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SBE MEETING INFORMATION

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State Board of Education to Meet November 4-5, 2009 The State Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting on November 4-5, 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, 151kb)
  • Twenty-First Century Professionals (TCP)
    (pdf, 158kb)
  • Twenty-First Century Systems (TCS)
    (pdf, 73kb)
  • Leadership for Innovation (LFI)
    (pdf, 17kb)
  • Miscellaneous Items Update on Contracts
    (pdf, 54kb)

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, NOVEMBER 4, 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 on First Reading

  • GCS 1 - Changes to Policy Delineating End-of-Grade and End-of-Course Retests and Review Procedures
    (pdf, 36kb)

Discussion

  • GCS 2 - Discussion of North Carolina's Proposed New Accountability Model
    (pdf, 62kb)

New Business

  • K-2 Diagnostics
11:45 AM Adjourn
11:45 AM Lunch
12:30 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 - Addition of Elementary (K-6) Content Area Concentrations as License Areas
    (pdf, 73kb)

Discussion

  • TCP 2 - State Evaluation Committee Teacher Education Program Approval Recommendations
    (pdf, 115kb)

LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION COMMITTEE (Ms. Melissa Bartlett, Chair, and Ms. Chris Greene, Co-Chairs) - State Board Room, 7th Floor, Education Building

ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA

Action on First Reading

  • LFI 1 - Final Decision in Contested Case: Provisions Community Development Corporation DBA Provisions Academy v. State Board of Education
    (pdf, 17kb)

New Business

  • NCVPS/LEO Director's Report

 

1:15 PM Adjourn
1:30 PM
(or immediately following TCP/LFI)
BUSINESS/FINANCE AND ADVOCACY COMMITTEE MEETING (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

Discussion

  • TCS 1 - Establish Front-end Funding for Governor's School
    (pdf, 40kb)
  • TCS 2 - North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) Funding Formula
    (pdf, 46kb)

Update on Contracts
(pdf, 54kb)

New Business

  • Communications Update
  • Automated Data Systems Associated with Uniform Education Reporting Systems (UERS)
  • NCVPS Non-Public School Students (Statutory Reference: Session Law 2009-451, Section 7.33)

3:00 PM Adjourn
3:15 PM
(or immediately following TCS)
Board Convenes in Open Session
3:15 PM Closed Session
  Board Reconvenes in Open Session
3:45 PM Adjourn
3:55 PM
(or immediately following closed session)
Charter School ad hoc Committee
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009
9:00 AM STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING
  • Dr. William C. Harrison, Chairman


Call to Order


Pledge of Allegiance - Vice Chairman Wayne McDevitt


Approval of Minutes


Report on Findings from the Student Debt Tour

  • State Treasurer Janet Cowell


Key Initiatives Reports and Discussion

  • ACRE Update - Ms. Angela Quick
  • District and School Transformation Update - Dr. Pat Ashley
  • Performance Navigator - Mr. Adam Levinson


BOARD MEETING AND COMMITTEE CHAIR REPORTS

CONSENT AGENDA

GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair, and Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair)

  • GCS 3 - Report on LEA Status for Title III Improvement
    (pdf, 75kb)

ACTION AND DISCUSSION AGENDA

GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE STUDENTS (Ms. Kathy Taft, Chair, and Ms. Tricia Willoughby, Vice-Chair)

Action on First Reading

  • GCS 1 - Changes to Policy Delineating End-of-Grade and End-of-Course Retests and Review Procedures
    (pdf, 36kb)

Discussion

  • GCS 2 - Discussion of North Carolina's Proposed New Accountability Model
    (pdf, 62kb)

New Business Report (if needed)

 

21st CENTURY PROFESSIONALS (Ms. Shirley Harris, Chair, and Mr. John Tate, Vice Chair)

Action

  • TCP 1 - Addition of Elementary (K-6) Content Area Concentrations as License Areas
    (pdf, 73kb)

Discussion

  • TCP 2 - State Evaluation Committee Teacher Education Program Approval Recommendations
    (pdf, 115kb)

LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION (Ms. Melissa Bartlett, Chair, and Ms. Chris Greene, Vice Chair)

  • LFI 1 - Final Decision in Contested Case: Provisions Community Development Corporation DBA Provisions Academy v. State Board of Education
    (pdf, 17kb)

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)

Discussion

  • TCS 1 - Establish Front-end Funding for Governor's School
    (pdf, 40kb)
  • TCS 2 - North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) Funding Formula
    (pdf, 46kb)

Update on Contracts
(pdf, 54kb)

New Business Report (if needed)


State Superintendent's Report

  • Dr. June Atkinson


Chairman's Remarks

  • Dr. William C. Harrison
    • Report on the NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching
    • Update on China Initiatives
    • Legislative Update


Old Business


New Business

11:30 AM 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."