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Agenda

Virtual School Committee 5/5/20

  • Overview of Virtual Open Meeting Law Guidance
  • Process for Meeting/Timeline
  • Norms for meeting/Meeting Participation
  • Agenda as posted

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How Tonight’s Meetings Work

  • 7:00pm General Meeting Opens, attendance, pledge, agenda items.

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Norms for Virtual Meeting

  • Video may be slow based upon the number of participants in the Zoom meeting
  • School Committee Members will be viewed through video and will be unmuted
  • Other participants will be muted and video will be turned off
  • Public Speak will be through the chair and she will read any public speak documents sent to her per the meeting posting up to 3min in length
  • Public participation on agenda items/the business items of the school committee meeting, in keeping with policy, will be at the chair’s discretion--the public should submit questions through the chat feature of the Zoom meeting and the chair will address.
  • Questions at this meeting should be regarding policy, budget and the performance of the superintendent (the purview of school committee)
  • Dr. Nolin and staff can and will answer logistical questions in office hours noted above and below.
  • School Committee members will be recognized in the same order on each agenda itme by the chair to avoid confusion

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Meeting Agenda

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NHS Students and Mentorship Program

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Action Items

ACTION ITEMS

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Vaping Cessation Program

Presentation

by Jay Hoye, Dean of Students, NHS and

Jenn Garb-Polumbo, NHS Nurse

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Instrumental Music Program Fes

Memo from Mr. Craig Chisholm, K-12 Music Director

NAMM Music Honor Information

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Bus, Athletics, Parking fees, BOKS, ASAP

With the recent announcement of school closure to the end of the school year, the Business Office is working with all programs with fee refunds to develop a process whereby either:

  1. For those programs (i.e. school bus fees) where a credit can be given for the upcoming school year for those students who will still ride the bus
  2. All other programs who are not able to provide a future credit will be providing a list of eligible refunds

In those programs where individuals wrote checks, many of those checks have not been deposited. Those program coordinators will contact individuals to determine the appropriate method (mailing or shredding) to refund those fees.

In those programs where an online payment was made, we are working with the Town Comptroller’s Office, to process refunds. This process may take time due to the remote working environment currently in place to refund several hundred payments.

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Preschool

Proposal: 50% tuition reduction for May and June

If already paid, we will issue a refund

If you want to donate

May 15th extend the payment deadline

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Bus Contracts Update

    • Connolly Bus - contract statewide guidance and negotiation 56% of contract daily rate to cover only fixed costs
    • Connolly athletics bill
    • JFK--in negotiation--50% of contract of daily rate
    • AA METCO Transportation--paid March bill, negotiating a reduced contract and stay of contract for the upcoming school year (no increase)

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Natick Education Foundation Responds

The NEF board has voted to move forward with the NEF Hardship Fund initiative (name to be finalized).

They are happy to provide the Natick community with the opportunity to help those in need from NPS.

Donation site:

http://www.natickeducationfoundation.org/donate

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COVID CLOSURE FEDERAL UPDATES

Federal guidance from Devos around FAPE (Free and Appropriate Education) and Special Education.

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COVID CLOSURE STATE UPDATES

CARES funding is coming commensurate with Title I funding (may be in range of $300K for Natick, minus what we have to give the private schools, just like Title I)

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Personnel Status: Existing Staff

  • Recommend second round of furloughs effective May 8, part of the multi-tier personnel strategy you previously voted to support
  • 22 individuals that have been redeployed for various roles since closure but can no longer be fully employed.

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What’s New? Update on Remote Learning

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Pedagogy

Brick and Mortar Learning

Group and Conferencing Dependent/Moved away from wholly lecture style teaching

  • Blended Learning
  • Personalized Learning

Remote Learning

Synchronous Learning

Asynchronous Learning

Small Group/Office Hour Learning

At the start of remote learning teachers had to experiment to create personalized teaching and systems and experiences will be stronger and more consistent as we move forward.

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Pedagogy

  • Blended Learning requires teachers to front load asynchronous content which may be readings, video lessons (recorded by teacher or curated by teacher)
  • Synchronous content may then address front-loaded material, but students have to have digested that content, done the pre-work and, be engaged in the class (participating). Due to virtual environment (unlike brick and mortar) we cannot keep the student for follow up (stay after school, see me in small group, etc.) if they are not participating adequately.
  • Currently we can, in some instances, not see the kids! They are “on” but not engaged.
  • Office hour/small group days offer time to follow up, engage, tutor, intervene.
  • Independent work is also assigned to practice, apply, integrate what has been presented in small group and large group
  • Feedback is given on progress or on engagement
  • The social nature of school, allows kids to push each other, have conversations, and teacher rides herd on groups (and this cannot be replicated currently)

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Discussions in Process with Unions Engagement Consistency

Based on Common Results from Staff, Student and Family feedback:

  • Grading at secondary level (5-8 and then 9-12) New NCAA update
  • Replacement for the ROSP at elementary level
  • Revising schedules but keeping a balance of instructional and small group/check in days/independent work days (3 hrs per day)
  • Defining best practices for office hour days/rebranding time to be small group focused --further enhancing the instructional model
  • Creation of a one-stop page for engaging with Remote Learning
  • Creation of more instructional and more independent work time at HS level to address the need to see classes more regularly.

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Returning Student and Staff Belongings

Hoped For: Before Summer, return of student and staff belongings

Board of Health met with us to discuss options today and we will share with them with community soon.

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Summer School and Camps, Curriculum Transition Plans, Addressing Skill Needs

  • May 18 supposed update from the state on camps and summer school
  • Plan for both remote and in-person summer school services
  • NPS planning for an optional, free online program for all, and our online mandated summer school for Title I and ESY (extended school year for special education students).
  • Desire to plan for some in-person work--especially for our sub separate special education students if this is allowed. Right now, it's not looking that way.
  • We will also create a curriculum transition plan for the open of school to address key pre-requisite grade level and course skills to begin to make up the time.
  • Finally, I will advocate for elimination of MCAS for next year at the state level; doing so will make up a month of instructional time.
  • The total package described here will help us to address what we have not been able to cover. We wait for the May 18th promised announcements on camp and summer before we put this out in firmer terms.

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Community Read: Redhawk Roots

Join us in healing our community and honoring our seniors with a unique graduation symbol/process.

Wishtree Community Read: Uplift the Community, Honor Class of 2020!

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Special Education Updates-Phase 1

Phase 1: Special Education Enrichment (March 9 to April 8)

Immediately upon closure our entire staff created a virtual learning environment that was inclusive of what the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education(DESE) now considers special education remote learning.

Special Education Teachers who teach content level courses, Co-Teach, or teach in sub-separate environments, immediately implemented special education virtual chats and activities aligned with our general education enrichment.

Special Education Service providers created a robust enrichment bank of specialized activities aligned to specific student needs. That enrichment bank has been modified to meet the needs of all students and can be found here: Special Education Enrichment Bank.

Teachers, case managers, and services providers communicated with families regarding classroom chat schedules, what to access in the enrichment bank, and held office hours with students and families.

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Special Education Updates-Phase 2

Phase 2: Specialized Remote Learning (April 9 to Present Day)

After receiving guidance from DESE and the Federal Government regarding the provision of special education services during the closure, our staff went to work enhancing its current practice of enrichment into what we now call special education service remote learning.

Led by the special education coordinators at each school, staff created an entire new schedule to provide special education and related service pull-out services as a replacement to the enrichment bank.

Each parent of a student on an individualized education plan was provided with a special education remote service plan that addresses their child’s specific services during the closure. See our district wide message regarding these plans here. �

Although these plans do not replicate services in an IEP, case managers and providers went above and beyond to create plans that would provide the most comprehensive service packages aligned to IEP goals and services that we could manage during the closure.

Communication to families and logging of activities has become an integral component of this phase.

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Special Education Update-Phase 3

Phase 3: Virtual IEP Process (April 27 through the End of the School Year)

Now that the Specialized Remote Learning is fully implemented and up and running, we are now moving into the 3rd phase of our special education remote planning, or what we are calling the Virtual IEP process.

Planning, coordination, agreement, and understanding is involved to ensure that we have a meaningful IEP process for all involved.

We all want to hold IEP meetings, but we are facing challenges that we have never seen before. Things like time, children at home, teaching in a virtual environment, staff availability….you name it, are all reasons that we might have chosen not to move forward with the IEP process.

DESE continues to encourage Virtual IEP meetings if we can manage to hold them during this time. Having said that, none of us want to lose sight of what the IEP is, a guide to the provision of service for our most fragile students.

After discussions with staff, Coordinators, and the Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SEPAC) we agreed that we would move forward, but needed to do so in a fashion that would work for everyone involved and to ensure that we could keep our primary focus on student instruction. With that said, parameters need to be considered prior to holding any meetings in this virtual environment

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Requested Parameters for IEP Meetings

If parents are not comfortable with these parameters, meetings do not need to be held until we return from closure. The current IEP that is in effect will remain in effect upon return. Remember this is a voluntary activity by the parent.

  • In order to ensure teachers have adequate time to plan for and teach in the virtual environment, we are asking that we try to limit Annual meetings to a 30 minute time period, while we try to limit Eligibility meetings to a 45 minute time period. This is a goal for us, but will likely vary depending on the individual needs of the child and the Team dynamics.
  • In order to schedule the more than 300 meetings prior to the end of the school year we are asking parents for the flexibility of scheduling these meetings with shortened notice at a time provided by the Coordinator.
  • Meetings can only be scheduled during a special education Case Manager’s office hours to ensure they are able to provide special education services during their instructional time to the maximum extent they can.
  • Meetings may not include general education teachers, and may not include related service providers. In such cases, reports from these providers will be submitted to the IEP Team for discussion.
  • IEPs held during this closure could possibly result in amendments being completed upon return from closure, without a formal meeting, but rather through a discussion with parents and school staff. We hope this isn’t the norm, but want to ensure changes can be made, if necessary, without scheduling another formal meeting to do so.

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Requested Parameters for IEP Meetings

  • Some components of the draft IEP may be similar to the current IEP, subject to amendment upon return from school closure.
  • We will begin with scheduling Annual Reviews during the first month of this phase, and start eligibility meetings during the second month, when the process becomes more comfortable for staff and we can ensure that reports are completed
  • We will not be completing evaluations during this time period as we do not feel we can complete a thorough and comprehensive evaluation using standardized assessment tools in a remote environment. Parents may be asked to complete re-evaluation meetings as Annual Meetings to draft a new IEP if it is set to expire. There would need to be an agreement to an extended timeframe to complete evaluations and an agreement for continued eligibility until the Team can meet upon return.
  • All meetings will be facilitated by a Special Education Administrator-ETL, Coordinator, Director or the Asst. Superintendent of Student Services
  • Out of District Families may receive different guidance on IEP meetings, depending on the school that the student attends, and how that school is proposing their IEP processes. The Out of District Coordinator will be in contact to make arrangements based on the specific program and availability to hold IEP meetings.
  • Parents are reminded to review this REMOTE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES NOTIFICATION AND GUIDANCE regarding privacy and the Virtual IEP process

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Timeframes and Types of Meetings to be scheduled

Part 1: April 27-May 22

Annual Reviews

  • IEPs that are due to expire prior to End of the School Year (Anticipated 30 minute meeting timeframe)
    • Inclusive of Annual Portion of Re-evaluation meetings where testing has not yet been completed.
      • We need to agree on a mutually agreeable extension to the Re-evaluation timeline and continued eligibility until school resumes and Team can meet to make eligibility determination. Likey 30-45 days after school resumes to allow for evaluations to be completed comprehensively.
    • Does not include meetings to discuss eligibility, Initial or Continued Eligibility
    • Does not include meetings that are re-convenes if an IEP has been proposed, update meetings, or meetings solely regarding transition.
    • May include partial discussions around Transition, if the IEP is due to expire prior to end of school year
      • These transition discussions may take place outside of the IEP team meeting in coordination with Transition ETLs or Coordinators
  • An IEP will be proposed and/or a Notice of District Action will sent to family following this meeting

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Timeframes and Types of Meetings to be scheduled

Part 1: April 27-May 22

Transition Discussions

  • Meetings solely to discuss transition will not be held as formal IEP meetings
  • Evaluation Team Leaders and/or Coordinators will communicate with families to discuss and agree upon:
    • Transition Process
    • Any necessary IEP changes
    • Amendment to current Plan that is mutually agreed upon by both the school and parents
  • If in agreement, an IEP Amendment and Notice of District Action will be provided to family following this meeting
  • If not in agreement, a more formal team meeting and proposal may be held during the second part of this phase, although there is no guarantee that this will occur.

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Timeframes and Types of Meetings to be scheduled

Part 2: May 25-End of School Year

May 25 through the End of the School Year

  • Continued Annual Meetings and Transition Meetings as outlined in Part 1 of this plan.
  • Re-evaluation Meetings or Initial IEP Team Meetings where testing has already been completed (Anticipated 45 minute timeframe)
    • If testing has been completed and evaluations have yet to be written, they will fall in this category and evaluation reports will be sent to parents prior to meeting.
    • Eligibility for special education services or Continued Eligibility will be determined at these meetings if data is sufficient to make determination
    • If data is inconclusive the Team, in mutual agreement, may decide on an extended evaluation timeframe to collect appropriate data upon return from closure
    • A proposed IEP and/or a Notice of District Action will be provided to families following these meetings

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Timeframes and Types of Meetings to be scheduled

Part 2: May 25-End of School Year

  • Meetings that were scheduled to be held as updates and/or re-convenes prior to the end of the school will not be held as formal IEP meetings.
    • Evaluation Team Leaders and/or Coordinators will communicate with families to discuss and agree upon:
      • Any necessary IEP changes
      • Amendment to current Plan that is mutually agreed upon by both the school and parents
    • If in agreement, an IEP Amendment and Notice of District Action will be provided to family following this meeting
    • If there is not agreement, the Team will meet when school resumes
  • Meetings to discuss outside evaluations may not be held until such a time that school resumes, unless such an evaluation is being reviewed in the re-evaluation or initial eligibility process as described above.

  • See Letter to Families Sent on 4/22/20 which includes
    • Guidance regarding what to expect prior to, during, and after and IEP meeting.
    • Roles and Responsibilities of Staff involved in the Virtual IEP Meeting Process

4/22/20: Special Education in a Remote Learning Environment for Parents Phase 3: Virtual IEP

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Covid Crisis Financial Planning

a guide to decision-making during COVID closure and recovery financial planning

created by The Natick School Committee and Superintendent of Schools/Leadership Team

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Financial Overview - BOS meeting (May 4th)

  • Prepayment of OOD and Collaborative Tuitions
  • Board of Selectmen decisions (May 4, 2020)
    • Use 25% (~ $2.3 MM) of General and Operational Stabilization funds to support FY21 budget
    • Revenue scenario to build budget
      • 20% decline in state aid and 30% decline in Local Receipts (v. FY20)
      • Reduction of $8,692,947 ( 5.2%) v. FY20 total general fund revenue
    • Defer capital spending unless money has already been borrowed or project is to protect life, health and or safety of employees/community
    • Close out $302,000 from completed capital projects to free cash
  • Still waiting for new preliminary budget from Town Administration
  • Free Cash

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Core Values and Process for Financial Decision-Making During Pandemic Emergency

  • Provide and extend essential and emergency services to keep residents safe, healthy, and supported.
  • Maintain and extend essential services such as health, safety, education
  • Keep existing staff working at their current level, avoid further furlough and layoffs
  • Avoid scorched Earth tactics that will require years of recovery
  • Defer or redevelop/redeploy vs. destroy

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Town Playbook of the Past/Future?

  • Freeze additive hiring, save for legal requirements
  • Reduce unnecessary roles, expenses
  • Redeploy staff across organization for creative savings
  • Reduce COLA for existing contracts
  • Freeze borrowing
  • replace only retirements and resignations after examination of need
  • Use stabilization--rainy day reserves
  • Reduce replacement of vehicles to cruisers and motorcycles
  • Early retirement incentives

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Town Principles and Assumptions

Human:

Retain workforce we’ll have to call back soon

Supporting current essential services: health, safety, learning

  • Avoid having to recover from a scorched Earth policy

Financial:

Use savings from FY20 to shore up 21

Tap stabilization funds

Use capital reserves

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The Need to Plan: Taking Control in Uncertain Times

Have to develop a budget whether we are doing a 1/12th budget or a budget for FY 21 that does not resign itself to that level of reduction.

  • It is best to get a budget going prior to having to revert to a 1/12th budget scenario given the lack of understanding of how the 1/12th works, state aid is < 10% of our budget. Local Receipts < 12% of budget.
  • We should take control of our budget and set it soon (1/12th begins scorched Earth process).
  • Town meeting is possible in variety of formats.
  • We should accelerate the planning of town meeting.

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Norms

  • Ideas presented here are not presented as actual or happening.
  • Ideas/reductions and associated budget numbers presented cannot be considered without weighing impact (it can’t just be about the numbers).
  • Ideas presented here are not to be used as weaponry but as possibilities.
  • Ideas presented here may not be possible or needed as more resources and challenges unfold in coming weeks.
  • Ideas presented here should only occur if actual deficits can be proven, not speculated.
  • Ideas here should be implemented after stabilization funds are drawn as well.

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Town Capital Deferral/Redeploy?

  • Town and schools reviewed capital 5 year plan and addressed roughly 1.7 million dollars worth of deferral from those items funded in capital stabilization.

  • 900K of savings from deferred school projects
  • Current plan is to keep savings in holding for liquidity purposes relative to our Bond Ratings needs/health.

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Use Town Building Project Contingencies

Fire Project?

KMS: healthy contingency but we are in final process of project, where PCOs typically get addressed. KMS at 50% completion as of 4/28/2020

  • Could include Brown paving and sidewalk project (on capital deferral list) in the KMS project and transfer the Brown paving to the Ben Hem paving.
  • Could include the abutter drainage project in KMS project depending on cost.

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NPS Tiered Decision-Making

Tier 1:

  • Pay OOD and Collaborative Sped tuition from general fund savings
  • FY21 monies that were to be used for OOD and tuition can now be deployed for general operating
  • redeploy existing staff to open KMS and address redistricted student needs

  • Credit 141K of parent paid bus fees to parents (from FY20), but rollover 141K of bus subsidy to become part of 2021 transportation money to account for credit
  • $109K goes to free cash from subsidy
  • apply expected revolving, circuit breaker and fees that were proposed at start of FY21 season

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Tiered Decision-Making

Tier 2: ADD application of NPS capital deferral savings to NPS operating budget (900K) - this cannot happen by action of NPS alone (again, these are just scenarios to explore)

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Options for School Committee Consideration

  • Revisit on-budget Union contracts
  • Whole district furloughs
  • Closure of Johnson and redistribute staff and students to schools
  • Savings on Johnson capital maintenance plans
  • Eliminate after school club and athletic programs
  • Eliminate world language program at middle school, implement directed studies (800 students)
  • Eliminate Theater program (200 children per show x 6 shows a year) and classes (~15 per class), 15 classes at MS, 4 at NHS
  • Cuts to general education and core classes (last resort)

We cannot evaluate these options until we understand the use of town reserves and stabilization.

NOTE: Items are presented in no particular order !

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Unknowns

  • Stabilization/reserve use
  • State aid
  • Medicaid reimbursement
  • SOA monies--DESE advised Monday that we do NOT fill out this application at this time even though there is a May 15 deadline.
  • Title I reduction in poverty? may be changed in this new environment
  • Impact of student returning from homeschool, private and charter schools due to inability to pay tuitions or homeschool (financial impact)--557 possible children
  • State emergency monies and emergency education aid
  • Compensatory services for special education
  • impact of the loss of instruction for the average child, compounded for those with needs and challenges

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Impact of

inadequately addressing student services

Compensatory services: State has not given us guidance on what compensatory services will look like for FY 21 due to closure in FY 20. However, they have indicated they will be required in some fashion.

  • The requirement to provide FAPE continues. Financial constraints do not mean these services are reduced.
  • Return to school will result in increased need for mental health services not less (death, loss of learning, re-entry to academics, parent stress, family change, abused children returning to school)

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Facilities management Update/Planning

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KMS Project Update

COVID Procedures Compliance

  • All unions back at work
  • Comprehensive system of health protective measures for workers

Abutter Information

  • Meeting this a.m. to determine how to proceed with some abutter concerns not related to project but which could be solved in tandem with work being done at the school

Moving On...Ahead of Schedule

  • Transition meeting with KMS staff tomorrow ⅚ with parameters of the moving company who will move teacher materials to new building.
  • Training plan discussed for fall 2020.
  • KMS AND BROWN ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES ARE NOW CLOSED TO PUBLIC INCLUDING FOOT TRAFFIC

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Enrollment update

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