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Do we have a quorum? Welcome to the Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy Board Meeting.

Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy provides a differentiated, challenging, and equitable learning environment that supports the distinctive intellectual, social, and emotional needs of highly gifted children from diverse backgrounds and enables them to form meaningful relationships with their intellectual peers.

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• Official approval of draft minutes

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• We are now in Year 2 of the Renewal Process.  
• Key milestones:
  • February 2025 — The final vote will likely occur in February 2025.
  • April 2025—The Office of Charter Schools (OCS) will send schools their new Charter Agreements, which must be signed by the Board Chair, notarized and mailed back to OCS.
  • May 2025 —The State Superintendent will sign the Charter Agreement.
  • June 2025 — Schools will receive a digital copy of the Final Charter Agreement via email. Final Hard Copy Agreements will be filed in the OCS.
  • July 1, 2025 — New Charter Agreements begin!
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• Draft First Read
• There have been substantial changes to Title IX from 2020 to 2024.
• Board counsel Lisa Gordon-Stella provided the attached Policy.
• There's a document comparing 2020 to 2024 Title IX changes available upon request.

NC lawmakers passed a bill to require schools to safety threats. HB 605 requires assessment of and intervention with an individual whose behavior poses a risk to the safety of school staff, students, or self, including suggested definitions of threat levels with examples of behavior that would be considered a threat under given definitions.  See attached law

1. Financial update

2. Vote on budget amendments, as recommended by the Finance Committee

3. Vote on extending CD maturities from 6 to 12 months

• Computer Science Program
• Social Studies curriculum update
• Science curriculum review
• Media language on Policy
• Foreign Language offering
• Grade weighting definition and timing