RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - The State Board of Education will meet Wednesday and Thursday with an agenda that includes a Race to the Top grant update and a look at virtual schools.

An agenda and executive summaries are posted online at http://stateboard.ncpublicschools.gov/. The State Board’s committee meetings and full Board meeting are audio streamed at http://stateboard.ncpublicschools.gov/.

 The agenda:
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5       

10 – 10:05 a.m.
Call to order and approval of August Board agenda


10:05 – 11 a.m.
SBE Issues Session

Digital Teaching and Learning Division Profile, and an Evaluation Report on Race to the Top: Turning Around the Lowest-Achieving Schools

 
11 – 11:15 a.m.
•  21st Century Systems Committee

State Board member Greg Alcorn, chair; Kevin Howell, vice chair

Action item: Funded Average Daily Membership for Charter Schools with Approved Dropout Prevention and Recovery Programs

New Business item: Contracts Update

 

11:15 – 11:50 a.m.

•  Leadership for Innovation Committee

State Board member Becky Taylor, chair; Wayne McDevitt, vice chair

Action item: NC Charter Schools Advisory Board Charter Recommendations

New Business items: NC Virtual Charter Schools Pilot Update, Update on Children’s Village Academy and Overview of Charter Schools Performance Framework

 

11:50 -11:55 a.m.

•  21st Century Professionals Committee

State Board member Olivia Oxendine, chair; Eric Davis, vice chair

Action item: Recommendations for Appointments to the Extenuating Circumstances Committee

 

11:55 a.m.   Lunch

 

1:30 -3:30 p.m.

•  Globally Competitive Students Committee

State Board member Eric Davis, chair; Olivia Oxendine, vice chair

Action items: Course for Credit Update, Graduation Requirements Update and Compliance Commission Recommendations for Field Testing and Special Studies Appeals for the 2015-16 School Year

Discussion items: Dropout Exit Conference and Referral Process, Replacement of Compliance Commission Members and Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities

New Business items: NC Department of Public Instruction Proof of Concept Study Update and Advisory Councils for the Residential Schools Annual Report 2015


3:30 p.m.  Open session then adjourn to closed session


4:15 p.m.  Board reconvenes then adjourns

 

THURSDAY, AUG. 6

9 -11:30 a.m.

Following approval of their July minutes, Board members will welcome 2015 Burroughs Wellcome NC Teacher of the Year Keana Triplett, 2015 Wells Fargo NC Principal of the Year Steve Lassiter, and 2015 A. Craig Phillips Superintendent of the Year Rodney Shotwell.

State Superintendent June Atkinson will follow with her report to the Board, which will include a legislative report from Legislative and Community Affairs Director Rachel Beaulieu.

Board members will then receive a special presentation on Race to the Top: The Distribution of Teachers in North Carolina, 2009-13: Final Evaluation Report.

On the Board’s Information Agenda is a report on Read to Achieve on the Use of the Formative Diagnostic Assessment System Reading 3D.

 Under the Consent Agenda, members will approve Race to the Top: The Distribution of Teachers in North Carolina, 2009-2013: Final Evaluation Report, Race to the Top: North Carolina New Teacher Support Program: Final Evaluation Report, Benefits and Employment Policy Manual Technical Corrections and Revisions, Policy Delineating the Components of the READY Accountability Model Including Annual Measurable Objectives, Technical Corrections to Accountability Policies, Report to North Carolina General Assembly: Report on Educational Performance of Children with Disabilities, and Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Care for Students with Diabetes for LEAs and Charter Schools.