Kathleen Crawford welcomed the three new trustees, Todd Tetreault, Ramona Royal, and Anissia Vixamar, to their first board meeting. DESE approved their application faster than anticipated, so the board discussed moving up their term dates

Amanda Haynes introduced the students of the Student Advisory Group, Malaz Abdelhadi, Kayra Homicile and Julie Pascual to present their thoughts on the dress code policy. The students did submit a presentation on Friday, but it was not posted in time for the board to share it during the meeting and remain in compliance with the open meeting law. The students will send the presentation, and it will be posted with the minutes. The student's presentation skills were applauded after the presentation, and thanks for them supplying input to the board.  Dana Benton-Johnson informed the trustees that the dress code policy is not ready for an update but will be presented to the board before the start of the next school year for consideration. The board invited the students to listen to the next presentation as it would cover more leadership opportunities under proposal for the upcoming school year.

Susie Girard presented (see attached presentation) a new structure of the Board of Trustees and its committees. Changes include:

• adding two new committees
• adding 1-2 student on all committees including the Board of Trustees (1)
• adding 1-2 staff and parent/guardian on all committees
• Rename the Enrollment committee and clarify it's scope

Dana Benton-Johnson suggested the current "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion" become a board committee. The group has been working to redefine its scope this year. There was discussion on if the committee should be part of the proposed Student Recruitment & Retention committee or not. Susie Girard was concerned that making it a board committee would create a perception that it was taking away power from the students as it would need to be chaired by a Board member if it was a Board Committee. 

A total of 43 new opportunities for staff, parent/guardians, and students are proposed to be added to committees. The changes are extensive and the board has another guest speaker to discuss the next topic so the topic was tabled until later in the meeting.

MAP DATA

Ryan Knight of Ed Light PBC prepared a data analysis (see attached presentation) of the winter MAP data for the school. He educated the board on how to read MAP data and what to look for. The results show MAP data is within "Normal" Range across the district.  The Elementary and Middle Schools' scores are average to slightly above average. The High School has a smaller pool of students having tested only 9th and 10th grades but were below average. The Elementary & Middle school are averaging the High School results when looked at as a district.  
 

Race and ethnicity results were reviewed; Although Mathematics values for Hispanic and Black students were lower, they are not statistically significant. Ramona Royal asked questions about adding the dimension for when the students joined FRCS and its relation to their test results. Although that data can be calculated, Ryan did not have it for this evening.

Students who receive Specialized Services (SPED, English Language Learners) performed particularly well on this assessment. 
 

An area of concern is the male High School students reading values.  The school administration will present at next month's meeting what changes are going to happen now that the data is available. 

Dana Benton-Johnson updated the board on the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion group. They have been rescoping the group and hope to give an update at a future meeting. Two students are currently involved with the group.  The board and Dana discussed again if the student would like to have their committee be a board committee. Dana mentioned they have a meeting tomorrow and she will discuss with them the pros/cons of the option.  

Julia Garcia provided an update on personnel:

• Working on creating job descriptions
• Overhauling the employee handbook which should be at the May board meeting for a first reading.
• We recently had 7 voluntary terminations and 12 new hires
• 9 jobs are currently on School Spring if anyone wants to share them with their network
  • 1 District Administration
  • 3 Elementary School
  • 3 Middle School
  • 2 High School

The Board reviewed the update from ELPAC that was submitted. Lori Obenchain mentioned the ELPAC Multicultural Night is coming up on May 17th at 5pm via zoom.

Nothing at this time

Nothing at this time

The Board reviewed the update from SEPAC that was submitted. Lori Obenchain mentioned that the community group is being managed by three parent volunteers.

The Debt Management Policy was tabled

Nothing at this time

• The schools current enrollment is 1654. 
• 150 kindergarten students are enrolled for K next year.
• Grades 1-6 offers will be assessed in May when we know more about who will be withdrawing.
• There were no appeals reviewed this month.

Matt Harrington has resigned as the Director of Operations to pursue other opportunities.  His role is being posted.  The Board reviewed the report submitted as an update.

• Budget is trending as expected.  
• We are waiting to hear about any changes to tuition reimbursement.
• The Budget for next year is still being developed and will be at an upcoming meeting.

No update this month

The Board discussed the proposed committee structure again (see attached presentation). Given that two trustees needed to leave the meeting early we decided to hold off on committee assignment but voted on the new structure. 

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefore this item was tabled.

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefore this item was tabled.

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefore this item was tabled.

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefor this item was tabled.

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefore this item was tabled.

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefor this item was tabled.

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefore this item was tabled.

Due to the time the board agreed to have a meeting on Friday to review as many meeting minutes as possible. Therefore this item was tabled.