Mr. Thompson provided an invocation.

A group of scholars led the board members in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mr. Thompson made mention of the growing classes and scholars. 

Ms. Knopf recited the LSC Mission Statement.

Mr. Thompson read aloud the LSC Vision Statement.

• During this time, Mr. Thompson and Dr. Ivey recognized the lead teacher, teaching fellow, and support staff members of the month from April and May.

During this time, Mr. Thompson and Dr. Ivey recognized several community partners that helped make Staff Appreciation Week so successful. With a combination of monetary donations as well as contributions to include meals, the Sumter Community rallied together to help make the week a huge success.

There were no participates during this time. 

• During this portion of the meeting, Dr. Ivey reported that 35/38 of his monthly goals are on-track and/or completed for the month of May, putting him at 92%.

• Ms. Sally Harris gave updates from the Instructional Leadership Team for the months of April and May. 
  • 7/13 of all monthly priorities have been met.
  • Big Workstream Highlights to include field day, nightly read-alouds, BEST of Sumter, and seven Saturday Enrichment Experiences.
  • SINGLE GREATEST CHALLENGE: Staff match-ups for the 23-24 school year.
• Ms. LaQuanya Chambers gave updates from the OPS Team. 
  • Ms. Chambers gave an update on ADA, persistence, and the BOY checklist.
  • Big Workstream Highlights to include attendance task force, Welcome to Liberty, and two of three field trips.
  • SINGLE GREATEST CHALLENGE: Transitioning to Self OP for the 23-24 School Year.
• Ms. Shereza Middleton gave updates from the Culture Support Team.  
  • 10/13 of their monthly priorities have been met. 
  • Big Workstream Highlights to include an author visit by Mr. Jamarcus Little, the Eagle SOAR shop, and they're in their final six-week rotation of SEL small group.
  •  SINGLE GREATEST CHALLENGE: Code of Conduct Alignment.
• Ms. Nicky Pack gave updates from the SPED Team. 
  • Current scholars receiving services to include OT, PT, and speech include 35 IEP's and 11 504's.
  • Big Workstream Highlights to include discipline training at the District office, small group accommodations for scholars taking the MAP test, and fun with Sparky.
  • SINGLE GREATEST CHALLENGE: Completing all evaluations and annual reviews before EOY.

• During this time, Ms. Chandler reviewed all five of the policies that have been recommended by the various committee groups. 
  • The Scholar Grievance policy was updated to appoint a three member committee of the board regarding scholar grievances. 
  • The Scholar Expulsion Policy will provide full complaisance with state law by incorporating an official hearing officer proceeding for any scholar recommended for expulsion by the Executive Director.
  • The Scholar Enrollment Policy will reduce classroom sizes to 24 scholars with the ability to fill any empty seats until the 135 day of school making 6 sections of each grade level for a total of 144 scholars per grade level.
  • Unencumbered Time Policy will give each teacher 30 minutes of unencumbered time Monday-Thursday to voluntarily comply with the new law signed by Governor McMaster.
  • FMLA Policy will give teachers six weeks paid leave for maternity leave and two weeks paid leave for paternity leave. This is a voluntary compliance with the recent bill signed by Governor McMaster. 

• During this time, Dr. Thompson made the suggestion that moving forward the Board Members only review and vote on policy updates twice a year. He suggested that the policies be voted on at November and May meetings. 
• Mr. Thompson was in agreement with this proposal.
• Dr. Thompson made a comment to mention there can always be an exception made for emergencies.

• Dr. Thompson reported out from the Finance Committee. He shared with the board about the implementation of positive pay as a double layer of fraud protection.
• He also shared the cash flow document with all board members to show that we are still on track to end the year wit ha current projected reserve balance of $120,000.
• Dr. Thompson thanked the teachers and staff members about being flexible and their combined efforts to make changes to the 23-24 budget. They spoke about the generous donors that have helped tremendously this past year and the help that those donors bring to the construction of Site II. 

• Ms. Knopf shared about the federal programs planning committee that met this past month to gather input about title funding and how it is spent.
• She also shared action steps regarding the different task forces. The following task forces have met numerous times to collaborate and brainstorm on different areas of the school including the Code of Conduct, EL Curriculum, Early Academy (PreK) task force, and attendance.
• Ms. Knopf shared preliminary assessment scores for reading and math. This data is still raw being that we have some scholars re-testing.

• Dr. Ivey gave an update from the Development Committee.
• Dr. Ivey shared a recent partnership with the Elders of the South Sumter Community.
  • We recently held a Saturday Experience that took place in South Sumter where the scholars had their first experience with construction, building benches that will be brought back to the Primary Campus. 
• He gave an update on current grants and grants in progress in the amount of $25,000.
• Dr. Ivey shared about other development initiatives like "Lunch and Learn" that lead to the hiring of our new foreign language teacher for the 23-24 SY as well as Director for a Day that is taking place on June 1st at the Primary Campus. This is an opportunity for individuals from the community to shadow different leaders at the school.  

Mr. Thompson thanked all the board members for their time and contribution to the board meeting.

There were no remarks during this time.