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Community Listening Meeting Recent Board Recommendations for D4

Listening Meeting Agenda 1. Welcome, Board Officer video, and Staff Review of Key Topics -- 15 minutes 2. Comments from Community Members - 45 minutes 3. Closing 2

PRIORITIES: All children ready for first grade: 1. Across the district, provide high quality Pre-K and Kindergarten programs, staffed by teachers who prepare students to succeed in first grade. Include an effective family engagement component. 3

Options for consideration: • In North Charleston, create an Early Learning/Family Engagement Center at Mary Ford, rezoning Mary Ford students to Meeting Street Burns and Chicora Elementary. • In the Dorchester Road corridor, build a new school for Lambs Elementary, Goodwin Elementary, and Hunley Park Elementary and create an Early Learning/Family Engagement Center at Goodwin or Hunley Park in the next building program. • Build a new Ladson Elementary and create an Early Learning/Family Engagement Center at the current Ladson Elementary in the next building program. 4

Options for consideration: • In North Charleston, create an Early Learning/Family Engagement Center at Mary Ford, rezoning Mary Ford students to Meeting Street Burns and Chicora Elementary. • In the Dorchester Road corridor, build a new school for Lambs Elementary, Goodwin Elementary, and Hunley Park Elementary and create an Early Learning/Family Engagement Center at Goodwin or Hunley Park in the next building program. • Build a new Ladson Elementary and create an Early Learning/Family Engagement Center at the current Ladson Elementary in the next building program. What this means for District 4 North Charleston would have the County’s first universal 4-year-old program and a redesigned and improved early childhood program at three centrally located centers: North, Central and South. The redesigned Mary Ford campus could happen as soon as Fall 2020, giving students in that area access to a new school focusing only on quality early childhood education to ensure students are READY TO LEARN when they enter first grade. 5

PRIORITIES: 2. All children access high-quality, equitable program offerings Create optimal-sized schools with outstanding leaders and teachers. In order to get better curriculum offerings and supports for students, our elementary schools need house at least 500 students, and our middle schools should have at least 600 students. 6

Options for consideration: District 4 proposals: • Create three Early Childhood Centers: • Create an Early Learning/Family Engagement Center at Mary Ford, rezoning Mary Ford students to Meeting Street Burns and Chicora Elementary. • Build a new elementary school to house Goodwin, Lambs, Hunley Park; convert Goodwin or Hunley Park to an Early Childhood Center as part of the next building program. • Build a new elementary school for Ladson at Ingleside; create an Early Childhood Center at the current Ladson Elementary. • Improve middle schools—consider a new middle school for Morningside and address Meeting Street Middle School needs. • Open a state-of-the-art Career and Technology Center in 2020. • Working with Constituent Board, study rezoning needs and create a feasible plan. 7

What this means for District 4 • North Charleston would have the County’s first universal 4-year-old program and a redesigned and improved early childhood program at three centrally located centers. Mary Ford conversion to early childhood would be the first phase. • A new 1,200-student campus on the old Naval Base property would house elementary students from Lambs, Hunley Park, and WB Goodwin. This would free up one of the three current campuses to create the second early childhood center at one of the schools. • A new larger Ladson Elementary would relieve the District’s most crowded elementary school campus, and the current Ladson would become District 4’s northern location for a third new early childhood program. • A new middle school to replace Morningside that becomes a feeder school pipeline into the new state-of-the-art North Charleston CAS school opening in Fall 2020 – helping D4 students get access to good-paying career jobs or more education after high school. 8

PRIORITIES: 3. Ensure fair representation of our diverse student population in special programs Options for consideration: • Ensure that all schools serve at least 5% of their students in grades 3-8 in some type of program for gifted students. • Provide equitable program offerings among middle schools that have at least 600 students. • Without negatively impacting program quality, revise selection practices at Buist and Academic Magnet to ensure the student body more closely represents the diversity of the district. • Expand the number of seats in Buist, grades K-8. This will require Buist to be located on two campuses. 9

PRIORITIES: 4. Create a “Partnership Schools Zone” for identified schools Options for consideration: • Every school in the Partnership Zone will be headed by an outstanding leader. • The solicitation for successful, experienced partners was approved by the Board in August and is underway. • Partnership schools are public schools that serve neighborhood attendance areas and are under the control of the CCSD Board. This is NOT an effort to privatize education or create more charter schools. • Under terms of a contract with the Board, each Partnership school would have more authority and autonomy but also have greater responsibility to improve student achievement. 10

PRIORITIES: 4. Create a “Partnership Schools Zone” for identified schools Options for consideration: • Every school in the Partnership Zone will be headed by an outstanding leader. • The solicitation for successful, experienced partners was approved by the Board in August and is underway. • Partnership schools are public schools that serve neighborhood attendance areas and are under the control of the CCSD Board. This is NOT an effort to privatize education or create more charter schools. • Under terms of a contract with the Board, each Partnership school would have more authority and autonomy but also have greater responsibility to improve student achievement. What this means for District 4 • Eight D4 schools are “possisble” partnership schools: Chicora Elementary, Mary Ford Elementary, Hunley Park Elementary, Pepperhill Elementary, Pinehurst Elementary, North Charleston Elementary, Morningside Middle, and North Charleston High. We will keep you informed as the process moves forward. Note that employees in those schools will continue to be employed in CCSD. 11

PRIORITIES: 5. Partial Magnets Options for consideration: • Ensure there are options for each Constituent District attendance zone. • Evaluate the effectiveness of the partial magnet special program area. • Use the transfer request process for vacant seats at constituent area choice schools. • Continue allocating teaching positions to partial magnets, pending the outcome of evaluations for effectiveness. • Fortify neighborhood schools; provide equitable programs at each middle school. 12

PRIORITIES: 5. Partial Magnets Options for consideration: • Ensure there are options for each Constituent District attendance zone. • Evaluate the effectiveness of the partial magnet special program area. • Use the transfer request process for vacant seats at constituent area choice schools. • Continue allocating teaching positions to partial magnets, pending the outcome of evaluations for effectiveness. • Fortify neighborhood schools; provide equitable programs at each middle school. What this means for District 4 • North Charleston Creative Arts Elementary will continue to operate as a D4 magnet with an attendance zone. • Jerry Zucker Middle will lose its partial magnet status, but current programs and teaching positions will be allowed to remain for the next two years. 13

Listening Meeting Agenda 1. Welcome, Board Officer video, and Staff Review of Key Topics -- 15 minutes 2. Comments from Community Members - 45 minutes 3. Closing 14

Please limit your comments to 2 minutes in order to allow all speakers to have a chance to be heard. Also, you may share any feedback on the Comment card and turn it in as you leave. 15

Listening Meeting Agenda 1. Welcome, Board Officer video, and Staff Review of Key Topics -- 15 minutes 2. Comments from Community Members - 45 minutes 3. Closing Thank you for coming and please leave your comment cards on your way out. 16