SBE MEETING INFORMATION

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State Board of Education to Meet January 31- February 1, 2007 The State Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting on January 31- February 1, 2007 , at the Education Building, 301 North Wilmington Street, Raleigh. The agenda for the SBE meeting follows. Each of the documents below is provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and requires the free Acrobat Reader software to view. If you have difficulty downloading the documents, please contact the Webmaster. Click below to download PDF (full document instead of individual agenda items) of each Strategic Priority:

Globally Competitive Students (GCS)
(pdf, 107kb)
Twenty-First Century Professionals (TCP)
(pdf, 1.4mb)
Twenty-First Century Systems (TCS)
(pdf, 124kb)
Leadership for Innovation (LFI)
(pdf, 37kb)
Healthy Responsible Students (HRS)
Miscellaneous Items (Update on Contracts)
(pdf, 129kb)

Note: In accordance with Governor Easley's Executive Order Number 1, it is the duty of every Board Member to avoid both conflicts of interest and appearances of conflict.

The guiding mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is that every public school student will graduate from high school, globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21st Century.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007
1:00 PM	SBE COMMITTEE MEETINGS GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUEDENTS COMMITTEE (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair; Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action on first Reading GCS 1 - Changes to the 2005-06 ABCs / AYP Report (pdf, 14kb) Discussion GCS 2 - Presentatoin of 2007 Invitation to Submit Textbooks for Evaluation and Adoption in North Carolina (pdf, 14kb) GCS 3 - Discussion of Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 Transition Plan (pdf, 14kb) GCS 4 - Middle Grades Education and High School Graduation Requirements (pdf, 14kb) New Business Accountability Model for High Schools Reading Literacy Plan Setting Committee 'New Business' Topics Priorities
4:00 PM	Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2007
8:30 AM	SBE COMMITTEE MEETINGS TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SYSTEMS' BUSINESS/FINANCE AND ADVOCACY COMMITTEE Mr. Wayne McDevitt, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Vice Chair - Room 224, 2nd Floor, Education Building ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action on First Reading TCS 1 - Individual Class Size Exceptions Waivers (pdf, 100kb)
9:00 AM	Adjourn
9:15 AM	21st CENTURY PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE Dr. Michelle Howard-Vital; Ms. Shirley Harris, Co Chairs - Room 224, 2nd Floor, Education Building ACTON AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action TCP 1 - Praxis II Option for Birth-Kindergarten Teachers to be Designated Highly Qualified (pdf, 1.4mb) Action on First Reading TCP 2 - Recommendations from the Advisory Board on Requests for Exception from Teacher Lecensing Requirements (pdf, 30kb) New Business Board Response to the Center for School Leadership Development Report Setting Committee 'New Business' Topics Priorities
10:30 AM	Adjourn/Break
9:00 AM	LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION COMMITTEE (Ms. Melissa Bartlett and Mr. Tom Speed, Co Chairs – State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action LFI 1 - Recommendations for Final Approval of 2006 Charter School Applications (pdf, 22kb) Action on First Reading LFI 2 - Approval of Charter School Technology Plan (pdf, 17kb) New Business Charter School Merger and Student Lot Issues Setting Committee 'New Business' Topics Priorities
10:30 AM	Adjourn/Break
11:00 AM	ISSUES SESSION – State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building Presentation on Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act Mr. Leigh Manasevit Brustein and Manasevit, Attorneys at Law, Washington, DC
11:50 AM	Lunch - Room 150, 1st Floor, Education Building Finance Officer's Awards Luncheon
1:15 PM	STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING INFORMATION AGENDA GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair; Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair) GCS 5 - Four-Year Cohort Graduation Rate (presented by DPI staff) and Strategies to Address the High School Graduation Rate Issues (Mr. Vann Langston, Executive Director, Triangle High Five) (pdf, 17kb) LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION (Ms. Melissa Bartlett and Mr. Tom Speed, Co Chairs) LFI 3 - NC Virtual Public School – Director’s Report (pdf, 7kb) TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SYSTEMS (Mr. Wayne McDevitt, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Vice Chair) TCS 2 - Update on Financial and Business Services Research Projects (pdf, 117kb)
2:30 PM	Break
2:45 PM	COMMITTEE CHAIR REPORTS AGENDA REPORTS ON ACTION-ON-FIRST-READING AND DISCUSSION ITEMS Globally Competitive Students Chair Report (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair, and Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice Chair) Action on First Reading GCS 1 - Changes to the 2005-06 ABCs/AYP Report (pdf, 14kb) Discussion GCS 2 - Presentation of 2007 Invitation to Submit Textbooks for Evaluation and Adoption in North Carolina (pdf, 45kb) STATE BOARD OF CAREER-TECHNICAL EDUCATION GCS 3 - Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 Transition Plan (pdf, 37kb) GCS 4 - Middle Grades Education and High School Graduation Requirements (pdf, 72kb) 21st Century Professionals Committee Chair Report (Dr. Michelle Howard-Vital and Ms. Shirley Harris, Co-Chairs) Action on First Reading TCP 2 - Recommendations from the Advisory Board on Requests for Exception from Teacher Licensing Requirements (pdf, 30kb) Leadership for Innovation Committee Chair Report Action on First Reading LFI 2 - Approval of Charter School Technology Plan (pdf, 17kb) Twenty-First Century Systems Report from the Business/Finance and Advocacy Committee Chair (Mr. Wayne McDevitt, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Vice Chair) Action on First Reading TCS 1 - Individual Class Size Exceptions Waivers (pdf, 100kb) Update on Contracts (pdf, 129kb)
4:00 PM	Closed Session
4:45 PM	Adjourn
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2007
9:00 AM	STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING (Mr. Howard N. Lee, Chairman) Call to Order Pledge of Allegiance - Ms. Kathy Taft Invocation - Dr. Jane Norwood Approval of Minutes Special Presentation Presentation of the 2006 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award Ms. Kristen Stone, Third Grade Teacher, Tanglewood Elementary School, Public Schools of Robeson County Chairman's Remarks Report from Dr. Rebecca Garland, SBE Executive Director Legislative Update Other Items State Superintendent's Report Dr. June Atkinson Presentation from Asheboro City Schools on High School Program with the North Carolina Zoo Dr. Diane Frost, Superintendent, Asheboro City Schools Board Meeting Globally Competitive Students Twenty-First Century Professionals Leadership for Innovation Twenty-First Century Systems Healthy Responsible Students Old Business New Business On-Going Business Progress Report on the Future-Ready Students Plan and Implementation Mr. JB Buxton, Deputy State Superintendent
11:00 PM	Adjourn
11:30 PM	SBE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Business/Finance and Advocacy Committee Meeting (Mr. Wayne McDevitt, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Co-Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building New Business Setting Committee 'New Business' Topics Priorities
1:00 PM	Adjourn
Ethics Statement for North Carolina State Government: "Board members are reminded that it is our duty to avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interest as we handle the work of this Board. Does any member of the Board know of any conflict of interest or any appearance of conflict with respect to any matters coming before us at this meeting? If so, please state them for the record. If during the course of the meeting you become aware of an actual or apparent conflict of interest, please bring the matter to the attention of the chair. It will then be your duty to abstain from participating in discussion on the matter and from voting on the matter."