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SLATE - NEWS FROM THE BOARD		(music full)
	
SLATE - JANUARY 30, 2007		(MUSIC FULL)
	
WALKUP OF CITY OFFICIALS		(narrator track)
baltimore city attacks a host of longstanding learning issues.	
		in its annual report to the board, 	
		achievement, declining enrollment, and corrective actions top the list.	
SOT CHARLENE BOSTONCG - CHARLENE C. BOSTON         BALTIMORE SCHOOLS INTERIM CEO		(sot charlene boston)
'In Baltimore city we have challenges... relative to student achievement ... particularly of our special needs population ... in the elementary reading program .. we are not satisfied with the performance of middle schoolers, there's always need for improvement even among the high schoolers...'	
CAL & BOARD CUTS		(narrator track)
board member cal disney notes some success in early grades: 	
SOT CAL DISNEY		(sot cal disney)
'we do see the progress being made ... (he gestures)	
HOLD CAL 		(narrator track)
but many city students suffer steep academic declines in middle and high school. 	
		disney says students need to be tracked all the way through the k-12 process.	
SOT CAL DISNEYCG - CAL DISNEY         MARYLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot cal disney)
'we tend to view these grades as static, when in fact these kids are moving through these grades...'	
SOT CHARLENE ANSWER?		(sot charlene)
'... we want to begin to do more of that...'	
HANK CUT SHOT 		(narrator track)
board member henry butta (boo-dah) says he's read 'about nine pounds' of the material issued by the city to the board.	
		improvement has been the goal for years he says, but he asks, what measureable outcome will drive that improvement?	
SOT HANK BUTTACG - HENRY BUTTA         MARYLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot henry butta)
'It seems to me that I've read these kind of plans before, and I've never seen, I haven't seen it yet where we set a goal on an interim basis and we track whether or not we've met it or we find out whether, why we didn't meet it.'	
SOT PATRICIA ABERNETHYCG - DR. PATRICIA ABERNETHY         STRATEGIC PLANNING, BALTIMORE SCHOOLS		(sot patricia abernethy)
'we agree, what we have are the goals, ESEA or NCLB, but we also have objectives and our objectives are annual, so they are specific...'	
SOT LINDA CHINNIACG - LINDA CHINNIA         CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER,   BALTIMORE SCHOOLS		(sot linda chinnia)
'there is a new sense of urgency in the baltimore city public school system around what we need to do...'	
SHOT OF STUDENTS ... 		(narrator track)
one URGENT challenge looming: passing the high school assessments IN 20-OH-NINE.	
SOT CHARLENE BOSTON		(sot charlene boston)
'... I think that um, working with maybe the state department and with others, we might have various ways of implementing this uhm, that might not be so hard felt...' 	
SOT NANCY GRASMICKCG - NANCY S. GRASMICK        MD SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT		(sot nancy grasmick)
'There's the option of composite score, there's the option of phasing in tests, there's the option of phasing in, perhaps in a different way for students with special needs...'	
CUTS BOARD		(narrator track)
but ... state schools superintendent NANCY GRASMICK says, at the same time ...	
SOT NANCY GRASMICK		(SOT NANCY GRASMICK)
'It's very important that our Maryland high school diploma mean something important...'	
CANTON, ETC. FILE TAPE		(narrator track)
with all these battles ahead, and enrollment still dropping, the city braces for school closure hearings.	
SOT KEITH SCROGGINS		(sot keith Scroggins)
'We expect to have at least through the COMAR process a closure of 14.6% of the buildings...'	
SOT KEITH SCROGGINS		(sot KEITH SCROGGINS)
'One of the things that we'll discuss during the COMAR process is transportation. How the students are affected from the closing schools and now have to move to the receiving schools.'	
BOARD CUTS		(narrator track)
the city says its finances (and THE means TO TRACK them) are improving.	
		and it discusseS ways to recruit highly qualified teachers.	
		in the end, the board approved the city's master plan.	
FADE TO BLACK AND BACK		(music full)

SLATE - PROJECT       'LEAD THE WAY'SOT MASSIELLE CG - MASSIELLE BEGAZO         SR., WHEATON HS, MONTGOMERY COUNTY		(sot massielle begazo)
'The 26 of us that are in the program, we've also served as little, I mean marketing the program too because 'Oh really .. you like this?...'	
SOT MASSIELLE BEGAZO		(SOT MASSIELLE BEGAZO)
'... and they find that engineering has very good job prospects.'	
STUDENT CUTS 		(narrator track)
wheaton high student massielle begazo offered her take on PROJECT 'LEAD THE WAY.'	
BOARD CUTS		IN A NUTSHELL, IT'S AN ONGOING PROGRAM THAT USES GRANT MONEY TO lure DIVERSE CANDIDATES into science and technology.	
		in maryland, 54 schools in 16 systems participate.	
		begazo says for her, the program is  working.	
DIP TO BLACK AND BACK		(FADE AUDIO)

SLATE - SUPERINTENDENT                OF THE YEARDISSOLVE OUT TO SOT ED ROOT		(sot ed root)
'As Maryland Superintendent of the Year, The Maryland State Board of Education joins all Marylanders in extending congratulations for this outstanding accomplishment...'	
(HOLD VIDEO) 			
BOARD CUTS		(narrator track)
the board welcomed queen anne's county superintendent bernard sadusky, recently named 'superintendent of the year' by the public school superintendents association of maryland.	
SOT BERNARD SADUSKY		(sot bernard sadusky)
'... we've done a hundred million dollars of school construction...'	
BOARD CUTS		(narrator track)
an educator for 38 years, sadusky began his career at stevensville middle in 1969.	
		queen anne's built kent island high, and renovated three other schools during his tenure.	
SOT BERNARD SADUSKYCG - BERNARD SADUSKY         SUP'T., QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS		(sot bernard sadusky)
' ... but what it's about the students, it's about the instructional program, and if you look at our performance, I think you will certainly uh, understand that we've worked hard in the last few years and I take some credit but not all credit quite frankly most of it goes to the people that work for us...'	
SOT ED ROOTCG - ED ROOT         PRES., MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(SOT ED ROOT)
'I never had any doubt where you stood on an issue. And I didn't have to wait for you to talk 30 minutes to figure that out...' (laughs) 	
DIP TO BLACK AND BACK		(FADE AUDIO)

SLATE - JANUARY 31, 2007		(music full)
	
SLATE - BRIDGE TO EXCELLENCEDISSOLVE OUT TO JERRY CIESLA		(sot jerry ciesla)
'It's been fantastic ... it's been fantastic.'	
SOT JERRY CIESLA		(SOT JERRY CIESLA)
'... that's an important early finding in this report...'	
BOARD CUTS		(narrator track)
an interim report on the bridge to excellence, which refers to the millions of dollars funneled to education as a result of the thornton commission' -- 	
		highlights day two.	
STUDENTS FILE		by way of background, the federal 'no child left behind' act requires all students be proficient by 20-14; 	
		maryland lawmakers funded thornton to help them get there.	
MGT GUY		the state hired education consultant MGT OF AMERICA TO measure progress over three years.	
SOT JERRY CIESLACG - DR. JERRY CIESLA         PROJECT DIRECTOR, MGT OF AMERICA		(SOT JERRY CIesla)
'if you look at all students at the elementary level, if you aggregate all students at the middle school level, in reading and in math, things are getting better and in some cases dramatically better.'	
BOARD CUTS		(NARRATOR TRACK)
THE BOARD POSED QUESTIONS .. HOW IS THE MONEY BEING USED AND TARGETED?	
SOT KARABELLIE PIZZIGATICG - KARABELLE PIZZIGATI         MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(SOT Karabelle pizzigati)
'how well can we say those resources are impacting any changes?	
TUFARO CUT & THEN BOARD		(narrator track)
is it in fact money that's causing the improvement?	
SOT DAVID TUFAROCG - DAVID TUFARO         MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(SOT DAVID TUFARO)
'... whether it's money, whether it's setting standards, whether it's more focus, whether it's Master Plan, strategic thinking, we don't know...'	
SOT DUNBAR BROOKSCG - DUNBAR BROOKS         VP, MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot dunbar brooks)
'I would be interested in putting that 20-13 target out there and saying 'what will it take, given Bridge to Excellence to actually meet that tar --I mean we know what the target is, but what kind of acceleration are we gonna have, because it's gotta be double or triple what some of these original increases were in order to make that happen.'	
MORE STUDENTS FILE		(narrator track)
mgt determined most of the strategies employed by local school systems focused on reviewing and revising teaching methods and materials.	
GRAPHIC:  THORTON DOLLARS:- SALARIES & WAGES              $571.2 M- SUPPLIES & MATERIALS       $455.0 M- INSTRUCTION                          $333.7 M- SPECIAL EDUCATION              $ 151.0 M- OPERATIONS/MAINTENANCE  $ 96.9 M- MID- LEVEL ADMINISTRATION $75.6 M- TRANSPORTATION                   $ 64.6 MSOURCE: MGT OF AMERICA		in terms of spending, mgt compared '04-'05 school-year spending (the latest figures available) to '01-'02 levels.	
		- Salaries and wages used the majority of thornton money at 571-million --	
		- supplies and materials ranked 2nd at 455 million --	
		- instruction third at nearly 334 -million--	
		- then special education, operations and maintenance, administrative and transportation dollars.	
BOARD CUT		the IMPROVEMENT NOTED, mgt says next year's final report will further refine the analysis.	
SOT ED ROOT		(SOT ED ROOT)
'We look forward to your next report... thank you very much...'	
FADE TO BLACK		(FADE AUDIO)

SLATE - BOARD BRIEFS		(music full)
in board briefs --	
BOARD CUTSGRAPHIC: BOARD BRIEFS           (PIC OF OLDER SCHOOL)            FACILITIES REPORT		the board approved a plan requiring msde to report each year on the state of school facilities in maryland.	
		local systems would do the surveys; a proposed grant program would pay for it.	
		this has been news from the board with msde tv.	
CREDITS/BULLETIN/FADE		(MUSIC FULL & FADE)