January 16 2025 board agenda

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Mississippi Board of Education
January 16, 2025
10:00 a.m.
4th Floor Boardroom
Central High School Building
Mississippi Department of Education (MDE)
359 North West Street
Jackson, Mississippi

Agenda

I.          Call to Order

II.         Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and Invocation

III.        Approval of minutes of December 19, 2024 Board Meeting

IV.        Approval of Agenda

V.         Recognition Ceremony
             2025 National Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Distinguished Schools
             W.J. Quarles Elementary School
             Long Beach School District

             Northside Elementary School
             Clinton Public School District

VI.        Report of State Superintendent of Education

VII.       Report of Chair

VIII.      Report of the Student Representatives

IX.        Report on State Board of Education Subcommittee (SBE) Meetings

X.         Discussion and/or Approval of Board Items (All action items require vote)

    1. 01. Information: Progress on the Mississippi State Board of Education’s (SBE) Strategic Plan [Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 – MBE Strategic Plan] (Lance Evans) Back-up material
    2. 02. Action: Revise the Mississippi Perkins V State Plan to include a budget for Fiscal Year FY2025 and State Determined Performance Levels (SDPLs) for FY2025 – FY2029 [Goals 1 and 2 – MBE Strategic Plan] (John Ferrell) Back-up material
    3. 03. Action: Approval of the MDE Contracts [Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 – MBE Strategic Plan] (Felicia Gavin) Back-up material
        1. 03.A. Action: Contract with Mississippi State Department of Health to provide health inspectors for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Summer Food Service Program for the remainder of FY2025-FY2029 [Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 – MBE Strategic Plan] (Paula Vanderford) Back-up material
        2. 03.B. Action: Modify contract with the Tennessee Book Company to provide the Textbook Inventory Management System (TIMS 2.0) services for state-adopted textbooks, instructional materials, and/or fees to LEAs and accredited nonpublic schools [Goals 1 and 5 – MBE Strategic Plan] (Donna Boone) Back-up material
    4. 04. Consent Agenda (All consent items are action items which require vote, unless otherwise noted.) Back-up material
        1. A. Approval of monthly expenditures for the Mississippi School of the Arts (Donna Boone) Back-up material
        2. B. Approval of monthly expenditures for the Mississippi Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (Donna Boone) Back-up material
        3. C. Approval to revise the Textbook and Instructional Materials Administration Handbook: Rules and Regulations for the Adoption, Distribution, Care and Use of Textbooks and Instructional Materials in Mississippi in accordance with Miss. Code Ann. § 37-43-1 and Miss. Code Ann. § 37-43-19
          (Has cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process without public comments) (Donna Boone) Back-up material
        4. D. Approval to begin the Administrative Procedures Act process: To readopt the 2016 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics (Donna Boone) Back-up material
        5. E. Approval to begin the Administrative Procedures Act process: To revise selected Mississippi Secondary Curriculum Frameworks in Career and Technical Education (John Ferrell) Back-up material
        6. F. Approval to begin the Administrative Procedures Act process: To establish selected Mississippi Secondary Curriculum Frameworks in Career and Technical Education (John Ferrell) Back-up material
            1. 1. Introduction to Drone Technology
            2. 2. Multimedia—Digital Audio Production
            3. 3. Multimedia—Sports Journalism and Broadcasting

XII.       State Board of Education

    1. 1.  Report on meetings attended
    2. 2.  Approval of attendance at meetings

XIII.      Other Business

XIV.      Adjournment

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