001good evening I'd like to call to order the March 20th Board of Education regular board meeting um can I get a r pleas president here vice president Boyd here Ortiz here up here Neil here here here also present are Dr Sal Mr Bor mrco Mr Le Mr gr Mr kak M Moran and M thank you you guys join me in saying the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice I need a motion to approve the agenda as presented move by Mary second second byina any questions or concerns roll call vote pleasey I I Neil I I I hi president wasi Hi seven zero days zero absent carries so for some fun stuff
002we have District recognition um I want to the board have of the board like to give a shout out um to the entire District um the Wester students parents and staff who came together um over the past was it a week for the child cancer was a weekl long fundraiser right yeah so it's only four days oh four days yeah um for four days and raised money for a Childhood Cancer Research um this year $3,155 was raised um for the shaer gab event um congratulations to Westchester Primary School who uh had the winning District rde uh popcorn party competition with their they raised 1,300 $19 um and I guess they're celebrating next week with their popcorn party um this is an incredible number over the past four years our Westchester Community has raised an impressive
003$25,000 for a Childhood Cancer Research um and with this year's contributions you have we have now surpassed 28,000 it's incredible um and this year we want to give a shout out to a few of our students who participated in the St VRI head shaving event um that was Lucas Ulen Julian Meyer Colton Nagel and Sylvio Satchel so that's really fun for them to show that I mean that's pretty brave to go ahead and and and shave your head um and support So kudos to those outstanding students and everyone who participated um and then we'd like to recognize our Scotty winners um for those of you who may not know uh Scotty stands for the school citizen of the year it's um a program that we do here at District uh 92 and A2 but it
004actually is part of a larger program with West 40 um I had the honor of being able to be part of that um presentation uh event yesterday and it was really incredible so the West 40 is the 40 different school districts and they um shared with us all that roughly in the district there's a 100 ,000 students and those who got the awards it was 150 students so our students are you know 150 of those 100 students in the district that got that award so really incredible job so tonight it is our honor to recognize the 20242 School citizens of the year um we will go um come up okay when your name is called I'll read some fun things about you and you come on up here and Mr or Dr slimy will give
005you um a certificate and go ahead and stay up here and we'll take a big group picture when we're done um hold this okay so um first we have uh Aiden the flame uh Aiden is the kind of student who brightens everyone's day with a simple greeting in small without fail fail he says hello and asks how you're doing often replying with his signature decent it seems like he is always on the go getting to his designation destination quickly without fail he arrives every early morning and is courteous to teachers and staff by holding the door open with a warm smile while he is a dedicated and hardworking student it is his kindness and his genuine care for others that truly Stand Out Eden's thoughtful nature is a reminder of the impact small acts of
006kindness can have and we could all strive to be as compassionate and caring as he is like to take this moment to acknowledge the other honores from Westchester Middle School itel Aus Bren creamer Ariana Gonzalez Victoria gas Nolan Jor Nathan CL ritzy Morales Shay Smith Charlie Stratus and Chloe Washington well done um next for the Westchester Intermediate School we have Melissa she was there last night it has been such a pleasure to see Melissa grow in her academics and Leadership within the school she demonstrates what it means to be the school citizen of the year at Westchester Intermediate School Melissa is always polite respectful kind full of integrity and a great role model to the other students in the building not only does she get her work done but she always strives to go above
007and beyond she truly embodies the school's four beads be here and ready be respectful be responsible and be safe Melissa is such a joy to have in class and I cannot wait to see what accomplishment she achieves in the future well and the other nominees at the Intermediate School were Quincy Ashford jepi fosa Paragon laundry Kaa zasik and poo seso I'm sure I did not get those right uh and then finally for the primary school we have Donovan WPS is proud to announce that Donovan halpen was chosen from our nominees to be our Scotty School citizen of the Year winner uh his teacher reports that Donovan is just a fantastic human being whether it's supporting classmates volunteering in class or just offering a friendly smile he makes a difference every day to his humble and
008kind gestures without ever expecting anything in Donovan is is super smart athletic hardworking and caring his kindness does not go unnoticed his teachers and friends and classmates all appreciate the way he brings positiv positivity and support wherever he goes we are so proud of Donovan and the other nominees from the primary school were siaya Diaz Amar Mesa Ava Jones Robin plant Donovan giat Mani amanii Padia Isabelle Vio Jacob Herrera Manny Barrera Oliver schaer and Savannah Vas [Music] all right I'm we'll go on one two thank you congratulations you guys are welcome to stay but we we I completely understand if you guys need to go um I'm sure home is more fun than our meeting so thank you guys all right um next we have audience cins Mar okay uh we welcome comments from our
009staff parents and constituents person who wishes to address the board should complete the request to ask address the Board of Education form and hand it to our board secretary when recognize for the board please submit your comments to three minutes um and um you're welcome to uh stay youring please and my name is Marie my maiden name's Gorski and my married name is sha first and I'm from the Mary Jen Kennedy School which is currently the primary school so um I passed around a picture so that you could kind of see the people that we're talking about sorry so and I wanted to thank you um for having for allowing me to speak tonight um I'm representing the Mary Jane Kennedy School alumni and as I said it's currently known as The Westchester Primary School
010the saying to teach a life forever certainly applies to the Mary Jan Kennedy School staff in the education guidance that we received sorry I'm a little bit nervous all right it's now the alumni's turn um to honor the Educators who made the difference in our lives um Dr Rayman P Albert opened the school in 1959 and remained um Kennedy remained a school until its doors closed in 1981 and I think it's really kind of cool that we are um asking you with your approval to do what we uh would like to do for our school and our teachers um coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Westchester that's where our stories began and it still feels like home it's really cool to come back uh with your approval we have the remainder of our alumni funds
011to make our vision a reality in 17 we held an allass Mary Jan Kennedy alumni reunion at the school uh we had close to 300 people in attendance along with our mjk principals and staff and they're in the pictures and you know they were in their 80s 90s Stephanie was a huge part of that and you're in some of the pictures yeah yeah I was there I was really a very cool thing yeah and sorry about the color printing with that um Mr Larry J Meyers was vice principal for many of us at the school while Dr Albert was a principal and then he took over as principal for the 1972 73 school year and he held that position till 1981 he passed away in 2023 what we'd like to do for him is to
012honor him with an outdoor type of um sign a similar to a street sign on the school property blacktop drive-thru area in the back um and and we'd like it to say Larry J Meyers Lane that would run perpendicular to the street sign for Dr Albert that you see in the pictures and they were quite a team so it would be very appropriate to do that if that isn't possible we do have an alternative to do something like a bench inside but we'd really like him to have his own honor his wife is still living um his family is very active and I think that they would love to see Mr Dave Reed he was our he's in the picture with the oxygen tank and he was the coach he was MJ K's coach he
013would reiterate to his teams everyone is a member of the team and he would hold them to that and by everyone he meant the cheerleaders the stat people the student body our games were always packed it was a wonderful time the Kennedy gym was his home away from home forever reunion we held at Kennedy School he would make a beine to the gym and then straight to his office in there and it was really nice to see he passed away in 2022 and we are requesting that the gym be named The Coach Dave Reed Memorial Gym with signage such as a PL outside of the inside entry doors uh while we'd love to create an individual memorial for every single teacher that went through that school during the times that we were there it's very
014difficult to do that but if you look at the one picture with the glass wall Dr Albert actually designed that wall with the Architects when the school was being built and we would love to put a plaque up there honoring those teachers that taught it Mary Jane kenned school it would truly be a full circle moment for us I want to again acknowledge Stephanie she was fantastic when we did our all class reunion Barbara lambir prior to that helped us with a a reunion at the school for the class of 1972 which I have to say I'm a part of that that class don't do your math um both of these principles truly embodied what we grew up with under Dr Albert and Mr MERS so where do we go from here we have the
015funds we just need the approval uh to move forward and we would like to begin as soon as possible in terms of buying things that we need and getting in touch with people who can help us install things once everything's installed we have one more favor and that would be when school is dismissed for the summer that we could take an hour of whoever's time is in the building just to invite the alumni to see that entry area if if if you approve what we are uh requesting um and I will personally be responsible for limiting their activity in the school so let's make this a reality and go go Kennedy thank you thank you we'll definitely talk about it and work with Stephanie and um Phil and get a response to you thank you
016so much Michelle how hello hi hello my name is uh Pamela Michelle Powell I'll first start off by saying I'm very nervous because I don't speak in front of people I'm actually glad all those people left because I was freaking um I'm really shy um I WR I typed out pretty much what I want to say because I don't want to miss anything in these couple minutes that you guys allow I've never even been to one of these meeting I'm sorry about that um I've been a longtime resident of Westchester my husband graduated from St Joe's in 99 my daughter graduated in 2017 um I'm here today because um Dr salamy and his team is putting my six-year-old grandson out of the primary school they're claiming that he does not live in the district um
017I we get a lot of help from my in-laws because I work at the airport full time I also just opened up a restaurant in Westchester um my husband works as an engineer full-time and he also was a part of the restaurant my daughter works two jobs and she's in school to be a lawyer which she's the mother of the six-year-old so we get a lot of help from our um my in-laws that live five minutes away the school is claiming that he lives with my in-laws I've I've attempted and tried everything I could do even um taking video of my house every room of my house every room of my mother-in-law's house to prove to them that no CH that he doesn't live at my mother-in-law's house that he lives at my house um
018I'll read out what I wrote um for you guys um I'm sorry I'm just really nervous um the resid The Residency investigation conducted was excessive and invasive and you know dis discriminatory I was unlawfully required well advised to take and submit photos of both my home and my mother's my mother-in-law's home with the intent just to appr to prove to the school district that he does live um in my home um most of the majority of the investigation was conducted at my mother-in-law's residents um in their investigation they only saw my daughter one time in the six months that they investigated the investigator said that in the hearing they only saw her one time and that's because she works two jobs she's she's out the door at 4 or 5:00 in the morning most most
019days um I do have teenagers but we do not leave the six-year-old with the teenagers so we'll drop him at my mother-in-law's house before we go to work and my father-in-law will take him to the um he's in a latke program because we all work so early that we need we have to pay for early before and after school program for him um I feel like the the level of scrutiny that has been applied um is just unfair I think it's bias um and the in the process is my fair um due to this flawed investigation my grandson in three more days will be removed from the kindergarten at the primary missing out on crucial early opportunities this disruption to his education is both harmful and unwanted considering that he is a legal resident of
020Westchester and lives with me I'm a documented resident of this District I feel like no child should be denied their right to education due to unfair and process I'm asking you guys to please reinstate my grandson in this school um and dismiss the $155,000 tuition that they're trying to um put on me and my daughter because they said that he's in the wrong School District um this has been very emotional since we got the the ruling that he's going to be put out my anxiety is really high I've tried so hard not to cry because he does I don't have a school for him to go to when they put him out I don't have I can't prove that he lives anywhere else um I feel like this um process is just not right and
021I asked the board to please investigate Dr salami and his team and and the way they go about doing this um when demaya was at the primary school I worked there in the cafeteria um at that time Mrs deaka was the principal di was an infant and my daughter was away at College um and he stayed home because we didn't want her to drop out of college when she had a baby her freshman year so I stopped working and I kept him uh they they were investigating demaya at that time and for two weeks and I also told this story in the hearing for two weeks I was being followed by this invest this investigator to the point where I called Westchester police and I told them I'm being followed my husband thought I was
022crazy and thought I was losing my mind but uh he followed me to Marianos one day and I Stay in there for an hour and a half with di in a car seat and I had to feed him with my bottle because I was scared to leave out of Mariano's because the investigator parked and stayed there for an hour and a half Dr salamy called me back and told me that they were concluding the investigation on De Maya's residency I just feel like it's really excessive um he they almost gave me a heart attack and then now they six months I've been investigated about dialing I've seen them out my house they've read they've um ran all of the plates on all of our cars it's just real excessive um I've been a resident of
023Westchester longer before Dr Simi even came to this District I was here working at the school when he came so I feel like it's just not right and I asked the board to please just investigate because we're not trying to steal education from West Chester School District at all all of my kids have been in primary intermediate and the middle school if Westchester had a good enough high school they would be there but I had to put my do my kid at Walter because West Chester doesn't have a really good high school provid on West I don't think is they have a lot of fights I have one kid there um and she's already had fights with with a colostomy bag on she's already had a fight so I need to remove her from there
024so I don't want to send another kid to West West Chester does not have a a high school that doesn't have that all the violence that West has um but that's pretty much it I just asked that you guys investigate this a little further because um he's putting the wrong child out of school and I know that he was brought to this District to cut down on residency issues but Dr salami you are making a mistake with this kid this kid lives here we just need help from my in-laws because we're we're we're working like 80 90 hours a week and we've proved all of that to you thank you so much thank okay next we have um action on cons agenda um the contended agenda items are those items minutes business and Personnel matters
025that are of routine in nature any item may be moved from the consent agenda to action items with discussion all items on the consent agenda are approved with a single motion unless we moved uh before the roll call vote I in a motion uh to approve the consent agenda as presented Cynthia then Gina and then on tonight's consent agenda we have the uh open and close the regular board meeting minutes open and close sessions of March 6 2025 and we have a the Personnel report which includes um a staff resignation uh at the middle school any questions or concerns call vote please hi NE hi or I I president wasowski I vice president boy I I zero name zero ABS motion carries okay now to action items of discussion um bills claims and payroll I
026need a motion to open discussion the approval of bills and claims in the amount of $ 35,2 19961 in payroll in the amount of $1,751 12 into authorized payment move by Rose thank second by Mary Den anything you want to highlight for us a fairly typical uh March one um I mentioned categorical payments last couple of months from the state of Illinois still have not seem one ofas okay any questions for Dennis you have a question for yeah just wondering what your thoughts might be with the potential of the Department of Education being cut and how that's going to potentially affect funding for us is that something on your radar or isn't something on my radar when I heard a lot of the title funding which is Big portion of our our federal funding would
027shift out agents hopeful that the national school launch program fund would also ship with Department of Agriculture which does do Dr our Commodities credits and then the other big portion that we get from federal funding is revenue which I heard today in the news conference would also shift to another agency the F Family Services I believe Revenue wise that was my biggest concern and the three uh areas that I thought concerned with with the exception I haven't heard anything concrete about the department of agricultureal taking over National School launch program but the other two I didn't get they definitely yeah and there may be some changes in Grants like I know we had you remember I applied for that one grant that was like $4,000 that got us um local food Local Foods from uh
028local fruits from like a farmers local farmers and that money was cut so we weren't able to take advantage whether it's reinstated or not I don't we're definitely just keeping an eye on everything seeing where it all shakes out and it will we'll look to the state to communicate to us where it all stays yeah good question it's going to be it's going to be interesting to see how it all it all plays out and sort of trickles down to to the funding for sure any other questions okay roll call vote Neil hi i p hi Sanz hi president wasowski Hi boy hi motion carries next um we have the milk contract uh so I need a motion to open discussion for the approval of the milk contract as presented by Mary second by Stephanie
029right so um prepared to the contract is there in bardocks and you prepared a memo just sort of highlighting that there is a very slight increase in the cost of the white milk in the flavored milk I assume as chocolate that's the only one we do right chocolate and then we do do something for those students that have all to oh oh excellent so is that the price for the flavor is the same price or no that was a little bit more but the increase would also apply okay gotcha gotcha so um but with the increase we would not be increasing the cost to the student um and this would be would lock in our prices um for the the 25 26 school year correct I capture it all or anything you want to add
030I did Benchmark the price but V we utilize Quest foods for Food Service they see a lot of the invoices from schol so I to ask cross just the ball great yeah not eggs any questions or concerns all right Ro call please hi parage I president wasi I vice president boy I I I I motion carries um and then next we have um page West Cooperative resolution and a motion uh to open discussion for the approval of the D West Cooperative resolution as presented by Cynthia second by G there it is okay all right this one is um Phil mentioned this a little bit uh last meeting that it was coming so we um ly is our sort of our special but this is one that um primarily focuses on the needs of death in
031heart of hearing and Visually Impaired students um it's their shift of going from um a board board to a governing board correct to an oversight so they're just overseeing yeah um and it's passed through their board um met on February 13th and passed the resolution uh to eliminate to the board and have it become an oversight committee and as a member of The Cooperative uh I'm sorry a member of the um jaage West cook board um we need to take action on the attached resolution um that we're in agreement to uh the change is there anything you want to highlight for us no just that lzy represents us right the the districts that are in ly and then there is like 92 districts that each other collaboratives do and so they are uh in order
032for them to change from a board and oversight committee they just need a quum of the boards of Education to approve this they're not going to have it it's nothing about money changing they're not approving anything like it's just as Dana said it's a oversight committee so this a formality that just need to do is there a coordinator representative to attend from our school it's ly yeah lzy will report to so lzy like we I have I'm a director on the lzy board and so then they'll report to us at our director meeting which is like every couple months you don't have to go or no they they are there representing us and we won't see any changes how program right nothing and there was in one of these documents there is a list of
033all of the yeah oh yeah it's um so it lists the cooperative and then the members that make up that Cooperative so as filon were're under lrange But it includes case and um pace and liens a special education Cooperative so Arrow yeah there quite a few yeah and then there's some independent school districts too yeah anyone have any questions or concerns okay call pleas hian hi president wowski Hi vice president boy hi I I or i s i zero zero ABS motion carries um we have discussion items with no action the first up is the audit engagement letter um Dennis prepared a memo in there for us anything you want to highlight nothing in particular just wanted to get the board's heads up I have requested that the makeer Tilly prepar the engagement letter for
034the upcoming year I'll bring that in April have the engagement letter ready to go in the engagement letter responsibilities of the audit [Music] responsibilities quite a few years we signed a few years back we signed a three-year engagement letter which held the fees the same for that threeyear period last year was the first year we saw with signing that do you think they would ever go back to where they give us sort of that threeyear engagement I asked for it okay I need ask CLX cheer if they do it again that no doesn't you can't tell you no if you don't ask right thank you for asking any other questions no and when does that process begin the audit yeah typically sometime early May we'll see preliminary work work when they come out test internal
035control and then go through stuff throughout beginning of the year to mid year or so and then early August up October they're issuing and that perfect any other questions on that one all right um next we have the lunch program contract discussion walk us see that one as well so on this one I did put it as a discussion because it hadn't got the actual numbers but I did end up getting them so I put them in there um based on my calculations I don't anticipate that we're going to increase the the student lunch cost for the upcoming school year however we're we're right there so the following year is not 25 26 26 27 what do we charge now 450 good for breakfast for next year as well what is our show what you
036meaning you're saying we'll have to start charging next year when cost once it gets up over the 450 okay well I think he's saying that we're we're charging the families for 50 but right now we're paying or next year that we're going to pay $4 32 cents plus plus the milk but there's also Commodities credit that we get which pry the cost down a little bit which is how I came M okay yes if you add in the cost of the M I'm not talking the 35 cents 30 something cents we actually did cost charge for Co relief Nows plus the cost will BL technically work for 450 but once you add in the Commodities credit then we get from the Department of Agriculture it break it down do you foresee that those are going
037to even be changing like some of the Commodities and other types of concessions that we're getting because of the Administration the current Administration hopeful that they won't not bring up anything about the Department of Agriculture so and it's kind of a program that promotes buying products from within the United States so we okay great so you think we will have the contract for the April meeting to approve or I have the contract now okay didn't have it in time in time for this month okay so we will definitely see it in April all right so we will vote on in April on the final contract all right moving right along um correspondence there was um correspondence uh in the board packet but just to highlight it here um as we've been talking about there's been
038a change so the Chamber of comert is not um hosting their person of the dinner as as usual they are combining it with the Village um and putting on a centennial um Westchester event um so there's an invitation in there uh to join it's on May 17th at Alpine banquet house for celebrate Westchester Roaring 20s uh Centennial s s um and then we also have an invitation from the Westchester Park District uh for the ribbon cutting ceremony for Highridge Park on April 26 so I encourage anyone to attend those um if it fits with your schedules um board president's report just a couple things to highlight um uh you should have received the state of economic interest emails they've been going out um so that is that something that we all had to file every
039year with the county clerk um so uh when you after you file it please send Laura copy she send she keeps that um on record for for the district records as well as the county records and they're due by May the 1st it should feel familiar it's the same thing um we all filled out when you first um every year yeah yeah and you do it for the uh petition packet so um and you do it every year after so that is May 1 and then we have the uh District dinner coming up um also on May 1 right y yeah uh so if you can r P to Laura by April 10th if you're able to attend that she is collecting um RSVPs and it looks like a very good time uh next legislative
040report Mary anything you want to highlight yeah my final it's a it's a lot but let's see updated March 7th there was there were a lot of uh bills uh in fact education that were discussed and then let's see one of the hearing focused on high school start timers um some of the student Advocates wanted to start time SCH start time to be 8:45 a.m ah uh well so because of the highlight it highlighted the complexities of parents you know working parents not able to drw the kids on time so though there was that Billow support it was not uh uh it was uh it was found that it was not feasible so next one is uh let's see new restrictions on School District waav especially on physical education ravers um so if you if
041you had the chance to read you will see why we were asked to contact the local legislators to vote no because of one two three need uh bullet points there uh it limits physical igation waivers to a single nonrenewable three-year period a restriction not applied to any other waiver type it reduces the renewal periods for all other waivers thereby limiting long-term planning flexibility for restricts I know you can read so because of all these reasons uh we are advised to vote no for that now yeah that's and then additional bills it's a lot I hope we have gone through it some interesting bills are there that were passed out of Senate and House committees and then as usual you have the legislative tracking list for Board of Education Insurance open meetings act personal Regional Office
042of Education School Finance school safety and health students and Taxation and then last week they had advoc meeting Zoom meeting and it us other attachment for the second attachment the last week yeah oh yeah that's it perfect thank you Mary what are we gonna do after April I don't know what we're gonna do we'll figure it out I guess but you have done such a great job in doing that for a long time I mean I think me too did you do it right away when we started it was not there before I checked as I said was not there we appreciate you um IB West cook report no report no report no perfect uh foyer requests there were none in February we got some March we to sure do there's some com we got
043some we got some doozies coming uh superintendence report all right good evening uh really quick if you don't know this Saturday is the fine arts fair here Phil what time is it I got it right here9 930 9:30 9:30 to to 1 9:30 to 1:30 and there usually is a is a a link on there you usually can go code yeah like an actual schedule they're pretty pumped pretty pumped um if you saw y yesterday I sent an email testing out our parent Square going to be our new form of communication it's a two-way it there's a lot of great things about parent square but this way everyone will be able to you know like right now principes have different messages and like this is going to be the one form but the really one
044of the huge highlights of this is once parents fill it out they will be able to put the language that they want so it'll be two-way communication so if no matter what the language I me Jacob what is 150 different languages how many one so if I email it in English and if they say they wanted it Spanish or polish it would translate it to them and then when they respond to me oh they could respond in Polish in Spanish and it'll come back to me in English that's so uh it's going to have text capability um teachers will be able to communicate with so I know right now they use different tools to to communicate uh so we're just kind of soft rolling it out I sent that message we already have something up
045on our website under parent squarter there like a QR code that the parents could sign you get the app we'll start promoting it I'll put it in my my newsletter for April the principales start putting stuff in their newsletters and then by July one we'll be good to go so I'm I'm pretty excited about I know Jacob's excited about it if he's smiling you don't see him smiling too much but yes and this was um recommended by culture diversity and paration Comm this is one of the things they wanted to for us to do so it was nice that they were directly involved in why we went yeah yeah so we're looking to have that rolled out for next year not this year right now you could use it right now you could use it
046for Westchester yeah yeah so so we just I haven't done it yet sorry I got the email but not any other information I got that the seventh grade trip is going to use it she's going to try to use it as our form of communication so I have to get sign up Ford uh the springf trip is next month so I don't know if that's sort of like one of the first ways they're going to test so my first my first my first email was just if you read it said like more information is coming so on April 1st there'll be another message like this is how you okay so then you could start and then people will start to but if they wanted to go right now they could go on actually right now
047and start how many families right now have already done they've already down is it 90 something no 120 as of right now with the app yeah 120 downloaded the app so the communication it's the same way as school messenger one-way text messages emails the two-way feature with piloting right now with um Mr even mentioned that the field trip would be a great a great test for us to do that so we're kind of in the mids of creating groups and and setting this all up as we go there's just a lot it's it's not school messenger one one way only it's a lot is there any name for that application what's that is there any name particular Prof no it's it's the part references parent score yes preferences does translations on the slide so it
048looks like we have some feedback I think I should know when the Springfield trip is but I don't remember I think it's April 17 um so if that's the first group using it then that'll be nice to have some feedback to see how it works the next thing you mentioned the Park opening on April 26 well we're going to have we're going to host we're working with the parks and the bicycle yes the bicycle group for the Bike Rodeo from 1: to 4:00 p.m. at uh w nlv a registration yeah the same day 1 to four so the the k off for the park is in the morning this is in the afternoon and we'll we'll have sign up for that it could anyone in the community but it'll be at Westchester in hopefully our
049kids aren uh and then spring break is March 31st so we are as I told the teachers last week last week so this week was 10 10 weeks left not counting spring break and now we I mean we're after this week we'll be down toight so we're almost done next week is a you know April and two full months left awesome any questions for Phil from his uh superintendence report yeah Mary I'm just going to follow up with my uh previous previous question regarding Asian American yeah of Celebration so have you got something like were like discussing start off with a simple as some yeah we do you have anything did you Ian I've been talking with the principles just about some of the things that they're already doing and they're just report back like
050how they've been communicating to the teachers what any kind of lesson so if you'd like me next month to compile some stuff I could do that for you that month is May right may it starts from I mean the whole month starting so may one May 1st yeah through 31st or 30er yeah yeah so yeah if you want do something for the April I'll I'll share information from the principles about what they're planning on doing right I just wanted to know today otherwise they'll come for the audience comments and I'll ask well remember next next meeting we sit at the board for the first part and then we close and then we open okay so you'll be there hopefully I know you okay anything else for Phil all right so next we have the administrator
051reports um administrator sorry reports um there always is so much good uh information in there um I know speak on behalf of the board that there's um we appreciate all the time and effort that goes into them does anyone have any questions for the administrators we have with us tonight yeah go ahead Cynthia um well I have a question for Jacob and one for Miss Delo and so Jacob when we're looking at parent Square here just thinking about how our school had the security breaches right where the data the parents and the teachers were our were compromised with parent Square do we have to worry about that or are we doing anything to be proactive so that our data is not being you know what I mean breached compromised so there is always a chance
052that portal could be breached uh we're only allowing the phone the names telephone numbers and an email address going to parents Square um and the the data that was breached out of power school was that data because I was the first one who asked about the social securities or anything like that and I couldn't believe that there are districts who actually store it information in sis uh there's always a chance but we're I they're very they've been in the business for a long time and I hope that that know what they're doing but like I said there's no with everything being out there now online there is no guarantee uh it's just smart data like we're like I said the information that is stored in any of our systems is information that you can look
053up online U I can look up your um our informations or just Google it and I'll get names addresses I'll get addresses we we do store addresses in power school but um that's just a I guess online information yeah nothing critical you can't build any type of credit report or anything like that you can do that I the that yeah yeah um and then Mrs delak was looking at the um from the beginning of the year to the middle of the year and I thought that was really so much good data there and I would really just love to dive into some more but I was wondering if we could also track some of that some of track it to the end of the year so that we're looking at that middle of the Year
054particularly those kids that are dropping below below 80th right and the ones that are dropping even 80 85 like are they coming are we going to be able to keep them above 80% if they're dropping because I was looking at like third grade fourth grade even though they're still in the 80 to 85th percentile they had some significant drops and from here until the end of the year you know if we're doing enrichment we're doing the wind time are they going to come back or are they going to continue to drop below that 80th percentile because if you look at seventh and eth grade we had a lot of them dropping below the 80th percenti so wonder if we could track that at Middle School you said yes yes yeah that was I I actually
055I well obviously I looked at it but I did notice that about Middle School there was quite a few um yes I already plan on keeping track of all those I mean and I I guess what that data is not telling you also is how many students I did not include okay so they they had to have a starting point in Fall yes about 8 about like at the5th yes but that's not also telling you how many kids weren't in the 85th and have also now are now in the 8 okay I just so if you made the AG B then I was only going to track you you know fall winter straight yes um so we're like staying with those group of kids same group it's all that I'm tracking I I can I
056tell you how many were um Advanced to that group I think I mean that's important too but I think we're just going to just trct this group that I already started with because we're doing win time we're doing enrichment we're doing intervention we're you know hitting them but if they're if we're they're continuing to drop I mean you have some kids coming in super high dropping where are they going to be at the end of the year and is that enough well and can I tag team off of that a little bit like is I mean I know that is just map and I know map is great but what else do we have that we can be looking at like is it just fast fridge would that give well we do well we do
057that's Benchmark so that's again the same the same thing we do that three times a year I can I can pull that as well um I really wouldn't go by grades I just I don't know I just sure sure sure sure I mean but I know like map is one snapshot in time right it's tough like it's like if someone has a bad test day and I know some I know my children have told me like I was so tired I just filled in stuff or whatever you know a lot kid I think the other part of that with with map I I just I don't know no I actually I do know I don't think it's a a right now we're trying as a district trying to shift our Focus to I right I
058mean for 14 I mean a long time lot since I been here maybe a year before we have not really looked and paid much attention to I and it was always that map map map and then so we when I was in primary it used and I can just remember this like it was yesterday all the teachers in you know second grade oh our geometry grades are so low our map part they work so hard at geometry and they went they skyrocketed for that next term or whatever and then a couple months ago I'm doing a really big deep dive into I stuff right questions and standards and you know how many questions are asked on Geometry for I in third grade so I'm not even second they don't take it out so third grade
059one fourth grade yeah fourth grade one fifth grade is when they start coming so here we are in second grade worried about what we're teaching students because we want our math scores to go up but it doesn't even matter what and I'm not saying it doesn't matter right it's eventually going to come up in the IR so what we're doing right now throughout the dish I'm really just focusing on Ela because because I think that's what we need to work on it's just looking at making our priority standards like not using math and not what math thinks is right but what do we think is best for our students what does the state what are their priority standards and if it was you know if we were taking we are taking IR but if we
060were taking um act or sat we would use that as well but just looking at that information and making sure that's what we're teaching and that's the priority for us not map I mean geometry that was my best example I was just dumbfounded when I found that out like so to my point is that I don't really want to focus I don't want to focus on map like I want to I'm interested to see what our IR data is I'll be honest I think that will show us where because we can we have correlated I um map scores to I predicted I growth and I have you know since this question did come up before I did reach out that the oh that man and I just kind of gave propos like if we're a
061kid is an 85th percentile in the fall and then a dropped to 80 percentile in the winter is that you know should we be concerned he said that that generally is not a significant drop but could indicate a few considerations one thing normal fluctuation small percentile shifts are common due to factors like test condition student Focus or minor variations difficulty because each test there is a um there is a plus minus uh variance variance and so just depending on whatever like they they usually a plus or minus three like automatically yeah and then also a growth rate versus peers so a student may still be improving but the rate of growth is slightly lower compared to higher achieving peers but you know the thing that is something to think about you know to just account
062for um if you see some decreases it's worth us to take a look to see if any targeted support is need or to see if their needs are being met so we should look at it to the end of the year to see if this is continue drop but when you're you know they they don't think that drops from 85 I know it to the eye it looks you know like they're going down but in the grand scheme of things there is they they Comfort A variation well and that's my thing though are they going to come back up are they catching up or are they going to continue to drop because then we're getting them falling behind I mean they're in school for a a whole year so how are they coming in above
063the 80th percentile and leaving below the seven you know Bel below the 80th percentile and you see that I'm seeing that a lot in the um particularly seventh and eth grades I was very like it's really good data you know I was but and then the third and the fourth even though they're not below the 80th percentile they're still dropping you know so are they going to continue to drop or are we going to be to pull them back up because if we're doing intervention we're doing enrichment we're doing wi time we're giving them what you know they need and they're still continuing to drop then what else you know do they need so that they come back up over the immediate percentile at least stay there because I know once they're high you know
064they'll stagnate you'll see it some stagnates there too because and that is one like I always tell the step too that's one moment in time that's one so we have to look at the whole picture too because like I said there has to be something for for test you you've got to take into consideration test condition student Focus was the kid on it where did they have everything else going on something 45 points that's going to be I think that's a huge outliner like a 45 drop I don't see that a few of those that's that's a bad day that's a b okay let see some of them are not but it's worth us to take continue to take a look and especially with the kids that are like we can't forget about the high
065Achievers so I think that's the lesson is you know I think it's always been a question for the board just about making sure that we are challenging our high achiever so for tracking our data should be a part of the conversation that we have moving forward you know when we do our data days in the middle of the year like let's look at that group let's just make sure that we're making you know even the principles when they're setting their targets for their own goals they're focusing on a group that is your lowest group but you know it's it's worth us to take a look so we'll report back in the end of the year than you and then once we get IR scores too I I want I do I hate putting everything in
066one B like only point and I can tell you too what you have to factor into I'm sorry but the one thing that I I could just tell you right now too and what you're going to see is because kids do know that I is the state test when it comes at a map in the spring we tend to see a you know because at that point kids are like checked out you know and so that's that's tough too so like how much is playing into like that they even carrying especially like my eighth graders who are on the you know I'm not saying that it's good or bad we try to motivate them and we have different incentives but the reality is that kind sometimes they're kind of tested out I'm sorry no I
067just wanted to add uh two quick things um I think there's research that shows and and map data will tell you map people will tell you that some like some tests have higher numbers than and lower numbers like the fall is usually lower than the winter so there's a lot of stats to support that um so then I just wanted to like State say that out loud spring is usually you know better than full but all is usually the worst is typically what you see sum summer slide and then the other thing too is uh I appreciate the conversation of all the data because I think it all it tells a story it's just one data point it's just one moment in time map but I I I appreciate then also looking at the a
068i and any other benchmarks assessments that you have because I think triangulating the data to see that tells a better story than just looking at one data point and that's the thing too with all the the way we're doing intervention at intermediate now in primary and second grade we were focusing on their low with skills so that might we might not have seen a that roll over to map like I mean that was when M was here talking about how there students who were in that whatever group it was doubled their their points we really didn't see that much on their scores but when you actually look at what they focused on they have jumped in the areas where they were the lowest so I you know so we were saying that that could even
069affect scores too because before we were very focused on map scores and how do we get these map scores up now is what do these kids need and what what critical areas are they lowest score is what they were focusing on in wi time yes and it wasn't it wasn't only based off map it was really based more fast map map was based off of map but there their uh reading intervention that was based off um vbd and if they do OG I mean it was based off a lot of different things so it'll be interesting to see yeah thank you for putting that together that was very we have our program that we have it's it it makes it pretty simple great thank you great and we'll look at that I guess you we
070won't have iir for a while no we won't get that do you want to see it all at one time so I mean I can share out map just the map data in May June like June probably Jun because that follows right when do we usually get I fil know I we don't get it like we'll get like I'll start seeing raw numbers in uh May June but it's just raw so I can't you know and then they mess with it clean it and then we don't start seeing anything till and I think this year because they're changing cut scores we won't see anything till like August September it's going to be a half do that for just okay when do we have that report doesn't she give us a yearly report Stephanie stepanie yeah
071yeah just do you give us a yearly report I feel like Stephanie gives us a report I give you a report of like for Accelerated yeah I was just wondering if it coincided in it would be a good because you're going to be collecting that data yeah yes I can do that yeah okay good questions good discussion anything June right because that's when I'll definitely have all yeah June let's do the June meeting yeah um anything else for the the administrators all right um I need a motion thank you those pictures yeah wonderful thank you so much you uh I need um thank you thanks meeting I need a motion for the board to into Clos session to discuss the appointment Appo appointment appointment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee um B
072litigation when an action against affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed or is pending before court or administrative tribunal um or when the public body finds that an action as probable or imminent in which case the basis for the finding shall be reported and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting um Collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees are the representatives are deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees and the placement of individual students and special education programs or other matters relating to individual students was that Cynthia Cynthia first Mary second I don't even have a sheet do you have it okay U any questions or concerns hey roll call V please Sanchez president was last I vice president boy Bo I9 motion
073carries we are in close session at 709