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February 19, 2026 — Meeting Transcript

This is a transcript of the Clayton School District Board of Education meeting held February 19, 2026. Excerpts show routine meeting procedures (pledge, motion to adopt the agenda, and a motion to adjourn with votes recorded as “aye” and the motions passing), presentations on facilities project cost estimates (a Phase 1 total program estimate around $110–$135 million, with a current estimate near $114 million and Glenridge’s budget about $74 million), and discussion of instructional walkthroughs and data tools used to track student growth and guide professional development. The transcript also notes calendar acknowledgments of community holidays.
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I think it's also those places where we maybe were redundant with staff and thinking differently about ways to maximize that. So like the science block is a good example at the elementary school where we were, the classroom teacher was pushing into science and you have a certified teacher teaching science. So we had a lot of hard conversations about when does that make sense and when does it make sense to have that teacher, the classroom teacher go somewhere else and support in that way. And that's not a uniform decision across every grade level, but it's conversation to have to say, sometimes redundancy is important and sometimes it's not. Also real quick, I think, but this one, your question would remind me of is actually where you're in the process of doing some interviews. And today one of the candidates was, we were talking and one of the candidates mentioned something and it's kinda coming from another district. I'm not gonna go into in depth on much of that, but one of the things they said was they were reaching out to Clayton partly because they've heard from other people who were here how some of those things are taken care of. And I think one of the things Melina brought up in this conversation was it's not just our building, but there's also like, basically we're saying you're gonna have to get used to seeing central office people in there because it's a whole system approach.

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