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SLATE - NEWS FROM THE BOARD		(music full)
	
SLATE - JULY 24, 2007		(music full)
	
SLATE - NEW MEMBERS		(nat full - gavel)
'gavel'	
SOT DUNBAR BROOKS		(sot dunbar brooks)
'I'd like to welcome our four new members'	
CUTS ALL FOUR		(narrator track)
the board welcomed new members and elected new officers.	
BLAIR EWING & ROSA (USE WHIP PANS)		rosa garcia and blair ewing of silver spring --	
MARY KAY FINAN		mary kay finan of cumberland --	
RENFORD FREEMANTLE		and renford freemantle of beltsville are the new members.	
NAT FULL ALL IN FAVOR ...		(nat full)
'First I'll begin with Mr. Blair Ewing...'	
DUNBAR ...		(narrator track)
dunbar brooks assumes the title of board president ...	
BEV COOPER		beverly cooper takes his former role as vice president.	
SLATE - HIGH SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS		(sound effect)
	
SOT RON PEIFFER (ALL THIS COVERED BY GRAPHIC)		(sot ron peiffer)
' ... in the spirit of the History channel this morning, we'll kinda start off about 1977...'	
HOLDING WS RON		(narrator track)
the board dove right into the high school assessments.	
		first a history ... that over 30 years, led to the hsa's.	
FILE TESTING  & GRAPHICSFLY IN & OUT QUICKLY		the class of 2009 must pass these basic foundational tests in:	
		algebra 1 --	
		english two --	
		biology -- 	
	AND GOVERNMENT TO RECEIVE A DIPLOMA.:		
FILE STUDENTS		many students pass them by ninth or tenth grade.	
SOT RON PEIFFER 2240CG - RON PEIFFER         DEP. SUP'T., ACADEMIC POLICY		(sot ron peiffer)
'Those standards by the way were developed by high school teachers who weren't trying to push the envelope.'	
SOT NANCY GRASMICKCG - NANCY S. GRASMICK         MD SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT		(sot nancy grasmick)
'The public does not understand that this is a floor. They think it is expecting this extraordinary, this extraordinary performance when in fact it is a floor...' 	
SOT DUNBAR BROOKSCG - DUNBAR BROOKS         PRES., MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot dunbar brooks)
''the goal is attainable. Because there's a lot of fantasy out here, mythology that says this is too far removed, our kids will never make this. If they can't make that, we're in trouble as a state and a nation.'	
ANNAPOLIS FILE		(narrator track)
the pressure comes because the deadline is now in sight.	
		SOME opposition promped legislators this spring to require public hearings:	
GRAPHIC:                   HSA SCHEDULE:- SEPT. 4 - EASTON HS - TALBOT COUNTY                   EASTERN SHORE- SEPT. 10 - CHARLES HERBERT FLOWERS                     HS - PRINCE GEORGE'S CO.                    WASHINGTON AREA- SEPT. 18 - THOMAS STONE HS                   CHARLES COUNTY                   SOUTHERN MARYLAND                 - FORT HILL HS - ALLEGANY CO.                    WESTERN MARYLAND- SEPT. 19 - BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC HS                   BALTIMORE CITY`                   BALTIMORE AREA		so, five hearings will be held in september in five areas of the state.	
		on the fourth, at easton high in talbot county.	
		on september 10th,  at charles herbert flowers high in prince george's ...	
		on the 18th .. two hearings.	
		one at thomas stone high in charles county, and the other AT FORT HILL HIGH  IN CUMBERLAND.	
		FINALLY, THE LAST HEARING WILL BE SEPTEMBER 19TH, AT BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC IN BALTIMORE CITY.	
BOARD CUTS		all the hearings will take place in the evening ... between six and nine p-m.	
DIP BLACK AND BACK		(fade audio)
	
SLATE - WASHINGTON COUNTY'S                HSA PRESENTATIONCG - DR. ELIZABETH MORGAN         SUP'T., WASHINGTON COUNTY 		(sot elizabeth morgan)
'What it's taken is, 'what do we need to do more of? what do we need to do less of?' what do we start, what do we stop. and that's basically what we've done over a process of the last few years...'	
BOARD CUTS		(narrator track)
dr. elizabeth morgan and her staff addressed the hsa's, and how her county is helping students.	
		in short, it starts with the curriculum...	
CUBE WIPE SOT APRIL BISHOP (THIS IS TOTALLY COVERED BY A GRAPHIC)		(sot april bishop)
'we focus our curriculum on the state's Voluntary State Curriculum and we use that as our guiding document.'	
CUEE WIPE SOT APRIL BISHOPCG - APRIL BISHOP         MATH SUPERVISOR,  WASHINGTON COUNTY		(sot april bishop)
'It's important that the teachers have the Voluntary State Curriculum with them on a daily basis.'	
CUBE WIPE SOT APRIL BISHOP		(sot april bishop)
'We give benchmark assessments at the end of each marking period which is every six weeks.'	
CUBE WIPE SOT 4458 BOB BROWNCG - BOB BROWN         SUPERVISOR OF TESTING, WASHINGTON COUNTY		(sot bob brown)
'it's critical that the teachers get the data back. And quite frankly, once the assessment's been given, the student scores are scanned in electronically within 48 hours, that data's populated within our data management system.'	
CUBE WIPE SOT BOB BROWN		(sot bob brown)
'Teachers can see how the students did in the class question by question item by item.'	
SOT APRIL BISHOP		(sot april bishop)
'and you can see that our student achievement specialists ... who work day to day as coaches with our other math teachers... help us to inform instruction based on the data...'	
SOT LIZ MORGAN		(sot liz morgan)
'We ARE finding that students who've been on the math improvement plan really do improve.'	
CUBE WIPE SOT APRIL BISHOP		(sot april)
'We have also used all of our special education teachers in our lesson planning and have used their eyes to look over these lessons and activities and say 'for a special education student would they understand this?''	
SOT DONNA HANLINCG - DONNA HANLIN         ASS'T. SUP'T., SECONDARY         INSTRUCTION		(sot donna hanlin)
'We have also what we're calling our classroom focused improvement plans, when we zero down to the individual student needs, and that's what teachers are paying attention to.'	
SOT APRIL BISHOP 		(sot april bishop)
'and the amount of time that they're working together to collaborate to determine the best practices, has increased.'	
SOT SOT LIZ MORGAN		(sot liz)
'One of the attitudes we've had is if it works well in Washington County, it'll work well in Washington County. So we've spread the good practices... it's the 'duh' factor... (laughter & fade)	
FADE TO BLACK		(fade audio)
	
SLATE - DAY 1 BRIEFS		(drumbeat full)
'drumbeat'	
MARYLAND HISTORY DAY		(narrator track)
in day one briefs...	
NAT FULL MARYLAND HISTORY		(NAT FULL)
'My name is Francis Scott Key, right now it's the 15th of January in the year 1816...'	
NAT FULL MARYLAND HISTORY		(NAT FULL)
'Being a British soldier isn't that much fun and I haven't seen my family in years...'	
HOLDING VIDEO		(narrator track)
travis peed and shane kress of elkridge landing middle in howard county, entertained the board with their maryland history day skit.	
CUBE WIPE SOT MARY CLAPSADDLE 500 APPROX.CG - MARY CLAPSADDLE         ASS'T. SUP'T., DIV. OF BUSINESS          SERVICES		(sot mary clapsaddle)
'I just have an opportunity that doesn't come along everyday to go back to the legislative work...'	
CUTS OF MARY & BOARD		(narrator track)
the board bid goodbye to budget director mary clapsaddle... 	
SOT STEVE BROOKS         STEVE BROOKS         ASS'T. SUP'T., DIV. OF BUSINESS          SERVICES		(sot steve brooks)
'...my roots with MSDE go back to 1980 ...'	
HOLDING STEVE & TUCK UNDER		(narrator track)
and hello to steve brooks... elevated to the post.	
SOT STEVE BROOKS		'... I've basically grown up in this agency, and gotten old! in this agency (loud laughs) and this'll probably kill me! (more laughs) ...	
			
FADE TO BLACK		(fade audio)
	
SLATE - PERSISTENTLY              DANGEROUS SCHOOLS		(muis full)
'dramatic music'	
WALBROOK VIDEO		(narrator track)
five maryland schools --	
		all holdovers -- 	
		have again been declared persistently dangerous.	
FREEZE AND PUSH SPLIT SCREENFOR GRAPHIC:          PERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS:- WALBROOK LIBERAL ARTS ACADEMY- CALVERTON MS- THURGOOD MARSHALL MS- DR. ROLAND N. PATTERSON SR. ACADEMY- DR. W.E.B. DUBOIS HS		all are in baltimore city.	
		this category means that two-and-a-half percent or more of their population has for three years running been suspended for more than ten days  or expelled for serious offenses.	
SOT BLAIR EWINGCG - BLAIR EWING         MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot blair ewing)
''Five years in some cases, four years I believe... uh ... persumably they all offered corrective plans ... why do some schools seem to remain on the list so long?	
SOT CHUCK BUCKLER T2 1800 STARTSCG - CHUCK BUCKLER         DIR., STUDENT SERVICES & ALTER-         NATIVE PROGRAMS		(sot chuck buckler)
' Can I just say some good news? To be honest with you I'm really rooting for Calvert Middle School. (cut out 'i will be honest with you') I was over there, I was with the principal, she took us into every classroom, they're doing wonderful things. If we look at the three years, they're getting close to coming off. `	
SOT CHUCK BUCKLER		(sot chuck buckler)
'and I looked at the other five that were there. There is only one that went up...'	
HOLDING CHUCK		(narrator track)
federal law provides students the option to transfer ...	
SOT DICK GOODALL		(sot dick goodall)
' What percentage of people historically choose to go to another school when they're persistently dangerous?'	
SOT CHUCK BUCKLER		(sot chuck buckler)
'I don't have a percentage, but the vast majority stay in those schools.'	
ANDRES WALKS UP		(narrator track)
new baltimore schools ceo dr. andres alonso says even in schools desginated as dangerous, people feel an affinity to their neighborhood.	
		he expects transfers to be minimal.	
SOT ANDRES ALONSO 3655		(sot andres alonso)
'Two years ago 360 students I believe chose to transfer. Uh, last year, roughly 160 chose to transfer. and I don't know what the choice will be this year, but my expectation is that it will be a small percentrage of the students who will have the choice.'	
ALONSO LEAVES		(narrator track)
some board members expressed frustration with the slow progress of schools on the list.	
SOT HANK BUTTA 3730		(sot hank butta)
'...  I think we are so busy bailing the boat that we're not plugging the bottom that's leaking.'	
SOT DAVID TUFARO 4320CG - DAVID TUFARO         MD BOARD OF EDUCATION		(sot david tufaro)
'I get tired of excuse-making. We know what we need to do, let's do it, and let's keep the pressure on .. on the people responsible for educating our children.'	
FADE TO BLACK		(fade audio)

SLATE - DAY 2 BRIEFS		(music full)
	
SOT ROLF GRAFWALLNER T2 1445		(sot rolf grafwallner)
'We're talking about infants and toddlers. We're talking about children being at home, or being cared for, coming right out of hospital...'	
CUTS BOARD		(narrator track)
in day two briefs, the state department of education works on a new 'birth thru three' plan with the group called 'friends of the family.'	
SOT NSG 1405		(sot nancy grasmick)
'The work that has gone into it ... I just think puts us on the cutting edge...'	
TODDLERS FILE SHOTS		(narrator track)
in a nutshell, the partners seek to start community hubs to be sure all children will enter kindergarten ready to learn.	
CUBE WIPE JEANNIE		()
and the board recognized jeanne gettier for her tremendous work in getting rid of a lot of paper ... by overseeing installation of a new electronic case processing system for maryland disability claims.	
		this has been news from the board, with msde tv.	
BULLETIN/CREDITS/IN MEMORYOF REIMUND KACINSKAS		(fade music)