1. Graduation will take place at 7:00 pm on May 29 at the Multi-Purpose Field. Please plan to be there by 6:30 pm.

2. The end of the legislative session is May 18. There has been considerable talk about limiting screen time for students/children. We are looking at this possibility for our students as well. This will likely start with our lower grade levels in the Primary School.

4.  Staff Appreciation activities will be taking place this week, May 4-8.  We (Cabinet Members) are having a social on Wednesday, May 6, at Pebble Creek in conjunction with the school board and PTSA. In addition to the May 6 event, the cabinet is providing bagels on Tuesday to staff.  PTSA is doing an appreciation of various snacks during the week.  Social media posts for each group during the week will take place as well.

5. Summer construction work will be mainly roofing on the High School. This work has started today (May 4). This includes mobilization for HS roofing, May 5 will have replacement of 4 gym roof drains, May 6 start woodwork, May 11 start roof demo and re-roofing gym roof, May 18 drain water and glycol lines and move them. The tennis courts are also being redone starting this week and will be unavailable most of the summer.

6. We have spent a considerable amount of time working on staffing decisions. Our focus, as always, is on impact on students. We also focused on staff impact, community impact, short term impact, and long term impact. Through many discussion, we have found a workable solution that based on current numbers lowers class size, places people in their licensure areas, saves multiple probationary classroom teacher positions, has very minimal impacts on staff in terms of losing jobs, and saves the district an estimated $600,000. 

 

I recommend approving the personnel items as presented.

Policy 706 Acceptance of Gifts permits the school board to accept donations or gifts under the terms of the policy.  I recommend accepting the gifts as described in the enclosure.  Thank you to those who have donated to our schools and students. 

Policy 208, Development, Adoption, and Implementation of Policies Article IV, Subd. D allows for minor changes that do not affect the substance of policy or because of a legal change over which the school board has no control, may be approved at one meeting.  In addition, Article V, Subd. D states the school board shall review policies at least once every three years.

Changes to the attached policies may include formatting or legal references. 

Therefore, the Policy Committee recommends approving the following reviews (our current policy and MSBA's recommended changes in redline version are attached):

Policy 306 - Administrator Code of Ethics- Updated to MN Code of Ethics and removes NAESP Statement 1100.2 Statement of Ethics
Policy 414- Mandated Reporting of Child Neglect or Physical or Sexual Abuse-Updated reference to statute
Policy 418-Drug Free Workplace Drug Free Schools-temporary licenses and lab activities updated
Policy 501- School Weapons - Reporting to MDE for Dangerous Weapons incident
Policy 516- Student Medication - Replaced "auto-injector" with "delivery system"
Policy 516.5- Overdose Medication-No change-Not adding allowing student to administer
Policy 524-Internet Intranet Acceptable Use - No change
Policy 602- Organization of School Calendar School Day - Labor Day start change
Policy 621- Read Act - Change to statute
Policy 707-Transportation of Public School Students- Changes to students with disabilities
Policy 709- Transportation Safety - Student safety training dates removed
Policy 802- Disposition of Obsolete Equipment Material-Surplus books provision added
 

I recommend a first reading on the following policies:

503 (Updated):  Student Attendance-one minor word change (from "shall" to "may") on page 4, letter b, number 4, letter b.
515 (Updated):  Protection and Privacy of Pupil Records
625 (New):  Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence 

*Our current policy, revised policy and MSBA's redline versions are attached.