001So again like everyone has been saying to y'all for the past two and a half years remove police from schools make sure that adults who decide to even with the wonky power dynamics still go ahead and use a system a person that can actually inflict deadly force and as the police against children make sure that there's an accountability process for that make sure that you're actually investing in the leadership wellness and creativity of black youth and other youth of color folks with disabilities LGBTQ youth the most vulnerable in our communities make sure that you're investing in transformative justice not just with lip service but with a practice every day and make sure that community actually has control meaning when you hear from your constituents that we you actually take that into consideration you take it
002seriously and that we actually have power to check y'all and we have power over the climate of thank you mother my name is Shia Adams and I'm my pronouns are she her hers today I will be talking about black lesbian gay bisexual transgender intersex and queer folks and how they are harmed in schools and how they are at high risk from school push outs in school discipline when a queer student doesn't feel safe at school from homophobic ask teachers SRO SR Rose and staff they will not come to school black youth expecially experience more school discipline more than which pushes them into the justice system system they don't come to school because teachers will be biased with everything they do they will misgender them call them a name that they do not want to be
003called and don't respect their pronouns and also punish them when they fight students and staff when they are being homophobic because of those things they don't come to school now here come two damn cops the rest of them doing the same damn thing as the teachers but on top of that they will get truancies and for being late or missing class trans folks in gender non-conforming students are most likely most likely don't have a stable home and are at high risk of being homeless because of family or households being homophobic if you are queer black and disabled that is a big-ass target on your back I repeat if you are queer black and disabled that is a big-ass target on your back last meeting I talked about mental health and how I struggled with it
004this time I would tell you how being a queer black woman in gender nonconforming student was hard I would get misgendered and I will correct them and they would never respect that they said as long as you look like a boy I would call you a boy and the dots would laugh at it I felt attacked and left the room instantly security guards started to follow me and I got even more angrier at this point I was seeing did you know 95% did you know 95% of LGBTQ students might not complete high school those who do not graduate or a high risk at negative future outcome which mean more into involvement with the criminal injustice system and much higher poverty so by putting cops in schools is making chances of black queer students getting caught
005up and in justice system even higher they are being criminalized in and out of school you have a responsibility to provide excellent excellent education for black queer students and cops in schools do not provide that freedom you squad have four demands one get out of get cops out of schools that mean completely take them out of schools invest into leadership wellness and creativity for black youth and youth of color that means invest into their mental health and give them room to make mistakes and learn Youth parents community have real decision-making power over schools like black brown black and brown youth learn their history and know the good things about black folks instead of that brings them breaks them break them down use transformative justice instead of punishing youth that means bring restorative us is without
006damn cops I'm gonna do a chant for our freedom it is our duty to win we must love and support one another we have nothing to lose Thank You Shara my name is Micah and I'm a youth justice coordinator a free to make out of the three demands one of them is investing youth of color creativity wellness and leadership when I say invest in youth I want you all to look at girls of color and kids of color that has a disability in my previous testimonies I have said that I was one of those kids that had a learning disability I was one of those mongrels listed as someone who needed extra help students with disabilities are more than twice as likely to receive an out-of-school suspension than students without disabilities never had I ever
007gone to the police to tell them about my problems if I was struggling in my class I would go to my case manager and told them tell him about my problems instead I'd rather talk to someone I trust than going to someone who can deport and take away my since I'm a mom since I'm a girl and I could relate to other girls I knew why they didn't want to show up to school because they fell unsafe and they get sexually harassed when I say invest in girls leadership rawness and creativity I want the school to have programs that can help them become their own leaders girls don't get looked up as leaders and I believe that girls have well I believe that girls should have training of what they want to become one I
008am looked up as a leader after the minke why because they took me in gave me political education showed me that I could speak up to horrible things that were happening around me I have the courage to come up here every month because of them they provided me provided me a space that I could go to and learn about where I came from they made me feel comfortable they made me they made sure I understood what was going on and did not me for what I was going through they believe but they believed in my leadership and made me who I am today if school saw me as a leader I would not be stuck here getting a looked up I'd looked looked down upon because of how the school labeled me as I would
009not have dumbest myself and said that I was dumb and that everybody else was smart students that have a disability and our girls should have a voice to say what they want they should have a say and be looked up as leaders because we are human beings and we are unique lastly at the end of the day the police need to be out of our schools it is unsafe the police are in our schools police don't belong in schools to control us we have enough of that out of in the streets and in jails police need to stop acting like they could make a change when they really can't so I'm asking again to completely remove the police from the schools meaning police are not ever called in there is a concern going on and
010the police are never on school grounds investing girls and kids with disability creativity leadership and wellness by putting this money into things we need to achieve and lastly let people let people that are mostly impacted black and other people of color make the decisions so if a student is getting suspended their parents or students with representative in a restorative justice coordination should sit down together with the kid and plan out what the kid should do instead thank you thank you my name is Alena and I am a student from Whitehorse middle school I'm here to talk about what other things we should invest and other than cops and better school lunches for many many students school lunches are their own email because they probably can't afford food at home and to have unhealthy lunches will
011only make it harder for students to process instead of putting money into police officers who terrorize your students and oppress them you all should think what would be helpful to your students things like school supplies textbooks and bus cards but they don't have to pay for you all should think about what makes your students happy and not do you think cops look locking up students will make them any better no it's not it's making students separate from their family and ruin their education as a student of color myself seeing other students of colors getting locked up makes me feel unsafe it doesn't even make me feel like I belong at school anymore knowing that cops are there I have many black friends and I worry for them that one day they'll get locked up for
012acting their age as a teenager I'm also worried for myself too because I have anger issues and sometimes cannot control my anger out their teachers and steps don't teach me how to control my anger or deal my emotion they'll just probably put me a detention or tell the police to do of me and which I'll be more mad because I'm being put in a situation where I don't want to be faced with I rather like to talk to my Investing of police and that's someone who will help me control my anger someone who won't view me as a problem take police out of schools invest and Blackey youth and other youth of color let the community have control over school safety next Marisela Gomez Castellanos hi my name is marcela gomez I'm a community organizer
013here in medicine today I stand with freedom Inc and our black and brown youth and advocating for no police at our schools Wisconsin has categories categories as one of the racist state hi segregation in housing and in education our schools are concentrating in safety in control our history has taught us that that isn't the case our history has taught us that that is not the case police officers do not bring safety or concern our squid profiles are coming criminalized at such young age we don't we do not need police at our schools we need more culturally competent counselors and therapists who can support our youth our youth our community have endured enough trauma in the hands of the police we keep saying that I used our future so I encourage you to listen to them
014in to their demands Madison needs to wake up and recognize that we are living in a straight racist state and that we live in a white supremacist patriarchal country we can here we can't here our community if we continue to traumatize your youth with involvement of the police please listen to our youth thank you thank you I'm here speaking as a parent to mine I didn't write anything I just came with my heart in my hand and on the sleeves they said at all everything that I was going to say they said at all but speaking from a parent that these are mostly children who has these four sons parents too but many of the children's because they deal with it every day not us we are at work you know we're at this meeting
015that meeting we're here with their we're everywhere else we're not in the schools every day with the youth with the children I had three sons to graduate three kids to attend a Madison metropolitan school district for three graduated from high school I've got one more right to simply high school one did not graduate he dropped out and he rather sit in McDonald's and eat McDonald's ditch school go over another friend's house it was ditching because they didn't like the cops because they didn't want to go to school they want to eat the lunch the lunch was nasty if I had if I had three kids to successfully graduate and walk across that stage and receive a diploma what did I do wrong with the last week I couldn't figure it out so I had to
016sit down I had to listen to him and that's mainly what his problem was that the police harassed him they didn't like the way he talked they didn't like the way he know he was he was never I've never had a problem selling draw a great thing with that nature he's just had he was it was just troubled in other ways and so instead of them calling me and calling the parents saying we need you to come to school we need you to punch out from work and we need you to come school yeah we got to make a living but if you give some of the parents if you give parents the back the control and if instead of cops being able to take all the control maybe these kids we will have a
017better success rate of high school graduates especially children of color because if you take the power from the parents the parent grab a child by the arm or by the kotel and say come here you're in trouble you disrespected your teacher today I they called me you know what happened they take us to jail because the kid get mad and they say oh my mom she she put her hands on me and so now what do we do then they go to school you got the cops as soon as they get in trouble at school they put the cuffs on me they don't call the parents I had to pick my last son up who didn't graduate from a police station I never even knew he was arrested by the cops they never told me
018I found out through social media that my son was in a juvenile detention center instead of calling me to come to the school and help correct the situation he was pushed into the justice system into the juvenile detention center instead of me giving being given an opportunity to fix it they didn't give me the chance all they did was put the cuffs on and walk them out and said you disorderly I could have changed that you know why I know because he's an adult now with the GED so he did something eventually he listened to me but they took the power from me I just wanted back before she hi my name is Ruben and I'm a doctoral student and educator at uw-madison I am invested in getting cops out of school because cops feed
019options in our community instead of spending public funds on police the MMSD should spend it on mental health counseling programs on wellness and creativity and employ more black teachers for black youth police are historically racist institutions that has never had the interest of people of color in this country I have heard countless stories as you did of youth being harassed beaten and wrongfully accused and get citations from the very environment that they're supposed to learn in by police that are paid by taxes that I and all of us paid to the city this is absolutely disgusting and shameful and your refusal to hear their voice is disrespectful investing in our youth in the community looks like lifting up to youth of color such as they're investing more money and counseling services and also employing black
020teachers you don't hear the voices of these youth and community members of color but you base your white stories I would like to mention a few scientific facts to inform your decision black teachers matter according to countless research in the social sciences the according to a working paper published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research where researchers from Johns Hopkins and American University the outline findings that show that black students who are exposed to one black teacher by the third grade or 13 percent more likely to enroll in college those who had two black teachers were 32 percent more likely to enroll in college marginally also queer trends and disabled students are much more likely to suffer from learning in a racially hostile climb such as the ones that the MMSD provides I've
021experienced this myself but also also seen it in the students that I teach at uw-madison furthermore according to the National Alliance of mental mental illness seventy percent of youth that are arrested have a mental condition probably from the immense psychological pressure that they go through by being in a hostile environment and also participating in these processes while they could be learning for example the school board today propagates and further exacerbates this unjust system through the decision that you are able to make as a member of the community educator and scholar I am absolutely against the use of tax money to aggravate systemic racism in my community I am investing in getting police out of schools because they make me feel uncomfortable and unsafe in a place where I'm supposed to feel secure and safe instead
022of spending money on police in schools invest the money into more diverse counselors so people of color can relate to and have a deeper relationship with their counselors because they come from the same background also investing money into better selective classes such as a cultural help club hip-hop music class it could be a way african-american kids express their culture pain and feelings police do not know how to handle school issues without getting physical they were not trained to be around kids they were not trained to understand that kids are kids and school issues should be not be treated like the law they are put in schools to protect us but but what school shooting have they stopped none instead of protecting they harming y'all do the math are you already begging for my safety with
023y'all listen would you care of course you would one time an innocent black boy was walking in the hall with his shirt untucked the school policy was to have your shirt tucked in but his was instead of the officer telling him to tuck tuck at the police officer brutally beat him hearing stories like this make me fierce because you you don't a school where people are supposed to be helping us but as they are imprisoning us in our own schools this is why we're demanding that you take cops out of schools invest in youth of color and let the community and kids decide on rather than our cops being in schools thank you here we go with another speech for y'all so I'm sure y'all know what I'm here for it we we have been
024demanding for y'all to take cops out of schools make something better like having counselors in schools instead of cops maybe kids / students just need someone to talk to you never know what people go through at home or what the case might be for y'all to put something so harmful in our schools you should be ashamed of yourself how would you guys even know what it's like having cops in school she went through school perfectly fine why can't we it's better solution to all problems what is the real reason you want cops in schools to harm colored students or what because I can't see any other reason why they should be in there this is that's why else colored people have moms and dads or even counselors you can call not a cop someone that
025will pull gun out on you if you're not following their rules do you really think we are just acting for you guys to take cops out of schools for no reason no we have been we have seen the damage that they have done or can do and we are just trying to protect our people if you really cared about having if you really cared about colored people you wouldn't even consider having cops in schools it's only a matter of time until still don't really get hurt by a cop this is why we are demand you take cops out of schools investment investment youth of color let the parents / to decide what they want thank you JC give me a chance to disclose to use a tip we compose postcards about how we feel about
026policing our schools or our schools when all is said and done I'll examine all of the postcards anyway that'll be exhausting so let me enlighten you all us even saying police into schools to see change but there are still school shootings fights are still breaking down and black you if I'm still getting arrested where is the change you hand the police a badge and a gun and they think they're in charge without imagine that guns hose wouldn't be a damn thing they're not actually contributing anything goes for once leading for breakfast and lunch what they want to study and what classes they want to take schools are draining because of lack of structure how about you guys do your job and do what you know it's right it's take police out of schools we may
027not much as see issues and Madison regarding them in our schools but in other countries cities and states they harm us and get away with it we need change in our schools we need a lot of diversity within our teachers let them teach us material that will help us on the road stop labeling black UEFA's ie PS I'm invested into getting points out of schools because I witness others getting harmed or threatened by the police black youths have little to no hope for a good Airways for teachers to make schools increasingly more secure by listing more advocates and clinicians as opposed to including more law and planation officials having police school leads to more school suspensions removals and lawful activities flick through among black you please take the amount of schools and that's my into
028leadership wellness and creativity for black youth let you parents community have a real decision making the power over school get black you for chance to gain proficiency with our history and other beneficial beneficial things about their people rather than the things that separated us huge transfer no justice instead of punishing black you thank you thank you John Wong I feel tall hello okay um good evening my name is Zhang so really nervous I don't know how the young people do it every week so I applaud the amazing leadership of these black hmong and kamae girls who continuously share their ideas voices and creativity to bring light to the community and especially during this time with what hope share October October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month and on top of that last two months the Hmong
029community witnessing to murder suicides due to domestic violence and then I think about all the trans and gender non-conforming people with so what do you do when everything the world tells you you are bad you are ugly you're lazy you're stupid and you are not worthy what do you do I'll tell you what you do you listen to these girls they come here continuously and they're telling you and yet you still sit here for the last three years and do nothing I don't know if you all understand the urgency behind this you may think this is just school people come learn we'll change the curriculum and all that what I'm telling you people are losing their lives and I really think about these these trans women image or 'ti of them well almost all of
030them that we have been reading about they have been murder are all black trans women so this world tells black girls are not worthy they tell black trans women you do not exist you might be thinking what does that have anything to do with this and policing it has a lot to do with it it's about creating safe environments it's about transforming and that's what our young people are asking you to do is to transform to be better the school district has the power to change the narrative this narrative of you're bad you're ugly you are lazy or stupid you are not worthy so my question is how's the school district actively combating against white supremacy how are you all actively combating against homophobia transphobia patriarchy anti blackness you have the power change the narrative
031by investing in the leadership wellness and creativity of black youth and other youth of color the school district has the power to shift power to the community do it samo nightfall place three weeks ago ice which is immigration custom enforcement raided the comported community across the country and separated more families I am so heartbroken seeing my people being separating over and over again being displaced over and over again because of this racist system that we lived in ice targeted people who doesn't look white or brown complexity the same with police they only target black and brown students you all agree that ice should not be in our city because they separate families police and ice are no different police leads are blacks and brown students to school to Prison Pipeline we need to face this
032because this is a crisis across the country students are being suspended expel shuffle off to disciplinary alternative schools and even arrested for minor behavior such as being late violating your dress code instead of a trip to counselors or a call to hold student of being handcuffed and moved from school to jails and to courthouse metal detectors armed guards police are common in our schools while libraries and council our school are using overly harsh discipline policy and practices that are ineffective unfair and determine and also research showing that this zero-tolerance approach does not work it doesn't make schools safer instead this approach lower educational outcomes damaged relationships within schools and diverts funding from providing high quality educational experience for our black brown students this system of disciplines and prison-like environments are not preparing young people for
033success they are conditioning them for a life incarceration all student deserve better they deserve safety quality school who is caught in this prison pipeline we are punishing students more often and more harshly based on who they are or what they look like across the country we find student of colors lesbian gay bisexual transgender students and student with disability disproportionately subjected to harsh discipline significantly research show that race matters and disciplines racial disparity are not the result of difference in behavior but instead - due to difference in treatment we know that there are efforts led by youth and parents with school district and our stakeholder in this country freedom and Youth demands take matters take police out of school completely and create accountability process into programming and invest money in youth of colors and their creativity
034leadership and wellness give communicate role over school safety meaning youth parents and other trusted adults have the power to make decision and lastly please think about this news transform it's justice instead of punishing youth thank you I thought you school remembers that you truly care for our education so why are you taking our learning away when you should be taking cops away giving student suspensions just because of arguments or fights is not helping them it is actually hard with them giving students suspensions for standing in the hallway during class time is harming them a LaFollette students are getting suspended for simply standing in hope for standing in the hall you are taking a child away from school for no good reason there is never a good enough reason to kick kids out of school and
035take away their education cops do not build relationships with students how can they build relationships with students especially when a cop shot Tony Robinson and that cop wasn't even charged with anything but when a student is arguing or fighting which is a normal teenage behavior they get locked up right away so how come that one cop isn't locked up but students are locked up especially black students so who is the actual harm the police and you because you are keeping police there you don't hold the police accountable when you have the power many students complain about lack of resources in our schools why aren't you listening we are tired of buying our own school own supplies we are tired of those nasty and fake lunches we are tired of paying for bus passes - even
036with finding scholarships tuition and getting into college sometimes we can't even worry about that because we have to worry about the police being in schools all the time so use that money to support us not the cops why use 2600 dollars on forth costs when you can really invest in box students and other students of color take police out of schools invest in leadership creativity and wellness of black youth and other youth of color that the community have control over what happens in schools thank you my name is my name is aiwei free to me for the last two or three years I feel like we've been wasting our time so to speak outside of the but I wanted to go keep talking about how schools are inherently anti black and how the stories of
037students and experiences especially of black students are always displaced or not even legible in a school context I mean we're in a context right now where the security guarding of a black student makes international news but we don't even know that students name right this international to bring the surveillance and patrol and policing black on the bodies of black students even when our security guard is black so six we like to waste play thanks Mike that was really we have jocks job next I we have we have jaw next are you going is this all okay we're switching to Bianca yep he's gonna be number 23 I'll be number 9 is Jacques on you're just gonna switch okay so is your mic on can you hear me all okay we're here again to uplift the
038demands of freedom Inc and I want to say a few things the first thing is this just came out on on social media a few weeks ago an 11 year old in Farmington New Mexico I think I was assaulted by a police officer in school she was a 11 year old black girl with disabilities was assaulted by a school police officer over some cafeteria milk two dollars in 35 cents I think the milk is right and in Madison I know we like to think that we're different and 11 year old black girl got our hair pulled out last year right we think protecting black girls means telling them what to wear means telling them how to act means telling them what they can and can't do with their body we think that means assaulting them
039and justifying people assaulting them when they have done something wrong right and that doesn't mean that right history is is watching us history is watching all of you and it would be ashamed of y'all right it would be ashamed of MMSD it would be ashamed of the school board it is going to be ashamed of this country right freedom Inc or people disrupting the school board members or the school board meetings and history is not going to condemn us right for cussing history isn't gonna condemn us from interrupting a school board meeting history is gonna condemn the people that hasn't it always will right history is gonna condemn the people that think it's okay to be violent towards children I always hear the question like well what do you do if we remove police from
040our communities right you're abolitionists if we remove police and we get rid of jails if we stop the state from harming black people what are we going to do to hold black people accountable or what are we going to do when some black students accountable when they act up first of all act up is anti black as hell second of all I address harm every day in my work I'm a domestic violence and sexual assault advocate so I address harm every day right some people that have been through the worst types of harm and I also would say how do we hold y'all accountable right how do we hold y'all accountable for harming black children and what should we do with y'all since y'all allowed police in our school since y'all allow violence in our
041schools I also would say that you can address harm of people right especially children again I do this every single day I recently visited an organization in Albuquerque New Mexico who they work with youth who have been formerly incarcerated and I apologize I'm definitely going to go over that they work with youth that have been formerly incarcerated that I've been surviving homelessness that have dealt with a lot of violence from the state in the community and their kids are amazing they have staff to understand what kids have been through they don't kick them out of the organization they don't call the police they have a sweat lodge they have a meditation room they have therapists counselors advocates they work with parents right they have a massage room right for kids to to like calm down
042right and I work with an support another organization in LA and they have their high school they do not have police they do not have secured air whose teacher decolonized curriculum they have a safety team that makes their their goal is not to police their children their goal is to make sure their children have what they need so that they can go to school right so there's no truancy and they don't see them as criminals they see them as children and you choose to see black children as criminals you choose to invest in criminalizing students over supporting their needs and we don't need that we need schools we need people that see that don't see our youth that's a problem to see our youth that's a solution to the problem and that's what we need
043you ought to be on thank you Bianca my name is Vinny I go to Mills Whitehorse mill school sometimes I can nervous at school and I'm nervous at school I don't want to be yelled at I heard that a girl at my school was yelled at and thrown to the ground by his teacher for a ring to push a body spray she was probably nervous just like me and I can't nervous I tell my mom that I am nervous and she tells me not to be nervous but the teacher pushed her to the ground instead of passing her she was nervous teachers should not push the girl because she probably didn't didn't know that she put a lot of body spray on herself I am NOT proud of the teacher because he doesn't work there
044anymore but I am afraid of cops because my they might hit me like they did a kid at West High School I want no cops or teachers who might hit me a school and better futures instead me yang hi I'm here again today as a parent of five children children that attended medicines public schools and as an advocate for my black and brown communities I often hear too much that our people are policed because we don't know how to behave or that our people our children's are just all out of control so that's why I see that police is not meant for schools or anything or they're not protecting our black and brown children example would be East High School there was a boy who was criminalized for a fishing blade out of his backpack
045and his backpack was searched and the police was involved and when police gets involved and even a school system they D they D human they fail our children they fail this boy to the point where he had to they made him look like a villian that he didn't feel comfortable in school to the point that he had to drop out of East High School a tenth grader dropping out of East High School and you think that that's protecting our children that's like putting our wanting to put our children's into cages I do not want any money invested into policing our children or into building new cages at all if you have all that money that you're putting into paying police more with their salary put that money into investing into more teachers pay teachers more
046creating smaller classrooms and hiring more teachers invest that money into monster and black histories please see our black and brown children as children and not products that you can just toss around and throw into cages when you want to because you don't want to see them succeed be successful by investing but investing into our children I mean investing into the education because they are our leaders of today thank you thank you Jill Adam hello ladies hello first I want to say I'm here because I'm totally against no cops in school and then I also want to say that the looks that you all have on your own face it's not a caring or a concerning look now I might be judging but I'm really not miss judging there is nothing I see this one young
047lady over here that's under 20 years of old age probably she's the only one has a look of concern and this is my opinion not saying it is true but 9 out of 10 it's not false but what these kids come here month after month complaining about they don't want cops in school and being totally ignored ok who's the problem when I wake up and look at the news it seems like the mobile the police are doing more harm to children what about sex trafficking shouldn't the police be on that and not on the kids there's a whole epidemic of other issues going on outside of the school that police's need to be attendant to they do not need to be in our schools attending to our youth and our young adults scaring them that's
048what they're doing scaring them signing them up for it to become felons and criminals at a young age giving them records putting their names out there so they take a goal of CCAP and be seen as young trouble kids the crimes is not committed in the school ladies all of you all are women sitting up there I'm sure you have a child or two these young women come here month after month how many other kids have to come here to talk about they don't want cops in school do it have to be kids of the other color so that you all can hear and understand and do something about it we do not need cops in our schools we need the cops to do what they supposed to do and stop beating up on people
049every day you look at the news the cops that shot somebody or killed somebody I looked at the news this morning a five-year-old girl howl about please get off my mom to the police how disturbing is that so what does she gonna go was she go to school and see a police in her school what is she's gonna do she's gonna be frightened to death we do not need police in our schools now do you want some these are solution young Paris from young mothers and some our grandmas or whoever else to go and help patrolling schools they can't control their toll our children we don't need the police thank you thank you all right good evening I'm here this is my second school board meeting and I just wanted to come to you all
050today in support of no cops in schools a lot has happened over the last week or two and I'm sure changed our discussion a little bit but a lot has happened nationally in a week or two as well not just in Madison everyone probably saw the may be mentioned today before I got here the 11 year old girl who was being abused by the cop I forget where it was actually but she was he was on top of her she tried to exit the school the employee from the school was telling the police officer to like calm down even though he initiated the contact which is always how it goes his students being disruptive and then try to retract and say wait wait can you stop I don't want the wait wait can you stop
051to be a possibility in schools in Madison or for kids in Madison the teacher who would initiate the contact with the police officer is wrong in that regard to be using the police in that way and the police officer is dead wrong regardless of what happens to him I know that something like that will happen in medicine again will be will victimize another student in Madison and I don't want that to happen it's been really clear to me when people come up here and talk about what their desires are what can happen I also know as a school board and as someone who studies education what kind of resources you all have at your disposal and kind of people you can reach out to to make sense of a platform or agenda and do what
052you need to do I want to know what's holding that up and I also want to just echo freedom inks sort of platform around the removal police from schools the creation of accountability policies for school personnel who rely on police investment the leadership wellness and creativity of black and non black students of color control over school safety for black young people parents communities and the use of transformative justice as opposed to punitive discipline hopefully this comes to pass and we can see this happen in Madison or else you'll have people like they were even from last week and week before asking about what's going on in Madison and why it's a district responding in the way that it is and I'm sure that's embarrassing for you all not that embarrassment means action but it should
053be embarrassing and it should evoke some sort of action so that's all i'ma say thank you Nikko content and contexts are very important you know we saw a lot of news articles about the content of what happened at West High School a couple weeks ago between Marlon Anderson and the youth but what was the context in which that was happening and the context is that that environment and a lot of the school environments here in Madison operate in a white supremacist context so what was in our eyes especially as a white person and in a mostly white community we see you know a violent violent encounter between a school security guard and a black youth but you know a heightened dialogue about the n-word isn't something where we should then punitive ly punish a youth
054for five days and interfere with his ability to graduate well that was a really a shame and really it's connected to that situation is definitely connected to the climate that we see in the community and the climate that we see in the schools the climate in Madison's public schools our plantation based our prison based it's a white supremacist culture that honors punitive justice rather than restorative justice and so what I see is a real gap in resources for culturally relevant programming that is led and for black and brown youth in the schools you know I usually find what I need to say in these meetings very early on and I see in the back we have this list of all the different donations and grants received by MMSD and the grand total here is a
055hundred and ninety five thousand dollars from people in the community right this is probably mostly white folks who have their bills paid who are able to pay into such things like Orchestra or a yearbook or running club the science olympiad you saw we were honoring the science students here earlier today or the Disney musical but what I don't see in here I only see it mentioned once but I don't see much of funding from the community or from MSD for that matter for BSU for kamae youth group for Chicken X and Latina students for indigenous students like right now there's an indigenous uprising happening in Ecuador I think it would be a responsibility for MMSD to make sure that the youth in schools are able to get connected with what's going on around the world
056in indigenous communities for solidarity and for liberation movements against the continuation of colonization of white supremacy and so we're doing a real disservice by taking 360 thousand dollars and putting that into police officers when we could take all of that money plus the hundred and ninety five thousand dollars and really make sure that that goes to youth led organizations and clubs but also to trust it adults like the women who are in this room you know and even to people like Mullen who's a trusted adult so that's where we need to redistribute wealth and power and I think there's an opportunity ahead of you all to do that I hope that you all do take that opportunity thank you thank you Daniel I'm also a Madison metropolitan can you speak closer to the mic please
057good evening board members my name is Daniel Westin I also am a parent I'm not here to speak about the same thing as these as the young people who I've been so impressed with but it is gonna sound like it's along the same lines I thought that I was just here looking for just equality but again listening to these children back here are really something that we should all as Madisonian to be proud the reason I'm here tonight is because minority officials are disappearing from our basketball courts our sports arenas here in the Madison metropolitan school districts as well and I see that some athletic directors are here and listening to to all of this really sounds like it's racist race racial issue but I would hope that in the case of the officials it's
058a numbers issue we are down in numbers there's just four a handful of people but I see some opportunities to help a lot ourselves some of the money that they speak up can be invested in things like helping us to recruit young minority officials I've seen minority officials actually leave Madison because they say they don't have a chance here anyway I've been officiating sports for 16 or 17 years I'm from all sports background I plays I played basketball in the Marine Corp for four years and when I hear people say thank you for your service and then I walk into a Madison school to a Madison gym and no respect to officials and then also seeing that the gentleman that I pointed out is athletic directors they can fix a lot of this they can
059help or they can continue to to let things in the way and they are and the reason the reason I was here is just thinking that you know at the school board heard that black officials are and these kids knowing that we can't get no black officials on our games either that's another reason for them to be rowdy and nobody wants that what we can do here is parents as leaders in the Madison area as we can invest in helping the WIA recruit kids to come and officiate minorities the wi8 they're not innocent either as you can see from this the representation of minority officials in the state tournaments these last couple of years not even just the last couple of years since I've been living here I'm probably speaking I'm I'm standing up here
060right now thinking that I've just given my officiating career for high school the death penalty but in our actuality I'm not worried about it because I don't get their games anyway if I want games I have to do what I've done and go out and go to national camps I'm also a NCAA license official from being reen and coming from all black I did not know that the racial line was blurred so bad I did not know when you're in the Marine Corps they say one thing to you we all bleed blue but we're Madisonians we all are the same color on let's not lose what we have an opportunity to do a lot here together I'm open to all suggestions occasion and recruiting less help me help them help you help our school help
061our city thanks for your time Thank You Janie Sonia worthy Sonia's giving us their as your condition I'd like to give a few words having cops in schools was implemented as a means of protecting students from potential school shooting goal police enforcement is commonly just a means of disciplining underprivileged youth of color especially black students Wisconsin was found to have the highest amount of disproportionate arrests for marijuana of any state in the nation according to a 2013 report from ACLU Madison as a school district has especially use the police as a means of unnecessarily punishing black girls struggling with mental illness with this city's long history of racism it's no surprise racial profiling has affected the mental health of students of color police presence in her school has vastly expanded while the funding for counseling
062services has been reduced all the while black and brown students are being charged with harsher constellated meanwhile white students are not the school to Prison Pipeline virgins and our cries for help armor with racially profiled arrests what freedom Inc asks of you is three things one remove police from our institutions we deserve a right to education without the air of persecution for who we are to use the money currently being funneled into expanding the police presence in our schools to set fun programs and efforts to promote the Wellness of your black and brown students and three let our communities discipline our students too often have the policeman brought precariously into situations too often have students my age died for the racist violent assumptions police have made about them one death is one too many so
063why hasn't this Asian food interest at its root okay hello my name is Marco I you see him seeing police at school has not only affected my academics but it's also affected by mental well-being when I see a police instead of thinking oh they are here to protect me I think I'm going to get arrested because I am Latino I have never once felt safe around police because of how cruelly they have treated POC around the world sure this is for the police in the school district but this goes way beyond just that we're seeing more and more POC teens being treated with such disrespect for simply being black or Hispanic as a middle schooler I would see the police and think these are the good guys that are going to protect me from danger
064and that quickly changed after I got the stares after me and my other POC friends think sketchy it worsened when I got to high school my first encounter with this kind of mistreatment was a year ago all me and my friends did was sit on the bleachers eating our lunch we spotted some police officers and we didn't mind them till they started staring at us they then proceeded to circle us one of my friends who is white started getting up and walking in the direction that they had not been in instead of thinking oh I can explain this and I can't explain that we're not doing anything and it'll be fine I thought these people are going to shoot or arrest me simply for minding my own business I also got up and walked with
065my friend since I thought it was the safest move in that situation they started walking behind us as if we were doing something wrong I was later called down to the office and questioned about whether or not I was doing drugs on the bleachers I thought why would they think that I'm not one to do that on school property was it because of the way I was dressed was it because somebody was doing drugs but I can tell you now that it's not it's because I'm Latino and racial profiling is a very common thing that happens another instance was when there were multiple fights in one day and a lot of the kids were is that most of them were kids of color and most of them had injuries in particular though this friend wasn't
066a POC she was very tan and I witnessed her get slammed into the floor and treated like she was some danger when all she was doing was checking up on a friend though I'm not in a Madison school that doesn't lessen the value of my experience because I'm a human being being affected by police presence on a daily basis my speeches goal are these four things no cops in schools please use the money to fund promotion of wellness of black and brown youth please let the community have control over disciplining students and we really need to put an end to the constant torment and fear me and a million of other kids are feeling thank you thank you punishment tonight I am here to hopefully give you a suggestion that will be helpful for you
067as a board in your processes and deliberations of different topics earlier this month on the agenda at the instructional workgroup meeting you can start do you want to start my three minutes is it not on go ahead no go ahead you as board members ask many good questions such as how does participation in advanced learning at the K to eight level correlate with participation in Advanced Course Uruk at the high school level do we have examples of schools classrooms and teachers who are doing a good job of helping students of color succeed in advanced coursework what evidence is there that earned honors are as rigorous as stand alone honors courses we have to move past the discussion of students identified and discuss what actual advanced instruction and programming looks like in our schools right now
068we have no way of knowing what is being taught what does support look like there was a pilot done at for elementary schools why didn't this pilot succeed and what is replacing it how does this work connect with the work of black excellence there were many other good points made in questions asked at this meeting with promises for future follow-up oh and when these questions get answered in a transparent way for you all for the larger community it's not just for this one topic whether you're talking about advanced learners english-language learners the behavior education plans special education students a new literacy curriculum students school safety or schools and climate please give yourselves as the Board of Education a process and a space to have your questions answered it can't be the next time any topic
069is on the agenda for another workgroup which could be a year from that point you currently have two minutes a month when a topic could be discussed a workgroup and then a general meeting here's my suggestion continue the in-depth discussions and the really good questions you're asking at the workgroup meetings please use the time updating the board at the general meetings to receive answers to the important questions you asked at earlier meetings otherwise what you're asking will not be answered and we will continue having the same discussions over and over about the same topics I'm frustrated there was a lot of information provided to you earlier this month that was misguided and simply not correct you also need to accurately evaluate what schools are doing how the policy and plans you have approved are being
070implemented how students are experiencing them and if progress is being made this can't wait till an external evaluation happens every five years there's ways to do this please continue to ask the good questions you're asking and the time you're investing to be knowledgeable about any given topic as a board also please require a follow-up to your questions and community concerns in a way that is transparent and holds our district accountable for making progress thank you thank you Chris public comment moving on to president's report we have a few things on the agenda first we'll start with the October designated gifted education month I'm going to read a proclamation conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction whereas our children and youth are one of Wisconsin's greatest resources accordingly all students with intellectual academic creative leadership
071and artistic gifts and talents need to be appropriately identified instructed and supported and whereas just as giftedness comes in a variety of domains it has no limits related to age race ethnicity or national origin economic status sex gender identity or gender expression sexual orientation religion multilingualism or exceptionality and whereas collaboration between organizations community members nations and the students themselves serve as the critical foundation for supporting high ability and high potential children and youth and whereas the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction joins the leadership of the Wisconsin Association for talented and gifted the Wisconsin Center for academically talented youth and the Wisconsin Association of school district administrators the constant association of school board's the association of Wisconsin school administrators the Wisconsin Association for supervision and curriculum development the Wisconsin RT L Center and cooperative educational service
072agencies as we work together to support Wisconsin's children with gifts and talents therefore be it resolved that I Carolyn stand for Taylor State Superintendent of Public Instruction do hereby proclaim in the state of Wisconsin gifted education month October 1st through 31st 2019 next is the National parental involvement day November 21st 2019 the National parental parental involvement day falling next month on November 21st 2019 is an opportunity to highlight and honor the essential contributions that parents and guardians provide at school and home to support student success the Board of Education would like to read a proclamation recognizing this important day whereas research indicates a strong correlation between student achievement and family engagement whereas national parental involvement Day is observed in Wisconsin on the third Thursday in November to celebrate the recruitment engagement and recognition of the
073contributions of dedicated school volunteers and families taking an active role in their child's education now therefore the Madison metropolitan school district Board of Education recognizes all the ways parents guardians and other family members are involved in their child's education via resolve this statement be permanently imprinted in the Board of Education minutes for the regular meeting of October 28 2019 next we have Wisconsin school boards week October 62 12 2019 I'm gonna have to speak louder than everything to you I'll just scream a dollar the Wisconsin association of school board recognizes the week of october 6 through october 12 as wisconsin school board week this week helps celebrate and create an understanding of the vital function of each one of our board members plays in ensuring the success of our students and the advancement of equitable
074practices and creating equitable environments I would like to thank every board member here for the hard work you all do it's an honor to serve and to keep serving with each one of you next announcement is that we're looking for our next superintendent we are currently in the process as you know we need your input your ideas will help create a unique leadership profile that we will use to evaluate and make decisions about candidates we hope that you will join us to voice your ideas on Tuesday October 29th from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Memorial High School or Wednesday October 30th from 7:00 to 8:30 at LaFollette high school there will be inter interpretation in Spanish and Hmong and if you can't attend a session you can go to our MMSD website MMSD org to
075take part in our survey last on president's announcement is we would like to talk about the recent events West height in West High School I just want to read a brief statement and then I'll go ahead and open it up to the board MMSD will remain strong and are a racist educators within a district that supports all students we will continue to our work to eliminate racial slurs in the harm caused to students and staff we will maintain our focus on black excellence and lifting up all of our students of color the board policy committee and the legal counsel will review the specific specific of current policy and make any changes needed as soon as possible the administration will review the practices and account for appropriate nuances to be implemented when a substantiated incident occurs
076an input group will be informed to provide community voice to change it to change in changes in the practice an equity team will design lessons for students with resources for teachers appropriate for each instructional level regarding the use of racial slurs pilot this spring the board will be updated on this regularly I would like to open this up to the board for a brief discussion and I want to start with Olli Muldrow if you can lead us in the discussion I think what has been evident throughout this dialogue is that we struggle as a community to have conversations about race and I think it is a profoundly important thing for us as a district to commit to anti racism but I think that means addressing and acknowledging what racism is I also think conflating the
077n-word with all derogatory terminology is a way of denying the history of black people in this community and I think if we're going to talk about the n-word then we have to do that within the conversations about things like slavery and civil rights and civil disobedience and the role of the police and schools and I think we have to do that with a sense of complexity and nuance and I think our inability to do that is is the reason that we have continued to perpetuate some of the most you know horrific results for african-american students in the country and so I think if we're having a conversation about the n-word if we're having a conversation about racism we need to acknowledge those things Thank You Ally sabian yep as central at this discussion is the
078use of the n-word and you know I am here today aleeah's here today is the descendant of folks who were enslaved from cradle to grave for generations we're here today fully aware of the cruelty and barbarity our ancestors who were dispossessed and disenfranchised and those social institutions this n-word was used to inflict white supremacist terror and violence and we need to have a real conversation about how that manifests itself in our city and in our discussions as well you know they are in the crowd Noah and Ilana two incredible leaders from Wes have done some really hard and good work in terms of trying to guide our policy moving forward and beyond and how black students and black folks in our district can have more voice in leadership in terms of forming policy going forward
079and I'm really proud of the work that you all have done so and definitely looking forward to working with you all more great I'm just a moment Nikki I'm going to pass it on to Anandi so Thank You Gloria and thank you Aly and sagen for that I would like to extend the the concern to other communities of color that in particular community that not that at times don't have the content the the haven't been exposed to historical context of the word or have been exposed to words that are similar in nature from our own countries and how that adds complexity to the understanding the conceptual understanding of that word and it still gives no excuse for the use or the social of not fully understanding the impact on black people and the historical context
080on black people and then heroness of slavery in an oppression that black people is to experience today in our community so thank you for that thank you for the students that have shown us all of us great leadership and that and I'm very humbled to serve in a board with majority people of color and was two amazing individuals that identify as black and that have taught me so much and continue to teach me so much so thank you both Nikki Nikki are you there okay let's Mirai Nikki can you hear me I don't hear anything yes now I can hear you like to say that I am glad that MMSD administration came to the consensus that we needed to look at context I feel that's probably the most important thing in this issue along with
081having an honest and open discussion on race one that is led by our students one that is led by our board members of color who could make and work on statements on how they are truly affected by the use of that word I appreciate their hard work for this was not an easy time for anyone what they put out and assisting in any way possible Thank You Nikki do like this oh I want to thank all the board members who've spoken before me I really appreciate your perspectives and I appreciate your call and challenge to us to have difficult conversations about racism board I think we need to do that if we're gonna move forward I also want to acknowledge the people who wrote to the board over the past week and a half especially
082all of the students we received a lot of email and a lot of those incredibly thoughtful and heartfelt and clearly took a lot of time when I acknowledge that that community voice matters very much to the board when we think about difficult issues like this so thank you I look forward to examining policy as a board to doing this transparently so that the community has a voice in this and especially doing this in partnership with our black student unions I think their voice is critically important right now because it's harm to you that we're trying to prevent and finally I appreciate the the acknowledgement that we need to consider context and circumstance and move away from zero tolerance we've we've made a commitment to do this for our youth because we realized that zero tolerance
083leads to two negative outcomes for children in our schools I think we do need to move towards an approach that does take context and circumstance into account when considering the harm that's been done thank you okay not sure I have a lot to add after all of that we have an opportunity to be better it's our job to lead that discussion and I'm grateful to be able to follow the lead of a lot of people here and a lot of people in the audience who are doing that incredibly effectively so thank you this was a test I think for our district in our community it was an example of really what happens when we're trying to tackle racism within our institution and within our community and when people stand up like our students nationally and
084locally here it really is I think it takes a lot for people to stand up and I appreciate that I also want to just really give a shout out to our administration our team they have been very committed to anti racism in our schools we all feel strongly that it's not we cannot have a culture where that exists to impact our communities our students of color so I really want to thank our administration for their work I want to thank them for the future for the work that they will continue to do and work alongside good practices and policies to to continue to make our our schools anti-racist so thank you alright Jane do you have anything ok all right let's move on to no report from the superintendent report on items that proceeded through
085the instruction workgroup held on October 7 2009 teen Ananda so we had a discussion at our last thank you Chris at around events learner of an inventor I appreciate the lisa's team I'm putting a lot of information together for us appreciate my fellow board members with the and then always inquiring about this working and making us think deeper about making sure that this work takes hold what I shared an instruction group I work group I'll share it again you know the the plans are part of the work the most the most of the lift is around implementation and we don't need to rely on our staff and our teachers to took care that work forward I wanted to also share that we always receive a lot of information from advocates and we always really appreciate
086that information that gets sent to us lastly we have our next work group scheduled for November 4th and in that work group we are have already planning our representing human growth and development curriculum and update which is something that I know many of our board members feel really strong about and I know we have received many many much advocacy around the implementation of that curriculum I'm looking forward to that discussion with all of you so thank you thank you Anandi report on items that proceeded through the operations workgroup held on October 21st 2019 so we last week had our final look at the 2019 2020 academic year budget and which is up for a vote tonight along with the tax levy it's a strong budget it's the last budget of the 2016 referendum which has
087allowed us to invest a lot into the schools and a couple of items of note that I'll just call out and they're from a memo that we reviewed last week and but we've had the opportunity this year to invest 1.7 million of new services and special education funds into black excellence and the early college STEM Academy which has been off to a excellent start this year and then an average of four point four four percent compensation increase for our staff that is up for a vote tonight which will be the final vote for this year's academic budget and next next month on November 11th we will dive straight into the budget for next year as well as a check in on the referendum so no rest for the weary it's nothing great okay and no
088action items in the instruction workgroup so then we'll move on to action items that precede you throughout operations workgroup held on October 21st 2019 and that's the budget budget tax levy finalization who's gonna speak on that is anybody okay all right okay all right I move that the board approve and adopt a 2019 2020 budget as presented in the materials for the October 28 2019 regular meeting in the following amounts told a revenue for all funds net of an interfund hundred and seventy billion four hundred and seventy two million seven seven seven hundred and seventy eight thousand and 108 million Charlie do you sorry can you repeat the number yeah four hundred and seventy 1 million four hundred and seventy two thousand seven seven hundred and seventy eight hundred and one make sense okay one
089side yep total expenditures for all funds net of interfund transfers four hundred and seventy nine million three hundred and thirty four thousand seventy two in 91 cents okay got it okay I further move that the board certified that the 2019 2020 all funds tax levy in conjunction with the 2019 2020 budget in the total tax levy amount of three hundred one hundred and five thousand nine hundred and ninety three which consists of the following specific subcomponents fund ten general fund two hundred and ninety nine million four hundred and thirty seven thousand eight hundred and nineteen what did I say 537 I'm sorry 299 million five hundred and thirty seven thousand eight hundred and nineteen fund 38 non referendum debt service 515 m sorry five without five million two hundred and fifty seven thousand seven hundred
090and sixty-eight fund 39 referendum approved debt service eight million three hundred thousand nine hundred fund 41 capital expansion fund five million fund eighty Community Services fund twelve million nine five hundred and six total tax levy is three hundred and thirty million one hundred and five thousand nine hundred and ninety three second all those in favor or discussion I'm sorry so first of all I want to give a shout out to Kelly for answering my many many questions about the budget is a first year board member there thank you so much for just patiently answering all my questions well I support this budget The Devil's in the details of how it is implemented and as we go into this vote I just want to point out that we also received a class size report this week
091and we have class sizes at high poverty schools that are bigger than we would like there's 11 elementary sections in high poverty schools that are well above our class size maximum rip spelled out in policy I'm 10 of those are kindergarten through third grade classes where our kids need the most attention we have 30 sections kindergarten through third grade in high poverty schools with more than 18 children which used to not happen in Madison at the high school level we have 115 math English science and social studies sections that have 31 or more students sections that size make it harder for teachers to provide students with good feedback on their papers or writing their assignments it just makes learning more difficult on top of that we have heard from psychologists social workers SAS mental health
092support is not where it should be in some of our schools um in this budget we absolutely did the right thing for a lot of things like black excellence and staff pay and the many things that Kate mentioned but I felt like I feel like this budget could have done better on we need to maintain a healthy fund balance that's part of what we do and if you look at last year's budget we put about 2.2 million dollars of savings into the fund balance and this year I hope is we're thinking about how we spend money that doesn't go spent because we have vacant positions or whatever that we're thinking about the needs of our kids first and foremost before we think about the fund balance and what we need to do to make sure
093that we have the best outcomes possible for all of our students participants who are experiencing poverty or students who we know are we're not seeing the outcome for whom we should such as students of color above all our day-to-day budgets decisions need to prioritize the working and learning conditions in our schools first and foremost thank you Chris anybody else Oh Ali what you have to say I'm having a hard time kind of wrapping my head around everything that you just said in terms of the implications for class sizes and this specific budget I think we invested in our faculty to the greatest extent and to our staff to the greatest extent that we have in the last 10 years I think saying that we did justice by the concept that is black excellence by investing
094less in it than we are currently in is what I've seen over and over again which is like the idea that investing anything in communities of color is is enough of an investment and so I think that that is a new initiative and a hopeful initiative and an initiative that informs the entire budget and the entire work of of the district but by no means do I think what we did this year in terms of black excellence or in terms of restorative justice or in terms of the needs of students of color is enough nor do I look back nostalgically at the time when I went to school here or the class sizes or the results that they produced and so I think if we're going to talk about you know those things within the
095context of the budget we need to do so expansively and I would hold them but we move that conversation to an in depth conversation that we can all participate in but I don't think that that is necessarily the conversation we're having right now I am proud of the work that this board put into this budget and I'm proud to be part of the board that invested more in our educators and our staff than we have in the last 10 years and I think that we all should be Thank You Ally Kate yeah so I I want to thank the board first of all we spend half hour half our time engaging with the budget and it is hard work to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars from the city of Madison into an incredibly complex
096system and a system with tremendous opportunity for our city and for our youth so first thank you and maybe a pay it forward because we're gonna dive right back in next month my biggest thank you honestly the community of Madison is an incredible supporter of public education and this budget is the strongest budget we've passed since I've been on the floor and it is because the community invested in our schools four years ago as a part of the operating referendum that we were able to do this this year it's because of the community and our state that we were able to incrementally invest in our staff this year and past the the single biggest compensation increase since the the turn of the century so we're we are so lucky to live in a place that
097is willing to see the hope and see the potential and put our money where our mouth is and so I want to mostly think it's our job to use those funds wisely it's our job to have hard discussions among many competing initiatives on how to use those funds wisely I think we're doing that I think this board is incredibly well poised to do that this year and we are going to have to without the automatic renewal of a referendum so there's a lot to come there but thank you to the city thank you to administration who I know do a ton of work on this and to Kelly who's not here and to Chad who have spent a lot of time enabling enabling our good discussions and I look forward to what comes ahead Thank
098You Kate anyone else all right okay Anika your advisory route okay all in favor all right aye any opposed okay motion passes moving on to the consent agenda it is recommended that the Board of Education adopt and approve all of the motions set forth in Section 10 of the electronic agenda prepared for the October 28 2018 regular school board meeting exactly as said motions are written by voting affirmative 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 of the school board second any separations 10.8 all right any other separations all right then we will go ahead and vote on the others except 10.8 an eco you advise your vote all those in favor aye any opposed all
099right let's move on to ten point eight contract for Dane County time Bank sorry um I fully put a couple things out there first of all I would like to see the partnership scoring rubric for this partnership just looking at what's on the rubric and looking at how our partnership with Dane County time bank is growing and evolving I'm just wondering if we're moving towards a high intensity partnership and so I would just like to see where they only I would you know I don't need this information now but it would be helpful to get more information about how we're gonna measure the success of the whole school restorative approach at LaFollette you know especially if we're looking at scaling up and trying to make decisions about whether we do this at more high schools
100so sabian yeah I've had some really good conversations with Devon over at LaFollette and how this school year is going yeah great work I think there's potential to increase capacity would like to know more as we head into the next budget cycle about what the time bank can do as well so it you know nevermind sorry Ananda I appreciate the conversation about what sort of justice but it has been a program that has been I have served I think an immense amount of students have supported our a lot of the climate and culture change in our schools and have not received the investments in the priority that we need to in order for for a full culture shift and I'll add that you know as we were having conversations about funding police in schools and
101you know paying like a fraction of that in in a restorative justice if you you know you you really see how you know what's our priority how were prioritizing that work see bein to an on this point about a culture shift within our school district going forward you know it's really important that we don't pigeonhole we're sort of justice just in terms of the context of discipline because it really is a way of life and if we fully embrace the sort of justice we embrace it in everything we do you know great Ally I fully support the work of the time bank and I have gotten to experience the work of the time bank I think one of the things we need to look at in terms of examining the time bank is our utilization
102of it and the ability of our police officers to work in collaboration with the time bank and so are we utilizing it to the fullest extent because it is a means for students to avoid the criminal justice system in to avoid citations and sanctions and a variety of other things that lead to long term relationship and so I thought we support this investment in the time bank I think we should continue this work and I think we should both examine the work of the time bank but also examine our own ability to utilize that work great yeah I time bank is so influential within our schools I think we it would be I think I would recommend on getting an update on the time banks sometime in the near future within one of our operating
103work groups in the future I think it would be very beneficial to get a - just to assess where we are and then plan for our future so that we can actually in funding resources to the work of time bank and expand it throughout our schools so it sounds like Jane wood it will include that in their future operations work group meeting go I think would be really helpful to see the the the comprehensive Richard of justice approach that the district's doing because there is internal work there's a work with the wider BCS will also be amending that all that work I think would be good to her Hansel conversation with all the efforts mm-hmm yes great thank you all right so it is recommended that the Board of Education approved entering into a contract
104between Madison metropolitan school district and Dane County TimeBank for the 2019 2020 school year for a total of eighty four thousand four hundred forty-one using funds from the student and staff support general operating budget jaqen okay thank you i'm nico your advisory vote all in favor aye any opposed okay motion passes so now we're on to other reports to the board we'll start with the city of Medicine Education Committee so we have met last week really interesting discussion as we were beginning the work with the new elected officers including myself the committee had a really good conversation around membership and also one of the the other concern was in regards to the name of the committee so it was an adoption we had a vote to adapt the to recommend the adoption of renaming the
105committee to be joined County civic schools collaborative committee that recommendation will be sent to the City Council for further review and we will hear more and that hopefully soon we are the next our next committee is scheduled for December we're trying to see if we can find a November date because we had to reschedule due to observance of holidays but we are expecting expecting to have a pretty robust conversation about what is the committee is going to be focusing on in an upcoming year thank you thank you another students in it grabbed my PR just a second Nikki we're moving on to students in it so Student Senate lat met last week where we talked about the incident out west it led to a really interesting discussion about race in which I learned a lot
106and students articulated a need for a more culturally inclusive history card room from a young age great thank you madison ms ER nikki causing me to call it tonight however several important things happen new members were introduced it was decided and formalize that jana dryer will serve as an interim executive director until june thirtieth 2020 that our fall programs are off to a great start and that where our next meeting is December 18th 2019 at the meta would David Center Thank You Nicki next we're moving on to other business the 2018 2019 student graduates list it is recommended that the Board of Education approved a list of graduates granted diplomas from the start date of 2018 2019 school year through the start date of the 2019 2020 school year second all those in favor all
107right I any opposed okay motion passes okay we're now we're at adjournment motion to adjourn so moved a second okay all those in favor aye aye any opposed okay we are adjourned