o'clock discussion and approval a proposed increase and high school physical education requirement from two years to four years is finale nine ten received no mitigation surrounding community agreement one twenty other before we start this evening i just wanted to say a few words on behalf of the school committee i want to extend our deepest sympathies to the burns family and to thank them for allowing us the opportunity to know and be a part of sam's life sam was a role model a pillar of strength and courage and he inspired us with his many gifts and her team for their leadership and guidance during this very sorrowful time for our students teachers staff families and community and i would like to take a moment of silence in memory of sam burn very much for that i mean i do want to say obviously a whole community and in the world is standing by seems as if he has i think i've said certainly publicly that his what we learn from him and the legacy he leaves in the lessons that are really about what's most important life is what he was going to offer from all of us but that became even more apparent today is that who education week which is the national paper newspaper for education and virtually every public school in probably private school in the in the country gets a week either online or in the paper subscription and they send out weekly smart brief update with think that's just speaks to what he's going to be teaching people what we learned from him so well and he's terribly messed and you can see signs of that all around the foxboro high school in the students at the high school and all of our schools continue to find ways that they want to memorialize him and and i would say it's a combination of sorrow enjoyed because of the things that he spoke of  kind of new and it was actually a national unique nationally unique activity called an hour of code and the day that it was happening i have to say i was trying to get a hold mrs abrams got something and she was heavily involved in her hour of coding could even talk so evidently the whole middle school really got terribly involved in the hour of code which has to do with a computer program and i'm just going to turn it over to you to the teachers to explain what it was and then were especially interested in hearing from the students beginning we have an introductory video that we show the kids to engage them and kind of fill them in we're going to show you the whole video it's like five minutes long so i'll just kind of show you the high right so that a fast forward to the parts that we liked so we started out of the code during computer science week it was the second week in december and our whole school just hated laura had the seven larry and i teacher did the seventh and eighth grade and the fifth and sixth grade our teacher and i did the fifth and sixth grade students so every student in our school got to do this mind seventh and eighth grade students to the programming is everyone watched that video i told them how i first did a little bit of programming back in high school and you know just kind of amazing to me to see be able to take a screen back then it's just more of that because they didn't really teacher in high school go to the public library look it up really and so it was it was nice and like the similar situations with famous people that you're seeing on the screen so and we also want to let them know about the jobs that are whether you're trying to make a lot of money or whether you just want to change the world computer pull is incredibly holy skill to learn i think if someone had told me that software is really about humanity that it's really about helping people by this is crazy to think about right it's really it's humble and it's amazing the programmers of tomorrow or the wizards of the future or you know you're going to look like you have magic powers compared everybody else has made it as if it is the closest thing we have to a super power i think like it was very fun because i learned a lot about programming and made me think very hard which was very entertaining for my mind but i think what i got out of life is what if i can i do more with a robot that just lights up and jumps and turns around  doing and so well it was the first person that came up to me the very next class and said guess what i did it like all of the night and i continued to do it and then i checked up on this prior to this no see that too only a small portion but you see all the progress of all the students and he just kept forging and and he thought to get to the end all on  bit a little bit and i had my fifth and sixth graders meet christmas cards and holiday cards you sent us and they had the little characters we called sprites so you can see enemy spray one this was the code to m the green deer because that's the one that we've highlighted to make a move and then you have the penguin and the christmas tree and then i made a card while the kids are making there's like a kind of helped them through the problems that we're all having because i hadn't done this either so it makes sample code hopefully it works so this is an area scratched mit don't you do you and it's really fun for any of you to try it and i have my computer club kids making projects the they can make any cards with these and you put your instructions here for the reader of your card what you want them to click on and so you click the penguin first and you can make it talk in how long you want it to the reindeer go up and down you had to use the x and y so x is this way and why is this place the kids we get to talk about a little bit where math is more than just in the math class fun stuff too and then they had to figure the degrees to make it go i've been down in the right spot and then make a repeating pattern so you kept going up and down so here you go minus minus fifteen degrees one way and you know so there was quite a process to it and then the other pieces the other straights all moved to and the treat changes like so you do this by like making the bird book forward twice but early on it's really easy but it gets a lot harder a bunch of other commands and other like variables you can manipulate  and it really is a challenge and honestly i really do feel that i was really a challenge doing this and i'm kind of i'm the kind of person who really likes shown yes so i really thought this was a really enjoyable experience for me lot of really nice educational words that we use every day and like chris who's the famous task yes chris bosh gave them instructions so it was really neat so they liked th and this was the first level and it got harder as they always do but this was a different this is it moved on from angry birds to plants for some promise there were multiple levels for every single section and then in those got bigger and bigger they had celebrities doing it i figured out that it was just an excellent opportunity to get really free ten dollar gift card to drop on storage and just make me feel like i did all this but not this and all that so the next screen is the dashboard just from from on my students and what levels that they did a lot of them ended up logging on and then working with someone else in the program actually  recommended that you work with a partner see could work on it together and try to figure out which which things might be going wrong so you could get over throw so that spreadsheet there goes on for pages to the right of what these three accomplished and then  it really will click easier and you really will get the grasp coding and that's kind of important i think that everyone she able to code because it really is like an essential tool because we sort of live in a world they have they like a lot of teachers are converting over to google sites and a lot of those have templates and you don't really have to write the code but sometimes when you get more involved with the site like some of the more intense things that it may actually have to go in and look at the code and delete things and rearrange them so the code is you can get away with not doing it with some things but it's so much better if you know that these were the  technology is changing everything we do and it doesn't matter if you're young or old programming is fun it's what anyone can do  it so there were some applications they could write great on now apps so there are all kinds of really fun activities and if you guys check those out you know this is a little more complicated i was told those were kind of  did you learn or experience yet that so much of this isn't just you know your face in the screen that you have to have a lot of collaboration and trust in each other which of goal that the whole product would be whether it's ultimately watching coakley or implants make somebody here for the first and that and those are so important that there's so many people in the background that get you to the final product that collaboration is so important to do you have that experience yet i know it comes with develop you know as you develop your skills and get better and better but when they made the reference to the sports and music you know you have to practice and you have to be in  synchronization with the other people that you're all playing different instruments with different positions on the team did you have to do that yet or are you looking forward to it even though i didn't know that we put you on the spot even though i did it myself i felt like if i had another person that was helping me if i forgot something they could do something else almost like a person team like i'll be off and doing different things and playing the same like miss grammont she did her card and showed you where she may have had to fix or tweak or adjust something it's a good reference point for you as you work  this is a great another great example of teaching and learning highlight of my question is actually for the staff this is to me an example of one of those areas that we go maybe above and beyond what you necessarily would have to teach or be required to teach and it's a great example think you know new innovative ways to make sure our students are learning what they need to learn my question is are we going to go further with this what are your thoughts going right now i've been doing more of it with my students you computer tuesday afternoon it's open to all grade levels so i told the kids if they want to do more to come after school this is isaacson i met during staff day to add some code into our curriculum and they do plan to continue the state the the person that you saw on that first then he really didn't realize how huge this was going to get and he was like ok i'm hoping you know for someone to look up eighty one hundred thousand people and then they have the first million they're like wow like this is crazy and and so and then what they what he ended up saying he sent us e mails and things and we plan to pursue this and keep going with it and do it again next year and add your question because it shows that we're looking for all kinds of opportunities to would be as they're learning or challenge them or you know reach out to something new that's going to grab them and i think we may have three very successful future datsun here front of us career wise because you can tell if they can tackle that and keep going whatever they choose they have the persistence of keep going but he disagreed example of how it might not be and i quote them right now but they look for other ways to continue it to introduce it to get kids excited about something brand new so and they're clearly very excited about it yes thank you for coming in and sharing it with us for you some it's going thank you thank you very much very impressive i won't be learning though so i'm air that we would like to there's discussing with you in terms of the details over the bill if you have questions about the budget so i think at this point we've just we've had some preliminary discussions about a few things so i think you'd be the package basically has one change to it and my contractor teachers are required to notify you ministration if they plan to complete coursework that would move them on the plan year we have forty three staff members that actually have put into letters saying that based on you know the current coursework that they're in that they anticipate by september first they will have you know met the needs to take that lane change in nine of the cases not only do they get one actually have two lane changes that they'll be able to make by the time frame but some of them because they are moving from a an area that would only have potential say twelve steps to enter that now has a thirteenth step they also obviously qualified to go down the steps as well so you know forty three would be basically an additional forty one thousand dollars over what we're budgeting so we'd be you know roughly in that one hundred thousand dollar one hundred eleven thousand all range for the budget so this draft that i gave you as a second shows you what that looks like it really only changes one line which is the i think second to last page back in december was thirty million forty fifty six thousand and thirty so our new as of tonight with that forty one thousand that we have received at the town finance department is thirty million four hundred ninety seven thousand the thirty million originally was thirty million four hundred sixty seven thousand was what we ended up coming in with on our first loves so obviously we were lower than what the original draft back to town in november you know time for us and now we're at the th katie can i ask a question oh absolutely that the numbers that we've just said for total aggregate budget request are all within a rounding error i know it's important to get a precise but when i talk about dramatic  wondering like thank you for having bruce did you want to make it so it's a big number no matter how you slice it you know the more important question to me always is the year to year increase in hell that big number compared to prior big numbers so bill this is a three point seven four sure that our budget requests are prudent and i know that being on the budget subcommittee that you know you guys are but it's always valuable to me and perhaps the public to hear your perspective as a town member and working with randy of the municipal side at three point seven four percent increase i can see from my package that's a lower year to year increase as an example from last year but use comment on affordability or your perspective of that number as a relates to the current town economics or because i value your opinion of well thanks but i think what you know when we go through this process obviously we start you know other than putting our original draft which is you know the number that was slightly larger than thirty million five ninety five and that was based on you know trying to pull forward back in october what you know our salaries were and we sit down with randy and ranges doing the exact same thing on the town side with that you know the town hartman's and then he's also doing the same thing relative to revenue and you know obviously he has a much bigger job on the revenue trying to project you know all the new growth will be in everything of that nature so when we sat down at that time and devon and i and bob kuttner and and randy set down with the lump numbers all together we could see that there was still a buffer where we weren't spending you know the entire towns revenue base at that point so i think obviously you know not that we use that as a gauge other than that you know obviously we can't see that number we know that's the issue but then we also go back on our side and i think this is been the practice you know for the last couple years that i've been here and i believe before that where you know a lot of people talk about a bottom up budget and in effect you know eighty percent or so of our budget is salaries and we do go all the way down by person our budget actually and salary budget is actually each person what position they sit in what lane they're in what step they're in and that's how that all these payroll numbers are these are just numbers that we set up at three percent were virtually taking every single person throughout the district to it so and then obviously we take our expenses and most of our expenses are if they're not utilities which we can pretty much map and i can show you years and years of how those have laid out by building so we know what we use obviously and we also know what our rates are we're town wise has been very wise as far as having multi year contracts so as an example my utility bills for next year are pretty solid because i know what the rates are going to be and shy of you know a phenomenal year from a weather point one way or the other will hit those numbers pretty close so when you look at our major numbers are either in the utility side or they're in service contracts we do have tremendous amount of service contracts and leases and that leases licenses and things of that nature that we are you know paying for obviously a lot of software that we run throughout the district there's a license fee for it some are based on numbers students some are based on number of application uses by the time you pull down to what is truly arbitrary spending which really would come to some degree to your supply lines within the schools the actual principals don't have a lot of leeway within the supply lines pool is not a lot left so they're you know when you look at this budget overall i think it's again it's it's grounded in where it comes from i mean it's  not again just numbers which it makes me feel more comfortable not just putting an estimate out there based on percentages but it's also grounded in what the town revenue forecast looks like and each year we obviously bounce back and forth and you know based on what just came out with the taking that into account we seem to still fit within the niche that the townsite is is asking us to stay within it you know it never means that you can spend less and obviously you know you know from the perspective that that when our side would be a cut  services because obviously we'd have to pull back in areas to do that and it really would be salaries because there's there's not a heck of a i love it when you get to the expense and i just like your perspective on you know as a three percent three point seven percent increase is it within you know the realm of responsibility in light of the other factors you just mentioned governors indications are getting pension liability discussion or news it's come out of town actual cuts and positions that you're going to change that really don't understand so i think another thing to note to add to is that when we have these meetings throughout before the budget process begins and throughout it it's not it's not done the way that sometimes it is in some municipalities where here's the pot we divide it this is your percentage do with it what you will it's never been that way since i've been back here at least so it's it's more like this is the revenue available which you think you're going to need and then do we fit within the budget picture that they have with the revenues in as bill said there was a pretty good buffer back when we first started meeting but that doesn't mean we go up and say oh within my percentage we really don't we just stick with what we think we should reasonably request and then the buffer is exactly for things like this where two months later at this point three months later from the first of the conversation if we've got more people they fully or another town department something unexpected has come up that that they're inserting then that's what that's for so i think it actually is a process that works because we share pretty transparently what what's going on with us they share what's what's going on the town side and the revenue and we work i don't want to say within that frame but actually under it under there are two to make sure that in the end the town can afford what we collectively need to process all departments so i think that that process for me is work quite well my drift i know at the last meeting we had some discussion about positions and i don't know whether we want to review that the additions that we have breath why fifteen on the information that those supplied us packets the zero point four zero one hundred a school vice the shins that at our last meeting regarding the priorities and i just wanted to open up to see whether there is any further discussion needed on that or not that are on boards and i didn't meet with any resistance to either but heard a preference for a math specialist i don't know if we want to discuss that  education shall be taught as a required subject in all grades for all students in the public schools for the purpose of promoting the physical wellbeing of students and it goes on the some of the details so the debt that is pretty simply what the law says so you know that's why we brought it here attention i'd certainly welcome the committee discussion about where you think the parodies of the community are in but the priorities of this committee is that which is fine i think that's what we're all here for but that's why we brought it forward because we haven't been able to meet that requirement as you know and so it's up to us to bring forward anything where we're out of compliance and we don't need a particular me and a but it's it's certainly you know this the idea of what your priorities are is very important to us so this is my fault for not understanding completely something and so i'm going to ask only for myself in our present state with the physical education with the health and wellness staff that what are the consequences of that if we have to put it say off a year hypothesizing or go to the touted acid for both i mean it's these aren't i don't think luxury items for the school at all i think but very very important and i think what i got from the presentation last time was that this was a different this was a decision that the administration struggled with in which to make one one coordinated program review beginning this spring that will conclude in the fall i'm probably not going to ignore it but it doesn't mean you know that but it's going to be diving into i don't know i mean how i don't know because i don't know i know that we had a finding five years ago and that's why we have the remedy documentation in place which doesn't mean that that remedy documentation meets this requirement it's just what is required of of us if we don't  districts have for years require this is it because it's i'm sure there are others like us who don't need it and have to do what we do because actually our remedy we we got the idea from some other communities five years ago when they said you don't need it you need to write is because other districts i think have a better argument for saying we've already cut positions over the last five six years we can't afford it and that's more but we can't say that so from my position i would be remiss if all i mean in all likelihood they do the review and we don't have this position that there will be a finding you know mandates that we do this so they'll say why don't you and you know then we proceed i guess as we  with with any filing may think your point is well taken as well which is other districts may not have the financial challenges that rain we obviously don't have this year i mean in the sense that we have enough for a physician whereas other districts are probably just just trying to meet and maintain it's very difficult it's i mean i find it's it's how do you weigh it it's it's the law it's required it's expected yet we do have these maps by specialists we've seen we've seen improvements in scores were birth talking about making math a mandatory for seniors a requirement another requirement so we need to have that foundation continue to be very solid and strong to support those students who are going to be eventually taking math when they're senior so it's this is a  it may not be your our highest local right which is a fear with things to say it so if the board has interest in the other position than you would likely see it back next year maybe the remedy follows a year i mean i'm we have freshman and sophomore vehicle education as exactly the way that is a little late is now right i couldn't remember when we read my guess is it was exactly that way the five years prior ok but i just wasn't working here at the time so the remedy health and well this position valuable because it would open up opportunities for as well as was also discussed i think by one of the principals as the whole student and if there was the aspect to  health right project moving forward with it educational sorry this coffee is not doing anything for me it helps the students learn better when about that so i bounce that around plus the math specialist being an additional nine thousand dollars on top of the health and wellness a teacher and still came up with that i personally  mean client to ask that we go towards a math specialist not demand you know doing just that's my inclination but that the consequences and again with the highest respect for the administrative decision to put it  number one versus one am would be ok so i do have a question now what i'm wondering if i mean it sounds like right now the revenue forecast is is what it is went to the present and obviously if there was obviously more compassion for another physician you would have brought that tonight for us if that were to change well and could impact whether a second position could be how would  gap to at least use as a placeholder for whatever they may do for the rental of the title office over the next year so the way i look at it even if there was minor revenue changes which there doesn't seem to be a large between now and  or schedule so you know we can't predict right now with the return we don't know the number of retirements we always make up one hundred twenty five thousand dollars to the retirements it's hard to make up a lot more than that but i mean we don't know if we get to august and th would actually be a little where your it's very unlikely so if there were a way to accomplish this between now and say june we certainly come back and let you know how how we could do that but it can't be by going up because whatever you want to tonight is what will be going to tell me so it would basically kind of fit into the hiring of just it just it's kind of like what we didn't know but it wouldn't have any obviously additional monetary association right now it would it could be an f t e but it would it would be a they don't now and they would not that's correct and then for the budget we all like the year before you got it would have avoided the final go back to it in march or april that would be out that that didn't happen don't that's unusual ok thank you so much i have a i have a comment i for what it's worth i agree with steve i came in here thinking i would prefer personally to spend money on a mass specialist but sitting here listening to the discussion i don't know how we as a publicly elected board can vote on something that goes against what so while we have not suffered any consequence in the past for not complying more or being at state that i have a hard time sitting here and voting anything other than the way the administration is recommended so i'm delighted we're doing as well in math as we are i wish we could have an additional mass specialist maybe next year we can but the way it's been friend to us i don't know how it's really a decision i actually share your views bruce i mean again this if i can  people right here you know i'm even if you know every chapter seventy one section three physical education i mean it is a requirement and i feel the same way i would love to have that specialist but i feel like you do need to comply with what is expected in terms of the education providing high school and yeah so i i wish there was more in the pot that we could we could expand this but we can't that's the reality so what i wanted to bring it up because i know i had dried up at the last meeting talking about it or there was discussion i don't know if any anybody else wants to weigh in on this or we're ready to hear other pieces of the budget as well that we want to discuss out there i just  tonight for a presentation i guess to the town of thirty point five zero eight million three million five hundred thousand five hundred eighty five dollars which includes the wellness teacher a second that motion of wanted to throw that in and i agree i think this is a productive discussion and i think it's clear that that now specialist is at the top of you know priority list for next year as well and you know as a lawyer in the ultimate rule follower i time disregarding state statute myself so i would agree with you know the way bruce had presented it every has framed it as well so we have to follow the law that's the consensus well we're going to win because  statute and as a result i mean there there will be a deficiency i'm sure noted if we're not lions with it in the end for whatever the response is debbie saying she doesn't know what it how could we write don't really know i can just tell you that you know if this is actually an email from superintending two thousand and eleven who had had a finding in they it be so even even districts who struggle more financially than we do i guess it's fair to say  that have had to have had have made moves to meet this law and they are in much worse shape than we are support they have gotten behind it because you know it doesn't the requirement is the requirement so i would say that it is probably true that the local priority may not match the the stated legal priority right now but that's why this is been such a difficult conversation both at our level in and here at the table i think it's because there is a little bit of discrepancy in what the feelings are about the local priority vs this but but you did present to us at the last meeting and jenelle was here and princip was here and you spoke to us about why this would be valuable to our local capsule so while it may not be my personal first preference of you know local need i think but i come to the conclusion i did based on the fac  so because of the snow day last week so that's why they're here but you know this day i think they actually sort of on the spot gave the best to limit my ideas about why this is good for students so it really the first year we would be out of compliance or have we jeanette's so we've been out of compliance for a long time yeah right so what's special about next year well because they accept your remedy each time  and i don't know what happens i don't know if they have a magic number of how many i don't know you know all i know is that i was here last time five years ago when we were out of compliance the time i could say the only mainly i just got back here and now i'm i can't so i have to bring it forward because let's say we have another finding you in the corner you probably view results are very public and we bring it to the table and i certainly wouldn't want you know our committee to find out at some future point that we put forward another position and they said we we haven't met the this physical education requirement white white you say something or put it forward so that's my my duty i think you do that so what we don't really know we've all even i both had experiences where this requirement was not met and we also have experiences with other students who then had to meet the requirement but what exactly prompted them and many many just already have met it for years and years and never was never lost to some point so i can't tell you what other stories are or what might happen i just know that i don't have anything to say this time me out of complaints except still are so i'm just a i'm just kind of struck by the irony of  the hour to code here right rehab these students who are really turned on that computer science software engineering to get into a good computer science or software engineering program at it at a decent college you're going to take first of all you have to have you know probably that six hundred math score in s a t s you're going to take just as much math in college as a physicist or a chemists you know it's a lot of math to to do computer science or software engineering so you know i mean i think academically that you know having another mass specialist particularly at the early grades who are students really you know kind of form in their own mind the opinion that on not a math person i am a math person say what i mean you asked if if we want to put both of the committee always has the option of putting both it in saying would you reduce the number between now and march if you need to some just going to say that you could put the extra nine thousand  vote vote the extra one thousand and that way you don't have to decide tonight well they really think no actually i really need a decision tonight because the kids do of course selection right now by the end of this month and so they need to know what their week graduation requirements are so they absolutely do need to know that this week so i think that we need to decide this i don't think people are feeling differently but we have silly need to be able to tell the high school this week whether they're that's why we have an agenda i think there's just people are just sort of feeling let me just say to incumbents make me that was a tough decision between good for kids and good for kids yeah yeah yeah yeah so thank you debbie that's a good point ok and sketching approval of twenty fourteen twenty to him since last meeting we've actually had a number of meetings with our network consultants who told you we're trying to wrap a number of things together including what we'll do on the town school side as far as originally was that in order to make this whole move work and because of the uncertainty with town hall the decision has been pretty much made between randy and paula and i we will actually move the  the core of the of the network to the high school so there's a little bit of extra cost in doing that and it's a little bit of extra gear in doing that once we've done that that we didn't set ourselves up for how we can change the entire district an entire town in effect you know kind of for the kids that really want to get into the trades it is that one opportunity that we offer within the school as i said to them if much of the equipment is is old but the concern i have and i believe the teachers and administration here share with me is that  there's a lot of just basic repairs that need to be made to these to make them safer this is a number of components that need to be redone and rebuilt one of them this is simple is the dust collecting devices sold it really isn't well i think in in the discussion with the with both randy and the and paul in f t g which is the group that we've been working with to do some of this that's why we kind of up this this first number because again until we make this whole shift and get the first side of it done it's not like you can just jump into the next one the next one would be in other words we'd have to jump almost to three hundred thousand we know the resources aren't there in this one year so even though we're asking for more than we originally hoped for it's enough to get the think that was a good suggestion to collapse even just to go from four to three that was my bridge at the creativity in laying out a plan of how we might possibly get there i don't know what you know that's great you know it's really hilarious so we need emotion to accept use now that we did last year which based on what you see i think the committee acknowledged that it is a potential it's going to hit a so that they can talk about it now and not be surprised if we were right back in the fall if something were to happen oh i'll take the scrutiny on educational collaboratives in the state of massachusetts and more regulatory guidance has emerged as a result related to budget religious finances related to information coming back to member districts and this falls in the latter category so and services offered by the collaborative as well as any significant changes in program services budgets for property as they arise so we are member of the bike go by county collaborative which is has its offices in franklin and so this will be quarterly updates starting now that i will bring in to the board which is the sitting superintendents in the member districts decided that in the in the interest of sharing what is really most important the collaborative any changes or programs that rather than each of us going to our monthly meetings and trying to figure out what you'd like to be updated on we we agreed that the collaborative director was only talk to group or it was a special occasion we create quarterly  updates focusing on the progress and service improvements or updates and that we would all provide the same one for the purposes of continuity in the members in the member districts so this is the quarterly update from byte though that you have the opportunity to read in your packet dated january eighth two thousand and fourteen we currently have four students attending by go collaborative programs for so four out of our twenty two other district students are in by go classrooms little bit less as well and in built in the other school business ministre does work on transportation costs sharing as well so there's a prudence to it to the rates yes thank you you know what tends to keep the children within the district wright this was our way of promoting farmer mother school really communicate let's take a place to all stakeholders that are out there so last year as we said that was the first ones we wanted to do this year was to really highlight what's different some of the mission and our vision and really highlighting who the people are within each of our schools as as well as all of you here but when we turn to the next page the district overview the enrollment the impasse information the information that we reported on in the fall from the baseline of its march report so you've seen that that data before the technology highlights something that's here that we've obviously been talking about here tonight is that now that the high school is one hundred percent wireless so that's a big change from from last year and then with seventh and eighth grade being wireless at the middle school that has increased the number of access points by many and if you turn to the next page that's really where you're going to see many of the changes that are just here back to the people who were just gone by demographics haven't changed that much so our reduced lunch eligibility is about the same as last year in our special education population is about the same as last year so i demographic profile is very similar to able to and report as well so warm looking at the s a t information again this was reported in the fall that we saw some some nice increases there with ten to twenty one point jumps in all three of those areas past year and we increased the number of students by a percent as well that took the s a t from ninety three and ninety four percent here at the high school from last year jump and just to the one above that the climb the this one  actually paused and i said sure let's let's call guidance to make sure from the class of two thousand and thirteen ninety four percent of folks were high school students who pursue continuing education that is the highest we've ever had our highest previous to this was ninety two so that is the data point that that if you haven't been tracking your year that for us is a really good numbers that does not percentage that does not count students going into the military of which there are several and that doesn't count as going into the workplace or trade program so that's the highest we've ever had it's ninety four percent and can i just add to that if i may i know we're limited in space and we do think is very appropriate for a long time and we won't put that on next year if that's not the case but the fact about the highlight in this report card i think should be called up and then if you look right across from me on the did you know section that if you look at the highest graduation rate here where we were in the top five in the state of the ninety nine percent you know i like as far as the advanced placement courses we had two additional ones that you had approved and we have in place with the a p physics and the a p psychology now so really increasing those opportunities so those were new but to your point it really you can see that there are new even the opportunities for other types of enrichment in addition to the a p courses we talked about even with debbie schools and increasing the opportunities for challenging economic advancement over the past year there was an increase of thirty seven percent so already so many different opportunities for our kids but to increase it from the middle you know great number that we're there that's a really high percentage and then the wireless access here is noted again and then bring your own device and as far as that middle school and grade eight and then the high school guard awards we increased with the highest number that we've had with twenty two this past year and then with the having our students that we had years of teaching and learning highlight that won first place in the construction career day that was a really really nice award for that project challenge and then obviously expanded complex here on our campus with the turf field and expanding the base sponsor off the ball fields exactly what we were thinking you know put into a tangible form some thank you for your work on i think it's the snapshot we were hoping to send out to our communities thank you to smaller questions that we've been wondering about the first time we did it we had it yeah it's like a single year of us involved and then finished up the data by december but which would you think would be better to put the school years we have here or just dated january two thousand because this implies school year and people in a remember they got it in january i like january and this data isn't june of two thousand and fourteen where this might apply it is so we went back and forth with single year versus month and year versus school year things that are taking place you know and in order you can put it all here so in order to try to get a flavor of things that are within the arts that are the academics that are within areas that people may not realize with the construction we missing anything is there something here that we're missing ok so you made a motion for us to accept this and then you will send it out to the community you have a motion i know approval of twenty fourteen twenty fifteen school founder and i guess you had this before you at the beginning of the month and it's wanted to think about the proposal we received from our educators which is we did support to have all of the parent conferences monday and tuesday prior to thanksgiving which is before we start the elementary the week ahead and secondary that week and it's just an idea they want to try but it's a new idea so friends and i found a lot of support within the community for this change and you know also from parents who have students in all levels of our schools so i'm all for it i have it on my own running building the building not the people i spoke with and i do think they said at our last meeting i think our staff is very co operative too when people have conflicts and really want what's best for the student and will you know take measures to accommodate parents who can't make it from building to building if they have you know four or five kids just in doing so but the parents i spoke with where we really thought it was a good change to work out i'm assuming the teachers union teacher to meet the four year physical education requirement and you have a memo from principal pathway explaining that if that if you agree with that budget position then that means at the same time in parallel that you have to reconsider the requirements so you have a memo from her that says should you vote to increase the p requirement from two to four years which in effect you're doing if you approve the position in the that this will take effect with the class of two thousand and seventeen we will also need to increase our overall yearly academic credit requirement so an increase in the requirement for an additional two years of p c will mean an increase in the number of credits for students from six credit requirement as i'll make that motion i think we need to motions don't we have to vote to increase the p requirement and then vote to increase the democratic line that would be very wise i go back to stephen larry's thought process now it's too late but is there any credence to agree were complying with the law so we're offering it for four years but first today's who are highly active in the forts or whatever that there would be an option for them to potentially take another instructional academic collective or something yes i think that actually is part of it in which case our  i'm not sure because it i don't and i'm trying to think on my feet but i'm not sure it matters for tonight because if you vote to increase requirement from two to four years then i can come back to you and say this is how kids can meet that requirement and whether it is that they have to take the half year elective every of the day or whether it there are other ways to meet that requirement i'll let you know so i don't think by taking a vote tonight you're preventing that from happening is that we've now complied with the statute by having that by having the ability to provide that right by that additional d f t which we wouldn't be able to write but now that we've provided that is there a way that if our staff said this child should be worthy of an exception because we know for whatever rationale that would allow them to do another academic elective would you know or so you know but i think john l said when they were here on the sixth that they you know kids could come in before school and take a yoga class or use the wellness center that there were different means to meet their requirements so that they could take you know require they could come in and but but the problem the reason we needed that i think as i understood it the reason we needed the full time person was to help meet this time requirement because somebody has to be in the wellness right or somebody has to be for a school that does not require physical education and every grade is required to develop corrective action plans which is what i was your friend for the state law does not specify the number of physical education credits required for graduation so that's why we can just offer it as a quarter course and not a full course of four years so i would say we're offering it requiring it but the minimum the state permits school districts is just quick the state permit the school district now this is only a website on state profiles permit school districts or schools to allow students to substitute other activities for the required physical education credit local school officials have discretion to determine whether and how a student particularly the high school level meet the physical education requirement through an organized program constructed physical activity that so i would say that the loophole you can go ahead and more comfortable perhaps feel that voting would encourage us to fine be flexible about how we within the law are able to since be great i would go as far as to i don't know who made the initial motion with of i don't know if you would consider a friendly amendment but i would almost put that right into the motion that we approved two year for year with the caveat that we would ask the administration to identify that procedure or appreciate the discussion and i think we've gotten to what i was looking for while the athletic directors are already said that they you know the willingness to under under supervision information school p e requirement increase from two years to four years right because that's what the law stated yes and that's what we agreed upon with budgets so yes ok but if we added what are the different ways students will be able to meet that requirement to be ok and to try to formalize in language other ways for them to require more of them taking this course and that you make you might be voting on  are not enforced clear on right now and so i think the day to day you know operations of how we carry this out that we can come back to you with an update about five but i don't i think your role is to increase the requirement and then we can come back ok now part two part two accordingly that will increase the requirement the additional two years of physical education increases the requirement in the number of credits for students and if you remember ms my is packed with the last meeting said that our requirement currently six point five that the typical student earns more than six point five credits so this is not in the tina ball goal but to to acknowledge that the  course that will now occur junior and senior year that there will you will vote to increase the requirement that you will vote to increase the number of credits for students from six point five to six point seven five each year beginning with the class seventeen and just for clarification the law does not dictate the number of credits how each district will implement this that's correct we are choosing with the change from six point five to six point seven five yes ok so we have that we have a motion want to be definitive about it and come back to you with an update you know at the risk of sounding or offering up going to uni and i would think that be appropriate for if a student is out exercising and participating the attention of the committee about the recent new agreement and your concerns about the mitigation for schools in the agreement so i want to just open that up to the committee so we can have a have and that this is an agreement this is this is a so you know a signed agreement so this is something to keep in mind in terms of determined that the there would be a greater financial impact that the town could go back and read negotiate that if at some time it was determined  say the number of students coming into the district greater and we're going to have more of an impact on the services and school district so that is my understand documents legal documents i did read the surrounding community agreement i think you know it i mean it's clearly a signed agreement i think it protects us our schools in the event that we can prove any measurable damages within the terms of this agreement it provides a means of recouping those damages but it would be up to our business administrator to try to track any impact on the schools in your role and or through our guidance if we have our guidance departments if we have any measurable increase in services and services yes you that comes but i mean i think if this time this agreement protects us as best as we can from an uncertain future right now we can't really say what is going to occur down the road that i mean i just gave the agreement covers the school department so i don't see what we can add at this time you know you know i go i'm sorry you know go ahead you know i applaud steve who's taken a little bit of flack in the press not a local press for military you know you know i have steve i applaud you as a new member of the committee bringing passion and interest to foxborough kids toy at this table i don't have any issue with that at all i disagree to any points made on behalf of the school so to me the key point out of this is we don't we would like a voice or a seat at the table or would it would be nice to have an opportunity to weigh in since this school flavor to having said that you know i don't personally i'm i'm ok with where we are today and something with people close on that's my personal perspective yeah number one i do not think that this was a school committee purview to start with and now that it is a legally signed document that already protects the schools i just i think it would be agree just focus if the school committee even thought about trying to supersede a legal of and i want to make it very clear that over the last few weeks when i was talking about this i hope i was successful in the saying thirty of what i thought the superintendent's job was i didn't think that was fair that i thought it was awkward that it got dropped on your desk and that we had to recognize it ok i don't feel it did no no but i just want to say this publicly nobody that i said many times in this meeting that it was a matter of the board a matter of the board better of the board because i have the highest confidence in you and your staff clear that you you were not you know and and we weren't either and i just wanted to make sure that if this board had a consensus of any thoughts comments or concerns that they were  discussed and it was all in the focus of looking over the best interest of everything under the umbrella here in the best interests of our students and the employees who are going to school district and everybody else is affected by it that's on the committee was just doing share our school so they have a vested interest in this and i know there were it was a very very good cross section of the community the people who served on it there were some people who are originally appointed who left and then other members came on but they spent over a year looking at this issue and really put a lot of thought and time and energy and effort into it and i think they you know did some good work on behalf of our communities to dina thank you for agreeing yeah i agree and i want to thank you for  bringing that up i think you're right it's it is a consensus and terms of our discussion about this and you know i feel comfortable right just because i don't think i've really articulated it but i feel comfortable with the agreement as is and i appreciate everybody taking the time and you know this is what we do we bring up issues we talk about them we process it and i think the consensus is that this is an agreement we're all comfortable w budget sometimes we don't need one and we think the very next week if it doesn't happen we separated after we separated which is so if you feel that there aren't any other pending issues for next week i would i would recommend to the committee that we don't have the meeting for collaboration and this is the day that we typically have them focus on what's most important for their work in the clinton area and i made it around to almost everything in the end it was a great day i would especially want to point out that we offered our first ever  training for substitute teachers or as we sometimes call them our guests tossers and that focused on the principles i welcomed the substitute teaching staff the principals when it was school safety procedures lockdown drills what happens expected of them and then the remainder of the morning are foxborough public school nurses and want to thank them personally did a two hour session on responding to student needs so it included health safety all aspects of what they would need do in the afternoon they were trained on the darkness to light adults protecting children from sexual abuse the district where training we have been engaged and so one of our elementary counsellors anymore downey provided that training  you did professional development for us and of all of our long conversational topics that we had that day which was long i would say that's the one thing i said you know we can do that and we did so a month later we did it so we hope that's the first annual a know it was a little bit more for him and her team to put together but it was really a great day for them and it's really excited and i say this because we have we have some great substitute teachers but we really have a core group in town who you know they teach  no i mean i don't know what the average a week but you see them all the time and i think this is fabulous i really love that they're being trained on school safety and responding to your needs and and the darkness to light training i'm very proud of  honor makes them feel hall whole part of the team too and they were a very important component of us so i'm glad we're able to do it and we're looking forward to hopefully doing it each year i think i would really love t matter that i had is our parent technology tonight that is going to take place it's upcoming on february the fifth which is a wednesday night here at the high school and this is our third annual here in technology night and it's really showing twenty first century skills in action it's not it's not about the technology it's technology as a tool and how we're really promoting the twenty first century skills and how our students many of them that's all they know is the twenty first century quite honestly  to this is we're doing a little bit different this year and that we want to bring the students perspective and so they're for the a number more than fifty percent of the sessions students will be presenting with their teachers and really talking as out their perspective of how technology is impacting their learning in the classroom and then some of the sessions that are repeats from last year or even the year before the sessions different just as technology changes teachers are constantly reflecting on how they're using that within the classroom so if a parent has been to a session in the past don't think i don't need to go to that when you still can but that registration link is right on the main page of our website it was sent out with a list serve to each of the schools and actually a hard copy of the flyer will go home with students tomorrow just to make sure that everyone is able to see it you know that through e mail a lot of information goes out that way we want to make sure that everyone is able to access the registration link and sign up ahead of time for those sessions and we hope that many will join us babysitting will be provided by the national honor society that evening and a lot of you know maybe we could get a mention in the facts were reporter with the patch  that i do cable access much for cable access him its annual meeting last saturday night and volunteer appreciation and it is f c a going school video by the a b c or current broadcasting club the f h s t v center and they and the scholarship which we they want us to remind people to apply for they feel a very very proud that they are are a part of this and can support education in this way and they want to thank us for training up such good people who come i mean some some of there are they are unbelievable partners to the schools in so many ways it would be hard to describe i mean and just look how they have taken refurbish the equipment here and updated us with lights as much as they can the camera and  doctor folks folks watching or listening or reading about the meeting might want to look see if there's any blood grudge at search for a school or the beginning of february because they want to give don't know if that would be exactly on the calendar mike in the back room during the video and if you could put a camera on the audience right now the audience would see that the only two people here are the guys who give us such great support and reporting so thank you guys thank you are a part of our community so you're