001Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. And the minutes have been approved. And we have our consent agenda where we have our monthly budget board bills. We have eight employment resignations and 13 employment recommendations. And with that, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Motion has been made. Is there a second? >> Second. Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? >> My question would be, are we full up on staffing or are we uh we're pretty I think yeah, I think at this point we are. If anyone has any pairs, Yep. We need um couple yet. One or two. >> Okay. Okay. Two more. 4K >> one full-time 4K aid and two
002pairs. Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. And the consent agenda has been approved. Next, we have accommodation. Mr. Copc. [Music] >> All right. Good evening everybody. Uh my name is Pete Colpac. I'm the egg teacher and FFA adviser at the high school. Uh and thanks for having me up here this evening. I requested to be on the schoolboard meeting um to thank Compier Financial and Doug Coochco uh as we applied for and received a $4,000 grant this pla past spring uh through their egg education and classroom equipment grant. Um we I applied for that this last April and uh met with Brad Kistling and ordered lights and we're going to be putting in a second bank of
003grow lights in the greenhouse area. Um so we'll be able to have uh more flowering plants and whatnot with our spring plant sale and then also hoping to grow some additional veggies and lettuce for the the lunch program. Um so so far we've spent of that $4,000 $2,565 um on the LED grow lights and then we're also going to be updating the lighting system for um three or four of the lettuce towers. So they will we'll replace the fluorescent lights and get some LED lights which are just a little bit easier to work with. So some exciting things in the greenhouse. Uh then also going to put one more plug in as a beef superintendent for the Baron County Fair. I just want to thank Compier Financial for assisting us um with the fair again
004this summer. So this this year we sold 96 animals. uh had a record-breaking sale by about $60,000. And for kids within the the Rice Lake School District, including this past year's graduates, um they would have raised 134,000 of that dollars going to Rice Lake grads or Rice Lake students, which is pretty awesome. Um obviously that's not all profit, but uh certainly that's a pretty cool thing and hopefully they're able to put that towards >> future schooling and and that sort of thing. So with that, thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] >> Moving through things quickly. All right. Thank you very much. >> Thanks, Pete. >> All right. Yes. >> That's I was wondering if you could see. >> She kind of peaked around the corner at you. >> There you go.
005>> Everybody okay with that? >> Perfect. There you go. You could turn around what she feels like. >> I made a move. >> I just couldn't see any who was at the podium. >> All right. Well, thank you comp here for that uh nice uh fund to help our egg program. And uh next we have the 2425 seclusion and physical restraint data report. All right. You should have the report in front of you. This is something that we're required to do annually to report out on our seclusion and restraints for this throughout the school year. Um, as you can see, we've had a total of um 11 seclusions and um four restraints at Tanter, one at the middle school, one of each at the middle school. And so our numbers significantly went down last year.
006Um, any questions? >> What would you attribute that to? >> There it is. Um, a lot of different things. I think education. Um, we did have a couple students move out. Um, some as kids get older, they learn to self-regulate better and students who when they're young might need to be restrained or secluded as they get older don't. So, you know, it just as kids moving in and out of the district, sometimes we get kids that have just can't regulate and are sometimes in danger to sell for others and then we have to engage. So, but also working with staff to make sure we're doing, you know, the best the least restrictive when possible. So, >> is the majority of staff trained on it? >> All of the special education staff are um the principles
007are um a handful of other >> I would say, if I can interrupt to answer your question, no, I would say not the majority of staff are trained in in the actual how to do seclusions and restraints, but >> yeah, >> I jumped in. maybe a handful of other people that might you know like a a hogen you know the staff is so small you want you always want at least three two that you know depending on the age of the child you either use a one or two person restraint one to observe um so you need at least three people are trained >> um always get called at all normally for that >> yeah and they are also included in this report so if a if a police officer um restrains a student we
008have to include them in our data so sometimes they and they don't nec necessarily have to feel follow the same rules as we do. We it truly is the least restrictive child is dangerous to self for others. A police officer can come in and put handcuffs on a child for they follow their own police rules, but we still have to report that as restraint because the child was restricted in their movement, but then that's documented a little bit different to the state. do we do identify how many are police um interventions and >> if I can add one more piece kind of to Miriam's question even the formal training you know the first part of it is deescalation techniques so if if a student is >> escalated um you know and that part of the
009training I think pretty much all staff get that's I don't know if that's a part of youth mental health first aid not no not formally part of that but >> no but we do try to train staff on deescalation techniques for sure Um because that >> and I would say I it's probably more than f than the first half of the class is I mean the focus of the class is how to deescalate kids. It's again it's because it's the last resort. Last thing you want to do for a student is to put them in a restraint or put them in seclusion because we all know that that can be really traumatic for a kid. So we try really hard not to do it. Um but there are times when they are really hurting themselves
010or others and we just we can't not do it either. So, got to keep everybody safe in the building, >> including themselves sometimes. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> All right. Thanks. >> Next, we have student attendance and chronic absenteeism for the 2425 school year. >> Yes. So with that in your uh this page is in your packet and uh with that it goes back um about I don't know 9 10 years however many years are on there and with that showing our uh chronic absenteeism data over time and so just a a reminder to to anyone listening uh a student considered chronically absent is defined as missing 10% of the or more of the school year for any reason. So, uh the equivalent of of about 18 days of school. Um students
011who are medically excused, things like that, um they don't count in here. But, uh and school activities don't count. So, say, you know, high schoolers, um leaving early to, you know, whatever, girls soccer in the spring or track, something like that, leaving early doesn't count in here. And so, um we are, you know, it's been a focus. Um, you know, we've talked about a lot at the at the board level, at the school level, at the staff level, and just happy to report that, um, our numbers, especially as compared to, you know, four or five years ago, uh, continue to go down and and for some of them, um, they're the best numbers we've had uh in a in a really long time. So, >> compliment the middle school just >> they had their lowest
012number ever. >> Yeah. >> Well, that you're >> gave us. Yeah, that's on the list. So, >> yes, and you know, a lot of that is Yes. our our administration, our support staff, Stacia Cross, our attendance coordinator, um our SRO's, you know, Andy Jandro and Stephanie B. Um it it takes everyone and you know, and just as a reminder, it's not a um intervening early and it's not intended to, you know, whack people with a stick. It's hey, what regular attendance is important. how can we help um in terms of of you know what can we do to to ensure we establish those healthy habits and and you have your child here as as much as possible. And so uh with that that that will be a continued focus and and uh just wanted to
013to report the good numbers to you and and uh you know show some appreciation for the people that are working really hard on this. So >> Randy, it looks to me like the baseline for the high school is 25%. That doesn't sound good on the face of it. Can you comment on that? I mean, there's a bump >> for a couple years there where it was even worse. >> Yeah. And with that, um, you know, things like appointments and and you know, different pieces because I think pre-excused absences go in get figured in here. >> Yeah, they do. Like >> that doesn't that doesn't count toward the truency criteria, does it? No, but but overall >> excused five days, >> right? That's different. You know, I um um say I, you know, check my high
014schooler out to go on a college visit for a couple of days or something. Not truent at all. That's excused, but that would count towards, you know, count towards this. And so >> legitimate absences count toward that. >> Mhm. They do just overall, you know, number of days kids are gone. So yeah, 24, you know, almost 25% of our high schoolers were, you know, gone 18 days or more. And so um yeah, that's um something we want to track. And like you say, way better than than a few years ago. And u going back yeah to 1617, 1718, 1819. Um better data than um better data than that, but something we'll continue to work on. Do we know anything about the achievement of the kids that are absent? It's I guess not all the same
015students comprise of 25% though. I'll bet you a lot of them are pretty much the same. Do we have any knowledge of the achievements? >> Yeah, I haven't lower. >> I haven't tracked that. Um but we certainly could take a look at that. Yeah. For the kids that are missing the same as everybody else, it's one thing, but >> Right. Right. >> Not it tells you something. >> Yep. Exactly. because this is one of the variables in our report card, isn't it? >> It is. It is. >> Yep. >> Any other questions? >> How does this compare to other schools? I mean, is this pretty typical at that you have 25% at that high school in >> Yeah, I don't I I haven't looked officially. My guess is, yeah, it's it's probably in that ballpark
016just um with a number of things. um sometimes high schoolers are doing or other things are in or like I said college visits or things like that. >> Um I know there have been several articles uh in the last few years that most districts and this is across the country are struggling significantly uh with attendance rates. And so, you know, to see ours, you know, on the pro improving end of things, uh, we're really happy about and a lot of work goes into it and but, uh, you know, we're happy to continue to do that work. >> We have to beat ourselves up if we know that we're kind of the norm. I mean, if this is average, >> yes. How do we handle sports? You know, kids leaving for the day for sports? Yep.
017>> That then that >> that's not an that does not count. >> Yep. School activities don't count. I mean, we have a lot of that going on, >> right? Right. >> Okay. Well, >> that's good. >> What if the What about kids taking the day to go to the state football game? >> Yeah, that would be a pre-excused absence. That that would be in here. >> That would be right. >> Yep. Things like that. And and by law, uh, every student in the district um has 10, you know, pre-excused absences during the to use during the course of the year. Um, you know, theoretically I could walk in on day one and pre-excuse my child for the next 10 days. Um, but then those are burned up for the year, but um, yeah, every >>
018every child has those guaranteed by state statute. >> Is that full day or if they missed like an hour of the day? Is that >> we counted it at hours? Um, so yeah, we count it by hour. So periods, whatever, half days at the elementary, you know, stuff like that. >> Yep. So meaning if they're gone just like first period, it doesn't count as one whole day. >> I think technically it can. According to the statute, if they're gone unexcused part of a day, it can. >> But he was talking about pre-excused. So yep. If we either either or. >> But if we talk about unexcused, yes. Um if if my child was uh more than 10 minutes late, uh more than 10 minutes late every day for a week, yeah, they're considered truent. um
019because that's an unexcused absence and and that's the definition of truency. You know, chronic absenteeism definition is gone 10% or more of the year. Definition of someone being truent is um five or more unexcused absences um even part of a day in a semester. And so we have when when a student hits three two or three three the first letter and meeting >> so three days or 15 days depending on [Music] >> yeah there are municipal options there as well but >> any other questions? >> All right thank you. Could you also Randy break down the percentages to which ones how how much of the 24% is actually unexcused versus >> Sure. >> excused. You bet. >> Because I think that's a better reference as to what we're trying to >> parse. >> Yep. >>
020Yeah. And maybe where in the day too because are they just not getting to school in the morning? Are they going out for lunch and not getting back in time continually? Like is there things that we should be looking at as a board to >> help? So, you want them on lockdown at lunch? >> All right. >> Closing off campus. >> Any other questions? >> All right. We will move on then to the 2526 Warriors on Wisconsin program student informationational uh booklet. This is our first reading. So, this will be brought back for a second reading um at our next meeting. >> Yeah. Good evening. I'm here to talk about the the draft version of the WOW booklet. Uh kind of a timeline. And if you remember back in about a in your April meetings
021is when we uh typically do the first and second reading of the high school the entire uh high school information book. I I like to meet I meet with the WOW staff every summer about midsummer. Uh I call it retreat. They say you don't take us anywhere fancy so I'm not supposed to call it a retreat but um we meet for a day and a half and just to kind of go over the year and and then I get input from them and whatnot on any changes. So there's there's kind of two different parts here. Number one is any change that was in the right high school student information book is reflected here. So for example, some of the dress lo dress code language that you had uh and things like that. And then second
022we look at is there anything in particular about WOW that we want to address. Um really there was two things that we did is we adjusted our daily schedule a little bit um to to mirror the high school schedule even more because of our our traveling staff. So one thing that we did is we took out our advisory time which accounted for about 30 minutes during the school day and we're going to do our advisory pieces during our home and our resource. We can deliver those though delivered that information there. So we've actually increased our instructional time a little bit in our core classes when our staff are there. So for example, we share ELA, social studies and science and math staff with the high school so we can better utilize utilize those folks. And
023then another thing we did is um we wanted to clean up our our online pieces a little bit. So we developed an online learning guide. There's now a link that will be in this handbook um that'll go to like you know what is the expectation when I take an online class which again our online is with a teacher there. It's not they're working from home like um a virtual academy, but it allows the student to know what they need to do in terms of notes, uh the rules about quizzes and tests and things like that. So, that is kind of added into um this version of the handbook, too. So, that kind of wraps it up. I got everything kind of on page 31 as an addendum, but you'll see again things that mirror what
024we did at the high school information book and things that were specific to the WOW programming. >> Any questions? >> One thing on page 16, the parent teacher conferences. >> I need to add the word four in there. I think I just caught that. Yep. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. >> Um, Mr. Bisy. >> Yes. wondering on um page 19 when you're talking about security cameras. I think we're we're going to probably pass the revised 731.2 use of security cameras and electronic monitoring equipment. >> Assuming we're going to pass that a little bit. Would you include a reference to that? >> Absolutely. Yep. >> And then that's going to be passed today, you're saying, in your policies. That's first reading the second reading. Just want to update that policy in here. Hyperlink it. Sure. >>
025And then on page 27, it you know it we're we're talking about bullying and harassment by students. And then we talk about uh establishing complaints, procedures, and things like that. And then in the middle of that, there's a paragraph about promotion, retention of students in grades 9 through 12. Just seems like that's misplaced in the document. >> Okay. So, we want >> I I don't get the connection why it's in that section. >> I I don't It's not connected. It's just the linear way it's laid out. >> Kind of talking about this. It's like an ABA thing. >> Okay. So, move that around a little bit. >> Well, it's up to you, but it it just I I couldn't figure out why it was where where it is. >> Sure. I can I can work
026on that. >> Just wanted to draw your attention to that in case. Mhm. >> Any other questions or comments? >> All right, this is the first reading. This will be brought back to our board at our next board meeting for a second reading and final approval. Next, we have the finance committee meeting update. >> Yes, we met uh just prior to this evening's regular board meeting at 4:45. All members were present. Uh we touched on a few uh topics. One being that uh if you recall back when we were fundraising for the uh sport athletic complex, we initially had bleacher seat sales where we could have engraved seating. Uh Tim was here from the athletic department and discussed the fact that maybe we could bring that back and sell seats again. um which we were
027in support of of bringing that back if somebody wanted to uh do that and we could look at options for those funds and and using it towards the complex or whatever in the future. Um we talked about the pool usage fees uh in a community facility. Uh we it was discussed that the pool facility is an entity separate from the school district because it is in the district's community service uh fund 80 area and it's not a it is a community uh facility and not a district uh facility. So that's why we have to make sure we're very careful and with the DPI in terms of how we uh go about reporting in funds that are uh you know charged with the pool usage. Uh we talked about athletic training services. It's uh become inherently
028difficult to find uh those that are uh trained to do the athletic training services for all of our events. and we uh directed the administration to review the options that are there, including potentially even looking at hiring uh an athletic trainer uh within the district if necessary to uh to meet our needs there. Um and with that, we re reviewed and approved the bills and scheduled our next meeting for September 4th at 8 o'clock. >> Any questions? All right. Thank you for that update, Doug. Next, we have the compensation committee meeting update and we have an action item on that for support staff. >> Okay, so we met Thursday, August 7th at 5:00. All members were present. We went over the support staff compensation and um it was suggested to us to give a 3%
029increase, which is the same as we did with the teachers. Correct. Okay. >> Um, and then do we want to do an action now or >> Yeah, let's do an action now. >> So, I'm looking >> entertain a motion to approve. >> And can I talk just a little bit about that before we Yep. So, I'm going to pull it up. Thank you. >> Um, so, all right. So, here's and you've seen this before. Um, couple of potential changes here. And so, those are mainly in yellow. um head custodian at the high school. We haven't had one uh for a while now. Um but recommending that if we if we hire that position back, they would be at the same level as the middle school and tainer head custodians. Um also maintenance one. Um again
030we don't have anybody in that role right now but uh had to make an adjustment to that role because handbook language says it will be a 7 12% difference uh compared to maintenance 2. Uh no changes other than the increase in grades 2 through 4 um or in the the parah work group attendance coordinator just wasn't on the schedule before. So wanted to make sure it just lived in our in a substitute piece which we'll talk about in a minute. Uh so putting that on there as well as um we have lead cook positions um at the middle school and tainter and their their responsibilities are in between a cook and the head cook position at the high school. And so, um, Calie was recommending to Victor and I to establish that in there as
031well, as well as that kitchen manager role at the middle school was not, um, not uh, definitely placed on here either. Uh, lifeguards, you know, putting on this schedule, we've we've uh, given those increases previously. This would represent a 3% increase for next year. Last piece we talked about, there's this evaluation meets bonus piece. Um, in talking with Bob Butler about that, um, just with labor laws, um, he recommended including that just in their regular hourly rate and dealing with the, um, and and dealing with the evaluation piece. I mean, we can continue to do that, but um I think you potentially have a a slippery slope there in terms of an hourly employee and doing a bonus based on hours uh worked at the end of the year. Um so that was it. So
032if you would approve that, like this 77 cents an hour would just go in into their hourly wage versus them getting that in July. [Music] Any questions? >> All right. I would entertain a motion to approve the support staff compensation schedule as presented. >> So move. >> Motion has been made. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? >> Kevin, since my daughter is a lifeguard, do I have to abstain? >> Oh, from the vote. >> Yeah. >> Just let that be known. Let the record show that Andy is abstaining. Everybody else, all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. And that has been approved. >> All right. Next, we have the curriculum. >> Wait. >> Yeah, you got more to go. >> Not
033done yet. >> All right. So, we talked about the substitute compensation and we decided to move them up to the highest level on the first day. So this is for teachers and pair professionals. Do you want to show them that? >> Yes. So um I make this even a little bigger. So with that we've operated for several years where um as a substitute teacher I came in at $125 a day. After five days I went to $150. Um and with that with rates changing um number one that's tough to track and as over time districts around us are moving to that right off the bat as well. Um and we were suggesting the same thing for pairs as well just going to that little bit higher rate uh right off the bat instead of um
034having them work five days and and then giving that rate. So, um, that was in the and the committee was in support of that as well. >> Perfect. All right. And then we went over the contracted staff compensation, which we also gave a 3% increase. And the contracted staff would be like the IT personnel. >> Yep. Some positions here. Yes. Bet. >> And then we moved into close session. >> All right. >> Do you want anything more on that? >> Yeah. No, I think we're good there. And >> and that's about it. And we do not have a meeting date scheduled yet. >> All right. Any questions? >> Thank you for that update. >> Tried to hurry. >> Next, we have the curriculum committee meeting. Uh curriculum committee met on July 15th and all board
035members were present. We on the agenda, we approved the minutes. On the agenda items, we got an update on renaming the face culinary courses uh that will be offered for 2526. Uh Sarah was there to explain all of that and the goal is to align with CBTC courses um and shared uh the budget consideration for growth plan. Um well laid out, well thought out, she did a good job. Uh and then an update on the face education and training career cluster course. Uh Marca provided an update on the courses offered this year in the education and training career clusters that including the number of students taking the courses. Then we got an update on the financial literacy curriculum development, the the new course that uh we're going to be offering for financial literacy for all
036of our students before they graduate. Um we still will be offering the higher level one um in the in that category as well. And then we talked about the literacy intervention uh program at the middle school called STAR and uh got some information on that as well as um how the implementation looks, the materials used and that sort of thing. And so with that, we set our next meeting for August 25th at 5:00. And that was our meeting. Any questions or comments? All right. Next, buildings and grounds update. The buildings and grounds committee met on July 21st. We um talked about the Rice Lake Youth Baseball Association field renovation consideration for reimbursement. Uh the field that uh they asked for some help in the re uh renovation process is the field baseball field that is
037at the college. They put some money into the infield dugouts and and water lines for that for that field. Made it a nice ball field. And uh with that they uh had some issues when they were running some of the water lines and things. Um, and the cost got a little higher than what they had anticipated. So, they were asking for some funds. Um, so we're we asked to have them specifically give us some more information on what they really needed and were asking for. Uh, and then we talked about advertising and promotion in the district. The committee approved the administration to investigate new avenues for athletic advertising and promotion in the district. So, we're, you know, with the new uh sign at the sports complex, uh there's some opportunities there for putting some ads
038on the big screen and uh possibly going forward in the in the gymnasium having a a screen in there as well in the future. So, there'd be an opportunity to to sell some advertising to help fund some of our athletic programs to keep our our costs for our students down, if not at zero, where they're at now. Next, we talked about the college gymnasium update. The committee approved using the college gymnasium for gymnastics and directed the administration to look at putting the Warrior logos in the building. So, it was more like ours and not the old Charger logo. Um, and not just a place then that our our gymnastics is is getting put, but actually they can be proud of that place and that facility and and be part of the district. And so we're
039excited to have an opportunity for the gymnastics team to have a place to have their floor and their equipment set up and stay set up so they don't have to take it up and put it down after every practice and before every practice. Uh student center child care update. Um there we talked about the that's at the college as well. student center at the college where we would have that child care update or that facility. Um the big topic was the county uh buildings and grounds committee um did not like the idea of having the playground out on the back side of that facility and which is the least expensive place to have it and the most convenient place to have it for our our facility use of that building. And so, uh, Randy will
040be going to the county on Friday to meet with that committee again and, uh, give them our thoughts and input and see where that turns out. Uh, pool update. We got a pool update on the pool building and the startup of the pool operations. um that as far as operations, it was a few little hiccups here and there, but things are going pretty well with all of the operations and things. There's a little bit with air exchangers and things. And the biggest thing is up there, u some of the stainless steel is starting to show some surface rust and so they're looking into what's causing that and what we can do to solve it. >> So, that was the pool update. Did they end up putting a TV up there for viewing? >> Not yet.
041>> Okay. >> That's still uh in discussion. >> Uh community center, boys and girls club update. Administrative administration gave us an update on the community center, the status, the project, uh projected schedule. Uh they got the windows cut. There was a a confusion on the cement walls that were brought in and in sections that were supposed to have windows that didn't and so they got cut in and now are in place. Um the roof is on in the gymnasium side. Um so they're they're making progress. It's coming along. They're working every day. So that's exciting to see the changes coming there. Uh summer maintenance projects uh administration presented that the summer maintenance projects are all on schedule. Cleaning, painting, um updating is all in good shape. Then uh Pete Copac who was just here earlier
042um is was asking about potential of a hoop greenhouse out at the conservancy so that they could have more space to have a greenhouse to where they could have more product to sell in the springtime. and uh looking at grants and and some funding for that so he can can have that out at the conservancy. Um we gave him positive support on that to continue looking at ways he can do that. Hail damage update. The administration presented the remaining hail damage projects to be completed uh that are being paid for by the insurance company. Uh we should be I think the WOW building is getting siding. That's about one of the last ones >> um that we had there. So, we're about done with the hail damage issues and then uh uh DTO AC uh
043the committee did approve reconfiguring the AC system and uh was that going to be done yet this fall? >> Hopefully. Yeah. >> And then uh next date to next meeting date to be determined. Any questions? >> Where's DTO's? >> District technology office. >> The air conditioning for the server room has been an issue for a long time and we're sick of fixing it. So, it's like let's let's get it fixed the way it should be. >> It's either too cold or too hot for the staff and it the computers and >> it doesn't work. >> I feel like it's an issue in this room. >> It's like a slam cooler in here right now. Um and on the the gymnastics so that they they are going to do their practice. Are they also having meets
044at the college then too there? Cool. >> That'll be their facility. That's awesome. That's really great. Cool. >> Is is there an extra cost to having the windows cut into the boys and girls club? >> No. >> I don't know. >> That's a mistake. >> Anyway, it's not our concern, right? >> Well, the extra there is Yes, there is an extra cost. Just not to us. >> Yes. >> Not not to Boys and Girls Club or us. >> Not to us. >> Yeah. They was engineered correctly, but they weren't cut in. So, >> somebody didn't do their job. >> There were dotted lines there. >> basically, they did not cut on the dotted line. >> Any other questions? A lot of stuff there for buildings and grounds. All right. Next, page. Uh, next we have
045policy. So, first reading uh for a number of policies. Policy 665, which is fraud prevention and reporting. That's just a revision. Policy 672, purchasing is a revision with the rule 672 that we're recommending for deletion. Policy 731.2 electronic surveillance policy. That's a revision. Policy 760, the food service management, a revision uh with the rule 760 to be revised. And then policy 8:30 use of school facilities that was under review and the rule 8:30 use of school facility regulations that is revised. So those policies and rules will uh come back as a first reading. Any questions on any of those before we move on? If not those, like I said, will come back at our next meeting for final reading and approval. We also uh Phil gave a good update on the Wisconsin legis uh state
046legislature and where they were at at that time. Um and then uh uh we talked about the Supreme Court ruling from June on the parental notification and how that will uh will work in the district. um upcoming policies. We've got a number of more policies that uh we'll be addressing and we adjourned. [Music] Any questions? All right. Seeing none then. Um Phil WSB public policy correspondent. Um >> you sounded like Napoleon dynamite there. For everyone else, you might >> Yes. Can I serve you a nice bass? Um, there were just a few items on the legislative update blog uh because the legislature is not uh doing anything in session right now. So, uh, one, uh, update was on the at the federal level. Just uh information that the education department is encouraging states to seek
047waiverss from K through 12 education laws and regulations if they see there is a way to innovate to improve student performance because uh at that level they're not pleased with the results of the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress. and uh you have to document how you think the waiver will help educate the kids and how you're going to evaluate the results of that. WASBY is uh instituting a new resource to track the effect of not indexing for inflation. They have a nice graph on there that shows that since 2011 um accounting for inflation, we're about 3 $3,500 behind. Then uh they talked about per student spending in another blog post and it was uh based on information from the Wisconsin policy forum and I I did not remember to look up what the perspective
048of the Wisconsin policy forum is. But um I was interested in that uh just to learn the facts and also it kind of interests me that so much discussion around education centers around how much money we're putting into it or not putting into it but relatively less on what the results from the education are. You always hear the dollars per pupil but you don't really hear that as much about the test scores. So, I looked into that a little bit more just for my own interest and I knew you guys are always interested in a little bit of a longer report. So, I'll give you some of the information. Uh, Wisconsin, according to Wisconsin policy forum, the per capita spending per pupil in Wisconsin, the state rank went from 11th in 2002 to 25th in
0492020 to 26th out of 50 now. We used to be the highest spenders among the 12 m Midwestern states and now we're about seventh in dollars per student depending on where you look according to the US Census Bureau data. Wisconsin spends about 14,900 per pupil. So we're a little over a thousand below that here. And nationwide the average is 16,000 and a half per pupil. And the um uh spending has gone up in the last 25 years from 2002 to from around the upper 14s um per pupil to in the state it's gone from uh according to this data from 14,500 to 14,800. In the US it increased from 13,000 to 16 and a half thousand. So nationwide spending per pupil has kind of outpaced us. Uh the highest state spender is New York where
050they spent $29,000 per pupil. 2021 to 2022 saw the largest percentage increase in public school per pupil spending in over 20 years. Uh Wisconsin used to rank higher than average in personal income tax in total tax burden. 2002 we were 19 or we were fifth in 2002. Now we're 19th in total tax burden. We used to spend more than the national average of personal income and education. Now we spend just slightly less. uh 3.3% versus 3.5% u is a national average. Our student population and here's a big problem. Student population in the US from 2002 to 2023 went down 7.3%. Versus in the US as a whole only went down 1.3%. >> Uh state population went down 2.3. student population. >> Yeah, student population. >> Wisconsin. Yeah. >> Much >> went down a lot more
051than according to the Wisconsin policy forum figures. Um then I they referenced the National uh Association of Educational Progress um and those test results and uh I looked into that a little bit just to see where we stood in the Midwest and versus the US. You can go to that site um just go to the National Association of Educational Progress site. I I didn't think of giving that to um Colleen, but it's you can just click on it in the WASBY stuff. And then there's another uh educationdata.org organization where I got a couple of figures from too that I couldn't find elsewhere. But um I looked at the results for math and reading in the fourth and eighth grade 2019 and 2024 which were the last results available. Um basically we're we're pretty much right
052in I compared Wisconsin and Iowa and Minnesota and I was a little surprised. Uh Iowa's just a couple of points behind everybody the other two I should say. Not everybody. Um, but Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota are pretty close and or mostly all a few points above the average in the US. For instance, fourth grade and and all scores math and reading pretty much declined between 2019 and 2024. For instance, Wisconsin fourth grade math between 2019 2024 out of 500 points went from 242 to 239. Nationwide, it declined by three. Also, eighth grade, even a bigger decrease. Eighth grade math in Wisconsin, the score declined from 289 in 2019 to 283 in 2024. And that they said was a statistically significant decrease. Um, and nationwide it als it declined nine points, declined even more nationwide. reading.
053In Wisconsin, it went from 220 down to 215 between 2019 and 2024. Nationwide, it went from 219 to 214. Similar decrease. And then eighth grade reading Wisconsin declined from 267 out of 500 in 2019 to 260. And nationwide it declined again about about five points. Oh, it declined not quite as much, five points. 262 257. So everything's grouped pretty closely. We look like we're a little bit above the national average and we're right in there with a couple of neighboring states. But then I was thinking about what the significance to these scores is because we're looking at, you know, our results from year to year achievement results. And I don't know what the scores are. It'd be pretty easy to do standard deviations with our class sizes. But I just kind of assumed, you know,
054if everybody was one, two or three points from the standard deviation. I kind of think in order to call a change significant, say if we wanted an improvement, I I'm kind of think ballpark significance would be like seven, eight, nine points change, something like that. If you say a class size is 150. So we're looking at few points change this way and that way. And we want to strive for an improvement, but an a significant improvement would be something on the order of that, I think. >> You know, and I look at those statistics and the first thing I say, Phil, is there's a whole lot of apples and oranges here. I mean, you got so many, you know, variables that to me it doesn't mean anything. Now, it's nice to say, you know, or
055be worried about below. we went 4% below or but it there's so many differences in the district and states and rural I mean it just I don't know >> to me it doesn't make any sense >> right well but you gota either you follow nothing or you pick some standards follow best thing would be if we >> just looked at our own standards and say you know well they say that this is average but this is what we want to be here and this is what we can achieve Yeah. I mean, a point here, a point there. It's always better to go up than down, but I can't disagree with you. >> Any other questions or comments? All right. Bert's got an update from the 2025 summer learning symposium. >> Well, I went to the
056uh summer learning symposium sponsored by WASBY at Stevens Point the beginning of uh July, July 11th and 12th. And I've been there a couple times. I think some of the others have been there, too. And and and very informative. They bring you up to date right away on legislative things. And uh the first session we had kind of blew my mind a little bit because it was by Joel Hesh, who I happen to know in education from somewhere. He's a superintendent in Austin. and he got up there and he told us how they got a referendum passed when last fall they asked for 7 million or whatever it was and it got defeated. So then they lowered it to bottom line that they they wanted to ask the community for 1.7 million and that got
057defeated in February. So they met and the school board approved consideration to dissolve the district and that seemed to get people excited and that's what happened. They they did get uh you know some professional help and they did get uh the community involved and why they need this money. They had tours. It it was really interesting how they went from and then they got their 7 million. the next referendum they got through 7 million. So I thought that was you know this was a guy I think it was his first year as superintendent and uh he did a good job. So we we talked on different things. Um, one of the the one was on accounting and you know data that you can measure for um your students and personnel and operations and and they
058talked a little bit about how it's important for a lot of these for board members to know where you're going which got into another session on um well I call it the uh um SWAT method because one of the school districts I believe it was uh it might have been um Arcadia but they uh the SWAT mess is strengths, weaks, opportunities and uh you know weaknesses and and uh the the the school district that did it uh they had a lot of input and it was very successful. uccessful. Uh, next slide. Um, anyway, uh, the Linda Hall, she's on head of the office of children's mental health director because we've been talking here and had presentation on mental health and they did some research in Wisconsin on stressors that students have and I'm going to
059let you know you can just read that as you go up, Randy. and what were the stressors that they found out from students in relationship to mental health. And and uh I thought that was quite interesting. And again, this is a uh you know pretty professional uh survey that they did and uh and then you go up to is there another one that you have? >> Yeah. And then the students uh share their thoughts and and uh um what support having people to celebrate some of the good things etc etc and talk to the students and then there was one more I think wasn't there >> did you have yeah >> social then it got into >> and and board members this Colleen did link this today in your online packet as well so you
060can >> the research that tells us about social media and uh cell phones and the potential risks. Anyway, I thought I'd bring back and if you ever want any like Randy says, you can go. But it it was an interesting presentation um by the uh children's mental health director and I thought, boy, this should really fit into our group that presented to us because I think there's a lot of content there. plus I think would be an excellent resource for our mental health community. So that's all I have other than they had a couple other um presentations that were really good. A lot kind of solidified some of the things we were doing. They had several they had over 125 people there, but they did have I'd say maybe 20 or more people who were
061firsttime school board members. And uh what was really nice is to sit with other board members and and listen what's going on in their district and share things. That was one of the major benefits. That's all I have. >> Any questions? >> How often are the staff trained on mental health? >> What did you say? >> No, I was just asking Randy. How often >> youth mental health first aid? All staff um are are trained on that. every new staff member that comes to the district is trained on that. And then depending on roles and Lauria, I may look first some pieces here depending on jobs and professional development. Um, you know, and there are some pieces during the year at inservice come up, but the the formal one would be youth mental health first
062aid um that all staff members um receive when they come to the district. Um, we have our own internal presenters there. um that that conduct that training for everyone and then they do refreshers during the year. I know during inservice. >> Any other questions? >> Well, I noticed at the bottom of one of Bert's charts there among the stressors of students was achievement pressure. Well, >> first >> that's that's kind of something that we just have to somehow teach kids to deal with because the pressure of not achieving eventually gets to be even worse. And then at the bottom I saw that uh you know half of the kids were stressed out by climate change, gun vi violence and discrimination. I think that's why when you teach topics like that, you have to have it
063a forum where you can have a fair discussion about things because, you know, if you listen, you know, if you listen to somebody that says the world's going to end 10 years from now, which we've we have heard >> and if you let kids believe that, well, who wouldn't be stressed? But if you discuss those concepts in a class where people can ask questions and and there's some perspective, that's going to take a lot of the stress out of it. But yeah, if we teach kids to be stressed, they're going to be stressed. >> And you're stressed when you're presented with situations that you really don't have any control over. >> Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you for that up or that uh information, Bert. Upcoming meeting schedule on Thursday. Coming up
064this week, the 14th, we have new teacher welcome lunchon at 11:45 at Layman's. We got a number of board members signed up. If you uh aren't signed up and are planning to attend or would like to attend, please let Colleen know. actually let Katie Wick know and she'll get you on that list and then you can join us. Then the back to school all staff in service Monday, August 18th at 7:30 a.m. That's the continental breakfast and 8:00 the program begins in the auditorium. And uh we've got a couple board members signed up for that. Anybody else? If you can attend that, please let Colleen know so she can get you signed up for that. And then there are between now and the 1st or the 6th of November, there's four different webinars put on
065put out by WSB. Those no registration is required. Just sign uh go on uh WSB website, sign on and and you're in. And then the fall regional meeting October 15th, it's a Wednesday. That will be here in Race Lake again this year at Layman's uh 4:30. There's a premeating with a little conference meeting there and then the regional meeting begins at 6:00. Registration is required for that. So, please let Colleen know. And then um the fall legislative conference is Saturday, November 8th. That's in Stevens Point at the convention center over there. And registration is required for that as well. So, if you can attend that, please let Colleen know. That is the upcoming meeting schedule. Um, district administrator comments. >> Yeah, just a a few things. Um, and Kevin, as you mentioned, our kickoff in
066service is a week from today, just with the school year starting a little bit earlier. So, um, with that, um, we get things going. and Thursday the 21st. Uh so a week from this Thursday will be our day for new students and and freshman and fifth grade first day as well as elementary parent teacher conferences. And then the first day for all students is Monday the 25th. So coming two weeks from today >> be here before we know it. >> All right. And all of our administrators and staff are all excited and ready for the school year to start. >> Exactly. >> Why wouldn't we be smiling? I know. I know. It's good. >> There might be one or two things yet to do yet, but we have time >> cuz this thing got over
067in an hour. >> Yeah. All right. I would entertain a motion to convene into close session pursuit to Wisconsin statutes 19.851E and 19.851c. >> I will make the motion, but I would move to amend uh the close session to strike uh item B1 19851C. uh the district administrator evaluation uh our committee is meeting a week from tomorrow and we will have something >> for the the following meeting. Yeah. >> All right. So the motion has been made for just the first for letter A for 19.851E and that's individual employee contract. There's a second >> motion has been made and seconded. All in favor signify by saying I. I >> opposed. We are headed to close. >> Usually have to do roll call. Whatever. >> Oh yeah, we gota do roll call. >> I think everybody
068said yes >> other than that. Well, you took care of the motion. So yeah, Bill, Kevin, Miam, Bert, Nelly, Doug, Lorie, Don, and Andrew. >> All right. >> All second.