August 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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I. Call to Order
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II. Pledge of Allegiance
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III. Roll Call
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IV. Consent Agenda **
Description:
Minutes of regular meeting held July 17, 2025
Minutes of closed meeting held July 17, 2025 Amended minutes of regular meeting held November 14, 2024 August Bills Payable July Treasurer's Report Destruction of closed meeting audio recording from February 15, 2024 |
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V. Superintendent’s Report – Recognition and Informational Items
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V.A. New Faculty Introductions
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We are excited to welcome new faculty members for the 2025/26 school year! We look forward to formally introducing the Board of Education to our newest faculty members and sharing their education, experience, and interests. New faculty members will be accompanied by mentors and administrative team members. Each will, no doubt, contribute greatly to our school community in the coming year.
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V.B. Summer Curriculum Work
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Summer curriculum work is dedicated time for curriculum teams to develop instructional materials and assessments beyond the traditional school year. Dr. Stacie Noisey will share information with the School Board regarding summer curriculum work she led, along with Area Administrators and Teacher Leaders.
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V.C. District Literacy Plan
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Illinois State Board of Education’s (ISBE) Comprehensive Literacy Plan sets a statewide vision for evidence-based literacy instruction, with grant funding enabling local districts to design implementation strategies that ensure all students develop essential lifelong literacy skills. Dr. Stacie Noisey led the development and leadership of Grant’s Literacy Implementation Plan Committee, which met over the spring and summer to engage in professional development and draft the implementation plan. Dr. Noisey will present the Board with the recommended literacy plan. |
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V.D. Enrollment Update
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Student enrollment as of August 14 is as follows: Grade 9 402 Total 1,767 This is a decrease of 59 students from August 1, 2024. Using the 2022 Kasarda demographic report, current enrollment is below the enrollment projection of 1,880 utilizing the Occur as Anticipated Model and above the enrollment projection of 1,735 using the Less than Anticipated Model. |
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V.E. Principal's Report
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Mr. Schoell will provide his monthly principal report.
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V.F. Student Representative's Report
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Izzy Ellington will provide her monthly student report.
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VI. Public Comment
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VII. Superintendent’s Report – Action Items
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VII.A. District Literacy Plan **
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Recommended approval of the District's Local Literacy Plan as presented.
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VII.B. School Board Policy Modifications - Second Reading **
Description:
I am recommending changes to the following School Board Policies based on direction from the Illinois Association of School Boards and legal counsel:
Section 200 Board of Education 2:80 Board Member Oath and Conduct Section 700 Students 7:140 Search and Seizure Section 800 Community Relations 8:80 Gifts to the District The PRESS Update Memo is included to provide supporting information for all proposed changes. Policies with non-material changes, including those with legal reference and footnote updates only, will be modified administratively and are not presented for change. Recommended approval of the proposed policy changes as presented. |
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VII.C. Part-time Vision Itinerant - Intergovernmental Agreement **
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Director of Special Education, Tina Sonders, worked to develop an intergovernmental agreement for a part-time vision itinerant to be shared with Gavin School District. This agreement details the shared part-time services of a vision therapist. These are required services for students with vision impairments. In previous years, the district contracted these services with SEDOL. Sharing services with Gavin is a convenient, cost-effective alternative approach to provide the required vision services. Recommended approval of the intergovernmental agreement as presented. |
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VII.D. Personnel **
Description:
Recommend the employment of the following individual(s):
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VIII. Business Affairs
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VIII.A. Master Facility Plan
Description:
Jeremy, Josh Staples and I have discussed how best to plan for facility needs as we move forward. Last year, we worked with Wight Architects for the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing assessment, which identified needs behind the walls and on the roofs, but we also recognize there are curricular needs that will require modifications or improvements.
We know that the District has not worked with an architect to create a Master Facility Plan since the early 2000’s. At that time, enrollment projections called for a large growth in students. Plans were made and executed for multiple additions. While we recognize that our enrollment projections are not calling for large swings currently, the value of a Master Facility Plan is it will be a guide for the Board and Administration to prioritize projects, maintain systems so that they last their useful life and beyond, and make facility changes that align with curriculum and instruction. We would like to discuss with you the possibility of moving forward with this planning process utilizing the existing Site and Facility Committee, which is made up of board and community members, as well as administration. The structure of the planning process would require additional, more frequent meetings, where we would invite representatives from different school departments to come and discuss needs. |
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VIII.B. Evidenced-Based Funding Update
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Last month during the budget approval process, I let you know that we did not have final numbers for our Evidenced-Based Funding (EBF) from the state. I estimated that we would remain in Tier I and continue to receive additional funding. The state released the EBF numbers this week. We have indeed stayed in Tier 1 and are receiving just under $750,000 more. I have included a comparison from last year for your information.
We based our budgeted amount on a three-year average of what we had received in previous years, but this year the Tier allocation was less for all districts. Our budgeted amount was just over $400,000 more than what we are receiving. We already plan to present an amended budget to the Board in the winter, so we will include the change in EBF in the amended budget, and work to close the gap that creates. |
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IX. Other Business
Description:
FOIA
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X. Closed Session
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X.A. Student disciplinary cases 5 ILCS 120/2 (c)(9) **
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X.B. Other matters relating to individual students 5 ILCS 120/2 (c)(10) **
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X.C. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) **
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X.D. Semi-annual review of closed session minutes. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(21) **
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XI. Action items from closed session discussion
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XI.A. Potential action regarding student placement **
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XI.B. Potential Board action regarding personnel **
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XI.C. Potential Board action on semi-annual review of closed session minutes **
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XII. Adjourn
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