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School Board Meeting 2017-05-31

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you're watching wpst St John the Baptist Parish Public School television check it out phone call the board members shower Holden Candice Jerry Jones Philip Johnson wise showing Wireless Mitchell and Clarence St John the Baptist Parish School Board cafeteria 1600 Highway 44 Reserve Louisiana on Wednesday May 31st 6 p.m. all the order can we going to have a moment of silence all about the Pledge of Allegiance flag of United States of America and to the Republic for today indivisible Roku who's the girl 11 present 400 business Rush wise I'm sorry go ahead and then I'll come in I acquires action he wants to receive make a motion to suspend the rules to consider item 9 or May 25th 2017 what school school board meeting which reads Miss Kimberly Williams 40 Jet Solutions receive report from third-party Charlie evaluator and where did not application of Louisiana Premier Charter School requires action  alright thank you mr. president this may be one of the most important decisions that we will make this year  school choices with us there's just no way around there good things and so good things but we have to have a recognized their existence and recognize that if we do not approve this tonight as a type 1 charter school and we will total trolls total communication with the school school is going to happen they have met all of the requirements can you set an elected last time and so question is is it going to be under local Authority or is it going to be run straight from Baton Rouge and so I'm going to move that we suspend the rules the first of all and then consider original vote second Vines Sanders of participation Master this is just too too adjustive suspend the rules exist for the substance of them okay cook off  old members of his wheel motion on the floor vote on the motion broke is Holden yes yes Mitchell yes sister Trish the last meeting and accept the the contract out of Emily strategic Solutions receive report from their party valuator and approve or deny the application of Louisiana Premier Charter School requires action is my twin sister OSHA made by Miss Wise either one second by mr. Keller for the participation Arias carolingian Betty's do you have solutely right is probably going to be there  most important when we make I hope you guys are seen the commercial from the superintendent ragging on how the Louisiana's doing so fine the Public Schools traditional schools are doing so several of them all day right now I understand what you're saying look at the article that was in the Morning Advocate after I found out something about the meeting and I'm going to kind of like highlight based on what you guys said in the paper first of all article saying likely to approve can we from our schools as idiots we already have a problem in science and reason in particular areas according to our test scores what about those kids that's going to be left there you're not putting enough resources but they need to be in the first place cater 12 is what they're talking about build on a cam 12 school in here we trying to chop down to school and we forgot about that school how we've been I guess we can say somebody told me get through that school under the bus but we going to chop it up but we don't open up with K to 12 and when some of these people leave then we going to have after schools will Betsy will give it approval  but this is not the first time Betsy has done this to st. John Parish a little lies lies in your name communication with new schools while we are having very slim communication right now you guys don't even demand that you know about person Elf not to vote about it should be in the agenda Personnel should be in the agenda for your information for the public information because parents need to know if they got teachers in these classrooms they have left contacts  our system has a beat you're bragging on it  people in the community not had we got to be but we going to do this they call it a sell-out I was talking about as far as why haven't we had  done in previous years I remember last year it came up and the previous year I don't remember that but if it didn't come out to the public but right now our community meetings  the state  is awesomeness that not monitored hardly anything I can talk about this pair the meaning of the parishes of few I can but they just let things go you have been sliding down is slippery slope and now Chris Myers which is the guy that came in what about race to the top which didn't do anything for sent Johnny O  but then again we don't get presentations we just take anything that comes to us this is the guy that's after this is this Charter School Louisiana Premier Charter it's nothing new it is coming down from other places and the business card of from Arlene Savannah's where they come  speaking of that  Administration is coming you guys for an approval because this is going to come I still say we can challenge Baton Rouge coming this week in August 2011  did they come to you and ask you about joining a charter school December 2012 and double it 2013 October the thing called rocket ship this is we've also been adding our name to but did you guys know about that big Ursula's not an upset when I say this I'm talking administration because with this board president whoever you are 2011 and 1013 you had to make a recommendation and you had to sign the paper along with the president of the do have collective bargaining I didn't sign anything wondering where all this is coming from when we know that the kids are the ones supposed to be working with that rocket ship has to do with what they're trying to do which before it says and mandatory more or less K3 K4 K5 we are let this slip through on us and not paying attention he has Mercer Island some of you probably you're sitting on that you're looking at me what this is real and the state is going to do with the state is going to do but trust me when I talk to my attorney that he said you can bring up the fact about the charter school ad before I say don't know that he say well haven't you been working on I said yes I have a some weight it's been dropped down the line by the way the first one for all the 2011 what specific school cross the River West st. John Elementary this is been going on but how many times did bring it to this board how much is going that you don't know about that is going to be slip right in their own you just like the school to Improvement I was schools with never given that we have Focus schools do you guys even know that is bypass the time for that and you know even if it's a type one or the best you come through that with Philadelphia brought the failure of it because you still have to spend the money for it no matter what and you still at the spin the money for all the things we got going oh my God we are still down for a school from 2012 but yet and still be going to give an approval of a school that we don't even need we got enough Schools running through your that a very similar reason okay Riverside and some of the other voucher schools in trouble because they didn't make the scores check that out that's easy to find also and I hear it may be closing that's where some of these kids are coming from they still don't the school your children board members we might be picking from 35 to 40000 play we be better off with Charter well I was just going to ask a couple of earlier of other charter schools that is any actually ever applied  we've since I've been here this is the third time we've had an twice by this current one the I can't recall the name of the other one that came here but the application was so weak that it never even they never even followed the process to even come to the board there were some conversations with the charter school that opened in st.james Parish came in to meet with us what I directed them to do is since you with an St James you should go back to since I've been here who's that I'm familiar with concerns from the constituents bringing the charter school in as well as the financial impacts on that so thank you mr. president  I just like to hear from Administration superintendent can you briefly address the board as well as well as the public as it relates to the financial strain that this possibly may have on this District as released to allow the charter school in can you please explain to the board as well as the public are some clear to everyone who want to be fair so can you please enlighten us as well as a public basically when I think I see this first ported and I think it'll make everything crystal clear to the public in and help I know the board has been aware of these conversations volume  you know we have we we had a third party evaluator to give us an opinion to give us a recommendation how we do know that then Williams strategic Solutions her team has recommended that this be approved and in my administrative teams professional opinion believe it will be approved they have met all 76 goals on on the rubric that state department puts out so they met 76 out of 76 objectives we have a third party evaluator that has recommended approval by administrative team I also believe it will be approved at Bessie so now it it comes up to do you want to type 1 or type 2 Charter School in your District you financially you will this district will absorb some some added additional string of monetary strain but that month that strain is coming whether we like it or not so do you want and I'm just using just a number would you want to give $1000000 to a group and have no input or would you want to give a million dollars and have some say in summer put them work together with him and that's really what is boiling down to what that's decision of this board do you want these public dollars to leave this controller 11 people who weigh elected by the people at the tail how money is supposed to be spent or do you want to say note here's to check do you do what you want briefly that's the best way I can do it and I know the constituents on the Westbank of her concerns and what up told the constituents is a type II would be worse for you I don't believe in a western John's that you need Community right I don't believe a lot of it and I don't have actual numbers but just from knowing that the population in st-charles and in Riverside parochial school daughter elementary schools it's not a lot of egg guard Lucy addresses they're the people in Edgard and on The West Wing theme video attend their schools so I don't really see this really affecting them however it would be open everybody but I believe that the community loves their schools and they're not leaving will there be exceptions I'm sure they will but going the other what were the type to with us not having any say in if I can finances of it I think that actually hurts the Westbank more in my opinion but I want to be brief I know you asked me be brief I can talk this all day but that's kind of where we are just to be clear the Money Follows the kids JB whatever decision play tonight as a body you're saying that you can override it basically we vote tonight to accept this we would as mystery said we would have some control however if we don't SE basically over at it and they is the district whatever whatever goes on in we have no say so you would have no say mr. Jones none and financially disses right one is better for the system than a type 2 charter school if it's a type 2 charter school they can do whatever they want no input and is nothing anyone and I promise you with a third-party evaluator making a recommendation to approve is going to be very easy for Messi to approve this we knew last year that there was some shortcoming so we knew that it would the best of you would not approve in our opinion we felt like they not approved because they had not met all of the the check marks they have this time they have so if it best if we I want to prove and they go to the state they will get approved and it will be sending a check to wherever these people will be with no input whatsoever do us one final thought mr. president I have seen other your schools and type 2 charter schools and the relationship that they have had with the local boards it isn't pretty necessarily you could well wind up with if we have a substantial School in our district that we have no control or no communication thank you  I have just one thing I'll miss a George can you explain just a little bit about the oversight that we would have as a type 1 versus not having that oversight as a type 2 the authorizer the governing board different things we govern all of the current schools that are held the schools in the system where we're in heavily involved in the budgets of the hiring in the firing the curriculum we're heavily involved in that as an authorized ER on the front end there is a lot of communication as a lot of negotiation there's a lot of work sitting at the table to get a program and a contract and an agreement that is acceptable to this board and to them that's where all hours of Court Encore power comes in in the beginning the front end they have to agree to what we're saying cuz we're authorizing you we are authorizing you stop Reef but it comes with some parameters now once that school opens they have to follow those agreements that have been made however long what was agreements take they have to honor those agreements that have been made and I think that is the key the key is working getting everything on the front end is isn't going to happen in two three weeks we're talking about wants long process that this board it is happy or at least I had a spot with with what we have on paper and then it's up to them then to executed of course will be here as an authorized to provide they are not like a one of our direct run schools but they can lean on us by our sisters because this system is knows how to educate children they are new they are a group that is come with a plan but we have those experiences in the backgrounds to help them to implement that plan effectively breaches the length of the shorter law allows for four years they have a contract or to open cancel for years and they have to meet certain standards at the end of those four years we look and see if they meant all of their jectors if they have not make the objectives weekend hope they're Charter now what would mrs. Mitchell or just stated by the breach if they breach something that's in that contract before that 4 years old we can see well hold on this is Major you broke this your breach this portion of the contract so we're going to go ahead and revoke your Charter today so again that gives this board  a lot of Cecil and a lot of power when dealing with Charter School  swallows just just one thing it's judge whether we go to type 1 like to  concerns or can we have a community eating out this over with so would that people have an ideal of I want to type too well direction we're going so they can have a bet on the stand mass of type 1 or type 2 tonight yes I think that would be very much appropriate we had some there were meetings earlier on I know we had one pastors meeting with about 20 to 25 pastors and we started to talk about hey we had his application just trying to educate the public more about it but no I think you're absolutely right we we need to inform the public by having some forums after tonight whatever happens moving forward so that their questions can be you know we can answer whatever questions they have whatever concerns they have maybe even have some of those Jordans will cuz they will be here so we got I think that's a great idea something that we will have in and out Skittle take it'll maybe just a few months of having some public forms about the school so people can ask questions I guess I'm going to be the last one I wish Miss Kimberly would have been here tonight cuz I have some questions for her or was her job to mainly evaluate and see if she think that Betsy was going to approve it or not who's she did she think that this was going to be a good fit percentage on Parrish and misterwives you spoke of having a good relationship with a charter school I think it would have been best ones did not decided to come back and say that they were going to reapply just like we meet to you darts negotiated contract can Cam and inform the public and bring those issues or forward I think that would have been much better and smoother musician for this so but and the issues I have in reading your information first thing you learned in school who what when and why and that's how you determined on how you going to answer a question so what I'm looking at 7 people on this board that's only Charter School Board only for or from St John Parish the two people from Ascension Parish one from San Tammany Parish so I'm also looking at the executive summary and it talked about the sea level and two Rd level School which are we know the condition school that's why we made the changes before school but in the state right now at 141 Charter Schools 99 overdose Charter Schools or cvrf charter schools for t or d 39 or see in 20 or RF so when it was talking about the schools in his district or Cindy I'm looking at the charter school over half of them or in the Sanford is singing that weird appreciating in St John the Baptist Parish I'm up it was talking about the below average performance with District school correlates with an overall decline in Public Schools Enrollment in the parish but it you look at the Dig would you talk about October the 1st 2012 to October 1st 2016 if you all remember Hurricane Isaac hit September 9th 2012 we lost a lot of kids enrollment before the year  was 6524 Roman that we did in October after that was 6110 enrollment as of today is in 2000 16 is 6158 so where they're saying that we decline by 561 is 366 and we've had numerous conversations talking about how students are coming back  dis and looking at most information and you asked the other day or we going to be duplicating services and checked out at applications Jump Start programs Project Lead the Way so some of the stuff that we're currently doing right now and trying to better the school system we already have please I wish the guy was here cuz he said that who was playing politics and everything about this vote this vote Daddy has nothing about politics I think everyone on his board took an oath of office to make sure that we would educate our children the best that we can abilities I want to tell him I read a book by dr. Perry and it came push has come to show in this was a guy that open up a charter school in New York so what he talked about someone things that we need to try to push so I'll talk to mr. George about some of the things that was going on with the school and I would and if George could mr. George can remember the conversation he said that we need to go out and look for somebody in sink so before you can get your all about stem and all that that's one of the reasons why I was trying to implement some of those same ideas and your remaining but way before I became an aboard to come some superintendents didn't have the staff that was needed to go ahead and put your stem curriculum but now they have that stuff that to put the stem curriculum I spoke went to the graduation of the day spoke to the principal every 8th grader that take the algebra 1 Test passed so they're going to be going to high school with algebra one credit already but we keep on getting on the negative information but everything that's positive that's going on that's not happening last week about the racial division in the parish and but what they don't know the people that that go to St John they're probably going to be the most successful because they and of the diversity of the top five in East Saint John graduation it would free whites to develop guitar was a white male so  this is something that is not that I was against charter school I think if they could you could have better job selling it to us that we could have sold to the community does at the end of the day  a job is to make sure that we teach all our children stuff at Zen we have a motion on the floor roll call can you repeat that motion Cezanne II if I doctor tell her to accept the recommendation of the third-party evaluator and approve the application of Louisiana premiere alright miss one more paper to let them out of here for a reason why I cuz I was talking about the positive and I'm pulled up John the Baptist Parish all the District of performance scores and the beach is like anything that we were doing we were in our approved of it but Louisiana are trying to assessment 79 district is Steve with 70% students graduate in 4 years with a diploma 70% it averages percent graduates earning tops Align dual-enrollment Credit 20% they 18% and students enrolling in college have to graduate 58% 58% with the state so I just think that what we've always talked about doing more stuff to do for self ocean and need to do a better job of that also so at this point we're going to have more vote roll call elf back to Keller tallest Miss Mitchell at stange is Patricia's tomorrow is Tunis on a motion pass  going to see if this deal will Island Adventures PeaceHealth new business item a Mickey Jones from Crest border to adjust of July board meeting as we asked last week in head guard  from July 13th 2017 to July to just move it one week back to accommodate board members professional development that is a form of emotion second  Chevron mr. Joe second bar Mr Sanders  call Miss Holton yes yes yes Francesca Jones but as a ventures  Bushnell John the movie II you're watching wpst Saint John Baptist Parish Public School television check it out

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