Meeting called to order @ 7:00 P.M by Margaret-Mary Luzny
Reading of Agenda
• Motion to approve agenda for January 27th, 2015
Moved by Beth Thompson, Seconded by Sabrina Gray
Approval of Minutes
• Not Available
Business
• Concerns for Standards Based Reporting
- Discrepancy between buildings
- Lack of teacher input
- Inital conferences cancelled
- Report card issues
- Lack of comments from teachers
- Still getting A,B,C,D letter grades
◦ Not Happy about assignments being chosen
◦ High Schools may be going to standard based grades as well
◦ Not enough consistency even in the building from teacher to teacher
*Note from teacher, Jana Alig went into her grade book, adding things the teacher didn't intend to add.
Schedule of all Assessments of our District
• Not going well, we've decided to make a formal request
• schedule on website is not accurate
• asking a teacher from each building to try and let us know more about when the testing occurs.
-How much reviewing is being done for each test.
• Send an e-mail to Kim Cooper for teachers to do an anonymous survey
Communications Committee Report – Chairperson Debbie Dunlap
• Adopt a teacher program
- Five businesses donated, handed off to the REA to be distributed
- Press release regarding Margaret-Mary Luzny's denial to speak
- Third press release regarding Tina Thomas-Manning's contract
- Signed up for Tomato Festival Booth
New Business
• We need to develop a fundraising/finance committee
• We need to develop an advocacy group for IEP and 504 families
• Jana's report at last board meeting was inaccurate
- Schools not following policy
- Busing open enrollment students
- Suspension shortening for open enrollment students
Roundtable PARCC
• We are not endorsing opting out simply providing information
Raider Strong PAC meeting- January 27th, 2015