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SBE MEETING INFORMATION

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Meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Education Via Conference Call

State Board of Education to Meet Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Via Conference Call. 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, 1.1mb)
  • Twenty-First Century Professionals (TCP)
    (pdf, 328kb)
  • Twenty-First Century Systems (TCS)
  • Leadership for Innovation (LFI)
  • Healthy Responsible Students (HRS)
    (pdf, 69kb)
  • Miscellaneous Items Update on Contracts
    (pdf, 312kb)

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, JULY 1, 2008
2:00 PM STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION EMERGENCY MEETING
Call to Order
Mr. Howard N. Lee, Chairman


Roll Call to Determine Quorum


Approval of Minutes


ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA
Action on First Reading

  • GCS 1 - Changes to NC's NCLB Consolidated State Application Accountability Workbook
    (pdf, 979kb)
  • GCS 2 - Changes to Policy Delineating the Components of the ABCs Accountability Program Including Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for 2007-08 School Year
    (pdf, 56kb)
  • GCS 3 - Recommended Interim Academic Achievement Standards (Cut Scores) and Descriptors for the NCEXTEND1 Alternate Assessments (Mathematics Grades 3-8 & 10, Writing Grades 4, 7, & 10 and Reading Grade 10)
    (pdf, 18kb)
  • GCS 4 - Approval of Supplemental Educational Services Provider for 2008-09
    (pdf, 67kb)


21st CENTURY PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE(Ms. Shirley Harris and Ms. Eulada Watt, Co-Chairs)


Action

  • TCP 1 - Approval/Adoption of the New Teacher Evaluation Instrument
    (pdf, 115kb)
  • TCP 2 - Licensing Physical Education and Health Teachers - deleted from the July agenda. It will be rescheduled for later summer or early fall.
    (pdf, 41kb)


Action on First Reading (in Closed Session)

  • TCP 3 - Recommendations from the Advisory Board on Requests for Exception from Teacher Licensing Requirements
    (pdf, 63kb)


HEALTHY, RESPONSIBLE STUDENTS (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair; Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building

  • HRS 1 - Schools At Risk of Being Labeled a Persistently Dangerous School - deleted from the July agenda. It will be rescheduled for later summer or early fall.
    (pdf, 69kb)


TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SYSTEMS (Mr. Kevin Howell, Chair; Mr. John Tate, Co-Chair)


Contracts
(pdf, 312kb)


Chairman's Remarks

  • Report from Dr. Rebecca Garland, SBE Executive Director
    • Legislative Update

Old Business


New Business


Closed Session

3:00PM 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."