3-15-22 Board Meeting

001oh good evening everyone it is tuesday march 15th at 5 30 p.m and we are calling this regular meeting of the wake county board of education to order i want to welcome those of you that are watching at home and here with us in person as the board of education conducts its official business i want to take a moment to highlight board policy 2310 which states wake county board of education meetings are conducted for the purpose of carrying on the official business of the school system the public is cordially invited to attend board meetings to observe the board as it conducts its official business persons who willfully interrupt disrupt or cause disturbances at an official meeting may be directed to leave by the presiding officer members of the audience should show respect for the speakers

002by refraining from loud comments or other disruptions disruptions by any person or persons of a public meeting will be subject to action in accordance with general statute 143-318 we have all nine board members present for the first time in a long time welcome ms waters if you will all stand and join us in reciting the pledge of allegiance right we have some exciting celebrations but first some comments superintendent moore good evening congratulations to orlando bullock of durant road middle school who last week was named the 2022 wcps school social worker of the year a school social worker for five years mr bullock is described as a leader in the field and extremely resourceful like all social workers mr bullock is often the first school contact for families in transition foster care or crisis he was

003recognized for connecting these students and families with needed resources and making them feel a part of the school community a 22-year military veteran mr bullock also has drawn praise for his support of military families he is the lead for our military connected families program and his school was one of six wcps schools recently named a purple star school for outstanding support of military families mr bullock who is now eligible for the state social worker of the year award was honored last week during national school social work week schools from all over our district paid tribute to their social workers for the many ways they serve and support families school social workers have been described as professionals who shine a light on the need for mental health services offer hope for students and for families who

004face various challenges and then light the way for marginalized youth mr bullock says simply that his job is to give the voiceless a voice my thanks to him and all of our other tireless school social workers for lifting up students and families who need it most congratulations to fox road magnet elementary fifth grade teacher keisha mcneill the most recent winner of the vel cares award north carolina central university's men's basketball coach and wcpss alumnus lavelle moten created the award in 2018 as a way to honor teachers who go above and beyond to serve students coach moten visited miss mcneil's classroom earlier this month to surprise her with the award he also spoke to her students about their research projects on historically black colleges and universities miss mcneil created the fox road step team and led

005them to championship she also leads the school's black history month quiz bowl summer school before and after school tutoring program miss mcneil is called mom by many of her students because of the many ways she shows how much she cares for them she attends their sporting events puts congratulations signs in their yards for work well done and often chooses to eat lunch with her students she also helped to organize many parent engagement functions our strategic plan states that highly effective and dedicated teachers are essential to success for all students and ms mcneill certainly fits that bill and is clearly deserving of this recognition and i know that there are many more throughout our district just like her to nominate a teacher for this award visit wcpss.net val cares in closing i'd like to share this

006video depicting engineering week activities at brentwood magnet elementary school many schools organized special projects last month to mark engineering week but the week is particularly meaningful at brentwood with its school of engineering magnet theme every student at the school collaborates on grade level appropriate engineering challenges take a look at the fun and engaging ways students employed the four c's skills of communication collaboration critical thinking and creativity our goal with engineering week is to let kids be problem solvers to connect to what they're learning in our curriculum with what an actual engineer does so they are being civil engineers aerospace engineers they're using their math skills with distance and measurement and force and motion and they also study circuitry we are teaching kids to solve problems which is a lifelong skill so it's becoming hands-on it's

007letting them take control of their learning and be a problem solver that concludes my comments thank you thank you superintendent moore i'm going to keep my comments short i would like to first of all congratulate the apex friendship high school ladies basketball team for making it to the state finals it came down to one point and they did an amazing job this year miss cash and i got to go to the regional game and sat there refreshing max preps trying and hoping and so close but very very well done this season and i'd like to thank the cary chamber for having a principal's luncheon for all the principals that serve our schools in kerry it was nice to take a moment to honor the instructional leaders of our schools and i want to thank all

008of the principals here for all that you have done this year and we are looking forward to celebrating our 20 teacher of the year so i'm going to end there so we can get to that celebration faster by share hagerty thank you chair mahaffey again it has been um it's been a busy couple of weeks but it's been a wonderful couple of weeks i uh let's see i want to con extend congratulations as well to coach shawan robinson and the panther creek men's basketball team that made it all the way to the men's 4a championship game so we ran into a bit of a buzz saw there but the team performed admirably and we're bringing back almost everybody for next year so we're going to run it back um again just more great things i

009see principal kramer here we had a good day at leedsville road middle school i know some of my colleagues joined me last week just to visit miss wilcox's social studies class and talk to some of the students good community events in in kerry that as chair mahaffey had mentioned the principal's luncheon work with our realtors and other professionals out there as well we had wonderful pieces of gold celebration i know some folks have had schools that have participated in that it was just great to get everyone together for that ceremony again as well i think i'll uh cut it short we've got a lot of a lot of great folks to recognize tonight so we'll move on thank you miss johnson hustler thank you um pieces of gold's always my favorite and that is one

010of my top benefits of being a school school board member is i get to sit on the front row and see all the smiling faces and hear them very loud and get to dance when they're on the floor with them um so glad to be back in the building with pete's as a goal as well i this is not on my list i have to say it because i have a lines on view of john travolta i was at queen of hearts on saturday and so dr ashford was amazing john travolta voltage voltage so it was actually absolutely great to see not only our instructional leader of the building but many of her educators on the floor dancing with their students serenading their queen of heart courts and so i was quite surprised to see

011you show up on the floor close to the end but indeed it was a reminder of how much our students were glad to be back in the same place and to see every piece of your performing arts students show up and be amazingly beautiful mask on and mask off and right and so for me it was my first time being in a building seeing our students be able to engage at all those levels most of my reading was virtual and i want to go on record and say certainly second graders are smarter than miss johnson hosler they asked me lots of questions so it's great to actually be in a school building and see our students and families and friends and instructional leaders bus to move so that that speaks to volumes about who you

012are and how that school um adores you because because they clocked you off um so i guess um so that was not on my list but i just got caught you on the corner of my eye i also would like to um acknowledge i'm not able to attend tomorrow but i received an amazing invitation and our new school board member ms waters is going to go the north carolina transit workers are looking at creating a pilot program for opening up the career pipelines for transit workers to our schools and letting them know it's more than a bus operator but there are multiple jobs and so that's going to be hosted at mary e phillips tomorrow and while i'm sad i won't be there i'm very glad to turn it right on over to the district

0134 rep and thank you district 4 for inviting me instead of not having a board member so i'm excited about potential partnerships of really opening up the career options to our students and especially those who don't generally get pilots in their school like mary e phillips so certainly thank the north carolina transit workers for reaching out and for making this possible for our students and lastly as we recognize our amazing teacher of the year finalist i've also in light of our teachers and the hard work that you all do have received quite a few emails from our teachers talking about the sheer exhaustion and fatigue and and i see some of you shaking your head and so i certainly would be remiss if i didn't sit at the table and say not only do i

014hear and see you but i'm also going to make sure we continue to talk about that many of actually several people noted quoted me from 2020 when i talked about the need to create some respite and support services for educators and so thank you for reminding me of my own words in 2020 and i will be sure to continue to reinvigorate my belief that we have to create supports for our educators as they also renegotiate how our students are showing up in buildings so they're not just educating but for many of them they're re-teaching how to socialize together again and so thank you to my educators my instructional leaders and everyone in those buildings who truly are relearning the job as though it's your first day and as though our students it's their first day

015of school so i will hold true to my word and continue to talk about ways that we can support our educators in the building thank you miss scott thank you and i'll try to be brief because i'm excited to to celebrate our teachers as well wanted to first of all welcome ms waters to our school board i'm so excited to work with you your enthusiasm your passion and your knowledge of your district is was evident throughout your interview and and throughout your comments uh so welcome and i'm very excited to work with you heritage high school had their musical this past weekend frozen oh my gosh so and this is happening as we know across our county during our student achievement committee meeting freddie lee heath was describing all of the different musicals and performances

016that are back so if you have not had a chance to check out musicals they are happening i know zebulun middle school is having their first musical in quite some time coming up i think theirs is in may so we have lots of options to check them out lots of winter guard indoor drums lots of mpa lots of stuff going on in our fine arts and it's great to see all of that taking place again and as many of you know our magnet schools a lot of them had welcomed welcomed their new families and had their um the different fairs for different elective showcases and lots of things like that are happening at our magnet schools but i also wanted to say if wendell middle school and we have a teacher here from window middle

017school they did an amazing job welcoming new sixth grade students and new families into their building and it was just phenomenal so i also wanted to acknowledge as miss jonathan hossler just said we know how exhausted you all are from principals our teachers everyone in those buildings but to still see that enthusiasm i know it's so hard it is so exhausting but it shows your enthusiasm shows your love for your career shows and you know who benefits from that is our students so thank you so much thank you miss cash um i also want to welcome miss waters your interview was amazing and we are so fortunate to have you on the board with us so i'm looking forward to the next time um mr i also want to congratulate mr bullock i see ms

018faircloth is here and that's quite a accomplishment for him to get that i also i feel like charlie brown at christmas i i'm so excited to see so much happiness it's just like we've been to pieces of gold we've had the basketball tournaments we have a teacher of the year finalists here and a lot of happy faces in the board room so i just feel like charlie brown at christmas so i just wanted to say that thanks thank you dr martin thank you i do want to uh welcome ms waters to the board uh look forward to working with you uh congratulations uh yeah it was a great time to be at pieces of gold always seeing the arts um uh miss carter and i also attended the summer writing workshop uh unveiling of the

019the their published book uh ms moore was also there always exciting to to see that thanks to the office of equity affairs for running that summer writing institute it gives great voice to our students in a way that they don't always have both the exciting and somewhat sad comment that a couple of students made is this isn't like school to which i think all of us there sort of felt a little bit of that pain because it should be like school and and too often we let school to be be a little bit too mechanical sitting in seats as opposed to giving being that empowering place to find voice and so great writing but also great reminder of what our schools need to be had the privilege of reading with elementary school students at both

020apex elementary and combs elementary the reading is fun but even more fun is the chance to just have discussion with the kids and i usually go on for about 45 minutes or so with the kids just asking all kinds of questions science politics uh you know what they're learning and and and so on it's always a lot of fun very curious yeah and you know the challenge is to inspire the kids for whatever reason this year though it it kind of struck me because we hear so much about you've got to get reading at third grade and i happen to be in a third grade class for one of the discussions and when i looked across and when i reflected across the the the kids in the third grade class third grade is where there's

021an incredible variation from the young from the small to the tall to the articulate to the shy to the and i think we have that in every classroom but i actually think third grade is one of those times where you have the biggest one of the biggest dispersions in kids ability and where they are in terms of maturity and the whole works and so what do we do as a school system we draw a line in the sand and say third grade it's got to be like this and kids aren't like this and i think you know sort of that back to back with the summer writing institute was just a reminder that we need to unders i mean standards are important standardization is problematic and i'm afraid that too often in a lot of

022the legislative issues and even school system policy we push towards standardization as opposed to making sure we have standards and those standards are to elevate every child to be who they can be um so just a reflection on that uh we've started to get a bunch of emails people requesting removal of class rank uh and i just want to briefly mention that that's not something that's in our control we addressed that we tried to address that back when we went to the latin honors and just so people know that that is in state statute class rank is governed by the board of governors of the university system it's not something that the school the k-12 school system has any control over so i just wanted to highlight that based on the several emails that are

023coming through finally i think it's important for us to keep continue to pay attention to where we are in terms of covid last week there were 78 cases reported in wake county public schools if you look at the county wide numbers we're down to about 47 it's reporting 47 cases per 100 000 population uh there's a slight challenge to that i noted two weeks ago that there was some discrepancy uh in the numbers and we went back and looked and in fact there was a bug in the reporting system on the way county public schools website that has since been corrected but what we still see is that there are more cases reported in the wake county public school system uh particularly in the five to nine year olds than there are reported in the

024disaggregated numbers to the north carolina health and human services website so what that means almost certainly is that there's a lot of people doing home health testing and that doesn't get reported to the state public health department so well the formal uh public health uh report like i said is 47 cases per hundred thousand population based on the numbers i suspect it's probably about 30 percent higher than that where home health is just not reporting the disaggregated by the state uh has us at 45.7 cases per hundred thousand population overall 53.9 for the five to nine year olds they the five to nine year olds remain the most uh the highest infectivity rate of all the cohorts reported uh 10 to 14 year olds are reported at 50.2 per hundred thousand high schoolers at 20.8

025per hundred thousand uh on and like i say those are all probably significantly uh under reported so we're not out of the woods we're moving in the right direction uh everybody continue to be careful because we've got to get this thing under control thank you thank you miss carter thank you and i just want to say welcome to the table right next to me um and i guess i'm no longer the newest i lost that title so newest one all right so but anyway uh glad to have you um i want to congratulate all the semifinalists uh who are here tonight and um yes i won't do my special shout out to one miss uh stevenson bennett a former co-worker at davis drive middle school in an ecs classroom it it's just amazing that's all

026i got to say so just want to give that shout out so i too at the pieces of gold it was wonderful and the gallery too and the for the gifts of gold was also amazing seeing the different levels of talent and because yet again another outlet i feel like for some of our students and seeing the east had two d-9 schools east carey middle school and carrie high were up on the stage so it was a wonderful event lots of art stuff going on right now and i too went to combs elementary and i loved it was mrs mcdowell's ponce's class and again just grateful they didn't ask my age got close very close but did not ask that but a lot of other great questions and about how long i've been readings and

027then when they found out when i started reading i saw some of them kind of going you know i was like okay they're getting close but anyway so it was great and my tour guides at the school i have to say took me on a little detour which thoroughly appreciated to the chicken coop okay cause i i love farm animals so you know so it was just i it was amazing they were so proud to show me the chickens so in their garden and then like mr haggerty mentioned the mrs wilcox class at leesville road middle school enjoyed being back in a middle school and having middle schoolers ask me questions that really make you sometimes stop they were great questions and a great group of kids and i really appreciate that opportunity and the

028writing institute i was going to mention that as well and the artist that was there he they actually did the cover and i wasn't aware until i already had because we got our books autographed and i'm keeping mine just in case um and i got two i got one for my daughter as well um but it was great to meet the students and hear about some of their likes and dislikes and you know often i know you know spelling is important and grammar is important but having a chance for students to be heard and felt accepted and felt included is very important and that is something i feel like that program really takes to heart and just a great event so congratulations to those students who are now in print and then kerry high school

029had their little shop of horrors musical which was fantastic i was like oh i know all these songs is that dating me um but the students just did awesome orchestra crew excuse me not the orchestra the orchestra crew yes pit i always say crew but it's pit i'll try to get it right i apologize and mrs mccormick the director always just a fabulous job there and then i went to salem middle school so another musical beauty and the beast junior and that was fantastic as well packed house they sold out all three nights so it was great to see all the community support for those students and then lastly i went to my first ever navy junior rotc competition and that was also at cary high because that's our only wake county's only navy junior

030rotc program and it was the cary classic drill and field event in wilds i'll have to say because it rained as you all know saturday was saturday so it was supposed to be outside on the football field you know a lot easier to run and organize because all there you get all the judges and just go well then they had to recreate reorganize it was you know auxiliary gym the gym the parking the parking lot divided i mean it was it was a lot and it was amazing to see the cadets really organizing and showing the other students from the other schools how to get there making sure all the judges were there and getting all that organized and then for me just to learn more about what's that like and what's part of that

031event and what does that entail and just being able to see that learn more about their program and they actually qualified for nationals and are going to nationals and just towards the end of this month so i just want to shout out that program as well and uh just really thank all of our staff our families our community members who support all the above items that i mentioned because like i've said many times these are great outlets for our students and the support is just we're very fortunate to have such great support across the board so that these students because for many of them this connects them to to our academics and so it is key to keep these programs going and just fully supported so i think that's it other than my reminder to

032everyone that i'll have a board advisory council meeting on march 31st at 6 pm and it will be virtual and the link should be available soon if it's not already up already on the board calendar it will be going up shortly because that was just provided earlier today so thank you thank you miss kushner thank you chairman happy welcome miss waters it's good to be here with you looking forward to our work together and also enjoyed going to leesville middle school was wonderful to be with your students and um they did ask really great questions and um and it gave me time to reflect on you know the last two years and get that feedback from them too which was very useful and wonderful and um and just to continue thanks and gratitude to all

033our educators all our students for the work that y'all are doing this year um cannot express that enough and pieces of gold was a great celebration being with wake ed partnership supporters with the united arts council of wake county so grateful for those partnerships and grateful for the um the the honoring of liz grimes dressler our um such a veteran of wake county schools which has given so much to our arts programs it was wonderful to lift her up and honor her that night so i'm joined oliver's board and celebrating her career and her life here in wake county thank you thank you miss waters thank you chair mahathi and thank you to everyone for your gracious and warm welcome it feels really great to be official and to sit in the seat for district

034four so i'm looking forward to getting to work and i thank miss johnson hustler for affording me my very first opportunity to visit a school tomorrow i'll be at mary phillips and so looking forward to that and i am the mom of a preschooler and a sixth grader in the district so i know the amazing work that teachers are doing so this is extremely special to be sworn in today and to see all of you so very excited and looking forward to the work that is ahead so thank you all so much thank you we are looking forward to working with you as well with that we need approval of our meeting agenda we have two amendments um the first is to move uh from consent to action um academic advancement summer remediation and test

035readministration plan for summer 2022 and to pull from the consent agenda to be added at a later date the budget amendments and transfers for 2021-22 do i get a motion to approve the media agenda with those amendments so chair mahaffey i would move to amend the agenda with those amendments i did want to ask though if i could add another i was going to make this as a public as a public comment but to cut time short i had an announcement from north carolina school boards association i'd like to just add at the end of our meeting before closed session okay thank you sure or would that be an information item we could do it as an information item if you'd like okay we don't have a prices for that um ms allen um do

036you want to add that as part of your board comments why don't we do that i'll just do the extended comments at the end of the meeting no i mean why don't you do that right now i'm sorry y'all i didn't mean to support it that way as well um as you know i'm on the board of directors of the north carolina school boards association and several of you are also aware that the school boards association has announced that it is terminating its membership in the national school boards association well just last month as a big new development there is a new organization that is forming called the consortium of state school board associations and the north carolina members have voted to become found a founding state association member which will have different rights in

037terms of organization developing the constitution and bylaws for the group and so a whole new organization is forming with a lot of the leadership here in north carolina and so we'll sort of be getting in on the ground level of that i have additional information that i can send you about it but in case you saw anything about it on the news in case you had any questions i wanted to make sure that everyone knew about it and i'm happy to provide more information at the appropriate time thank you with that we have we need a motion to approve the meeting agenda with the aforementioned amendments chair mahaffey i will put the suggested amendment forward with the amendments so suggested all right is there a second second all right all in favor of or any

038discussion in these changes okay all in favor of moving uh or all in favor of approving the meeting agenda with one item moving from consent to action the other being pulled entirely signified by a sign of i any opposed nay all right the meeting agenda is approved board members if you would hit the house button so when miss allen says so so we are ready for those changes and with that we're moving on to our next item in the agenda which we're all very excited about which is to celebrate our teacher of the year semi-finalists so i will turn it over to superintendent moore and uh lori rutherford from hr and dr anthony matillo from hr aj matillo what do you go by these days aj miss mike aj all right i'm just hey i'm

039just making sure yeah good evening sarah happy members of the board superintendent moore i want to start by thanking you for your cooperation this evening all of our teachers of the year were asking about what time they would be recognized we took a guest and said about six o'clock and we're pretty close to that so thank you all for that but it is my pleasure to bring to you this evening the wake county public school system 2021-22 teacher of the year semi-finalists as a reminder all teacher of the year candidates are selected by their peers at individual schools and each school level teacher of the year then submits a portfolio and a video to highlight their work and philosophy around teaching selection committees have reviewed these portfolios and videos to narrow the field to this

040ex outstanding group of 20 educators next scores from the portfolios videos and a site visit will be used to select the 10 teacher of the year finalists finalists will appear before an interview committee next month and then the district's teacher of the year winner will be named during a celebration in may with all the teachers of the year from across the district so in addition to being recognized tonight they were also excited to receive a chromebook from applied data technologies this is the fourth year that applied data technologies has made this generous donation to honor our educators and we're certainly grateful for their support and partnership so at this time like to recognize our semi-finalists and call each of them up when i call your name please come forward and remain standing at the front

041until all recipients have been recognized cindy alala kindergarten willow springs elementary george barlich 9th grade english and low magnet high holly burke kindergarten scots ridge elementary maggie childress seventh grade ela and social studies alston ridge middle jamie gray first grade hortons creek elementary sorry all i'm a former high school principal so i'm used to the graduation graduation space i'm going to slow it down for a minute [Music] now i got to make sure we're on richard harris right richard harris career and technical education liesl road middle jermaine howell 4th grade cedar fork elementary trina mater helpful living durant road middle julia minch kindergarten sycamore creek elementary danielle mccaslin 8th grade science mills park middle laurie newhouse first grade dillard drive magnet elementary caroline olson special education extended content standards brought magnet high [Music] cindy parker

042physical education yates mill elementary lauren parker 6th grade social studies wendell middle hannah powell 6th grade science overland road middle kristen schabel second grade buckhorn creek elementary brandon surrace sixth grade social studies east millbrook middle class you know dr ashburn it's like graduation when one starts the next one goes on aaron stevenson bennett special education extended content standards davis drive mill vernon malone college and career academy joanne vaughn second grade wiley magnet elementary y'all were very quiet let's give them all a round of applause members of the board thank you for allowing me to take part in recognizing these outstanding educators this evening semi-finalists without kind of tripping on each other would you just turn around and face our board for some additional acknowledgement as well first of all congratulations for being a semifinalist and

043our teacher of the year not only did you take the time to create a portfolio but you did that while taking care of your students your families hopefully yourselves as well during this time it is incredible the work that you all do and we can't thank you enough we really can't and i know this small little plaque and a chromebook doesn't cover the amount of gratitude that we all feel for each one of you and all of your colleagues in our district because this is hard work in a normal year and continuing to show up for your students for your colleagues for your families your school families and your own families is i don't have the words but thank you and we are excited to take the time to celebrate all of you and we

044look forward lori rutherford to our teacher of the year celebration coming up to celebrate you further so thank you superintendent moore my very first day on the job i made a comment about the fact that um the way i felt about being the superintendent was that i wanted to honor on the very first day on the job the fact that what i call the magic does not happen in the superintendent's office it happens in 10 000 classrooms every day and so thank you for the magic knowing that the magic is hard work sweat and tears frustration affirmation joy challenge and all of those other things and that you bring it every day so thank you for the magic [Applause] you are all welcome to stay but you are also welcome to leave if you would

045like to go out and celebrate or just go home and put your feet up we'll take a brief pause so folks that would like to go may do something [Music] is [Music] okay [Music] is everybody walked you don't keep coming [Music] okay thank you board members if you would hit that house button and refresh your agenda everything is in place thank you miss allen and we will move forward with our second information update which is our our information item which is our superintendent's update superintendent moore thank you again um so quickly i'm just going to go over the four items that were covered during our work session today the first item on our agenda for work session wasn't some additional time with our folks with rti to continue the work around our strategic plan update

046and planning for the next version of our strategic plan there were some summary comments that were made around some wording changes some energy around some places in the plan and the work and the mission and vision that was done last time around and some next steps around how we will engage community and other stakeholder groups to begin getting feedback on some specific questions and then continuing to bring that back on a monthly basis to the board second item on the work session was an update of the virtual academy we gave information basically around how we got to the virtual academy what the numbers have looked like from last year to this year and where we are currently this semester as the number of students that are in person instruction is over and we're happy to

047see our kids back in the classroom the current virtual academy as was messaged earlier today will sunset at the end of this school year as it is not permitted in its current form based on legislation based on senate bill 654 we also had another item on the 22 23 instructional calendars for our early college programs later on tonight you have on the board action agenda 23 24 calendars for traditional multi-track you're round and modified schools this is 2223 this august for our early college calendars it was an information item it'll come back as an action item later on next month for the board these calendars always come much later because we have to wait for our university and community college partners to set their instructional calendar which they don't do until much later so we

048adopt those in concert with their work and the last item on the work session today was another update to the board as we have been providing for over a year now on the use of the esser funds and the pandemic relief funds as you saw today we've changed the format a little bit to make it a little more user-friendly and understandable in terms of how those dollars have been allocated what's already been spent what's still there and how it's been committed and um that concludes my update thank you superintendent moore we will now move on to public comment public comment is accepted in video written and in person formats members of the public are welcome to offer comments or criticism directed at substantive ideas actions or procedures of the board and individual board members in

049the interest of maintaining civility and decorum however speakers are encouraged to refrain from personal attacks and insults directed at the board individual board members staff or members of the general public the laws and policies of north carolina provide that issues or concerns involving individual personnel matters are confidential and therefore not appropriate for public comment settings concerns related to personnel issues may be addressed through the applicable wcpss personnel the grievance policy or other applicable policies speakers including students may discuss issues in manners of general concern but should refrain from discussing confidential student information concerns related to confidential student matters may be addressed through applicable wcpss personnel the grievance policy or other applicable policies we have 14 written comments and two video comments from members of the public we have three on the topic of books two

050comments on class rank two on accommodations for medically high risk students and seven others including instruction in school support of educators community service requirements for students background checks on parents appreciation for board of education opposition of masks and support of masks for those of you that are here in person during public comment you may speak for up to three minutes a yellow light will illuminate at the podium when there are 30 seconds remaining in your time and a red light will signal that your time is up please remain at the podium during your speaking time any materials you wish to share with the board should be handed to the board attorney either before or after your comments our first speaker is chad stahl there's some faces on the board that's nice welcome back faces um

051former wake county middle school teacher charged with indecent liberties with a child this is a little strange because i i think that not too long ago right this board voted and said no no hey we should have sexually guiding material in schools to help teach our younglings how to have sex how to have sex with adults right and you want those in there and then you have former wake county middle school teacher charged with indecent liberties with the child how old are middle school students again are they like above the statutory limit even i don't think so right they're what like 11 12 13. is that the age that you feel is appropriate to teach children how to engage with adults is that really is that this boards you don't think they should learn how

052to read but you think they should be able to have some type of sexual intercourse with each other or with adults that's interesting that's i don't understand it but i guess that's just who you guys are the um and i'm also super excited that the sociopath that wants to groom two-year-olds for masking i guess he's in timeout now i think that's a good idea that was that was a rough patch also to listen to and be a part of the um you know whenever i have these moments right i met a a single young black mom a couple of weeks ago and that demographic is probably one of the most discriminated against demographics that there is and this girl is working her butt off right she has a child that's in like the kindergarten age

053that has to have hearing aids right was stuck with the option over last year could not hear in school because the mask and the hearing aids they didn't work together had an iep that was ignored she wasn't supported and this is the most discriminated against demographic probably in our country and she found no support from the school system to help her so when you guys you know you get on this equity bandwagon and i just wonder what what are you really trying to achieve i tried the foia request exemptions right i'm sure you're all aware of it 6 000 pages of parents of you discussing with each other with parents with principles with teachers how to not honor those types of exemptions i know daddy cooper said that it's okay you can take your masks

054off now it's all right i know i get it but parents are not gonna forget i'm not gonna forgive you didn't allow my child to go to school thank you our next speaker is russell brackley lichtenstein brakely thank you my name is russell lichtenstein i am in district 8. it's a district that is constantly forgot about when it comes to busing i've reached out to my district representative today as well as my principal my son's route has been canceled about four or five times in the past two weeks yesterday um not until i picked him up last night that i find out that he did not have a ride to school nor did i get a um any sort of indication that he was not picked up at school so i reach out to the

055principal and guess what talk to the board well the board never answers me only i've had conversations with one person my district member never responds to me so it's very frustrating and it's very dangerous for my son to be outside thank god he's got a phone thank god he's as big as i am but he's only 14 years old god forbid it's my daughter or anyone else's daughter so you know we finally get masks off um i haven't been here um since that and then now i've got to worry about this and then i also hear that two of the board men are sanctioned pornography in one of our high schools so that's good to know so um i i'm i'm at a at a loss i've tried everything i can to get through to

056folks as a parent it is it is um my numbing frankly to be a taxpayer be essentially you know your bosses in a sense and get zero collaboration you know you all had a golden opportunity i thought two years ago when this pandemic started and um chose a a a path that did not include us where you could have and we probably could have been a lot better off where we are now um it's my understanding there is lots and lots and lots of money out there yet my son has to walk home four times in the past week or i you know as a working adult or working parent just like my their mother have to um leave work every day to go pick them up wonder where he is you know i don't

057know if you guys know that in addition i see these poor kids standing by themselves at a bus stop with a mask on you know is that the intent of the recommendation that you all suggested i don't think so um so please consider that and you know do what you got to do get some people in these bus driver seats there is no excuse you know prior to these apps and notifications how did you handle it before i think you know maybe a teacher or the principal would get their rear end in the bus and do what has to be done it's not happening thank you thank you our next speaker is daniel grant king ruth willenborg hi in may 2016 the wake county school board unanimously approved the latin honors tiered approach to recognition

058eliminating the naming of valedictorian to quote superintendent benton we have heard from many many schools that the competition has become very unhealthy their choice of courses was being guided by their gpa and not their future education plans latin honors did not solve these problems you needed to remove class rank many of us thought you did every similarly competitive school system in the country has removed class rank less than 25 percent of students applying to elite schools like caltech cornell and brown submit ranks wake county claims state law prohibits you from removing class rank section 116 143.1 actually defines institute of higher education as any of the constituent institutions of the university of north carolina therefore we are requesting the option for the class of 2023 to remove class rank for out of state schools and

059private universities followed by full removal in 2024 class rank is the first question in common app it's a hard cut off for scholarships 41 percent of the juniors at green level high school are aig 41 percent does not fit in 10 percent the math doesn't work summa laude magna laude students are required to enter ranks in the bottom 50 percent this is harmful additionally the ranks the students are being forced to submit are unfair and they're inaccurate some of the students were denied ap and honors courses this is especially true when we split the schools from the pandemic with plan abc and virtual academy the students who knew there was a class rank they picked their courses for gpa whereas the others they chose a course like biomedical technology where they pursued their interest in

060arts the students who chose pc19 are being directly compared with the students who kept their numeric grades pc 19 with eight ap courses will rank ahead of 11 ap courses class rank competition escalates the students are now cramming in wake tech courses to get ahead high school academic performance should not be measured by summer courses at wake tech so you guys are intentionally printing useless and damaging data you're deliberately harming the students of wake county by not addressing these issues please get the policies fixed at whatever level you need to our kids need to be able to compete for admissions and scholarships based on their class in class performance thank you thank you our next speaker is anna rauf good evening my name is anna ruth and i'm a senior at cary high school two

061weeks ago my peers spoke out against the movement to ban books specifically concerning the challenges against lawn boy and out of darkness to the school board and the decision committee i appreciate and i applaud you for the decision that has been made in the past week to allow lawn boy to remain in school libraries this is a huge step in the right direction to protect our libraries and to allow young people to see themselves in their literature for the remainder of my time i'd like to address the concerned parents who support the banning of books in schools the harsh reality of someone who's experienced middle school not too long ago is that regardless of a couple of books being removed from libraries preteens are going to be exposed to the real world as a part

062of growing up and that includes sexual content this is not something that can be prevented no matter how many books are torn off the shelves or how many discriminatory laws are passed what can be controlled and what i advise parents to invest more of their time and energy into is fostering a safe environment for their children to communicate with them as they come of age kids will either learn about sex and be able to communicate with and be able to seek out help and guidance comfortably or they'll be unable to talk to anyone in their in if they're in danger whether that be in an abusive relationship or other toxic situations because they've been raised to keep quiet i advise parents to reconsider what they consider to be protecting their children if you're honestly more

063concerned about the pornography that is present in young adult books more than the criticism of the status quo and representing lives that differ from what is comfortable to you you'll find that you are fighting a losing battle i can assure you that no child turns to books if pornography is what they're in search of and finding out if a book is sexually explicit is only one google search away but i know the parents challenging books aren't ignorant of the fact that every book they challenge includes people of color or lgbtq characters to ban books with these themes that might be a bit uncomfortable is to confront is to take away the opportunity of growth for someone else's child not only yours i urge you please don't prevent another child from reading these books if they

064really need them to feel supported and protected i'm not a parent i'm only a daughter i can't tell you how to parent no more than you should tell me what to read i can only offer my words of advice as someone who is actually affected by the books that are being banned in my libraries and as someone who knows what it's like to grow up in today's world the bottom line is we are not forcing anyone to read books but you are attempting to force hundreds of hundreds of students to not read books that hold value you may permit or prohibit this the books that are read in your household but not in school libraries you criticize myself and my peers claim that we aren't qualified and educated enough to speak the fact remains that

065all of us chose to be here the time we spent writing and rehearsing our speeches is our own and as our words and our sentiments we've been criticized because some adults can't understand why teenagers care because they don't when they are our age it is obvious that we care and it should be obvious why thank you thank you our next speaker is alexis schuller hi my name is alexis ulchler and i'm a senior at cary high school also here with idea club so i'm mixed race i'm biracial my mom is taiwanese and my father is white representation for me and books while lacking has not degraded the importance of books in my life from an early age i gravitated towards books about animals rather than people because the characters in these stories were not me

066how depressing that a child feels more connected to animals than a human being the majority of character in the books i read were white all the characters in my head white the one book i read as a child that remotely approached being biracial was harry potter and the concept of half bloods half bloods being half muggle a disgraced race and half wizard or witch not exactly painting being biracial in a positive light as i grew older i gravitated towards historical fiction because at the very least there was something real about these books there was a person not me but someone being able to read different perspectives allowed me to observe how others overcame the discrimination they faced it made me more humble compassionate and appreciative reading about others overcoming their struggles was the encouragement i

067needed to face my own demons each individual has their own struggles banning books limits the resources available to students and implies some tribulation should be censored books have always come alive to me i can picture the characters faces and their environment around them in astonishing detail but i always stand apart the observer occasionally i gather shards of characters that connect with me to form a fragmented whole my own frankenstein monster the result of not being able to relate to a character especially pertaining to gender and race leaves a person feeling empty you feel isolated you believe no one understands you not even words on a page you shut down shut out the world no no other entity needs to close more doors for us to trap us we students are not caged birds that sing

068books can be the last support system a person has if people will not listen to you at least the book can speak to you but if books continue to be challenged on the basis that they are not appropriate for children and even young adults i ask you do you know how supportive a book can be written words offer a unique flexibility of emotion that spoken words do not they're not limited to a single emotion or judgment books are diverse mentors and friends do not limit me and my peers to an echo chamber of singularity by banning books this is not fahrenheit four five one thank you our next speaker is rowan rustowitz parents and people of wake county the idea of banning books infringes on the basic natural rights america was founded on my name

069is rowan i'm a sophomore at cary high and ever since i was young books were my entire world i could explore new things and learn new and learn new ideas that our public school system was not open enough to teach because of parents and educators whose closed-minded beliefs affected us all books such as genderqueer or anti-racist baby are simply there to help us explore and learn these books teach kids social issues that they might experience or witness in simple ways that they can understand discrimination is a common thing whether it's talked about or not as someone who has to face discrimination first hand i've learned that my best weapon is education when my peers gave their speeches last meeting grown adults were berating them online they were saying that we were being groomed we were

070defending pedophiles being sensitive they asked why are we listening to teenagers the answer to this question is simple it's because we are the future we are the people who are going to live in this world and we are the ones who will be running it someday we are the people who will create laws we are the ones who will operate this world when we are older but we cannot do this if information is kept from us we cannot do this if our natural right the right to knowledge is kept from us these books are not in our curriculum these books are not being forced upon our children these books are just here existing all revolving around the topics of race gender or sexual orientation ranging from a simple explanation about how racism is bred not

071born to a novel on gender identity and the importance of learning about it as a member of the lgbtq community seeing people believe that our community is full of pedophiles not only hurts but it angers me it shows me that people don't have the time or resources to educate themselves on the fact that this is just a stereotype that was created to stigmatize us we are people just like everyone else in this room we are people who love we are people who learn and we are people who protect our community we are no less human than anyone else in this room my classmates our note of color are no less human than anyone else in this room and we all deserve an equal opportunity to learn about the things that surround us in this world

072ladies and gentlemen and others banning books about sexuality isn't protecting our youth it is detrimental by sheltering them from things that they are bound to experience keeping our children safe means teaching them that not everyone sees the same opportunities in life because of the deep-rooted racism and sexism within our school systems it is teaching them that while we are all different in one way or another be our skin color or gender or our sexual orientation none of us deserve to be berated or hurt we all deserve the right to knowledge thank you thank you our next speaker is julie page i like to see your faces hello um many of us in this room attended a one-time movie showing last night the name of the movie was whose children are they it was eye-opening to

073say the very least many topics in the movie are currently present in wake county schools today the movie even mentioned our school system not shocked after all that i've seen and heard over the past two years to all the parents watching and listening i ask you whose children are they the obvious answer is that they belong to the parents not the school system not the government not the fake teacher unions they belong to we the parents i also ask you this who currently controls the schools and what ideology do they follow consider the following communist goals read into the congressional record in number 17 get control of the schools soften the curriculum get control of teacher associations number 24 eliminate laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and in violation of free speech number 25

074break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books number 29 disc discredit the american constitution by calling it inadequate and old-fashioned number 41 emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents over the years the so-called union the ncae has been marching towards an influential and powerful parent-type role in the school system the members present the illusion of caring about children teachers and other school workers however they are really a political action committee follow the money is education a political issue it shouldn't be but it is for this organization if you are a parent or grandparent join a local nonpartisan parental rights advocacy group such as moms for liberty of wake county go to meetings engage with like many community members get to know your school board

075members and candidates county commissioners and legislators if you are an educator or a social worker abandon the ncae and join the carolina teacher alliance instead this association actually cares about mental health educator pay student success and parent involvement the dues are much less per year the benefits are plentiful and the leader amy marshall is an amazing advocate wcps policy 2541 says that parents and schools work together as partners to promote increased student achievement we do not co-parent with the government we partner with the school system on academics when we say division we mean math not mask vaccine and social issues parents boldly and proudly stand up and speak out for your children our next speaker is renee sekel good evening first welcome miss waters glad to have you here second i want to thank this

076board for upholding the right of students to read books in their schools and to for standing against censorship well most of you i wonder a lot what to say today i'm just going to boil it down to two things number one is we are still in a pandemic and i am as happy as anybody else that the numbers seem to be going down and going down consistently but i'm hearing over and over again from parents of children who have health issues who have disabilities who have vulnerable family members who are feeling scared and alone right now and they're feeling like they have no support and no choices and nothing to do at this point we have students who have been told my own one of my kids school sent an email saying please don't ask

077us to help you keep your kids safe we're not going to do it just don't ask it's not worthwhile they literally said do not ask us to accommodate your child's wish to be safe i beg of you right now there's no excuse of s 173 anymore that's been vetoed and the veto has been upheld i know it lurks in the rules committee but for now it's dead you can allow students who are vulnerable who choose to mask but who also fear bringing cobit home in extremely vulnerable situations you can accommodate them they shouldn't have to go on home hospital which as we all know is a direly inadequate system that's meant to be a last resort not a oh well just go on home hospital you can't be kicking kids out of the school system

078because they don't feel safe that's not fair and one last note i'd like to make although she left about the carolina teachers association in case anybody's watching online you might be interested to know that when that organization reached out to the state to get every single teacher's email address so that they could spam their inboxes they said that the purpose of the association was not to support teachers they said that the purpose of the carolina teachers association was to get republicans elected to this wake county school board it's a matter of public record you can go ahead and find it for yourself just on anybody out there in internet land would be interested to hear since we got an advertisement today thanks all bye our next speaker is ferris soros paris fraser varus i may

079be pronouncing it incorrectly in my apologies no carrie bly hello again that's what i want on this board i want student like that on your board miss waters i'd like to introduce myself my name is carrie bly and my husband and i have been coming to this room since april 2nd of 2019. we've delivered 49 speeches and when the public wasn't allowed in here we submitted thirteen virtual speeches and two emails we've been asking for help for a 1078 days and all we're asking for is visual math learning content for middle and high schools students that's it because the workbooks you provide in the district curriculum are only filled with question and no learning content and i'd like to clear the air about one thing since i heard a couple mention this you seem to

080be labeling pete and i as anti-common core because i mentioned common core a lot and i do that because i'm searching for a causation for why you chose these crazy curriculums and maybe we're not anti-common core maybe we're just parents that are against one voice and one opinion and one ring to rule them all because i don't think that anyone should follow any initiative blindly that's not wise you said you picked these curriculums because they were vetted by imet eqip they were highly recommended by ed reports and you did a quality curriculum audit by tntp so this is the first of three speeches pete and i will give as a history lesson you adopted common core in 2010 and people started to complain because there was no curriculum to fix that the authors of the

081standards wrote two very extremely important documents that are often overlooked called the k-8 publishers criteria and the high school publishers criteria for the common core state standards of mathematics even after that people didn't understand the standards and curriculum wasn't being written so they created a checklist from those uh publishers criteria as something kind of a simple stupid way to follow they created imet for textbooks and equipped for lessons after that kids were still falling behind and for a while they blamed teachers and they tried to sell professional development programs to fix that it's not the standards fault it's the teacher's fault and at this time a very very small group of people met in california to form a math strategy group that would lead to the creation of ed reports which i consider to be

082a kindergarten picture book and it is based on imet eqip and the publisher's guide they're all three the same metric and i ask questions such as why should we listen to them who runs it where are they ed reports is one of your criteria doesn't even have a phone number doesn't even have anyone you can contact all they have is a creepy p.o box in durham north carolina thank you miss fly tracy taylor okay i believe that concludes public comment thank you to all folks who came out to speak write or submit a video we're now moving on to our consent agenda we could get a motion to approve our consent agenda chairman happy i move approve all of our consent agenda as amended second okay we have a motion and a second on our

083consent agenda any discussion all those in favor of approving the consent agenda please signify by saying aye any opposed nay we now move on to our first action item which is bell schedule recommendations for the 2022-23 school year and that will be presented by mr robert snide miller our senior director of transportation good afternoon chairman hafey board member superintendent moore in accordance with board policy 3300 which is the school day and time for learning bell schedules for the next year to be approved by april 1. we presented these and proposed bell schedules to you at your march first work session and in summary we're proposing that all of the current bell schedules remain the same for school year 22-23 and we are bringing on four new schools so the proposed bell schedule for the four

084new schools would be apex friendship elementary school and barton pond elementary school would be 9 15 to 3 45. herbert aikens middle school would be 8 15 to 3 o'clock and the early college in morrisville would be 7 25 to 2 30. these proposed bell schedules align with what we call our standard bell schedules for that level of school and with that staff request board approval of the 20 22 23 bell schedules okay thank you mr snyde miller before we get on to questions um can we get a motion in a second to accept the bell schedule recommendations for the 2022-23 school year um make a motion to accept the recommended schedules for the 2022 i second it 23 is clearly thank you all right thank you miss scott and miss cash uh i'm sure

085we have some discussion mr snyde miller absolutely by share hagerty i'm just taking a guess here thank you ms mahaffey i mr snide miller i appreciate all the work over the last couple weeks since we've been talking about this i know that i might have made your life a little more difficult with some of these questions and some of this work but i appreciate you taking the time to work through these scenarios with me so as you know i don't have any issues with the bell schedule proposed for the existing schools but i question the bell schedule for the new school that's opening in my district barton pond elementary and as you know to fill barton pond we're taking a large number of students from schools that had a 9 15 time but we're also

086taking a large number of students from schools that had an 8 30 stroke or an 8 15 8 8 30 start time as well and so one of the things that i had asked you about was you know i guess for some parents that have schedules things that have said have have set up a you know work hours and things to accommodate that earlier start time being asked to move to 9 15 would there be some way that we could look at a staggered time or in cases where you know with the new school opening some parents have chosen to grandfather maybe an older child at their existing school to finish up fifth grade but might have a new or a younger child starting that they wanted to go ahead and start at the school

087where they would continue to remain you know through elementary school can you just talk to us and explain a little bit more about why we can't get like a compromise time between 8 30 and 9 15 or how that works with the tier schedule yes absolutely i'll just start with in general we place new schools on a tier that basically would require the least number of buses to be added especially during this time where we have such a severe bus driver shortage and in the case of barton pond elementary school what we know is that students will pull from about nine other elementary schools to barton pond elementary school so we looked at where these students were coming from and about two-thirds of those students are actually coming from a school that's on a third

088tier schedule currently and so our hope is to be able to move and reduce bus runs with that population moving from those schools to barton pond elementary school and put barton pond on that third tier schedule moving those runs we wouldn't have to add the buses in a time that we really don't feel like we can add buses and looking at a bell schedule of like a staggered time anything in between our standard tiers basically results in having to add buses because the buses that would serve barton pond are obviously busy doing something else right um second tier before third tier or if we move them in between second and third tier it could even impact third tier so the most efficient way is to place a school on one of the three tiers and

089give us the best run time that we need in between those years to fill buses use buses efficiently and effectively and again we just look at when we bring new schools on for that best placement based on all the criteria given so thank you mr snide miller i appreciate that um and i know we've heard from a lot of parents on this issue in the affected schools some in support of the later times some in support of the earlier time some of the some of the stories that we've heard at least you know to me have been you know compelling and i see a hardship this creates but when we talked about it you talked about there might be some way that like we could accommodate someone who's children they have multiple children but they're

090supposed to be at two different schools at two different times and especially if it's a younger child that they wouldn't want to leave at a bus stop unaccompanied what what can we do in some of those cases for those families or those parents sure good question um i mean first i want to be clear that the students in a in a family that had students split between the grandfathered student at their current school and then the younger sibling at barton pond the barton pond student will will have them be eligible for busing because they live in the base attendance area what we do for ineligible students which would be the grandfathered student in this case we allow parents to apply for transportation and quite often not always but quite often we're able to accommodate those

091requests by simply especially third tier maybe not in the morning but the afternoon we can make that the last stop on a run coming from their school and we can accommodate their needs so we look at everything we work with the parents and obviously we want to put students on buses it builds our efficiency our funding is built off of efficiency and so you know we'll look at everything we can to accommodate those students okay so i guess just my last question i mean again i can i can yell about it and i can i can vote against it but it's not going to get us any more school buses to to make this happen but if if we do have parents and some have reached out to me some at sycamore creek some with

092grandfathered students that are split between schools when could they find out about accommodations or how could they you know when when would be the right time to contact you about some way to solve the issues they might be having well we talked about this in our shop and this is a real concern and we know that you've brought it to our attention so what we normally do is we take these requests for ineligible riders 30 days after school starts and that's to let our bus run settle down and that sort of thing but sometimes we do know prior to that and i'd be willing to work with the principal individually at these schools and just you know give me the student's name let's take a look and if we can accommodate them within that 30-day

093period you know we we would do that so okay i appreciate it i appreciate all the the time that you've spent talking through these issues with me and um you know listening to all the the different ideas that we've we've talked about i appreciate it thank you any other questions miss cash i appreciate that too i just want to be sure i heard that right so if a child is grandfathered they can apply for transportation yes ma'am i did not know that okay good to know in fact i mean any parent can apply for transportation um if they don't have it and okay again we take a good look at it the what they have to be eligible for that transportation it's in mr snod miller's interest to put every child on a bus that

094he can it is yes are there and to be clear the policy the policy states that it's pretty clearly written in the policy that anybody can apply the biggest issue is new generally new stops are not created so if if there is a stop in the area even if you're grandfathered or transfer you've been able to apply for a very long time so i understand that thank you for clarifying from me dr martin i understand but i do think that there probably not buses in that area but i just because we are reassigned so i just want to be sure i understand because i think i've had these questions and i was wrong i did not know they could any further questions or discussion mr snide miller before we continue do you have an update

095on the where you are with hiring and the incentives that you're offering for bus drivers are we able to retain who we have well we we are in conjunction with our hr department we're holding bus driver sessions information sessions and early on in january we saw a good turnout that's kind of fizzling a little bit but we've got some of those folks in the pipeline and so you know we're optimistic about adding but quite frankly we're losing bus drive we continue to lose bus drivers as quickly as we can add and that's through retirement other jobs you know it's just a gamut of things so we're going to continue to press and you know we do have an incentive out there twelve hundred dollars for you know hiring bonus and so um we're seeing more

096activity and that's a great thing and so we hope that with the board approved new rates we can get more folks attention and we can continue to build so fingers crossed all right thank you with that are there any other questions further discussion all right all those in favor of adopting the recommendations for the 2022-23 bell schedules signify by a sign of i i any opposed nay only to draw attention only to draw the attention that we need more funding for our bus drivers so we can accommodate more routes okay thank you very much mr seinfeld our next update is the 2023-24 instructional calendar for traditional modified and year-round welcome back mr carosa and miss anderson powell jeremy happy members of the board superintendent moore tonight's staff brings to you the 2023 2024 instructional calendars

097for traditional modified and year-round schools the materials loaded in assembly are a copy of what was shared with you during the march 1st board work session the calendars comply with general statute 115 c 84.2 and were created with the assistance of a calendar committee that included school parent and community partners it was also facilitated by mr tamani anderson powell who joins me this evening again staff is seeking your approval tonight of the 2023-2024 instructional calendars for traditional modified and year-round schools we welcome any questions you may have before voting this evening all right do we have a motion miss kushner oh i thought i saw your hand go up i'm sorry happy to make a motion to approve the 2023 2024 instructional calendars for traditional modified in your own you thank you very much miss

098johnson hustler miss kushner any discussion hearing none uh all those in favor signify by a sign of eye any opposed nay all right thank you very much and we will be bringing the uh materials that we presented during the work session today for approval at our next meeting all right thank you moving on to policy board policy 3460 graduation requirements first reading we have mr drew cuck assistant superintendent for academics good evening chairman happy superintendent more board members tonight we're bringing to you revisions to policy 3460 graduation requirements for first reading this policy was presented at the february 22 2022 policy committee meeting revisions that you'll note reflect updates made by staff and the north carolina school boards association and are focused on changes to policy language to make better connections with current policies and

099practices as well as to make the policy more accessible and understandable for families and students the revisions to this policy do not change graduation requirements and or the general spirit of the policy as was previously written i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have or share additional information ms kushner thank you chairman happy and i'd like to make a motion to approve revisions to board policy 3460 graduation requirements on first reading all right we have a motion in a second any discussion and we'll ask mr cook outline this is to update our policy to make and align it with state school board association highlighting dual enrollment and i appreciate the fact that the high school planning guide is included in materials from the just so that parents can can reference that and see

100for planning for their students so thank you for having that in the material sir yes ma'am right any other all right hearing none all those in favor signify by a sign of i any opposed nay all right motion passes thank you mr cook thank you next up board policy 3610 counseling program first reading mr ko good evening chair mahaffey superintendent more board members i'm actually going to be uh bringing forth our next two policies and introducing my staff so we have board policy 3610 counseling program which will be uh discussed and presented by miss crystal reardon and then board policy 4125 students experiencing homelessness students in transition will be presented by mr michael pesce good to see you ms reardon thank you mr co thank you chair mahaffey members of the board and superintendent moore

101thank you so much this evening we are presenting board policy 3610 counseling program as a revised policy these revisions reflect updates made by the north carolina school boards association and wake county public school system staff updates were made largely for ease of readability of the policy language these revisions were presented at the january 25th 2022 and february 22 2022 policy committee meetings when given final board approval this will replace current policy 3610 counseling program mr chairman happy i make a motion to approve provisions to board policy 3610 counseling program for approval and first reading all right we have a motion and a second any discussion all those in paper signify by a sign of eye any opposed nay all right motion passes thank you miss thank you so much we appreciate that mr pesce mr

102pasch good evening kara mahaffey superintendent moore and members of the board i'm here to present to you the first reading of revised policy 4125 students experiencing homelessness students in transition revisions reflect updates made by staff and the north carolina school boards association when given final board approval it will replace the current version of this policy it was reviewed at the january 25th and february 22nd policy committee meetings tonight we request the board's approval for the first reading of revised policy or 125 students experiencing homicides thank you ms kushner chairman happy i move approval of revisions to board policy 4125 students experiencing homelessness students in transition for approval on first reading second okay you have a motion in a second miss kushner i just wanted to highlight in particular that the policy changes um do put

103into policy that we uh how our outreach and our explanations and our work with parents is clarified and that there's more intention and how we work with our family in this policy i appreciate that so thank you all right thank you very much anything else hearing none all those in favor signify by sign of eye any opposed nay all right thank you mr pepe next up board policy 6400 goals of the purchasing function mr winners thank you chairman haifa superintendent moore members of the board i'm here to present the first reading of policy 6400 goals of the purchasing function this is a new policy created by the school boards association as part of their policies to lead the school's manual as part of the policy migration project when given final approval that will replace current

104policy 8304 vendor relations is reviewed by the policy committee on february 22nd and tonight we request the board's approval of first reading of 6400. thank you glad to answer any questions thank you mr winters miss kushner thank you miss mahappy and mr winners of move approval of board policy 6400 goals of the purchasing function for approval on first reading and we're entering the six thousands getting there we have a motion do we have a second all right any discussion how long was this policy migration supposed to last just two years thank you very much all those in favor of adopting or passing uh policy 6400 on first reading please signify by a sign of i i any opposed nay all right the motion passes thank you mr winters okay are you staying with us i

105am all right board go ahead okay just the length of time our board policies still say associate superintendents we no longer say you know we don't have chiefs that's how old our policies are so i'll now offer the first reading of policy 6401 ethics and the purchasing function similar to the previous policy it's part of the policy migration project and it will replace 8304 vendor relations and this was also reviewed february 22nd i'll be glad to answer any questions miss mahaffey i move approval of board policy revisions to ethics and the purchasing function board policy 6401 all right we have a motion in a second any discussion ms scott thank you i'm so sorry i did not bring this up earlier and i'm not um i will support this first reading but did just want

106to bring up a situation that might occur where you have a staff member who has a side business let's say the hot dog stand that they do and the school another school would like to have a hot dog stand at their carnival i just i i don't know if this is i know this is something that occurs and i just wanted to put that out there that maybe when this goes to rnp or even just looking at some considerations um moving forward that that could be considered and i just wanted to share that because there was an example of that happening uh recently okay thank you miss scott by sher hegarty thank you and this is just a question for council mr blumberg you've advised us before about new state guidance concerning board members and

107participation on nonprofit boards in a leadership role and you know the conflicts that can occur if matters come before us where uh there's a contract between the district and the board could would you could you refresh us on that policy and does that have any connection to the policy we're adopting today thank you i don't i don't believe it's directly related to this policy but yes the refresher is that you would want to just make sure it's a disclosure requirement that if you're on a non-profit and there's any potential contract between the the school board and that non-profit that if you are a director or board member or an officer of that nonprofit you'd want to disclose that then not vote and the board would be able to proceed on its own with that to

108assess the merits independently of the of that so but um don't see that as having an immediate and direct effect on this i can look at that further thank you thank you all right any further questions or discussion points hearing none all those in favor of passing uh board policy 6401 on first reading please signify by a sign of i any opposed nay all right the motion passes thank you mr winters moving on to academic advancement senate bill 654 local face covering policy mr coe good evening again chair mahaffey superintendent moore and board members per senate bill 654 requiring all public school units to adopt the policy regarding the use of face coverings by employees and students for the 21-22 school year and the bill's requirement for the governing body of public school units to

109vote at least once a month on whether the face covering policy should be modified we bring to you a recommendation to continue our current mass guidance as approved by the board on february 22nd in alignment with the recommendations of state and local health officials our board voted to lift its covet 19 mass mandate for athletics effective immediately for all other extracurricular activities on february 25th and for the school system in general on march 7th subject to any applicable law the guidance approved by the board indicates that mass will be recommended but not required and in your board materials and assembly we provided you two slides and as the detailed information is there in assembly for you i'll just provide a quick summary of both slides the first slide reviews our previous health metrics as of

110march 9th 2022 which are no longer as relevant as the cdc has updated guidance for community levels of covet 19. however we will continue to monitor to stay up to date on covet 19 information for our county the second slide reviews the updated cdc guidance for community levels of covet 19 for your reference and the updated cdc guidance uses the following metrics new cases per one hundred thousand over a seven day average new covet 19 hospital admissions per 100 000 over a seven day total and a and percent of staff inpatient beds occupied by covet 19 patients over a seven day average and as of today's date march 15th our community level of covid19 is indicated as low per cdc so with this context staff recommends continuing the current mass guidance as approved by the

111board on february 22nd 2022 all right thank you mr co before moving on to discussion do we have a motion in a second madam chair i've moved to approve staff's recommendation to continue their uh guidance as stated by mr cove to fulfill senate bill 654 local face covering policy all right we have a motion and a second any discussion or questions from board members dr martin i will just briefly note that and i've shared my concern based on the uh current data but i also do not plan to stand in the way i will be abstaining from this vote knowing full well what an abstention means but to make a point i will be abstaining thank you dr martin miss cash i thought the nc toolkit changed the wording of the masking and we were

112going to possibly follow that directly superintendent moore i think that is a conversation for the full board to have it is correct that in the ncdhhs toolkit the language that is there speaks directly to districts should make masks voluntary and does not use the recommended but required language that was what in what the board approved on the february 22nd so that's that would be something that certainly a discussion point okay thank you so that would be a discussion or a need for an amendment in order to change that language okay all right any other questions all right hearing none all in favor signify by sign of eye and you pose nay all right with dr martin's abstention noted thank you thank you um moving on to summer reading remediation and test administration plan summer 22

113moved from this was moved from consent to action we have mr drew cook coming back and dr mcmillan thank you good evening again everyone dr mcmillan and i appreciate the opportunity to share with you an overview of district plans for remediation and test re-administration this summer this item outlines district plans to offer remediation opportunities immediately following the end of the 2021-22 school year the current school year for students who earn a passing grade in the course or subject involving an end of course or end of grade test but who fail to score proficient on that test ncdpi policy allows for the re-administration of those tests for those students following a remediation program which adheres to certain criteria if students score proficient on that re-administration then that score will replace their initial non-profit score we do

114want to make note of the fact that this opportunity for students will be provided completely separate and apart from other summer learning program plans that are currently being finalized i think as was referenced in the finance meeting earlier this afternoon we do plan to bring an update to the board in the next month or so with details on 2022 summer learning structures ms cash we made note of your request for some additional data i think it will be relevant in that conversation to look back at what we did last summer and talk about how some of that data informs decision making for programming moving forward this retesting plan though has been designed to comply with ncdpi criteria and will be submitted to ncdpi for their approval pending board approval which we are requesting this evening

115with that overview i'll turn it over to brad to walk through a few more of the details thank you drew uh some of you may recall that we've taken advantage of this uh policy opportunity in the past in the years leading up to the pandemic it began with just a couple of schools at first and then was a strategy used by many of our restart schools in the years leading up to the pandemic in part because of some funding flexibility that they had that they were able to take advantage of it in the way that some other schools might not have been able to do so easily and then of course in 2020 it was interrupted like like so many other things this year our proposed plan is actually to expand the offering of this

116opportunity to all schools in the district and that expansion is driven by a couple of factors number one is the success that our schools had had who had tried it prior to the pandemic in terms of having more students demonstrate that they can meet those standards on those assessments and the second and perhaps the more uh salient factor here is the environment that we're in right now with respect to to um student performance on state tests as you all know scores are now lower than normal particularly in the area of mathematics than they were prior to the pandemic and we know that these scores play a role in a number of things that happen for kids they are part of a state law that has to do with students having access to advanced mathematics classes

117in elementary middle school they're used for course placement decisions as kids transition to high schools in many cases and they're also even part of the gateway number four for identifying students for aig in our district they are never the sole source of information on which placement decisions and access decisions are made for individual students but they are inevitably part of the mix in many cases and knowing that those scores are particularly low at this point and knowing that that that that impacts disproportionately certain uh subgroups of students in our school district we really feel like giving kids the opportunity as mr cook said before students who are meeting standards in the classroom who are passing classes but for whatever reason just didn't do well on that day of the test having that extra opportunity to

118be able to get a score that might give them access to some advanced course opportunities and other opportunities that might not be available to them you know is just becoming really salient with um the the pictures that we're seeing post pandemic so uh we know that sometimes these scores play an exaggerated role in a lot of areas of our business but this is one area that we feel like is particularly important to uh to make sure that all kids are having all available opportunities to get access to those opportunities as drew also mentioned earlier there are some parameters involved that we have to adhere to as a district number one it has to be voluntary students and families can be invited to participate but it is not mandatory is not required there are no consequences

119for not taking the invitation to participate it is completely voluntary for students and families students must be as as we mentioned demonstrating mastery in the classroom by way of passing the class or the course that they are in so at the elementary school level for example that means a student has to be earning at least a three in the fourth quarter and they're in their class in order to qualify for it also the remediation and the re-administration of the the test that is that is allowable under this policy has to occur after the last day of school so it's not something that students can do or schools can do in the last few days maybe after their first round of testing it done it does have to take place in the days following the last

120day of school also students who if they do not participate in the remediation component of the plan they are not technically eligible to read to read be re-administered the assessment so they do have to participate in the remediation component in order to be eligible among leadership over the last few weeks there's been a great deal of discussion about the pros and cons of re-establishing this program in the wake of the pandemic and in addition expanding it to additional schools the consensus from the group was that we felt that area superintendents were well positioned to be able to work with schools to come up with a plan that would be viable for them and that would minimize the workload that it might impose on school-based staff we're very sensitive to the fact that school-based staff have

121far more to do than they can possibly accomplish at this point and so that was a big topic of conversation as we were trying to make this decision also the district has been able to make a commitment of funds to support this such that school-based budgets should not be impacted or that the impact on them would be minimized by virtue of the school being able to pay for things like transportation and child nutrition and extra duty pay for the certified staff who would have to be there on those days in order to operate the program so that that would not have to come out at the school's expense this week a team of various superintendents was pulled together and based on some feedback that we received from principals last week is crafting up the details

122of what this is going to look like on more of a school-by-school basis because we know that a one-size-fits-all solution is not going to necessarily work in every case every school is going to have different numbers of students who will choose to take advantage of the program etc they're in pro they're in the process of going through all that feedback and coming up with some guidelines that they are going to then put back in front of principles to get additional feedback on uh they've pulled together a group of principals that represent all the different calendar types that we have in the district and also all three levels elementary middle and high the one sticking the one pain point we know that we have to deal with is for our multi-track year-round schools because the way

123that this program operates is that it has to terminate by july the eighth and we know that for our tracks two three and four students that leaves very little time between the last day of school and the opening of the next day of school in order to do something in terms of providing a meaningful opportunity for those students and so that's one of the things that they're trying to work through this week and they'll be meeting with principals on thursday of this week to help come up with some some ways to kind of kind of deal with that and uh and also maybe surface what other challenges maybe need to be out there but at this point we do have a deadline of april 1st in order to get this plan to ncdpi for their

124approval and since this is your last board meeting prior to april the 1st in order for us to pursue this planning process and take advantage of the opportunity it would require you to approve it here tonight in order for us to get it to dpi on time such that we would have the ability to implement this program at the end of the year if we choose to so that being said is there anything else you want to add or at this point we'll just take comments or questions that you may have at this point all right thank you do we have a motion for this before we move forward miss carter making a motion to approve a second thank you all right uh questions from board members ms carter i just want to thank you

125i i had asked to have this move just because i really would like because in consent there's not really a light shine on it showing on it and for folks to really understand what it means and what's occurring and i also appreciate the mention of additional summer programs that will be offered and more kind of like a uh to be to be coming back to us sometime but i just really think it's important to be as transparent as possible with the community and provide detail so they have a better idea of what we actually are doing and putting into place and how they came to be and i do appreciate that this is being expanded to include all of our schools so thank you thank you miss scott thank you and i also requested that

126this be moved to action um that's why i sent the email so yeah but i do have a few questions um how long had we been participating offering this to schools and restart schools do you know how many years yeah i can't give you exact numbers of schools off the top of my head but in 2017-18 we started with a small number i want to say i know carroll middle school was one there was probably three four three or four and then uh in the 18 19 school year the last full school year prior to the pandemic i think it was up closer to 10 and it was mostly because of the addition of the restart schools wanting to take advantage of some of their funding flexibility to offer extra remediation outside of the school

127year thank you and and understanding that this is um you might recall one of one of my first meetings after shortly after being sworn in was with with the two of you and with dr mcfarland asking about this very subject because sometimes we do see students particularly at schools that have high f f r um they they're passing their classes and then but we see that uh eog o eoc data coming out and that's such it's difficult so i'm trying to to process that have is this program do we see success in that because i think oftentimes we understand that standardized testing is a picture of one standard of one day and if somebody had a rough morning you know that day of a test this is not necessarily going to be the best snapshot

128of whether or not there is true mastery of whatever material of the subject that that's being tested so when you did have the opportunity even though it was a very tiny data sample what was their success in offering this did you see um is if if we define success by the number of additional students who meet that standard yeah but it did vary by school to some degree uh one of the things that we did notice is in the past when schools uh invited students into the program who as you mentioned before we're doing well in the classroom and we're fairly close to to the proficiency standard on the first administration they were the ones who were more likely to be able to push forward and go from a two to three or a two

129to a four on that assessment so those schools tended to have more success on a percentage basis than schools who went ahead and tested all students so one of the other advantages here is that these are students who are already demonstrating mastery of standards you know from their teacher's perspective in the classroom so presumably that's where you're going to catch a lot of those kids who just had a bad day that day because they've been doing it all year but then they can't they can't do it on that one day because of whatever reasons it made that day not a good day for them thank you for that and scott i'll just give you i crunched the numbers on this myself just to check them and so the second year of implementation with 10 schools

130implementing there were almost 300 additional passing scores so i just think that those are 300 additional opportunities for a child and a parent to recognize that they did actually pass that in of course or end of grade test and and um you know who knows how to the extent which that is replicated across the district and schools but to provide every child with that opportunity and choice i think is is our obligation absolutely i mean i i've expressed many times my thoughts on standardized testing and using them um to to make big big policy changes so i absolutely appreciate um hearing that um and who understanding which i am also grateful to hear that we will have additional summer program um offerings for our students but understanding that of course we're looking at teachers who've

131been full time doing this for quite some time and i believe we were concerned how would those be staff so if we're looking at especially something that is more complicated as you mentioned mathematics if do we have a math teacher are we going to put them in this um remediation retest program or would they go into you know the the other program how how are we going to have enough people to do this yeah great question miss scott and i think you know first and foremost i think we all acknowledge and have to recognize it is a lift it's a significant lift and um you know i think the input that super the output the superintendent more reference in terms of the outcomes for students is something that we want to be able to scale

132and replicate across the district but it will require some significant work in terms of planning on the part of the principal in the school i think to your point there's also details that have to be worked out well we know that capacity is already at its max and so we're going to have to work with area superintendents with data research and accountability the academics office transportation to kind of coordinate the logistics because it is an additional ask it's an additional task and i think you know we have to be transparent about the the lift that's involved whether we're talking about a math teacher or another teacher in a classroom we know that that's going to be a challenge that we have to work to overcome i will say that right now i think superintendent moore

133referenced this earlier in the finance committee meeting again we do not plan at this time to implement a summer learning program anywhere near the scale that was implemented and required in alignment with state legislation last summer so in terms of capacity we do hope and expect there to be more capacity than there was last summer in part because the scale and the scope of summer learning as a whole is not going to be on the same size and scale as it was last year and i appreciate that and thank you for highlighting the fact that the summer program last summer was required um by legislation so i do appreciate that i guess i'm still struggling with having this program along other summer learning opportunities knowing that our staff is exhausted knowing that they're limited and

134trying to think when you have finite you know man power man hours when you have finite hours of instruction that's even available quality instruction if my child needs to take a math remediation of course i'd prefer it be with a math teacher and i'm saying this as a music teacher who once had to teach health so i mean it's it's just i i'm concerned about the details with that um and then the cost um i'm glad that the schools will not be that will not be coming out of their individual school benches but how will this be financed so we're looking at it's it's going to be put together from various sources so there's transportation costs we believe that there are some savings available in transportation that will allow us to mitigate that cost um

135the costs associated with um staffing um did we did we come out to a did we have a is this a place where we're hitting esser i don't think so okay um but i can't i can't be certain yeah but i think we were looking at identifying other funding sources outside of esser yeah we've got we've got a we're looking at savings in different places in the district to try to help us make sure that we do this we just want to make sure that schools knew on the front end that we weren't asking them to come up with funds i understand that i think i i think i'm just struggling and please forgive me and i appreciate you going along my uh from pond upon journey with my own add as i'm talking and

136processing all of this but i guess i just really struggled we have finite resources we have finite instructor time available and i just i feel like this program i'm just going to be blunt again i apologize i feel like this is going to make test scores look better for maybe some kids and i i worry about that finite funding potentially not going to serve more students in a summer program that could be impactful and that's just that is that's just my personal concern i i had to to share that so that's those are the only questions thank you very much for the answers for all of that one thing that i'll add real quick ms scott that may be helpful context and dr mcmillan or superintendent moore can correct me if i'm wrong i admit

137it's my understanding that by the submission of this plan to dpi that empowers us as a district to implement a retesting remediation plan what it doesn't necessarily do is compel us to as you described have all the details worked out and it may be that we still have the latitude to make adjustments in terms of what this looks like across the district and brad if i've misspoken correct me if i'm wrong in other words submitting the plan doesn't necessarily compel us in any degree of specificity to have to to deliver on something that is not necessarily spelled out in that plan you'll note that it's pretty broad um and it's it's done that way intentionally yeah i would just add that it gives us the opportunity to do it but we are not committed to

138doing it for some reason the funds are not available because some emergency situation comes along that drains funds from some other it just gives us the opportunity to do it thank you very much for clarifying that thank you miss kushner thank you and will the funding details come back to this board so that we will either as a consent item or as part of the financial report so we can keep track i mean it'll some of that stuff could very well be buried in some of the financial stuff you do because you might see some transfers but um but we can we can provide you a summary of where we land because we've still got work to do beyond getting permission to just explore it with the meetings with the principals the different calendars trying

139to work out all those details is still before us i'm comfortable proving the plan but i think given the interest that this board level expressed tonight we would need to i think we should see the follow-up for the costs and and the more details as you bring them together mr cook and i haven't run this by the superintendent but but i do think it may be reasonable to your question that when we do bring back an update on summer learning this could easily i would imagine be a component that we could come back to you with an update on to give you a comprehensive overview of what's being provided i certainly think that's a concern of all of us as well as the community so that we're and i think really clear with how we're

140coming out of the last two years and out of this school year so thank you any further questions or discussions ms waters thank you i just had a question in terms of students who you've served in this program in the past and anticipating students who may come through in the future have you seen students who may have an iep and are their supports in place for students who may need accommodations as they participate in this type of program yes that's a excellent question and yes those students have been part of the program in the past we're very sensitive to the fact that this offer has to be made to all students and all students are going to have to have an opportunity to access this program regardless of whether they have an iep or not

141a disability or not so many have taken place with the program in the past and we could bring you a more detailed breakdown of what that looked like in conjunction with sort of a follow-up presentation that drew was just alluding to to give you more detail around that that'd be helpful all right thank you anything else all right seeing no further hands all those in favor of passing the summer remediation and test re-administration plan for summer 2022 please signify by a sign of eye any opposed nay all right the motion passes we look forward to hearing more about this thank you thank you okay moving on to our next item required redistricting affordable election districts following the 2020 census and method of electing board members we have our consultants adam mitchell from farrington smith and

142i believe mr esselton is joining us virtually this evening yes all right thank you thank you good evening chair mahaffey board member superintendent moore at our special meeting last week we looked at base option b and we looked at some modifications to that there was option b1 which was a modification to the boundary between la uh districts one and three there was option b two which dealt with districts two and four and then there was option b3 which combined both of those together we wound up at the end of the meeting working on and putting together option b4 which took the 2 4 move and added in a 3 six move one precinct and we preliminarily determined blake was able to determine that the population deviations were acceptable under what we call plan b4 and

143you asked for some additional analysis we did that we uploaded it a few days ago blake is here and can just quickly run through that so you all have seen that and the public can see that and then happy to discuss answer any questions but you are now in my view at the position of being ready to adopt a resolution to approve this plan or a different plan and as you know per your direction the resolution also addresses the method of elections issues that we have discussed so blake can you take it away just with your overview of option b4 please i would be happy to can everyone hear me yes sir loud and clear excellent and julia if you're able to make the slides visible we can go past that that cover slide the

144opening slide and adam covered a lot of the text that's on these slides basically what's what's on this slide is something that adam has already stated we did not include the amendment one which would have affected districts one and three in the wake forest area next slide amendment two as adams said uh is involves a change sort of a swapping of precincts between districts two and four uh compared to what the base option b had the next slide shows that and we looked at this slide last week so this is this is nothing new just a reminder of what the components of this option b4 are so one of them is this amendment involving two precincts next slide and then this what we're calling amendment three the third amendment that was discussed last week as

145adam mentioned this is a single precinct that would go from district three and base option b into district six um i'm sorry it would go into district three from yes into district three from district six and uh it is just that one precinct and no other districts are affected the next slide shows a map of this this is in the uh six forks road falls at news road area near cedar hills park and the two sides of this image are representative of how it's different you can see that the image on the left more of it is is taken up with district six and that is the the precinct area that which on the right becomes part of the orange in district three that is the the precinct the sole precinct that it would be

146affected in this amendment the next slide please um again this is reiterating what adam said uh b4 incorporates these two amendments which means a total of four districts affected and three precincts as compared to the base option b next slide this information was some of the information that was not immediately available at the last meeting but was made available last week and you can see here that as adam said in at the at the bottom of the slide you can see the four districts whose statistics change as a result of these amendments and the fifth column which is the the most important column for satisfying the one-person one-vote piece of this is that all all of the districts continue to be within the plus or minus five percent which is the allowable deviation included in

147these slides if we go to the next slide were maps that had been provided for the other previously proposed options which basically show how these district boundaries overlay on the high school base attendance areas and the following slide shows how they overlay on the current municipal incorporated areas the final slide is just a reminder about the interactive map that is available on the web for anyone to use and explore this and it now includes option b4 and this allows you to to zoom in and see where the the districts fall in more detail and turn other layers on and off as as the board is aware so that's the very quick overview and as adam said we're happy to entertain any any questions or further discussion is there anyone with questions at this point okay

148miss waters since i'm new to this conversation i just had a question and i know it's keeping in mind trying to keep municipalities together and keeping burners together i was just looking at sort of the change that is for district 4 and the shift of about 4 000 people to go to district 2. and so i was just wondering i know that she talked about having looked at a lot of different sources different experts and different software to sort of compare and some of them had some differences i was just wondering was this the least change in population that could accomplish garnered being all in one district in fact without splitting a precinct right right right okay thank you and yeah that that changed ms waters and nice to meet you and welcome was was

149board driven it was not something that was on the original plan and i know it was talked about at length and there were some very solid rationales for it so that's that's where we are on that and yeah i think not splitting the precinct is we all of the plans we put forward and frankly i'm proud of this didn't and blake should be did not split any precincts and and that that's really a good government good elections public service type of mindset that i think you all brought to this and and that was that was an important factor any other questions at this point all right sir we have a resolution that was drafted you do and so i would say that a motion would be in order to approve the resolution which adopts option

150b4 as the school district's redistricting plan following the 2020 census and making certain recommendations to the wake county board of elections as indicated in the resolution and mr bloomberg i'm going to assume that since it's about four pages of text we don't have to read it into the record as it is attached to the record and simply correct i think a motion second in approval is adequate thank you excellent we will now take their emotion to adopt to approve the resolution adopting new election district boundaries and making suggestions to the board of elections regarding the method of electing board members chair mahaffey i'd like to move that we adopt the resolution adopting new election district boundaries and making suggestions to the board of elections regarding the method of electing board members okay we have a

151motion by vice chair hegarty a second by ms kushner is there any discussion or questions moving forward ms carter all right so you know i voiced my concern last time i'm still here with my concern and i guess because i've not heard from other than one constituent in d4 about these so i'm just trying to be since you're here now at the table because last time my thing was you weren't here yet and i just want to make sure moving forward because like you mentioned that's what i had mentioned to about over 4 000 folks being pulled from d4 to d2 and then also i had asked last time to go over what they had looked at because taking into growth consideration was part of our stuff too and they had looked at multiple sources

152and based on that they well i don't know how to word it think you can maybe speak to that but it wasn't because they had mentioned that in one of the slides at our last meeting about taking that many folks from d4 because it was a lower growth expected based on like watershed information plant meeting with wake county planning departments building permits have been and all of that so i know we're going over all that again but because you weren't here i wanted to make sure because for me i've not heard from folks like i said other than one so i for me it's a concern because i feel like that's a good a number and then if so i just want to that's where i'm still i'm at and i'd love to hear you

153know so i i think from from our perspective so accounting for future growth was was a criteria that that the board favored it's it's an optional criteria it's absolutely not required by law but there's some good reasons to consider it and so we were we were given guidance to do that but there are a whole lot of other criteria as well including keeping precincts all keeping municipalities whole and so it's inevitable that they're going to be times when their tension between certain of the criteria taking into account future growth and keeping municipalities whole can certainly be two criteria that that may be in some tension and and then honestly it's it's the it's the board's judgment to to try to weigh those out and and to make a call so i think uh you're never

154going to be able to follow all of your criteria perfectly it's not it's just not possible and i think i think we've all done our absolute best and i feel really good about about where you're at but they're certainly going to be trade-offs thank you annie yes ms waters is there a sort of a ranking between the nine districts of which are supposed to grow at the fastest rate and if so where does district 4 fall on that list no it does where would we be going back several power points and i'm not sure how quickly we could pull them up but we did present a number of graphics that that showed growth patterns i don't believe that district 4 and blake you may be able to pull this up and at least answer the

155question a little bit more detail i don't believe district 4 was a high expected growth area chair mahaffey's district i know is so we do we do have that information i was just asking miss waters to hit the button okay i didn't i was trying not to drop sorry so i think district 4 was was not expected to be a high growth area and and the the more specific data in graphics is in our earlier powerpoints that we presented to the board further questions ms cash so i do appreciate the work you've done when we looked at the the no growth in d3 and the and thank you ms koshner for talking with me on this as far as the 143 um i appreciate the fact that the no growth of district 3 was going

156to this will help in that respect and just to clarify to the public i know there's been some questions about the border but i think what this board has been really good about doing at this time is to keep the municipalities intact as best we can and district three the way it is configured now may look a little different but it's very it's very good about keeping a municipality intact any further questions or comments okay [Music] all right all of those in favor of adopting this resolution and the suggestions uh to the board of elections regarding the method of election please signify by a sign of eye hi any opposed nay all right motion passes one nay yep all right thank you thank you with that i will entertain a motion to enter into closed

157session so chair mahaffey i would like to move at this time that the board move into closed session to consider confidential personnel information protected under general statute 143-318.11 1 a 3 and a 6. and also to consult with the board of education attorney and preserve the attorney client privilege as provided in general statute 143-318-11a3 all right we have a motion and a second from miss kushner thank you very much any discussion all those in favor signify by signing by any opposed nay we are now in closed session thank you you