2014-05-05 PPS School Board Study Session

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Event 1: Board of Education - Study Session - May 5, 2014

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good evening and the study of the study session of the board of education from a fifth 2014 is called to order I'd like to extend a warm welcome to those of you in our audience and to our television viewers while our study sessions are typically about the receiving of information from staff and discussion and review of resolutions prior to vote at times we do conduct votes at study sessions any items that will be voted on this evening have been posted as required by state law this meeting is being televised live and be replayed throughout the next two weeks we are also streaming live on PBS's website and it'll be archived on the board website for later review in case you or someone you know is interested director Knowles and Morton are absent this evening at this time we're going to have public comment miss Whelan as you call up or as you let me know who the first person is I'm going to shift to the instructions for public comment do we have anybody signed up we do we have one Tonya holic okay you can yep you can begin to come up and going to have you seat sit right up here at the table we'd like to thank you very much for taking the time to come out and talk to us this evening we really value public's input and we look forward to hearing your thoughts and reflections and concerns our responsibility is aboard lies in actively listening and reflecting in the thoughts and opinions of others guidelines for public input emphasize respect and consideration when referring to board members staff and other presenters the board will not respond to any comments or questions at this time but the board or staff will follow up on various issues that are raised please make sure that you've left your contact information with miss Whelan either a phone number email pursuant to board policy 1700 12 speakers may offer objective criticism of district operations and programs but the board will not hear complaints concerning individual district personnel any complaints about specific employees should be directed the superintendent's office and will not be heard in this forum and not I don't know what you're going to testify but just want to clarify for some folks there's been a lot of question there's been a lot of question about this instruction and really it's about our staff our public servants and there's an appropriate place to take HR issues and that's directly to the superintendent so we as an elected board have a way of hearing those through the superintendent's office so we just don't want to create a public forum where people are worried about what somebody might come up and say found it or not found you have a total of three minutes to share your comments I ask that you begin by stating your name and spelling your last name for the record during the first two minutes of testimony a green light will up here when you have one minute left a yellow light will appear and at three minutes when your time is up a red light will appear in a buzzer will sound and at that time we just ask that you respectfully wrap up your comments thank you again for being here you can start anytime all right thank you good evening and thank you for your time my name is Tanya holic h ola k and i am a parent of a student at richmond elementary i am concerned about district operations and safety within potent and public schools a january thirtieth i reported an incident involving a first grade girl loan in the restroom with male custodian behind closed doors since january thirtieth I of files PPS complaint procedures you've identified the school and you've identified a staff member in the position mmm that becomes easily identifiable I don't know what you're about to say but my concern is that it there will be an allegation or some some comment about this employee or situation can you make sure that you stay away from that okay thank you okay my family has been seeking policy clarification and responsibilities from PPS since incident 13 weeks ago we have not received this instead our concerns have been misrepresented misstated ignored mishandled by PPS ministry ders I have been personally bullied by administrators when I tried to get a real loose resolution from a superintendent Smith's office refused to investigate my complaint stating the parent complaint policy cannot be used to address personal personnel or HR related matters I affirm this is a district-wide safety matter school board please help I requested documentation of written procedure and policy on how a proper investigation is conducted when a student is alone in a private setting like a restroom with an adult particularly of the opposite sex I have not received this in a debt in addition I requested documentation of written procedures on how a custodian across the district of Portland Public Schools is required to service the bathroom doing during school hours I have not received this no policies are listed there must
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be clear and accessible policies and procedures that protect students and families from inappropriate and unsafe situations where abuse could occur I've seen no evidence that this is the case in PPS I am a parent and I'm concerned deeply by some of the things that have happened clear professional procedures around a port reporting and investigating an incident as such should be in place in order to prevent assault and abuse within our schools having our daughter in a school system that does not provide clear policies and staff accountability and proper protocols is just intolerable therefore we have disenrolled our daughter from PPS district parents and students need the school board to create policies and ensure safety and transparency within PPS Portland Public Schools thank you thank you thank you very much at this time we're going to move on to our next item on our agenda we are pleased to acknowledge our teachers tonight in celebration of national teachers appreciation week which is May 5th through 9th which I've seen lots of postings and lots of activities at our schools already recognizing the good work of our staff so thank you community for already being aware of that making sure that folks are out there expressing their appreciation we are very fortunate to have a school district that is rich with talented and dedicated teachers on behalf of the board I want to thank them and you for the work you do in our classrooms every day superintendent Smith you have some additional comments and acknowledgments so this each year we actually pass a resolution to celebrate National Teacher Appreciation Week which is May 5th through May ninth and the resolution is resolution number 4 9 10 10 reads as follows are approximately 3,000 teachers and professional educators through their expertise and determination prepare thousands of students in Portland Public Schools each year to succeed in college and career and to become responsible members of our community the Board of Education acknowledges our teachers in head start preschool elementary middle and high school special education English as a Second Language and alternative education as well as our curriculum coordinators coaches librarians instructional specialists counselors psychologists and teachers on special assignment for their commitment to excellence in education for all students in Portland Public Schools everyday PBS teachers strive to challenge all of their students through the engaging and rigorous curriculum and instruction that is relevant to their lives sparks their interests and helps them to reach their potential every day teachers build relationship with their students and their students families to develop teamwork and collaboration that supports active engaged learners every day our teachers connect with their colleagues and administrators to review and sharpen their practice and find solutions to students learning challenges every day teachers reach outside the classroom to build relationships with our community partners that create vibrant and productive learning environments for all students the Board of Education declares May 5th through 9 2014 appreciation week and recognition of our teachers dedicated efforts to ensure the success of students in Portland Public Schools and part of what we do in addition to passing a resolution is each year we take nominations to single out and recognize teachers who are representative of all of the teachers in our districts so this year we have eight honorees our human resources department received a total of eighty one nomination forms nominating a total of forty five teachers the selection involves our HR department our union partners and our principals the honorees that we're recognizing tonight have longevity with the district that spans from four to thirty six years each one of the honorees will receive a crystal paperweight that's inscribed the PPS logo and the words outstanding achievement as well as a framed copy of the resolution and the gifts will be sent to each employees principal to present during teacher appreciation week so tonight the teacher appreciation nominees include Susie Bartley who coordinates the advance Scholars Program at Franklin High School that involves another 24 staff members at that school at Franklin Laurie Cully who is a media specialist at lent elementary school Susan hameau Hawk who is a teacher of grades 7 through 8 math at West Sylvan middle school Kurt Krone who teaches grade 8 language arts and social studies at Rose way heights elementary school Andy Kulak who is a teacher of high
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school language arts at Jefferson High School Alex Montfort who teaches grades three and four at king elementary school Robin Rolfe who's a media specialist specialist at James John elementary school and Patti Trump who teaches PE at hospira middle school please join me in recognizing these teachers and all of our teachers and public we will now consider resolution number 4 9 10 a resolution to celebrate National Teacher Appreciation Week May 5th through 9th 2014 do I have a motion in a second second director Buell moves and director Regan and curler second the motion to adopt resolution for 9 10 miss Whelan is there any citizen comment on this resolution there is now is there any board discussion on the resolution it's just fantastic it's good you know as a student we get to see the fantastic work that all of our teachers put in every day and it's it's great to get to recognize that so thank you sure I and I I'll second that motion uh and also just you know I look look at this list and clearly there's a lot more out there and I want us to think about from a management standpoint what we can do to to these you know so we're honoring which is absolutely the appropriate thing to do but we want we want to also empower and so our great teachers we want to empower them to do even more and there's a there's a buzz word out these days called the teacher / Nouriel and the teachers that are just jazzed and want to grow what they're doing and what can we do as a district to help do that so I just posed the question not knowing the answer and but wanting us to ask that so um it's great to to honor our teachers tonight other comes I was just going to say that during our teacher contract negotiations I think we had school board appreciation week which we did not take the opportunity to celebrate so it's very nice that we're through that process and that we are taking this opportunity tonight and as a result of that contract it's also really exciting that we are hiring you know 150 180 200 more teachers into our buildings so really pleased that we got there with such a positive resolution so anybody else I'll just say that director curler but we have a list here right superintendent Smith just read them and I just one of my favorite things about this position is getting to go to schools and see the amazing work day after day that so many of our teachers do it is absolutely inspiring they're spending long days they are creative as creative can get to both get students to whatever standards happen to be there but also finding a way to make it rich and relevant and fun for these students whether it's kindergarten pre-k or nine through twelve it's just been fantastic you know we have a whole host of award-winning teachers actually in our staff so it is great to take it to spend a week honoring them and thank you for all that you do there aren't any other comments board will now vote on resolution 491 00 all in favor please indicate by saying yes yes yes I'll oppose please indicate by saying no the resolution is approved by a vote of five to zero with student representative voting yes yes we'll now move on to our next item on the agenda which is student survey on trimet youthpass superintendent Smith can you introduce this for us yes and actually John Isaac's who's our chief officer in charge of communications and public affairs will come in and introduce the survey and introduce the rest of our presenters great Thank You superintendent superintendent Smith members of the board John Isaac's chief of communications and public affairs I want to just do a quick background on what's been happening over the last nine to eleven months with youth pass and the role that this survey has played in the discussions we've been having with trimet in the city about one year ago the city of Portland trimet and Portland Public Schools agreed to extend the funding of the youth pass for another year with each entity paying one third of the approximate three million dollar
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cost the youth pass provides a free TriMet pass to all Portland Public Schools high school students that costs as described in the mou between the three entities is based on an eco Northwest analysis of lost revenue to trimet for the free passes verse is every student purchasing a passive just so you know where the three million dollar cost comes from at that time we also agreed to work together over the next year so between then and now to develop a better understanding of how students our students were using the past and identify if there were any reasonable ways of reducing the cost of the program based on usage we realized that we were all operating under different assumptions for how students were actually using the pass and we needed to find out what was actually happening of course from the PBS perspective you know we knew this was very important to our students TriMet's perspective and they had a feeling that perhaps passes the pass was being used mostly for things other than school and we needed to figure that out the one fact that we did know is that of our twelve thousand six hundred and thirty-two high school students nearly every single one of them collected their past so we had unanimous participation based on the number of students who were at least getting the pass and taking it so and as you know that's not always the case when you offer something to a group you'll have but you know twenty thirty percent that don't get picked up in this case it's literally over ninety-nine percent were collected so the first part of that process was that we begin to involve students directly in the discussion and that started with super sac and PBS board member Andrew Davidson board member Davidson began to make a very strong case that youth pass usage had grown significantly over the last few years and was virtually being used by all students to get to school and for school related activities and I actually wanted to take a moment and ask you but Andrew if you wanted to say a few words about those discussions yeah thank you so as John swatch I was a part of the work group on this project and from the beginning you know I was talking about how important these youth past start or students in terms of everything from field trips to having the band go down to lincoln and play games you know to other things like we talked about having our students career ready for ball for internships and opportunities like that for a lot of our students the only way they can get down to those you know opportunities are using the public transportation using the youth path so it's really just a fantastic resource for our students so think Thank You director Davidson the after the picture that director Davidson painted and the rest of super sac which was that you know youth pass is essential to the functioning of our schools now we then decided as a group to co-design a survey that was meant to find out directly from PBS students how widespread trimet used to become for what purposes and to get specific information on such as which trimet routes are being used this is information that was particularly valuable to trim' it there was a feeling that the previous survey that had been conducted really wasn't a holistic survey gave us really simple information and we needed to get something that was a little went a little deeper so p ps and trimet work together to co-design the survey and the two individuals who participated from trimet or tom straighter and olivia clark who has since retired from trimet and we decided that the best way to conduct it was to co-design it with the help of davis hibbett Smigiel research and then actually have it conducted by our PBS survey department so we created bubble forms and it was provided to our high school staffs and it was conducted in the late fall what we then do did was the data was then provided independently so it was collected by our research department and then we provided it to DHM to do a third-party independent analysis of the data so PBS did not--did no data analysis this was important to the overall partnership of those involved with it and so what I would like to do now is introduce John Harvick and ari will bolt from DHM research who will walk you through the survey results and answer questions that you may have everybody hear me okay yes so I think at this point you guys all have the summary document in front of you so I think we'll just start by going through that step by step now as John spelled out I was conducted in the late fall of last year in total we got around 60 700 students to take the survey PPS provided us the data and then we processed it internally and that included coding and formatting all of the open-ended responses that came in as well so we'll provide an overall summary of the results from that survey staying usually just in the total results but sometimes there are some findings by school that are interesting and then when appropriate we can provide some benchmarking from the study that was conducted in 2011 so we'll give you an
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idea of how things have trended over the last few years so starting just at the beginning there were three main takeaways that we had the first being that ridership and use of the upass remains high so eighty-one percent so that they had used TriMet in the past week consistent with the 2011 survey the second point they're mostly using it to go to and from school that's the primary primary use for the youth passed as they're going to and from school not necessarily to secondary locations third main takeaway that without the used pass roughly half student half of students would be driven to school so that's the alternative that they would use now why don't we go ahead and start from the kind of the beginning of the summary of key findings and John will jump in if there's anything that I've missed so like I said a total of eight out of ten students so eighty-one percent had ridden trim it in the last week ranging from a high of 94 students at Benson to sixty-six percent at Grand High Witch is still a high number so you're getting high numbers across schools and also particularly among african-american Hispanic students where we saw eighty-nine percent of each group had reported using youthpass to write TriMet in the past week after this we looked at what where had they gone in the past week using their youth passed so those that had said they had written in the prison had Road trimet in the past week with their use bass we have some where they've gone two-thirds of students said they had used TriMet to go to school and three-quarters of students that they use try meant to go home after school so those again those are the top locations they're going they're going to and from school with their youth passed more than two-thirds reported having done so again that was also higher among african-american and Hispanic students and move on to the next page here and we can talk about sort of overall ridership so we just asked how often do you use TriMet we found that three-quarters of students of seventy-five percent of all students not just don't think that's I don't know anything hey so three quarters regardless of whether they wrote trimet in the past week just overall three quarters that they ride trimet frequently so that means fifty percent saying they write it every day of all students fifty percent say they write it everyday and twenty-five percent say they ride a few times a week again by school we see highest ridership at Benson hi and Lois at Grant so we're starting to see a little bit of a trend there only six percent of all students surveyed reported never writing trying and that's consistent with 2011 we saw the same exact thing six percent said they never ride TriMet so after that we asked what's the top way that you get to school and sort of consistent with the previous findings where people are talking about you know here's what I did in the past week we found that the most consistent way the most common way that people get to school is using tryman so sixty-four percent of all students use TriMet most often to get to school ranging again from a high of 85 @ Benson to forty six percent at Grant so that's consistent with the previous finding where we're just looking at that week overall mostly going to and from school with youth pass after that they're going to get dropped off at school or they're going to walk so those are the two highest alternatives but really try Mets on top sixty-four percent followed by getting dropped off at 43 and then walking at 28 and it's kind of consistent with what we're going to see when we asked them what they would do without a youth pass and that's the next question so what would you do how would you get yourself to school if you did not have a youth pass top options nearly half at 4046 saying they would be driven to school and thirty-four percent say they would walk notably for us we had twenty-two percent of students saying they don't know if they didn't have a youth pass a fifth of students don't know how they would get to school so that was something that we found to be pretty notable after that we asked about safety do they feel safe going to and from school ninety-three percent said they felt safe either all or some of the time with eight out of ten saying they felt safe all of the time going to and from school the primary issue in terms of feeling unsafe had to do with you know strangers exhibited and erratic behavior whether on the bus or at the bus stop that sort of thing but that was kind of a rare occurrence mostly like I said 93% so they felt safe either all or some of the time going to school so the big takeaways for us are they're using
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it hi ridership they're using it to go to and from school particularly high ridership among African America and Hispanic students and lastly if they didn't have the youth past they were most likely they would be driven to school and a fifth of students have no idea they said they don't know how they would get to school so those were our top takeaways from the survey have any questions hi thank you very much um you know my first question was as I was looking at the data um I didn't see I saw a response is broken out by high school but I didn't see any responses from Jefferson or Roosevelt High School or our alternative schools was that just because there wasn't enough response or were they not offered the survey or what was the reason for it so all of those schools were the survey was given to all of those schools Roosevelt actually completed has completed the survey they just did it later than the rest of the schools and so DHM is actually processing that data currently separately from the other high schools but and I'm going to leave you guys but my understanding from the experts is that because it was done at a different time frame there's a problem with the it's can you're not comparing apples to apples data so we're going to issue a separate report on Roosevelt is that correct and then Jefferson simply has chosen not to participate in the survey to this point and Alliance did return surveys did we I'm not sure why we didn't break them out there yeah so a lot of the smaller schools so Alliance open meadow rosemary Anderson they're included in the overall total but the small sample size is so broken breaking them out alone didn't make sense those those responses are reflected so if Jefferson for example does choose to complete the survey will do a will do the same thing we're doing currently doing Roosevelt where we're running a separate report on that data just to follow up with methodologically since the key questions are based on ridership in the last week we wanted to have schools complete the survey at the same time make sure that there's a full week every everybody was responding to a full week of school that the different schools are responding different times made with Lisa major weather event for example that maybe would have an influence on the ridership for that week so for consistency's sake for comparability safe that wasn't important I also had a more I said a follow-up to that first questioner yes Father yo keep going there just um just curious me why why would you ever sir not complete it and Roosevelt not do at the same time I'm not I'm not sure about that you know we worked with all the schools they were all encouraged to complete it on the same timeframe and that's the way it has happened so we didn't we wanted to make sure to treat every school the same in conducting the survey so they were all contacted on the same schedule encouraged to return it by certain dates we're all given the same deadlines we offered the same supports to every school and ok that's just the way it turned out we were encouraged frankly that you know it's not easy for high schools to conduct a survey this big so to get over 6,000 responses was really encouraging when we did it was frankly we got a bigger response and we were expected when we put it out there so so um so in general it sounds like the results of us were really pretty positive and I hope that our partners would view this as really positive results and wanna continue the partnership I had a question about some of the responses the students had around safety and in particular there was a very specific fear involving stories of attempted abduction of themselves or friends and i know that in one of them lincoln high school students responded very strongly to a safety question so i was curious if there's an explanation for that we recently had a and while the death of somebody was stalking kids at Wilson and I was curious to know if it was if the survey was conducted around the time that there was a lot of news out around somebody the kids being stalked her if that did it surprise you do we have an explanation for it is there a generalized fear from our students around safety and abduction I was I was very surprised to see that I'm just trying to understand that familiar with that story so much looking timeline for that is if it happened prior sort of the late fall period when the server was good so this was in the fall right correct that was much more recent it's just right last month agency just reviewing the opening comments we didn't see a lot of specifics around a certain incident for example and we other work we've done on transit issues with both of TriMet and for agencies across the country safety is not an infrequent
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mentioned people are walking often at night in the dark and they are with strangers and so those types of comments are not surprising the level that we're seeing them are actually quite a bit lower than we see for other transit agencies and others so general population although it's something to keep an eye on and be aware of students didn't make comments the other thing to note is that it's not all that all the comments are about safety on the bus or on transit it may also be comments about lack the sidewalk to a bus stop for example as well okay that's helpful it's evil of 110 respondents for the the open end set right for the reasons why you did not feel safe so it's those who said never so very small mm-hmm well I think in general it was pretty low but it I mean you all specifically noted also poor concern and so I was curious if that's something that we want to be talking with our ethros about our school safety resource officers or if there's any follow-up we need to do I was it just struck me I would also add that as a consumer of this data the two numbers that have stood out for me where we may do want to do some follow-up is actually if you look at it with because it's pretty consistent across the board the answer that question but at Benson and Madison that the number is noticeably higher it's did a statistically Sigma significant level of the percentage of students who say they're only they feel safe only some of the time and that's a big enough difference where we may want to do some you know follow up with something that's more qualitative where we get a focus group of students at those schools together Madison and Benson and say hey you know this is something we found out in the survey it's the the level that say they feel safe all the time is / it is noticeably lower than the other school so that's just another thing that stood out to us in this um you know the one thing I think was great about the survey was that question and then you know question number 7 where we asked if you take trimet to school what bus number max line where you can really see how accurate this data was so for example Madison where you see the you know ninety percent of students take the 72 line right and so it was when we were having some post dialogue especially there were some questions from our partners in this just wondering is it accurate to say that or is it accurate that students would be taking trimet to school twice a day like that was a question that came up when we said actually yes because we have many students that go to school then they leave and come back and it was that kind of those kinds of responses where you could really see the accuracy of the data here because we know the line that our Madison students are taking up and down 80 so ah I think this is a great piece of work so thank you for putting together and Andrew thank you for helping healthy with it and did our partners help pay for it as well so is it yes yeah yeah we split the costumes yes because it's other than our boss for to be doing the bubble form and putting it out door schools and all of that but yes but it's it interfaces with all of the functions of all our partners in ourselves or we can it really is good thank you appreciate very much this work and everything andrew is having the student voice adherent this directly is great and I just you know would point out kind of the obvious I mean we've got clearly a generation of transit riders with this as well as significant I mean on a femen did the math and what the carbon reduction would be for all those cars that would otherwise be out on the road dropping off those kids let alone law opportunity cost of our students not being able to get to jobs or opportunities so I just as we move forward to working with our partners you know I'm hoping that jurisdictions around the city are really seeing that this is something that has a huge public benefit and a climate benefit so I really appreciate that seeing the data thank you um I just wanted to say that I really appreciated the disaggregation of data to see which students are using it more often as I think about our equity lens about if we had lost this who is going to disproportionately affect so that's really valuable information can I say one thing about that thank you for pointing that out and I meant to do it this is the value of the way we conducted it because so by our data team doing our research team conducting the survey and then collecting the data back on our forms which is all each one's tagged to a student ID that's what allowed us to provide the data especially with the racial d aggregate d aggregation so that we could look at it by race that's not something we would have been able to do if we had just you know said hey DHN can you go into our schools and conducted independently so that's why we decided to do it that way and you can see a really added value to the survey data so thank you for bringing that up yeah the other pieces I found myself then curious right these surveys always bring up more questions on why this why that and when I'd be curious and maybe you guys haven't maybe don't I don't
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need now but who we said twenty percent of the students don't know how they would give to school if we didn't have an ID be curious to hear how that breaks out demographically if there's a certain population that that's true for sure concerns look at that provide information to to job that'd be great any other comments questions I was just curious in terms of our partners um trem in the city and what they were looking to get out of this survey do you have any sense of what their reaction or response has been were they surprised by anything with was this affirmative was it a freak out for them did you have any response what their reaction was to the service yes um thank you for asking that and I want to say that recently we held a report back meeting from DHM with our partners we also invited and included the Multnomah youth commission which was essential in founding the youth pass and we included opal who works on social and economic justice around public transportation so we included them in the briefing and the you know the reaction was very positive I think that there was it there's a lot of clarity that this survey of the survey results provided in terms of the importance of youth pass now to our school going culture of our high school students there's no question that you know we all know that some programs work some don't this is a program is absolutely achieving the results that we its intended to achieve and you know it's pretty clear to see from the results that if this were to be scaled back significantly or taken away that it would have dramatic impacts on city in terms of traffic in terms of the impact on our students twenty percent who say they don't know how they would get to school is alarming right i mean we this is for us i think the group the finding was okay the any question of this being scaled back in any way there really was taken off the table and our discussions the question was how it is you know are we gonna look at any different way of paying for this going forward that was where we left it and you know I don't know super tenant Smith wants to say anything more about this but that is that's where we left it just that we picked up with Neil McFarland and charlie hales and I sitting down to talk as we're entering our budget process of the attempt to try and keep it at a third a third a third which is the arrangement that we've been most recently operationalizing this and there's some intent of wanting to ultimately regionalize this so how do you pay for this if you're trying like right now this is available to all the districts but we're the only one that actually uses this in lieu of our yellow bus system and so there's more complexity to how do you expand this and do it to all of TriMet's potential ridership and have it actually be functional but we're working in the near term at trying to keep the third a third a third and the survey did a huge amount of making the the point of what the real usage is so that it's not just conjecture but we really can see how it's being utilized the other thing I think that for me is exciting about this is this is something that started as a pilot at just a few schools in 2008 with mono my youth commission being the real one of the co-founders of the of the pilot and then has rolled out to the whole system and has now become a really integral factor where we're not duplicating and requiring different jurisdictions to do parallel infrastructure it's like how do we all use the same infrastructure and it's I think a model nationally in terms of how we're going about doing it so good joint interest in preserving this going forward I mean it really is remarkable in six years how it's gone from a pilot for where it's now I mean part of vegetable cultures the key thing I'll say though is all three jurisdictions are in their budgeting process right now so we're all in a I mean that's the stage of where we are is everybody's going through their own into the individual but that's the intent of all parties so can I step out a little bit especially for you John since we participated in the Oregon values and beliefs survey City Club and one of the comments that we got during that process from Oregon folks was that they wished that public schools did more in terms of civic education and one of the things that I think this shows is by offering public transportation to our students at some level we're teaching them civic engagement or teaching them how to use public transportation we're teaching them how to be good stewards of the environment and how to get to school how to get to work how to get to internships you all of that I mean I guess I would link it in there that at some level the three partners are teaching our kids a really valuable life lesson during their high school years by offering this service to them not only after that is that a stretch or not no it's not a stretch we do DHM does a lot of qualitative working your locally across the student press make sure you're in the microphone oh we do a lot of qualitative work across the region and
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the state in the nation and we so often hear everyday citizens asking for the govern their governments to to form partnerships to find efficiencies to find cost savings to work together I think this is a real example of what their desires Thanks thank you thank you d hm I would really like to make one final comment just I just want to give my final bit of credit to director Davidson who really I mean he never realizes it but when he when he got involved with this discussion he completely changed the entire discussion I mean it really will had started with a bit of a bit of cynicism and a lot of assumptions about what how it was being used and he just weighed in like a ton of bricks and really started to put bring reality of how how important this was to the discussion and then it was completely you know verified in the survey so I just wanted to say that we're just were so lucky that we've had and her on the board this year and that he those are the places you see that he has an impact you don't see if board means that I wanted to look let the rest of the board know about so thank you Thank You representative Davidson thanks work the board will now consider the remaining items on its business agenda having already voted on resolution 4910 teacher appreciation week miss Whelan are there any changes to our business agenda yes I'm resolution 4909 regarding expenditure contracts we have removed the contracts for the Jefferson turf field and track improvements and the Clarendon roof replacement those projects are both proceeding and will move back to the board soon with contracts for your consideration revised business agendas are at your place and there are copies in the back for the audience great thank you do I have a motion and a second to adopt the business agenda so moved director Adkins moves and director Regan seconds adoption of the business agenda Miss Hughes miss Whelan is there any citizen comment there is not okay is there any board discussion about the business agenda no the board will now vote on the business agenda all in favor please indicate by saying yes yes I'll oppose please indicate by saying no with any abstentions the business agenda is approved by a vote of five to 0 with a with student representative Davidson voting yes yes the next meeting of the board will be held Monday May twelfth this meeting is adjourned

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• PPS Board of Education, Archive 2013-2014, https://www.pps.net/Page/2224 (accessed: 2022-03-24T00:57:54.073648Z)
• PPS Communications, "Board of Education" (YouTube playlist), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8CC942A46270A16E (accessed: 2023-10-10T04:10:04.879786Z)