001Good evening everyone. We'll go ahead and call this meeting of September the 8th, 2025 to order. At this time, I would ask Kevin Hower, student minister at Flint Hill Baptist Church, if he wouldn't give us an invocation. Uh Mr. Wil uh Mr. Howser, before you start, I would ask that everyone keep the family of Jessica Wilson in your thoughts and prayers. She was a teacher at Shelby Middle School who passed away recently. Uh we'd ask that you keep Mr. Blandon and his family in your prayers. He's not here tonight. His brother passed away. And we'd also ask you to keep uh Mr. Fiser, who's not here tonight, in your prayers. He is recovering from surgery. With all that being said, Mr. Hower, I will turn it over to you. >> Thank you. Let us pray.
002Heavenly Father, you are holy and great. We know you hold all things in your hands. So let us trust you with all things. You are the great provider. Now help us to manage what you've given us with fear and wisdom. Lord, we lift up the families, the Wilson family, the Bllandons and the Fisers as they're going through these difficult season. And Lord, we ask forgiveness uh for when we fall short. and we thank you for your mercies that are new every day. Bring to light those things hidden dark corners and help us to respond in truth and love and mercy as well. We ask your direction on this meeting tonight. Bless these elected, bless these teachers and bless our children with your truth. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. >> Amen. Thank you, Mr. Hower.
003>> Thank you. >> At this time, I would ask Mr. Sparling, would you mind leading us in the pledge, please? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. At this time, I'll call on Miss Leslie Cobb. Not you, Dr. Fischer. >> This is kind of a surprise. He didn't know this was coming. So, got you again. >> Come stand right here. Last Thursday, uh, we had our United Way annual meeting, uh, and awards lunchon, and this is the, uh, lifetime achievement award. So, Dr. Fischer had no idea that he was receiving this award, but I wanted to come before you guys tonight and let our board hear uh what Dr. Fiser has
004done for our community and what he does on a daily basis for our United Way. Can you hear me? The Hug Eugene Lrand Lifetime Achievement Award, an award reserved for those who impact is not only profound but enduring. And tonight we celebrate a man whose legacy is woven into the very fabric of our community. Dr. Steven Fischer. Stephen is not just a name we know. He is a presence we feel, a leader we trust, a mentor we turn to. Whether it's a challenge that arises within our organization or a moment that calls for clarity and direction, Steven is there with infinite wisdom, steady hands, and a heart that wa that never waver. His commitment to our United Way is not just professional, it's personal. He believes in the power of community, in the strength of
005collective action, and in the promise of a future that is sustainable, inclusive, and driven by passion. He has never sought the spotlight, but his light has guided us through countless moments of uncertainty and transformation. Steven has helped shape our mission, not just with strategy and insight, but with care. He listens. He leads. He lifts. And he reminds us time and again that our work is not about programs or policies. It's about people. Today, we honor not just what Steven has done, but who he is. A champion of service, a steward of hope, a quiet force behind our meaningful process. Dr. Steven Fischer. On behalf of all of us, your colleagues, your community, and your grateful friends, it is with deep admiration and heartfelt thanks that we present you with the H Eugene Lrand Lifetime Achievement
006Award. You have made us better, you have made us stronger, and you have made us believe in a better tomorrow. So, I'm going to represent this to you. Thank you. [Applause] Now you get to come up here and get your picture taken. >> That's right. >> You got to shake off our hands, too. >> Yeah, >> you got to shake all of our hands. This time I'll call on our superintendent, Dr. Steven Fischer, for some special recognition. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it. And Leslie, thank you for the tremendous honor. It's it is an honor and a pleasure to serve uh Cleveland County. Uh we we have a lot of wonderful things going on across our county, not just in our school system, uh but just this is a great place to live,
007work, learn, and play. It's a great place to raise a family. Uh my wife and I and children have been fortunate to be here. Um my wife and I for 28 years u post college and raised three wonderful children in in our school system in our community. So it's a great place. So thank you for that honor. Um want to spend a few minutes today uh just highlighting and celebrating uh the the 2024 2025 school performance and try to give an overview. Um, if I went in depth with the performance and the information that I have, uh, we would have to cook breakfast, uh, and be here. And I know that's not what you want or not what the folks behind me want, but I but I want to take an opportunity to this evening
008to really highlight the good stuff going on our school district. Uh, we we have great schools, uh, but we just don't have great schools by accident. We have great schools. We all because we have school leaders, we have teachers, we have assistants, we have a collective team that works hard every day uh to provide a great atmosphere, a great environment for our students. Uh we talk about that exceptional educational environment and that's what we're able to put forth for our students. So, I I just want to start out by saying thank you to our our teachers, our staff members, uh everybody from the the the person that drives the bus and picks the student up uh first thing in the morning to everybody that that works to make sure that the school operates and runs
009efficiently and effectively to making sure we get our students home safely in the evening. We we have a great team and and while we talk a lot about and this this uh presentation is going to focus on academic performance, academic performance is is a reflection of school culture and and that happens by the entire team pulling together, working together as a welloiled machine and you get the results that we've got. So we have a lot to be proud of. We got a lot to be thankful for. Uh I want to just kind of highlight some of that and then uh finish today with some special recognitions of a few schools that we have in attendance uh with us uh this evening. Um so just as a a reminder uh we start off with the information
010about achievement levels. Uh you've seen this before. Uh levels three, four, and five are what we call grade level proficient. That means those students are proficient. They are considered passing those end of grade or end of course exams. Levels fours and fives are college and career readies. You can see level three is a sufficient understanding. Level four is a thorough and level five would be a comprehensive understanding. So when we talk about proficiency, it is important you have that backdrop for information of where we're coming from. Uh when we talk about school performance grades, uh you can see how a school performance grade is is calculated. It's a little uh it's a little simpler in the elementary and middle schools. We have EOG's and EOCC. Uh the EOCC that we give at the middle school
011is a math one, end of course. The EOG is the acronym for end of grade. Those exams are there. So proficiency is 80%. And proficiency is just that. Are you proficient? Meaning did you get over the bar? Did you clear the hurdle? Uh or did you make a level three, four or five on your end of grade or end of course exam? um test growth is 20% and and that is calculated through EVOS. Uh that is a value added assessment uh system where we are determined that you can get one year worth of growth. And so if you met growth then the data suggests that you met or you made one year's worth of growth. If you did not meet then then the data suggests that you is less than one year. And then if
012you exceeded growth, the data would suggest that you uh made more than than one year's worth of growth. So 20% of growth and that is the same for elementary and middle as is high school. You can see the high school model for proficiency is a little more complicated. We do have the EOCC's which is math one, math three, English two and biology. But you also incorporate ACT work keys, math course rigor, and English learner progress. So, a little more complicated model at a high school, but nevertheless, schools get school performance grades and you can see the grading scale on the bottom. That is something that's established through the state. It is a 15-point scale all the way through A through D. Um, so we'll we'll highlight some some stuff that we uh where we're at
013with school performance grades in just a few minutes. So, low performing schools, a lot has been said about low performing schools. Uh and it's my pleasure to to present to you tonight that Cleveland County Schools has reduced the number of low performing schools from nine in 23 24 down to two in 2425. That is a significant accomplishment in just one year. Um last year 35% of the schools in our county were considered low performing. This year that number is 8%. And actually, if you look on the North Carolina Department of Public Construction's website, I think it's actually 7.7, but for this slide, we we round it up to eight. That's a reduction of 78% uh moving from 9 to two. That is significant. And when I look at that significant work, um you may ask,
014well, what caused that? What what what's the reason why we went from nine to two? There are lots of reasons but but I think the reason the the reasons focused around the work done by our faculty and staff throughout our district. Um principles, assistant principles, school leaders, teachers, assistants, the entire team that works together in those schools have done a tremendous job of of moving the needle with nine schools moving down to two schools. The fact of the matter is we are getting more students proficient than we have in the past and that is great. Uh we'll talk about growth in just a few minutes but but the low performing status is 80% driven by proficiency and we are getting more students proficient than had been in the past and as a board and as
015a community member as superintendent that that is extremely exciting to see the good work being done in our district. That is one of the arrows which you want to go down. Um, I believe there are only 21 districts that have a lower percentage of low performing schools in the state out of 115 LEAs. Only 21. And out of that 21, there's only one district that's larger than us. A lot of the districts that have zero or a lower percentage of low performing schools are very small districts. may only have four or five schools, but only one of those 22 or 21 that are loaning us. I believe we're number 22, uh, is larger than we are. So, significant work being done in our schools. Uh, and we're so excited. I know the people behind us
016um are are extremely excited. I had the opportunity to visit, and I won't say which school, but one of the schools today to deliver that news before it came uh official. And I left the building after I met with the principal and assistant principal. And the principal said, "Can I make an announcement?" I said, "Sure." I said, "Give me 30 seconds to exit the building." And so by time before I could get in my car, I heard a collective yale from that building. Just the excitement of the work and and that's just a an excitement of the work being done. It's excitement of of seeing kids be successful and and and somewhat relief of hey, we have we've moved the needle. We've done some significant works. I am so proud of of the work being
017done in our district. Um, so you're aware the schools that have exited low performing are Elizabeth Fost, Washington, Burns Middle, Crest Middle, Kings Mount Middle, and Shelby Middle. A significant work getting those seven schools to leave low performing. I sent you guys a press release from the North Department of Public Instruction. Cleveland County Schools was one of two districts that was called out for the exemplary work that we were doing. Um, Dr. Dr. Bennett and I were actually invited to come and speak at DPI's press conference, but in in the fashion of we've got work to do here. Dr. Bennett had a principal's meeting and I had other things going on. We respectfully declined to go up there because uh we were continuing to focus on the work that we're doing, but but really great
018work moving those folks uh out of the low performing status. We're again so proud of the work being done at those schools and schools across our district. A little bit about growth. Um you can see the comparison 23 24 25 if you want this data over a period of time. I've got this data looking back over 10 or 12 years and can provide that but you can see that in in Cleveland County schools 65.4% of our schools met or exceeded growth. If you remember from a couple slides earlier I'm not going to ask you to repeat the the answer but but growth is 20% of the school performance grade. 80% proficiency 20% growth. You know, we we are a strong advocate for growth and growth is in your strategic plan is we want our schools
019meeting exceeding growth, but you can see where we're at between not met and exceeded. We do have one more school that met growth this year than had been in the past. So, school performance grade, that is kind of the the final score. Um it's the way North Carolina accountability works. That is the final score. Proficiency, growth, how are schools ranked with school performance grade? So you can see in 23 24 and 2425 in comparison we had one A both years we increased and had one additional B in 2425 the big movement was C's and you can see well how did you move the low performing schools we move those D's and Fs and push those into C's and push one of those C's into B's. Um how do we how does that compare against the
020state? Um 27% of our schools are either A or B and that is the same as the state 27%. However, this is a significant fact to remember. 92% of our schools are A, B, or C. And that's compared to only 65% in the state. So, the reverse of that is in the state there 35% of the schools in the state are considered low performing. And and only 7.7 or 8% of the schools in Cleveland County are low performing. Again, that's just a an artifact of the significant work that's happening in our in our schools all across our county, not just in the seven schools that exit low performance. Yes, we're extremely proud of them, but we're extremely proud of of the work being done throughout our county. We're going to recognize that uh some of
021those in just a few minutes. A little bit about grades and growth. So, when we take that school performance grade and we break that back down into some growth, we want to really disagregate that data and and and dive into that. Those of you know Dr. Bennett, Dr. Bennett would have done this presentation tonight, but unfortunately, he's a little under the weather, so I I pinch hit for him. Uh those of you that heard him in the educational programs committee understand Dr. Bennett gets real excited especially in terms of of growth. So here you can see our K8 schools. Uh you can see an overall growth. Um and that left hand column uh is is overall that is reading plus math plus science. Now you say well I don't see a science column there. I
022know you don't because we have not got the seaggregated science data but that is included in the overall data. So you can start looking at some of these schools you can kind of say I bet this is what happened in science. So as of late Friday afternoon Dr. Bennett was was sitting in his office just really um eagerly anticipating getting the the science um data that that we're looking for. But you can see a couple highlights from this is there's a lot more green and blue than there is red. That's what we want to see. We want to see green and blue. We don't want to see red. I draw your attention to the reading column. Not just the reading column in the elementary section to your to your left, but also the reading column
023in the intermediate middle school section uh there on the right. We met or exceeded in reading in every school, which is phenomenal. Um you know, literacy takes a special place in my heart and in your heart and and it's got a special place in our strategic plan. Um, now I don't as a old math teacher, it hurts me a little bit to see some red fall up in that math, but that that if we have to prioritize, literacy has got to be important. Um, and and there's lots of things we're doing in focus of literacy. I know our schools are are working extremely hard in in both the literacy and math and in science. It's not indicated here. Uh, but extremely proud of the work that we're doing again across the areas, but but in
024reading reading. Um if you notice our middle schools, every traditional middle school uh exceeded growth in reading. Again, some tremendous work that's being done in that. That's a really good snapshot. You can say where the high school data at. Well, high school, none of the high school data has been disagregated in terms of growth. We have the high school overall, but we don't have any reading and math. We definitely science. So, it is so incomplete to be able to put that arrow. So, we know the overall growth. We just don't know any disagregated data. We should be getting that any time. So obviously we want to celebrate a little bit and we want to recognize some things that that that are that are really going well. So I want to give you some data uh
025to celebrate. 18 of our schools increase their school performance grade. Uh school performance grade remember is that it that is the final score that is the combination between proficiency the number of students that we're getting over the the the the bar and growth. 18 of our schools increase their performance grade. That is good. That's what we want to see. Those schools increasing. Two schools exceeded growth in reading and math. Um if you look at that going back a slide, look at Crest Middle School. It gives you a little indication of science. Um that Crest Middle School exceeded in reading and math, but overall they met. So there's a little anomaly there, which we feel like is probably a science piece. whereas Shelby Middle uh exceeded overall and in reading and math. But two of our
026schools exceeded in reading and math. Again, that means that their students made more than year a year's worth of growth in that school year. Nine schools improved their letter grade, which is significant. We talk about the seven that moved out of low performing SCA status, but nine of those schools improved their letter grade. 14 either improved or maintained an A or B. And again, that's the goal is to push those schools to an A or B. And you say, "Well, so where are we going to go next?" Well, we we we have that bubble in that C range. And in in my conversations with school leaders, and my conversations with principles is they want to see that that C turn into B. That that is good. And and I'm a strong advocate that success breeds
027success. You see some success, you want to continue to push into that. Um 2.85 was the average increase in school performance grade. And why I say, well, that's only, you know, almost three. moving three in school performance grade. That's significant because you're looking at all these tests and everything going in there on a scale of one to 100. A a three-point growth is significant in school performance grade. Um eight schools moved up a tier for growth or they remain remain blue. And if you remember blue is exceeded growth. Once you've exceeded growth, that's that we want to keep you there. There's nowhere to go except exceed. But we had eight schools either moved up that tier or remain in blue. Um, and I said that earlier, all K8 schools either met or exceeded growth in
028reading. Was extremely proud of of showing some fruit of of our work over the last several years in literacy. Uh, we also had a point 4% graduation rate increase. Um, we believe that what we're going what we're seeing in in K8 right now, um, over the next year or two, we will start to uh to reap those rewards at the high school level. some individual schools. And again, I'm going to I'm going to talk about these schools in just a minute. Um, but exceeded growth schools. Uh, these are the five schools that exceeded growth overall. Uh, we have schools that exceeded in one or two different areas, but overall exceed growth. Kazer Elementary, uh, Cleveland Early College High School, Shelby Middle, Springmore Elementary, and Washington Elementary. Extremely proud of the work happening there and exceeded
029growth. We do have Cleveland Early College High School once again made an A and and that is significant. I mean, there are very few A's given out across the state. You've seen that data before. The the school performance grades and and the correlation to poverty are strongly correlated, but the work that that our that our students and staff are doing at Cleveland Early College is phenomenal with a school performance grade of A. We do have six school performance grade B schools and you saw that from the previous chart. Those are Bethware Elementary, Bowling Springs Elementary, Kaser Elementary, Grover Elementary, North Elementary, Springore Elementary. The schools that are achieving in B and Cleveland County schools are are breaking the bell curve in terms of what the research and the data suggest across the state in poverty
030and school performance grade. If you remember the data that I showed you um back in the spring, there was a strong correlation between school performance grade and poverty. and and very few schools of of of higher poverty end up with a school performance grade of A or B. And so these schools are breaking that bell curve. They are changing that narrative and achieving even through that. Um so that just gives you a high level of overview of where we're at. Again, we're extremely pleased um with with what's happening uh in our schools. We do not have data at this point uh individual teacher growth data. There's, you know, science growth data. are still unpacking some of that and EVOS has not released that as of late Friday afternoon. I was in Raleigh today and hadn't
031heard from Dr. Bennett again. He's under the weather. So, uh we hope to have that in the future. We'll continue to update you at educational programs and policy committee meetings and and even either future work sessions or or presentations like this. But we just want to take an opportunity today as this this information was highlighted last week across the state is good timing to bring that to the board to say this is now official. Some of it we talked about embargo data in the past and told you this was coming. Uh but now it's official. It was it's officially approved at the state board meeting last week and so we can celebrate the work being done at our schools. Uh so Mr. Chairman, what I'd like to do um if you're okay kind of pause
032right now, see if there's any questions or comments from the board and then I want to take an opportunity to recognize a couple of our schools. >> Okay. Does anyone have any questions for the superintendent? Okay. Um I I know we're about to congratulate individual people, but uh I cannot express how how exciting and and uh just when I saw that data, when Dr. Fischer sent that sent that data, and I'm sure there there are other board members that that are in the same position, it that is the most exciting news. and and and I echo his his words. It it is it is not one or two people that did this. It is the whole team. Everybody from the time the student gets on the bus to the time the student gets off the
033bus. It takes that whole team to do this. If you have one member of that team that isn't doing what they're supposed to do, then you don't get these kind of results. So, I say congratulations to all of you. You've done a fantastic job and uh I couldn't be more proud that to tell people and to wear my t-shirts that say Cleveland County Schools. >> Thank you, Mr. Sperling. M Oh, all right. Let's go with Mr. Sherman. >> Okay. I just it's hard for me to sit still because those of you know how proud I am of each and every one of you and I want you to take that back to your schools and and tell every single person how proud and what an honor it is to represent Cleveland County schools and all
034of you. It I know it's so hard and it's a lot of work, but you have done it and we will continue. And Dr. Fisher, I think you're going to probably get more invitations to speak across the state because I think Cleveland County Schools is going to be a model for other school systems and um that's a good thing. So, thank you everyone for what you've done. >> Well, I was I had board member comments, but I'll go ahead and say it now. U I was going to save my speech for the end, but >> Okay. Well, we don't have to worry about it at the end. >> That's good. That's right. So, I'm proud of Clifton County Schools. So, I'm my role as on this board. I'm a parent. and I've got four kids
035that are in Cleveland County schools. So, I'm not just a board member, I'm a parent, too. Uh I see the work that goes on in our schools. Uh the school system took a lot of heat last year for those nine low performing schools. Um and I stand firm and proud that this this school system does great for this community and impacts our students uh in a positive manner every single day. Um these results are phenomenal. So, I want to congratulate all of the teachers, um staff, bus drivers. it, like everyone says, it takes all of us. Um, we're all in this together, whether we're in the elementary school or high school or or middle school. It's all team CCS. And, um, I think these, um, successes here are just a stepping stone for what's going
036to happen next. And I think that next year the results are going to be even better than this year. So, um, there's always negative people in the community and and news articles that bash Cleveland County Schools, but I stand firm and proud saying I'm I'm glad to be here and support Cleveland County Schools. Thank you guys for what you do. >> Thank you, Mr. Bridges. >> All right. Okay. Oh, Mr. Leford, >> thank you. I would like to also congratulate us what the others have already done, everyone who has participated in this particular uh achievement that we've made. I think we go not only teachers all the way through bus drivers, but we've not included the tutors who are very special uh in our schools and they're the ones that help to likewise get uh
037students a little bit farther along. So, whenever we say total staff, we're including everyone, all employees, whether you're part-time, full-time, or whatever. So, thanks to all of you for uh a job well done, and we hope that you'll continue to keep up the good work. And Dr. Fiser, we certainly know that it takes leadership as far as these, not just you, but going down to principles and so forth. So, thank you and thank uh the staff for uh the job that each of you have done. >> Thank you, Mr. Leford. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'm not going to repeat everything that was just said, but thing that keeps rolling through my mind is friend of a friend was fond of saying tactics are easy, logistics and the work on the grounds what takes
038professionals. Cleveland County schools is filled with professionals. This would never have happened. And also particularly the reading, the reading is near and dear to my heart. Um that that just you couldn't can't imagine how awesome that makes me feel to see every every KA school met or exceeded reading that also. I think the community has played a part in that also with the PAL program with all the books that are put out. The entire all of Cleveland County should be proud of this and and the work that's been put in by the churches, the organizations. I can't think of all of them now that's involved in PALS, but the the foundation also has poured a lot of money into this. the home libraries. I mean, it just goes on and on. But the biggest thing
039that are the boots on the ground, the teachers in the classroom, the assistants, everybody in the schools that has made this happen. And it has, you have to make this happen. It didn't just happen. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, M. Well, I just want to say that uh everything they've said here, I I would repeat the same thing, but I don't want to take up your time. But I've already told uh a lot of you guys how much I appreciate you. And I think that as a team, this is what you get when you have a team. So, keep up the good work. And if there's ever anything that we can do as a board, please reach out to us. Reach out to me. Um, I'm here and I'm here for you guys.
040>> Thank you. >> I'll keep my comments brief. I just want to say thank you as I look out and see the staff. Some of you I know personally, some of you I don't know. But I am proud to be sitting up here tonight saying I'm the chairman of the Cleveland County School Board. You guys make me proud and I appreciate that so much. And I know as Mr. Bridges said it's you get so much negative sometimes. Believe it or not, I understand that. I was in the school system for four years. I understand. Brush it off. Positive be positive breeds positive. Negative breeds negative. Stay positive. stay focused and I I got a feeling next year some of you going to be coming back and that's all I'll say right now. Don't leave. I
041do have something I want to read before everybody leaves. And Mr. Shores, members of the board, one of one of the things we did this year that we hadn't done in a long time was add convocation. Some of the data that we have that that we presented tonight um we we had some preliminary data at Convocation. We shared some some school stuff uh with convocation and and part of the convocation we talked about, you know, seven habits of highly effective team members. We talked about things that we felt like were important for team CCS. And one of those things was expectations. Uh and as we have high expectations um and you're going to see in just a few minutes with some of the comments about the schools, they have long-term high expectations that they have
042continued to meet. Um, and it's important for us to continue to push those high expectations and make those high expectations even higher. Um, and and I do think it's important that we recognize the students and the families who met those expectations. It's one thing for us to h to have those high expectations, but but have our our students and family partners that that continue to meet those expectations. Um, you're right. That's that's where magic happens. When you've got folks working together with extremely high expectations, you've got a community hungry for success. you've got a school district that can perform in this way. So, without uh further conversation, I'd like to recognize a few schools. I'd like to recognize the five schools that that that I showed you just a few minutes ago that exceeded growth.
043And again, that exceeded growth is means that when you analyze their data, statistically, they achieved more than one year's worth of growth in a year. And that is that's great. That's that's really really positive. So, the first school that I would like to recognize has met or exceeded growth in seven consecutive years, and they've met or exceeded in 10 out of the last 12 years. Uh, the certificate of achievement presented to Kazer Elementary School. We're going to ask all the folks to come up. Great job. >> Great job. No pressure on these schools, but when I visit these schools, I want these certificates displayed proudly because I do think that that it serves as a momento. It also serves as a reminder to folks that hey, we we believe in excellence here. We we're focused
044on high high level of of excellence in in our schools. Uh the second school I'd like to to recognize tonight um has a school performance grade of an A. This is their second year in a row of having school performance grade of A. And they have the highest overall performance composite. And performance composite is the number of students, the percentage of students that are passing their end of grade or end of course for course test. So certificate of achievement goes to the Cleveland Early College High School. Good job. >> Congratulations. >> Good job. >> Congratulations. Good job. >> Congratulations. >> Good job. >> Congratulations. >> Hey, schoolmate. Good job. >> Congratulations. >> Good job. >> Congratulations. [Music] Thankful. The next school that I would like to recognize is the only school in Cleveland County schools
045that exceeded growth overall and in math and in reading and excellence across all grade levels there. They also have met or exceeded growth for seven consecutive years. This certificate of achievement goes to Shelby Middle School. Congratulations. >> Good job. The next school I would like to recognize is a couple interesting achievements and a couple interesting facts. This school has the highest EVOS growth in Cleveland County schools for the past two years. And so EVOS growth, when you're talking about exceeded growth, they get a number. Anything above 2.0 means exceeded growth. Now, as you as that growth um gets higher, that doesn't necessarily mean, and I don't want to go into statistical analysis of all this, but a 10 doesn't necessarily mean you had higher growth than a five. It just means that the level of
046confidence that you have exceeded growth is higher at 10 than at five. So the mathematician in me says we really shouldn't rank schools yet we do and DPI does. And so when we rank the growth the school with the this school has the highest EVOS growth for two consecutive years. It also has met or exceeded growth for 12 consecutive years. um that's that extends past my my superintendency because we didn't have growth in 2020 the co year. So for 12 consecutive years this school has met or exceeded growth. The the funny thing about this school too is it had done that over time with multiple different administrators. Uh tonight we have two principles. We have a principal that was there for the previous couple years and and she's now in a different role in the
047district and have a new principal. So I've asked both of them to come. When you talk about expectations and sustained excellence over a period of time for 12 consecutive years, that is something to be proud of. This certificate achievement goes to Springmore Elementary School. Great job. Congratulations. >> Great job. >> Congratulations. Great job. >> Congratulations. >> Great job. >> Congratulations. Great job. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Mr. Chairman, move me to the board. That'll about wrap it up for my recognition tonight. >> When I seen her sitting there, I was like, there's no way she's going to get up and walk out this door. That's one of the ones I know personally. >> No. Um, you know, all all the recognition is is special and important. Um but but there is a
048special place for the recognition this year for Washington Elementary School. Um Washington Elementary School was that school that was an F. Um, and I know they weren't happy about that and and and and none of us were, but I cannot tell you how proud I am of the work and the the the investment, the the blood, sweat, and tears and and and literally probably some blood, sweat, and tears that that have been shed uh at Washington Elementary. Um, we challenged them and and they exceeded that challenge. We set expectations for for those those teachers and the staff at Washington and and they've met that. I am extremely proud of of what they have accomplished this year. Not just did they improve their school performance grade and get out of the F status. They leapfrogged the
049D status and moved into that C status. Um that is significant. Um it sounds like okay yeah they just they went two letter grades and oh that should been easy. It's not easy. uh very few schools across our state would have that accomplishment. Um they do have the highest performance composite growth and again just to to remind you that performance composite is the number of students that are passing at Washington passing the EOG. So Washington they'll give the third and uh third grade reading and math, fourth grade reading and math, fifth grade reading and math and fifth grade science. Uh and so lots of students have that opportunity. Their teachers have really done an extremely just a great job of meeting those expectations. Their administrators, the people that we have there supporting that school is
050phenomenal. Their performance composite grew 17.4% or 17.4 points. That that's a lot of young people, a lot of students that we are now that are now proficient that weren't proficient last year. uh that that is uh I'm extremely proud of the work that's going on there. That was a school that I went and visited and and heard the the the the the huge yell and excitement that that's going on there. So, the final certificate of achievement goes to Washington Elementary School. Good job. >> Good job. >> Congratulations. >> Good job. >> Great job. >> Congratulations. >> Great job. >> Congratulations. >> Great job. >> Congratulations. >> Great job. >> Congratulations. >> Great job. >> Thank you. All Mr. Chairman, can I make one more statement, please, sir? >> Sure. >> Before all these teachers get
051out of here, folks, if you don't know how hard a teacher works, you need to live with one for a while. That's all it takes is to be sure that if you live with one, you know exactly what they go through. So, thank you teachers for putting up with us husbands, too, and wives. >> All right. uh if you will give me just a few minutes to read some some things. Uh Dr. Fiser uh hit on this just a little bit, but I felt it was important that I read it tonight, especially of all night. So, I got three things I want to read. The first is the release that was released from Raleigh from the Department of Public Instruction. I'll not read the entire thing, but uh I'll just hit the hit the highlights.
052It was uh titled test scores graduation rates on the rise in North Carolina. The school performance grade part reads as school performance grades continue to show an increase to school earning an A, B, or C, while the number of schools earning a D or F declined by nearly two percentage points. Approximately 71% of schools met or exceeded growth in 2024 and 2025. As a result, nearly 50 fewer schools were designated as low performing in 2024 and 2025 compared to previous year. There were also 60 fewer schools designated continually low performing in the same span. Here's where it gets good. Districts like Cleveland County and Nash County schools have put a significant amount of effort in elevating teaching and learning. For the first time in four years, none of Cleveland County's four middle schools were designated
053as low performing and three of the four met or exceeded growth. Cleveland County schools implemented Mazano's high reliability model, HRM, in each district's middle schools. The district developed a unified instructional framework built on research, data, and best practices. built a safe, supported, and collaborative school culture and implemented math and literacy facilitators. Congratulations to all the middle schools from the character.org. On behalf of the North Carolina State Board of Education, we are pleased to congratulate North Shelby School as a 2025 state and national school of character by Character.org. Forbes magazine. According to Forbes magazine, Cleveland County School ranks as the 66th best employer in the state and is ranked the number one school system in the state as an employer. So, give you guys that's here a hand. All right. With that being said, we'll move
054on to adoption of the agenda. I make a motion to adopt. >> All right. I hear Mr. Bridges and did I hear Mr. Humphre? Yep. All right. All those in favor passes 70. Approval of the minutes. Approval of minutes from August 11th, 2025. Need a motion. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Mr. Bridges. >> Second by Mr. Grigg. All those in favor? 70. All right. On to the finance and personnel committee report. Mr. Bridges. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The August 27th Finance and Personnel Committee meeting was called to order by committee chair Aaron Bridges. Uh Rob McDaniel shared a state and federal budget update. The state has not approved a budget, but have passed a few mini bills. At this time, we are still operating on the interim budget. Uh Dr. Jennifer Wampler
055shared a brief staffing update for the 2025 2026 school year. The committee discussed the update, staffing processes, and policy. Eric Lammano shared a state health plan update. Starting in 2026, health plans, health plan names, and rates are changing. Employee premiums will now be based on salary and rates and are increasing for most employees. Mr. McDaniel shared that the employer costs are also going up, which will impact our budget. The committee discussed these changes, which are impacting all state employees. Dr. Steven Fischer shared an update related to the strategic planning process. He reviewed draft goals related to finance and personnel along with draft action steps. The full board will receive this information in the Friday update. Dr. Fischer and Dr. Wampler shared information related to the cost for substitutes specifically related to long-term substitutes for teachers
056leave of absences. The committee discussed the information and costs associated with changing sub rates. No changes were recommended to our current subrates. Kenneth Leadford brought up board travel. Mr. Leford would like this issue to be brought up in open session at a board meeting. Mr. Bridges said that he would share this request with the board chair. With no new business, the meeting was adjourned. The next finance and personnel committee is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 at 11:45 a.m. >> Thank you, Mr. Bridges. Next is the personnel report. All of you uh were sent that. U need a motion to approve the personnel report. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Motion by Mr. Bridges, >> second by Mr. Umpre. All in favor passes seven to zero. Okay. On the board member compensation. Um at
057our workshop we had probably a month or so ago, we had lengthy discussion about board compensation, travel, and so forth. And I asked everyone at the time if they would please submit to me a a number of where you wanted the compensation or travel to go. Um, I had one board member email me uh their suggestion. I had one personally tell me their suggestion. I wasn't able to come up with a consensus. So, I said I'll put it on the agenda tonight to see if a board member wanted to make a motion uh with a number and we would go from there. So, um it's on the floor for a motion. If a board member would like to make a motion reference board member compensation. >> Mr. Chairman. >> Yes, sir. >> I would like
058to recommend that this be tabled for this particular time. We have two board members that are not present and I think their voice is important. So therefore, I make the motion that this be tabled until uh the next meeting. Uh the agenda should have been modified at the beginning. before we approved it. That's the uh Robert rules of order is when the agenda is presented, you had the opportunity then to make that motion >> that was not presented as far as in the agenda at that time. >> The whole agenda was >> that don't matter. It was not presented and uh therefore it is not revalent for this particular time. So therefore, I'll still make my motion that this be tabled until the full board is here. >> The agenda was presented. >> Oh, he's
059made a motion. >> All right. Do I hear a second? >> Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? That's two. All opposed? That's five. All right. The motion is denied. >> Safety and operations. Mr. Sperling. >> Chairman, can can we make a another motion com uh uh relevant to that uh agenda item? >> What is your motion >> to to my my motion is to leave the uh compensation as is. >> You don't need a motion to do that. >> Okay. >> Far as we just we move on. >> Okay. >> You got your report? Yes. >> All right. Great. >> August 25th safety and operations committee meeting was called to order by chairman Walter Sperling. Dr. Fiser shared that we have pu purchased an additional walkthrough weapons detector to be
060used at Turning Point Academy for the school to work for the school to work program for ease of entry due to the expanded classroom space into the gym building. Dr. Fischer shared a proposed resolution for safeguarding our children from vaping and nicotine products which was initially proposed to the district by community members. Recent statistics related to teen vaping and ecigarette use was shared. The committee discussed the proposal and supported it for consideration by the full board in September. Daniel How shared a safety update from the recent RISE safety conference he attended. Mr. How is in the process of meeting with school administrators and SRO's regarding their safety plans and needs. Mr. Hal and David Ples shared updates from the recent bomb training they attended sponsored by the Shelby by Shelby city. Mr. P shared a
061safety update related to procedures for football games and the good work this past Friday night. Rodney Borders, excuse me, Rodney Borders shared about a recent meeting that he had with SRO's and programs that help at risk youth. There were no additional agency reports. Dr. Fischer shared that the needs-based public school capital fund grant is available again this year and we plan to apply. Capital needs were discussed and it was agreed that based on our capital improvement plan. The Beth the Bethwire and Kings Mountain Middle addition and renovation projects are in priority one in priority one and are the best projects to be applied for through the grant. Dr. Fischer shared an update on the Maran Elementary School property. At this time, the city of Shelby has not expressed interest in the property. If if interest
062has not been expressed before the October board meeting, then the committee recommends that the board consider selling the Marian property following the procedures we have used in the past. Dr. Jennifer Wampler and Chip Childers shared the capital's capital projects report. This is the final report for the 2024 2025 school year. The new report will be started in September. The report will be shared with the full bo board as an information item at their September meeting. Do Dr. Wampler, Mr. Childers, and Daniel Sherman shared bids received to replace the gym floor and bleachers at Kings Mountain High School. The gym floor was damaged due to leaks in the roof caused by recent hell damage. Insurance is involved and has given us the green light to move forward with the one qualifying bid for the gym floor
063and bleachers. The committee unanimously approved the recommendation to accept the bid from Lent Construction for the gym floor and bleacher replacement. Th this will go to the full board for approval at their September meeting. Dr. Wampler shared a request from Shelby High School athletic department to declare a nonoperational UTV surplus for the purpose of disposal and sale through gov deals. The committee approved the surplus item from Shelby High and the recommendation will go to the full board for approval at their September meeting. With no new business, the meeting was adjourned. The next safety and operations committee meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 29th, 2025 at 11:45 a.m. Thank you, Mr. Sperling. Next on our agenda is uh two items. We'll take the first one. They both come from committee, so we don't need a motion
064or second. The Kings Mountain High School gymnasium project. Any uh questions concerning that? All right. All those in favor? That's 70. All right. The surplus from Shelby High School athletics. Any questions on that? All right. All in favor? 70. All right. >> Question on the uh committee report. Uh there's three of us. One of them not present tonight, but three of us were not on the board whenever the board uh stated or voted to uh do away with the Marian school project. Uh I would like to find out what is the reason that that was voted on to uh do away with Marian uh school. >> Uh well, Mr. Leford, that's not on the agenda tonight and I don't think there's anyone probably in this room prepared to give you an answer on that. Uh,
065but I will check with the superintendent, see if he can give you some information on that. >> All right. It'll be brought up for next meeting then. >> All right. Uh, Miss Sherman. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, Educational and Programs Policy Committee report, Tuesday, August 26th at 11:30 a.m. The August 26th Educational Programs and Policy Committee meeting was called to order by committee chairman Ron Ure. Dr. Jennifer Wampler reviewed eight policies with legal updates based on recent legislation. The revised policies are 3210 parental inspection and updates based on recent legislation. The revised policies are 3210 oh that sorry 3320 school trips 4130 out of district admission 504 24 6127 and 7266 emergencyphrine auto injector devices 6125 administering medicines to students public records retention ion release and disposition 3820 7820 personnel files and 7100 recruitment and
066selection of personnel. The committee supported these updates which will go to the full board for a first read at their next meeting. Dr. Steven Fiser discussed tuition for outofcount students and virtual school which is related to policy 4130. We are continuing to research this issue and looking at options related to our virtual school. Dr. Fiser reviewed policy 4312, technology responsible use, in light of recent legislative updates and our cell phone policy. Our policy is in compliance with the law and goes beyond the requirements of the law. No changes were recommended. Dr. Official review policy 7 7000s code of ethics and standards of conduct 7100E special condition for conditionally hired employees 7110 information provided by applicant or employee 7120 employee health certificate and 7130 lure. These policies were reviewed and discussed as part of the committee's
067ongoing review of the board policy manual and are in the 7,000 section which is personnel. No additional changes were recommended to these policies by the committee. Dr. Brian Hunnel shared an instructional update and the positive start to the to school we have had. Dr. Chris Bennett presented updated academic data from the 20 2425 school year. The data was discussed thoroughly by the committee. One major highlight is that we have moved from nine low-performing schools in 2024 20 in 2425 to only two in 2526. Another highlight is that all K8 schools met or exceeded growth in reading. Sandy Ham shared the new 5-year school-based mental health plan as required by law. The committee discussed the plan and unanimously supported it. It will go to the full board for approval at their September meeting. Dr. Fiser shared
068information and feedback related to draft goals and action steps for the policy and educational programs for the new strategic plan. The committee discussed goals and priorities. No additional new business. The meeting was adjourned. The next educational and policy committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. The location of this meeting will be at James Love Elementary. >> Thank you, Miss Sherman. All right. Next on the agenda is policies for first read. So, there'll be no action needed, but if you have any questions between now and next meeting, please reach out to Superintendent or Mr. Humphre. Just for the record, I will read these. Uh, parental inspection of an objection to instructional material, which is 3210, policy 3320, school trips, policy 4130, out of county admission, policy 524, 6127,7266, emergency, what's how
069you pronounce that word? Epinephrine. >> EP epinephrine. Okay. Emerge epinephrine delivery systems. All right. Uh policy 5070 and 7350 public records retention release and disposition. Policy 6125 administering medication to students. Policy 7100 recruitment and selection. Policy 7820 personnel files. All right. Next, uh we do have the uh Cleveland County Schools mental health plan does come from committee. Uh any questions concerning that? All those in favor? Seven to zero. All right. Dr. Fisher. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. Just a couple quick superintendent updates uh for you. Um tonight, we do have tomorrow our outstanding educators banquet uh Tuesday, September 9th. That will begin at 5:00, Turkey Ridge. It's a great event. Uh we got expected to pack house, aren't we, Miss Hooks? Um for for that event where we recognize our teacher of
070the year, teacher assistant of the year, bus driver of the year, lots of awards given out that night. Uh again, dinner will begin at 5. Awards program will 5:40ish, 5:45ish, uh just depending on how quickly dinner works. So, look forward to seeing you there at Turkey Ridge. Um college fair is the 24th of September. Uh we do have uh our next teacher work day is coming on Friday, se uh September 26th. Uh so we got in a good groove here in September. um at the end of September, beginning of October turns us into the next board committee meetings. I would like to draw your attention to one change in that schedule on Tuesday, September 30th. Um we will have the policy and educational programs committee meeting at James Love Elementary School. Um I will send
071you specifics on room there. You just need to come report to the front office and then we'll go there. As I mentioned to you, we've got the reading horizons expert in Cleveland County for for a day or two and so they're going to do a presentation to uh that committee at that time. So we'll continue to remember remind you of that change. Educational golf tournament is Thursday, October 2nd. It's a big day in the life of our educational foundation. Really appreciate their support. Um we have a board meeting that gets us to the next board meeting in October. And I've also included a fun run there on October 18th. So, if you're interested in participating in that, get out and run with those little students. Make sure you stretch and get some training in before
072uh those folks. We be glad to have a couple extra volunteers if you want to do that. Then the next committee meeting there at the end of October. So, that gets you out September, October uh from a from a scheduling standpoint. Uh, one thing that I mentioned uh in my Friday update that I would like to recommend to you um is uh and this would if if you're inclined to uh recommend this, it does need board approval uh as we recommend the potential of recommending this for a North Carolina Schoolboard Association award. It's called the Champion of Education Award. Again, mentioned we have lots of great things going on in Cleveland County. And one of the things that we started last year that that had a huge impact and really, you know, the the response
073was bigger than I anticipated was the My Home Library project. We partnered with United Way of Cleveland County to to really look at that and see, you know, we have a goal and a vision of of of putting building a home library in the homes of every K5 student eventually in Cleveland County. So last year we had a great start in partnering with United Way and and six agencies that that raised over $55,000 and we had a small home library that was given to each first and second grade student. Um we that was a great thing that happened last year. Our our goal um this year would be to extend that to first, second, third grade. Uh so we're already working with the partners that we had last year and hoping to bring some additional
074partners that is an extension of our PALS program. Um and just a really unique um opportunity that we have to build home libraries uh across our our community. Um obviously literacy is important to us but literacy is important to our community. Community literacy is an essential skill in terms of job development continued growth in in our county. Um, so this is not only a school system initiative, but really is a county initiative as well. So I'd like to recommend to nominate the My Home Library Project is co-sponsored by the Cleveland County United Way for the Champion of Education award. Um, that does require uh the board chair signature that has been formally approved by the board of education provided some information for you. Be glad to speak to that. Um, again um a lot of
075work by community partners, a lot of work with school partners. This year we want to focus around um, you know, the reading the really the a reading foundation there in March have folks from the outside agency come in and read to our students just a a good a really a good program and I feel is deserving of of some state recognition. Anytime you get state recognition if we we're able to win that that just helps you know perpetuate that uh the success of that and really gets us a a good good marketing strategy for us to work there. So um Mr. Chairman I just like to to make that recommendation the board's so approved to to move that along. All right. Any questions for the superintendent? All right. At this time, I'll entertain a motion
076to to approve the uh to do the home library project to nominate the home library project for the Cleveland County United Way for the champion education award. There's >> no comment. No question about it. >> All right. Mr. Bridges and Mr. Humphre. All right. All those in favor that passes 70. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, member. >> All right. At this time, it's our believe it's our public comment. Uh Mr. Bridges, do you have our rules? Public comment should not address any specific confidential student or personnel matter. Specific concerns related to confidential student or personnel matters should be directed to the superintendent or designate. Comments must be relevant to the matters that are within the authority of the board. Speakers shall refrain from personal attacks or threats directed towards staff, elected board members,
077or members of the public. Speakers shall be courteous in their language and presentation. Insults, profanity, use of vulgar vulgar language or gestures or other inappropriate behavior are not allowed. The board vests in its chair or other presiding officers authority to terminate the remarks of any individual when he or she does not adhere to the rules established above. Any person who willingfully interrupts or disturbs a board meeting may be directed to leave the meeting by the presiding officer. Any persons who refuses to leave may be prosecuted for disrupting a public meeting. Persons persons appearing before the board are reminded as a point of information that the members of the Cleveland County Board of Education are without authority to act independently as individuals in official matters. Immediate answers are not generally possible and must be deferred pending
078investigation and consideration by the full board. >> Thank you, Mr. Bridges. First I have is Nanette Linhardt. Nanette, I believe. I apologize. >> Uh, my name is Nette Linhardt, 252 Parnell Drive, Shelby, North Carolina. If you own property in Cleveland County, then your voice needs to be heard and directed to this school board. Whether you have kids in school or not, you are supporting the affairs of the school board and school system via your taxes that you are paying. So what goes on in this school system and the school board is your business. To say I'm not involved to this I say you already are involved. So when someone in this school system lies to you about events, then you should be angered. When facts, figures, and statements are only shared with certain school board
079members and not all school board members, you should be angered. It's not enough though to be angered. But at least being angered will may help you to take action to make sure you pay more attention to who is saying what and then do your own research to make sure the truth is part is put out there, not just someone puffing up themselves. So voting season is upon us. Your vote does count. Make sure you know who the liars are and vote them out because if it's not the truth, it's a lie. That's it. >> Thank you, M. >> Next, I have Mr. Rob Powell. [Music] Mr. chairman, members of the board, and the people of Cleveland County who are listening tonight to the live stream. You know, earlier today, I attended a Chamber of Commerce
080lunchon where Speaker Tim Moore talked about what he called the big beautiful bill. Now, he described it as a victory for our economy, for business, and for growth. As I but as I listened, one question stayed with me. What does this bill actually do for our schools, for our teachers, for the children of Cleveland County classrooms? Now, I speak tonight with pride as a retired 30-year veteran of North Carolina public schools. I've seen the difference that real investment can make in a child's future. And I've seen the damage that that investment when that investment isn't there. Now, the truth is clear. North Carolina has been ordered by the courts through the Leandro decision to provide every child with a constitutional right to a sound basic education. Now, decades later, that promise remains unfulfilled, unfulfilled. Our
081teachers, they're underpaid. Many take on second jobs. Far too many of them dig into their own pockets for supplies. families uh see the strain and so do employers here in Cleveland County who depend on strong schools to prepare a skilled workforce. Now, at the same time, hundreds of millions of dollars in public dollars are being siphoned into opportunity scholarships, turning education into a marketplace and pulling resources away from very classrooms that serve every child. That's not investment. That's devestment. So when I hear this bill described as big and beautiful, I want to know where does it directly fund classrooms, ensure fair pay for teachers, or help us meet our constitutional obligation to our children? Because the real answer because the usual answer that growth will fix it. Yeah, it's not enough. Growth doesn't put textbooks
082in our children's hands. Growth doesn't reduce class size. Growth doesn't keep great teachers in our schools. Now, if we want Cleveland County to thrive, if we want businesses to address to invest here, families to stay here and our children to succeed here, we must invest directly in public education. And I'll say plainly because it's at the heart of the matter. Tax breaks don't teach kids. Teachers do. And teachers can only do it well when our schools are fully funded. Thank y'all. Thank you, Mr. Pal. At this time, I'll entertain board comments. I think you got one more. >> I got one more. Uh, so I I'd like um to be honest about my position here on the board. I know that um compensation was um put on the agenda tonight, but I just want the
083public to know and the school system to know for me it was never about money to begin with. Um, I took this position. Um, not only did I have children in the school system, but I saw the need that parents and community members should be on the school board. So, uh, it's not about the money for me. I'm not interested in an increase sitting on this board. You could pay me nothing. I'd still sit here today. Uh, I'm proud to be a school board member for Cleveland County Schools. Um, and you know, I I am completely okay with not getting that any additional funds. Um, and just, you know, it's never about that for me. So uh thank you so much. >> Thank you Mr. Bridges. I saw your hand. >> So uh first of
084all let me congratulate again the our uh school our entire school system. You you all are phenomenal people. You're phenomenal team. Uh, and and I like I said, I can't I couldn't be prouder to tell people that I am from Cleveland County and and we have such a great team here. And I but I will add to that uh this success in my opinion is not because of our board. Sometimes it's in spite of our board. You did this. My belief is we are here to support you. Period. We're not here to lead you. We're here to support you. And you have done a phenomenal job. And I couldn't be prouder. Uh uh just like Mr. Bridges said uh the the item of compensation came up and uh and I will say I'm I'm not
085going to make friends with any politician right now, but I will say my true opinion is politicians from the top to the bottom. I don't care if it's a president, a a US congressman, a senator, North Carolina, our our uh uh our local politicians should be doing this because of selfless service because they want to support our community. If that little a small bit of compensation, who not a big deal, but when it turns into a livelihood or or you're doing this, I'm a I'm a huge fan of term limits. I don't believe any I believe new ideas are a great thing. So, I I am dead set against any politician making a living from politics. >> Thank you, Mr. Sperlin. Miss Sherman. >> Well, I would like to also commend all the schools and
086the teachers and the staff for a smooth start into this school year as we celebrate all the successes from last year. We still at the same time have hit the ground running and I know what's going on in the schools now working very very hard. We stopped to celebrate but we continue moving forward and I know that takes a lot and a great deal of work and planning on everyone. So, thank you and thank you for a great start and I'm looking forward to seeing what this school year brings. >> Thank you, Miss Sherman. Anyone else? That's Mr. Le. >> Likewise, I'd like to thank everybody for the job they've done uh going all the way. And one thing I I failed to do and that was to uh thank the parents and uh the
087volunteers that we have in our schools because without them there's a lot of things that we would not be able to do. So I would like to thank them for their part for their share that they do as far as in obtaining the grade that we have. Uh Dr. Fiser, if not at this time, if you would please, it's not on the agenda, but if you would please give me directions to this place, we're going tomorrow night. Thank you, Mr. Leford. Anyone? All right. With that being said, I'll entertain a motion to go into close session. >> Yes, sir. for enter motion to close session pursuant to general statute 143-31811 subsection A3 uh to consult the attorney and discuss a confidential personnel matter. >> All right, I have a motion. I have a second. >>
088Subsection A6. >> Do you include that? >> Oh, I'm sorry. No, no, I'm sorry. I I read the wrong one. I'm sorry. So, yeah. Pursuant to General Statute 143- 31811 subsection A6 to discuss confidential personnel matters. personnel. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Madame Attorney, you okay? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Second by Mr. Humphre. All those in favor? That's 70. All righty. Thank everyone for