School board meets today to embargo PASS scores, Truesdale contract nowhere to be seen, agenda here
School board meets today to embargo PASS scores
The 11-member Beaufort County Board of Education will hold a regular meeting today starting at 4:15 p.m. in executive session and 6:00 p.m. in public session. The executive session includes an item called “Embargo PASS data”, which means the board intends to keep secret the State level student achievement data contained in what is know as the PASS scores until a certain date. Consideration of Superintendent Valerie Truesdale’s employment contract, announced in November for this meeting, is not stated on the agenda.
The board announced after its special meeting in executive session on November 24 that “based on this [PASS] review results, the Board will consider what changes if any, should be made in the terms of the Superintendent’s contract at our December 15, 2009, meeting”. If the review of Superintendent Truesdale’s contract is indeed on the December 15 agenda, that item has been carefully hidden because the agenda nowhere contains any such item unless it is in the innocuous sounding first item “Consideration of Contractual Matter”.
The meeting will be held in the Beaufort County Council chambers, 100 Ribaut Road, Beaufort.
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