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Good evening, everyone. Good evening, fellow board members. It's good to see you all, you guys look amazing. And hello, little rock and beyond. Thank you for taking some time out of your busy schedule to join us in our agenda meeting tonight.

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We have a short agenda meeting this evening and then of course we'll go over the outline of next meeting as well.

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First and foremost, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to open up our meeting, which I have already started to do, but I will do the pledge of the legions.

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And if we can please have a director Adam to please lead us in the pledge.

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Okay, you know, this, this, this is, we are in the fourth week of school and so definitely

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want to give a shout out to all of our staff that is working amazingly hard to do what

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they was called and signed up to do whether it's in the classrooms or behind the scenes

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and so we truly thank you all for that.

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Also I do want everyone, this is not so

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much of good news. However, we do have a few passings that we want to acknowledge.

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The first is Ms. Collier. She taught over at Brady and she passed away and so she was

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promoted on beyond life as well as Mr. Sheldon Joshua also passed away.

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And then director, little rock city director,

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Irma Hendrix passed away yesterday evening.

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I've had the pleasure to get to know director Hendrix

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over the years and leading up to the point

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of where you all hear me now.

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And she will be tremendously missed.

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She always looked at things right through a lens of equity.

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She wasn't afraid to have the hard conversations or make hard comments.

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And so with that, if we can just take a moment to remember three beautiful lives

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that graced us upon Earth, right as they are now promoted beyond life.

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Thank you, guys, for participating in that Director Adams.

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Thank you, Ms. Heather. I just wanted to add a additional word of condolence and gratitude for Mr. Joshua.

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He was my children's, one of my children's music teachers at Martin Luther King Elementary,

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I can tell you that a highlight of for my family of our LRST education were the music programs

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at Martin Luther King Elementary, we would go there and there would be a celebration of

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children and a music and of all the different cultures that were represented and really make

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You make you feel good about what the world was and what the world could be when you did

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that.

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And he is such a kind and talented soul, and I'm glad that he was a part of my children's

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life and the lives of so many other children there at P.E.

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Elementary.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for that.

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Next, we will have a word of expression, of inspiration.

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I believe I don't have someone pre-programmed in my mind at this time. So we will have a, okay, director

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morning. We're going to have director Shandrick morning, lead us in that. It's great segue,

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like a second line. Come on.

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Well, hello, everybody. And thank you for letting us have it on the silence. So something

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that I've been doing lately is exercising my voice. You know how we exercise our body but

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you know oftentimes exercise our voices. So I wake up in the morning and I go walking and while

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I'm walking I'll talk practice my stories, I'll scream, you know, do anything that I want with my

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voice. And today I went to a park and a park my car I got out and I was walking on this pavement

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And then I made it to a point where there was a trail.

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There was an entrance to the trail, but it was surrounded by trees.

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And I stopped, because I was a little headed to take some of my men's

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a lot of trees right here. I can't see the end.

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It might be some lines, tires, and bears down here.

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So instead of enjoying this possibly nice trail, I turned around

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because in my mind, I had convinced myself that there's some

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terrible that's in there that you can't see, so let's just turn around and not even worry about it, and I was thinking like, you know, how often in life do we go through life, getting to the entrance of something, but we turn around because we allow ourselves to be

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psyched out by fear, so I can create these stories in our minds that, hey, there might be my insight into theirs, or I might not be able to do it, like we literally allow ourselves to be

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paralyzed by fear of uncertainty.

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So I just wanted to encourage everybody to listen to everybody that's here.

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Right now, yeah, they're in an entrance of something, maybe a new business I've been in,

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a new career change, a new relationship, a new way of thinking.

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You're in the entrance but you've allowed yourself to be scared and hesitant

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because you can't see all the way through to the end of your afraid of what you don't know.

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Don't be afraid because you don't know you might rob yourself of a lot of

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You are two of these when you leave your fear, so right now, even though you may not be able to see the end.

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If you see a group and fight through the end, you never know all of you that can be on the other side.

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Good deal. Thank you so much for that.

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So, you guys, we are going to have some refresher reports and discussions

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and we will talk about just really quick as you guys already see it.

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As a Ford and GL update, which I'm really excited to hear more about that

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and write where it is today.

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And we will also speak about our board zones, which will be a review,

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which is our first and initial view and possible discussion around that.

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and then we will get into City Year and then of course moving on down into just the outline

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of the agenda for our next meeting and so you guys we shouldn't be here you know too

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long but at the same time we will definitely hear these reports and have room for a discussion

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So first up, I am going to see what our superintendent has to say.

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Thank you, Ms. President. I just want to share a couple things.

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One is, I actually jam Ms. Hatter up a little bit.

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Mr. Collier actually was an employee at Fair Park.

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And she was hearing my story today about Brady as well that I got to do a tour.

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And I think that's where I got combined.

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But Mr. Collier was a longtime employee at Fair Park.

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and so we want to honor him.

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There have been several things that you as board members have received in terms of some

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community, kind of just pushing in to all of you with wonder how things are going.

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And I want to first off just provide an update with Ignite.

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As a board, you gave pretty clear direction to me and our staff to say, please move forward,

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but do it that we don't have to use Pearson if at all possible.

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and I'm proud to say that we have every teaching position filled K6 and 712 with a certified

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Little Rock School District teacher.

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In other spots in the district, okay, because we've had that and we're going to have to fill that in particular. We're still like many districts searching for additional support for special needs. But the positions, even for special needs in the night program, are currently filled. I'll also share that school, school G is up and running for all of those parents and that we have actually had very positive feedback from our overall parent community.

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That does not mean that everything is perfect, nothing ever is.

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And so, as you receive any input in from Ignite parents that are presenting problems, of

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course, you want to try to keep that at the level of the principal if at all possible,

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but you can certainly make Dr. McGee and I aware of it, and we will do everything we can.

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But, school G is up and running, we're fully staffed.

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We have one issue today, because Dr. McGee and I wanted to make sure that was AC unit

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it went down at Henderson in one of the sections of that area where we have our ignite group

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and so we should have that up and running by tomorrow. If we have a couple of other

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problems, we are in the third grade classrooms. We need to create a better divider space inside

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that room so that the two teachers there, there's going to be a little bit of feedback between

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the two teachers of this distracting to the learning environments for the learners of those

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two groups of kids, so we've got to become the better divider system for third grade.

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We have one teacher in the 712 group that is struggling with the delivery of the platform

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of being a virtual teacher, and we are looking to make some form of a change with that

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individual to then transfer that individual out and get another person in.

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And then the final concern that I would share, just like we have within our environment

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of in-person, we also have some students that have not been engaged as formally as what

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we would like, specifically at the K6 group, where approximately between 70 to 75 students

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that have not really been engaged like we would want in terms of their learning, have not

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picked up their device, have not got online, and we are trying everything that we can

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and humanly do to get that engagement.

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And so we're going to have to go to step three and four.

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Ms. Hadter and I even talked about that.

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That we may even put some of you to work

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and go knock it on doors and trying to make sure

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some of our disengaged families, either in person

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or in virtual, that we get them into schools

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as quick as we can so that they can start.

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That kind of covers what I wanted to bring up about ignite.

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Hopefully that helps our community and then all of you.

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I'll stop and pause just for a second to see if there's any questions.

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I have two.

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Thank you for quickly putting together an update for us.

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We did have some emails that came in and asked us to do an update on it tonight.

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So I appreciate Mr. Por for very quickly putting that together for us.

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One question I had and this isn't one.

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trying to think how to frame it. So I've gotten a few parents who are concerned or have

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questions about the level of engagement in terms of the number of assignments or the number

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of zooms. And I think the best way to ask this is is there a process that if a parent

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is concerned about that, who do they reach out to? How can we make sure that you know some

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parents were concerned that it was too much? Some were concerned that their child was not

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getting enough engagement. So how can they address those concerns?

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Well, you know, of course, first we want them to, you know, hopefully talk right directly

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to their teacher, but they can also make the principal aware, and if they make the principal

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aware, and CC Dr. McGee and I, you know, we will also make sure that we're falling up and

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understand the issue and problem. And we've struggled with that really for the last two years

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of the pandemic of trying to figure out that balance. So, you know, I'm sure that's still

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maybe a work and process as we switch to some educators that that's all they're doing

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as virtual.

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There may be an over ambitious in some cases or there could be a problem where we're

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not.

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So just us being aware of the problem is critical.

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Okay.

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And then the second one, and this one may just be one where I'm making all aware of a concern.

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I've had a couple of parents say that there's a lot of background noise on these zooms that

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make it very difficult for their child to actually hear their teacher and engage.

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And I'm trying to understand because I mean I don't know exactly the set up, but it's

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kind of like they're saying background noise from other teachers who are also teaching

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on Zoom at the same time.

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Well that's an example. That third grade classroom I just shared that we are aware of that.

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And if there's any others need to make the principal aware.

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And again, Dr. McGinayne, we will make sure we look into it.

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Okay. So it may just be either physical barriers or timing of Zoom.

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Questions or something so that they're not? I will share the other thing that we've done to cut down on noise as we boarded carpet. And it's been installed now. So before when we began the year, we did not have carpet in those rooms. And so we now have carpet similar to what you're seeing in this boardroom. It's been put into all those classrooms because we are running into just too much background noise, just even if you move the chair, it could be distracting. So we've taken that step to put into Henderson as well.

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That's those are the concerns that I have right now.

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Thank you.

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The next one that I wanted to bring up real fast.

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I have one question.

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Have the teachers received all of their curriculum and their manuals

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and their manipulatives and everything because that was a concern that I've heard recently

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But in the last couple of days, to the best of our knowledge they have, but if you have

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some specific example and can share that after the meeting, we'll look into it.

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I'll do that.

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Next.

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We have, but as you received at least one email asking all of you to say, where do we stand

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on the community task force that was dealing with community schools?

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And if you remember, we did discuss this in the early part of the summer and task force

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was to be created, and then that was going to create a governance model that we could

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have in a memo, a memorandum of understanding between the city and the school district.

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And I will just share that we got a late start on actually doing the work with that task

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force just because of the schedules of everything, and that's a little bit on the city, but

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even more so on the school district in terms of where we were with just the loads of things

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that we were trying to deal with.

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and I apologize for that and so we are going to bring that forward to you, nothing has been lost

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but we know that that's still a target.

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We did put that into your board report but one of our sharp community members was paying attention and said

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that report should be coming to you right now this month and they didn't see it.

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That is accurate. We're just pushing it back a little bit and that will be coming forward to you in a real quickly.

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Two other just very quick things and then we can jump into the reports for tonight.

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Board members that you're at the Dias, you have the Community Report.

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Now, this is the first time you've seen a physical report of this.

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You may have looked at this online.

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We always produce a physical report, but the past year during the pandemic,

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we did not go into the trouble of making the hard copies.

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We thought it was advantageous to go ahead and produce this.

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Knowing we're going to produce another one in the month,

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usually we have those ready and produced in December.

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but we thought it was good timing because it's a level of accountability, it's a level of celebration, it's a level of targets for our future as we go forward on some of our election efforts.

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So board members you have this for your copy, you can always guide people to the website and then if you need more physical copies of this then obviously we can produce it.

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tied to the election. You also have just the facts sheet. We've given that to you

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virtually. You actually have a hard copy there in front of you tonight too that

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you can use. If you need additional copies, we can make those that you can

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hand out. If you're if you're trying to meet with small groups of people or even

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large groups, and we also can produce something that can be sent to you virtually.

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Finally, I just really want to honor what was said by Ms. Hatter that our staff,

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a tremendous job. One of the things some of the board members had a discussion with as we got

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ready for the board meeting and had a little bit of dinner was the wonderful numbers that

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are coming out of Little Rock School. Wonderful is probably the wrong term. I would say good

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numbers that show us being very responsible in terms of this pandemic dealing with the

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COVID situation, dealing with the Delta variant. If you look at it, we're never anywhere in

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the top five that I've seen in the last month.

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We are typically number seven, eight,

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yet we're the second largest school district.

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I attribute that to two things.

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One, this community takes it really serious.

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Our whole community.

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And if you travel to different places,

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go to different places like for a ball game,

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you go to a gas station or go out to eat,

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it is much different than when you go here in Little Rock.

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And so people are masked up,

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And people are doing, my guess is our vaccination rate is probably high for this large of a center.

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Right behind that is our staff deserves a tremendous amount of credit because we have to be around 75% right now of our staff that's been vaccinated with both first and second shots.

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That's pretty unheard of in terms of this state in an organization of over 3,000 employees.

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And one of the highest with the school districts right along with our staff, our parents and our kids are doing the right things with the mass mandate. That's cut down on the number of positives as well as the number of quarantines. And again, you go look at those reports and look at it with any type of longitudinal daily data. This district is, you know, any case is potential, you know, something that could be really terrible.

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But we are doing a pretty good job where we're having our biggest issues in terms of the quarantines when you look at those reports.

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A lot of it is in the pre-case level where mass compliance, we just can't, you know, give good, good solid answer to say,

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mass were in the right place and were fitted the entire time that they were in school.

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We just can't do that and when we can't do it, then we have to go ahead and quarantine.

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We have had very few positives at the secondary level with staff or with kids and our biggest

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numbers have been at the elementary level, which kind of makes sense and most of the

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things that are coming in and happening in the school, it's coming from the community.

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It's not being spread inside the school district.

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So that's a shout out really to our whole community, but in particular our staff deserves

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there's a lot of credit for how serious they've taken,

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especially distilled to variant.

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Thank you, Ms. Hatter, that concludes

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just the kind of some opening remarks in the meeting.

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I'm excited about talking about Ford and GL, too.

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Oh my God, that is the highlight for me,

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just to hear how far Ford and GL have come within our district.

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We know we do have a flagship school,

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which is Southwest,

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that is the furthest within the Ford and GL implementation as far as the academies and the offerings.

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And so, I see some wonderful people.

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I know them all.

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I've worked with them for years and I just don't know which one of you guys will call.

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So, I'm going to start off with Montgomery coming up.

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I'm going to also share, you know, I'm with you.

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that, you know, we tagged him all the time in the Saturday night, but, you know, the

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combination of having to make a Montgomery in your district, that's the director of

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career ed, and what that meant, you know, from the moment I came into the district, I was

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like, wow, you know, I was kind of nervous about, you know, what, because it's important to

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me.

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Where ed is super important.

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I think it's really important to many of you as board members and coming in and finding

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somebody so talented that had so many different skills and could talk to every type of stakeholder

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and get stuff done. Man, it was a blessing. But right behind that, one of the other calls

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that was made as I came down was with Jay Cheshire. And I believe I called him the very

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first day that I got the job and said, you know, I need to talk to you and I need your help.

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And I want to try to be able to engage the business community in a different way. I think

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he and I talked within that 24 hours then three times after that 24 hours. And those calls

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never have stopped and now you know when you talk about the academies of central

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Arkansas I'm following a Ford NGL model. It's very very exciting and should make

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all have you come on up and we get ready to kind of get started but I'm famous

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for stealing PowerPoint data off of people so I am gonna stop there and then

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battle let Shamika be able to own because I want to say some more but I'm gonna let

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a little I shouldn't, oh it's from our American.

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No you know the American at this moment.

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No, thank you.

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We go ahead and again you can't.

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Okay, I'm not so sorry for asking.

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Thank you.

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I was wondering what to do about this,

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did anything everyone how are you?

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Good morning, thank you so much for sharing.

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Those kind words of expression because when we talk about

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Ford and GL and the academies of Central Arkansas,

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it's all about that injury.

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And we've been at this entry point for three years and

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working diligently to transform our school.

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All right, as you guys know, Fort NGL was an initiative that all four districts in

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Pulaski County are taking our heart in to prepare students in Central Arkansas for

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college, career, and for life, and we're bringing career-focused high schools to this community,

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and it's a special thing because no one else in the country is doing this work as a region.

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Usually, it's just one school district who's implementing the Academy's model at one time.

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And it's a community-connected approach to transform our educational model for high school

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students.

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And so, we're on the cutting edge of innovation to transform the high school experience.

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As we've shared before, the Ford NGO framework includes three strands of transformation. The first

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strand is transforming how we teach and learn, how our kids learn. You know, we want real and

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relevant learning experiences for our students. The second strand is transforming the secondary

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school experience. We want our schools to create and maintain those career and interest theme

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academies. It's funny because my daughter is a singer and she's entered one of the medical

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programs and every day she has a story to share with me and she's a child who has never called

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me about school so I was excited that she's getting that experience this year. And thirdly,

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we're transforming how we interact with the business community and within our schools and the chamber

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has been a large part of that since we started this implementation and so I do want Change

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Reddish who serves as the executive vice president for the Little Rock Regional Chamber

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of Commerce to come up and share kind of a timeline of where we started three years ago

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and all the work that we have done thus far.

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And then I'll come back up to share with you where we are specifically in the Little Rock

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School District.

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Welcome, Mr. Reddish.

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Thank you, Shemika.

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Thank you, Shemika.

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President Hadter, members of the board, Superintendent Por,

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it's a real honor to be in front of you all this evening.

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I'm here, as Shemika said, representing the Little Rock Regional Chamber

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but also representing our four sister chambers in Malmel,

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Sherwood, North Little Rock, Jacksonville,

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and the business community that has really rallied

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around this work here over the last three and a half years.

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You know, our chamber has said, and in fact, Jay said, at our annual meeting two and a

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half years ago, this work, supporting this district, supporting all four districts, and ultimately

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working to we get to a place where we can all say that every student in every one of these

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districts and every one of these schools is graduating college ready, career ready, and with

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the strongest academic foundation that we can give them

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is our number one priority as a chamber until that day.

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So this is not a small commitment that we've made.

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We've invested significant amounts of dollars

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and staff resources and will continue to do so

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in a very happy and positive way

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because we feel like this model really has the opportunity

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to transform not just to district, not just for districts,

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but in fact the entire economic future

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of our region and it's an economic development organization

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And that's what we get up every morning thinking about.

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So I'm going to give you a little bit of background here.

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I want to also draw attention to my colleagues,

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Kristi Barr and Jay Cheshire, who have been sort of leading

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this work for our chamber.

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But I wanted to give you a little bit of the history here.

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Let you know where we stand today with the entire initiative,

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as well as some next steps as it relates to work

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that we're doing to bring additional resources

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and business partnerships to the table.

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So I'm not going to go through all of this.

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you all have had this in advance, but really want to take you back this began in June

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of 2018. So really closer to three and a half years at this point, and it has survived

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a lot of good and positive change over the last three and a half years. Something that

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I always want to celebrate, because I think what we've said from the beginning is, this

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is different than anything we've tried before, because this has to be permanent, this has

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to be wall to wall. This has to be inclusive of everybody within our community. And so that is

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what you'll see as we as I walk through this, the path that we have walked for the last three and a

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half years. So it started with making sure that the four districts were willing to come together

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and senior leadership from the superintendents were a partner in this into early 2019 when we did a

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sort of benchmarking analysis. We had a chance to bring in some experts who met with each school

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In each district, teachers, parents, students, alumni, faith-based leaders, elected officials, business leaders, that report came back very positive.

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That led then over the summer of 2019 to some important work that we did with the teachers with AEA and LREA to make sure that the voice of the teachers was first and front and center in this.

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And then into the fall of 2019, when we started the master planning, the visioning, we made

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sure that in that process, we actually did a full matrix.

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We had every zip code in this county, which is more than you would think, actually, 30

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sum ad zip codes.

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We had representatives from every one of those zip codes, again, representing faith-based leaders,

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elected officials, teacher students, parents, they were all

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And I will never forget. March 12th was the day that we had our final master planning session. It's a date. I'm sure many of you remember as the governor first sent students home due to COVID-19, which we now looking back. It's almost hard to believe where our minds were on that date, but it seemed much more innocent time back then. But we got the master planning done. So I think we're going to be able to do that.

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such that actually the start of school year 2020,

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even in the midst of the pandemic,

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was able to begin the initially planned implementation phases.

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And at most schools within Little Rock

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and in fact across the four districts,

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that included the first freshman level freshman seminar course

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that you'll hear Shemika talk a lot more about.

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Continued planning through the last school year.

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And again, you'll see a lot of that work

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because what Shimiq is about to show you that the districts and the schools did, identifying

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academies, identifying what was right for the school, looking at existing programs, imagining

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what the future could look like at each one of these schools.

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I think many of you have heard this before, but the part about Ford NGL that I think is most

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important to its success is it's meant to be a framework that is individualized at the

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district and then at the school level.

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So each one of these schools will be implementing the model, but it will be implemented in a way that it's right for

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rest school of innovation that is right for Central, that is right for Hall, that is right for Parkview, and that is right for

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Southwest. So, and similarly across the other districts. So, I'll take you then to

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some next steps and some

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important work that we've committed to help lead and to bring additional resources to the table. So,

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So, we have gone through some of the pathway design and implementation, continuing to get

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to the levels of curriculum and stackable courses and from a CTE standpoint, what is

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the right credential that would most advantage the student upon graduation in terms of career?

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What are the post-secondary concurrent credit partnerships at the post-secondary level so that

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every student has the opportunity to graduate with college credit?

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And then again, how do we think about most importantly equipping the teachers in real

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time, just in time, as they lead this change within their individual classrooms and additional

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professional development that might be needed to help support them?

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And continuing to market and advertise, we actually did run through some investments made

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by 50 for the future, last fall, hopefully some of you saw TV commercials, and banner ads

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on Facebook, try to, again, promote the Academies of Central Arkansas and, of course, by extension

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the four districts and 12 high schools that are part of each one of those districts.

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The work now ahead of us in sort of the immediate term over the next several months is to secure

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business partnerships. We are starting at the foundational level. This work is, again, being led by

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50 for the future and what we have said is a pretty audacious goal that every one of the, what is

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ultimately 29 academies across 12 high schools will have a foundational partner, a business

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partner who is coming in at a, in some cases, six-figure, multi-year level to bring additional

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resources to the table to help schools as they work to implement this model, committing

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not just dollars and volunteer hours, but more importantly, that sort of one-to-one connection

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that adoption of the school as it moves forward.

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What we've seen in Nashville, for example,

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those initial business partnerships are still in place 17 years later.

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So what we want to do is set up business partnerships here on the front end

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that will stand the test of time that will endure

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and that schools can come to depend on as sort of an extension of their resources.

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But last thing I'll say and you all will be getting an invitation to this

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if you have not already. This is a national network

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for NGL is a program of the Ford Foundation.

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There are 40 other communities across the country

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and we will be officially designated a member of that

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national network of excellence on October 7th.

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So we'll have leadership from the Ford Foundation

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that will come in.

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It will be probably 95% celebrating locally

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and about ourselves and 5% business

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of getting the sort of formal blessing

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and designation as an NGO community but that's really a testament to the hard work that this

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district and the other three districts have put in together to a place where our master plan

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and our implementation plan are at a level that is equal with our peers across the country.

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I will stop there, Jimmy, because I've got a lot more important information to tell you specifically about the Little Rock School District. But I just want to close by thanking you all for the continued partnership and for the ability to come before you tonight. It's absolutely a highlight of my career. And I think I can speak for Christy to be able to be working with this district and the other districts across the county on this important work that we think will change the future for thousands and thousands of kids and families that we'll never know that we are a part of it.

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So thank you,

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James.

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So we're in our district, we decided

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to implement the academies using a phased approach.

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When we started this work, we were in the process

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of building Southwest High School.

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And a lot of the career programs that were implemented there

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was because of us knowing that we were going to start implementing

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the academies of Central Arkansas.

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And currently Southwest High School has a freshman academy and a sophomore academy.

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So they're further hit than our other schools.

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I'm proud to say that Hall and West are implementing freshman academy and part of you in Central

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are now implementing freshman seminar, which is a year-long course that I'll talk about

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in just a second.

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Part of you was in the process, as you know, they had a change in leadership.

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and so basically we were allowed to set, hit the reset button and allowed them to work together as a staff to come up with their academies and pathways that they want to offer for their school.

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And we're meeting continuously with them through that process.

429
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:54,160
We have hired Academy coaches for all of our schools and they are working diligently to bring in partners and plan exciting experiential learning activities for our freshmen.

430
00:36:54,160 --> 00:37:01,640
Now, this process of coming up with or selecting academies and pathways has been a collaborative

431
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:07,060
process as Mr. Reddish shared with you all, we're bringing it together all stakeholders

432
00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:13,500
and it's a long process and it's ongoing because as the needs of the community of industry

433
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:21,540
changes or more student demands change pathways may change and so know that it's fluid.

434
00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:28,020
Additionally, we're working with our high school principals and their teams to have a

435
00:37:28,020 --> 00:37:35,200
more collaborative structure to how we master schedule, how we develop teacher teams,

436
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:43,880
how we present course selection, and how we advise our students in selecting the pathway

437
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,580
that's best for them.

438
00:37:48,780 --> 00:37:57,200
As mentioned before, our Academy coaches are essential to the work of the implementation

439
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:02,620
of the academies of Central Arkansas because they meet weekly with the chamber to stay

440
00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:05,940
abreast of any changes in business and industry.

441
00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:11,440
They host our school tours with business and community partners and they secure those

442
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,800
industry speakers and mentors for our teachers and students.

443
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,580
They facilitate the implementation of academies.

444
00:38:19,180 --> 00:38:24,240
I meet with the academy coaches monthly,

445
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,540
and we work to just look at our school review,

446
00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:30,240
our school systems, what's working, what's not working,

447
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,980
and how does our current systems conflict with the academy's model.

448
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,620
And they also lead professional development.

449
00:38:38,820 --> 00:38:41,620
So our academy coaches are busy working,

450
00:38:41,620 --> 00:38:47,980
planning those career fairs along beside the Chamber, college tours, academy

451
00:38:47,980 --> 00:38:52,800
signing days, because we want to wrap our arms around those freshmen and make

452
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,480
that first year of high school special for them. And so the Academy

453
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,400
coaches are essential to that work.

454
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,920
And then last spring, you all approved, allowed

455
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:11,480
us to teach a course, the freshman seminar course, but we embed professional

456
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:17,020
of Communications. And so within Freshness Seminar, that's that transition course as we

457
00:39:17,020 --> 00:39:22,740
move our students from middle school to high school where they have a support system.

458
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:29,140
We work on their social and emotional learning, we work on their academic skills, their professional

459
00:39:29,140 --> 00:39:36,340
skills, and it's a year-long course where we focus on college and career exploration. Students

460
00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:42,140
learn about their personal interests and strengths, awareness of career, careers, and pathways.

461
00:39:42,820 --> 00:39:43,840
And we talk about college.

462
00:39:44,540 --> 00:39:45,740
Well, how much does college cost?

463
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:46,460
What does it take?

464
00:39:46,620 --> 00:39:50,260
What do you need on your ACT to even get accepted into college?

465
00:39:50,980 --> 00:39:57,300
And at the end of their freshman year, students have an opportunity to select the academy and

466
00:39:57,300 --> 00:39:59,460
pathway they want to explore in high school.

467
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:07,020
Next three years in their 10th, 11th and 12th grade year, they'll take as a sequence courses in that particular pathway.

468
00:40:11,980 --> 00:40:33,160
And freshman seminar, you know, since we are embedding the professional communications standards within this course, we have to build a plan to make sure all of our teachers are supported in the implementation of the professional communication skills, where we have professional, we've had professional development days of this summer, and we have ongoing

469
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:38,220
professional development monthly with those teachers so we are our district has

470
00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:42,780
wrapped around them to make sure that they're they have what they need to to

471
00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:50,850
teach our students those professional communication standards so and so now

472
00:40:50,850 --> 00:40:56,930
I want to get into our academies and pathways for each of our schools all schools

473
00:40:56,930 --> 00:41:04,050
like I stated earlier offering freshman academy hall since the hiring of

474
00:41:04,050 --> 00:41:09,910
is Cooper, they've made adjustments to their pathway offerings, and right now they're offering

475
00:41:09,910 --> 00:41:15,010
the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Health Sciences, and this doesn't mean

476
00:41:15,010 --> 00:41:20,590
that they're not offering other CTE classes as electives, these are just their Academy

477
00:41:20,590 --> 00:41:22,570
pathways that they're offering.

478
00:41:23,850 --> 00:41:28,710
Part view is still under construction, we're developing what that's going to look like,

479
00:41:28,710 --> 00:41:35,030
And we actually have a meeting next week with industry partners and the school, their

480
00:41:35,030 --> 00:41:41,190
guiding coalition to continue the conversation of developing what their pathways and academies

481
00:41:41,190 --> 00:41:41,730
will look like.

482
00:41:42,410 --> 00:41:47,770
Of course, Southwest, they offer, I think, 11 pathways within three academies.

483
00:41:48,330 --> 00:41:53,670
And we're very proud that West is one of the first school, I think the only school in

484
00:41:53,670 --> 00:41:59,670
in Pulaski County who has decided to opt for a program in agriculture by implementing

485
00:41:59,670 --> 00:42:04,490
quarter culture technology and veterinary science and I don't know whether you follow them

486
00:42:04,490 --> 00:42:10,050
on Twitter or not but they posted pictures of their chicken coop that was installed, that

487
00:42:10,050 --> 00:42:16,670
was installed a couple of weeks ago that we're very excited about and so those are our pathways

488
00:42:16,670 --> 00:42:21,570
and academies that we're offering in the district and of course we still have that outlier

489
00:42:21,570 --> 00:42:25,950
of Metro and Excel where students can choose those pathways. They are not academies. They're

490
00:42:25,950 --> 00:42:31,210
simply pathways that students are giving information about in the ninth grade year.

491
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:34,050
Right, so are there any questions?

492
00:42:35,470 --> 00:42:42,810
I just have one. It's not for you. I just have one. It's not for you. It's for my board member.

493
00:42:44,090 --> 00:42:48,390
Allie, did you have anything to do with that chicken coop?

494
00:42:49,070 --> 00:42:50,730
I wish that I could say that I did.

495
00:42:50,870 --> 00:42:53,130
I do love the fact that they have chickens.

496
00:42:53,510 --> 00:42:55,530
But I think they were doing it on their own.

497
00:43:00,650 --> 00:43:02,730
So I have an overarching question.

498
00:43:02,810 --> 00:43:05,090
But I think it may be directed more to Mr. Poor.

499
00:43:05,710 --> 00:43:07,570
And it's really one we've had this conversation,

500
00:43:07,650 --> 00:43:09,570
so this is really more because it's something

501
00:43:09,570 --> 00:43:12,070
I've heard continuously from the community.

502
00:43:12,510 --> 00:43:17,730
How are we balancing the career readiness aspect

503
00:43:17,730 --> 00:43:23,090
that is a part of this with the general education

504
00:43:23,090 --> 00:43:25,150
because it makes you a better person

505
00:43:25,150 --> 00:43:27,490
and a better citizen and is good for education's sake

506
00:43:27,490 --> 00:43:30,070
and we don't want to lose that as well.

507
00:43:30,530 --> 00:43:32,450
We don't want to shift the focus too much

508
00:43:32,450 --> 00:43:35,070
so how are we making sure that we reach that balance?

509
00:43:35,870 --> 00:43:39,030
Yeah, I think that we're still tied to the standards

510
00:43:39,670 --> 00:43:43,550
that are established by the state in terms of content areas

511
00:43:44,090 --> 00:43:46,190
and then we're still pulled true to the things

512
00:43:46,190 --> 00:43:53,870
that we want to do to develop good citizens and we actually think by doing the career academies

513
00:43:53,870 --> 00:43:59,170
that you actually enhance that whole experience because now you have teams of teacher working

514
00:43:59,170 --> 00:44:05,270
together on it reinforcing it and actually creating relevance for citizenship in an industry

515
00:44:05,270 --> 00:44:11,230
area or maybe even in a service type project that can be out there for our community to go

516
00:44:11,230 --> 00:44:15,470
would make a difference whether it's in a medical exploration thing or whether it's in

517
00:44:15,470 --> 00:44:18,650
trying to solve a problem on pollution and a river.

518
00:44:19,290 --> 00:44:22,150
Our kids are going to end up being engaged in those things, they're going to be tied

519
00:44:22,150 --> 00:44:24,590
to it with the work force.

520
00:44:24,850 --> 00:44:30,910
So I think it's the most exciting thing, and especially looking at the model out of Nashville is that

521
00:44:31,330 --> 00:44:36,630
when all this happened, and I don't know, either one of the three of you is a chamber member

522
00:44:36,630 --> 00:44:40,330
who want to come up with a couple of stats, but when you look at Nashville, one of the

523
00:44:40,330 --> 00:44:44,530
most striking things was that as an urban school environment, it has a lot of

524
00:44:44,530 --> 00:44:48,250
similarities to us, just a little bit larger scale. They had a graduation rate

525
00:44:48,250 --> 00:44:53,210
when they started this that I believe was it 58 percent, 58 percent haven't used

526
00:44:53,210 --> 00:44:55,310
that stat in two years I think, but 50

527
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,380
38% and because of everyone working together and because of teachers working together, business

528
00:45:06,380 --> 00:45:12,200
working together, their graduation rate, now I believe, is in the mid-80s. And another

529
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,360
stat, James, do you want to show your favorite stat on that?

530
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,660
Yeah, actually, so there's a couple, it's a great question. So there's a couple different

531
00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:23,740
examples throughout the network that we've been able to look at. So Lexington, Virginia,

532
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,900
their big win was absences, tardiness in school and

533
00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:32,340
high school suspension, all down by double digits in just the first year across

534
00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:36,700
all three high schools. Hampton Roads, Virginia, GPA for students in the

535
00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:43,820
Academy versus previous is about a point higher. We see graduation rate in

536
00:45:43,820 --> 00:45:49,880
Pinellas County, Florida, which is Tampa graduation rates again about 20 points

537
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,940
higher for students of color 30 points higher.

538
00:45:53,220 --> 00:45:58,260
So, I mean, this has the ability because it integrates relevance across the core academics

539
00:45:58,780 --> 00:46:01,640
to really fundamentally change what the days like for a student.

540
00:46:01,740 --> 00:46:05,640
You're not just sitting there turning into chapter whatever in the McGraw-Hill textbook.

541
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:11,700
It's you need to learn this because next period your CTE class is going to require you to take

542
00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:17,160
a measurement or to make a cut or to do a project and you're going to need this math equation

543
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:21,460
or you're going to need to know this historical reference to be able to execute upon this.

544
00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:28,860
So that feedback loop, they're not just learning core academics now for the hour and a half

545
00:46:28,860 --> 00:46:33,700
that they're in math, they're learning math now for the entire day in different bits and

546
00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:37,900
pieces relevant to what's all in the academy.

547
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:44,140
So, it's funny, because as you were speaking, I was thinking, I may have, I may be making

548
00:46:44,140 --> 00:46:49,320
a point for you here, but when I was in high school, many of the things that interested

549
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:54,860
me most had no career readiness aspect, but then I thought about it and I thought, well

550
00:46:54,860 --> 00:47:00,060
maybe they did, and I just didn't know it, you know, because it was art and literature and

551
00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:04,860
things like that, that I didn't think of as anything being involved in a career pathway.

552
00:47:04,860 --> 00:47:08,820
I just love them because those were academic interests, but I like it.

553
00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:15,000
And I think that's what you're going to see in Parkview or at Central with ROTC.

554
00:47:16,140 --> 00:47:19,940
We talk about career pathways because that's the majority of what will be in there.

555
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:21,320
But what you need is relevance.

556
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,320
And so if that relevance is art or dance or music,

557
00:47:27,420 --> 00:47:30,580
if embedding that then in math, science, English, and social studies,

558
00:47:30,580 --> 00:47:36,500
all of a sudden takes a D student or a C student to a B student or an A student, that's

559
00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:37,020
the win.

560
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,100
That's what we're looking for.

561
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:40,340
Hi.

562
00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:44,200
She'll make it.

563
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:44,840
Is this on?

564
00:47:45,260 --> 00:47:45,580
Yes.

565
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:46,300
It is.

566
00:47:46,980 --> 00:48:03,860
Um, where is, and this is something for rest, uh, restaurants and hospitality, we're in

567
00:48:03,860 --> 00:48:10,180
about it. It's Southwest High School. We have a health and human health and nutrition

568
00:48:10,180 --> 00:48:15,460
pathway and we have a human services pathway. But students can still choose culinary

569
00:48:15,460 --> 00:48:23,020
arts that's offered on the Metro campus. Okay, but there was a course in restaurant

570
00:48:23,020 --> 00:48:30,040
and hospitality, a statewide course and career intent. I mean, it was a pathway. That pathway

571
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:37,940
his it's more culinary art now. Okay because we have so many open

572
00:48:37,940 --> 00:48:43,700
casinos and hotels and there's going to be a lot of and that's what we were

573
00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:51,100
told years ago that that was going to happen was it's going on now and the

574
00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:57,500
hospitality industry I think there was a one to put on that seminar and I think

575
00:48:57,500 --> 00:49:03,720
it needs to be clarified and you know just brought out because a lot of people I think

576
00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:10,320
would be interested in that you know like train hotel managers and what not and but

577
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:20,760
courses they go with it. At one point it's fair they had a who we were doing the career

578
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:27,900
academies, that was an armed piece to that. Now I don't know, it might have went the same

579
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:35,500
place the storm machines went, but that I just think that that would be something that

580
00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:39,500
a lot of people would be interested in.

581
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,520
Ms. Coway, can I respond to that?

582
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:48,680
I appreciate your thought and one of the things Ms. Montgomery and I did is we fought at

583
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:54,040
the state legislative area to maintain the funding levels for the culinary arts program,

584
00:49:54,340 --> 00:49:57,780
and we did not get any kind of traction within that.

585
00:49:57,780 --> 00:49:59,840
and they actually decrease.

586
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:29,980
We reached the level of funding for that type of program. So we still offer it, we still partner with the Plasky Tech Group to be able to tie our culinary arts together. We, along with the Northwest part of our state, were two loud voices saying that culinary arts needs to be maintained. I think this is a classic example of what Ms. Montgomery brought up in her presentation to say that there could be some adjustments that need to take place because I do think it's an industry that is one that

587
00:50:29,980 --> 00:50:34,660
many kids are interested in, businesses interested in it, but the cold reality is

588
00:50:34,660 --> 00:50:39,220
funding was cut and so what we have on our map right now that that Miss

589
00:50:39,220 --> 00:50:43,580
Montgomery was sharing the the Academy thing we probably stretched the

590
00:50:43,580 --> 00:50:48,320
opportunity about as much as we can at its current time until something changes.

591
00:50:49,180 --> 00:50:54,740
Okay I know that every since Governor Hutchinson has been in he has been

592
00:50:54,740 --> 00:51:03,420
He has really gone the computer science way and cut everything else, but the industry

593
00:51:03,420 --> 00:51:08,480
that's coming into Arkansas is a hotel industry and tourist.

594
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:17,500
The hospitality and tourism was the thing that we developed and I was looking for that.

595
00:51:17,500 --> 00:51:28,120
you know, and I know they do have those fact classes at software. I mean, yes, software.

596
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:30,880
And I think that's probably the only school.

597
00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:33,920
No, we have them at Southwest Central and Hall.

598
00:51:34,620 --> 00:51:42,460
Wonderful. Okay. But that was a career path. I think that needs to be explored more.

599
00:51:42,460 --> 00:51:46,740
I guess what I want is more visibility.

600
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,120
Yes, ma'am.

601
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,040
No, I was saying to you.

602
00:51:52,180 --> 00:51:52,380
Go ahead.

603
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,900
Yeah, excuse me.

604
00:51:56,060 --> 00:51:58,220
Do anybody else have any questions for Mrs. Montgomery?

605
00:52:00,340 --> 00:52:01,240
No, OK.

606
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:02,120
I, thank you.

607
00:52:02,340 --> 00:52:05,260
For all, obviously, we're very hard on this,

608
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:06,300
and I appreciate it.

609
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:06,600
Thank you.

610
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,580
I look at consider myself to have the best job in the district

611
00:52:10,580 --> 00:52:13,540
because I get to see kids actually getting their hands

612
00:52:13,540 --> 00:52:15,940
and starting on real and real and learning almost every day.

613
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:17,040
I love it.

614
00:52:17,180 --> 00:52:18,800
Mrs. Montgomery, I have one question.

615
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:30,360
On the 9th grade seminar, are there any reporting given

616
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:34,880
to you to make sure that only 9th graders

617
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:40,080
are taking that class or else write it there's not

618
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:47,480
enough space to give that class in 9th grade. How does that work out? Because my question

619
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:53,900
is, what happens in the might of a 9th-riter miss seminar? Not because they weren't at

620
00:52:53,900 --> 00:53:00,220
that school, but then because they didn't have room or someone to teach the class.

621
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:06,100
Well, right now, this school year, all of our 9th graders are currently enrolled in freshman

622
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:07,820
and seminar and report just yesterday.

623
00:53:08,540 --> 00:53:11,620
However, for those students who come to our district

624
00:53:11,620 --> 00:53:14,320
and they don't, they won't get the oral comm

625
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,040
or professional communications credit,

626
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,640
we'll offer that, we'll offer a course face-to-face

627
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:19,780
or in person at the school,

628
00:53:20,100 --> 00:53:21,660
or we'll offer a digital option

629
00:53:21,660 --> 00:53:23,860
for the students to get that created.

630
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:26,000
Okay, thank you.

631
00:53:26,820 --> 00:53:29,460
Yes, and that is a point five graduation requirement

632
00:53:29,460 --> 00:53:30,640
for all students.

633
00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:32,540
Can I bring up one of the famous Hatter,

634
00:53:32,740 --> 00:53:35,720
and this is something that Ms. Hatter and I talked about

635
00:53:35,720 --> 00:53:39,780
out and I believe we talked about it with the Chamber team is that we really think it

636
00:53:39,780 --> 00:53:44,040
would be helpful if it's all right with all of you to bring forward as a part of our

637
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:50,320
agenda next time just a resolution of support for the Ford NGL model and that would fit well

638
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,860
with right before the bigger announcement in on October 7th but to have you all endorse

639
00:53:54,860 --> 00:54:00,500
it similar to what we did with the models for Hall and Parkview and West School of Innovation

640
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:03,760
to say this board because you've never got to vote on this matter.

641
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:16,820
And just a vote to say we as a board are in, and we're supportive of this model and we're making a commitment over a five-year stretch to be behind it.

642
00:54:16,940 --> 00:54:20,060
I hope that honors the thinking that you and I had with the Chamber.

643
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:29,540
Yeah, I think it's important to make sure that we as a board, which we speak.

644
00:54:29,540 --> 00:54:38,400
And then we give the board a voice right by a minimum of five members voting the same way.

645
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:45,180
And I just believe that it's important to have a level of direction coming from the board

646
00:54:45,180 --> 00:54:49,320
instead of ornaments put on our district because people are trying to shape it.

647
00:54:49,660 --> 00:54:56,340
But then like right if we truly believe in it, and then right to have a voice in it and

648
00:54:56,340 --> 00:54:59,600
went from the board and so because this work had been

649
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:29,380
Going on with the district prior to most of us, being here, and then, of course, prior to the election of the entire board, three and a half years. And then if we make a five year commitment, and then we are watching it expand. And then adjust right as the supply and demand of our society goes. I think that we will truly give children

650
00:55:29,380 --> 00:55:38,340
and something to bank on right when they graduate out of our K-12 system or PK system.

651
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,980
That's all I have on that.

652
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,080
But yeah, it honored.

653
00:55:42,540 --> 00:55:43,100
Thank you.

654
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:46,200
Thank you all.

655
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:48,180
Is that it?

656
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:48,640
Yes.

657
00:55:49,140 --> 00:55:49,620
Okay.

658
00:55:54,350 --> 00:55:54,630
Okay.

659
00:55:55,250 --> 00:56:02,330
You guys moving forward, we will have an introduction

660
00:56:02,330 --> 00:56:16,550
of what the potential board zone will be, or not be, but look like that is just for us to have a level of conversation right now.

661
00:56:17,210 --> 00:56:31,270
The state is drawing, or redrawing those lines we did, or at least I had a thought of possibly even in the beginning looking at outside of the state

662
00:56:31,270 --> 00:56:42,150
to do that. And as it stands right now, the GIS department has come up with a couple

663
00:56:42,150 --> 00:56:48,010
of models. And please forgive me. My agenda does not have this name on it.

664
00:56:48,290 --> 00:56:53,430
I apologize. I'll introduce the topic a little bit. And then also introduce our guests.

665
00:56:53,430 --> 00:57:01,570
We've been very fortunate in the fact that when we started to work on creating your board

666
00:57:01,570 --> 00:57:06,810
zones, that was when I was first introduced to the state GIS system.

667
00:57:07,270 --> 00:57:14,690
I previously had no experience in working with them, and we had Shelby Johnson who was the

668
00:57:14,690 --> 00:57:19,730
person that leads that group, and then one of his right hands, Jonathan Durand, who's

669
00:57:19,730 --> 00:57:26,010
this evening both helped us in engineering those board jumps and what I really liked and

670
00:57:26,010 --> 00:57:31,210
of course Mr. Mason and Mr. Wood and this morning were a part of hearing some of those

671
00:57:31,210 --> 00:57:36,730
presentations is that you know I like the fact that they brought multiple models to

672
00:57:36,730 --> 00:57:43,230
be looked at and they shared the different variances within the models and justification.

673
00:57:43,230 --> 00:57:50,770
They also come with a fact of when you look at this, they're always going to try to present

674
00:57:50,770 --> 00:57:58,610
things so that you're looking at population inside those current zones and how much

675
00:57:58,610 --> 00:57:59,410
variance there's been.

676
00:58:00,670 --> 00:58:03,910
Looking at demographics is always a key factor for them.

677
00:58:04,410 --> 00:58:10,450
Looking at ethnic composition as well as amounts of poverty in those areas, taking into consideration

678
00:58:10,450 --> 00:58:15,970
all sorts of natural boundaries, well made land made lines as well, and then creating

679
00:58:15,970 --> 00:58:18,450
zones that are continuous, so they're not broke apart.

680
00:58:19,030 --> 00:58:23,050
So they did that I think really well with the board zones that you're currently in.

681
00:58:24,010 --> 00:58:31,150
Just to round this off before I turn over to Mr. Durran is that this is a process, okay?

682
00:58:31,530 --> 00:58:33,150
So tonight is just step one.

683
00:58:33,690 --> 00:58:38,010
One of the groups that's very interested in making sure that we have a process so that

684
00:58:38,010 --> 00:58:41,270
the public can have input has been the League of Women Voters.

685
00:58:41,850 --> 00:58:46,110
And so the League of Women Voters, we should have reached out to them this week.

686
00:58:46,110 --> 00:58:50,550
I hope that happened to be able to give them this agenda, give them the materials.

687
00:58:51,230 --> 00:58:53,870
We will have public meetings coming up.

688
00:58:54,150 --> 00:58:58,830
That's outlined in your executive summary so that you'll see that on October 14th we'll

689
00:58:58,830 --> 00:59:00,610
come back with actual options.

690
00:59:00,610 --> 00:59:05,630
Next, on the 28th, we will have the chance for the public

691
00:59:05,630 --> 00:59:09,290
then to give comment about those board zone possibilities.

692
00:59:10,230 --> 00:59:14,790
And then we're looking at the potential of a November 18th timeframe

693
00:59:15,510 --> 00:59:21,030
for you all to potentially take an action on the creation of the new board zones.

694
00:59:23,090 --> 00:59:26,870
The final thing that I would share is that there's, you know,

695
00:59:26,870 --> 00:59:30,110
So this is just about the right time for all this to happen.

696
00:59:30,550 --> 00:59:34,810
You might have all had an urgency, there have been multiple articles, and every time there

697
00:59:34,810 --> 00:59:39,150
was an article, you all came back at me and said, hey, win, how about?

698
00:59:39,770 --> 00:59:44,490
But a part of the work couldn't really begin until the census data came in.

699
00:59:45,110 --> 00:59:51,410
The fortunate thing is that by having the state GIS group do your board zones, they already

700
00:59:51,410 --> 00:59:56,090
were starting to work with it, have familiarity with what makes up the Little Rock School

701
00:59:56,090 --> 00:59:59,970
district, so they don't really start totally from scratch. With that, I'm going to

702
01:00:00,500 --> 01:00:29,980
Presentation that he'd like to deliver for us. Mr. Graham, would you come on up? Thank you so much for being here. Remove this, because I will just stay bogged up the whole time. I mean, do you wear glasses? I'm exactly what I'm talking about. So what I'm going to do is I'm going, well, let me back up. Again, my name is Jonathan Durran, I serve as the deputy director for the Arkansas GIS office. Under typical service circumstances, Mr. Shelby Johnson, who's our director, would likely have been

703
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:36,320
here but he is taking a couple days off and so he fully deputized me I guess you

704
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:42,680
could say not for this task and as Superintendent Poor mentioned this is sort

705
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:47,360
of step one in a process what we'll discuss here what I'll show you here is

706
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:54,940
going to be very highly focused on the zones you have right now and how those

707
01:00:54,940 --> 01:01:00,660
compare now that we do have the 2020 census numbers and those just we just got

708
01:01:00,660 --> 01:01:07,120
those within the last two to three weeks so this is all very new and as you

709
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:11,380
can imagine people all over the country are anxiously anticipating and

710
01:01:11,380 --> 01:01:16,760
waiting on and maybe not so patiently waiting on those census numbers so what

711
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:21,600
we want to start with I'm just gonna direct your attention all over here you

712
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:22,260
You don't really need them.

713
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:23,600
I'm going to move out of y'all's way.

714
01:01:24,740 --> 01:01:26,780
You don't really need to see me in this way.

715
01:01:26,780 --> 01:01:31,240
Shelby, we do need you to come up and they'll still see it and the audience will be able

716
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:31,940
to see it fine, too.

717
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:32,300
Okay.

718
01:01:32,820 --> 01:01:33,560
I just didn't want to bother you.

719
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:34,880
Shelby and Jonathan, I'm sorry.

720
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:35,580
Okay.

721
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:36,140
It's up there, too.

722
01:01:37,740 --> 01:01:41,540
So what we want to start with, and I'm going to back up here on the slide.

723
01:01:41,900 --> 01:01:42,200
There we go.

724
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:49,920
Just an overview of redistricting and what really goes into that, and the criteria that you're

725
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:56,740
really looking for when drawing born of a fairing number of election geographies.

726
01:01:58,880 --> 01:01:59,420
Obviously

727
01:01:59,940 --> 01:02:05,820
you want those zones balanced in population. One person and one vote, you want these

728
01:02:05,820 --> 01:02:07,700
zones substantially equal in population.

729
01:02:11,060 --> 01:02:14,640
Continuing, the voting rights act 1965 prohibits

730
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:20,400
any discrimination based on race, color, language, minority. And a lot of these things that

731
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:25,160
were going over should be very familiar to these types of criteria.

732
01:02:27,940 --> 01:02:32,020
Equal protection clause 14th Amendment limits redrawing those district boundaries strictly

733
01:02:32,020 --> 01:02:32,900
on the basis of race.

734
01:02:36,140 --> 01:02:41,680
Compactness and these next two kind of go together, this compactness and continuous contiguity,

735
01:02:42,300 --> 01:02:43,800
those are kind of this eyeball test.

736
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:51,440
Compactness you want in a perfectly compact would be a circle, you know, it might be a square

737
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,780
But in reality, it's hard to get that because you're dealing with census blocks, there's

738
01:02:55,780 --> 01:02:56,180
little pieces.

739
01:02:57,700 --> 01:03:01,960
But you still don't want these things with fingers running all over the place.

740
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:07,000
That's probably going to get you in some trouble down the road.

741
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:10,040
Same thing with this idea of contiguity.

742
01:03:10,940 --> 01:03:13,400
You can't have a detached piece over here.

743
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:17,660
That's like I said, it's just an obal test sort of thing.

744
01:03:17,660 --> 01:03:17,720
And

745
01:03:21,780 --> 01:03:29,840
as much as possible, it's really good when you do redistricting to try to not make

746
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:36,500
unnecessary splits in existing geographies, because that then becomes kind of a nightmare

747
01:03:37,700 --> 01:03:42,640
in an election with the administration of the election, because then you end up with

748
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:43,660
all these ballot styles.

749
01:03:44,500 --> 01:03:52,780
So as much as possible, you want to minimize splitting of these types of split of subdivisions

750
01:03:52,780 --> 01:03:53,400
and things like that.

751
01:03:53,500 --> 01:03:58,660
You know, maybe at a larger scale if we're dealing with state senate district experiments.

752
01:03:59,260 --> 01:04:04,380
As much as possible, you might want to try to keep a city with the exception of having a

753
01:04:04,380 --> 01:04:07,160
little rock, which the population just wouldn't permit that.

754
01:04:07,460 --> 01:04:13,040
But if you've got a city that could be kept whole, you might want to keep that for various

755
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:13,440
reasons.

756
01:04:17,130 --> 01:04:24,630
Communities of interest. Communities of interest could be quite a lot of things, whether

757
01:04:24,630 --> 01:04:31,530
that be economical, social, political, cultural, there's a lot of things that could qualify

758
01:04:31,530 --> 01:04:35,670
as a community of interest. A city could be a community of interest.

759
01:04:37,830 --> 01:04:39,190
As much as possible,

760
01:04:40,250 --> 01:04:45,790
When you read your audio, obviously I want to try to avoid putting in comments against

761
01:04:45,790 --> 01:04:46,310
each other.

762
01:04:47,650 --> 01:04:53,510
There's some obvious, I mean, like I said, a lot of these things are not, you don't have

763
01:04:53,510 --> 01:04:57,150
to be an attorney to, you know, really get rid of...

764
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:00,980
There's a lot of these signs are coming from.

765
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:27,520
And then lastly, minimize partisanship. You don't have preferential treatment of one party or another when you draw these signs. When these signs are laid out, obviously there's a lot of different things that could be litigated thereafter. And as much as possible, you want to be working ahead when you do these and to not get yourself in that situation.

766
01:05:30,930 --> 01:05:32,890
And so this map

767
01:05:32,890 --> 01:05:35,970
That is primarily for context for the whole state.

768
01:05:37,050 --> 01:05:44,490
What this map gives you an idea of is where the population sort of moved between 2010

769
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:46,830
and 2020.

770
01:05:47,590 --> 01:05:54,090
So anything that's in the darkest of blue shade are rated counties that had increased

771
01:05:54,090 --> 01:05:54,870
in the population.

772
01:05:55,780 --> 01:06:02,310
The darkest of red are the counties that lost population in that 10 year between the

773
01:06:02,310 --> 01:06:04,930
to the census, the decennial census.

774
01:06:06,070 --> 01:06:11,450
And so, as you can see, there is a getting population,

775
01:06:11,590 --> 01:06:15,590
primarily, are in central Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas,

776
01:06:15,910 --> 01:06:18,690
and then Northeast Arkansas out of there

777
01:06:18,690 --> 01:06:20,010
around Jonesburg and Paragold.

778
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,660
In a lot of cases, these population moves.

779
01:06:25,260 --> 01:06:26,900
A lot of times, these follow economics.

780
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:29,900
People move to where the jobs are.

781
01:06:29,900 --> 01:06:32,360
I mean, it could be, I mean, any number of reasons

782
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,480
while these shifts, population shifts.

783
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:36,940
But we did want to throw this in just to give you

784
01:06:36,940 --> 01:06:39,220
the context and overall context of the state.

785
01:06:43,030 --> 01:06:45,010
And then now this is probably what you're really interested in.

786
01:06:46,250 --> 01:06:49,290
So these are your existing board zones.

787
01:06:51,230 --> 01:06:55,550
The stars you see on the map are locations of you all.

788
01:06:56,230 --> 01:06:57,590
And those are the incumbent locations.

789
01:06:59,630 --> 01:07:09,610
and then the percentages you see under the zone numbers are after the 2020, because these were

790
01:07:09,610 --> 01:07:15,610
drawn based on the 2010 census numbers. That's the best numbers we had at the time. That's what we

791
01:07:15,610 --> 01:07:22,290
had to use. These are the same zones, and these have been redrawn, but the 2020 population has been

792
01:07:22,290 --> 01:07:24,590
applied to these and variances calculated.

793
01:07:25,870 --> 01:07:32,090
So the darkest blue here are zones where the population

794
01:07:32,950 --> 01:07:35,050
is above what your target is.

795
01:07:35,310 --> 01:07:39,270
So when I say target, that's total population of the district

796
01:07:39,950 --> 01:07:42,390
divided by nine zones.

797
01:07:43,110 --> 01:07:45,170
And so whatever that number is, and I'll top my head,

798
01:07:45,310 --> 01:07:47,110
I don't remember what that number is.

799
01:07:47,410 --> 01:07:48,650
It's on the next slide.

800
01:07:49,330 --> 01:07:51,070
It's in here if you've got that printed off

801
01:07:51,070 --> 01:07:58,250
in the next slide. But the darkest blue is a zone that has too much population. It's

802
01:07:58,250 --> 01:08:04,810
over the target. The darkest red is a zone that's under the population. It's population

803
01:08:04,810 --> 01:08:11,410
is too low. So what that means, the red zone, zone seven, that zone is going to have to

804
01:08:11,410 --> 01:08:18,910
increase its size to be able to kind of grab more population to bring it up. So that's

805
01:08:18,910 --> 01:08:25,650
And that's, I think, that's the one that's the most out of tolerance, so to speak.

806
01:08:26,070 --> 01:08:28,550
I think that's 6.98, almost 7%.

807
01:08:30,130 --> 01:08:35,010
And then on the other end of the scale, zone 1, that one's going to have to shrink a little bit,

808
01:08:35,550 --> 01:08:39,850
because it's essentially got too much population, because these things need to be,

809
01:08:40,450 --> 01:08:42,490
you know, substantially equal, or as equal as possible.

810
01:08:45,590 --> 01:08:49,970
You can start to see some real challenges in this, for example,

811
01:08:49,970 --> 01:08:57,170
example, your zone that's the farthest taught out of whack in its population is zone 7.

812
01:08:58,510 --> 01:09:04,570
It's got to grow, but it can only, because these things have to be continuous, it can only

813
01:09:04,570 --> 01:09:07,110
grow into zones 5 and 6.

814
01:09:09,010 --> 01:09:12,370
Well, zone 5 right now is a really good it.

815
01:09:13,060 --> 01:09:18,390
It's less than half a percent high, which is a really good variance.

816
01:09:19,450 --> 01:09:23,010
So seven has got to grow into five and six.

817
01:09:24,710 --> 01:09:28,410
So there's some obvious challenges there when you start really drawing these things

818
01:09:28,410 --> 01:09:31,510
because it's this cascading can be this cascading effect.

819
01:09:33,130 --> 01:09:39,130
You do have some instances where, and that's kind of, you know, this is kind of good news, bad news type thing.

820
01:09:39,130 --> 01:09:50,030
So, maybe the good news is that if you look at zones 1 and 2, zone 1 is not quite 6% high,

821
01:09:50,790 --> 01:09:58,370
zone 2 is a little or 4% low, so perhaps those become an issue if you just sort of swap.

822
01:10:00,270 --> 01:10:01,750
Thank you. You can have something.

823
01:10:04,930 --> 01:10:10,050
You got these adjacent zones, they sort of, the solution,

824
01:10:10,530 --> 01:10:15,470
they're sort of each other's solution. Because one's this much too high, this is too much,

825
01:10:15,470 --> 01:10:18,110
too much love, you know, you bounce them out.

826
01:10:22,030 --> 01:10:25,810
And we can come back to any of these, this table here,

827
01:10:25,810 --> 01:10:32,150
here, this is the actual numbers that are sort of baked into that last map. And so when

828
01:10:32,150 --> 01:10:39,630
I said that target, so the target, 20,121, that's where you want your population to be.

829
01:10:39,910 --> 01:10:47,930
In a perfect world, everyone that will have that population. In reality, it's very, very

830
01:10:47,930 --> 01:10:52,670
difficult to achieve that, but you want it as close as, you know, to sustain this idea

831
01:10:52,670 --> 01:10:53,770
of substantially equal.

832
01:10:56,580 --> 01:10:59,780
And then you can see the actual 2020 population numbers for each

833
01:10:59,780 --> 01:11:06,220
district. And when you've got, I mentioned zone, earlier I mentioned zone, I think it's

834
01:11:06,220 --> 01:11:10,340
five, and I said was less than half a percent high. It's 94 people.

835
01:11:12,630 --> 01:11:15,690
Zone three is 34 people

836
01:11:15,690 --> 01:11:21,510
too low. So you know, those are the best ones. But then when you start changing some of

837
01:11:21,510 --> 01:11:27,510
these district lines, it's, you know, you change the line, make this one better, but

838
01:11:27,510 --> 01:11:31,690
then there's a downstream effect to the neighbor.

839
01:11:34,210 --> 01:11:36,910
There's a lot of information in this slide.

840
01:11:37,590 --> 01:11:45,030
It's color-coded just to show, you know, give you this kind of a spectrum idea of the ones

841
01:11:45,030 --> 01:11:48,210
down here in red, you know, those are your points that you really got to work on.

842
01:11:48,210 --> 01:11:56,690
The ones in the darkest blue, those really got to be worked on because they're the farthest

843
01:11:56,690 --> 01:12:00,050
away from what you really want.

844
01:12:01,430 --> 01:12:03,870
With that, that's the last slide we have in here.

845
01:12:04,070 --> 01:12:12,430
Again, this is a very high level view of this, and as I understand from Supertinent Pour,

846
01:12:12,430 --> 01:12:16,250
or you will get more into specifics on this

847
01:12:16,250 --> 01:12:18,430
and actual trash plans and things like that

848
01:12:18,430 --> 01:12:20,230
as you go through this fall.

849
01:12:21,890 --> 01:12:24,630
But do you have any questions about those masks?

850
01:12:25,830 --> 01:12:28,330
I'm gonna keep those handy just in case

851
01:12:28,330 --> 01:12:31,770
somebody did have a question about the particular one.

852
01:12:33,230 --> 01:12:34,210
There are two items.

853
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:38,320
Thank you, Senator.

854
01:12:38,900 --> 01:12:39,220
I don't know.

855
01:12:39,540 --> 01:12:41,280
This may not be a question for you, sir,

856
01:12:41,440 --> 01:12:43,960
but it may be a question of perhaps your administration

857
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:51,760
for our legal people, but, you know, we drew lots for returns to stagger returns in the past,

858
01:12:52,000 --> 01:13:00,060
knowing that this could impact, change that altogether, or we have to adjust it, and some of the

859
01:13:00,060 --> 01:13:06,620
things that have been written are that the possibility that all of us would have, if you start

860
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:11,480
redrawing zones that everybody would have to run again, as opposed to just a couple,

861
01:13:11,480 --> 01:13:20,820
So based on these numbers and the way it looks now is do we know yet if that's going to

862
01:13:20,820 --> 01:13:25,720
be the case that all positions and at the end of the day we'll have to run again or

863
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:29,480
will be among the similar positions we need to run again.

864
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:37,600
I'll take my best guess at that, at least to the staff as I actually feel the way I interpret

865
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:43,140
how Mr. Graham, Mr. Johnson, have shared it, you're going to make changes really within

866
01:13:43,140 --> 01:13:48,100
all the zones and in the reality of that means that we are going to have to have an election

867
01:13:48,100 --> 01:13:55,360
for all board members again a year from November. So that's kind of my interpretation. At

868
01:13:55,360 --> 01:14:01,900
one time, when we first started to think about without, well, maybe we only have two areas

869
01:14:01,900 --> 01:14:05,220
of the city that have to be changed. And if that happened, maybe we wouldn't have to

870
01:14:05,220 --> 01:14:13,700
do everybody, but in this thing, and we've tried to consult with legal on this in-house lawyer,

871
01:14:14,480 --> 01:14:19,220
we've contacted the school board association, we've contacted the Friday firm, we've contacted

872
01:14:19,220 --> 01:14:25,860
the state, and I will tell you the answers aren't totally consistent on that, but for the

873
01:14:25,860 --> 01:14:33,520
most part, the majority of them with the data that we have here say that we would have

874
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:39,400
to make changes across the board or everybody would have to run and we'd have to make changes

875
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:45,780
to each board. So just for clarity sake with Mr. Porra that's based on what you've heard

876
01:14:45,780 --> 01:14:52,800
and consulted with. The most likely scenario would be that all nine positions would be

877
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:59,960
up for election in 2022, and at the bad time whoever is elected will be.

878
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:18,540
We would go through, the people who would go through a process like we went through before, where we would, you know, draw lots or randomly have staggered terms again. And we go through that full process again, or wouldn't mean a BS, but whoever's elected, we'll go through that process. I assume so. Okay. Thank you.

879
01:15:30,100 --> 01:15:38,920
seven. Now what does it mean by status is illegal? Because you have nine, five, and three that are

880
01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:52,420
preferable. So that really has to do with that variance column. And so the DBA is the fourth column

881
01:15:52,420 --> 01:15:59,060
right under the word school and so there's all sort and like I said I'm not an attorney

882
01:15:59,060 --> 01:16:06,360
and by no means a legal expert on any of this but there's there's a generally held

883
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:16,660
idea that you're sort of shooting that plus or minus 5 percent and so that's kind of

884
01:16:16,660 --> 01:16:24,580
the way that's the way this is depicted, although that plus or minus five percent is not

885
01:16:24,580 --> 01:16:28,740
necessarily guaranteed to be safe from legal challenges.

886
01:16:30,020 --> 01:16:31,320
So can I add to that then?

887
01:16:31,540 --> 01:16:37,260
So with that, that represents in the reality is that if you don't make a change and there's

888
01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:42,660
the variance of a five percent or larger and you were to keep the board zones as they are,

889
01:16:42,660 --> 01:16:58,300
You would face a legal challenge, the district would, because we didn't adjust to meet having an opportunity for the one-on-one type vote of each zone being as equal as possible across all the different levels of standards.

890
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:07,960
Okay, so, but you will be, you're going to draw, you're going to draw, you're going to draw

891
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:16,960
nine songs and I don't understand how you're going to do it because if you have close

892
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:27,040
two or positive and like from one to three, all of those are, I guess the two eight, seven

893
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:36,020
are going to have to come in and get some additional people in the zone and so with that you're

894
01:17:36,020 --> 01:17:48,180
going to have to take people from each one out of each zone, right? Now why do we have to

895
01:17:48,180 --> 01:17:57,280
go through that, where we can make some adjustments possibly and in some of those areas that he

896
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:03,240
showed us on that map because I'm so afraid that what's going to happen we're going to read

897
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:15,800
Landon's District and does everybody know what that means yes okay all right I don't

898
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:23,540
want to see that happen you know and this looks like what that's what is going to happen

899
01:18:23,540 --> 01:18:32,240
is some point that obviously zone eight and zone seven are who are the most

900
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:36,520
people who have had the biggest drop. That's your inner city, right?

901
01:18:37,180 --> 01:18:43,080
Well seven you know seven I think we're in seven now and then eight is out

902
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:48,360
like brick eight is that brick of ridge and all that going out towards rock

903
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:55,580
Broughton a param and stir bridge and going all that way present Valley. And then seven is

904
01:18:56,360 --> 01:19:01,660
Right up in here going all down Asher, Colonel Glenn and back into the Southwest

905
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:08,880
It do you have the east and to the east and college station part of it right and all that

906
01:19:09,580 --> 01:19:13,980
This cowboy. Let me jump in again and this may help is that first off

907
01:19:14,460 --> 01:19:15,500
When you when you

908
01:19:15,500 --> 01:19:22,160
And we, several of us, actually even attendants of school board training, really you're looking

909
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:28,520
at almost a majority of the school districts having to do a similar type of situation.

910
01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:30,580
This is not uncommon.

911
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:32,880
This isn't just a little rock school district.

912
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:39,780
And the reality is that some of the changes, a good example would be zones one and two.

913
01:19:39,780 --> 01:19:45,740
You know, it doesn't mean this is going to be the reality, but the potential of what you

914
01:19:45,740 --> 01:19:52,400
do and where zone two lost, it might mean that zone two becomes a larger zone, taking

915
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:55,280
away some of what zone one currently represents.

916
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:57,060
That balances it out.

917
01:19:57,060 --> 01:19:58,240
Okay.

918
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:29,720
The same thing goes on zone 7. Mr. Durand mentioned that one is a good example of zone 7 lost, and zone 5 is basically state even. Zone 6 has gained a little bit, so you've got to make some adjustments potentially there. But that also could lead to some adjustments in zone 3, 4 and 8. So it kind of spills itself over in terms of where you end up having the tweak. And that's why the good thing what GIS does. And again, the three existing cabinets can at least confirm

919
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:37,220
that they'll come in with multiple models for you to consider, you know, as to which one seems to make the best sense to all of you.

920
01:20:37,300 --> 01:20:45,240
You'll get the chance to vote on it, and the public will also get the chance to make comments on it so that, you know, those things that say,

921
01:20:45,380 --> 01:20:51,720
well, I think we're drawn a line that is going to segregate a group of people from not being able to have a voice.

922
01:20:51,720 --> 01:21:00,700
You're actually going to see the intention is going to be to be very equal in terms of our populations of ethnicity.

923
01:21:02,060 --> 01:21:07,800
That will actually play itself out. That's how it worked in the time when we did this two years ago.

924
01:21:09,020 --> 01:21:19,280
And two, I think it's important to highlight is that this city, it is racially segregated and right in the way that it's designed.

925
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:34,160
And so even though other areas are, you know, people of color are moving into areas that typically does not have a lot of people of color.

926
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:49,260
But then right for the most part, I think we could probably automatically know one, three, two, six and seven is probably going to be heavily people of color.

927
01:21:49,260 --> 01:21:57,000
of color and then we're going to see, you know, growths of BIPOC out in the

928
01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:02,980
wine and other areas, but that's just the way that the city have created its

929
01:22:02,980 --> 01:22:06,440
neighborhoods and with the red lining and all that.

930
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:07,640
That's what happens.

931
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:16,420
Zone 70 is now town will right, right?

932
01:22:16,900 --> 01:22:19,540
Yes, and then zone 7 have changed.

933
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:20,220
Right.

934
01:22:20,220 --> 01:22:24,740
And I bet that encompasses the East End and whatever.

935
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:32,620
East Village and all that, which has pretty much been industrialized and I can see why

936
01:22:32,620 --> 01:22:42,120
they would lose people because that the housing and whatever has been destroyed, okay.

937
01:22:42,740 --> 01:22:47,400
And that's pretty much what is going to be changing.

938
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:54,220
Now, I just really don't trust people as a whole.

939
01:22:54,500 --> 01:22:55,360
That's just me.

940
01:22:57,060 --> 01:23:05,400
And I just really think that this is going to be not what we think is going to be.

941
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:16,660
And like you say, this city is racially segregated.

942
01:23:16,660 --> 01:23:26,260
It has been for a while, but pretty much it used to be like the South in East in whatever

943
01:23:26,260 --> 01:23:30,320
and the central little rug, which was like central in whatever.

944
01:23:31,380 --> 01:23:35,460
And then, the word zone three is pretty much was nothing.

945
01:23:36,380 --> 01:23:44,440
And zone four, let's see, that's north of 630, right?

946
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:46,620
I'm sorry, it's zone 4.

947
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:48,060
Zone 4?

948
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:53,600
Yeah, it's in the northwest, northwest, in part of 630.

949
01:23:54,660 --> 01:23:55,300
Okay.

950
01:23:56,200 --> 01:24:05,000
And so, but those people were probably going to west or hawk and what about people in zone 8?

951
01:24:06,060 --> 01:24:12,040
Well, I guess, you know, zone 8 is out there, I mean, it's out there by, that's Greg's area.

952
01:24:16,180 --> 01:24:22,480
It's roughly between Rodney Perry and the University of North of Markham, I mean there's

953
01:24:22,480 --> 01:24:24,220
some in North of Evergreen.

954
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:24,920
Oh, that's right.

955
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:25,820
Like Lee Wynne.

956
01:24:25,940 --> 01:24:26,320
Uh-huh.

957
01:24:26,440 --> 01:24:27,100
Uh-huh.

958
01:24:27,220 --> 01:24:27,360
Yes.

959
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:29,260
Uh-huh.

960
01:24:30,220 --> 01:24:30,360
Yes.

961
01:24:30,580 --> 01:24:38,340
The southern part is Markham and it just up there Mississippi and it's Evergreen as the southern

962
01:24:38,340 --> 01:24:39,920
part as you go east.

963
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:41,780
Oh, yeah, that's right.

964
01:24:41,780 --> 01:24:43,180
It goes all the way out to Cantra, huh?

965
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:44,240
Okay, yeah.

966
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:45,100
Yeah, it does.

967
01:24:47,020 --> 01:24:48,280
It's on five goals.

968
01:24:48,440 --> 01:24:48,660
Okay.

969
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:50,520
That's Cantra.

970
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:50,980
Mm-hmm.

971
01:24:51,140 --> 01:24:53,760
But I think we need to be real careful.

972
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:55,080
Here.

973
01:24:55,820 --> 01:24:56,360
I do.

974
01:24:58,400 --> 01:24:59,280
Oh, because...

975
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:25,280
Getting a lot of e-mail from different and various people, Black, you know, who I don't really even know what their race is, doesn't matter. But, uh, this, I'm not sure about any of this. So, I have a question. Um, when, when you, when, I guess, um,

976
01:25:27,970 --> 01:25:31,310
right, right, when these lines are, um,

977
01:25:31,310 --> 01:25:45,130
We're drawn. Is it about moving people in bodies into these zones or are you guys looking at ethnicity?

978
01:25:45,870 --> 01:25:48,490
Are you looking at race when you're pulling in these zones?

979
01:25:49,130 --> 01:25:58,390
Yes, it's all they love. So all of those things are considered in the larger view of adjusting these lines

980
01:26:01,710 --> 01:26:11,550
So what happens like for instance, like with zone seven, of course if it does go out,

981
01:26:11,690 --> 01:26:17,110
I guess you get into stiff station a little bit of hill crest and all that, but in zone

982
01:26:17,110 --> 01:26:27,310
six you'll pull in, I guess you don't ask her, but that's all, you know, a pretty heavy

983
01:26:27,310 --> 01:26:35,990
black area so I mean in his yeah but so what happens and then right when you're pulling the

984
01:26:35,990 --> 01:26:44,590
only thing you're pulling is my minorities as as listed here right is that factored in or do you

985
01:26:44,590 --> 01:26:52,910
try to jerry mandor and just like what happens and then right when it's only people of color in

986
01:26:52,910 --> 01:26:53,450
I don't know their answer.

987
01:26:53,610 --> 01:26:54,350
To the jerrymandering.

988
01:26:55,290 --> 01:26:55,930
Yeah.

989
01:26:56,870 --> 01:26:59,970
Nobody would say yes, but it happens.

990
01:27:01,970 --> 01:27:07,590
All of those things are taken into consideration when these lines are drawn.

991
01:27:08,310 --> 01:27:15,150
You can see on this one, the demographics are displayed there.

992
01:27:15,330 --> 01:27:19,330
Of course, the color coding is just based on the overall deviation.

993
01:27:19,330 --> 01:27:25,750
And, of course, this map in that table are strictly based on the current zones and the

994
01:27:25,750 --> 01:27:26,510
raw population.

995
01:27:27,150 --> 01:27:30,490
It's like this is just the numbers, essentially.

996
01:27:31,930 --> 01:27:36,570
There's no, this map is the current zones and nothing has been altered into these lines.

997
01:27:37,390 --> 01:27:42,890
And so just for context, what may help is really what you're not seeing in this map and this

998
01:27:42,890 --> 01:27:47,450
map is fairly, there's really only two layers in this map.

999
01:27:47,450 --> 01:27:51,670
You know those zones and and the locations of the current board members

1000
01:27:52,490 --> 01:27:54,970
What you're not seeing there is number one

1001
01:27:55,770 --> 01:27:58,290
And I'm gonna try to hit you in place for this laser point

1002
01:27:59,610 --> 01:28:02,690
For instance right here between four and three

1003
01:28:03,950 --> 01:28:08,850
I'm fairly sure that's 430 that was used to make that

1004
01:28:08,850 --> 01:28:14,590
Correct me if I'm wrong there. I think that's it's obviously. Yeah pretty clear. That's how that's a road

1005
01:28:16,370 --> 01:28:31,390
And so, you know, it's typically a good idea when drawing these things to use those recognized and natural lines, because it makes so many things more straightforward and

1006
01:28:33,850 --> 01:28:37,150
the process of doing it then becomes less complicated.

1007
01:28:37,150 --> 01:28:39,450
And that just don't trust you.

1008
01:28:39,890 --> 01:28:43,550
I mean, could I ask you for that for just a second?

1009
01:28:43,710 --> 01:28:46,450
It's kind of on the mind that since these lines

1010
01:28:46,450 --> 01:28:48,210
on the on the screen right now were drawn,

1011
01:28:48,310 --> 01:28:51,810
I've heard almost zero criticism of these lines.

1012
01:28:52,050 --> 01:28:54,450
No one has ever said there was anything nefarious

1013
01:28:54,450 --> 01:28:56,850
about the drawing of these lines.

1014
01:28:57,190 --> 01:28:59,930
And the same people that drew these lines

1015
01:28:59,930 --> 01:29:03,210
are gonna draw three proposals for us to consider

1016
01:29:03,210 --> 01:29:05,010
and vote on to be the next lines.

1017
01:29:05,010 --> 01:29:13,870
And so, I think that, you know, there's a certain amount that is fair to have a healthy

1018
01:29:13,870 --> 01:29:19,870
suspicion and accountability, but I think that to just flat out suggest that the people

1019
01:29:19,870 --> 01:29:24,910
drawing lines can't be trusted when there's almost no criticism of the current version

1020
01:29:24,910 --> 01:29:27,190
of the lines, and they were drawn by the same people.

1021
01:29:27,570 --> 01:29:30,870
I think that it's really doing the community and just service for us to suggest that.

1022
01:29:30,870 --> 01:29:41,330
And let's just let's let the process play out and let the community see what what in my opinion very trustworthy people they they did a fantastic job

1023
01:29:42,450 --> 01:29:48,310
Drawing three different proposals for us either a year and a half or two years ago. I can't remember when when we did it

1024
01:29:49,750 --> 01:29:56,210
But it was a very good very open process the community had a lot of input in it and

1025
01:29:56,210 --> 01:29:59,550
And I've heard almost no criticism of it.

1026
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,260
You see what happens? I think you'll be surprised at how fair it really is. Well, I respect your opinion,

1027
01:30:05,440 --> 01:30:18,180
state man. And that's my opinion. Because I have seen this none before. And I think that

1028
01:30:18,180 --> 01:30:23,140
But somebody is going to get the short end of the stick as far as this is concerned.

1029
01:30:24,220 --> 01:30:33,540
I don't really, but we knew we all came on board that they were going to probably have

1030
01:30:33,540 --> 01:30:40,420
to change these at some point of a real population move and whatever.

1031
01:30:41,360 --> 01:30:47,120
But then, you know, everybody's going to run again, and that's because that's what

1032
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:49,560
the report could legislation do you?

1033
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:57,360
So what I'll say to this is, and two, don't think,

1034
01:30:57,640 --> 01:31:02,060
I just want to say two really quick things.

1035
01:31:03,930 --> 01:31:07,220
I have heard concerns about the way

1036
01:31:07,220 --> 01:31:11,000
that zones are dormant, how they are now,

1037
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:14,940
because particularly like even my zone is, it's large.

1038
01:31:14,940 --> 01:31:20,780
You know he goes all the way into Southwest and then two even how other zones are

1039
01:31:20,780 --> 01:31:26,940
Predomically one race and it drops down and pull in another like but like you see it

1040
01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:33,900
However, right when you're looking at what their target number is if they're trying to make it

1041
01:31:33,900 --> 01:31:39,960
You know that 220 121 is at your target number and that's and like I said that's just the

1042
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:40,880
the

1043
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:43,300
the total population of the district divided by nine.

1044
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:46,460
That's not a magical number or anything,

1045
01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:49,280
just that straightforward division.

1046
01:31:49,680 --> 01:31:49,980
I'm sorry.

1047
01:31:50,620 --> 01:31:53,040
And so like you, we've heard,

1048
01:31:53,300 --> 01:31:56,140
like I think the thought is out there.

1049
01:31:56,720 --> 01:32:00,820
It may not have risen to everybody's awareness

1050
01:32:00,820 --> 01:32:04,560
or even like with the redistricting scene of the congressional.

1051
01:32:04,920 --> 01:32:06,040
I think that's worse.

1052
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:07,360
Well, I don't know.

1053
01:32:07,500 --> 01:32:09,700
And then if you was at the Jack Stevens building

1054
01:32:09,700 --> 01:32:20,640
But when they had the town hall, some of the same comments that was made there that I'm hearing in the room.

1055
01:32:21,940 --> 01:32:26,300
Congressional redistricting is very different than school board zone redrawing.

1056
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:36,680
Anything from the state, the legislative districts, the Senate districts, the congressional districts,

1057
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:41,240
there is a level of politics that goes into that given the natural way that the

1058
01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:46,820
Constitution sets up who is in control of that process. The same level of

1059
01:32:46,820 --> 01:32:51,680
partisanship doesn't exist at the school board level and it's not influenced

1060
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:57,040
by the same, you know, partisan constitutional parameters. The governor, the

1061
01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:03,570
secretary of state and the attorney general are in charge of redistricting on, you

1062
01:33:03,570 --> 01:33:05,930
the state legislator and congressional seats,

1063
01:33:06,630 --> 01:33:09,050
and they have zero input in what we're doing.

1064
01:33:09,190 --> 01:33:11,630
I mean, what we're doing is very data-driven that.

1065
01:33:12,390 --> 01:33:13,890
I hear that, you know, you say

1066
01:33:13,890 --> 01:33:15,910
that there's some criticism or suspicion now,

1067
01:33:16,170 --> 01:33:20,370
but there really was almost no negative comments

1068
01:33:20,370 --> 01:33:23,050
about the drawing of the lines two years ago

1069
01:33:23,050 --> 01:33:24,750
when we went through this process.

1070
01:33:25,670 --> 01:33:27,250
And again, it was very open.

1071
01:33:28,450 --> 01:33:32,590
And the data, the level of the information

1072
01:33:32,590 --> 01:33:35,750
that they provided us, whenever they proposed the maps,

1073
01:33:36,410 --> 01:33:40,670
broke down our race and showed how closely populated

1074
01:33:41,970 --> 01:33:43,550
every zone was.

1075
01:33:43,990 --> 01:33:47,930
And it was their best guess at what zones were.

1076
01:33:48,230 --> 01:33:50,950
And they're not going to get everything right,

1077
01:33:51,330 --> 01:33:55,090
but they did a pretty good job of guessing, you know,

1078
01:33:55,290 --> 01:33:55,830
what zones were.

1079
01:33:55,950 --> 01:33:57,830
You have some that are over, some that are lower.

1080
01:33:58,190 --> 01:34:00,070
But, you know, if you drew this on a belt pair,

1081
01:34:00,070 --> 01:34:03,710
they just about hit where, you know, the averages would hit.

1082
01:34:04,130 --> 01:34:10,230
Yeah, and do I appreciate that because I was a part of those meetings, right?

1083
01:34:10,550 --> 01:34:14,570
And so, like, there was a level of criticism around those lines,

1084
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whether they was at a part view meetings or other meetings here in this room.

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There was a level of criticism, right?

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And so things had to go back and be tweaked.

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But either way it goes, right where people reside is breathing, residing, and then like you can only do what you have put before.

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So my last thought, and I think it might piggyback off of what you were saying direct to Callaway, is right going.

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The 2020 census, right doing the 2020 census, we heard how the census data collectors weren't able to reach everybody and get everybody to fill out the forms, right? The census. So my question is how did you all account for those that may have not been able to reach everybody and get everybody to fill out the forms? Right? So my question is, how did you all account for those that may have not

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not, or did not complete the census, and then the other question is, are you guys a part

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of drawing the lines for the Congressional GIS?

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Okay.

1093
01:35:45,460 --> 01:35:51,280
So the second question on the Congressional, no, that's totally a function of the state

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01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:51,720
legislature.

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01:35:52,660 --> 01:35:58,660
And so I think the last, I read an article yesterday in the newspaper, I think September 29th

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It was when they intend to come out of recess and do that.

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01:36:03,740 --> 01:36:08,980
Your first question, honestly, not really a way we can do

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anything about any non-response to the census.

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You know, legally, everyone that does redistricting, whether

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from the school board zones, county ingestors of the peace,

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01:36:25,150 --> 01:36:26,790
state housing, and all that, to Congressional.

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01:36:26,790 --> 01:36:34,410
Well, everybody legally, everybody has to use the 2020 census numbers, whatever those

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are.

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Okay.

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01:36:35,810 --> 01:36:36,610
But he is a thing.

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I'm going to let him finish his question.

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I mean, he's fine.

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I was just asking those questions just because I know that they may be out there.

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01:36:47,430 --> 01:36:52,070
So the basic answer to your question is there's really nothing that we can do about trying

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to find out how many people didn't respond. Unfortunately, that's the nature of how census

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01:37:00,350 --> 01:37:08,610
works. And it does rely on responses from folks just like ourselves. And there's always

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that percentage of non-response. But the other side of that is, like I said, we're legally

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01:37:16,450 --> 01:37:19,950
we have to use what you said in the single census numbers.

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Got it.

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Thank you for your question.

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We're going to round off with the work to Calloway

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and then we're going to end it with Director Adam.

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01:37:30,150 --> 01:37:31,450
The work to Calloway, do you have a question?

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01:37:32,510 --> 01:37:34,830
You know, this is something that I'm always

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and wonder not just because of this.

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He lives in a pandemic.

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And it is smart to do this.

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You know, okay, 2020, that's when we took, we were supposed to do the redistricting and whatever and whatever, and we're using those numbers.

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01:37:58,380 --> 01:38:04,080
And, but in the pandemic, if you had not, my daughter has a sound, my daughter said no.

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Old people being okay, come in, you know, but I'm not sure that the numbers are correct.

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01:38:13,250 --> 01:38:23,990
you see and I'm afraid that this is not going to show the correct number now as far as

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01:38:23,990 --> 01:38:33,230
what they did as far as setting the zone before we were elected and whatever. I didn't know

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you could even talk about it really or come up with it. I guess I was not really paying that much

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01:38:38,750 --> 01:38:45,290
attention, I had to come back and start paying attention about how those, it's like, like

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01:38:45,290 --> 01:38:51,290
you said, Jill, people didn't question it. I would have, if I had been really paying

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01:38:51,290 --> 01:39:00,490
attention, I would have. But, I still think that y'all, they didn't go back and look at

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01:39:00,490 --> 01:39:07,830
the pandemic quotient. Not only for this district, I'm not enough for the state. You know,

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01:39:07,830 --> 01:39:18,790
the pandemic has changed everything. Everything has changed completely and we don't

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01:39:18,790 --> 01:39:25,730
know when that's going to reestablish itself. Yeah and then too, I suspect Mr.

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01:39:25,950 --> 01:39:36,310
Durran that will have to catch it in 2030 but when they do their... but I think

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01:39:36,310 --> 01:39:44,390
they also do a 10-year, right? Well, yeah, 20-30. Yeah, every 10-year is 20-30. Director Adam?

1137
01:39:45,770 --> 01:39:50,930
Thank you, Senator. I just want to make a comment. I respect your concerns, Ms. Calaway.

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01:39:52,270 --> 01:39:59,930
And I remember, when we re-zoned after 2010, we got very little

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01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:08,040
Local community input about that, except we had members of Latino community ask us, please

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01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:15,560
don't, do not split our community when you rezone. And we split our community. And we

1141
01:40:17,180 --> 01:40:24,040
had a divided vote and we did not respect the request. What we can do, though, is that

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01:40:24,040 --> 01:40:29,600
that anything that happens, any plan that gets brought to us, it's us in this room who

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01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:30,880
can, who make the decision.

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01:40:31,800 --> 01:40:38,580
And so our job is to listen to the public and to listen to what's presented and look

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01:40:38,580 --> 01:40:42,780
at all the different angles and then to make the fairest decision possible, and I don't

1146
01:40:42,780 --> 01:40:44,640
have any doubt that we can do that.

1147
01:40:45,320 --> 01:40:49,280
I think this group of people can do that, does that mean that everybody is going to be

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01:40:49,280 --> 01:40:49,500
pleased?

1149
01:40:49,860 --> 01:40:53,960
No, we don't do anything there, but they're pleased with everybody, but I think we can

1150
01:40:53,960 --> 01:41:02,340
make a fair process and make a reasonable outcome and the best case scenario that we could

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01:41:02,340 --> 01:41:08,180
explain to somebody else about it because it's up to us, you know, to do that.

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01:41:08,540 --> 01:41:15,120
And if these fine people come back to us and they bring us models and we think that none

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01:41:15,120 --> 01:41:20,660
of them meet the concerns we have, then we would just say these are our concerns, please

1154
01:41:20,660 --> 01:41:26,840
come back to us again because again in the end that's what we're elected to do and we can do

1155
01:41:26,840 --> 01:41:33,980
that. And I really do trust it that nobody I don't think anyone in this room but certainly not

1156
01:41:33,980 --> 01:41:38,500
a majority of anybody else in your room. We don't want to do that. We want to have this fair as

1157
01:41:38,500 --> 01:41:49,260
possible a mass. And I was just thinking a second ago that you know we're our office we're not obviously

1158
01:41:49,260 --> 01:41:52,720
not in any way going to dictate where those lines are.

1159
01:41:54,040 --> 01:42:01,120
That's just like you said, that's a function of the decision of you in the room and your

1160
01:42:01,120 --> 01:42:03,940
judgment and the feedback you get from your constituents.

1161
01:42:04,860 --> 01:42:13,440
We're here to simply help you do that, help you draw these things or adjust really these

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01:42:13,440 --> 01:42:15,120
things that are on the screen right now.

1163
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:25,740
Okay. Well, thank you. We appreciate you coming and sharing the data, the maps of

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01:42:25,740 --> 01:42:34,040
where they are now, giving us the projections of right where the data, what the results

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01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:40,940
of the data are, and then our next step forward. And so as a board, of course, we're going

1166
01:42:40,940 --> 01:42:47,480
to look for the maps that you guys draw and have that input and go through that process.

1167
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:55,180
So thank you so much for coming and spending part of your evening with us you did a good

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01:42:55,180 --> 01:42:55,420
job.

1169
01:42:55,700 --> 01:42:55,840
Thank you.

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01:42:55,880 --> 01:43:01,460
If any of you have any questions after this meeting, Superintendent Boer has our contact information.

1171
01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:03,220
So feel free to reach out.

1172
01:43:03,220 --> 01:43:09,480
We're our offices right down here right in front of the Capitol the building got what most folks

1173
01:43:09,480 --> 01:43:11,720
Stu referred to is the 501 building

1174
01:43:11,720 --> 01:43:17,580
The title one building so I'll wait and reach out if you do have any questions about my

1175
01:43:17,580 --> 01:43:21,040
Thank you, I hope you don't think I was trying to take

1176
01:43:21,940 --> 01:43:23,700
He got tough skin

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01:43:23,700 --> 01:43:29,100
I want to make one quick comment if I can on this I was trying to get in a queue and I just couldn't catch her I

1178
01:43:29,100 --> 01:43:35,460
I just want to make sure that we acknowledge up front that we're going to be in a difficult

1179
01:43:35,460 --> 01:43:41,380
situation rezoning our own seats and so I think we need to make sure that community input

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01:43:41,830 --> 01:43:47,500
is really at the forefront on this and that we really listen and abide by what the community

1181
01:43:47,500 --> 01:43:52,320
is telling us on this one because when you have sitting elected officials who are making decisions

1182
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:55,740
about their own zones and their own seats it's going to always be a little bit difficult

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01:43:55,740 --> 01:44:07,680
So we need to really make sure we reach out and, you know, I was around and I was, you know, speaking at the meetings when we were deciding these zones, but there wasn't a time of community input on those.

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01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:13,440
And so we do need to make a huge effort to make sure that we get that input before we make this decision.

1185
01:44:14,020 --> 01:44:15,280
So that was all I had to say on that.

1186
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:22,240
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Underran. So moving forward, we are going to get into our city here.

1187
01:44:22,980 --> 01:44:31,840
We're going to hear this isn't an action. I know me. No, ma'am. We have Ms. Ford who is here from city here.

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I'll just give a quick lead in and then turn it over to her. We also have Mr. Jerry and Smith who along with Dr. McGee kind of has the

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01:44:39,400 --> 01:44:46,680
responsibility of supporting city here. I've never given up on supporting city here. I'm like heavily involved in it because I so believe in it.

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I feel very fortunate that we have a city here inside of the Little Rock School District.

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01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:59,980
City here is on a national level opportunity to really support and serve to the state of

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01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,320
Students who need help. And I'll tell you from the moment I came into this district, and I had no clue what city it was. I've just always get amazed by what these young people do. The spirit, the attitude, and I know I'm probably taking away something that Ms. Ford wants to say. But boy, they show up before the kids arrive, and they stay until the last kids left. They have also gone even beyond when the last kid leaves to help us with tutoring this past year.

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and again this year in terms of support for virtual students so that they are helping young people even beyond the normal work day.

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01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:40,140
The work day just doesn't seem to inform.

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01:45:42,140 --> 01:45:55,480
They have, and I will tell you, one or two of our schools for the first couple of years that I was here, they were probably the key culture component of that campus until we got the leadership in the right places.

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So, these guys are really awesome and extremely important to us and we want to have you get a review.

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So, Mr. Smith, did you have anything that you wanted to add before we turn this over to Ms. Ford?

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I know that you were a principal that had a city or a program.

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Thank you, Ms. Ford.

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Like Ms. Ford say, the city has been an integral partner with lower school districts since 2004.

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and the main mobility is the longest running partnership school would see here and they have had a tremendous impact on our

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01:46:30,630 --> 01:46:38,310
school and our culture in the school and is with support stated. They're there before the kids arrived and they're after the kids

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01:46:38,310 --> 01:46:45,810
leave bringing energy and hope for our students each day and our kids get excited to see them when they enter the campus

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01:46:45,810 --> 01:46:50,730
he could point it. So actually this evening joining us, we have Mr. Jeremy Hill, who was

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01:46:50,730 --> 01:46:56,450
the director of INVAC. He'll be joined by Mrs. Shannon Ward, who was the interim executive

1206
01:46:56,450 --> 01:47:00,230
director of Mr. Hill will actually be doing a presentation for us.

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01:47:12,510 --> 01:47:18,550
I'm sorry, I guess. Suddenly, even everyone, I'm Shannon Ford and as Mrs. Smith stated, I'm

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01:47:18,550 --> 01:47:24,270
the interim executive director for City of Lodora. And joining me is my Holly, Mr. Jeremy

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01:47:24,270 --> 01:47:30,110
Hill, who says is our impact director. We really appreciate the opportunity to share

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01:47:30,110 --> 01:47:35,110
with you what the year is and how we've supported the so-no-no-riselo district over the past

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01:47:35,110 --> 01:47:41,990
15 years and how we're able to continue to further move forward. You may have questions

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01:47:41,990 --> 01:47:47,250
as we go through our presentation and we ask that you hold them until the end and we will make

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01:47:47,250 --> 01:47:50,650
sure that we have time for a question to answer once we're done.

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01:47:50,650 --> 01:47:51,350
five,

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please.

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01:48:00,960 --> 01:48:03,560
National and international education programs,

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American or organization with 29 service locations across the U.S.

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01:48:08,540 --> 01:48:12,240
City of your little rock was founded in 2004, and we've had a strong

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01:48:12,240 --> 01:48:15,640
partnership with the Little Rock School District for over 15 years.

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And partnership with teachers and schools, our diverse team of City of

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01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:24,840
American members called the Bay Learning Environments where students can build

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01:48:24,840 --> 01:48:28,040
on their strengths and fully engage in the learning theory.

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Thank you,

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you've already put it by, can

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you do that?

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01:48:44,330 --> 01:48:49,070
City here has a whole project that is based on research

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01:48:49,070 --> 01:48:51,910
on the social, emotional, and academic aspects

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01:48:51,910 --> 01:48:53,410
of how students learn and develop.

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01:48:54,170 --> 01:48:56,050
Ensuring that students are strengthening all

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01:48:56,050 --> 01:48:58,570
of the skills of central force success in and out of school.

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01:48:59,350 --> 01:49:00,910
City here and our partners commit

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to multiple years of service in schools

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so that students basically grow up with City here,

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01:49:06,530 --> 01:49:08,550
receiving support from third to ninth grade,

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01:49:09,150 --> 01:49:10,890
which are the key transitional years

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01:49:10,890 --> 01:49:16,410
of their educational experience and the years where research shows students are most at risk for

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01:49:16,410 --> 01:49:23,350
following off track. So we're just at how level overview in mind. I'm going to pass it on to Jeremy

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01:49:23,350 --> 01:49:28,790
who will build on that taken us through our feeder pattern strategy and then give you a snapshot of

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01:49:28,790 --> 01:49:31,650
how our AmeriCorps members serve students in specific schools.

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01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:37,400
Good evening Mr. Lieutenant.

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01:49:37,400 --> 01:49:41,240
and Mr. Madam President and the rest of our board.

1242
01:49:41,420 --> 01:49:42,700
Thank you for this opportunity.

1243
01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:46,120
We're going to move through the next slide, Dr. McGee.

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So our continuum of support in a nutshell,

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our desired impact on our students

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01:49:53,520 --> 01:49:54,740
at Little Rock School District

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doesn't happen in one year.

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This happens over time.

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Who's entering high school, who may be 4 or 5 years behind, particularly in ELA or MAF,

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MAF those, city year comes in and we strive to work with students at the elementary and middle school level

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and walk with them over the academic career up until high school. And this leads us to what we call our feeder pattern. Next slide for me.

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So our targeted high schools. So first we determine which high schools account for 50% or more of students who are now on track.

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We use this data to then move into analyzing what we call analyzing the gap and that moves us into our selection of middle schools and elementary schools.

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Next slide.

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So through analyzing the gap, we look at those high schools and we determine who needs

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to move from off track to on track to achieve the school percentage of 80%.

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And on track, middle of the means earning the right number of course credits to graduate

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high school in four years.

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Next slide.

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So

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that moves us into our selection process

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of our middle school as elementary schools.

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So here we define the feeder pattern deployment

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needed to support each high school.

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So we want to ensure that we're working with students

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who are off track at the middle and elementary school levels

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so that over time we can walk with them

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and push them actively and socially,

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and emotionally as they prepare for high school

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to hit that percentage rate of 80% and after that we determine the sequence and the pace

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of growth.

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So the sequence of growth is which schools do we start first in the feeder pattern

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and that in the pace of growth means we are already district, the registration, determined

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if there are new schools and additional schools we need to add two hour feeder pattern lists.

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And of course all this is growth is determined over time.

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So, here in this slide, you see two high schools, Hall of High School and a new Little Rock Southwest High School.

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These are two schools in particular who had pretty high percentage of students who were off track.

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So, working with the district last year, self was little right along with first of all Burton,

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who was a longtime city year supporter and ally.

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We decided to move into the Southwest Little Rock feeder pattern.

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And from that feeder pattern last year, we started in the Southwest North, high, high

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01:52:45,210 --> 01:52:49,770
Henderson Middle, Cloverdale Middle, Mill Mill Mill, and Mill Mill Mill, elementary.

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This year, we're in the same feeder pattern with the exception of Henderson Middle because

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it's in the Henderson Middle consolidated into the new J-A fair, primary towards school.

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Thank you.

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Next slide.

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So the evidence about impact, this data, particularly here, is from 2018-2019, because last year's

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date, of course, we weren't able to gather what we needed to do to test in cancellations

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through COVID-19 restrictions, a lot of quarantine and a lot of school closings for quarantine

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period.

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And so we wanted to pool our data from 2018-2019 and Mr. Smith in a test, even our support

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to a degree that city year thrives on moving the needle forward in terms of student academic

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01:53:39,590 --> 01:53:45,770
success and this year in particular we're adding the social emotional academic support there.

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01:53:46,450 --> 01:53:50,310
So I just want to read this quick note from one of my partner teachers here at the bottom

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01:53:50,310 --> 01:53:55,770
and again our principals and our partner teachers are our champions. They are our everyday champions

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01:53:55,770 --> 01:54:01,370
this school, and they have an opportunity every quarter to give feedback to

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01:54:01,370 --> 01:54:05,150
City, or that we use that data, and we go back and try to tweak our program

1298
01:54:05,150 --> 01:54:08,970
awareness there. So this is just as my City of Merrill Corps member is really

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01:54:08,970 --> 01:54:12,870
good at helping students calm down their focus. But I'm trying to get through my

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01:54:12,870 --> 01:54:17,290
lessons, and there are students who want to act up, having her in the room as a

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01:54:17,290 --> 01:54:22,570
huge help. She can stand by and ask them questions to get them focused, so I don't

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01:54:22,570 --> 01:54:25,750
I have to stop my entire lesson just for a few students.

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01:54:26,250 --> 01:54:28,410
She also helps when they have questions

1304
01:54:28,970 --> 01:54:30,210
after I go to the material.

1305
01:54:30,770 --> 01:54:32,490
I wouldn't be able to sit with each student

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01:54:32,490 --> 01:54:33,930
and address every question.

1307
01:54:34,630 --> 01:54:37,330
When she is not in the room, there is a big difference.

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01:54:37,750 --> 01:54:39,970
And this is just a one quote out of many quotes

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01:54:39,970 --> 01:54:42,790
from teachers and our administrators,

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01:54:43,030 --> 01:54:44,150
and I'll ask them a side note.

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01:54:46,630 --> 01:54:47,870
So I service for this year.

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01:54:48,730 --> 01:54:52,370
Our focus is reconnecting, re-engaging, and recovery.

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01:54:52,370 --> 01:54:57,090
re-connecting students with their community and helping their re-engage in their

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01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:07,080
Of course, we're focused on the math and the literacy frameworks of the academic part. The city

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01:55:07,080 --> 01:55:14,640
here has invested time, energy, and resources on a national level from training our core members

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01:55:14,640 --> 01:55:21,620
and our staff and the socially emotional academic development. We believe with which data has proven

1317
01:55:21,620 --> 01:55:29,120
that if we can touch a student on a socially emotional level, then the academic part won't be hard at

1318
01:55:29,660 --> 01:55:35,040
And I'm not sure if we can build trust between a core member and a student versus Jeff

1319
01:55:35,040 --> 01:55:40,840
and Ryan trying to, you know, retrain them on a test they didn't do as well as with

1320
01:55:40,840 --> 01:55:44,680
well on or some course material they just haven't picked up on.

1321
01:55:45,080 --> 01:55:48,800
It'll be a little harder, but if they can build that one-on-one relationship or

1322
01:55:48,800 --> 01:55:53,000
rapport with the student by asking them how they're doing, asking their

1323
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:56,800
favorite sports teams. Things of that nature, reconnecting on those levels

1324
01:55:56,800 --> 01:56:00,780
then the academic part will fall right in line.

1325
01:56:01,780 --> 01:56:04,820
And so with that being said, some tools of investment

1326
01:56:04,820 --> 01:56:08,020
that we are looking for seeking from senior,

1327
01:56:08,300 --> 01:56:09,900
I'm sorry, a little or a school district.

1328
01:56:10,420 --> 01:56:12,280
Number one is laptops.

1329
01:56:13,120 --> 01:56:17,300
If S or funds make it possible to purchase laptops

1330
01:56:17,300 --> 01:56:21,500
that the district owns and senior coordinators can use,

1331
01:56:21,640 --> 01:56:23,840
it will be a great help to us.

1332
01:56:23,840 --> 01:56:30,300
number one, because it allows our core members to stay on track in terms of the district software,

1333
01:56:30,880 --> 01:56:34,720
make sure we're in a district network, ensure that we can get it to school, a school

1334
01:56:34,720 --> 01:56:41,960
of G and school zillers to look at our data resources. That will help us tremendously versus

1335
01:56:41,960 --> 01:56:48,580
having their own personal map types which may not connect to some of the data points and or sites

1336
01:56:48,580 --> 01:56:49,840
that the district uses.

1337
01:56:50,520 --> 01:56:52,440
And a second tool we would like to consider

1338
01:56:52,440 --> 01:56:56,520
is our training and curriculum, specifically LLI,

1339
01:56:56,900 --> 01:56:58,720
and do the math, which we've used these before.

1340
01:56:59,300 --> 01:57:00,620
And if every senior year of support

1341
01:57:00,620 --> 01:57:02,500
at school had this curriculum and resources,

1342
01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:04,520
as our data has proven in the past,

1343
01:57:05,020 --> 01:57:07,160
our students will be successful in literacy

1344
01:57:07,160 --> 01:57:08,600
and mathematics.

1345
01:57:10,160 --> 01:57:11,840
So Shannon, back to you.

1346
01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:14,480
Sorry.

1347
01:57:15,860 --> 01:57:17,560
So I'm not going to write up everything

1348
01:57:17,560 --> 01:57:24,820
that we shared with you up to this point, we're respectfully asking for an aggregate investment

1349
01:57:24,820 --> 01:57:32,780
from the Little Rock School District of $800,000, which is about 25% of our actual operating costs.

1350
01:57:33,520 --> 01:57:38,160
And just wanted to know to you guys that for every dollar that the Little Rock School District

1351
01:57:38,160 --> 01:57:44,080
invests in city here, we match it with at least $3 from other sources. And that includes federal grants

1352
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:44,880
and private revenue.

1353
01:57:46,380 --> 01:57:49,220
With the reason that the American Rescue Act,

1354
01:57:49,460 --> 01:57:52,160
the district has an opportunity to use S&P funds

1355
01:57:52,160 --> 01:57:55,340
to support investment in city year.

1356
01:57:59,460 --> 01:58:03,240
That was more for the previous slide.

1357
01:58:04,320 --> 01:58:07,440
We highlighted some of the specifics

1358
01:58:07,440 --> 01:58:10,360
of allowable youth for the S&P funds.

1359
01:58:11,400 --> 01:58:13,500
And here's some specific information

1360
01:58:13,500 --> 01:58:15,380
about how city of programming is aligned

1361
01:58:15,380 --> 01:58:29,940
with the extra spend requirements. Beyond allowable sit year is an exceptionally effective use of the 20% satisfied for learning laws given that those activities are required to be evidence-based.

1362
01:58:30,960 --> 01:58:39,880
They are required to respond to student academics, social and emotional needs, and as Jeremy just mentioned, that is a target for our city or service.

1363
01:58:39,880 --> 01:58:46,580
and then they're also required to address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on

1364
01:58:46,580 --> 01:58:50,580
student subgroups, including some of the color in those remote income families,

1365
01:58:56,740 --> 01:58:57,180
highlighting

1366
01:58:57,720 --> 01:59:00,920
the traditional title programs that can be used to pay for our services.

1367
01:59:04,180 --> 01:59:07,980
So, I'm going to be just saying thank you for learning more and hear more about senior and

1368
01:59:07,980 --> 01:59:08,560
hearing us.

1369
01:59:09,080 --> 01:59:12,420
And now, if anyone has any questions, we're happy to address them.

1370
01:59:14,820 --> 01:59:23,740
I have a question for superintendent and the laptops and the LLI training was at the

1371
01:59:23,740 --> 01:59:26,700
first time you've heard about that request.

1372
01:59:27,260 --> 01:59:32,980
That is my first time and if I missed it, I apologize to the city or crew but I have a

1373
01:59:32,980 --> 01:59:36,080
written down on my to-do list leaving tonight for us to go work on.

1374
01:59:36,080 --> 01:59:48,140
Okay, and then I get the information about SRFNs. We always get people to tell us how they

1375
01:59:48,140 --> 01:59:58,180
are able to be used. It's so funny. But my question is with the two things.

1376
01:59:58,180 --> 01:59:59,480
the cost.

1377
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:08,120
In the past, what was the cost in the past? I know you did a helicopter overview of the things

1378
02:00:08,120 --> 02:00:16,080
you were tackling, but what is the rubric of measurement for that, and then how did you

1379
02:00:16,080 --> 02:00:19,760
come up with the price tag you're asking now?

1380
02:00:19,760 --> 02:00:20,420
Act

1381
02:00:26,240 --> 02:00:36,260
has been 650,000 in the year due to a request for us to extend our service to include

1382
02:00:36,260 --> 02:00:41,720
something that was very successful last year, which was our homework hotline, the superintendent

1383
02:00:41,720 --> 02:00:46,500
mentioned before, which was an extension of our tutoring services, and it also included

1384
02:00:46,500 --> 02:00:54,580
virtual student support, including that in our service this year is where we reached the

1385
02:00:54,580 --> 02:00:56,560
the cost of 800,000.

1386
02:00:57,420 --> 02:01:01,040
If you need further details, I can provide that information

1387
02:01:01,040 --> 02:01:01,520
to you.

1388
02:01:02,620 --> 02:01:04,320
I go back and provide that information.

1389
02:01:06,700 --> 02:01:14,160
It's Khan Academy has a homework outline that is part of the state

1390
02:01:14,160 --> 02:01:19,960
that wouldn't cost the district money to have that.

1391
02:01:20,360 --> 02:01:22,720
So just something to think about.

1392
02:01:22,720 --> 02:01:27,360
I do have other questions, board, do you guys have any questions?

1393
02:01:27,740 --> 02:01:31,640
Well, I would like to comment on just that about Khan Academy.

1394
02:01:32,280 --> 02:01:36,920
What's unique to sitting here is that these are AmeriCorps members

1395
02:01:36,920 --> 02:01:39,860
that our students are working with daily in schools.

1396
02:01:40,200 --> 02:01:43,800
And as we have a, they build relationships with them.

1397
02:01:44,020 --> 02:01:45,120
There's a trust level there.

1398
02:01:45,500 --> 02:01:47,700
We also build relationships with parents and teachers.

1399
02:01:47,700 --> 02:01:56,560
So this would be more of an interpersonal relationship and hopefully support for our students

1400
02:01:56,560 --> 02:02:00,620
with the one that's familiar with them or familiar with their service and their teachers.

1401
02:02:01,940 --> 02:02:07,180
Okay, so with the hotline, my next question then with a piggyback of that question, answer.

1402
02:02:07,540 --> 02:02:17,860
With the hotline, be those city year folks inside the school answering the phone or would

1403
02:02:17,860 --> 02:02:23,860
it be somewhere else because with that statement it makes me think that it is the city

1404
02:02:23,860 --> 02:02:25,800
year staff inside the school.

1405
02:02:28,070 --> 02:02:36,850
The AmeriCorps members who are answering and yes they will be virtual so as we ask for

1406
02:02:36,850 --> 02:02:43,450
with the computers they will be tutoring virtually and it will be city or AmeriCorps members

1407
02:02:43,450 --> 02:02:48,090
that are available to not just the schools that we're studying but this would be a district

1408
02:02:48,090 --> 02:02:55,890
why initiative. Okay, and so like that hotline, both um, AmeriCorps members would be anywhere

1409
02:02:55,890 --> 02:03:02,350
within the AmeriCorps network. No, they would be specifically Iowa and Iraq, uh, AmeriCorps

1410
02:03:02,350 --> 02:03:05,310
members. Okay. Supporting the Illinois School District.

1411
02:03:07,580 --> 02:03:09,980
Round off the amount, the, the questions

1412
02:03:09,980 --> 02:03:17,220
around funding, is the laptops and the training included a part of that $800,000 estimate?

1413
02:03:17,220 --> 02:03:23,770
I believe the laptops are in an additional ask,

1414
02:03:27,090 --> 02:03:28,610
but I believe that's an additional ask.

1415
02:03:30,040 --> 02:03:35,520
Providing the laptops is like providing laptops to give to city here, but allowing city here

1416
02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:40,140
to use motorized school district laptops that are connected to the motorized school district

1417
02:03:40,140 --> 02:03:40,620
network.

1418
02:03:43,340 --> 02:03:44,160
The work done.

1419
02:03:46,230 --> 02:03:46,870
Thank you, Mr. Sarah.

1420
02:03:46,970 --> 02:03:48,350
This is a question for Mr. Ford.

1421
02:03:49,530 --> 02:03:50,370
What is the process?

1422
02:03:51,430 --> 02:03:56,270
You walk through the process from what happened from now until we have a contract that will

1423
02:03:56,270 --> 02:04:00,990
be presented to us to devote them at some point or what is the question, what are the

1424
02:04:00,990 --> 02:04:01,830
steps from this point?

1425
02:04:03,010 --> 02:04:08,470
The, you know, we will work on the finalizing what the actual agreement looks like and

1426
02:04:08,470 --> 02:04:15,290
so that it will have all the details of how many city or folks are employed at each campus.

1427
02:04:15,710 --> 02:04:17,850
That's where we traditionally made adjustments.

1428
02:04:18,650 --> 02:04:24,870
And so when we got to the level we were at last year's contract, it was because we made

1429
02:04:24,870 --> 02:04:31,110
a reduction in the number of those served specifically as an example we move folks out

1430
02:04:31,110 --> 02:04:36,830
of hall because we didn't have the need and so we've made adjustments. City

1431
02:04:36,830 --> 02:04:42,790
also had a challenge over the last two years of having enough AmeriCorps

1432
02:04:42,790 --> 02:04:47,430
volunteers to meet the staffing number and so that's kind of another factor that

1433
02:04:47,430 --> 02:04:51,710
we have to work on with the city or team of understanding how many they have

1434
02:04:51,710 --> 02:04:59,370
ready to go and then also the school, we determine where the art schools, whether or not we

1435
02:04:59,370 --> 02:04:59,970
want to use them for the...

1436
02:05:05,380 --> 02:05:15,420
Thank you, and so what will be the timeline for when that will be brought back to us? I think we'll be trying to bring that back at the next board meeting for review, and that could be potential action.

1437
02:05:20,800 --> 02:05:24,760
So I was going to ask, I was going to make a very specific ask when you say the next

1438
02:05:24,760 --> 02:05:28,920
board meeting in your about in two weeks, okay, so this isn't asked that would have to

1439
02:05:28,920 --> 02:05:33,940
be done in two weeks, but I would really like to get some feedback from the teachers who

1440
02:05:33,940 --> 02:05:41,040
are working with City Year volunteers and just to get a feel for the value that they place

1441
02:05:41,040 --> 02:05:45,780
on not just on having the volunteers there, but maybe the different services, like the

1442
02:05:45,780 --> 02:05:52,900
Homework Hotline, so we can get a feel for we're being asked to extend the contract to

1443
02:05:52,900 --> 02:05:53,960
cover additional services.

1444
02:05:54,500 --> 02:05:59,100
What is the value that the teachers are saying that that brings, you know, and just get some

1445
02:05:59,100 --> 02:06:02,900
feedback from the teachers that are working with City Year in the schools, please.

1446
02:06:03,240 --> 02:06:03,540
Thank you.

1447
02:06:03,540 --> 02:06:09,740
And I would add, I would like to see data, I would like to see the data in the movement

1448
02:06:11,080 --> 02:06:12,120
of students.

1449
02:06:12,620 --> 02:06:20,880
I mean, because we need to make sure that we are getting what all we are investing in

1450
02:06:21,520 --> 02:06:28,580
because it's just one thing to, you know, say it, but it's another thing to see ex-amount

1451
02:06:28,580 --> 02:06:34,960
students whereas here we don't need their name attached we can have other

1452
02:06:34,960 --> 02:06:40,360
identifiers but then we want to see pre-imposed assessments and then how they

1453
02:06:40,360 --> 02:06:50,400
have improved over time. Could we have the next meeting? Yes we'll if we can't

1454
02:06:50,400 --> 02:06:55,600
then we won't bring you the agenda item. Okay my question was related to the data

1455
02:06:55,600 --> 02:07:02,180
they portrayed or gave us some data about the letter grades that I was interested in, what

1456
02:07:02,180 --> 02:07:08,400
are actual standardized testing grades that the state assesses us for, are those numbers

1457
02:07:08,400 --> 02:07:14,940
moving or is it just, I don't always say just, but that's the number the state uses to

1458
02:07:14,940 --> 02:07:15,640
measure us by.

1459
02:07:15,920 --> 02:07:19,760
So are those numbers also increasing, or are they staying the same?

1460
02:07:21,020 --> 02:07:28,470
And of course, a little bit of the challenge there is, just like the last data presentation

1461
02:07:28,470 --> 02:07:32,670
that we had, we skipped one whole year of testing.

1462
02:07:33,330 --> 02:07:39,890
Next, we also had a decrease in overall achievement, just like the state did.

1463
02:07:40,390 --> 02:07:47,670
So it's a little bit difficult thing to track, but there are some things specifically related

1464
02:07:47,670 --> 02:07:48,490
to the behavior.

1465
02:07:48,490 --> 02:07:53,690
But even that's a different game from last year because we were in a 50-50 at the high schools

1466
02:07:53,690 --> 02:07:59,990
In terms of those that were in person and those that were virtual. This is one of the more difficult years to track it

1467
02:08:00,750 --> 02:08:06,870
So we will do our best. Can we look at 17-18 data compared to 18-19 data?

1468
02:08:07,410 --> 02:08:09,790
There was some data that was gathered and

1469
02:08:10,890 --> 02:08:16,190
We're gonna have to ask our city or partners to help us with that one, but we did have some of those things over the first three years

1470
02:08:16,190 --> 02:08:19,210
I know that I was, I have worked with you all.

1471
02:08:19,730 --> 02:08:26,830
If I could suggest that, you know, we've had the map testing for several years now,

1472
02:08:27,170 --> 02:08:33,150
I believe that started in 2017, if I remember correctly, potentially 16, 16.

1473
02:08:34,010 --> 02:08:41,590
And so, you know, identifying which students city year has been involved in their lives and

1474
02:08:41,590 --> 02:08:48,510
tracking their growth in the map testing or lack thereof I think would be very

1475
02:08:48,510 --> 02:08:54,850
telling of you know the trends even if it's not particularly the ACT aspire

1476
02:08:54,850 --> 02:09:02,410
but if it's otherwise very very an assessment that we lean on heavily for

1477
02:09:02,410 --> 02:09:04,490
we're seeing the picture of a student.

1478
02:09:06,990 --> 02:09:10,170
How many years have City Year been in the district?

1479
02:09:12,130 --> 02:09:16,810
Mr. Smith, I think, had the answer he'd provide at the beginning if he could, Mr. Smith again?

1480
02:09:17,690 --> 02:09:18,730
Just 2004.

1481
02:09:21,450 --> 02:09:22,490
17, 18.

1482
02:09:24,570 --> 02:09:27,130
Oh, Director Calloway, I'm sorry, Director Calloway.

1483
02:09:27,130 --> 02:09:35,030
I'd like to say that when city here came into the district, they were tremendous help

1484
02:09:35,030 --> 02:09:42,730
and I worked with them for 10 years in our high school and of course things have changed.

1485
02:09:43,690 --> 02:09:51,190
But with everything that's going on, they're going to need as much help, I'm talking about

1486
02:09:51,190 --> 02:09:59,330
our students at this possible, we need help, you know, and the help that we would give

1487
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:10,300
In the years, I remember when the whole program started. I've got to compliment you guys on it. It worked for us. So it worked for the,

1488
02:10:12,740 --> 02:10:14,660
you know, the incoming students.

1489
02:10:17,820 --> 02:10:26,460
I just want to come in for the city representatives in general that these questions, at least I take

1490
02:10:26,460 --> 02:10:33,140
these questions for data and then I got not as skepticism that you are not working hard

1491
02:10:33,140 --> 02:10:37,420
or you have not made a difference but just helping us to be our due diligence to make a decision.

1492
02:10:37,420 --> 02:10:41,780
and I think that it's testimony from Mr. Smith

1493
02:10:41,780 --> 02:10:45,080
and Mr. Ford, Ms. Cowdoway, and the people

1494
02:10:45,080 --> 02:10:48,500
that I've known over the years has really spoken highly

1495
02:10:48,500 --> 02:10:52,660
and affirmed that the needs that are being met

1496
02:10:52,660 --> 02:10:57,060
by the city or program, and I agree with what you said,

1497
02:10:57,160 --> 02:11:00,780
Ms. Cowdoway, that at this time of any time,

1498
02:11:01,260 --> 02:11:04,240
we need to do everything, use all the resources we can

1499
02:11:04,240 --> 02:11:07,080
to help for learning laws and social and emotional learning,

1500
02:11:07,080 --> 02:11:10,880
and I think this group is already in place to help that.

1501
02:11:11,540 --> 02:11:16,220
All that being said, I think, trying to figure out the date and understanding things so

1502
02:11:16,220 --> 02:11:20,240
we can be really clear about it, makes it a bit of a sense, but I wouldn't want you

1503
02:11:20,240 --> 02:11:24,640
all to get a sense that we are not appreciative of the work that you've done since 2004.

1504
02:11:25,060 --> 02:11:25,200
Yeah.

1505
02:11:25,800 --> 02:11:26,860
No, yeah, definitely.

1506
02:11:27,180 --> 02:11:32,940
It's just really, like you said, it's about accountability and not just, you know, going

1507
02:11:32,940 --> 02:11:40,840
We went off of testimonials because they, we want to make sure everything align up and

1508
02:11:40,840 --> 02:11:49,740
then to that like there is truly of movement which is why we're asking for data to show

1509
02:11:49,740 --> 02:11:51,100
and improve that.

1510
02:11:51,520 --> 02:11:56,100
So that's really what that's about, direct, direct the morning.

1511
02:11:56,460 --> 02:11:56,760
Yes.

1512
02:11:57,280 --> 02:12:00,240
So I'm actually a part of the city here.

1513
02:12:00,240 --> 02:12:05,260
I had on the city of members when I was in real middle school, so I'm glad to see that

1514
02:12:05,260 --> 02:12:06,660
the program is still relevant.

1515
02:12:07,400 --> 02:12:09,520
I was in the AmeriCorps Member 2 in Dallas.

1516
02:12:09,800 --> 02:12:20,260
I worked at Comstock Elementary and senior is truly a really great program and the training

1517
02:12:20,260 --> 02:12:25,740
that they provide for the volunteers top tier.

1518
02:12:26,060 --> 02:12:29,200
I still use some of the stuff that I learned in what I do today.

1519
02:12:29,200 --> 02:12:55,460
So, at the bottom line, we know that City Year is a great program, something that I didn't want to add though, I know we're asking for data, but in addition to that, like there's, in no capacity can, grades depict the effectiveness of City Year, so, while we're asking for that kind of data, I actually disagree.

1520
02:12:55,460 --> 02:13:00,840
I think testimony would be good to help measure the effectiveness of this because the value

1521
02:13:00,840 --> 02:13:09,480
that they add, it goes really beyond whether or not a child improved in greeting or something

1522
02:13:09,480 --> 02:13:15,160
like that because with the program you have volunteers who go into the classroom, they're

1523
02:13:15,160 --> 02:13:15,700
in the classroom.

1524
02:13:16,820 --> 02:13:20,140
And they actually are working side by side with the kids during the day.

1525
02:13:21,020 --> 02:13:25,340
After school, if that school has an after school program in the morning time, we're getting

1526
02:13:25,340 --> 02:13:26,060
them riled up.

1527
02:13:26,320 --> 02:13:30,320
So that's socially emotional aspect of City Year.

1528
02:13:30,440 --> 02:13:32,400
I think that's its greatest value.

1529
02:13:32,920 --> 02:13:38,140
And I think we, especially during this pandemic, we can ignore that the mental health of our

1530
02:13:38,140 --> 02:13:44,320
children, it has to be addressed because with this pandemic, it's caused more anxiety in

1531
02:13:44,320 --> 02:13:45,640
our students' depression.

1532
02:13:46,500 --> 02:13:47,900
And there's a lot that they're doing.

1533
02:13:47,900 --> 02:13:56,730
so we have to be mindful of it and hey I think we actually need to go by gift

1534
02:13:56,730 --> 02:14:02,610
for everybody that does the year because I can pay bless your heart whoever's

1535
02:14:02,610 --> 02:14:08,990
doing that program because yeah oh so I did have some questions now with

1536
02:14:08,990 --> 02:14:13,710
ill ill I what is this man for him is that training for math like could you

1537
02:14:13,710 --> 02:14:15,310
If you find it, Mr.

1538
02:14:18,520 --> 02:14:19,820
Smith, would you tackle that one?

1539
02:14:23,120 --> 02:14:25,960
No, I'm not for me, and that would be a Jeremy Hill question.

1540
02:14:26,700 --> 02:14:27,300
Okay, I thought.

1541
02:14:30,020 --> 02:14:32,460
LLI is for the literacy, excuse me.

1542
02:14:32,520 --> 02:14:34,780
Okay, so what is ill-ass standpoint?

1543
02:14:35,520 --> 02:14:38,920
Do the math is, I'm sorry, do the math is the math portion.

1544
02:14:40,260 --> 02:14:41,700
Okay, what is ill-ass standpoint?

1545
02:14:42,980 --> 02:14:45,600
I'm going to get back to you, I just had an A slip.

1546
02:14:45,600 --> 02:14:54,280
And I went to think and I was like, why because we didn't use it last year due to COVID

1547
02:14:54,280 --> 02:14:58,780
and, you know, those restrictions in the classroom, so we'll get information to you.

1548
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:11,700
What do you tell about both curricula in general? The internet says that it's leveled literacy intervention, so I'm not sure if that is. Is that what you're using?

1549
02:15:14,790 --> 02:15:28,570
You'll get back to the funny. And my second question was, with you all utilizing the laptops now, you said they'll be using two in part to provide home or kill.

1550
02:15:28,570 --> 02:15:35,650
So are you saying that the city or people will be working outside of school hours, too?

1551
02:15:39,110 --> 02:15:41,410
To ask your question in a nutshell, yes.

1552
02:15:42,070 --> 02:15:43,670
So I'm going to give you a school.

1553
02:15:44,050 --> 02:15:46,750
Our appointment was work at least 10 hours a day.

1554
02:15:46,930 --> 02:15:47,270
I know.

1555
02:15:47,630 --> 02:15:55,390
As we said before, they're at least 30 to 40 minutes before their schools start to get in place for car routers

1556
02:15:55,390 --> 02:15:59,310
and bus routers to do what we call morning green and morning cheer.

1557
02:15:59,310 --> 02:16:05,070
and when you're all day of course they get a lunch break and but there are

1558
02:16:05,070 --> 02:16:09,410
so many evenings for after-school programming on some of the schools

1559
02:16:09,410 --> 02:16:15,230
principals allow us to create after-school 2 programs or we jump in as a part

1560
02:16:15,230 --> 02:16:20,870
of the after-school programs with monitor with you know Mr. Smith in the

1561
02:16:20,870 --> 02:16:25,050
South you know creating a homework airline with you know for staffing and coordinators

1562
02:16:25,050 --> 02:16:31,410
Yes, we will be a part of those evening health lines for students who don't have the help.

1563
02:16:31,590 --> 02:16:37,010
We may not have the parental or the access to the proper health at home.

1564
02:16:37,810 --> 02:16:42,670
And so yes, we will create a schedule and a calendar and shifts to ensure our core members

1565
02:16:42,670 --> 02:16:43,710
are not burned out.

1566
02:16:43,970 --> 02:16:50,330
Number one, but also to ensure our students are effectively supported during two hours.

1567
02:16:51,030 --> 02:17:02,230
So would they need to take the laptops home or as a part of an after school initiative they would need to use them then like I was just wondering are they

1568
02:17:02,230 --> 02:17:16,830
So with the district purchasing the laptops we would hopefully this will be a sad laptop like any teacher or student would get throughout the school year.

1569
02:17:16,830 --> 02:17:20,750
And of course, we're turning back in once the school year is over.

1570
02:17:21,410 --> 02:17:24,950
And of course, the main point was main progress of this district.

1571
02:17:25,670 --> 02:17:30,050
And that talk is sort of to ensure that we are on the district network,

1572
02:17:30,430 --> 02:17:34,670
our core membership access, the data that they need to access for

1573
02:17:34,670 --> 02:17:38,390
their focusless students, their pull-outs who we call push-ins,

1574
02:17:38,990 --> 02:17:40,650
at one and one and maybe two.

1575
02:17:40,850 --> 02:17:44,170
And I believe we have access to district emails as well,

1576
02:17:44,170 --> 02:17:47,290
because we can't do certain things without logins.

1577
02:17:48,350 --> 02:17:51,170
So there's still your email accounts won't justify

1578
02:17:51,170 --> 02:17:54,090
already able to log in to some additional wire

1579
02:17:54,090 --> 02:17:55,990
initiatives and support systems.

1580
02:17:56,890 --> 02:17:59,630
Okay, well that was all the questions I had.

1581
02:18:00,130 --> 02:18:00,750
Thank you.

1582
02:18:02,550 --> 02:18:05,710
Well, I said verify, so LLI,

1583
02:18:05,930 --> 02:18:07,890
leveled literacy for the LLI inspection.

1584
02:18:11,810 --> 02:18:14,070
Good deal. Well, you know, again,

1585
02:18:14,910 --> 02:18:18,070
the data piece is not...

1586
02:18:18,070 --> 02:18:20,730
We just want to make sure we're doing our due diligence.

1587
02:18:21,570 --> 02:18:25,830
And then to almost get the sense of,

1588
02:18:26,350 --> 02:18:30,710
we are going to have to almost weigh it if part fill

1589
02:18:30,710 --> 02:18:35,490
that the social, emotional learning aspect

1590
02:18:35,490 --> 02:18:39,130
is heavier weight over that academic.

1591
02:18:39,130 --> 02:18:45,450
I just think that we need to see how we're going to do that.

1592
02:18:45,450 --> 02:18:55,450
but I think that data will definitely help us make a decision whenever you get that data.

1593
02:18:55,790 --> 02:19:02,970
Mr. Hill, I didn't realize that was you until you came on, until your face was big on the screen.

1594
02:19:03,190 --> 02:19:05,210
How are you doing? It's good seeing you.

1595
02:19:08,210 --> 02:19:15,430
Good to see you. Thank you.

1596
02:19:15,430 --> 02:19:20,730
questions. Excuse me. Yo, I have a comment I want to share at the end of this is that I do want

1597
02:19:21,310 --> 02:19:26,370
board and our community to understand that we didn't include this in the city or thing but

1598
02:19:26,950 --> 02:19:31,010
the city or group does receive training from us on things like the science of reading.

1599
02:19:31,690 --> 02:19:36,930
They do receive training on us on Mad Max. They do get to take part in social emotional learning

1600
02:19:36,930 --> 02:19:44,150
training. They have their own as well. So they are included and then that allows them to align with

1601
02:19:44,150 --> 02:19:48,550
the instructors in the classroom and then beyond in terms of tutoring and so forth.

1602
02:19:48,750 --> 02:19:56,610
So we'll come back with a report and an updated report as well as a recommendation for

1603
02:19:56,610 --> 02:19:59,810
you to look at and try to have that ready to go to be

1604
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:03,300
Next meeting, the following. Yes, we have.

1605
02:20:05,460 --> 02:20:07,820
We have no problem. I'm

1606
02:20:07,820 --> 02:20:15,460
gathering data, and we'll get that information to Mr. Smith to pass along. But to another point about the social part, so she

1607
02:20:15,460 --> 02:20:27,120
motion brought and we cannot track. Just a few year alone, along with Laura and some of our sister sites, I believe one particular in Sacramento, you know,

1608
02:20:27,120 --> 02:20:28,200
And therefore, as they have school,

1609
02:20:28,920 --> 02:20:31,860
a core members are having to sit on the curb

1610
02:20:31,860 --> 02:20:35,580
and hold students who were in tears

1611
02:20:36,180 --> 02:20:40,160
and scared to go into class because they couldn't get vaccinated.

1612
02:20:40,400 --> 02:20:41,340
And they were scared of it sick.

1613
02:20:42,080 --> 02:20:44,420
And so the past and day that we can't measure

1614
02:20:45,020 --> 02:20:46,440
and particularly in Little Rock,

1615
02:20:46,980 --> 02:20:49,640
it's just a myth and super between the core and the test of it.

1616
02:20:50,120 --> 02:20:53,780
City year was in school every day in the heart of the pandemic

1617
02:20:53,780 --> 02:20:58,320
in the year in FY20 and we show it every day.

1618
02:20:58,700 --> 02:21:00,740
Unvaccinated before vaccine was even created.

1619
02:21:01,380 --> 02:21:02,840
We were there serving.

1620
02:21:03,620 --> 02:21:05,020
But we will get the deal to you,

1621
02:21:05,160 --> 02:21:07,080
but I also want to share that's the part

1622
02:21:07,080 --> 02:21:10,420
about AmeriCorps and our core members that we can't,

1623
02:21:10,420 --> 02:21:14,980
we can't track and how serious they take

1624
02:21:14,980 --> 02:21:18,280
their service here for these two months there with us.

1625
02:21:18,700 --> 02:21:19,320
So thank you.

1626
02:21:19,680 --> 02:21:21,980
Thank you, Mr. Hill for adding

1627
02:21:21,980 --> 02:21:33,300
that piece to it truly appreciate that my oldest child was also benefited

1628
02:21:33,300 --> 02:21:41,200
from since the year back when we had J. Fair and McCullen so I as you know I I do

1629
02:21:41,200 --> 02:21:50,120
have a place for it on a personal side so I did have a question but now it is it

1630
02:21:50,120 --> 02:21:53,020
it has left me, so it wasn't that important,

1631
02:21:53,460 --> 02:21:57,120
but I do appreciate, we all appreciate you guys

1632
02:21:57,120 --> 02:21:59,660
no matter for coming on and taking some time out

1633
02:21:59,660 --> 02:22:02,640
of your evening to present to us.

1634
02:22:02,780 --> 02:22:03,920
And thank you.

1635
02:22:06,100 --> 02:22:06,680
Thank you very much.

1636
02:22:07,100 --> 02:22:09,480
We're happy to provide the data and the accountability.

1637
02:22:10,160 --> 02:22:12,100
And we're just happy to be part of it

1638
02:22:12,100 --> 02:22:13,360
with the little rest of the district.

1639
02:22:13,720 --> 02:22:14,980
So we appreciate y'all.

1640
02:22:16,080 --> 02:22:16,900
Thank you.

1641
02:22:17,280 --> 02:22:22,980
And moving forward in our next agenda,

1642
02:22:22,980 --> 02:22:36,620
What is it? It is the agenda, yeah. So, one second, let me find my agenda as I put it away. I guess. Oh, here we go.

1643
02:22:37,840 --> 02:22:42,260
Oh, that's a different path. Yeah. So, it's the tentative, I'm sorry.

1644
02:22:44,000 --> 02:22:51,320
Well, sorry for interrupting you. Ms. Nolan, I had on one of the drafts that you may have received.

1645
02:22:51,320 --> 02:22:55,560
And we did put this into the board report that it showed that the discipline report was

1646
02:22:55,560 --> 02:22:56,220
going to be covered.

1647
02:22:57,800 --> 02:23:00,480
That actually, remember, got postponed back.

1648
02:23:00,820 --> 02:23:05,540
I hope you saw that in the board report that Dr. Fields and I were not able to meet.

1649
02:23:05,980 --> 02:23:11,000
And remember, you've asked us for a data and a report that would show where we stand on

1650
02:23:11,000 --> 02:23:17,500
suspensions, arrest, all the different areas, what we've been trying to do proactively.

1651
02:23:17,500 --> 02:23:26,280
So I do want to share that got postponed that may not have got somehow did not get eliminated off of the at least the draft agenda that I'm looking at, too.

1652
02:23:26,420 --> 02:23:27,660
So apologize for that.

1653
02:23:28,100 --> 02:23:29,580
Okay. Thank you for that.

1654
02:23:29,900 --> 02:23:42,060
Oh, I did remember what I was going to say and I think Mr. Hill is probably off but with the social emotional and the anxiety of it all.

1655
02:23:42,060 --> 02:23:52,660
We see conflicts in school buildings across central Arkansas and that I think has a large

1656
02:23:52,660 --> 02:24:00,040
part to do with that is children have a level of anxiety going back into the school and

1657
02:24:00,040 --> 02:24:06,900
jelling with their peers but that was a condemned version of what I was going to say.

1658
02:24:06,900 --> 02:24:16,420
Okay, so you guys do you guys have the agenda, the tentative agenda that starts off with

1659
02:24:16,900 --> 02:24:21,880
under D is this normal stuff, certified PPC and all that, and classified, okay.

1660
02:24:22,340 --> 02:24:23,520
So you know how we do.

1661
02:24:24,420 --> 02:24:31,300
So I'm just going to go chunk it, A through D. Do you guys have any thoughts?

1662
02:24:32,160 --> 02:24:37,040
This is Heather. Can I just make a comment that we did add an item there that is for the

1663
02:24:37,040 --> 02:24:41,280
first time principles round table. And that's actually a group that we've also included

1664
02:24:41,280 --> 02:24:47,060
in our executive cabinet to allow the principal voice to come in. And so that's new this

1665
02:24:47,060 --> 02:24:51,760
year for us. And it just allows all the employee groups then to have their voice as well.

1666
02:24:51,760 --> 02:24:55,180
So, currently the president of the principals

1667
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:05,300
On the round table is Philip Carlock, so I just wanted to share that that is an extra item.

1668
02:25:06,900 --> 02:25:15,960
And congratulations, Mr. Carlock. Well, that be a very, very wonderful. Yeah, I'm sorry. You cut me off. I am so sorry.

1669
02:25:16,200 --> 02:25:25,360
No, that's right. I was just saying congratulations, Mr. Carlock. To my understanding, isn't that a monthly bill?

1670
02:25:25,360 --> 02:25:29,080
So yes, to write to your question and through your current.

1671
02:25:30,360 --> 02:25:34,360
And then D through H. Actually, I'm going to stop.

1672
02:25:35,080 --> 02:25:40,900
Well, yeah. E through H. And there's a service contract in there.

1673
02:25:43,310 --> 02:25:46,750
What is G? I'm sorry. Okay.

1674
02:25:47,030 --> 02:25:49,510
Yes, ma'am. I was going to comment on that too. Thank you, Ms. Cowell.

1675
02:25:50,590 --> 02:25:55,150
When what happened on that one is that we actually felt a little bit out of our own process

1676
02:25:55,150 --> 02:26:02,470
And to try to write the process, we're trying to bring forth a contract for an art project

1677
02:26:02,470 --> 02:26:07,470
that was done at J Fair that was done by one of our own staff members.

1678
02:26:08,230 --> 02:26:13,450
That approval did not get done in the appropriate way as a prior approval.

1679
02:26:14,110 --> 02:26:19,050
And so what we're trying to do is to bring it back in here to formally do it right because

1680
02:26:19,050 --> 02:26:24,510
if we hadn't done it that way, we weren't in our own compliance.

1681
02:26:24,510 --> 02:26:29,510
just to be honest with you. So we're trying to correct a wrong that we didn't realize was taking place.

1682
02:26:30,310 --> 02:26:37,570
And so it's a good thing what happened and it's a good visual but we did not know that that art project was going on

1683
02:26:37,570 --> 02:26:41,290
and that it was actually one of our own staff members that was expecting to get paid.

1684
02:26:41,850 --> 02:26:44,390
Oh, okay, I see. But what did they do?

1685
02:26:45,010 --> 02:26:52,770
They created a mural inside the school. And so that's what we're trying to end up then compensating them for.

1686
02:26:52,770 --> 02:26:55,370
It's not made in the cover of the eagle, is it?

1687
02:26:55,890 --> 02:26:56,750
No, ma'am.

1688
02:26:57,070 --> 02:26:59,490
This, and I think there's two different art projects.

1689
02:27:00,370 --> 02:27:00,990
The eagle.

1690
02:27:01,670 --> 02:27:02,770
That nice big.

1691
02:27:03,250 --> 02:27:04,530
You're not a big one, ma'am.

1692
02:27:04,710 --> 02:27:04,810
Yeah.

1693
02:27:06,290 --> 02:27:10,490
And then you will bring us supporting documents

1694
02:27:10,490 --> 02:27:17,550
and pictures of what, I mean, and I guess maybe

1695
02:27:17,550 --> 02:27:18,230
a little bit more.

1696
02:27:18,550 --> 02:27:19,550
Can I bring up one other one?

1697
02:27:19,810 --> 02:27:20,330
Go ahead.

1698
02:27:20,330 --> 02:27:29,050
Ms. Hatter also found a situation that, to be honest with you, was kind of almost like a 10 or 15 year thing that's been going on

1699
02:27:29,050 --> 02:27:37,210
where the board president is supposed to sign off that our personnel policies are up to date and then put on the website

1700
02:27:37,210 --> 02:27:44,750
and that the board has voted to say that they understand that they're proving the salary structure for that year.

1701
02:27:45,650 --> 02:27:58,950
So what has happened according to Mr. Robinson, and then also what happened with the commissioner was that just happened naturally, and there never was a real review or vote by the board on it.

1702
02:27:59,670 --> 02:28:12,910
So in reality, and this is kind of a good thing to share, is one is it will be on your agenda to approve that you understand that what our salaries are for this coming year, which basically is the same salary that we had last year.

1703
02:28:12,910 --> 02:28:18,830
but then you're going to have to approve it again when we go for a salary increase in October,

1704
02:28:19,090 --> 02:28:26,370
you'll have to vote on another one, okay. So in essence, it's paperwork, it's trying to make compliance,

1705
02:28:26,950 --> 02:28:32,870
and I applaud Ms. Hadter for her thoroughness in reading the document and saying, wait a minute,

1706
02:28:33,210 --> 02:28:41,770
I need to bring this to all of the board. So if it's okay, our plan is to just keep that in the consent agenda,

1707
02:28:41,770 --> 02:28:47,550
but to make the personnel recommendations have two parts to it, the overall manpower that

1708
02:28:47,550 --> 02:28:53,570
we always provide of hires, resignations, but then also have this component of approval

1709
02:28:53,570 --> 02:28:59,450
for what the salary schedule is as we start this year, which is the same salary schedule

1710
02:28:59,450 --> 02:29:00,150
we had last year.

1711
02:29:03,420 --> 02:29:10,820
I have one more thing that's not on here, but it is something that it's still with our

1712
02:29:10,820 --> 02:29:21,600
are sped contract for is it pinnacle view or non pinnacle view there on my mind pinnacle

1713
02:29:21,600 --> 02:29:33,320
point that was brought up and because we have to pay my for the education of our students

1714
02:29:33,320 --> 02:29:39,600
in those facilities, those behavior facilities, but I haven't seen it come come back.

1715
02:29:40,560 --> 02:29:45,080
to come before the board. Did they circulate that back around to you?

1716
02:29:46,580 --> 02:29:49,780
That one's catching me off guard and I will go check on it with the

1717
02:29:49,780 --> 02:29:50,700
and it may not be that.

1718
02:29:51,020 --> 02:29:51,580
And Ms. Steel.

1719
02:29:52,480 --> 02:29:53,000
Okay.

1720
02:29:56,000 --> 02:29:58,040
The next thing is.

1721
02:29:58,140 --> 02:29:59,440
And board members if.

1722
02:30:00,110 --> 02:30:19,210
If it's all right, I just want to kind of pre-approved with all of you that if we need that contract to come forward, we would put it under, I imagine, I don't know if we'd burn to the fine answer, whether we'd put it into its own special category under student services, but if we need it, we may add that in, okay.

1723
02:30:19,210 --> 02:30:30,110
Okay. Okay. And then the, does that fit Gio? I think so. Okay. So we'll go H through K.

1724
02:30:30,750 --> 02:30:36,910
So with H, that is the budget approval. And then we'll get you guys that may be a little

1725
02:30:37,810 --> 02:30:44,550
lengthy depending on how, you know, how we do with our discussion. I'm sure we'll have

1726
02:30:44,550 --> 02:30:54,090
have something on some level of discussion about that and then the other ones are the policy reviews.

1727
02:30:54,530 --> 02:30:59,870
So I had one thing on that too is just also we would be adding in the city or contract potentially to

1728
02:31:00,630 --> 02:31:05,910
under that financial area so just to be another item that we would be adding on.

1729
02:31:07,770 --> 02:31:09,250
Okay, I'm going to know.

1730
02:31:09,250 --> 02:31:09,930
And

1731
02:31:12,650 --> 02:31:38,430
so with that you guys, I guess we are looking for three things which will be the salary agreement, which will be what we know it is right now on the personnel and in this bed if that comes, comes, comes back to us to make sure we're taking care of our children and in different places and then the city year contract, so those would be the adjustments that I catch that correctly.

1732
02:31:38,430 --> 02:31:47,540
Okay. All right. So you guys, uh, H2K. Oh, yes, sir. Uh, Mr. Dr., uh, yeah.

1733
02:31:49,160 --> 02:31:49,560
That

1734
02:31:52,180 --> 02:31:55,460
sounds like sort of when my mother was calling us for suffers, you can get her name

1735
02:31:55,460 --> 02:32:03,860
right. So, uh, I'll do that now. So I have done, been communicating some of Mr. Porter and Dr.

1736
02:32:03,960 --> 02:32:09,220
McGee, but I wanted to bring it up here, too. We voted, when we voted on the mass mandate,

1737
02:32:09,220 --> 02:32:17,240
We also voted to get recommendations for incentives for students to be vaccinated and for that to be brought back to us this month.

1738
02:32:18,000 --> 02:32:20,500
So can we have that report on that?

1739
02:32:21,400 --> 02:32:23,980
Absolutely. It'll become part of the ESSA program report.

1740
02:32:24,760 --> 02:32:29,680
And it's actually Dr. McGee's had not just won me, but multiple means on that.

1741
02:32:29,780 --> 02:32:32,700
I think he has another one next week to hopefully finalize that.

1742
02:32:32,700 --> 02:32:35,600
of looking at what the final recommendation would be

1743
02:32:35,600 --> 02:32:38,280
and will be built into the report that would come to you Friday.

1744
02:32:39,280 --> 02:32:40,120
Thank you.

1745
02:32:40,680 --> 02:32:41,020
Okay.

1746
02:32:41,580 --> 02:32:42,380
I want to end with those.

1747
02:32:42,780 --> 02:32:43,460
Go ahead, director.

1748
02:32:43,960 --> 02:32:44,260
Go ahead.

1749
02:32:46,500 --> 02:32:49,560
I'm not going to push this if the timing isn't right,

1750
02:32:49,660 --> 02:32:52,220
but if possible, could we have that discipline report

1751
02:32:52,220 --> 02:32:55,500
that was supposed to be on this agenda?

1752
02:32:55,660 --> 02:32:59,300
Could we potentially add it and get it at the next meeting?

1753
02:32:59,600 --> 02:33:01,900
Or is that something that you are not going to be prepared?

1754
02:33:02,540 --> 02:33:10,160
I honestly, you know, we've got all these, all the data and what we're trying to do is to package it so that it starts to make sense.

1755
02:33:10,500 --> 02:33:16,320
And I just don't see how we can accomplish that next week and put it into a plan.

1756
02:33:16,540 --> 02:33:22,000
So I'd like to try to do that if it's possible at the October, the first, the gym to mean in October.

1757
02:33:22,680 --> 02:33:31,300
Okay. When we do that, can we include in there a look at physical altercations or finding

1758
02:33:31,300 --> 02:33:36,680
that we've seen in schools this year and just see if that's, you know, look at the data

1759
02:33:36,680 --> 02:33:39,340
on that as well and see if there are things we can do.

1760
02:33:39,340 --> 02:33:41,200
Is it in that normally a part of it?

1761
02:33:41,520 --> 02:33:42,220
Yeah, I think it is.

1762
02:33:42,560 --> 02:33:43,380
Okay, that's our problem.

1763
02:33:44,180 --> 02:33:49,860
That's kind of why I was pushing forward a little bit sooner but I understand we need to

1764
02:33:49,860 --> 02:33:50,340
get all the data.

1765
02:33:50,340 --> 02:34:19,260
Yes, so we also met with the SROs and they're going to also probably won't be until October but start coming before the board is giving a report to you all and so like you guys not only about and the report is going to be very broad about everything that that like they do within our school buildings because it's just not.

1766
02:34:21,240 --> 02:34:31,600
arresting and conflict. And so until they'll be able to bring that to us and so we'll all know exactly what that is, right?

1767
02:34:32,320 --> 02:34:37,280
So yeah, so we can all work together.

1768
02:34:39,240 --> 02:34:44,360
You guys, is there anything else? I'm sorry, my energy just dropped. I don't know what's happening here.

1769
02:34:49,820 --> 02:34:54,160
Thank you, Madam Chair, I have a couple topics that I'd like to bring up.

1770
02:34:54,480 --> 02:34:59,880
I was wondering if we could hear a little bit about enrollment numbers at the September.

1771
02:35:07,800 --> 02:35:27,160
We'll include that in the financial report. Okay. And then a topic with regard to, you know, the more competitive teacher salaries that we're going to be leaning into this fall and the, you know, the school consolidations that may go along with that. I think that probably, you know,

1772
02:35:27,160 --> 02:35:30,560
It goes well with the enrollment number discussion.

1773
02:35:31,240 --> 02:35:36,660
I feel both ways about the discussion about the teacher salaries and the school consolidations.

1774
02:35:36,680 --> 02:35:42,080
Number one, I feel like we're missing a little bit of an opportunity by not addressing

1775
02:35:42,080 --> 02:35:49,340
that in the September meeting and the October meeting to show fiscal responsibility to the

1776
02:35:49,340 --> 02:35:55,560
city when we ask them to support the millage extension that we're going to ask them to vote

1777
02:35:55,560 --> 02:36:01,980
for in early November. So I have some urgency about that and I don't know where you and

1778
02:36:01,980 --> 02:36:08,240
the finance team are on the ability to start that conversation, you know, in two weeks

1779
02:36:08,240 --> 02:36:12,400
so that we might could potentially take action in the month of October.

1780
02:36:13,380 --> 02:36:17,060
First off, I'd tell you there's no way to take action. We would not be able to do it the

1781
02:36:17,060 --> 02:36:22,360
right way in terms of community involvement. What Ms. Hattern I have talked about is in

1782
02:36:22,360 --> 02:36:27,640
October, May, going back and revisiting what the blueprint has because there are things

1783
02:36:27,640 --> 02:36:32,680
that have occurred in our past and then there's also things that are going to have to be considered

1784
02:36:32,680 --> 02:36:37,200
for our future. And then that would set up the things that we're going to have to go do

1785
02:36:37,200 --> 02:36:42,880
to work to execute that in with community involvement. Really, you're looking at multiple

1786
02:36:42,880 --> 02:36:47,060
months there because if you look at anything that we've done that deals with either blueprint

1787
02:36:47,060 --> 02:36:53,080
or in my first year when we had to make severe budget reductions that was

1788
02:36:53,080 --> 02:36:57,220
always a three-month process. So that's what you're looking at but we will start

1789
02:36:57,220 --> 02:37:03,140
that in October. So when would we what's the target for completing that? I mean

1790
02:37:03,140 --> 02:37:09,200
student almonds in December right? Student I mean registration I'm sorry.

1791
02:37:09,560 --> 02:37:12,900
Registration has gone in December in January we really had to bleed into January

1792
02:37:12,900 --> 02:37:19,680
last two years? No I know but I mean to not have that figured out by the time

1793
02:37:19,680 --> 02:37:26,300
student registration opens in December I think would be just another mistake

1794
02:37:26,300 --> 02:37:31,960
on our part. Okay so that's that's the urgent side of that conversation.

1795
02:37:32,260 --> 02:37:36,580
For the people watching depending on what the entry level point of them coming

1796
02:37:36,580 --> 02:37:42,480
into the district and with the blueprint and so the blueprint started in 2017 and

1797
02:37:42,480 --> 02:37:52,000
And then the final blueprint, I think it was the fall of 2018 and then that is that blueprint

1798
02:37:52,000 --> 02:37:58,300
that it looked like it's colored, it made with no color pencils and grouping it together

1799
02:37:58,300 --> 02:38:01,340
where I think it was like five or so buildings, six buildings.

1800
02:38:01,820 --> 02:38:08,080
And so that is the blueprint that we're talking about that was approved and then we're still

1801
02:38:08,080 --> 02:38:15,240
on that course, no matter from the last approval by the direction that district was under

1802
02:38:15,240 --> 02:38:15,640
at the time.

1803
02:38:16,040 --> 02:38:16,360
Director, what?

1804
02:38:16,900 --> 02:38:21,980
So, the other side of that urgency on the, you know, teacher salaries and school

1805
02:38:21,980 --> 02:38:27,040
consolidation topic is actually a point that Director Callaway brought out in the last

1806
02:38:27,040 --> 02:38:31,360
month or six weeks that I didn't give enough credit to when I first heard her say it, but

1807
02:38:31,360 --> 02:38:36,840
since then, I've actually had several people repeat the same thing that, where are we going

1808
02:38:36,840 --> 02:38:43,780
to be financially as a district if the millage does not pass, and we have these must-do,

1809
02:38:44,000 --> 02:38:50,620
not the list of want-to's physically, not the list of want-to's in new buildings and

1810
02:38:50,620 --> 02:38:58,480
projects, but the must-do's, how will that impact and effect the effort to increase teacher

1811
02:38:58,480 --> 02:38:58,940
salaries?

1812
02:38:59,500 --> 02:39:05,920
I would really like to see an explanation from the finance team that the teacher salaries

1813
02:39:05,920 --> 02:39:12,800
are not dependent on the knowledge campaign. I'm committed to that. I really want that

1814
02:39:12,800 --> 02:39:19,340
to be the answer. I don't want it to be we can't vote for the teacher salaries until

1815
02:39:19,340 --> 02:39:25,180
after we see how the community is going to vote on the knowledge extension. But at the

1816
02:39:25,180 --> 02:39:32,940
same time, if we have 20, 30, 40 million dollars worth of physical improvements, we have

1817
02:39:32,940 --> 02:39:36,100
have to do our buildings to keep them dry, warm and safe.

1818
02:39:37,680 --> 02:39:41,460
I'm concerned about what all we're committing to this fall.

1819
02:39:41,800 --> 02:39:44,580
So is there a possibility to have some...

1820
02:39:44,580 --> 02:39:48,980
And I'm bringing it up in public because I've actually had several people from the public

1821
02:39:48,980 --> 02:39:51,700
randomly bring that concern up to me.

1822
02:39:53,840 --> 02:39:58,300
They are concerned that there's not a path to all the commitments we're making

1823
02:39:58,300 --> 02:39:59,700
if the millage doesn't pass.

1824
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:29,100
We can also cover a little bit of that within how he'll present the budget approval and you know what are some of the things of how we've set aside money for salaries and what we've got money that would be available for projects, keep things warm safe and dry and what that looks like. But let's be really clear. First off, as board members, if you don't feel armed right now, to be able to say that we've been using our resources wisely.

1825
02:40:29,100 --> 02:40:36,400
when it's been approved from everything from audits to the state, then somehow as a

1826
02:40:36,400 --> 02:40:41,900
district as a leader, I'm missing a boat someplace. I'm not doing the job because you

1827
02:40:41,900 --> 02:40:46,480
should have a level of confidence in my opinion. And again, if that's not the case, we need

1828
02:40:46,480 --> 02:40:51,120
to talk individually or we need to bring it out in here because there have been over

1829
02:40:51,120 --> 02:40:55,940
an over and over examples of fiscal stewardship that's solid.

1830
02:40:57,060 --> 02:41:04,140
Now the other thing that has been hopefully really transparent is we also are razor thin

1831
02:41:04,140 --> 02:41:08,960
right now and this is to Mr. Woods Point of facilities you know.

1832
02:41:09,440 --> 02:41:15,420
So in some ways some of these things are trying to walk hand in hand and we've got to be in

1833
02:41:15,420 --> 02:41:20,780
in my mind behind the effort for an extension in the election.

1834
02:41:21,520 --> 02:41:25,320
But we also owe it to our employees because these folks have not got, sorry,

1835
02:41:25,460 --> 02:41:28,720
and you guys have asked us, we've come up with a model to do these things.

1836
02:41:29,240 --> 02:41:32,900
But we've got to go work on it all together right now.

1837
02:41:33,280 --> 02:41:39,360
But the fiscal responsibility, we have, I think, really done an outstanding job of that

1838
02:41:39,360 --> 02:41:44,440
over the past five years, everything from loss of students to loss of desegregation funds

1839
02:41:44,440 --> 02:41:50,720
to come up with creative ways to, you know, enhance our learning environments with lights

1840
02:41:50,720 --> 02:41:58,700
and air and new buildings. So, you know, the, when people throw out questions like how

1841
02:41:58,700 --> 02:42:04,840
I heard that and maybe I'm defensive, but when I hear that people are asking about how

1842
02:42:04,840 --> 02:42:11,880
we're handling things and are we doing the right thing, sometimes we can't allow people

1843
02:42:11,880 --> 02:42:20,280
the contract from moving this district forward. And I agree we've got to be sound but I hope

1844
02:42:20,280 --> 02:42:25,200
you're getting built up with foundations that show that we are being sound in our approach

1845
02:42:25,200 --> 02:42:30,140
and that we are being wise. And we can add in this concept that you're talking about

1846
02:42:30,140 --> 02:42:36,160
into the report that Mr. Bailey will provide next week is Ms. Hadter shared. It will be a pretty lengthy

1847
02:42:36,160 --> 02:42:41,200
the discussion on the budget when we get in there two weeks from now.

1848
02:42:42,080 --> 02:42:49,360
Did I miss something while I was taking notes? I'm sorry. I didn't hear that right as a criticism,

1849
02:42:50,240 --> 02:42:56,680
and that could have been because I was jotting down notes, but then I heard it as,

1850
02:42:57,100 --> 02:43:03,000
and this is for my own, and maybe anybody that's watching that was eating popcorn when I was listening,

1851
02:43:03,000 --> 02:43:06,820
I mean, I didn't hear that as a criticism.

1852
02:43:07,520 --> 02:43:16,820
I, that I heard it as clarity, as being responsive, as accountability, and that could just

1853
02:43:16,820 --> 02:43:17,340
be me.

1854
02:43:18,460 --> 02:43:25,520
However, I just thought I would point that out to where, you know, those that may want

1855
02:43:25,520 --> 02:43:28,420
to go back and rewind the thing to listen.

1856
02:43:28,420 --> 02:43:32,960
And then I didn't hear a criticism in that.

1857
02:43:33,480 --> 02:43:41,180
And I think we all agree that Kelsey Bailey not having any findings

1858
02:43:41,180 --> 02:43:45,200
as long as he'd been here, it speaks to that level.

1859
02:43:45,500 --> 02:43:48,540
But okay, I just wanted to clear that up.

1860
02:43:48,700 --> 02:43:50,900
Put a little peroxide on it to see if I missed something.

1861
02:43:51,320 --> 02:43:51,920
Director Callaway.

1862
02:43:52,000 --> 02:43:52,280
Okay.

1863
02:43:53,180 --> 02:43:54,680
Thank you, Mr. Woods.

1864
02:43:55,420 --> 02:43:57,040
We did bring that up.

1865
02:43:57,040 --> 02:44:03,740
I didn't bring that up, so a week ago and they said what he said at that time was I'll

1866
02:44:03,740 --> 02:44:06,920
get back to you and we haven't gotten back to it.

1867
02:44:07,360 --> 02:44:12,360
I would work criticized and I just wanted to know and my constituents wanted to know

1868
02:44:12,780 --> 02:44:15,560
plus other people I don't, you know, that I was history.

1869
02:44:17,640 --> 02:44:26,880
would not have that effect if what if the military doesn't pass, because that was definitely

1870
02:44:26,880 --> 02:44:36,980
if we can't find a way to fund that, that's going to really probably hurt us on recruitment

1871
02:44:36,980 --> 02:44:46,940
for teachers or whatever, and everything that you know, and I appreciate you for acknowledging

1872
02:44:46,940 --> 02:44:51,180
the fact that you asked the bachelor, but it's never been answered.

1873
02:44:51,180 --> 02:44:57,300
You can tell, are you concluded, you yield the right to no one?

1874
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:29,180
So two things just, and they're actually kind of responses or comments based on what you just said. One is when it came up last time, I think what I said and what I'll say again is we would have some really tough decisions to make. I think that that's, I mean, I don't know that they can tell us exactly what would happen because we would have to choose between competing goals. You know, we're going to have things that we want to do and we're not going to have necessarily the funding to do all of it. So we would have to make some tough decisions.

1875
02:45:30,220 --> 02:45:32,380
about which of those things we choose.

1876
02:45:33,360 --> 02:45:36,920
And so that's, I think that ultimately,

1877
02:45:37,200 --> 02:45:40,020
unfortunately, is the answer is that we would ultimately

1878
02:45:40,020 --> 02:45:44,360
have to weigh different, you know,

1879
02:45:44,640 --> 02:45:46,620
we want to increase teacher salaries,

1880
02:45:46,780 --> 02:45:48,500
we want to renovate these buildings,

1881
02:45:48,700 --> 02:45:50,020
we want to, you know, do all these things,

1882
02:45:50,100 --> 02:45:52,880
we would have to probably pick some of those

1883
02:45:52,880 --> 02:45:54,020
and not be able to do others.

1884
02:45:55,420 --> 02:45:56,980
The other thing that I would mention

1885
02:45:56,980 --> 02:46:00,500
and just kind of picking backing off of what Vicki said.

1886
02:46:01,460 --> 02:46:03,660
I have also heard some of the same questions

1887
02:46:03,660 --> 02:46:04,660
about fiscal responsibility.

1888
02:46:05,340 --> 02:46:08,580
I have always understood those to be questions about us

1889
02:46:08,580 --> 02:46:11,160
as a board and not about the district,

1890
02:46:11,420 --> 02:46:15,260
but they just want to know and see that we as a board

1891
02:46:15,260 --> 02:46:17,900
are going to make, you know, the right decisions

1892
02:46:17,900 --> 02:46:19,320
and difficult decisions and make sure

1893
02:46:19,320 --> 02:46:20,820
that we are fiscally responsible.

1894
02:46:21,580 --> 02:46:24,540
And so that's what I heard, Mr. Wood,

1895
02:46:24,880 --> 02:46:26,060
you know, your comments being about.

1896
02:46:26,060 --> 02:46:31,120
And so I don't think it's really about, you know, Mr. Bailey's reports or what the district

1897
02:46:31,120 --> 02:46:34,340
has been doing, but it's just the fact that we have a new board and people want to know

1898
02:46:34,340 --> 02:46:36,560
how we are going to handle it.

1899
02:46:36,800 --> 02:46:39,000
So I really disagree with that.

1900
02:46:39,280 --> 02:46:39,440
Okay.

1901
02:46:39,900 --> 02:46:48,040
And because like Mr. Lewis said, I did ask that question and they said that they would

1902
02:46:48,040 --> 02:46:58,960
get back with us. It has happened. And like, if the millions fails, the teachers want

1903
02:46:58,960 --> 02:47:06,460
to know, are we going to get that raise? And I can't tell them because I'm not going

1904
02:47:06,460 --> 02:47:13,100
to tell a story in C. And that's all we were saying. It didn't have anything to do with

1905
02:47:13,100 --> 02:47:21,060
what you see it. And I hope that's what the question was.

1906
02:47:24,000 --> 02:47:30,320
I mean, I kind of agree with what Ellie said. I mean, the way I interpreted it was that's

1907
02:47:30,320 --> 02:47:35,320
going to be a major cut into our budget. So then we are going to have to decide what that

1908
02:47:35,320 --> 02:47:40,040
means. Does that mean closing schools? Does that mean firing people? Like we will have to

1909
02:47:40,040 --> 02:47:46,020
decide I don't think that's for Mr. Bailey or his team to decide what happened.

1910
02:47:46,340 --> 02:47:54,460
No, it was not for him to decide what it was was will we have the money if this does not

1911
02:47:54,460 --> 02:48:04,300
pass for the raises I think that you know the whole thing was will we not be able to pay

1912
02:48:04,300 --> 02:48:10,980
if it doesn't pay us. It might be a positive and a negative for the

1913
02:48:10,980 --> 02:48:21,300
millions. And that was the only question. And my question was primarily for

1914
02:48:21,300 --> 02:48:28,040
teacher salaries. And we need all these things that we're talking about. I don't

1915
02:48:28,040 --> 02:48:35,860
agree with that but it had nothing to do with the original question you see you

1916
02:48:35,860 --> 02:48:43,960
know I think that I will hold what I think director Adam thank you Miss

1917
02:48:43,960 --> 02:48:52,020
Hadter a couple of comments on the question on the question of the you know for me

1918
02:48:52,020 --> 02:49:00,640
that I think the issue is if we as a board vote to take this plan, then to me as a board

1919
02:49:00,640 --> 02:49:06,380
we have made a promise and a commitment to the teachers to say we are going to do this.

1920
02:49:07,180 --> 02:49:12,360
And that means if we have to make compromises somewhere else, we make compromises somewhere

1921
02:49:12,360 --> 02:49:19,020
else because we have made a promise to do this, which and hopefully we're going to pass

1922
02:49:19,020 --> 02:49:24,680
this Minutes Extension so that we do not have to make the thing kind of hard choices that

1923
02:49:24,680 --> 02:49:31,900
we make otherwise. So the question I have for the agenda is about that Minutes Extension.

1924
02:49:32,040 --> 02:49:37,680
I know that Ms. Porter, you've been talking to some of us individually about that. When we're

1925
02:49:37,680 --> 02:49:44,700
less than two months away from the election, I'm wondering about do we need an update on where

1926
02:49:44,700 --> 02:49:54,220
we are on any kind of campaign or organization or strategy that we have, you know, they hear

1927
02:49:54,220 --> 02:49:57,720
because I don't want to wait until October to talk about that.

1928
02:50:00,000 --> 02:50:29,640
And then before you respond to the other thing, I don't want to say to respond to Mr. Woods' comment, I have a different take on the right sizing discussions, because I think those really have to happen, but I don't want them to happen to rest, and I don't want them to happen distracted. And for me, if somebody came to me and asked about that, I would want to say, this is where I is on the ball right now, because this has to be the one of the biggest priorities.

1929
02:50:29,640 --> 02:50:33,580
the next two months is to get this passed, and then we need to do that right-sizing

1930
02:50:33,580 --> 02:50:36,760
and right, and we need to take our time and do all that.

1931
02:50:36,960 --> 02:50:39,600
And we can't do both of those at the same time.

1932
02:50:40,440 --> 02:50:44,140
And so this has to happen, and then the other thing has to happen.

1933
02:50:44,360 --> 02:50:49,740
Even though I agree, it could impact the following school year,

1934
02:50:50,400 --> 02:50:53,720
and that would be an unfortunate consequence if that happens.

1935
02:50:53,840 --> 02:50:57,240
But I think that sequentially, this just has to be,

1936
02:50:57,240 --> 02:51:05,380
We take all the energy that we have to spare, you know, as far as getting the community involved in things between now and November.

1937
02:51:07,040 --> 02:51:11,100
I'm superintendant. Go ahead. I'm still holding my thoughts. Go ahead.

1938
02:51:12,920 --> 02:51:22,680
First off, I appreciate all the discussions that's taking place right now and I will say that, you know, with the campaign itself.

1939
02:51:22,680 --> 02:51:23,500
And

1940
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I may need some advice just from all of you that have lived it.

1941
02:51:30,350 --> 02:51:39,970
So having a campaign committee come in and share in front of the board, is that okay?

1942
02:51:40,430 --> 02:51:43,270
Do we have to offer them the other side, the same opportunity?

1943
02:51:44,610 --> 02:51:48,610
Does that happen away from the board setting?

1944
02:51:48,610 --> 02:51:55,510
And obviously, anyone can speak in public comment, but if you set up to have someone,

1945
02:51:55,770 --> 02:52:00,610
I don't know how that works, I don't think I've ever gone down that road before, usually

1946
02:52:00,610 --> 02:52:05,510
all the meetings that occur on something that deals with the campaign happens away from

1947
02:52:05,510 --> 02:52:06,290
the board setting.

1948
02:52:06,470 --> 02:52:09,510
But that's been my experience and maybe you have a different one.

1949
02:52:12,050 --> 02:52:18,710
I don't know, but just for me, it would make sense for us to get a report, there's a

1950
02:52:18,710 --> 02:52:24,290
campaign committee for us to hear what that is and go ask questions and I don't, we have

1951
02:52:27,280 --> 02:52:30,820
the public come an opportunity for people to make other way out, I don't feel like it's

1952
02:52:30,820 --> 02:52:35,040
like a political debate where we have to invite in the opposition to make their presentation.

1953
02:52:35,040 --> 02:52:40,360
Okay, because we voted to go down this road and and we were to get that decision

1954
02:52:41,760 --> 02:52:42,840
Just Mr. Walker

1955
02:52:46,640 --> 02:52:55,730
Would you would you I would assume then that your your preference would be to have that report in the September meeting

1956
02:52:56,290 --> 02:53:04,530
Okay, and I'm assuming then by not ahead by board members that that's something everybody would want to do to add on that add on on the agenda

1957
02:53:06,450 --> 02:53:20,010
All right, I'm going to move forward just because I was going to make some comments about

1958
02:53:20,470 --> 02:53:28,450
what was said in the village and the teacher's salaries, but I think that one thing I definitely

1959
02:53:28,450 --> 02:53:39,690
It's mindful is that I don't want to create further anxiety among staff and then I think

1960
02:53:39,690 --> 02:53:46,650
it's premature to have that type of conversation on what would happen on a vote that we have

1961
02:53:46,650 --> 02:53:51,150
not happened as far as that requires the public, the vote on the extension of the millage.

1962
02:53:51,150 --> 02:53:57,650
I thought that them teacher salary would happen regardless, but I could be mistaken in

1963
02:53:57,650 --> 02:54:04,690
the other thing as far as the consolidation of schools naturally with the K-8 model

1964
02:54:04,690 --> 02:54:05,590
that will happen.

1965
02:54:05,850 --> 02:54:14,310
But, too, I do want to say, because I was looking at the blueprint that I had from 2018,

1966
02:54:14,310 --> 02:54:17,950
team, this is like a piece of paper that big.

1967
02:54:20,370 --> 02:54:24,510
I would like for the district to provide

1968
02:54:24,510 --> 02:54:31,350
the board with that blueprint and so the board could see that that blueprint is pretty

1969
02:54:31,350 --> 02:54:40,030
much completed. The consolidation of hall to the height, you know, the idea of the West

1970
02:54:40,030 --> 02:54:47,910
school of innovation, pinnacle view, looking at all of those things, and so that would,

1971
02:54:48,050 --> 02:54:56,570
I think, would give people a better idea depending on what their entry point was re-engaging

1972
02:54:56,570 --> 02:54:59,270
or engaging the district business.

1973
02:55:00,210 --> 02:55:29,530
That's all I got on that, you guys. Sorry for the low energy, but that's what I got right now. Okay. Okay, so I think I'm going to do this again just so unclear. H through K. I know we spent some time already talking about this. Are there any further information or ideas or thoughts or add-ons that's needed? Because we kind of already did our board comments.

1974
02:55:29,530 --> 02:55:32,090
in our discussion, we just had.

1975
02:55:32,570 --> 02:55:35,590
Just that we've now added a fourth item onto the agenda

1976
02:55:35,590 --> 02:55:37,510
from what the three you've already previously mentioned

1977
02:55:37,510 --> 02:55:38,770
should be election efforts.

1978
02:55:39,410 --> 02:55:40,190
Election efforts.

1979
02:55:42,520 --> 02:55:43,180
Okay, you guys.

1980
02:55:45,980 --> 02:55:48,520
So that's what we have.

1981
02:55:48,860 --> 02:55:51,860
We're going to get some information on the enrollment numbers.

1982
02:55:53,080 --> 02:55:54,480
And two, you guys.

1983
02:55:55,480 --> 02:55:57,760
I think this is worth saying.

1984
02:55:58,080 --> 02:56:00,840
Enrollment numbers are enrollment numbers.

1985
02:56:00,840 --> 02:56:01,900
The

1986
02:56:04,650 --> 02:56:11,090
public listens to not only just board but they also listen to the staff, right?

1987
02:56:11,490 --> 02:56:22,370
And so the driving of our enrollment can either go either direction based on how what the

1988
02:56:22,370 --> 02:56:28,330
public perceives based on experience, the student experience, the family experience,

1989
02:56:28,330 --> 02:56:29,870
or overall experience.

1990
02:56:31,790 --> 02:56:37,410
And so I just think that everybody should be mindful of that.

1991
02:56:37,530 --> 02:56:44,310
That doesn't mean that you, that improvements, voice, shouldn't be voice, but they should,

1992
02:56:44,670 --> 02:56:51,910
those, they should be voice, and they should be voice at the right levels to where we can

1993
02:56:51,910 --> 02:56:59,590
and have an opportunity to improve whatever areas of concern.

1994
02:57:00,150 --> 02:57:07,190
And then I just want to say to the folks that reach out to me both staff and non staff,

1995
02:57:07,590 --> 02:57:09,170
continue to do that.

1996
02:57:10,670 --> 02:57:15,950
And so like we can facilitate getting some of these things, taking care of.

1997
02:57:15,950 --> 02:57:25,730
and then for those that, I would say it's always better for the individual that have

1998
02:57:25,730 --> 02:57:35,950
the concern to voice that concern instead of going through different mediums because

1999
02:57:35,950 --> 02:57:40,550
then it's kind of harder to gauge what the actual concern is.

2000
02:57:40,550 --> 02:57:48,030
And so that's what I wanted to say is that I continue to use your resources and see

2001
02:57:48,030 --> 02:57:49,190
us as a resource.

2002
02:57:50,490 --> 02:57:58,090
You guys, that's all I have on the next meeting on the 23rd agenda.

2003
02:57:59,390 --> 02:58:00,870
Do y'all got anything else?

2004
02:58:02,490 --> 02:58:02,970
Hey, man.

2005
02:58:03,490 --> 02:58:10,410
All right, so at this time, if there's nothing else, I would entertain a motion.

2006
02:58:10,410 --> 02:58:17,910
or have I jumped ahead hold on I mean because you know I would jump ahead

2007
02:58:17,910 --> 02:58:23,150
board comments adjournment so I would move that we adjourn our board

2008
02:58:23,150 --> 02:58:30,590
adjourn a meeting okay all right any discussion okay it's signaled by

2009
02:58:30,590 --> 02:58:37,610
saying aye for those that in favor of adjournment aye in any opposed may

2010
02:58:37,610 --> 02:58:41,750
little rock and beyond thank you for joining us for the last few hours we appreciate

2011
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you stay in touch and we'll see you later.