ISD 622 Board Meetings — Transcript
4 Topics in This Document
Student Achievement and Recognition
School Finance and Property Tax Levy
Middle School Programming and Strategic Plan Implementation
District Advocacy and Operational Efficiency
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“it's great that we have a grant for electric School Bus planning 6,400 for the year that's super but really I was excited to see the 622 Education Foundation gave 16 grants to um throughout the district to different schools for $500 each and I just wanted to highlight that because every year they do the um silent auction as well as other fundraisers and it's just really cool to see that money go back to the schools like that”
“these were grants that were awarded to individual staff members who submitted their ideas for Innovation and and trying different things and so the foundation was really diligent about combing through those applications to um support teacher um Ingenuity and creativity and Innovation”
“sounds like we're doing we're we're doing more we're being asked to do more with less and so aside from um asking the taxpayers uh with the levy uh I was wondering you said the set the set formula you know that's what we have that's those are the funds we have to educate the kids”
“something that I'm constantly talking about with elected officials that's an equity issue when certain districts by your ZIP code especially when you think about how important we all know technology it's not just about laptops and devices it's also cyber security infrastructure um a lot of our textbooks and things now are are software subscriptions they're not hard books anymore and so when you think about the fact that in Minnesota that is dependent on whether your local community votes yes or no to the question whereas that's such an equity issue across the board I think for us that's a big one to really continue to advocate for”
“I also feel like the conversations around efficiency are I mean I get it but it's a little bit unfair because we're already so much more efficient than the other schools and our students are the more High need students and we have just ex you know we have a whole lot of kids in poverty in our district and so while I do you know respect the idea of efficiency I feel like that our solution cannot be just efficiency”
“a couple of things of we all do well we all do well and strong schools build strong communities”