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Mount Vernon School District work session, date not confirmed yet

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Mount Vernon board authorizes assistant superintendent agreement, adopts two audit policies 59:35

  • The Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education heard a presentation on early childhood and pre-K data, including end-of-year results and kindergarten beginning-of-year assessments. 1:57
  • The superintendent gave a final report on the 2025⁠-⁠2026 plan, saying 16 of 47 recommendations were fully finished and 29 were in progress. 42:07
Item by item (11)
  1. Opening and roll call 0:00
    • The board was called to order for a work session on Tuesday, October 13th, followed by the pledge and roll call. 0:00
    • A quorum was announced. ~0:53
  2. Early childhood and pre-K presentation 0:56
    • A presenter said screening showed 82% of students were developmentally okay, 9% were rescreened and 8.6% were severely below developmental milestones, and that pre-K students had a minimum of 20% growth in each subcategory. 12:37
    • The presenter said 191 students tested in iReady at the beginning of the year and that 98% of the former pre-K students in kindergarten did not have a red flag for reading. 16:44
    • The presenter said Heggerty was being piloted at Williams School and Mandela School and that P4 was full for the first time since the pandemic, while a district official said the district would be required to offer a seat for every pre-kindergarten student next year and may need to consider space. 17:47
  3. Academic and financial plan report 41:43
    • The superintendent said the plan includes an academic plan with 28 recommendations and a financial plan with 19 recommendations. 42:28
    • The superintendent said 16 recommendations were fully finished, 29 were in progress and 2 in talent development had not yet been started. 44:43
  4. Committee reports and playground surface 50:15
    • A trustee said the play mat at Mandela was awful and needed to be cleaned up. 51:22
    • A district official said the first quote to replace the surface with rubber was $192,000 and that options under consideration included grass or wood chips and a wall to block water. 53:17
  5. Public communication and consent agenda 55:12
    • The district clerk reported no communication from the public. ~55:12
    • The board considered sending a tax proceedings settlement and the check warrant and claims audit reports for September 2026 to the consent agenda for the October 27th business session. 55:52
    • The motion carried. ~57:23
  6. Personnel, student services and fund transfers 57:27
    • The board voted on human resources items 7.1 through 7.10, items 8.1 and 8.2, a student personnel services memorandum and general funds transfers. 57:27
    • The chair announced each motion carried. 58:44
  7. Assistant superintendent for operations agreement 59:35
    • The new assistant superintendent addressed the board and said the work would start in full from day one. 1:01:05
    • The motion carried. ~59:35
  8. Food service workers agreement 1:04:22
    • The board considered authorizing an MOA between the Board of Education and CSEA Food Service Workers. 1:04:22
    • The motion carried. ~1:04:22
  9. Audit policy mergers and adoption 1:04:22
    • The board voted to merge duplicate internal audit function policies into number 6680 and duplicate audit committee policies into number 6690. 1:04:56
    • Trustees read both policies aloud as first readings. 1:06:44
    • The board then considered waiving the second and third readings and immediately adopting both policies. 1:17:21
    • The motion to waive the readings and adopt carried. 1:17:51
  10. Board comments 1:17:54
    • A trustee asked how the district could help older students with few or no credits, and another speaker said options included a credit recovery lab, modified schedules and work-based learning. ~1:18:44
    • A trustee described a volunteer event for district families and the community to help work on the transformation of a playground. ~1:31:26
    • A trustee asked each board trustee to join at least 2 school PTAs. 1:35:29
  11. Executive session 1:37:10
    • The board considered entering executive session to discuss pending litigation, receive legal advice and discuss a personnel matter. 1:37:21
    • The chair said the board was in executive session and would not reconvene in this area. 1:37:51
    • The motion carried. ~1:37:50

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Video: posted by the district as “Mount Vernon Board of Education Work Session October 13 2026”