001[Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, come on. All [Music] right. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Happy birthday to you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Welcome to the work session for the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6. Miss Lemon, would you please call the role? A nope. This meeting will be called to order first. Now, will you please call the role? Director, present. Pres. present. Thank you very much.
002I just want to get right to it, I guess. Um, the first item on our agenda is our calendar review. Just a couple of things remaining before we get to celebrate with our graduates. Um this Tuesday, room dedication for John Hayfily at the Pter Learning Center, the retirement celebration. Please make every effort to to attend that one where we can celebrate our longtime um educators. And then our last school visit to Jackson Elementary School. I think those are the ones I would highlight. U Miss Lemon, have you received everyone's RSVPs for which graduations they're attending? Okay. So, if you haven't done so, please let Miss Lemon know which graduations you are attending. Anything that we missed? Any discussion on the calendar? Okay. Um, we will move on to our board member comments. Miss Sullivan, do
003you want to start this time? So sweet. I've been to four different soccer games. Um just Gley West is kind of standing out right now and then I've seen quite a few of the frontier games as well. Dr. Campo Spitzy. Yeah. So, um had a really wonderful time celebrating President former President Michael Matthews six and a half years of service to the district at his appreciation celebration this last week. Um, that was it was really cool to be able to honor you that way, Michael. Um, things from the district. Uh, one thing I wanted to highlight, my kindergartener came home, um, last week with a little baby tree. And from the intercom, I learned from the intercom newsletter that the city of Gley government forestry department presented the giving tree to every D6 kindergartener. That's
004like over a thousand treats. Um, so the kids were taught um how to take care of trees. They deputized the students as official tree caretakers and every student went home with their very own Black Hill spruce, which I didn't know what kind of tree it was until I read the other com. Um, so we had fun planting that tree as a family. Um, looking forward to graduations, uh, to museum night for the Fred Charter School of Innovation coming up and the Pter Learning Center um, dedication tomorrow. And because I am the ambassador uh for Gley West High School, I wanted to give a shout out to their students. Um their future business leaders of America that have presented many times um to um the board uh their students uh they had two outstanding students. So
005they had their state competition um this last week and uh Pu was in the top 10 finalists for public speaking and Ray Mundo who goes by Rey ranked fourth place in human resources management and he qualified for the national conference in Anaheim California this summer. Um really cool. I happened to run into him at a Colorado Rapids game this Saturday. So I got to congratulate him in person um and talk to his family a little bit. Um, let's see. Other quick shoutouts, uh, to two amazing school counselors. So, Stephanie Mora, who works at Enkheimman, reached out to me, um, in the last month asking if I would meet with a fifth grader at Enkheimman, who was interested in becoming a doctor, and so I got to have lunch with her this last week. Um, and
006then Amber Branicki, who's the school counselor at Miker Elementary. Every Friday they do future Friday video interviews. So, they have a couple of fourth grade students that interview parents in the school to talk about what our careers are like. Um, so I got to sit down with a couple of outstanding uh mountain lions for that interview. So, it's been a fun couple weeks in the district. Mr. Well, I got off the IR and got an opportunity to go out to the Marine Corps Awards, which uh every year Major Kinsley and uh Gunny Morrison put on a great performance. Uh some of the highlights that I did get, and I don't want to steal any thunder from Mr. Zari, but so far this year, they have done 75 color guard presentations. They are the cadetses are
007close to $1 million in scholarships. They through the school year they've done 2,000 volunteer hours including 700 volunteer hours during the holidays. Director Yeah. Do you want me to save you? Yeah. Go ahead. Timothy Longacre for you. Absolutely. No, I mean you you go ahead and recognize Timothy. Also, one of our student council reps, Timothy Longacre, got the most prestigious scholarship which will pay him $180,000. So, it's amazing. Thank you, Mr. Norwood. Mr. Zari. Yeah, I agree with Rob. I mean, very impressive event, Marine Corps Awards night. And I' I'd like to recognize Cynthia Kinsley, Major Kinsley's wife, who does such an outstanding job. I had no idea. She organizes the annual Toys for Tots campaign. And I'm not sure about specific numbers, Mr. Norwood, but I know that they collect and distribute thousands of
008toys, it seems, and books to kids throughout our community during the holiday season. That was very impressive. and she recognized all the cadetses that participated in that and other folks in the community who volunteer their time. So again, a fantastic event. I also had the attend uh the opportunity to attend the elementary art show downtown downstairs in the lobby and it was great. Again, hundreds and hundreds of people seem to pour out for that. lots of kids, many staff members, and I was um I actually got caught up in some of the art. Um there are some pieces down there that I that I encourage you to take a look at. Actually, all of them, but some of them are like these three-dimensional pictures on a two-dimensional space. And these these things just pop out
009of the texture of the paper. And and it just surprises me. It's those are done by some of our youngest students in the community. Very impressive. I also had the opportunity to go to the Hades Town production and several of the other board members had encouraged me to do so as well as a superintendent and I agree it was a wonderful production actually. Um I can't overemphasize this enough. It's it was a professional level show in a professional level theater. no problems with sound that I could detect. No problems with lighting. That is extremely difficult to do to put something on like that. So, bravo to everyone involved in that production. Uh, coming up soon, I believe it's on May 1st, is a Gley Central High School Gayla. So, I'm looking forward to that as
010well. And finally, I attended for the very first time in my career that I can remember the Special Olympics event at Northridge uh High School um athletic fields out there, the District 6 Stadium. And I just uh it was really great to see all our young athletes out there uh parading along the track, but more importantly, hundreds and hundreds of their fellow students in the stands cheering cheering our athletes on. uh schools cheering on not just their own school athletes but athletes from other schools at that event. It was just a really cool thing and I want to say that I put on a lot of big events in my time and that was a big event. So, anybody who was associated with that, the organizing of that and the facilitation of it, very impressive
011work. I just really am thankful that we're in a district that does those types of things. And again, uh I was happy to see all the supporters in our community come out to to acknowledge Michael's work and service on the board. That's all I have. President Match. Thank you, Mr. Matthews. Well, I don't have a lot to add. I'll just say uh thank you uh for uh for everyone in the district for that for that ceremony. Uh thank you guys for your kind words. Um that was uh very meaningful for me and for my family. And so uh just thank you. Thank you for being there and for for supporting um these last six and a half years. Vice President Ben. Uh, I've been traveling abroad, couple near-death experiences, but I made it back to
012some time for Michael's reception. Um, that was that was about all I got out of the last couple weeks, uh, as far as constructive school board work. But, uh, it was it was really great to see the support that turned out and, uh, looking forward to closing up the year and the, uh, graduation marathon coming right up. Um, one event that I attended was the refugee quarterly community consultation meeting which is um when various entities that help support refugee resettlement um give they give a report to the community. So, Lutheran Family Services is our resettlement agency here in Gley and um a woman from the state refugee program as well comes and just um provides some numbers and some resettlement data. Um so they are one of the um nonprofits that has been impacted by
013some cuts in federal funding and as well you may know that refugee refugee resettlement is currently on a pause until such time as the president decides to resume it. So, a lot of the conversation was just around how can we continue to support newcomers to our community, help them to integrate um what are some of the biggest needs, which sounds like transportation, um receiving um maybe driver's ed for for folks, um housing, um and continued immigration, um legal legal advice. So that was that was great to always that there's always the Gley Police Department, the um library system, healthcare entities there. And then there was also a benefit concert for the immigrant refugee center um just yesterday and um that was really beautiful. We had many there were multiple UNCC professors who performed as well
014as a flute studio um with many different children from around the world and it was great to see the community support um for those members of our community. Thank you all for your comments. At this time we will receive our curriculum adoption information um grades 9 through 12 English language curriculum. Thank you President Nash. Um, as you all are aware, uh, the curriculum team has been working on a curriculum adoption for high school, um, language arts and, um, they come forward tonight with with their recommendation for you all. Um I don't know if you all had a chance to review it. Well, it was on um display for review here in the district, but um they'll give you an overview tonight about the curriculum. And this presentation in the work session will be a little
015bit more detailed than the one in the business meeting and hopefully a little more conversation will give you a chance to ask the questions that you might have before you consider adoption during the business meeting. I'm pleased to introduce you. Uh I think Mr. Asmus is going to start. Okay, Mr. Ros start mash members of the board and Dr. Pilch. Um we are here to just bring to you a little bit information on our our new high school curriculum 9 through2 English language arts curriculum um that you'll be voted on later tonight. Really what brought us here is that our current 9 through 12 English program called springboard was sold. And so with that uh we no longer have access to the platform to the workbooks and to the curriculum. And so that sent us
016into a full process to adopt a brand new curriculum for this year. Our charge u or the charge was to select and adopt a rigorous curriculum um that offered opportunities for all of our learners to be successful whether that be a multilingual learner, a special education student or um or just anyone. And so we we wanted something high level at grade level but all students could access. Lisa McGee, our English language arts coordinator, led a group of 9th through 12th grade English teachers as well as school administrators, u multilingual teachers, gifted and talented teachers, special education teachers. They all came together to um to look at a few sets of curriculum and then Dr. Negan Anders came in to help with the final consensus to get down to one. And so um so Lisa and
017Degan will walk us through the process used to recommend the curriculum. we can go deeper with and ask ask more questions now as we go through and then we'll present another presentation at the board meeting and and then um hopefully you can vote on that. So with that I'll turn it over to Dr. Negan. Uh thank you Mr. Osman. So, uh, just like Anthony alluded to, uh, we really started this process by focusing in on ensuring alignment with our district goals and to make sure that we're meeting state standards as outlined in 2020 Colorado academic standards for reading, writing, and communicating. Also ensuring that we're promoting equity and access. Uh, so making sure that all students get to engage in highquality ELA instruction. and to support rigorous and personalized learning, making sure, as Anthony talked
018about, that all students have access to grade level content. And they also have a resource that helps support them to meet their needs, to provide them with what they need when they need it. Uh, also, uh, you get to see here just what a incredible group of educators representing all five of our high schools, uh, that were part of this committee, including teachers and administrators. And also like we talked about, we also had specialists for special education, gifted and talented as well as specialists for multilingual learners to make sure that we had great representation in eyes with different expertise to help with the selection process. Uh before uh we bring to you the recommendation, we'll talk through the process. And so the first part and most of you are familiar with this process. It'll look
019very familiar if you've heard us come before you um in the past around a curriculum adoption. So we start with ed reports which is a third party wellrespected uh reviewer of highquality instructional materials and that helps us narrow our focus to only the highest quality that meets their expectations. Uh then as you saw we selected committee members and then ordered samples from just narrowed down to five different resources. In November uh the committee came together and created a philosophy statement with Lisa's support and they also took feedback uh a survey was sent to across all of our ELA and co-teers to get their feedback on what's critical for their needs to be able to best meet students needs. And so that was incorporated into the philosophy statement as well. Uh when the committee came together,
020they engaged in a data review where they looked at ED reports for each one of those fives to see how they scored in each one of the different areas that they were evaluated through their process. They then uh jumped into the AIM rubric, which you are familiar with. That is our process. It's our rubric. And so they really looked into it line by line to make sure they had internalized it and make sure there if there were any issues or things that need to be added that they were able to do that to make sure that it really meets the needs of our students here in Gley and our educators. Um they began the material review using the rubric and then they also had samples. So they were able to take those samples of each
021of the curricula and then start piloting in classrooms with our students so they could see how students responded to the text and the different lesson plans that were inside of it as well. In January and February, uh they continued the material review with the AIM rubric and then they continued to uh pilot those lessons inside of classrooms. Once that was done, um they reviewed the AIM scores for all the resources and then narrowed it down to three finalists. With those three finalists, we then brought into vendors in so they could go deeper into the resources, ask the vendors questions and get some feedback if there's something missing or something like that that they weren't able to see in just our paper review and review of their online materials. Uh the committee then really narrowed in
022on a few things that we talked about earlier around these musthaves that they had to have as part of a curricular resource to really meet our needs. because the resources were so good, all of them were such high quality, we really had to focus in on the needs of our community and our students. And so these are the committee's list of absolute musthaves um that they really were going to zero in on to make a final decision on this. And so I won't read them all to you uh but you can see uh what they talked about. And then the next piece you can look at. So one of the three finalists was eliminated uh which was study sync and that was eliminated because it lacked a lot of support especially for new teachers and
023so they really believed it wasn't something novice or young teachers could really benefit from that it would take a lot of work where these other two had much more substantial support for our educators. Um, so that one was easily eliminated. And then if we go to the next one, our final two were into literature in my perspectives. And you can see how the committee ranked those out in terms of which one really met the mark. Uh, as you look at how they scored each one of those on this, I will point out that into literature, the piece where it says easy to navigate for teachers. uh when they first saw it, it looked a little challenging, but in their conversations, they realized with professional development that there wouldn't be a challenge in really being able
024to navigate the platform. And so that's a critical piece to is making sure that we have that intensive support for our teachers as they implement it. And so, uh, our committee is recommending to you this evening into literature as the final selection, uh, for this adoption. And to take a deeper dive into the resource, I'm going to turn it over to Lisa McGee, our uh K12 coordinator for ELA and AV. Hello. All right. So, once the committee made their final selection, then I was able to work with a HM rep and um one of the desires that the committee had communicated to us was that they really wanted a strong implementation support. So the professional development that occurs at the beginning and midyear. Um and so I have worked with the HMH um representative and
025we've come up with a three-year plan. Um the first year includes two on-site implementation trainings where HMH coaches will actually come and facilitate the training with our teachers to help us unpack the new units and understand how to best use the resources. HMH is also providing six 2-hour virtual training sessions um which if we decide that there's a need to use those then we'll pull together a committee of teachers either from a specific school that might be asking for the additional support or if as a district we're seeing a need we'll pull those teachers and work with the um GA representatives as well to make sure that we're leveraging the virtual trainings um as best as possible. In person is always better but virtual is better than nothing. Um so we have those in our
026back pocket as needed. Over the summer uh we will have a onehour leadership virtual session with our principles so that they get a highle overview of the system um the platform and the resource itself so that they can support their teachers as they implement their first year with this resource. And then each building during the first year will receive a coachly license which is tied directly to the platform. And so as teachers are navigating the platform, if they're running into any issues or questions, each building will be able to directly chat or contact um support that will get them their answers as quick as possible. Uh during year two, we wanted to make sure that we were really differentiating the support that we're providing teachers. And so during August that welcome back um curriculum day,
027we want to continue to offer the year one initial implementation support for our new to district or new to resource teachers, but we want to give the opportunity to our experienced teachers to really dig into the needs that they have after implementing the resource for one year. So we'll differentiate theirs so that we have offerings for our new and our experienced teachers. Year three, we want to mimic that. Um, but we want to start to leverage our teacher leaders. And so, we have just one on-site implementation training, which will be that foundational training for our new new teachers. Um, and then we'll work with our teacher leaders so that they are actually um stepping into the leadership role and facilitating the PD um in different breakout sessions that uh they have identified that they need
028to support. And once we're through the initial first three years of implementation, then that's where we will really leverage our teacher leaders. And so during the uh the following welcome back days, we'll have our teachers facil facilitate the professional development sessions for our new teachers as well as experienced. Um so I'm very proud of this package. I think that this speaks to the need that our committee has asked for and I think it will ensure that we have um just a quality implementation of the new resource. Okay. Uh one of the pieces that our committee was really excited about and this is tied to the platform. It's writable um and the potential it has to give students timely and meaningful feedback and then they can immediately turn around and apply it to their writing. So
029it tightens that feedback loop for our teachers, which we're hearing a lot. The more we ask our our students to write, the more feedback our teachers need to give. And so Writable comes alongside our teachers and that teachers can tailor what type of feedback the program is giving students. And then rather than going in and correcting everything, it just coaches the students so that they're able to identify it in the writing. So, we're excited and believe that this will improve our student confidence as well as um just our writing levels across all grade levels. Uh the great thing about it is it is more than just an extension of like a Google Docs. It actually goes in and supports the entire writing process. So, it starts with the planning, the drafting, the revising, and the
030feedback. And the teachers are able to see real time the progress within the writing cycle for each student. Plus, they're able to strategically group students in the platform so that students can share their work and give targeted feedback to each other that then they can go back into their writing. So, we're really prioritizing the revision process and writing and making sure that we're honing in on those fine skills. Uh, the other core piece of writable is that it is aligned directly with the content within the resource. So, as students are reading um the grade level text, they are able to get in and respond to writing questions or writing prompts within Writable. And so, it might be that they're responding to a short story or they are writing a full essay within the platform, but
031every time they go into the platform, it will give them feedback and help them revise their writing and thinking. Um, so we're really excited about that. The other thing is that it is available in both English and Spanish. Um, which we hope will help us reach all of our students in our district. And then HMH really speaks to how using both into literature and writable has helped other districts move their second language learners. And so this study comes from Houston County School District in Houston County, Georgia. And despite statewide declines, Houston County EL students using both HMH into literature and writable showed significant growth and resilience in writing skills. Across Georgia, the percentage of English learners who reached a developing or higher writing level dropped from 23.6% in 2021 to 12.8% in 2023. And this
032is on their access their WEDA assessment. In contrast, students in Houston County using both writable and into literature saw significant growth. So 20% were at or above developing level in 2021 and jumped to 34% in 2022. Also, the average achievement level of EL students in the school district remained higher than the state average at 18% in 2023. So, we believe that this resource is not only going to help all of our students specific specifically, we hope to see it support our multilingual students as well. During the evaluation process, um there was a ton of opportunity to gather feedback from our educators. And so, highlighted on this slide is just some of that um the feedback from our committee highlighting the strengths of the resource. So, I'll give you just a minute to look that over.
033Okay, thank you. Uh, when compared to previous curriculum resources, the strengths of into literature offer a promising glimpse into how this resource would better support our students, empower our teachers, and overall just increase instructional practices in our school district. Um so this ties back to some of those priorities that the committee used uh when they were selecting the resource. So ease of use as we have talked to other school districts and schools um and our teachers who have piloted lessons in the platform in their classroom. Teachers are saying that it's easy to navigate the resource and easy to make connections between both the printed materials and the digital platform. Um, we also were really impressed by the ability to differentiate and scaffold within both the printed and digital platform. Um, it will pull our students
034reading levels and then teachers can go in and actually tag what support students might need. So, as they're pushing out um different activities or questions, the program itself will modify so that it's accessible to all students. And then teachers have the opportunity to go in at any time and either increase or decrease those scaffolding levels so that we're constantly evaluating what our students able to do to meet grade level standards. Lisa, will you explain what scaffolding means, please? Yes. So, um, we start our instruction at grade level all the time. And so that's the text and the prompts and the thinking that we're putting in front of our students. As our students are working through maybe learning a language or working through some other skill deficits, then the scaffolds are going to be what we
035put in front of students that will allow them to access the content so that they can still go through the thinking process and they're able to produce their thinking so that the teacher can evaluate. So they're the supports that students are receiving. So just want to throw out there um one bullet that was on one of the previous slides is HMH. So the publisher HMH um just bought NWBA which is our nationally normed common assessment that we u have our students do three times a year. And so there's a direct connection then between the skills and especially the bands the skills bands inside of NWA and the curriculum that we have here. So so we should be able to look at what the students are able to do on our NWA common assessment and apply
036those skills to this curriculum. So it's a great connection. Yeah. when they shared that during the vendor presentation, all of our committee, they were just like, "Oh my gosh, um it would be nice to have NWA really support the the work that our educators and students are doing in the classroom." So, that's a huge benefit of choosing to go with into literature. Um we still have the opportunity for consumables and then our committee was really impressed with the diversity of the different types of text being offered within the curriculum as well as the variety in authors. So, uh, the total cost for this adoption covering high school students in English classes 9 through 12 for a 7-year period amounts to 1,82,3547. This package includes all teacher materials, not only for our English teachers, but for
037our co-teers as well. That was um a desire from all of our buildings was to make sure that our co-teers had access to the materials. And so that is built in. Uh we have student consumables for seven years included as well as the digital licenses for both teachers and students. Um I am very excited that we have included the ability to go onetoone student to novel. So every student will have a copy of the novel that they are able to carry with them and access at any point. So that is a huge celebration um for me. And then the coachley license is um also included for that first year as our teachers learn to navigate the platform. We'll keep one license for every building so that they have access to that on demand support. Um
038and then this also includes the professional learning package with the HMH coaching and virtual professional development offerings as well. So I'll leave this up here in case you have any questions. Um, but the group as a former English teacher, eighth grade English teacher, and I know what Dr. Pel was as well, to get all of those people in one room and be able to come up with one curriculum, it's just amazing. So, kudos to both of you for getting um all of those people down to just one curriculum. What questions do you all have? So, we're going to implement this starting next year. Yeah. And so the first year, what we've seen on how this is going to roll out, we're going to have these sessions with our educators through that first year and then
039we continue with that professional development through the second and third. Yeah. So you'll see heavy on coaching from HMH the first year, but then you'll see more of a transition into our teacher leaders that will lead those in future years, which goes right along with what we're hearing from teachers is that they want to be the experts during PD anyway. And so after that first year, you'll see more and more of our teachers that will lead the work. Excellent. Thanks. Um, so one said the pilot uh period continued from January to February. Did it start in August? Like I was just trying to figure out how long the pilot period was. No. Yeah. So our our committee started meeting in November. We spent a lot of time on the foundational documents like the philosophy statement
040and really internalizing the aim rubric. So we didn't start actually piloting resources until that January time period. Okay. I wanted to express appreciation for that. Um so I was trying to figure out, you know, I wanted to know something about the two curriculums without going through everything committee went through. So I used chat GPT and I went on the Reddit education community. Um, and somebody on Reddit had actually posed the exact question of my perspectives versus into literature. Um, so it was fun to read the 34 comments. And one of the comments of those 34 comments was, "Our district spent two years piloting these two different curriculums. Biggest waste of my life." And so I just thought that was um a little comical. Um, but I I think you know some piloting is obviously definitely
041appropriate. It sounds like for that district is how like they went overboard on the pilot. I had a question about the differentiation, but I think you answered it in another slide. It it means you can do like accelerated learners and English learners like where um people are landing there. And so this curriculum like really celebrated the opportunity for the extensions as well. And that was something that we haven't always seen in previous curricular resources. And so it was really great to see how we could level up um the writing opportunity or the reading or the level of um questioning within um a specific activity. And we could also provide those scaffolds to support students who need it. Yeah. No, that's pretty cool. And yeah, for my very peripheral research, I I liked HMH better, too.
042So, I'm glad we all um and uh the last question, the student consumables, that's like workbooks and stuff that like Okay. So every year they'll have access to that. Cool. And with the on-site implementation trainings, I'm imagining like it's like a team of trainers they send over. Yep. So they'll send their HMH coaches and they'll come out um and it will likely be on that August curriculum day for our teachers. So yes, they will be there to facilitate. Thank you. Yeah, my apologies. I'm going to go backwards on this one. Um can you clarify um the old curriculum um what you mean by it was sold because hadn't we prepaid for a certain amount number of years. So did we actually lose that money then? It was actually at the end of its contract. Okay.
043And so we our plan would be to use it and probably just purchase and we do this sometimes in other curriculum. We just purchase the rights to use the platform. But this um it sold it and uh it just changed so much that we just did not feel comfortable with using that anymore. We did not have the right access to that. the workbooks. Um the best option was just to go with the new one. This was the first curriculum we adopted after we passed the first mill levy override. High school and middle school language curriculum was the first we adopted. So it was our oldest curriculum in the system. So then what are we doing for sixth through 8th if this is you adopted that last year? Oh my goodness. Okay. I'm trying to remember.
044We're in our first year of implementation of EL education. And so it will it's the same curriculum uh provider that we purchased for elementary literacy is the same provider at middle level that we have. So K8 will be EL and then now we have HMH for and DL did not have an option yet for 912. Okay. Thank you. So side licenses seven years quick question. As um seniors graduate and you get nth graders coming up does this include the new workbooks? Yes, every year. Yes, the consumables will be replenished for every student every year. The piece that won't be replenished will be the novels. And so schools when they receive the novels, they'll actually catalog them in the library and then we'll check them out through the library. So it'll function just like any other
045library book, but we won't replenish the novels yeartoear. This will be a onetime purchase for the novels. Well, thank you very much. Always appreciate seeing the entire process. And um I think that that the cost for seven years looked fairly similar to what I remember some of our other curricula costing. So hopefully that's not jumping up a lot with inflation and things like that. But um obviously enormous enormously important piece of we need to have good curriculum and have all of the updates and the the digital content as well. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks guys. Our next item will be legislative updates with Mr. We were talking today. It's been a very very active legislative season and it it continues to be. Thank you, President Nash and members of the board. Um,
046my name is Nate Fall. I'm in House Legal Counsel for the school district. we are talking about current legislation. Um certainly if you do have any questions or if there's something that I've missed, please let me know and I will do my best to get that information to you as soon as I can. Um just off the top, the legislature is going to adjourn on May 7th. So that's only a few weeks away um two weeks I believe from today. So not a whole lot of time, but they are pushing every single bill forward imaginable. So, uh, this really is kind of the biggest part of the year in terms of, um, getting bills to put get pushed forward or getting bills to die in committee, um, ideally. So, I did I do have a
047spelling error under 1 C, but we do need to prioritize political capital with an A on any remaining bills. That must have been a political capital spell checker with an O. Um, so just know that really where we focus our energy right now is super important. And again, we only have a few weeks left. So if there is anything that we really want to focus on and have our lobbyists and Barkcus focus on and prioritize for us, now is the time to do it. We'll get started just on financial uh on our board priorities. Just so you know, the financial literacy bill did it is in action since the last board meeting. It did pass the House today on its third reading. So, it is moved to the Senate. Um, with the newest amendments that
048have been adopted, I would say that this bill is now granting broad discretion to LEAs or local education authorizers or or school districts uh to use curriculum that they've already adopted in so far as that curriculum aligns with what the financial literacy law is in Colorado. So, there's already a law about financial literacy curriculum in Colorado. It's just not required that students take it. Um, and so if we already have classes that are in alignment with that law, we can use that law or we can use those classes to be in compliance with the law. This will apply to all students starting uh September 1st, 2026. So this upcoming school year we won't need to worry about, but we will need to have something ready the following year. Uh the there were some amendments are
049also adopted creating some grant programs particularly for some of the smaller school districts to implement financial literacy courses. I'm not sure if we would necessarily qualify. Uh but of course if there's grant money available and we think we might qualify, we would certainly throw our hat in the hopper and see what we can do. So that's where we're at with the financial literacy bill. It's probably going to pass and it probably will be a requirement. Uh I don't anticipate that. Well, we'll just see on how much change will need to be made. Does does that impact CDE at not CDE but the standards at all? They did not change the standards. No. So standards are the same. Yeah. And um in the version I did share an electronic version and so you can see I
050I linked in the most recent version of the bill. Um and Mr. Rosari. And so to answer your question, I I think the the state will develop the state board of education will develop its own standards on financial literacy. But again, if there's already a course that we already have that is in alignment with the law, I'm I'm guessing that the state board wouldn't stray from those statutory standards. So, I'm guessing we would be in alignment if that's the case. But yeah, thank you for that question. Um, anything else? Moving on to uh House Bill 251135. That's the phone man bill as I've been calling it, communication devices in schools. Governor Pulse did sign that bill last week. It is law. Uh we already have a policy that has restrictions on the use of cell
051phones during school hours. Our policy is more robust than what the state requires. So we're good to go. Uh I generally just as a matter of principle don't like uh laws that tell us to do things that we're already doing. Just so you know, which both of these laws do unnecessary. Both of these pieces of legislation do the financial literacy and the cell phone ban. People think because I'm a lawyer I like laws. That's not the case. Okay? So, just so you all know, I'm not like in defense of all laws, but okay. Anyways, I don't need to defend myself. Um, and then from the federal administration, I did add two more executive orders that came in last week from uh President Trump. That was restoring equality of opportunity and mediocracy and re reinstating comments
052in school discipline policies. Uh again, you can um go in and those uh that's the actual language from those executive orders, but just know that those two April 23rd orders are kind of saying the same thing around disperate impact. So whether or not we have a policy that may be neutral on its face, if it's disproportionately impacting one group um typically at least by this administration uh on the basis of race that we would need to um that OCR is directed to no longer look at disperate impact essentially is what this is kind of calling for. There's going to be addition additional guidance coming from the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice. So, we will again see. Uh, I was in a meeting last week with Attorney General Phil Weiser and I'll
053just say it made me feel a little bit better because I've been having conversations with this board and essentially not providing you with a whole lot of information because we don't really know what's coming and what next steps are. And attorney Philiser, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but they're also kind of in the same camp that we're just not totally sure exactly what to do yet. So, um I felt better just in my own uh abilities when I heard that. But just know that there's a lot coming. There's a lot we're reviewing and determining, but really we're not making any changes because at least we don't have any guidance that requires us to make any changes if that makes sense. Um but again, I'll continue to update you and just so
054you know that the state did not sign that certification letter. Uh we got some additional information back from uh Susanna Cordova who is our we call her the secretary of education commissioner of education um with additional information essentially saying that she's going to sign or not sign the certification on behalf of all districts uh and gave some kind of reasonings why which we talked about at the last meeting. So we still haven't signed anything as as a district yet. Uh uh Commissioner Cord Cordova did give us the opportunity to sign the certification letter or sign a different letter. Um and ultimately we just decided to not sign anything because I I at least I thought that was the best approach. Any questions on that? All right. So and then the last um kind of board
055priority that we had been discussing over the course of this legislative session was House Bill 251278. that is modifications to the accountability system that also passed third reading today in the House and that is now moved on to the Senate. So just so you know this bill has created a more kind of holistic approach to how um schools are rated. It created kind of these post-secondary readiness indicators, these PWR indicators uh that I would argue that district 6 really benefits from because we do have such a focus on um career readiness uh as well as all the certification programs that we have in our school district. And those will go to providing us with a better rating essentially. Um I I kind of also explained in my narrative here just kind of what this bill
056is also doing. It has been heavily amended, but for the most part, the spirit of what the accountability committee recommended is now integrated in this bill. Um, and I believe that this is something that we should be supporting at this point. There were some changes in in terms of amendments. they they were this they were going to have this accountability dashboard that was going to be available to make it transparent for folks to be able to go on to the website and click through and they're getting rid of that and that's going to save about half a million dollars. So there was some kind of technical changes that they made to to make up some of the revenue um that this bill ultimately would cost if they were going to roll it forward. So, I
057would say again that the spirit of the committee's recommendations uh are in alignment with this bill and uh we stand to benefit based on all the great work that we do in this district for supporting students beyond just post-secary readiness. There is a summary in here. Uh again, um I do recommend that you look into that. Uh for other proposed legislation, this is on page three. We had talked at the last meeting, Senate Bill 25284. This is that youth services engagement on school campuses. Uh it did pass the Senate second reading with amendments today. So it's on for its third reading. This bill was amended. Um some of those amendments came, I believe, through CASBY. Well, actually I I know for a fact CASBY is still in opposition, but now it's not requiring these organizations
058to actually come on campus during instructional hours. What it's doing is it's requiring that school districts create a policy that would allow these organizations to communicate with students. And so how would these organizations communicate with these students? It doesn't have to occur during school days. In fact, the amendment specifies that communication cannot occur during instructional time. Um I I we already do this. Uh again, we already have a process for which uh outside organizations can communicate with their school communities. Um I don't see a point in having a law tell us what we're already doing. I also think it opens the door to unnecessary liability. I think if you heard the comments on this bill originally, they uh one of the panelists just read through, you know, 20 organizations and basically just said by this
059law, you'd have to allow all these folks in. and you know they use very very polarizing groups right to kind of make a point and I think that that doesn't go away with this bill. Um so just know that I still recommend that we oppose this bill. Um of course I'm always open to um this board. I don't believe we've actually taken a firm position on it yet. Just basically it's letting them use our list serve. Like even if it's not during instructional hours, like any organization can have access to like all our families emails and just send out like promotional information for their organization. Yeah. So we would have to and we already have kind of a non-curricular distribution policy that's out there. And so we would we would be able to use these
060kind of time, place, and manner restrictions on, you know, would they be able to get emails or would they just be able to post it on the school's website or would we only have handouts that we could give or leave it at the front office and they could come take handouts, you know, would we create an area where these organizations could have their materials out there? Um, so we would have to kind of develop these time place and manner restrictions. And so yeah, I you know and I think my recommendation would not be to release emails so that they could kind of share that in that manner, right? But you know, would we then be restricting one organization over another? And so again, we're kind of creating liability in that regard. Um and so I
061I just find this bill to be a little bit frustrating. I think it's made with the right intention. It's backed by the scouts. I mean, that's really the group that that wants this. Um, and I think we all most school districts have a good relationship with the scouts, but you know, it doesn't say scouts, right? Like it's not like that is who is the that it's limited to that organization. And like you said, that definition is pretty broad. I mean, I like my instinct is to oppose it because I can only see this becoming a problem. Yeah, I I would tend to agree and yeah, I left that definition of what youth organizations, youth service organizations are defined as, and it is a very broad um statement. I was on the CASBY's legislative resolution committee
062call on Friday and all the school district, you know, members of that group all had similar concerns. Um, and so they're staking in a position of opposition as well, just because it just feels like it's going to be a burden for schools and school districts to manage these requests. I don't know if anybody else feels strongly does it look like this will pass? I'm sorry. And I mean, do you do you have a sense of where where this is? So I think I my take is that there's an opportunity to kill the bill and once it goes to the house and it'll probably go to the House comm education committee first and that would be our best opportunity to get some changes in there or to try to make sure that the bill doesn't pass.
063Besides scouts, who were some of the other organizations? Um let me see here. I know I know that this is a big scouts bill, but I I probably shouldn't just call out scouts because I know that I'm sure there's other organizations that Well, I think originally it was just the scouts that were supporting it, but when you consider all the organizations that could have access, then it becomes much broader than the scouts. Yes. Um, uh, why Colorado Alliance of YMCA's is in support. Colorado Children's Alliance, which I'm actually not sure what that organization is, they're in support. and scouting Colorado. Yeah. How does um what is the current status of like military recruiters or college recruiters um communicating with students in our schools? How does that happen? Military recruiters is a whole separate requirement and
064that's a that's a federal requirement where we do need to open our um students up for recruitment to military. And so we have a very specific process an opt- in opt out for I believe it's juniors, high school juniors to get or receive that information. And so that that's we have policy language specifically addressing military recruiters. Um I don't know if that answered your question. Yeah, it does. And then how about for colleges and universities? because would this sort of bill impact them in any way, shape or form like private colleges or religious colleges, things along those lines? That's a good question. Um, I don't know specifically about all colleges. I know for the ones we have partnerships with, we have we're in we're actually even developing opt-in optouts for sharing information with Ames, for
065example. Um, and so students can not opt out of us sharing with Ames and then when they graduate, Ames will send them a letter of acceptance and they're automatically accepted into AS. But that's through this partnership that we have with sharing information and so they can opt in or opt out of sharing that through our school counseling office. So, college visits are scheduled and and students are notified um via systems within the school of when those recruiters will be there and students can sign up to go meet with recruiters during the school day. And this bill, regardless of whether it passes or doesn't pass, won't have an impact on our current see it having an impact on that. Okay. No. And and I mean I guess if you read what a nonprofit organization is broadly,
066it could be considered a university. Um but I I think it's really for those organizations like Scouts and um Colorado Children's Alliance and YMCA. So that that's a good question, Doran, because now I'm curious. I'm on my sixth kid who is now a senior and every year of the senior year, every single one of the kids just gets spammed with massive flyers and um tons of stuff comes in the mail and how are they getting on that list because they haven't contacted those 55 60 colleges that we're getting information for that's that's specifically addressed to that student. Yeah, I don't know. I mean I my guess is through direct the release of directory information that these orgs will reach out and say give me a list of all students who have not opted out and
067then we just by law share it with them. Um so I don't yeah I don't know and it's same thing with when you Google something on your phone all of a sudden you're getting an email about it like two days later you know I just I don't know how that information ultimately gets shared. Um, you know, our our goal with any vendor or anybody we're working with is always student privacy first. And so we always want to make sure that they're not going to be selling student information or releasing student information. Um, so yeah, we're we do our best to kind of be gatekeepers for that. Would this change that our ability to be gatekeepers? Do you foresee? I mean, I I it's possible. I mean, I think if we're if we're opening the door
068for organizations to contact students, I think that it just makes it harder to control that, you know, just logically speaking. that would give anyone I can only anyone would have that right at that point with the passage of this bill if they can indicate that they're they promote civic education leadership creatiness or um similar opportunities which it's pretty broad pretty pretty easy to do that I I would recommend that we oppose this Nate just as a parent of five kids that I mean the amount of information I get just from the school district. Um when when you start saying, "Well, we're going to have these other organizations coming uh and I'm going to get information from from them as well." Just the ability to wade through everything is is really difficult. Um and I think
069we our own ability to communicate with our parents is um is hurt when we allow other people to use the school system to communicate with our parents. Yep. Yeah. my my takeaway and you know I'm I'm such a stickler for furbra student you know student information and that's because families give us a lot of information and they trust us with that information and so we have a duty to protect it and and not just a duty moral duty but a legal duty to protect that information and so the more we open the door to that just the more concerned I get from kind of a legal liability perspective so any other questions or comments? Thank you for all that. The next one is uh House Bill 231300, workers compensation benefits, proof of entitlement. We haven't
070discussed this bill. Um it has come out fairly recently. It'll be heard um on the Senate floor tomorrow. This is really an employer employee type bill. Um certainly uh expands rights under the workers compensation law. Uh I think what's concerning about this bill is uh it allows for physician selection. Um and currently the district and our in when working with our insurance we carefully select providers uh and that employees are kind of required by law to select one of those four providers. This bill would allow employees to select any level one or level two physician within a 70mi radius. Um just any of them. Um, and this really just from a business perspective could substantially increase costs not only for things like mileage reimbursement, paid travel time. That is something we currently pay for is
071I think it's called like windshield. I forget what the word is, but essentially from the minute you get in your car and drive to your physician's office to the minute you get back, we pay for all of that time for travel. So, a 70 mile radius is a pretty large um I think that would take you all the way down to Highlands Ranch um which we know that um travel just there and back could take some time. Um but I think also losing quality control over medical providers um we've had providers in the past that we've had to work with insurance to remove just because of their treatment of employees, right? Um, and I think that by allowing kind of folks to choose any provider that they want to, this could create a kind of
072a cottage industry of of providers who provide higher impairment ratings um or recommend um unnecessary treatments and this could drive up costs. So again, this is just really from a financial business perspective. Um, I will say that the vast majority of employer groups in the state are um very opposed to this bill. very very very much opposed. This is not a school district specific bill. This is just a statewide um employer employee bill. There is one element of this bill that we would support and that's that um right now as it's written once once a physician is selected for you, you can't change uh even if it's not really working out. And this bill would give you a one-time physician change if you would like that. Um we know that sometimes patient doctor relationships don't
073work out. Um and so giving them that opportunity would be beneficial to those employees. Um but we just think that this this bill as it's written is going to increase costs significantly and then again just through speculation and um we can just anticipate that it will lead to more claims or claims that'll get dragged on for longer and things of that nature. So Nate, where does this come from? uh was there was there some sort of a problem somewhere in the state with employees getting access to appropriate medical care when they were injured in the on the job? So, um, what I understand, I don't know if this came from one specific place, but there were, um, in the panelists for this committee, there were, um, just they brought forth a number of injured employers
074who kind of gave their stories about how they were forced to be with one provider, it wasn't working out for them, they weren't getting the treatment that they needed, but they were still stuck with this one provider, right? Um, or that they were required to choose from these select physicians, but it wasn't their physician, and so they wanted to have their physician because they thought they would get better treatment from that individual. So, I don't know if this is brought by one particular group. Um, but it was I I think it's just brought more from the um injured workers and the attorneys who work for them or kind of the folks who may be behind this. And I can see I'm curious if um like the healthcare industry if their lobbyists have uh weighed in
075on it. Like my gut is this sounds terrible as a medical provider. I would hate to do workers comp personally. Um, so I I'm interested. I I would assume most doctors who don't work in workers comp would not want to do this. So, uh, Advent Health is in opposition. Um, every major school district, uh, AFSCME is in support of it. I'm not sure what that is. Uh it's a it looks like an advocacy council or a union uh American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. So it's a a labor union um of government employees. Government employees. Yep. So yeah, I mean, you know, Colorado Ready Mixed Concrete Association is in opposition. Colorado Telecommunications Association is in opposition. City of Colorado Springs, City of Fort Collins, City of Thornon, all the cities are in opposition.
076Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's in opposition. Who's in support here? Colorado Education Association is in support. Colorado Livestock Association's in opposition. Rural Schools Alliance is in opposition. Doesn't sound like there's any healthcare group represented, which is really just interesting. I had not heard of this until until this update. It's it's been on our it's been on our radar. Um but just kind of nothing was happening and then all of a sudden, you know, here we are with two weeks left. Um you don't have two weeks. It's a week from when somebody chose me, for example, um my I actually don't have any openings for the next 3 months. So my medical assistant right now, if I have a follow-up for any patient, it's she has to send a message to herself for when my schedule
077will open up in a month to get them an appointment. I mean, it would drag the process on forever, you know, because at least primary care doctors, there's a shortage of physicians, right? So, our schedules are so full. There's I think workers comp doctors, they have availability to see somebody in a more, you know, a better timeline. And I I would say it's our and our insurance's perspective that that those physicians are best suited for workers comp claims because it's it's procedural, you know, like there's a process to follow and they are experts in that kind of area and they kind of understand what's needed and so just for efficiency sake it's also really beneficial too. So um yeah, I've been through the workers comp claim four or five times. the process. There's no lack
078of options or or there's not like a shortage of or a like a there's not like a hole that that that they're not getting taken care of. They're they're actually on the opposite end. They're they're getting extra good care, extra good. And then there is you're right, there is there is a group of physicians and doctors and hospitals and and places that are especially, you know, already trained and in tune with with how the process works. sounds like just a, you know, a soup sandwich in the making, you know what I mean? And um they uh you know, employees have have the tendency to just go to the highest costing place because they think that's automatically going to be the best, which doesn't technically all I mean, you don't need to go to Cherry Hills
079to to get a a worker comp claim for a broken toe, right? Like it can it can be handled here. So, it's I I'm I'm always fighting to get my guys to not go to the emergency room for, you know, the sniffle, right? And it's that's hard. I can't imagine what something like this would would open up Pandora's box. Yeah, I I would agree with that. And and I think you know and I say we meaning the school district and our insure pinnacle strongly believe that the physicians that we have available are capable and and do provide good care. Like I said there's I've never seen a lap where I'm like oh it's a loophole for me. No, it's it's the opposite. It's it's always in the employees favor. So I think that quality control
080is is super important. Um just from a business perspective. Sounds to me like we want to hold on on oppose Nate. Okay. No one. All right. Um the next bill, Senate Bill 25276. This is that uh protect civil rights immigration status. We had talked about this bill at the last meeting. Um, it has been amended, but I think again kind of the spirit remains where it it creates kind of restrictions for what schools can ask or require in terms of information from families about um place of birth, immigration status um and that we would be restricted from allowing federal immigration officials from you entering our facilities without a valid judicial warrant. Um the only issue that I really still see is this civil penalty uh which could go against an employee for up to 50,000
081$50,000 per violation. The law is pretty specific that it's for intentional violations. Uh they did strike the language about removal of qualified immunity. So uh employees are assumed to be immune from suit now, which is good. Um but still they could be subject to a fairly hefty penalty. Employers as well could also be subject to the same penalty of up to $50,000. Uh again just for intentional violations. I think that this is a much more watered down version um of the previous bill. I don't like having our employees potentially being on the hook for anything. Um but I think that there is still some added protection especially with that qualified immunity provision um looped back in there. So, um, we were in a position of monitor amend at the last meeting and I recommend we
082kind of stay there. All right. So, House Bill 20 1023. This is the House joint resolution bill uh requiring the general assembly or authorizing the general assembly's committee to retain legal counsel to file a lawsuit in district court. And so the intention of this is that they would sue the state legislature would st sue essentially uh how to explain this. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around this. So the state legislature would be would have standing to sue essentially the state of Colorado for a law that is unconstitutional. meaning that federal law, US law requires kind of this representative democracy, right? Where we vote for representatives who then vote for things like taxes. Taber gets rid of that. Taber just brings that power to the voters directly. So, we kind of lose that
083representative democracy. And so this lawsuit's essentially arguing that by removing those essential legislative powers, Taber is unconstitutional. Um, and so this resolution would need to go through both houses. It just needs a simple majority to pass. And then ultimately this would give uh the Colorado General Assembly's Committee on Legal Services the right to obtain legal counsel to then bring a lawsuit. Are you all still following? I'm making sense. I'm so sorry. Not your fault. So, and and you know, we we know that Democrats currently hold a majority in both chambers. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to pass. I think that there are many factors at play uh including just that folks in Colorado like Taber. Um and so that doesn't mean that every Democrat is going to vote uh for this bill. I
084will also say that there was a fairly similar case already brought in 2011, Kerr versus Hickinlooper, that essentially argued pretty much the same thing. um and that was rejected by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. So, I'm not confident that even if this bill were to go through that it would be a successful legal challenge. Um I did highlight on the next page kind of the primary issues for what would be what would make this a successful lawsuit. uh they would have to establish standing meaning that the the the state legislature has standing to bring a lawsuit that they are suffering from some legal harm and therefore can bring a lawsuit. Uh they'd have to overcome this constitutional argument that was already decided by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that Taber violates this guarantee
085clause, this representative democracy clause. Uh it would have to overcome legal precedence. Again, that curve versus Hickinlooper case uh argued very much the same thing. So they'd have to be presenting some new arguments or presenting some new evidence that would make this different um you know to distinguish it. And then of course they'd have to garner enough public support for this. Uh again this has come in front of the voters several times um and the voters of Colorado seem to support Taber and so you know even if this were to go to a lawsuit it's difficult to know what public perception might be about it. So, that's a very I feel pretty bad crappy summary of what this is. I'd be happy to answer your questions or try to answer your questions about it. It
086has gone to the House reading of the whole, so it did make it through committee. Um, and that was today. So, I'm actually not sure what the outcome of that was. Nate, is Taber part of the state constitution? It is. I think most people don't understand Taber. I think that's I think my my take is that's probably true. Um I think people don't understand what significance it has on our ability to fund public education and other and other public needs. Yeah. Okay. School finance. School finance. So I didn't put very many notes down there. Uh just know that it is moving forward. Uh this is something that we are supporting. It is now assigned to the House Education Committee who will be hearing that on Wednesday. Uh Dr. Pilch will be going down to testify.
087Again, I don't know if we have any other board directors who are volunteering or being volunttoled to go down to testify in front of our Senate Education Committee. Uh of course, uh I'm always happy to go and testify, but they way rather hear from you all than a lawyer. I mean, truly, they don't really want to hear from you all that much. Um there is a fiscal note. This is the the third rendition, the most recent version of the fiscal notes attached, so you can go in there and read it. There are amendments that are still being introduced and those will be heard by the Senate Education Committee. I think the biggest one that's being dealt with, at least was dealt with in the House, had to do with this uh at risk supplemental funding
088um and how that flows through to charters. And so that's being dealt with um through amendments. And just know that um we do benefit from that kind of separate at risk appropriation that'll stay in place next year. It'll be then reduced by 50% during the 2627 fiscal year and then it'll go away in its entirety during the 2728 fiscal year. Um I don't know if you have anything to add on school finance. No, lots of people are still working really hard. I think we're it's been a very busy legislative season. Very busy. Did the one about um data requirements that were school specific? Did that die? That was uh I think I was just reading that amendment. I think it was like amendment 11 or something. I don't know. Um I don't know either. That
089you started out saying that we needed to prioritize political capital. Do you have a recommendation on which of these bills is most impactful to us and how should we prioritize our political capital and time with lobbyists or lobbyist time with legislators? You know, I think well I you know I think one area of political capital that we want to continue focusing on is the school finance act. I think of everything that that's probably the most important place that we should be spending our our attention. I mean, I think the systems of accountability bill is another good one that we would um certainly put our weight behind to support that bill and those amendments that were made. Um, you know, I think personally I I do think that the workers compensation bill is significant. Um, but
090again, if that's something that we just want to continue to monitor, then the youth service organization bill is something that, you know, we could take a stronger position on. Um, I'm just not sure if our testimony will add anything else than what's already been said in a lot of ways, especially of groups that are in opposition to that bill. Kind of like the workers compensation bill as well, right? Um, so I think to answer your question, school finance is probably our our most important thing and accountability and accountability. Yeah. And there's you said two weeks left in session about a week and a half. Next Wednesday. Yeah. A week a week from Wednesday is the last day. May 7th is Yep. Do you do you feel optimistic that the school finance act will make it
091through the Senate? Mhm. Yes. Okay, good. We are optimistic. Anything else? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Paul. There's a We have a lot of questions. There's a lot to unpack there. Um well, as we do have a reception to get to, we'll go ahead and close with our debrief. Um Mr. Matthew, to go first. Um nothing much. Just thank you. Thank you everyone for the work and bringing us new English curriculum. Hard to believe we're second round of uh stuff. Looks like they did a great job. And thank you, Mr. Fall, always for keeping us updated. Mr. Well, it's always great to know the system works and in regards to the curriculum, it seems to be uh going well and I appreciate your work on behalf of all the curriculum folks. Okay, I know how
092much time that takes and uh Nate for keeping us updated and even though you are a lawyer, we know that you do like laws and you follow them. So, that's really a positive thing. So, thank you, Mr. Null. I do appreciate uh everything that uh counselor fall does. Amazes me that his his wealth of knowledge. And as far as the curriculum goes, it's kind of like athletes showing up to play football on the football field. The field's ready for them. There's a whole lot of work that goes into it um to get there. So, appreciate all the work on the curriculum. Yep. Um likewise, just uh wanted to give you guys kudos uh for being so thorough on choosing um the new curriculum for our 9th through 12th graders. Excited about seeing AI used in
093a positive way for our teachers and um the graphs on English language learners was really exciting too. So um and then Mr. Fall always thank you for helping us understand what's going on at the capital with an O. [Music] So, not much more to add. Thank you for your thoughtful presentation. Um, I can tell that there was a lot of effort and work put in by a lot of people and uh, Mr. Fall, you had me up until the table and then I'm lost at that point. So, wow. I'll explain it to you. Yeah. Okay. I'm going ask you questions, Mr. Be. Yeah, same. Thank you guys for all your hard work. Um, I'm in agreeance with NATO. I hate laws for the sake of making laws. Also, I'm not a fan of government employee
094supported laws most of the time, especially when the entire private sector is going to be funding it and and against it. So, um, it always seems like a red flag to me. It's not a it's not a uh all for one or nothing, but it's always a something to pay attention to. So, thank you for pointing that out and bring it to our attention. Thank you very much for all of your work on the curriculum as well as um the legislative update. Uh Mr. Fall, I was wondering if we can take it as like a pat on the back that we're already doing all the things that they want to put into law. We're like, "Yeah, we already thought of it." Um all right. Thank you very much. This meeting is adjourned. Um please join
095us back for our business meeting at 6 p.m. [Music] Heat. Heat.