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March 5, 2020 — Meeting Transcript

This is a transcript of the Clayton, MO Board of Education meeting held March 5, 2020. Excerpts show opening procedures (call to order, pledge), a student presentation and recognition, and an extended discussion of racial equity work in the district including data questions, a SWOT framework, and concerns raised about student experiences, course access (honors/AP/gifted identification), disciplinary differences, and teacher interactions. The meeting closes with a motion to adjourn and a unanimous voice vote ("Aye") to adjourn.
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The original board initiative asked us to hold ourselves and our work to a measure of no decline in subgroup performance, and African American students being the subgroup that was named in the initiative. And then no decline in our overall district performance. Due to the changes in testing and standards in the state over the past several years since the initiative was rolled out by the board and the district, the two years of state data that we're able to make comparisons are with the 2018 and the 2019 data. While this is only one sample of data within the district, it's the sample that the state uses. When we look at these data, there's evidence of places to grow and evidence of growth. On the English language arts assessment district wide, our total population, Asian students, Hispanic students, multiracial students and white students scores fall within the state range on target. Our super subgroup which is comprised of African American students, brain reduced lunch students, IEP students, EL, Hispanic, and specifically our African American students are within the approaching range. These two groups are also the two groups that have shown the largest gains between 2018 and 2019. We see a similar picture for math collectively with those same groups being within the target range and our super subgroup in 2018 being in the approaching range and our African-American students also being in the approaching rate.

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