EDUCATION OVERSIGHT BOARD MEETING MINUTES January 19, 2000 - 8:00 A.M. Oklahoma State Capitol Building Conference Room 412A Oklahoma City, OK 73105 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: John Rex, Grant Hall, Pete Churchwell, Ed Long, Ron Dryden, Sen. Penny Williams BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Doyle Burns, Karen Yarbrough, Rep. Larry Roberts REGULAR ATTENDEES: Office of Accountability Staff: Robert Buswell, Matt Hesser, Jerry Hsieh and Monica Lamb Secretary of Education Dr. Floyd Coppedge VISITORS: None Call to Order and Roll Call: Mr. Rex called the meeting to order and declared a quorum present. Approval of Minutes: Minutes of the November 17, 1999 meeting were approved as submitted. Report of FY 2000 Year-to-Date Expenditures: Report distributed to board members. Progress Report on Profiles 1999 Project: Data Requests: Mr. Buswell reported on each contributor of data. Most data was on time. However, it was noted that the college completion rate from the state regent’s office might arrive too late to be incorporated into this year’s reports. Data Flow: Mr. Buswell reported on the following issues: Office of Juvenile Affairs data is in the office and it has been reviewed. Vo-Tech data is in the office and still needs to be reviewed. The College Board (AP) request is in. They say there should be no problem in providing the data. The Office of Accountability survey data is entered but unchecked. The State Regents have already provided ACT and College Going Rate. Remediation and GPA/Sem. Hr. Reports are expected in late January to mid February. The College Completion Report is expected in late March. The State Department of Education still needs to provide OCAS financial data, the yearly dropout report, and graduation counts that include summer graduates. The office is also working to clean up results from the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test. It was noted that the new requirements to test special education and alternative education students has rendered both norm-referenced testing results and criterion-referenced testing results incomparable to previous years. The expected completion for Profiles 1999 is late April or early May. Resolution Update: Discussion of ldata needed from Regent’s office. Dr. Coppedge is to meet with Chancellor to see if data can be made available at an earlier date. It was determined that instead of sending a resolution to the State Board of Education, a letter be sent to Superintendent Garrett requesting that measures be taken in order that next year’s testing data be provided by gender and ethnicity. Interim Studies: Mr. Buswell reported that there are two interim studies that are of particular interest to the EOB / O of A: 1) The Educational Alignment of Curriculum Requirements and Testing and 2) School Readiness & Early Childhood Brain Development. A brief discussion followed. Tri-Chamber Group: Mr. Rex explained that what is currently referred to as the Tri-Chamber Group will be formalized into an organization called The Oklahoma Business and Education Coalition. Mr. Rex indicated that the Tri-Chamber Group had attended several TBEC meetings and he believed that the OBEC would be operated in a similar fashion. Mr. Rex distributed copies of a National Alliance of Business Presentation titled "No Excuses". Oklahoma Policy Group: Mr. Buswell reported that the Oklahoma Policy Group working on A Strategic Action Plan for Building Oklahoma’s Future in the 21st Century (A report for the National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future) had just released a presentation quality executive summary titled "Enacting the NCTAF Recommendations." This summary document was prepared by Oklahoma Commission on Teacher Preparation. Review of Mission: Delayed until next meeting. New Business: None Announcements: None Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:30 a.m. The Minutes of the January 19, 2000 Meeting of the Education Oversight Board were approved (as submitted) or (with corrections) on February 16, 2000.