Board Meeting minutes from 8/21/2019 were reviewed and approved.

Ned Southworth presented John Scali and Faye Schilling discussed the SAT proficiency at State and MOT levels.  Proficiency is defined as a 75% chance of earning a C or better in the First Semester college course.  Faye discussed the decrease in the proficiency in reading and writing in the testing and how the curriculum has been adjusted to address this issue.  Faye discussed there was a 3 point increase in math testing.   John discussed the specific testing for MOT students.  He stated that the reading and writing testing remained approximately the same as last year.  He stated that there was 12 point increase with the math testing.  He discussed working to get to the University of Delaware average which would require 103 point increase in math and 79 point increase in reading.  John stated that MOT had 100% acceptance rate for 2 years.  John talked about Advanced Placement results for 2019.  Students scoring a 4-5 21% versus national average 34% and students scoring 3 or higher 56% versus national average 60%.  

Dave Wattlington recommended to allocate up to $325,000 to finish the fields, irrigation and bleachers.

Ned Southworth discussed how to log on and complete the training for the board members.

Ned Southworth reviewed the report that is located in the agenda for the meeting.  He discussed referrals versus incidents that will be reported.  Ned discussed having a security vestibule in the High School that is similar to the K8 building has currently.  Ned discussed upgrading the cameras in the K8 building.  

Mir Sadiq "Ali" Ali Khan discussed his concern regarding a student not obtaining a preference for a student in the high school who has a sibling applying to the Kindergarden class.  This causes an issue because the High School does not give a preference to the new student.  There was another criteria to have preference for a high school who completed the K8 program to the new applicant students.