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Um, welcome. At 6:03 p.m. I call the

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October 5th, 2026 meeting of the Carver

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School Committee to order. Everyone

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could please join us in the pledge of

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allegiance

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to the flag of the United States of

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America and to the republic for which it

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stands. One nation [music] under God,

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indivisible, with liberty and justice

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for all.

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» Thank you everyone. We're going to start

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um our evening off with some

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recognitions of AP scholars.

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>> Yeah. So, we're excited the for the

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opportunity this evening to recognize

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some of our AP scholars. Uh, so the

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College Board has actually begun

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recognizing students uh with several

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awards based upon uh their scores on the

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AP exams. Um, so what I'm going to do is

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I'm going to go over all the different

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awards students could possibly have won.

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Uh, some students won one of these

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awards, some students had multiple of

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them. Uh, so then as we call the

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students up, we'll say which awards they

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won. Uh so first is AP Scholar. Uh the

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AP Scholar Award is granted to students

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who receive scores of three or higher on

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three different AP exams.

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AP Scholar with honors

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is granted to students who receive an

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average score of at least 3.25

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on all their AP exams taken in their

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career and have a score of three or

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higher on four or more exams. So AP

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Scholar is three exams. AP scholars

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honor is four exams plus an average of

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3.5 overall and um AP honor uh AP

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scholar with distinction is granted to a

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student who has an average score of at

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least 3.5 on all their exams

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uh and have scores of three or higher on

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five or more exams uh which is really an

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impressive feat just uh so people

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understand the scoring mechanism AP

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scores AP exams are scored on from one

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to five, one being the lowest score,

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high five being the highest score. Um, a

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score of three or higher is considered

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uh the passing the exam and many

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colleges though unfortunately the number

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of colleges who recognize a three or

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higher has begun to diminish. Depends

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what school you go to. Uh, but some

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schools will accept a three or higher in

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that course as three college credits. Uh

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so we actually have several students

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depending on what school they go to will

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go off. We've had students have as much

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as a semester of college done uh when

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they've gone off to college just based

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on their AP scores. Uh so depending

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where students are applying, where

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they're accepted, what schools they plan

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to attend, uh these scores can certainly

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be have a financial benefit to them uh

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in terms of their cost of college. Um so

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some of the other distinctions that the

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AP does around um that our students have

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earned. The first um is a new award

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they're doing. It's called the rural or

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small town award. Uh we live in a small

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town. Uh so that qualifies as bad. So

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the qual the qualifications are live in

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a small town. That's literally what it

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says on the AP website. Doesn't define

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small town, but it says live in a small

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town. Um have a cumitive GPA in school

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of 3.5 or higher.

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your school.

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um and have two scores of three or more

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on your AP exams by the end of 10th

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grade. So, we do have a couple students

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who've earned that distinction. And I

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know there was a lot of things there. I

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just read a lot of different criteria to

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meet that get that award. The second uh

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award is the first generation award. Uh

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this goes to students whose parents have

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confirmed they don't have a college

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degree. That's the language they use in

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the AP exam. What that means probably,

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and I I'll be honest, I'm a little

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nervous about this one. Uh because maybe

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there are parents who've earned a

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college degree and when their students

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filled out the bubbles uh or online for

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what's your parents highest level of

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education maybe they answer that

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question wrong and hopefully they all

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answer it right uh because one of the

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criteria is that you're the first you're

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the first um student in your family

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who's going to be going off to college

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is the assumption. um have a cumulative

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GPA above 3.5 uh and two scores of three

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or higher on AP exams and be in the top

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10% of the SAT PSATs in your school. And

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then the third award is the school award

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is having a cumulative GPA of 3.3, two

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scores of three or more on AP exams, and

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be in the top 10% um of the PSA scores

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within your school. So, I know there's a

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lot of different criteria here, a lot of

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different awards. And as I said, um,

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some students have just reached one of

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those criteria. Some students have

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reached several of them. Uh, so as we

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call students up, uh, we'll recognize,

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uh, which honors they've received uh,

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under all of those things. You know,

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unfortunately, we do have several games

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today. We have, uh, boys soccer, I

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believe, girls soccer, golf. Uh, so

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several of our AP students are unable to

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be here because of other commitments. I

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know some of them specifically being our

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own uh, sporting events. Um but we we

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will still read everybody's name uh

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because I think it'll be appropriate to

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hear everybody's head.

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So we'll start if students could come up

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and just stay stay up here once once

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your name is gone. That would be great.

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Uh so Anna Gucci uh was an AP scholar.

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Bolio was an AP scholar. [applause]

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Charlie Donovan was an AP scholar.

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Molly Mahoney was an AP scholar.

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Mia Malonus AP scholar. [applause]

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Lily Metti was an AP scholar.

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Talk about award.

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Uh, David Savado was an AP scholar

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and Wyatt Turner was an AP scholar.

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Uh, Abel Wood was a scholar. [applause]

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Owen Holmes. Uh, Odo was an AP scholar

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[applause] with distinction. Um, and

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also a school award winner.

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Jake Holden, uh, AP Scholar with honors,

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uh, first generation award winner and

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school award winner.

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Uh, Fuki was an AP scholar of honors,

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first generation award winner, and a

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school award winner. [applause]

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» UH, Mitchell as a whiskey as a wiki,

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sorry, was an AP scholar, a first

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generation award winner, and a school

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award winner. [applause]

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Kendall Smith was an AP scholar with

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honors, a rural in small town award

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winner, and a school award winner.

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and Kayla Mckenne with an AP scholar

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with honors, a rural and small town

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award winner and a school award winner.

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Congratulations to all of our AP

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scholars. I school they like to do a

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fit. I don't know if they like to do a

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picture. We traditionally do a picture

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for everybody. That' be great.

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» And congratulations again to all our AP

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scholars and thank them for all their

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dedication to their own education.

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Appreciate all the students.

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>> Absolutely. Feel free to go. Thank you

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for coming. Congratulations.

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Uh I I would like to recognize so

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obviously the AP scholar awards the

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students can first earn them after their

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junior year but then they can also

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continue to earn them after their senior

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year. Um and so was a whole bunch of

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graduating seniors last year who also

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received the honor. Uh we didn't invite

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them to tonight's meeting just because

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most of them are off at college. Um but

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I do I think it would be appropriate to

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read their names and the uh what awards

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they won. Uh so our graduating seniors

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from last year who were AP scholars were

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Haley Alzheimer uh Trevor Benv Benvu Ben

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Deandria Megan Daly Luke Bologn Kenneth

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um Ariana Bosza was an AP scholar with

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distinction. Levon M already was an AP

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scholar with distinction. Brendan Thomas

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was an AP scholar with distinction. Uh

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Julia Fernandez was an AP scholar with

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honors. Madison Gillis was an AP scholar

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with honors. And Lilian was an AP

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scholar with honors. So congratulations

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to all of our seniors from last year who

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earned AP schol. [applause]

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to celebrate student achievement. Um,

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okay. So, that will bring us to um

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comments from the general public. So,

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I'm not sure if there's anyone online,

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but if there is anyone on the line that

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would like to be recognized to speak, if

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you could please put your name into the

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>> There is one person online that they

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have not put on the chat to speak. We

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can hold. You can hold for a second.

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>> If there's anyone in the room that would

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like to speak, now is your opportunity.

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Please come up to the table, introduce

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» And nothing in the chat. So, seeing no

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movement to the microphone and no one um

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asking to speak in the chat, we shall

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move on to um comments from the

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elementary ambassadors.

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>> So, we're excited to see that Owen

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Holmes uh sorry Nolan Owen's not doing

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elementary school. [laughter]

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We have Nolan, Jason Ry, and

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>> Welcome. I think this guy a second to

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record presentation.

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>> Welcome everybody. I'm Jace.

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>> We're almost there.

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» Now we're ready. Hit it.

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>> Welcome everybody. I'm Jace.

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>> I'm Eddie.

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>> And I'm Nolan. We are the student

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ambassadors from Carver Elementary

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School and we wanted to share some great

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activities happening at our school.

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Sometimes it's hard to come back to

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school and it's really hard to

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transition from your summer to school.

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>> The teachers help you review previous

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information you learned. Nobody slams a

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paper on your desk and says 50 page

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essay due tomorrow.

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We get papers ready to do homework. We

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are slowly eased into being back at

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school. There were different levels of

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responsibility depending on your grade.

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It is very exciting to see all your

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friends you don't you don't see during

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your summer. It's kind of nice to see

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which friends are in your class. Now

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that we're fifth graders, we get to pick

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where we sit in the lunchroom.

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>> Yay.

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» Morning announcements are a little bit

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different this year. Instead of having

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videos, we have the pledge of allegiance

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and morning announce and a moment of

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silence over the loudspeaker. Fifth

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grade students take turns reading the

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pledge of allegiance and reading from

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the script. The idea is that everybody

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says the pledge of allegiance at the

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same time and it unifies the school.

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Our all school assemblies are when the

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entire school sits in the cafeteria and

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reviews and learns things about the

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school and and stuff that are happening

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during the school year.

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Every grade level greets

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greeted each other, sang a hello song,

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reviewed expectations, behaviors,

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the new school book called the power of

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one. Hold on there. Ready?

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We also reviewed the what is discussed.

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Sorry. We also discussed what it takes

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to be a champion of change. Listen to

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the song one day to go along with the

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book.

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>> Wo, that was a lot of cover in one

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assembly. Fifth grade played the school

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assemblies and there was a surprise at

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the end. The whole school sang the song

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Susle from Susical the musical called

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Green Eggs and Him. The teachers were

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very surprised.

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» There were many different clubs at Club

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Elementary School.

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>> There is there is a chorus for fourth

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and fifth grade graders with Miss Craft.

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Running club is a very exciting way to

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get exercise in the morning. Culinary

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Equations is for fourth graders.

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Band also started up with our new band

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teacher, Mrs. Smith. I see some really

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handsome guys in those in the back.

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[snorts]

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[laughter]

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You can find me and Nolan in there.

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Let's also not forget about student

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ambassadors, though. We had a first

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meeting this morning and we are in

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action.

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Since this is my last year at Carver

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Elementary, I'm trying to do as many fun

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before and after school activities as I

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can.

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>> Yeah, Jay, me too. But sometimes if my

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schedule wasn't the best.

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>> Yeah, it's all about balance.

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They've been showing videos in the

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cafeteria to help with raising money for

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the fun run. Katy Cat has been playing

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dance music outside of the building

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before and after school. The buildup to

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the fun run is called the Booster Run.

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It's been happening since last week and

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continues until the fun run on Friday.

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We are raising money for a book vending

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machine. Students can earn tokens by

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doing nice things and are awarded with a

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book of their choosing. We raised over

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half our goal and it's still going.

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Anybody want to donate? [laughter]

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» The family resource fair will be taking

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place on October 29th from 5 to 8:00

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p.m. This is the same day as parent

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teacher conferences and the book fair.

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>> How wonderful. I love books. It's open

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to the public and can help families

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connect with

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resources resources. Student ambassadors

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will be assisting that event. We'll be

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there.

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>> Come check it out. Come check it out.

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>> Our book our book for the school year is

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called the power one. The theme is it

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all starts with one.

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>> Yeah, I really like the book. They read

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it out loud in the assembly.

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>> I like the author of this book, too. Her

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name is Trudy Levelwood. She wrote The

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Invisible Boy. She writes a lot of

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powerful books with important messages.

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>> One small act can make a difference.

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>> This is going to be a wonderful year.

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Have a great evening

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>> and remember above all be kind.

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[applause]

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» As always, thank you for being here. We

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love hearing from our elementary school

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ambassadors. Um, so now the captain's

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council has

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this time Owen Holmes is captain

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Crown, Jesse Badger, and Kyle Car here

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to represent.

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Thanks, guys.

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» Oh, wait.

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» Yeah. So, my name is Owen Holmes. I'm a

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senior at Carver and I'm the captain of

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the football team.

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>> Uh, I'm Kyle Kerry and I'm a senior. I'm

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captain of the basketball team.

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>> I'm Brandon Korea. I'm a junior and I'm

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the captain of the football team.

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>> I'm Jesse Badger. I'm a junior and I'm

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captain of the wrestling team.

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>> Welcome.

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>> So, we have a few words for you from uh

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different sports teams and their

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captains. They all gave us like a little

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write up to say. So, first off, we have

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volleyball. Um, Carver volleyball is

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starting at 9 and2. Junior Bella

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Fletcher reached 100 assists. Reese

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Hoka, Josie Helms, and Emma Wall are

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also named players to watch for 2026.

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Then for girls soccer, the Carver girls

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varsity soccer team is off to a good

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start with wins over Dennis Yarmouth and

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Wearham. The JV team is also having a

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successful season with some important

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upcoming games against Rising Tide and

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Mashp. Both teams are looking to finish

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strong. And then for football, the

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football team has had a rough start to

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the season at 0 and4. This week we have

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our youth game against Monoy and we're

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hoping to bounce back and make a push

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for the playoffs. Despite despite the

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record of the team, we have been able to

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grow as individuals and as a group and

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we're all excited to see how the team

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reacts to the pressure of the second

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half of the season.

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Next up, we got cross country. So far

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this season, we've competed in five

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meets against Abington, Middlear,

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Norwell, and Cohassid, as well as the

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Martha's Vineyard Invitational. Our

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record is 2-2 with a close match against

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Middle by only one point and a big win

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against Cohasset with Carver's Ben

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Eevee, Jake Holden, and Nathan Tyler

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coming in first, second, and third.

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With every meet, our times are getting

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quicker and quicker with every runner

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showing great improvements and

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dedication to the sport.

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Boys soccer, the team is off to a very

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strong start this season. They're ranked

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number eight in their division and just

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picked up a big win against East

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Bridgewwater. Mitchell Zawiki is doing

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really well with 17 goals in eight

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games. Uh next is field hockey. Carver

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field hockey currently stands at a

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record of four and four. So far into the

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season, they have had a 17 goals and

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four shutouts. They continue to work

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hard every day in hopes of going far

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into the playoffs.

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Golf is our next one. Carver golf is

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eight 8-2 on the year. They have already

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clinched a state sectional bid and look

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to clinch league at Mashby tonight. They

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have a [snorts] balanced varsity team

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containing seniors

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captains Charlie Donovan and Wyatt

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Turner and Nathan Blackwell. Juniors

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Ryan Guthro, Kellen Cutting, Dax

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Russell, and Ryan Lemonry, also a

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freshman, Kellen Cutting or Chase

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Cutting, I'm sorry. And then our senior

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games are cross country October 13th 400

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p.m. versewwater.

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And for golf 104

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3:30 verse rising tide field hockey

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October 27th 4:30 vers Sturgis East

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volleyball October 27th 5:30 versam

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girls soccer October 28th 400 p.m. vers

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Barnstable boys soccer October 29th 5:30

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vers and football and cheer October 30th

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at 600 p.m. versus Hall. And that's all.

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>> That's great. Thank you so much for

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being here. Good luck. And you know

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what? Everybody loves an underdog, so I

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think it's to your advantage.

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>> Oh, we're going to be fine. We're going

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to be fine.

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[applause]

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» I know.

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So,

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Um, okay. So, that brings us to um

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comments from Mr. Repres who's now here

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who's out of the room. Um, okay. So,

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next that brings us to approval of

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minutes for the open session minutes for

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September 14th, 2026. Okay. I move that

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we approve the open session minutes for

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September 14th, 2026.

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» I have a correction.

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>> You have a correction. Okay.

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>> Where it says the other attendees don't.

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Thank you.

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>> You want to?

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>> Yes. Amended. To make a motion to

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approve as amended. Okay. I make a

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motion to approve the over minutes as

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amended for September 14th, 2036. I

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second. Excellent. We have a motion and

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a second. Is there any further

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discussion? All those in favor? I.

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>> Thank you for pointing that out.

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Appreciate that.

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Um, okay. So, next up brings us to

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communications. So I do have uh two

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communications for the committee this

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evening. The first is just the reeds

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quarterly report which they send out to

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you obviously on a regular basis uh once

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every four years. Uh and um

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so Mitchell's come in and

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» [applause]

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>> Is your mom coming?

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>> No.

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I didn't know she was coming. We

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didn't want to give you the award that

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have your parents. [laughter]

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>> So, Michelin Swiki, uh, AP scholar, uh,

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first generation award and school award

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from the college board for her

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outstanding performance on his AP exams.

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And we also heard a lot of goals about

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you.

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[applause]

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» Score a goal today.

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>> Yes, sir. All right. There we go. And we

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take a picture. So,

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» okay. Ready.

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>> Perfect. Thank you.

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[applause]

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» Yeah.

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Uh so we do have the regular reads

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quarter report communications just gives

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you updates what's happening in reads. I

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just wanted to know that was in the

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background. Uh secondly I linked an

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article from Boston magazine. Uh each

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year Boston magazine rates uh school

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districts east of Worcester based on a

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range of data including but not limited

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to test scores, class size, median

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household income and home values. Uh

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this year they rated a total of 148

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districts. Uh in the ratings we were in

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00:23:16,159 --> 00:23:19,440
the top 10 in a category they call best

542
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,320
bang for your buck. Um [laughter]

543
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,159
which

544
00:23:24,159 --> 00:23:27,990
is not a bad

545
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,640
which um which compares your school

546
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,320
performance against median household

547
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,080
income and home values.

548
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,600
>> Um so they're saying that you know

549
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,520
quality of education here is strong and

550
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,320
common um based on median income and

551
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,400
home values. So we're in the top 10. So

552
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,080
we just thought we point that out to the

553
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,559
committee. Um the whole articles in go

554
00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:48,400
through it and look at the rankings.

555
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,400
>> Well overall I looked at it and overall

556
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,880
we ran both from the schools and the

557
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,776
world.

558
00:23:55,776 --> 00:24:03,669
[laughter]

559
00:24:03,679 --> 00:24:06,320
» Thank you for that. Um okay so next we

560
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,000
have reports from the superintendent and

561
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,080
personnel updates. So, since our last

562
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,200
meeting, there has been a couple

563
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,360
personnel movements. Uh, so we have some

564
00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,679
new hires. Sarah Hatch is an RBT at the

565
00:24:15,679 --> 00:24:18,640
middle high school. Uh, Rachel McCassie

566
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,159
as a food service worker at the

567
00:24:20,159 --> 00:24:22,720
elementary school. Jessica Frying as a

568
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,080
food service worker at the elementary

569
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,440
school. And we also have the

570
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,919
notification of an RBT Carol Katy at the

571
00:24:27,919 --> 00:24:29,520
middle high school uh, who's going to be

572
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:35,669
retiring effective uh, November of 2026.

573
00:24:35,679 --> 00:24:38,400
» Thank you very much for that. Um, okay.

574
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,559
so that brings us to the MCAST

575
00:24:40,559 --> 00:24:42,559
score review.

576
00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:43,760
John's going to take us through the

577
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,360
MCAST data.

578
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,760
>> I'll just give you a second

579
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,760
pulls it up. Uh, you know, we'll look at

580
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,960
MCAST data for 2026. It's always good to

581
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,679
keep in mind it's a single metric

582
00:24:55,679 --> 00:24:58,000
provides sort of a compass correction

583
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:05,207
general generally for the district. It's not the entire story of issues.

584
00:25:05,207 --> 00:25:09,669
[music]

585
00:25:09,679 --> 00:25:11,919
You good?

586
00:25:11,919 --> 00:25:14,799
>> And you know, we use it in a way to uh

587
00:25:14,799 --> 00:25:16,559
help find our strengths and areas that

588
00:25:16,559 --> 00:25:19,440
we need to continually to improve. So,

589
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,200
it's not the end all be all, but it's

590
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,279
important. It's an important single

591
00:25:23,279 --> 00:25:31,269
metric. you're not the only

592
00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:33,360
so

593
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,400
that I I didn't but I did just want to

594
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,080
remind folks that if you didn't see the

595
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,799
news recently as the state made the

596
00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:44,320
MCAST uh data public last week they did

597
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:45,840
sort of give an overview of the state

598
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,720
and by and large the state didn't do as

599
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,039
well as [clears throat] it had in most

600
00:25:51,039 --> 00:25:53,039
areas and most grades there was like a

601
00:25:53,039 --> 00:25:55,360
general decline. Sometimes it was

602
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:58,159
staying the same. So, as we look at our

603
00:25:58,159 --> 00:25:59,919
data, it's, you know, anytime there's

604
00:25:59,919 --> 00:26:01,840
even like a slight increase, we're kind

605
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,320
of bucking the trend that uh schools

606
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,799
across the state saw. So, um so

607
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:11,760
generally how did we do [clears throat]

608
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,400
a couple slides that there's a lot of

609
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,159
data here. It shows ELA performance in

610
00:26:18,159 --> 00:26:21,039
grades 3 through 5, our middle school

611
00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:25,600
grades and grade 10. And you know, a

612
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,919
takeaway might be that uh you know, if

613
00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:30,480
you look at the 10th grade ELA,

614
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,640
about 40% of our kids are meeting or

615
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,640
exceeding state expectations and passing

616
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,200
is partially meeting as well as meeting

617
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:40,400
and exceeding.

618
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,840
you know 80 to 90% of our kids in all

619
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:48,640
areas are passing MCAT uh in

620
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,039
so we switch over to math there's a lot

621
00:26:51,039 --> 00:26:53,919
of data here so I'm not going to spend a

622
00:26:53,919 --> 00:26:56,559
lot of time on any one but I encourage

623
00:26:56,559 --> 00:26:58,640
people especially like [clears throat]

624
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,600
all the people watching at home

625
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,418
that I thought

626
00:27:04,418 --> 00:27:06,240
[laughter]

627
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,640
I would

628
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:13,590
watch

629
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,159
I encourage you to go to the uh Jessie

630
00:27:16,159 --> 00:27:18,320
profiles dashboard where you can really

631
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,000
explore the data

632
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,919
>> and when I do the accountability so I'm

633
00:27:21,919 --> 00:27:23,120
going to pull that up and show people

634
00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:25,600
how to get to it and there's there's a

635
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,400
lot of data there for you to look at

636
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,919
>> uh when we uh get to math uh you know

637
00:27:31,919 --> 00:27:34,240
across the grade spans one of the things

638
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,559
that jumped out to me is that uh over

639
00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:40,080
91% of elementary as well as 10th grade

640
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,799
students demonstrated

641
00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:45,679
um passing proficiencies whether it's

642
00:27:45,679 --> 00:27:48,480
exceeding medium or partially

643
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,279
um which is you know something to self-

644
00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:54,720
acknowledge in our science levels uh

645
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,559
grade 8 particularly showed strong

646
00:27:56,559 --> 00:27:59,840
performance with over 44% of the kids in

647
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,279
meeting or exceeding and over 90%

648
00:28:03,279 --> 00:28:07,360
demonstrating mastery um and that super

649
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,760
that that that goes beyond state the

650
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,399
state averages. And then the last area

651
00:28:12,399 --> 00:28:14,159
is civics which is only to our eighth

652
00:28:14,159 --> 00:28:17,200
graders and it's still a relatively new

653
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,559
MCCAST test. This is the first full year

654
00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:24,399
of implementation of the DKP new civics

655
00:28:24,399 --> 00:28:28,320
curriculum that we're using. So uh you

656
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,960
know over at the same time over 81%

657
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,559
uh demonstrate at least passing

658
00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:35,120
proficiency but you know as we get used

659
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,240
to the curriculum I I know our kids are

660
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,600
going to get even um better and show you

661
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,960
know higher levels of achievement.

662
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,520
We just spoke about our neighbors. Uh I

663
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,679
did this next section is a chance to

664
00:28:49,679 --> 00:28:51,360
look at where we stand compared to our

665
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,159
neighbors on MCAST. And once again, it's

666
00:28:54,159 --> 00:28:56,080
just a sense of where do we, you know,

667
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,480
what's the context, where our strengths,

668
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,960
where we need to continue to work. So,

669
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,240
we'll do the uh ELA grades band. So, 3

670
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,720
through 8, we're meeting at exceeding.

671
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,720
We're kind of in the middle of the pack.

672
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,440
Uh other than Plymouth, we're all below

673
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,000
the state uh average. When you look at

674
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,600
10th grade, we get a little closer to

675
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,360
the state and same thing. and we're

676
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,080
still kind of in the middle of pack

677
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,399
not we're supposed to be in the middle

678
00:29:24,399 --> 00:29:28,000
of pack uh 3 through8 math uh we are

679
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,039
stronger than the other areas and uh

680
00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:32,640
closer to the state and it's worth

681
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,200
pointing out that uh with disagregated

682
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,679
grades four and five were uh beyond the

683
00:29:37,679 --> 00:29:41,039
state uh average. So we had some uh you

684
00:29:41,039 --> 00:29:43,440
know overall really nice math

685
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,640
achievement and real pockets of you know

686
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,279
um hitting hitting the benchmark uh the

687
00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:51,120
state average.

688
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,600
Uh and then for 10th grade it was kind

689
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,679
of a different story out of our

690
00:29:55,679 --> 00:29:59,120
neighbors. Our 10th grade test scores uh

691
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,640
put us in the back.

692
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,520
um closely mark

693
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,159
and then science as you said eighth

694
00:30:08,159 --> 00:30:09,600
grade did very well, fifth grade did

695
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,799
really well. Um ahead of the pack and to

696
00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:16,640
the the students and teachers uh credit

697
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,720
the science mcast is going through this

698
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,480
transition

699
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,720
where the uh what kids are being asked

700
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,360
to do is changing and the state still

701
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,840
kind of settling on uh what the test is

702
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,200
going to look like. So the the

703
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,760
performance tasks are really kind of

704
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,720
unusual and and uh the kids really did

705
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,799
well. The teachers did both fifth and

706
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:41,520
eth of getting kids the kids ready for

707
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,240
uh really uncharted territory.

708
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,279
And then lastly 10th grade uh you know

709
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:49,440
we did the physics first curriculum.

710
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,919
It's a difficult downcast. Uh most of

711
00:30:51,919 --> 00:30:54,480
our neighbors use biology, 10th grade,

712
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,760
I'm sorry, nth grade and their kids

713
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,120
school.

714
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,000
>> Yeah, I was going to make that

715
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,600
distinction. Science will tough to work

716
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,279
at high school level cuz it's based on

717
00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:04,880
some student some schools give their own

718
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,480
class in 10th grade, some give it a nth

719
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,279
grade, some do biology, some do physics,

720
00:31:09,279 --> 00:31:10,480
>> so you're not you're not fully

721
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:11,360
comparing.

722
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,760
>> Yeah.

723
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,039
All right. And then uh and then

724
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:19,440
civics, same thing. I think we're we're

725
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,640
still working uh in progress. Uh really

726
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,000
believe in the curriculum level we've

727
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,360
implemented. So I think

728
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,679
that's going to change in the next

729
00:31:31,679 --> 00:31:33,440
and then is we sort of drilled out on

730
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,080
the elementary school performance.

731
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,919
Uh and once again I know there's a lot

732
00:31:37,919 --> 00:31:40,720
here. What I did is like I really

733
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,480
believe a line is more important than a

734
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,480
dot when you look at the data. So we

735
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,360
kind of looked at three-year trends and

736
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,240
so for grade three through five uh

737
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,279
specifically uh we saw exceeding a need

738
00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:56,240
and trending upward which is positive

739
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,240
not meeting is kind of trending upward

740
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,640
too. So, you know, in the elementary

741
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,039
school, they're really working on uh

742
00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:04,720
redesigning the way we teach early

743
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,960
reading strategies, make uh

744
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,399
interventions to start to um ameliate

745
00:32:10,399 --> 00:32:12,000
their negative trend and bring

746
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,039
especially those partially meeting kids

747
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:18,240
move those over to meetings. If we go to

748
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,840
the next slide, what's an interesting

749
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,320
phenomenon that we see in several

750
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,159
different brain bands is that when you

751
00:32:26,159 --> 00:32:29,600
break up the the four proficiency levels

752
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,039
into the high, medium, and low,

753
00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:37,039
which is in this one partially meeting,

754
00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:40,399
if we look at the high, the kids that

755
00:32:40,399 --> 00:32:43,840
are within nine points or or fewer of

756
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,640
moving to the next higher category,

757
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,519
really It's two to three questions.

758
00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:52,159
It's our biggest group of kids.

759
00:32:52,159 --> 00:32:54,720
So, you know, that's where intervention

760
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,720
strategies, that's where the

761
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,880
differentiation of class, that's where

762
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,200
the continued refinement of of the

763
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,640
strategies around curriculum each helps

764
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,279
and really looking at what will those

765
00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:10,720
individual kids need to help them just a

766
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,399
little bit better, but they're they're

767
00:33:12,399 --> 00:33:14,159
right there. So we see we'll see that

768
00:33:14,159 --> 00:33:18,399
trend again uh as we go to math

769
00:33:18,399 --> 00:33:20,480
>> and it's really a focus for us to try to

770
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,039
get some of those high partially meeting

771
00:33:23,039 --> 00:33:26,880
into meeting to get some of that 77

772
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,840
students up to the next level.

773
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,320
And we see it in math as well, biggest

774
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,799
group partial meeting and really looking

775
00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:38,000
at study uh our teachers, our math

776
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,760
coaches, we've done a great job of

777
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,559
looking at the data and looking for

778
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:44,720
where do we really have to refine our

779
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,120
instruction? What areas do maybe does

780
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,559
the curriculum maybe uh underemphasize

781
00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:53,360
and how can we uh sort of shift that

782
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,480
focus a little bit and help kids uh to

783
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,480
just a hair better? Because if we go to

784
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,320
the next chart, which I made a different

785
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,440
color cuz it's got the same shape that,

786
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,200
you know, partially meeting high is once

787
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,600
again the biggest group and you see how

788
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,399
it goes down at the bottom because

789
00:34:10,399 --> 00:34:12,320
there, you know, there just aren't many

790
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,399
kids that are partially meeting low and

791
00:34:14,399 --> 00:34:16,560
not most of our kids are right there,

792
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,520
right on the cusp. Uh and you know, we

793
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,919
just this is about achievement. It's not about hitting numbers or making

794
00:34:23,919 --> 00:34:26,000
a graph look a certain way. We just want

795
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,950
kids to do better.

796
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,480
So, and then last year uh our teachers,

797
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,879
our literacy coach, the administration

798
00:34:34,879 --> 00:34:37,520
really focused on writing through

799
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:42,399
professional development uh time um uh

800
00:34:42,399 --> 00:34:44,879
the beginning of the year uh bonus

801
00:34:44,879 --> 00:34:47,760
blocks and uh when we look at the data,

802
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,919
we'll note that the CES teachers really

803
00:34:49,919 --> 00:34:51,839
deserve some credit for driving

804
00:34:51,839 --> 00:34:53,440
measurable gains. And of course, MCCAST

805
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,079
is only grades 3 through 5. It was up to

806
00:34:56,079 --> 00:35:00,079
the K through five. So

807
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:03,040
essay, the essay section of MCAT, the LA

808
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,480
MCAST is the score is a total score.

809
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,720
It's made up of two sections. The first

810
00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,200
is standard English convention. It's a

811
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,359
can students use syntax properly at

812
00:35:13,359 --> 00:35:16,320
their grade level, their grammar, uh,

813
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,160
you know, do they do they know rules of

814
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,480
punctuation? It's not so much a spelling

815
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,640
test. you know, they give a they some

816
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,200
wiggle room around that. And so we

817
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,160
looked at last year with the real focus

818
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,440
2026 versus the year before. And what we

819
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,280
see is that the year before, for

820
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,320
instance, was ability to follow

821
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,520
convention, we had a lot of zeros and a

822
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,320
lot of ones. What really happened to say

823
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,599
2026 that shifted to the right and most

824
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:48,480
of our scores were ones and twos. We saw

825
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,640
some gross growth with threes the

826
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,800
highest level. So it was really nice

827
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,079
growth in the use of conventions. The

828
00:35:56,079 --> 00:35:57,920
next category is called idea

829
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,839
development. It's the ability to

830
00:35:59,839 --> 00:36:02,320
formulate a main idea support with

831
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,760
evidence in a coherent argument so to

832
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,920
speak. And once again we see the zeros

833
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,680
getting cut down by uh more than half.

834
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,400
Uh really in year four we had almost one

835
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,040
out of three kids get zero to being able

836
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,760
to make a coherent argument. Um and that

837
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,680
was greatly reduced and once again the

838
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,480
score shifted to the to the right. And

839
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,640
if you look at the overall scoring

840
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,800
adding those two categories together

841
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,800
instead of zeros and twos being our

842
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,280
biggest categories last year it was twos

843
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,160
and fours. Uh I'll I'll talk about it

844
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,800
again, but we're continuing that focus

845
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,200
expanding. We we looked at what are the

846
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,359
kids good at and now what's the next

847
00:36:47,359 --> 00:36:49,280
thing they need to work on to continue

848
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,160
to grow our young writers. So really

849
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,440
encouraged about that teaching a lot of

850
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,599
credit for the middle high school same

851
00:36:57,599 --> 00:37:00,800
analysis same set of graphs.

852
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,440
Um we've seen some consistency in ELA

853
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,920
over over 3 years um in the middle the

854
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,760
middle grades

855
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,920
uh with mostly high level partial

856
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,960
meeting and when we go to that graph

857
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:20,150
it's listen way

858
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,520
in math same thing it's very consistent

859
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,960
um we see kids unfortunately moving from

860
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,359
meeting partial meeting those numbers

861
00:37:29,359 --> 00:37:31,119
seem to be absorbed

862
00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:33,520
that partial meeting and when we do the

863
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,400
same final curve uh the final graph that

864
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,560
shows the same thing that's once again

865
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,079
uh

866
00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:44,640
we're going to work personalized support

867
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,480
and we can probably see those kids

868
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,640
improve when we switch to the high

869
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,280
school

870
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,280
um [clears throat]

871
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,079
you know to concern them seeing and

872
00:37:56,079 --> 00:38:00,000
meeting uh trending downwards you both

873
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,680
ELA and math and science. It's kind of

874
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,760
been a couple years of kids also riding

875
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,079
a wave of MCCAST doesn't count and it's

876
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:12,560
voted out and I don't have to take it to

877
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,160
maybe I should take it. So, it's not

878
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,960
necessarily sure that's the best uh

879
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,440
measure, the best metric to use to know

880
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,720
where the kids are directly uh

881
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:26,400
accurately.

882
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,440
You see the same thing in math

883
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,640
and then in science as well. Although in

884
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,680
science the physics great uh the science

885
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,880
grade wasn't as uh as solid as our

886
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,040
neighbors but we did see last year

887
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,839
physics once again tough guess that kids

888
00:38:43,839 --> 00:38:46,160
actually meeting expectations uh

889
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,560
rebounded really nicely after a year but

890
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,560
once again I think that had to do with

891
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:57,040
kids identifying the value of

892
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,880
the same thing by focusing on writing

893
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,560
where our kids in middle school uh kind

894
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,119
of the opposite thing. They went uh they

895
00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:06,800
didn't have the same focus on writing

896
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,760
last week's middle school, but when we

897
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,599
use the same analysis, it looks like

898
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,359
they actually

899
00:39:13,359 --> 00:39:16,240
kind of prepped up um and and stayed

900
00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:18,240
where it was. We didn't see a growth.

901
00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,640
There's an overall shift to the right of

902
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:27,750
the younger grad and stay scores.

903
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,400
And then when you get to the 10th grade,

904
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,720
the high school writing, it actually by

905
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:35,060
10th grade, kids are demonstrated the

906
00:39:35,060 --> 00:39:35,599
[clears throat]

907
00:39:35,599 --> 00:39:38,000
ability to write pretty successfully as

908
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,870
most kids were all the way to the right.

909
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,240
Uh student subgroups just to look at

910
00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:48,560
elementary and high school uh students

911
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,480
with disabilities and we see pretty

912
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,480
consistent trends. We kind of flip

913
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,480
through ELA and math

914
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,480
for students with disabilities as well

915
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,119
as lower income families. The subgroups

916
00:40:01,119 --> 00:40:03,040
that we have enough kids that we can get

917
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:07,359
data reported out as um and once again

918
00:40:07,359 --> 00:40:15,670
pretty consistent patterns

919
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,680
importantly at the end. So what do we do

920
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,520
with all this data with all these

921
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,240
pictures of uh how the kids performed

922
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:24,400
this past spring in the elementary

923
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,119
school that are action planning focusing

924
00:40:27,119 --> 00:40:30,400
math and once again as I mentioned we'll

925
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,520
continue the really good uh uh focus on

926
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,079
writing instruction with taking kids

927
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:38,640
from rather just focusing on structure

928
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,480
and evidence skills like last year but

929
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,240
then building on top of that the

930
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:45,359
importance of theory and idea um using

931
00:40:45,359 --> 00:40:48,480
that evidence It's demonstrated a nice

932
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,400
ability to be able to use evidence and

933
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,800
structure. Um so we're just taking it

934
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:57,040
now to coherent and clear main ideas. Uh

935
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,280
the reading instruction will continue as

936
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,760
well as connecting more and more

937
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,680
explicitly to the writing that kids are

938
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,520
doing. Um grade level expectations.

939
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,599
uh we have implemented you've spoken

940
00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:13,680
about it other times here uh a new early

941
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,400
uh reading program you fly which teaches

942
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,880
phonics and it's based on HQIM concepts

943
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,240
this will be the first full year that

944
00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:25,680
that's given to all kids to look forward

945
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,200
to seeing uh that's effect on the world

946
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,160
and then a bit of a long-term uh project

947
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,720
where we're looking at

948
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,880
literacy curriculum that we recognize is

949
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,680
a true which our current one is not and

950
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,280
really it's an optimal for the idea that

951
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,200
uh for next fall that we would have like

952
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,760
that implementation. So you know focuses

953
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,680
for this year as well as plans for the

954
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,079
future in math it's really about

955
00:41:56,079 --> 00:41:58,160
identifying the gaps in the curriculum

956
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,400
uh where kids aren't doing as well and

957
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,400
then building the lessons and activities

958
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,599
to sort of fill in growth. uh really

959
00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:08,000
looking at the vertical math

960
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,200
progressions to really see uh and make

961
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,760
sure kids have coherent understanding of

962
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,240
math and how things connect. Making sure

963
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:18,480
for instance we use the same words or

964
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,280
the same concepts throughout

965
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,599
um and then uh uh implementing lessons

966
00:42:25,599 --> 00:42:27,440
and activities to really help really

967
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,280
focus on students problem solving

968
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,119
strategies. One of the places that we

969
00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:34,400
saw that keeps Pney stronger is uh in

970
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,599
their ability to problem solve and um

971
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:39,520
their understanding of the content of

972
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:44,640
their um uh applying these strategies to

973
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,960
so uh a lot of good planning at the

974
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,200
elementary school and then high school.

975
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:54,720
goal for based on um this data is uh you

976
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:58,319
know what we saw around ELA which we got

977
00:42:58,319 --> 00:43:00,560
a really focused curriculum review of

978
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,280
the 6 through 12 ELA curriculum we've

979
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,480
done about the strengths but as well any

980
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,800
opportunities to improve or really

981
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,280
refine the teaching of literacy skills

982
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,240
to our older students

983
00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:16,960
and that's through actually

984
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,839
uh math Uh we've established a tier 2

985
00:43:19,839 --> 00:43:22,560
math course called IT math. The students

986
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,000
uh in grades six through to help um

987
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,079
support

988
00:43:28,079 --> 00:43:30,400
deficiencies or struggles that kids have

989
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,200
and then we'll continue implementing

990
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,599
illustrative math and then amplify math

991
00:43:35,599 --> 00:43:39,359
algebra one and both really basic

992
00:43:39,359 --> 00:43:40,880
implementations. A lot of times you

993
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,960
don't as a teacher really hit your

994
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,560
stride with the new curriculum until

995
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,580
years three and four. field of pieces

996
00:43:46,580 --> 00:43:48,560
[clears throat] that

997
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,200
they're still they're still using the

998
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,480
new curriculum to them and then uh

999
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,720
there's a combined project. Uh we

1000
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:00,640
started an ISL pilot. ISL is a platform

1001
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,160
that um uh helps students identify

1002
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,440
strengths and then provides uh tutoring

1003
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,280
to help uh fill in any

1004
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,599
gaps in understanding. And we've done

1005
00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:16,400
that in uh grades six and seven based on

1006
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,400
the benchmark assessment and that

1007
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,560
happens during an academic workshop. The

1008
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,240
goal is to really personalize support.

1009
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:24,880
So kids that uh might be struggling or

1010
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,280
below grade level help move them up but

1011
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,760
also the kids that are uh around grade

1012
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,160
level. They have access to curriculum

1013
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,880
that's on grade level or or even grade

1014
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,599
ahead to help those those kids continue

1015
00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:41,359
to grow. So there I I think really solid

1016
00:44:41,359 --> 00:44:43,680
uh plans at both schools to support our

1017
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,440
students based on this. So last slide

1018
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,760
questions what questions do you have?

1019
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,200
>> Thank you. I'm happy to answer

1020
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,599
questions.

1021
00:44:55,599 --> 00:44:57,280
I'm really excited to know that we're

1022
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,240
using ASL because I know that in our

1023
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:04,160
schools are amazing at identifying which

1024
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,440
like where kids are at and how to tailor

1025
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,839
to their needs. So

1026
00:45:09,839 --> 00:45:12,240
>> yeah, I'm excited to see the um the

1027
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:13,680
benchmark assessments that are done

1028
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,599
three times a year. That's uh

1029
00:45:17,599 --> 00:45:21,040
that's that's provides the focus and the

1030
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,480
recommended areas to work on. uh beyond

1031
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,400
that teachers during the pilot have the

1032
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,560
ability to decide other uh activities or

1033
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,400
units. Some of the teachers are

1034
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,480
interested teachers that um you know in

1035
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,240
science or social studies are interested

1036
00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:44,400
in using cells maybe as rich as

1037
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,680
an engaging source of homework. So um

1038
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,240
during the pilot phase I think teachers

1039
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:52,400
do a great job of different ways they

1040
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,560
can students.

1041
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:55,839
>> I also think it's important that we've

1042
00:45:55,839 --> 00:45:58,800
instituted that RTI course for um middle

1043
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,480
school students for math you know so

1044
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,720
we're identifying students who will need

1045
00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:04,960
additional supports in math uh and

1046
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,160
they're having that class as part of

1047
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,040
their art rotation uh and they can

1048
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,880
students can move in and out of class.

1049
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,280
So based on NWBA data, based on other

1050
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:14,880
things, a student may be there for a

1051
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,400
term, think well another student may

1052
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,720
come in uh just trying to develop some

1053
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:20,160
more personalized supports for students

1054
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,680
at the middle school level.

1055
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,319
>> Will you be presenting the end

1056
00:46:24,319 --> 00:46:26,160
point?

1057
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,680
>> Yeah. So we just

1058
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,200
>> I just like to say we're in pairs.

1059
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,440
>> We haven't finished testing the middle

1060
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,359
high school this week. It's going to

1061
00:46:33,359 --> 00:46:35,040
finish up. Yeah, but we can definitely

1062
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,480
do a presentation on that either in

1063
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,920
October or November. Um it it's well

1064
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:41,119
it's interesting to look at though

1065
00:46:41,119 --> 00:46:43,599
because um I'd say overall our

1066
00:46:43,599 --> 00:46:47,599
performance is looks better on the NWA.

1067
00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:49,200
So when you look at the NWA and you

1068
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,520
compare it to N the national standards

1069
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,520
we're we're generally performing really

1070
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,079
well on this really strong growth there.

1071
00:46:56,079 --> 00:46:57,520
There's supposed to be a correlation

1072
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,920
between that and MCAT scores. Um we

1073
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:03,280
haven't necessarily seen that. Um but

1074
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:04,720
obviously we're hoping hoping to see

1075
00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:06,400
that but I think it would be good to sh

1076
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,319
cuz NA is just another data point. So we

1077
00:47:08,319 --> 00:47:09,440
talked about there's multiple data

1078
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,839
points that's not a data point that's uh

1079
00:47:11,839 --> 00:47:13,440
evaluating our students growth and

1080
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:17,440
performance. So we go it all both levels

1081
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,079
of use that data inform the

1082
00:47:20,079 --> 00:47:22,160
interventions. If you remember last year

1083
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:23,920
I came

1084
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,079
February, January, February, I had the

1085
00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:28,480
whole hiking presentation and and we

1086
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,480
looked at how kids are where they

1087
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,640
started and with intervention and

1088
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,960
support from teachers where are they

1089
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,040
midway and how to start

1090
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,800
where we are at the beginning and then

1091
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,800
how

1092
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,119
long

1093
00:47:45,119 --> 00:47:47,280
>> and that was actually born out I'm going

1094
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:48,400
to talk about this in the accountability

1095
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,079
presentation a little bit our lowest

1096
00:47:50,079 --> 00:47:51,440
performing students which actually did

1097
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,680
really well. So the one subgroup is

1098
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:54,880
lowest performing which we didn't get

1099
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,960
into a lot of their MCAST data per se in

1100
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,160
John's presentation but when you look at

1101
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,440
the accountability data which we're

1102
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:04,319
going to do right now uh it shows that that group performed well. So the

1103
00:48:04,319 --> 00:48:05,760
students that we're giving interventions

1104
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,640
to districtwide are doing are performing

1105
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,960
better.

1106
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,200
So I guess

1107
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,599
I'll ask you one more question. Thank

1108
00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:24,470
you.

1109
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,119
» Yeah. So based on based mostly on MCAT

1110
00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:29,359
scores, there's other factors. Uh every

1111
00:48:29,359 --> 00:48:32,079
year um every public school in

1112
00:48:32,079 --> 00:48:33,680
Massachusetts gets an accountability

1113
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,599
rating. Uh so I'll share our

1114
00:48:35,599 --> 00:48:37,119
accountability rating with you this

1115
00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:39,280
evening and talk about how that rating

1116
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,240
was determined. Um so what is the

1117
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:43,920
accountability system? It's a set of

1118
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:45,440
policies and practices that the state

1119
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,760
uses determine uh to measure student

1120
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,920
growth and hold students accountable. Uh

1121
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,200
the current account system was

1122
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,240
implemented in 2018. So it's near 8,

1123
00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:56,240
though there was a brief uh three-year

1124
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:59,599
break during co uh and it's to meet the

1125
00:48:59,599 --> 00:49:01,200
federal requirements under the every

1126
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:02,880
student succeeds act. We talked about

1127
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,160
this a little before, Tony Vancast. Um

1128
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,760
under [clears throat] the federal law,

1129
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,839
we're still required to give a test to

1130
00:49:09,839 --> 00:49:12,960
students in 3 through 10 in math and

1131
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:17,599
English uh and science uh and report out

1132
00:49:17,599 --> 00:49:19,040
data on that and develop an

1133
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,359
accountability system. So this is all

1134
00:49:21,359 --> 00:49:23,200
this accountability system is based on

1135
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,920
federal law. Now it doesn't have to be

1136
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,599
the MCAST exam. Massachusetts chooses to

1137
00:49:27,599 --> 00:49:29,359
be the MCAST exam. It has to be but it

1138
00:49:29,359 --> 00:49:31,599
has to be some exam. Uh and it's one of

1139
00:49:31,599 --> 00:49:34,000
the reasons why even though we've had

1140
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,640
the legislation or the we have the

1141
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,599
ballot initiative to not have the MCAST

1142
00:49:39,599 --> 00:49:41,599
exam be a determinant and graduation

1143
00:49:41,599 --> 00:49:42,880
requirement which we've talked about a

1144
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,200
lot. This is the accountability system

1145
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,760
in the federal law and ESSA every

1146
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,160
student succeeds act establishes that we

1147
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:54,559
have to have some sort of test uh and then develop some sort of

1148
00:49:54,559 --> 00:49:56,000
accountability system. So every state

1149
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,160
has to do this and every state looks a

1150
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,319
little different. Uh so this is mass so

1151
00:50:00,319 --> 00:50:01,920
Massachusetts has control over what that

1152
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,520
system looks like. Um but it has to be

1153
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,079
it's in compliance with the federal law.

1154
00:50:08,079 --> 00:50:09,920
So this this accountability system is

1155
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,559
based on uh compliance with federal law.

1156
00:50:12,559 --> 00:50:14,079
Uh and we already talked about this. The

1157
00:50:14,079 --> 00:50:15,599
economy system is one piece of evidence.

1158
00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:17,280
It's certainly not the only element uh

1159
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,200
that represents the quality of a school.

1160
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,880
That's from Rob Kern who's the associate

1161
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,559
commissioner of data and accountability

1162
00:50:22,559 --> 00:50:25,760
at Desi. Um so where do we stand?

1163
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:27,440
There's there are here are the levels in

1164
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,079
the accountability system. Uh so they

1165
00:50:30,079 --> 00:50:32,880
there's two larger groups. Schools not

1166
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,640
requiring assistance or intervention

1167
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,720
which is actually 85% of the schools in

1168
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:38,800
Massachusetts. And then schools

1169
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,400
requiring assistance or interventions

1170
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,720
which is 15% of the schools. And then

1171
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:44,480
there's subgroups within that. So within

1172
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,240
the schools not requiring assistance

1173
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:48,400
which we are there are four subgroups.

1174
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,119
Schools meeting or exceeding targets,

1175
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:52,559
schools with substantial progress

1176
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:54,319
towards meeting targets which was red up

1177
00:50:54,319 --> 00:50:55,839
there. That's us. That's the rating we

1178
00:50:55,839 --> 00:50:56,800
received for this year in the

1179
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,359
accountability system. Um schools with

1180
00:50:59,359 --> 00:51:00,640
moderate progress towards meeting

1181
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,559
targets. Schools with limited progress

1182
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:03,760
towards meeting targets. So we'll talk

1183
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,680
about what some of these targets are and

1184
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:10,559
where we want to see students grow. Um,

1185
00:51:10,559 --> 00:51:12,400
so I actually this slide is probably out

1186
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:13,839
of order because I think the next slide

1187
00:51:13,839 --> 00:51:16,160
defines what a target is. Uh, but this

1188
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:17,920
is how they determine where you are.

1189
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,000
They give you a percentage of of the

1190
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,079
targets that you met, you know. So a

1191
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:24,400
school that has 75 to 100. So here

1192
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,000
school hits all the targets. They hit

1193
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,839
them all. They hit all fours. Uh,

1194
00:51:27,839 --> 00:51:29,440
they're going to have 100 points and

1195
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:30,800
they're going to get a rating of meeting

1196
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,079
or exceeding targets. um students,

1197
00:51:34,079 --> 00:51:35,920
schools that fall performance falls

1198
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,319
woefully below get into this requiring

1199
00:51:38,319 --> 00:51:40,160
assistance piece of focus, target

1200
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,440
support. That's where the state's going

1201
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:42,480
to get involved and say, "Hey, we're

1202
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:43,280
going to go out and we're going to

1203
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,960
support you." Um throughout this system,

1204
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,359
we've almost always been in substantial

1205
00:51:49,359 --> 00:51:51,760
progress towards meeting targets. We've

1206
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,200
one or two years and actually one of

1207
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,040
last year was one of them where we were

1208
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,119
in moderate progress towards targets,

1209
00:51:57,119 --> 00:51:58,880
but we the counter schools have

1210
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,160
generally been in one of those two

1211
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:01,839
ratings.

1212
00:52:01,839 --> 00:52:04,640
So what do they look at uh in terms of

1213
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:06,480
the accountability system? So it's not

1214
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,119
just all MCCAST scores. So it's MCCAST

1215
00:52:09,119 --> 00:52:11,520
achievement at the and for the

1216
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,079
accountability system they break it into

1217
00:52:14,079 --> 00:52:16,240
non high school and high school. So they

1218
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:17,520
lump the middle school and the

1219
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,520
elementary school scores together. So

1220
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,839
it's 3 through eight scores and then

1221
00:52:21,839 --> 00:52:25,200
high school scores. Um so obviously they

1222
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:26,720
look at achievement in ELA, math and

1223
00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:29,359
science. They look at growth. Uh so they

1224
00:52:29,359 --> 00:52:31,119
have targets for growth for ELA and

1225
00:52:31,119 --> 00:52:34,559
math. Um at the high school level they

1226
00:52:34,559 --> 00:52:36,640
look at these things related to

1227
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,040
graduation. The four-year cohort

1228
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,839
graduation rate, the extended engagement

1229
00:52:41,839 --> 00:52:43,760
rate. What the extended engagement rate

1230
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,359
is is a student who um stays beyond four

1231
00:52:47,359 --> 00:52:49,200
years

1232
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,160
or drops out and comes back. Uh so

1233
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:53,440
there's a process where if a student

1234
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:54,640
drops out, we're supposed to make

1235
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:55,839
contact with them, reach out and try to

1236
00:52:55,839 --> 00:52:57,920
get them back into school. So extended

1237
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,920
engagement would be hey you have

1238
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:01,440
students who are struggling but they

1239
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,200
stayed with it and they did graduate in

1240
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:06,319
5 years or 6 years. Um and then your

1241
00:53:06,319 --> 00:53:09,440
annual dropout rate uh progress made by

1242
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,760
students towards uh attaining English

1243
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,480
proficiency. Uh and then there's a

1244
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,240
couple additional indicators for non-

1245
00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:17,839
high schools. It's just chronic

1246
00:53:17,839 --> 00:53:19,839
absenteeism which this year we did

1247
00:53:19,839 --> 00:53:22,800
really well in. Um and then at the high

1248
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,800
school level it's chronic absenteeism

1249
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,280
and uh percentage of 11th to 12th

1250
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:28,400
graders completing what they call

1251
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,960
advanced coursework and desi actually

1252
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,319
has an established list. They have a

1253
00:53:32,319 --> 00:53:34,000
list of courses that says these are

1254
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,960
advanced courses. Um they're all your AP

1255
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:38,640
courses, your IB courses which are like

1256
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,800
AP courses. We don't offer those. Uh do

1257
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,400
enrollment courses, project lead the

1258
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,640
way. We have some project courses and

1259
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,559
then a couple very specific courses in

1260
00:53:46,559 --> 00:53:48,880
math [snorts] uh like a pre-calculus or

1261
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:50,319
calculus. So if you took calculus, there

1262
00:53:50,319 --> 00:53:51,760
wasn't an AP calculus. We don't offer

1263
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,640
that. Many high schools do. Um that

1264
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:57,839
would count pre-calculus course counts a

1265
00:53:57,839 --> 00:54:00,160
high school 12 senior physics course

1266
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:05,760
counts um as uh advanced coursework. So these are all

1267
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,880
the different factors they look at. Uh

1268
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:10,400
and then what they do is they weigh them

1269
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:15,119
out. Um so achievement is since the non

1270
00:54:15,119 --> 00:54:16,480
high school doesn't have this high

1271
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,800
school completion piece.

1272
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,520
um that's not a percentage and because

1273
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,240
we don't have a large enough ELLL

1274
00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:26,960
population we don't ours doesn't ours

1275
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:28,800
doesn't counted in there either so for

1276
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,440
our accountability data it's achievement

1277
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:33,440
student growth and additional indicators

1278
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,839
at the not at the for students in 3

1279
00:54:35,839 --> 00:54:37,359
through 8 at the high school level it's

1280
00:54:37,359 --> 00:54:39,280
achievement student growth high school

1281
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,680
completion rate all those factors and

1282
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,119
the additional indicators and that's the

1283
00:54:43,119 --> 00:54:44,480
percentage they count in the overall

1284
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,000
system

1285
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,880
um so Tigers every Desi looks at your

1286
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,599
past performance on MCCAST exams and

1287
00:54:51,599 --> 00:54:54,480
they look at uh data over a threeyear

1288
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,720
time period and then based on your

1289
00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:59,119
scores for the previous 3 years they

1290
00:54:59,119 --> 00:55:02,319
establish a uh expected rate of growth.

1291
00:55:02,319 --> 00:55:04,079
How a targeted score how much do they

1292
00:55:04,079 --> 00:55:06,400
expect your scores to grow and this is

1293
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,319
based on your scaled score the exact

1294
00:55:08,319 --> 00:55:10,559
number. So meeting expectations on the

1295
00:55:10,559 --> 00:55:14,720
MCAST exam is a scaled score of 500.

1296
00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:16,640
So our overall scaled score is going to

1297
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,880
be a little bit below 500 cuz you saw

1298
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,079
what's our what's our highest level.

1299
00:55:22,079 --> 00:55:23,839
So you look at our overall scaled scores

1300
00:55:23,839 --> 00:55:25,520
it's going to be in the 490s in most

1301
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,599
cases and that's what this growth is

1302
00:55:27,599 --> 00:55:29,520
based on. So if you're So the

1303
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:30,800
interesting part is there's a couple

1304
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,280
places where if you look at John's data

1305
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:34,800
um [clears throat] you would think oh

1306
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,319
our scaled score might actually be down

1307
00:55:36,319 --> 00:55:38,079
a little bit but it's actually up a

1308
00:55:38,079 --> 00:55:39,119
little bit because it really it takes

1309
00:55:39,119 --> 00:55:41,839
the kids actual scores uh you know so if

1310
00:55:41,839 --> 00:55:44,480
you have a student who scores 540 or

1311
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,319
three students to score 540 and get

1312
00:55:46,319 --> 00:55:48,640
exceeds expectations they're the whole

1313
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:50,720
brand and exceeds expectations but that

1314
00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:53,920
540 brings up your average better than a

1315
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,480
student who got 530 and scoring exceed

1316
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,319
expectations. Does that make sense? Um,

1317
00:55:58,319 --> 00:56:00,799
so it's it's 100% numerical. All your

1318
00:56:00,799 --> 00:56:02,880
factors in here is based on the actual

1319
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,599
numbers of every student's test score.

1320
00:56:05,599 --> 00:56:08,079
Um, and then they they say they want to

1321
00:56:08,079 --> 00:56:11,440
see 25% growth over time. Uh, so each

1322
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:13,200
year they establish a growth target for

1323
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,240
you. Um, and then they then they give

1324
00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:19,359
you a rating uh based on if your scores

1325
00:56:19,359 --> 00:56:21,119
if your score went down, if it declined,

1326
00:56:21,119 --> 00:56:24,720
you get zero points. Uh if there was no

1327
00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:27,520
change, you get one point. If you

1328
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,440
approve, but you approve below the

1329
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:31,040
target they established, you get two

1330
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:33,680
points. If you met the target, you get

1331
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,920
three points. And if you exceed the

1332
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:40,240
target, you get four. Uh in some cases,

1333
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:42,960
um if you if your scores were the top

1334
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,680
10% of any category, you automatically

1335
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,400
earn three or four. Uh and that's we're

1336
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,400
in that brand sometimes for like dropout

1337
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,760
rate or extended engagement rate. So

1338
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:55,520
there if you go back in the data over

1339
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:56,720
time you might see hey that actually

1340
00:56:56,720 --> 00:56:59,520
went down by a point. How come they got

1341
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,280
three points? Well because it was in the

1342
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,280
top 10 in the state in terms of that

1343
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,680
criteria. Um so when you look his this

1344
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:09,680
is I almost feel like this is too much

1345
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:10,799
data here. I could have done this in a

1346
00:57:10,799 --> 00:57:12,880
different way. Um but this is just an

1347
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:14,400
example of some of our targets at the

1348
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,400
high school level last year. So for all

1349
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,559
students, the ELI target, they want to

1350
00:57:18,559 --> 00:57:21,760
see our our scaled score go up 2.6

1351
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,599
points. So they wanted it to be 497

1352
00:57:25,599 --> 00:57:28,640
instead of 494.4.

1353
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,359
That was like our expected growth. Uh we

1354
00:57:31,359 --> 00:57:33,359
improved. They were our scores last were

1355
00:57:33,359 --> 00:57:35,760
better than last year, but it was point

1356
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,160
only. 2, but we earned two points

1357
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,960
because we improved below the target. Um

1358
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:42,559
and so this chart reads all these

1359
00:57:42,559 --> 00:57:43,680
things. And I talk about lowest

1360
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:44,960
performing. I want to point this one out

1361
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:46,799
though. So our time for lowest

1362
00:57:46,799 --> 00:57:49,040
performing in the LA to high school was

1363
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:52,079
a a 5.1 point growth rate and we

1364
00:57:52,079 --> 00:57:54,400
actually were 5.9 which so we earned all

1365
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:57,359
four points and then math for our lowest

1366
00:57:57,359 --> 00:57:59,920
performing subgroup. Um our growth rate

1367
00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:03,520
was 5.1 points overall and we we were

1368
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,400
7.7 so we earned four points. So the

1369
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,000
data actually bears out our lowest

1370
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,200
performing students, the students who

1371
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,280
were trying to give in interventions to

1372
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:12,720
um even at the high school level cuz the

1373
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,000
high school level wasn't doing this at

1374
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,440
the high school scores, but that was

1375
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,119
actually true at the elementary at the

1376
00:58:17,119 --> 00:58:19,520
38 level as well. Our lowest performing

1377
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,760
subgroup actually did pretty well and

1378
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,280
performed above target. When you look at

1379
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:24,880
the accountability system, we got four

1380
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,119
points for those groups um because that

1381
00:58:27,119 --> 00:58:30,319
those students did well. Um so what does

1382
00:58:30,319 --> 00:58:33,839
this all look like? And this is all this

1383
00:58:33,839 --> 00:58:37,040
is in on Desi. This is publicly

1384
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,280
available. You can go dive into all this

1385
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,920
data if you want to. Um so [music] if

1386
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,880
you just search

1387
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,799
if you search school and district pro

1388
00:58:46,799 --> 00:58:49,760
desi school and district profiles and

1389
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,119
then you can it actually brings up a

1390
00:58:51,119 --> 00:58:53,760
map. You can click on

1391
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,040
as long as you know what kind is on the

1392
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:56,559
map. Uh you can you don't even have to

1393
00:58:56,559 --> 00:58:57,680
put anything else here. You click on

1394
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,839
camera on the map and it pulls this up.

1395
00:58:59,839 --> 00:59:04,240
Um and then within this um you can get

1396
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,400
this is the district report. It brings

1397
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,079
you to the district page. But then

1398
00:59:08,079 --> 00:59:10,240
within the district page you can look at

1399
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:11,839
schools in the district. So you can look

1400
00:59:11,839 --> 00:59:13,599
specifically at the elementary or the

1401
00:59:13,599 --> 00:59:16,640
middle high school. Um and so if you

1402
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,040
look at the elementary school only then

1403
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,359
you can see their data not in the 38

1404
00:59:21,359 --> 00:59:23,119
band because they're looking just at the

1405
00:59:23,119 --> 00:59:24,720
elementary school. You can do the same

1406
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,640
for the middle high school. We I base

1407
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:30,559
everything on our overall results. And

1408
00:59:30,559 --> 00:59:32,160
what they do is they actually they base

1409
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:33,599
this over two years. So your

1410
00:59:33,599 --> 00:59:35,280
accountability rating isn't based on one

1411
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,000
year of school, it's based on two. So

1412
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,720
this is our percentage of target of

1413
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,240
points we earn. So we just talk about

1414
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,680
that point system. So this year um we

1415
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,640
earn 59% districtwide of our possible

1416
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:50,240
points.

1417
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,280
Um, and last year we earned 46% of our

1418
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:55,760
possible points. Last year only counts

1419
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,319
40%, this year counts 60%. So our rating

1420
00:59:58,319 --> 01:00:01,040
was 54%. So if you go back to that

1421
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,359
original screen, we got 54% of our

1422
01:00:03,359 --> 01:00:05,200
targets. That's why we're substantially

1423
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,040
meeting targets. Uh, that's how they

1424
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:08,960
call that rating. And then here's all

1425
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,599
the different points that can be earned

1426
01:00:11,599 --> 01:00:15,359
uh across all all all different levels.

1427
01:00:15,359 --> 01:00:18,000
Um, you know, obviously we did really

1428
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,720
well. I do I will say that I I point out

1429
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,079
this anomaly every year and um what I

1430
01:00:24,079 --> 01:00:25,280
was doing with the admin team I actually

1431
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:26,400
felt a little bad I felt like I was

1432
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,839
saying well you know our annual dropout

1433
01:00:29,839 --> 01:00:32,079
rate wasn't that successful you know I

1434
01:00:32,079 --> 01:00:33,440
do think there's some anomalies in this

1435
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:35,280
data like annual dropout rate we earned

1436
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,040
four out of four points if you look at

1437
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:39,680
last year we earned we earned zero uh

1438
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,400
because like we literally had one more

1439
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,400
student drop out than the year before

1440
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,960
and so we went down uh and we weren't in

1441
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,520
the top 10% % across the state, which

1442
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:50,640
I'm not even really sure how that's

1443
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:51,920
possible because our dropout rate went

1444
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,839
from like.7%

1445
01:00:53,839 --> 01:00:56,480
to 1.2%. Because one more student

1446
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:57,680
dropped out. We don't want any student

1447
01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,680
drop out, you know, but that that made a

1448
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:01,200
shift in the data from zero points to

1449
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:02,640
four points, but that's a big shift in

1450
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,839
the data set um based on one student.

1451
01:01:05,839 --> 01:01:07,280
So, I do think there's some things in

1452
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,200
here that uh they can clean up a little

1453
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,440
bit from the desi perspective of maybe

1454
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,200
there's too much swings. And then this

1455
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:14,880
year we had one less to adjust on. So we

1456
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,040
got four points because we grew and we met our targets. We got the four

1457
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,520
out of four. Um

1458
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:23,040
same thing last year with chronic

1459
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:24,880
absentes. Remember our chronic absentes

1460
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,480
was actually still really good. We had

1461
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:27,920
made improvements but it was a little

1462
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,559
lower than or I should say a little

1463
01:01:30,559 --> 01:01:32,480
higher. Chronic abs was a little higher

1464
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,240
than the previous year. So we didn't get

1465
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:35,839
we didn't earn our points in chronic

1466
01:01:35,839 --> 01:01:37,359
absenteeism last year. We were a little

1467
01:01:37,359 --> 01:01:40,480
sad about that. But this year we we did

1468
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:42,960
well again. and and remember we got the

1469
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:45,760
recognition uh for bringing our scores

1470
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,920
down. So, we did earn out points uh for

1471
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,400
chronic absenteeism um within the

1472
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,359
overall system. And then, as I said,

1473
01:01:53,359 --> 01:01:55,280
this is all public information. And you

1474
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:59,119
can go into the detailed data for any

1475
01:01:59,119 --> 01:02:00,799
for all of these things. And it tells

1476
01:02:00,799 --> 01:02:02,720
you what the target was, where you met

1477
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:04,720
your target, where you were. And this

1478
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,079
actually shows I talked about our

1479
01:02:06,079 --> 01:02:08,079
average skill score being about 490. So,

1480
01:02:08,079 --> 01:02:10,720
it's just 3 through eight. You know that

1481
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:12,640
if you took everybody's MCAST scores,

1482
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,559
the average score in 2025 was 490.6.

1483
01:02:16,559 --> 01:02:19,680
This year was 490.7.

1484
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,359
So

1485
01:02:21,359 --> 01:02:24,400
that's a very small increase. So

1486
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,640
recovery path improve below target is

1487
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:29,440
our rating uh for that area. Then then

1488
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,599
it goes through all all the different

1489
01:02:31,599 --> 01:02:35,119
subgroups. You can look at this for um

1490
01:02:35,119 --> 01:02:37,280
high school, you know, for example, we

1491
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:38,319
looked at the high school data a little

1492
01:02:38,319 --> 01:02:41,520
bit. You know, 497.1 was our average

1493
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,359
scaled score, which a little below 500.

1494
01:02:43,359 --> 01:02:46,000
would be meeting expectations to

1495
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:47,599
493.7.

1496
01:02:47,599 --> 01:02:49,280
Here's our lowest performing the example

1497
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:51,280
of that being really strong. Went from

1498
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,000
474.3 to 480 as an average skill score

1499
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,079
for our lowest performing students. And

1500
01:02:56,079 --> 01:02:59,920
you can go through this data for

1501
01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:02,400
it's all out here. If if you wanted me

1502
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:03,760
to go through it all, I could spend I

1503
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,240
could next two hours I go page by page

1504
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:08,640
and we can look at each data set. But my

1505
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:10,240
point is that this is all publicly

1506
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:13,839
available all the way through. So you

1507
01:03:13,839 --> 01:03:17,359
know dropout rate you know drop rate is

1508
01:03:17,359 --> 01:03:21,680
actually a a year in the rears

1509
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:23,119
uh because they give you an opportunity

1510
01:03:23,119 --> 01:03:25,680
for students to go to summer school and

1511
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,520
to earn their diploma. So this actually

1512
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:29,839
is based on it's not 26 data it's 25

1513
01:03:29,839 --> 01:03:32,480
data but like so we were at we were at

1514
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:36,240
2024 we're at 1.1 and honestly in 2023

1515
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:39,990
we were probably like8

1516
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,000
you know and then we went up to 1.1 so

1517
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,079
we got zero points last year this year

1518
01:03:44,079 --> 01:03:46,240
we went from 1.1 to.3 so but that's

1519
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:47,599
really probably like two students

1520
01:03:47,599 --> 01:03:49,200
dropping out three students dropping out

1521
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,119
one student dropping out which in the

1522
01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:53,359
data set is very small we don't want any

1523
01:03:53,359 --> 01:03:54,880
student drop out but that's I always

1524
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,280
point that out as my anomaly of there's

1525
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:58,799
and it's like that a couple places in

1526
01:03:58,799 --> 01:04:01,280
the system where you got big swings in

1527
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,760
your points based on one or two students

1528
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:07,039
uh performance. Um, one thing do I want

1529
01:04:07,039 --> 01:04:12,319
to point out here is when we get down to

1530
01:04:12,319 --> 01:04:14,160
it.

1531
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:17,039
Oh, um, advanced coursework completion.

1532
01:04:17,039 --> 01:04:18,559
This has really been a big focus for us

1533
01:04:18,559 --> 01:04:21,920
through high school. And, um, the issue

1534
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,400
is we got no change because this is the

1535
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:25,920
percentage of juniors and seniors who

1536
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:27,680
take at least in one advanced course and

1537
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:30,000
pass it. Uh, so we have to report all

1538
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,400
student scores in their classes to Desi.

1539
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:37,039
Um, and we went from 70 uh.5 to 70.3.

1540
01:04:37,039 --> 01:04:38,640
So, we actually they view that as no

1541
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:41,920
change. They gave us one point. Um, but

1542
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,359
I what I wanted to point out from the

1543
01:04:43,359 --> 01:04:44,640
committee is that that's actually been a

1544
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:45,760
big push. We've been really trying to

1545
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:47,200
push more students to take advanced

1546
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,200
courses. We want all of our students to

1547
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:50,720
access challenging curriculum in their

1548
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:52,559
junior and senior year. And if you

1549
01:04:52,559 --> 01:04:55,359
actually go back to 2022, which I did

1550
01:04:55,359 --> 01:04:58,160
earlier today, you know, our our rate

1551
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:00,319
was 60%. You know, so we've gone over

1552
01:05:00,319 --> 01:05:02,160
three or four years, we've gone from 60%

1553
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:03,680
of students taking one advanced course

1554
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,160
to 70%. We'd love to get that to 80%.

1555
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:07,599
I'd love to I'd love to get that number

1556
01:05:07,599 --> 01:05:10,400
to to 90%. You know, we might we'd like

1557
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,000
to see all of our students take at least

1558
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:13,520
one

1559
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:15,200
advanced level, college level

1560
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:17,440
challenging course uh through their high

1561
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:18,640
school experience. And I think that's a

1562
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:20,160
realistic goal. You know, I don't think

1563
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,799
hundreds of% a realistic goal um for

1564
01:05:22,799 --> 01:05:27,760
various reasons, but I think uh that's been a focus for us. And

1565
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:30,000
certainly the pathways classes so some

1566
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:31,359
of the technical courses and pathways

1567
01:05:31,359 --> 01:05:33,760
classes come as well you know uh and

1568
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,039
we've been encouraging more students

1569
01:05:35,039 --> 01:05:37,119
take AP courses we've been doing some

1570
01:05:37,119 --> 01:05:38,640
more dual enrollment we want to continue

1571
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:40,960
to grow our dual enrollment program so

1572
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:42,960
we want to do things to push this whole

1573
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,359
concept of advanced course work and even

1574
01:05:45,359 --> 01:05:46,960
though this year in the accountability

1575
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:48,400
system we only earned one point there

1576
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,480
was no change over the last 3 years

1577
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:51,760
there really has been a significant

1578
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:58,319
change uh in that in that area um So

1579
01:05:58,319 --> 01:06:01,520
going back to the presentation

1580
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:03,839
um you know what's our takeaways we're

1581
01:06:03,839 --> 01:06:05,359
identify as a district not requiring

1582
01:06:05,359 --> 01:06:09,440
assistance to intervention um as always

1583
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:10,720
um we [clears throat] want to evaluate

1584
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:11,920
and look to strengthen student

1585
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,000
performance with that focus of moving

1586
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:15,760
kids from positively expectations to

1587
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:18,079
media expectations. You know as John

1588
01:06:18,079 --> 01:06:19,440
showed in his presentation we have that

1589
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,000
huge band right at the top positively

1590
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,440
meeting. you have a whole group of kids

1591
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,480
in that 490 to 500 category. So, we want

1592
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,640
to get them from over 4, you know, from

1593
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:33,039
490 up to the 500. Um, and then uh focus

1594
01:06:33,039 --> 01:06:35,280
on these performance indicators. And I I

1595
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:37,119
put these here because these are we're

1596
01:06:37,119 --> 01:06:38,319
going to continue to focus on chronic

1597
01:06:38,319 --> 01:06:39,839
absenteeism. The administration is

1598
01:06:39,839 --> 01:06:41,680
committed to that. We want to make sure

1599
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,039
students in school, we hope that's a

1600
01:06:43,039 --> 01:06:44,880
baseline for success. We're going to

1601
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,480
continue to push advanced course work.

1602
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:48,799
We want to see that 70% of junior

1603
01:06:48,799 --> 01:06:51,359
seniors taking advanced course to become

1604
01:06:51,359 --> 01:06:55,200
72 73 75%. And then just overall we want

1605
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:57,200
to make sure that we're uh pushing

1606
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,440
students from uh partially meeting to

1607
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:03,039
meeting expectations. Um but that as

1608
01:07:03,039 --> 01:07:05,680
overall the takeaway is you know in in

1609
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:07,119
terms of the actual accountability

1610
01:07:07,119 --> 01:07:09,440
system we are a district non requiring

1611
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,760
assistant uh with assistance with

1612
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:13,599
substantial progress towards meeting our

1613
01:07:13,599 --> 01:07:16,400
targets. Um, any questions about

1614
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,589
accountability?

1615
01:07:19,599 --> 01:07:21,920
» I don't have any questions. I did a deep

1616
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,319
dive on their site when they came up.

1617
01:07:24,319 --> 01:07:27,280
There's so much data there.

1618
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,359
>> And on this page, like I said, to the

1619
01:07:29,359 --> 01:07:30,480
community, if you want to go to school

1620
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,000
district profiles and learn about a

1621
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:33,680
school district, there's tons of

1622
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,119
information here.

1623
01:07:35,119 --> 01:07:38,000
>> Yeah. And it it is not a perfect system.

1624
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,079
>> It's not a perfect system. Uh on the

1625
01:07:42,079 --> 01:07:43,839
same page, just as an aside, there's

1626
01:07:43,839 --> 01:07:47,359
tons of information about um you can go

1627
01:07:47,359 --> 01:07:51,440
from from budget to students, you know,

1628
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,280
pathways and pathways enrollment. I

1629
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,480
mean, they keep tons of data here uh

1630
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,720
data and profile on our teachers and

1631
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:02,160
their educational back backgrounds and

1632
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:07,599
finance assessments. It's all there's a lot of them. So the on the

1633
01:08:07,599 --> 01:08:09,599
school and district profiles page if

1634
01:08:09,599 --> 01:08:10,960
you're interested in data about the

1635
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,280
school system that's the place to go.

1636
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:18,709
It's it's all there.

1637
01:08:18,719 --> 01:08:21,279
» Anything else on accountability?

1638
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:24,239
>> I don't think so. Thank you very much to

1639
01:08:24,239 --> 01:08:25,920
both of you for going through all of

1640
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:27,679
that.

1641
01:08:27,679 --> 01:08:30,480
Super important.

1642
01:08:30,480 --> 01:08:32,560
Um okay. So that brings us to our

1643
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:34,719
October 1st enrollment data.

1644
01:08:34,719 --> 01:08:36,799
>> Yep. So, this is our first round for

1645
01:08:36,799 --> 01:08:39,199
presses because October 1st was not that

1646
01:08:39,199 --> 01:08:42,640
far away. Um, just happened. Just

1647
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,359
happened. Um, and I'll do I'll do some

1648
01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:46,640
overview information. I'll talk about

1649
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:51,910
the exit survey as well a little bit.

1650
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:55,839
So, uh,

1651
01:08:55,839 --> 01:08:58,960
our total enrollment was 1,434 students

1652
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,520
on October 1st, which is down 28

1653
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,080
students from last October 1st. The

1654
01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:05,920
elementary school enrollment is down by

1655
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,480
16 students in total. Uh even though

1656
01:09:08,480 --> 01:09:10,560
they brought in a bigger kindergarten

1657
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:12,799
class at 110.

1658
01:09:12,799 --> 01:09:14,560
Uh the middle high school enrollment is

1659
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:16,719
down by 12 students which is actually is

1660
01:09:16,719 --> 01:09:18,560
shows that it's pretty stable because we

1661
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:21,359
lost 23 students. We lost 25 students

1662
01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:24,640
from the eighth grade class. 23 of them

1663
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:26,719
calling which is pretty typical. But

1664
01:09:26,719 --> 01:09:28,480
even with that the overall growth was

1665
01:09:28,480 --> 01:09:31,440
only down 12 students. uh you know

1666
01:09:31,440 --> 01:09:37,359
overall um and um you know next time we

1667
01:09:37,359 --> 01:09:40,560
do kind of a deeper dive uh into where

1668
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:42,400
everybody is and we'll go through where

1669
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,799
do all the kids in Carver attend school.

1670
01:09:44,799 --> 01:09:46,640
You know the the elementary school when

1671
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,359
you look at their numbers though uh

1672
01:09:49,359 --> 01:09:51,279
brought [snorts] in class 110 which is

1673
01:09:51,279 --> 01:09:53,520
great. Uh well it's that kind of like

1674
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:54,880
every other year you know that first

1675
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,679
grade class is still 93

1676
01:09:57,679 --> 01:10:02,800
then 123 then 92 then 124 then 139 so

1677
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:04,719
almost in every other year we got those

1678
01:10:04,719 --> 01:10:07,040
couple of 90 cohorts uh which are going

1679
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,280
to be small as they move forward and

1680
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:11,040
they just had one that left you know so

1681
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:12,560
this current sixth grade is only 100

1682
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:16,800
students you know they were at 99 um and

1683
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,199
then there was a little bit of a drop

1684
01:10:19,199 --> 01:10:24,000
off uh from grade um

1685
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,239
four to grade five. So the grade four

1686
01:10:26,239 --> 01:10:30,560
last year was 147. Now it's 139. That's

1687
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,560
not all some of that's rising tide cuz

1688
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:34,320
that that's the first year students

1689
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:35,840
eligible to move to rising tide from

1690
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:37,920
fourth to fifth grade. Uh I believe it

1691
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:39,360
was six or seven students who went to

1692
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:41,120
ris

1693
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:43,120
um and then we just had a couple other

1694
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,600
moveouts uh in that grade level.

1695
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:47,040
Interestingly enough, the elementary

1696
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:48,640
school kind of lost two or three kids

1697
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:51,360
each grade level. Um, and we'll look at

1698
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:52,880
the exit survey data which isn't

1699
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:54,880
complete. We'll look at it a little bit

1700
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,440
uh and and try to like I don't know if

1701
01:10:57,440 --> 01:10:59,679
there's a reason why besides people

1702
01:10:59,679 --> 01:11:00,960
moving out of district and people

1703
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,040
leaving counter uh but there was a

1704
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:04,239
little bit of a drop in each grade

1705
01:11:04,239 --> 01:11:06,480
level. Um but the middle high school

1706
01:11:06,480 --> 01:11:09,040
actually stayed pretty stable overall.

1707
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,760
Um so when you look at we do have

1708
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:13,440
students complete an exit survey. Well,

1709
01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:14,880
before we go on the exit survey,

1710
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:16,880
anything on the actual just the straight

1711
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:19,990
numbers,

1712
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,960
anybody have any questions

1713
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:24,159
>> or thoughts about looking at the

1714
01:11:24,159 --> 01:11:28,950
numbers?

1715
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,040
» Enrollment's down everywhere. Growth is

1716
01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:32,400
down.

1717
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:34,800
>> Enrollment is down in Massachusetts. 85%

1718
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,480
of school districts last year were

1719
01:11:36,480 --> 01:11:37,760
highly homeless because they had a

1720
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,920
declining enrollment. and Massachusetts

1721
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,080
last year, last year they report over

1722
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,960
15,000 students statewide. Um,

1723
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:48,080
enrollment was down by total. Um,

1724
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:55,910
Massachusetts and Cal are getting older.

1725
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:59,040
» But we can get into the social we don't

1726
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:00,080
have to get into the social aspect of

1727
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:04,159
what that means. Um, so we did have

1728
01:12:04,159 --> 01:12:06,400
students do an exit survey which I'll

1729
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,640
show you just some summary data from

1730
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:10,159
that. You have the whole exit survey in

1731
01:12:10,159 --> 01:12:12,000
your background so you can see

1732
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,080
everybody's individual responses. And

1733
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:15,600
this is the graph that we've shown each

1734
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:18,320
year as to uh just going to share it

1735
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:19,600
out. I don't know if there's anybody out

1736
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:25,510
there just um

1737
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,920
and for the first time actually and I

1738
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:29,920
think it's cuz everybody our number one

1739
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,640
reason at least on the survey was people

1740
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,120
moving out of town. So the data

1741
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:38,239
represents 50 of 110 transfers. So it's

1742
01:12:38,239 --> 01:12:41,920
only 45%. So that means you don't the

1743
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:45,040
doing the uh exit survey is voluntary.

1744
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,120
We ask we ask everyone who enrolls in

1745
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:49,199
the district to do it. Uh but not

1746
01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:50,960
everyone does it. Obviously we had 50

1747
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:54,960
this is 50 of 110 people. Um and you

1748
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:56,480
know students moving out of town was the

1749
01:12:56,480 --> 01:12:58,239
highest reported reason for leaving uh

1750
01:12:58,239 --> 01:12:59,679
for those who completed the survey which

1751
01:12:59,679 --> 01:13:02,480
is 18. Um old colony was the second

1752
01:13:02,480 --> 01:13:04,320
leading reason which was 16 students.

1753
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,960
Though as we said 23 went to old colony.

1754
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:09,120
So that means seven of the kids went to

1755
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:10,960
college didn't complete the survey or

1756
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:12,560
they didn't put that information as to

1757
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:15,755
why uh they were leaving. Um

1758
01:13:15,755 --> 01:13:18,320
[clears throat] we had we had 78

1759
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:22,000
students transfer in grades 1 through 12

1760
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,960
but we had 110 transfer up. So we still

1761
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:27,520
had a negative leave the district and

1762
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,480
come into the district. Of those 78 who

1763
01:13:30,480 --> 01:13:33,040
came in um there they obviously weren't

1764
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:34,320
all school choice but school choice has

1765
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:38,239
helped us with that. I do think there I still maintain there's a benefit for

1766
01:13:38,239 --> 01:13:40,320
us doing school choice in kindergarten

1767
01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:42,000
grades 9 to 12. I know that's not our

1768
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,480
decision tonight. Um but school choice

1769
01:13:44,480 --> 01:13:47,120
helps is helping maintain our enrollment

1770
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:50,880
a little bit. Um and you know we did

1771
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,159
have we look at other things. Um you

1772
01:13:54,159 --> 01:13:56,480
know we are a little bit concerned you

1773
01:13:56,480 --> 01:13:58,960
know the 10 families put peers as a

1774
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,760
reason for leaving. Um, and some people

1775
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:03,199
did the survey specifically reference

1776
01:14:03,199 --> 01:14:06,400
bullying. Um, and we made sure that this

1777
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,400
these survey results that we've I

1778
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:09,760
reviewed them with both administrative

1779
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:10,880
teams at the middle high school and the

1780
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:12,640
elementary school. We saw everybody's

1781
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:16,320
individual responses. Um, and you know,

1782
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:19,040
we always encourage uh families to reach

1783
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:20,880
out to a teacher or counselor, an

1784
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:22,960
administrator, you know, if there's any

1785
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:26,080
concerns related to uh bullying or peer

1786
01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:27,600
interactions

1787
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:30,719
uh or those types of issues. Um, you

1788
01:14:30,719 --> 01:14:32,239
know,

1789
01:14:32,239 --> 01:14:34,000
in terms of when I look at this list,

1790
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:35,199
you know, there's a couple students put

1791
01:14:35,199 --> 01:14:37,040
AP courses. I feel like we offer a

1792
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,440
pretty broad range of AP courses for the

1793
01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:41,600
size of our high school and students can

1794
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:44,080
certainly take AP courses

1795
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:46,000
uh

1796
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,199
through um, you know, online as well.

1797
01:14:49,199 --> 01:14:51,360
So, we have online options as well. So

1798
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,520
really just I want to say to someone as

1799
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:55,760
anybody's out there and if there's an AP

1800
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:57,199
course you want to take reach out to us

1801
01:14:57,199 --> 01:14:58,560
and we'll work on it and see if we can

1802
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:01,840
get you that AP course. Um same with

1803
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:04,480
electives. We have a pretty

1804
01:15:04,480 --> 01:15:07,920
comprehensive range of electives for for

1805
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:11,199
the high school size. Um you know always

1806
01:15:11,199 --> 01:15:12,640
disappointed to see athletics as a

1807
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:14,000
reason why some people put in you know

1808
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:15,520
five people put that as they they're

1809
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:16,800
looking for better athletic

1810
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,920
opportunities. Um so you know this is

1811
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:22,080
just a summary of that data. You have

1812
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:23,520
the whole data set and your background

1813
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:25,520
and can look at uh individual student

1814
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:28,800
responses. Um and in our next probably

1815
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:30,159
not next week probably the November

1816
01:15:30,159 --> 01:15:32,800
meeting we'll do that uh look at where

1817
01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:34,320
everybody is and we'll see all the

1818
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:35,600
different schools students are attending

1819
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:37,120
and what percentage of students who live

1820
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:39,440
in Carver don't attend the car public

1821
01:15:39,440 --> 01:15:42,400
schools. So any questions about the exit

1822
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:46,960
survey or the October one data?

1823
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,120
No, I just want to mention that um we do

1824
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:52,400
have the anonymous online form on our

1825
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:54,480
website, but um anyone is welcome to

1826
01:15:54,480 --> 01:15:57,600
fill out at any point in time. Um I know

1827
01:15:57,600 --> 01:15:59,840
that you know the world we live in right

1828
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:03,840
now is can be difficult um difficult

1829
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:06,640
everywhere. So I just encourage um

1830
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:09,360
anyone who's watching to um please reach

1831
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:13,679
out to someone um in the buildings

1832
01:16:13,679 --> 01:16:15,600
because they really do care. I really do

1833
01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:17,520
want to find a way to to work with you

1834
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:20,960
to resolve whatever um the issues are,

1835
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,120
but you need to um communicate it. So,

1836
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:25,600
please advocate on behalf of either

1837
01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:31,360
yourself um or your children or your students. Um

1838
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:33,679
that's all.

1839
01:16:33,679 --> 01:16:37,920
Um thank you for that information. Um

1840
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:40,320
okay, so that brings us down to um

1841
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:42,400
upcoming events.

1842
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:43,760
I was amazed by all the great things

1843
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:45,280
that are happening in the district. Uh

1844
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:46,320
there's a couple things I want to point

1845
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:47,520
out to the community and to the

1846
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:49,679
committee. Um [clears throat] first of

1847
01:16:49,679 --> 01:16:51,520
all, just uh tomorrow actually begins

1848
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:52,880
it. There's a couple days where it's

1849
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:55,360
happening on here. Uh senior CPR, first

1850
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:58,000
aid, a narcane certifications. Uh so we

1851
01:16:58,000 --> 01:16:59,520
are going through a process to make sure

1852
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:00,960
that all of our seniors actually have

1853
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,600
CPR first aid. Uh we started that last

1854
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,000
year. Um and we're going to continue

1855
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:08,080
that with Mr. Santos and the health

1856
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:11,199
program. Um so that starts tomorrow.

1857
01:17:11,199 --> 01:17:12,560
regards to bullying grades two through

1858
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,199
to five. Uh we'll be having uh the

1859
01:17:15,199 --> 01:17:16,960
Massachusetts Reduction Center come in

1860
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:18,320
and doing student presentations,

1861
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,280
anti-bullying presentations. Uh that is

1862
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:23,440
also that's uh Wednesday of this week.

1863
01:17:23,440 --> 01:17:26,480
So that's coming up this week. Um we I

1864
01:17:26,480 --> 01:17:28,880
want to point out our Alice lessons. So

1865
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:30,719
we continue to do we do Alice lessons

1866
01:17:30,719 --> 01:17:32,000
both at the elementary school and middle

1867
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:34,239
high school. Uh 8 to 10 Alice lessons

1868
01:17:34,239 --> 01:17:37,600
are coming up um on this Wednesday on

1869
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:38,719
Wednesday. Wednesday is our first

1870
01:17:38,719 --> 01:17:40,719
student advisory subcommittee meeting.

1871
01:17:40,719 --> 01:17:43,360
So, um Katie and Stephanie will be there

1872
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:46,800
at noon. Um boostathon is this week. So,

1873
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,679
we have fun run on Thursday and Friday

1874
01:17:49,679 --> 01:17:52,000
uh for those who are interested. Uh and

1875
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:53,760
then as the campus council mentioned,

1876
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:55,040
we're already into all the senior

1877
01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:56,560
nights. Uh so, we're starting to get

1878
01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:57,679
into the senior nights for all the

1879
01:17:57,679 --> 01:18:00,880
sports. Uh and now last week in uh

1880
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:02,560
October, there's a whole bunch of senior

1881
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:04,560
nights. Uh pretty much pretty much all

1882
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:05,920
the sports across the board having that

1883
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:07,760
senior night. So get out and support our

1884
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:09,600
students and our student athletes.

1885
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:10,800
Parent conferences at the middle high

1886
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:14,239
school are on the 22nd uh and 29th at

1887
01:18:14,239 --> 01:18:18,080
the uh elementary school. Um yeah, so as

1888
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:20,000
always we encourage people to go to the

1889
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:21,760
calendar uh check out all the events

1890
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:23,040
that are happening in the C public

1891
01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:26,400
schools. Um we'd like to see you there

1892
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:29,120
and all whatever's happening and and

1893
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:30,400
every night there's something good going

1894
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:30,880
on.

1895
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:34,239
>> Yep. Very good to go trunk or treat. Oh,

1896
01:18:34,239 --> 01:18:36,320
I went I marked that on mention, but I

1897
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:36,640
didn't.

1898
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:37,440
>> October 23rd.

1899
01:18:37,440 --> 01:18:42,470
is trunk pth,

1900
01:18:42,480 --> 01:18:44,080
not 30th.

1901
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:47,199
>> 23rd trunk or treat.

1902
01:18:47,199 --> 01:18:48,800
>> I did that. So, I think I had that one

1903
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:50,800
marked off, but it's

1904
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:52,400
>> okay. So, that takes us to

1905
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:54,320
recommendations from the superintendent

1906
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:56,239
and the financial update.

1907
01:18:56,239 --> 01:19:00,239
>> Turn over. Yep. Folks, a couple of quick

1908
01:19:00,239 --> 01:19:01,840
items for you this evening. Your

1909
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:04,320
financial update is really light. Um,

1910
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:05,760
all we have

1911
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:09,189
>> was not

1912
01:19:09,199 --> 01:19:11,440
a good balance to make up for a long

1913
01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:14,080
one. Uh, so no new grants. Uh, nothing

1914
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:15,760
really coming out of the the feds or

1915
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:18,640
vegan hill, but just your quarter uh one

1916
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:20,400
warrants closing those out. Just have a

1917
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:22,159
few warrants for your consideration and

1918
01:19:22,159 --> 01:19:24,880
vote this evening.

1919
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:28,080
>> Great. Side note, are we applying for

1920
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:31,040
any grants for the phone situation?

1921
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:32,000
>> Say again.

1922
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,880
>> Um the school free the phone free

1923
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:36,560
schools. Are we applying for either of

1924
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:37,840
the grants for that?

1925
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:39,440
>> We are not currently applying for those

1926
01:19:39,440 --> 01:19:42,320
grants.

1927
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:45,040
We did look into one of them and uh it

1928
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,199
wasn't open to districts communities

1929
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:50,550
that had

1930
01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:53,280
specified the

1931
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:58,149
alic

1932
01:19:58,159 --> 01:20:00,640
one of them one of them required a cell

1933
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:03,040
phone ban policy would be in place by uh

1934
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,520
July 1st which we didn't have and the

1935
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:08,320
other one was MBTA communities act uh

1936
01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:10,640
and I'll mention MBTA communities act

1937
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:12,719
Because the other place that's hitting

1938
01:20:12,719 --> 01:20:16,640
us is it's listed on all of your uh

1939
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:18,719
pathways grants. So innovation grant

1940
01:20:18,719 --> 01:20:21,040
pathways grants say you have to and we

1941
01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:23,040
talked about that originally when the

1942
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,360
MBA MBTA communities act came out. So

1943
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,520
that is stated as a criteria to apply

1944
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:29,600
for those grants. We've still applied

1945
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,199
but actually recently found out today

1946
01:20:31,199 --> 01:20:32,640
actually that we did not receive one of

1947
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:35,040
those grants. Um which I think is the

1948
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,159
first time we have not received an

1949
01:20:36,159 --> 01:20:38,239
innovation career pathways grant. Uh but

1950
01:20:38,239 --> 01:20:42,000
I think that is based upon uh the

1951
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:43,840
community not participating in the NBA

1952
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:45,040
MBTA communities act.

1953
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,760
>> Was that specifically stated as a reason

1954
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:49,920
for not?

1955
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:51,360
>> Yeah, we spoke directly with the rep

1956
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:57,030
about it and that was $25,000.

1957
01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:59,920
So So we're assigned to the impacts of

1958
01:20:59,920 --> 01:21:02,320
not and obviously the state has been

1959
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,239
super supportive of the power schools

1960
01:21:04,239 --> 01:21:06,400
through innovation care pathways. they

1961
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:10,080
held us up as a um you know a model

1962
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:12,000
district a leader in that category and

1963
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:13,360
we've generally received those grants

1964
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:15,120
but we this is the first time we got

1965
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:16,640
notification we did not receive back

1966
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:18,159
>> and I'm sorry I missed it what was the

1967
01:21:18,159 --> 01:21:19,760
dollar amount associated with that

1968
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:21,600
>> I think it was 25 I'll double check it

1969
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:24,480
was 25 but I double check

1970
01:21:24,480 --> 01:21:26,800
>> like five years it

1971
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:28,480
>> yeah yeah

1972
01:21:28,480 --> 01:21:31,199
>> yeah so it's going to have an impact so

1973
01:21:31,199 --> 01:21:35,040
it's important people to attend town

1974
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,310
and vote

1975
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:41,120
town policies

1976
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,840
and December 1st.

1977
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:47,520
Maybe there'll be an opportunity then.

1978
01:21:47,520 --> 01:21:50,080
>> Um well, thank you for that um sad

1979
01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:52,719
update.

1980
01:21:52,719 --> 01:21:54,960
>> Yes, I move to approve the FY26 warrants

1981
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:58,080
as presented. I second. We have a motion

1982
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:00,480
and a second. Is there any discussion?

1983
01:22:00,480 --> 01:22:01,760
All those in favor?

1984
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:03,280
>> I thank you.

1985
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:06,800
>> Thank you very much. So, um, let's see.

1986
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:10,560
That takes us to our FY28 capital plan.

1987
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:12,400
Also, another reason to advocate for

1988
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:14,639
people to attend Carver Town meeting,

1989
01:22:14,639 --> 01:22:23,590
support the school's budget.

1990
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:25,520
So, as Mr. Ne is pulling that up, um,

1991
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:27,520
what you've got in front of you is the

1992
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:29,920
10-year plan with really a drill down

1993
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:32,880
set of data for FY28, right? So, we'll

1994
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:34,320
spend the majority of our time focused

1995
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:36,400
on 28, but I'll highlight a couple of

1996
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:38,560
items that are coming down the pipe that

1997
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:41,520
we anticipate um estimated in the next

1998
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:45,669
decade. Yeah.

1999
01:22:45,679 --> 01:22:47,199
» Yeah. So, your first page is just an

2000
01:22:47,199 --> 01:22:48,719
overview of our plan. I know the

2001
01:22:48,719 --> 01:22:50,480
committee is very familiar with it

2002
01:22:50,480 --> 01:22:52,480
already. Um I'll highlight just a couple

2003
01:22:52,480 --> 01:22:54,000
of quick things in terms of the

2004
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,560
structure of our plan.

2005
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:59,199
As a construct, all of our items for our

2006
01:22:59,199 --> 01:23:01,120
capital plan are ultimately driven by

2007
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:03,360
the educational blueprint that Mr. Ne

2008
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:04,719
went over with the committee this

2009
01:23:04,719 --> 01:23:07,280
summer. Uh that blueprint drives all of

2010
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:09,280
our goals that drives our priorities and

2011
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:12,000
what we want to invest in as well. Those

2012
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,600
three bullets that you see there are how

2013
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:15,760
your capital plan is organized. Uh the

2014
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:17,360
first category is facilities and

2015
01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:19,199
equipment. It's pretty straightforward.

2016
01:23:19,199 --> 01:23:21,280
The second is transportation. Carver

2017
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:23,120
owns and operates its own transportation

2018
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:25,440
program. Uh and the third is technology.

2019
01:23:25,440 --> 01:23:27,120
And for this particular capital plan for

2020
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:29,120
FI28, you're going to see a heavy

2021
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:31,120
investment in technology. Over the past

2022
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:33,040
several years, a lot of our investments

2023
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:35,360
have grown in technology as the

2024
01:23:35,360 --> 01:23:37,520
dependence on technology in the 21st

2025
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,000
century classroom has grown as well.

2026
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:43,750
Yeah,

2027
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:45,600
this next page is really just an

2028
01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:47,120
overview of your facilities and

2029
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,840
equipment. It's a 10-year snapshot.

2030
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:52,480
uh we'll drill into FY28, but I do want

2031
01:23:52,480 --> 01:23:55,280
to make just one quick um notation as

2032
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:57,360
you take a look at the next 10 years

2033
01:23:57,360 --> 01:23:59,360
across all the different projects.

2034
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:01,280
You'll see a roll up at the bottom that

2035
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,520
shows the approximate investment in any

2036
01:24:03,520 --> 01:24:07,840
given year, projected investment in any given year in facilities and

2037
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,400
equipment. Obviously, uh however, in

2038
01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:11,679
some places, you're going to notice that

2039
01:24:11,679 --> 01:24:14,320
the number is like 550K

2040
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:17,679
or 3 million uh and intentionally rolled

2041
01:24:17,679 --> 01:24:20,880
up with just the letter versus the total

2042
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:26,880
number. The reason there is simply that funding source is not local. Now,

2043
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:27,920
we want to make sure we have a

2044
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:29,440
comprehensive plan so that everyone's

2045
01:24:29,440 --> 01:24:30,880
aware of the things that we're investing

2046
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:33,120
in. But in some cases, we anticipate

2047
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:34,560
that the funding is ultimately going to

2048
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:36,560
come from somewhere outside of Carver.

2049
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:39,760
And so the denot the denotation of like

2050
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,400
the K for,000 or the M for million shows

2051
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:43,840
that that's what we'll be investing in

2052
01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:45,360
but ultimately won't roll up to your

2053
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:52,229
total.

2054
01:24:52,239 --> 01:24:53,440
The next just gives you a quick

2055
01:24:53,440 --> 01:24:55,280
highlight of what you have on that

2056
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,280
10-year plan. Um tells you a little

2057
01:24:57,280 --> 01:25:00,000
about your major buildings. Um you have

2058
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,719
two obviously major school systems

2059
01:25:02,719 --> 01:25:04,960
buildings that we've got focused on. The

2060
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:06,159
middle high school really though is

2061
01:25:06,159 --> 01:25:07,920
where most of your capital investment is

2062
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:09,199
going to be. It's just your older

2063
01:25:09,199 --> 01:25:10,719
building. I do want to make mention

2064
01:25:10,719 --> 01:25:12,400
though of your transportation depot and

2065
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:14,400
your administrative buildings. Over the

2066
01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:16,080
past several years, there hasn't really

2067
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:18,080
been much capital investment there. And

2068
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:19,920
it's starting to come on to your capital

2069
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:21,440
schedule. So over the next couple years,

2070
01:25:21,440 --> 01:25:22,639
you'll start to see a little bit more

2071
01:25:22,639 --> 01:25:25,040
investment there. Just minor updates on

2072
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:27,120
like envelope infrastructure, those

2073
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,400
sorts of things.

2074
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:33,120
So, as we drill into FY28, your first

2075
01:25:33,120 --> 01:25:36,239
proposal for uh FY28's capital is

2076
01:25:36,239 --> 01:25:38,159
actually a continuation of the classroom

2077
01:25:38,159 --> 01:25:40,480
modernization plan. We've been doing

2078
01:25:40,480 --> 01:25:42,639
this now for a few years. The intention

2079
01:25:42,639 --> 01:25:44,480
of the plan is really to create sort of

2080
01:25:44,480 --> 01:25:47,120
a high return on investment uh for your

2081
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:49,120
middle high school. middle high school

2082
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:50,560
is still going to have more than a

2083
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:52,639
decade of students go through that

2084
01:25:52,639 --> 01:25:54,239
building and ultimately graduate from

2085
01:25:54,239 --> 01:25:56,320
that building before it's time to have a

2086
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,960
conversation around the future of it. Be

2087
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:01,360
it some major renovation, some new

2088
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:03,760
school, or no action. But, you know,

2089
01:26:03,760 --> 01:26:05,440
regardless of what you do, the building

2090
01:26:05,440 --> 01:26:06,639
now is getting to the point where you

2091
01:26:06,639 --> 01:26:08,480
have to start investing inside of that

2092
01:26:08,480 --> 01:26:10,159
building. And so, the classroom

2093
01:26:10,159 --> 01:26:12,000
modernization model uh is not something

2094
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:13,679
that Carver came up with. It's a model

2095
01:26:13,679 --> 01:26:16,080
that the sector uses often allows you to

2096
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:18,480
invest in this facility's use

2097
01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:20,480
essentially without having to touch the

2098
01:26:20,480 --> 01:26:22,320
outside of the facility. So good bones

2099
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,239
of a building but updating and

2100
01:26:24,239 --> 01:26:26,159
modernizing the things that people use,

2101
01:26:26,159 --> 01:26:28,239
the fixtures, furniture and equipment

2102
01:26:28,239 --> 01:26:30,239
that they use. In prior years, we've

2103
01:26:30,239 --> 01:26:32,080
invested in English department, special

2104
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:33,840
education department, guidance, math,

2105
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:35,920
history. This year's proposal is going

2106
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,000
to be for your world languages. In prior

2107
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:39,840
years, your your target number had been

2108
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,239
between 60 and $65,000.

2109
01:26:42,239 --> 01:26:44,000
Your world languages department here in

2110
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:45,440
Carver is smaller than some of those

2111
01:26:45,440 --> 01:26:47,120
other departments. And so your target

2112
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:52,629
proposal is $40,000.

2113
01:26:52,639 --> 01:26:54,719
Another continuation, another focus on

2114
01:26:54,719 --> 01:26:56,159
the middle high school, obviously your

2115
01:26:56,159 --> 01:26:58,560
oldest of your of your facilities. Uh

2116
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:00,560
while not as sexy as all the other

2117
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,400
things, uh investments in your parking

2118
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:04,560
lot is still important.

2119
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:07,120
This investment is for $35,000. It would

2120
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:09,040
by no means repair the entire parking

2121
01:27:09,040 --> 01:27:10,639
lot. your entire parking lot would be in

2122
01:27:10,639 --> 01:27:12,239
the hundreds of thousands to close to

2123
01:27:12,239 --> 01:27:13,760
the million dollar range to do that

2124
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:16,159
entire space. It's a lot of hardcape.

2125
01:27:16,159 --> 01:27:17,679
However, the intention here is to

2126
01:27:17,679 --> 01:27:20,080
identify some of the priority areas that

2127
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:22,080
really have been wearing down that might

2128
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:24,880
have pooling or cracking uh and find

2129
01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:26,639
those areas, identify those, and do

2130
01:27:26,639 --> 01:27:28,239
those repairs. If you've driven through

2131
01:27:28,239 --> 01:27:29,600
the middle high school recently, you'll

2132
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:32,080
see some of those newly done areas. Uh

2133
01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:35,360
we've alternated now fiscal years. When

2134
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:37,040
we first started this project, we did

2135
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,440
every single year recognizing the

2136
01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:41,360
community's capital resources are

2137
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:43,360
limited. We've sort of peeled that back

2138
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:45,440
to save the taxpayers funding and are

2139
01:27:45,440 --> 01:27:50,229
alternating years.

2140
01:27:50,239 --> 01:27:51,600
The next the middle high school

2141
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:53,760
athletics program uh is the wait room

2142
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:55,840
renovation. We've been working on this

2143
01:27:55,840 --> 01:27:58,400
for a while now. Again, kudos to Kelsey

2144
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:00,800
Concade, our athletic director's done

2145
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:03,199
work on this. uh we've got a vendor that

2146
01:28:03,199 --> 01:28:05,280
we believe can deliver on the project.

2147
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:07,840
We had put this proposal in for FY27,

2148
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,719
but of course, understandably, uh the

2149
01:28:10,719 --> 01:28:12,719
community was focusing its resources on

2150
01:28:12,719 --> 01:28:14,639
closing that gap for health insurance,

2151
01:28:14,639 --> 01:28:16,800
and so most capital funding wasn't

2152
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,360
approved for FY27. We're coming back

2153
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:21,520
with the same request. The intention

2154
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:23,199
here is similar to the classroom

2155
01:28:23,199 --> 01:28:25,199
modernization approach. This is not a

2156
01:28:25,199 --> 01:28:27,679
construction project. This is an FF

2157
01:28:27,679 --> 01:28:30,239
project. furniture, fixtures, equipment,

2158
01:28:30,239 --> 01:28:32,800
good bones to the building, really old

2159
01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:34,400
and outdated equipment that's being

2160
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:36,239
used. The intention is to give that some

2161
01:28:36,239 --> 01:28:39,280
modernization, some refresh, pretty low

2162
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:45,830
cost, high return on investment project.

2163
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:47,520
This brings us to your transportation

2164
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:49,760
program. Gives you a quick highlight of

2165
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:52,400
all your transportation program. Um,

2166
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:54,639
some statistics there. You got 15

2167
01:28:54,639 --> 01:28:57,600
full-size buses, seven minibuses, and 17

2168
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:00,239
7Ds. They're like minivans and versions

2169
01:29:00,239 --> 01:29:02,560
of minivans. I'll take just a moment to

2170
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:04,159
share with you a little bit about those.

2171
01:29:04,159 --> 01:29:06,080
Over the past few years, this school

2172
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:08,320
department's really invested in its 7D

2173
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:10,560
program that takes our kiddos who have

2174
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:13,440
special needs, foster care situation,

2175
01:29:13,440 --> 01:29:15,280
homeless situation, and oftentimes

2176
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:17,679
combinations of the two and transports

2177
01:29:17,679 --> 01:29:20,159
them out of district. Those contract

2178
01:29:20,159 --> 01:29:22,560
service costs are often the most

2179
01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:24,880
expensive transportation cost you can

2180
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:27,120
get and are also some of the most

2181
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:28,960
unpredictable. That's like your snow and

2182
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:30,159
ice. You don't know what's going to

2183
01:29:30,159 --> 01:29:31,760
come, but you know when it happens it's

2184
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,320
going to be expensive. Uh I'm proud to

2185
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,320
say your transportation program saves

2186
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:38,320
the taxpayer money on both yellow buses

2187
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:40,639
and out of district, but especially on

2188
01:29:40,639 --> 01:29:43,040
those out of district program costs. And

2189
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:44,960
so you've seen an increase in the fleet

2190
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:47,040
size there as well as the staffing size

2191
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:48,960
for that fleet. But again, I think it

2192
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:50,880
pays dividends both financially and in

2193
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:55,270
terms of quality of service.

2194
01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:57,040
You just have a single request here in

2195
01:29:57,040 --> 01:29:59,679
transportation. Uh it's for two yellow

2196
01:29:59,679 --> 01:30:02,960
buses. We operate on 71 passenger buses.

2197
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:05,520
The total request is $300,000 for those

2198
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:07,600
two vehicles. A little bit about your

2199
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:09,760
funding over the past few years. This

2200
01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:12,080
has been a part of the capital um

2201
01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:14,239
improvement plan that hasn't been funded

2202
01:30:14,239 --> 01:30:16,560
fully and is starting to jam us up a

2203
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:20,080
little bit. FY25, one bus was requested,

2204
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:23,280
that was declined. FY26, two buses were

2205
01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:25,360
requested, one only one was approved.

2206
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:27,520
And obviously, we talked about FY27,

2207
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:29,920
virtually nothing was able to be funded.

2208
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:32,159
We understand constraints. This

2209
01:30:32,159 --> 01:30:34,400
particular one, at least for my eyes, is

2210
01:30:34,400 --> 01:30:36,320
a pretty high priority. We're starting

2211
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:39,520
to get to the place now where uh we need

2212
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:41,920
to catch back up on this replacement

2213
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:43,920
cycle or we're going to find like really

2214
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:46,400
significant breakdowns in the fleet.

2215
01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:47,760
We're starting to see some modest

2216
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:50,400
breakdowns already. Vehicles breaking

2217
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:52,320
down mid- route, having to get swapped,

2218
01:30:52,320 --> 01:30:54,080
those sorts of things. We have

2219
01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:56,239
incredible team of mechanics that do the

2220
01:30:56,239 --> 01:30:58,400
work. Uh Lee, especially Leo O'Donnell,

2221
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:00,560
been with our district for many years.

2222
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:02,080
Incredible. He's forgotten more about

2223
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:04,400
vehicles than I'll ever know. Uh but at

2224
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:06,239
this point, we we need to get these two

2225
01:31:06,239 --> 01:31:08,000
vehicles to sort of kickstart this

2226
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:10,239
replacement cycle back again. The last

2227
01:31:10,239 --> 01:31:12,400
thing I'll just say about vehicles, uh,

2228
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:14,960
it usually takes 6 to 12 months to

2229
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:16,639
actually get the vehicle to show up

2230
01:31:16,639 --> 01:31:19,199
after we've purchased it. That's

2231
01:31:19,199 --> 01:31:21,280
improved a little bit, but we're seeing

2232
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:23,920
those delays still pretty substantial.

2233
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:25,760
Um, so that would be our intention if

2234
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:27,280
possible, uh, to be able to get those

2235
01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:29,679
two vehicles in our on our replacement

2236
01:31:29,679 --> 01:31:31,520
cycle for the transportation program.

2237
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:33,040
>> Lauren, can I ask a quick question just

2238
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:34,880
because I want this out there early and

2239
01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:35,679
often.

2240
01:31:35,679 --> 01:31:37,679
>> Um, how old are these buses that we're

2241
01:31:37,679 --> 01:31:40,639
planning on placing? They're 2014.

2242
01:31:40,639 --> 01:31:42,800
>> Okay. So, they're 12 or going to be 13

2243
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:44,159
years old by the time we

2244
01:31:44,159 --> 01:31:45,040
>> Yeah.

2245
01:31:45,040 --> 01:31:45,920
>> possibly older.

2246
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:47,360
>> Yeah. It's a good point you bring up,

2247
01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:48,639
right? It's an excellent point. I was

2248
01:31:48,639 --> 01:31:50,320
just add one other thing. Bus is

2249
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:52,320
different than your car. Like my son's

2250
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:54,080
car is, you know, a Civic and it's

2251
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:57,760
probably 18 years old. Um, a bus is just

2252
01:31:57,760 --> 01:31:59,199
not going to last that long. More often

2253
01:31:59,199 --> 01:32:00,239
than not, it doesn't last that long

2254
01:32:00,239 --> 01:32:02,320
because of body rock. Um, it's a big

2255
01:32:02,320 --> 01:32:04,560
long bus, long vehicle. We have winters

2256
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:06,239
here. We're going to get a ton of snow

2257
01:32:06,239 --> 01:32:07,920
ice, but the thing that really hurts it

2258
01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:10,320
is all the salt, right? And so, we do

2259
01:32:10,320 --> 01:32:11,840
our due diligence, try to keep them

2260
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:13,360
clean, keep them washed off, but that

2261
01:32:13,360 --> 01:32:16,000
salt just eats the body. Uh, I was

2262
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:17,360
actually in the garage the other day and

2263
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:19,199
they're trying to weld new pieces back

2264
01:32:19,199 --> 01:32:21,920
on the bottom plates here to extend some

2265
01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:24,400
of the useful life. We typically say 10

2266
01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:26,719
to 12 years for a bus to be on the safe

2267
01:32:26,719 --> 01:32:28,400
side. So, anything over that, we're

2268
01:32:28,400 --> 01:32:29,520
starting to get to that place where

2269
01:32:29,520 --> 01:32:31,360
we're patchworking it together a little

2270
01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:32,800
bit. It's a good point.

2271
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:37,199
>> Great. Thank you. Okay, thank you.

2272
01:32:37,199 --> 01:32:38,639
>> One last thing if I can. I'm sorry I'm

2273
01:32:38,639 --> 01:32:40,480
belaboring the transportation thing. I

2274
01:32:40,480 --> 01:32:43,040
apologize. We um we do do an annual

2275
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:45,199
analysis of transportation just to check

2276
01:32:45,199 --> 01:32:47,360
on our costs as well. We take a look at

2277
01:32:47,360 --> 01:32:49,120
contract costs in our region. That's put

2278
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,840
into background for you. Um, right now

2279
01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:55,360
we're at the better part of 20% uh 20%

2280
01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:58,480
less cost to operate your vehicles and

2281
01:32:58,480 --> 01:33:00,000
your your transportation program as you

2282
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:02,639
see it today than a contracted yellow

2283
01:33:02,639 --> 01:33:06,400
bus and just close to 50% uh below cost

2284
01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:09,199
for contracted 7D so the out of district

2285
01:33:09,199 --> 01:33:11,520
kiddos to what you have in house. So

2286
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:13,280
while I appreciate the price tag is a

2287
01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:16,159
high one I want to acknowledge that uh

2288
01:33:16,159 --> 01:33:17,600
ultimately return on investment is

2289
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:19,199
pretty substantial to maintaining your

2290
01:33:19,199 --> 01:33:22,560
house. Yeah, actually wrong.

2291
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:24,400
I know it's difficult because you're

2292
01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:28,560
dealing with averages and you're

2293
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:30,239
sometimes you might even guesstimate

2294
01:33:30,239 --> 01:33:31,840
what some of the cost would be.

2295
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:32,400
>> Sure.

2296
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:35,520
>> But a dollar amount could go a long way.

2297
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:38,320
You say 20%, but what's the budget that

2298
01:33:38,320 --> 01:33:40,400
you're talking about that 20% off?

2299
01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:41,600
>> Yeah. Sure. So, you're probably looking

2300
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:44,719
at about $200,000 of savings a year.

2301
01:33:44,719 --> 01:33:47,280
>> So, that's a that's a huge number

2302
01:33:47,280 --> 01:33:48,960
>> and it's a key point. huge number

2303
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:51,360
>> when you're talking about we need a bus

2304
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:54,719
and it's going to save us $200,000 if we

2305
01:33:54,719 --> 01:33:57,360
this bus and we continue this process.

2306
01:33:57,360 --> 01:33:58,719
>> Um I think it's really important that

2307
01:33:58,719 --> 01:34:00,239
people understand how much money we're

2308
01:34:00,239 --> 01:34:02,320
talking about and how important this

2309
01:34:02,320 --> 01:34:04,480
program there's no reason this town

2310
01:34:04,480 --> 01:34:06,560
should deny us bus at any

2311
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:08,400
>> Yeah, it's a good return on investment

2312
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:09,840
and I appreciate your point about like

2313
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:12,239
the dollar versus the percent. Yeah, the

2314
01:34:12,239 --> 01:34:13,440
programs are

2315
01:34:13,440 --> 01:34:15,280
>> obviously as we get closer to time

2316
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:17,360
meeting we're going to have to be real.

2317
01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:19,199
We're going to make a presentation about

2318
01:34:19,199 --> 01:34:21,040
capital and

2319
01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:23,040
>> get all these details in there.

2320
01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:24,880
>> Yeah. And I mean, you know, to Kelly's

2321
01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:26,639
point, these buses were 15 by the time

2322
01:34:26,639 --> 01:34:27,520
we get

2323
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:29,520
>> at the time we got the bus was 15 years

2324
01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:31,520
old. And I, you know, one of the

2325
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:32,880
arguments that was made during town

2326
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:34,880
meeting was that we didn't do our due

2327
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:36,400
diligence by telling them how old the

2328
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:38,800
buses actually were and what condition

2329
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:41,440
they were in. My other question would be

2330
01:34:41,440 --> 01:34:43,679
would we be willing are we going to do

2331
01:34:43,679 --> 01:34:46,080
another meeting should capital or

2332
01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:49,120
whoever is want to do another meeting to

2333
01:34:49,120 --> 01:34:51,920
inspect those buses always welcome the

2334
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:54,960
public space let us know come on down

2335
01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:58,400
absolutely I guess last I'll just say

2336
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:00,000
>> but we'll we'll track a little bit but

2337
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:01,679
so off the top of my head I remember

2338
01:35:01,679 --> 01:35:03,280
already this year I remember we've had

2339
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:05,280
two that I know of maybe more but I know

2340
01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:06,480
of two

2341
01:35:06,480 --> 01:35:08,639
>> breakdowns

2342
01:35:08,639 --> 01:35:11,199
so And both were both were remedied very

2343
01:35:11,199 --> 01:35:14,320
quickly. Bus broke down, new bus was out

2344
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:16,159
there. Before you know it, kids

2345
01:35:16,159 --> 01:35:18,239
transferred in the actually in the

2346
01:35:18,239 --> 01:35:20,159
parking lot. So I think they both

2347
01:35:20,159 --> 01:35:21,840
happened in the parking lot. So wasn't

2348
01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:24,320
on the road. Um but you know that's

2349
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:25,520
obviously a concern

2350
01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:27,520
>> 100%. And there is an increased risk of

2351
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:29,600
that and especially with you know with

2352
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:30,800
our weather. I mean that would be

2353
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:32,320
absolutely horrible to have to deal with

2354
01:35:32,320 --> 01:35:33,920
if it was um you know when there was

2355
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:36,400
snow or ice or rain or or whatnot. So

2356
01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:38,719
yeah, I think our our focus I think

2357
01:35:38,719 --> 01:35:42,080
should be increasing as um town meeting

2358
01:35:42,080 --> 01:35:44,639
approaches that we get our information

2359
01:35:44,639 --> 01:35:47,280
out to the community as often as

2360
01:35:47,280 --> 01:35:50,639
frequently um as we can so that people

2361
01:35:50,639 --> 01:35:53,600
will really understand what the impact

2362
01:35:53,600 --> 01:35:56,320
is on the decisions that are made at

2363
01:35:56,320 --> 01:35:58,560
town meeting by a few hundred people

2364
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:00,080
versus

2365
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:03,600
what do we have? We have 11,400

2366
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:04,880
people. I'm not sure how many people

2367
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:07,360
would qualify to vote at town, but it's

2368
01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:08,880
a very small percentage. We're not alone

2369
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:11,199
in that compared to neighboring

2370
01:36:11,199 --> 01:36:13,600
communities. Um, but where this is such

2371
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:16,400
a a critical need for us, I think Bill

2372
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:19,520
your point is fantastic about, you know,

2373
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:21,840
attaching a dollar number to that 20%. I

2374
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:23,120
mean, I know our neighbors in Plymouth,

2375
01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:25,120
their transportation budget is over $11

2376
01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:27,920
million. Clearly not, you know, not

2377
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:29,840
apples to apples by any stretch of the

2378
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:34,080
imagination, but it's a it's a statewide

2379
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:36,080
issue. We're so fortunate that we own

2380
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:38,159
our own fleet and that we're not being

2381
01:36:38,159 --> 01:36:41,120
held to putting out bids and only

2382
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:42,800
getting one bid back and they're not

2383
01:36:42,800 --> 01:36:45,920
being competition and then you're you're

2384
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:48,080
essentially stuck. You have no choice

2385
01:36:48,080 --> 01:36:50,560
but to pay whatever that contract comes

2386
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:52,080
in at because there are no other

2387
01:36:52,080 --> 01:36:54,639
options. We're so fortunate that we're

2388
01:36:54,639 --> 01:36:56,400
able to, you know, maintain our own

2389
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:58,960
fleet, have bus drivers that we know,

2390
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:00,800
have mechanics that we know, people that

2391
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:02,400
are dedicated to, you know, our students

2392
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:04,880
into our community. So, anything that we

2393
01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:07,199
can do to to, you know, to drive people

2394
01:37:07,199 --> 01:37:09,920
to attend the town meeting to to listen

2395
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:13,360
or to come to our budget hearings um cuz

2396
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:16,080
we discuss our budget our meetings

2397
01:37:16,080 --> 01:37:18,320
multiple times. So, hopefully there'll

2398
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:22,719
be more um engagement so people will um

2399
01:37:22,719 --> 01:37:25,679
attend town meeting and support us with

2400
01:37:25,679 --> 01:37:27,760
their votes.

2401
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:29,679
>> Mr. Cole, just to underscore your point

2402
01:37:29,679 --> 01:37:31,520
if I can. So, and thank you for

2403
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:34,159
mentioning it. Um just on the analysis

2404
01:37:34,159 --> 01:37:36,000
we have which is using last year's

2405
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:38,480
actuals compared to the region you save

2406
01:37:38,480 --> 01:37:42,000
about $200,000 a year on your yellow bus

2407
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:44,800
program compared to contract and you're

2408
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:47,520
saving about $860 a year on your out of

2409
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:51,040
dis $860,000 on your 70. So you're in it

2410
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:53,600
for about a million dollar of savings on

2411
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:56,480
average against a contracted program

2412
01:37:56,480 --> 01:37:58,080
which part of that just makes sense

2413
01:37:58,080 --> 01:37:59,840
because we're not for-p profofit right.

2414
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:01,520
So some for-profit program is going to

2415
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:04,080
take some amount um for profit. So I

2416
01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:06,239
thank you for for acknowledging that

2417
01:38:06,239 --> 01:38:08,960
>> million dollar bounces off the 150 for

2418
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:11,360
busy

2419
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:12,960
>> right 100%.

2420
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:15,119
>> The fleet itself is an enormous asset

2421
01:38:15,119 --> 01:38:16,000
for the school.

2422
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:16,639
>> Absolutely.

2423
01:38:16,639 --> 01:38:18,343
>> But you have to maintain it. You can't

2424
01:38:18,343 --> 01:38:20,719
[clears throat] just let get old and

2425
01:38:20,719 --> 01:38:23,600
brush it out. So

2426
01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:25,280
>> no reason to do that as possible.

2427
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:25,840
>> Right.

2428
01:38:25,840 --> 01:38:28,080
>> True this year.

2429
01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:30,560
>> Exactly. We didn't do much.

2430
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:32,639
>> And uh have to say kudos to everyone

2431
01:38:32,639 --> 01:38:34,000
that works in our transportation

2432
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:37,840
department who's seriously fantastic.

2433
01:38:37,840 --> 01:38:40,080
>> Many many things.

2434
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:41,679
>> Well, thank you for that. Um on

2435
01:38:41,679 --> 01:38:42,719
transportation, that was our only

2436
01:38:42,719 --> 01:38:44,239
transportation item.

2437
01:38:44,239 --> 01:38:46,239
>> We will move on technology. No, it's a

2438
01:38:46,239 --> 01:38:47,440
good one. It's just that's the most

2439
01:38:47,440 --> 01:38:48,560
important, you know, item in

2440
01:38:48,560 --> 01:38:50,400
transportation is the vehicle.

2441
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:53,199
>> Um we have a few items in technology. Um

2442
01:38:53,199 --> 01:38:55,040
you've got a 10-year outlook on your

2443
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:56,960
technology program on that first page.

2444
01:38:56,960 --> 01:38:59,600
And then drilling right down into uh our

2445
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:02,800
first FY28 proposal uh is our

2446
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:04,400
district-wide student devices. It's our

2447
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:05,520
Chromebooks. We've talked a little bit

2448
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:07,360
about this over the past few years. Give

2449
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:09,600
you a quick summary for you. Again, you

2450
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:11,360
may recall back in CO we got a

2451
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:12,800
substantial set of funding about

2452
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:15,199
$350,000 from the federal government.

2453
01:39:15,199 --> 01:39:17,040
That was really a shot in the arm to

2454
01:39:17,040 --> 01:39:18,880
increase our onetoone program in every

2455
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:21,600
student device. Um the benefit of that

2456
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:23,600
was the feds paid for it. The challenge

2457
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:25,600
was you got your entire fleet of devices

2458
01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:27,840
all at once and so they all came to end

2459
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:30,080
of life all roughly at the same time.

2460
01:39:30,080 --> 01:39:32,000
We're facing that now where we've got a

2461
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:33,600
large portion of that device fleet

2462
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:35,520
coming to end of life. So what you see

2463
01:39:35,520 --> 01:39:39,440
in FY28 and 29 are multiple grade level

2464
01:39:39,440 --> 01:39:43,199
investments there. Uh so $144,000 for

2465
01:39:43,199 --> 01:39:47,040
FY28, a similar investment in 29 and

2466
01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:49,600
then starting FY30, we'll have caught

2467
01:39:49,600 --> 01:39:51,679
back up to having it on a cycle rather

2468
01:39:51,679 --> 01:39:54,159
than all at once postco and you'll see

2469
01:39:54,159 --> 01:39:56,320
that number decrease so that we're on a

2470
01:39:56,320 --> 01:40:02,070
single grade level per year thereafter.

2471
01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:03,600
The next couple items, the elementary

2472
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:05,600
school. Um, again, as I said at the

2473
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:07,199
outset, I realized that our middle high

2474
01:40:07,199 --> 01:40:08,800
school is certainly the older of the two

2475
01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:11,040
facilities, but our elementary school

2476
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:12,960
now is getting close, you know, at that

2477
01:40:12,960 --> 01:40:14,320
decade level, and it's getting to the

2478
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:15,840
point where some of its technology has

2479
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:17,840
come to end of life. We're in the

2480
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:19,840
process of having, uh, completing a

2481
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:22,880
multi-year plan to replace what used to

2482
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:25,360
be the short throw projectors, uh, sort

2483
01:40:25,360 --> 01:40:28,560
of project, you know, materials on the whiteboard for students at the

2484
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:31,119
elementary school. Not to belabor it,

2485
01:40:31,119 --> 01:40:33,440
short for projectors are nice, but

2486
01:40:33,440 --> 01:40:35,760
they're really expensive to maintain.

2487
01:40:35,760 --> 01:40:37,679
Bulbs alone are really expensive, not

2488
01:40:37,679 --> 01:40:39,520
including the maintenance. And so we've

2489
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:41,040
been shifting districtwide to these

2490
01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:43,040
touchscreen TVs. They're essentially

2491
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:45,199
really big tablets that are mounted onto

2492
01:40:45,199 --> 01:40:48,639
the walls, much less expensive per unit,

2493
01:40:48,639 --> 01:40:51,040
uh, and much easier to maintain longer

2494
01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:54,239
term. FY28 will complete that process

2495
01:40:54,239 --> 01:40:56,080
for the elementary school, taking care

2496
01:40:56,080 --> 01:40:57,840
of the preschool through third grade,

2497
01:40:57,840 --> 01:40:59,600
plus some of our specialized spaces for

2498
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:01,920
kiddos with disabilities.

2499
01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:04,159
>> So, Ron, just a quick question. Again,

2500
01:41:04,159 --> 01:41:06,560
we want this out there early and often.

2501
01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:09,119
>> Um, in terms of equipment that we are

2502
01:41:09,119 --> 01:41:11,840
replacing, what do we do for disposal?

2503
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:13,280
>> Yeah, it's a great point. So, any of the

2504
01:41:13,280 --> 01:41:17,360
items that uh are ultimately no good,

2505
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:18,800
well, they all go to surplus. They get

2506
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:20,560
voted for surplus for you. any items

2507
01:41:20,560 --> 01:41:22,400
that are no good or surplus and usually

2508
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:23,760
disposed of because they simply don't

2509
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:25,920
work. For those items that do work, we

2510
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:27,760
usually auction those items and then any

2511
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:29,520
of the proceeds from that go back to our

2512
01:41:29,520 --> 01:41:31,920
technology department to buy parts and

2513
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:34,000
equipment as they need to replace the

2514
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:35,600
you know parts for the different

2515
01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:37,679
touchcreens across the board. Thank you

2516
01:41:37,679 --> 01:41:38,159
for that.

2517
01:41:38,159 --> 01:41:40,320
>> Is there a cost to disposal in some

2518
01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:42,560
cases or electronics?

2519
01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:44,639
>> There is but not for this particular

2520
01:41:44,639 --> 01:41:48,480
set. The short throw doesn't have uh a

2521
01:41:48,480 --> 01:41:50,159
cost for the disposal. In some of the

2522
01:41:50,159 --> 01:41:51,520
cases for electronics, some of the heavy

2523
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:57,990
metals require additional cost.

2524
01:41:58,000 --> 01:41:59,360
You're next also at the elementary

2525
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:01,280
school shifting from the classroom to

2526
01:42:01,280 --> 01:42:03,040
our instructors. Uh this is the second

2527
01:42:03,040 --> 01:42:08,000
half of a replacement cycle for our um

2528
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:09,520
hardware for our instructors. Excuse me,

2529
01:42:09,520 --> 01:42:11,679
our first half of a 2-year replacement

2530
01:42:11,679 --> 01:42:12,800
cycle for the hardware for the

2531
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:14,719
instructors. like our students, our

2532
01:42:14,719 --> 01:42:16,639
instructors all have laptops as well in

2533
01:42:16,639 --> 01:42:18,719
order to project all that material onto

2534
01:42:18,719 --> 01:42:21,280
the smart uh screens, onto the touch

2535
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:24,000
screens. Uh and these become the hub for

2536
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:25,920
attendance and grading and all of the

2537
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:27,679
other activities that uh your

2538
01:42:27,679 --> 01:42:32,229
instructors will do.

2539
01:42:32,239 --> 01:42:34,000
The last technology request is over at

2540
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,320
the middle high school

2541
01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:39,440
also multi-year for 28 and 29. This is

2542
01:42:39,440 --> 01:42:42,239
investment in our pathways program. Um,

2543
01:42:42,239 --> 01:42:44,159
our pathway is technology and arts

2544
01:42:44,159 --> 01:42:46,560
programs in particular use higher

2545
01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:48,719
performance computers. I'm not a tech

2546
01:42:48,719 --> 01:42:51,040
expert. My understanding is that the RAM

2547
01:42:51,040 --> 01:42:52,639
and processing for some of the things

2548
01:42:52,639 --> 01:42:54,880
that they're doing just requires more

2549
01:42:54,880 --> 01:42:57,280
power than your average Chromebook can

2550
01:42:57,280 --> 01:42:58,800
handle. And so for a lot of their

2551
01:42:58,800 --> 01:43:00,159
applications, they use these more

2552
01:43:00,159 --> 01:43:02,400
high-owered desktops.

2553
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:03,920
again talking about sort of grants

2554
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:05,440
coming on. We had had grants through the

2555
01:43:05,440 --> 01:43:07,440
pathways grants over the past several

2556
01:43:07,440 --> 01:43:09,360
years that helped us invest in some of

2557
01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:11,840
those initial pathways investments for

2558
01:43:11,840 --> 01:43:14,080
you know for hardware and technology.

2559
01:43:14,080 --> 01:43:16,320
Those devices are coming to end of life.

2560
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:17,840
There's no grant currently that we're

2561
01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:20,400
qualified for to cover this cost. And so

2562
01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:24,239
the request $50,000 to start to replace

2563
01:43:24,239 --> 01:43:25,920
some of those devices coming to end of

2564
01:43:25,920 --> 01:43:31,109
life over 28 and 29.

2565
01:43:31,119 --> 01:43:32,960
That big sheet you see there is, you

2566
01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:35,600
know, 10 years in a snapshot across

2567
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:37,520
every major project that we can

2568
01:43:37,520 --> 01:43:40,239
anticipate. Uh, you know, give it a

2569
01:43:40,239 --> 01:43:42,159
caveat and say that these are things

2570
01:43:42,159 --> 01:43:44,639
that are on the radar now, but certainly

2571
01:43:44,639 --> 01:43:46,960
many other things can pop up as often

2572
01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:49,119
happens with buildings and technology

2573
01:43:49,119 --> 01:43:51,440
and fleets. Uh, but it's our intention

2574
01:43:51,440 --> 01:43:53,840
to try to give you a a projection of

2575
01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:56,560
what we see coming up on the radar.

2576
01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:58,560
On the next page, I want to highlight

2577
01:43:58,560 --> 01:44:00,480
three of them that I think are of note

2578
01:44:00,480 --> 01:44:02,719
for you.

2579
01:44:02,719 --> 01:44:04,320
The first one's the middle high school

2580
01:44:04,320 --> 01:44:06,800
hot water storage tank. Again, maybe not

2581
01:44:06,800 --> 01:44:08,400
as exciting as some of the technology

2582
01:44:08,400 --> 01:44:10,560
investments or even the transportation,

2583
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:14,239
but really important. Uh, this came um

2584
01:44:14,239 --> 01:44:16,480
on the heels of u some routine

2585
01:44:16,480 --> 01:44:18,480
maintenance that was recently done.

2586
01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:20,639
Identify this tank is probably getting

2587
01:44:20,639 --> 01:44:23,119
very close to end of life. We anticipate

2588
01:44:23,119 --> 01:44:25,119
that it's going to be about $100,000 and

2589
01:44:25,119 --> 01:44:27,679
we're proposing for FY29. So, no action

2590
01:44:27,679 --> 01:44:29,840
needed for it right now, but that's

2591
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:32,560
something new and relatively soon uh

2592
01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:36,239
when we think about capital. Yeah.

2593
01:44:36,239 --> 01:44:38,000
The next the middle high school turf

2594
01:44:38,000 --> 01:44:39,679
project. It had originally been

2595
01:44:39,679 --> 01:44:41,760
projected for FY29.

2596
01:44:41,760 --> 01:44:43,840
That put it right at about 10 12 11

2597
01:44:43,840 --> 01:44:45,920
years old. We're actually looking to

2598
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:48,560
bump that back to FY31. And the reason

2599
01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:51,360
is in anticipation for that 10-year

2600
01:44:51,360 --> 01:44:53,280
anniversary date, which is usually how

2601
01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:55,600
long turf fields last, 10ish to 12

2602
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:58,639
years, um we commissioned a study and

2603
01:44:58,639 --> 01:45:01,199
cost projection as part of this work to

2604
01:45:01,199 --> 01:45:03,119
get a sense of what kind of state the

2605
01:45:03,119 --> 01:45:04,960
field is in and also what kind of cost

2606
01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:07,440
it would be to replace the the turf

2607
01:45:07,440 --> 01:45:10,239
itself. Not the underlying material, not

2608
01:45:10,239 --> 01:45:12,800
the subbase, simply the grass carpet, if

2609
01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:14,000
you will, right? That part of it, if you

2610
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:15,840
will. Uh, so we brought in the same

2611
01:45:15,840 --> 01:45:17,360
vendor that actually installed the turf

2612
01:45:17,360 --> 01:45:19,199
for us. They also brought another vendor

2613
01:45:19,199 --> 01:45:21,119
who does some work specifically on turf

2614
01:45:21,119 --> 01:45:23,280
performance. Put them two together. They

2615
01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:24,719
did some work over the summer to get us

2616
01:45:24,719 --> 01:45:26,320
a sense of what that looks like. I've

2617
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:27,760
linked it there. If you want to bring it

2618
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:30,080
up, take a look at it. Uh, but the

2619
01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:31,920
takeaway really is they took a look at

2620
01:45:31,920 --> 01:45:34,480
nine different areas of how a turf

2621
01:45:34,480 --> 01:45:37,280
performs and the large majority were

2622
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:39,360
good to excellence. Uh, the most

2623
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:41,360
important being the performance of the

2624
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:43,360
two major safety analyses. So this

2625
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:45,760
critical fall analysis, this Gmax

2626
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:47,119
testing which is like the compression

2627
01:45:47,119 --> 01:45:49,360
analysis and both of those came back as

2628
01:45:49,360 --> 01:45:51,199
excellent which in terms of safety is

2629
01:45:51,199 --> 01:45:52,639
the most important thing we have when it

2630
01:45:52,639 --> 01:45:55,520
comes to turf. The cost estimate though

2631
01:45:55,520 --> 01:45:58,960
would be something like $1.7 million out

2632
01:45:58,960 --> 01:46:00,800
in FY31.

2633
01:46:00,800 --> 01:46:03,360
So it's it's a serious projection in

2634
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:05,360
terms of the investment that you'd need.

2635
01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:06,960
But we're happy to say and happy to

2636
01:46:06,960 --> 01:46:09,040
report that we've got a few more years

2637
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:10,800
going before it's time to have to do

2638
01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:13,840
that work.

2639
01:46:13,840 --> 01:46:16,159
The last one is really way out there.

2640
01:46:16,159 --> 01:46:19,199
Um, expansion of preschool classrooms.

2641
01:46:19,199 --> 01:46:20,480
It's just a discussion that's happened

2642
01:46:20,480 --> 01:46:21,920
at a couple of different levels of

2643
01:46:21,920 --> 01:46:23,920
government over the past few years.

2644
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:26,560
State level in particular. Um, multiple

2645
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:29,520
governors have sort of come through and

2646
01:46:29,520 --> 01:46:31,040
pinned this as something that they're

2647
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:32,800
interested in, but there's really been

2648
01:46:32,800 --> 01:46:34,960
no traction on, you know, concrete

2649
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:37,679
legislation. So we're simply saying that

2650
01:46:37,679 --> 01:46:39,520
if there is legislation that creates

2651
01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:42,080
universal preschool in Massachusetts, we

2652
01:46:42,080 --> 01:46:44,320
Carver would have to take some action in

2653
01:46:44,320 --> 01:46:47,040
our facility to expand the size of add

2654
01:46:47,040 --> 01:46:49,119
on some number of classrooms. What that

2655
01:46:49,119 --> 01:46:50,800
would look like would be determined by

2656
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:53,840
the legislation obviously. Uh but so

2657
01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:54,880
that's one of those cases where you see

2658
01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:57,280
a 3M there for 3 million. That would not

2659
01:46:57,280 --> 01:46:58,880
be funding we'd expect the local

2660
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:00,960
community would have to cover. MSBA

2661
01:47:00,960 --> 01:47:02,800
grant funding, some other combination of

2662
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:06,159
funding externally would cover that.

2663
01:47:06,159 --> 01:47:08,159
Honestly, I think that's been the major

2664
01:47:08,159 --> 01:47:10,400
hookup of why this isn't moving forward

2665
01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:12,800
is they realized that if they were going

2666
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:16,320
to go universal prek starting age three

2667
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:18,080
that that would be adding two grade

2668
01:47:18,080 --> 01:47:19,360
levels of students to every school

2669
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:21,119
district in Massachusetts and then most

2670
01:47:21,119 --> 01:47:23,199
school districts don't have the capacity

2671
01:47:23,199 --> 01:47:25,119
to do that or many school districts

2672
01:47:25,119 --> 01:47:26,480
would have capacity to do that. So there

2673
01:47:26,480 --> 01:47:28,880
have to be some major piece of funding

2674
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:31,920
to support any kind of legislation for

2675
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:34,960
but it as Ron said for the last two or

2676
01:47:34,960 --> 01:47:36,400
three years maybe even four years it's

2677
01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:39,440
been a it comes up and there's been a

2678
01:47:39,440 --> 01:47:40,880
little bit of a push to go to universal

2679
01:47:40,880 --> 01:47:41,679
preschool.

2680
01:47:41,679 --> 01:47:45,760
>> I heard years ago I think um

2681
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:48,320
during elementary school council meeting

2682
01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:50,080
someone was explaining that that school

2683
01:47:50,080 --> 01:47:52,320
was actually built with the hallway so

2684
01:47:52,320 --> 01:47:54,320
you can actually expand. And it it is

2685
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:56,560
built to expand out on each wing.

2686
01:47:56,560 --> 01:47:58,719
>> So that would be the approach.

2687
01:47:58,719 --> 01:48:00,560
>> And I would think so. You would go back

2688
01:48:00,560 --> 01:48:02,560
and you could actually do it's designed

2689
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:06,000
to do one classroom up and down. So um

2690
01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:10,480
in essence um that they could do um four

2691
01:48:10,480 --> 01:48:13,600
classrooms off of each wing in theory.

2692
01:48:13,600 --> 01:48:15,360
>> Interesting.

2693
01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:16,320
>> That's significant.

2694
01:48:16,320 --> 01:48:18,719
>> Yeah. That's why

2695
01:48:18,719 --> 01:48:20,880
four classes.

2696
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:22,960
>> Yeah. That's how that's how it was

2697
01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:24,159
designed.

2698
01:48:24,159 --> 01:48:28,400
>> Can I just go back to the uh field?

2699
01:48:28,400 --> 01:48:30,960
>> So, do we we have a fund and I'm just

2700
01:48:30,960 --> 01:48:32,480
curious

2701
01:48:32,480 --> 01:48:34,480
the number right now?

2702
01:48:34,480 --> 01:48:36,639
>> Probably no close idea the number is.

2703
01:48:36,639 --> 01:48:39,040
>> Yeah, it's about $103,000 that the

2704
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:42,480
community has amassed for a replace the

2705
01:48:42,480 --> 01:48:46,239
turf field fund. Um mostly forprofit

2706
01:48:46,239 --> 01:48:49,040
entities that rent the field pay a fee.

2707
01:48:49,040 --> 01:48:51,679
that fee for the field has gone into PAC

2708
01:48:51,679 --> 01:48:53,679
fund ultimately.

2709
01:48:53,679 --> 01:48:55,280
It's a it's a substantial number of

2710
01:48:55,280 --> 01:48:58,000
dollars. You know, puts a dent in in the

2711
01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:00,000
what we expect to be something like 1.6

2712
01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:04,629
1.7 million.

2713
01:49:04,639 --> 01:49:06,800
I'll field any questions you've got uh

2714
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:09,280
for capital. Again, it's a relatively

2715
01:49:09,280 --> 01:49:12,480
narrow capital plan for FY28.

2716
01:49:12,480 --> 01:49:13,920
>> And and we're not necessarily looking

2717
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:16,000
for a vote this evening. Uh we have

2718
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:18,400
time. the town was looking for a

2719
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:20,320
preliminary list by the end of this

2720
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:22,080
week. Um, this is actually a little

2721
01:49:22,080 --> 01:49:26,000
earlier than usual only October 5th. Um,

2722
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:28,480
but you know, we our our goal would be

2723
01:49:28,480 --> 01:49:29,920
to present what we presented this

2724
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:32,000
evening to the town, but say the school

2725
01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:34,159
committee has not yet voted it. Um, I

2726
01:49:34,159 --> 01:49:36,400
think my obviously if you voted, you

2727
01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:38,080
could you could vote it and then you

2728
01:49:38,080 --> 01:49:40,000
could change it and amend it. Yeah, you

2729
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:42,320
could amend it if you needed to. Uh, but

2730
01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:43,920
um I don't feel like there's a rush on

2731
01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:46,320
that. Uh we actually have an admin team

2732
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:47,520
meeting tomorrow. We're going to go over

2733
01:49:47,520 --> 01:49:49,679
this one more time. Um so my

2734
01:49:49,679 --> 01:49:51,119
recommendation actually be would be to

2735
01:49:51,119 --> 01:49:53,760
hold off on going on it until the next

2736
01:49:53,760 --> 01:49:55,600
meeting and obviously give you the

2737
01:49:55,600 --> 01:49:56,719
opportunity if they want to say is there

2738
01:49:56,719 --> 01:49:59,040
something that's missing? Um so but

2739
01:49:59,040 --> 01:50:01,760
certainly um

2740
01:50:01,760 --> 01:50:03,280
the committee could vote it if it chose

2741
01:50:03,280 --> 01:50:04,960
to, but my recommendation would be to

2742
01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:07,600
hold off at this point.

2743
01:50:07,600 --> 01:50:09,119
>> Okay.

2744
01:50:09,119 --> 01:50:13,040
Anyone have anything else to add?

2745
01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:15,199
I think it's a little low. We should

2746
01:50:15,199 --> 01:50:16,000
find something else.

2747
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:17,679
>> I was thinking where are the swings? I

2748
01:50:17,679 --> 01:50:19,280
was thinking where where where the

2749
01:50:19,280 --> 01:50:19,679
swings.

2750
01:50:19,679 --> 01:50:20,800
>> The swings are happening.

2751
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:22,080
>> I know that. I'm sorry. The no high

2752
01:50:22,080 --> 01:50:22,880
school campus.

2753
01:50:22,880 --> 01:50:25,280
>> Oh, [laughter]

2754
01:50:25,280 --> 01:50:27,040
I've talked to several students like

2755
01:50:27,040 --> 01:50:30,400
swings. What? We get swings. I mean, I

2756
01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:31,440
don't know if there's been any movement

2757
01:50:31,440 --> 01:50:35,280
around um increasing um recess to 8th

2758
01:50:35,280 --> 01:50:37,040
grade. I'm hoping I'm hoping that's

2759
01:50:37,040 --> 01:50:38,320
gonna push through, but I don't think

2760
01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:39,840
>> I think that legislation has a lot of

2761
01:50:39,840 --> 01:50:41,760
traction uh to do the recess through

2762
01:50:41,760 --> 01:50:44,320
grade eight.

2763
01:50:44,320 --> 01:50:45,840
>> Even though I mean it's great. It's even

2764
01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:47,760
right for adults to have recess, right?

2765
01:50:47,760 --> 01:50:48,480
We

2766
01:50:48,480 --> 01:50:50,719
>> Well, I mean

2767
01:50:50,719 --> 01:50:54,719
for so many things so many things.

2768
01:50:54,719 --> 01:51:00,480
>> Yes. That's my It resets like like if

2769
01:51:00,480 --> 01:51:03,280
you sit on a swing, it resets their like

2770
01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:05,840
nervous system. Yep.

2771
01:51:05,840 --> 01:51:09,280
they're they're mutual beneficial

2772
01:51:09,280 --> 01:51:11,679
any thank you very much for that

2773
01:51:11,679 --> 01:51:13,199
appreciate that and again as we get

2774
01:51:13,199 --> 01:51:15,679
closer to um deeper into the budget

2775
01:51:15,679 --> 01:51:17,600
season clearly there'll be a lot of

2776
01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:20,239
communication from us as much as we can

2777
01:51:20,239 --> 01:51:22,480
thank you thank you very much Ron okay

2778
01:51:22,480 --> 01:51:25,040
so next that brings us to the rate

2779
01:51:25,040 --> 01:51:27,040
reimbursement town meeting warrant

2780
01:51:27,040 --> 01:51:30,159
article again another talking point for

2781
01:51:30,159 --> 01:51:32,320
people to attend special town meeting on

2782
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:34,639
December 1st at 6 p.m. at Carverdale

2783
01:51:34,639 --> 01:51:36,239
High School.

2784
01:51:36,239 --> 01:51:38,320
>> So, what we have for you for the school

2785
01:51:38,320 --> 01:51:40,800
committee's consideration is a single

2786
01:51:40,800 --> 01:51:42,800
article. You have the language there.

2787
01:51:42,800 --> 01:51:46,000
You have your backup as well. Uh,

2788
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:47,679
essentially the article is intended to

2789
01:51:47,679 --> 01:51:50,960
simply do a transfer of anate award that

2790
01:51:50,960 --> 01:51:53,599
we anticipate coming to the school

2791
01:51:53,599 --> 01:51:56,400
department through general government.

2792
01:51:56,400 --> 01:51:58,560
However, a little bit complicated and so

2793
01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:00,239
what I was hoping we could do today is

2794
01:52:00,239 --> 01:52:02,320
dive into some of the details. I'll walk

2795
01:52:02,320 --> 01:52:04,400
through everything you see there in that

2796
01:52:04,400 --> 01:52:05,920
article, including how we fill in that

2797
01:52:05,920 --> 01:52:07,440
blank of the exact number of dollars

2798
01:52:07,440 --> 01:52:09,520
when the award comes through uh and all

2799
01:52:09,520 --> 01:52:10,560
of that. And then we'll end with some

2800
01:52:10,560 --> 01:52:14,390
next steps if that's okay.

2801
01:52:14,400 --> 01:52:16,960
I realize many of you already understand

2802
01:52:16,960 --> 01:52:19,040
but I just want to start a baseline if I

2803
01:52:19,040 --> 01:52:20,719
can a little bit about the fundamentals

2804
01:52:20,719 --> 01:52:25,119
of e-ate is a system

2805
01:52:25,119 --> 01:52:27,520
of funding that goes to the FCC the

2806
01:52:27,520 --> 01:52:31,199
Federal Communications Commission and is

2807
01:52:31,199 --> 01:52:33,360
sort of administered by this arm of that

2808
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:36,000
group as well. All it really is intended

2809
01:52:36,000 --> 01:52:38,719
to do is to help schools and libraries

2810
01:52:38,719 --> 01:52:40,320
get affordable connection to the

2811
01:52:40,320 --> 01:52:42,080
internet. And it does that in a couple

2812
01:52:42,080 --> 01:52:46,790
of ways. If we go to the next slide,

2813
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:48,960
there's two major categories of the way

2814
01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:52,080
in which supports schools and libraries.

2815
01:52:52,080 --> 01:52:53,679
The first is to support the service

2816
01:52:53,679 --> 01:52:56,400
itself. So they give you money to offset

2817
01:52:56,400 --> 01:52:58,639
your cost for like your Verizon or your

2818
01:52:58,639 --> 01:53:00,800
code in our case or your Comcast, right?

2819
01:53:00,800 --> 01:53:02,960
So, the actual internet service provider

2820
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:04,560
and the other is called category 2.

2821
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:06,239
That's the stuff. That's the hardware.

2822
01:53:06,239 --> 01:53:07,440
That's the one we're going to spend some

2823
01:53:07,440 --> 01:53:09,840
time on today. Uh, what's interesting

2824
01:53:09,840 --> 01:53:11,360
though about this is -ate doesn't give

2825
01:53:11,360 --> 01:53:13,520
you a direct cash reward. What it does

2826
01:53:13,520 --> 01:53:15,280
instead is gives you a discount of the

2827
01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:17,440
total. So, you bid it out, you start

2828
01:53:17,440 --> 01:53:19,920
paying, and then sort of gives you some

2829
01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:21,920
money back or pays the vendor directly.

2830
01:53:21,920 --> 01:53:23,199
There's sort of two different ways to do

2831
01:53:23,199 --> 01:53:25,920
that. That range is pretty dramatic from

2832
01:53:25,920 --> 01:53:28,080
20 to 90%. Carver has typically gotten

2833
01:53:28,080 --> 01:53:30,800
about 40 to 60% so 50% on average give

2834
01:53:30,800 --> 01:53:34,629
or take. Right?

2835
01:53:34,639 --> 01:53:36,560
There's two ways to get money uh from

2836
01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:39,040
the FCC through e- rate. The first is

2837
01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:41,360
called the spy model which essentially

2838
01:53:41,360 --> 01:53:42,960
uh the federal government says hey

2839
01:53:42,960 --> 01:53:44,800
what's your recurring cost like your

2840
01:53:44,800 --> 01:53:47,040
internet service bill and we go we bid

2841
01:53:47,040 --> 01:53:48,800
it out. We think this is the lowest best

2842
01:53:48,800 --> 01:53:51,840
one and this is the amount

2843
01:53:51,840 --> 01:53:53,440
pays the vendor half. We pay the vendor

2844
01:53:53,440 --> 01:53:55,040
half. no money comes to the school

2845
01:53:55,040 --> 01:53:56,800
department for those kinds of things.

2846
01:53:56,800 --> 01:53:58,159
Good for recurring bills that are going

2847
01:53:58,159 --> 01:54:00,080
to be the same bill over and over again.

2848
01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:01,599
The other option is called the Bayer

2849
01:54:01,599 --> 01:54:03,760
model. It's a reimbursement mechanism,

2850
01:54:03,760 --> 01:54:05,920
better for some short-term turnaround

2851
01:54:05,920 --> 01:54:07,280
projects. That's the one we've had to

2852
01:54:07,280 --> 01:54:10,000
use where the school department pays up

2853
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:12,400
front, tells the FCC this is how much

2854
01:54:12,400 --> 01:54:15,040
the thing cost and then says give us a

2855
01:54:15,040 --> 01:54:16,400
reimbursement and they issue a

2856
01:54:16,400 --> 01:54:17,840
reimbursement. That's something we'll

2857
01:54:17,840 --> 01:54:20,480
dive into today.

2858
01:54:20,480 --> 01:54:23,360
So what did we use the -en bear model

2859
01:54:23,360 --> 01:54:25,840
for? Uh a network update that was part

2860
01:54:25,840 --> 01:54:28,000
of our capital proposal. A little bit

2861
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:29,760
about your network. Again, I know most

2862
01:54:29,760 --> 01:54:31,520
of you know networks, some of you more

2863
01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:33,440
than others certainly, right? Live it

2864
01:54:33,440 --> 01:54:35,119
every day. Uh but your network just

2865
01:54:35,119 --> 01:54:36,159
connects you to the internet, connects

2866
01:54:36,159 --> 01:54:37,440
all your devices in it, and does it

2867
01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:39,199
safely. Make sure that the information

2868
01:54:39,199 --> 01:54:41,679
coming in uh is modulated. Make sure

2869
01:54:41,679 --> 01:54:43,520
that only the right information is going

2870
01:54:43,520 --> 01:54:46,719
out. um without those regular updates,

2871
01:54:46,719 --> 01:54:49,040
your network is vulnerable for attack

2872
01:54:49,040 --> 01:54:51,119
and data breaches and those sorts of

2873
01:54:51,119 --> 01:54:52,639
things. I'm sure you've all been reading

2874
01:54:52,639 --> 01:54:54,159
about some of the recent data breaches

2875
01:54:54,159 --> 01:54:56,639
sort of in the public sector. And so our

2876
01:54:56,639 --> 01:54:58,159
internet, the school department's

2877
01:54:58,159 --> 01:55:01,679
network, uh was due for an update. The

2878
01:55:01,679 --> 01:55:03,760
original model was to do that over FY27

2879
01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:05,280
and 28. We've talked about this in the

2880
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:07,040
capital plan of last year with no

2881
01:55:07,040 --> 01:55:08,800
funding in 27 available for

2882
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:11,040
understandable reasons. That project was

2883
01:55:11,040 --> 01:55:13,119
in jeopardy of not happening. That

2884
01:55:13,119 --> 01:55:14,880
project was a pretty vital project for

2885
01:55:14,880 --> 01:55:17,679
us. So if you'll go to the next slide

2886
01:55:17,679 --> 01:55:20,790
kindly.

2887
01:55:20,800 --> 01:55:23,280
So new landscape required a bit of a new

2888
01:55:23,280 --> 01:55:25,599
plan, right? No funding available at

2889
01:55:25,599 --> 01:55:29,360
that moment um locally and the FCC has

2890
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:31,040
been having some conversations at the

2891
01:55:31,040 --> 01:55:34,239
federal level about dissolving the FCC.

2892
01:55:34,239 --> 01:55:36,080
I don't know to say that thing. I put

2893
01:55:36,080 --> 01:55:37,760
some links there to you. They spent some

2894
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:40,080
time in 24 narrowing some of the scope

2895
01:55:40,080 --> 01:55:43,199
of the FCC's - program in general. Uh

2896
01:55:43,199 --> 01:55:45,440
and there's been some conversation to

2897
01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:49,040
sunset at -ate entirely.

2898
01:55:49,040 --> 01:55:50,800
And so facing some uncertain you know

2899
01:55:50,800 --> 01:55:52,880
funding in general and some urgency to

2900
01:55:52,880 --> 01:55:54,719
get the project done we opted for this

2901
01:55:54,719 --> 01:55:57,199
bare mechanism instead pay for upfront

2902
01:55:57,199 --> 01:55:59,360
asked for to give us the money so that

2903
01:55:59,360 --> 01:56:04,320
we can get into the FCC rates funding um

2904
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:06,159
year that was already in existence

2905
01:56:06,159 --> 01:56:07,760
>> which you typically don't

2906
01:56:07,760 --> 01:56:09,360
>> correct this is not a typical approach

2907
01:56:09,360 --> 01:56:11,679
for us at all not a typical approach

2908
01:56:11,679 --> 01:56:14,560
sort of in general when you read

2909
01:56:14,560 --> 01:56:18,159
so here's the new plan uh car public

2910
01:56:18,159 --> 01:56:19,920
schools went forward with that project

2911
01:56:19,920 --> 01:56:22,239
for the better part of $400,000 to get

2912
01:56:22,239 --> 01:56:24,080
that network up and running. We were

2913
01:56:24,080 --> 01:56:26,159
going to split it between uh switches

2914
01:56:26,159 --> 01:56:28,159
and access points, the wireless access

2915
01:56:28,159 --> 01:56:30,960
points to those two. Kudos uh to Brian

2916
01:56:30,960 --> 01:56:32,560
and Steve Mahoney who were just

2917
01:56:32,560 --> 01:56:33,840
incredible. They're our technology

2918
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:36,080
director, our network coordinator. Uh

2919
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:38,000
that was a huge lift in a single summer

2920
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:40,320
to get both of those things done and

2921
01:56:40,320 --> 01:56:42,159
operational and ready for your schools

2922
01:56:42,159 --> 01:56:44,400
to run. Uh we were able to pull that

2923
01:56:44,400 --> 01:56:49,040
off. And so once that's done and set, we

2924
01:56:49,040 --> 01:56:51,599
then go and submit all of that to the

2925
01:56:51,599 --> 01:56:53,119
rate folks and say, "Hey, look, we'd

2926
01:56:53,119 --> 01:56:55,280
like to get our 50% reimbursement, 40 to

2927
01:56:55,280 --> 01:56:59,199
60%, but about 50% reimbursement."

2928
01:56:59,199 --> 01:57:01,520
Excellent.

2929
01:57:01,520 --> 01:57:03,760
Got it, Ron. Okay. Thanks for all the

2930
01:57:03,760 --> 01:57:05,520
stuff. Why do we need an article get to

2931
01:57:05,520 --> 01:57:07,119
the point on this? Right. No.

2932
01:57:07,119 --> 01:57:10,560
>> So, hey, uh, the bare model works a

2933
01:57:10,560 --> 01:57:12,639
little differently. This is going to be

2934
01:57:12,639 --> 01:57:14,800
uh actual money coming back. Whereas

2935
01:57:14,800 --> 01:57:17,440
that other model, the vendor got paid

2936
01:57:17,440 --> 01:57:18,960
from the feds and the vendor gets paid

2937
01:57:18,960 --> 01:57:20,560
from us and they sort of reconcile it on

2938
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:22,560
their own. This is money coming direct

2939
01:57:22,560 --> 01:57:24,000
from the feds. And unlike some of your

2940
01:57:24,000 --> 01:57:25,520
other federal money like your grants

2941
01:57:25,520 --> 01:57:28,639
from like uh ESSA and you know IDA and

2942
01:57:28,639 --> 01:57:30,560
all your entitlement grants, that money

2943
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:32,400
comes in a different bucket if you will.

2944
01:57:32,400 --> 01:57:33,920
This money only comes to the

2945
01:57:33,920 --> 01:57:35,440
municipality,

2946
01:57:35,440 --> 01:57:37,199
right? Comes to town of Carver. And so

2947
01:57:37,199 --> 01:57:38,719
the article is simply to say like, hey,

2948
01:57:38,719 --> 01:57:39,679
this money was for the school

2949
01:57:39,679 --> 01:57:41,040
department. It arrives in the town of

2950
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:42,800
Carver. Uh, it's got to be transferred

2951
01:57:42,800 --> 01:57:44,719
over to the school department.

2952
01:57:44,719 --> 01:57:47,520
Long-winded way of saying only the town

2953
01:57:47,520 --> 01:57:48,480
meeting can do.

2954
01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:50,480
>> Correct. Only a legislature can transfer

2955
01:57:50,480 --> 01:57:55,990
money between those two entities.

2956
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:58,639
So, big 10,000 foot view on the last

2957
01:57:58,639 --> 01:58:01,760
slide here if I can. Uh, school

2958
01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:03,199
department paid for your network.

2959
01:58:03,199 --> 01:58:05,520
Network's in place. We're asking you

2960
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:07,599
right now for that reimbursement. That's

2961
01:58:07,599 --> 01:58:08,719
going to happen the next couple of

2962
01:58:08,719 --> 01:58:10,800
weeks. We expect early November we'll

2963
01:58:10,800 --> 01:58:13,119
get our final award letter from the FCC

2964
01:58:13,119 --> 01:58:14,960
from USAC to determine what that number

2965
01:58:14,960 --> 01:58:16,719
of dollars is going to be. That will

2966
01:58:16,719 --> 01:58:18,239
fill in the blank on the article for the

2967
01:58:18,239 --> 01:58:19,840
exact number of dollars. Whatever rate

2968
01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:21,920
says the letter will be the backup for

2969
01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:24,239
that information. Uh and the article

2970
01:58:24,239 --> 01:58:25,599
transfers the money back to the school

2971
01:58:25,599 --> 01:58:27,360
department when the federal government

2972
01:58:27,360 --> 01:58:29,040
issues the money over the town of

2973
01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:31,280
Carver. Couple last things I'll just say

2974
01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:32,800
out loud and then open up for questions,

2975
01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:34,719
please. Uh so if you ultimately approve

2976
01:58:34,719 --> 01:58:36,800
the article today, there's a couple of

2977
01:58:36,800 --> 01:58:39,119
potential next steps. The first definite

2978
01:58:39,119 --> 01:58:40,960
next step is we go over to our

2979
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:42,400
colleagues in town hall, town

2980
01:58:42,400 --> 01:58:44,320
administrator, the town legal team

2981
01:58:44,320 --> 01:58:45,440
always takes a look at all of our

2982
01:58:45,440 --> 01:58:47,040
articles obviously and there's this

2983
01:58:47,040 --> 01:58:49,520
thing called DLS, division of local

2984
01:58:49,520 --> 01:58:51,599
services. They help sort these things

2985
01:58:51,599 --> 01:58:53,440
out as well. They'll all weigh in on

2986
01:58:53,440 --> 01:58:56,239
this for us, right? Outcomes from all of

2987
01:58:56,239 --> 01:58:58,800
that uh could just be approved as is. Um

2988
01:58:58,800 --> 01:59:00,560
we put it through with our legal team

2989
01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:01,920
here in the school department legal

2990
01:59:01,920 --> 01:59:04,880
team. They thought it was fine. Uh but I

2991
01:59:04,880 --> 01:59:06,800
am certainly no lawyer and nor am I a

2992
01:59:06,800 --> 01:59:08,719
town finance director either. So they

2993
01:59:08,719 --> 01:59:09,760
could come back and say here are some

2994
01:59:09,760 --> 01:59:11,760
edits that we propose, right? They could

2995
01:59:11,760 --> 01:59:13,119
come back and say like special town

2996
01:59:13,119 --> 01:59:14,159
meeting is not going to work but it

2997
01:59:14,159 --> 01:59:15,679
could go to a regular town meeting. So

2998
01:59:15,679 --> 01:59:18,239
annual in the spring or they say

2999
01:59:18,239 --> 01:59:19,679
actually this is have to be punted to

3000
01:59:19,679 --> 01:59:22,000
the next fiscal year's free cash. So

3001
01:59:22,000 --> 01:59:23,920
this money comes in going to get

3002
01:59:23,920 --> 01:59:25,679
registered free cash. That's the

3003
01:59:25,679 --> 01:59:27,040
following fiscal year which could happen

3004
01:59:27,040 --> 01:59:28,480
if you have a special town meeting in

3005
01:59:28,480 --> 01:59:31,119
the following fiscal year or even the

3006
01:59:31,119 --> 01:59:34,159
next annual town meeting in FY28

3007
01:59:34,159 --> 01:59:36,560
for FY29.

3008
01:59:36,560 --> 01:59:40,239
So a lot of moving parts still um but I

3009
01:59:40,239 --> 01:59:42,960
thought better to plan for the worst and

3010
01:59:42,960 --> 01:59:46,239
hope for the best. So the most current

3011
01:59:46,239 --> 01:59:48,800
step would be special town meeting.

3012
01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:50,639
Those articles are going to be due soon.

3013
01:59:50,639 --> 01:59:52,800
So, I wanted to get in front of you all.

3014
01:59:52,800 --> 01:59:54,639
>> I know that's a lot. That's dense e

3015
01:59:54,639 --> 02:00:00,790
rate, but peppy

3016
02:00:00,800 --> 02:00:02,880
amount though when we're approving it.

3017
02:00:02,880 --> 02:00:04,639
>> It's going to stay as blank pending that

3018
02:00:04,639 --> 02:00:07,119
the irate uh pending rate award.

3019
02:00:07,119 --> 02:00:08,400
>> So, we just have to make sure that's

3020
02:00:08,400 --> 02:00:09,199
said.

3021
02:00:09,199 --> 02:00:11,760
>> That's an excellent point. Yeah. And

3022
02:00:11,760 --> 02:00:13,679
you'd get a final version once the

3023
02:00:13,679 --> 02:00:15,679
town's legal department takes a look at

3024
02:00:15,679 --> 02:00:17,520
this as well before they do the warrant.

3025
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:18,719
Like when the select board always goes

3026
02:00:18,719 --> 02:00:20,159
through all the articles in the warrant,

3027
02:00:20,159 --> 02:00:21,599
they go back and forth with all the

3028
02:00:21,599 --> 02:00:23,440
articles that are submitted. Town

3029
02:00:23,440 --> 02:00:25,199
council weighs in all of those things.

3030
02:00:25,199 --> 02:00:27,199
They make edits as they see fit. They

3031
02:00:27,199 --> 02:00:28,639
tidy them up and then you'll get one

3032
02:00:28,639 --> 02:00:30,800
final like draft of it all.

3033
02:00:30,800 --> 02:00:32,880
>> And I mean certainly we could bring the

3034
02:00:32,880 --> 02:00:34,639
final draft back for the vote. I don't

3035
02:00:34,639 --> 02:00:37,119
think we have to. I think the select

3036
02:00:37,119 --> 02:00:38,960
ultimately the select board votes what

3037
02:00:38,960 --> 02:00:41,679
goes on in town meeting. So the where

3038
02:00:41,679 --> 02:00:43,199
you're voting is for us to make the

3039
02:00:43,199 --> 02:00:44,960
request to have an article on the time

3040
02:00:44,960 --> 02:00:47,679
that you want and then they'll have to

3041
02:00:47,679 --> 02:00:49,360
vote. They'll look at the final bill

3042
02:00:49,360 --> 02:00:50,933
they'll determine final language

3043
02:00:50,933 --> 02:00:52,719
[clears throat] and

3044
02:00:52,719 --> 02:00:54,560
uh vote whether they want to put that on

3045
02:00:54,560 --> 02:00:56,080
the warrant.

3046
02:00:56,080 --> 02:00:58,159
>> Okay. So to that point, will you be

3047
02:00:58,159 --> 02:01:00,880
making a presentation to the select

3048
02:01:00,880 --> 02:01:02,400
board?

3049
02:01:02,400 --> 02:01:04,320
>> How will that be communicated? I

3050
02:01:04,320 --> 02:01:05,599
>> I don't have an answer for that yet.

3051
02:01:05,599 --> 02:01:06,560
We're brought up with the town

3052
02:01:06,560 --> 02:01:09,040
administrator. um he's aware of it at

3053
02:01:09,040 --> 02:01:10,800
this time, but we haven't been set to do

3054
02:01:10,800 --> 02:01:12,800
a presentation. We're happy to do it.

3055
02:01:12,800 --> 02:01:14,560
Again, this is sort of dense

3056
02:01:14,560 --> 02:01:16,239
>> e-ate stuff and I'm happy to walk them

3057
02:01:16,239 --> 02:01:17,920
through this or more density if they

3058
02:01:17,920 --> 02:01:19,599
want to as they see fit.

3059
02:01:19,599 --> 02:01:20,960
>> Yeah. And ultimately, I think we'll have

3060
02:01:20,960 --> 02:01:22,560
to do a presentation at town meeting as

3061
02:01:22,560 --> 02:01:24,320
well just to make sure

3062
02:01:24,320 --> 02:01:26,239
>> make it really clear to people that this

3063
02:01:26,239 --> 02:01:27,599
was money that was expended by the

3064
02:01:27,599 --> 02:01:28,480
school department, [clears throat] came

3065
02:01:28,480 --> 02:01:29,840
out of the school department's budget.

3066
02:01:29,840 --> 02:01:30,880
>> Yes.

3067
02:01:30,880 --> 02:01:32,400
>> But the reimbursement doesn't come back

3068
02:01:32,400 --> 02:01:33,679
to us. It goes back to the town.

3069
02:01:33,679 --> 02:01:35,119
Correct. So, we need to have that money

3070
02:01:35,119 --> 02:01:37,679
come back to us. Yes, 100%.

3071
02:01:37,679 --> 02:01:40,080
>> No, I think that was um an excellent

3072
02:01:40,080 --> 02:01:43,119
sign. Thank you. Yes. Thank you.

3073
02:01:43,119 --> 02:01:46,239
>> Were the were the network improvements

3074
02:01:46,239 --> 02:01:49,199
uh exclusively for the public schools or

3075
02:01:49,199 --> 02:01:51,520
was the town did the town benefit at all

3076
02:01:51,520 --> 02:01:52,560
from

3077
02:01:52,560 --> 02:01:54,880
>> No, the network was was truly the school

3078
02:01:54,880 --> 02:01:58,320
department network um is the short

3079
02:01:58,320 --> 02:02:00,000
answer to that. So all of the switches,

3080
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:02,000
all the APs are only for the school

3081
02:02:02,000 --> 02:02:05,280
data, student data, staff data.

3082
02:02:05,280 --> 02:02:06,400
school buildings,

3083
02:02:06,400 --> 02:02:07,599
>> correct?

3084
02:02:07,599 --> 02:02:09,440
>> Not off central office building. So,

3085
02:02:09,440 --> 02:02:11,679
school buildings including all the Wi-Fi

3086
02:02:11,679 --> 02:02:12,800
devices, right?

3087
02:02:12,800 --> 02:02:15,119
>> All the Wi-Fi access points.

3088
02:02:15,119 --> 02:02:17,760
>> Technically, it's it is the town because

3089
02:02:17,760 --> 02:02:20,080
there are people who go and use the

3090
02:02:20,080 --> 02:02:21,760
building that

3091
02:02:21,760 --> 02:02:22,159
>> Sure.

3092
02:02:22,159 --> 02:02:25,520
>> that Wi-Fi was a big issue that actual

3093
02:02:25,520 --> 02:02:26,800
getting connected because people's

3094
02:02:26,800 --> 02:02:28,320
phones don't work there.

3095
02:02:28,320 --> 02:02:30,000
>> So, there's now an after hours guest

3096
02:02:30,000 --> 02:02:31,760
network that they can join. So, they can

3097
02:02:31,760 --> 02:02:33,440
actually use their devices while they're

3098
02:02:33,440 --> 02:02:37,699
there. So yeah, I say that's

3099
02:02:37,699 --> 02:02:41,830
[laughter] why not

3100
02:02:41,840 --> 02:02:44,000
a motion to approve the article.

3101
02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:46,000
>> I move to approve the -ate reimbursement

3102
02:02:46,000 --> 02:02:47,440
article to be proposed to the select

3103
02:02:47,440 --> 02:02:49,199
board to be placed on the town meeting

3104
02:02:49,199 --> 02:02:51,199
board. I second.

3105
02:02:51,199 --> 02:02:52,719
>> We have a motion and a second. Is there

3106
02:02:52,719 --> 02:02:55,040
any further discussion? All those in

3107
02:02:55,040 --> 02:02:57,920
favor? I

3108
02:02:57,920 --> 02:03:00,159
>> thank you very much for all of that

3109
02:03:00,159 --> 02:03:02,960
important information. Um, okay. So,

3110
02:03:02,960 --> 02:03:04,960
that brings us to an additional reading

3111
02:03:04,960 --> 02:03:08,000
of policy KF and KF-E,

3112
02:03:08,000 --> 02:03:10,800
facilities use policy/B schedule.

3113
02:03:10,800 --> 02:03:12,400
>> Okay. We've talked about this policy a

3114
02:03:12,400 --> 02:03:14,639
few times and have some updates for you

3115
02:03:14,639 --> 02:03:17,040
this evening based on our last meeting

3116
02:03:17,040 --> 02:03:20,159
and also a meeting with Mary Ross um

3117
02:03:20,159 --> 02:03:22,320
that happened last week uh for some

3118
02:03:22,320 --> 02:03:24,159
recommendations. And the recommendations

3119
02:03:24,159 --> 02:03:27,360
here are actually vote from um the rec

3120
02:03:27,360 --> 02:03:28,880
committee. And then the rec committee

3121
02:03:28,880 --> 02:03:32,320
actually met with um the chairperson,

3122
02:03:32,320 --> 02:03:34,239
vice chairperson, and select board just

3123
02:03:34,239 --> 02:03:36,239
to run this past them from the concept

3124
02:03:36,239 --> 02:03:38,239
of do they have any thoughts or changes

3125
02:03:38,239 --> 02:03:40,480
they'd like to see. Um eventually the

3126
02:03:40,480 --> 02:03:41,840
goal would be that the school committee

3127
02:03:41,840 --> 02:03:43,440
would vote this policy and we're going

3128
02:03:43,440 --> 02:03:44,800
to have recommendation you vote it this

3129
02:03:44,800 --> 02:03:46,800
evening. Uh and then we'll go before the

3130
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:48,480
select board hopefully in October and

3131
02:03:48,480 --> 02:03:50,639
hopefully they'll vote it as well. So

3132
02:03:50,639 --> 02:03:53,760
I'll walk you through the changes. uh

3133
02:03:53,760 --> 02:03:56,639
that had been proposed by wreck with a

3134
02:03:56,639 --> 02:03:59,040
review by the couple members of select

3135
02:03:59,040 --> 02:04:02,239
board as well. So in the first paragraph

3136
02:04:02,239 --> 02:04:05,280
uh we'd remove and committees and

3137
02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:07,119
replace that with school committee and

3138
02:04:07,119 --> 02:04:09,679
select board.

3139
02:04:09,679 --> 02:04:11,440
Um

3140
02:04:11,440 --> 02:04:14,719
in the second paragraph uh we was a

3141
02:04:14,719 --> 02:04:16,639
title change. So the person's real title

3142
02:04:16,639 --> 02:04:18,800
is facilities manager versus assistant

3143
02:04:18,800 --> 02:04:20,080
director. I think we talked about that

3144
02:04:20,080 --> 02:04:21,520
last time. talked about the first one

3145
02:04:21,520 --> 02:04:24,960
last time as well. Um,

3146
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:26,800
continuing down, this was actually a

3147
02:04:26,800 --> 02:04:28,080
recommendation by a couple members of

3148
02:04:28,080 --> 02:04:30,480
the select board. Uh, they want to add a

3149
02:04:30,480 --> 02:04:32,719
category. They want to add a number

3150
02:04:32,719 --> 02:04:35,840
five, which is coverbased uh, for

3151
02:04:35,840 --> 02:04:38,320
profits. And their position is they feel

3152
02:04:38,320 --> 02:04:41,360
like that uh, then this isn't for this

3153
02:04:41,360 --> 02:04:43,280
isn't for pay. This isn't based on cost.

3154
02:04:43,280 --> 02:04:45,199
This is just based on access to the

3155
02:04:45,199 --> 02:04:47,040
building. And they're saying that

3156
02:04:47,040 --> 02:04:48,560
ultimately they feel anyone who's a

3157
02:04:48,560 --> 02:04:51,199
cover even if it's a cover for-profit

3158
02:04:51,199 --> 02:04:53,360
business that they should get first dibs

3159
02:04:53,360 --> 02:04:56,239
in using facilities above non-cover. Uh

3160
02:04:56,239 --> 02:04:58,000
so they made a recommendation to add the

3161
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:00,880
section of carverbased forprofits after

3162
02:05:00,880 --> 02:05:03,599
Carver based nonprofits and that that

3163
02:05:03,599 --> 02:05:06,560
they would be now be in front of uh a

3164
02:05:06,560 --> 02:05:08,560
nonprofit organization from Plymouth or

3165
02:05:08,560 --> 02:05:10,480
Middleboro in terms of its ability to

3166
02:05:10,480 --> 02:05:14,639
use the facility. um questions. I don't

3167
02:05:14,639 --> 02:05:16,400
I'm not sure that I'm they agree with

3168
02:05:16,400 --> 02:05:21,510
that at all.

3169
02:05:21,520 --> 02:05:24,239
» Studios that use the auditorium and

3170
02:05:24,239 --> 02:05:26,000
>> I think that was their thought process.

3171
02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:27,920
They they would

3172
02:05:27,920 --> 02:05:28,960
>> someone from

3173
02:05:28,960 --> 02:05:30,239
>> and I think I think that was their

3174
02:05:30,239 --> 02:05:32,000
example actually was to make sure that

3175
02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:33,599
the dance studios had access to

3176
02:05:33,599 --> 02:05:35,679
facilities over not that the dance

3177
02:05:35,679 --> 02:05:36,960
studios are having a problem getting

3178
02:05:36,960 --> 02:05:38,880
access to the facilities. They they've

3179
02:05:38,880 --> 02:05:40,639
been using them every year. Uh

3180
02:05:40,639 --> 02:05:43,119
>> cuz otherwise it' just be any for-profit

3181
02:05:43,119 --> 02:05:44,000
organization,

3182
02:05:44,000 --> 02:05:46,480
>> right? But that put nonprofits from

3183
02:05:46,480 --> 02:05:49,040
outside of Carver in front of them. Uh

3184
02:05:49,040 --> 02:05:51,040
and they they said, "Let's make sure

3185
02:05:51,040 --> 02:05:52,639
they they like to see the car groups

3186
02:05:52,639 --> 02:05:55,920
always have the first the first dibs at

3187
02:05:55,920 --> 02:05:58,000
things." Uh from my perspective

3188
02:05:58,000 --> 02:05:59,679
operationally, what's the impact of this

3189
02:05:59,679 --> 02:06:02,000
change? And Rod can weigh in. It's

3190
02:06:02,000 --> 02:06:05,119
minimal in any

3191
02:06:05,119 --> 02:06:07,599
but um that was their thought process.

3192
02:06:07,599 --> 02:06:08,639
And I think what we specifically

3193
02:06:08,639 --> 02:06:10,320
references was the dance studios to make

3194
02:06:10,320 --> 02:06:11,840
sure that for some reason there wasn't

3195
02:06:11,840 --> 02:06:13,760
some group that came in a nonprofit and

3196
02:06:13,760 --> 02:06:15,040
said, "Hey, we'd love to do a Mother's

3197
02:06:15,040 --> 02:06:18,080
Day uh whatever in the auditorium and

3198
02:06:18,080 --> 02:06:22,080
that they would get first dibs over the dance studios who've been doing I

3199
02:06:22,080 --> 02:06:23,360
think one of the dancers been doing

3200
02:06:23,360 --> 02:06:25,679
Mother's Day for you know for the last

3201
02:06:25,679 --> 02:06:30,239
40 years I think 35 years.

3202
02:06:30,239 --> 02:06:32,320
>> I've been participating now for about 10

3203
02:06:32,320 --> 02:06:34,880
years." So that that was the basis and

3204
02:06:34,880 --> 02:06:37,199
then then to just align with that it

3205
02:06:37,199 --> 02:06:39,040
used to just say regardless of location

3206
02:06:39,040 --> 02:06:41,760
we had to make any for

3207
02:06:41,760 --> 02:06:43,199
it doesn't change the cost.

3208
02:06:43,199 --> 02:06:45,360
>> No that's not a cost structure this is

3209
02:06:45,360 --> 02:06:50,159
priority use not cost structure. Um

3210
02:06:50,159 --> 02:06:52,079
and then again facilities manager make

3211
02:06:52,079 --> 02:06:53,199
sure we have the right title or

3212
02:06:53,199 --> 02:06:55,599
assistant facilities director. Uh we

3213
02:06:55,599 --> 02:06:57,119
talked about this proposal before last

3214
02:06:57,119 --> 02:07:00,079
time and number two uh was to eliminate

3215
02:07:00,079 --> 02:07:02,159
uh and the town C recreation coordinator

3216
02:07:02,159 --> 02:07:03,679
shall be the final authority for the use

3217
02:07:03,679 --> 02:07:06,159
of all of the fields. Um and

3218
02:07:06,159 --> 02:07:08,400
notifications posted on the town

3219
02:07:08,400 --> 02:07:10,639
official social media. I think we talked

3220
02:07:10,639 --> 02:07:12,800
about that change last time to strike.

3221
02:07:12,800 --> 02:07:17,440
Um and then the last one we added we

3222
02:07:17,440 --> 02:07:19,920
number eight and nine were together as

3223
02:07:19,920 --> 02:07:22,159
one thought. Uh and the recommendation

3224
02:07:22,159 --> 02:07:23,760
was that they're actually two different

3225
02:07:23,760 --> 02:07:26,400
ideas. Um

3226
02:07:26,400 --> 02:07:29,520
sorry no sorry 9 and 10 I lied to you. 9

3227
02:07:29,520 --> 02:07:33,360
and 10 were one thought. Um so they used

3228
02:07:33,360 --> 02:07:35,280
that used to be one thing. Commerce

3229
02:07:35,280 --> 02:07:36,960
assumes no liability for injury to

3230
02:07:36,960 --> 02:07:38,800
persons authorized to use the facilities

3231
02:07:38,800 --> 02:07:41,520
and they wanted to add an fields.

3232
02:07:41,520 --> 02:07:44,159
Um and further assumes no liability for

3233
02:07:44,159 --> 02:07:45,840
loss of damage to equipment, materials

3234
02:07:45,840 --> 02:07:48,400
or other individual property. And then

3235
02:07:48,400 --> 02:07:51,599
they said the concept of damage caused

3236
02:07:51,599 --> 02:07:53,599
is different than liability. So we

3237
02:07:53,599 --> 02:07:56,239
should separate out that this is just I

3238
02:07:56,239 --> 02:07:58,159
think this again is procedural. I just

3239
02:07:58,159 --> 02:07:59,360
thought those are different concepts

3240
02:07:59,360 --> 02:08:01,679
which I see you know number nine is

3241
02:08:01,679 --> 02:08:03,920
talking about liability. Uh number 10 is

3242
02:08:03,920 --> 02:08:05,360
talking about if you cause damage you

3243
02:08:05,360 --> 02:08:07,199
have to pay for that damage. Uh and

3244
02:08:07,199 --> 02:08:10,079
again adds the word fields. Uh number 11

3245
02:08:10,079 --> 02:08:14,159
adds the word field. Um

3246
02:08:14,159 --> 02:08:16,239
and then so then all all the other

3247
02:08:16,239 --> 02:08:18,000
numbers are new because we added a

3248
02:08:18,000 --> 02:08:19,840
number. I didn't we didn't I didn't make

3249
02:08:19,840 --> 02:08:22,719
that documentation there that you know

3250
02:08:22,719 --> 02:08:24,880
uh the old 10 became 11 the old 11

3251
02:08:24,880 --> 02:08:26,800
became 12.

3252
02:08:26,800 --> 02:08:30,400
So just just mentioning that

3253
02:08:30,400 --> 02:08:32,880
>> that's probably just a a professional

3254
02:08:32,880 --> 02:08:35,679
thing but exterior doors in the area

3255
02:08:35,679 --> 02:08:38,159
being used are closed. It should say

3256
02:08:38,159 --> 02:08:40,320
latched and locked.

3257
02:08:40,320 --> 02:08:43,040
That's we stick a piece of gum in the

3258
02:08:43,040 --> 02:08:46,149
latch.

3259
02:08:46,159 --> 02:08:46,719
You saying?

3260
02:08:46,719 --> 02:08:49,599
>> Yeah.

3261
02:08:49,599 --> 02:08:52,159
>> So, make a proposal to add that as a

3262
02:08:52,159 --> 02:08:54,719
amendment. Last lock. Anybody?

3263
02:08:54,719 --> 02:08:56,639
>> All right. Anybody have a problem with

3264
02:08:56,639 --> 02:08:57,440
latch and lock?

3265
02:08:57,440 --> 02:08:59,760
>> No. No. Appreciate that. Thank you.

3266
02:08:59,760 --> 02:09:00,000
Good.

3267
02:09:00,000 --> 02:09:02,159
>> Gina, you got that note latch a lot. Can

3268
02:09:02,159 --> 02:09:07,679
I show you that at the end? Uh, and then

3269
02:09:07,679 --> 02:09:09,679
the old number 18, the new number 19

3270
02:09:09,679 --> 02:09:11,520
changed a little bit. And I thought

3271
02:09:11,520 --> 02:09:12,960
about this a little bit. It actually

3272
02:09:12,960 --> 02:09:14,719
makes sense to me. So the first one is

3273
02:09:14,719 --> 02:09:16,800
category 2 groups such as caliber based

3274
02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:19,520
nonprofits such as community based youth

3275
02:09:19,520 --> 02:09:22,079
recreational sports. So I pay $15 per

3276
02:09:22,079 --> 02:09:24,400
participant per season at a flat rate.

3277
02:09:24,400 --> 02:09:26,719
And then we had a criteria for next year

3278
02:09:26,719 --> 02:09:27,920
cuz we were saying we're going to do

3279
02:09:27,920 --> 02:09:29,040
this for one year then we're going to

3280
02:09:29,040 --> 02:09:30,719
change it. And there was a little bit of

3281
02:09:30,719 --> 02:09:32,000
thought of do you really want to lock

3282
02:09:32,000 --> 02:09:33,360
yourself into you're only going to do

3283
02:09:33,360 --> 02:09:38,480
this for this year? um and that maybe we

3284
02:09:38,480 --> 02:09:40,400
decide to do it for 2 years or maybe the

3285
02:09:40,400 --> 02:09:42,159
process of determining usage is going to

3286
02:09:42,159 --> 02:09:44,639
take longer than a year. Um so the

3287
02:09:44,639 --> 02:09:46,239
recommendation was just to strike the

3288
02:09:46,239 --> 02:09:48,400
concept of we're going to do that for

3289
02:09:48,400 --> 02:09:50,000
one year which would be saying that

3290
02:09:50,000 --> 02:09:52,000
we're going to do that until we change

3291
02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:55,360
till we do something different. Um and

3292
02:09:55,360 --> 02:09:57,760
then you know all such groups must be

3293
02:09:57,760 --> 02:09:59,280
first approved by the facilities

3294
02:09:59,280 --> 02:10:00,960
manager. Capital Rec did not want that

3295
02:10:00,960 --> 02:10:02,560
to be the rec department coordinator.

3296
02:10:02,560 --> 02:10:03,679
they wanted to be the facilities

3297
02:10:03,679 --> 02:10:06,400
manager. Uh it must request town

3298
02:10:06,400 --> 02:10:08,079
approval via its official scheduling

3299
02:10:08,079 --> 02:10:10,400
system for fields and then once usage

3300
02:10:10,400 --> 02:10:12,159
data for all groups is collected. We get

3301
02:10:12,159 --> 02:10:14,320
striking the year. Uh the town will

3302
02:10:14,320 --> 02:10:16,159
reevaluate the cost structure. So we are

3303
02:10:16,159 --> 02:10:17,920
making a statement here at some point

3304
02:10:17,920 --> 02:10:20,000
we're going to get usage and reevaluate

3305
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:22,239
the cost structure and we're just taking

3306
02:10:22,239 --> 02:10:23,599
out the concept of we're going to get

3307
02:10:23,599 --> 02:10:25,520
that all done this year. Uh there was

3308
02:10:25,520 --> 02:10:26,960
some recommendation that it might take a

3309
02:10:26,960 --> 02:10:28,239
little bit longer than that, especially

3310
02:10:28,239 --> 02:10:31,920
since, you know, it's October and

3311
02:10:31,920 --> 02:10:33,280
>> and the school committee hasn't voted

3312
02:10:33,280 --> 02:10:35,040
the policy officially yet. The select

3313
02:10:35,040 --> 02:10:36,960
board hasn't voted the policy yet. Uh

3314
02:10:36,960 --> 02:10:38,400
that maybe we should might take the

3315
02:10:38,400 --> 02:10:42,639
one-year concept out. Um and then that

3316
02:10:42,639 --> 02:10:44,480
was it. Uh that those are all the

3317
02:10:44,480 --> 02:10:47,599
recommended changes. Um so I think a lot

3318
02:10:47,599 --> 02:10:50,719
of them really are um mostly procedural.

3319
02:10:50,719 --> 02:10:53,520
Um, and you know, the goal would be for

3320
02:10:53,520 --> 02:10:55,360
the school committee to vote this

3321
02:10:55,360 --> 02:10:58,560
tonight. Um, and then for us to go

3322
02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:00,000
before the select board and for them to

3323
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:03,119
vote it as well. Um, and certainly if

3324
02:11:03,119 --> 02:11:04,480
they came up with different changes of

3325
02:11:04,480 --> 02:11:05,599
recommendation, I guess we'd have to

3326
02:11:05,599 --> 02:11:07,599
bring it back to this group.

3327
02:11:07,599 --> 02:11:10,960
>> Um, so Ron, did I miss anything?

3328
02:11:10,960 --> 02:11:13,119
>> And then

3329
02:11:13,119 --> 02:11:17,109
yeah, vote.

3330
02:11:17,119 --> 02:11:18,560
» So that that is our recommendation,

3331
02:11:18,560 --> 02:11:19,599
right? I don't know what questions

3332
02:11:19,599 --> 02:11:22,400
anybody has in regard for this.

3333
02:11:22,400 --> 02:11:24,880
>> I just appreciate the select board's uh

3334
02:11:24,880 --> 02:11:28,400
comments and um whatever they had to do

3335
02:11:28,400 --> 02:11:30,800
with this. I'm glad that they

3336
02:11:30,800 --> 02:11:35,750
participated. It's awesome. Absolutely.

3337
02:11:35,760 --> 02:11:37,920
Okay. Anyone have any additional

3338
02:11:37,920 --> 02:11:41,360
questions or comments? Okay.

3339
02:11:41,360 --> 02:11:44,400
Um, I move to approve the revisions and

3340
02:11:44,400 --> 02:11:48,480
amendments to policy KF, facilities use

3341
02:11:48,480 --> 02:11:51,520
policy and policy KFB, the fech schedule

3342
02:11:51,520 --> 02:11:54,000
for facil facilities use as presented

3343
02:11:54,000 --> 02:11:56,320
this evening. I second. We have a motion

3344
02:11:56,320 --> 02:11:58,159
and a second. Any further discussion?

3345
02:11:58,159 --> 02:12:00,800
All those in favor? I. Thank you very

3346
02:12:00,800 --> 02:12:03,440
much. Okay. So, next we have the second

3347
02:12:03,440 --> 02:12:06,079
reading of policy ACL interacting with

3348
02:12:06,079 --> 02:12:11,750
law enforcement.

3349
02:12:11,760 --> 02:12:14,079
So this is our second reading of this

3350
02:12:14,079 --> 02:12:16,719
policy. As a reminder, on August 5th, uh

3351
02:12:16,719 --> 02:12:18,880
Governor Haley signed the Protect Act.

3352
02:12:18,880 --> 02:12:20,400
Among other provisions, the act

3353
02:12:20,400 --> 02:12:22,159
restricts civil arrests at certain

3354
02:12:22,159 --> 02:12:24,560
places, including school grounds, uh

3355
02:12:24,560 --> 02:12:27,119
absent a judicial warrant. Um the law

3356
02:12:27,119 --> 02:12:28,400
also requires the school district to

3357
02:12:28,400 --> 02:12:30,239
adopt a policy outlines the procedures

3358
02:12:30,239 --> 02:12:33,520
for imploitation. Um you know this

3359
02:12:33,520 --> 02:12:35,920
policy has been uh recommended by our

3360
02:12:35,920 --> 02:12:38,159
attorneys chiller and Miller reviewed by

3361
02:12:38,159 --> 02:12:40,159
the policy subcommittee. We had a first

3362
02:12:40,159 --> 02:12:41,840
reading. After the first reading we did

3363
02:12:41,840 --> 02:12:46,000
not have um any concerns no no ideas for

3364
02:12:46,000 --> 02:12:48,079
recommendations. We did go back and

3365
02:12:48,079 --> 02:12:51,119
check with um the police in regards to

3366
02:12:51,119 --> 02:12:52,960
their concerns about civil enforcement

3367
02:12:52,960 --> 02:12:55,679
on school grounds. Um they said they

3368
02:12:55,679 --> 02:13:01,360
really didn't have any um so um you know

3369
02:13:01,360 --> 02:13:03,679
ultimately probably the other piece is

3370
02:13:03,679 --> 02:13:05,280
once if the school wants to vote to

3371
02:13:05,280 --> 02:13:06,880
approve this policy tonight becomes our

3372
02:13:06,880 --> 02:13:08,639
responsibility to put the policy on the

3373
02:13:08,639 --> 02:13:11,440
website um to put procedures on the

3374
02:13:11,440 --> 02:13:13,360
website to make it publicly available.

3375
02:13:13,360 --> 02:13:15,840
So our goal would be to do that um as

3376
02:13:15,840 --> 02:13:17,440
early as tomorrow. Get all that stuff up

3377
02:13:17,440 --> 02:13:19,440
on the website, make the community aware

3378
02:13:19,440 --> 02:13:22,560
that this exists. Um you know, has has

3379
02:13:22,560 --> 02:13:25,679
not been a major area of concern for the

3380
02:13:25,679 --> 02:13:28,239
K public schools. We have had no attempt

3381
02:13:28,239 --> 02:13:30,800
for civil enforcement uh on school

3382
02:13:30,800 --> 02:13:33,360
grounds or at school events. Um but

3383
02:13:33,360 --> 02:13:35,199
hopefully we stay that way. Uh hopefully

3384
02:13:35,199 --> 02:13:36,639
that it continues that way in the

3385
02:13:36,639 --> 02:13:40,079
future. Um, so I would uh move I would

3386
02:13:40,079 --> 02:13:42,079
recommend that we move to approve uh

3387
02:13:42,079 --> 02:13:44,400
this new policy ACL interactive with law

3388
02:13:44,400 --> 02:13:46,159
enforcement this evening. Okay.

3389
02:13:46,159 --> 02:13:48,239
>> I move to approve the adoption of policy

3390
02:13:48,239 --> 02:13:50,800
ACL interactive with law enforcement. I

3391
02:13:50,800 --> 02:13:53,119
second. Uh we have a motion and a

3392
02:13:53,119 --> 02:13:55,119
second. Is there any discussion? All

3393
02:13:55,119 --> 02:13:57,920
those in favor? I

3394
02:13:57,920 --> 02:13:59,280
>> thank you.

3395
02:13:59,280 --> 02:14:01,280
>> Um okay. So that brings us to reports

3396
02:14:01,280 --> 02:14:03,280
from the school committee. Uh we do have

3397
02:14:03,280 --> 02:14:07,119
one official item on there. It is the um

3398
02:14:07,119 --> 02:14:09,280
Massachusetts Association of School

3399
02:14:09,280 --> 02:14:11,119
Committees official delegate and

3400
02:14:11,119 --> 02:14:16,000
nomination. Um the [clears throat] assembly the

3401
02:14:16,000 --> 02:14:20,560
meeting is um in November on um let's

3402
02:14:20,560 --> 02:14:22,159
see December [music] 6th. Oh my

3403
02:14:22,159 --> 02:14:25,199
goodness, my my my

3404
02:14:25,199 --> 02:14:27,520
date is is failing me. Sorry. Bear with

3405
02:14:27,520 --> 02:14:29,840
me a second. Make sure I get the date

3406
02:14:29,840 --> 02:14:31,280
right so everyone can check their

3407
02:14:31,280 --> 02:14:33,599
calendars. Um it is on Friday, November

3408
02:14:33,599 --> 02:14:37,280
6th. Um the delegate assembly will

3409
02:14:37,280 --> 02:14:39,840
convene to

3410
02:14:39,840 --> 02:14:42,880
um review nominations for the um

3411
02:14:42,880 --> 02:14:45,599
executive board of the state association

3412
02:14:45,599 --> 02:14:49,440
as well as um the report from the

3413
02:14:49,440 --> 02:14:51,840
resolutions committee which um I would

3414
02:14:51,840 --> 02:14:54,159
like to be on our meeting agenda for

3415
02:14:54,159 --> 02:14:56,159
October 26. So we as a committee can

3416
02:14:56,159 --> 02:14:58,159
review the resolutions, see if there's

3417
02:14:58,159 --> 02:14:59,520
anything we'd like to vote to move

3418
02:14:59,520 --> 02:15:04,079
forward to um support. So,

3419
02:15:04,079 --> 02:15:08,719
um the I think Jackie was the person

3420
02:15:08,719 --> 02:15:10,880
last year or was it you? Was it you?

3421
02:15:10,880 --> 02:15:12,719
Okay, I'm sorry. I couldn't remember. Um

3422
02:15:12,719 --> 02:15:15,440
I am actually on this the nomination

3423
02:15:15,440 --> 02:15:17,520
slate this year. So, um I would prefer

3424
02:15:17,520 --> 02:15:21,360
to not be the delegate this year um for

3425
02:15:21,360 --> 02:15:23,280
separation. So, if there's anyone that

3426
02:15:23,280 --> 02:15:25,520
would like to um Jackie, you're planning

3427
02:15:25,520 --> 02:15:28,000
on going right into it. So, I would

3428
02:15:28,000 --> 02:15:31,520
nominate Jackie. Okay. So, we need um a

3429
02:15:31,520 --> 02:15:34,960
delegate and we need an alternate.

3430
02:15:34,960 --> 02:15:36,880
So, I'm not sure if anyone's planning on

3431
02:15:36,880 --> 02:15:39,520
being there on Friday other than me, but

3432
02:15:39,520 --> 02:15:42,320
um if not, I can certainly be the

3433
02:15:42,320 --> 02:15:44,159
alternate. I can't I can't imagine a

3434
02:15:44,159 --> 02:15:46,079
reason like Jackie wouldn't be able to

3435
02:15:46,079 --> 02:15:47,520
fulfill that. It should be okay.

3436
02:15:47,520 --> 02:15:50,320
>> But um

3437
02:15:50,320 --> 02:15:53,520
we need to Yeah, we need we need

3438
02:15:53,520 --> 02:15:56,709
someone.

3439
02:15:56,719 --> 02:16:00,079
So I don't know that I can commit to be

3440
02:16:00,079 --> 02:16:01,840
honest.

3441
02:16:01,840 --> 02:16:07,599
>> Completely understood.

3442
02:16:07,599 --> 02:16:08,960
>> What's the date?

3443
02:16:08,960 --> 02:16:11,599
>> It's Friday, November 6th.

3444
02:16:11,599 --> 02:16:14,960
It's the afternoon. [clears throat]

3445
02:16:14,960 --> 02:16:16,960
>> It sounds like you want to be the uh

3446
02:16:16,960 --> 02:16:20,069
>> Yeah.

3447
02:16:20,079 --> 02:16:21,920
birthday. They do have a water park at

3448
02:16:21,920 --> 02:16:24,000
the resort. Just saying. [laughter]

3449
02:16:24,000 --> 02:16:25,360
>> Um okay. Okay. So, if someone would like

3450
02:16:25,360 --> 02:16:28,800
to make um a motion to appoint Jackie as

3451
02:16:28,800 --> 02:16:30,880
the voting delegate and myself as the

3452
02:16:30,880 --> 02:16:34,319
alternate, I can submit this motion to

3453
02:16:34,319 --> 02:16:37,040
appoint Jackie Blake as our delegate and

3454
02:16:37,040 --> 02:16:40,399
Stephanie Cory as our alternate delegate

3455
02:16:40,399 --> 02:16:47,509
to the November 6th mask.

3456
02:16:47,519 --> 02:16:48,639
» I will second.

3457
02:16:48,639 --> 02:16:50,639
>> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Is

3458
02:16:50,639 --> 02:16:52,880
there any further discussion? Last

3459
02:16:52,880 --> 02:16:54,240
opportunity to change your minds. I'm

3460
02:16:54,240 --> 02:16:56,479
just kidding. All those in favor?

3461
02:16:56,479 --> 02:16:59,760
>> I thank you very much.

3462
02:16:59,760 --> 02:17:02,160
>> Please wait. Okay. Thank you. That form

3463
02:17:02,160 --> 02:17:04,960
has officially been submitted

3464
02:17:04,960 --> 02:17:08,719
um off of our to-do list. So

3465
02:17:08,719 --> 02:17:11,679
um with that, clearly if anyone um wants

3466
02:17:11,679 --> 02:17:14,639
to attend any days of the um annual

3467
02:17:14,639 --> 02:17:17,120
conference, um please let me know as

3468
02:17:17,120 --> 02:17:20,719
soon as possible so I can um get

3469
02:17:20,719 --> 02:17:22,719
tickets. I know the hotel is already

3470
02:17:22,719 --> 02:17:27,519
sold out um which is great and um

3471
02:17:27,519 --> 02:17:28,880
there's lots of great information

3472
02:17:28,880 --> 02:17:33,040
shared. I as always will um bring back

3473
02:17:33,040 --> 02:17:35,920
information to share with the committee

3474
02:17:35,920 --> 02:17:39,760
um and some great presentations um it's

3475
02:17:39,760 --> 02:17:42,160
going to be exciting to have a bigger

3476
02:17:42,160 --> 02:17:45,519
space, more vendors um more

3477
02:17:45,519 --> 02:17:47,280
opportunities for networking. So looking

3478
02:17:47,280 --> 02:17:49,120
forward to that. Can't believe it's

3479
02:17:49,120 --> 02:17:51,120
literally in less than four weeks. It's

3480
02:17:51,120 --> 02:17:52,319
I don't know where the time has gone

3481
02:17:52,319 --> 02:17:53,920
this year. It's just absolutely flown

3482
02:17:53,920 --> 02:17:58,800
by. Um quickly had um a meeting with

3483
02:17:58,800 --> 02:18:00,399
leadership of the National School Board

3484
02:18:00,399 --> 02:18:01,840
Association today. They were talking

3485
02:18:01,840 --> 02:18:06,240
about um some updates from Washington

3486
02:18:06,240 --> 02:18:10,160
DC. Nothing um it's going to imminently

3487
02:18:10,160 --> 02:18:13,120
affect us. Um but just want to mention

3488
02:18:13,120 --> 02:18:15,840
how important it is for people to um

3489
02:18:15,840 --> 02:18:17,920
please be involved in your local town

3490
02:18:17,920 --> 02:18:20,880
government, your statewide government um

3491
02:18:20,880 --> 02:18:25,679
where you can. Um there are

3492
02:18:25,679 --> 02:18:28,000
lots of discussions about further

3493
02:18:28,000 --> 02:18:31,760
cutting funds on a federal level to um

3494
02:18:31,760 --> 02:18:34,479
public education. We all know how

3495
02:18:34,479 --> 02:18:36,479
devastating that could be to our

3496
02:18:36,479 --> 02:18:38,319
students. So, I just please ask people

3497
02:18:38,319 --> 02:18:41,200
to um to use your voices to advocate on

3498
02:18:41,200 --> 02:18:43,280
behalf of public public education where

3499
02:18:43,280 --> 02:18:46,319
you can um

3500
02:18:46,319 --> 02:18:48,639
does anyone have anything they'd like to

3501
02:18:48,639 --> 02:18:53,190
share or report out?

3502
02:18:53,200 --> 02:18:55,519
So, again, December 1st, 6 p.m. Carville

3503
02:18:55,519 --> 02:18:57,920
Middle School, uh special town meeting.

3504
02:18:57,920 --> 02:19:00,800
Bring your friend.

3505
02:19:00,800 --> 02:19:02,479
And if someone would like to make a

3506
02:19:02,479 --> 02:19:04,559
motion to adjourn, that would be great.

3507
02:19:04,559 --> 02:19:08,000
I move that we adjourn the October 5th

3508
02:19:08,000 --> 02:19:13,679
open session of the Carver School Committee. I second. We

3509
02:19:13,679 --> 02:19:15,200
have a motion and a second. All those in

3510
02:19:15,200 --> 02:19:17,120
favor.

3511
02:19:17,120 --> 02:19:20,639
>> Thank you very much. Okay. D this time.

3512
02:19:20,639 --> 02:19:23,200
Uh we are adjourned at 8:22 p.m. Thank

3513
02:19:23,200 --> 02:19:29,021
you very much. See you.

3514
02:19:29,031 --> 02:19:31,051
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