April 19, 2007
10:00 A.M.
4th
Floor Boardroom
Agenda
01. Report of State Superintendent of Education
02. Report on
03. End of 2007 Legislative Session Update (Steve Williams)
04. Discussion
of revision of the Procedures for
Calculating Graduation, Completion and Dropout Counts and Rates by Tracking
Cohorts of Students in MSIS (Sheril Smith)
05. Report of Personnel Actions (Ethel Cain
Carson)
06. Discussion of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Transition Plan (James Sardin)
07. Discussion of an Accredited - Temporary Status for Millcreek
of
08. Discussion of an Accredited - Temporary
Status for North New
09. Discussion of issuing an approved list of Supplemental
Educational Service (SES) Providers (Sonya Amis)
10. Discussion of revision of the Guidelines for English
Language Learners
11. Discussion of contract with Florida Virtual School and KC Distance Learning d/b/a Aventa Learning to purchase online courses for students through Mississippi Virtual Public School (Gwenda Purnell)
12. Discussion
of awarding grant proposals in support of enhancing education through
technology and integration (Gwenda Purnell)
13. Discussion
of deleting State Board of Education Policy 7604 Implementation of Grades 3 and
7 Benchmarks for the Mississippi Curriculum Test and to revise State Board of
Education Policy 4300 Intervention Process
14. Discussion of approving the 2007
15. Discussion of approving the 2007
16. Discussion of revision of the
17. Discussion of revision of State Board
Policy 7608 Procedures for Setting Student-Level Standards on the Mississippi
Curriculum Test (MCT) and the Subject Area Testing Program (SATP) and to adopt
performance level descriptors for language arts, mathematics, and science (Kris
Kaase) Back-up Material Back-up Material
18. Discussion of revision of State Board of Education Policy 7601
Mississippi Statewide Assessment System Assessment of Special Populations
19. Discussion of contract modification with Harcourt Assessment, Inc. to continue to provide services and products for the Subject Area Testing Program (SATP) (Kris Kaase) Back-up Material
20. Discussion to modify the FY 2007 contract
with Pearson Educational Measurement to add tasks to the FY 2007 contract and
to move certain tasks to the FY 2008 contract (Kris
Kaase)
21. Discussion
of Teacher Education Program Accreditation for
22. Discussion of Teacher Education Program
Accreditation for
23. Discussion of critical shortage geographical regions for Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program, William Winter Teacher Scholar Loan Problem, Federal Stafford Program, and Paul C. Douglas Teacher Scholarship Program (Daphne Buckley) Back-up Material
24. Discussion of grant renewal with the University of Mississippi (Daphne Buckley) Back-up Material Back-up Material
25. Discussion of contract with Mississippi
Community College Foundation to deliver Alternate Route Teacher Certification
Training (Daphne Buckley)
26. Discussion
of approving Three New Technology Endorsement Codes as recommended by the
Commission on Teacher and Administrator Education, Certification and Licensure
Development (Daphne Buckley)
Consent Items
A. Repealing State Board Policy No. 1600 (Has cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with no public
comments) (Hank Bounds)
B. Repealing State Board Policy GBRJ-1
(currently numbered 4800) (Has cleared
the Administrative Procedures Act process with no public comment)
C. Contract with the Mississippi State
Department of Health to perform health inspections of selected Summer Food
Service Program Sites for Program Year 2007 (Regina Ginn)
D. Contract modification to release ConAgra
Foods from the obligation to provide smoked turkey to participants in the
statewide purchasing program (Regina Ginn)
E. New school site for the
F. Discussion of contract modification with RMS Research Corporation to provide consultative services relative to redesigning Special Education Policies and Procedures
(Kris Kaase) Back-up Material
G. Contract modification with the
H. Contract modification with Harcourt
Assessment, Inc. to continue to provide services
and products related to the English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT)
(Kris Kaase) Back-up Material
I. Contract modification with Riverside
Publishing to continue to provide services and products for the Elementary and
Middle Grades Science Assessment Program (Kris Kaase) Back-up Material
J. Contract
modification with Gulf Coast Education Initiative to remove the monitoring
component of the contract and to provide assistance with tagging equipment in
all nonpublic and private schools awarded Immediate Aid to Restart School
Operations funds (Sonya Amis)
K. Revision
of the Licensure Guidelines for Tech Prep Discovery Courses as recommended by
the Commission on Teacher and Administrator Education, Certification and
Licensure Development (Has
cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with no public comments)
(Daphne Buckley)
L. Postsecondary
Interim Vocational Certificate as recommended by the Commission on Teacher and
Administrator Education, Certification and Licensure Development
(Has
cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with no public comments)
(Daphne Buckley)
M. Renewing
the contract with MMI Dining Systems, L.L.C. for the provision of food
services on the campus of the Mississippi Schools for the Blind and the Deaf
(Daphne Buckley)
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