Caucus Members to Meet with CDE, Commissioner and State BOE

Because of e-mails sent to the State BOE alerting them to the fact that Caucus members planned to attend the January 13^th meeting to comment on problems with the new Growth Model, State BOE members Shaffer and DeHoff suggested a meeting between the Caucus, the Commissioner of Education, Jhon Penn, Rich Wenning and themselves to discuss this and other issues.

The meeting is scheduled to take place on January 26^th from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM in the Commissioner’s office. Caucus representatives who have been invited to attend include: Paula Stephenson, Gerald Keefe, and Floyd Beard. Although the Growth Model will be a topic of focus, we intend to discuss other things that CDE and the State Legislature have us doing that are overloading rural schools given our lack of a full administrative support staff.

Any comments you would like to have shared during the meeting can be sent to me, as I will be taking member comments to discuss.