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[Cathy McCaughan]

Late tonight, School Matters will be unavailable as Ning does some behind the scenes site maintenance. Don't worry. We'll be back up and running tomorrow morning. Sunday's News Sentinel editorials should give you plenty to think about while waiting for School Matters to return. If that doesn't inspire your opinions and ideas, think about the following.

The Knox County Board Of Education will conduct an extended work session from Sunday, Oct. 14 through Monday, Oct. 15 at the Dancing Bear Lodge in Townsend, Tenn.

Agenda

Sunday, October 14, 2007

9:00 - 12:00 noon Board Operations

• How to Handle Unfinished Business
• Ethics Policy (Thomas Deakins)
• How to conduct our meetings

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 - 2:45 p.m. Discussion of the book "All Together Now - Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice" and its Relevance to Knox County Schools
Where are we now in Knox County?

• Free and Reduced Lunch Rates - by school
• Corresponding Academic Success
• Overview by schools - Diversity Background

2:45 - 3:00 p.m. BREAK

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Existing Efforts

• Project GRAD
• Magnet
• Title I
• Academies
• TAP

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. What do we need to do?

• Things to continue as is
• Things to continue, but modify
• Things to stop doing
• New things to consider (Transfer Policy, Economic Integration.)

6:30 p.m. Dinner

Monday, October 15, 2007

8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Discussion of Goals

• Stanford LEADS Presentation
• 100/90/90/90
• Testing

10:00 - 10:30 a.m. BREAK

10:30 - 12:00 noon Budget

• Operational
• - BEP 2.0 (mandated next year with changes)
• - Accountability Measures
• Capital
• - Partnership for Education Facilities Assessment
• - Control
• - Rezoning

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Goals Directives for Superintendent and Knox County Schools