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Madison Metropolitan School District
Madison, Wisconsin
 
Art Rainwater, Superintendent
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Minutes for Student Senate
October 3, 2006
 

I. Call to Order

II. Joe and Jacinth Introduction

III. Announcements

a. Youth Leadership Conference

i. Volunteers for presentation.

ii. October 28, 2006

b. Website (re: Student Senate and Harassment Forum) information.

IV. What is Student Senate?

V. What did we do last year?

a. Food Policy

b. Student Senate Officer Election Process

VI. Senator Introductions

a. Icebreaker - Two Truths and a Lie

VII. Brainstorming

a. Student athletes miss classes because of events.

b. Police presence around schools.

c. Clique problems.

d. Vandalism.

e. Confronting segregation and racism.

i. "Mix-it-up" day

1. Talk to/sit with people you don't know.

f. Budget cuts.

i. State issues, not Madison issues.

ii. Lance coverage of budget cuts at Lafollette.

iii. Forty kids in French class-one cut.

iv. Kleenex problems.



VIII. Bill of Rights

IX. Expulsion Policy

X.  Liaison Report

Equity task force Equity formula-school's evaluated in poverty level.

Equity=socio-economic status, race influence.

Expulsion process-what happens, representation, etc.

Student Senate agenda on District Web site with dates of School Board meetings on calendar.

Food policy.

Draft of food ideas for Shabazz. 

Possible poster/pamphlet about rules in classroom in every school? 

Junk food selling phased out over three years.

Food policy center of attention third meeting

Shabazz fund raiser= 50 dollars for school. Want every day?

Overcrowding in a single high school for hallway problem with ideas shared.

Ideas=freshmen skits-West.

 Volunteer ideas-"Community Day"

Possible volunteer credits for graduation requirements.

Discussion of the 4 block system.

Day in the life of a school over year.

 

 

NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, October 17, 2006

|| Student Senate || Next: 2006-10-17