Mississippi Board of Education
April 13, 2006
Board of Education Monthly Meeting

 

Delta State University

Ewing Hall

Jacob Conference Center

Highway 8

Cleveland, Mississippi

 

Agenda

 

9:00 A.M.

 

01.       Report of State Superintendent of Education

 

02.       Legislative Update (Steve Williams) Back-up material

           

03.       Discussion of revisions to the Mississippi Secondary and Postsecondary Curriculum Frameworks  

(Has cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with public comments) (Martez Hill)

 

Back-up material A

Back-up material B

 

04.       Discussion of contract with Third Day Solutions to provide maintenance for the Grant Management Portal to manage the $15M Carl Perkins Federal Vocational Grant (Martez Hill) Back-up material

 

05.       Discussion of revisions to the Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards, 2006

(Has cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with no public comments) (Beth Sewell)

 

Back-up material

Back-up material A

Back-up material B

 

06.       [PULLED]  

 

07.       [PULLED]

 

08.       [PULLED]

 

09.       Discussion to award grants for Hurricane Katrina Education Recovery Act through the Impact Aid for Displaced Students Back-up material

 

10.       Discussion of awarding contract for the purpose of providing technical services and products for the Mississippi Curriculum Test, Second Edition (MCT2), criterion-referenced tests in reading/language arts and mathematics administered in grades 3 through 8  Back-up material

 

11.       Discussion of revision of Mississippi’s Policies for Implementation of IDEIA 2004 (Kris Kaase)

Back-up material

Back-up material A

Back-up material B

Back-up material C

 

12.       Discussion of awarding grants in support of Enhancing Education through Technology (E2T2) (Gwenda Purnell) Back-up material

 

13.       Discussion of modifying contract with Aventa Learning to continue to provide services and products for the Mississippi Virtual School (formerly MOLLI) (Gwenda Purnell) Back-up material

 

14.       Discussion of contract modification with eCollege to continue to provide services for the Mississippi Virtual School (formerly MOLLI)   (Gwenda Purnell)  Back-up material

 

15.       Discussion of critical shortage subject areas for Federal Stafford Program and Paul C. Douglas Teacher Scholarship Program       (Wesley Williams)  Back-up material

 

16.       Discussion of critical shortage geographical regions for Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program, William Winter Teacher Scholar Loan Program, Federal Stafford Program, and Paul C. Douglas Teacher Scholarship Program (Wesley Williams) Back-up material

 

17.       Report of personnel actions (Martez Hill) Back-up material

 

18.       Discussion of appointment of Associate State Superintendent, Office of Innovation and School Improvement (Martez Hill)  Back-up material

 

19.       Discussion of appointment of Bureau Director II, Office of Internal Accountability (Martez Hill) Back-up material

 

20.       Discussion of appointment of Executive to the State Superintendent, (Deputy State Superintendent), Office of Instructional Programs and Services (Martez Hill) Back-up material

 

21.       Discussion of appointment of State Superintendent’s Office, Chief of Staff, Bureau Director II (Martez Hill)  Back-up material

 

1:00 P.M.

 

I.                     Call to order

 

II.                   Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and Invocation

 

III.                  Approval of Minutes of Meeting of March 16-17, 2006

 

IV.               Additions or deletions/approval of agenda

 

V.                 Report of the Chair

 

VI.        Approval of Action Items


(Items below are numbered to correspond to the items as discussed on Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 9:00 A.M.)

 

Office of Deputy State Superintendent                                    (Martez Hill)

03.       Approval of revisions to the Mississippi Secondary and Postsecondary Curriculum Frameworks  

(Has cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with public comments)

04.       Approval of contract with Third Day Solutions to provide maintenance for the Grant Management Portal to manage the $15M Carl Perkins Federal Vocational Grant

18.       Approval of appointment of Associate State Superintendent, Office of Innovation and School Improvement

19.       Approval of appointment of Bureau Director II, Office of Internal Accountability

20.       Approval of appointment of Executive to the State Superintendent, (Deputy State Superintendent), Office of Instructional Programs and Services

21.       Approval of appointment of State Superintendent’s Office, Chief of Staff, Bureau Director II

 

Office of Instructional Programs and Services                   (Susan Rucker)

05.       Approval of revisions to the Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards, 2006

(Has cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with no public comments)

09.       Approval to award grants for Hurricane Katrina Education Recovery Act through the Impact Aid for Displaced Students

10.       Approval to award contract for the purpose of providing technical services and products for the Mississippi Curriculum Test, Second

 Edition (MCT2), criterion-referenced tests in reading/language arts and mathematics administered in grades 3 through 8

11.       Approval to begin Administrative Procedures Act process:  To revise Mississippi’s Policies for Implementation of IDEIA 2004

12.       Approval to award grants in support of Enhancing Education

through Technology (E2T2)

13.       Approval to modify contract with Aventa Learning to continue to

provide services and products for the Mississippi Virtual School (formerly MOLLI)

14.       Approval of contract modification with eCollege to continue to provide services for the Mississippi Virtual School  (formerly MOLLI)


 

Office of Quality Educators                                             (Daphne Buckley)

15.       Approval of critical shortage subject areas for Federal Stafford Program and Paul C. Douglas Teacher Scholarship Program

16.       Approval of critical shortage geographical regions for Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program, William Winter Teacher Scholar Loan Program, Federal Stafford Program, and Paul C. Douglas Teacher Scholarship Program

VII.       Recognition Ceremony

 

VIII.      State Board of Education

 

01.             Report on meetings attended

02.             Approval of attendance at meetings

 

IX.        Other Business

 

X.        Adjournment