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RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - The State Board of Education will gather in Raleigh at mid-week. The meetings will be held Wednesday and Thursday, January 7 and 8 at the state Education building on Wilmington street
The meeting will be audio streamed at http://stateboard.ncpublicschools.gov/.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7
10 – 10:05 a.m.
Call to order and approval of January Board agenda
10:05 – 10:10 a.m.
Swearing in ceremony for new State Board of Education member Eric Davis
10:10 – 10:45 a.m.
SBE Issues Session: North Carolina’s Comprehensive Arts Education Program
10:45 – 11:05 a.m.
Dept. of Public Instruction Division Profiles:
- Educator Effectiveness
- LEA Human Resource Support
11:05 – 11:35 a.m.
• 21st Century Professionals Committee
State Board member Olivia Oxendine, chair; John Tate, vice chair
Action items: Requests for Waivers from Analysis of Student Work and Requests for Waivers from North Carolina Final Exams
Discussion items: Teacher Observation Requirements and New Licensure Areas for Institutions of Higher Education
11:35 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
• Globally Competitive Students Committee
State Board member Olivia Oxendine, vice chair
Action items: Global Language Endorsement and Course Name Change for Civics and Economics
Discussion items: Dropout Policy Revision and Revision to Transition Plan for 10-Point Grading Scale for Students
New Business item: NC College and Career Ready for Success
12:15 p.m. LUNCH
1 – 1:30 p.m. CLOSED SESSION
1:30 – 2 p.m.
Digital Learning Special Committee
Lt. Governor and State Board member Dan Forest, chair; State Board member Becky Taylor, vice chair
Update on Digital Learning Implementation Plan
2 – 3:35 p.m
• Leadership for Innovation Committee
State Board member Rebecca Taylor, chair; Wayne McDevitt, vice chair
New Business item: Virtual Charter School Pilot Applicant Presentations: North Carolina Virtual Academy and North Carolina Connections Academy
Action item: Final Approval of 2015 Charter Schools
Discussion items: Renewal Information for Charter Schools with Charters Expiring in 2015, Recommendations for Enrollment and Grade Expansion Requests for Charter Schools, Virtual Charter Schools Proposed Charter Revisions, Virtual Charter School Pilot Recommendations, and Approval of Cooperative Innovative High School Applicants
3:35 – 4:05 p.m.
• 21st Century Systems Committee
State Board member Greg Alcorn, chair; Kevin Howell, vice chair
Action items: Worker’s Compensation – Public School Employees Policy Revision (TCS-Q-001), Worker’s Compensation – Loss Prevention – New Policy, Worker’s Compensation – LEA Return-to-Work Compliance – New Policy, and Approval of Grant: After-School Program Quality Improvement Grant
Discussion item: Reappointment or Replacement of Compliance Commission Members
New Business items: Update on New Licensure System and Contracts Update
4:05 – 4:25 p.m.
• Global Education Special Committee
State Board member Wayne McDevitt, chair
Action item: Criteria for Global-Ready School Designation
4:25 p.m. Open session then adjourn to closed session
5 p.m. Board reconvenes then adjourns
THURSDAY, JAN. 8
9 – 11 a.m.
Following approval of their December minutes, Board members will recognize North Carolina’s 2014 Milken Award winner Angie Sigmon (Shuford Elementary, Newton-Conover City Schools); the state’s 2014 Blue Ribbon Schools: Briarcliff Elementary (Wake County Schools), Caldwell Early College High (Caldwell County Schools), Raleigh Charter High (Wake County), Shoals Elementary (Surry County Schools), and West Elementary (Cleveland County Schools); and new State Board of Education Local Board Member Advisor Evelyn Bulluck, chair, Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education and 2014-15 Raleigh Dingman Award Winner from the NC School Boards Association.
The Board will then receive a special presentation on the 2015 Edition of the Heritage Calendar.
State Superintendent June Atkinson will follow with her report to the Board, which includes a legislative report from NCDPI Legislative and Community Affairs Director Rachel Beaulieu.
Under the Board’s Information Agenda, members will receive a report on Exemplary Alternative Education Programs: Turning Point Day Treatment Center.
Under the Consent Agenda, members will approve the Report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on Implementation of the ABCs and Statewide Consolidated Assistance Program, Academic Achievement Standards (Cut Score) and Achievement Level Descriptors for End-of-Grade Assessments in English Language Arts/Reading and Mathematics at grades 3-8 and Science at grades 5 and 8, Report to the NC General Assembly: Education of Children in Private Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities, Update of Textbook Policies, Driver Education Policy Revisions, Recommendations for Approval of Superintendent Licensure Programs, NC Public School Personnel State Salary Manual Revisions, Career and Technical Education Credential Allotment, Report to the NC General Assembly on the Process for Assumption of Inadequately Performing Charter Schools and Charter Amendment to Change the Mission Statement for Evergreen Community Charter School.
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