3:15pm-5pm Consideration of Future Work Based on State Budget and Federal Fiscal Stimulus Package and Retreat Planning >>Board members reflected on positives from the past year. Things mentioned include better run board meetings, collaborating with stakeholders, and enacting good policy. Big shout outs to LEV’s organizing students to testify in support of CORE 24 [whoop [...]

1pm-1:50pm Accountability Index, continued — Dr. Pete Bylsma English Language Learners Recommendations -Exclude results of ELLs in their first 3 years of public school enrollment, or until achieving Level 3 on WLPT -Use performance on WLPT to provide feedback about wheter ELLs are on track to meeting standard -Report detailed WLPT results on OSPI Report [...]

11:30am-11:50am Recommendations from System Performance Accountability Work on Accountability Index and Recognition System — Dr. Kris Mayer, Edie Harding, Dr. Pete Bylsma Overview Update *Now have 6 tiers in the Accountability Index: exemplary, very good, good, acceptable, struggling and priority >>Some discussion over the tier labels. Chair Mary Jean Ryan thinks the “acceptable” tier isn’t [...]

9:15am-10:30am Update on Legislative Session Issues — Edie Harding, Brad Burnham *HB 2261 *Budget -Budget deficit is $9.3 million -Use $3 billion in federal stimulus funds over the next three years to offset costs *$362 million to supplement 2009 budget *$376.6 million for K-12 in 2010-11 *$410 million for special education, remediation, school improvement and [...]