SBE MEETING INFORMATION

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State Board of Education to Meet October 2-4, 2007 The State Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting on October 2-4, 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, 749kb)
Twenty-First Century Professionals (TCP)
(pdf, 69kb)
Twenty-First Century Systems (TCS)
(pdf, 2.3mb)
Leadership for Innovation (LFI)
(pdf, 98kb)
Healthy Responsible Students (HRS)
Miscellaneous Items (Update on Contracts)
(pdf, 154kb)

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, OCTOBER 2, 2007
8:00 AM	Depart Raleigh
12:15 PM	Arrive at First Flight High School; lunch with students and teachers
1:30 PM	SBE COMMITTEE MEETINGS GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair; Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair) - Media Center, First Flight High School, Kill Devil Hills, NC (Dare County Schools) ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action GCS 1 - Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities (pdf, 572kb) Action on First Reading GCS 2 - Field Test Appeals (pdf, 31kb) GCS 3 - Changes to the 2006-07 ABCs/AYP Results (pdf, 15kb) GCS 4 - 2007 Textbook Adoption and Textbook Commission Report (pdf, 97kb) New Business Personal Financial Literacy Update
3:30 PM	Adjourn
1:30 PM	Tour of First Flight High School, Middle School and Elementary School for SBE members and staff not involved with the GCS Committee meeting
3:45 PM	Depart for Hotel Check-In
7:15 PM	Dinner - The Lone Cedar Cafe
9:15 PM	Depart for Hotel
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007
8:00 AM	Board Bus for Ocracoke, NC
10:30 AM	Arrive at NCCAT, Ocracoke, NC
11:00 AM	21st CENTURY PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE (Ms. Shirley Harris and Ms. Eulada Watt, Co Chairs) - NCCAT Seminar Room 300 ACTON AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action TCP 1 - Renewal of License Renewal Requirements to Reflect Legislation (pdf, 35kb) Action on First Reading TCP 2- Recommendations from the Advisory Board on Requests for Exception from Teacher Licensing Requirements (pdf, 30kb) TCP 3- Final Decision in Contested Case: Forrister v. DPI (pdf, 14kb) New Business Update on the IHE Performance Report Review of Appeals for License Exemptions Considered by the Board
12:30 PM	Adjourn
11:00 AM	LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION COMMITTEE (Ms. Melissa Bartlett and Mr. Tom Speed, Co Chairs) – NCCAT Seminar Room 200 ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Discussion LFI 1- Recommendations for Preliminary Approval of 2007 Charter School Applications (pdf, 220kb)
12:30 PM	Adjourn
12:30 PM	Lunch – NCCAT
1:30 PM	Tour Ocracoke School and Visit with Students and Teachers 1 Schoolhouse Road, Ocracoke, NC 27960 (Hyde County Schools) Chairman Howard N. Lee
3:30 PM	Reception for Teachers and Staff of the Ocracoke School and Hyde County Board and Administrators
7:00 PM	Dinner – NCCAT
9:00 PM	Return to Hotels
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:30 AM	STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING - NCCAT Seminar Room 200 Mr. Howard N. Lee, Chairman Call to Order Pledge of Allegiance - Mr. Wayne McDevitt Invocation - Mr. John A. Tate III Approval of Minutes Chairman's Remarks Report from Dr. Rebecca Garland, SBE Executive Director Legislative Update Other Items State Superintendent's Report Dr. June Atkinson Board Meets as a Committee of the Whole TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SYSTEMS (Business and Finance Committee, Mr. Kevin Howell, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Vice Chair) Action TCS 1 - Utilization of State Board Reserve for Innovative/Special Projects (pdf, 48kb) Action on First Reading TCS 2 - LEA-Wide Calendar Waiver Requests (pdf, 1.9mb) TCS 3 - Appeal Process for More at Four Expansion Slots (pdf, 145kb) TCS 4 - Approval of Grant (pdf, 120kb) TCS 5- Revision of Allotment Policy fo Literacy Coaches (pdf, 44kb) Discussion TCS 6 - Council on Educational Services for Exceptional Children (pdf, 41kb) TCS 7 - Replacement of Compliance Commission Members (pdf, 124kb) *SBE COMMITTEE REPORTS AND VOTING ON ACTION ITEMS* GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS COMMITTEE (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair, and Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice Chair) Action GCS 1 - Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities (pdf, 572kb) Action on First Reading GCS 2 - Field Test Appeals (pdf, 31kb) GCS 3 - Changes to the 2006-07 ABCs/AYP Results (pdf, 15kb) GCS 4 - 2007 Textbook Adoption and Textbook Commission Report (pdf, 97kb) New Business Report (if needed) 21st CENTURY PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE (Ms. Shirley Harris and Ms. Eulada Watt, Co Chairs) Action TCP 1 - Renewal of License Renewal Requirements to Reflect Legislation (pdf, 35kb) Action on First Reading TCP 2- Recommendations from the Advisory Board on Requests for Exception from Teacher Licensing Requirements (pdf, 30kb) TCP 3- Final Decision in Contested Case: Forrister v. DPI (pdf, 14kb) LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION COMMITTEE (Ms. Melissa Bartlett and Mr. Tom Speed, Co Chairs) LFI 1- Recommendations for Preliminary Approval of 2007 Charter School Applications (pdf, 220kb) Old Business New Business Deputy State Superintendent's Report Mr. JB Buxton
10:15 PM	Closed Session
10:40 PM	Return to Open Session
12:00 PM	Adjourn
12:00 PM	Board bus for return to Raleigh
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."