SBE MEETING INFORMATION

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State Board of Education to Meet September 30 - October 1, 2009 The State Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting on September 30 - October 1, 2009, 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, 2.3mb)
Twenty-First Century Professionals (TCP)
(pdf, 684kb)
Twenty-First Century Systems (TCS)
(pdf, 126kb)
Leadership for Innovation (LFI)
(pdf, 458kb)
Healthy Responsible Students (HRS)
(pdf, 280kb)
Miscellaneous Items Update on Contracts
(pdf, 51kb)

Note: In accordance with 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.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
10:00 AM	GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS COMMITTEE (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair, and Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action GCS 1 - Honors Course Policy Revisions (pdf, 142kb) GCS 2 - High School Courses Taken in the Middle School: Considerations for English I (pdf, 92kb) GCS 3 - Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Evaluation Policy (pdf, 113kb) Action on First Reading GCS 4 - 2009 Textbook Adoption and Textbook Commission Report (pdf, 301kb) GCS 5 - Compliance Commission Recommendations for Field Testing and Special Studies Appeals for the 2009-10 School Year (pdf, 38kb) Discussion GCS 6 - Discussion of North Carolina's Proposed New Accountability Model (pdf, 155kb) HEALTHY, RESPONSIBLE STUDENTS COMMITTEE (Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Chair, and Mr. Reginald Kenan, Vice-Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building Discussion HRS 1 - Revisions to HRS-A-000 and Definitions of Reportable Acts (pdf, 17kb)
12:30 PM	Adjourn
12:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	21st CENTURY PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE (Ms. Shirley Harris, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Vice Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action TCP 1 - Proposed Standards for the Evaluation of School Psychologists (pdf, 133kb) Action on First Reading TCP 2 - 2009 IHE Performance Report (pdf, 24kb) TCP 3 - Final Decision in Contested Cases: (pdf, 24kb) John R. Hall v. SBE Kenneth H. Leftwich vs. June Atkinson, Superintendent of Public Instruction LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION COMMITTEE (Ms. Melissa Bartlett, Chair, and Ms. Chris Greene, Vice Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building New Business District and School Transformation Update - Low-Performing High Schools NCVPS/LEO Director's Update
3:15 PM	Adjourn
3:30 PM	Board Convenes in Open Session
	Closed Session
	Board Reconvenes in Open Session
4:30 PM	Adjourn
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009
8:00 AM	BUSINESS/FINANCE AND ADVOCACY COMMITTEE (under the 21st Century Systems Priority; Mr. Kevin Howell, Chair, and Mr. Tom Speed, Vice-Chair - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building) ACTION, AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action on First Reading TCS 1 - Approval of Grant (pdf, 46kb) Learn and Serve America Program Discussion TCS 2 - Establish Front-end Funding for Governor's School (pdf, 40kb) Update on Contracts (pdf, 51kb)
9:00 AM	Adjourn
9:30 AM	STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING Dr. William C. Harrison, Chairman Call to Order Pledge of Allegiance - Mr. Wayne McDevitt Approval of Minutes Report on the North Carolina e-Learning Commission Lt. Governor Walter Dalton Key Initiatives Reports and Discussion ACRE Report - Ms. Angela Quick District and School Transformation Report - Dr. Pat Ashley CEDARS Report - Mr. Adam Levinson INFORMATION AGENDA GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair; Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair) GCS 7 - American Diploma Project (ADP) Algebra II Results for Spring 2009 and Discussion for 2009-10 (pdf, 50kb) LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION (Ms. Melissa Bartlett, Chair, and Ms. Chris Greene, Vice Chair) LFI 1 - Formative Evaluation Report North Carolina Virtual Public School, Spring 2009 (pdf, 458kb) CONSENT AGENDA GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS GCS 8 - Changes to the 2008-09 ABCs/AYP Results (pdf, 25kb) GCS 9 - Recommended Final Academic Achievement Standards (Cut Scores) and Achievement Level Descriptors for the NCEXTEND1 Alternate Assessments in Reading Grades 3-8 and 10; Mathematics Grades 3-8 and 10; Science Grades 5, 8, and 10; and Writing Grade 10 (pdf, 18kb) GCS 10 - Report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee: Implementation of the ABCs and Statewide Consolidated Assistance Program (pdf, 1.2mb) GCS 11 - Changes to SBE Policies Resulting From Actions of the NC General Assembly and US Department of Education (pdf, 99kb) HEALTHY, RESPONSIBLE STUDENTS HRS 2 - Care for School Children with Diabetes - Additional Requirements (pdf, 269kb) TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PROFESSIONALS TCP 4 - Annual Report on the Reasons Teachers Leave (Teacher Turnover Report) (pdf, 496kb) TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SYSTEMS TCS 3 - LEA-Wide Calendar Waiver Requests (pdf, 61kb) COMMITTEE CHAIR REPORTS AND VOTING ON ACTION ITEMS GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair, and Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action GCS 1 - Honors Course Policy Revisions (pdf, 142kb) GCS 2 - High School Courses Taken in the Middle School: Considerations for English I (pdf, 92kb) GCS 3 - Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Evaluation Policy (pdf, 113kb) Action on First Reading GCS 4 - 2009 Textbook Adoption and Textbook Commission Report (pdf, 301kb) GCS 5 - Compliance Commission Recommendations for Field Testing and Special Studies Appeals for the 2009-10 School Year (pdf, 38kb) Discussion GCS 6 - Discussion of North Carolina's Proposed New Accountability Model (pdf, 155kb) HEALTHY, RESPONSIBLE STUDENTS (Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Chair, and Mr. Reginald Kenan, Vice Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building Discussion HRS 1 - Revisions to HRS-A-000 and Definitions of Reportable Acts (pdf, 17kb) 21st CENTURY PROFESSIONALS (Ms. Shirley Harris, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Vice Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action TCP 1 - Proposed Standards for the Evaluation of School Psychologists (pdf, 133kb) Action on First Reading TCP 2 - 2009 IHE Performance Report (pdf, 24kb) TCP 3 - Final Decision in Contested Cases: (pdf, 24kb) John R. Hall v. SBE Kenneth H. Leftwich vs. June Atkinson, Superintendent of Public Instruction LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION (Ms. Melissa Bartlett, Chair, and Ms. Chris Greene, Vice Chair) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building New Business Report (if needed) BUSINESS/FINANCE AND ADVOCACY (under the 21st Century Systems Priority; Mr. Kevin Howell, Chair, and Mr. Tom Speed, Vice-Chair - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building) ACTION, AND DISCUSSION AGENDA Action on First Reading TCS 1 - Approval of Grant (pdf, 46kb) Learn and Serve America Program Discussion TCS 2 - Establish Front-end Funding for Governor's School (pdf, 40kb) Update on Contracts (pdf, 51kb) New Business Report (if needed) State Superintendent's Report Dr. June Atkinson Chairman's Remarks Dr. William C. Harrison Old Business
12:00 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."