Monrovia School Link Preview ~ Number 134 ~ August 21, 2005
Here are a few items on the agenda for this Wednesday's board meeting. Also, yet *another* person has joined the school board race. It is Debbie Elliott-Penzer. Excellent! So, the candidates are: Debbie Elliott-Penzer, Ed Gililland, Nick Laushkin, Chris Rich, and Clarence Shaw. I've already interviewed Laushkin and Shaw, and I have an interview set up with Chris Rich, but I haven't heard back from Ed and Debbie. Please send me a note, folks! I'd like to chat with you.
~ brad@sacklunch.net
The board meeting this Wednesday, August 24, is a three-parter. The agenda says that at 4:30 p.m. there is a study session in the superintendent's office, then at 5:30 p.m. a closed session in the board room. Hmmm. My guess is that the study session is actually in the board room and the closed session in the supe's office, but that's just my guess. Anyway, the regular meeting starts at 7 p.m.
Just a thought, here. It seems that if people wanted to attend the study session AND the regular board meeting (not that they really would, of course, but we're talking hypothetically), wouldn't it be more convenient for the public if the two open meetings were held back to back, and not separated by an hour-and-a-half closed session? Okay, maybe this time there is some scheduling reason to separate them, but it seems to me that not making the public twiddle their thumbs for an hour and a half would be a good general practice.
Anyway...
At the study session the board "will determine contents of Board Guidelines, the process to review the Guidelines, the process for Board self-evaluation, and set a date in the fall for self-evaluation and guidelines review."
At the regular meeting:
- The superintendent will report on a bit of preliminary STAR test score information
- The board will accept (believe me, they won't reject) $1,000 from Walmart Foundation to purchase items for the classroom of Bradoaks teacher David Ross, Walmart's Teacher of the Year. Congrats David! Plus the board will accept some other kind gifts.
- The board will vote on the revised budget for 2005-06.
- And, the board will reveal the contents of a "tentative agreement of the certificated evaluation procedures" (I think that means the district has some sort of tentative agreement about how teachers are to be evaluated, but I’m not certain.) and the board will also reveal the rest of the proposed contract revisions between the Monrovia Teachers Association and the district.
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