PRESENTED AND I WAS LOOKING AT SOME OF THEM THE OTHER NIGHT. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT THE MORE QUESTIONS ON THEM. THOSE ARE SOMETHING THE WHOLE BOARD WOULD LOOK AT OR POLICY BUT OTHERWISE NORMALLY YOU WOULD COME BACK WITH OTHER LANGUAGE WE'VE DONE THAT MANY TIMES WE FOR THE LANGUAGE YOU'VE SUGGESTED IF WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT WENT BACK TO PAST NORMALLY YOU WOULD COME BACK WITH THE RECOMMENDATION AND SAY I THIS RECOMMENDATION I DON'T LIKE THIS RECOMMENDATION I WANT TO BE WRITTEN TO REWRITTEN IN THIS WAY. THAT'S NORMA WHAT HAPPENS BUT IT'S NOW WITH YOU AT YOUR

172POLICY YOU CAN REWRITE THE WAY YOU WANT IT. OK, SO I WILL BE PROVIDING SOME OF MY WRITTEN FEEDBACK POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE BEFORE WHEN'S THE NEXT TIME POINT OF INFORMATION ALL MEET NEXT TO TWENTY FIRST TWENTY FIRST ONE NINE O'CLOCK. SO I'M NOT SURE I REMEMBER WHAT TWO O'CLOCK. ALL RIGHT THAT'S ALL. SO I'VE HEARD FIVE OF MY COLLEAGUES WHEN I'M GIVING THIS BACK TO POLICY COMMITTEE WHAT I HAVE NOT HEARD IS A MOTION ON THAT AND SO I JUST WANT TO THROW OUT THERE THAT'S WHY THAT'S WHY I HAVEN'T INTERRUPTED THOSE THOUGHTS THOUGH IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT THE BOARDS TO CONSIDER DOING WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON A MOTION FOR THAT. SO MISS MALNIK, SOMNOPHILIA. Q YOU WERE IN THE QUEUE IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID? I'M NOT IN

173THE QUEUE TO SPEAK BUT IF YOU NEED ME TO MAKE OH I THOUGHT THAT YOU ARE IN THE QUEUE I'M SORRY DR. GREEN I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION IS THIS THE APPROPRIATE TIME I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE TAKE THAT FIVE POLICY DASH FIVE DASH FOR BE RETURNED TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER REVISIONS AND THAT IT OFF OF THE ACTION AGENDA FOR MAY TWENTY SEVEN. IS THERE A SECOND SECONDED BY MISS ROGERS SO WE'RE GOING TO GIVE CLARKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER THAT IN AND MADAM CHAIR YEAH I I THOUGHT IF THERE WERE ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT WANTED IT THAT THE CHAIR OF THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE COULD JUST ACCEPT THAT AND WE CAN MOVE ON . I DON'T KNOW THAT WE NEED A FULL VOTE FOR THAT. IT'S

174ALWAYS BEEN KIND OF A COURTESY THAT HAVE THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR THAT IT JUST GOES BACK DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT MUSLIMS I'M IN EITHER WAY WE CAN VOTE OR IF THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WANTED IT TO BE SENT BACK BUT I MEAN IT'S USUALLY WHEN THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTES ON WAS ON IT WANTED TO BE SENT BACK I'LL BE WILLING TO LOOK I WILL DEFINITELY BE WILLING TO LOOK AT THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WANT TO SEE ABOUT OK >>, SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND I WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT AND VOTE ON THIS BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES ON THE BOARD THAT NO CHANGE WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE NO MATTER WHAT. AND SO YOU KNOW THIS WOULD GO BACK TO PASSEY OVER AND

175OVER AND OVER AGAIN WE'VE SEEN IT BEFORE SOMETIMES IT'S JUST BE A THE PROCESS MANY BOARD MEMBERS HAVE BROUGHT SUBSTITUTE MOTIONS AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS PREVIOUSLY THAT'S STILL ALLOWED THAT'S WELCOMED. THAT'S OCCURRED ALMOST EVERY SINGLE MEETING THAT WE'VE HAD THIS YEAR. SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO SPEAK TO THE MOTION TO MOVE IT BACK TO POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE, MR BONES. BUT SOME MY QUESTION IS IF WE DO VOTE TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE, HOW IS THAT GO INTO EFFECT OR VOTE IN ACTION TONIGHT ON THE WHAT WOULD THAT AFFECT IT AT ALL? MASCULINITY HE'S ASKING IN REFERENCE TO THE THE RESOLUTION OF LAST NIGHT ON THERE RIGHT NOW WHICH RESOLUTION REQUIRES THAT WE HAD TO THE PRC NEEDED TO BRING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD I BELIEVE MAY 17TH. SO YOU'VE MET THAT REQUIREMENT

176FOR THE POLICY YOU BROUGHT THE RECOMMENDATIONS ON THEIR STRATEGIC PLAN YOU HAD I THINK THIRTY FOUR SO YOU HAD TO BRING C NEEDED TO BRING THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO YOU AND YOU'VE MET AT THAT TIME PERIOD SO THAT'S ALL THE POLICY REQUIRED OVERSIGHT THE RESOLUTION REQUIRED SO IF WE DID BRING IT BACK, WILL WE VOTE ON IT TONIGHT? THE THE RESOLUTION I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT AFFECTS THE RESOLUTION YOU ARE CURRENTLY IN COMPLIANCE. YOU HAVE WHAT YOU BOUGHT ONE ROUND OF RECOMMENDATION THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO BRING YOUR FINAL RECOMMENDATION JUST SAID YOU HAD YOU HAD TO BRING RECOMMENDATIONS ON TO HOW TO BRING FIVE FOUR INTO COMPLIANCE YOU'VE MET THAT PORTION OF RESOLUTION OK BUT I, BUT I WAS JUST THINKING I MEAN EVERY VOTE ON IT THE THE RESOLUTION AND AND IT DOESN'T GO THROUGH

177WOULD THERE BE ANY POINT AND BRINGING THAT BACK TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO >> IF THE RESOLUTION AND IF YOU'RE WE ON THE RESOLUTION TO PAUSE UNDER THE RESOLUTION TO PAUSE THE REMAINING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION IF THAT IF YOU PAUSE IT THEN YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING FURTHER IF DOESN'T GO THROUGH THAN THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION REMAINS IN PLACE CURRENTLY AS FAR AS POLICY FIVE FOUR MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE RESOLUTION FOUR FIVE FOUR ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER SPEAKERS ON THE MOTION OK SO DR. SO DR. GREEN, WOULD YOU PLEASE RESTATE OR MOTION BEFORE WE VOTE? YES DEMOTION ON MOTION ON THE FLOOR AGAIN IS TO RETURN POLICY FIVE DASH FOR BACK TO THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW OF THE CURRENT REVISION AND TO TAKE

178IT OFF THE ACTION AGENDA FOR MAY TWENTY SEVEN. OK AND SO THE VOTING BOARD IS OPEN ON THAT MOTION MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE FIVE EYES AND SIX SO THAT MOTION DID NOT PASS. OK MOVING I'LL GO ON TO POLICY FIVE TEN WHICH IS ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO POLICY FIVE 10 OR 20 QUESTIONS ABOUT POLICY FIVE TEN REQUIREMENTS AND NO QUESTIONS ON POLICY TONIGHT WE'LL LOOK AT THE LAST POLICY WHICH IS POLICY SIX SEVENTY THREE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT AND THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO POLICY SEVEN DAY THREE TESTING AN ASSESSMENT OF ANY QUESTIONS NO QUESTIONS MADAM CHAIR THAT IS THE END OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR THIS MONTH MASCULINITY AND NOW WE WELCOME DR ALI SAVANNAKHET EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PLANNING INNOVATION ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE COMPASS A TWENTY TWENTY

179FIVE AND TWENTY THIRTY STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK. GOOD EVENING CHAIRWOMAN BROWN VICE CHAIRWOMAN WEEMS MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND DR ROBERTSON THIS PRESENTATION OUTLINES THE ACTIONS TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO THE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION FROM APRIL 8TH SPECIFIC TO OUR CURRENT AND FUTURE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK ENCOMPASS TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AND COMPASS TO TWENTY THIRTY FIRST I WANT TO SHARE THE SPECIFIC STEPS WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN TO COMPLY WITH THE RESOLUTION. THESE INCLUDE MOVING VISUAL AND ONLINE REFERENCES TO CONFESS COMPASS TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE INCLUDING POSTERS THE VIDEO AND RELATED WEBSITE CONTENT ACCESS TO CONFESS TO 20 30 WAS ALSO REMOVED WHILE WE REVIEWED FRAMEWORKS CAREFULLY AGAINST THE GUIDANCE PROVIDED FROM THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD THIS SLIDE PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE RESOLUTION OUR FOCUS

180WAS ON IDENTIFYING LANGUAGE AND COMPONENTS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY CONFLICT WITH A NEW FEDERAL GUIDANCE PARTICULARLY UNDER TITLE SIX. WE APPROACH THIS WITH THE INTENTION OF MAINTAINING THE INTEGRITY OF OUR WORK WHILE ALIGNING WITH COMPLIANCE EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE COMPASS TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE WILL SUNSET IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS. THE PROPOSED REVISIONS FOCUS ON MINIMIZING RISK RATHER THAN RESTRUCTURING THE FULL FRAMEWORK IN PARTICULAR WE TOOK CARE TO ALIGN WITH THE RESOLUTIONS DIRECTIVE TO SUSPEND THE DIVISIONS EQUITY PLAN TO PROVIDE CONTEXT THE STRATEGIES FROM DIVISIONS EQUITY PLAN WERE PREVIOUSLY EMBEDDED INTO OUR FRAMEWORK COMPASS TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AS A RESULT THOSE STRATEGIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED RATHER THAN REVISED IN THE UPDATED VERSION YOU'LL SEE TODAY THE FOLLOWING SLIDES DISPLAY SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISONS BETWEEN ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE WORDING IN THE COMPASS TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE FRAMEWORK

181AND THE PROPOSED PROVISIONS REVISED VERSION THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION TEXT HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW REPRESENTS TEXT TO BE REMOVED AND TEXT HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN REPRESENTS TEXT TO BE ADDED FOR GO ON THE PROPOSED MODIFICATION IS TO REMOVE THE EQUITY EMPHASIS AND THE EQUITY STRATEGIES ORIGINALLY FROM THE EQUITY PLAN AS INDICATED IN THE YELLOW HIGHLIGHT FOUR GOAL TO THE PROPOSED CHANGES ARE TO REMOVE THE EQUITY EMPHASIS AND THE EQUITY STRATEGY IS ORIGINALLY FROM THE EQUITY PLAN AS INDICATED BY THE YELLOW HIGHLIGHT FOR GOLD THREE THE PROPOSED MODIFICATION IS TO REMOVE THE EQUITY EMPHASIS IN EQUITY STRATEGIES FROM THE EQUITY PLAN AS INDICATED BY THE TEXT HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW FOR GOAL FOR THE PROPOSED MODIFICATION TO REMOVE THE WORD DIVERSIFIED FROM THE GOAL TITLE AND STATEMENT REMOVE THE EQUITY EMPHASIS AND REMOVE THE EQUITY STRATEGIES FROM THE EQUITY PLAN

182HAS INDICATED WITH THE YELLOW HIGHLIGHTS FOR GOLD FIVE ON MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE PARTNERSHIPS THE PROPOSED MODIFICATION IS TO REMOVE THE EQUITY EMPHASIS THE REFERENCE TO MEASURING EQUITY WITH RESPECT TO PARTNERSHIPS AND THE TWO EQUITY STRATEGIES FROM THE EQUITY PLAN AS INDICATED BY THE YELLOW HIGHLIGHTS FOR >> THE FINAL GO AREA ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY. THE PROPOSED REVISIONS INCLUDE REMOVING THE EQUITY EMPHASIZE THE WORD EQUITABLY FROM STRATEGY ONE THE THREE EQUITY STRATEGIST FROM THE EQUITY PLAN AND THE REFERENCE EQUITY AUDITS AS INDICATED BY THE OTHER HIGHLIGHTS UNLIKE TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TO 20 30 IS STILL IN THE EARLY IMPLEMENTAL STAGE TO GUIDE THIS REVIEW THE FEDERAL DOCUMENTS THE RESOLUTION WERE TRANSLATED INTO A SET OF GUIDING QUESTIONS AND THESE QUESTIONS WERE USED TO EVALUATE WHETHER ANY GOAL STRATEGY OR PROGRAM WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK IMPLIED RACE BASED

183TREATMENT PRIORITIZE SPECIFIC GROUPS OR USE TERMINOLOGY SPECIFICALLY REFERENCED IN ITEM FOR OF THE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION SUCH AS EQUITY EQUITY EMPHASIS DIVERSIFIED WORK FORCE OR RACIAL EMPHASIS THESE QUESTIONS WERE APPLIED ACROSS THE COMPOSITION 30 FRAMEWORK I WILL GIVE YOU JUST A MOMENT TO REVIEW THE QUESTIONS FOR GORE GOAL ONE THE PROPOSED MODIFICATION IS TO ELIMINATE THE STAND ALONE LABEL OF EQUITY BUT RETAIN THE SUBSTANCE BY INCORPORATING THOSE ITEMS AS STRATEGIES UNDERGO ONE THESE ACTIONS WERE ALWAYS DESIGNED AS SYSTEM LEVEL SUPPORTS FOR ALL STUDENTS AND THIS ORGANIZATION REFLECTS THAT THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE KEY NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS FROM GOAL ONE FOR GOAL THE PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS INCLUDE REMOVING THE LABEL EQUITY EMBASSIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION HOWEVER A KEY ELEMENT THAT SUPPORT THAT SUPPORTS STUDENT CONNECTION AND ENGAGEMENT IS RECOMMENDED TO BE

184RETAINED AS A STRATEGY SPECIFICALLY INCREASING ACCESS TO MENTORS, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES THESE EFFORTS REFLECT LONGSTANDING STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE STUDENT LONGING AND SUCCESS AND THEY APPLY TO ALL STUDENTS REGARDLESS OF RACE IN ADDITION THE PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS DO NOT CARRY FORWARD THE PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL EMPHASIZE THAT REFERENCED MONITORING DATA AND ADDRESSING DISPARITIES WHILE DATA REMAINS ESSENTIAL TO OUR OVERALL IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS THAT SPECIFIC LANGUAGE COULD BE MISINTERPRETED BY SOME AS IMPLYING RACE BASED ANALYSIS OR ACTION TO ENSURE CLIMATE WITH CURRENT GUIDANCE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE RESOLUTION. THE PROPOSAL IS TO REMOVE THAT FREEZING THE FINAL CHANGE WAS TO REPLACE THE WORD DIVERSE WITH THE PHRASE A WIDE RANGE IN STRATEGY THREE THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE KEY NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS FOR GOAL TO IN REVISING THE STAFFING GOAL THE PROPOSED PROPOSED

185MODIFICATIONS INCLUDE REMOVING THE WORD DIVERSE FROM A PHRASE DESCRIBING OUR WORKFORCE AS WELL AS THE EQUITY EMPHASIS LABEL THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE ABOUT ALIGNING STAFF DEMOGRAPHICS WITH STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS WHILE WE VALUE HAVING A WORKFORCE THAT REFLECTS THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE THAT PARTICULAR PHRASING COULD BE MISINTERPRETED AS PROMOTING GRAY SPACE HIRING PRIORITIES AT THE SAME TIME WE PRESERVED OUR COMMITMENT IS SUPPORTING ALL LEARNERS BY PROPOSING A MODIFICATION THAT ADOPTED ANOTHER ELEMENT OF THE ORIGINAL EQUITY EMPHASIS AND LISTED AS A STRATEGY FOCUSED ON ENSURING STAFF HAVE THE SKILLS NEEDED TO SUPPORT A WIDE RANGE LEARNERS THIS CHANGE MAINTAINS CHANGE MAINTAINS THE ORIGINAL INTENT WHILE REDUCING OF RISK FOR MISINTERPRETATION. THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED CHANGES THAT KEY NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS FOR GOAL THREE FOUR FOR THE PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO REMOVE MODIFICATIONS ARE TO REMOVE THE LABEL EQUITY EMPHASIS IN KEEPING

186WITH THE RESOLUTION BUT PRESERVE THE UNDERLYING ACTIONS AND STRATEGIES BECAUSE SUPPORTING STUDENT NEEDS IMPROVING ACCESS AND REMOVING BARRIERS ACCORDING TO OUR MISSION REGARDLESS OF TERMINOLOGY. THE WORD DIVERSE WAS AGAIN REPLACED WITH A PHRASE A WIDE RANGE IN STRATEGY FIVE WHEN REFERENCING PARTNERSHIPS THIS INFORMATION FOR GOAL FOR DID NOT PUT ON A SINGLE SLIDE THIS SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THAT THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE KEY NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS FOR THIS GOAL AREA THE PROPOSED RECOMMENDATIONS TO GO FIVE OR TO REMOVE THE WORD EQUITABLE FROM THE GOAL STATEMENT AS WELL AS THE STAND ALONE OF EQUITY EMPHASIS BUT RETAIN THE SUBSTANCE OF THE ITEM AND INCORPORATED AS STRATEGY WITH ONE WORD CHANGE THE RECOMMENDATION THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO REPLACE THE EQUITABLE WITH THE WORD EFFECTIVE. THIS CHANGE PRESERVES THE INTENT OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT WHICH WAS ABOUT ENSURING

187CONSISTENCY, FAIRNESS AND CLARITY IN HOW RESOURCES ARE USED WHILE REDUCING THE RISK THAT THE TERM EQUITABLE COULD BE MISINTERPRETED IS REFERENCING RACE BASED PRACTICES OUR GOAL REMAINS TO SUPPORT ALL SCHOOLS THROUGH CLEAR WELL MANAGED PROCESSES THAT SERVES STUDENTS AND STAFF EFFECTIVELY THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE KEY NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS FOR ALL OF THE FINAL RECOMMENDATION IS REMOVAL OF THE DIVISIONS DIVISION DIVISIONS DEFINITION EQUITY FROM THE KEY TERM SECTION OF THE DOCUMENT AS THE WORD EQUITY WOULD NO LONGER APPEAR IN THE FRAMEWORK AS WE PREPARE FOR WHAT COMES NEXT. THERE ARE TWO KEY STEPS WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT FOR THE BOARD FIRST WE WILL RETURN WILL RETURN TO THE MAY TWENTY SEVEN TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING WHERE WE WILL ASK THE BOARD TO TAKE FORMAL ACTION ON THE PROPOSED CHANGES THE ACTION WILL

188COME IN TWO PARTS PART ONE IS THE ADOPTION OF REVISIONS TO OUR CURRENT STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE PART TO IS THE ADOPTION OF REVISIONS TO OUR FUTURE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK COMPOSITE TWENTY THIRTY ONCE BOTH SETS OF CHANGES ARE APPROVED WE WILL POST THE UPDATED FRAMEWORKS PUBLICLY ON SCHOOLS COME BY THE END OF THAT WEEK NO LATER THAN MAY 30TH. TWENTY TWENTY FIVE IN RESPONDING TO THE RESOLUTION WE HAVE APPROACHED IS WORK WITH THOUGHTFULNESS AND CARE SEEKING TO HONOR THE DIRECTION PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD THROUGH THE ADOPTED A RESOLUTION MAINTAINING OUR CORE COMMITMENT TO ENSURING THAT ALL STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY TO SUCCEED I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY YOU MAY HAVE AT THIS TIME. MISS ROGERS FIRST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING UP HERE

189AND FOR PRESENTING I KNOW THIS IS DIFFICULT IS DIFFICULT AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE THAT YOU AND YOUR STAFF HAVE DONE TO TRY AND DO WHAT HAS BEEN ASKED WHILE STILL RESPECTING AT EVERY STUDENT NEEDS TO FEEL LIKE THAT THEY PART OF THIS SCHOOL COMMUNITY MY QUESTION IS AND I JUST WANT CLARIFY WITHIN THIS DOCUMENT WHAT YOU'VE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW IS NOW IN THE DOCUMENT IN THE GREEN PART IS THAT WHAT I'M SEEING COMPOSTER 20 THIRTY FOR THE MOST PART MOST EVERYTHING COULD BE INCORPORATED AND WAS AND IN GREEN. SO WE'RE KEEPING PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR WE'RE CHANGING THE WORD DIVERSITY INTO DIVERSE BECAME A WIDE RANGE IN TWO PLACES AND THE ONLY OTHER CHANGES WHERE YOU WOULDN'T SEE SOMETHING TRANSLATED WOULD BE A PLACE MADE REFERENCE TO HAVING A WORKFORCE THAT MIRRORS OUR

190STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS SO WHAT IS THAT GOING TO BE? IT WASN'T TRANSLATED SO WE DIDN'T BECOME IT DIDN'T TRANSLATE OVER TO COMPOSTER 20 THIRTY SO WE DON'T AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING AS THOUGH WE WOULD WORK TO FORCE. NO BUT HAVING I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING I AM CONCERNED THAT WE ARE THEN NOT TRYING TO HAVE A WORK FOR TO DEVICE. TO ME A DIVERSIFIED WORKFORCE IS HEARING IMPAIRED STUDENT HAVING A TEACHER THAT'S BAD SIGN LANGUAGE THAT THEY ACCESS THE EDUCATION THAT'S DIVERSIFIED WORKFORCE. I'M CONCERNED THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE THOSE TYPE OF PRACTICES NOT AND WE NEED OUR PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND WE'RE CONTINUING THOSE TYPE OF PRACTICES SO THAT OUR STUDENTS CAN ACCESS THE EDUCATION THAT THEY NEED. LIKE AGAIN WE HAVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS STUDENTS WHO NEED A TEACHER THAT IS CERTIFIED ENGLISH LANGUAGE

191LEARNING LIKE IF IT HELPS THERE'S STILL THE STRATEGY THAT TALKS ABOUT ENSURING STAFF HAVE THE SKILLS NECESSARY TO MEET A WIDE RANGE OWNERS NEEDS THAT THAT THAT HELPS ME. THANK YOU AND SO OTHER THAN THAT AND THE ITEM THAT TALKED ABOUT MONITORING A VARIETY DATA AND AND TALKS ABOUT DISPARITIES MONITORING FOR DISPARITIES SO WE'RE STILL REQUIRED TO DO THAT THOUGH BY STILL GOING TO DO IT WE HAVE TO BECAUSE THE STATE REQUIRES US TO. YES. WE'RE STILL GOING TO MONITOR STUDENT DATA. RIGHT. OK, I'M FRANKLY I'M EMBARRASSED THAT WE HAVE TO DO THIS BUT I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR HARD WORK. THANK YOU, MISS MALNIK. I WANT TO THANK YOU YOU DID WHAT YOU WERE TOLD TO DO AND MRS. WALTERS RIGHT? IT IS EMBARRASSING AND I HOPE THAT THIS THE MAJORITY OF THIS AWARD GOES

192BACK AND READS AND REALLY LOOKS AT THIS DOCUMENT AND I REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT IT SAYS AND NOT JUST IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO MATTER IT'S FINE. READ WHAT IT SAYS IT'S VERY SPECIFIC I'M GOING THROUGH EACH ONE AND I'M HORRIFIED THAT WE'RE TAKING OUT PROVIDE A VARIETY PERSONALIZED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES TO ALL STAFF CORPORATE PROFESSIONAL GROUP AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS STRATEGY ENCOMPASS I I'M I'M JUST I'M SHOCKED AFFORDABLE EQUITABLE ACCESS THE SUPPORT STUDENTS FUTURE ASPIRATIONS SO TO ME WHAT THIS SAYS TO ME ACTUALLY IS WE'RE JUST GOING TO GET RID OF EVERYTHING. I MEAN THEIR FUTURE ASPIRATIONS DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE SHOULD ALREADY LOOKING AT DOING AWAY WITH TECHNICAL EDUCATION SUPPORT STUDENTS INTERESTED IN ENROLLING IN ADVANCE OF COURSEWORK IN PROGRAMS MAYBE MR CAMERON WAS RIGHT. MAYBE WE SHOULD GO BACK TO OLD

193LANGUAGE TEACH TO THE MIDDLE. EVERYBODY DOES BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS WE'RE TAKING OUR OFFER SUPPLEMENTARY AND EXTENDIBLE IN THE I OF THE SECONDARY LEVEL ADDRESS DISPARITIES IN ADVANCED COURSEWORK PARTICIPATION MEANING WE'RE GOING TO SEEK OUT KIDS THAT THAT WE COULD PROBABLY DO THE WORK THAT THE HIGHER LEVEL COURSEWORK THAT THEY MAY NOT FIND ON THEIR OWN BUT AS EDUCATORS WE MIGHT HELP GUIDE TO BACK AND THEY FIND SUCCESS IN AREAS THAT THEY DIDN'T THAT THEY COULD FIND. BERISTAIN, WE'RE GOING TO WIN WHAT WE'RE DOING IS REACTING WE REACTING TO AN EXECUTIVE ORDER SO QUICKLY, SO SWIFTLY AND WE ARE MAKING SUCH SWEEPING CHANGES THAT GOING TO STICK AND THIS FOR IS GOING TO BE STUCK WITH THE CHANGES THAT YOU MADE. YOU'RE GOING STOCK BE STUCK. NOBODY IS LOOKING IS THE WAY THEY'RE

194SUPPOSED TO I'M JUST GOING TO VOTE ON IT SO IT PASSES AND IT JUST STICKS BECAUSE THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING I'LL GO OUT TO MY COMMUNITY AND MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS AND WHO BOUGHT THIS OR NOBODY IS THINKING I ASK THAT YOU STOP I CAN SEE EVERYBODY READING NOW BUT PREBREATHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PREPARED FOR THIS. THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING. MISS VELTMAN MISS PANICHI THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU'VE BEEN A A FORCE THAT WITH THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AND YOU'VE SPAT ON ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU DO APPRECIATE AND YOU DO WHAT YOU YOU DID WHAT YOU TOLD TO DO THAT YOU DID WHAT YOU WHAT YOU WERE TOLD TO DO BUT WASHINGTON IN AND THE COMPASS TO 20 30 IN THE ORIGINAL LET'S GO FOR DOWN AT NUMBER FIVE YOU

195HIGHLIGHTED THAT VERSE AND I QUESTION THAT WORD BECAUSE OF THAT VERSE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE AND THEN I TALK TO RELATE TO THEY REALLY APPREC THAT WE HAVE USED THAT WORD DIVERSE AND I TAKE THAT BACK TO OUR ENTREPENEUR BUSINESS ACADEMY WHEN WOULDN'T THAT OPEN UP HOW ALL THE GROUP'S CAME IN DIVERSIFIED? WE ONLY HAS LOTS SO MANY PARTNERS TO PARTNER WITH WE HAD SO MANY TO COME OVER THREE HUNDRED WE HAD TO TURN THEM AWAY ELECTORAL CYCLE BUT IT WAS THE WORDING THAT WE USE THAT SPOKE TO THEM THAT BROUGHT THEM OUT SOME WANDERING THE LANGUAGE THAT WE'RE USING NOW >> WIDE RANGE IS IT MEASURE WOULD HAVE THE SAME IMPACT BUT WE HAVE TO WORK OUT DEAL WITH OUR PARTNERSHIPS NOW THEY'RE GOING TO QUESTION WHAT WE HAVE DONE WITHIN UNIQUE AND A

196LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'VE THAT WE'VE DONE HOW WE STAND OUT AND WE WOULD A BRIGHT BEACON ON THE HILL NOW WE HAVE NOW WE ARE MINIMIZED. WE MARGINALIZE OUR WORK AND I AM I'M A LITTLE BIT EMBARRASSED TO GO OUT AND SELLING OUT AND SPLAYING THIS WHAT WE DOING BY CHANGING DIVERSE TO WIDE RANGE I'M NOT ONE OF THE OF THE STUDENT ASKED I MEAN YOU CHANGE THE THE EQUITY NAME TO THE EQUITY POLICY TO OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THANK YOU SO I DON'T HAVE A BUTTON BUT I JUST HAD ONE QUICK QUESTION RIGHT NOW CAN YOU REFRESH MY MEMORY ON WHEN WE VOTED ON THIS BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING I WAS LOOKING FOR IN THE INITIAL PACKET AND I HAVE TO GO BACK MINUTES >> WHEN DID YOU VOTE ON

197WHAT THE ORIGINAL COMPASS TO >> 20 30 I THINK IT WAS LIKE NOVEMBER TWENTY SIX THANK YOU THANK YOU WERE RIGHT AND WE WILL GO THROUGH SPEAKERS THAT HAVE NOT HAD THE CHANCE TO SPEAK FIRST AND I BELIEVE THAT'S DR. GREEN THANK YOU PANICKY THANK YOU. I KNOW WHAT A DRIVER AND OF COURSE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BEHIND ALL OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN SO THANK YOU AND THIS MAY NOT BE A QUESTION YOU CAN ANSWER SO THAT'S OK. BUT YEAH I'M GIVING YOU TO HIM . YES AND IT MAY IT MAY NOT BE ONE DR. ROBERTSON IS PREPARED FOR EITHER. NOW YOU HAVE YOUR ANTICIPATE TOURIE EXCITED NOW >> MANY YEARS AGO BEFORE DR. ROBERTSON REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD THE ICON FOR BEING AHEAD OF THE CURVE AND THEN WE BECAME A COMPASS BECAUSE WE

198WERE ENSURING THAT ALL STUDENTS WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN WHATEVER DIRECTION THEY NEED TO GO IN WITH KEEPING MIND BEING RESPECTFUL SO. SO WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET NEW ICON FOR WHATEVER WE'RE GOING TO BE CALL AND I'M LISTENING. CHANNELING MY MOTHER RIGHT LIKE DON'T SAY YOU REALLY THINK THE ICON THE ICON IS GOING TO BECOME I'M A LITTLE BIT JUST SIT THERE RIGHT NOW SO WHEN ARE WE CHANGE IN AN ICON ARE YOU ASKING ME A QUESTION YES I AM OK BECAUSE DOCTOR WHAT ARE YOU SHAKING YOUR HEAD? NO DR. ROBERTS ROBERTSON KNOWS ME WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT I WANT TO SAY AND HE IS SITTING ON HIS HANDS HOPE AND I'M NOT GOING TO SAY NOT DR. ROBERTSON IS THE REAL QUESTION WE HAVE THIS DISCUSSION WHEN WE STARTED

199THIS STARTED THIS FRAMEWORK THERE WAS THE QUESTION OF WE'RE GOING TO KEEP CALLING ENCOMPASS CAMPUS AND IT WAS SO WELL BRANDED AND PEOPLE KNOW WHAT IT IS IN OUR SCHOOLS. I DISAGREE WITH THAT. NOW THIS NOT REPRESENT THE WORK AN INTENT OF WHAT IT IS. TRUST ME IF WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THIS YOU NEED A NEW LACON I WALKED INTO IT I COULD I COULD TELL HE WAS SHAKING HIS HEAD AND I WENT FOR IT. NEVER MIND MR. CUMMINGS IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO SPEAK ON THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK YET NOT ON THE FRAMEWORK UM YOU, GO AHEAD. UM >>, YOU KNOW, I ALSO KNOW THAT ARE TASKED WITH A VERY DIFFICULT TASK ESPECIALLY TRYING TO MAKE DECISIONS ON A POLICY THAT'S BEEN LABELED VAGUE BY JUDGES AND >> I KEEP COMING BACK TO THAT

200FOR SPECIFIC REASON IS THAT WE ARE MAKING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES ON SOMETHING THAT DID NOT HAVE CLEAR DEFINITIONS THAT DID NOT CLEARS CONCEPTS THAT WAS MERELY JUST A WHIMSICAL THOUGHT AND TO SEE IT CHANGE THE SHIP SO DRASTICALLY I IT'S AND THERE'S NOT A GOOD WAY FOR ME TO SAY THIS LIKE REPLACING DIVERSITY WITH A WIDE RANGE I MEAN THAT'S JUST ACADEMICALLY LAUGHABLE I I JUST I DON'T HAVE A STRONG I HAVE SUCH IT'S SUCH A BIZARRE CONCEPT TO ME THAT YOU IT JUST FEELS FEELS LIKE YES. SPEAK AND >> I KNOW YOUR TASKED WITH A DIFFICULT TASK AND I THINK THIS NEW A WIDE RANGE OF IT'S JUST IT ISN'T SEEING ESPECIALLY IF YOU CARE ABOUT WELL I'M LIKE I SAY THAT BECAUSE BUT I THINK IT'S EMBARRASSING THE SENSE THAT FOR PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN

201IN EDUCATION WE UNDERSTAND THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY IS PART OF OUR MISSION WE UNDERSTAND SUPPORTING THE DIVERSE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS PART OF OUR MISSION AND REGARDLESS IF IT SAYS A WIDE RANGE OR IF WE TAKE THE WORD EQUITY AND REPLACE IT WITH EFFECTIVE I KNOW THAT OUR FOLKS ARE GOING TO SHOW UP EVERY SINGLE DAY TO WORK HARD FOR OUR KIDS TO SUPPORT THEIR NEEDS TO BUILD INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTS AND ENSURE THAT EVERY SINGLE KID GETS ACROSS THE TABLE OR GETS ACROSS THE FINISH BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THAT'S DRIVEN INTO THE HEART OF EDUCATION THAT EDUCATION IS A FACTOR OF LIBERATION. IT'S A FACTOR OF EMPOWERMENT AND IT'S A POWER >> OF SELF-DETERMINATION. SO YOU KNOW I DO A PLOTTER EDUCATORS THAT ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SHOW UP BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO

202SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND I KNOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BRING THE PEDAGOGY THAT YOU ARE TRAINED ON WHICH IS EQUITY WHICH IS SUPPORT FOR DIVERSITY. AND I KNOW THAT YOU'RE BRING THAT AND CONTINUE TO WORK TO WORK HARD TO ENSURE ALL OF OUR STUDENTS ARE SUCCESSFUL BUT THIS WHOLE COMMAND F FIND REPLACE I MEAN THERE'S JUST NOT LITERATURE BUILT ON SOME THESE THINGS AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY I GUESS THAT'S WHY I HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME SWALLOWING THIS CONCEPT THAT WE TAKE IN TERMS OF IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHING RESEARCH AND JUST KIND OF FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM JUST I MEAN JUST CHANGE IT ON THE WHIM OF A POORLY WRITTEN EXECUTIVE ORDER AND I THINK WE DO OWE IT TO OUR PUBLIC TO OUR CITIZENS WHO IN THIS LAST ELECTION BY

203A LARGE ELECTED MISS FELTON OVER HERE TO WHO STOOD ON THE GROUNDS OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TO TAKE THAT ACTION TO THINK DEEPER ABOUT SOME OF THESE WITHIN THE POLICIES AND WITHIN YOU, YOU KNOW, THE TERMS BECAUSE THE CITIZENS VIRGINIA BEACH CLEARLY AT LARGE DID NOT INDICATE THEY WERE SUPPORTIVE OF THESE DRASTIC CHANGES. MISS ROGERS SORRY COMING BACK FOR ANOTHER QUESTION IN THE COMPASS TO OF TWENTY THIRTY KEY TERMS THAT SLIDE EIGHTEEN SAYS REMOVE DIVISIONS DEFINITION OF EQUITY FROM THE KEY TERMS. HERE'S MY JETTA. THE DEFINITION OF EQUITY ENSURING THAT ALL INDIVIDUALS HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITY IS THEY NEED TO RECOGNIZING THAT INDIVIDUALS MAY REQUIRE VARYING LEVELS OF SUPPORT. WE STILL NEED THAT HOW DO WE INCLUDE THOSE THINGS IF WE ARE ELIMINATING THAT FROM OUR KEY TERM EVEN THOUGH THAT

204IS ABSOLUTELY KEY TO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AS WE'RE EDUCATING ALL STUDENTS I FEEL LIKE FEEL LIKE THAT WILL WORD POLICING FOR SOME DELICATE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T HANDLE THE TERM EQUITY BUT THROUGH THIS DEFINITION WE MUST HAVE THAT IN OUR SCHOOLS SO HOW DO WE FIX THIS ARE YOU GOING TO IS THAT QUESTION. SORRY? NO IT'S FINE OK WE'RE STILL GOING TO DO IT. IT IS NOT IN THE KEY TERMS BECAUSE THE ONLY THING MAKES IN THE THAT'S IN THE KEY TERM THAT THE WORD HAS TO APPEAR ON THE DOCUMENT IF IT DOESN'T APPEAR IN THE DOCUMENT WHAT YOU LOSE IN THIS CONVERSATION IS JUST CLARITY WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT YOU HAVE A BIGGER BURDEN OF COMMUNICATION SO WE ARE BEING LESS TRANSPARENT TO OUR STAKEHOLDERS BY REMOVING US AND NOT YOUR FAULT I

205KNOW THAT IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT STILL GOING TO DO THIS I UNDERSTAND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT BUT IT BUT WE'RE JUST BEING LESS TRANSPARENT ABOUT IT WHICH IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP TO DO I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYBODY ELSE ON HERE BUT I SIGNED UP FOR TRANSPAC TO SEE FOR MY CONSTITUENTS AND I ABSOLUTELY AS DO YOU BECAUSE I'M AN EDUCATOR YOU'RE AN EDUCATOR. WE KNOW OUR STUDENTS NEED TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEY REQUIRE VARYING LEVELS OF SUPPORT THAT IS A FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION AND AGAIN I ASK MY COLLEAGUES WHY WE NEED TO WORK POLICE FOR OUR DELICATE EARS. THIS IS I DON'T UNDERSTAND I TRULY DON'T I'M AN EDUCATOR. I UNDERSTAND EDUCATION IF YOU ARE CONFUSED AS TO WHAT

206WE'RE DOING IN THIS DIVISION, PLEASE, DR. ROBERTSON IS A SEASONED PROFESSIONAL. EVERY SINGLE PERSON UP HERE IS THIS SEASONED PROFESSIONAL IN EDUCATION. PLEASE MISS MALNIK SO IN THEORY DR. BERNANKE WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS BY OFTEN TALK OFTEN TALK ABOUT THEORY OF REALITY ARE USUALLY TALK ABOUT IT THE OTHER WAY. BUT IN THEORY ARE GOING TO DO THIS BUT REALITY IS GOING TO KEEP US FROM DOING THIS WITH FIDELITY. THAT'S THE TRUTH I DO BELIEVE THAT THE VOTE ON THE I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WHO'S LOOKING IT UP QUICKLY SO WAS AND I KNOW FOR SURE MR. KELLENBERGER AGAIN SO I WAS SURPRISED BECAUSE HE WAS ON THE COMMITTEE WITH MRS. ANDERSON. IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE ONE. COULD ANYBODY FIND THAT QUICKLY BECAUSE THE SMELL LIKE ARE YOU ASKING FOR THE VOTE ON THE CAMPUS

207OF TWENTY THAT WOULD YES. YES, MR. I REMEMBER MR. COLLINS VOTING AGAINST HER. I WAS SURPRISED BECAUSE HE WAS ON THE COMMITTEE WHAT >> HE DID TEND TO WARN THAT TELLS ME THAT NOBODY RIGHT READ IT BACK THEN BUT EVERYBODY SIMPLY EAGER TO READ IT NOW THAT WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND TAKE OUT WORDS AND AND AND I'M GOING TO HOLD THIS DECISION TO THIS NEW LANGUAGE AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO IT. WE'RE NOT GOING GO BACK INTERPRET AFTER THE FACT AND SAY WELL SAY WELL IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER IT MEANS EVERYTHING IS SAYING IN AND IT'S CONTROVERSIAL RIGHT NOW THIS IS NOT BLACK AND WHITE WHICH IS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE MADE BY A BLACK THAT A WHITE PERSON . THIS IS NOW EVERYBODY THIS IS SPECIAL EDUCATION THIS IS ENGLISH LEARNERS. THIS IS

208EVERYTHING NOW AND THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY HAS ASKED FOR THIS IS WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PASSPORT AND THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO HOLD YOU UP TO SIX MILLION I NEED YOU HAVE THAT THE MR. CULPEPER, DID YOU STILL WANT TO SPEAK OK, I BELIEVE THE VOTE ON THAT WAS SIX FIVE OK IS THAT WHAT IT WAS? MISS LEONETTI IS WORKING ON CONFIRMING AT THIS TIME SORRY THE SORRY THE MOTION PASSED SEVENTY FOUR DO YOU WANT ME TO READ IT FOR I HAVE THE THERE ARE FOUR NAYS AND THOSE WITH MR. BROWN MR. CAL AND MR. COLPEPER. MISS MANNING AND IT APPEARS THAT THIS MELNYK MISSY FRANKLIN MISS ANDERSON DR. GREENE THIS OWNS MISS OWENS, MR. RIGGS AND MISS WEEMS VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE COMPASS 2030 STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK. OK, THANK

209YOU VERY MUCH RIGHT MISS PANICKY I PANICHI, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND I GUESS REALLY MORE COMMENTS I DO APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK I SEE IN THE YELLOW HERE THAT MOST THESE THINGS STILL WORKED THEIR WAY IN AND THAT YOU'VE ADDED SOME CLARITY TO THE DEFINITIONS I HAVE THE INITIAL FRAMEWORK UP HERE AND I KNOW THAT YOU INCLUDED THE SLIDE ON DEFINITIONS FOR KEY TERMS IN THE COMPOSITE TWENTY THIRTY AND I ONLY BRING THAT UP BECAUSE WHAT IS STILL DEFINED IS NOT IN THIS SLIDESHOW THERE WAS NO OTHER DEFINITIONS REMOVED CORRECT THAT'S THE ONLY ONE. OK, SO ACADEMIC CLEAR PLANNING PROCESS COMPREHENSIVE WRAPAROUND SERVICES DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION, DIGITAL LITERACY EVIDENCE BASED INSTRUCTION FINANCIAL LITERACY FUTURE PROFILE GOVERNMENT FINANCES OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INCLUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT INCLUSIVE TEACHING PRACTICES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT K THROUGH

21012 CONTINUUM ADVANCED ACADEMICS MEDIA LITERACY NONEXEMPT EMPLOYEES SENSE OF BELONGING SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SKILLS SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES WELL-BEING AND WORKS OF SUBSTANCE. THOSE ARE ALL STILL IN COMPASS TO 20 THIRTY CORRECT. OK I JUST I JUST WANTED TO CONFIRM BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE A SNAPSHOT I THINK SOMETIMES THAT'S CONFUSING TO THE COMMUNITY. IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT I MEAN I'M MEAN I'M NOT BLAMING YOU JUST FOR THE RECORD THERE. I DO GENERALLY I LIKE WHAT YOU DID WITH COMPASS TO TWENTY THIRTY OVERALL AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS I HAVE SOME HICCUPS ABOUT BUT THEY'RE NOT MAJOR I'M NOT GOING TO BE LABOR COMPASS TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY GOING TO BE TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL LEFT SO I'M NOT IN LOVE WITH THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE BUT I I'M ASSUMING THAT YOU PROBABLY

211SPENT MOST OF YOUR EFFORTS ON THE COMPASS TO 20 30 IS THAT ALSO CORRECT. YES BECAUSE BY THIS POINT WE'VE ALREADY WE STARTED PLANNING FOR TWENTY THIRTY IN DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY YOU KNOW I MEAN LIKE SO AND THERE'S ONLY GOING TO BE BY THE TIME YOU'RE TAKING VOTE ON IT TWO WEEKS LEFT RIGHT OK I JUST WANTED TO CONFIRM BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT A LOT OF IT DIDN'T TRICKLE OVER INTO THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AND I ASSUMED THAT THAT WAS WHY BUT I DID WANTED EQUITY PLAN ALL OF THOSE STRATEGIES ALL OF THOSE STRATEGIES ARE THE EQUITY PLAN AND THE EQUITY PLAN WAS PAUSE SO THERE WAS NO TRANSLATING OVER I SEE IN THE EQUITY PLAN WAS DUE TO EXPIRE IN JUNE CORRECT. YES. DR. ROBERTSON YET THROUGH A YOU KNOW A LOT'S BEEN SAID

212SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IS A SUPER 10 OF THE SCHOOL DIVISION I TALK ABOUT OUR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK PARTICULARLY STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK THAT WE'RE BUILDING OUT THAT STARTS TO LIE . THAT'S TWENTY THIRTY SO LET ME START WITH A BIT OF A HISTORY LESSON UP IN UP THROUGH COPIES TWENTY TWENTY WE NEVER EQUITY EMPHASES AS PART OF A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK WE DIDN'T HAVE IT IN COMPOSITE TWENTY FIFTEEN CAME ABOUT IN COMPOSITE TWENTY TWENTY BECAUSE THE AD HOC STEERING COMMITTEE WE HAD TIME FELT LIKE THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTE NEED TO HAVE AN EQUITY OFFICES IN THE GOALS EMBEDDED INTO THE GOALS THE PLAN BECAUSE OF SOME THINGS THAT THAT OCCURRED IN VIRGINIA AT THE TIME AND WE WERE PERFORMING AT THE TIME BUT THEY FELT LIKE THERE WAS A GROUP OF STUDENTS MISSING THEY NEEDED WE

213NEEDED AN EQUITY EMPHASES SO WE PUT THAT IN THE PLAN WE CARRIED THAT WHOLE CONCEPT OVER INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOSITE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AND 10 20 THIRTY WITH THE EQUITY EMPHASIS BECAUSE IT HAD SERVED US WELL IT IS SIGNAL TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY WE COMMUNITY WE HAD AN EQUITY EMPHASIS SO WHEN IT IN ADDRESSING THE RESOLUTION IF YOU TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THIS LANGUAGE YOU CAN SEE THAT THE EQUITY EMPHASES IN MOST CASES HAS BEING REWRITTEN AS A STRATEGY SO IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT THE STRATEGIES WERE AND WHAT THE STRATEGIES ARE YOU WILL SEE THE EQUITY EMPHASIS GOT BUT THE TARGETED ACTION WITHIN THE EQUITY EMPHASIS IS NOW A STRATEGY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SEPARATED VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS THAT EVERY STUDENT WHO WALKS ARE ALWAYS FEELS LIKE THEY HAVE A

214SENSE OF BELONGING WE REACH OUT TO THOSE STUDENTS WE TAP WE TAP ON THE SHOULDER. WE'VE INCREASED ACCESS AND ADVANCE COURSEWORK AND OUR AP SCORES HAVE GONE UP WE HAVE MORE KIDS INVOLVED IN CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES AND DISCIPLINE DAD HAS GONE DOWN OR. OUR ACADEMIC MEASURES ARE UP I MEAN WE HEAR SPEAKERS SOMETIMES LITTLE FRUSTRATING BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T DONE THEIR HOMEWORK INDICATING THAT OUR ACHIEVEMENT DOWN IT IS NOT THANKFULLY WE HAD A HAD A FEW SPEAKERS TONIGHT WHO REITERATED THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO WEST VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS DO EVERY YEAR IN TERMS OF ACADEMICS AND THE REST OF THE STATE NOT EVEN CLOSE THE DIVISIONS WE USED TO ASPIRE TO BEAT. WE NOW BEAT THERE NOW LOOKING TO US THERE NOW HIRING OUR PEOPLE. WE JUST LOST ANOTHER

215PERSON YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT TO GO TO ANOTHER SCHOOL DIVISION AND WE JUST AT THE EIGHTH FORM OF VIRGINIA BEACH EMPLOYEE APPOINTED THE SUPERINTENDENT AWAY AS, JAMES CITY COUNTY. WE ARE THE TRENDSETTERS IN THIS STATE AND IS BECAUSE OF THE WORK WE'VE DONE AND WHAT WE'VE CHOSEN TO DO HERE IS RECOGNIZE AND USE A COACHING ANALOGY A COACH FOR A LONG TIME SOMETIMES THE RULES CHANGED WHEN I FACED RULE CHANGE AS A COACH I MADE THE DECISION HOW CAN I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS RULE CHANGE TO MAKE MY TEAM BETTER MY KIDS MORE COMPETITIVE? I HAD OTHER COACHES RAILED AGAINST THE FACT THAT THE RULES HAD CHANGED ALL THE RULES CHANGED FACT CHANGED. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS WE WERE TASKED WITH TAKING A LOOK AT AT SOME AREAS BASED ON A RESOLUTION

216WE'VE DONE THAT AND WE'VE DONE HAD A REALLY THOUGHTFUL MANNER BECAUSE THE HALLMARKS OF WHAT HAS MADE A SPECIAL SCHOOL DIVISION WILL NOT CHANGE THEY WILL NOT CHANGE BECAUSE WE WILL IF DO CHANGE YOU WILL SEE RAMIFICATIONS IN TERMS OF STUDENT OUTCOMES, STUDENT PERFORMANCE WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. RIGHT. AND I BELIEVE THE WORK THAT DR. ACROBATIC HE DID WITH A NUMBER OF PRINCIPALS, A NUMBER SENIOR LEADERSHIP STAFF INCLUDING CONVERSATIONS WITH ATTORNEY MYSELF AND MISS WHAT ELSE REPRESENTS THAT WE'RE CONTINUE TO DO GREAT WORK HERE WE JUST NEED PEOPLE TO BE CAUTIOUS GREAT TO BE QUESTIONING OUTSTANDING. BUT GIVE US A CHANCE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WE HAVE THIS UNDER CONTROL AND ONLY TIME WILL TELL HOW THESE CHANGES THAT WE BELIEVE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO KEEP US AT THE FOREFRONT OR IMPLEMENTED AND SO

217I'LL JUST LEAVE IT THAT MISS MALNIK SO MY QUESTION IS FOR DR. ROBERTSON SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT WERE BASICALLY DOING THE EXACT SAME THING WITH LANGUAGE THAT WILL COMPLY WITH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT WE'RE REALLY NOT CHANGING ANYTHING I MEAN YOU'RE SAYING WHAT WE HAVE SHOW GROWTH EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE ARE SAYING YOU KNOW, IS THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA THE DUMBING DOWN OF OUR STUDENTS, WE'VE HEARD SOME PRETTY DISPARAGING THINGS ABOUT OUR STUDENTS THAT THE RULES HAVE CHANGED. JUST THE LANGUAGE HAS CHANGED AND THAT WE'RE I WON'T ASK THEM JUST I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. YES. WHAT I'M SAYING IS THERE ARE CERTAIN FUNDAMENTALS THAT HAVE PLACED VIRGINIA BEACH IN THE POSITION WE'RE IN AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE AND LOOKING THROUGH OUR PRACTICES IS TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE NOT GIVING OUT

218ANY MIXED SIGNALS TO ANY PARTICULAR STUDENTS THAT THEY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN ANY OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE PROVIDE THAT WE WE USE DATA LIKE NO ONE ELSE AND IF WALKED INTO A SCHOOL RIGHT NOW AND TALK TO A PRINCIPLE AND SAID WHO WERE YOUR KIDS THAT ARE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW WE'RE A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT FOR THE UPCOMING MATH AS WELL THEY CAN TELL YOU BY GREED AND BY NAME WHO THOSE KIDS ARE AND THEY CAN TELL YOU ALL THE THINGS WE'RE DOING FOR THOSE KIDS THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE WE WANT TO MAKE SHOULD SURE WE ALL KNOW THAT TO BE TRUE I KNOW THAT THAT IS ONE OF OUR TEACHERS DO AS IF YOU'RE SAYING WE'RE TIPTOEING AROUND TO HELP SOME NARROW MINDED PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS THAT WE REALLY DO, THEN

219I'M FINE BUT GOOD GRAVY IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT WAY AND FOR SOMEBODY WHO DOESN'T FOLLOW US OR IS GOING TO COME ACROSS THESE DOCUMENTS ON THEIR OWN IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO LOOK GOOD. IT'S VERY, VERY SCARY BUT I KNOW OUR PEOPLE DO GOOD THINGS AND I OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PUT IN A VERY, VERY UNFAIR POSITION AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME OF OUR TOP OUR TOP PERFORMING TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, SENIOR STAFF EXITING EXITING OUR SCHOOL DIVISION BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE ARE READY TO THEM UP TO PAY THEM MORE AND TO TAKE THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND TO WORK WITH IT BECAUSE WANTS TO VIRGINIA BEACH WE ARE WE ARE SUCCESSFUL FOR A REASON THANK YOU THANK YOU. RIGHT WE RIGHT. WE ARE NOW GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE DIVISION LITERACY PLAN.

220WE WELCOME DR. LORINA KELLY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY TEACHING AND LEARNING. OK, GOOD EVENING CHAIR BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMES SCHOOL BOARD DR. ROBERTSON MY NAME IS LEARNING IS LARRY KELLY. I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ELEMENTARY TEACHING AND LEARNING AND I AM JOINED BY TEAM OF COLLEAGUES TONIGHT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE UPDATED CREATIVITY ILLITERACY PLAN A REQUIREMENT OF THE VIRGINIA LITERACY ACT OR THE VLA WE WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN BY BEGIN BY THANKING ALL OF YOU FOR REVIEW IN SUPPORT OF THE ORIGINAL SUBMISSION THAT WE MADE IN MAY OF LAST YEAR AS WELL AS THE UPDATED SUBMISSION THAT WE WERE REQUIRED TO MAKE IN DECEMBER BOTH OF OUR SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN APPROVED AND OUR DELP HAS BEEN POSTED ON OUR SITE WE WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW A FEW OF THE RECENT UPDATES SHARED BY THE VIRGINIA

221DEPARTMENT OF ED WE ARE SUBMITTING A CAKE K EIGHT DIVISION OF LITERACY PLAN AS YOU KNOW THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL PLAN THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ED DIRECTED DIVISIONS LAST YEAR TO CREATE A FIVE PLAN AND THEN TO EXPAND TO A K EIGHT PLAN FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR AS YOU KNOW THE VOWS HAS BEEN ADMINISTERED IN GRADES K THROUGH THREE AND NOW A FOR A VOWELS WILL BE ADMINISTERED TO SOME FOR EIGHT STUDENTS STUDENTS WHO ARE IDENTIFIED IN THE HIGH RISK WILL BE REQUIRED TO RECEIVE INTERVENTION AND A STUDENT READING WILL BE DEVELOPED TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRESS. WE ARE WAITING SPECIFICS RELATED TO THIS PROCESS FROM THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ED IN ADDITION TO THE K FIVE CORPS AND K3 SUPPLEMENTAL AN INTERVENTION MATERIALS THAT WERE ON THE PREVIOUS PLAN THIS PLAN INCLUDES INFORMATION REGARDING

222THE SUPPLEMENTAL INTERVENTION RESOURCES UTILIZED BY VIRGINIA BEACH FOR EIGHT AS WELL. AN UPDATED LIST OF PROVED RESOURCES WILL BE RELEASED AGAIN IN OCTOBER AND WE UPDATE THE PLAN AND REVISIT SCHOOL BOARD WITH AN AMENDMENT TO THIS PLAN IF ANY OF THE NEW RESOURCES ARE DETERMINED TO BE A STRONG ADDITION TO OUR CURRENT SUPPORT STRUCTURE WE'RE PLEASED TO SHARE THIS PROPOSAL TONIGHT WITH WITH TONIGHT YOU HAVE HAD YOU HAVE A COMPLETE COPY IN YOUR SCHOOL RAW MATERIALS WE DID WANT TO SHARE THAT THIS IS A REFLECTION OF MANY STAKEHOLDERS WE FORMED A VIRGINIA LITERACY AND LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE WHICH CONSISTED OF TEACHERS, SPECIALISTS, PRINCIPALS GIFTED ESL AND SPECIAL EDUCATION STAFF IN TO BRING A VARIETY OF STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER TO PROVIDE INPUT WHAT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO SUPPORT THE SMOOTH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE VARIOUS CHANGES ARE TEACHERS AND

223EXPERIENCED ADMINISTRATORS EXPERIENCED IN ELEMENTARY AND WILL BE EXPERIENCING NEXT YEAR IN MIDDLE SCHOOL THE COMMITTEE PROVIDED DIRECT INPUT AND SEVERAL ROUNDS OF FEEDBACK PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PLAN TEMPLATE DOES NOT INCLUDE SPECIFIC INFORMATION THAT YOU MIGHT SEE IN A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PLAN IS INCLUDED HER THE DIRECTION OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ED THEY PROVIDE THE TEMPLATE AND DIVISIONS FILL IN THE FIELDS AND YOU NOT OR DO NOT ALTER THE FORMAT THE DIVISION LITERACY PLAN TEMPLATE INCLUDES SIX SECTIONS DISPLAYED HERE AND I WILL SUMMARIES EACH OF THEM FOR YOU IN A MOMENT I WILL PASS SO YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THE SIX COMPONENTS SECTIONS TO THROUGH SIX HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE FOUR EIGHT INFORMATION THE FIRST SECTION OF THE LITERACY TEMPLATE FOCUSES ON PLANNING FOR COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNICATION AND

224REQUIRES DIVISIONS TO DESCRIBE THE DIVISION LITERACY VISION. THE VISION STATEMENT DISPLAYED HERE WAS DEVELOPED BY OUR BEEKEEPER'S VIRGINIA LITERACY AT COMMITTEE AND WITH FROM VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS AS PART OF OUR VISION STATEMENT WE ARTICULATE THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH HIGH QUALITY LITERACY INSTRUCTION GROUNDED IN SCIENCE BASED READING RESEARCH IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS TO ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT WHO WALKS INTO OUR VIRGINIA BEACH THESE SCHOOLS WILL RECEIVE THE INSTRUCTION NECESSARY TO BECOME PROFICIENT READERS READY TO PURSUE RIGOROUS PATHWAYS AND BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE SECTION TWO OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEMPLATE REQUIRES DIVISIONS TO LIST THE HIGH QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS OR AQIM. I AM SELECTED FROM THE VIRGINIA BOARD EDUCATION APPROVED CURRICULUM LISTS. IN ADDITION AQIM MATERIALS YOU ARE VIEWED LAST YEAR LAST YEAR WE HAVE ADDED THE SUPPLEMENTAL AND INTERVENTION RESOURCES THAT

225WILL BE UTILIZED FOR OUR FOUR STUDENTS. SECTION THREE DESCRIBES PROFESSIONAL LEARNING REQUIREMENTS AS YOU ARE AWARE WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION THE VIRGINIA LITERACY AT THE SCHOOL YEAR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING REQUIREMENTS SHARED AND WE HAVE WORKED WITH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND SPECIALISTS TO ENSURE SUPPORTIVE SCHEDULING AS WE GREATLY RESPECT OUR TEACHERS TIME AND WANT TO DO ALL WE CAN TO SUPPORT THEM AS THEY IMPLEMENT THE EVIDENCE BASED INSTRUCTION FOR ALL STUDENTS. THE SLIDE INCLUDES EDUCATOR GROUPS AND THE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THAT WAS REQUIRED. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF AT GUIDANCE REGARDING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WE ALSO PROVIDE ONGOING INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING JOB EMBEDDED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND SUMMER ESSENTIALS TO ENSURE TEACHERS SUPPORTED AND HAVE CLARITY ON THE HIGH QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND ALL OTHER RESOURCES INCLUDED ON THE DIVISION LITERACY PLAN ADDITIONALLY NEW K THROUGH K THROUGH THREE

226TEACHERS AND ALL FOR TEACHERS RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING STUDENT READING PLANS WILL ALSO RECEIVE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TO SUPPORT THEM SECTION FOUR ASKS DIVISIONS TO LIST ASSESSMENTS USED TO MONITOR PROGRESS. THIS SECTION HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE SCREENER AND MAINTAINS AND MAINTAINS THE ASSESSMENTS WE INCLUDED LAST SECTION FIVE REQUIRES DIVISIONS INCLUDE THE INFORMATION REGARDING PROGRESS MONITORING TOOLS AND APPROACHES HERE WE LISTED OUR STRATEGIC APPROACH TO REGULARLY ANALYZE DATA ACROSS OFFICES AT THE CENTRAL OFFICE LEVEL AND THE MEETINGS WE HOLD AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PRINCIPALS AND INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP WHICH YOU CAN SEE NOTED THE TABLE IN TABLE IN THE TEMPLATE ALSO INCLUDES A SCHOOL LEVEL COLLABORATIVE PLANNING PROCESS THAT IS CONDUCTED REGULARLY AND ON A MORE FREQUENT BASIS WHEN REVIEWING WITH TEACHERS COACHES AND ADMINISTRATORS THEY COLLABORATE AND REVIEW DATA TO RESPOND TO OUR

227STUDENT NEEDS SECTION SIX REQUIRES DIVISIONS TO DESCRIBE HOW THE DIVISION WILL INVOLVE PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS AND THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STUDENT READING PLANS AND TO DESCRIBE THE PLAN TO BUILD SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIPS IN RELATION TO LITERACY DEVELOPMENT. WE WORK TO ACHIEVE THIS THROUGH MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE PARTNERSHIPS THAT INCLUDE PARENTS, CAREGIVERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS WE WILL PLACE GREAT EMPHASIS ON THESE MUTUAL PARTNERSHIPS AND INCLUDE PARENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT READING PLANS WE WILL NOTIFY PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS WHEN STUDENTS PERFORMANCE ON THE SCREENER INDICATES THE NEED FOR A PLAN FAMILIES WILL BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING THE READING PLAN. PARENTS WILL RECEIVE A COPY OF THE PLAN AND WE WILL SOLICIT FEEDBACK FROM SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES ON THEIR EXPERIENCE REGARDING THE STUDENT READING PLAN WE'VE DEVELOPED A DIVISION WEB

228PAGE TO SHARE INFORMATION RELATED TO THE VIRGINIA LITERACY ACT AND RESOURCES TO SUPPORT STUDENTS LITERACY GROWTH AT HOME ADDITIONALLY THE WEB PAGE LINKS TO LINKS TO EACH SCHOOL'S WEB PAGE SO PARENTS EASILY FIND THE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR SCHOOL STAFF INCLUDING ADMINISTRATORS AND READING SPECIALISTS. THE DIVISION LITERACY PLAN YOU APPROVED IS HOUSED ON THAT PAGE AND ONCE WE RECEIVE YOUR YOUR APPROVAL AND APPROVAL FROM THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT EVENT WE WILL REPLACE IT WITH THIS WITH THE PLAN FROM THIS EVENING WE HOPE THAT THIS PRESENTATION IS PROVIDED YOU WITH THE DETAILS NEEDED TO NAVIGATE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEDS ED TEMPLATE FOR OUR K EIGHT DIVISION LITERACY PLAN WE ARE ALREADY BUSY WORK TO ENSURE THAT WE EFFECTIVELY SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS AND ULTIMATELY MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT IN ALL OF OUR STUDENTS LIVES. WE WILL RETURN

229MAY 27TH TO REQUEST APPROVAL FOR THE PLAN PRESENTED THIS EVENING AT THIS TIME WE STAND READY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE I DON'T SEE ANY QUESTIONS IF COLLEAGUES THINK OF ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO SEND THEM TO DR. ROBERTSON AND MISS WOODHOUSE BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT MEETING AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO I KNOW THIS IS A LOT TO PUT TOGETHER THANK YOU. OK, WE ARE NOW GOING TO MOVE ON TO TRY CAMPUS PLANNING AND I'M GOING TO WELCOME MELISSA INGRAM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FACILITY SERVICES, DR. MELANIE HAMBLIN, SENIOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. HI, GOOD EVENING CHAIRWOMAN BROWN VICE CHAIR VICE CHAIR WEEMS AND DR. ROBERTSON WAS INGRAM AND I ARE HERE TONIGHT TO SHARE INFORMATION AND SURVEY RESULTS REGARDING THE TRI CAMPUS RECONFIGURATION A

230COMMUNITY MEETING WAS HELD WEDNESDAY APRIL TWENTY THIRD FROM SIX O'CLOCK UNTIL SEVEN O'CLOCK PM AT NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORTY NINE PEOPLE ATTENDED THE MEETING. THIS INCLUDED 14 PARENTS SIX COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND TWENTY EIGHT STAFF MEMBERS DURING THE MEETING THE COMMUNITY WAS ABLE TO LEARN ABOUT THE TWO OPTIONS FOR TRANSITIONING TO TRY CAMPUS INTO TWO. THERE WERE TWO OPTIONS OPTION ONE WOULD INCLUDE TWO PRE-K THROUGH FIFTH GRADE SCHOOLS OPTION TWO WAS ONE PRE-K THROUGH FIRST GRADE SCHOOL AND ONE SECOND GRADE THROUGH FIFTH GRADE SCHOOL AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MEETING PARTICIPANTS WERE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE ON INPUT'S EITHER ONLINE OR ON PAPER PENCIL FORM A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO VICE CHAIR WEEMS DR. GREENE AND MR. COWEN FOR ATTENDING THE MEETING. IN ADDITION TO A COMMUNITY MEETING HELD ON APRIL 20 THIRD COMMUNITY FEEDBACK WAS OBTAINED

231THROUGH AN ONLINE SURVEY THAT WAS AVAILABLE FROM APRIL 4TH THROUGH THE TWENTY SEVENTH THE SURVEY WAS AVAILABLE ON BABY SCHOOLS DOTCOM AN OF DOTCOM AND EMAILED TO THE CAMPUS FAMILIES AND STAFF THE SURVEY WAS ALSO AVAILABLE LIKE I SAID AT THE COMMUNITY MEETING TABLES PROVIDED INFORMATION ABOUT GROUPS WHO RESPONDED TO THE SURVEY. A TOTAL OF FOUR TABLE YOU SEE EXCUSE ME PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT THE GROUPS WHO RESPONDED THE SURVEY AFTER SURVEY OF FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE TOOK THE SURVEY THE TWO LARGEST GROUP OF RESPONDENTS WERE PARENTS AND GUARDIANS CURRENT STUDENTS AT THE TRI COMFORT ZONE OF DIAMOND SPRINGS, NEWTOWN AND BETTY F. WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SCHOOL STAFF MEMBERS IN THE TRI CARE TRY ZONE OVERALL ONE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO OR THIRTY EIGHT PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE PARENTS OR GUARDIANS OF CURRENT OR

232FUTURE STUDENTS IN THE CAMPUS ZONE. THESE TWO PARENT GUARDIAN GROUPS WERE COMBINED FOR THE RESULTS ON THE NEXT SLIDE PEOPLE RESPOND TO THE SURVEY WHO SELECTED OTHER INCLUDED FAMILY OUTREACH REPRESENTATIVES, COMMUNITY ADVOCATES, FAMILY MEMBERS AND STAFF MEMBERS OF OTHER DBCP SCHOOLS CURRENT VPI BBC SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND OTHER AREAS OF VIRGINIA BEACH THIS THIS SLIDE SHOWS A PERCENTAGE SURVEY RESPONDENTS WHO PREFERRED EACH OPTION BY GROUP OPTION TO WHICH IS ONE PRE-K THROUGH FIRST GRADE SCHOOL AND ONE SECOND THROUGH FIFTH GRADE SCHOOL WAS PREFERRED WAS THE PREFERRED OPTION FOR CAMPUS PARENTS AT 62 PERCENT TRY CAMPUS STAFF AT FIFTY SEVEN AND BAYSIDE CAMPUS COMMUNITY MEMBERS AT FIFTY EIGHT PERCENT THE OTHER RESPONDED GROUP WAS EVENLY SPLIT WITH THE SAME PERCENTAGE LECTURING SELECTING OPTION ONE AND OPTION TWO RESPONDENTS WERE ASKED TO SELECT A PRIMARY REASON

233FOR SELECTING THEIR PREFERRED OPTION OF THE RESPONDENTS WHO SELECTED OPTION ONE OF TWO PRE-K THROUGH FIFTH GRADE SCHOOLS. FIFTY ONE PERCENT INDICATED THEY PREFERRED THIS OPTION BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE FEWER TRANSITION BETWEEN SCHOOLS FOR STUDENTS. TWENTY FOUR PERCENT PREFERRED THIS OPTION BECAUSE THE SCHOOL CULTURE IN THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND FIFTEEN PERCENT SELECTED THIS OPTION BECAUSE OF THE LONG TERM RELATIONSHIPS WITH SCHOOL STAFF OTHER RESPONDED TO SELECTED OPTION TWO OF ONE PRE-K THROUGH FIRST GRADE SCHOOL AND ONE SECOND THROUGH FIFTH GRADE SCHOOL GRADE SCHOOL SIXTY NINE PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS INDICATED THEY PREFERRED THIS OPTION DUE TO THE DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS OF THE AGE GROUP. IN ADDITION, THIRTEEN PERCENT PREFERRED THIS OPTION BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT REQUIRE SPLITTING ATTENDANCE AREA I'M GOING TO GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MRS. INGRAM SO SHE CAN TALK ABOUT

234THE FACILITIES THANK YOU DR. YOU DR. HAMLIN AND GOOD EVENING FROM A FACILITIES PERSPECTIVE WE HAVE SHARED WITH YOU AT THE BOTH OF THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND OUR LAST PROVE TO YOU THAT BOTH EDUCATIONAL MODELS OR ESTIMATED TO BE COST NEUTRAL FROM A CFP PERSPECTIVE OUR FACILITIES WILL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT EITHER OPTION THAT IS CHOSEN WITH EXISTING BUILDINGS DIAMOND SPRINGS ELEMENTARY AND NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAVING BEEN DESIGNED TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE ALL GRADE LEVELS BEING CONSIDERED NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES WOULD BE REQUIRED TO SATISFY EITHER OPTION IN THE EXISTING BUILDINGS WHETHER THEY BE TO PRE-K TO FIVE SCHOOLS OR A PRECURSOR TO ONE SCHOOL AND GRADE TWO TO FIVE SCHOOL WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF STUDENTS NEED TO BE SUPPORTED WITH EITHER OPTION THE MAIN DIFFERENCE IS NOT HOW MUCH SPACE MAY BE NEEDED.

235ADDITIONALLY BUT WHERE THAT SPACE MAY BE NEEDED. MAKING IT AGAIN COST NEUTRAL THE COST FOR ADDITIONAL SPACE IS ESTIMATED TO BE TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS OR LESS AS PROGRAM IN THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR SKYPE TWENTY SIX ZIP LOOKING AT PROJECTIONS AND THE RESIDING STUDENT POPULATION IS IT'S CURRENTLY ESTIMATED THAT THE TWO BUILDINGS WILL NEED TO SUPPORT ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY TO ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED TWENTY STUDENTS THIS IS THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA THAT WE HAVE NOW AND MORE WORK WOULD NEED TO BE DONE AFTER AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL IS CHOSEN THIS SLIDE IN FRONT OF YOU GIVES YOU THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA WITH PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES A RANGE OF EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY TWO ADDITIONAL ROOMS IS ESTIMATED TO BE NEEDED WITH EITHER OPTION ADDITIONAL SPACE WOULD BE MORE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED IN OPTION ONE BETWEEN THE TWO

236SCHOOLS DEPENDING ON HOW THE ATTENDANT ZONE CAN BE SPLIT THERE COULD ALSO BE GREATER VARIATION ON THIS ESTIMATED EQUAL DISTRIBUTION AND AN OPTION TO IT IS ESTIMATED THAT A GREATER NEED OF SPACE WOULD BE NEEDED AT NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO SUPPORT THE TWO TO FIVE PROGRAM . PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES DO ANTICIPATE AT NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAN SUPPORT MORE ROOMS THAN DIAMOND SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND ON THIS SLIDE WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT THE EXISTING ATTENDANCE ZONE OR TRY CAMPUS. EITHER OPTION WOULD NEED REASSIGNMENT OF THE ATTENDANT ZONE TO TWO SCHOOLS INSTEAD OF THREE THAT IT SERVES WITH OPTION ONE AN AREA OF THE ATTENDANCE WE NEED TO BE ASSIGNED TO DIAMOND SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THE SCHOOL FARTHER TO THE EAST AND ANOTHER AREA OF THE ATTENDANT ATTENDANCE WOULD NEED TO BE ASSIGNED NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY THIS. THIS WILL

237BE DONE WITH FURTHER COMMUNITY INPUT THROUGH A BUCY PROCESS OPTION TO WOULD ALSO REQUIRE REASSIGNMENT OF GRADE LEVELS TO THESE TWO SCHOOLS PRE-K AND FIRST GRADE THE DIAMOND SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND SECOND THIRD FOURTH ,FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES TO NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT NEXT STEPS IN THIS PROCESS WILL BE GETTING DIRECTION FROM YOU. THE SCHOOL BOARD ON MAY 20 SEVENTH DURING THE ACTION PORTION OF THE AGENDA AND DR. HAMLIN AND I ARE HAPPY TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE AT THIS TIME. MR. CUMMINGS, I JUST HAD TWO QUICK QUESTIONS >> WHO ALL FALLS INTO THE OTHER BUCKET ON THE SLIDE THREE WALK ME THROUGH THIS THAT'S LIKE NINETY NINE PEOPLE JUST YES. YES. ONE LIKE ME GRAB THAT. SO THE OTHER COMBINATION WAS I APOLOGIZE. I INCLUDED FAMILY OUTREACH REPRESENTATIVES SCHOOL COMMUNITY ADVOCATES, FAMILY

238MEMBERS AND STAFF OF OTHER CPS SCHOOLS, CURRENT STUDENTS OF NBC'S AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT LIVE IN OTHER AREAS THE BEACH OUTSIDE OF THE TRI CAMPUS AREA AND THEN MY SECOND TIME THIS IS MY SECOND FOLLOW UP QUESTION IS WITHIN THE SURVEY DID WE HAVE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS JUST NO WE DO NOT OK I WAS JUST I WAS JUST KIND OF CURIOUS IF PEOPLE PROVIDING RESPONSES TOWARDS WHY THEY LEANED IN ONE DIRECTION NOT SO YOU KNOW THEY, THEY DIDN'T THINK THEY HAD THE CHOICES WHICH WERE THE REDUCTION OF , THE REDUCTION OF TRANSITION SO SELECTING CHOICES BUT WAS AN OPEN ENDED WASN'T IT? WELL, I THINK MISS ROGERS I THINK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION JUST A QUICK A QUICK QUESTION ON SLIDE SEVEN THERE'S ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL ROOMS NEEDED FOR THE TWO OPTIONS PRESENTED AN OPTION TO

239ITS IT SAYS 14 TO 16 ADDITIONAL ROOMS, CORRECT? YES, SO I'M SO I'M JUST ASKING JUST TO MAKE SURE ARE WELL IN ANY SCENARIO THAT REQUIRE US TO GET TRAILERS. NO, MA'AM. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE YOU DR. GREEN EITHER YOUR NEXT DOCTOR HAMLYN IN YOUR TEAM THANK YOU VERY MUCH BECAUSE I KNOW IT TOOK A LOT OF TIME TO GET ALL OF THIS TOGETHER AS WELL AS MR. INGRAM AND MR. FREEMAN'S TEAM WITH THE COST EFFECT BECAUSE WE KNOW DURING THIS TIMES THAT IS ALSO EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT AS WELL IF YOU COULD FOR ME SLIDE NUMBER FOUR WHERE WE HAVE THE SURVEY OPTIONS ON SLIDE FOR I JUST WANT TO BRING TO EVERYONE'S ATTENTION THAT THE PARENT FOR OPTION ONE WAS FORTY NINE PERCENT AND THOSE ARE PARENTS

240I'M JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT LIVE WITHIN THE DISTRICT IN OUR HAVE CURRENT STUDENTS THERE OR HEAD STUDENTS AND THAT THE SECOND OPTION 62 PERCENT OF THE COMMUNITY OF PARENTS OF PARENTS WHO HAVE STUDENTS ATTACHED TO THE SCHOOL PREFER OPTION TWO WHICH IS THE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT COULD IMMIGRANT STUDENTS OR YOUR FUTURE STUDENTS AND THAT IS AND I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PIECE FOR EVERYONE TO CONSIDER WHEN WE VOTE NEXT TIME AS TO WHAT THE COMMUNITY OF PARENTS BECAUSE WE ALWAYS SAY WE VALUE OUR PARENT INPUT AND WE DID RECEIVE IT. SO THANK YOU. MR. CALLEN DID THE FEEDBACK YOU RECEIVE THE EVENING OF THE EVENT INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS DID IT CAUSE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU AS ADMINISTRATIONS AND PLANNERS ON THIS PROCESS DID

241YOU END UP REASSESSING YOUR PRESENT YOUR RECOMMENDATION >> YOU KNOW WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH MOVE FORWARD WITH WHAT THE DECISIONS OF THE BOARD I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND AND HEARD WHAT THE COMMUNITY SAID. MY EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE AGAIN IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY SWAY ME WHAT MY I BELIEVE EDUCATIONALLY SOUND FOR CHILDREN BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE COMFORT LEVEL RIGHT NOW THERE IN A TRI CAMPUS AREA SO ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE CART PRACTICES AND WHERE THEY ARE IN THAT MODEL I WOULD CHALLENGE ANYONE TO GO INTO THE MAJORITY OF OUR SCHOOLS WHICH ARE PRE-K THROUGH FIVE SCHOOLS AND SEE THAT THE INSTRUCTIONAL PIECES THAT GO ON IN PRE-K THROUGH SECOND GRADE SCHOOL GO ON AND ALL FIFTY FIVE OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND SO I CERTAINLY RESPECT AND VALUE WHAT OUR COMMUNITY SAYING AND CERTAINLY

242WILL GO IN THE DIRECTION THAT THE BOARD WANTS AGO BUT AS A 30 YEARS OF YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD OF EDUCATIONAL DID NOT SAY WHAT I BELIEVE IS EDUCATIONALLY SOUND FOR CHILDREN. THANK YOU BASED CHAIR WEEMES THAT WAS THAT WAS ACTUALLY MY QUESTION AS WELL BUT I WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL AGAIN AND REITERATE WHAT DR. GREEN SAID IT WAS IS SO NICE TO BE ABLE TO BE THERE IN PERSON AND ACTUALLY TALK AND I WAS I WAS KIND OF SURPRISED TO SEE THE RESULTS BECAUSE WHEN I WAS TALKING AROUND IT WAS LIKE 50 50. I COULDN'T REALLY EVEN AND I DIDN'T WANT TO SAY THAT MISS FELTON ALSO JOINED US YOU ANNOUNCE THAT RUMSFELD AND WAS ALL ARE ALSO THERE AS WELL AND FOR COMING SO TO THANK YOU SO MUCH. OK

243I'M GOING SPEAK AND THEN GO BACK GO BACK TO THOSE THAT ARE BECAUSE YES OK JUST YES OK. I JUST WANT TO BE SURE SO I'M LOOKING AT THIS DATA AND I KNOW THAT YOU MENTIONED FUTURE STUDENTS AND I THINK FROM A DATA STANDPOINT THAT PARTICULAR NUMBER DOESN'T MAKE UP THE THE LION'S SHARE OF THAT BETWEEN CURRENT STUDENTS FUTURE STUDENTS. SO THAT'S IT'S 18 PEOPLE VERSUS ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR. SO YOU KNOW IT DOES ADD TO IT THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND I'VE HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH ABOUT THIS HAVE SIGNALED THAT THEY WOULD WANT A PRE-K THROUGH ONE MODEL AND A TWO THROUGH FIVE AND HAVING HAVEN'T BEEN A SINGLE PARENT PREVIOUSLY LIVING IN POVERTY BEFORE

244MY HEART FEELS LIKE THAT MY MY STUDENTS SCHOOL BUILDING WAS THE MOST STABLE THING THAT I HAD TO BRING THEM TO THAT BUILDING IT WAS THE MOST STABLE THING IN THEIR LIFE AT THE TIME AND SO ON THAT SIDE I FEEL LIKE THE PRE-K THROUGH FIVE MODEL IS ONE THAT I PERSONALLY PREFER BUT I'M I'M GOING TO SIGNAL AT THIS PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME THAT I INTEND TO SUPPORT THE PRE-K THROUGH FIRST AND THE SECOND THROUGH FIFTH MODEL AS OUR COMMUNITY WE'RE ALREADY REDUCING TRANSITION AND SO I THINK THAT WE CAN TRY THIS AND IF THE COMMUNITY COMES BACK AND THE COMMUNITY SAYS IT'S THIS ISN'T WORKING AND WE WANT TO DO PRE-K THROUGH FIVE OR THE DATA SHOWS THAT IT'S IT'S CHANGING SOMETHING THAT I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD TAKE

245ANOTHER LOOK AT BUT I JUST WANT TO SIGNAL I AM I'M GOING TO PLAN TO SUPPORT OPTION TWO WITH THAT DR. GREEN, THANK YOU. AND DR. HAMLYN I'M GOING TO TRUMP YOU NO PUN INTENDED I'M AN EDUCATOR LONGER THAN DR. HAMLIN HAS BEEN AND MY FOCUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE CHILD DEVELOP MENTALLY AS A TEACHER, SCHOOL COUNSELOR ADMINISTRATOR ,FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES SO FOR ME THE DEVELOPMENTAL PS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ALSO IN MY DISTRICT FOR WE HAVE THE ONLY TITLE ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT THESE STUDENTS GO TO SO TO SAY THAT WE HAVE TO BE LIKE THE OTHER SCHOOLS I BEG TO DIFFER ON THAT BECAUSE I THINK BECAUSE OF THE NURTURING THE DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS AND THAT TARGETED FOCUS IT HAS HELPED THOSE STUDENTS IN MY COMMUNITY TO BE SUCCESSFUL I

246ALSO SAY THAT TO SAY WE PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THEY STILL HAVE MORE TRANSITIONS. WE HAVE REDUCED TRANSITIONS BY TWO AND SOME THE COMMENTS SOME OF YOU HEARD COMMENTS ONE EVENING FOR TWO HOURS BELIEVE ME. THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ALSO ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITIES, YOU'RE NEVER DUTY YOU RUN TO THE FOOD LINE, YOU HEAR COMMENTS AND WHAT I THINK I HEARD FROM DISTRICT FOR AND I TOLD HIM WHAT YOU NEED TO GO FILL UP SURVEYED THAT'S HOW YOU FEEL IS THAT THEY APPRECIATE THE NURTURING THAT THEY DO RECEIVE. ALSO YOU KNOW THE PARENTS HAVE GOTTEN ACCUSTOMED TO STUDENTS BEING SEPARATED BY AGE AND YOU KNOW, HAVEN'T YOU KNOW YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T GET INTO TRANSPORT AND THINGS BUT THIS OPTION. TWO IS IN MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION AS WELL DR. HAMLYN AND WE AND WE CAN

247CONTINUE TO DEBATE THE MERITS OF THAT BUT I THINK OPTION TWO FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR WHICH I LIVE IN AS WELL SO I GET DATA THAT YOU DON'T HAVE >> BECAUSE I LIVE IN THAT COMMUNITY I'M A MEMBER OF THAT COMMUNITY. I VISIT BUS STOPS I SEE THESE PARENTS IN GROCERY STORES AT THE WAL-MART TARGET. I MEAN SO I HAVE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE AS WELL IN THE DATA FOR ME UNEQUIVOCABLY SUPPORTS I WILL NOT HAVE A PROBLEM SAYING YES. OPTION TWO THANK YOU AND I ACCIDENTALLY SKIPPED OVER MR BOWEN STEEL SO WE'RE GOING TO MR. BONESTEEL THEN THIS YOU'RE NOT IN LINE. OK, OK, I'M ON THE PAPER BELIEVE THAT OPTION ONE LOOKS BETTER IN MY OPINION HOWEVER THE PEOPLE THAT SAY THAT SAY THAT THEY WANTED OPTION I'M REALLY NOT OPPOSED OPTION TWO ONE

248OF THE THINGS I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT WAS WHEN JERRY BROWN SAID SOMETHING OUT IF IT DOESN'T WORK WE CAN GO AHEAD AND CHANGE IT. I'M KIND CURIOUS ON WHAT THAT WOULD ACTUALLY INVOLVE. YEAH, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ONCE THE BUILDINGS ARE THE WINGS ARE ADDED AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS MR. FREEMAN THEIR OF EXPERTIZE AND CERTAINLY MELISA'S AREA EXPERTIZE SWITCHING OF THE SCHOOLS AFTER THAT POINT WOULD BE MORE COSTLY UNLESS I'M WRONG. SO WHAT THAT WOULD INVOLVE TO SWITCH TO AN OPTION ONE WOULD BE TO ASSIGN AN AREA OF EGYPT HAVING ZONE TO THE SCHOOLS WE WOULD JUST GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS WITH THE SPACE THAT'S ALLOCATED TO EACH OF THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS SO THERE WOULD BE THE NEED TO JUST CONSIDER WHAT'S BEEN BUILT AHEAD OF

249TIME WITH OPTION TWO AS THAT IF OPTION WAS WAS SWITCHED TO IT BUT IT WOULD BE A PROCESS WE WOULD DEAL WITH THE U.S. AND IT WOULD BE ABLE TO BE DONE WELL JUST KEEPING IN MIND THAT BY THE TIME AFTER IT WAS BUILT NEWTOWN WILL BE MUCH LARGER NEWTOWN WILL BE MUCH LARGER BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO CONTAIN SECOND THIRD FOURTH AND FIFTH AND THE OTHER THE OTHER SCHOOL WOULD BE JUST PRE-K KINDERGARTNER FIRST AND SO IF YOU WERE TO CHOOSE TO GO FIVE AFTER THAT THE SCHOOL THE SIZE OF THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THE CHILDREN THAT THE BUILDINGS ACCOMMODATE WOULD STILL HAVE TO BE WITHIN THOSE LARGER AND SMALLER RINGS. MISS MALNIK AS A PARENT AS AN EDUCATOR, I TOO FEEL WELL EQUIPPED TO WEIGH IN ON THIS. I FIRST GRADE BUT THE TRUTH

250IS IS WE ASKED THE COMMUNITY THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT THIS COURT DECIDED TO DO. WE WENT TO THE COMMUNITY THE COMMITTEE SPOKE AT AND I'M GOING TO HONOR WISHES. I ACTUALLY LIKE OPTION TO BETTER ANYWAY BUT WE ASKED THEY SPOKE AND WE COULD DELIVER ON THAT. SO DR. ROBERTSON DO YOU NEED ANY DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD ON WHICH ONE WE'RE VOTING ON AT OUR NEXT MEETING I MEAN HOW DO WE GET OUR NEXT MEETING? WE WOULD GIVE YOU THE TWO OPTIONS TO VOTE ON OK, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE WORK ON THIS ON THIS AND WE ARE NOW ON TO FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS AND WE WELCOME BACK DR. ARENA KELLY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY TEACHING AND LEARNING. Q GIDDY ME AGAIN, CHAIR BROWN, VICE CHAIR WEEMES SCHOOL BOARD DR. ROBERTSON

251I, I AM LOOKING AT KELLY AS YOU I AM HERE WITH A TEAM A TEAM OF COLLEAGUES AGAIN THIS EVENING TO SHARE WITH YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE TWENTY 526 TWENTY SIX FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR PROGRAMS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE AS AMENDED BY THE EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT OF 2015 FEDERAL GUIDELINES REQUIRES SCHOOL BOARD APPROVAL OF THESE GRANT APPLICATIONS. WE BRING THESE APPLICATIONS FOR TO YOU ANNUALLY FOR YOUR REVIEW AND APPROVAL THE PURPOSE OF THIS PRESENTATION IS TO PROVIDE YOU AN OVERVIEW THE GRANTS THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS ESTABLISHED APPLICATION DEADLINE OF JULY 1ST TWENTY TWENTY FIVE THIS SLIDE PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE PAST, CURRENT AND PROJECTED FUNDING AMOUNTS FOR EACH GRANT THE FINAL TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX AWARD AMOUNTS FOR ALL GRANTS WILL BE

252DETERMINED AT A LATER DATE LEVEL FUNDING IS BASED ON CURRENT YEAR AWARDS AND IS USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING THE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX APPLICATION BUDGETS THE TITLE ONE PART A GRANT IS ANTICIPATED FOR JUST UNDER SEVENTEEN POINT SEVEN DOLLARS MILLION THE APPLICATION WAS PREPARED AND SCHOOLS IDENTIFIED TO BE TITLE ONE SCHOOLS USING DATA FROM THE COMMUNITY ELIGIBILITY PROVISIONS OR KEEP DATA REPORTS TITLE ONE PARTY FUNDS PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS WITH HIGH PERCENTAGES OF CHILDREN FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES TO HELP TO ENSURE THAT ALL CHILDREN MEAT CHALLENGING ACADEMIC CONTENT AND ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS THE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX APPLICATION INCLUDES TITLE ONE AND PRE-K SUPPORT STAFF AND RESOURCES INSTRUCTIONAL STAFFING ALLOCATIONS BEYOND THE DIVISION ALLOCATIONS, SUCH POSITIONS INCLUDE ADDITIONAL LITERACY LEADERS, MATH COACHES, INSTRUCTIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE, SCHOOL COUNSELORS, BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION SPECIALIST TEACHER ASSISTANTS,

253FAMILY OUTREACH REPRESENTATIVES GIFTED RESOURCE TEACHERS AND ESL TEACHER AND A SOCIAL WORKER . ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR TUTORING FIELD TRIPS STIPENDS, STIPENDS, INCENTIVES AND SUMMER PROGRAMS ARE INCLUDED IN THE GRANT APPLICATION. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF AT FAMILY ENGAGEMENT SUPPORT ARE ALSO PROVIDED TITLE EIGHT PART F OF THE ESEA MANDATES THAT DIVISIONS PROVIDE EQUITABLE SERVICES FOR ELIGIBLE PRIVATE SCHOOLS, ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS ARE ALSO PROVIDED. A MEMO DATED SIX TWENTY TWENTY FIVE WAS SENT TO THE BOARD WITH THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE TATTOO ONE FUNDING FOR THE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX SCHOOL YEAR TOLD ONE PART D SUBPART TWO IS ANTICIPATED FOR JUST UNDER ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR NEGLECTED AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN AND UNDER THE AGE OF

254TWENTY ONE IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND FOR OTHER AT RISK POPULATIONS TO PREPARE THEM FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL COMPLETION TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND FURTHER EDUCATION IN ADDITION THE FUNDS ARE USED TO USED TO SUPPORT STUDENTS RESIDING AND DELINQUENT FACILITIES TO SUPPORT THE TRANSITION OF STUDENTS FROM THOSE FACILITIES AND THE VIRGINIA BEACH JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER BACK TO VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCLUDING RENAISSANCE ACADEMY AND TO SUPPORT DROPOUT PREVENTION PROGRAMS THE TITLE TO PART A GRANT IS ANTICIPATED FOR JUST OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS. THIS GRANT PROVIDES FUNDS TO IMPROVE THE SKILLS OF TEACHERS AND THE QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION IN CORE ACADEMIC SUBJECTS AND ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. IT SUPPORTS ACTIVITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS AND OTHER SCHOOL LEADERS THE PROGRAM AIMS TO IMPROVE HIGH QUALITY SYSTEMS SUPPORT FOR EXCELLENT TEACHING A LEARNING STYLE TO

255THE TITLE TO GRANT WILL FUND ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES AS EITHER LITERACY LEADERS OR MATH SPECIALIST TO SERVE IN ELEMENTARY MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS. TITLE EIGHT PART F MANDATES THE DIVISION PROVIDES EQUITABLE SERVICES FOR ELIGIBLE PRIVATE SCHOOLS TITLE THREE PART A IS ANTICIPATED AT JUST UNDER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. THIS GRANT IS UTILIZED OFF ON THE SALARY AND BENEFITS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE OF AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER STRUCTURAL SPECIALIST. THIS SPECIALIST ASSISTS ESL AND CLASSROOM TEACHERS WITH INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT AS WELL AS PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SELLING AND CLASSROOM TEACHERS. THE GRANT ALSO PROVIDES FUNDING FOR EDUCATORS TO ATTEND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING RELATIVE TO THE ENGLISH LEARNERS AND BEST PRACTICES. THE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX APPLICATION INCLUDES ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO SUPPORT STIPENDS FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS FAMILY ENGAGEMENT LIAISON'S AND TO SUPPORT FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. FURTHERMORE, THE GRANT FUNDS ELEVATION

256WHICH IS A DIGITAL PLATFORM THAT ALLOWS TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS TO ACCESS ENGLISH LEARNERS STUDENT DATA SUPPORTS DIGITAL MEETINGS STUDENT ACCOMMODATION PLANNING ,PLANNING AND MONITORING PURPOSES AND PROVIDES FEDERALLY MANDATED DOCUMENTS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES AGAIN TITLE EIGHT PART F OF THE ESEA MANDATES DIVISIONS PROVIDE EQUITABLE SERVICES FOR ELIGIBLE PRIVATE SCHOOLS THE TITLE FOR PART A GRANT IS ANTICIPATED AT JUST OVER ONE POINT THREE MILLION AND FUNDS ARE INTENDED TO APPROVE STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT BY INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF GOAL DIVISIONS TO PROVIDE ALL STUDENTS WITH ACCESS TO A WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION AND YOU'RE SAFE AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS AND INCREASE EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS FROM THE TITLE FOUR A GRANT INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ADVANCED PLACEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE EXAM FEES GRADUATION LABS TO CLOSE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS AND IMPROVE GRADUATION RATES. SUPPLEMENTAL STAFFING NEEDS

257GRAD COACHES PROVIDING CLASSROOM MATERIALS INCLUDING INTERVENTION RESOURCES AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND TITLE EIGHT PART F OF MANDATES THAT THE DIVISIONS PROVIDE ACTUAL SERVICES FOR ELIGIBLE PRIVATE SCHOOLS THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO PRESENT THIS INFORMATION TO THIS EVENING THE APPLICATIONS THE APPLICATIONS WILL BE POSTED FOR PUBLIC VIEW AND COMMENTS AND WE WILL RETURN TO YOU AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING TO REQUEST CONSENT FOR SUBMISSION TO THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ED. WE STAND READY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE DR. GREEN. THANK YOU, DR. KELLY FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. QUICK QUESTION. MY YOU KNOW I KNOW THE ANSWER BUT I FEEL THAT THE VIEWING PUBLIC NEEDS TO HAVE THE ANSWER GIVEN ALL THE DISCUSSION AROUND DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND ABILITIES SO COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHO BENEFITS FROM THE EQUITABLE SERVICES IN OUR PRIVATE SCHOOLS WE FOLLOW

258THE SAME REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GRANTS IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS WE ARE PROVIDED A SPECIFIC AMOUNT THAT IS BASED ON PRIVATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SO THE STUDENTS AND THAT IN THOSE PRIVATE SCHOOLS WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THE SAME THE SAME REQUIREMENTS OF THE FEDERAL GRANTS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THEIR PRIVATE SCHOOL SETTING CAN YOU GIVE US MAYBE ONE EXAMPLE OF COMPARABLE SERVICES AS TO WHY IN PRIVATE SCHOOL A STUDENT WOULD HAVE THAT SUCH SHARES THERE A SPECIAL NEED OR SOME OTHER REQUIREMENT? SURE WE IS DEFINITELY SHARE THAT INFORMATION BUT I CAN SHARE I CAN SHARE A VERY EASY EXAMPLE ALL USE TITLE TO WHICH IS AIMED TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS SO WE RECEIVE SPECIFIC FUNDING BASED ON OUR DATA WE LOOK FOR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES. WE HAVE PORTION

259OF OUR BUDGET THAT OUR PRIVATE SCHOOLS RECEIVE BASED ON THEIR STUDENT ENROLLMENT AND THEY ARE ALSO ABLE TO TAKE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON THAT AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT REQUIRED ALL OF OUR GRANTS DO THAT TITLE ONE HAS MOVED OVER TO US BEING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OVERSEEING THAT WHICH WAS A CHANGE THAT'S WHY WE'RE INCLUDING ON EACH SIDE BUT THERE ARE THE SAME REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR THE FEDERAL GRANTS THAT WE FOLLOW THE PRIVATE WILL FOLLOW. ALL RIGHT THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I HAD ONE QUESTION BUT YOU ANSWERED IT RIGHT WHEN YOU ARE GIVEN THE PRESENTATION SO I HAD WRITTEN IT DOWN BUT YOU ALREADY ANSWERED IT BECAUSE YOU'RE SO THOROUGH. SO THANK YOU ALL RIGHT WE ARE NOW ARE NOW TO OUR BUDGET UPDATE. WE WELCOME CRYSTAL PATE,

260CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER SO THAT EVENING TO YOUR HOME YOUR HOME AND BROWN VICE CHAIRWOMAN REINCE MEMBERS AFTER ROBERTSON SO ON MAY 2ND TWENTY TWENTY GOVERNOR YANKING COMPLETED ACTION ON THE STATE BUDGET SENT TO HIM BY THE JOURNALISTS WITH REGARD TO K-12 REGARD TO K-12 EDUCATION, NONE OF THE GOVERNORS AMENDMENTS ALTERED THE FUNDING AMOUNTS FOR THE FOUR MAJOR K-12 EDUCATION CATEGORIES. THE SUPPORT CAP REMAINS FUNDED BONUSES FOR SO KEY POSITIONS WERE APPROVED TO BE PAID OUT THIS FISCAL YEAR AN ADDITIONAL ALLOCATIONS WERE MADE FOR ESL AND SPECIAL EDUCATION. THIS PRESENTATION TO PROVIDE THE BOARD WITH AN UPDATE, REVIEW THE TIMELINE AND OUTLINE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATIONS THE SLIDE OUTLINES THE AGENDA. WE WILL REVIEW THE BUDGET TIMELINE PROVIDE AN UPDATE SPECIFIC TO VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HIGHLIGHT KEY BUDGET NEEDS SHARE THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATIONS AND DISCUSS NEXT

261STEPS FOLLOWED BY ANY BOARD QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THIS TIMELINE BEGINS WITH A C ON ADOPTION MARCH 11TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE THE SESSION WAS PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL ON APRIL 1ST THE GOVERNOR SIGNED THE FINAL BUDGET ON MAY 2ND TODAY MAY 13TH WE ARE PROVIDING YOU WITH AN UPDATE AND CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED OUR BUDGET THIS EVENING IN THEIR MEETING WE PLAN TO RETURN TO THE BOARD ON MAY TWENTY SEVENTH FOR ACTION ONCE APPROVED WE WILL COORDINATE WITH CITY STAFF TO ADD THE AMENDED BUDGET IN THE CITY COUNCIL'S AGENDA FOR APPROVAL SOMETIME IN JUNE THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE ADOPTED STATE BUDGET RESULTING IN NET INCREASE OF APPROXIMATELY THIRTEEN POINT SIX DOLLARS MILLION IN REVENUE THIS INCLUDES TWO POINT SEVEN MILLION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION OUT ON NINE POINT FIVE MILLION FOR STANDARDS OF QUALITY BASIC A FIVE

262HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE THOUSAND FOR THE COMPENSATION SUPPLEMENT FIVE HUNDRED NINETY TWO THOUSAND FOR AT RISK FUNDED OUT OF THE LOTTERY AND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX THOUSAND FOR STANDARDS QUALITY AT RISK PROGRAMS. AS I MENTIONED A FEW MINUTES AGO THE CITY COUNCIL DID APPROVE OUR SECOND BUDGET ALONG THEIR BUDGET WITHIN THEIR BUDGET THERE'S A PROJECTED FOR THEIR REVENUE SHARING FORMULA THAT SHOWS THAT THEY PROJECT THAT THIS REVENUE SHORTFALL AND PROVIDE THE DIVISION WITHIN AN ADDITIONAL TWO POINT NINE DOLLARS MILLION AT TWO POINT NINE DOLLARS MILLION HAS BEEN PUT INTO RESERVE ON THE SCHOOL GENERAL FUND RESERVE ON THE CITY'S BOOKS AND THAT RIGHT NOW IS BEING RECOMMENDED FOR TO PUT IN THE CITY OR TO REDUCE BONDS BUT DEFINITELY INTO THE SCHIP VIP PROGRAM THAT WAS PROVED THROUGH THEIR BUDGET THIS EVENING. WE DID

263NOT SHOW IT ON THIS SIDE BECAUSE HONESTLY I WAS CREATED IT WASN'T APPROVED YET WE WHEN WE COME BACK TO YOU ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH WE'LL HAVE A REVISED THAT SHOWS THAT ADDITIONAL REVENUE SHARING FORMULA IN THE LOCAL LINE ITEM THE >> BUDGET NEEDS IS IDENTIFIED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD WHEN ADDITIONAL STATE FUNDING AMOUNTS ARE SHARED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND INCLUDED FOUR POINT ONE MILLION TO INCREASE THE INSTRUCTIONAL PAY SCALE ENTRY LEVEL SALARY FROM TWO PERCENT TO THREE PERCENT PAIRED WITH A ONE POINT FIVE PERCENT STEP INCREASE FOR A TOTAL OF FOUR POINT FIVE PERCENT INCREASE FOUR POINT EIGHT MILLION TO RESTORE ON PART TO PROPOSED CUTS AND TWO MILLION TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR PAY GO OF COURSE TO THE BOARD HAVE OTHER NEEDS TO PRESENT WE CAN DO

264OUR BEST TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE USE OF THE REMAINING TEN POINT NINE DOLLARS MILLION IN NEW REVENUE WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE TWO POINT SEVEN MILLION MUST DESIGNATED FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION. ONE IMPORTANT CAVEAT IS WE NEED TO PRESENT THE BOARD WITH A REVISED AND FINAL OPERATING BUDGET AND SKYPE ON MAY TWENTY SEVEN WITH STAFF CONTRACTS SLATED TO BE SHARED WITH STAFF THE FINAL WEEK OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TWENTY TWENTY SIX ALIGNED WITH THE IDENTIFIED BUDGET NEEDS TWO POINT SEVEN MILLION SPECIAL EDUCATION THE FOUR POINT ONE MILLION TO STRENGTHEN EDUCATOR COMPENSATION BY INCREASING THAT INSTRUCTIONAL PAY SCALE ENTRY LEVEL SALARY FROM TWO PERCENT TO THREE PERCENT WITH A ONE POINT FIVE PERCENT INCREASE FOR A TOTAL OF FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT THIS ALIGNS WITH THE COMPENSATION INCREASE FOR THE UNIFIED SCALE PRIVACY APPROVED

265AS PART OF THE SECOND FOUR POINT EIGHT MILLION AGAIN TO RESTORE THE PART TO PROPOSED REDUCTIONS IN THE SEA ON AN AREA WHERE DR. ROBERTSON HAS REITERATED THROUGHOUT A BUDGET PROCESS WHICH INCLUDES CUTS THAT WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT OPERATIONS AND TWO MILLION TO INCREASE FUNDING RECIPE PEGO AND AREA THE SCHOOL BOARD AND CITY COUNCIL HAVE A HIGH INTEREST A RECAP OF THE MARCH TWENTY FIFTH SECOND PART PROPOSED REDUCTIONS ARE THE ELIMINATION OF THIRTY FOUR CENTRAL OFFICE POSITIONS RESULTING IN APPROXIMATELY TWO POINT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IN SAVINGS. WHILE SOME POSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY VACANT AS A RESULT OF THE SESSION, THEY ARE INTEGRAL SUPPORTING CORE OPERATIONS AND WE WOULD LIKE TO OPEN THEM TO STAFFING STAFF AND PHIL POSITIONS WOULD BE REASSIGNED BASED ON CERTIFICATIONS THIS FIGHT OUTLINES OVER TWO POINT THREE DOLLARS IN LINE ITEM CUTS ALSO

266SHARE WITH THE BOARD ON MARCH TWENTY FIFTH MOST CUTS FALL UNDER THE SCHOOL DIVISION SERVICES AREA TO MINIMIZE DIRECT INSTRUCTIONAL IMPACT. HOWEVER THESE ITEMS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR MAINTAINING CLEAN ,SAFE AND COMFORTABLE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS NOTABLY, THE PROPOSAL INCLUDES ENDING HOURLY FOR NEW TEACHERS DURING ORIENTATION WHICH WOULD BE INTEGRATED INTO THE AND SERVICE WHEN CONTRACTS BEGIN FOR PHYSICALLY OR TWENTY TWENTY FIVE ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS DISTRIBUTING SIX MILLION FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX DOLLARS IN ONE TIME BONUS FUNDS . THIS THE SCHOOL YEAR WITH SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE DOLLAR BONUSES BONUS TO EMPLOYEES ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL SCALE AND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR BONUS TO EMPLOYEES ON A UNIFIED SCALE THIS WILL BE FULLY COVERED BY THE ADDITIONAL STATE MONEY ALLOCATED FOR FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY FIVE REMINDER VESSEL KEY POSITIONS IS SHOWN

267ON THIS SO THE SIX MILLION FIVE FOUR THREE TWENTY SIX FINDS FUNDS A ONE TIME BONUS RESCUE FUND POSITIONS FUNDED POSITIONS WHICH TOTALED SIX THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN POINT FORTY POSITIONS THAT'S COMPRISED HAVE ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FOUR POINT SEVENTY FIVE SO Q FUNDED SUPPORT POSITIONS AND FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND ELEVEN POINT SIX SEVEN SOTU FUNDED INSTRUCTIONAL POSITIONS WE PRESENTED TO YOU EARLIER IN THE YEAR. WE LIKE MOST DIVISIONS IN THE COMMONWEALTH STAFF OF ASSOCIATE LEVELS TO MEET STUDENT NEEDS EVEN FOR SO KEY POSITIONS STATE FUNDING IS PARTIAL LOCALITIES MUST FUND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TOTAL COST AND WHAT THE STATE PAYS. SOME EXAMPLES HOW THEY ASSOCIATE POSITIONS WORK. WE ARE FUNDED FOR EIGHT ELEMENTARY ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS BUT WE AUTHORIZED SIXTEEN THE STATE FUNDS FOR THIRTY SEVEN KINDERGARTEN AIDES AND HE AUTHORIZED TWO

268HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO FOR GRADES ONE FIVE TEACHERS THE STATE FUNDS AS NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE WE AUTHORIZED ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND ONE FOR TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS THE ST. FUNDS US THIRTY NINE. WE AUTHORIZE A EVER OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TECHNICAL AND CLERICAL THE STATE FUNDS AS FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO AND WE AUTHORIZED ELEVEN AND THERE ARE OTHERS. THE STANDARDS OF QUALITY SET THE MINIMUM EXPECTATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CALCULATES THE FUNDING NEEDED TO MEET THE STANDARDS BASED ON SPECIFIC FORMULAS INCLUDING STUDENT ENROLLMENT, STAFFING RATIO AND PREVAILING SS DATA IN VIRGINIA NINE AT NON ASSOCIATE POSITIONS REFER TO STAFF ROLES NOT FUNDED UNDER THE STATES AS SOCHI FORMULA. THESE POSITIONS BE ON THE MINIMUM STAFFING REQUIREMENTS THAT THE COMMONWEALTH FUNDS FOR PUBLIC THROUGH TWELVE SCHOOLS. ANY STAFF BEYOND THE

269ASSOCIATE FORMULAS ARE NOT FUNDED UNDER THE SACU AND EXAMPLES INCLUDE CUSTODIAL STAFF, BUS DRIVERS AND ASSISTANTS, FOOD SERVICES STAFF, SECURITY ASSISTANCE AND BUDGET AND FINANCE STAFF SO OUR NEXT DABBS HAS PREVIOUSLY MENTION CITY COUNCIL DID APPROVE THIS BUDGET THIS EVENING WE'RE SEEKING FEEDBACK AND GUIDANCE FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD TONIGHT THIS THAT IS NECESSARY BECAUSE PERSONNEL CONTRACTS MUST BE FINALIZED AND DISTRIBUTED BEFORE STAFF LEAVE IN MID-JUNE AND CITY COUNCIL MUST REVIEW AND APPROVE OUR REVISED BUDGET AFTER ABOARD TAKES ACTION PLAN FOR MAY TWENTY SEVEN UPON APPROVAL THE FINAL VERSIONS WILL BE SUBMITTED TO CITY COUNCIL FOR ACTION THAT CONCLUDES THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK FROM THE BOARD SO WILL MR. COLIN APPLIED FOR GIVES US THE SPREADSHEET THAT WE'VE SEEN ON MANY AN OCCASION AND WE END UP WITH THE ADDITIONAL DOLLARS

270OF THIRTEEN IN 585 SIXTY NINE AND THEN NINE AND THEN WE HAVE A SERIES OF CATEGORIES FIVE ALL TOGETHER THAT SHOW HOW THAT IS BEING CHIPPED AWAY UNTIL WE GET TO A BOTTOM LINE ZERO SO WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY INDEBTEDNESS BUT MY QUESTION IS THE INFORMATION THAT'S SHOWN UNDER HOW FUNDS ARE TO BE ALLOCATED BOOBA IS NOT THE SAME AS THE NEW INFORMATION ON FIVE AND IT WAS IN THE HAND OUT THAT I HAVE PICKED UP ON AND WAS REVIEWING THE HARD COPY THAT I ALWAYS DO . SO WE JUST THREW ME A CURVE BALL AND NOW I'M TRYING TO RECOVER SUCH A DO SUCH A GOOD JOB AT THAT. NO SO THIS IS THIS IS WHERE WE PRESENTED IT. WE PRESENTED AWAY BUT THEN WE DECIDED THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO

271PRESENT HOW AT THIRTEEN POINT SIX DOLLARS MILLION WAS RECEIVED IN WHAT AREAS TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS CHART SHOWS YOU THAT ALLOCATION THAT THIRTEEN POINT SIX MILLION . SO THAT'S ON SLIDE SLIDE FOUR THAT IS NOT REALLY WHAT HOW THAT'S BEING ALLOCATED THAT'S. THAT'S HOW THAT THIRTEEN POINT SIX MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE STATE COMES THROUGH THOSE FUNDING SOURCES SO WE WERE JUST TRYING TO GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION THAT THERE'S A SPECIAL ED ED AD ON THERE'S BASIC SCHOOL AID THERE'S A PIECE FOR COMPENSATION SOMETHING WHICH IS SHOWING YOU HOW THE STATE GAVE US THAT THIRTEEN POINT SIX MILLION BUT THOSE ARE DEBITS NOT CREDITS. CORRECT THEY ARE JUST THEY ARE IS THAT AN ADD ON OR SUBTRACTION >>? IT IS SHOWING HOW THAT THIRTEEN POINT SIX DOLLARS MILLION WAS ARRIVED AT. YEAH, YEAH. OK, DOES

272THAT HELP SLIDE >> FIVE IS THE IMPORTANT SLIDE THEN AS IT RELATES TO WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE DOLLARS TO REVEAL THAT IS CORRECT IS CORRECT. OK, THANKS CURVEBALL MISS ROGERS THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION OF A QUICK QUESTION SLIDE THIS SLIDE SIX IT SAYS FOR THE TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL YEAR BONUS FUNDS TO GIVE TEACHER SEVEN POINT SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS AND ALL OTHER FULL TIME EMPLOYEES 525 TWENTY FIVE. DOES THAT INCLUDE OUR DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SENIOR DIRECTORS CHIEFS ALL OF CHIEFS? ALL OF THEM WILL GET A BONUS YOU'RE ON THE UNIFIED SCALE THE WAY IT'S THAT RECOMMENDATION IS BUT IF WE DON'T GIVE IT TO UNIFIED SCALE THAN THEN WE CUT OUR CUSTODIANS AND OUR BUS DRIVERS AND OUR YES >> K I'LL REITERATE THE NEED TO SEPARATE THAT OUT. THANK

273YOU MR. CUMMINGS. MY QUESTION ALSO SIMILAR I THINK THE BOARD'S HAD KIND VERY FEW OFFLINE DISCUSSIONS. I WON'T SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY BUT DIVIDING THAT LUMP SUM YOU KNOW ,EQUALLY AMONG EVERYONE AND THEN I KNOW THERE'S ALSO BEEN SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT WITH MISS ROGERS SAID HUCKABEE LAND ON THE I'M JUST KIND OF KIND OF CURIOUS HOW WOULD WE LAND THE SEVEN SEVENTY FIVE FIVE TWENTY FIVE I GOT SO ALL THE SUPERINTENDENTS REASON WERE SHARED HOW THEY WERE GOING TO SPEND THE MONEY FOR THE BONUS AND SO THERE'S 15 SCHOOL DIVISIONS HAVE REASON TO I WANT TO SAY FOUR FIVE OF THOSE DIVISIONS OR OR GIVING THE BONUS FROM THE STATE AS IT WAS DELIVERED TO INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF ONE OF THOSE DIVISIONS IS IS NOT ONLY DOING AT BUT THEY'RE GIVEN A LITTLE BIT MORE TO PAY

274FOR THE TAXES. SO IT'S STRAIGHT ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS THE OTHER TEN TEN SCHOOL DIVISIONS ARE BREAKING IT UP WHERE BECAUSE FOR THE SAME REASONS WE BROKE IT UP HERE WHERE THEY'RE DOING SEVEN FIFTY AND FIVE HUNDRED WE WHEN WE LOOKED AT OUR DOLLAR AMOUNT WE COULD AT THE SEVEN SEVENTY FIVE AND FIVE TWENTY FIVE IF YOU RECALL WE ORIGINALLY TALKED ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE WANTED TO JUST TAKE THE TOTAL AND DIVIDED EQUALLY AMONG ALL FULL TIME EMPLOYEES WHICH WOULD COME TO ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS SIX FIFTY SIX HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS PER PERSON. SO THIS JUST A PROPOSAL AGAIN THE BOARD CAN GIVE US DIRECTION ON WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH THESE BONUSES THE RATIONALE HERE WAS IS NOT LEAVE ANY EMPLOYEES BEHIND AND SO SOME OF OUR LOWEST PAID EMPLOYEES

275WOULD NOT RECEIVE ANY OF THIS MONEY BONUS AND WHEN TALKED TEACHER FORM LEADERSHIP COUNCIL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, TEACHER ASSEMBLY AND MY SUPERINTENDENT FEATURES ADVISORY COUNCILS IT WAS TWO TO ONE AND THOSE VOTES WHERE THOSE TEACHERS FELT LIKE ALTHOUGH THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THEY WOULD APPRECIATE THE THOUSAND DOLLARS THEY DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE SAYING NO ONE ELSE GETS IT EXCEPT US. SO BUT NOW AGAIN THAT'S A LIMITED GROUPS I DON'T WANT BUT I THINK THAT THAT REPRESENTS TEACHERS THOSE ARE THE THREE GROUPS THREE GROUPS THAT I SPOKE WITH I THINK I'D LOVE TO HEAR SOME OTHER THOUGHTS FROM FOLKS THE BOARD ON HOW WE GO ABOUT MR. COLPEPER IN ADDITION ON SLIDE SIX SO LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT THIS IS DOWN TO ZERO IN ON TOP OF THAT THEY UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY THAT THE CITY WAS GOING TO

276POINT ITS TWO POINT NINE MILLION POINT NINE MILLION WHICH WE EXPECT TO GO TO PAY GO OR SOMETHING. WHAT WE SAY THAT'S CORRECT. OK, SO I HAVE TWO THINGS AND I DON'T HAVE A BUTTON TO PUT MYSELF IN LINE SO AND DID CHECK WITH MR. POTENTIAL HE WAS OK HOW HE WAS OK WITH ME GOING FIRST. THE FIRST ONE IS BACK TO WHAT MR. CUMMINGS MENTIONED ABOUT THE BONUS AND THE ARRIVAL AT THAT NUMBER AND I WILL SHARE THAT I ACTUALLY HAD TALKED TO DR. ROBERTSON EARLIER TODAY ABOUT THAT VERY ITEM. I FEEL LIKE AN EVIL EVEN LOW LEVEL BONUS OF SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS. IT REALLY SUPPORTS OUR BUS DRIVERS BUS DRIVER ASSISTANT OR NONIS OCU OR THESE UPD CUSTODIAL STAFF THAT CRAFTY I GUESS OUR BUS DRIVER MAY DRIVER MAY NOT MEET

277THAT CRITERIA CORRECT OR THEY FULL THEY FULL TIME? THERE ARE PARTIAL PARTIAL FEES THAT ARE ON THE LIST AND SO THEY WOULD GET A PARTIAL OF WHAT WE HAVE WHATEVER IS DECIDED BY THE BOARD TO PAY OUT OK THAT'S VERY THAT'S VERY GOOD INFORMATION. THANK YOU OUR FOOD SERVICE WORKERS ARE SECURITY ASSISTANCE AND STAFF. I FEEL LIKE ALL OF THOSE EMPLOYEES REALLY HELP OUR DIVISION WORK AND I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE ANY OF THEM BEHIND OR CREATE AN US VERSUS THEM MENTALITY WHEN IT COMES TO THAT. SO JUST AS ONE BOARD MEMBER THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS. I'M INTERESTED TO HEAR MY OTHER COLLEAGUES THOUGHTS ON THIS BUT I THINK I LEAN INTO THE SIX HUNDRED OF FIFTY DOLLAR BONUSES FOR EVERYONE KIND OF JUST A SIGNAL TO THAT WE VALUE EVERYONE THAT WORKS FOR THIS

278SCHOOL DIVISION THE SECOND THING IS IS DR. ROBERTS AND IF YOU COULD JUST CLARIFY SOMETHING BECAUSE WHEN I HAD ASKED YOU OVER THE PHONE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTOOD PROPERLY SO I ASKED YOU IF GUIDANCE COUNSELORS WOULD RECEIVE THE SEVEN SEVENTY FIVE BONUS OR THE FIVE TWENTY FIVE BONUS WOULD YOU MIND SHARING WITH THE BOARD WHAT YOU TOLD ME YEAH YES. SO THE WAY THE MONEY ALLOCATED IT'S THE SLOT THE SLOT IS FOR THE SACU IN A SACU POSITION ORIGINALLY THERE ARE SOME GUIDANCE COUNSELORS THAT AREN'T COVERED IN THEY'RE SO Q SO THE PROPOSAL THAT WE HAVE HERE IS IF YOU'RE ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL PAY SCALE YOU WOULD GET 775 SO FIVE SO THAT MEANS ALL GUIDANCE COUNSELORS WOULD GET SEVEN SEVENTY FIVE. I APPRECIATE CLARIFICATION BECAUSE I MUST'VE MISUNDERSTOOD ALL RIGHT

279WITH THAT MR. BONESTEEL AFTER VISITING A FEW SCHOOLS THIS YEAR I'VE GOT A CHANCE TO TALK TO CONCEPTUAL STAFF AND FOOD SERVICE AND MOSTLY WHAT THEY REALLY WANTED IS TO JUST BE APPRECIATED AND THAT THEY ARE DOING THEIR JOB AND THEY'RE HAPPY. I'VE NEVER REALLY MET ANY BUS DRIVERS BUT MY OPINION IT IS IF THE BUS DRIVERS DON'T GET STUDENTS TO SCHOOL AND IF THERE'S NO FOOD WHEN THEY GET THERE AND NOTHING'S CLEAN WE'RE NOT REALLY DOING MUCH SO I'M SO I'M DEFINITELY IN FAVOR OF INCLUDING THE NOT SO CUES AND GETTING THE SAME AMOUNT ACROSS THE BOARD. JUST ONE YOU KNOW SO WE'RE GOING TO GO TO DR. GREEN GOOD TO YOU BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T. DID YOU SPEAK EARLY LIKE OK AND THEN YOU NEXT THANK YOU AND DR. ROBERTS AND ROBERTSON, I'M DOING

280THIS FOR MR. JAMES CINEMAS MISS BROWN AS WELL, SCHOOL COUNSELOR SO HAPPY THEY'RE GOING TO GOING TO BE A PART OF THIS AS WELL AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT BECAUSE WE NO LONGER CALL GOD IT'S THEIR SCHOOL COUNSELORS DID I DO GOOD, MR. JAMISON? I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT ALL EMPLOYEES IN SCHOOL DIVISION CONTRIBUTE TO STUDENT LEARNING I. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR ROLE IS WHETHER YOU ARE CENTRAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR OR BUS DRIVER LAB TECH YOU WORK IN H.R. HIRING THE STAFF EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR STUDENTS. SO I BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD RECEIVE SOME FORM OF THE BONUS FOR THAT REGARDLESS IT SHOULDN'T BE RESTRICTED TO PAY GRADE BECAUSE EVERYONE THAT THEY CONTRIBUTE REGARDLESS OF YOUR POSITION. MR. KALIN IF YOU'RE TAKING THE EQUIVALENT OF A STRAW

281POLL ON THIS THEN I TOO WOULD BE INCLINED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DOLLARS THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR A BONUS GET SHARED AMONG ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES BASED HERE. WEEMES YES, I TOO THINK THAT THE BONUS SHOULD BE SHARED WITH ALL EQUALLY WITH THE SIX HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR ALL. THANK SO MR ELTON. THANK YOU >> DOES NURSES FALL IN THE OR. SURE WHAT WE'RE THEIR YOUNG UNIFIED SCHOOL. OK GREAT I AM FOR EQUAL ALL THE EMPLOYEES BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A THING WITH ME AS WELL ESPECIALLY THE NURSES CUSTODIANS THAT REALLY MAKES OUR BUILDING AND I REALLY AM GLAD THAT THEY ARE BEING CONSIDERATE AND CONSIDERED FOR THIS PARTICULAR THANK YOU SO MUCH. I AM I AM FOR THE OK SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE ARE AT LEAST SIX OR SEVEN BOARD MEMBERS THAT WOULD

282PREFER TO DIVIDE THIS EQUALLY AND SO THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING. SO OR OTHER DISCUSSION BEING DONE WE ARE NOW TO A LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE UPDATE AND I TURN THE FLOOR OVER TO DR. GREEN. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. I SERVE AS THE CHAIR THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE AND ON THAT COMMITTEE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS MR DYER AS WELL AS MISS ROGERS WE COMPRISE THE LEGISLATURE OF COMMITTEE ON APRIL TWENTY NINTH I MOST OF MY COLLEAGUE SHOULD REMEMBER RECEIVING AN EMAIL THAT HAD THE SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION'S TWENTY TWENTY FIVE LEGISLATIVE POSITIONS AND IN THAT EMAIL I REQUESTED THAT ANY CHANGES BE SENT BY MAY 8TH OUR COMMITTEE MET THIS PAST FRIDAY MAY NINTH AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHANGES SO MADAM CHAIR AT THIS TIME I DON'T THINK THERE WILL BE NEED FOR ANY ACTION WITH REGARDS

283TO THE ALLEGED LADY OF TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AGENDA FOR THE SBA . THE SECOND ITEM THE CAME THAT WAS PRESENTED AT OUR MAY 9TH MEETING CAME FROM OUR LOBBYIST JOEL AINURA ENTERS THE FINAL RESOLUTIONS OF BILLS THAT PASSED AND TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SESSION. SO MADAM CHAIR I WILL DEFER TO YOU AS TO HOW YOU WANT TO BRING MR ANDREWS YOU AND DR. ROBERTSON TO REVIEW THE BILLS THE BILLS OR THE LEGISLATION THE NOW ONE JULY LAWS THAT WILL HAVE IMPACT ON US AND MR. OR ROGERS CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG HE DID INDICATE THERE WAS LITTLE THAT WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY HIT US BUT I THINK I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE HAVE COME AND SHARE WITH EVERYONE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE LEGISLATIVE SESSION THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THANK YOU. SO I WILL HAVE

284STAFF REACH OUT TO JOEL AND WE'LL DETERMINE WHETHER WE'RE GOING PERTINENT INFORMATION FOR PRESENTATION OR FOR PRESENTATION OR IN A WORKSHOP SO GET THAT DATE SO THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I APPRECIATE THAT UPDATE SO THERE WILL BE NO ACTION ON THAT UPDATE AND WE ARE NOW GOING TO RETURN TO PUBLIC COMMENTS MADAM CLARK WOULD, WOULD YOU PLEASE ANNOUNCE THE NEXT SPEAKER GIVE ME ONE SECOND. OK, SO OUR NEXT SPEAKERS WILL BE CHRIS LEWIS, JENNIFER FRANKLIN AND THEN IAN SPRINGER WOODS GOOD EVENING MADAM CHAIR . MADAM VICE CHAIR MEMBERS THE BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT ROBERTSON, MY CHRIS LEWIS AND I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A BIG BREAK BETWEEN THE SPEAKERS WHEN I'M SPEAKING HERE SO I'M GOING TO KIND OF AD LIB JUST A LITTLE BIT RIGHT NOW SO THAT YOU CAN HEAR SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT

285DIFFERENT AND I'M ACTUALLY TALKING TO YOU BUT I'M ALSO TALKING TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT THERE WATCHING THIS EITHER NOW LIVE OR LATER I'M REALLY CONCERNED THAT WE HAVE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN THIS COUNTRY IN THIS CITY IN THIS STATE THIS STATE AND IT'S BEING DEMONIZED WHEN IN REALITY THERE ARE A WHOLE OUT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE I MEAN THERE ARE MANY EDUCATORS I'M SURE IN THIS ROOM THAT I'M TALKING TO WHO I DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION WHAT THAT IS BUT THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO MAY BE WATCHING THIS AND JUST NEED A LITTLE BIT OF EDUCATION BECAUSE WE'RE DEMONIZING THIS WERE CREATING A BOOGEYMAN THAT WE'RE USING AS WEDGE TO DIVIDE OUR COUNTRY AND IT'S REALLY SAD BECAUSE IT'S AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR

286EDUCATION SYSTEM, OUR TEACHERS, OUR STUDENTS AND EVERYBODY WHO WAS JUST SIMPLY TRYING TO LIFT UP EVERYBODY IN THE CLASSROOM TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL I'VE BEEN IN EDUCATION FOR THIRTY YEARS AND ONE THING THAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THERE'S NO BOOGEY MAN WITH DGI OR WITH DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION WHAT IT IS IS WHAT TEACHERS DO EVERY SINGLE DAY YOU COME INTO THE CLASSROOM YOU HAVE A STUDENTS OF THIRTY EVERYBODY IS THAT A DIFFERENT LEVEL AND YOUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE YOU SEE EVERY ONE OF THOSE STUDENTS THOSE STUDENTS WHO MIGHT BE OTHERWISE INVISIBLE OR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE SUFFERING IN SILENCE BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT HEARD WHAT DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION IS DOING IS REALLY NOTHING MORE THAN TRYING TO IDENTIFY WHO WE NEED TO REACH IT'S DOING IT EVERY SINGLE DAY. YOUR CENTRAL

287OFFICES ARE ALREADY DOING IT YOUR LEADERSHIP IS ALREADY DOING IT THIS IS YOUR JOB IS BOARD MEMBERS YOU WOULDN'T HAVE WANTED TO DO THIS JOB IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO SEE EVERY STUDENT SUCCEED SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO TELL THE PUBLIC OUT THERE TODAY IS YOU CAN'T BE AFRAID OF DCI OR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION SO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO RIGHT NOW IS YOU DO NEED GOING BACK LOCALLY NOW TO PUT A PAUSE ON THESE CHANGES ,THESE THESE REDACTIONS, WHATEVER IS YOU'RE DOING AND YOU NEED TO LET THE TEACHERS, THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE SCHOOLS GET BACK TO WHAT THEY ARE GOOD AT MAKING SURE KIDS LEARN AND REACH THERE MAXIMUM POTENTIAL THANK YOU SO >> MUCH NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JENNIFER FRANKLIN VIVIAN STRINGER SPRINGER WOODS AND THEN SUZANNE LOCHABER THE EVENING AT

288THESE MEETINGS I ALWAYS APPRECIATE HEARING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. ONE SPEAKER RECENTLY SAID EQUITY IS A ZERO SUM GAME THAT HELPING ONE GROUP MEANS TAKING FROM ANOTHER THAT IDEA REMINDED ME OF THE MANY EXCLUSIVE CLUBS I'VE COUNTERED OVER THE YEARS ESPECIALLY THE UNSPOKEN ONES LIKE THE GOOD OL BOYS IN THE MILITARY AND FINANCE SECTOR YOU COULDN'T YOU COULDN'T APPLY. YOU JUST KNEW FEWER IN OR NOT AS A WOMAN YOU MIGHT YOU MIGHT BE WELCOMED AS AN AFFILIATE IF YOU KNEW HOW TO FIT IN IF YOU WERE AGREEABLE AND ADDED LEVITY BUT RARELY AS YOUR SEAT AT THE TABLE OFFERED BASED SOLELY ON SKILL OR SUBSTANCE SO I WORKED HARDER SHARPENED MY SKILLS MY SKILLS, EARNED RESPECT BUT NOT INCLUSION THANKFULLY I HAD A STRONG FOUNDATION FROM ADOPTIVE PARENTS WHO TAUGHT ME DISCIPLINE RESILIENCE AND FAITH THAT FOUNDATION

289THAT FOUNDATION PROPELLED ME FORWARD DESPITE THE LACK MEMBERSHIP AND THANKFULLY SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND WHY WE HAVE HAD AND FEMALE CHAIRS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR MANY YEARS THANKS TO FORWARD MOMENTUM HER GENDER EQUALITY TRUE EQUITY DOESN'T DIMINISH ANYONE'S PLACE SIMPLY EXPANDS THE TABLE SO TALENT DETERMINES WHO GETS A VOICE BUT LET'S BE HONEST NOT EVERYONE GETS THAT FOUNDATION. SOME CHILDREN GROW AND WHAT I CALL THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS ANOTHER TYPE OF CLUB THEIR REALITY INCLUDES FOOD AND HOUSING INSTABILITY, A LACK OF LIFE SKILLS AND NO GUIDANCE ON HOW TO WORK TOWARD A BETTER FUTURE. AND WHEN YOU GRADUATE FROM THAT SCHOOL OFTENTIMES YOU'RE NOT CHASING PRESTIGE OR PRIVILEGE YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE THIS ISN'T THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT RACE OR GENDER CAUCASIAN EX-HUSBAND GREW UP POOR WITHOUT POOR WITHOUT A STABLE

290HOME LIFE. HE A SKILL DRIVEN AND DID HIS BEST TO OVERCOME. BUT THE WEIGHT OF THAT REALLY EXPERIENCED NEVER FULLY LIFTED HE PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR AT FIFTY FIVE YEARS OLD MY DAUGHTER LOST HER FATHER AND SOMEONE WHO TRIED HARD TO MAKE IT DESPITE THE ODDS WHAT HELPED HIM TO GET AS FAR DID HOPE A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE IN PEOPLE IN HIS LIFE WHO BELIEVED IN HIM WHO GAVE HIM A GLIMPSE OF WHAT HE COULD BE. THAT'S THE POWER OF BELIEF SUPPORT OF THE OF BEING GIVEN A PATH FORWARD. THAT'S WHY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MATTERS BECAUSE LIFE ISN'T ALWAYS FAIR AND BECAUSE CAN HELP LEVEL THE FIELD WHILE STUDENTS ARE STILL IN OUR SCHOOLS WHEN KIDS ARE RAISED IN THE RIGHT CLUB THEY ALREADY KNOW THE RULES AND THE REWARDS BUT WHEN THEY COME FROM CHAOS

291THE PATH ISN'T SO CLEAR. SCHOOL MIGHT BE THE ONLY SHOT AT STRUCTURE, ENCOURAGEMENT AND VISION SO LET'S NOT FILL OUR PRISONS OR MORGUS WITH A POTENTIAL THAT WE FAIL TO NURTURE LET'S FILL OUR COMMUNITIES WITH RESPONSIBLE HOPEFUL INDIVIDUALS WHO GIVEN THE CHANCE TO BELIEVE IN A BRIGHTER FUTURE BECAUSE SOMEONE HANDED THEM THE TOOLS TO BUILD IT GROWING UP I OFTEN SAW THE ACRONYM WHAT WOULD JESUS DO HE ? HE DIDN'T SURROUND HIMSELF WITH THE WEALTHIER THE POWERFUL HE WALKED WITH A SICK THE SICK, THE BROKEN, THE OVERLOOKED. HE UPLIFTED ONE SOCIETY CAST ASIDE. SIMILARLY POPE LEO MADE WAVES UP BY PREACHING BUT BY SERVING HE WALKED MILES TO DELIVER FOOD, SLEPT DIRT FLOORS CARRY THE SICK AND SICK AND TAUGHT UNDER BROKEN ROOFTOPS HIS WORK WAS QUIET PROFOUND SO. SO I ASK YOU THIS WHAT

292THIS LEGACY SAY ABOUT YOU AND IF JESUS FOR HERE TODAY WE'RE FACED WITH THE DECISION TO HELP THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST TO KEEP THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE NEEDED MOST WHAT WOULD HE DO THAT'S NOT FOR ME TO ANSWER BUT FOR BUT FOR YOU TO DECIDE. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SPRINGER WOODS WORDS THEN SUSAN BOASBERG, THEN BERNITA RICHARDSON HELLO I'M A I'M A PARENT IN BROWN'S DISTRICT IN FEBRUARY 20 20 FOR FORBES MAGAZINE PUT TOGETHER EXCUSE ME I SAT SCORES ACT SCORES AND CAT SCORES FOURTH AND EIGHTH GRADE READING AND MATH SCORES AND THEY CAME UP WITH A SYSTEM TO RANK STATES BY HOW GOOD THEIR TEST SCORES TOP FIVE MASSACHUSETTS, UTAH, NEW JERSEY NEW HAMPSHIRE CONNECTICUT NOW CONNECTICUT. NOW DOES ANYBODY THINK THAT MASSACHUSETTS DIDN'T HAVE A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS IN

293TWENTY TWENTY FOUR OR NEW HAMPSHIRE OF COURSE THEY DID AND I KNOW NUMBER SEVEN ON THE LIST HAD DIVERSITY INCLUSION PROGRAMS BECAUSE NUMBER SEVEN WAS US. SO AS DR. ROBERTSON IS POINTING OUT THIS IDEA THAT'S BEEN FLOATING AROUND THE DIVERSITY INCLUSION SOMEHOW MAKES ACADEMICS WORSE. IT'S FALSE. IT'S A LIE THEY MAKE IT BETTER AND. AND BY THE WAY, THE LOWEST LIST OKLAHOMA AND, OKLAHOMA AND THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE AROUND HERE WHO BROUGHT US TO GET CLOSER TO TO TO OKLAHOMA NOW AS FAR AS THE VIDEO GOES I WAS AT THE SPECIAL MEETING AND I WAS LISTENING TO THE BOARD DO ITS BUSINESS THE NORMAL BUSINESS AND THE TONE THAT THE NORMAL BUSINESS HAD AND THEN THEY STARTED READING THE TEXT OF VIA VIA EXECUTIVE ORDER AND MY ENGLISH TEACHER BRAIN WENT OUT BECAUSE JUST STUPIDLY

294WRITTEN IT'S WRITTEN LIKE A CARICATURE OF A MOB BOSS IT'S NOT WRITTEN LIKE A SERIOUS PERSON WRITES AN ORDER AND IT'S WRITTEN VAGUELY ON PURPOSE. IT'S WRITTEN VAGUELY ON PURPOSE SO THAT PEOPLE WILL BE SCARED AND SO THAT THE ADMINISTRATION AT ANY POINT IN TIME WHEN THEY HAVE THE SCAPEGOAT THE JUROR THAT THEY DECIDE FOR THE WEEK CAN POINT OUT SOMETHING AND GO KILL THAT FALLS INTO THE CATEGORY FALLS INTO THE CATEGORY KILL THEM AND THAT'S BEING IT'S BEING DECLARED AN ILLEGAL ORDER SO WHAT YOU SENT ME AN EMAIL MR, MISS BROWN AND THE EMAIL YOU SAY THAT SPECIAL EDUCATION ISN'T GOING BE INCLUDED IT'S NOT GOING TO BE HEARD. HURT. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BECAUSE THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER IS SO VAGUE THAT IT COULD BE IT COULD GO AFTER ANYTHING AND YOU HAVEN'T SHOWN

295THAT YOU HAVE A RED LINE IT YOU HAVEN'T DONE WITH ALL THESE INDEPENDENT VOTES OVER AND OVER AND ACQUIESCING TO THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT IS PROBABLY GOING BE ILLEGAL ANYWAY AND SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR RED LINE IS I DON'T KNOW WHERE THERE'S A POINT WHEN POINT WHERE YOU SAY OK, ADMINISTRATION WE ARE NOT GOING TO HURT OUR STUDENTS ANYMORE. WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT THING HURTS OUR >> STUDENTS SO I'M HOPING THAT THERE IS A RED LINE SOMEWHERE I'M HOPING THAT THERE ARE SOME POINT IN THE ADMINISTRATION IF THEY COME DOWN AND SAID WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO HURT YOU, YOU WANT YES SIR. YOU'LL ACTUALLY STAND YOU'LL ACTUALLY STAND UP FOR THE STUDENTS BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO THE CONSENSUS OF EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELD NOT TO A MOB BOSS.

296THE SPEAKER SUZANNE WURZBURG THEN, THEN BANITA RICHARDSON, THEN KATIE SQUIBB. GOOD EVENING. I RESIDE IN A DISTRICT MR. PANELIST'S DISTRICT I TO HAVE THROWN OUT WHAT I CAME TO SPEAK TO TONIGHT BECAUSE THERE'S REALLY NO POINT SO I'M GOING TO AD LIB MYSELF. TONIGHT WAS A DARK DAY VIRGINIA BEACH THERE. THERE WAS A COLLECTIVE SHIVER AS THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TWENTY THREE OR TWENTY THIRTY STRATEGIC PLAN IS RED. I WAS SICKENED JUST ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS WHAT ARE WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF WHAT DO YOU SO AFRAID OF WHY DO YOU DO YOU WANT TO GO BACK I'M OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK THE ACTIONS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD MAJORITY OF SCHOOL OR TONIGHT ILLUSTRATE THAT WE DO IN FACT NEED DCI THE ACTIONS OF SEVERAL BOYS

297AT MY SCHOOL NOT LONG AGO A FEW WEEKS AGO A MONTH A MONTH AGO ILLUSTRATE THAT WE STILL NEED I WHEN I FIRST MOVED INTO MY NEIGHBORHOOD OVER BEHIND POSTPONING A HIGH SCHOOL I WENT TO SHOW MY CHILDREN A NEW PARK THERE WERE SWASTIKAS SPRAY PAINTED ALL OVER THAT WAS OUR WELCOME. MY KIDS WHEN THEY FIRST JOINED FACEBOOK I USED TO FOLLOW THEM AND IT WAS A PRETTY DISGUSTING KID COMMENTS BY KIDS I KNEW IN IN GREAT NECK ABOUT KIDS, BLACK KIDS JEWISH KIDS KIDS, KIDS WITH DISABILITIES. I HAVE SO STORIES TO TELL. >> HISTORY WILL LOOK BACK KINDLY AND WHAT HAPPENED HERE TONIGHT AND IT'S NOT GOING TO LOOK KINDLY ON WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN A LARGER SCALE IN OUR COUNTRY IS A BLACK MARK IT WILL NOT LOOK GOOD AND WE WILL RECTIFY

298THE SITUATION SO I SAY TO PEOPLE LISTENING TONIGHT ELECTIONS MATTER WE DID ELECT FORM NEW MEMBERS ON THE SCHOOL BOARD WHO HAVE VOTED TO SUPPORT THE >> ONE OF THE SCHOOL OR MEMBERS HERE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE SOMEBODY RUNNING AGAINST HIM I WILL LET YOU KNOW IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT THERE ISN'T A GOVERNOR'S IN NOVEMBER IF WE GET THAT IF WE WIN AND WE HAVE THE HOUSE IT'S DISTRICT THIS DISTRICT THE DELEGATES THAT WE THAT WE THAT WE KEEP WE CAN DO SOME DAMAGED AND PROTECT OR OUR OUR SCHOOLS. I WILL ALSO IN TWENTY TWENTY SIX IN NOVEMBER'S DISTRICTS TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT NINE AND 10 TEN ARE UP. DON'T SLEEP DON'T SIT THIS ONE OUT DGI DOES NOT MEAN LOWERING STANDARDS IT MEANS RAISING ALL STUDENTS BY MAKING SURE EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS

299THE SUPPORT THEY NEED TO MEET OUR STANDARDS ISN'T THAT WHY YOU'RE SITTING UP THERE? ISN'T THAT YOUR JOB YOUR DECISION TO DISMANTLE THE EFFORTS IN OUR SCHOOLS IS IS A SHORT SIGHTED AS IT IS SHAMEFUL HAD NO PLAN. YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COHERENTLY DESCRIBE WHAT THESE CHANGES SPECIFICALLY BE ASIDE FROM A NAME CHANGE LEAVING A PATH OF CONFUSION AND CHAOS HOW WILL THE GUTTING OF DII IMPACT PRESENT POLICY PRESENT PROGRAMS? MOST IMPORTANTLY, HOW WILL IT AFFECT OUR KIDS I HAVE MORE TO SAY BUT I'M GOING TO RUN OUT OF TOWN AND THAT IS HIGH AMOUNT OF TIME THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS RICHARDSON ,KATIE SQUIBB AND THEN KEN THAT EVENING. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD LET'S STOP PRETENDING THIS IS ABOUT POLICY PRETENDING IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING INSTITUTIONS OR FOLLOWING UNCLEAR EXECUTIVE ORDER. WHAT'S

300HAPPENING RIGHT NOW SIMPLE IT'S. IT'S RACIAL A RACIALLY MOTIVATED ATTACK ON THE WORDS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION CARRIED OUT UNDER CONVENIENT COVER OF CONFUSION AND LEGAL GRAY AREA LOOK AT THE FACTS THREE SEPARATE FEDERAL AND THREE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS HAVE NOW TEMPORARILY AND JOINED SO-CALLED DEAR COLLEAGUE EXECUTIVE ORDER AND ITS ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS LET'S PASS WHILE THE LITIGATION PLAYS OUT BECAUSE THE COURTS THINKS THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL THE LEGAL RISK YOU CLAIM TO BE REACTING TO NO LONGER EXIST OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE ALREADY REVERSED COURSE THEY IN WAIT TO BE TOLD THEY DID WHAT WAS RIGHT. THIS BOARD SHOULD DO THE SAME AND LET'S BE CLEAR WAS NEVER ABOUT THE LEGALITY IF IT WERE YOU WOULD HAVE WAITED FOR THE COURTS TO RULE SOUGHT OUT LEGAL EXPERTS ENGAGED WITH THE COMMUNITIES THAT

301WOULD BE MOST AFFECTED. BUT YOU DIDN'T YOU RUSH TO GET THE POLICIES WITH NO REGARD TO THE HARM THAT IT WOULD CAUSE NO REGARD TO THE STUDENTS WHO FEEL ERASED THE STAFF WHO FEEL SILENCED NO REGARD FOR THE TRUTH, EQUITY AND EVEN DISTANCE THIS IS NOT GOVERNANCE. IT IS COWARDICE WRAPPED IN BUREAUCRACY YOU SAW AN OPENING TO STRIP AWAY PROGRAMS MAY FOR BLACK BROWN INDIGENOUS DISABLED VOICES AND TOOK IT AND YOU DID IT WHILE PRETENDING YOUR HANDS WERE TIED THEY WERE NOT SOME OF YOUR HANDS WERE READY YOU'RE CALLING IT COMPLIANCE. I CALL IT CAPITULATION TO IGNORANCE TO FEAR AND TO RACISM TO REMOVE THESE PROGRAMS AS THIS IS DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTING BLACK STUDENTS AND OTHER STUDENTS OF COLOR THAT'S NOT AN OPTION THAT. THAT'S A FACT. YOU'RE THREATENING THE SUPPORTS THAT HELPED THEM FEEL SAFE

302AND INCLUDED THERE'S A THIS IS BOOK VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND FEDERAL ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS UNDER TITLE SIX SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION YOU, YOU CAN AND WILL BE SUED PROBABLY AND FOR WHAT TO SATISFY THOSE WHO HAVE ALWAYS FELT THREATENED BY EQUALITY, EQUALITY, THOSE WHO SPECIALIZE MEDIOCRITY AND BLAME THEIR INABILITY TO PROGRESS ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, EQUALITY POLICIES TO MAKE THE POWERFUL MORE COMFORTABLE YOU'RE NOT PROTECTING THE DISTRICT YOU'RE PROTECTING A SYSTEM THAT WAS NEVER BUILT TO INCLUDE US NO WE SEE, WE SEE YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR POLICY REQUIRE THE SILENCING OF VOICES AND DESTRUCTION THEN YOUR POLICIES PROBLEM YOU DON'T GET TO BREAK TO BREAK WHAT YOU WERE NEVER WILLING TO BUILD A COMPANY NEXT SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER IS KATY SQUIBB. KEN SUTTON AND THEN ELLA DUNBAR . THANK YOU. I HEAR THAT

303YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP DOING ALL THE EXCELLENT THINGS THAT YOU'VE ALWAYS DONE. YOU'RE JUST IN A CHANGE THE WAY THEY TALK ABOUT IT THAT'S GREAT FOR ME BUT I DON'T THINK AT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE A.J. I SATISFIED BY I EXPECT YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS IS NOT THE LAST DEMAND THAT WE MADE OF YOU. THERE WILL MORE YOU'LL BE THREATENED WITH LOSING YOUR FUNDING AGAIN IF YOU KEEP UP WITH CURRENT EVENTS YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT ONE OF THE MOST RECENT DEMANDS THAT'S BEING MADE OF UNIVERSITIES AND ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND OTHERS IS THAT THEY'RE MANDATING A VERY SPECIFIC TYPE OF DIVERSITY AND I KNOW THAT SOUNDS SILLY BUT THEY'RE DEMANDING DIVERSITY BUT IT'S THEY'RE CALLING IT VIEWPOINT DIVERSITY AND IT'S BEING REQUIRED INSTITUTIONS AND THEY'RE THREATENING TO PULL FUNDING IF THAT DIVERSITY DOES NOT EXIST. FOR

304EXAMPLE, IN A LETTER TO HARVARD THEY WERE ASKED TO ADJUST THEIR HIRING PRACTICES TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S A SPECIFIC BALANCE OF CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL VIEWPOINTS. PROFESSORS ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY IN EVERY DEPARTMENT EVEN IN THE STUDENT BODY IT'S WORTH THINKING ABOUT WHETHER THAT'S AS EASY TO GET AROUND BY CHANGING THE WORD DIVERSITY TO A WIDE VARIETY. WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE ASKED TO MAKE THOSE KINDS OF CHANGES THERE'S A PIECE OF VIRGINIA HISTORY THAT I'LL SHARE AS I FIND IT VERY INTERESTING IT ILLUSTRATES A TIME WHEN A SCHOOL BOARD IN VIRGINIA STOOD UP AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY'RE BEING DIRECTED TO DO SOMETHING THEY THOUGHT WAS WRONG WHEN INSTEAD OF COMPLYING WITH WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DIRECTED THEM DO THEY ACTUALLY SHOT DOWN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL ENTIRE SCHOOL DIVISION, ALL OF IT FOR FIVE YEARS

305FIVE THIS WAS IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY FROM NINETEEN FIFTY NINE TO NINETEEN 64 AND WHAT THEY WERE BEING TOLD TO DO THAT THEY REFUSED TO DO WAS INTEGRATE SCHOOLS CLOSED THEY CLOSED ALL THE SCHOOLS RATHER THAN TO COMPLY WITH AN ORDER FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT THEY DISAGREE WITH I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT THOSE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS REGRETTED THAT DECISION BUT AT THE TIME THEY BELIEVED IN WHAT THEY WERE DOING. THEY TOOK ACTION A PUSH BACK AGAINST WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS AN UNJUST DEMAND FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THOSE OF US WHO WOULD WANT THE WORLD TO BE MORE FREE NEED TO BE AT LEAST AS BRAVE AS THOSE WHO WOULD STAND IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS >> NOBODY HERE IS ASKING IS ASKING YOU TO SHUT DOWN VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALL

306ANYBODY ASKING FOR IS FREE TO PAUSE THE RESOLUTION SO THAT WE CAN FIND OUT WHETHER IT'S LEGAL. THANK YOU SPEAKER IS CAN SO YOU CAN HAVE DONE MORE THAN BURGER STRINGFELLOW GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIR. HONORABLE BOARD MEMBERS. I GOT TWO HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS I BROUGHT MY GLASSES AND I'M GOING TO SEE MATT MATT I'M A MY COMMENTS FROM THE LAST TIME I SPOKE TO YOU. WE'LL TALK OFFLINE LATER FIVE HOURS IS HOW HOURS IS HOW LONG I'VE BEEN HERE I HAVE AVOIDED SOME OF MY CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES FOR A LONG TIME BUT DOING THINGS AS A SERVICE FOR MY COUNTRY AND STUFF PAPERWORK, ACCOUNTABILITY FOLLOW THROUGH WITH WHAT I HAVE TAUGHT MY STUDENTS TONIGHT I HAD A CHANCE TO SEE ALL THE PAPERWORK, THE ACCOUNTABILITY NOT THE BEST FOLLOW THROUGH AND I JUST WANT TO LET YOU

307KNOW I APPRECIATE WHAT TO DO AND I'M GOING TO TRY TO HELP YOU DO IT IN THE FUTURE OK THAT CAN BE GOOD OR BAD FOR YOU BUT I'M NOT TRY WILL TRY TO HELP YOU DO JOB YOU KNOW YOU KNOW, I'M A RETIRED TEACHER WHEN I THINK ABOUT THINGS SO TO SPEAK. I WENT TO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN CHICAGO DIDN'T DO WELL NOW I LIVED ON. I LIVED ON ONE SIDE OF TOWN SCHOOL WAS IN THE MIDDLE WHITE KIDS. WHITE KIDS ARE ON THIS SIDE. BLACK KIDS OVER HERE FOR IN, I CAN'T THINK THIS LAST NAME TOOK THE BUS WHITES WHITE GUY TOOK THE FROM HIS SCHOOL FROM HIS RESIDENCE TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD WITH MY PARENTS MY MOTHER CAME IN. SHE WAS LIKE WHO SEE HE DOING HERE WHEN MY NEIGHBORHOOD SHE SAID YOU

308WALKING DOWN TO THE BUS STOP YOU GET ON THE BUS WITH HIM AND YOU MAKE SURE HE GETS THAT'S WHAT WE HAD TO DEAL TO DEAL WITH IN THE SIXTIES. OK, DR. ROBINSON ROBERTSON I REMEMBER STARTING THE I'M SORRY WE MAKE SURE I GET THE GET THE NAME RIGHT. THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN THAT WE HOPE THAT IT WOULD I WAS THERE I REMEMBER WHEN WE DID THAT WE HAD A LITTLE LITTLE LITTLE PUSH BACK BUT LOOK AT WHERE IT IS TODAY. I WANT TO REMIND YOU RIGHT NOW IS IS THAT IN SEVENTEEN EIGHTY SEVEN WE WERE THREE FIFTHS NO WOMEN. OH ONLY WE GOT TO DO BETTER. WE'VE GOT TO DO THE RIGHT THING IS NOT JUST A SPIKE MOVIE STEPPING INTO THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY WE GOT TO CONTINUE TO DO THE RIGHT THING. WE CANNOT

309WE'VE ALWAYS HEARD THIS BEFORE. I CAN'T BELIEVE USE WE CAN'T GET OUTSIDE INTERLOPERS MESS UP THE GOOD THING THAT WE HAVE IN VIRGINIA EACH CAN'T LET IT HAPPEN I NEVER SAID THOSE WORDS I'VE BEEN THE OUTSIDER BUT LET'S MAKE SURE WE PROTECT OUR VALUES IN VIRGINIA BEACH. THANK YOU OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS >> EVER >> WOODEN BAR AND THEN BOURBON STRINGFELLOW GOOD EVENING. I GUESS I MUST BE THAT LITTLE KID THE JOB WAS SO CONCERNED ABOUT THAT MIGHT BE HOLDING EVERYBODY BACK SO MISCOUNTED WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A STUDENT WHO COULD NOT READ THAT'S PART OF THE REASON WHY YOU'RE BASING YOUR DECISION TO VOTE THE WAY YOU'RE GOING TO VOTE AND THEN I WOULD THINK THE SCHOOL WE CAME FROM WHAT KIND OF RESOURCES THAT THEY HAVE WITH THEIR CHILD DYSLEXIC WAS THERE SOMETHING

310ELSE GOING ON? DID HE A MEDICAL ISSUE WE'LL NEVER NO BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE TALKING BEHIND MY BACK BECAUSE YOU DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING FROM ME SO WHEN YOU SEE A CHILD STRUGGLING YOU GOT YEAH, THAT'S THAT'S NOT THAT'S HOW THEY ARE DID YOU MEAN THAT ALL BLACK ALL BLACK CAN READ. SO WHAT DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE ABILITY OF STUDENTS TO LEARN I'LL TELL YOU WHEN MY SCHOOL WAS DESEGREGATED WHEN WAS 10 YEARS OLD AND I WAS A LITTLE BLACK KID SITTING IN PROBABLY ABOUT THE ONLY ONE OR TWO SITTING TWO SITTING IN A CLASSROOM IN FIFTH GRADE AND WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN THEY READ ABOUT THE SLAVES COMING ASHORE 16 18 AND ONE BY ONE ALL OF THE STUDENTS IN THE CLASS KIND OF DISCRETELY TRY TO

311TAKE A PEEK OVER ME TO SEE WHAT MY REACTION WAS. I KNEW THIS SLAVE CAME HERE SO MAYBE THEY WERE TRYING TO SEE YOU. I DON'T THAT HER PEOPLE SO I THINK YOU HAVE TO BE JUST BE CAREFUL THAT YOU THINK THAT YOU'RE SO SURE THAT NOT STUDENTS ARE HOLDING THAT ANYBODY YOU CONSIDER TO BE NOT PERFECT I DO KNOW THAT I REALLY STRUGGLE THAT THAT ALSO MR. I WAS HAVING A HARD TIME AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY I LEFT SCHOOL I WAS A GOOD STUDENT MY MOTHER TRANSFER ME TRANSFERRED ME BACK IN THE SPRING MR. TO MY OLD SCHOOL JUST SO I COULD CALM DOWN. BUT THE FOLLOWING HERE AND IT'S GREAT. I CAME BACK AND HAD NO ISSUES WHATSOEVER HIT THE GROUND RUNNING DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING MORE ABOUT IT. I DID STRUGGLE WITH

312SOME TEACHER A LIBRARIAN WHO THOUGHT THAT I WAS NOT QUALIFIED BLACK STUDENT TO HELP CARRY BOOKS BACK TO THE LIBRARY THE LIBRARY. MY BEST FRIEND AS A LITTLE GIRL NAMED ELIZABETH AND ELIZABETH COULD I BE THE SECOND HELPER AND THAT AND THAT WOMAN SCREAMED AT HER IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY LIBRARY MY TEACHER AND EVERYBODY AND SAID NO SHE CANNOT HELP YOU BRING THE BOOKS BACK TO THE LIBRARY WE SHELVED. SO MAYBE YOU NEED THINK ABOUT YOU KNOW SOME OF SOME OF THE TEACHERS MAY NEED SOME HELP WITH THAT I KNOW I DID AT THAT TIME BUT IF YOU'RE SO CONCERNED ABOUT ACADEMICS BUT YOU'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT A FORMER PRESIDENT WHO TALKED ABOUT BEING A BRAG ABOUT BEING A STUDENT WHO HELPED HELD HIM BACK AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT HAS MADE FUN OF THE FAVORITE

313REPORTER YET YOU HAPPILY FOLLOW HIS HATEFUL POLICIES. BUT I KNOW YOU KNOW I WAS ABLE TO COME BACK FINISH HIGH SCHOOL GO HIGH SCHOOL, GO TO DO YOU GET MY BACHELOR'S DEGREE AND BY THE STORY PREVIOUSLY TOLD YOU TO HAVE THROWN ME AWAY DECIDED I DECIDED I WAS NOT WORTH HELPING BUT TAKE IT TAKE THE TIME TO SEE ALL STUDENTS WHO KNOWS MAYBE THE MAJORITY STUDENTS WILL LEARN EMPATHY, SYMPATHY AND COMPASSION LIFELONG FRIENDS LIKE I DID I GET MARRIED DID. I GOT MARRIED TWENTY THREE YEARS AGO ONE OF MY BRIDESMAID WAS THE FIRST RENOVATED >> I MADE A COURSE >> THAT IS TIME A LITTLE BLOND GIRL NAMED AND THAT IS OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS STRINGFELLOW. HI >>. SO I'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF RESEARCH ON THESE ISSUE SINCE IT WAS FIRST BROUGHT UP

314HERE FIVE WEEKS AGO MAINLY TALKING TO A LOT OF CONSERVATIVES AND WHAT I'M FINDING IN EVERY CASE IS THAT THEY CAN'T POINT TO A SINGLE SPECIFIC PROGRAM OR INITIATIVE WHICH THEY FIND PROBLEMATIC AND SO I'VE ASKED THEM, YOU KNOW, OK, IF YOU CAN'T FIND IT I MESSED UP THIS RIGHT HERE BUT NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO AVOID THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ARGUMENT THEY JUST KEEP PULLING ME BACK AND SO LET'S JUST GET INTO IT IT WAS ONLY TWO LIFETIMES GO THAT WE STOP THE SUBJUGATION AND BRUTALIZATION OF A PEOPLE THAT LASTED TWO 50 YEARS THERE ARE PEOPLE WALKING AROUND WALKING AROUND TODAY WHO HAD GRANDPARENTS WHO WERE STILL WANTS ENSLAVED AND THAT'S PRETTY CRAZY. IT IS LESS THAN 60 YEARS AGO THAT WE FINALLY GAVE SET PEOPLE EQUAL RIGHTS AND EVEN THEN THEY WERE

315STILL PUSHED INTO SOCIETY AT LEAST ONE IN JOBS AND LITERALLY HAD RED LINES DRAWN AROUND THEIR HOMES TO PREVENT THEM FROM OWNING THEIR OWN HOMES THE MOST IMPORTANT WAY TO BUILD GENERATIONAL WEALTH AND OR THE MIDDLE CLASS SO IS THIS STUFF STILL PROBLEMS SAY IT'S NOT AND WE SHOULD JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. WELL, THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD HAS SEVEN TIMES MORE WEALTH THAN THE AVERAGE BLACK HOUSEHOLD SO THIS IS NOT STILL A PROBLEM THEN WHAT EXACTLY IS ARE THINKING ABOUT ALL THIS ABOUT THE BLACK HOUSEHOLDS IS JUST THAT THEY THEY JUST DON'T DESERVE IT. SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT YES IT'S TRUE THAT WE CAN'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOR THE SINS OF OUR FATHER BUT WE ALSO SHOULDN'T BENEFIT FROM THEM. AND LISTEN, I WHAT THE SOLUTION IS I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SOLUTION IS

316I IS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT WHAT LOOKS LIKE EXACTLY BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS WHAT THAT WHAT BAD LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT THIS TRUMPY ADMINISTRATION IS DOING IN TERMS OF BIGOTRY IS REALLY, REALLY BAD SO TONIGHT I JUST ASK THAT YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN TO HELP THE SITUATION. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR THAT WAS THAT WAS OUR LAST IN PERSON SPEAKER WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO OUR ONLINE SPEAKERS. JAMIE PERRE, PLEASE ON MUTE. >> HI. GOOD EVENING IT'S BEEN A LONG NIGHT BUT I'M GOING TO GIVE IT A WHIRL HERE AND DOING SO I WILL ADDRESS SEVERAL BOARD MEMBERS DIRECTLY MATT BROWN YOU ARE YOU ARE NO DOUBT AWARE THAT IN 2010 GREEN RUN HIGH SCHOOL WAS ONE OF THREE SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE HONORED WITH THE COLLEGE BOARD INSPIRATION AWARD FOR IMPROVING ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT AND

317EXPANDING ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION UNDERSERVED STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENTS LIKE THIS ARE EXACTLY WHAT SUPPORTS ROLLING BACK SUCH INITIATIVES ESPECIALLY UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF A FEDERAL EOH RISKS UNDOING THIS PROGRESS IF THOSE SAME ACHIEVEMENTS ARE LATER DEEMED NON-COMPLIANT MR. CARLIN CALLEN ,YOU VOICED CONCERNS THAT THE HINDERING REAL WORLD PREPAREDNESS BUT I ASK YOU IF EQUITY IS ABANDONED AND CHILDREN ARE LEFT BEHIND, WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL THEY BE PREPARED FOR? EQUITY DOESN'T MEAN LOWERING STANDARDS IT MEANS MEETING STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE AND GIVING THEM THE TOOLS TO SUCCEED IF WE TRULY WANT TO PREPARE STUDENTS THE REAL WORLD. HOW ABOUT TEACHING THEM HOW TO BUDGET, BUILD CREDIT, PAY BILLS AND PURSUE HOMEOWNERSHIP GOALS THAT ARE MORE OUT OF REACH THAN EVER FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF AMERICANS? MISS WEEMES POINTED OUT THAT THE PROGRAMS LIKE IEP FREE

318REDUCED LUNCHES AND SOCIAL SERVICES AND SO SUCH ARE ALL FEDERALLY PROTECTED BUT WE'VE ALL ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE LANGUAGE IS VAGUE AND OPEN TOO BROAD AND DANGEROUS INTERPRETATION. SO WHAT HAPPENS IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUDDENLY REDEFINES THESE SUPPORTS AS WASTEFUL OR UN-AMERICAN WE'RE ALREADY WITNESSING FEDERAL CHANGES THAT MANY ONCE THAT AND POSSIBLE SO CANNOT ASSUME STABILITY. IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SAFEGUARD OUR CHILDREN, NOT LEAVE THEM VULNERABLE TO SHIFTING WINDS OF POLITICAL AGENDAS. MR. COLPEPER AS A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT EIGHT, I'VE YOU SPEAK OFTEN ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION YOUR CONSTITUENTS HAVE SHOWN UP BY OVERWHELMING SUPPORT ASKING TO KEEP D.C.I IN SCHOOLS SO I URGE YOU TO LISTEN TO ALL OF US NOT JUST THOSE WHOSE VIEWS ALIGN WITH YOUR POLITICS I FEEL LIKE IF YOU TRULY WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR STUDENTS

319IF WE HOPE TO BE REMEMBERED AS LEADERS WHO STOOD ON THE RIGHT SIDE HISTORY THEN WE HAVE TO PAUSE TO PAUSE THIS RESOLUTION. WE TO OUR STUDENTS TO EDUCATE OURSELVES MORE FULLY MORE FULLY ON WHAT'S AT STAKE PROCEED WITH CLARITY, COMPASSION AND COURAGE. THANK YOU. GOOD NIGHT >> OUR NEXT SPEAKER AFTER SPEAKER NUMBER TWO IS NOT ONLINE WILL MOVE TO RICHARD PICKENS PLEASE ON MUTE THAT EVENING. THIS IS PASTURAGE CHICKENS AND I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION TO JOIN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 1776 COMMISSION OUR GREAT COUNTRY HAS BEEN TO CELEBRATE 250 YEARS OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE ON JULY 4TH. TWENTY TWENTY SIX AND I THOUGHT MAYBE PERHAPS WE COULD HAVE JUNE 29TH TO JULY 3RD AND THAT COULD BECOME FOCUS ON FREEDOM WEEK, SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND I WANTED TO SAY I'M SPEAKING FOR AN SPEAKING

320FOR AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF PEOPLE I'LL SAY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING ARE SAYING THANK YOU FOR BRINGING AN END AND READING THROUGH THE REPRESENTATION THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL EQUITY FIVE DASH FOUR I READ THROUGH IT AND I DID TAKE ALL OF THAT RIGHT IN A TRASH EXCEPT FOR ONE THING THAT I DO LIKE UNDER F CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION IT'S WHAT YOU REALLY NEED FOR KIDS ADDRESS DISPARITIES COURSE PARTICIPATION THROUGH MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPPLEMENTARY COURSEWORK SUCH AS SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAMS DADDY SKILLS OR TUTORING DURING OR AFTER SCHOOL TO STUDENTS INTERESTED IN MOVING TO HIGHER LEVEL COURSES . SO I THINK THERE IS SOME GOOD IN THERE BUT THE REST OF IT IS NOT SO MUCH RACISM THAT'S ALL I HEAR TALKED ABOUT LAST COUPLE WEEKS RACIST I THINK SOME PEOPLE SOME

321PEOPLE VIEW THIS THEY'RE RACIST LANDS AND IT IS NOT WE CARE ABOUT ALL STUDENTS AND THINK THIS RACIST LANGUAGE IS A HINDRANCE AND SO ANYWAY, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR THAT I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU LET'S STANDING AGAINST THESE AND OTHER FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND HAVE A GREAT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS PAULA TCHANG. PLEASE ON MUTE >> RIGHT EVENING ACTUALLY IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING LISTEN TO THE WHOLE MEETING BEFORE SPEAKING LISTENING TO THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TONIGHT AND IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS IT SOUNDS AS IF MANY MEMBERS ENCOURAGED DEPENDANCE I HEAR THE STATEMENT THAT WE MUST MEET EVERYONE WHERE THEY ARE AND WHILE THAT MAY BE THE CASE AT TIMES MOST PEOPLE GROW CHALLENGED WHEN BARS ARE RAISED WHEN THINGS ARE DIFFICULT, WHEN THEY TRY AND FAIL AND THEN

322TRY AND FAIL AND THEN TRY AND FINALLY SUCCEED FRANKLIN'S BUT CLEARLY SPOKE CLEARLY ABOUT WHERE REAL PERSONAL SUCCESS COMES FROM AND WHAT SHE DESCRIBED WAS NOT EASY BUT THAT AND BY ALL MEASURES SHE HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL. BUT MISS FRANKLIN DESCRIBED IS PERSONAL EFFORTS AMBITION, SACRIFICE WITHIN EACH PERSON MR. CUMMINGS ASKED HOW WE GIVE STUDENTS QUOTE THE TOOLS THAT THEY NEED QUOTE THE ANSWER IS WE EDUCATE THEM TO THINK NO MATTER THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN OR THEIR BACKGROUND TO DR. ROBERTSON HE PROUDLY AND I THINK RIGHTFULLY SORRY JUST LOST MY PLACE HE. HE HE SPOKE ABOUT THE SUCCESS ACTUALLY OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC AROUND THE STATE AND THE COMPARATIVE HOW COMPARATIVELY WHILE IT DOES AND I THINK THIS IS WONDERFUL AND I BELIEVE HE CORRECT HOWEVER TO TRULY ADDRESS THE TRULY ADDRESS

323THE NEED TO REMOVE DE WE MUST LOOK AT US TESTING NOT JUST WITHIN STATES BUT COMPARED TO OTHER NATIONS AND ADDRESS THE US DECLINE OVER THE LAST DECADES OUR NATION HAS CHANGED THE FOCUS OF EDUCATION, ENCOURAGING SOCIAL ENGINEERING ISSUES AT THE EXPENSE OF FOCUS ON MORE RIGOROUS SUBJECTS THE ONES THAT EDUCATE AND HELP ALL STUDENTS SUCCEED IN LIFE AND SINCE THIS CHANGE OF FOCUS THE US TEST SCORES HAVE DRASTICALLY DECLINED BY COMPARISON TO OTHER NATIONS THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER AND SUBSEQUENT RESOLUTIONS ARE DESIGNED NOT TO STUDENTS BUT TO REFOCUS EDUCATION FROM HARMFUL SOCIAL ENGINEERING MORE CLASSIC EDUCATION WHICH WILL WHICH WILL POSITIVELY IMPACT ALL STUDENTS AND THEIR FUTURES ON ANOTHER VOCIFEROUSLY AGAINST INDIA AND FALSELY REMARK THAT ALL THE SPEAKERS WHO SPOKE AGAINST THE WHITE IS A SWEEPING PREJUDICIAL AND IT WAS DISPUTED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AS

324A NON WHITE WOMAN TO SPEAKERS AFTER FIRST SPOKE AGAINST I AM A I AM A WHITE DII POSED WHITE WOMAN WHO WAS SEEING THE EFFECTS OF DIE IN MY OWN FAMILY I'VE BEEN MARRIED OVER 40 YEARS TO A MAN WHO IS NOT WHITE AND HAS SPOKEN MULTIPLE TIMES AGAINST MY OUR CHILDREN ARE OBVIOUSLY BIRACIAL AND AS THEIR MOM I CAN STATE THAT THEY TOOK RIGHT OFFENSE TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF THEMSELVES INTO REQUIRED RACIAL GROUPS DURING THEIR EDUCATION THEY CONSIDERED IT RIDICULOUS IN CASE BEING ASKED TO CHOOSE RACE ON A FORM THEIR CHOICE DID NOT EXIST >> THEY SAID IT WAS AMERICAN BEING ASKED TO CLASSIFY THEMSELVES AS TO RACE SCHOOL WAS THE SOURCE OF RIDICULE AND DISCUSSION AND THEY FOUND THESE QUESTIONS RACIST MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY HAVE EVEN BEEN ASKED TO FILL QUOTAS MY

325HUSBAND LIKE THAT SPEAKERS HUSBAND IS ALSO A FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN AND NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATE GRANDSON OF CHINESE PEASANTS BEFORE IMMIGRATING TO THE UNITED STATES THEY CAME HERE WITHOUT EQUITY PROGRAMS BECAME EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL HERE NOT BECAUSE THEY LOOKED AT THEY LOOKED AT NOT WHAT THEY COULD NOT DO BUT WHAT THEY COULD SO DO NOT AND THAT IS TIME AND MADAM HERE THAT WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR THIS EVENING OK I JUST WANT TO FIRST TO FIRST BEFORE WE MOVE ON I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE THAT CAME OUT TO SPEAK. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF PASSIONATE FEELINGS AND SO I APPRECIATE EVERYONE COMING OUT. WE ARE NOW ON TO ACTION BECAUSE THERE IS NO CONSENT AGENDA SO I ASKED FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE OUR PERSONNEL REPORT AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS AS PRESENTED MOVED BY MISS DWYRE,

326SECONDED BY MR. CUMMINGS ANY DISCUSSION SEEING NONE. I CALL FOR A VOTE TO IMPROVE OUR PERSONNEL REPORT ANY ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS SO >> MANAGER WE HAVE 11 EYES THE ELEVEN EYES THE MOTION TO PASS FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT THE PERSONNEL REPORT. THANK WE ARE ON ARE ON TO BE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE WATER MANAGER WE >> MADAM CHAIR WE DO HAVE SOME APPOINTMENTS. OH OK GO AHEAD. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. THANK YOU I'M PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR DAWN BANG CURRENTLY AND IT'S JUST IMPOSSIBLE DI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO BE THE NEXT PRINCIPAL AT PEMBROKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND ONE MORE WE'RE PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION ORIGINALLY JULIE SPENCER CURRENTLY TECHNOLOGY I'M SORRY TECHNICAL SERVICES SUPPORT SUPERVISOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TO BE THE NEXT COORDINATOR OF CUSTOMER SUPPORT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

327AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY. THANK YOU. THANK >> YOU. OK, I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE ASBA EXCELLENCE AND WORKFORCE READINESS AWARD MADE BY MISS WIRE SECONDED BY MR CALLON. ANY DISCUSSION SEEING NINE I CALL FOR THE VOTE TO APPROVE THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SBA EXCELLENCE AND WORKFORCE READY THIS AWARD >> SO WE HAVE A LEBANESE THE MOTION DID PASS FOR THE TWENTY 25 SBA EXCELLENT AND WORKFORCE READINESS AWARD >> THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW ON TO GENERAL FEES SCHEDULE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE GENERAL SCHEDULE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX AS PRESENTED BY MR. MEYER SECONDED BY DR. GREENE. ANY DISCUSSION SEEING NINE I CALL FOR THE VOTE TO APPROVE THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX GENERAL VIEW SCHEDULES PRESENTED SO MADAM

328CHAIR WE HAVE 11 EYES THE MOTION DID PASS FOR THE GENERAL FEE SCHEDULE FOR 25 26 THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW ON TO TIVA PROCEDURE PURSUANT TO CODE OF VIRGINIA TWENTY TWO POINT ONE DASH SEVEN FIVE MOTION FROM MAY SIX TWENTY TWENTY FIVE A SPECIAL MEETING. THE MOTION IS TO AMEND THE PREVIOUS VOTE NAMELY TO MEND THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PAUSE THE LISTED PORTIONS OF APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION UNTIL THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE RULED WHETHER EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO CAN BE ENFORCED SECTIONS ONE THREE FOUR FIVE AND SIX IN SECTION TWO THE SECOND SENTENCE REGARDING SUSPENSION OF ALL EQUITY PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE FEDERAL GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO

329THE EQUITY PLAN THE EQUITY DASHBOARD IN ANY EDUCATION PROGRAM OFFERING THAT WOULD NOT COMPLY. THEIR MOTION TO PAUSE. MOVED >> BY DR. GREEN SECONDED BY MS. ROGERS ANY DISCUSSION MR. CUMMINGS IT'S MORE POINT OF INFORMATION IF YOU JUST EXPLAIN THE GENERAL PUBLIC. I MISLEADING THAT IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHY WE'RE REVOTING VIRGINICA TWENTY TWO POINT 175 SEVENTY FIVE REQUIRES WHEN THE SCHOOL BOARD WHICH IS A TIE VOTE WHEN MEMBERS ARE NOT PRESENT WHICH HAPPENED AT THE LAST MINUTE YOU ONLY HAD ONE OF YOUR ELEVEN MEMBERS ANY OF THE TIE VOTE YOU NEED TO PASS IT TO THE NEXT MEETING SO WAS SET FOR THIS MEETING AND REQUIRES THAT YOU SHALL VOTE ON IT AGAIN OK, SO I'M GOING TO CALL FOR THE VOTE AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YES

330VOTE IS MEANT PREVIOUS VOTE IN PAUSE NO VOTE IS TO CONTINUE A RESOLUTION AS IT WAS SO I'M GOING TO RESTATE THE MOTION TO AMEND THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PAUSE BELOW LISTED PERSONS. THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION TILL FEDERAL COURTS HAVE RULED WHETHER EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOR ONE NINE ZERO CAN BE ENFORCED SECTION ONE THREE FOUR OR FIVE AND SIX RESOLUTION SECTION TWO WITH THE SECOND SENTENCE REGARDING SUSPENSION OF ALL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM CONFERENCE THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE FEDERAL GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE EQUITY PLAN THE EQUITY DASHBOARD IN ANY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT WOULD NOT COMPLY AND SO I CALLED FOR THE VOTE ON THAT. NO, IT'S NOT UP SO OK, SO MISS

331BYRNE, HOW DO YOU VOTE NO? SO MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE FIVE EYES AND SIX DAYS SO THE MOTION DID NOT PASS. THANK YOU WE ARE NOW TO COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION AND BOARD REPORTS. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING TO REPORT? DR. GREEN ON THURSDAY EVENING HAD AN OPPORTUNITY AND I KNOW MR. CALLAN WE DIDN'T PLAN TO GO TOGETHER BUT HE WAS THERE >> TO THE ENGLISH LEARNERS ACHIEVERS RECOGNITION CEREMONY AND THERE WERE FORTY ONE STUDENTS WHO ARE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRY. THEY WERE RECOGNIZED FOR MASTERING ENGLISH SKILLS AND WHAT WAS A BONUS MAYOR DIRE DYER WAS THEIR FEATURED SPEAKER AND CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE VIDEO AND HE DID ACKNOWLEDGE AND SHARED HIS APPRECIATION WHICH I APPRECIATE REFERENCING THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AND ABILITIES WITHIN OF VIRGINIA BEACH COMMUNITY. IT WAS A GREAT CEREMONY

332TO SEE THE EXCITEMENT OF THE FAMILIES THAT ARE NOW HAVE BEEN A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY SO IT WAS GREAT. THANK YOU, VICE CHAIR WEEMES YES JUST TO KIND OF GO OVER SOME DATES FOR MY COLLEAGUES TO TRY TO REMEMBER TO GLANCE AT THEIR CALENDAR, OUR CALENDAR IT'S REALLY BUSY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR BUT MAY 14TH IS PITCH NIGHT AT KINSALE HIGH SCHOOL MAY 19TH IS THE TEACHER'S ASSISTANT END OF THE YEAR PROGRAM LANSDOWNE HIGH SCHOOL MAY 21ST IS THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING. ALSO ON 20 VERSUS THE GED GRADUATION AT RENAISSANCE ACADEMY MAY 22ND SECOND IS THE BRICKLE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS AND MAY 28 IS THE TEACHER ASSISTANT ART SHOW SO A LOT OF THESE HAVE REQUIRED OUR RSVP SO JUST JUST CHECK YOUR CALENDAR AND AND MAKE SURE IF YOU IF YOU SAID

333YOU WERE GOING TO TRY TO GO THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE ANY BUSINESS REMAINING FORECLOSED. NO. OK WE ARE ADJOURNED IT IS ELEVEN TWENTY THREE PM