001and the YouTube okay you okay all set thank you all right okay it is 6:02 we'll go ahead and call the regular Board of Education meeting meeting to order we will begin with the recitation of vision statement every school will be a thriving school that prepares every student to graduate from high school college career and community ready next we do have a resolution on our agenda the rainbow flag and I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Ally Muldrow thank you so much and I want to thank my board colleague Nikki Vander Molen for helping to co-author this resolution as well as our legal counsel Sherri who was magnificently supportive and dr. hurting who was incredibly available to this effort so also always Thank You barb for puttin all the pieces together for
002us as we worked on this rainbow flag resolution warehouse June is the time to celebrate our dynamic lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning community raise awareness of quality services and foster a dialogue to promote healthy safe and prosperous school climates and communities for all and whereas in 1975 Madison became the first city in Wisconsin to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and whereas in 1982 Wisconsin became the first state to pass a gay rights law and whereas two presidents of the United States have officially declared declared LGBT Pride Month President Bill Clinton declared June a lesbian Pride Month in 1999 and from 2002 and 2004 2009 to 2016 each year he was in office President Barack Obama declared June LGBTQ Pride Month I call upon all Americans to observe this month by fighting
003present prejudice and discrimination in their lives and everywhere it exists proclaimed 885 29 by US President Barack Obama on May 28 2010 and whereas all children and youth should be able to attend school in safe and inclusive environments free from discrimination and civil rights laws contributed to such environments and whereas the lack of awareness and understanding of issues facing LGBTQ children and youth has contributed higher rates of school dropout academic failure and school disengagement and whereas education regarding LGBTQ issues increases understanding and cultivates respect for LGBTQ children and youth and whereas policies that specifically mentioned sexual orientation gender identity gender expression are associated with students feelings for lower levels of bullying decreased instance instances of harassment related to sexual orientation increased teacher staff interventions and greater reporting of incidents and whereas board policy 46:21 B
004prohibits discrimination in its in its program and activities based on sexual orientation gender identity and gender expression among other characteristics and whereas the rainbow flag is also known as the LGBTQ pride flag and serves as a symbol of the lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning pride and LGBTQ and the LGBTQ social movement and whereas flying the rainbow flag throughout the month of June further symbolizes the district's celebration of diversity and support of the lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning community now therefore be it resolved that the Madison metropolitan school district recognizes the month of June as LGBTQ Pride Month and will begin the implementation of flying the rainbow flag at all of its buildings during the month of June to inspire equity and create alliances and celebrate diversity establishing a safe environment in our schools
005and community that is that is this resolution be distributed by every school he distributed to every school in the district be it further resolved this statement be permanently imprinted in the Board of Education minutes or the regular Board of Education meeting dated May 18th 2020 Hey Thank You Ollie so much for leading us and reading that putting all that together and meeting us through that so important and it's so important and it's just our commitment to our students and ensure that we have inclusive schools and this just one of our ways to be able to do that so thank you Ali so much thank you so much for allowing me to be the person to lead and also at a time when pride is being cancelled we get to hold on to the rainbow so
006thanks yeah you know great so next these are always so hard we do have a moment of silence tonight and it is for ethan Yocum and so we'd like just to take a moment of silence this evening for our district to recognize the passing of ethan Yocum who is a junior at shahboz City High School Ethan was a gifted and generous young man who possessed a boundless capacity for empathy while his keen wit wry sense of humor and contagious laughter often made him the life of the party he was an exceptional confident and he championed those who needed a boost in life growing up Ethan attended Midvale in Lincoln Elementary School Hamilton middle school and also West High School he was engaged in our school communities in so many ways and was also a voracious
007reader who knew how much about so many things his love of learning and quest for esoteric knowledge was paralleled only by his abiding love and respect for those who were fortunate enough to be part of his world Ethan's passing has taken a significant toll on so many students and staff across MMSD and we remember him tonight please join me in participating in a moment of silence in honor of Ethan you thank you next we move on to the approval of minutes I move to approve the minutes from the regular Board of Education medium public input session dated April 27th 2020 can I get a second second Savion second all those in favor aye any opposed okay motion passes next we have another motion to approve the minutes I move that the Board of Education approve
008the minutes from the regular board meeting dated April 27 2020 second Savion all right Anika your advisory vote hi-yah all those in favor aye okay motion passes thank you news from around the district we have few announcements here we have a Student Senate election the board would like to acknowledge our outgoing 2019 2020 Student Senate members Anika Sonia Board of Education student representative and Rebecca cut Firth a student Senate President and alternate Board of Education student representative their terms will end the last day of school on June 10 to 2020 and we want to thank both Representatives for their hard work determination and commitment to our district well this is Anika's last regular board meeting she will finish out her term and attend both the workgroup meetings on June on June 1st and on June
0098th the election for the incoming student Senate members for the 2020 21 school year will be held over 4 days at the end of May we will announce the new members at the June 1st board of education instruction work meeting the first meeting for the new representative will be the regular BOE meeting on June 22nd 2020 so thank you Nika for your service and and we'll say our goodbyes in June but yeah um next we have Kelly McCann from Thoreau Jane Dan Lee from nuestro mundo and Melissa Hernandez from LVM receiving the crystal Apple Award honors nbc-15 crystal Apple Award is marking its 25th year in 2020 wmtv received a record number of nominations with more than 650 total submissions representing more than 400 schools across the wmtv viewing area the board congratulate styro elementary
010schools Kelly McCann a 2020s crystal Apple Award winner as well as Jane danly from North del mundo Community School and Melissa Hernandez of LVM Elementary School who each received honorable mention congratulations we also want to acknowledge the donations and grants to support students during kovat 19 pandemic as you know we have had so many community members partners who have stepped up to help us through this difficult crisis situation and we are so very thankful for the outpouring of support for MMSD students and schools we would like to take this time to publicly acknowledge the donors grant makers and individuals that appear on tonight's agenda for acceptance we so appreciate their generous support to help make sure our students continue learning growing and heavy nutritious food available uw-madison humor ology musical variety show for providing an
011initial gift of 35,000 to be followed by another 300,000 over the next three years for weekend snack packs for MMSD families through blessings in a backpack a donation of 138 K to fund nurse and social worker teams to work over the summer to support students with health conditions associated with poor health what comes from kovat 19 this project was funded through a covert 19 response grant from the Wisconsin partnership program at the UW School of Medicine and public health Madison Community Foundation renin bomb foundation American family in the Foundation for medicine public schools summit credit union all supporting materials printing distribution and/or Wi-Fi internet access from MSD students Dane County Sheriff's Association cops for Kids program to help fund help fund the emergent living needs for MSD families and finally to all the people and
012organizations who are part of our monthly list of donors that help us out financially anywhere from five dollars 2010 thousand thank you very much for your support in this very critical time of need for our students and Families next I will hand it over to superintendent Jayne Delmar Thank You Gloria good evening everyone um MMSD has been in a virtual teaching and learning situation for nine weeks now and I wanted tonight to give you the community and the board an update on all things virtual at this point we are continuing to implement plans for graduation schools have continued making special arrangements for students to pick up get caps and gallons and send in their pictures and again we are so grateful for wis CTV for their generous work with MMSD to broadcast our graduations this
013year and I want to give special thanks to Mike Hernandez the chief of high school the high school principals and staff who are all working so hard to make this a special time for our seniors we've also been busy planning some other end-of-the-year activities such as systems for students and families to safely drop off school issued items and to pick up items from students lockers and desks we are closely following public health guidelines for these activities and there are many details being worked out that schools will be communicating with families for some consistency we are trying as much as possible to follow the original school calendar the final day of school for students remains June 10th the same day as noted on the original school calendar normally for high school students they would be taking
014final exams this last week of school and the final day of instruction for them would be June 3rd this year we are keeping their final day of instruction at June 3rd however as there are no final exams for high school only the last week of instruction will be high school students and high school staff working to complete everything necessary for high school students to graduate or move to the next grade level we have also finalized plans for summer school summer school will be virtual for grades 3 through 12 and we have created developmentally appropriate programs for elementary middle and high school students more details will be going out to staff and families of students involved in summer school MSE our summer programming and MMSD will be significantly different this year with fewer programs serving fewer
015children there will be a childcare opportunity for about 600 elementary students and continued virtual tutoring and mentoring programs for about 1,800 middle school students virtual offerings to the community will continue however face-to-face and in-person team sports recreational activities and camps which we typically have thousands of people involved in will will not be happening this year we will MS CR will continue to virtual offering offerings to the community and we will revisit recreational activities camps and sports events again later in the summer to see if there can be some changes there so we've opened virtual teaching and learning for the district we plan for grading and graduation we plan for closing of schools and we plan for summer school and summer programming all in this unprecedented environment I want to thank the Madison staff and community
016who have worked so hard to support all of us as we move through this time I also want to address our work and planning for reopening schools this fall we have a team dedicated to researching this issue collaborating with other school districts and state and local officials as well as the Department of Public Instruction to develop guidance that will drive many of our decisions related to fall school planning a part of this work will be gathering more feedback from students families and staff about their experience with virtual learning and that feedback will be used to inform our decision making we are considering a variety of configurations and we are doing our best to make concrete plans and timelines for school this fall to share with the community as soon as possible but this will take
017time and we do ask for your grace and patience continued grace and patience as we move through this planning due to the nature of : 19 much of our timeline for planning is affected by external factors such as the forward beam plan that just came out today all our plans for fall just as for the current things we have planned for are grounded and health and safety and equity first so those three factors are really really grounding our planning we may have scenarios that are in buildings totally virtual or we may even see scenarios where we go in and out of buildings and virtual learning either by building by district by specific student groups or even by individual student so we're having to plan for a lot of different scenarios so our plans will need
018to be very flexible giving us the ability to adapt to either either environment and a number of configurations in a very short period of time finally I want to address that within the complexities of the decisions we're making now we recognize that significant shifts may have to occur in our community and in our nation's thinking about education as we move forward we know that MMSD is one of the largest employers in our city and as such our decisions have economic impact we are being very mindful of our fiduciary responsibilities to the community and are working through the complex complexities that changing expenses and funding patterns will bring we are working closely the board to ensure our district will be well-prepared for the fall of 2020 and beyond as the fact remains that a healthy school
019district is essential to a healthy community thank you thank you thank you dr. Filmore next we move on to items that proceeded through the instruction workgroup held on May 4th Ananda Thank You president Gloria so our last workgroup was held on May 4th and we covered updates about title 9 we also covered mandatory reporting and the recent revisions of the behavior education plan we had a very rich conversation about all those items in particular because I know mininum and colleagues feel really strong about many of them and in particular we had quite a bit of discussion on behavior education plan and not only the just updates but also the efficacy of the plan and how do we continue to address the disturbingly sure disparities that we see in our in our school district in particular
020regarding to discipline we had quite a few questions also from board members so four members wanted to do any other follow-up they can review the answers to the questions and for our next meeting we are going to be more extensively and I appreciate superintendent Belmar giving us an update on virtual learnings I know that is a question in the minds of a lot of our parents and what's happening for the Fall it's in all our minds to how the lis support the school district as we prepare for the fall we wanted to ensure the community that we are ahead of any other school district in the state of Wisconsin no offense to other school districts but I feel really confident on how our team is positioned to our planning to our scheduling how we're going
021to make sure that we support our teachers in this sort of long term transition that we're about to embark as well as any policy and employee handbook changes that are emerging due to the current pandemic so for the next instruction workgroup we're going to be as a board discussing the plans we would receive the updates for summer which are already being rolled out but we're having a more extensive a conversation about how are we setting up for 2021 Square in particular because we're hoping that by then we'll also have more guidance from the state and although those those changes have been coming you know you know in a weekly basis so many things have been changing and it gives a lot of uncertainty for both educators and parents and so we wanted to make sure
022that we take that moment to have a public conversation about how we how we were framing our 2020 once clearer and also hear questions and concerns and making sure that the board has a collective conversation about this thank you so much president gloria vice president lee maduro for allowing me to take a little bit more time that I usually take this updates but next month instruction workgroup meeting is gonna be extremely critical and we're really excited to be continue to collaborate with our team to ensure a very another very successful school year thank you thank you Ananda for that update and now we're gonna move on to operations workgroup it report out on that Chris Kersey Thank You Gloria so the operations workgroup met on May 11th and we talked about the budget the referendum
023and the handbook process in terms of the budget the overarching theme and this will continue to be the overarching theme was uncertainty we talked about a possible budget repair bill we talked about all of the uncertainties related to open 19 and how this is going to lead to potential changes to our regular budget timeline we're still going to be voting on the draft preliminary budget in June we probably will see more changes than usual before we take a final vote on the budget and the tax levy and we talked about the amendment process for the budget and we also talked about the process for getting and receiving community feedback um Kelly did bring up the in the past we consistently hear from the community that under budget stress we need to stay focused on classrooms
024and children and also on equity and we want your feedback if you are interested in providing input on any aspect of the budget you can go to the MMSD website and then the little slider you will get to a slide on the budget where you can click and get to a forum where you can provide us with feedback alternatively you can also just email the board as far as the referendum goes we talked about the timing for a possible vote on putting on both an operating referendum and a capital or buildings referendum on the November ballot a deadline from me for taking up making that decision and taking that boat is August 17th we also talked about the possibility of doing some more polling around community opinion on the referendum are we have a committee
025that is assisting us of making understanding where the community stands on the referendum and it was advice of that group that we probably should do more polling because the you know people's lives have changed so dramatically since the nineteen struck in marched finally we talked about the handbook process we basically just got an overview of what that process will be and we will probably be voting on changes sometime in the next couple of months our next meeting is scheduled for June 15th please note that that is a change in date it was originally scheduled for June 8th but it will not be on the 15th and we will be talking about the preliminary budget again gearing up for a vote at the end of the month as well as our authorized transportation policy policy 5
0261 1 1 and the referendum that's my report thanks Gloria great thank you Chris for that report out next we move on to action items that precede you through the instruction workgroup and as Adam mentioned we went through the behavior education plan and the revisions and so I move that the Board of Education approved the changes to the behavior education plans to 3 middle and high school levels as set forth in the documents prepared for the regular Board of Education meeting dated May 18 2027 second any discussion Nicki and then Savion and then Chris sorry good unmute am i admitted yes um very simply I'm okay with some of the revisions I agreed that vaping is a tool and I'm thrilled that that went back to a - here's my one problem with all that
027I am still voting for this but I'm really worried on videotaping and punishing someone for videotaping a a fight and sharing it on the internet I'm worried about the First Amendment implications I'm also worried that will be used to discipline primarily students of color and also could be used that in cases of abuse or bullying that we have no way to prove that that behavior existed and that's what I worry about I know you guys have suffered through a lot of stories on me but you're going to suffer through one anyone and that is I wish there was a camera during some of those times when I was bullied because I wouldn't have gone through some of what I went through they would have caught the kids who flipped my desk over while the teacher
028stood there and did nothing or tried to throw me down the window yeah down the window well or down a flight of stairs I wish I had someone who could have reported it although painful at least I would have had proof and that's what I'm afraid if we allow this and punish this behavior we're taking away our students voice and that was that's what scares me Thank You Nikki Oh Sabian yeah I just wanted to express my graciousness to the team especially to Brent Martina director for progressive discipline on incorporating some of the changes to the EEP and how we can encourage students to you know engage more healthy behavior ie not they think and you know taking this as a public health issue so I do share some one Ickes concerns but really you
029know pleased to say that we're moving away from punitive punishment and a public health situation I want to echo it say beyond just said I am glad that we made some changes to the policy on vaping and we're focused on education at the same time I am now concerned that we're inconsistent in our policies on drugs because we know that kids are vaping THC and based on how I read this policy vaping THC is now going to have different consequences than possessing or smoking pot and to me that seems inconsistent so I thought we should at least discuss this before we vote on it I don't know if we'd want to add a statement to our IEP policy on vaping that that it doesn't include vaping devices that include THC just for the sake of
030consistency with how we deal with a drug do we have anybody on staff who can respond to that or clarify that those differences you hey are you here J or Bryn it's hard to tell who's here Lisa maybe you can respond I am not seeing so what is your question again like we can't hear you I was just gonna say I believe that Jay would respond if brie wasn't available so I'm checking on that so what was your question Chris I would just like to know how we're going to handle vaping devices that contain THC will they be treated as a vaping device or will they be treated as marijuana and if they're treated as a vaping device that means we're taking a drug and we're treating it differently depending on how it's delivered whether
031it's smoked or whether as a pot or whether it's baked as THC and to me that feels inconsistent I think we need to be consistent in how we handle drugs in our schools Jay do you have thoughts on that did you hear the question yeah I'm sorry hold on just one second okay Oh brands here - okay sorry I had I had YouTube in one ear and zoom in the other now I'm much better yeah is bringing in yes there's Bryn Bryn do you want to take this first and I'll jump in afterwards get it unmute Bryn there you go so now good yeah okay yes great I had the same issue with YouTube going and now I'm just here yes thank you for that opportunity to clarify it's now basically the same as it
032is as it has been this year so if it's if it's clear that THC or marijuana is being used in a vaping device it'd be addressed under the marijuana behavior and if it is simply that a student is caught using a vaping device and we don't know what's in it then it would be captured under electronic smoking device if the student is using a vaping device and we don't know what's in it I assume we're gonna try to find out what's in it because I think there's different levels of support needed if students are using marijuana versus everything yeah Chris our our protocol whenever it's assumed or believed that a student may be under the influence we involve the nurse for a health assessment and then it's through that process that we would determine whether
033or not the student was under the influence of something other than tobacco I appreciate the clarification thank you thank you both for jumping off YouTube and jumping on banana yeah thank you you know and I'll just say before we vote I think you know it pains me to have to you know go through and talk about behavior and discipline and unfortunately that is where we're you know we're at we have to do better around education particularly educating our our black and brown students that is going to really help and alleviate some of the behavior problems that we are seeing in our schools right not only education but also you know providing an inclusive environment for our students and so we are here we have to figure out how we're going to respond to behaviors in
034our schools we need to do this but it's definitely not an answer for all and we have to do better and early childhood education in education as a whole so I just wanted to say that and thank you the team for spending so much time on these revisions and I think we are ready for a vote to bring go ahead Nikki I just have a quick question for Bryn if she's still there um my question is is there any way we could add a sentence saying that if the video is being used for safety reasons to show bullying or abuse that the person isn't suspended um I I think that's the type of thing and this is just my initial impression but I'll see if Jay wants to weigh in too that's the type of
035thing that we would typically address through our guidance so I don't think that we need an additional sentence in the policy itself to be able to address those scenarios where there's a reason for something outside of the norm or outside of the reason why we have that behavior called out in the behavior education plan I agree I think the point is good and I think it's absolutely something that we can focus on through our guidance you know and recognizing that there were saintly safety implications that resulted in the original language that was brought by both students and families and so I think making sure that our school staff are clear on best ways to implement the policy as written I think will be where we need to be great I think Ali had her hand
036up early did you have something no but thank you I appreciate it okay great okay let's go all those in favor and I all those in favor raise your hand so I can see them any opposed okay motion passes next two action items that proceeded through their operations workgroup and that was nothing so now we're on to the consent agenda I move that the Board of Education adopt and approve all of the emotions set forth in the section nine in section 9 of the electronic agenda prepared for the May 18 2020 regular school board meeting exactly as said motions are written by voting affirmative Leon this motion a board member expresses his or her affirmative vote on each of the motions consolidated hereby subject to any express separations that have been made by any member
037of the school board that then hoots due to the second Anandi Ali Ali okay any separations Chris I'm 9.15 I'm sorry nine point one five nine point one five I believe in sorry go ahead Nikki I believe nine point seven it is is that the Arg de Polan my boy eight nine core Nathan okay we are separating nine point five and nine point eight although a nickel your advisory vote hi okay all those in favor I raise your hand okay any opposed okay motion passes all right now we move on to nine point five it was actually nine point one five is the donation for Wi-Fi internet and I just need to declare a conflict of interest and abstain from this vote my employer has a significant partnership with American Family Insurance great okay can
038I just clarify that your recusing yourself yes I am recusing from this note thank you thank you very much okay I move that the Board of Education accept the following donations to support materials printing distribution and or Wi-Fi internet access for MMSD students during the Cova nineteen pandemic American family twenty thousand foundation for medicine public schools up to twenty five thousand renob on foundational to fifty thousand Madison Community Foundation fifty thousand and summer summit credit union mm can I get a second sir hey Nikki second it an EKU advisory vote aye all those in favor I think motion passes with Chris recusing herself on the boat next nine point eight uh go ahead Nikki as much as I'm worried financially of the cost of this poll I think hearing the community as much as I
039had reservations and I did have reservations hearing from the community I think will be invaluable because times have changed what I'm afraid of this I don't want this as a way to got the referee but only to assist the referendum was saying that that's all I wanted to say on that issue great okay Thank You Nikki all right um nine point eight I move that the Board of Education approved that alg research proposal on the amount of nineteen thousand one hundred for an annual total of thirty nine thousand using funds from 2018 2020 building services long-range facility planning budget can I get a second okay Anika your advisory vote aye yeah all those in favor show your hands I can see them okay motion passes any opposed nobody opposed okay thank you and other items
040none so other reports from the board in its yeah City Madison Education Committee Ananda there's two in recess okay Student Senate so our last meeting we talked about mental health and then what virtual learning was like for us um and then this Wednesday we're planning on having a forum for the candidates to discuss their thoughts on school policies and what they want to do hey Anika will we see what your discussion around how virtual learning is going for you um yeah students that I can prepare something if you guys are interested in that I think that are good thank you and I said I'm sorry like I just want to play death and Anika is running for president Student Senate so good luck to you look MSE are we are still on hiatus due to
041the pandemic okay great okay not great but I think yeah I understand okay so other under other business we're gonna change our regular meeting for the month of June so this is an action item so I move that the Board of Education approved the following day change for the June 2020 regular board meeting to June 29th 2020 at 6 p.m. can I get a second Mickey ok - ok all those anika your advisory vote okay all those in favor aye any opposed okay motion passes thank you yep there is no old new business seriously is it 646 oh my goodness yeah okay all right well thank you all um great evening and it's a board yay hey can I get a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn Ananda and on the vote hi oh and
042I'm sorry Chris I did a motion to adjourn so another motion Kristina a second Anika advisory vote yes okay all those in favor aye all right we are adjourned thank you all have a great evening thank you everyone you